Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Ever since Grindelwald revealed the news about Halbo, Toby had been trying to find traces of Halbo's existence.

On the grounds of the Wizards Liberation Front, the house elves in the school have become Toby's minions and have inspected the castle over and over again.

However, as expected by Toby, Haierbo would not leave such obvious clues waiting to be discovered.

After Dobby reported the disappointing news, the bedroom door in the other half of the office was slowly pushed open, and Angela walked out with Al on her shoulders.

"How's it going?" Angela asked worriedly.

Toby slowly shook his head.

"Yeah!" Al shouted anxiously. After seeing Toby's indifference, he jumped over and pulled Toby's hair hard.

"What's the use of getting angry at me." Toby held Al in his hand and put it in front of him and said, "Of course I know that Haierpo is probably coming for Angela, but we can't find him now. Could it be that the mysterious man is hiding in the Forbidden Forest like he did before? There is also the Black Lake. It is possible."

This is the conclusion Toby came to after hearing the news about Grindelwald - compared to the unknown purpose, Angela's presence is stronger.

In the past few years, Helbo had clearly regarded Angela as the most important person, and even tricked Toby into placing her in Wagadu so that he could monitor her at any time.

Seeing Toby gradually sinking into deep thought, Angela hesitated for a while and whispered: "How about I leave? This will at least prevent Herbo from succeeding. As long as I am not in Hogwarts, he will not cannot achieve those evil purposes."

Toby turned his head to look at her, then walked over step by step, lifted Angela's chin with one finger, and stared into her distinctive silver eyes.

"Then what?" Toby asked in a suppressed and dull voice: "Then Haierbo found out that you were alone, so that he could more easily attack? We don't know where Haierbo is hiding, and naturally there is nothing we can do about it. Know how he will leave."

"But even if I stay here, I can't seem to be of much help." Angela said in despair.

Toby looked her up and down, and Angela looked at her strangely.

"What are you looking at?" she asked.

"I was wondering when you suddenly changed into a different person." Toby sighed: "Have you helped me a lot before? My name is archaeologist, don't think of taking it away so easily. .”

Angela was furious: "You——!"

"I know I'm very considerate, so there's no need to praise me anymore." Toby skillfully avoided Angela's tricks and kept moving around the office. Al was still caught in his hand and felt like he was about to vomit. Out.

"Besides -" Toby said as he hung upside down on the ceiling leisurely: "Don't forget, I still owe you a dance. I can't let anything happen to you before then, otherwise where will I find a dance partner? ?”

Angela's hooked fingers (casting without a wand) paused for a moment. She was still looking up at Toby angrily, but the corners of her mouth still curled up subconsciously.

When Angela said, "You still have a conscience" and went back to the bedroom to straighten out the long dress she had carefully purchased, Toby shook his head and whispered to Al, who was extremely dizzy. Said: "First the scepter, then the ball. If she is really allowed to leave, she will probably be captured by Haierbo before tonight - she is too easy to deceive."

Al suddenly woke up, shook his head vigorously, and yelled that he wanted to tell Angela.

"You little traitor." Toby grabbed it and shook it hard several times, forcibly shaking Al unconscious again.

"Now follow me to the secret room. This is the only place in the castle that the elves cannot set foot in."

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Secret room.

Everything was the same as before. Voldemort and Andros' demons were locked together in the armor. Old Tom could not move except to regain consciousness. He could only watch Toby walking around the statue with Al's pendant.

Circle after circle.

"What are you looking for?" When Toby walked to the seventh circle, Old Tom couldn't help but asked curiously: "Did you leave something here? You can ask me, or maybe it's yours

Two men."

In addition to the armor, the Antioch skeleton is also here. It has a pharaonic mask on its face, bandages all over its body, and a lady's wide-brimmed hat on its head, and it just roars around.

Toby ignored Old Tom. He walked directly to Antioch and asked it: "Besides the previous kerosene lamp, have there been any other unexpected situations here?"

