Hogwarts Archaeologist Toby

"I already know where you are hiding."

This was originally the content of Grindelwald's letter to Dumbledore. He said that he knew where Haierbo was hiding, and made Dumbledore and Toby go to Deria Island together.

But now, Toby is obviously not referring to Haierbo.

But the real Grindelwald.

After Toby finished speaking, there was a brief silence in the cabin.

"I knew there was something wrong with those two golden eggs... It seems that you attach great importance to this Triwizard Tournament. You must thoroughly check the transportation of the other two schools before you can feel at ease."

"Why, am I wrong? Didn't you already know that I was hiding on this big ship? Why didn't you just find me out, but notify me in advance? I don't remember you being such a kind person."

After Grindelwald finished these two paragraphs in succession, Toby still didn't leave the room immediately to find Grindelwald's hiding place, even though he knew that Grindelwald must be on this ship.

Before the second test of the warriors, they were divided into two groups, Harry and Fleur, and Cedric and Krum. Then they opened the golden egg at the same moment, releasing magic that only they could see. Array.

The function of the magic circle is to thoroughly check these two means of transportation. Its function is somewhat similar to the Marauder's Map - to be careful, this is also the inspiration that the Marauder's Map brought to Toby.

Toby stared at Grindelwald on the wall for a while, and he finally said: "Actually, shouldn't you be the strangest person now? Since you already know that your hiding place has been exposed, why are you still here? What to do instead of here? I believe you must have the means to deal with your own exposure."

Grindelwald smiled and responded: "You can give it a try. Maybe I will stand outside the door and wait for you to come to me."

"You can't provoke me with these alone." Toby had no intention of moving. He continued: "When we were on Dria Island, Dumbledore asked me to be extra vigilant about you. He felt that you haven't given up on winning over me yet. Intended and planned to deepen the conflict between me and Dumbledore."

"Although I didn't take it seriously at the time, how could I have forgotten the threat from you—from the very beginning, Lockhart's appearance seemed extremely abrupt, and now I know that he is actually trying to hide your presence. Most importantly, you don't seem to be worried about it at all."

"Dumbledore is right about one thing. You are indeed confident - so I won't find you out because I already know your methods."

"Same as last time, right?"

Toby's gaze was hidden behind the strands of hair, dark and deep.

"You don't care if your fate is being manipulated, so on Deria Island, you once again cooperated with Hai Erbo, pretending to have nothing to gain, and planning to do something in school."

"Maybe even Hai Bo is hiding in Hogwarts, am I right?"

Facing Toby's doubts, Grindelwald's tone remained steady: "Is this important?"

"No, this is just an appetizer at most." Toby shook his head and said, "The weird thing is that you told Dumbledore this clue again, and you must have guessed that he would invite me to go to that island with him a long time ago. Go up - so you want to show your kindness to me and take the initiative to tell me all this."

"In other words, you are cooperating with Haierbo, but on the other hand, you are also helping me deal with him."

"What is your purpose? I can't see what it has to do with wizard supremacy, and I don't feel any good intentions."

Grindelwald didn't refute Toby's a lot of speculation, he just said: "Why can't it be because of the law of conservation of magic? The premise of wizard supremacy is that wizards can at least exist, and I don't hope that one day wizards will stop here." Extinction. Moreover, I don't simply want to win you over to become my subordinate, just like Gildero, although he betrayed me, I won't care about it at all, but will continue to take care of him."

"You are really a generous person." Toby sneered, "But you seem to have forgotten that you were the one who sent Pettigrew Peter the informer. Do you think I might forget about it?"

"Is this really true?" Grindelwald laughed and said, "Do you really care about the life and death of the Potter family? No matter how I look at it, you just regard Lily as an assistant and have no involvement. There are so many personal emotions involved - do you really have friends, Toby Highmore? Does it count Snape? Or Dumbledore? Or other professors in the school?"

"Do people like you and me really care about friendship?"

