Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 183 Toby’s Hidden Danger

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone in the room moved.

Toby skillfully manipulated the magic ball. Dumbledore suddenly raised his wand, trapped the magic ball, and flew backwards behind Toby. The tied mummy also rushed in, knocking down Snape who had just drawn out the wand.

, the small shovel hit the mummy's head hard, making a loud bang.

Dumbledore walked into the house and the door slowly closed behind him.

About ten minutes later, Dean McGonagall, wearing green striped pajamas, rushed over. The noise caused by the battle was too loud, and it was impossible not to attract her attention.

She knocked hard on the potions office door: "Severus! Open the door quickly! Severus!"

"Don't be nervous." Dumbledore's voice came. He opened the door a crack, allowing Professor McGonagall to catch a glimpse of Toby who was tied up. Snape was pouring unknown magic into his mouth with an angry look on his face.

The medicine and pajamas were burned into pieces.

"What happened?" Professor McGonagall asked, "Did you make the noise just now? When did you come back, Albus?"

"Not much earlier than you." Dumbledore said, "Leave the matter here to me. How is the situation of the students?"

"It's normal for the time being." Professor McGonagall breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I have asked other professors to rush to appease the students, but how should I explain to them?"

"Let me think about it." Dumbledore said thoughtfully: "Let's just say it is related to the Chamber of Secrets. I just saw that related news has been reported recently."

After Professor McGonagall left in a hurry, Dumbledore returned to the Potions Office, holding the struggling Al in his arms that were covered by the door, as if he had vowed to avenge Toby.

"How could it be?" Dumbledore looked at Al and said in confusion: "If it's just Toby, why would you be like this?"

He was silent for a while, and then suddenly reminded: "Severus, if you continue to fill Toby with the potion of living hell, we will most likely never be able to wake him up again."

Snape threw the potion bottle aside as if to vent his anger, smashing it into pieces.

He said with an evil look: "It was you who asked Toby to return to Hogwarts in the first place. It wasn't me who wanted to cause trouble."

Dumbledore responded: "Yes, Severus. But I believe you don't want to see this scene, right?"

Snape's cheeks were tense and his hands were clenched into fists. It was hard to tell what he was thinking.

He said nothing.

All this starts from their student days.

Toby was just a kid who was bullied in the beginning. He was a Muggle-born and a Slytherin student, so no one would give him a good look.

But after that, he also received help from many people.

There are Lily's, Professor Slughorn's, and Principal Dumbledore's.

But only Snape.

Snape was the one who caused Toby the deepest trouble. Not only did he not help, but he actually harmed Toby.

On the full-moon night they experienced together, Snape wanted to secretly find Remus' weaknesses and take advantage of them because of Sirius.

As a result, it was Toby who saved him that night.

But after that night, Toby's whole appearance completely changed.

This change has even greater impact than Professor Slughorn's on Toby, that is, it is more Slytherin and more profound than becoming a Slytherin.

Snape never knew why, but he guessed that it was related to the reason why Toby later broke up with Lily.

Not only this, but it also turned Toby into a person who speaks indiscriminately.

Just like what Toby has shown recently, he always tells some people the "truth" in his heart, even more aggressively.

This is a difficult disease.

But according to Toby, this was just because he finally began to pay attention to the role of the wand - the black walnut wand.

Black walnut has a very special feature, that is, it cannot coordinate internal contradictions normally.

If its owner deceives himself, its power will be greatly reduced.

Deceiving yourself and others.

From then on, Toby no longer suppressed any terrible thoughts, taught the Slytherin students a good lesson, and even planned a strategy to kill Petunia, which resulted in a rupture between him and Lily.

Fortunately, this plan was foiled by the Death Eaters who came to capture him, and Toby hid in the Longbottoms' home. During that time, the Longbottoms were also shocked by Toby's ideas, such as becoming a mysterious figure than

People still need powerful wizards to destroy all pure bloods.

This change is extremely abnormal.

The Longbottoms even thought of going to Principal Dumbledore for help, which they did.

Toby may have guessed this, but he never said it explicitly, nor did he ask Principal Dumbledore how he responded to them.

He just continued to live in the Longbottoms' home, and returned to Hogwarts as usual when school started.

But things are different now.

Toby was so crazy that he wanted to attack Dumbledore, especially Al, who also became crazy. Whether it was Rita Skeeter or Barnabas Guffey, Al played a big role.

effect.

After being given the same living hell decoction, Al finally fell into a deep sleep quietly.

Dumbledore looked at their calm faces and said: "In fact, I have been aware of Toby's strangeness for a long time. I also deliberately left the school this time, just to draw out Toby's hidden dangers. But I didn't expect it.

It has become serious now.”

Facing Snape's puzzled gaze, Dumbledore continued: "Many years ago, I saw the role of love in Toby. That's why I let him continue to live in the Longbottoms' home without any rush.

I picked him up, guessing that it might be able to change him. It turns out that my guess was indeed correct. When school starts again, Toby will at least become less flamboyant."

Snape sneered: "Zhang Yang? Is this the only word you can think of now?"

Dumbledore ignored Snape's sarcasm. He shook his head and said, "We all want to know what happened to Toby that night, but I won't take the initiative to ask him, because even he himself doesn't want to know what happened to Toby."

Recall any experience. You should have seen his collection in the office. That huge ice block will never melt. I believe Toby has sealed that memory in the ice block. There may be many reasons.

But I think one of them has the effect of avoiding this situation today."

"Toby has realized the harm of that memory, so he wants to seal it. But now it seems that those effects have not been completely eliminated, and he is increasingly attracted by the Pharaoh's mask. That's why he wants to frame it.

Framed you, rushed to Azkaban to find clues."

Snape fell silent again, staring at Dumbledore, wanting to know what he planned.

