Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 212 Ice and Dementors

The parents identify Muggle-born and wizard children of other bloods (including half-bloods and pure-bloods), and the scope of surveillance could originally include the entire wizarding world.

Today, these two functions have long been destroyed on the Pen of Acceptance.

If it weren't for the fact that it was a creation of ritual magic, Toby wouldn't have been able to detect these signs so easily.

This is not good.

Just like a long time ago, some wizards would deliberately identify Muggle-born people, and they had been doing this since the birth of magical children.

It was a period of pure-blood supremacy that was even more radical than when Voldemort was alive.

Toby speculates that the lack of the ability to accept the pen may be related to the four founders, or it may be three, or it may be four.

The difference is whether Salazar Slytherin or House was involved in the process.

House is the fifth unrecorded founder. He is a centaur prophet who has set a lot of rules for future generations in the Forbidden Forest and has long foreseen the possible emergence of wizard supremacy.

As for Salazar Slytherin, just last semester, Toby saw a scene on the dead basilisk through the black feathers: including the distinctive basilisk egg in the secret room that House gave to Slytherin.

For this reason, House hopes that Slytherin will agree to a condition - to relax the restrictions on the Sorting Hat, so that the students recruited by Slytherin can be less "pure".

In other words, a mudblood.

Slytherin agreed. He promised to lift the bloodline restriction, but required that only students with great ideals would be recruited.

More Slytherin than Slytherin.

Toby seems to be a wizard who meets this condition, because the Sorting Hat told him that other houses were not suitable for him at all, so he had to be sorted into Slytherin.

There is also a passage in the conversation between House and Slytherin.

House warned Slytherin not to touch [them].

Toby has some guesses about [them], they are nothing more than the dark side of ancient magic.

So he took the initiative to take off his hood in front of the images of Slytherin and House, revealing his terrifying face that was still covered with a pharaoh mask, and also slightly expressed his dissatisfaction with this established fate——

[Is this what you want? Then have you ever thought about the possibility that I will become {them} in your mouth? 】

Well, the poison of ancient magic to Toby is indeed very deep. Lily, Snape, and Dumbledore all foresee this.

In other words, it is indeed somewhat possible.

Whether it's the pen of acceptance's speculation against Muggle-borns, the great ideal of being more Slytherin than Slytherin, or the indescribable transformation into [them]. Maybe it's all possible.

The night is getting darker.

Toby tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. He listened to Al's slight snoring next to him and slowly sat up, watching Al silently from behind his hair.

As if feeling Toby's gaze, or perhaps the strange sensation coming from the Mason Door, Al's snoring stopped, and he rubbed his eyes in a daze.

"ah?"

It asked Toby if he wanted to stay up late to do magic experiments, but the magic ball was not there. It would be very troublesome to use ritual magic alone. Even if the magic ball was not lost, it would not be able to cast a seven-pointed star-level magic circle, which is still damaged now.

status, I don’t know how to fix it.

In fact, Al didn't say so much at all, it was all made up by Toby himself.

Al is just a little thirsty.

Toby conjured a glass of milk (actually summoned from the kitchen), heated it with a flame for a while, handed it to Al, watched him drink it in small sips, smacked his mouth twice comfortably, and then fell into a daze again.

to sleep.

Toby didn't sleep. He quietly walked out of the bedroom, closed the door gently, came to the dark corridor, and walked around aimlessly.

He met Peeves in the trophy display room and watched Peeves throwing trophies and other things around. When he turned around, he saw a dark figure suddenly appeared behind him, like a ghost.

"Ah!" Peeves screamed, and then he realized that he seemed to be a "ghost" too, and then he wasn't so scared anymore.

But after seeing Toby's face clearly

"Ah!" Peeves screamed again, screaming heartbreakingly: "It's the Dark Devil! The Dark Devil!"

This look didn't look like he was pretending or joking at all. He immediately disappeared into the wall as if running for his life.

