Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 338 Death Butler

Under the gray sky is a fog that will never dissipate, and no sunlight can penetrate.

The appearance of a castle was vaguely revealed in the distance. It was square and square, and looked like a prison.

A sound of footsteps gradually came from the secluded path ahead, and the oil lamp hanging in mid-air was carried over by an invisible figure.

Ron began to regret his talk.

"Is it too late for me to regret it now?" He whispered tremblingly: "I want to go home, even if I drink Gordig root tea all day long."

Al, who was sitting on the small flying carpet, floated over. He handed Ron a pair of anti-monster glasses, grinned and said to him: "How can that be done? Don't forget that you wanted Toby to teach you last semester."

You devil, although there are no devils here, there are ghosts. Take advantage of this opportunity. Whether you can surpass Harry and Hermione depends on this time.】

Ron backed away slowly and said: "I suddenly felt that it was normal not to be as good as them - no matter what, I don't really need to be an archaeologist. Please let me go, Mr. Al."

Ginny on the side looked at Ron with disdain, and then hugged Luna's arm tighter to prevent others from seeing that she was also trembling.

Pandora's Notebook, held in Luna's arms, asked with interest: "Is this the Ghost Castle? Is this where the black feather comes from?"

"That's right." Angela, who was standing next to the two little girls, said, "Toby carefully considered your opinion and finally decided that I would bring you here."

【Don't listen to her!】

At this time, Al suddenly interrupted: "I will lead the team this time. Don't mess around for a while. As long as you all follow my instructions, you won't encounter any problems and you all understand."

Yet?】

Ron nodded with a grimace, and Luna also made the same move with Ginny's help - she looked at the oil lamp in a trance and couldn't hear anything at all.

Angela looked a little unhappy, but Al didn't care so much. He explained briefly and concisely: [Toby didn't have time to come over, so he sent me to monitor Angela. As long as she does what I say, she will

There will be no danger, and neither will you. Everything will be safe. Just like the scary trip to the hotel in Diagon Alley, the vampire castle, and the zombie trail, but only if you do as I say.】

It repeated the last sentence emphatically.

Ron vaguely saw the shadow of Professor Heimer in Mr. Al, which made him feel more at ease.

Not long after Al finished speaking, the transparent castle butler also arrived.

What it did was nothing like last time, and it didn't seem to have a very good memory. Even if Al, who had obviously caused trouble, appeared in front of it, it didn't recognize it. It just confirmed the number of visitors, and then said that paragraph again.

Unexplained grunts.

Then, the oil lamp turned back in a circle and gradually drifted towards the castle.

The group of people also set off. Ron stared at the five footprints that appeared on the ground, praying in his heart that it would not be a spider, which would kill him.

The castle is getting closer.

The housekeeper pushed open the oak door that was more than ten feet high and entered the deep hall inside. It was still empty. The firelight on the surrounding walls could not illuminate such a long distance, leaving the center in darkness.

Under Al's leadership, they came to the only table in the hall.

The butler began to flip through the heavy book on the table, opening it page by page.

During this process, Al almost blatantly stared at each page of paper.

After the butler turned to the last blank page, it began to make that grunting sound again, as if it had already decided where to live.

But at this moment, Al waved to them and quickly led them out of the castle, running all the way to the outside of the woods before stopping.

Ron was holding his legs and panting. He looked at Mr. Al in confusion.

Al is asking Angela: [Did you see it?]

"No." Angela frowned and shook her head and said, "The papers I saw are all blank. Toby is right. Only the guests standing at the front can read the account books clearly - let me do it next."

Al nodded, then turned back and explained to a few people: [We will repeat this process again and again in a while. As long as you don't really live in it, there will be no danger, but you may need to stand at the front. Remember to see clearly when the time comes.

Account book, write down everything as much as possible, and then describe what you saw to me again.】

"But..." Ginny gasped and asked, "What are we looking for?"

"A name." Angela said seriously: "Helbo, the name we want to find is his."

Things went round and round and returned to their original direction.

Angela has been struggling to find her true identity. Before that, she thought she was the Lake Fairy who framed Merlin and got Merlin's wand, also known as the Lake Witch.

Because magical talents like hers are not common, she can even communicate with Al, and can detect the strangeness of the Mason Gate in a very simple way.

Now, through Herbo's abnormal attitude towards her, Angela guessed that she might be Lily Evans.

But she found that Toby was not so enthusiastic about this matter. Although Toby also planned to help her through the Goblet of Fire, if everything went well, it would have to wait until the end of the semester for the hegemonic competition - this

It's a restriction that Toby specifically mentioned.

But Angela couldn't wait that long.

Just then, Pandora wrote to Toby again and wanted to know the secret of the black feather, so Toby simply sent Al over to see if they could really find something.

As for Toby himself, the reason why he didn't come with him was because the goblins of Gringotts finally had an answer.

Unexpectedly, the goblins agreed to Toby's request and were willing to let him visit the Lestrange family's vault.

Moreover, the goblins were also very vague about whether they could take away the treasure inside.

"——Hopefully there won't be any sirens, and no one will notice that anything is missing inside."

After passing through the anti-thief waterfall and the blind fire dragon, the fairy Griphook brought Toby to the deepest vault underground.

He said: "You should know the rules, this matter will not exist, and you don't want anyone to find out - so you only have five minutes, as soon as possible, I hope you can tell us the answer and the law of conservation of magic when you come out

Regarding the answers, the higher-ups value your opinions."

Toby watched as Griphook pressed his hand on the wooden door, and then the door just disappeared.

"Can I know why you agreed?" Toby asked abruptly.

"Because like I said, the goblins at the top attach great importance to your opinions. And -" At this point, Griphook suddenly became expressionless: "They also think that when you throw out the bait, you have already done it.

