Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 291 The Three Brothers of Death and the Full Moon

290 The three brothers of death and the full moon

Screaming Shack.

Toby and Al each held a wand, pointing at Dumbledore and Grindelwald standing on both sides of them.

"There are three people in the room now." He said, "That's enough."

The atmosphere became extremely tense in an instant. Whether it was Grindelwald, who thought he had convinced Toby, or Dumbledore, who had been trying to dissuade Toby, their eyes began to change.

"It's really unexpected." Dumbledore shook his head and sighed.

Everyone guessed wrong.

All along, Toby knew exactly what he was doing. He never forgot anything, including the night of the full moon that year, which he also remembered clearly.

It wasn't until today that Dumbledore realized that Toby had deceived them all with that memory.

No, maybe you can already guess it.

"Is it Lupin?" Dumbledore asked: "And that adventure in the snowy mountains was all planned by you in advance?"

"Who else could it be?" Toby said coldly, as if he was a completely different person.

"Other than him, no one would have witnessed what I experienced that night. So I had no choice. Although Lupine had turned into a werewolf by then, it was still better to be careful. So, I

I thought of a way that would not alarm other people - find him here and find an opportunity to erase his memory."

"I don't think he could have guessed that in the initial so-called prophecy during the professor's training, what emerged was actually the scene of me attacking him in the snowy mountains. Now it seems that he doesn't remember anything, which is very good.

.”

Compared with Dumbledore, Grindelwald's performance was not so serious. He seemed to have expected this and thought that Toby would make some abnormal decisions.

Even though he had nothing in his hands, Grindelwald became the most relaxed person in the room.

He asked with interest: "So, what are you going to do next? Turn Albus and I into devils? It's really an amazing idea. A wizard who is more Slytherin than Slytherin must be

You will do this, right?"

"No!"

Toby suddenly interrupted: "Compared to you, there is another more important thing. It's time to take away my stolen collection - do it!"

Almost at the same time, Al made the most unusual move - he raised the wand in his hand to the ceiling and shouted with all his strength: "Yeah!"

A spell appeared immediately, shot out from the tip of the wand, and hit the dusty ceiling, creating a medium-sized hole.

This turned out to be an explosion spell.

It can be seen that both Dumbledore and Grindelwald were surprised by Al's abilities, which were almost no different from ordinary wizards.

But Toby had no intention of caring about them. He immediately looked towards the ceiling - just above the hole that was blown out, a mask with shining golden lines was revealed, which was also worn on the head of the plant Animagus.

Wearing a lady's wide-brimmed hat, there are thin arms under the brim.

"Come back!" Toby roared with a distorted expression. A dark glimmer of light surged all over his body, turning into a black smoke and jumping directly up.

Seeing Toby rushing in, the monster with three collections integrated into one quickly stepped back and walked back to the old bed step by step. Pharaoh Mask shouted angrily.

Toby pointed his wand at the monster's face, and the smoke surrounding him became more and more, almost filling the entire room, forcing the monster back into a corner.

Immediately afterwards, Toby's huge face suddenly appeared in front of the Pharaoh's mask, and his dark eyes stared at it fiercely.

At this moment, he almost looked like a humanoid devil, a method that he had never used even when facing Voldemort.

"It seems you have forgotten the taste of fear." He said in a frightening tone.

While Toby was busy dealing with Grindelwald's back-up plan, Al was not idle either. He quickly shouted: "Yeah!"

The two skeletons standing behind Grindelwald immediately took action. They surrounded him, intending to capture the frail old man.

"Unbelievable." Grindelwald was still staring at Al, this magical creature. Without seeing any movement from him, the skull necklace he held in his hand floated up on its own, slowly grew in size, and returned to its original shape.

There was actually a second wand hidden inside the skull that Harry was supposed to use to contact Toby.

Grindelwald took out his wand slowly and said something to Dumbledore.

"You shouldn't have let Aberforth act alone. He has always been reckless and never learned his lesson."

Holding the wand that originally belonged to Aberforth Dumbledore, Grindelwald quickly knocked away the two skeletons that rushed towards him.

