Ch 361-369
The invisibility cloak on Ivan hindered their perception. The dementors could only vaguely feel that there were various thoughts floating in the direction of Ivan, which was very delicious.
Ivan was hesitating whether to take action to drive away these annoying monsters.
Once the war starts, there will be a lot of noise, unless he can kill all these dementors, otherwise this matter will definitely be reported, and it is impossible to hide it from Dumbledore.
The Ministry of Magic will certainly respond to this!
Ivan hadn't heard the slightest sound of wind before, so he was worried that if he acted rashly, it would change history.
However, Hermione couldn't hold it anymore at this time, and she was extremely nervous. The memory that emerged in her mind impacted her consciousness, and her body was also shaky.
Noting that Hermione's state was a bit wrong, Ivan was very anxious, coupled with the burning of the time converter in his chest, he was no longer silent.
"Go away, there is no one you are looking for here!" Ivan murmured with a hoarse voice.
The dementors are getting closer, don't believe Ivan's words at all, and most people won't fly to Hogwarts at this time!
Although there is no evidence, they suspect that the person in front of them is the wanted criminal Sirius!
Dementors can't speak, but they still convey their thoughts in some way.
Ivan hesitated, and didn't want to conflict with them, so he said casually. "I'm an employee at Hogwarts. I found a missing eagle-headed horse-winged beast outside, so I plan to take it to the Forbidden Forest!"
The dementors did not disperse, their IQs were not high, but they would not be fooled by Ivan.
The most important thing is that they are used by the unscrupulous Ministry of Magic as a search tool. They have not had a full meal for many days. Now they have finally caught a guy who is suspected to be Sirius. Of course, it is impossible to let it go easily.
A large number of dementors are ready to move. They are not patient creatures, and the rules of the Ministry of Magic are gradually forgotten. They only know that they are hungry.
very hungry, very hungry...
A dementor soon drifted to Ivan's side, and stretched out the withered, crusted palms to take off Ivan's body that could affect their perception, so that they could absorb more delicious emotions. ...
Just when the scabded hand stretched out in front of him, a burst of white light was ignited from the invisibility cloak, and the dementor was shot and flew out instantly, hitting a few of the same kind behind him.
Originally wandering nearby, the dementors who still had some consideration were immediately enraged. They swarmed towards Ivan, covering the sky and the sun like a black wave, swallowing down...
"Hushen guard!" Ivan waved his wand and the vast white mist gathered into a strong shield and stood in front of him.
A large number of dementors hit the shield made up of white mist, rippling waves, making a sound of corroding, but unable to break through the defense.
Angrily, the nearest dementors even took off their hoods, revealing the weird faces under the brim of their hats.
Their heads are dry and thin. The only place where they should have eyes is the thin skin with gray scabs, and underneath is a big hollow mouth, sucking something with big mouths, the white mist shield gradually becomes thinner, and the surrounding area becomes more and more. The cold.
Hermione leaned back hard, shivering in Ivan's arms, cold sweat on her forehead, and a lot of illusory things with various colors were constantly being stripped from her body.
Ivan, who was still scrupulous, is not keeping his hands,
Although Ivan could not summon the shadow of the unicorn in order to conceal his identity, so as not to be approached by the Ministry of Magic, his patron saint curse has improved a lot during this period, and he can play many tricks.
Under the wave of the magic wand, the white mist surging in mid-air condensed in a short period of time, and turned into a light group consisting of white mist and rolled directly forward.
The few unprepared dementors couldn't dodge at all. They were smashed into pieces, and their bodies were a little loose.
More dementors from the rear gathered angrily, the light ball exploded suddenly, the white mist spread to the surroundings, and the dementors who were trying to approach were quickly blown out.
Although there are a large number of dementors in Hogwarts, the white fog created by Ivan's patron saint curse is related to the special bloodline magic, which is much stronger than that released by normal wizards, and it is even more important for dementors. A full-fledged nemesis.
But Ivan didn't want to make things too much. He just used the patron saint curse to knock the dementors in front of him into the air, and then drove the eagle-headed horse-winged beast into a rampage, rushing out of the encirclement abruptly.
"Quick! Go to the forbidden forest!" The long-lost sunlight re-spreads on his body. While he was relieved, Ivan did not dare to stay too much. He directed the eagle-headed horse-winged beast to fly to the forbidden forest at the fastest speed. .
Behind , a large number of unwilling dementors tried to catch up again.
Ivan expelled them again and again.
After several times, these monsters who learned the lesson gave up the idea of approaching. Some of them separated or reported the situation, and the remaining part only dared to hover in the air far away.
Ivan ignored them. The time converter on his neck was getting hotter and hotter. Fortunately, the eagle-headed horse-winged beast flew very quickly~www.mtlnovel.com~ and flew into the forbidden forest in a few moments and landed successfully.
Ivan turned over and leaped off the back of the eagle-headed horse-winged beast, turned his head, looked at Hermione who was slightly pale, helped her down, and asked aloud.
"Hermione, are you okay?"
Hermione shook her head, so that Ivan didn't have to worry, and she was much better now without the disgusting dementors.
At this time, the eagle-headed horse-winged beast on the side suddenly let out an eagle cry, and its big orange eyes stared at Hermione angrily.
Ivan was a little strange at first, and then noticed that some reddish brown feathers seemed to be stuck on Hermione's hands.
"I was a bit too nervous just now, I always wanted to grab something, so... I'm sorry!" Hermione stuck out her tongue embarrassedly, and said apologetically at the eagle-headed horse with winged beasts.
The eagle-headed horse-winged beast didn't buy it. He raised his neck proudly. Finally, under Ivan's comfort, it was considered that he had let go of the hostility to Hermione, but still did not allow Hermione to touch it anymore.
The little witch looked very disappointed,
Ivan smiled, and when he was about to say a few words of comfort, the time and space around him suddenly froze.
"Damn it, so fast, why can't you wait a little longer!" Ivan wanted to yell, but he couldn't make a sound at all. He could only watch time go by...
Vague colors and shapes fill the entire space, and everything around is changing rapidly.
Ivan's wide-eyed eyes, he desperately wanted to know what happened to this place after he left, whether Hermione had reached Hogwarts Castle safely, and whether the dementors had caught up.
But the speed of the surrounding changes was too fast, and Ivan could only see a large number of black shadows falling from the sky at a certain moment, and then scattered.
