Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 209 Locket, Malfoy, School Board

Office of Ancient Magic.

Early in the morning.

"Principal? Are you still here, Principal? Is it broken?"

Toby slapped the only intact skeleton, causing it to dangle.

As soon as Al took off his earplugs, he heard the noise made by Toby. He didn't even take off his nightcap, and floated over in a daze on a small flying carpet, and then flew back in a daze, staring at the bed beside the bed.

The sword of Gryffindor is in a daze.

In an instant, Al's eyes glowed with gold. He hurriedly dragged the sword and flew to Toby's side. He opened his teeth and claws in excitement and kept shouting.

【Did you steal this? It’s great! Get rich, get rich, get rich——】

Toby pushed Al away, and he said irritably: "How is it possible? At most, it can only be regarded as the principal's relic-"

"Relics?" A voice came from outside the office. Harry dragged his suitcase happily. He didn't expect to hear such shocking news so early in the morning: "The principal's relics? He -"

"Nothing happened to him." Toby impatiently pulled Harry over and planned to take him directly to the Leaky Cauldron.

At this moment, a flame flashed in the center of the office, a phoenix feather fell, and then a skull fell out of thin air to the floor.

Toby recognized it as the skull he had given to Dumbledore. He asked Harry to pick up the skull and stuff it into the pocket of his wizard robe. It suddenly looked bulging.

"A bit too conspicuous, isn't it?"

Toby said and cast a spell to turn the skull into a necklace, with the skull-style ornament on the top still shining silver.

"Put it on." Toby said with satisfaction: "This way you can contact me at any time. Remember, don't be brave and don't go to Sirius rashly. I think he will take the initiative to come to you."

Harry hid the necklace under his clothes, and he heard Professor Hemmer continue to ask himself: "I remember you know Parseltongue, right?"

Harry nodded confusedly.

"How about trying to teach me a few words?" Toby said in a tone that could not be refused: "Open, close, kill, Mudblood, and Slytherin - well, that's probably it. Let's talk about these first.

"Teach me Ci, do you want me to help you find a snake? Do you need to look at a snake to speak Parseltongue?"

"Just use it. Just use it as a devil." Harry finally accepted the name and stopped calling it a rune snake.

He closed his eyes and tried to recall the experience last night. When he opened his mouth again, what he said was a hoarse voice and became a complete melody, which sounded extremely weird.

A diffuse black thread slowly rose from the recorder, some were linear, and more were a thin layer of smoke, and then, a black rune snake was revealed.

Harry looked at his demon, pretending to be talking to it, and continued to spit out more Parseltongue words, while Toby silently wrote them down one by one.

During this process, when he heard "kill" and then "mudblood", the rune snake suddenly focused its eyes on Toby, all three heads.

Harry was extremely nervous, but Toby said indifferently: "It looks good. Now you should know how to control your devil. Remember this, Harry."

Kill, and the mudbloods.

If it hadn't been for Professor Heimer's request, Harry felt that he would never be able to say these words in his life.

After the Floo powder was thrown into the fireplace, Harry followed Al and left the school.

Al went to help pay the bill, and Toby didn't leave with him, but stayed.

He didn't learn Parseltongue on a whim, but for a reason.

Slytherin's locket was later found by Voldemort. It seems to be related to Parseltongue.

Toby took the locket in his hand, and after thinking about it carefully, he placed it on the floor to keep it away from him, as a sign of respect for Voldemort's strength.

Then he began to try out the Parseltongue words one by one, making hissing sounds from his mouth.

Parseltongue may be difficult for most people, but in Toby's opinion, it is not as complicated as the language of fish people, let alone mummies - but the language of mummies can also be regarded as very simple, just yell

Just be as loud as you can.

When Toby said the word "open", the locket finally changed. Its small golden lid clicked open, and there was a living eye blinking behind the two small glass windows, black and bright.

, like Tom Riddle's eyeballs turn red, before his pupils turn into a line.