Antiochus shouted with all his strength: "Ho!"

A roar means negative, which means everything is fine in the secret room.

This is difficult to do.

Toby stood there for a while and thought about where Herbo might be hiding. Old Tom looked at him like this. After a while, he curiously said again: "Is there anything I can do to help?

?”

"No." Toby shook his head: "You can't even move freely now. Maybe you can only help me when you fully recover. How about I call Dean Sprout over? Your current body

It's the plant Animagus, and she might have a way to help you recover as quickly as possible - plant it in the ground, and then water it or something."

"Is this really possible?" Old Tom asked blankly.

"That's a beautiful idea." Toby immediately changed his tone and said, "Even if we can really treat you as a herbal medicine, you are definitely only an endangered species. Wait a minute, I seem to have thought of a person, he seems to be able to help you."

"It must be true this time, right?" Old Tom said helplessly.

——

"Neville, here is your note. It seems to be given to you by Professor Hemmer."

"Hmm? Professor Heimer?"

Neville thanked him after taking the note, and the senior student walked away without looking back, as if he was afraid that his name would be written in the note.

[Mr. Longbottom, come to the Ancient Magic Office at eight o'clock tonight.]

There is only time and place, no reason, not even a signature.

However, Neville saw a faint mark on the lower right corner of the note, which looked a bit like Mr. Al's claws.

This should be correct.

But why did Professor Heimer suddenly come to him?——

At eight o'clock in the evening, Neville came to the door of the Ancient Magic Office at the agreed time.

"Please come in."

The heavy wooden door automatically opened in front of Neville. He was one of the few people in the school who was not so afraid of Professor Hemmer, but more respected, so he walked in calmly, not as cautiously as others.

After entering the office, Neville immediately saw the special collection placed in the center - the plant Animagus. It was planted in a large flower pot as before.

However, if Neville remembered correctly, this special collection shouldn't have looked like this before?

"It seems you've noticed it."

Toby stood up from the sofa with a smile. He led Neville to the plant Animagus and said, "You read that right, it has undergone some changes - but that is not important."

So what else is important?

Neville thought in surprise.

"The important thing is that this collection was injured. I wanted him to recover as soon as possible, but there was no way. So I thought of you, Mr. Longbottom."

"Me?" Neville said in surprise: "But, sir, me?!"

How could he possibly solve such a problem?

Neville couldn't even figure out how a plant could be injured - even if it had been a wizard before this, it should have been hundreds of years ago.

"Don't underestimate yourself." Toby reminded patiently: "Do you still remember the teacher recognition meeting last semester?"

Neville remembered it all too clearly.

Because it was the only event where students taught professors, and invariably, almost all the selected students chose to combine these courses with ancient magic - they could only think of such a freshest knowledge

Clicked.

After this, Neville was the student selected by Dean Sprout, and the name of the paper he later published was - "On Ancient Magic and Herbal Medicine - Is that really the real name of these herbs?"

"It seems that you have recalled it almost." Toby said with relief: "I remember that last semester I asked you to predict the maturity time of the Mason door. Later, the result you calculated was almost the same. It is a pity that I no longer have a Mason door, otherwise

If so, you might be able to research something."

(Chapter 277.)

"But you have a better chance this time."

Toby changed his tone and said: "Let's work together. You try to cast your own unique ancient magic - whether it's a magic circle or ritual magic. I'll be responsible for improving it and see if I can

I can’t figure out more features of this collection, or it can be said to be a secret.”

Old Tom closed his eyes and could pretend to be a plant statue without any effort.

Neville didn't expect that the courses last semester would be extended to today.

However, with the encouragement of Professor Haimer, he still felt full of confidence.

"Can I break off one of its tentacles and take a look? Just a finger."

Old Tom's eyelids trembled.

Toby thought about it carefully.

"Let's start with the hair. If that doesn't work, you can only use your fingers."

Old Tom almost opened his eyes.

