Archaeologists at Hogwarts

"I already know where you are hiding."

This was originally the content of Grindelwald's letter to Dumbledore. He said that he knew where Halbo was hidden, and made Dumbledore and Toby go to the island of Dria together.

But now, Toby is obviously not referring to Haierbo.

But the real Grindelwald.

After Toby finished speaking, there was a brief silence in the cabin.

"I knew there was something wrong with those two golden eggs. It seems that you attach great importance to this Triwizard Tournament. You must thoroughly check the transportation of the other two schools before you can feel at ease."

"Why, am I guessing wrong? Don't you already know that I am hiding on this big ship? Why don't you find me directly, but inform me in advance? I don't remember you being such a kind person."

After Grindelwald said these two words in succession, Toby still did not leave the room immediately to find Grindelwald's hiding place, even though he had already known that Grindelwald must be on the ship.

Before the second test of the warriors, they were divided into two groups, Harry and Fleur, and Cedric and Krum. Then they opened the golden egg at the same moment, releasing magic that only they could see.

Array.

The function of the magic circle is to thoroughly check these two means of transportation. Its function is somewhat similar to the Marauder's Map - to be honest, this is also the inspiration that the Marauder's Map brought to Toby.

Toby stared at Grindelwald on the wall for a while, and he finally said: "Actually, shouldn't you be the strangest person now? Since you already know that your hiding place has been exposed, why are you still here?

What to do instead of here? I believe you must have the means to deal with your own exposure."

Grindelwald responded with a smile: "You can give it a try. Maybe I will stand outside the door and wait for you to come to me."

"You can't provoke me with these alone." Toby had no intention of moving. He continued: "When we were on Dria Island, Dumbledore asked me to be extra vigilant about you. He felt that you haven't given up trying to win me over.

Plan and plan to deepen the conflict between me and Dumbledore."

"Although I acted disapprovingly at the time, how could I have forgotten the threat from you - from the beginning, Lockhart's appearance seemed extremely abrupt, and now I know that he actually wanted to hide your presence.

The most important thing is that you don't seem to be worried about it at all."

"Dumbledore is right about one thing, you are indeed confident - so I won't find you out, because I already know your methods."

"Same as last time, right?"

Toby's eyes were hidden behind his hair, looking dark and deep.

"You don't care at all whether your destiny is being manipulated, so on Dria Island, you once again cooperated with Haierbo, pretending to be fruitless, and planning to do something in the school."

"Maybe even Helbo is hiding in Hogwarts. Am I right?"

Faced with Toby's questioning, Grindelwald's tone remained calm: "Is this important?"

"No, this is just an appetizer at most." Toby shook his head and said: "The weird thing is that you told Dumbledore this clue again, and you must have guessed that he would invite me to go to the island with him a long time ago.

Go - so you want to show your kindness to me and take the initiative to tell me all this."

"In other words, you are cooperating with Haierbo, but on the other hand, you are also helping me deal with him."

"What is your purpose? I can't see what it has to do with wizard supremacy, and I don't feel any good intentions."

Grindelwald did not refute Toby's many speculations. He just said: "Why can't it be because of the law of conservation of magic? The premise of wizard supremacy is that wizards can at least still exist. I don't want wizards to be like this one day.

Extinction. Moreover, I don’t simply want to win you over to become my subordinate. Just like Gilderoy, even though he betrayed me, I won’t care at all and will continue to take care of him.”

"You are really a generous person." Toby sneered: "But you seem to have forgotten that it was you who sent Peter Pettigrew to inform. Do you think it is possible for me to forget this?"

"Is this really true?" Grindelwald laughed and said, "Do you really care about the life and death of the Potter family? No matter how I look at it, you just regard Lily as an assistant and have no involvement.

There are so many personal emotions involved - do you really have friends, Tobey Highmore? Snape? Or Dumbledore? Or other professors in the school?"

"Do people like you and me really care about friendship?"

The two eyes collided in the air, and neither one was willing to give in first.

