69novels Chapter 174 Past Survivors
Chapter 174 Past Survivors
Another fruitless day.
Emma Grossman is like a perfectly normal student on campus. She has good friends, plays both sides, walks on the front line of the fight against Gryffindor, and plays noisy games with Gryffindor every day. , the friends who followed her didn’t care about the differences in backgrounds, and regarded her as the boss.In terms of study, Emma is like Hermione who is one grade behind, always No. 1.
This made Hermione question even more - was everything Emma did forced by DeWitt?
The further she investigates, the more complicated Hermione's mood becomes. The more perfect she sees Hogwarts now, the less confident she becomes - is it really worth it?
Without DeWitt, it was Harry who foiled Professor Quirrell's conspiracy in the first grade. In the second grade, it was Emma who cracked the location of the Chamber of Secrets, and Harry defeated the resurrected Voldemort.
Without DeWitt, the world is still developing in a good way. Horrible crises will have new people to turn the tide, and crises that DeWitt cannot save have no sign of happening at all.If there is no a2, if a2 is not around, even if a2 is there, Hermione will feel like a lonely ghost more and more often, fighting for someone who does not exist.
"Why did DeWitt give you such a name?" Hermione asked a2. She was actually reminding herself in another way that DeWitt was real.
"I am an upgraded version of a1," a2 said solemnly, "so I am called a2."
Hermione laughed dryly. She felt that she must have been crazy to ask a dummy, so she gave up the idea of continuing to ask and worriedly returned to the Forbidden Forest before the effect of the invisibility potion wore off.
Now she had a temporary solution that was not a solution, which was to keep an eye on Emma Grossman until the day of disaster.
The rest should be waiting, but when Hermione stopped, it didn't mean everyone stopped. When she returned to her "base" at night, Dumbledore was already standing there.
It was almost ten o'clock in the evening, but Dumbledore still looked very energetic. Seeing this respectable old man again, Hermione felt very complicated. She thought of Dumbledore who disappeared with Emma but never appeared again. Bullido suddenly felt his nose was a little sore.
"Miss Granger," Dumbledore said with a smile, "If nothing else happens, you should be resting in the dormitory now instead of living in the Forbidden Forest for so many days."
Hermione opened her mouth, not knowing where to start.
Dumbledore said calmly: "I'm also pretty sure that every student in Hogwarts is in their own bed. It seems that you used a certain prop illegally, but I think there must be some reason why you had to do it." , why don't you come and sit in my office, we'll walk there, and you can think about it carefully, and your...companion?"
Thinking about what to say, Hermione considered, thinking about whether to say it or not.
But as soon as she remembered what DeWitt once said - he said that there was almost nothing in Hogwarts that Dumbledore didn't know, Hermione made up her mind, and Dumbledore was not a bad person, and there was nothing he couldn't say.
So Hermione sat in the principal's office and recounted everything that happened that day.
Dumbledore nodded occasionally without changing his expression. When Hermione finished speaking and took a sip of tea to rest, he said: "In my memory, there is no student named DeWitt."
Hermione stayed for a moment, then said disappointedly: "Everyone is like this..."
Dumbledore comforted Hermione: "There are some magics that even I can't detect. You should believe in yourself and then tell me what you know about the past."
When Hermione finished speaking, Dumbledore was silent. He thought deeply and finally said: "Time is a very mysterious thing. Judging from the cases from ancient times to the present, all those who want to try to play with time end up losing more." Thing, I have to criticize you, Miss Granger, if it happened, that means it is how it should be, and the Time-Turner cannot change what has already happened."
"I know, Professor," Hermione said haggardly, "But I just don't want to give up. So many people...are dead..."
Dumbledore couldn't bear to say any more harsh words. Just like Hermione wanted to save people, he didn't want to see Hermione completely lost, but nothing was rushed. So he said: "Go to sleep first, you are too tired." , I will investigate while you are resting. If a person existed, he will definitely leave traces, but if there is really no trace..."
Dumbledore didn't say any more. He wanted to wait until Hermione had rested before communicating again.
Tonight, Hermione finally had a bed to sleep in. a2 stayed by the bed and watched her all night long.
When she woke up the next day, Hermione didn't run around. At noon, Dumbledore personally came to take her to the principal's office.
Compared with last night, there were many more books and paper documents and reports in the office. Dumbledore was sitting behind the desk, and the paper almost blocked his entire body.
"Sit down." He said: "There are a lot of reports recorded in the Ministry of Magic alone. I spent some time reading them. I am getting old and my energy is not as strong as before. If you are interested and think you have enough time, you can Read it again, maybe I’ll miss something.”
"Look," said Dumbledore: "The world of children is different from the world of adults, and you may be able to find the key to it."
The report contained a variety of experiments, and claimed in the article that most of them were conducted by dark wizards using Muggles. These dark wizards were also punished by the Ministry of Magic afterwards, and everything was reasonable and legal.
"It is impossible to determine when the power of time began to be used by wizards," Dumbledore said. "The origin is not recorded. All that can be found is one case after another, and the rules summarized by the cases. I suggest ——You start reading from this one.”
The first report documented the case of a Muggle named Thessa Capudle who used a time-turner multiple times to travel back in time in order to buy stocks.I don’t know whether I got rich in the end, but I jumped to my death anyway. According to the members of the team that investigated the reversal of accidental magical events in the past, they saved one, but soon another Tessa Kapdel jumped off the building. , after the one who jumped from the building died, Tessa Kapdel who was rescued died without warning at the same moment.The body that jumped from the building was collected by his family, and the body that died suddenly was taken away by the Ministry of Magic for study. The conclusion was that there were no traces, as if it was under a death curse.
The same event happened more than once, and the ones placed together with this report all belong to the same category, going back to the past and then back to the past.
Hermione looked at the second copy.
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I still have some manuscripts saved, and I have set up a scheduled upload. I should be able to update them every day for a few days. I will start working tomorrow.