Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 178 The trio and Malfoy Manor

It's quiet at night.

Toby stood in front of the blank wall. He closed his eyes and walked around a few times. When he opened his eyes again, he saw a simple door appearing on the wall.

He opened the door and walked in, and saw that the room had turned into a small desert, with a small pyramid standing in the center of the room.

Then Toby closed the door again and repeated the process. The layout of the room also changed accordingly. Sometimes it was an igloo covered with frost and snow, sometimes it was withered grass, and even a room filled with sniffing dolls.

s room.

Toby picked a doll at random, threw it back, and was caught by a dumbfounded Al.

This doll is about the same size and looks exactly the same.

Fox looked at Al with envy, and it cried twice.

After a while, a phoenix doll was also thrown in front of Fox.

"Ha, look what I found!"

Toby took out a pair of half-moon glasses from the Room of Requirement, hung them on the nose of the terrifying mask, and winked at Dumbledore who was standing aside.

"Do you think I'm looking more and more like the next Headmaster of Hogwarts?"

Dumbledore looked at Toby helplessly and said nothing.

He watched as Toby's attempts became more and more dangerous - first he was hit by a flood of water, and then a stream of hot flames erupted from the house.

After repeating this process again, the door to the Room of Requirement could not be opened.

Toby put one leg against the wall and pulled the door handle hard, causing the wooden door to bend into an exaggerated bow shape, as if it would completely break into pieces in the next second.

"Okay, Toby."

Dumbledore finally broke the silence. He sighed, took out the rusty crown from his pocket, and showed it to Toby.

"This is what Voldemort hid in the Room of Requirement. Stop trying to threaten me by destroying the Room of Requirement."

Toby stared directly at the crown, and then moved his eyes to Dumbledore.

"Ravenclaw's diadem?" he asked in a low voice: "Is this the diadem of Lady Ravenclaw? Is it a relic of the founder?!"

"I heard it can give people wisdom. Is the legend true?!"

Dumbledore said: "I just got it not long ago, so I can't answer your question."

"I can give it a try!" Toby volunteered. Even his deep eyes couldn't block the strange light.

"about this issue."

Dumbledore said as he put the crown back into his pocket: "I think it's still open to debate. At least we need to know why Voldemort took this thing away. He certainly didn't do it to improve his wisdom.

"

Facing Toby's longing gaze, Dumbledore said with emphasis: "This is a measure that must be done to avoid risks."

"Okay, okay." Toby said in an indifferent tone, but his eyes continued to glance at Dumbledore's pocket, and Al also looked at him furtively.

If the person they were facing was Angela, they would have taken it away by force.

Dumbledore left with Fawkes, the diadem, and Tom Riddle's diary. It must be that tonight will not be easy and he will need to study these two items all night long.

Toby also returned to the Ancient Magic Office. After he opened the door, he found that Angela had not fallen asleep yet and was sitting behind the desk silently reading the draft Toby had prepared for the new book.

"how do you feel?"

"I really hope I can read the whole new book soon - huh? Toby? You're back?!"

Angela raised her head in surprise. The Pharaoh mask did not scare her. She had long been accustomed to it. No matter what happened to Toby, it would not be strange.

Toby naturally walked to the sofa and sat down. He said casually: "I guess the new books will have to wait a little longer. This year is not going well, and the teaching materials are all [occupied]. When do you plan to return to Wagadu? By the way.

, are you interested in taking a look at Slytherin's Chamber of Secrets? There is also a dead basilisk corpse there. It would be great if it was complete. It will definitely be able to summon something more powerful in ritual magic."

Toby talked on the phone for a long time, and naturally neglected to hide the fact that Angela had returned a long time ago.

Angela looked around, then trotted away, sat opposite Toby, and stared at him with strange eyes, making Toby feel a little uncomfortable.

"What's wrong?" Toby asked strangely, wondering if Angela suddenly had a sudden enlightenment and became difficult to fool?