This is really Toby's fault. It was Al who really persecuted Peeves, and there was no need for Toby to take action.

Toby looked at the list of past student union presidents for a while. Just as he was about to leave, he found Bloody Barro appearing at the door at some unknown time.

He said in a low and dark tone: "I have reserved a place for you in the academy in advance, if you want to become a ghost."

Toby ran away in a hurry before he finished speaking.

Toby could not pass through the wall like a ghost, so he had to pass through the body of Bloody Baron and forcibly experienced the feeling of being poured with cold water.

This feeling was unpleasant, but it still made Toby calm down a lot.

So he quickly rushed to the principal's office, knocked hard on the oak door, and said seriously as soon as he entered: "Principal, I think we can't let the Ministry of Magic arrange dementors into the school so easily. It's time to formally report to the Ministry of Magic.

War has been declared! Integrate Hogwarts and the position of Minister of Magic into one. Only in this way can peace in the wizarding world be guaranteed!"

Dumbledore's questioning voice came from the bedroom: "Then you can hold the positions of Headmaster and Minister at the same time, right?"

Toby walked towards the bedroom and said as he walked: "How did you guess it?"

"go out!"

"oh."

Toby stopped in front of the bedroom door, then turned around and walked away. He walked all the way down the stairs and came to the door of the Potions Office. He kicked the door open with his feet skillfully, looked at the empty office and shouted loudly: "

Severus! Why are you still sleeping? Don’t you need to prepare the Wolfsbane potion? Now I am responsible for paying your salary. If you continue to be so lazy, I will have to find a way to deduct your bonus this month."

Since establishing the Black Devil Foundation, Toby will not only use part of the money earned from the wish box to pay the professors' salaries, but also include a large bonus, as long as they continue to provide "prizes".

good.

There was another bang, and Toby kicked open the bedroom door of the Potions Office. He saw Snape lying on his side with his back to the door, covering himself tightly with the quilt, tucking the top end behind his neck and the lower end.

Tucked under the feet, leaving no gaps, the whole person was wrapped in the quilt.

As a former roommate, Toby probably knew Snape's sleeping habits. Only his head would be exposed outside the quilt. This was probably related to the lack of sense of security, or because he was used to the cold and had lived in a drafty house since he was a child.

.

By the way, the relationship between Snape's parents was very, very bad.

It was difficult to tell whether Snape was asleep or not, but his angry voice seemed very awake. He turned his back to Toby and shouted: "If you dare to take another step closer -"

Toby pulled up a chair and sat down beside the bed. He asked curiously: "What's wrong with taking a step closer?"

Snape suddenly stood up and pointed his wand at Toby, who was sitting behind him.

"Merlin!" Toby exclaimed: "You even hold a wand when you sleep!"

"Get out!" said Snape.

But he doesn't speak as well as Dumbledore.

Not only did Toby not leave, but he leaned back and babbled: "This won't work, Severus. Besides me, who else in the school is willing to chat with you? Barrow? Even

The ghosts of Slytherin want nothing to do with you."

Snape raised his head and glanced at the clock hanging on the wall. He clearly noticed something strange about Toby, and he knew very well that it was completely pointless to argue with Toby at this time.

So he simply lay back on the tight quilt, turned over, and turned his back to Toby again.

Toby kept talking, starting from his childhood, how they first met on the train, James and Sirius they met later, the grudges between them, and how Lily trusted them.

, but still suffered a tragic betrayal, both verbally and almost killing relatives.

If we talk about it carefully, after the complete break with Lily, Toby and Snape did not separate from the relationship from the beginning. They were roommates and from the same college. They would inevitably run into each other, but the communication became more complicated.

Some are missing.

Unknowingly, Snape's breathing gradually became calmer, and he seemed to be silently recalling the past. However, there were not as many things that he remembered as Toby, and there were even fewer figures that he was willing to recall.