After a while, Toby pushed the long hair from his forehead to the back of his head. He said extremely calmly: "I have always regarded myself as a wizard who is more Slytherin than Slytherin. The founder

I parted ways with my former friends because of my different views on the law of conservation of magic. It seems that even I myself will fall into such a fate."

"But I think you must have guessed one thing wrong. Yes, I care about them very much, but it will not affect me in the slightest to take advantage of them. I will be heartbroken and feel guilty, but I will still do it."

"I feel like I've never changed at this point. It was like this when I first enrolled at Hogwarts, and it's not much different now. I remember all the classmates who bullied me, and I took revenge on them one by one.

I also remember the people who helped me and were kind to me."

"Do you understand now? Do you think Dumbledore talking to me so many times when I was in school was really useless? He knows this better than you. Compared to the ruthless careerist, I am even more

A living person."

Grindelwald sighed regretfully.

"It seems that this is your response, you chose to refuse. In this case, I have nothing to say. Just wait and see, maybe you can also try to find Haierbo. You guessed one thing right, he is indeed

Hidden in Hogwarts. But you should also be aware of his style. Anything related to him cannot be trusted, especially those that come from his mouth. So, I'm afraid I can't help in this matter.

What are you."

"You are really reliable allies." Toby said sarcastically, and then left the room without looking back.

It is worth mentioning that Grindelwald was not standing outside the door, and Toby seemed to have no intention of looking for him.

After the room was quiet for a while, Lockhart walked in tremblingly. He saw that Grindelwald's face had not disappeared, and he couldn't help but wailed quietly in his heart.

"Gilderoy."

".professor?"

"Toby has left you two more unbreakable vows, right?"

"That's right, Professor. Me."

"Don't be sorry." Grindelwald did not blame Lockhart. He said rather abnormally: "Just follow his orders in the future."

"I also want to see if Haierbo is really that invincible."

——

Compared to this turmoil, which only a few people knew about, most people in the school were just going about their school life normally - especially for the students, this semester was destined to not be peaceful.

This is not only because the professor of the Defense Against the Dark Arts course was suddenly replaced, but also because of another reason - Professor Heimer is finally going to officially start explaining the reasons why some wizards are extremely powerful.

In the past ancient magic class, Professor Heimer introduced many strange wizards to the students, who could use ordinary spells to produce more exaggerated effects.

Professor Heimer also briefly explained part of the reason - perhaps because these wizards knew the law of conservation of magic and wanted to solve this problem as much as possible, but unfortunately they failed, and instead they learned more unique skills.

.

Draco Malfoy cheered up as soon as he came to the classroom. He had not forgotten Professor Hemmer's promise - if there are really students who can learn this skill in this semester's class, then

He will undoubtedly become the next minister of the Black Devil Club, and there is no need to consider the popularity of magical creations.

This is a rare opportunity for him.

Draco was really fed up with Luna's dazed and distracted attitude during club activities. If it weren't for the fact that Professor Angela would come to check in person from time to time, he would have been impatient and skipped all activities. Even if

Even if you spend this time practicing magic circles, it will be better than this.

This class is destined to be unusual.

After Professor Heimer came to the classroom, the students found that Al and Angela had also come together - they had not appeared in class at the same time for a long time.

"Put the textbooks away."

Toby stood behind the podium and said: "I didn't write all the content in the book "Ancient Magic and Ancient Wizards". Some of the knowledge in it is only in the theoretical stage. Even I relied on

If you know it by chance, it is difficult to replicate it.”

The students honestly put their books back on the table, leaving only the notebooks for recording on the table.

"I often think about how to explain the content of this lesson to you. It is not easy to understand, so I have to invite my assistants, including myself, to demonstrate it to you - there will be no giants

The patron saint is so exaggerated, but it can also show part of the effect very well. Let me see, let Al go first."

Al, who was called, jumped onto the podium, shook his body, and then nodded to the students below with a very proud expression.

"ah."

