Hogwarts: Harry Returns from Azeroth

Chapter 115 114. Harry's Conjecture and Dumbledore's Stage Play
An hourglass with broken glass was embedded directly on the spine of the book. The contents inside had long since disappeared, leaving the book empty as if it had no weight at all.

Time-Turner - it was mainly the name that attracted Harry. He had not expected that wizards' research on magic had extended to time.

Uh, although the second sentence in the book is that the current manufacturing method has been lost.

At first, Harry even thought that the contents of this book were similar to the previous one, which were all records of failed experiments. However, after reading it for a while, Harry was surprised to find that the wizards' research on time had been successful, and they were able to travel through time stably and maturely.

This is somewhat surprising.

The hourglass embedded in the spine of the book is what wizards use to travel through time, called a Time-Turner. However, this Time-Turner is broken and has completely lost its effectiveness... Harry tried, but found that he could not take out the Time-Turner without destroying the book.

For a moment he couldn't help but become very interested. You know, in the world of Azeroth, only bronze dragons and eternal dragons can travel through time at will, and those mages have developed a variety of time spells by studying the magic of bronze dragons and various time rifts.

For example, direct control of the flow of time, time distortion that increases the combat effectiveness of oneself and one's allies by accelerating the local flow of time, time reversal that can reverse one's own state in a short period of time, deceleration that can slow down the speed of the target, and so on.

But even though the mages of Dalaran have gradually begun to conduct in-depth research on time magic, traveling through time and returning to the past is still the privilege of bronze dragons.

Harry's interest in this time-turner suddenly increased. He flipped through it quickly, reading only the words that served as the conclusion. But not long after, he put the book down in disappointment.

In the world of Azeroth, history can be changed (adopting the old version setting). Azeroth has a network of time flows, and under the maintenance of the Bronze Dragon Legion, it continues towards the future expected by the Titans, which is called the 'correct' timeline, or the main timeline.

In addition to the main timeline, there are also a large number of timelines affected by the Eternal Dragons, the fallen enemies of the Bronze Dragon Legion, or timelines that were born for various inexplicable reasons, which are collectively referred to as 'wrong' timelines.

The Bronze Dragonflight will allow those positive rewrites to be preserved in the correct timeline, such as Varok Saurfang, who once served as the leader of the Kalimdor coalition to fight against the Qiraji, a veteran who was very prestigious in both the Horde and the Alliance, known as King Saurfang - and his brother, Broxigar Saurfang.

In the secrets that Harry learned, Broxigar Saurfang sought his own death in battle because of the death of his comrades, and was finally teleported back to the War of the Ancients. He not only became a key figure in this war, but also successfully changed the main timeline of Azeroth and became the first orc to set foot on Azeroth in chronological order.

In the final battle of the War of the Ancients, Broxiel jumped into the portal opened by Sargeras on the Well of Eternity with a big leap, and chopped Sargeras who was about to pass through the portal back with one axe, successfully preventing Azeroth from being directly invaded by the Dark Titan.

Broxigar naturally died on the spot after he chopped down the axe, but he also became the only mortal in recorded history to leave a wound on Sargeras's body - and this also successfully made Sargeras remember his existence.

Well, then Sargeras sent demons to find the race of the brave mortal who could inflict wounds on him, and eventually, Kil'jaeden came to Draenor... As for what happened next, everyone knows.

The new timeline was thus closed. Harry didn't know if Broxgar would still chop out the axe if he knew that it was his existence that made Sargeras pay attention to the orcs, and thus led to the fate of the orcs ten thousand years later. No, he should still chop out the axe, because orc warriors never avoid a battle.

In short, the fact is that the timeline of Azeroth can be changed, but it requires the permission of the Bronze Dragon Legion. Well, if your fist is bigger than the Bronze Dragon Legion and the mortal heroes summoned by the Bronze Dragon Legion, then you can also change the timeline at will.

But if the fist is not big enough, malicious modifications to the correct timeline will be blocked, and the wrong ones will even be deleted directly without affecting reality.

(The above settings are invalid after the release of Warlords of Draenor. A parallel world that can interact with the correct timeline appears in Azeroth, which is equivalent to switching from one network to another.)

Harry originally thought that the wizards in this world could do similar things, but in this book, Harry discovered that wizards could not change major historical events that had happened in the past, nor could they return to the distant past. They could only make small time adjustments close to the current time point, usually in hours.

There are also many limitations. The fact that it is not suitable for long-term historical changes and large-scale time jumps is just the most basic limitation. Users must also act with caution during use to avoid changing events that have already occurred or interacting directly with their past selves.