Occasionally, a few fuzzy-shaped animals pass by, more often the day and night alternate.
I don't know how long it took, and everything finally stabilized, and Ivan regained his ability to act.
raised his eyes to look at the sky. It was already evening. Ivan knew that he should have returned to the normal time. He remembered that it was in the evening when he used the time converter.
"I don't know what happened to Hermione?" Ivan sighed.
The dark shadows I saw before, Ivan guessed that the dementors were searching for him and Hermione in the forbidden forest. I hope that the little witch has already left by then.
Otherwise... Ivan glanced at the time converter in his hand, hesitated for a moment, and still didn't use it.
He decided to go to the castle to see the situation first. If everything goes well, Hermione should have already returned.
Thinking of this, Ivan took out the live map, tapped his magic wand, and muttered.
"I solemnly swear that I did nothing good!"
On a piece of blank parchment, many delicate ink lines suddenly appeared, spreading like spider web lines, connecting and spreading to every corner of the parchment, drawing a map clearly marked with names.
Peter Pettigrew was sleeping in the dormitory, Ron and Harry stayed in the common room, and Dumbledore stayed peacefully in his principal's room.
As for Hermione...
Ivan searched for a circle, and successfully found the name of the little witch, which seemed to be moving fast, maybe somewhere to go.
Ivan was holding the map and counting Hermione's movement trajectory, while walking quickly towards Hogwarts Castle, easily blocking her in the corridor.
"Hermione!" Ivan greeted.
The little witch who rushed around in the castle hurriedly turned her head suddenly after hearing Ivan's voice, and said angrily while holding a book.
"Finally found you, Ivan! You used a coma spell on me just now... it's too much!"
The angry words of the little witch made Ivan stunned, but when he noticed the beads of sweat on Hermione's forehead and the thick books in her hands, she quickly understood what was going on.
Before Ivan could respond, Hermione stuffed the book in Ivan's arms. "I found some records in this book, you can take a look at it, it should be able to help..."
Ivan lowered his head and glanced, this is exactly the "Black Magic Uncensored".
"Thank you, Hermione!" Ivan did not open the book, but said with emotion.
"Don't talk about this now..." The little witch shook her head eagerly, and signaled Ivan to turn the book quickly. The content is on page 125 of this book!
Ivan only turned a few pages. Since he had read all the contents, he only turned it over later.
Seeing that there are a large number of cruel black magic experimental analysis in the book "Black Magic Decryption", I remembered the previous puzzles, but had not had time to ask.
"By the way...Hermione! How did you think of looking for this book, don't you usually never read black magic books?"
Hermione hesitated for a while, and when she woke up, she found an extra note on the bedside. Then she took out the folded note from the pocket of the wizard's robe and punched it. Open.
Ivan clearly sees that it says: Forbidden Book Area...The bookshelf in the thirteenth row and the ninth column... "Black Magic Decryption"!
The most important thing is that Ivan recognizes that it is Hermione's handwriting!
"Remember the question you asked me? What happens when the potion is used on the dead wizard..." Hermione said very quickly, and then continued to explain.
"I'm not as smart as you, so I checked a lot of books and thought about it for a long time without a clue. But since the time converter can go back to the past, why can't the future self tell us the answer?"
"Why? You are much smarter than me... Hermione! Such a good method, even I can't even think of it!" Ivan couldn't help but look at the talking little witch in front of him. .
When the potion research was in trouble before, he had never thought of such a novel method. Just like Hermione said, as long as the calculation is right, he can completely help his future self to solve some headaches.
In addition, Ivan was relieved that since Hermione got the note, it proved that she avoided the dementor's search in the future and returned to the castle safely.
was praised by Ivan, Hermione raised the corner of her mouth slightly, very happy, she felt that her hard work these days was finally in vain. But in the end, he still reservedly stated that he was just studying hard and was a little clever.
"How about? Is the content of this book useful?" Hermione looked forward to watching Ivan~www.mtlnovel.com~Well, it's very useful! "Ivan nodded in response.
"I said I would definitely be able to help! Then we will start to study now..." the little witch said confidently.
However, Ivan did not respond. He hesitated to explain to Hermione...
Ivan's silence made Hermione faintly aware of something wrong.
The happy expression on the little witch's face slowly dimmed, and she suddenly thought that Ivan might have ended this time travel, and her previous efforts might have been in vain...
"Have you done what you want to do?" Hermione pursed her lips, and said depressedly.
"Yes!" Ivan nodded, then smiled at Hermione who was unhappy. "That's why I just wanted to thank you... Hermione! This time, you really helped a lot!"
"You mean..." Hermione's brown eyes turned round, and she looked at Ivan blankly. Of course she could understand the consciousness in Ivan's words.
The little witch reacted after a long time, and then said in a flustered manner. "But... But, I haven't done anything yet?"
"So, do you want to take an adventure now? But it might be a bit dangerous..." Ivan took off the time converter from her body, hung it on Hermione's neck, and asked.
Ivan has realized that if she doesn't send away the current little witch, she will never be able to touch her in the future.
Because the time of departure is also the time of return after the stay time arrives...
"Of course!" Hermione nodded without hesitation. She didn't forget that Ivan had promised her that she would take her with her every time she used the time converter.
And when Professor Dumbledore gave them the time converter, they also asked them to supervise each other!
Thinking of this, Hermione's cheeks were slightly red, because she found that she didn't seem to be playing a supervisory role at all...
After Hermione agreed, Ivan wondered how to get her back to Knockdown Alley three months ago.
I can't just sit with a eagle-headed horse and a winged beast like I did before, right? That's too painful!
Ivan thought a little, and soon got an idea, snapped his fingers, and said hello.
"More than!"
The next moment, an ugly house-elf with big eyes flashed in front of the two of them.
"Do you have any orders? Sir!" Dobby asked in a shrill voice.
"Take us to Knock Down Alley!" Ivan took Hermione's hand and said to Dobby.
Although Hogwarts has the magic of anti-shifting and shadow-changing, house elves do not have this restriction.
Dobby's magic is enough to transport the two of them from here to Knock Down Alley!
"Yes, sir!" After receiving the order, Dobby immediately carried it out, holding out Ivan's wrist with his left hand, and snapping a finger with his right hand.
