Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 208 Dumbledore and Grindelwald

Dumbledore seemed to be remembering him a little, his blue eyes narrowed with a smile, and he didn't mean to blame him at all.

"It makes me feel like I'm not that old yet. It's a good time to express my feelings at night, and the atmosphere is quiet enough."

He took another sip of coffee and said.

"I know you have something on your mind, Toby. I discovered it when you borrowed the Mirror of Erised from me - isn't it Legilimency? Don't I know my students well enough? You can tell me.

, it won’t take you long before you drink up this most delicious glass of lemon juice.”

The two stood side by side. Toby did not immediately reveal his intention to speak, and was silent for a while.

Toby took several sips of lemon juice, but when he saw that the remaining amount was less than half, it did not fill up automatically, nor did it turn into a fountain and pour it on Toby's face - no doubt, Dumbledore could do this.

This happened to little Toby many times when he was in school.

"Okay." Toby put the cup down and said slowly: "In the final analysis, everything is still related to the magic ball."

Toby finally revealed all the facts, including the encounter with Regulus later, and his remarks that Voldemort was in Azkaban and was very likely to make some big move.

As for the locket, Toby also half-assumed it.

But what he didn't expect was that instead of asking for the locket to be taken away, Dumbledore handed him two things.

One of them is Tom Riddle's diary.

The other one was an ancient quill that seemed to be made from the feathers of a fortune teller.

Toby was surprised and took the diary over, but when he went to get the quill, he found that Dumbledore's fingers were still clenched tightly and he couldn't take it out for a while.

"Headmaster?" Toby asked confused, not knowing what Dumbledore's move meant.

There was thought in Dumbledore's eyes, and he said softly: "I have a task for you, Toby, which is about finding Voldemort."

"Whether it's a locket, a crown, or a diary, I guess they are all closely related to Voldemort and have some kind of connection. In addition, Voldemort may have left behind more than just these few things.

.”

"I need you to find Voldemort and these things. To do this, I will give you the diary, plus the locket you already have. This can at least serve as a reference to help you proceed better.

experiment."

"Wait a minute." Toby interrupted: "Is this what you have been busy with recently? Want to find the mysterious man with the help of the diary and the crown?"

Dumbledore nodded.

Toby asked again: "But why don't you give me the crown too?"

"Because it is safe for the time being." Dumbledore said: "The consciousness of Ms. Ravenclaw remains in the diadem. It is unwilling to help Voldemort do evil and can stay longer without worrying about causing any trouble."

"In other words, the reason why I gave you the diary is because I plan to destroy the diary and the locket when you think there is nothing you can do. I believe you have the ability. If it doesn't work, just use Gryffin

There is so much sword, I have placed it beside Al's bed, after all Al is the one who took the sword out of the Sorting Hat."

"There should be other ways," Toby murmured: "I'm not sure about Li Huo and the Death Curse. At least the scepter is still in my hand - what about this quill? What is it?

?”

"Its name is the Pen of Acceptance." Dumbledore said: "The Pen of Acceptance was created by the founder of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. It appeared even before Hogwarts Castle was built.

Early, because when the castle was completed, it was placed in the small locked tower along with the Book of Access."

"It detects the birth of a magically gifted child and writes it in a large book made of parchment - the Book of Access."

"I'll give it to you now."

Dumbledore let go of his hand and said, "I hope it will help you find Voldemort better."

"Of course it will help." Toby narrowed his sparkling eyes: "It was created by the founders. Do you think House was also involved in this process? He is also one of the creators?"

"It's hard to tell." Dumbledore shook his head.

Toby stared at the pen of acceptance for a while, then he suddenly looked up and down in Dumbledore's pajamas pocket and almost started to dig through it.

"What are you looking for?" Dumbledore took a cautious step back, holding the coffee cup in front of him.

"The Book of Admission." Toby said matter-of-factly: "This must be something that only the position of principal deserves. Now that the pen of acceptance has been given to me, there will definitely be no shortage of the Book of Admission. By the way, there is also

With your suicide note, I really didn’t expect that I would be the next principal so soon. Do I need to publish the contents of the suicide note in "The Quibbler"? And Severus, you said I asked him to be the school administrator.

How about it? Still a gamekeeper, huddled in the cabin with Hagrid?"

Dumbledore's smile became more kind, which made Toby feel uncomfortable.

"Just pretend I didn't ask." He backed away slowly, planning to sneak away when he saw the opportunity.

Dumbledore was particularly talkative today. He smiled and said: "Listen to me, Toby, nothing will happen. You just need to find Voldemort as soon as possible and eliminate hidden dangers in the wizarding world. This is more important than anything else."

"Really?" Toby asked doubtfully.

Dumbledore nodded and prepared to leave with the empty coffee cup.

But at this moment, Toby suddenly stopped Dumbledore. He hurried back to the Room of Requirement, took out the skull head from the arms of Harry, who was washing his face with his eyes closed, and then hurried back.

