Archaeologists at Hogwarts

Chapter 456 A Rare Opportunity

455 Rare Opportunity

"How's the business of the clothing store recently?"

"Very good, I like many styles of witch robes."

"I mean how it sold—forget it, I have to tell you in advance, I only have this little money, and I can't do anything if I lose it all."

"Anyway, I still have a lot."

For a moment, Ginny didn't know how to evaluate Luna's arrogance.

She has felt more than once that it is a bad idea to partner with Luna to open a clothing store. As the owner of the store with the most investment, Luna doesn't care about the profit of the store at all, and only pays attention to what new styles of witch robes are available.But she didn't wear it herself, but gave it to Ginny.

According to Luna, those witch robes are very beautiful, but compared with her bottle stopper earrings, they are still almost creative.

But who made Luna rich?

Anti-demon glasses have always been selling well, and cat ears that can detect inner activities are also very popular. She seems to be born with a lot of talent for inventing this matter, and she can always produce products that make people's eyes shine.

Ginny said sharply, "Fortunately, the person you're cooperating with is Principal Haimo. If it were someone else, I would have been deceived."

Luna nodded seriously: "You are right."

She admitted it happily.

Ginny sighed sullenly, she couldn't do anything about Luna, and the most annoying thing was that Pandora couldn't help either.Although she always excused how she became a devil, she couldn't persuade her daughter on such details.But Ginny always felt that Pandora was just perfunctory. In some respects, she was extremely tolerant of Luna's behavior, and she was completely different from Mrs. Weasley.

She leaned against the wall with her arms folded, silently watching Luna wrestling with Pandora.

This is still the small cubicle where Ginny and Luna often come together. It is located in the middle of the third to fourth floors of stairs. Almost no one will deliberately find this place. When Ginny found this place for the first time, it was full of people. It was dusty, and it looked like no one had been there for a long time.

However, this place is very suitable for doing things that will not be discovered-for example, let Pandora's devil appear, or Luna intends to persuade Pandora to teach her the idea of ​​​​the devil.

"That's not okay, dear."

Pandora had been talked about for a long time, and she had no choice but to show up and communicate with Luna in the form of a dark shadow.

But even so, Ginny could hear the deep helplessness in her tone.

"Why do you have to make your own self-casting wand? Did Cedric let you do it? Or did you get some inspiration from him?"

For some unknown reason, Luna suddenly became interested in devils, and she insisted that Pandora teach herself about devils before she would give up.

"It's not because of Cedric." Luna's answer surprised both of them: "Actually, it's because of Morgana. After we met last time, I talked to her again—she came, or let her Let her tell you."

The old wooden door opened almost shortly after Luna spoke, and Morgana walked in calmly, as if she had long expected that someone was in the room.

Ginny remembered the last time Morgana came to her side quietly.

"So you want to open the door too. I thought you were a ghost—but what did you and Luna say? Why didn't Pandora and I know anything about it?"

Since the last experience, Ginny didn't have so many scruples about Morgana.

She didn't actually know Morgana's real identity, so she could only guess that it was probably related to Professor Angela.Of course, forget about the term "mother". Morgana looks so small, how could she have a daughter as big as Angela.

Morgana walked over to Luna.

She was the smallest among them, a head shorter than both Ginny and Luna, but she seemed the most mature.

"Some guesses and doubts."

Morgana said slowly: "You should have all seen devils—except for your Principal Haimer, no devil can regain consciousness and sobriety, they are more destructive than silence—but Pandora is a special case , she is completely different."

Ginny blinked suspiciously, she really didn't pay much attention to this question.

Because since she first met Pandora, Pandora has always been in a sober and calm state, never having any emotional outbursts.

Ginny asked curiously: "Could this also have something to do with Pandora's ability to actively emerge from the wand?"

In the last encounter, Morgana said that Pandora was an extremely special example of being able to emerge from an auto-casting wand-as one of the materials of an auto-casting wand, she shouldn't have this ability.

At that time Morgana said - it may be because of "love".

Pandora's love for Luna caused everything to change inexplicably, and no one could explain what was going on.

"almost."

Morgana accepted Ginny's guess.

"But we still have to figure out what's going on."

She continued: "Otherwise, you may lose Pandora at any time. She doesn't even have a body now. When the reason for her existence disappears, she may not even be able to appear in front of you."

It turned out that this was the reason why Luna insisted on learning the devil.

She needs to figure out what dangers Pandora will encounter through her automatic casting wand, so as to solve this problem in advance.

"But it's not what Headmaster Highmore said."

Ginny frowned and said, "Principal Haimer said that as long as Pandora can turn into a devil, the negative emotions will be enough to keep her alive, a bit like a ghost in school."

"He doesn't understand devils like I do." Morgana shook her head and said, "Because he, like you, has ignored Pandora's transformation from feathers to devils—she shouldn't have stayed awake at all, and that's the crux of the problem."

Ginny was taken aback by Morgana's answer, and she became more and more suspicious of Morgana's true identity.

At this time, Pandora, who had been silent all this time, finally spoke.

"And you, child." Pandora asked, "Why did you help me? Did Toby make you do it, or—?"

"He didn't make such a request to me." Morgana said honestly, and she took out of her pocket the Elder Wand that Toby gave her not long ago.

"Do you know this wand? I think this should at least represent his acquiescing attitude. If it doesn't work, you can also talk to him, and come to me after you really confirm it. I'm fine."

Pandora had seen the Elder Wand.

There was a time when it was kept in Toby's hands. At that time, Toby exchanged the Resurrection Stone that was originally kept by him with Dumbledore, lest he couldn't help but use it.

"I will seriously consider it."