Angela lowered her voice and asked as if she was plotting some insidious plan: "So, you stole the wizard potted plant? Used it to quietly replace Dumbledore? Can the transfiguration last for that long?

?”

This is all a mess.

In order to prevent the naive Ms. Angela from continuing to suffer, Toby and Al worked together to drag her to the disappearing cabinet.

"No, tell me again--"

Angela desperately pressed against the door of the disappearing cabinet and stretched her head out of the cabinet to prevent it from closing: "How did you resurrect the wizard's potted plant? Today's fake products - oh, I'm sorry, I spilled the beans.

, can you control [Dumbledore] well now? How did you defeat him?"

"Stop talking!" Toby pressed Angela's head back.

It would be terrible if Dumbledore heard it.

"Damn it -" Angela said angrily: "I have helped you so much, and you haven't returned the scepter to me yet!"

"This is already doing you a big favor!" Toby said through gritted teeth, slamming the cabinet door shut.

After listening to the tapping for a while, there was finally no more sound.

Toby and Al leaned against the cabinet door, and they exchanged a look.

"Seriously, how did she survive to this day? She was able to persist until we found her and was not killed before that."

"Yeah" Al responded dryly, it couldn't understand this either.

However, Angela has indeed become less easy to fool.

Compared with the last time, this time's substitute teaching experience was full of mysteries, and she had to find out more about it before she would go back.

So she started walking back and forth non-stop in the second half of the night, and another disappearing cabinet was also placed in her office in Wagadu. It was originally an escape route reserved by Toby for himself, but it greatly simplified the way of coming and going.

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"vomit"

Angela opened the cabinet door in a daze. She lay on the floor and kept retching. There was a hint of pity in her weak tone: "The wizard potted plant. And Dumbledore."

Toby looked at her with a headache, and Al stood up from the bed in a daze, his nightcap tilted on his head.

".ah?"

"Forget it, I'll take her to the secret room to sober up."

Toby stretched out his hand and pulled her up. Angela staggered and walked behind Toby.

They came to the abandoned bathroom, and after pushing Angela into the pipe, Toby slid in too.

"Where am I?"

Angela slid deep into the ground and saw that her palms had become dirty and her clothes were stained with a lot of mud.

"Why are you here?"

Three children were lying at the outlet of the water pipe.

Harry, Ron, and Hermione hugged each other for warmth. They were shivering and their faces were pale. They looked as pitiable as possible. They were dozing off mentally. After being awakened, they immediately gathered around Angela.

He kept asking in an expectant tone——

"Professor, are you here to take us back?"

"I'm freezing to death."

"So hungry."

"Uh" Just as Angela hesitated for a while, Toby also slipped out of the pipe. As if he didn't see the three of them, he turned to Angela and said, "Let's go, I'll show you around."

Lytlin's Chamber of Secrets."

Then he walked deeper into the tunnel with a normal expression.

Angela followed him, but she still couldn't help but look back at the three students - they didn't dare to follow Toby like they did around Angela, but only dared to follow cautiously.

"What happened to them?" Angela asked.

"Them?" Toby turned around and asked in confusion: "Who are they?"

Angela blinked and didn't dare to ask any more questions.

The group of people walked all the way to the final secret room hall, and Angela saw with her own eyes the damaged statue and the huge basilisk - half of its head was blown into pieces, and there was an unpleasant smell around it.

Toby took Angela around the secret room, slowing down especially when it came to the minced meat and stones on the ground, so that Angela could have a good look at what happened here.

The trio followed them reluctantly and walked around silently.

Toby didn't introduce anything. After walking back to the broken entrance, he just said: "Did you see clearly?"

Facing the tragic traces of the battle, Angela ignored the three people's calls for help and nodded obediently.

"Go back after seeing it clearly."

The group of people walked back to the water pipe in eerie silence.

Toby grabbed one of Angela's arms, stretched out countless rotten cloth strips from the edge of his mask, and drilled them into the water pipe.