There was a shift in space, and when Ivan came back to his senses, what attracted his eyes was a small alley that was both unfamiliar and familiar.
If he remembers correctly, this place seems to be the place where Hermione stopped the two black-robed wizards in the first place.
Such a coincidence? Ivan was a little surprised, but he didn't care too much.
Ivan took out the invisibility cloak and handed it to Hermione, and explained.
"If you want to help me, you have to go back more than three months ago, that is, two thousand four hundred revolutions! Of course, I spent a lot of money from Hogwarts to London riding a griffin and winged beast. Time, so you make five more turns and it's almost the same."
Hermione was a little bit stunned. For more than two thousand laps, she was a little worried that she might make a mistake.
"If nothing else, if you wait there for a while, you will see two wizards in black robes passing by. At that time, I would want to kill them. You only need to stop me... here. Remember to wear the invisibility cloak during the process!" Yifan added.
Hermione tried hard to remember all Ivan's words in her heart, and said with some doubts. "Did you wear an invisible cloak? How should I find you?"
"Just pay attention to the magic wand that pops up suddenly, I don't think it will trouble you, right?" Ivan said with a smile.
Hermione nodded, and then began to verbally inquire. "What else? What should I do after that? Is there anything that needs special attention?"
While talking, the little witch took out the magic quill from the pocket of the wizard robe, and unfolded the wrinkled note. She looked at Ivan seriously, as if she wanted to write down what Ivan said next. .
"No! Hermione... I have nothing to remind you, and there is nothing to pay special attention to." Seeing this posture, Ivan shook his head, not crying or laughing for a while.
He thought that he had imagined that he could get a clearance strategy and acted according to the instructions above. He didn't expect Hermione to have the same idea.
"But I still don't know what you want to do?" Hermione said flusteredly.
Ivan had been researching potions day and night, but she saw that there must be a very important thing to accomplish. She didn't want to cause anything wrong because of her negligence.
"Then you need to understand it yourself!" Ivan said casually, and comforted her a few more words to let her not worry, and then handed the compound decoction made before to Hermione so that she could pass it on to herself when that time comes.
Since Ivan said that, it meant that everything should go smoothly on this trip. After trying to understand this, Hermione relaxed a little.
Then, Hermione took the reagent bottle containing the compound decoction, put it in place, and put on the invisibility cloak, ready to use the time converter.
At this time, Ivan suddenly remembered one thing and said.
"By the way, after you passed, I should ask you some questions at that time. You just need to tell him not to try to change the past, but to learn to follow the context of history, for example, think about what you have seen... "
"Is it all right to say that?" Hermione was confused, not able to understand Ivan's meaning, is this too general?
"Well, that's enough! But now he definitely doesn't understand, so he doesn't want to think about anything..." Ivan said with some emotion.
He can be regarded as understanding why he failed to get the so-called clearance strategy, because there is no need to intervene at all, and destiny will lead everything to the desired result.
Everything just goes with the flow!
Hermione looked at Ivan with a weird look, silently remembered these words in her heart, converged her mind, and began to turn the time converter.
Ivan couldn't see Hermione in the invisibility cloak, but seeing that she hadn't responded for a long time, she knew that the little witch should have left.
"Let's go, Dobby, let's go back!" Ivan looked at the house elf on the side and said ~www.mtlnovel.com~Okay, sir! "Dobby replied, and returned to Hogwarts with Ivan.
Two consecutive ultra-long-distance teleportations, Dobby was too tired, his pointed ears drooped, and his wrinkled face was full of exhaustion.
Ivan saw these in his eyes, and couldn't help speaking. "Thanks for your hard work these days, Dobby! I should have nothing important for the next two days. You can take a good rest and treat it as your vacation!"
"Take a rest?!" Dobby's exhaustion was swept away. It raised its head in surprise, blinked its bulb-sized eyes, hesitated for a while, and then screamed in surprise.
"You mean... my God! Dobby has a vacation!"
The sharp high pitch almost broke Ivan's eardrum.
Ivan rubbed his ears. He didn't expect it was just a vacation. Dobby would have such a big reaction. Before he had time to say anything, Dobby choked himself.
"Sir, you are so kind. Not only are you willing to pay Dobby a salary, but you are also willing to give Dobby a vacation... You are simply the greatest person in the wizarding world... Greater than Harry Potter!"
Tears accumulated in Dobby's eyes, and he seemed to want to hold his thigh and cry.
Ivan was very speechless. It seemed that Harry's name as the savior was only worth Sikor's salary every Monday and two days of vacation.
[Ding, a new legendary event has been generated! ]
When Ivan was about to comfort Dobby, the system prompt sounded in his mind.
Ivan's attention was immediately drawn to him. Since the prompt appeared at this time, it was probably related to his time travel, so he opened the system bar to check it.
[Legendary Title: Ouroboros
Legend event: You use the power of the time converter to go back to the past, complete the history, and direct the result in the expected direction. Although the process is rarely known, it is still worthy of reward...
Legend: 1
Special reward: stable time and space node (already issued in advance)
Note: Are you playing with time, or time playing with you? ]
"Ouroboros?" Ivan muttered to himself silently, looking at the legendary title this time.
Ouroboros refers to a snake that devours its tail. It can consume itself as a nourishment, and then grow and be consumed forever. A fantasy creature or state is often used to symbolize time and space and the universe, representing an infinite loop...
It is also very appropriate to use this to describe his experience these days.
If he takes the day he goes home during the school year as a time node, and when he uses the time converter as another node, then the two are indeed in a constant loop...
After all, the self who has no future returns to set up the scene three months ago, so he will not see the death of "Asia", and then get the time converter and start planning to return to three months ago to do all this, so that the past self I can see the "Death" of Esiah trying to get the time converter and plan how to arrange the scene...
Just thinking about it, Ivan felt a bit headache. He immediately felt that he must be more cautious when using the time converter in the future. It is best not to have things like this time again, and to find his own guilt. .
As stated in the remarks, it is not so much that he played with time, it is better to be teased by time...
Ivan shook his head, sighed, and then focused on the special reward given by the legendary title.
You must know that when I was awarded the title of legend, I had never been rewarded by the system. This time was obviously an accident.
Is the space-time node stable?
Ivan groaned, the system did not give any explanation. But just looking at the literal meaning, Ivan can also guess something, this time he stayed for a full two months, it is probably related to the system.