Pandora said that she did not agree immediately.
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After separating from Morgana, Pandora urged Luna and Ginny to rush to the ancient magic office as soon as possible.

"Who the hell is she?"

Pandora appeared from the wand. She sat between the two girls and asked Toby, who was across the desk in confusion, "Why did she say that she knew more about devils than you? Also, what did the student say Is it all true? Why don't you see why I can stay awake after turning into a devil?"

"Oh?" Toby looked like he had just heard about it: "Because I don't go crazy often——what's your expression?"

After Luna and Ginny put away the weird expressions on their faces at the same time, Toby continued: "I thought we were all the same. After all, I am also a half-devil, and my consciousness is still quite clear. But what she said It also makes sense, anyway, I can only be counted as half a devil, and you are the more complete one. Well, let me think about it."

In the beginning, Toby didn't have a perfect example to use as a reference.But now he knew that even with the help of the black feather, there was no guarantee that the devil would return to normal in the real world—it had to be behind the Mason Gate.

In this case, Pandora's state is indeed somewhat abnormal.

"Should I still disappear?"

Pandora asked the worry in her heart: "Or is it more terrifying-becoming a devil who completely loses himself? Then I have become a bomb that may explode at any time."

"A good description." Toby commented: "If what Morgana said is true—and it is very likely to be true. Then you still have a lot of threats, whether it is for Luna , or to yourself, it is very threatening. Why don't you let her try it."

"What?" Pandora thought she heard it wrong: "Are you sure? Ask a child to help?"

"She's not really a child."

Toby shook his head.
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It didn't take a while for the three of them to be sent out of the office by Toby.

Of course, Pandora is hidden in the wand so as not to scare the passing students.

"Morgan Le Fay."

Ginny muttered the name in a trance: "If she is really Morgan Le Fay, then Merlin—oh, no, Merlin has already become a god of death and cannot be brought back to life."

Luna glanced at the wand in her hand.

"Mom, what are you going to do?"

Wand was silent for a moment.

"Then give it a try." Pandora said helplessly.
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"Morgana has always had the wish to restore those residents to their original state. I guess she saw this hope in Pandora, so she wanted to help Pandora, because it was also helping herself."

Toby explained to Angela and Al, who sat across the desk.

"Do you understand now? Compared with Haierbo, Morgana's motives are easier to guess. She is not that complicated, otherwise she would not have such a deadlock with Merlin."

Angela stared at Toby suspiciously.

"Why do I feel like you're using Morgana as an assistant? Is this my illusion? First the Elder Wand, then Pandora—wait a minute, aren't you imitating Dumbledore? Did he teach you this before?"

Angela remembered Toby's purpose in the beginning - to change Morgana in the same way as Dumbledore treated himself.

"Still not quite the same."

Toby admitted this statement in disguise: "Dumbledore didn't assign me so many tasks back then, but he didn't dare to let me try too many possibilities, because he knew very well that each of them would change because of me. Terrible—in every sense of the word. So his favorite thing to do is to put me in detention, and then chat—I really hate this life-wasting punishment."

"It sounds pretty easy." Angela commented, and Al also nodded in agreement.

Toby didn't want to waste his time on this matter. These two guys couldn't imagine how terrible Dumbledore could become with a friendly face.

At this time, the door of the office was pushed open, and Lily walked in from the door.

"It's our vice-principal." Toby smiled and said, "What's the matter, what's the matter?"

Lily's expression was a little dignified.

"I'm fine. It's Harry. He said he's not feeling well. Can you go and take a look?"

Toby asked puzzledly: "Why didn't you send him to the school hospital? I'm not a specialized therapist—oh, I seem to know, don't tell me it's related to the devil he lost."

Lily nodded heavily.

"Now Harry can't speak anything but Parseltongue."
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When Toby arrived at Lily's office, he found that not only Harry was waiting for him anxiously, but also another unexpected student - Qiu.

As Harry's girlfriend, Cho was the first to notice that something was wrong with Harry, because it happened when the two of them were chatting by the Black Lake.

Although it was unclear at the time why Harry suddenly had the ability to speak Parseltongue, Cho immediately warned Harry to stop talking, and asked him who he should call at this time in text.

Now Qiu finally knew why Harry had kept so many things from him—Parseltongue had always been an ability that only dark wizards could possess, and the last thing that should have happened to Harry was this.

Toby looked at Qiu who was trying to pretend to be calm, and he could tell at a glance that this girl was going through very intense inner torture.

"You go back first." Toby said, "We will inform you in time when there is any progress, or let Mr. Potter tell you himself."

Cho didn't want to leave, but Harry didn't want her to see more bad things.

After a lot of effort, Qiu Cai reluctantly left the office at Harry's request.

Lily looked at the closed oak door, she sighed and said, "She's a good boy, now I know why Harry fell in love with her."

Toby walked up to Harry, and he asked directly, "Can you talk now, Harry?"

Harry opened his mouth, but what came out of his mouth was a hissing sound, which sounded extremely cold.

【Yes, professor, but why did I suddenly become like this? 】

"Calm down, Harry." Toby said seriously, "I think I can probably guess what's going on - you used to be Lily's Horcrux, that is to say, the Parseltongue you first had This ability didn't appear because of the Horcrux, you should be able to understand that, right?"

Harry figured it out right away—he wasn't Voldemort's Horcrux, nor was Helbo's, and Lily couldn't speak Parseltongue either.

So how on earth did Harry have this ability?
"And your devil. It's a snake. It has nothing to do with the Horcrux. It's all because of your own heart."

Toby shook his head and said, "I'm afraid I'm going to have to say that again, Harry."

"Your devil is dead, but it lives on in you—because it has nothing to do with anyone else, it is you."

"It's a shame you weren't sorted into Slytherin."

(End of this chapter)