The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 614 Past
"Okay, the people have been sent here. Let's continue our patrol now." After asking Lucius Malfoy to stand in the middle of the hall to remove his handcuffs and shackles, the gray-haired wizard waved to the people in the hall and left.

Lucius seemed a little depressed, and he looked very wooden, and basically had no reaction to the outside world. This was normal for anyone after living with Dementors for a whole year.

"Let's go. I think Lucius will be able to recover after returning to his wife and children." Professor Dumbledore said to Ryan, and then they said goodbye to the guards and left Azkaban.

"Lucius, how are you?" Narcissa Malfoy opened the door immediately after Ryan and the others knocked on the door of No. 12 Grimmauld Place. It seemed that she had been waiting here since she learned that Lucius was released from prison today.

"Um, Mrs. Malfoy." Professor Dumbledore was not suitable to come forward at this time, so Ryan had to rely on him. "He just stayed with the Dementors for a long time, and he will be fine after resting for a while."

"That's good, that's good--" Mrs. Malfoy murmured, and then she carried Lucius Malfoy into the room. Draco Malfoy, who followed behind, thanked Ryan very seriously. Since such a big change happened in the family, Malfoy has changed a lot. Just like Sirius said, the little guy in the Malfoy family looks much better than his father, at least not so annoying.

Professor Dumbledore sent Ryan back to the Burrow and left. Just after the headmaster left, Harry turned around the corner with a complicated expression on his face. "Ryan - can I talk to you about something?"

"What's the matter?" Ryan felt a chill on his back when he saw Harry's expression. He was worried that Harry might have suddenly awakened to something strange after seeing so many weddings yesterday. Fortunately, things did not turn into something strange.

"I just want to talk to you about Headmaster Dumbledore." Harry seemed a little uneasy when he said this, "Because at the wedding yesterday, I heard some things about Headmaster Dumbledore when he was young from some old people. Some of them are things we have never heard of, and I think-"

"What happened to the headmaster when he was young?" Ryan thought of something. In the original text, Harry seemed to have heard some things about Professor Dumbledore's past at the wedding. To be more precise, some incomplete statements with strong personal tendencies. He knew that he needed to tell Harry some real truths at this time, because any small estrangement in the war era would cause serious problems.

"I actually know a little more about the principal's youth than you do." Ryan said, "Because I learned some things about our principal's youth from some special channels (seven novels and nine movies in my previous life, as well as a lot of information from pottermore). He is not a perfect person, but he is definitely not an evil person."

"What about his sister?" Harry blurted out after hearing what Ryan said, and then he said a little embarrassedly. "This is what I heard from Ron's great aunt Muriel at the wedding. She told me that Dumbledore imprisoned his sister at home. Just because she is a Squib, it might bring shame to their family."

"Ryan, Harry, what are you two doing standing in the yard?" Ryan had just finished listening to Harry's words and was about to answer when he heard Hermione's voice. It turned out that Hermione found it strange to see two people standing at the door, so she came out to call them.

"It's okay, we're talking about something." Ryan said to Hermione, then turned to Harry and said, "Let's talk after we get into the room. It's a bit silly to stand in the yard now."

Harry seemed to think so too. At this time, the Weasley brothers and Ginny had all gone to Bill's new home, so the house seemed empty. Only the sound of Mrs. Weasley cooking could be heard from the kitchen.

"If you want to chat, you can go upstairs. It looks a bit weird standing in the yard. Well, I'm going to help Mrs. Weasley with her work, otherwise it will be difficult to ensure that lunch can be served on time. By the way, Ryan, did everything go well this morning?" Hermione asked after Ryan and the others walked in.

"It went smoothly." Ryan nodded. "Lucius Malfoy has arrived at 12 Grimmauld Place. Fortunately, Sirius took his wife and the Lupins to travel to Northern Europe. Otherwise, I believe there would be a lot of noise now."

After Ryan and Harry walked into Ron's room and closed the door, Ryan began to tell Harry about the past, including why Dumbledore's father was imprisoned, his sister was an Obscurus, and the experience of the headmaster and Grindelwald when he was young. The amount of information contained in this conversation was so great that Harry seemed dazed during lunch.

"Harry, what's wrong with you?" Ginny asked during dinner. "Why do I feel like you look so confused now? You have been like this since this morning."

"Ah - it's okay." Harry came back to his senses and then comforted. "It's just that I was too tired at the wedding yesterday, and then I couldn't resist Sirius' invitation and drank half a glass of Firewhisky."

"Sirius has gone too far." Mrs. Weasley said with some dissatisfaction, "Harry has just come of age, how can you give him such strong alcohol?"

"It's okay. I don't think it's the alcohol. I just need to take a short rest." Harry wanted to find an excuse to deal with his abnormal state, but he didn't expect that the fire would burn on Sirius, so he quickly refuted. But Mrs. Weasley didn't think Sirius was innocent. It seemed that she planned to discuss parenting issues with him after Sirius came back.

After lunch, Ryan and several other students gathered together to do their summer homework. While they were writing, Harry suddenly asked Hermione, "Hermione, have you heard of the Obscurial?"

"Of course I know." Hermione took out a book from her bag. "This thing is not in the class, but there is content about it in the supplementary extracurricular book for the Defense Against the Dark Arts class - yes, this is it."

Hermione pulled out a large black book from her bag. The title on it was "The Source and Flow of Dark Magic". She turned to a page and read: "In order to escape bad luck, young wizards will suppress their magical powers. However, due to lack of guidance, they have not learned to harness and control their own powers, thus giving rise to parasites - the dark magical power Obscurus. It is an extremely unstable and difficult to control dark magic. It moves very quickly and will break away from the host and attack others. In historical documents, there is no case that proves that the Obscurus can live beyond the age of 10."

"The Obscurus is a host, possessed by the dark magical power of the Obscurus. Once a wizard is greatly emotionally disturbed, the Obscurus in his body will erupt, and the Obscurus will turn into a black, intangible mass of black mist with extremely powerful destructive power. If they do not use magic, the Obscurus will backfire on the host, eventually taking over the host's body and becoming uncontrollable, thus bringing disaster."

"Fortunately, as the wizarding and Muggle worlds separated, and children were no longer forced to hide their true selves from their own worlds, the number of Obscurials dwindled. Today, we almost never find any Obscurials."

"So what would they do if they found an Obscurial in the past?" Harry asked. Hermione looked at Harry curiously, because she didn't think Harry was a studious person. But since he asked, Hermione felt that she should answer.

"Early on, they would be executed directly for safety reasons," Hermione said. "But after the 20th century, out of humanitarianism, wizards would preventively detain the Obscurials, often in the country's wizard prisons."

"I see, I see. Now it all makes sense." Harry stood up excitedly. Ron, Ginny and Hermione looked at Harry in confusion, not knowing what he was going crazy about. Only Ryan knew that Harry had figured out what Professor Dumbledore's past was all about, and no longer had the doubts and confusion about everything around him.

"Okay, nothing." Harry quickly explained after seeing everyone staring at him with strange eyes. "I just figured out a very important problem just now. Now let's continue doing our homework."

(End of this chapter)