Seeing that the hope of finally leaving the Chamber of Secrets was about to disappear, Harry finally pleaded: "Professor Hemmer."

However, with a "swish" sound, Toby and Angela disappeared and disappeared into the darkness inside the water pipe.

This time, after returning to the ancient magic office, Angela obediently walked into the disappearing cabinet without Toby saying anything, and even closed the cabinet door herself.

Toby simply washed up, put on black pajamas, and lay on the bed.

"Huh?" Al asked in his sleep.

"Sleep, sleep," Toby said, closing his eyes.

——

Although sleeping peacefully at Hogwarts - both above and below ground.

But on Christmas Eve, thousands of miles away from Hogwarts, there are still people who can't sleep all night.

In the gorgeous living room of Malfoy Castle, the thick floor is lifted, and there is a staircase leading underground. This is a secret basement specially used to hide some inappropriate items.

For example, a large number of dark magic items.

They are piled up on the shelves all over the wall, and they look strange.

A withered hand touched the dark glass bottle, picked it up, put it in front of his eyes under the hood, and carefully looked at the poisonous potion in the bottle.

Lucius Malfoy crouched tremblingly at the feet of this figure, not daring to have any thoughts of disobedience.

After a while, Voldemort spoke.

"Why don't you want to see me very much, Lucius? Don't you want to see me back?"

"No, master." Lucius said fearfully: "Of course I hope to see you, but my biggest wish -"

"lie!"

Voldemort suddenly turned around, revealing his withered face under his hood, which looked like dried tree bark.

Lucius lowered his head even lower.

He felt something sharp and delicate brushing against his shoulder, but fear prevented him from raising his head to check, let alone avoiding it.

Something like the tip of a needle scratched across his pale face, passed over his throat, and reached his heart bit by bit.

"Owner!"

Lucius shouted in horror: "I have always been very attentive. As long as there is any signal from you or any rumor about your whereabouts, I will rush to your side immediately. Nothing can stop me -"

"Yes," Voldemort hissed softly, "But why won't you let your wife come to see me? What are you afraid of, Lucius?"

Lucius dared not say anything.

He never thought that one day Voldemort would appear in front of him again, and he never dared to involve Narcissa in this strange meeting, especially his son.

Draco Malfoy did not go home during the Christmas holidays, which was the most fortunate thing for him at the moment.

"I beg you to give me a chance." Lucius said sincerely: "Give me a chance to make up for my mistakes."

There was an extremely oppressive silence.

"You have disappointed me" was filled with unparalleled indifference in Voldemort's voice: "I hope you will serve me more loyally in the future and don't let me down again."

"Of course, Master, of course. Thank you for your magnanimity."

ten minutes later.

"The Ministry of Magic has been very strict in investigating recently. The idiots from the Weasley family have been targeting me. Please commit yourself to the basement first."

"Go ahead."

After a burst of heavy footsteps, Lucius tiptoed to cover the floor. The light that shone in finally condensed on the surface of the terrifying face underground, turned into a line, split on the red eyes, and disappeared into the darkness.

Voldemort closed his eyes, his aura gradually disappeared, and he gradually became weaker.

This peculiar body gave him more magical magical abilities, allowing him to escape Hogwarts at the last moment and come to Malfoy Manor.

But he knew that he could not show his weakness in front of this "loyal" servant.

Not only Lucius, but also many other servants.

Otherwise, Voldemort would not have been hiding in Albania for so long without seeking help from anyone.

He knew exactly what he was doing to control them.

fear.

It's always fear.

Maybe Lucius noticed something, but he made a mistake at the beginning and did not let Narcissa appear together.

This instead exposed his weakness.

As long as Voldemort stayed at Malfoy Manor for a day, Lucius would not dare to resist him.

Because Lucius was too cowardly to seize this fleeting opportunity.

This gave Voldemort time to recuperate.

Then, it was time to look for the Horcruxes he had hidden elsewhere, so as to eliminate the hidden dangers of this body.

But before that, he needs more servants.

A more loyal servant.