Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 319 Toby and James

Gunter's old house.

Regulus, who was curled up in pain, widened his eyes. He covered his palms and exclaimed: "James Potter, I have seen you and you are actually alive!"

James raised his hands and walked slowly out of the woods. His steps were very careful, as if his feet were not grass but sharp spikes.

"Listen to me, Toby—"

As soon as James opened his mouth, Toby interrupted: "No, you should listen to me - now, come over obediently and don't make any move of resistance. Today I have to figure everything out, once and for all.

I really hate the feeling of being hidden."

"First of all, the first thing is, are you alive or are you resurrected?"

Toby said in a non-negotiable tone that this was something James had expected to happen.

"I don't know either." James shook his head and said, "I really don't know what happened on the night when I was supposed to die, but what I can tell you is that at least I am alive now."

Toby stared at James silently for a while.

"Wrong answer." He said coldly, and then shot a spell at James.

As expected, Toby didn't expect to get any answers from James at all. Since he dared to appear in front of him, he should arrest him first. There would be plenty of time to figure out the reason later.

However, in Toby's bright sight, the spell penetrated James' body, hit the tree trunk behind him, and splashed a few sparks.

He seemed to have become transparent.

"Now we can have a nice talk-"

Once again, before James could finish speaking, Toby's whole body suddenly glowed with a dark glimmer.

"Let's talk about it? I have nothing to talk about with the guy who only pretends to be a ghost. Is this a ghost, or - forget it, it doesn't matter, you will know soon."

Regulus watched as Toby inexplicably turned into a lump of paint that did not disperse. His face appeared in the black smoke, and he rushed towards James in the blink of an eye with a strong whistling sound.

Seeing that Toby was about to trap James, but at this moment, James suddenly turned into a silver stag.

This was James' patronus, and he became his own.

"I guess you know the devil's natural enemies, right?"

The stag stared at Toby without fear, and James's voice came from its mouth: "I have been to the ruins of the city under Loch Ness, where I found the magic that you abandoned - you had the opportunity to learn it.

This magic, but you chose another path. Lily was not wrong about you, you are fascinated by those dangerous magics."

The dark smoke suddenly stopped, and it seemed to be concerned about the silver light emitted by the stag.

"Then did Lily tell you?" Toby's booming voice sounded from the black smoke: "When you are going against the black devil, never believe anything he says - even the so-called clues?"

After saying these words, the Black Devil suddenly attacked again, and the stag suddenly jumped up. It broke through the darkness with something in its mouth, and then slowly stopped next to the stunned Regulus.

Only then did James turn back and continue: "Lily did say this, but she also said that the black devil is not without weaknesses - as long as he can come up with something that makes him more fascinated."

A black stone fell on the grass, with a pattern of triangles, circles, and straight lines engraved on it.

"I gave you the Resurrection Stone, but I took the magic ball away. Sorry, Toby, I didn't want to do this, but I can't live without Lily."

"I can never lose her again."

The stag picked up Regulus in its mouth, let him lie on its back, and disappeared with the blooming silver light.

"You really are James Potter."

Regulus' doubts also disappeared.

The black smoke turned back into a human form, and Toby appeared on the grass with a pale face. He grabbed the resurrection stone on the grass and couldn't help but groan a few more times.

James was right, the Patron Saint he became was indeed the natural enemy of the Black Devil.

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Office of Ancient Magic.

Al was pacing anxiously back and forth in the room. He would stop and look at the clock from time to time, and then start wandering around again.

The strange thing is that Angela is also here. She is holding the scepter that was returned to her at some point. After waiting quietly for a while, she finally couldn't help asking: "Why hasn't Toby come back yet? We used

No need to go find him?"

Al thought tangledly for a while.

Just when it was about to agree, the office door was suddenly pushed open from the outside - it was Toby who still looked ugly. He collapsed on the sofa as soon as he walked in. Angela hurriedly took out the prepared

of lemonade, Al jumped on Toby's shoulders and stared at his side face carefully. After Toby drank the lemonade and breathed a long sigh of relief, Al suddenly screamed: "Yeah!"

It recognized it, which was a sign that Toby was injured by the wizard-turned-patronus-but who would know about this magic?

This is the secret it kept with Toby, leaving this magic in Loch Ness forever. Even if Toby mentions this place when writing books and giving lectures, there is no need to worry, because the remaining records should have been recorded long ago.

It's only right if it's completely destroyed.

The way to destroy it is even simpler - when teaching the magic circle course, the illusion created by Toby had a picture of him and Al summoning some terrible monster, and it was that guy who destroyed these things.

, almost nothing is left.

"Yes, I know that too."

Toby gasped and frowned and said: "How could James learn this magic? Did he really think I didn't know it was destroyed a long time ago? There is also a magic ball, how could he keep an eye on the magic ball.

Obviously Grindelwald has already found something wrong once, and this whole thing is very wrong with the principal."

Dumbledore also came in. As soon as he entered the room, he saw the stone held by Toby and swallowed back what he originally wanted to say.

"Is this the Resurrection Stone?" he asked.

Toby nodded: "This is the Resurrection Stone. It should be right. James gave it to me on his own initiative, but as a price, he took the magic ball away."

"I have a guess, Principal."

"Just tell me." Dumbledore said solemnly.

Toby thought carefully for a while, and then said: "Maybe we guessed wrong from the beginning. The person James is loyal to is not Grindelwald, but another person."

There is someone who knows ancient magic very well, even better than me."

Angela said in a daze: "Who else knows better than you? Either Grindelwald or Dumbledore?"

