Hogwarts: I'm a model wizard

"How did this happen?"

Seeing Dumbledore looking confused, Kyle rubbed his forehead, not knowing where to start for a moment.

He came to save people, but they just met and started fighting without saying anything.

Fortunately, although Dumbledore lost part of his memory, he was still conscious. After realizing that something was wrong, he temporarily gave up the idea of ​​continuing to erase his memory.

I have to say that Dumbledore's temper was really bad at that time. He threw his wand when he disagreed with something. It was because he was weak now and had some concerns in his heart, otherwise the consequences would be much more troublesome than it is now.

Kyle also conjured himself a chair, sat opposite Dumbledore, and asked:

"Professor, you really don't remember anything?"

"I don't remember." Dumbledore shook his head.

"Then you have never doubted it?" Kyle continued, "You think you are a professor of Transfiguration, but that should be when you were middle-aged, or even earlier. You obviously don't look that age now."

"Because this is not the first time I have come here." Dumbledore explained: "I can't remember the exact number of times, but I know that I have been back many times, and the total time is not short."

Kyle sighed helplessly.

According to Dumbledore, he knew that his appearance and the age in his memory were different, but he did not think there was anything wrong with it. He just regarded it as the normal aging process when he went back to the past again and again.

"But now it seems that things are completely different from what I thought." Dumbledore looked at Kyle, "Can you please tell me the truth?"

"No problem, but this is complicated to explain. Let me think about where to start..." Kyle rubbed his forehead.

"Don't worry, we have plenty of time." Dumbledore said, "Grindelwald will be back at 10:23 tomorrow morning. We still have more than ten hours."

His tone was calm, as if he had instantly turned back into the familiar Hogwarts headmaster.

"Let's start from the source of everything." Kyle took out the golden pocket watch, "This is the time converter we use. It comes from Salazar Slytherin's work a thousand years ago."

Dumbledore looked at the golden pocket watch, and a familiar memory suddenly came to his mind, but it was very vague, like a forest hidden in the mist, where only faint shadows could be vaguely seen.

"Go on." He asked, "How could we get something from a thousand years ago?"

"This is about my third year, ninety-three years later. You were the headmaster of Hogwarts at that time. During the Halloween dinner that year, the school administrator's cat was suddenly petrified..."

Kyle carefully recounted what happened in the Chamber of Secrets, and Dumbledore sat there listening quietly, frowning slightly from time to time, but did not interrupt Kyle.

“…This time-turner took me back three months and connected everything together, and when I returned to the correct timeline, it was preserved.

"It was just that it was completely broken at the time. The one we are using now was repaired by you, Professor, Nicolas Flamel, and Professor Victor of Beauxbatons."

Some vague memories reappeared in Dumbledore's mind. He felt his forehead swelling and couldn't help but rub it with his hand.

"Professor, are you okay?" Kyle asked with concern.

"It's okay." Dumbledore took a deep breath, "Go on."

"There's nothing more to say after that." Kyle spread his hands, "You use this to go back a hundred years, which is now."

"Then why did you come?"

"Because you haven't appeared since then." Kyle looked up, "Nico thought you must have done something to be excluded from the right time. The purpose of my coming here is to bring you back."

"So you're saying that after I used the Time-Turner, I disappeared?"

"That's right." Kyle nodded.

"If that's the case, then things are a bit troublesome." Dumbledore pondered for a while, "I think I probably understand why I lost some of my memory."

"why?"

"Because I am disappearing," said Dumbledore calmly.

"Disappearing?" Kyle was stunned.

"That's right." Dumbledore raised his head and looked at the window above the barn. "After this summer, I tried many ways to save Ariana, including the time converter. I spent five years looking through all the relevant knowledge I could find. I also know a little about time repulsion.

"I am disappearing, and my missing memories are the most direct manifestation of this." He pointed at himself, "There can't be two identical people at the same time, so when my memories overlap with my own at this time, I won't be coming back."

The barn fell silent.

Kyle held the time-turner tightly and reached for Dumbledore with his other hand. "It doesn't matter. You should be able to recover your memory after we return. There's still time."