Quite fittingly, there was a round of applause below.

Toby continued: "According to the regulations of Hogwarts, wizard children must be 11 years old or older before they are allowed to enroll. But before that, it may be enough for you to do it before you have been exposed to any magical knowledge.

After many years of not being able to learn magic - this is generally called a magic riot. Does anyone know the reason?"

Draco had lived in a wizarding family since he was a child. He didn't know much about this and could only watch Hermione raise her arms high.

"Miss Granger."

"It's because wizards were more emotionally unstable when they were young. They couldn't control their emotions, which indirectly caused the magical effect."

"One point for Gryffindor."

After Hermione sat down, Toby said with satisfaction: "Miss Granger's explanation is correct. As wizards get older, their mental endurance becomes stronger and stronger - if we want to be more accurate,

To describe it, the world of wizard children is only so big——"

Toby formed a circle with his fingers.

"But adult wizards will see more and understand more, at least as big as this -"

This time Toby wrapped his arms around him to form a larger circle.

"In this way, the phenomenon of magic riots can be easily explained. Even if there are fluctuations in the minds of adult wizards that are three times larger than the size of a fist, because the proportion is still very small, it will not cause any harm to them.

Influence."

"But children are different. Half a fist is enough to occupy half of their world, so it is easier to lose control - especially an extremely terrifying phenomenon, silently."

"This almost only exists among wizard children. It is difficult for adult wizards to meet such harsh conditions to learn this magic - of course, I don't think anyone is willing to learn such a torture that would cause them to suffer."

At Toby's signal, Al first shrank into a ball, and its body gradually began to tremble, and then with a bang, several spikes stretched out, poking several large holes in the podium.

"This is Obscurus, they can't control themselves."

Toby said to the frightened students, they obviously didn't know that Mr. Al still had this ability.

"Then I will show you Angela. For this purpose, I specially asked for a poisonous tentacle from Dean Sprout, which is the one in my hand."

A prickly green plant appeared in Toby's hand, which made the student sitting in front look a little unnatural - being bitten by the poisonous tentacles can be fatal.

Immediately afterwards, the students saw a very strange scene - Angela took the poisonous tentacle without any protection, then twisted it into various shapes in her hand, and even hit herself

A dead end - this is almost impossible, because the poisonous tentacles should only regard her as prey.

"Although Angela learned a lot of wandless magic in Wagadu, she doesn't do it now. The reason why the poisonous tentacles obey her obediently is entirely because of Angela's talent - she has the innate ability to soothe people.

, sometimes it can achieve a hypnotic effect, even comparable to the Imperius Curse - you can understand if you think carefully about your state when you first met Angela."

As soon as this was said, the students understood immediately, and they only had one thought at that time - Professor Angela is really amazingly beautiful.

"Emotions, as well as innate talents, can allow wizards to break through ordinary limitations and make magic exert amazing effects."

"But I prefer to sum it up and call it the wizard's instinct."

Toby slowly swept his eyes over the students below, and then suddenly half of his body turned into a dark devil, like a black flame. Even the light could not completely illuminate it clearly, and he could only vaguely see a streak.

The extremely terrifying figure seemed to be smiling at them.

Not all students had seen Professor Heimer's appearance, and they endured the fear in their hearts and wrote down Professor Heimer's next words.

"Maybe at some point, you can completely abandon all distracting thoughts, leaving only one idea in your heart, and you will not have any resistance at all because of this idea - whether it is an unknown fate, or even

Even if you know the outcome is bad, you are still willing to accept it."

The combination of Toby's normal voice and the devil's roar kept echoing in the little wizard's mind like a bell.

"Look for your own instinct. By then, maybe you can become like me - and it may even be even more amazing."

This is the meaning of what Toby said to Grindelwald - he also has feelings and cares about some people, but he will also go against these feelings to do things that hurt some people.

Because he knows very well what his instinct is.

It's not just about wanting to survive.

One day, all wizards will feel honored to see this scene.