She suddenly raised her scepter at Dumbledore warily - Angela knew that Toby had been corresponding with Dumbledore during the years when he was an archaeologist, and had also shared many research results.

Toby raised his arm with difficulty and patted her forehead.

"Al, take the scepter back. You really can't just give it to her like this."

"ah!"

"You two bad guys teamed up to bully me again."

Toby ignored the aggrieved Angela and continued: "I mean, there is one thing that we have collectively ignored, but now that I think about it, it doesn't seem that simple."

He raised his head and met Dumbledore's increasingly serious gaze.

"Who taught Grindelwald so much ancient magic? Did he really develop it himself?"

Although Toby made a mistake in the duel with James, allowing James to hurt Toby with magic that no one should have known about, but apart from the deliberately left resurrection stone, Toby did not gain nothing.

Now that I think about it, the entire process is inconsistent.

If James needed the magic ball, then why didn't he ask Grindelwald to ask for it directly, instead of taking the risk from Toby in this way?

But Grindelwald couldn't contact James no matter what. The most important thing was that he happened to do the same thing and kept covering up James' behavior intentionally or unintentionally.

Moreover, James can actually use Regulus indirectly, which is also unusual.

"The person who taught Grindelwald ancient magic." Dumbledore and he were still staring at the Resurrection Stone until Toby noticed something strange about him and stuffed the Resurrection Stone into his pocket.

"Albus Dumbledore," Toby said, calling the headmaster by his first name, "think about the consequences of using this stone and don't let Ariana get to you - which is what she is doing, isn't it?"

Dumbledore closed his eyes hard, and when he opened them again, his vision gradually returned to normal.

"Sometimes I can't tell whether this is my idea or hers." Dumbledore shook his head and said, "But I did think about resurrecting our parents if there was a chance. If it could really be done."

"This is impossible." Toby still insisted on his own idea: "Those who make deals with death will not end well. No matter what kind of wish you make, you need to repay it a hundred times."

"Deal?" Dumbledore suddenly looked at Toby and asked, "Are you talking about a deal? So, when Death asked you what its wish was, you made a deal with it. Is that so?"

Elton suddenly became uneasy, and Angela looked at Toby in shock.

"You should have guessed this a long time ago, Headmaster." Toby admitted in a low voice: "Otherwise, how could Harry, Ron, and Hermione escape from the gaze of death unharmed? Only

Only through personal experience can you know how to avoid death, and you can't ask a child to be so experienced. I was still young at the time and thought I had a chance to achieve anything, so I - "

When he said this, Toby suddenly stopped talking and did not continue.

Dumbledore frowned slightly. He was getting closer and closer to the truth. The experience that happened to Toby was related to the wish he made.

However, when it comes to wishes related to the God of Death, besides Toby, there are two other guys in this room who have been in contact with the God of Death.

He waved his hand to call over the skeletons who were stunned in place. There were two of them, and the remaining skeleton was still pretending to be a corpse in the Ministry of Magic.

"Now we finally have the Deathly Hallows together, Headmaster."

Toby watched Dumbledore's reaction carefully and said: "Although the method of getting it is very strange, there is no way to ignore it because of it. Whether it is Death or anything else, it is very important. I have prepared

Okay, what about you?"

Dumbledore's answer was quick.

"You don't need to test me on this." He said: "But don't forget the mystery surrounding James. There is one more thing I need to know-since you said you have seen him, he is true.

Resurrected from the dead?"

Toby breathed a sigh of relief silently. He didn't want to have another conflict with Dumbledore over such a trivial matter.

"According to James, he doesn't know this." Toby quickly replied: "And I also very doubt whether any wizard can come back from the dead. But according to James, Lily doesn't seem to be able to come back from the dead."

Completely alive, this is also related to James' purpose of stealing the magic ball - he wants to get Lily back."

"But he left the Resurrection Stone to you." Dumbledore said abruptly.

"I also feel that something is wrong." Toby nodded: "It is obviously to save the dead, but the other party is unwilling to use the resurrection stone. However, it may be that it has been used, but it did not take effect."

"There is another possibility." Dumbledore analyzed: "James needs us to study the Resurrection Stone. He wants to get something extra from us."

It is indeed possible.

The Resurrection Stone may be a trap deliberately thrown by James. The most annoying thing is that both Dumbledore and Toby know very well that even if it is a trap, they must get into it.

Because of death.

Toby needs to study Death.

After a period of silence, while Angela was silently drinking another glass of lemonade to quench her thirst, Toby suddenly asked: "Where is Grindelwald? Did he reveal any additional information?"

Dumbledore didn't hide it.

"The interrogation ended prematurely halfway through." He said: "Grindelwald suddenly began to threaten me with Ariana - I mean the real Ariana. He said in his words that he had secretly resurrected Ariana.

Use this to deal with me and avoid making the same mistake again."

Toby pondered the meaning of this passage. This is indeed a difficult problem to avoid - no one knows what the relationship between Grindelwald and James is, which will determine whether Grindelwald really has

Pass the Resurrection Stone.

"Then what are you going to do-"

"No need to ask any more." Before Toby continued, Dumbledore said decisively: "I told you before I came back that some problems should be solved and must not be delayed any longer.

"

"You should withdraw the third skeleton from the Ministry of Magic as soon as possible. The rest will only be left to fate and death."

"This is not a good place to place your hopes." Toby said, shaking his head.

"But we really have no better choice." Dumbledore stared at Toby and said, "Isn't it?"