Otherwise, it would not be a coincidence that he had just brought the eagle-headed horse-body winged beast back and was kicked back to the original time and space.
It was obvious that what he was going to do had already been done, so there was no need to stay any longer... Hermione was still stuck because there was still something to be done.
"Sir, what's the matter with you?"
Ivan stayed on the spot for a long time, his expression constantly changing, which made Dobby feel a little strange on the side, and asked suspiciously.
"Ah? It's nothing, just thinking about something." Ivan was stunned for a short time, and quickly reacted, said something, and then sent Dobby to rest sooner!
When Dobby left, Ivan took out the map to look at. Just as he had expected, Hermione's name appeared again in Hogwarts Castle, near an unmanned classroom. Stand still.
Ivan found the nearest underpass and walked over. He desperately wanted to know what happened after he was kicked back to the original time in the forbidden forest, and how Hermione got rid of those conspirators. weird.
Walking out of the dark tunnel, Ivan soon saw the sad little witch standing in front of the classroom.
"Hermione!" Ivan said hello.
"Ivan?!" Hermione was taken aback, and she subconsciously hid her right hand behind her, her expression a little flustered.
"Well... you are in a normal time period, right?" Ivan hesitated for a moment, feeling that Hermione's reaction was a bit wrong.
With the previous oolong, Ivan also became suspicious, suspecting that the little witch in front of him might have come back from another time period.
"Hmm!" Hermione nodded sadly.
"What's wrong? Did something happen before?" Ivan asked with some worry.
"That...it...it cracked!" Hermione pursed her mouth, said in a vague way, and then took the right hand that was behind her back to her and opened it.
Ivan clearly saw that in Hermione's white palm, a long thin gold chain was placed, and a small golden hourglass hung under the chain.
Compared to before, there are many more fine cracks on the hourglass. Although the fine sand inside does not leak out, it looks like it may burst at any time.
"When was it damaged?" Ivan frowned, and suddenly realized the seriousness of the matter.
"Just now!" Hermione pursed her lips, quite annoyed. She felt it was her fault.
The previous stay time arrived. After returning to the normal time and space, the time converter was fine, but she temporarily remembered the matter of sending a note to herself, so she used it again, returning to a few days ago.
So Hermione felt that if she hadn't considered the endurance limit of the time converter, this thing would not be damaged.
"What should we do now? Do you have a way to fix it?" Hermione looked at Ivan in a panic~www.mtlnovel.com~ and asked with a hint of anticipation.
Ivan thought for a while, took the time converter in Hermione's hand, and opened the magic item bar of the system to check the status of the time converter.
[Magic Item: Time Converter
Magic power: weak (strong)
Special status: damaged
Effect: Every time you turn the pointer, the time will go back by one hour, and the risk will increase by one point (unavailable)
Description: This is an exquisite magical product with a powerful ability that can affect time, but due to multiple high-intensity uses, it has exceeded its tolerance.
Note: It felt that it had had enough, so it cracked! ]
I noticed the words damaged on the special status, and Ivan had a headache. After reading the instructions, I thought of the special rewards given by the legendary title. I didn't know that the system was messing up.
The power of the time converter itself is obviously impossible for him and Hermione to stay in that time and space for such a long time. It was only because of the systematic influence that it lasted for a few months.
Now that the legendary event has been completed and the influence of the system has disappeared, the time converter is naturally unable to withstand it and is broken!
"How is it? Can it be fixed?" Hermione looked at Ivan very nervously.
"No! It's completely broken, and I can't do anything..." Ivan shook his head helplessly. When he got the time converter, he thought about studying it.
However, the power of time is too profound, he has no way of starting, let alone repairing it...
"I accidentally broke it, Professor Dumbledore won't expel me for that?" Hearing that even Ivan couldn't find a way, Hermione was completely broken.
Thinking of having to pay a large sum of Jin Jialong to the Ministry of Magic after she was expelled, she might even be burdened by Professor McGonagall who helped her guarantee her. Hermione almost cried...
"Don't worry, it won't!" Ivan hurriedly comforted, and then said again.
"Besides, they should punish me as well! This matter has nothing to do with you... You use the time converter too much to help me. I will explain this to them then!"
Since I understand that the time converter is damaged due to system reasons, Ivan certainly wouldn't let Hermione, an unaware little witch, take this responsibility.
However, Hermione was not very grateful, and stared at Ivan angrily. She felt that since the time converter was broken in her own hands, she was very responsible!
Only quickly, Hermione's anger slowly turned to worry again, she pursed her mouth, and asked in fear. "If we broke such an important thing, we won't be caught by the Ministry of Magic in Azkaban, will we?"
"How is that possible?" Ivan shook his head and continued to pretend to be relaxed.
"It's a big deal to compensate some Jin Jialong. You don't know that I made thousands of Jialong from Lockhart last year, and it should be enough to pay it!"
"And I am still a Merlin Medal winner, and a minor wizard, the Ministry of Magic will not do anything to us."
Even though I said so, Ivan had no bottom in his heart.
We must know that the production method of the time converter seems to have been lost, that is to say, every time converter is extremely precious, and the bad one is one less. He does not know how much it is worth, and he does not know the gold Jialong he saved. Is it enough...
However, it is impossible for the Ministry of Magic to capture two minor wizards to Azkaban because of a time converter. Ivan can still confirm this.
"Anyway, let's go to the principal's office now and ask Professor Dumbledore." Ivan said helplessly.
If possible, Ivan would not really want to see Dumbledore. After all, he has a lot of secrets, and there is always some anxiety in meeting this master of mind-trapping.
But the time converter can't be left alone like that. They still have class tomorrow.
If you miss a few consecutive classes, there will definitely be a professor who will report their absence to Dumbledore, so you can't hide it at all. It's better to honestly admit your mistakes.
Maybe his confession was sincere, so Dumbledore wouldn't be held accountable?
Of course, Hermione has no opinion, and finding Professor Dumbledore is the only choice now!
On the way to the principal's office, Ivan did not forget to tell Hermione, and remember to kill her by then, saying that it was because the two of them were too passionate about learning, so they used the time converter too frequently, which eventually caused the time converter to be damaged. .
After all, using the time converter privately to go back to the past is not a small matter. He will definitely be held accountable by the Ministry of Magic and questioned what he did when he went back to the past.