The two gazes collided in the air, and neither of them was willing to back down first.

After a while, Toby brushed the long hair on his forehead to the back of his head. He said very calmly: "I have always regarded myself as a wizard who is more Slytherin than Slytherin. The founder because Treating the law of conservation of magic differently and parting ways with former friends, it seems that even I will fall into such a fate.”

"But I think you must have guessed one thing wrong. Yes, I care about them, but it will not affect me in the slightest to take advantage of them. I will be heartbroken and guilty, but I will still do it."

"I don't think I've ever changed in that regard, when I first started at Hogwarts, and it's not much different now. I remember all the classmates who bullied me, and revenged them one by one. I also remember the people who helped me, they were kind to me."

"Now do you understand? Do you think it's really useless for Dumbledore to talk to me so many times when I was in school? He knows this better than you. Compared with a ruthless careerist, I am more A real person."

Grindelwald sighed regretfully.

"It seems that this is your response, you chose to refuse. In this case, I have nothing to say... Just wait and see, maybe you can also try to find Haierbo. There is one thing you didn't guess. Yes, he is indeed hiding in Hogwarts. But you should also be aware of his style. Anything related to him cannot be trusted, especially those that come from his mouth unsolicited - so, in this matter , I’m afraid I can’t help you with anything.”

"You are really reliable allies." Toby said sarcastically, and then left the room without looking back.

It is worth mentioning that Grindelwald was not standing outside the door, and Toby didn't seem to have any intention of looking for him.

After the room was quiet for a while, Lockhart walked in tremblingly. He saw that Grindelwald's face had not disappeared, and he couldn't help but wailed quietly in his heart.

"Gidero."

"........professor?"

"There are still two unbreakable vows left by Toby, right?"

"That's right, Professor...I..."

"Don't feel sorry." Grindelwald really didn't blame Lockhart, he said rather abnormally: "Just follow his orders from now on."

"I also want to see if Hai Erbo is really that invincible."

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Compared to this turmoil, which only a few people knew about, most people in the school were just going about their school life normally - especially for the students, this semester was destined to not be peaceful.

This was not only because the professor of Defense Against the Dark Arts was suddenly replaced, but also for another reason—Professor Highmore was finally going to officially explain why some wizards were so powerful.

In the ancient magic class in the past, Professor Haimer introduced many strange wizards to the students, and they could play ordinary spells with even more exaggerated effects.

Professor Haimer also briefly explained part of the reason—maybe it was because these wizards knew the law of conservation of magic and wanted to solve this problem as much as possible, but unfortunately they didn't succeed. Instead, they learned more unique skills .

Draco Malfoy cheered up as soon as he arrived in the classroom. He had not forgotten Professor Heimer's promise - if there are really students who can learn this skill in this semester's class, then He will undoubtedly become the next minister of the Black Devil Club, and there is no need to consider the popularity of magical creations.

This is a rare opportunity for him.

Draco was really fed up with Luna's dazed and distracted attitude during club activities. If it weren't for the addition of Professor Angela who would come to check on him from time to time, he would have skipped all the activities impatiently.Even if the time is used to practice the magic circle, it is better than this.

This class is destined to be unusual.

After Professor Highmore came to the classroom, the students found that Al and Angela came with them-they hadn't appeared in class at the same time for a long time.

"Put the textbooks away."

Toby stood behind the podium and said: "I didn't write all the content in the book "Ancient Magic and Ancient Wizard". Some of the knowledge in it is only at the theoretical stage. If you know it by chance, it is difficult to have the conditions to copy it."

The students obediently put the books back on the table, leaving only the notebooks for recording on the table.

"I often think about how to explain the content of this lesson to you. It is not easy to understand, so I have to invite my assistants, including myself, to demonstrate it to you - there will be no giants The patron saint is so exaggerated, but it can also show part of the effect very well... Let me see, let Al go first."

Al, who was named, jumped onto the podium, shook his body, and then nodded to the students below with a very proud expression.

