Chapter 8: The Time Turner and Sirius Black
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"Seriously, Hermione, I think you're going to need to adjust your class schedule. Silver poured Hermione a cup of coffee.
Hermione's head was shaggy and her eyes were bloodshot to show that she was very tired. Hermione said irritably, "Jack, I don't think there's anything wrong with my class schedule. It's just that my learning attitude has been a little slack lately. I overslept and forgot to go to Professor Flitwick's Charms class, oh that's awful!" Hermione clutched her head in frustration, "Professor Flitwick didn't say anything, but I felt like he was angry. β
"Alright, Hermione. Silver patted Hermione on the back to calm her down. "Professor Flitwick won't be mad at you. Professor Flitwick is a very easy-going person, and if you do so well in your schoolwork, Professor Flitwick will forgive you for your inadvertent mistakes. β
Silver sat down across from Hermione. "I'm going to talk to you about your class schedule. Don't interrupt me, I know this. I know you've taken all of your courses, so your classes are definitely conflicting. But I know you barely played a single lesson, which means you must have used the Ministry of Magic's time turner. β
"How do you knowβ"
"Maybe the Ministry of Magic will keep it a secret from ordinary wizards, but the time turner is not a secret to an ancient magical family like ours. Hermione, the time turner isn't perfect, I'll advise you to stop using this thing. β
"But my lessonβ"
"Nothing. The time converter is just an imperfect gadget. It doesn't really take you back to the past, the time and space that he lets you go back to, what you experience, what you do is what has already been born. β
"I, I don't understand what you're saying. Hermione looked dazed.
"The time turner is just a device that allows you to move around the timeline finitely - you missed a spell class because you overslept. You must have tried to go back in time with a time turner, but it didn't work. β
Hermione nodded.
"That's because you didn't do it in the past, and the time turner doesn't change the past. All you can experience is the fact that you have been born. β
"I seem to get some of it. Hermione said, "But I don't understand why you're insisting that I stop using the time converter." β
"As I said, a time converter is just an imperfect device. Wizards can move around the timeline in a limited amount through the GuΓ² Time Turner, they can even see their past selves, and they can move around other places without restriction. But this kind of travel on the timeline is very draining. Now you have to use the time turner at least twice a day, so if you go on your physical and mental fatigue will increase several times more out of thin air, and you will collapse in the long run. You look at yourself now. Silver took out a mirror and gave it to Hermione.
"Oh my God, how did I get like this!" Hermione nodded her head in panic, rubbing her bloodshot eyes. "Oh, my dark circles are too deep!
Looking at Hermione in a panic, Silver was very amused: "Look, that's a side effect of using a time converter. So I suggest that you discuss your timetable and time-turner with Professor McGonagall. Professor McGonagall is stern, but he is a very considerate professor for his students. Go talk to Professor McGonagall. β
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Hermione's spirits had improved since she had spoken to Professor McGonagall about her class schedule, and Hermione had given up divination and Muggle studies. This made Hermione a lot easier, and Hermione went to the common room in Ravenclaw with Parvati as before. On a trip to Hogsmeade, Hermione was in a good mood and bought a lot of candy at Duke Bees' candy store.
"Yes, having some candy can make you feel good. Silver said.
One evening, Professor Flitwick suddenly told all the Ravenclaw students to assemble in the auditorium. So everyone was confused, it was already bedtime, what were they going to do in the auditorium? When they got to the auditorium, the other three academies were also in the auditorium. The Gryffindor students were saying something to the students of the other houses.
"You know what, why did Professor Dumbledore let us come to the Great Hall?"
"Nonsense, of course I don't know, otherwise why ask you, say it quickly. β
"When we were in the common room today, the portrait of the fat woman who was now in charge of the entrance to the common room was maliciously damaged. The fat woman did not know where she had gone. Peeves' fifth-floor picture of the fat woman was painted by Madame Pon, who said Sirius Black had done it. β
"What, Sirius Black, isn't he supposed to be running away from Azkaban?
