My Hogwarts has a serious problem.

Chapter 255, Section 252: People Played by Time

Many of the young wizards in the four academies were awakened by the loud noise.

The young wizards emerged uneasily from their dormitories and gathered in the common room. Before any of the class leaders could go out to inquire about the professors' situation, their respective house deans came to the common room to reassure them and put them to sleep.

The professors certainly wouldn't tell the young wizards the truth about what happened. If word got out that the Chamber of Secrets in Slytherin really existed, whether the basilisk would attack again was another matter, but Hogwarts would definitely be in trouble for a while.

"It was just a minor accident, everything's fine now. Go back to sleep, you have class tomorrow."

Some of the Gryffindor lion cubs wanted to ask Professor McGonagall what had happened, but Professor McGonagall just stared at them with a serious look and they didn't dare to speak.

The Slytherin case was much simpler. Snape only needed to say to the group of little snakes with a cold face, "Go back to sleep, this is none of your business." The little snakes would then sullenly return to their dormitories to continue sleeping.

Only Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff need Professors Flitwick and Sprout to explain things properly. However, Eagle and Badger are not like the Gryffindor and Slytherin gangs who like to cause trouble. In Hogwarts, they mostly play the role of bystanders and rarely get involved in such matters.

As for Lynn here

He and Dumbledore were cleaning up the classroom, which had been destroyed beyond recognition.

Dumbledore's power was clearly not something to boast about. He waved his Elder Wand and lightly tapped the broken desks and chairs in the classroom. The various pieces of broken wood on the ground seemed to come alive and returned to their original positions. Soon, the entire classroom was exactly the same as before the battle.

Lynn knew he couldn't use such a healing spell; even if he had the Elder Wand, he might not be able to.

After the damaged classroom was cleaned up, the snake's tail naturally became Lynn's prize.

Dumbledore took Lynn back to his office. Just twenty minutes ago, he had been drinking tea with Lynn, who had been there three weeks earlier. Now, only twenty minutes had passed for Dumbledore, but three whole weeks had passed for Lynn.

It was still that chair, and still that cup of slightly warm black tea.

Lynn sat back down in her chair, feeling as if she had been transported to another world.

The first thing Lynn did after sitting down was to return the Time-Turner to Dumbledore.

"Before experiencing it, I thought this thing was the most useful thing in the world, but after using it, I realized how terrifying it was."

Based on Lynn's usual personality, even if his time travel ended, he would never return the Time-Turner. He would naturally want to keep such a good alchemical item for himself. However, after truly experiencing time travel, Lynn realized that this thing was something he should never touch.

Dumbledore looked at him with satisfaction: "That's what I like most about you, Lynn. You crave power, but you don't blindly follow it."

"Power that cannot be controlled cannot be called power; it can only be called a scourge." Lynn looked at the glittering time converter on the table, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt a chill run down his spine.

"Professor, I mean, if I were to use this Time-Turner again to go back three weeks, would that mean that there were actually three versions of me at Hogwarts in the past?"

Dumbledore said something profound.

"It's not necessarily three; there could be four, five, or more. Even now, you don't know if your future self will use it to go back to some point in time."

The time-traveling device is something you can't think about too much. Lynn couldn't imagine what it would be like if he encountered another version of himself from the future.

Will she excitedly ask him how his future is going? Or will she pretend not to see him and act as if nothing happened?

Or perhaps, they were planning to kill him?

Lynn couldn't understand why his past self and his future self should never meet, but now that he's experienced it, he understands.

The future self travels back to the past using a time converter. To return to the point in time he traveled through, he can only count the days and live through the normal passage of time. Only when the past self reaches the point in time he traveled through and uses the time converter to return to the past can the future self continue his previous life.

But if the two versions of themselves really met, the past version of himself would definitely have different thoughts. What if he didn't want to use the time converter when the time came?

So there will be two Lynn in this world. How will the two Lynn live?

It would be strange if they didn't fight to the death and survive!

Therefore, Lynn would never dare to take that risk again. He knew best that the most terrifying enemy in the world was always himself.

Dumbledore took the Time-Turner from the table.

"In fact, the Silent One of the Department of Mysteries has suggested to the Ministry of Magic more than once that all time-twisters be destroyed, because only those who have actually used them can understand how terrifying they are."

Lynn raised an eyebrow: "Then why are Hogwarts students allowed to apply for it?"

"Time-Turners can become unusable after being used too much. The Ministry of Magic is reluctant to destroy them, but it is also afraid of their power. So it grants time-turners with limitations to young wizards for their learning purposes. In this way, the time-turners can only go back a few hours at most, and the young wizards will not cause too much trouble. The time-turners will gradually be consumed with repeated use, so they are used to their fullest potential."

"What a contradictory feeling."

"That's how politicians are, so I never like dealing with people from the Ministry of Magic, even though every time there's a change of Minister of Magic, many people recommend me for the position."

Dumbledore tapped his finger, and the teapot on the stove flew over to fill Lynn's teacup with hot tea. At the same time, some exquisite pastries appeared on the desk, most of which were sugary sweets.

Lynn was naturally quite satisfied with this, as he hadn't had a decent meal in weeks.

"Although it's late now, I still need to know what you've been through in the past three weeks. You're going to have a lot to say, so this food is definitely essential."

Lynn had no intention of hiding anything, and he recounted his experiences over the past three weeks to Old Deng in detail.

The time-tamper is truly a bug, and it can't be examined in detail. After this part of the story, it won't be mentioned again in the future.

(End of this chapter)