The most important thing is the point that this book has clearly stated in its title - "The Curse Capacity of the Time Converter".

According to the records in this book, frequent use of the time-turner will not only cause the user to suffer from extreme fatigue or even mental breakdown, but excessive use will even lead to the emergence of another timeline, which may even overlap with the current timeline.

It is said that the Unspoken Man in the Department of Mysteries of the Ministry of Magic has prevented several disasters caused by the misuse of the Time Turner, and when things calm down, no one will remember anything unusual that happened during that period.

The man who wrote this book even took the risk of sneaking into the Time Hall of the Department of Mysteries to look for the corresponding records, but he was discovered somehow. Fortunately, he escaped quickly and was not caught... Well, he even recommended in the book that if anyone later wanted to go to the Time Hall to find out, they could directly flee to the Russian Empire (17th century) if they were discovered. It was safe there and the British Ministry of Magic had no control over it.

The author of this book has never stopped his research. After all, everyone who is obsessed with the magic of changing time has his own paranoia. He found that every time a time converter is used, the user will actually suffer a curse from time. Even if it is not much each time, and there is only an undetectable trace, this curse will indeed affect the user's lifespan, and even something very mysterious like luck - ultimately causing the person using the time converter to get lost in the past due to various coincidences.

At the end of the book, the author put forward a conjecture with amazing imagination, that is, the time of the entire world is actually managed by a manager. Frequent use of time converters to jump out of the timeline will inevitably be contaminated by the curse of time on those who intend to escape from it. When these curses accumulate to a certain extent, they will be killed by the manager of time.

The evidence is some of the things that have even been told to children as fairy tales in the wizarding world, such as a wizard going back hundreds of years to do something, and then he withers and dies of old age the moment he returns to the time when he started.

Or there are many examples of stories like this, where someone frequently uses a time-turner to go back to a time very close to him or her to look for something, but suddenly no one can find him or her.

When the time-turner was first invented, the wizards at that time had no idea about the taboos regarding this new thing. They were just happy that they could finally change the tragedy of the past. The rules remembered by modern wizards were all tested by the wizards of the past with their lives.

Even the author himself joked in the article that he must be crazy about this conjecture about the time manager, but in Harry's opinion, this conjecture is not impossible.

He thought of the silence of the elements. It was not a simple sleep, but a silence forced after suffering a severe blow - it would be more accurate to describe it as coma.

After all, with the nature of wind elements that generally refuse to settle down, it is difficult for them to voluntarily enter a dormant state. Instead, they would rather run around in the sky to show their presence... Even fire elements cannot compare to them in this regard.

All the signs Harry has found so far implicitly point to a great war that took place in ancient times. If the elements were severely damaged and had to sleep until now, and only showed signs of waking up, then who severely damaged the elements?

Those ancient wizards? Ancient magic?
Can you? Can you?

Will it win?
With the general level of magic possessed by the modern wizards Harry has come into contact with, he can only say that he is doomed, but the entire wizarding society currently gives Harry the feeling that it is a group of people whose magic level has deteriorated greatly, sitting on a rich gold mine but not knowing how to mine the gold.

Even though the time converter cannot really change the past, the ancient wizards did go back to the past with magic power, which means that the wizards at that time also had in-depth research and mastery of the invisible existence of time. Perhaps there were indeed few strong wizards in ancient times, and most wizards were weak wizards who only had magic power but could not cast a few decent spells, but the strong wizards could do many things that modern wizards find incredible - such as distorting time by themselves, or reshaping the landscape, etc.

The Hall of the Dead, the Hall of Time... Harry couldn't help but think of the several halls parallel to each other in the Department of Mysteries of the Ministry of Magic. What secrets of ancient wizards and ancient magic were hidden in them?
I really want to go in and take a look.

Harry stayed in the secret vault for a long time, so long that he even forgot the time. He found many good things here, even a Pensieve - this alchemical device can hold memories and allow other people to personally walk into a certain memory to view the details. The manufacturing process has been lost.

There are so many things that wizards have lost.

In the end, it was the hunger in his stomach that woke Harry up. After realizing that a lot of time had passed, he took a few books from the bookshelf and put them in a dragonhide bag, then walked out of the secret vault.

Most of the books that were hidden in the secret vault by the previous Potters were of very high value. Whether they were about the interpretation of certain spells, the brewing of potions, or some theoretical explorations, they were all of great help to Harry.