Maybe people from the Ministry of Magic would think of the Bogimbok store being attacked, conduct an in-depth investigation, and then fire him or arrest him in Azkaban...
"But if we say that, do the people at the Ministry of Magic really believe it? What if they use Veritaserum on us?" Hermione was very skeptical, and said that she really loves learning too much... She couldn't say it anyway.
"Reassure, the Ministry of Magic will not use Veritaserum indiscriminately, and we are not prisoners, um... Actually, even prisoners won't use it easily! So we can convince them by showing something beyond our peers! Ivan explained.
In fact, Ivan has always felt that some methods of the Ministry of Magic are fascinating. For example, Veritaserum is a weapon of interrogation, but the Ministry of Magic rarely uses it.
Just like the last Wizarding War, a large number of Death Eaters only need to insist that they are controlled by the Imperius Curse to be able to successfully exonerate, and the Ministry of Magic has no intention of using Veritaserum from beginning to end.
The same was true when Voldemort returned. A few drops of Veritaserum can tell what Harry said is true, and Fudge and the Ministry of Magic just don't use it!
Although there may be some political factors in this, for example, many Death Eaters who have escaped sanctions have a prominent life experience, and the imprisoned pure-blood wizards are some diehards who died by themselves.
Another example is that Fudge wants to pretend to be an ostrich and he does not want to believe the fact that Voldemort has returned, but it is obvious that Veritaserum cannot be used at will.
Since I don't need to drink Veritaserum, Ivan certainly does not worry about his words being broken. The production method of the time converter has been lost for hundreds of years. No one in the Ministry of Magic should be able to see the specific use of this time converter before it was damaged. .
With his sixth-level alchemy level, he can only make a preliminary judgment that this time converter was damaged due to overuse. UU reading www.uukanshu.com specifically how to overuse it, and how long ago it was impossible to detect at all. Come out, let alone those from the Ministry of Magic...
On the way to the principal's office, Ivan and Hermione colluded with a confession. By the time he arrived at the door, the lie had been made up by him.
Considering Hermione is not good at telling lies, Ivan asked her not to speak casually after letting her in. The Ministry of Magic and Dumbledore just let him deal with it.
made all preparations, and when they arrived in front of the principal's office, the two of them were dumbfounded, and they were dumbfounded in front of the huge stone beast guarding the gate.
"It's over, we haven't had time to ask what the password of the principal's office is?" Ivan patted his head, he patronized to make up the reason, but forgot to find a professor to ask about the password.
"Sweet honey candy?"
"Toffee finger pancakes?"
"Cockroach pile?"
...
Ivan tried one by one at the huge stone beasts. When it came to the pile of cockroaches, the stone beasts shook abruptly, whirled slowly upwards with a dull sound, and finally hidden behind the stairs. It was revealed.
"Evan, how did you guess it?" Hermione looked at Ivan in surprise.
"I have been to the principal's office several times before and found that Professor Dumbledore usually uses some sweets and drinks that he usually likes as his password, so I tried it. It seems that my luck is good!" Ivan explained with a smile. , And then strode in.
Hermione realized this, and then became a little annoyed. Why didn't she think of this before...
Ivan winded up the stairs, and the subconscious operation in the brain started Occlumency.
But then Ivan thought that Hermione didn't know Occlumency, and Dumbledore had nothing to do with it.
entered the principal's room with a nervous heart, and Ivan saw Dumbledore wearing a gray wizard robe, standing with his back to him, teasing Phoenix Fox.
Ivan looked a little greedy. After receiving the legendary title of Ouroboros, his legendary value has once again made up five points, and he can already merge the next bloodline, and the blood of the Phoenix has always been his first choice!
"Halse? Miss Granger? Is there anything you came to see me for?" Dumbledore noticed the movement behind him, turned his head to look at the two of them, and asked a little surprised.
"Yes... Professor, we came to you because of an important thing." Ivan organized the language and hesitated where to start.
"Sit down and talk!" Dumbledore stepped and sat behind the desk. With a light wave of his wand, there were two more stools beside Ivan and Hermione.
"I still remember that every time you came to me, you brought some unexpected news to me. It seems that this time is no exception..."
Dumbledore's long slender fingers were facing each other, and the blue eyes under the half-moon glasses stared at Ivan closely, and there was a hint of teasing in his words.
It's usually you who come to me...
Ivan murmured to himself in his heart, and then said with embarrassment.
"Then you will be even more surprised this time!"
Ivan prepared Dumbledore mentally, then put the damaged time converter on the table and spoke again.
"Do you remember the time converter that you gave us before? Now it...broken!"
Seeing the time converter that is full of cracks and may burst open at any time, Dumbledore's face was stunned, and it took a long time before he raised his head and looked at Ivan and Hermione in a weird voice, and said in a deep voice.
"I think you need to explain to me what is going on? How did you break it!"
Ivan explained with a hint of apology.
"Professor, I'm sorry! I was researching the improvement plan of the compound decoction before, and I was too fascinated for a while. I frequently used the power of the time converter and miscalculated its limit, which led to this result..."
Ivan said all the rhetoric he had already thought of, and even actively threw out his own research and development of improved compound decoction during this period.
Because Dumbledore can learn from Snape that he has asked for some knowledge about potion improvement with a little investigation. This matter cannot be concealed, and there is no need to conceal it!
He can say that since he developed the wolf poison potion by himself last school year and gained the glory and attention, he was a little addicted to it. This semester is going to make persistent efforts to make big news or something...
"Professor, I am also responsible for this matter. The time converter broke in my hand..." Hermione hurriedly said.
Ivan gave Hermione a helpless look.
girl... isn't it time to grab responsibility?
The reason why he took all the responsibilities was to keep Dumbledore's attention all on himself, so that Dumbledore would not see if Hermione's disguise was not in place.
Hermione also stared at Ivan dissatisfiedly. They had previously agreed to take responsibility together, but Ivan threw her aside again.
The eye contact between the two did not last long, and was interrupted by Dumbledore's words.
"I think I warned you that the power of the time converter needs to be used with caution! You also promised me not to use its power outside of class!"
Dumbledore's face was full of seriousness, and his deep eyes slowly swept across the two of them. After a short stay on Hermione's body, he quickly turned to Ivan's body.
"And...I think it's not as simple as you said, isn't it? Hals!" Dumbledore took out a few letters from the drawer, turned it over, and continued.
