Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 277 Chosen Course

Until the end, Dumbledore did not let Toby really release the devil. Before the unpredictable consequences, he would not take such a big risk just for a guess.

But he still asked a question.

"I remember you made a deal with Ajinbad, the principal of Wagadu." He said: "Let him testify for us about Sirius, and the price is this devil that serves as the key.

.”

"There is such a thing." Toby said easily: "Are you worried that after he gets the devil, he will threaten me through the function of the key, or take away this memory? You can rest assured about that.

Well, Ajinbad is a very reliable person. He provided me with a lot of help when I was exploring the ruins in Africa, and later he even took Angela in. Of course, I don’t rule out the possibility that he has ulterior motives, but I secretly

After investigating him, there is nothing wrong with this person. He is just a little obsessed with ancient magic. But who knows that he is a student who graduated from Wagadu, which is famous for its wandless magic, which is the closest form to ancient magic."

"That's good." Dumbledore said. He cast his gaze on the dark part of the ice, knowing that he would not be able to access the memory content inside.

"One more thing." He said slowly: "Can I regard this as a kind of deception? After all, I have fulfilled my promise to you and announced the extension of the teacher recognition meeting in front of the students. But

You didn't do what you were supposed to do."

Toby quietly moved back a few steps without leaving any trace, while Al had already sneaked into the bedroom and closed the door, determined not to get involved in Toby's lies.

"Calm down, principal." Toby said in an extremely serious tone: "You seem to have forgotten one thing."

"What is it?" Dumbledore asked calmly. He looked around the room as if he was looking for a handy weapon: "By the way, where did you put the goblin's shovel?"

The bedroom door was pushed open a gap, Al threw Toby's shovel out with all his strength, and then immediately closed the door again.

Dumbledore walked over, picked up the shovel, and waved it twice. The posture seemed to be more skillful than Toby's. If it were replaced with a sword, he would definitely be an excellent duelist.

Toby stepped back further.

"Remus Lupin." He said quickly: "Have you forgotten? There is another person present in this memory that I sealed. You should have guessed that this happened when I was in school.

At that time, Remus turned into a werewolf, and I faced Severus alone in order to save him. I don’t know what happened after that. All the memories were sealed by me in ice cubes that will never melt.

"C. Remus was the only witness at that time. Even if he turned into a werewolf at that time, it's hard to say whether he would still remember anything."

Dumbledore slowly put down the shovel. He thought of some of the stupid things Toby had done. He frowned and asked, "Is that why you train Lupine as a professor again and again? I remember it happened before school started.

There will be one more time after school starts."

"It's not just that." Toby said in a mysterious tone: "In fact, the earliest one was when I went to explore the snowy mountains after leaving Hogwarts. At that time, I took Remus with me.

I called him, and I specifically chose a day when the full moon was about to come, just to know if he was affected by it after turning into a werewolf."

"What's the result?" Dumbledore's tone became much more serious.

"Of course nothing happened in the end." Toby shook his head and said, "Remus is fine, except that he always complains about that experience and almost froze his tail off. He is really arrogant and spoiled.

I can’t bear the hardship.”

Dumbledore pondered for a while, and Toby waited quietly. He gently took the shovel away and put it in a corner far away from Dumbledore. He sent two skeletons to guard it and never let the principal again.

noticed.

Just as Toby directed the two skeletons to stand together to cover the shovel, Dumbledore suddenly asked him: "Since you are very aware of your own problems, then Severus knows that you saved him."

Did life become what it is now?"

"I think he should know." Toby waved his hands indifferently and said, "But what's the use? He also thought about killing me because of Lily. If you want to use this to improve the relationship between us,

Forget about personal relationships, after all, magic can't bring people back to life."

"I never thought of doing this." Dumbledore said with a smile, but Toby immediately felt a chill.

"It is your own choice how you want to treat each other. However, it is still the teacher recognition meeting, and I suddenly thought of the missing point, that is, assessment. After the students learned the magic in the special column, no one was responsible

Assess them. Otherwise, let’s leave this matter to you and Severus, and you two will be responsible for assessing the students.”

Toby blinked: "Assessment? Doesn't this make Severus look at me? What have I become? A prisoner in prison?"

"That's more or less what I mean." Dumbledore actually admitted: "I promise you to meet Grindelwald, and you have to make some sacrifices for this."

