Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 395 Black Lake

394 Black Lake

It all happened suddenly, and Snape's rebellion was more decisive than anyone could have imagined.

Just after Snape finally solved the last trouble caused by Old Tom, he returned to Voldemort and heard him order him like this——

"We have been targeted by Toby Hemmer. In this case, we might as well go back to England and get rid of his trouble. There are still many of my servants there."

After he said these words, Snape unusually did not immediately follow the order.

"Toby contacted you, right?"

The weak Voldemort was unable to stop Snape's search. Soon, he found the tiniest bit of the Sorcerer's Stone on Voldemort's body.

Only then did Snape reveal the reason for such speculation.

"Toby has always wanted my life, and no one knows this better than me - no matter whether returning to England is your true idea or not, there is no way to avoid my suspicion. Before I find Lily, I still have this life."

Its usefulness cannot be thrown away so easily."

Voldemort recalled the anger at that time, which made him furious.

Once again, he was betrayed by the people around him, and was even given to Toby as a gift by Snape.

"He is yours now. Haierbo didn't tell me why I did this. He just asked me to act as ordered and wait for the day when he comes back."

"Then why have you changed your mind now?"

"Because I've been targeted by you, right? I have to save my life before Haierbo comes back."

"Wise choice."

The armor, aware of Voldemort's awakening, walked over slowly.

Amidst the unwilling murmurs, a heavy hammering sound was heard, causing Voldemort to fall into a coma again and he didn't know when he would wake up.

Toby stood in the darkness in the corner of the secret room and watched this scene silently.

He took out his left hand from his pocket, spread it out, and stared at it.

A shining ruby ​​lay in his hand.

This is Nick Flamel's Philosopher's Stone, which can extend the life of a wizard and create a complete body that Voldemort dreams of.

He stood there and thought for a long time.

There were some things he thought wrong. Haierbo was indeed in love with living Horcruxes, but the time he paid attention to them was not as long as Toby imagined. All of this might have only happened in the past hundred years.

So he began to control the fate of the Undead Demon, which changed his life drastically, and also made him and his Muggle father become mortal enemies.

After that, Herbo took away Old Tom, who was killed by Voldemort, and used one of the Horcruxes left by Voldemort - the Gaunt family ring to resurrect Old Tom, making him a living Horcrux that Voldemort didn't even know about.

, and arranged for him to be stored in the Castle of Death.

Although Herbo went in such a big circle to hide his true thoughts, Toby knew very well that this must be related to his desire to obtain eternal life.

Halbo even showed him how to do it - make Death his servant, and the target he chose happened to be Voldemort.

What's even more fitting is that Harry Potter was also present at the time, and Helbo planned to use him to test whether his goal of immortality was successful - the specific way was to kill the last Horcrux, so that he would know this.

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Now, Toby seems to vaguely understand the true purpose of Haierbo's series of actions.

Haierbo can transfer the soul in the Horcrux, which means that he may also have a way to transfer Harry's soul fragments after his death.

The eternal life he longs for still cannot be separated from the Horcrux.

Only this time, after Voldemort truly becomes the God of Death, he will also become Halbo's Horcrux.

The God of Death will be his last Horcrux, and it can never be destroyed.

If the final mystery hadn't been revealed - Merlin, who became the God of Death, still had his own consciousness, Haierbo might have really succeeded.

No one can stop him then.

After thinking about this series of reasons, Toby held the magic stone tightly.

Now Voldemort, Old Tom, and even Harry Potter can be said to be in his hands.

He can completely continue to study according to Haierbo's method - as long as he wants to, as long as he is willing to do so.

Moreover, compared with Haierbo, he also has two things that also entrust his soul, both of which are related to Merlin - the magic ball and the scepter.

This is an advantage that Halbo does not have over Toby, not to mention that Toby already knows the true identity of the God of Death, which can also give him time to make more adequate preparations.

But the premise of all this is to solve the remaining troubles one by one.

Angela's true identity, the missing Lily, and many other people who are secretly watching her every move.

For example, that kerosene lamp.

"There are too many enemies. If we can deal with them all at once"

The footsteps gradually disappeared at the end of the corridor, and Toby's back was completely hidden in the darkness.

——

After figuring out the secret hidden in the golden egg and the gift from Dobby, Harry couldn't help but want to try out the effects of cheekweed.

And he did.

Taking advantage of a deserted night, he and Ron quietly slipped out of the castle wearing an invisibility cloak, then stuffed a small piece of gillweed alone into the cold black lake.

For the first time, he felt that swimming was such a comfortable thing, and how wonderful it was to be able to breathe underwater.

In order to avoid wasting too much, it didn't take long for Harry to return to the water, and he was soon shaking from the cold.

"Let's go." Ron urged worriedly: "Fortunately, I asked Hermione for a few more fire bottles before I came here, otherwise you would have been frozen to death before returning to the castle."

Harry was wrapped in the blankets prepared in advance, his teeth kept chattering, and he said with a trembling voice: "Wait a moment, I seem to see fire under the big ship, maybe I saw it wrong, but -

—”

"Hey, what a but." Ron pushed him forward: "Have you seen less students who violate school rules? Besides, they are not even in their own school, maybe they came out to get some fresh air on purpose."

"In such a cold night?" Harry asked.

"What's impossible?" Ron muttered: "The person you saw might be Klum. Many girls saw him swimming in the winter? Sooner or later his brain will be frozen.

.”

There was no other way. At Ron's insistence, Harry had to rush back to the castle as soon as possible - and he really felt that his body was about to freeze.