"About a month ago, the day before school started! The dementors sent by the Ministry of Magic to guard Hogwarts stopped a suspected Sirius Bright not far from the castle and planned to enter from the air. The people at Hogwarts...
of course! The interception of these dementors finally failed. For this reason, the Minister of Magic Fudge wrote several letters to me, wanting to send more dementors into Hogwarts for a full search...but I turned it down! "
Dumbledore said while watching Ivan's reaction. As far as he knew, there were not many wizards capable of breaking through dozens of dementors.
Especially from the news from the Ministry of Magic, the other party seemed to have defeated the dementors in order to conceal their identity without even releasing the patron saint. Sirius Black could never do this.
was sent along with this news, and the news that Ivan had "saved" his classmates by expelling a large number of dementors on the Hogwarts train the next day.
At that time, he had some doubts, and coupled with the timetable that Ivan handed in, Dumbledore had a certainty of six or seven points~www.mtlnovel.com~ Since he could think of it, other people were certainly not fools.
So he stopped the application that McGonagall had written for Ivan, and only applied for a time converter in the name of Hermione, so that it would not be easy for the Ministry of Magic to think of this.
Hearing Dumbledore's words, Ivan's pupils shrank slightly. He did not expect that he had exposed so early, but he remembered seeing Dumbledore reading these letters when he came to the principal's office at the beginning of school.
Before Ivan thought these letters were sent by Dean Bohan, but now it seems that he has misunderstood him. No wonder Dumbledore was not very happy to give the time converter to himself at that time, and even specifically mentioned the danger of using the time converter to himself.
Hermione's face turned pale, and she couldn't help casting a questioning look at Ivan, wanting to know what to do now?
Dumbledore saw the reaction of the two of them, and immediately confirmed his previous guess.
Ivan quickly eased off, his face unchanged and said apologetically again.
"Sorry Professor, and please forgive me for using the power of the time converter privately, which caused its damage..."
Ivan didn't fabricate any reason. Under the circumstances that Dumbledore had determined, fabricating a lie would not do any good.
Because Dumbledore only needs to use Contemplation on Hermione to know everything, and even with his full strength, Ivan suspects that his Occlumency cannot be resisted.
It just depends on whether Dumbledore wants to do this...
Because of this, Ivan has been reluctant to meet Dumbledore. This powerlessness makes him very uncomfortable.
But what makes Ivan a little strange is that since entering the door, he hasn't noticed that Dumbledore has used Dementia. I don't know if it has been used on Hermione and he didn't notice it... .
"Can you tell me what you did with the time converter?" Dumbledore asked.
"This is something private, it is not convenient for me to tell you...Professor!" Ivan hesitated and shook his head.
What can he say? Said that he went back to Knock Down Alley in order to save Aysia and killed a group of vicious dark wizards?
Although some thugs died, he is only a thirteen-year-old wizard, with so many lives in his hands, it is hard to say what Dumbledore would think after hearing the news.
Ivan's words disappointed Dumbledore, but he didn't mean to continue to ask. Ivan insisted that he didn't want to say it, so I can't ask anything if I ask again...
"In that case, I must punish you for your violation of the rules this time!" Dumbledore said in a deep voice.
Ivan's heart touched her throat, Hermione pursed her mouth in fear...
Dumbledore's fingers were crossed together, his blue eyes looked at Ivan, and he spoke.
"It's you first! Hals! You used the time converter to go back in private and violated the regulations of the Ministry of Magic. Gryffindor Academy will be deducted 100 points for your actions!"
"And you...Miss Granger!" Dumbledore's gaze turned to Hermione again, "You have not played your due supervisory responsibility, so I will deduct Gryffindor College again. Fifty points! This time converter will be confiscated because you do not have the ability to keep it."
After Dumbledore finished speaking, he waited silently for the two to digest the news.
Hermione lowered her head and was very sad, but Ivan was a little surprised.
just... that's it? Points deducted?
Ivan was confused and said after thinking about it.
"Professor, what about the compensation? I broke the time converter. How much do I need to compensate the Ministry of Magic?"
Ivan asked Dumbledore about the approximate price of the time converter. At the same time, he was a little distressed. Although most of the Jin Jialong he saved was exploited from Lockhart, it was hard money!
It's just how long Dumbled did not continue to speak, Ivan's heart sank, and he asked tentatively.
"Is three thousand gallons enough?"
"Five thousand gallons?" Ivan felt his heart clenched together, and Dumbledore was silent.
"Ten thousand gallons?!" Ivan was desperate, he could only take out ten thousand gallons...
Where did you get so much money? Dumbledore gave Ivan a surprised look. He wondered if Ivan did something shameful after returning to the past...
"There is no need for compensation. You have good luck this time. I happen to know a master alchemist who should be able to repair this time converter." Dumbledore explained.
Ivan slowly breathed a sigh of relief, and his tight expression relaxed. In this case, they don't have to worry about the Ministry of Magic making trouble for them.
Hermione is a little strange. She clearly read in the book that the production method of the time converter has been lost for hundreds of years. It is said that no one now knows how to make and repair a time converter.
Ivan remembers that Bok had told him that Nick Lemay may still retain the method of making time converters.
And Nick LeMay happened to be one of Dumbledore's friends, so the alchemist in the old professor's mouth could only be him!
Thinking of this, Ivan is somewhat moved. It is not easy to improve his current alchemy level. Nick Le May is one of the few people in the magical world who can teach himself.
Ivan opened his mouth, but in the end he didn't speak. He just broke a time converter. He really didn't have the face to ask Dumbledore to meet with Nick LeMay.
Besides, he and Nick Le May have no relatives, and the other party has no reason to teach him alchemy.
"Professor Dumbledore, what about our class?" Hermione suddenly thought of the schedule scheduled for tomorrow morning. Now that there is no time converter, she no longer has the ability to take several courses at the same time.
"Then you need to cancel several conflicting courses, and you personally apologize and explain to the professors of each subject!" Dumbledore's words paused, and then he said solemnly.
"So I hope you can remember this profound lesson..."
Seeing the two nodded solemnly and remembered these words, Dumbledore waved his hand. "Well... if nothing else, you can leave!"
"Thank you, professor!" Before leaving, Ivan said gratefully.