"This" Toby still couldn't understand: "Aren't you afraid that I will fight with Severus again? If the two of us stay together all day long, do you think this is not possible?"

"You seem very reluctant to accept this job," Dumbledore said in a questioning tone.

"Of course I don't want to." Toby said loudly: "I have so many things to be busy with. In addition to the usual classes, I also have to teach Harry and the others -"

"But that's only once a week at most." Dumbledore said slowly.

"What about the Black Devil Foundation?" Toby continued to question: "What should I do about making money to pay professors?"

"Regarding this matter, your partner has done a good job." Dumbledore said: "And I don't see how much thought you have put into it recently. Even Witch's letters have been reduced a lot."

"What about Sirius Black?" Toby said unwillingly: "He is missing and no one can find him. What if he dies or is caught?"

"I have contacted my friends." Dumbledore shook his head and said, "Although there has been no progress yet, someone is already in charge of this matter."

"Where did you get so many friends?" Toby asked doubtfully: "I saw you writing a letter before, because of this matter? Are those people trustworthy? Blake was involved in your previous trial. Once he

Once the news that he is still alive is revealed, everything will be over."

"Believe me." Dumbledore said seriously: "I still have a few friends I can trust."

"Okay." Toby said helplessly, and then he racked his brains and thought for a while.

Dumbledore didn't act anxious at all, just waiting for him quietly.

Toby glanced at the principal casually, noticed the gaze directed at him, and their eyes met.

He asked tentatively: "Is there really nothing else to do?"

"It seems that you finally figured it out." Dumbledore said with a satisfied smile: "There is no need to trace the Horcrux anymore, because Harry's problem is much more serious than that. In addition, there is Kingsley.

, but that was also taken over by Aberforth. So, haven’t you noticed yet, Toby, you now have a lot of time to waste. In order to avoid complaints from centaurs someday, I think it’s better to give it in advance.

It would be better if you arrange something to do."

"No!" Toby immediately protested: "I'm right, there are new books! I haven't finished writing the textbooks for next semester. I wasted a year last year, and I absolutely can't do it again this year. I have to write

Books will do.”

Dumbledore had no intention of changing his mind at all. He patted Toby on the shoulder affectionately and said: "I believe Severus will be very willing to be one of your many thankers. Maybe you can also collaborate to write a

A book I’m looking forward to.”

"Just him?" Toby was very confident in his ability to write a book. He shouted: "This is impossible!"

But Dumbledore no longer planned to listen any more. He turned around and left without looking back and said, "I hope you can remember how I felt at this time, because I just experienced it. It moved very quickly.

Isn’t it? The emotions of wizards, that’s really fascinating in magic.”

revenge!

This is obviously Dumbledore's revenge!

Toby was playing some tricks, but just because of this, Severus came to watch him? And it was a blatant surveillance!

Merlin.

Then, just as Toby was condemning Al's action of surrendering to the enemy, Snape arrived.

He stood outside the door, narrowing his eyes and looking at the scene of Toby shaking Al's head vigorously.

Toby also immediately turned around, his unkind gaze hidden behind his hair, and then said in an even more unkind tone: "You are actually coming? Why, don't you remember that you learned about the devil? Aren't you afraid that I will pull you?"

put?"

"Just try it." Snape sneered: "You can do it at any time, no matter how evil you want to cast black magic. Otherwise, it's your old talk - the dark side of ancient magic. Tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk tsk

, but why haven’t I seen its good side from you?”

"Now you said that." Toby said in a long voice: "Let me think about who almost died under the werewolf's claws? It turned out to be you. By the way, who saved you? Me

Got it, it’s me, and the ancient magic I studied in school. Otherwise, you would have died long ago, and even your body would have rotted away.”

Snape's expression immediately turned gloomy, his long greasy hair hanging down on both sides of his head, and his witch robes were dark, just like his face - extremely ugly.

"Who knows whether that is your true thought." He said in a more gloomy tone: "Until today, you have never said the reason why you appeared near the Whomping Willow. Did you happen to know the news, or did you originally know the news?

I made plans in advance to study with my own eyes the scum that turned into werewolves."

"Your thoughts are really dark." Toby sneered: "Is this how you thank your savior?"

"I still say the same thing." Snape walked into the house, closed the door and said, "No one knows what your real thoughts are, or whether you have planned all this in advance, no one knows."