But some things cannot be found in bookstores outside or in the Hogwarts library. This is the heritage of an ancient wizarding family, and Harry is very satisfied with this.

——Perhaps he could consider taking a look at the Malfoy family's collection of books?
As a wizarding aristocracy with a long history, the Malfoy family should have a large collection of books... Well, I'll finish reading these first.

When Harry walked out of the secret vault, he heard laughter coming from the restaurant, and it sounded very lively.

As he walked towards the restaurant, Harry looked at the changes in the Potter's house.

Dumbledore did a great job. The holes in the roof have been repaired and are indistinguishable from new ones. Even the traces of time's erosion in the corners of the house have been cleaned up by Dumbledore. It must be said that this old man is quite meticulous in his work.

To be honest, Harry simply couldn't reconcile the Potter mansion he saw now with the Potter mansion he saw when he first arrived this morning.

If the old Potter house at that morning gave people the feeling that it was a place that had been uninhabited, dilapidated and desolate for a long time, with all kinds of dark and deep places without light hiding something, it would be no different from a haunted house that could scare people to death.

Now the Potter House has a living atmosphere - a feeling of home.

The premise is not to look at what is being piled up in the garden.

"Master Harry! You finally came out!" Ah Fu appeared beside Harry with a bang and said excitedly, "What do you want to eat? Ah Fu is at your service anytime!"

"No hurry, what are those?" Through the cleaned glass, Harry nodded at the things piled in the garden.

"These are the items that can only be disposed of by Master Harry!" Alfred said shrilly, "Master Harry's toy broom, rocking horse, doorbell that bites people, and other things that Alfred can't name. Alfred dare not throw them away carelessly!"

"But Alfu has dealt with the rats in the house and those annoying creatures who call this place home, and the goblins have all been kicked away!" Alfu proudly said of his achievements, "Whether it's poisonous tentacles or biting vines, Master Harry's house is now very safe!"

"Also, does Master Harry have any requirements for the garden? What kind of flowers and plants does he like?" Ah Fu patted his chest and said, "Ah Fu will take care of the garden beautifully!"

"Thank you for your hard work, Alfred." Harry bent down slightly and patted the shoulder of his diligent butler, and said seriously: "Don't worry about the garden. Let's deal with the things outside tomorrow. Now get me some food."

"Please go to the restaurant!"

Harry had never seen how a wizard repaired a dilapidated house, so he couldn't accurately evaluate Alfred's speed in cleaning the room among wizards - but he felt that it should be far beyond that of ordinary wizards.

Many of the magics possessed by house-elves seem to be specially designed to take care of wizarding families or daily lives, and they are very fast and have amazing effects.

When Harry was flipping through a book in the afternoon, he had guessed that the house-elves were a race that was artificially created by ancient wizards so that they could say goodbye to complicated trivial matters and concentrate on magical research.

After all, this race's thoughts and abilities are heading in this direction... Well, of course, it is also possible that the loser was punished.

We still know very little about things related to ancient wizards, so Harry doesn't dare to make any judgments easily.

Before Harry actually walked into the restaurant, he could already hear Dudley shouting, the kind of excited shouting.

In front of the restaurant, Dumbledore used Transfiguration to create several delicate little people, three women and one man, as well as a meadow, a forest, and even a river. These four little people were adventuring in this scene, as if they were performing a stage play.

Although there was no exciting music in the background, the shouts of the little people were inspiring enough. Harry's arrival did not interrupt the performance. Instead, Dudley waved his hand to signal him to be quiet and sit down quickly.

Shrugging his shoulders, Harry found a seat for himself. When he dragged a clean plate in front of him, grilled meat and bread appeared out of thin air on it, which looked very appetizing at first glance.

The play seemed to be coming to an end, with a little witch shouting: "I am healed! I don't need the fountain of good fortune anymore - let Altida bathe!"

The other little witch was busy gathering more herbs to put into her apron, and she shouted, "If I can cure this disease, I can make a lot of gold! Let Amata take a bath!"

But the third little witch shook her head and refused the opportunity. She whispered, "Good sir, go take a bath as a reward for your chivalrous behavior!"

Then, the little man in the knight's armor clanged forward, and beside him, the wooden sun that was transformed by the transformation spell also shifted to the side, and emitted very abstract wooden strips of sunlight outward - a scene of setting sun.

"I am the luckiest man in the world now!" The knight who had bathed in the spring water shouted excitedly. He knelt on one knee and proposed to the witch named Amata, and the latter shyly agreed to him.

(End of this chapter)