Toby held a black walnut wand in one hand and a white scepter in the other, observing silently.

A hissing voice came from the box.

"I saw your heart, it's mine."

It was Voldemort's voice, and he continued to confuse: "Toby Highmore, I see your dreams, and I also see your fears. Whatever you desire can happen, but whatever you fear can also happen."

"The bullying carved the seeds of hatred in your heart, and you vowed to kill all pure-blood wizards - no, it was even more extreme than that. You tried to control the entire magical world, right? In your own unique way, you also

It has the purpose of repaying your guilt and respect for some people."

"You won't get what you want."

From the two small windows of the locket, and from the pair of eyes, two grotesque soap bubble-like things emerged, which were two heads - Albus Dumbledore and Lily Evans.

, all strangely transformed.

Toby's eyes were hidden behind his long hair, and his expression gradually became dark.

"You are more hateful than Severus. I don't need you to pity me at all. Why are you so self-righteous that you want to kill my sister? Who do you think you are? I shouldn't associate with someone like you in Slytherin."

friend."

Riddle Lily shouted in disgust: "Stay away from me and never appear in front of me. Even if I really die, you will be the one who killed me!"

Riddle Dumbledore also spoke, and he said in a sarcastic tone: "Ancient magic? You will never succeed. Otherwise, why do you think I asked you to return to Hogwarts? Just to keep a close eye on you.

You, bring back the restless elements, like Voldemort. I have learned enough lessons, and of course I will not let similar things happen again. You will live in my shadow your whole life. Oh, no, I

You shouldn't be said to be like Voldemort. In fact, you are not even as good as him. You are not hateful. Seeing you only makes me feel pitiful."

Then, the heads began to deform again, this time replaced by Al and Angela.

"Yeah! Yeah yeah! Yeah yeah yeah!"

"Seriously, why don't you just listen to me? Do you really think I trust you? Stop joking, one day I will tear you to pieces."

My mind is still changing.

Lockhart mercilessly mocked Toby for being blind and not even seeing so many flaws. He was simply stupid.

Snape coldly sneered that Toby was just a wretch, a coward who could only run away.

Even the Black brothers appeared, and another shadow condensed under their feet. It was little Toby who had just entered school many years ago, and was severely taught by them.

There are more, the professors in the school, and the students, they use words to dig out the scars in Toby's heart and let him

Let him put down his scepter and replace it with a shining silver shovel.

"Is that all there is to it? Sure enough, after all, it's just a magic item, and it's still far from the mysterious man."

Riddle Hagrid, who was talking, suddenly froze. Before Toby could say anything else, the lid of the locket closed automatically with a click, immediately floated up, and flew towards the door lifelessly.

"Where to run!"

There was an earth-shattering noise, and the locket was slammed to the floor. Before it could escape again, Toby grabbed the chain tightly and pulled it back with all his strength.

The chain was automatically wrapped tightly, as if it wanted to pinch off Toby's palm, and scorching heat came from it, but Toby seemed to feel nothing, only the delicate magic array under the clothes was slightly surging with dark light.

"Fear, is this your role?"

The eyes hidden behind his hair were fixed on the locket that was constantly trying to escape, and the corners of Toby's mouth curled up in an alluring way.

"I like fear."

——

In the third semester courses that have been decided, students must prepare their own magic circle items in advance to serve as the wand in ritual magic.

But two people became exceptions.

One of them is Luna Lovegood. The anti-monster glasses she made are magically able to read the minds of animals. This is largely due to Pandora.

Luna has already mentioned the reason - Pandora wants to protect their father and daughter, and uses a magic that has not yet been created to allow them to see the thoughts of the wizard with ulterior motives, so as to stay away from them.

Even though the magic went wrong, it worked for the animals.

In other words, it works for Al.

This is not possible, Al has hidden too many secrets, and Toby does not dare to take such a risk, so he forces the anti-monster glasses away, using the failed scepter and the excuse of threat.