——

"It's great to be young and still have the energy to swim at night, hmm. It seems that I left too little homework for them, what do you think?"

Snape was sitting in front of the weak firelight. He couldn't see the expression on his face clearly. He could only tell that he closed his eyes tightly. It seemed that as long as he couldn't see the guy in front of him, he couldn't feel his presence.

Same.

"Are you asleep, or are you starving?"

Toby simply stepped forward and pulled Snape's eyelids with his fingers.

He succeeded and saw a pair of eyes glaring at him.

"If you think you can do it this way—"

"I came here because of Lily."

Snape suddenly stopped talking.

"It's just a joke, I lied to you."

Snape glared at Toby again.

"Just kidding again, I'm still lying to you."

This time Snape was still glaring at Toby.

"I thought your eyes would keep changing."

Toby leaned in front of the drafty window board and said: "Just like that toy we played when we were kids, what's it called - oh, by the way, his name is Alande, right? He's from the same college as us.

He was also the little bastard who bullied me at first, but later I dealt with him so badly that I would cry when he saw him."

Snape said coldly: "It wasn't until Lily saw you once that she thought you were bullying your classmates, and then you stopped."

"Look, this is the biggest difference between us." Toby spread his hands and said: "You think I am willing to listen to Lily, but what you don't know is that I was just testing Alande's patience at that time.

I want to see if he will turn into an obscurus, or a magical riot. In fact, if I had continued, this matter would have been exposed, and the professors would have known about the school.

There was actually a bad boy hiding in it - that’s why I stopped, it had nothing to do with Lily, she just appeared at the right time."

Snape looked at him with a look that said, "I'll just listen to your quibbles quietly."

"believe or not."

Toby said nonchalantly: "And do you think there are really so many coincidences that I would be careless enough to let Lily discover my little secret on purpose?"

This time Snape's eyes became much more suspicious.

"You must be wondering why I did this on purpose, aren't you?"

Toby said mysteriously: "Just guess, be bold."

Snape stared at him.

"You want to find a helper." His eyes were gradually replaced by anger: "All this is to help you find a helper who can conveniently study ancient magic, you bastard-"

He wanted to stand up and punch Toby hard in the face, but when he just raised his arm, a fiery red chain appeared on his arm, causing him to straighten up suddenly in pain,

He fell weakly vertically to the floor, only his eyes were still staring at Toby fiercely.

At this time, Toby had returned to expressionless.

He walked over to Snape and knelt down, carefully examining the Unbreakable Oath on his arm.

"The first oath is that neither you nor Lockhart can harm me, that's good."

He said with satisfaction: "It seems that Haierbo can't dispel this magic, so I feel relieved."

"Actually, you can guess again now, was what I just said just to annoy you, or was it my true thoughts?"

Snape spat at Toby's head, but he dodged it easily.

"No need to stay angry, the test is over."

Toby stood up and said, and kindly helped Snape up so that he could lean against the wooden wall behind him safely.

"you this--"

"Okay, it's time to get down to business." Toby interrupted unceremoniously: "I don't have time to waste with you. You should also know that Haierbo will not watch our quarrel with interest. He has lived for so long.

He may have participated in many wars - so, do you know how to find him, and where will he be hiding?"

Snape suppressed his anger and said, "If I had known, I would not have come back to find you. That person was very suspicious, and he never left out any clues in his orders. He was the only one who took the initiative to contact me and never allowed me to look for him."

he."

"It's pretty much what James said." Toby gradually became quiet, rubbing his chin with his fingers, a thoughtful look in his eyes.

"What about the devil?"

After a while, he suddenly asked: "What is Haierbo's devil?"

"Didn't you already know that?" Snape frowned and stared at him and said, "Like you, he is in human form. Dumbledore also saw him appear in Loch Ness with his own eyes, and this is what he told me.

At the time, he was dealing with evidence that James deliberately left behind, and had to show up in person to avoid further exposure."

Toby had heard Dumbledore talk about this incident. At that time, the conflict between them was not so serious, and the two of them were still focused on dealing with unknown threats.

"But humanoid devils are not so easy to obtain." Toby murmured: "This was originally a magic specially used to torture people. Only dead wizards can become humanoid devils - I am a special one.

Exception, now it can be seen as the God of Death is secretly helping me. But what about Haierbo, do you think the God of Death will be willing to help him?"

"how could I know."

Snape frowned.

Toby suddenly lost interest in the conversation.

"It's really useless. What have you been doing all these years? Are you just thinking about summoning Lily back?"

"This has nothing to do with you."

"Okay." Toby waved his hand nonchalantly and said, "One last thing I want to inform you. You may need to stay in the Black Lake for a short period of time, but don't worry, someone will rescue you soon.

- Why do you say rescue? It's because you have to faint in advance, that's all -"

"What did you say?!" Snape stood up suddenly.

"Don't you understand?"

Toby asked with a confused face: "That's what it means literally, but it doesn't matter, because there will still be Old Tom and Voldemort to keep you company - by the way, I have used the Sorcerer's Stone to resurrect him,

It’s a very simple method, simpler than I imagined.”

"Although there are only three now, the fourth should be added soon - four treasures, how wonderful. Dumbledore will definitely be surprised by this. Who told him to come to watch the game in person? I

I have to find a way to make him give up the idea of ​​stopping me."

"I think I won't be able to escape this time."

He smiled at the surprised and horrified Snape and said, "War."

"If he wants it, I'll give him a war."