But Dumbledore stepped back and avoided Kyle's hand.

"I'm sorry, I can't go back yet."

"But professor, you should know that you can't change anything." Kyle looked at him seriously, "Perhaps it is because you want to change something that you are rejected by time and are trapped in the past."

"No, you are wrong." Dumbledore shook his head. "It's not that nothing has changed for me. And I have a feeling that I have succeeded."

"Successful? Then what did you change?"

Kyle was a little angry, especially after seeing Dumbledore's face was so pale that there was no trace of blood. That was caused by his excessive mental exhaustion.

Kyle has also experienced something similar. Although he did not lose his memory, he still felt very uncomfortable and his head was in a mess every day.

But he only went back three months.

But how long has Dumbledore been here... According to his previous description, the continuous cycle has lasted for at least several decades, or even more.

Kyle pushed open the barn door and said, "Look, you've returned to this time again, and you've lost all your memories of the past, no matter how many times you come here.

"Even if you save Ariana, you will come back here again one day, and everything will start from the beginning again and again. What's the point!"

"Because of you." Dumbledore suddenly smiled. "You were not here before, but you are here now."

"I'm here to save you," Kyle said.

"This is change." Dumbledore said calmly, "According to what you said, you are not from this era. Your appearance itself is enough to explain the problem."

He suddenly laughed, "I guessed, 'my' plan, and I succeeded."

"Your plan is to use me?" Kyle raised his eyebrows.

"It's not exploitation, it's help." Dumbledore stood up staggeringly. "This matter requires the involvement of someone outside of time, so I ask you to help me..."

Kyle said nothing.

Now is the best time. If he takes Dumbledore away, the two of them can go back smoothly to a hundred years later, and everything will be back on track and all problems will be solved.

But if he chooses to stay and help Dumbledore... then everything that happens afterwards will become an unknown.

Regardless of whether Ariana can be saved, the problem now is that whether he succeeds or fails, Dumbledore may be excluded from time again.

By then, part of his memory will surely be lost again, and no one knows how many years it will be missing. Or maybe it will just disappear as he said.

And even he himself might be excluded by time... If that were the case, they would never be able to go back.

Kyle was in a dilemma and didn't speak for a long time.

Dumbledore was not in a hurry either. He just sat quietly by the side and waited.

The sky gradually brightened, the sun hung obliquely in the sky, someone pushed open the door, walked out of the house, and started a busy new day.

Godric's Hollow gradually became lively.

Kyle finally raised his head.

He looked at Dumbledore and took a deep breath, "Professor, are you sure you won't leave here?"

"Yes." Dumbledore said affirmatively: "This is the closest I have ever been to success. I will not give up no matter what."

"What if I must take you away?" Kyle took out his wand, and red flames began to gather at the tip of the wand.

"You have lost most of your memories and your body is extremely weak. It doesn't seem to be that difficult to defeat you."

Before Kyle finished his words, the original flame turned into a small fire dragon, coiling around the magic wand.

"Even I can't use the Fiery Blaze so skillfully at my age." Dumbledore said with a smile, "I think you must be my most proud student."

"It's no use saying that, Professor." Kyle raised his arms. "I just want to take you back... You once promised me that you would just look at Ariana and not do anything else, but you broke your promise."

"I'm sorry," Dumbledore said, "If you want to kill me, I won't resist, or you can just leave on your own. This matter has nothing to do with you.

"But if you try to take me away by force...I will resist!"

Dumbledore's voice was soft but firm.

Just like he said just now, this was the only chance to save Ariana, and he would never give up, no matter how great the price.

As for whether Kyle will leave, it doesn’t matter. His appearance here represents the beginning of change, which is enough.

Dumbledore also picked up the wand, and tremendous magical power once again gathered in his extremely weak body.

The confrontation between the two caused the dilapidated barn to begin to shake and it could collapse at any time.

"Forget it, I give up." Kyle suddenly laughed helplessly and waved his hand to disperse the fire dragon on the wand.

"To be honest, in your current state, I'm really worried that I might accidentally kill you."