Al was startled, and it subconsciously planned to take out the flying carpet and escape first - this was nothing abnormal. Even when exploring ancient ruins in the past, it would often be separated from Toby, as long as they could find each other again in the end.

.

But inexplicably, Al felt like he had forgotten something.

It forgot about Dumbledore.

Why hasn't Dumbledore—

Al turned his head to look, and saw that its claws loosened, and the flying carpet fell to the floor, never to be picked up again.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!" It was so frightened that its whole body was trembling, and it even took a few steps back in the opposite direction of Grindelwald.

Dumbledore's face was full of pain, as if he was trying his best to suppress the torture that hurt his bones. A rare cold sweat appeared on his forehead, and he finally became like a truly old man of his age at this moment.

And right next to him, the surrounding smoke was even thicker than Toby's changes.

"You made a mistake, Gellert." He said weakly.

Soon Grindelwald knew what Dumbledore's mistake was.

The smoke was so thick that it was like real smoke. They condensed together and dispersed quickly, like a beating heart. A voice could be heard roaring inside -

"Aberforth, my brother, how dare you, how dare you!"

This was the voice of a girl - Ariana appeared, covered in black, with a disordered figure, and a look of resentment on her face. She turned into a ball of smoke, and suddenly rushed towards Grindelwald, ignoring all his attacks.

The spell came, bright colors and black intertwined, Al hid under the sofa chair and shivered, and the down all over his body was shaking.

"Your name is Al, right? We haven't officially met yet."

A discordant voice sounded. Al looked over, holding his head, and saw that the Sorting Hat was also hiding here.

"Don't tell me that this is also Toby's method." The Sorting Hat looked at the scene of the fierce battle between the devil Ariana and Grindelwald and said: "How did he guess that Dumbledore would study the devil and create such a big thing?

He has been keeping this secret, so no one can get such important information out of him."

"Yeah." Al said weakly, looking a little regretful.

Miraculously, the Sorting Hat understood what Al said without any hindrance.

"You mean, Toby actually discovered that Dumbledore was preventing him from meeting Harry, so he deliberately taught Harry about the devil, because he knew that Dumbledore would definitely find an opportunity to ask about the boy?"

Al shook his head and nodded. It quickly twisted around, not forgetting to put on the Sorting Hat, and grabbed it and ran out from under the sofa. The next moment, it was crushed by Grindelwald who was thrown hard.

"Go to the cupboard!" The Sorting Hat swayed in the air and ordered in a panic: "That's the closest to Dumbledore. Ariana won't hurt him - wait a minute, Toby won't even do such a thing.

Guessed it?"

"You are right, Mr. Sorting Hat."

Toby had come down from the second floor at some unknown time. His face was a little pale, and he was also staring at the fighting scene in the room and said: "To be honest, it was Grindelwald who inspired me. It was he who published Ariana's story.

It’s just that I didn’t expect that the principal’s devil would be so real. This is not a good sign.”

"Aha!" The Sorting Hat didn't listen to what Toby said at all. It loudly accused: "Now you know how to call him principal——"

"Stop its mouth." Toby ordered calmly, and Al immediately tied the Sorting Hat's mouth tightly with a rope so that it could not be opened.

The next second, Toby transformed into a black devil again. He saw the right moment and slammed into Grindelwald, hitting him against the wall in a large shape and sinking him deeply.

The devil Ariana snatched Grindelwald's wand away in an instant and held it carefully in her hand. The expression on her face kept changing between worry and anger.

"It's time to rest." Toby took out the pharaoh mask from nowhere and quickly covered Ariana's face. Just before Ariana was about to lose control again, another wide-brimmed hat was covered on her head.

Control her by force.

"Death." Grindelwald gasped, coughing violently and said: "Have you already known the meaning of defeating death? Do you know that these two skeletons are Antioch and Cadmus?"

"I only confirmed it tonight." Although his tone was very weak, Toby still said: "I learned from you that the third skeleton is real. No wonder I always felt that something was wrong. It turns out that it

Wearing a cloak of invisibility, that’s why we don’t appear in past history.”

"Now, I see - passed out!"

Grindelwald, who was unable to resist due to the accident, immediately passed out.

"Watch him closely," Toby said to the two fallen skeletons.