Ivan knew that if Dumbledore didn't find someone to help repair the time converter, they would be held accountable by the Ministry of Magic, and it wouldn't be possible to deduct points at that time...
After the two left the principal's office~www.mtlnovel.com~ peace was restored here again.
Dumbledore stared at the badly damaged time converter in his hand, lost in thought.
On the portrait behind , an old man with a long beard chattered.
"Albus, you are so kind to these students who made mistakes. They broke a precious time converter and planned to lie to conceal what they did.
If I were replaced by me as the principal, I would definitely hang them from the roof and whip them fiercely! Go into the little black room again until they are willing to tell the truth! "
"Mr. Black, I need to remind you that the bad habit of corporal punishment of students was abolished decades ago! I must act in accordance with school rules..." Dumbledore explained casually.
In the existing school regulations, it is not without punishment.
Just considering that there are too many lessons for Ivan and Hermione and there is little time, these small punishments can't do much, so Dumbledore didn't mention it.
As for Ivan deliberately concealing what he did in the past, Dumbledore is also somewhat helpless, unless necessary, he does not want to use the mind to learn everything.
Especially he has sensed that Ivan is prepared for this, and even learned to make some false memories to fool himself with his brain closed.
In this case, the forceful use of dementia will only have a counterproductive effect, making Ivan even more dissatisfied and wary of himself...
"Fox! Take me to Nick!" Dumbledore thought for a while, held the time converter, stood up and turned to look at Fox, and said.
The phoenix who was dozing on the olive branch opened his eyes, and the beautiful wings flew to Dumbledore's shoulder, and he let out a low cry like a song, and a hot flame ignited all over his body.
The flames spread to Dumbledore in a short while, and he almost turned into a fire man, but Dumbledore's face was still calm and calm without any pain, and his robe was intact.
The next moment, the flames swelled up, then collapsed suddenly and disappeared, and the figures of Dumbledore and Phoenix also disappeared in the principal's office...
When the flames obstructing the view disappeared, Dumbledore had come to a remote suburb, where there was nothing but dirt, gravel, bushes and shrubs.
Dumbledore looked around, determined the direction, and walked toward the open grass.
Vaguely he felt something obstructing his actions, and then took a few steps forward, the surrounding space suddenly changed, and a vast courtyard appeared in front of him.
In the center of the courtyard, there is a strange, as if alive house. Several eye-like windows looked over Dumbledore's body, shaking his huge body from time to time, and thick white smoke constantly emerging from the chimney made it look full of vitality.
After Dumbledore approached, there was an extra square channel right in front of him, with jagged spikes on both sides of the channel.
But the weird big courtyard opened its big mouth so that the old wizard with white beard could enter its body.
Dumbledore was not here for the first time. He walked in without fear, and vaguely felt a rush of heat. The flames beside him were burning in the stove, and the rising heat warmed the interior of the house. of...
The right side of the entire hall is full of bookshelves, densely placed with a large number of books, some parchment with symbols or patterns scattered on the ground in a mess.
A group of small, chirping alchemy creatures, who did not know when they got close to his feet, Dumbledore had to carefully confirm the location of his feet while walking, so as not to step on them...
"Albus? Why are you suddenly free to see me?"
At this time, an old voice sounded.
Dumbledore turned his head and looked over. It was Nick LeMay who came out of the back room.
Compared to the last time we met, Dumbledore keenly discovered that Nick's condition was much worse.
The wrinkled face was pale and almost invisible. The thin body made people worry about whether it would be blown down by the wind. Only a pair of bright and intelligent eyes were still dazzling.
"Long time no see, Nick!" Dumbledore said aloud.
"Yeah, it should be more than a year?" Nick waved away the alchemy creatures gathered around Dumbledore's feet, and said jokingly.
"I think there is nothing important, you may not think of coming to me, so let's talk about it inside!"
"You know, my work has always been busy, and I have to deal with some troublesome children...Of course, sometimes there are some troubles that need to be dealt with outside of work..."
Dumbledore's face was surprisingly thick, and there was no change in Nick's color under Nick's jokes, as he spoke casually, he walked towards the back room.
After entering the back room, Dumbledore was surprised to find that this place was very different from the last time he came. It looked more like a Muggle's living room.
TV sets, refrigerators, ovens and other home appliances are all available, but it seems that they have been magicalized. Dumbledore can easily feel that these are alchemy items.
"Unexpected?" Nick LeMay saw the startled look on Dumbledore's face and smiled.
"Yes!" Dumbledore nodded.
Nick LeMay said with emotion.
"These Muggle-made things are very interesting and always give me a lot of inspiration...
It seems that living a long time still has some advantages, especially since the world has suddenly become more interesting in the past 100 years, not as monotonous as before..."
Speaking of this, it is a pity for Nick LeMay. He can no longer see a more distant future...
"By the way, Albus, did you come to me this time because of that person's business?" Nick LeMay quickly recovered his emotions and asked about business.
"No! Voldemort is fairly safe lately, I don't know where he is hiding, and no news has come." Dumbledore shook his head, then placed a broken time converter on the table and said again.
"Can you fix it?"
Nick LeMay glanced around, noticed the fine cracks on the time converter, and said unexpectedly.
"It was so damaged... Thoroughly! How did you do it?"
"I just want to know..." Dumbledore raised his eyebrows.
"Well... let me take a closer look!" Nick LeMay picked up the time converter and looked at it carefully.
Although there is no tool to detect, but with experience, Nick LeMay can roughly confirm the state of this thing.
"The specific reason for the damage is that the frequency and intensity of use exceed the limit it can withstand..." Nick Lemay said, and used his wand against the time converter to cast an unknown spell.
The golden hourglass turned over, and the fine sand slowly flowed down ~www.mtlnovel.com~ It took nearly a third of the dust and sand before it stopped. After a long time, the hourglass turned upside down again and returned to its original shape.
"It seems that the user used it to go back three months ago and stayed there for a long time." Nick said with certainty. When he was about to continue the analysis, his face showed an unbelievable look because the golden hourglass was once again. Moved.
"How is this possible?!"
"What's wrong? Nick?" Dumbledore asked strangely.
"No wonder... no wonder the damage was so thorough." Nick LeMay said to himself before explaining it.
Because the power of time is too amazing, in order to avoid accidents when the holder of the time converter is in use, there is a protection mechanism on the time converter.