At this point, Dumbledore spoke, "The faculty and I will conduct a thorough search of the castle," Professor Dumbledore said to the students, as Professor McGonagall and Flitwick closed all the doors to the Great Hall, "For your own safety, I think you may have to spend the night here." I asked the prefects to stand guard at the entrance to the auditorium, and the boys and girls student council presidents remained in the auditorium to take charge of the administration. Report anything to me immediately," he added to Percy, who looked like an important person with a look of pride on his face, "Find a ghost to bring me a message." β
Professor Dumbledore paused and was about to leave the Great Hall before he added, "Oh, yes, you'll need it. With a casual wave of his wand, the long tables flew to the edge of the Great Hall and stood against the wall, and with another wave of it, the floor was covered with hundreds of purple sleeping bags. "Sleep well. Professor Dumbledore said that he had slammed the door shut as he went out. The auditorium immediately resounded with an excited buzz.
"Quiet, let's all sleep. "The prefects of the various faculties and the presidents of the male and female student councils are trying to maintain order.
"Did you say Blake was still in the castle?" Hermione asked anxiously in a whisper. The sleeping bag at Ravenclaw House was next to Gryffindor, so Silver was able to lean together.
"If Blake had had some sense, he would have fled Hogwarts immediately. Silver said.
"How did he get in?"
"Maybe he knows how to sneak," said a Ravenclaw student a few feet away, "from thin air." You know. β
"Probably put it in. A fifth-grader at Hufflepuff House said. "Or else it flew in. β
"Honestly, am I the only one who hasn't been afraid to read Hogwarts, a school history? Not only is the castle protected by walls, but it's also enchanted to prevent outsiders from sneaking in. You can't get in. And I'd like to see what kind of costume can fool the Dementors. These guys guard every entrance. If he flies in, they'll see it too. And Filch knows all the secret passages, and they will seal them all up. Hermione said to Parvati angrily.
"Hermione, few people are going to finish that thick book like you. Padma snickered.
"Lights out now!" Percy yelled, "I want everyone to get into their sleeping bags and stop talking!"
All the candles went out at once. The only light now came from the silver ghosts, who roamed around, talking to the prefects. The enchanted ceiling is like the sky outside, full of stars.
Every hour, a teacher shows up in the auditorium to see if IchiΔ is okay. At about three o'clock in the morning, many of the students finally fell asleep, and at this point, Professor Dumbledore entered. Silver pricked up his ears and listened.
"Any signs of him, Professor?" Percy asked quietly.
"Nope. How's it going to be here?"
"A qiΔ is under the control, sir. β
"Good. Now you don't have to let them change places. I've found a temporary guard for the Portrait Cave in Gryffindor. Tomorrow you can call everyone back. β
"What about the fat lady, sir?"
"Hiding in the map of Angel County on the third floor. Apparently she wouldn't let Blake in without asking for an order, so he did it. She's still very bad, but once she's calmed down, I'll ask Filch to fix her. β
"Headmaster?" This is Snape. "The entire fourth floor has been checked, and he is not there. Filch checked the main castle building, and there was no one there. β
"Where's the Astronomy Tower, Professor Trelawney's room, where owls roost?"
"I've checked it all. β
"Very well, Severus, I didn't really think Blake was going to stay. β
"How did he get in, do you have any insight on that, Headmaster?" Snape asked.
"Many, Severus, each one is as impossible as the one below. β
"Do you remember our conversation, Headmaster, just before the start of the semester?" Snape said, barely opening his lips as he spoke, as if he didn't want Percy to be part of their conversation. "Remember, Severus. Dumbledore said, his voice with something like a warning.
"It's likeβalmost impossibleβthat Blake wouldn't have been able to get into this school without his help, and I did express my concern that you appointedβ"
"I don't believe there's a single person in this castle who would help Blake in. Dumbledore said, his tone making it clear that the matter was over, so Snape did not reply. "I have to go to the Dementors," Dumbledore said, "I said we'd let them know when we searched them." β
"Are they going to help, sir?" Snape said.
"Oh, yes," said Dumbledore coldly, "but I'm afraid that as long as I'm the headmaster, they won't be allowed to cross the threshold of the school." β
Snape seemed slightly embarrassed. Dumbledore left the Great Hall, walking quickly and lightly. Snape stood for a moment, watching the Headmaster leave, with a deep anger on his face. And then he was gone, too.