Luna had written to him many times, wanting to know when she would get her anti-monster glasses back, but Toby kept confusing her.

Fortunately, Luna will only be in second grade after school starts, so there is no need to learn ritual magic now.

But the other person is different.

Draco Malfoy, his magic circle item, which is the badge symbolizing Slytherin, was transformed by Voldemort into a tool to control Dobby, and was hidden in Dobby's body. It was later taken away and returned by Dumbledore

Gave Toby the professor.

Since returning from Azkaban, Toby hasn't had a chance to trouble Lucius. He heard that Lucius was kicked out of the school board for threatening other board members, and this badge happened to be given to Toby.

Than an excuse to visit him.

So, that very day, Toby appeared in front of the gate of Malfoy Manor.

Unlike the last attack, this time he came openly and without any disguise.

Of course, I would not be kind enough to give advance notice.

Behind the wrought iron gate is a long driveway, and then the gate slowly deforms, the abstract curling pattern twisting into a terrifying face, saying in an echoing metallic voice: "Say the purpose of your visit."

"It's me." Toby said lazily, with his hair pushed to the back of his head, and a hint of ridicule in the corner of his mouth: "I think this is enough weight."

There is no doubt that Toby's face is indeed very important, so much so that Lucius did not dare to appear in front of Toby, but made the face on the door his own.

Although it is made of wrought iron, it can be seen that Lucius has been having a hard time recently.

The large amount of property donated, plus Dumbledore's loss and return, and "The Quibbler" that he failed to buy.

"What are you doing here?" There was a hint of hatred in Lucius's tone, but it still revealed the reality that he had no confidence.

"I'm here to take your life." Toby said coldly: "If you don't open the door again, respect, you should show enough respect to a madman, Malfoy."

Lucius seemed to want to say something harsh, his expression twisted, and then he opened the door the next second.

Toby saw Lucius himself in the living room. His face was haggard, his long hair was dull, and he looked really not in good condition.

"What are you doing here?" Lucius asked again.

Toby didn't answer in a hurry. He looked around in the living room and walked around slowly.

"Malfoy, Malfoy"

He sat down at the head of the long table and said with a hint of irony: "Why didn't I see my student? Where is Draco?"

Before Lucius could answer, Toby took out something and placed it on the table, which was the magic circle badge made by Draco. He then threw it in front of Lucius, who suddenly turned pale.

"This is his thing, but why does it appear on Dobby? Can you tell me the reason, Lucius."

Lucius pursed his lips tightly and said nothing.

Toby's eyes narrowed slightly and he said: "It seems that you also know that Dumbledore and I are different. I don't care about justice or whether it complies with formal trial procedures. I only focus on the results."

He tapped the table lightly with his finger.

"This is the result, Malfoy, it's plainly in front of you - tell me!" Toby suddenly roared: "Do you have anything else to say now?"

His voice carried into the corridor, reached higher floors, penetrated the tightly closed door, and finally reached Draco's ears.

"I want to go out, don't stop me!" Draco's face turned red with urgency: "I have a way to explain it clearly to Professor Heimer, but it has nothing to do with my father! How could he - how could he mess around!"

"Because he is Toby Highmore." Snape held onto Draco's arm tightly and spoke in an unusually calm tone: "Don't expect to get the results you want from him - unless that's also him.

I want it. Narcissa, you should understand what I mean."

Narcissa, who was standing far away by the window, was also pale, just like Lucius.

"I understand, Severus," she said, her voice trembling slightly.

"That's good." Snape forcibly pushed Draco away and said expressionlessly: "Watch your child. I will try to persuade Toby, but don't hold out too much hope."

Narcissa hugged Draco tightly and begged with hope: "At least don't harm our children."

Snape opened the door, took one last look at Narcissa, and left without saying anything.

