The room fell into silence for a moment.
After a while, Edward managed a smile. "How about this for now? Losing my memory for a few days won't have much of an impact on me. I'll go to Audrey's world... maybe I can seek help from some powerful people."
"No."
Dumbledore shook his head solemnly. "The most important thing now is to figure out how you lost your memory. Aren't you worried that this will happen again?"
Edward's fingers tightened. "I... asked Mr. Grindelwald last time. When he mentioned the negative effects of abusing dark magic, he mentioned that it might cause memory loss. Perhaps I have used too much dark magic recently?"
"Memory loss and total memory loss are two different things."
Dumbledore crossed his arms and thought for half a minute. He hesitantly opened the drawer and took out a small, shiny golden timer:
"This was found by Scrimgeour in Cornelius' office when the Ministry of Magic took him into custody the other day."
Edward's eyes lit up: Time Converter!
He had not forgotten how useful that person was in dealing with Ince Zangwill.
So the last time he went to the Ministry of Magic and pretended to be Voldemort to scare Fudge, he originally wanted to get some by the way, but Umbridge had moved all the time converters away in advance, and then had them snatched away by a group of dark wizards.
Edward thought he would never see this thing again.
"Perhaps you can use it to go back five days and see for yourself what happened." Dumbledore continued, "But I still want to remind you once that those who play with time will eventually be played with by time."
He added seriously, "The moment you use the Time Turner, you become part of the past. You don't change the past, you complement it."
"I see!"
Edward took the golden timer and looked at it carefully.
Lilith's eyes widened. "Edward, you used this last time... and then disappeared in front of Miss Lilith in a flash! I was waiting there for several days. "Seconds~zhang~section? Xiao\tax.net+ ^has` published_drunk_new~chapter? Jie?"
There was some worry on her face, "You won't do this again this time, will you?"
"No Lilith."
Edward patted her head.
"Edward, can I go back with you this time?"
Dumbledore said hurriedly, "Audrey, I know you are worried about Edward, but in this kind of situation the fewer people involved, the safer it is."
"All right."
She nodded and did not insist. "Edward, do you need me to tell you what happened on the 20th? This will also make it easier for us to act after we return."
"No, the less I know about the past, the fewer restrictions I will have when I return. Because anything I haven't heard of can be considered as not happening."
He looked at Dumbledore and said, "Professor, is there anything you would like to tell me specifically?"
Dumbledore thought for a moment and said, "Listen to your spiritual reminder."
"...I see."
Audrey pursed her lips and said seriously:
"Then I'll wait for you to come back!"
"Um!"
Edward took a deep breath, took the timer and gently moved the hour hand - this time the timer did not get stuck at two hours like in the mysterious world.
He turned the dial and set the time to the afternoon of the 19th, then looked at Audrey and Dumbledore:
"See you in a minute, then."
Tick.
He loosened his fingers.
The next second, I felt myself flying backwards rapidly again, various blurry cloud shapes passed by my eyes, and something was knocking in my ears.
His body seemed to be stretched infinitely, and then drawn backwards into an endless black hole.
Until a certain moment, everything around him that was rapidly reversing gradually slowed down, until a crisp "ding-dong" sound was heard, and the flow of time around him completely returned to normal.
Edward immediately looked at the timer in his hand - there was no damage.
He was still in the headmaster's office, but it was already the afternoon of the 19th - a day that Dumbledore had not returned for the entire day.
"Let's change our appearance first."
There are many students in Hufflepuff who you have been with for several years, but you only have a basic impression of them and can't even call their names.
Edward transformed himself into one of them, put on an invisibility cloak, and came to the Hufflepuff common room.
By now, I should have just received a message from Lucius. I Apparated to share the news, then returned to the dormitory, went to the common room to eat dinner, played with Lilith for a while, and waited until around 9 o'clock in the evening, did another divination, and then went to bed.
Edward used [Open Door] to enter the room next to his dormitory. The children living there had all gone back to celebrate Christmas.
More than ten minutes later, he heard a faint sound coming from his room. He used the gold coins to divine and confirmed that it was his past self who had returned.
