Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 303 Team

Frank and Alice were approved quickly. Maybe they encountered some difficulties in the process, but neither of them mentioned it.

On the contrary, Ludo Bagman told Toby all these things.

"They've been sidelined."

Bagman said it as soon as he came up, and then immediately clarified: "This has nothing to do with me at all. You should know who did it. I said, this should not affect the friendship between us, right?"

All he could think about was solving the Quidditch match, and he didn't want to cause any unpleasantness with Toby, the foundation's big financier.

Although no one has doubted Bagman's ability now, they won't be able to say for sure in the future - the atmosphere in the department is very bad, especially Fudge. Anyone who sees him recently has to hide away, otherwise he will inevitably get a bad taste.

Painful.

"Of course not." Toby responded with a smile, looking very considerate: "Lucius will help them solve this problem. I am very optimistic about his ability."

Upon hearing these words, Bagman suddenly became more relieved - that was Lucius, the famous Malfoy family, powerful, and had a very good relationship with the minister.

He really didn't expect that even Lucius was on Toby's side. It seemed that Fudge's life would not be too easy - but who cares, we still have to solve the Quidditch problem first.

"This matter is very simple." Toby said as easily as what to eat for dinner today: "I will convince the principal to let him give up the school's Quidditch pitch, which will become the next few games.

The location of the competition. As for how many competitions can be held, we have to discuss it carefully."

Bagman was stunned for a moment.

"That's wonderful." He reacted immediately, extremely excited: "This is such a wonderful idea. Everyone knows that Albus Dumbledore was the one who defeated Grindelwald, and no one dares to attack him on his territory.

Go wild, this should make the audience feel more at ease - but which teams do you plan to choose as the competition team?"

"I don't care about the rest." Toby had obviously made his decision a long time ago, and he answered directly: "But the Chudley Cannons, they must participate, and any event involving them will be hosted by Hogwarts."

Bagman thought he heard wrongly.

"The Chudley Cannons?" he asked suspiciously: "You should be talking about the Wimbourne Hornets, right?"

"No." Toby said, wagging his finger: "It's the Chudley Artillery team, that team that has been underperforming since 1892 and whose glorious era has ended. I'm very optimistic about them."

"So you know." Bagman said in surprise: "It has been a full hundred years since they won the last UEFA Cup. Are you sure you want to choose them?"

"To be precise, it's one hundred and two years." Toby corrected: "And, don't you think the story of the return of the king will be very marketable? Believe me, someone will be interested in this story, "The Quibbler"

We will also vigorously promote the first game, and the rest will be left to you, Director."

For some reason, when he heard Toby calling him Director Bagman, he subconsciously closed his mouth. He put all his doubts in his heart and thought that he might as well just let Toby do it. It would cost money anyway.

The person is not him either.

After Bagman left, only Toby and Al were left in the office.

"How are you feeling lately?" Toby suddenly asked Al an unrelated question.

Al immediately checked his whole body, even his long flat mouth, and finally waggled his short tail and said "ah" to indicate that there was nothing wrong with him at all.

This is a question that Toby has always been concerned about since that full moon night. After all, the God of Death has appeared, and it is difficult to ensure that it will not have any impact on Al.

Moreover, there are the three brothers of the Peverell family, and their descendants.

Now Toby can confirm the location of at least two Deathly Hallows, one of which is the Elder Wand, which is in Dumbledore's hand.

Another item is the invisibility cloak. On the night when Death appeared, Harry's invisibility cloak became a little different from usual.

That is the second Deathly Hallows.

And the last thing - the Resurrection Stone.

"James Potter." Toby whispered: "Is he resurrected because of the Resurrection Stone? Has he ever died once?"

For this question, asking Grindelwald is the best way. Unfortunately, in front of such a superb master of Occlumency, no matter how powerful Legilimency is, it will not work, not to mention that Grindelwald is so good at deceiving people.

He has already tried to use the Elder Wand to continue to sow discord between Toby and Dumbledore. There is no guarantee that he will not do something similar a second time - and the method is also very simple, he only needs to tell Toby some wrong information.