At this moment, Snape suddenly heard Toby say——

"It's really interesting. You were all deceived by me. There is no hidden danger at all. It was all pretended by me on purpose, but I can't say it was completely true. I'm just deeply fascinated by it and can release it unscrupulously.

In my own mind, I don’t have to worry about anything. I can’t help but want to experience it again. It’s not that easy to maintain the disguise all the time. Maybe I just have had enough. I must recognize my heart and cannot deceive myself.

,It's that simple."

Snape's brows furrowed deeply, and he immediately connected this incident with the Shrieking Shack. It was also after Sirius tricked him into checking out the werewolves that Toby suddenly changed.

He still remembered that after telling him to escape quickly, Toby was left alone to deal with Lupine who had turned into a werewolf.

No one knows what happened after that night. Even Lupine couldn't remember it afterwards - he turned into a werewolf and couldn't recall all the experiences, only those that made him feel painful.

, such as hurting others.

"What on earth are you——"

Snape turned over and saw that the chair behind him was empty, and the door outside had long been quietly closed.

Office of Ancient Magic.

Toby stood in front of the ice that seemed to never melt, staring at the chaotic fluid inside, which was vague, like a shadow with teeth and claws.

I don't know when, the only complete skeleton also came over, also looking at the shadow in the ice.

"Does that sound familiar to you?" Toby asked.

The skeleton looked stunned, as if he didn't understand the problem at all.

"Okay." Toby said softly: "It seems that you are all people without a destination."

the next day.

Toby got up late.

It was Al who woke him up by pushing and shoving him. If it was too late, he would not be able to make it to the back-to-school dinner.

"If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have gone to bed so late. Okay, okay, I know, don't worry, it won't be too late."

Al was already dressed neatly, with the small suit and half-moon glasses, which made him look very serious.

Due to a certain ancient magic professor who had a strong presence, his assistant never had a chance to shine, so his annual appearance became extremely important, gradually becoming more like the Sorting Hat.

Amid Al's non-stop complaints, Toby hurriedly put on his witch robe, was pushed out of the office door by Al on his back, and ran to the auditorium on the first floor without stopping.

The decoration in the auditorium has changed again this year, and it seems that the professors have put a lot of thought into it.

As soon as Toby walked out the door, he saw Professor McGonagall dropping a letter on the teacher's desk and hurriedly came over.

"What's wrong?" Toby asked standing at the door.

"Why are you here?" McGonagall subconsciously regarded Toby as a student again. After questioning her, she said with a livid face: "Remus Lupine just sent me a letter on the train. There is a student.

Became uncomfortable under the influence of dementors on the train."

Toby clicked his tongue and shook his head. It seemed that the dementors couldn't resist hunger and wanted to suck the students' emotions without permission.

"Who is there?" he asked casually.

"Harry Potter." McGonagall frowned and looked at the collar of Toby's wizard robe, with a dissatisfied expression on his face, and helped him fold the collar: "Look at you, why are you making such a fuss at this time?

Not as good as Elliso."

Al immediately puffed up his chest proudly, pretended to wave a small bow, and grinned with a big smile.

Toby glanced at it, curled his lips, and then said "cut" again.

"Do you want to come together?" Mag suddenly asked.

"Huh?" Toby turned back in confusion: "What are you going to do? Drive away all the dementors?"

"Then it's not our turn to make a decision." McGonagall said helplessly: "It's Lupin again. He mentioned in his letter that if it's convenient, he should call you over too - are you and Harry very close?"

"I have put him in solitary confinement many times." Toby waved his hand to let Al go in first, and then followed Mag to the gate of the castle.

It didn't take long for the students who had returned from vacation to come one after another. They were talking and laughing. First they saw Dean McGonagall standing in front, and then they found Professor Heimer who was whispering something.

Then, all the talking and laughing stopped, and silence spread like a plague. They lowered their heads one by one, and walked far away from the two of them, leaving an empty circle in the middle, and no one dared to approach.

