Hogwarts Archaeologist Toby

The two did not pursue the topic of memory any further, but began to discuss tonight's bizarre experience.

Dumbledore said: "I specifically asked Mundungus to do the collection of the centaur's items. He should have met the thief by chance, so the other party took advantage of him and wanted to get out of your mouth. information."

Toby thought about it and said, "In this case, the centaur sculpture should be fine. But the key point lies in the internal response in Hogwarts—by the way, Headmaster, who is going to steal the Philosopher's Stone? Is it just an ordinary dark wizard?"

"It is not certain yet." Dumbledore deduced: "But judging from the theft of Gringotts and Nick's forced transfer of the Sorcerer's Stone, it must not be an ordinary dark wizard—you know, since Nick created Since the Sorcerer's Stone, there has been no shortage of wizards who have had his way."

Toby was in no hurry to interrupt Dumbledore's thoughts.

Under his gaze, Dumbledore said calmly: "But Nick does have a candidate who is suspicious, and I think the same - Voldemort."

He said the name in front of Toby and did not choose to hide it.

Toby's eyes suddenly became extremely gloomy.

Dumbledore continued as if he hadn't seen it: "Nick and I agree that Voldemort will not die so simply. He has told his servants more than once about his great achievements - transcending death. If Voldemort really comes back, We even infer that he would want to seize the Philosopher's Stone - it will never be for eternal life. The Philosopher's Stone cannot prevent the body from aging. This is a price Voldemort will never be willing to bear, and he is unlikely to be willing to rely too much on it. The Philosopher's Stone achieves the goal of eternal life. It cannot be for gold. Voldemort does not need to deliberately seize wealth. Once he makes a comeback, someone will naturally give it to him."

"We speculate that Voldemort most likely hopes to use the Sorcerer's Stone to reshape his body. This is also one of the magical uses of the Sorcerer's Stone and is not known to more people. Of course, this is just a guess."

Toby didn't think it was just speculation, he believed Dumbledore's words.

"Mysterious man, Quirrell..."

He chanted these two names over and over, his long hair drooping slowly, but his gaze was always fixed on Dumbledore.

"This sounds like an opportunity, a chance once and for all. The mysterious man is undoubtedly extremely weak, otherwise he wouldn't have disappeared for so many years. You really shouldn't tell me this secret, you know what I will do next What."

The two looked at each other calmly.

Toby finally asked: "So, are you going to stop me, Headmaster? I didn't leave England just because I disagreed with you—"

"Of course I know what's going on." Dumbledore sighed softly: "There is also your fear of Voldemort. You are reluctant to call him by his name until today. But this is normal, after all, you were still at that time." Just a fresh graduate, not to mention being targeted by Voldemort early because of ancient magic, leaving England is a very shrewd decision."

"I also know the consequences of telling you about this, so I chose to let Severus keep an eye on Quirrell instead of asking you to do it-because once you know the I will definitely ask Quirrell for clues about Voldemort immediately after leaving the office—perhaps using the ancient magic methods you are proud of."

"Of course I will do that." Toby said frankly: "After all, that is the mysterious man. His pure-blood supremacy is something I cannot accept in any case. I am just a Muggle-born, and I am what those people say. Mudbloods, they killed too many of them during the Wizarding War, and it made me feel uncomfortable at school, especially when I was sorted into Slytherin House."

Dumbledore looked at him keenly: "Don't tell me what you are going to say about being ostracized and treated indifferently. You and I both know that it's not that they don't want to provoke you, but that they don't dare to provoke you, otherwise you will also use You don’t need to be lectured so many times by me.”

"But what can I do, Principal?"

Toby seemed to have returned to his student days at this moment. At that time, he was also sitting face to face in front of Principal Dumbledore, and even the excuse of getting rid of the lecture did not change.

"I've left them alive, what do you want me to do? They shouldn't provoke a Slytherin Muggle-born. If you look at the comparison of blood, I'm more than Slytherin himself. Be more Slytherin."

"Speaking of which, you and Professor Slughorn helped me figure this out - why was I sorted into Slytherin House? This must be because I have some qualities that cannot be ignored. I have discovered these qualities a long time ago, so no one else dares to mess with me, otherwise they will definitely be in bad luck afterwards, and many of them even ended up in the campus hospital before they messed with me."

"I didn't teach you that." Dumbledore was rarely angry: "I obviously explained it to you later, maybe it was because when the founder injected ideas into the Sorting Hat, Slytherin and Gryffindor Duo is still a close friend, so at least they will respect each other's ideas, and there is a chance for you to be sorted into Slytherin House-Gryffindor will not reject new students because of blood."

Toby curled his lips and did not retort, acting like a disobedient student - in fact, in front of the principal, he did have this identity, and he almost always did this before.

Dumbledore sighed deeply.

"Okay, Toby," he said, "let's get on with Quirrell. I really wasn't going to tell you this before, but after what happened to you tonight at the Hog's Head, I don't want to do that anymore. It's too much to hope for. But I want to remind you that Quirrell is not more important than discovering the secret of Voldemort's transcendence of death."

"Beyond death..."

Toby no longer lost his temper. He thought seriously: "Over the years, I have seen some existences that transcend death, such as mummies that cannot be killed... But the mysterious man's way of immortality, maybe Is it because of ancient magic? No, it definitely belongs to the category of ancient magic. Other than the magic of immortality within a thousand years, I only know about the magic stone, and even the Pharaoh's mask was created at least before the founder's time."

Dumbledore obviously knew the information about the Pharaoh's mask, and he and Toby exchanged many contents in letters.

But Toby wanted to focus on Quirrell, and now there was another reason—ancient magic.

He stood up excitedly, his veiled gaze becoming more dangerous.

"So, there are not only clues about the mysterious man in Quirrell, but also about ancient magic?!"

"sit down!"

"......oh."