Then, Toby slowly walked up to the weak Dumbledore.

"It seems that the devil has given you a lot of trouble, principal." He looked down at Dumbledore, who was leaning against the wall. "But why is it Ariana? Even I didn't expect that this would really succeed. Could it be that she

Always alive and not dead? Just like you asked to be sorted into Gryffindor in order to hide her existence?"

"I didn't expect that either." Dumbledore said feebly: "But what about you, Toby, don't you have anyone really important to you?"

"Are you referring to the fact that I turned into a devil?" Toby shook his head and said, "No, I am different from you, principal. I did not voluntarily study devils, but after losing my patron saint, I must have something to save my life.

The means will do."

"If given the chance, I think I would be willing to continue listening." Dumbledore was about to pass out, but he managed to pull himself together and said, "But now that there are three people in the room, you finally did it, yes

Are you planning to realize your great ideals here?"

Toby stared at him silently.

At this moment, Al felt something. He yelped in surprise and turned his eyes in the direction of Hogwarts Castle.

"I feel it too."

Toby slowly put down the wand in his hand and said: "Believe me, principal, ideals do not equal crimes. I can still distinguish this clearly. You will know in a while that I have always valued my soul so much."

, and have never forgotten it.”

Dumbledore closed his eyes and seemed to be asleep.

Toby left the Shrieking Shack silently, leaving Al behind to clean up the mess.

While Al was busy holding down the restless Sorting Hat, he suddenly heard someone ask: "Did Toby erase his memory to protect Lupine?"

Al was stunned for a moment.

This is the beginning of everything, a curse, and it can also become ambition.

It knows this very well.

"Yeah." Al nodded sadly.

There was no more sound in the room, only two steady gasps.

In the dark corridor of Hogwarts Castle, Toby appeared quietly. He walked up the stairs without stopping, and walked forward weakly and slowly.

"What are you doing secretly?" Snape suddenly appeared from the corner of the corridor, as if he had come specifically to keep an eye on Toby.

He sarcastically said: "Are you going to open all the portraits again? Haven't you forgotten those unreasonable thoughts of yours?"

Toby glanced at him, then shook his head with a disappointed expression.

"If you only have this ability, how can you help Lily get revenge?"

Almost at the same time, two different expressions appeared on Snape's face - natural anger, and almost no expression of confusion.

He heard something was wrong with Toby's voice.

"If it's okay, just get out of the way." Toby said, staring directly at him.

Even the remaining confusion disappeared, and Snape's face turned green and white, becoming extremely distorted.

"That's right." After walking forward for a while, Toby suddenly stopped and said, "It would be great if Lily is still alive. Maybe we will really succeed, the three of us."

"What nonsense are you talking about again?" Snape seemed to want to walk over and ask clearly, but his feet stayed in place, motionless.

Toby came to the last corridor alone.

"Three people," he murmured in a low voice, "then we can become Lily's pets."

It didn't take long for a catnive to jump out of the entrance to the passage of Hogwarts, followed closely behind by a rune snake.

After successfully getting rid of the trouble of passwords, Toby walked into the common room with Neko and Rune Snake, and saw three little wizards with confused faces.

"Kids, close your eyes," he said.

After the three of them complied, Toby immediately collapsed on a sofa chair and stared closely at the picture formed by the black smoke——

Under the full moon, two wizards and the person hidden under the invisibility cloak were performing ancient ritual magic - something was summoned by them.

Toby never looked at that thing again. He knew what it was from the beginning, as if he had known it since birth.

The hot invisibility cloak was held in his hand, releasing a rare warmth.

At the same time, in the final scene formed by the smoke, a black shadow was watching Toby inside.

He was targeted by death.

"Old friend." Death's voice sounded in Toby's mind. It was difficult to describe, and he couldn't tell what language it was in, but he could understand it as soon as he heard it.

"Can you tell me now what my wish is?"

Toby didn't answer. He closed his eyes and seemed to have fainted.

After a long time, the invisibility cloak slipped from his hands and fell to the floor.

Harry vaguely heard a whisper coming from his dream.

"Open your eyes, children, you are safe."

[First half of third grade volume, end.]