"Let's wait until tomorrow."

Dumbledore sighed and said, he turned his attention to Al, looked at this obviously unique Sniff and said: "Perhaps, the problem is more serious than we thought."

The situation was beyond Dumbledore's control.

Due to the unlucky influence of the Basilisk and the Pharaoh's mask, Dumbledore foresaw the hidden dangers in Toby's body in advance and wanted to help him solve the problem.

But now it's not just Toby.

And Al, why is it also affected?

Early the next morning, Toby woke up on the soft sofa, table and chair. When he opened his eyes, he saw Snape's gloomy face and a small glass bottle in his hand. It was obvious that he had just helped him.

Take the antidote.

They looked at each other for a while, and Toby recalled the recent past little by little, and a hint of embarrassment appeared on the black and gold pharaoh mask.

"Oops, how could I say everything in my heart and even act it out? I should have kept it more secret. At the very least, I shouldn't have told you all my plans."

Snape's face turned livid with anger.

"Get out!" he roared: "Get out of here quickly!"

Only then did Toby realize that he was not in the Ancient Magic Office, but the Potions Office, where he slept all night last night.

On the other side, Al, who was originally awake, planned to catch up on his sleep, covered his ears and turned over.

Toby grabbed Al, put it on his shoulders as usual, put on his hood again, stretched and said: "What's the rush? Can't old classmates talk about old times? Besides, even if I

I took you to Azkaban without thinking about rescuing you, so what’s the rush? Oh, by the way, there’s Sirius, you might even become neighbors!”

Before Snape really wanted to take action, Toby slowly left the potions office and walked all the way to the door of the principal's office.

"Is the principal waiting for me?" he asked the stone beast.

"No." The stone beast replied: "The principal asked you to go to the Ancient Magic Office to find him."

So Toby returned the same way and discussed something with Al.

"It should be fine. It's not like the principal has never seen me like that. Let me tell you something secretly. Before I graduated, we almost had a fight in the office."

"ah?"

"Of course it's true, how could I lie to you."

"ah?"

"What do you mean I don't dare to take action? It's obvious that Dumbledore has some scruples. Don't underestimate me."

"Yeah yeah."

"As for you, let's just say this when the time comes and treat it as if I instigated you. He should believe it, right?"

Toby pushed open the door of the Ancient Magic Office and happened to meet Principal Dumbledore walking out.

"Give way." Dumbledore said: "Lend me the Pharaoh's coffin for a period of time, which is just right to hold the immortal mummy. In addition, I also need a place for research, and it must be far away from the students, so as not to

If you want to endanger them - the secret room, just choose the secret room."

"Well" Toby watched the principal leave with the coffin without asking himself anything, but this made Toby feel a little bad.

And, the secret room.

There are still two people locked up in the secret room!

"Wait for me, principal!"

He shouted and chased after Dumbledore.

Dumbledore ignored it and walked all the way to the special classroom of ancient magic. Apparently he had known about the transformation here for a long time and continued walking along the dark tunnel.

Al tugged on Toby's collar uneasily, looking scared.

Principal, what is this method?

It's somewhat unclear.

Toby didn't understand even more.

They walked past the basilisk's shed skin and walked into the spacious secret room.

The stones of the statue were deliberately cleared in the corner, and at the foot of the statue, two people - Rita Skeeter and Barnabas Guffey - were lying on their backs, as if they had fallen into a permanent sleep.

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"Take them away." Dumbledore put the coffin on the floor, and there was still a banging sound from inside.

"Oh." Toby could only agree, planning to let the two of them go after erasing their memories.

But Dumbledore said something else next.

"Just put it next door. I need a place where I can release the mummy at will without being affected by other people."

Toby's footsteps paused.

"oh oh?"

He turned to stare at Dumbledore, his eyes full of confusion under the mask.

"What's wrong?" Dumbledore turned around and asked, "Do you want to study this mummy with me?"

"No, let's forget it." Toby quickly refused: "We have had enough of dealing with it."

Al also nodded.

Now they have become an eyesore.

After being driven outside the secret room, Dumbledore carefully sealed the secret room with scattered stones and disappeared behind the rebuilt stone wall.

On the other side of the stone wall, Toby and Al stared at the two bodies on the floor in a daze.

"I remember I didn't hit the principal on the head last night, right?"

"Yeah." Al hadn't been beaten either, he had only beaten mummies. As for Snape, he was lucky enough to escape.

"Then what happened to the principal? He just let me go? Or did he see something?"

Toby slowly moved his gaze to Al, who looked at him in horror.

"ah!"

"That's probably it. Your behavior was too abnormal and the principal noticed it. No, maybe it's more."

The situation was not only beyond Dumbledore's control, it was also beyond Toby's control.

It's not that he hasn't thought about solving the hidden dangers in his body, on the contrary, he has never forgotten this problem.

In addition, he had extra El after returning to Hogwarts, and the magic circle engraved on his body that Dumbledore might have known about.

"Ancient magic." Toby murmured: "The principal also decided to start studying ancient magic, and he started with that mummy. He wanted to help me, but if he didn't understand it, anything he said would be useless.

.”

Al asked tentatively: "Yeah?"

"No!" Toby said immediately: "How can I study you? It shouldn't be possible. It shouldn't be? Should we prepare an extra escape route?"

Al's expression changed from frightened to relaxed, and finally frightened again.

"Yeah yeah yeah!"

"Escape? Where can you escape to? Angela? Even if she is willing to take you in, you will be found by the principal sooner or later."

"Forget it, don't think about these things now."

Toby ignored Al's small fist. He stared at the two bodies on the floor and said, "These two people have been missing for so long. Why haven't the Ministry of Magic found them yet?"

"What were they thinking?"