"About the Animagus transformation skills. I know you are a studious student, but you don't have to learn Animagus. Only by personal experience can you know how dangerous it is - huh?"

Mag was originally chatting with Toby about the prizes in the wish box, and by the way, she was chatting with Toby about the art of transfiguration, when she suddenly noticed something strange about the students.

"very nice."

Uncommonly, the corners of Professor McGonagall's lips raised slightly, and she praised: "It only took two years. It seems that you have adapted well to the position of professor, especially you have established enough majesty."

"This is something Al can't do." Toby answered with a few words of ridicule: "Severus can't do it either. I don't see any students respecting him. This is different from us.

Same - look, Remus is coming, and not far behind is Harry, he seems to be okay - Remus! Remus!"

Toby waved to Lupine, but Lupine just smiled at them and said, "Long time no see. I'm going to the auditorium. Let's talk later at dinner."

Toby noticed that Remus was staring at him with a complicated look before leaving, deliberately not letting Professor McGonagall notice.

"Potter! Granger!"

Dean McGonagall suddenly shouted across the crowd: "Follow me! I want to see you two!"

The expressions on Harry and Hermione's faces immediately became guilty - it's not surprising, anyone will always look like this when facing Professor McGonagall. Of course, it's not much better when facing Professor Heimer.

go.

The four of them came to Professor McGonagall's office together. There was a warm and prosperous fire here, but the room was a bit small and far inferior to Professor Hemmer's office. This made the expressions on Harry and Hermione's faces inevitably change.

It has to be a little weird.

Professor McGonagall motioned for Harry and Hermione to sit down. She also took a seat behind the desk. She also helped Toby conjure an extra chair, and then said: "Professor Lupine sent an owl in advance to tell you

Not feeling well on the train, Potter."

Before Harry could answer, he heard a gentle knock on the door, and then the school nurse, Madam Pomfrey, hurried in.

"Oh, it's you!" Madam Pomfrey said as soon as she came up, as if she wasn't surprised at all: "I guess you must be doing something dangerous again?"

"It's a Dementor, Poppy," said Professor McGonagall.

Harry felt himself blushing, and became even more guilty after seeing Professor Hemmer looking at him vaguely.

He accepted Madam Pomfrey's examination in silence, only saying when asked that he had already eaten chocolate.

This was unanimously praised by the three people opposite, and Hogwarts finally had a reliable Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

"Are you really feeling okay, Potter?" Professor McGonagall asked sternly.

"Yeah." Harry said.

Mag turned to look at Toby and asked his opinion with his eyes.

"Harry and I will go out and talk." Toby stood up and said, "Little boys, there are always some things that are embarrassing to say in public. I can completely understand this."

"Okay." McGonagall said, "I'll tell Miss Granger about her class schedule, and then we'll go downstairs to attend the banquet together."

After returning to the corridor, Madam Pomfrey mumbled her way back to the campus hospital.

It wasn't until she disappeared completely that Toby lowered his head to look at Harry and noticed an obvious change in expression on his face.

"Tell me about it." Toby asked, "What happened?"

"It's a dementor, professor!" Harry confessed in a low voice: "I didn't expect to be able to summon the devil at that time. As a result, the runes and the dementors fought. The new professor witnessed this with his own eyes.

He seemed to have guessed that the process might be related to you, so he decided to help us hide it and not let anyone in the other boxes know."

"So that's it." Toby silently decided in his heart that he must be optimistic about the Wolfsbane potion and said, "I really didn't mention this to you, just because I was worried about scaring you - devils can also be regarded as dark creatures.

It is indeed one of the few magics that can resist Dementors, just like a dark wizard, who is not afraid of Dementors at all, because they can be regarded as a group - by the way, what is the result of the duel? "

Harry waved his fist excitedly: "I win, Professor!"

Toby slapped Harry on the shoulder: "Well done, Harry!"