, it is possible to take advantage of him.

"It's time to meet the principal." Toby said abruptly: "I haven't applied for the Quidditch pitch in advance. Even if there is no such thing, there is no point in continuing to shirk the time of meeting. By the way, we can discuss how to deal with Grindelwald.

also."

Al didn't expect that the cold war would end so quickly. It was a little overwhelmed for a while. It wanted to take out a small shovel, and then replaced it with Gryffindor's sword, but in the end it felt that both of them were inappropriate.

——What if Toby is driven away or even fights with Dumbledore?

"No." Toby patted Al's little head and said, "The principal won't embarrass us. He can't afford to anger me. Do you remember the law of conservation of magic? Although he didn't tell me, he

I definitely don’t want this matter to be revealed.”

"Yeah?" Al asked with some worry. He wanted to know if Toby would really leak the secret one day?

Toby just patted Al's little head again and did not answer the question.

"Let's go." He said, "Put on your glasses too, the ones that imitate the principal's. He will like them."

When Toby and Al, who was wearing half-moon lenses, came to the stone beast, it jumped out of the way to make way for the principal's office without even asking for the password.

It seems that Dumbledore has been waiting for Toby for a long time.

Along the spiral staircase, Toby walked up in silence. Al was still fiddling with his glasses nervously, and was a little confused about whether to put on the mini star and moon witch robe.

Before Al could think about this problem, Toby had already arrived at the last oak door and knocked on it gently.

The door was unlocked, but no one answered.

Toby frowned and walked into the empty principal's office. After seeing him, the Sorting Hat said angrily: "You are late, Dumbledore is not in school."

"Where did he go?" Toby asked as he walked to the desk.

"I didn't know." For some reason, the Sorting Hat got angry when it saw Toby. It forgot about being kidnapped by Toby, but it always felt that something was wrong, and its tone never got better: "Dumbledore

Liduo is a busy man and rarely stays in school all the time, not to mention that you just caused him a big trouble not long ago."

The Sorting Hat remembered the incident about Ariana Devil very clearly, but it really couldn't understand why the teacher and student could still act like nothing had happened.

Toby, and Al, naturally, they had already started rummaging through the boxes.

"Hey! Hey!" the Sorting Hat immediately shouted: "Someone is here to steal something! No one cares about it, really no one cares about it?"

The portraits of the principals on the wall also denounced him. Phineas muttered "shameless" in a low voice, then carefully looked at the expression on Toby's face, and relaxed a lot after finding that he was not angry.

Now that Dumbledore is not at school, who knows if Toby will actually destroy his portrait.

Toby continued to open a drawer unmoved, and saw that it was full of "Transfiguration Today", and it seemed that every issue had been retained.

"He didn't leave me anything?" Toby asked without raising his head: "For example, a magic wand, or something to explain, not even this?"

"I'll tell you if you stop!" the Sorting Hat shouted, Toby raised his head and looked at it, and Al also stopped holding a silverware.

"There is only one thing." The Sorting Hat finally said: "Dumbledore knows that you hate him, but he still asks you not to trust anything Grindelwald says, not a word."

"But so far, Grindelwald hasn't deceived me much." Toby said slowly: "On the contrary, he helped me understand the secret of the magic ball and the law of conservation of magic——"

"That's because he is plotting greater ambitions." The Sorting Hat said anxiously: "If you want to get something, you must give it away first. This is Grindelwald's consistent style. Otherwise, how do you think he could gather such a large group of people?"

His followers, as well as his unknown students, a group of eccentric guys, some even came back from the dead, my God, how did the magic world become what it is today."

The Sorting Hat began to lament all the ugliness in today's wizarding world. Even the students were becoming increasingly dissatisfied with its new song - yes, it can be felt. Only freshmen would find it interesting, and the other old students would only find it interesting.

I know it's really rude to rush to fill your stomach.

"Isn't the principal hiding again?" Toby asked again: "So when I plan to do something, he will appear again and find an excuse to kick me out?"