"No, you are wrong." Toby said suddenly: "There is someone who knows, and you know very well who that person is."

Snape's movements suddenly became stiff. He stared at Toby closely and heard him continue: "Yes, it's Lily. Do you think you are really smart? Come on, during class that day, you were all

The words "revenge" are almost written on your face. And, to be honest, you are the last one among the three of us to discover that Remus is a werewolf, you are really slow."

Snape said nothing, his lips tightened little by little.

Toby was still saying: "Then, I probably guessed what was going to happen, so I told Lily casually. I remember the two of us were studying dark creatures together. It's strange enough that you weren't there.

Yes, so Lily quickly believed what I said and was about to stop you from doing this, but I stopped you."

"Do you know why?"

Snape said full of resentment: "Because you are a twisted, self-righteous person who doesn't know how much you are hated by others——"

"Hey hey hey!" Toby said, wagging a finger: "Don't tell me you were going to say that word, it's really rude. But I don't really care, just like the reason why I stopped Lily that day.

Same - I don't care. At that time I was thinking about the connection between the moon and werewolves. This is a huge topic. If it were written into a paper, it would take at least a hundred inches. Someone would have to help. Lily was

My helper. I guess she plans to help Remus when she has the opportunity. Everyone knows that unlike James and Black, he doesn't like to get involved in troubles that cause trouble. So Lily would think so.

It’s understandable. Remus is the only good person left in that small group.”

"However, you also know what happened later. Lily failed to go and never showed up. In the end, it was me who went to find you. Although it was a little late, it was all because I was still thinking about werewolves.

And the full moon, this is magical, isn't it? Just one moon can affect all the werewolves, what a powerful magic it must be."

"Okay, the topic has gone a bit far. Now let me tell you something you don't know - in fact, Lily was present at the time, hiding near the Whomping Willow. I saw her, but I didn't expose her.

Because this is what Lily told me when I stopped her——"

Toby cleared his throat. He deliberately imitated Lily's tone and said, "How could you care so little about Sev? I thought we were friends. It seems that these mysterious magics have affected you too deeply."

.I heard that Sif is very close to those guys who want to be Death Eaters. What about you? Do you know that I have been worried about you recently? One is about to become a Death Eater, and the other is still trying to

Tian talks about ancient magic. Have you ever thought about what we will become in the future? What will become of the three of us?"

"Look. We are obviously the ones with the problem, but why is it always Lily who is the saddest person?" Toby returned to his normal tone, and he looked at Snape who was extremely angry.

"You must want to know what happened next. I can tell you now - I told Lily at the time that I originally thought that only Severus and I would not end well. But looking at it now, Lily

, you're probably worse off than we are."

"As a result, these words made Lily so angry that she tore up all my manuscript papers. She even broke several books borrowed from the library. This is really uncomfortable. Everyone knows that

Mrs. Si is not to be trifled with - the topic has gone too far. However, I really don't think Lily is angry because I said she would end badly, but because I have already acquiesced that you and I will not end well.

"

"At that time, I was thinking, how could there be such a strange person in this world? Maybe she should be sorted into Slytherin, so that Lily might not become so naive."

"The next thing became a bit simple. Lily just stared at me angrily and didn't say a word. I guess she was going to say something like there was no cure, but she didn't say a word.

explain."

"So, I said to Lily - okay, I'm going to stop Severus."

"Thinking about it now, this should be what Lily really meant. She probably had reached the limit of her endurance at that time, and was already hesitating whether she should really stay away from people like us, but she still couldn't make up her mind. Later, she hid in the grass and

It proves this, she is too tired, having friends like us is very hard, it is too hard for her to bear, she must see the reason with her own eyes to convince herself."

"This is Lily. She keeps giving us opportunities and is hopelessly kind."

Toby shook his head regretfully, sighed, and then said cheerfully again: "By the way, I haven't told you the reason why I changed my mind to save you-"

But there was no need for him to say any more. Snape's body was stirring, as if he wanted to rush forward and give Toby a serious beating, but he turned around and left in the next second without staying for a moment.

Toby looked at the door that was forcefully closed, and said to himself in a voice so low that it was almost inaudible: "So why did you come here? Who asked me to meet you? When we first met,

I've told you before, don't provoke me easily, it will bring you trouble."

"Now, we are all suffering, and no one is left behind."