"Huh? The door is unlocked? ”

Maca, who had come close to Harry and Ron, was standing in front of the pig's head bar in Hogsmeade Village. With a slight push, the dilapidated wooden door opened on its own.

Aberforth is certainly not here today.

While Maca waits at Hogwarts for Voldemort and even Greenwald, Aberforth and the members of the Order of the Phoenix, led by Kingsley, also have their own missions.

What they have to do is actually very simple, but the burden on their shoulders is also quite heavy. Because today, if Voldemort chooses to attack the scene of Dumbledore's funeral, then the actions of his men will inevitably be revealed.

It can be said that this is the perfect time to investigate, and even destroy, Voldemort's secret stronghold.

So Maca knows that the pig's head bar at the moment must be closed. But apparently, the door was open.

Although Aberforth seems to be five big and three coarse, his mind is extremely delicate, and he will definitely not make such a small mistake. In that case, perhaps Harry and Ron had escaped the catastrophe - and Maca had hoped so.

He thought for a moment, but without pause, he raised his leg and walked into the bar.

The opaque windows darkened the room, but Maca didn't hesitate. He walked quickly around the bar, pushed open the door, and walked into Aberforth's bedroom.

He hadn't been here, but that didn't stop him from knowing what was going on inside.

However, as soon as she stepped into the same dark bedroom, Maca felt that she had kicked something. Although it is true to say that it is hard, there is still a subtle elasticity.

With a wave of his hand, a soft light suddenly illuminated the bedroom. As his vision cleared, he finally realized what he was kicking.

"Isn't this the goat of Aberforth?" Maca shook her head slightly, but ignored it.

Of course, he could see that the goat had been spelled by the Bondage Charm, and was lying on the floor in a miserable state, completely unable to move. But he doesn't have the time to care about a goat right now!

The portrait hung on the bedroom wall, and the girl Harry and Ron had seen didn't seem to be on the canvas at the moment.

Maca stepped forward and tapped her fingers lightly on the edge of the frame, trying to see if she could call out the person in the painting.

To be honest, he didn't have much hope for it. The person in the magic portrait can come and go between the portraits that belong to him at will, but if he does go to another canvas, he will not be able to hear the other person knocking on it.

But as it turned out, he didn't knock in vain this time. There are very few portraits of this girl, but right now, she is actually walking leisurely in the woods in the painting!

Seeing a slender figure appear in the forest in the background of the oil painting, pacing unhurriedly towards this side, Maca breathed a sigh of relief.

It would have been nice to have the news about Harry and Ron straight from her.

"Ariana," Marca said with a nod to the girl in the painting, "Did Harry and Ron leave here?" Belch...... You know who I'm talking about. ”

This young girl is none other than Ariana Dumbledore's own sister, Ariana Dumbledore.

When the Dumbledore brothers and Greenwald were young, there was a chaotic three-way duel, and Ariana was killed on the spot by mistake, a spell from someone unknown.

Since then, Aberforth, who loved his sister immensely, has been blaming his brother. Because the scuffle that seemed meaningless to him was caused by his brother's disagreement with Greenwald.

This sad past was not only the last thing in Aberforth's heart, but also the biggest knot in his brother Albus Dumbledore's heart.

In the past, when Maca tried to enter the different rooms of the Room of Requirement, she found the one with the portrait of Arianna on it.

So he knew very well that this sister of Dumbledore had never been a talkative. If you want to ask her any questions, you must try to make sure that she can "nod" or "shake her head" to answer, otherwise she will turn away without comment.

This time, Ariana seemed to be in a good mood, at least she was willing to come out of the back woods and listen to what he had to say.

When Maca asked about Harry and Ron, Ariana nodded nonchalantly, then reached out to the bedroom door.

"Thank you."

Being able to know that Harry and Ron were okay undoubtedly reassured Maca, who was full of annoyance and anxiety at the moment.