Edward stayed in the room and waited patiently: If I traveled through time and came to 5 days later, then the me who passed away tonight would disappear...
But Audrey said that she was with me for the next few days, so it was ruled out that someone was pretending to be me... So, could it be that I replaced him after my past self disappeared?
So, I replaced myself?
So, if I had some intimate interactions with Audrey at this time, would it be considered as cheating on myself?
Just as he thought of this, Edward knocked himself on the head: It's already this time, and I'm still thinking about these messed up things!
There is another possibility. There is no time travel, but simple amnesia. I have to stay by my past self's side for the rest of my life until I'm sure he... How did I lose my memory?
This feels much more troublesome than the last time we dealt with Ince Zangwill.
Chapter 248 December 20, Attack
The Slytherin common room.
It's much quieter here than in Hufflepuff. Most of the young wizards here are from pure-blood families and they basically go back to reunite with their families during holidays.
At first glance, the most common people were the unfortunate children from Durmstrang. A group of them gathered together to watch Emily Larson "torture" her owl with transfiguration: sometimes turning it into a mouse, sometimes into a rabbit, and sometimes turning it back into an owl.
A girl who had a toad like Neville immediately threw her pet on the table: "Emily, please turn my toad into a cat. I have wanted to have a cat as a pet for a long time, but my parents don't agree!"
"But Transfiguration only lasts for a limited time. You are only deceiving yourself."
"It's just a lie for a while." The girl held her chin and muttered, "Oh, if I had known earlier, I would have studied Transfiguration well."
"yes."
Emily smiled and said, "Then go find Edward and ask him to give you some special treatment."
"Even you were rejected by him repeatedly, how could we have the ability to do this?"
"Well, then you can take your toad to him and ask him to help you turn into a cat. With his ability, this kind of transformation will last at least ten days or half a month."
Then she looked at the others and said, "If anyone of you doesn't like your pet, you can go find him. I believe he will not refuse this small request."
The girl nodded. "Well, we can try, but unfortunately we can only do it after the ban is lifted. Why do you think Hogwarts suddenly announced that everyone is prohibited from leaving the common room?"
The others shook their heads.
Emily stroked her owl gently. "It must be related to the Dark Mark that day..."
Then they started chatting about some meaningless gossip about the Dark Mark, Karkaroff and the mysterious man.
At this time, Audrey came out with Susie, holding a book.
Susie wagged her tail and followed, "Audrey, is that the Christmas present you're holding for Edward?"
"That's right."
She smiled and said, "Don't tell Edward in advance~"
"Got it, this is called a surprise!"
"You can't tell Lilith either."
"Okay~"
After Audrey entered the common room, she nodded and greeted the students of Durmstrang, and then continued to work on her own things.
"Hey, I don't know if Edward will like it. Should I change to something else when the time comes?"
...
9pm.
Edward put on his invisibility cloak and activated his [Hide] ability, using the door to penetrate the wall and arrive at his room silently.
My past self was now lying on the bed with his clothes on, teaching Lilith Chinese characters.
"Lilith is amazing! She has already reached the cultural level of a third-grade primary school student in such a short time!"
She raised her neck triumphantly, "That's right! Miss Lilith is the smartest!"
But she quickly tilted her head and asked, "Is third grade in elementary school boring?"
"Of course! I'm only in the third grade now, and Audrey is only in the first grade."
Lilith suddenly realized: "Oh, so Miss Lilith is as annoying as Edward now!"
"Great!"
"Miss Lily is awesome!"
She rolled over happily and looked at Edward eagerly.
(Past) Edward shook his head and conjured up a small red flower for her to wear, which made Lilith even happier.
"Lilith, please don't be proud~"
She immediately sat up straight, "I know~"
Edward stood a few meters away, leaning against the wall. For the first time, he saw himself doting on Lilith from a bystander's perspective, and a smile appeared on his face.
I really am raising Lilith as my daughter~
Edward taught Lilith for another ten minutes, closed the book and patted her head: "Okay, time to go to bed~ We have something important to do tomorrow!"
"Okay~"