No goblin wants to make an enemy of an ace cursebreaker - and Gringotts in the UK is no exception."

"What a rare sincerity." Toby praised.

Grihuan left without looking back. He stood guard at the entrance of the passage not far away to prevent anyone from seeing this scene.

Toby walked into the Lestrange family vault. They did have a lot of wealth - the cave was stuffed from floor to ceiling with gold coins and gold goblets, silver armor, animals with spines or wings hanging down.

Furs of various exotic animals, potions in a vase, and a skull still wearing a crown.

He stood at the only remaining foothold and looked around. Being familiar with the abilities of fairies, he had no intention of touching anything rashly. Instead, he first took out an object from the pocket of the wizard's robe.

It's Salazar Slytherin's locket.

【Open.】

Toby hissed coldly.

The locket opened in response, revealing a pair of evil eyes from the small window, and then he restrained his evil eyes after seeing clearly that the person in front of him was Toby.

The magic ball and the scepter are both higher-level methods of using Horcruxes, which gives Toby a unique coercion. This is also the reason why he has never been captured by Riddle's diary, and is also able to control the locket.

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Under Toby's control, the locket began to scan all the treasures in the vault one by one. If Voldemort's Horcruxes were hidden here, I believe there would definitely be a connection between them.

Finally, the locket's eyes settled on an object that looked like a wine glass.

Toby closed the locket again, one of his palms turned into black smoke, he stretched out to take the golden cup, and looked at it carefully before his eyes.

During this process, any spells used to ward off the invaders failed to take effect, and they were all surrendered by the devil.

"If Gryffindor's sword had not been succeeded by the mysterious man, then this one should be the golden cup belonging to Hufflepuff - I didn't expect him to be so persistent in Hogwarts."

Toby slowly put the gold cup into a silver box and narrowed his eyes calmly.

"In this way, if Herbo still wants to become the master of Death through the old method, then his only remaining target should be Voldemort's soul."

Tom Riddle's diary has disappeared with the destruction of the last Mason Door. Apart from this, the only other Horcruxes known to Toby are Ravenclaw's diadem, the Resurrection Stone, and Slytherin's hanging.

The locket, and the Hufflepuff gold cup that I just acquired.

Moreover, from the surface, the golden cup is similar to the crown, and has not been given a more terrifying curse, or maybe it is just that Voldemort can't do it.

Similar is the Resurrection Stone. Neither Toby nor Dumbledore has used the Resurrection Stone, nor have they fallen into any traps.

If Herbo returns, then he will be looking for either Toby or Dumbledore - the two people who are destined to be his enemies.

But before that, Toby must find a way to find Voldemort's hiding place without leaving any loopholes for Herbo.

——

When Toby came out of the vault, Griphook checked it as usual - he found nothing missing and all the treasures were in their original positions.

As for whether there are fakes here, that's not something he wants to pay too much attention to.

"It's time to finalize our deal."

While walking out of the tunnel, Griphook asked: "What else do you know about the law of conservation of magic?"

Toby replied slowly: "I suggest you read more of that report. That's all I know."

Griphook's expression immediately turned gloomy: "We have shown our sincerity, don't make it difficult for me, Toby."

"I'm telling the truth." Toby said sincerely, but the magic ball floating around him looked like a threat: "Archaeology is never a simple matter, and I am also thinking of ways to study it.

We will notify you as soon as we find out anything new."

"You are trying to burn bridges!" Griphook angrily accused.

Toby stopped and looked at him, first at a dead goblin.

"You're absolutely right."

He lowered his voice and said: "I did hesitate to break in secretly, but in fact, I gave up this decision later - still because of that report. Soon I won't need to break in secretly, I can just walk in swaggeringly.

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"You want to know the result, right? I can tell you clearly now - when the "Secrecy Act" was implemented, you had to give up the property you had worked hard to manage in the Muggle world."

"This time, you will only have to give up more. Whether it is to avoid the impact of the law of conservation and have to destroy the treasures in the time-honored treasure house - or it is simply malicious intent against you."

"I have read the history of the Goblin War. Although you failed, you still controlled the wizard's gold, and you controlled it for so many years at once - but have you ever thought about it, this time, under the influence of the law of conservation of magic?

, Wizards will not turn a blind eye to any magical creature, and the first thing to deal with before starting internal strife is you non-wizard creatures."

"Griphook, you have no friends anymore, not a single one."

The anger in Griphook's eyes gradually turned into fear, and all the worst guesses were confirmed in Toby's mouth.

"Don't look at me."

Toby smiled again and said: "I don't know how to help you. After all, business is just business. I have seen through your nature early on. Don't try to have any friendship with any goblin."

"And I don't have the time to care about you. Once the goblins' problem is solved, it will probably be my compatriots' turn."

"Muggle-borns, this is also a problem."

——

Ghost castle.

The group of people ran out of the gate without looking back. Ron shouted the loudest. He almost whined and ran out of the woods. His tone would rise every time the trees that seemed to be alive stretched out a branch.

Several heights.

When he could no longer run, his voice became hoarse.

Al floated over with a look of contempt, Ginny covered her face in shame, Luna couldn't straighten up with joy, and even the cover of Pandora trembled.

Angela was able to suppress the raised corners of her mouth and asked in a gentle tone: "Relax, Ron, this is the last time. Tell me, whose name did you see just now?"

Ron was just frightened. He thought that maybe if he moved further back in the order, it would not be his turn, but he didn't expect that Helbo's name was never found.

Instead, it was another person's name that particularly impressed him.

"Tom Riddle."

Ron said hoarsely: "I just saw the name of the mysterious man."

"Is he also hiding in the castle?"