The safe time limit is five hours. Once this time limit is exceeded, the thing will become unstable, and it is easy to trigger the protection mechanism to send the user back to the original time and space.
Generally speaking, the longer the backtracking time, the more unstable the time converter will be, and it is difficult to stay for long...
However, the holder stayed for two months!
Nick LeMay did not know how the other party did this, the only thing that is certain is that the time converter should have been damaged after that.
But the holder used a certain method to make this time converter continue to perform high-intensity work, draining its last trace of magic...
"Albus, can you tell me who owns this time converter before?" Nick LeMay looked at Dumbledore with interest and asked.
Dumbledore was also surprised after listening to Nick's explanation.
When he saw the time converter, although he was surprised by the damage of this thing, he did not expect that Ivan would have the ability to affect the operation of the time converter.
But soon, Dumbledore recovered from his surprise and said to Nick.
"His name is Ivan Hals, a little wizard who just entered the third grade, I think you should have some reflections of this name!"
"Halse? Was it the one who protected the Philosopher's Stone last time?" Nick Lemay pondered for a while before thinking of who Dumbledore was talking about, and immediately had some good feelings for Ivan.
"Yes!" Dumbledore nodded.
"That's a coincidence. When I was reading the newspaper, I often saw him in the Daily Prophet..." Nick LeMay said with a smile.
Dumbledore noticed that there were many newspapers on the side table, the top ones were reports about Ivan, and then he remembered that Nick had always read every issue of the newspaper.
"I remember he should be a potion genius. Does he still know some alchemy?" Nick Lemay was a little confused. It is not easy to affect the operation of the time converter, and that requires extremely high alchemy.
"He is probably an extremely rare all-rounder... In the past two years, he has produced some very useful magic items. I heard that the Ministry of Magic has purchased a lot." Dumbledore praised.
"That's really an interesting little wizard..." Nick LeMay laughed. Even in his long career, he has never seen someone as good as Ivan at the age of twelve or thirteen. people.
This made Nick Le May interested in this little wizard who had never met before.
"Albus, since you are familiar with Hals, what do you think of his character?" Nick LeMay asked suddenly.
"What? Are you interested in taking another student?" Dumbledore laughed.
"Then you have to see if it fits or not, my wealth is always bad, and it will be cheaper for the Ministry of Magic..." Nick LeMay curled his lips.
has lived for more than six hundred years, and Nick LeMay has seen a lot of things. So he originally planned to donate all the books in his collection to Hogwarts after his death, and the rest will be handed over to the Ministry of Magic, leaving only this house and some memorable things for his funeral.
After all, he has no heirs at all, and none of the students he received in his early years can survive him. It can be said that he has nothing to worry about.
But the appearance of Ivan rekindled Nick Le May's interest in accepting disciples. He felt that this might be an arrangement of fate, otherwise it would not be such a coincidence.
"Halse? It's hard to tell..." Dumbledore groaned for a while, frowning, and did not give a clear response for a long time.
"Oh, don't even you can't figure it out? Feel embarrassed?" Nick Le May was very surprised. No matter how genius Ivan Hals was, he was nothing more than a twelve or thirteen-year-old wizard.
"He is a very complicated little wizard, and please forgive me for using these words to a child!" Dumbledore said, with a hint of memory on his face.
Dumbledore did not directly talk about his views to Nick LeMay, but as far as possible to explain to Nick LeMay from the perspective of an observer, what Ivan has done in recent years, and let Nick make his own judgment.
Among all the students he has taught, Ivan is undoubtedly the most special one. He has seen many beautiful qualities in Ivan, such as bravery, intelligence, loyalty to friends, and ability to resist temptation (return the old magic wand) and so on...
But at the same time, I also know that Ivan is eager to improve his strength, even risking his life for it, he is very good at lying and concealing, and he does not care about the Ministry of Magic and Hogwarts rules...
After speaking, Dumbledore looked at Nick LeMay quietly, looking forward to his evaluation.
"Wonderful...really wonderful!" Nick Lemey clapped his hands and couldn't help asking.
"Albus, are you sure you are talking about what happened, not a fairy tale from somewhere?"
Nick LeMay can hardly imagine that the little wizard named Ivan Hals had such a magical experience! Fighting monsters, riding dragons and flying, confronting mysterious people twice and defeating them, seeing through and driving away two professors of Defense Against the Dark Arts, this experience is legendary!
"It seems my luck is good!" Nick LeMay said with emotion.
Dumbledore laughed bitterly. He felt that Nick LeMay was too optimistic. In his opinion, Ivan was a little wizard who could easily go astray without guidance.
It is precisely because Ivan is so good that he needs to be vigilant and pay attention to guide him in the right direction...
"Can you imagine? Nick? After defeating the legendary Dark Lord, the first reaction of an eleven-year-old kid was to hide himself as much as possible, trying to push this glory off his friends, and his mind Make up reasons to fool me."
Thinking of the conversation he had with Ivan at the end of the first grade, Dumbledore felt a bit of a headache. He couldn't figure out what the other party was thinking about. You should know that he never felt like this when facing Tom when he was a child~www .mtlnovel.com~ You just feel that Hals' growth is beyond your control... so I feel uneasy! "Nick LeMay said indifferently, didn't care about Dumbledore's previous words, and then continued.
"Then I ask you...Does Hals hate Muggles? Want to kill them all?"
"No! He doesn't have any bad feelings about Muggles... and he has a close relationship with a child born in a Muggle family." Dumbledore shook his head.
"Or is he arrogant, vicious, arrogant, obsessed with the study of black magic?" Nick asked every word.
"Not really!" Dumbledore shook his head again.
"Then what are you still worried about?" Nick LeMay asked puzzledly. "You can't impose your standards on him, Albus! Not everyone is a saint, a capable little wizard. Isn't it normal to have your own thoughts?
What if he wants to do something? There is nothing wrong with changing someone to be the Minister of Magic! It's better than some incompetent fools coming to power..."
Nick LeMay doesn't care about the small shortcomings of Ivan that Dumbledore said. Compared with Ivan's outstanding ability, these can be ignored.
And in his impression of those with great talents and amazing talents, no one is safe and guarded, and it is normal to want to do things.
The progress of the world is also driven by these people...
"Or, you saw your own shadow on him, so you keep on it?" Nick LeMay suddenly realized something and looked at Dumbledore and asked.