After he appeared in the living room, Toby glanced at him lightly and said sarcastically: "You are indeed here, Severus. I knew Malfoy would ask you for help. What does this mean? Eat death."

Is the profound friendship between disciples more important than my kindness in saving your life?"

"If you take away the experience of almost killing me so many times -" Snape retorted: "It's all because of your damn ancient magic. I don't even know who is sitting in front of me now.

A living person, or a corpse."

Toby sneered: "Even a corpse will scare you - look at it, Malfoy." He suddenly ignored Snape and threw the locket on the table: "Now,

Look at it, don't look away - open it."

The last sentence turned into a hoarse hiss, Snape's eyes suddenly became solemn, and Lucius - he saw two bubble-like figures with his own eyes, one was Toby's, the other was

Draco was tortured repeatedly by Toby in every way Lucius could imagine.

"Don't" Lucius said with fear: "Don't do this"

With another command in Parseltongue, the locket closed with a click. Before he could escape, Toby held him tightly and hung it around his neck, and he suddenly became quiet.

"It seems that this is your fear, very good, wonderful"

Toby started tapping his finger on the table again, like a pendulum urging death.

"three things."

He stared directly at Lucius and said: "First thing, tell me how you knew I would be there all those years ago - the day I planned to kill Petunia - don't even think about it.

Fool me, I know it was you who planned that arrest, you should thank me for sparing your life."

Lucius looked at Snape with pleading eyes, but Snape didn't respond at all. He just stared at Toby closely, seeming to still feel vaguely uneasy about the Parseltongue thing.

"It's Regulus." Lucius finally revealed the truth: "It was Regulus who told me secretly. He said that you kept asking about Sirius's movements before that, and you were especially concerned about running away from home.

I also asked him where he was most likely to go and told me several routes."

"I knew it." Toby murmured: "He is indeed right. What's interesting is that I thought it was Lily before, but I was just suspicious. I suspected that she had guessed my plan in advance. Of course, it was impossible for her to contact me.

It's a Death Eater, he just accidentally leaked the news - okay."

After seeing that Snape had no intention of laughing, Toby ended the topic without a care.

"The second thing is about Draco - you are not qualified to refuse, Malfoy, because the third thing is related to you personally. School Board, I remember you were expelled by the School Board, right?

"

Lucius was still panicking at hearing Draco's name.

Snape frowned and asked: "You want to join the school board? It's not that simple -"

"No." Toby interrupted coldly: "What I mean is that since the school board has the power to serve and remove the principal, mainly removal, then there is no need for this organization to exist - it is nothing more than some funds.

, there are ways to raise funds, and I haven’t heard of any school boards during the founding period. It’s time to make Hogwarts great again—it has always been great, but it must be even greater.”

"Of course, it's better to become even greater in my hands."

He stood up, walked to Lucius, and said condescendingly: "Leave this matter to you, Malfoy, a group of guys who can be threatened by you are not worthy of my action at all. Don't ask me for anything."

Excuse, you have nothing to lose. Remember, you have to do this, this is the only value you have left."

Lucius's body curled up. He had already imagined the consequences and knew that Toby could do it.

"Dumbledore will not allow you to mess around." Snape spoke again, but his eyes were filled with suspicion in an instant: "Unless the Headmaster is -"

"Don't talk nonsense." Toby waved his hand impatiently: "It's just a slight sign, it looks like a last word, otherwise I wouldn't make a decision at this time. I have to seize the opportunity, right?

?It coincides with the start of the third semester courses. This is a rare opportunity."

He looked at Snape and said: "How long do you plan to stay here? Are you ready to prepare the Wolfsbane potion?"

"It's not your turn to order me now." Snape's cheeks twitched.

"Okay, okay." Toby said nonchalantly.

He walked to the wooden door of the living room, suddenly turned around, and smiled at the two of them: "It's only now that I finally understand the feelings of the mysterious man."

"Compared to being a madman, it is much easier to master fear."