——

As Dean Sprout said, Neville has a rare talent in herbal medicine.

In addition, he had just recently learned the course "Instinct", which gave Neville more ideas. He seemed to have decided that this was his instinct.

Although Aurors are also very good, Neville still hopes that he will be able to get the lake water in the magic ball in the future - from the legendary Avalon.

This way he can treat more people.

After a lot of tossing back and forth, the hair tentacles on Old Tom's head became less and less until the last one was pulled out.

Neville carefully held this precious tentacle. He glanced at Professor Heimer, and after getting the other person's response, he placed the hair into the magic circle at his feet, which was many times more complicated.

Toby first asked Neville to stand in the corner of the room, then he took out Merlin's scepter, shook it hard, and began to cast an unknown magic in the moonlight coming in from the window.

The blood-red thick mist surged out from the special creations on the top of the scepter - the crown and ruby. It didn't take a while to bury the entire magic circle, but after that, they seemed to have encountered some kind of special barrier.

I can't wear it out no matter what.

Neville watched this scene in fear. Al and Angela, who had appeared at some point, surrounded him. From the thick red fog, the roars of beasts biting and fighting kept coming, which almost made Neville nervous.

Wei's eardrums were shattered.

"What have I done?" he said with wide eyes.

Al patted his shoulder comfortingly, and Angela also said beside him: "It's not you, it's Toby. He's the best at scaring people - just look at it if you don't believe it."

As soon as he finished speaking, a thicker black mist suddenly sprang up from the magic circle, and swallowed up all the red mist in the blink of an eye.

The devil transformed into the shape of Toby's head, and the magic circle underneath became dazzling.

Toby opened his mouth and roared: "Say your name!"

Old Tom, who was stared at by Toby, seemed to suddenly come to life. Tender branches spread out from his body, his body gradually became taller, and his eyes suddenly opened, filled with unprecedented vitality.

With a bang, Old Tom suddenly rushed out of the flowerpot and flew towards the door without looking back - he didn't even need to open the door, his body was directly integrated with the heavy wooden door, undergoing a brief squirming process.

Then he transformed back into his human form from the other side of the door.

The next second, all the black mist in the magic circle condensed into one, and he walked straight towards Old Tom along the tiny gap, disappearing in the blink of an eye.

The office suddenly became quiet.

Neville stared blankly at the empty flower pot, pointed his trembling fingers in the direction of the flower pot, and suddenly howled in his mouth——

"That thing came to life?!"

Al slapped his mouth twice, looking a little unfinished.

Angela explained gently: "In the context of ancient magic, it is not surprising to bring a special collection to life."

Neville seemed confused.

He nodded and said, "That seems to be the truth."

——

In the secret room.

The two people who were originally chasing each other suddenly changed places at the entrance of the hall - Black Mist arrived first and slowly transformed back into Toby's appearance in front of Old Tom.

"Don't stop me!" Old Tom shouted impatiently, and all the previous forbearance broke out in an instant: "I must kill that guy. If it weren't for him, Merope and I wouldn't - you

what are you doing?"

Old Tom watched in surprise as Toby put his back in front of him - Toby suddenly turned around after stopping Old Tom, and the magic ball automatically floated up from his body, retracting the magic circle originally placed under the armor's feet.

.

The purpose of this magic circle is to trap Andros's devil and Voldemort at the same time.

Now that it's gone, the armor can no longer trap these two hostile guys at the same time - first Andros squeezes out of the visor, then Voldemort - he slowly takes off the helmet, revealing the

Zhang's face had become extremely terrifying due to the damage to his soul.

Voldemort took a deep breath.

"I smell something indescribable - it's so charming. Long time no see, my stupid father. And you, Toby Highmore."

Toby stood in the middle of the line of sight of the two. He stared at the uneasy Andros' devil in the sky and whispered: "Don't blame me for not reminding you, Old Tom. I just want to make this duel fair.

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"By the way, you can also let me know who among us is Haierbo."