"I admit that." Dumbledore held onto the chair. "I can only dispel the Fiery Blaze Curse twice more at most, but you should know more than just this one spell."

"You also taught me another spell, which belongs to rune magic." Kyle shrugged. "It's quite useful, but it makes a lot of noise. Not to mention this broken barn, the whole street might not be able to be saved."

"Then I've really saved my life." Dumbledore smiled calmly, "When are you going to leave... By the way, when you go back, let Hogwarts choose a new headmaster as soon as possible. Didn't you say before that Minerva is the professor of Transfiguration? I think she's pretty good. That girl is very responsible."

"No, I'm not going back for now." Kyle sat back in his chair, "I'm going to stay and help you."

"Aren't you afraid?" Dumbledore hesitated for a moment. "Just now, I wanted to ask for your help out of selfish motives. But if you stay, you will probably be rejected by time like me."

"That's a possibility," Kyle said. "To be honest, I'm not afraid it's fake, but I just went through my memories carefully and found some very interesting things, all of which I hadn't noticed before, so I decided to stay."

"What memory?" Dumbledore asked curiously.

"For example, this..." Kyle picked up the time converter and looked at it carefully. "You took it away, so why did it appear again and end up in my hands?"

"Oh?" Dumbledore blinked, "What did you think of it?"

“It’s hard to say.” Kyle shook his head. “Normally, you should have returned to the correct timeline and then sent it out. This was also what I thought at first, but now it seems that I sent it back.”

Dumbledore's eyes lit up, but he said nothing. He just looked at Kyle calmly and asked, "What do you think this means?"

"I can't explain it..." Kyle frowned and said, "I have never understood time. Maybe... now is the right time, and it is also the past that has been preserved."

Dumbledore's eyes brightened.

"Besides that, there's another interesting thing," Kyle continued.

"Tell me."

"It's someone I've met before, but I can't tell you now." Kyle put away the time converter, "Anyway, it was because of this discovery that I decided to take a gamble.

"what time is it now."

"Eight o'clock," Dumbledore blurted out.

"How do you know?" Kyle asked. "Is there a clock here?"

He looked up and saw nothing on the barn except a few protruding logs.

"They are the roosters raised by the Corder family." Dumbledore explained, "They crow on time at eight o'clock every day. This is also the time when Grindelwald and I meet every day."

After being reminded by him, Kyle indeed heard a faint crowing sound.

"Also, young me and Grindelwald will be back at 10:23."

"I noticed it just now. Is the time so accurate?" Kyle asked.

"Because that's when Ariana got into trouble." Dumbledore said in a heavy voice.

"You mean, when you come back this time, she will..."

"That's right." Dumbledore closed his eyes, "When we came back this time, Aberforth was furious because I left without saying goodbye, and we had the most intense argument ever.

"Grindelwald went to look for the invisibility cloak, but to no avail. He was already angry, and Aberforth's scolding made him even more angry. The two began to fight, mercilessly using the most vicious spells on each other."

"Can Aberforth beat Grindelwald?" Kyle expressed his doubt. Rather than a fight, he believed that Grindelwald was beating Aberforth unilaterally, and in a very cruel way.

"He is my brother after all." Dumbledore smiled bitterly, "I subconsciously chose to help him, which made Grindelwald even angrier, so the fight between the two of them turned into a melee between three people.

"Ariana saw everything in the attic, she ran out and tried to stop us..."

At this point, Dumbledore suddenly choked up and his eyes were filled with tears.

But Kyle could understand.

Aberforth and Grindelwald have really gotten into a fight to the death, and Dumbledore will certainly try his best to stop them.

Although Ariana is an Obscurial, she is also an ordinary girl who can't even use the illumination spell. The result of her rashly barging into a battle between wizards is predictable.

Any spell could kill her, and even the Obscurus in her could erupt under the stimulation of magic.

Kyle sighed, thinking of the little girl who was eager to make friends and could be happy for a long time just by eating a candy.

Now, even though he knew it would be dangerous to stay, he wanted to help even more.

There's nothing he can do about it, it's because he's so soft-hearted.

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