The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 452: Castle Reunion (Please subscribe, please bookmark, please vote)
Ryan and Hermione, who hurried back to Hogwarts from London on the Knight Bus, met Harry as the first person when they entered Hogwarts Castle.

"What's wrong with him?" Ryan felt a little uneasy when he saw Harry staring at his face after stuttering a few words, especially when Harry looked at him and felt like tears were about to fall. Thinking about some habits of the British, and then thinking about some fan fiction in his previous life. He felt that this strange situation made him feel a little cold behind his back, and he didn't know what to do. In the end, he could only stare at Harry.

"Harry, Ryan, wake up!" Hermione saw the two men looking at each other and quickly reached out her hand between them and snapped her fingers. Ryan and Harry woke up at the same time.

"It's great that you're still alive." Harry rushed over and hugged them. "I thought, I thought - I didn't expect you to really come back. This is really great."

"It's okay, it's okay." Ryan said, still patting Harry's shoulder. "Aren't we back safely?" It took a long time for Harry to calm down.

Seven or eight minutes later, they appeared in the headmaster's office. Dumbledore stood up directly on the table after seeing Ryan and Hermione following Harry in. Ryan could see the surprise in Dumbledore's sky-blue eyes under his glasses.

"You really exceeded my expectations." When they sat down, Dumbledore waved his wand, and a cup of tea and a plate of snacks appeared in front of each of them. "Would you mind telling me what you encountered these days?"

"Of course I don't mind." Ryan picked up the hot tea and took a sip. After spending nearly a year in a world with nothing but the breath of death, drinking a cup of hot tea at this time really refreshed him.

After putting down the teacup, Ryan began to tell about his and Hermione's experience behind the stone archway. Except for hiding the use of life magic and the source of some knowledge, he carefully told his experience.

"This is a miracle." After more than an hour, Ryan told Dumbledore his entire experience behind the door. Dumbledore exclaimed in amazement. When he was young, due to the accidental death of his sister, Dumbledore studied a lot of knowledge related to death, including the world of death behind the archway of the Ministry of Magic. "I think you are one of the few wizards who can come out of that place."

"Yes, before us, the three Peverell brothers entered that world and escaped unscathed. It's a pity that their time was so far away from now that such a great adventure only has a little bit left in fairy tales today." Ryan also lamented the great power of time, which can erase all traces of everything that has ever happened.

"Harry, I think you should tell your companions about Ryan's return. They must be very worried about Ryan and Hermione." Dumbledore said to Harry, "But I think you'd better keep it a secret about where they came back from. Once you tell others about coming back from that door, it will probably cause unnecessary trouble to your friends. You only need to tell the Weasleys that Ryan and his friends disappeared from the Department of Mysteries that night and unexpectedly appeared on the streets of London today."

"Principal Dumbledore, I understand." Harry said and left the principal's office through the spiral staircase. He knew that the principal should have something special to say to Ryan and the others at this time, so it would be better for him to avoid it.

"Ryan, do you have any way to deal with the soul of Voldemort on Harry's forehead?" After watching Harry leave, Dumbledore asked Ryan seriously.

"The problem now is to make sure Harry is okay." Ryan also frowned. "Hermione and I both gained something from this accident, especially Hermione, whose gains were mainly focused on the soul and life and death. The problem now is that the soul fragment of the You-Know-Who is not a completely dead soul. Even if Hermione and I work together, the chance of not harming Harry is only 50% at most."

"You can obviously get out of that place." Principal Dumbledore said with some doubt. "Can't you solve a small soul if you can reverse life and death?" "Harry's situation is very special." Ryan saw Dumbledore asking such a question, and he knew that even though the principal had studied this aspect when he was young, he still had a certain deviation in his understanding of certain things without actual operation, so he explained it seriously.

"Horcruxes are originally souls that are split and placed on certain objects. Harry is the first living Horcrux in history. This means that Harry, as the container of the Horcrux, still has his own soul. Therefore, the two souls must have some interweaving and fusion. I think Harry's Parseltongue is acquired because of this situation."

Seeing Dumbledore nod in agreement, Ryan continued, "But this entanglement has also led to a problem, that is, the degree of fusion of the two souls in Harry's body is getting higher and higher. Especially when Harry was very young, he came into contact with Voldemort's soul fragment, which basically made that soul grow up with Harry. From a higher level perspective, this soul is like the prophecy ball in the Department of Mysteries that day. It is a problem between Harry and the mysterious man. Only they can easily solve this problem, and it is much more difficult and costly for others to intervene."

"Is that so?" Dumbledore leaned back on the chair, looking somewhat powerless.

"But it's not completely hopeless." Ryan looked at Dumbledore, who suddenly looked much older, and said, "I think if I can improve my strength a little bit, maybe I can solve that problem. The main problem now is that my strength is not enough to maintain such a complex and energy-consuming operation. Even if Hermione is by my side to share some of the pressure, I can't guarantee that I will be in the best condition throughout the whole process. In this case, Harry's survival is naturally impossible."

"Ah, that's good." Dumbledore sat up straight and stared at Ryan. "We still have enough time to accomplish this. You must not be too hasty in this matter. It is very easy to go astray if you are too impatient in the pursuit of power. You just need to achieve normal development."

"Yes, I know." Ryan nodded seriously, and Dumbledore stood up to signal that the conversation was over. But just as he and Hermione stood up, they were suddenly stopped by Dumbledore.

"Well, because you fell into the archway before, I notified your parents--" Dumbledore said with a bit of embarrassment. "I think they are preparing to return to England now."

"You didn't inform our parents about our accident?" Hermione looked at the headmaster nervously.

"No." Headmaster Dumbledore shook his head. "I was thinking of apologizing to them directly, so I just said that something important happened to you and they needed to return to England to deal with it. Because of some situations in China, they will probably have to wait until the end of the semester to get here after receiving this letter. Now it seems that this has caused trouble for you two."

"It's okay, as long as the person is still here, a little trouble is nothing." Ryan said with a long sigh.

"And I think we may have some important things that require their help, so it's just right for them to come over." Hermione went on to say. Ryan looked at Hermione in surprise. He began to feel confused about what he needed his parents' help with, but after thinking for a few seconds, his eyes suddenly widened because he thought of something important.

"That's good." Dumbledore didn't notice Ryan's change of expression, he smiled. "Actually I've been here writing your eulogy for my final speech, I'm glad that the change of circumstances has made my busy work this morning in vain. As Ryan said, it's good to have people around."

(End of this chapter)