"ah."

It was very appropriate, and there was a burst of applause from below.

Toby went on to say: "Among the regulations of Hogwarts, wizard children must be 11 years old to be admitted to school. But before that, it may be enough to do it when you have not been exposed to any magical knowledge. The magic that I couldn’t learn for many years—this is generally called a magic riot. Does anyone know why?”

Draco grew up in a wizarding family, and he didn't know much about it, so he could only watch Hermione raise her arms high.

"Miss Granger."

"It's because wizards were more emotionally unstable when they were young, and they couldn't control their emotions, which indirectly caused the magical effect."

"One point for Gryffindor."

After Hermione sat down, Toby said with satisfaction: "Miss Granger's explanation is correct. As wizards age, their psychological endurance becomes stronger and stronger - if we want to be more accurate, To describe it, the world of wizard children is only so big——"

Toby made a circle with his fingers.

"But adult wizards will see more and understand more, at least as big as-"

This time Toby wrapped his arms in a bigger circle.

"In this way, the phenomenon of magic riots can be easily explained. Even if there are fluctuations in the minds of adult wizards that are three times larger than those of fists, because the proportion is still very small, it will not cause any harm to them. Influence."

"But children are different. Half a fist is enough to occupy half of their world, so it's easier to lose control—especially an extremely terrifying phenomenon, silence."

"This almost only exists among wizard children. It is difficult for adult wizards to have such harsh conditions to learn this magic—of course, I don't think anyone is willing to learn this kind of torture that tortures themselves."

At Toby's signal, Al first shrank into a ball, and its body gradually began to tremble, and then with a bang, several spikes stretched out, poking several large holes in the podium.

"This is Obscurus, they can't control themselves."

Toby said to the frightened students, who obviously didn't know that Mr. Al still had this ability.

"Then I will show you Angela. For this purpose, I specially asked for a poisonous tentacle from Dean Sprout, which is the one in my hand."

A thorny green plant appeared in Toby's hand, which made the faces of the students sitting in front of him a little unnatural-bitten by poisonous tentacles can be fatal.

Immediately afterwards, the students saw a very strange scene - Angela took the poisonous tentacle without any protective measures, twisted it into various shapes in her hands, and even beat herself A knot—this is almost impossible, because the poisonous tentacles should only regard her as prey.

"Although Angela learned a lot of wandless magic in Waggadu, she doesn't do it now. The poisonous tentacles will obediently listen to her because of Angela's talent - she is born with the ability to calm people's hearts , sometimes it can achieve a hypnotic effect, even comparable to the Imperius Curse—you can understand when you think about the state when you first met Angela."

As soon as this was said, the students understood immediately, and they only had one thought at that time - Professor Angela was so stunningly beautiful.

"Emotion, as well as innate talent, can allow wizards to break through ordinary restrictions and make magic work amazingly."

"But I prefer to sum it up and call it the wizard's instinct."

Toby slowly swept his eyes across the students below, and then suddenly half of his body turned into a dark devil, like a black flame. Even the light could not completely illuminate it clearly, and he could only vaguely see a streak. The extremely terrifying figure seemed to be smiling at them.

Not all the students have seen Professor Haimer like this, they endured the fear in their hearts and wrote down Professor Haimer's next words.

"Maybe at some point, you can completely abandon all distracting thoughts, leaving only one idea in your heart, and you will not have any resistance at all because of this idea - whether it is an unknown fate, or even Even if you know the outcome is bad, you are still willing to accept it.”

The combination of Toby's normal voice and the devil's roar kept echoing in the little wizard's head like a bell.

"Look for your own instinct. By then, maybe you can become like me - and maybe even more amazing."

This is the meaning of what Toby said to Grindelwald - he also has feelings and cares about some people, but he will also violate these feelings to do things that hurt some people.

Because he knows exactly what his instincts are.

It's not just about wanting to live.

Someday, all wizards will be honored to see this scene.