"Now that the two of them have left here, they should be back in the Burrow, right?"

In his opinion, Harry and Ron would no longer be stupid enough to run to Hogwarts. But who knows, the truth is sometimes so unexpected that it often catches people off guard after the fact.

Maca casually sat down on the chair next to her, ignoring the dirt on it, and just let out a long sigh again.

He is not the kind of hero who can witness a large number of people die without changing his face, let alone the kind of king who can put the victims on the honor list to commemorate. He couldn't maintain his little "little selfishness" after such a disaster.

To put it bluntly, he is still thinking about how to undo that terrible disaster and try to save those who should not have died.

As for the solution...... Naturally, it's not for nothing. In fact, the way to recover the defeat was already in place during the last year's Final Three.

Maca pondered for a moment, pulling out a heavy magical notebook from her waist pocket. After gently stroking the words "Book of Sin" on the cover, he opened the book that he hadn't read for a long time, and turned it straight to the last page.

In this original "Book of Sin", the one he had read the most times was undoubtedly the "Rule Rune Guide Table", and the second was the three-dimensional rune array diagram on the last page.

This rune array drawn by the magic silk thread was extremely complex, and although he had read it so many times and persistently studied it so far, the progress in it was not satisfactory.

However, he could more or less guess that this was most likely a rune array used to cross time and space. It was it that brought the future self back to the past and stood in front of him.

Not to mention that this rune array diagram is very likely to have major flaws, even if there are no flaws, he can't actually use it now.

"Do you want me to spend most of my life researching and then getting a new Book of Sin to send back to the past?" Maca barely squeezed out a helpless smile, "...... It's all for nothing! ”

With a muffled "pop", the heavy notebook was closed again.

However, after closing the note, Maca's movements suddenly stopped. As if he had thought of something, his brows furrowed slightly, and he stared at the book in his hand in a daze.

It wasn't that he had discovered anything new in this "Book of Sin", but that a flash of light had suddenly flashed through his mind.

This happens occasionally when a person is desperately thinking or remembering something.

It was as if a vague feeling passed through me, as if I could almost figure it out, but I couldn't capture its actual content.

"Time Turner!"

In a flash of inspiration, Maca finally grasped the thought that had slipped almost through her fingers.

"That's really...... This is really ......" He clenched his fist with some excitement as he remembered the thing he had almost forgotten somewhere in his mind, "How did I forget it?" ”

For a moment, Marka's entire mind was filled with the word "time turner", and he jerked to his feet and paced back and forth in the old bedroom in Aberforth, easing his agitation.

He knew that now was not the time to be happy, or rather, the next was the most critical moment. He had to calm down again and plan his next move as carefully as possible so that he would fall short again.

After a few deep breaths, he suppressed his joy and sat back down in the dirty back chair.

He still vaguely remembered that in this world without him, Maca McLean, Harry and the others had relied on this "time turner" to save Sirius Black from death. But then, due to an accident, the time turner seems to have been destroyed......

"What was it that was destroyed? Now...... "Maca searched through the distant memories that were almost gone, trying to find the slightest clue," yes, Hermione had applied for those classes that were conflicting in time...... Apply for ......

He muttered to himself as he desperately recalled, "...... Ministry of Magic! That's right, the time turner is stored in the Time Hall of the Department of Mysteries! ”

In a world without maca, the cabinet containing the time-turner was struck by a stun spell during the Battle of the Mystic Division, causing the time-turners to fall into a kind of loop, which could no longer be used. Although Maca didn't remember in such detail, he at least remembered some of the reasons.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel relieved.

Although he encountered Voldemort's ambush in the Prophecy Hall of the Department of Mysteries, he also had a big fight in the Hall of Death. But at the time, he and a group of Black Dead were just passing by the Time Chamber, and those time turners should be fine.

"Without further ado!"

After a moment's consideration, he decided to take a trip to the Ministry of Magic right away. After all, those time turners were his only hope for now.