, placing the skull in Dumbledore's hands.

"If necessary." Toby obviously noticed something, so he wanted to contact Dumbledore at any time through this method.

Dumbledore didn't refuse, didn't even ask questions about Harry, and left with the skull.

Just when Toby was full of guesses about Dumbledore, Dumbledore himself had returned to the principal's office. He changed into his witch robes, took out the Elder Wand, stared at it silently for a while, and then asked Fawkes to fly over and whisper to it.

Say: "It's time to go."

The rising flames burned, taking Dumbledore away from Hogwarts.

The place where he reappeared was on a cliff, under a dark sky, with turbulent waves crashing hard, creating white waves.

Someone is already waiting for him here.

Gellert Grindelwald stood more than ten feet away. He looked at the prison fortress in the distance, then slowly turned around, smiled at Dumbledore and said: "This is better than Nurmengard.

There are inmates, and there are dementors.”

"Then what have you mastered?" Dumbledore asked calmly.

Grindelwald was not surprised at all by Dumbledore's question. He said with a smile: "They are dementors. They are dark creatures and can be easily controlled by people. It's just that there are too many incompetent people."

Occupying a high position cannot make them really obey orders."

The two people looked at each other in silence, and the atmosphere was so depressing that it was even more tense than inside the fortress.

Suddenly, Grindelwald spoke again: "I thought the person coming would be Toby Highmore, but I didn't expect it would be you. This meeting is a bit premature, but how did you know?"

"It's very simple." Dumbledore stood on the edge of the cliff and said: "The Deathly Hallows, you have pursued the Deathly Hallows. It can also be regarded as a part of ancient magic. It can be easily connected with the magic ball. As for Thunder

Gulus. Very few people can defeat the pride of the Black family members. Apart from Voldemort, I can't think of anyone else. You are the only one who is most likely."

"Gellert" Dumbledore suddenly lowered his voice and said: "You broke the oath between us and escaped from Nurmengard without permission. Do you really think I will let you go this time?"

"It's really hurtful." Grindelwald shook his head and said, "Is this what you mean?"

A small glass bottle floated in his hand, containing red liquid. This was his and Dumbledore's blood, and it was also the second blood pact they had concluded.

"Day after day." He whispered: "I live in Nurmengard every day, struggling to survive. I don't know how many years have passed since that duel."

"After defeating me, you did not kill me, but sent me to stand trial. For this reason, I have been thinking about whether this is because you are unwilling to stain your soul, or because of the prophecy I divined——

Prophecies related to my death."

He held a skull cigarette pot in his hand, took a light puff, and then exhaled the smoke, creating a scene between the two of them.

In the picture, Grindelwald, who is much older than he is now, is lying on the bed board in the prison. His sunken eyes are staring out the window, and then he smiles, almost losing all his teeth.

Until a green light hit him, Grindelwald died like this, and finally died in Nurmengard.

The scene is over.

Dumbledore was silent for a while, and he sighed and said: "In that case, why do you want to break your oath——"

"No!" Grindelwald suddenly interrupted: "You were wrong this time, Albus. It was not the oath I broke, but the blood pact itself that became invalid."

Following Grindelwald's whisper, the small bottle containing blood suddenly exploded and broke into countless pieces. The hot blood dripped onto the ground, making a sizzling sound and raising a thin layer of white smoke.

"I thought you'd be interested in seeing this."

Grindelwald took another drag from the skull pipe, and then exhaled thick smoke.

The picture becomes different.

The location is no longer Nurmengard, but in a dusty room with shabby furniture. It seems that no one has been here for a long time.

"The Shrieking Shack," said Dumbledore, recognizing the room.

"Keep reading." Grindelwald said slowly, "This is a prophecy I discovered many years later."

It didn't take long for the scene to change quickly. Grindelwald walked into the room pointed by a wand. He tripped on the sofa and accidentally fell. At this moment, a green light suddenly appeared and struck.

It struck Grindelwald, causing him to fall silently.

The man holding the wand appeared. He slowly walked to the center of the picture, picked up the wand in Grindelwald's hand, and looked at it with fascination.

This man is Toby Highmore.

He looks like he killed Grindelwald in the prophecy.

This was not the end yet. Then the scene changed in the eyes of the two viewers and changed to the prison of Nurmengard.

The person lying on the bed was no longer Grindelwald, but the much older Dumbledore. He looked very painful and curled up. No one had ever seen him like this before.

It was Toby Highmore again. He appeared in front of the old bed plank and killed Dumbledore with the killing curse without hesitation.

Only then did the prophecy come to an end.

"You have an amazing student." Grindelwald said, breaking the silence, staring closely at Dumbledore: "Do you know when I divined the second prophecy?"

Before Dumbledore could ask, Grindelwald continued: "It was a full moon night more than ten years ago. At that time, I was recalling the past as usual - you know, speeches, Deathly Hallows,

There is also the ridiculous wizard supremacy in your mouth. No matter what, I foresaw this scene, and it was as if it was stuffed into my mind out of thin air."