"Do you think he really knows how to clone himself?" the Sorting Hat said impatiently: "I think he went to do archeology, just like you. How can I study you, a student, if you don't study ancient magic?"

What are you looking for, stop now!"

Toby opened a book of "Ancient Magic" unhurriedly. He still remembered that Dumbledore used this book to clean himself up, because it was easy to pick up.

He slowly opened the book and found a few white hairs inside. After counting them carefully, he picked them up and asked, "This is also what the principal told me, right?"

Knowing that the truth had been exposed, the Sorting Hat shouted desperately: "Merlin, Hogwarts is about to fall into the hands of the Dark Devil. How could Dumbledore make such a stupid decision-"

"No, he is much smarter than you." Toby put away his hair carefully and said, "Now that Dumbledore has become an archaeologist, someone must take the position of principal."

"He knew there was no better choice besides me."

——

There was a knock on the door of the principal's office again.

Snape asked maliciously as soon as he walked in: "You finally decided to drive Toby away. I thought you would think that no one would be able to discover the conflict between the two of you. It's just a matter of publicity."

It’s been announced.”

"I think, at least in the eyes of most people, Toby and I are still safe and sound." Dumbledore behind the desk put down the "Transfiguration Today" in his hand, raised his head, and looked at Si with his blue eyes.

Nap said: "And you are clearly outside the majority, Severus."

Snape knew that this was a rejection, which made him feel very bad, and even his tone was no longer so friendly.

"Do you have anything else to do?" He was already ready to leave the office.

"There is indeed one thing." Dumbledore said gently: "Toby plans to hold several Quidditch League games at Hogwarts. There will be spectators at the scene, and it is estimated that the number of people will not be small -"

"You just agreed?" Before Dumbledore could finish speaking, Snape asked angrily: "How could you let Toby go around? Who is he? Why do you deserve to tolerate him so much?"

"I have my reasons." Dumbledore said in his usual tone, which made Snape extremely unhappy.

"But what does this have to do with me?" Snape asked gloomily.

"It's still the same." Dumbledore said: "I won't be there at that time, but someone still needs to watch the game and help keep an eye on Toby's movements. You are qualified for this job, right, Severus

Si?"

"I think it will be difficult." Snape refused almost immediately: "I'm already preparing those damn potions for your Defense Against the Dark Arts professor, so there's no reason to do more for you.

It's your turn to have the headache this time, don't even think about taking me with you."

As he spoke, he was about to leave the office, looking determined to confront Dumbledore.

At this moment, the sound of words coming from behind made his legs stop involuntarily.

"devil."

Dumbledore said abruptly: "Since you are so unwilling to help, I can let Minerva do it. But, your devil, Severus, I think it is time to have a good talk about this.

, do you have anything to say?”

Snape slowly turned around. He stared at Dumbledore closely and squeezed out a sentence through his teeth: "This has nothing to do with you. I have my own reasons. There is no need to tell you."

"Can't you share even a word?" Dumbledore insisted: "I don't want one more student who needs to be taken care of. After all, until now we don't know whether Toby's loss of control was a disguise.

It’s still a real problem. It’s hard to make sure this doesn’t happen to you—”

"Then you go ask Toby!" Snape said angrily: "Try to ask him how many things he has hidden from you. Do you really think that kind of person will tell all his experiences verbatim?

Is it okay to tell you?"

"But I trust Toby." Dumbledore looked into Snape's eyes and said, "Just like I trust you. In my opinion, there is no difference between you."

Snape sneered, obviously feeling that Dumbledore's statement was completely ridiculous. He had never gained Dumbledore's unreasonable trust.

"I will help you keep an eye on Toby." Snape suddenly changed his mind and said, "Let's wait and see how loyal your students are to you, or whether they want to destroy all your hard work.

"

After saying this, Snape left without looking back.

The office became quiet again.

Dumbledore put away the book of Transfiguration, his tone returned to Toby's voice, and he asked the dumbfounded faces in the room: "How is it? I told you before -"

"I am the most suitable person to be the principal."