"Then the blood pact becomes invalid."

He looked at the blood stains on the ground that had evaporated cleanly and said.

"But I am not in a hurry to leave Nurmengard. I have to figure out the reason for the change. Fortunately, the people who worked under me later - no, they were students. Under your influence, I also like students very much now.

With this title, they also call me professor."

"One of the students happened to be a brother of a member who participated in a werewolf attack. He told me the reason - it turned out that that night, the student who was predicted to kill us personally prevented his friend from being attacked by a werewolf.

The attack took place in the Screaming Shack, so it all matches."

"But there is only one thing that no one knows - in a very short period of time, your excellent student and the poor werewolf were alone for a while, and there was probably an earth-shattering duel or something.

Perhaps even more spectacular than the one we were a part of.”

"Because that's when the prophecy changed."

"This is something that has never happened before, ancient magic. I never thought that ancient magic could have so many magical effects. Maybe I shouldn't have been looking for the Deathly Hallows in the first place."

"Of course, I have learned enough lessons now, but the funny thing is that this actually led me to discover the real secret of the Deathly Hallows - Ignotus Peverell, the creator of the Invisibility Cloak, he

His bones are buried in Azkaban. It turns out that he is also a wizard who has truly defeated death. He easily made some of your students' collections afraid to touch them."

"This is oppression at different levels. Wizards who pursue immortality are naturally afraid of people who have defeated death."

"Anyway, I can probably guess where the experience of that night is placed - it is also one of your student's collections, an ice cube that will never melt, it is in there."

"Toby Hemmer must remove this memory. You should have seen his hidden dangers. Otherwise, he would not have been able to live for such a long time. This part of his memory must be sealed."

After finishing this long speech, Grindelwald silently waited for Dumbledore's reaction.

Dumbledore sighed and shook his head and said, "Then why did you do this? What is your purpose after planning for so many years?"

"A trivial interest." Grindelwald smiled and said: "Perhaps, your death will also be added. You heard me right, Albus, it was your death that really aroused my thoughts. That is more interesting than anything else.

.”

"If I have to say something, it is that I don't really hope you will die in Nurmengard. I have lived there for a long time, and it is really not that good. Compared with an ugly prison, I prefer it.

I hope your death should be heroic? I don’t know, it’s better than dying alone. Even Hogwarts is better than Nurmengard.”

Dumbledore turned his attention to the prison fortress known as Azkaban. There were many black figures floating in the sky. The dementors bared their teeth and claws, exuding an icy cold air that seemed to freeze the sea water.

"It seems that I must agree." Dumbledore looked at him with a captivating look in his eyes: "Otherwise, what will you do? Use them to threaten me? Order these dementors to cause trouble everywhere?"

"It's not difficult." Grindelwald said with a pun: "It just proves your importance in my heart, not only in Britain, but in the entire magical world. And maybe not just Dementors, your

That student is really amazing, he took me to see a lot of weird things. In addition, his idea is equally interesting in my opinion - kill all pure-blood wizards, I say, he should be appropriate

We should be more relaxed and order these pure-blood wizards to meet Muggles, marry them and have children. At least it won't look so bloody."

"War is always full of blood." Dumbledore said, "You and I have seen this for a long time."

"Then it depends on your choice." Grindelwald said slowly, "Albus."

Lit lightning pierced the sky, the dementors were connected together, thicker than the dark clouds, and the prisoners in the prison wailed numbly.

At this moment, Dumbledore loosened his grip on the wand.

He said: "It's time to conclude a third blood pact. There must be restrictions on your behavior."

Grindelwald then said: "And I will dress up as you and assume the position of principal of Hogwarts. Maybe I don't have as much educational experience as you, but you can rest assured."

"Yes." Dumbledore suddenly smiled: "I feel comfortable letting you investigate Toby. Believe me, I know my student better than anyone else."

He threw the skull that Toby had given to him before, and Grindelwald caught it steadily, holding it in his hand and observing it carefully: "Let me see who this is. Antioch (Elder Wand),

Or Cadmus (the Resurrection Stone).”

At this moment, the other side of the skeleton seemed to feel that someone was trying to contact it. Its mouth opened up and down, and Toby's curious inquiry came out: "Principal, is it you? How are you now? Are you seriously injured?

?Dead or not - ah, no, I mean, where did you hide your suicide note and your employment arrangements? Why can't I find it? Are you still planning to come back? Otherwise, you can just ask Fox to come to me, I

We will take care of it, so just feel free to go and take as long as you want."

Grindelwald pressed the skull down for a moment, interrupting its sound.

"He is amazing." Grindelwald raised his head and said.

Dumbledore responded with a smile: "I won't let you use the pensieve. If you have to use the skull pot, I remember that in addition to memory, you also need the blood of the rememberer. You can try it, Gellert.

.”

"Try and see if you can get what you want, or when I go back, I will find that there is a different person in the seat in the principal's office."