[HP] Flower of Eternal Life

Albus woke up just in time to see Esther staggering across the battlefield to the center of the chaos.

"Esther!" He subconsciously yelled the girl's name, trying to get up and catch up to Esther, but there were too many students lying on the ground, and he couldn't run on the ground where there was no room for his feet.

"Esther!" He called the name of the girl who was fading away again, but she walked towards the group of people that made Albus feel terrified from the bottom of her heart, as if she didn't hear her at all.

The noise on the battlefield gradually subsided, and a strange silence enveloped the dilapidated auditorium. He saw the leader of the Death Eaters—a man who should be called Voldemort lazily embrace the little girl in his arms, and then As soon as Fang was touched by him, he lost consciousness and his body went limp.

The members of the Order of the Phoenix were the first to speak out. Sirius Black snarled at Voldemort: "You shameless man, you use children as shields!"

This terrible accusation sent an uncomfortable wind through the hall, and the restless Death Eaters seemed impatient to continue fighting, but Voldemort raised his hand to stop them.

"There is no need to continue this meaningless fight. Our reliable Dolokhov has already got what I want, right, Antonin?"

At some point, that man appeared on the edge of the Death Eaters. He stood beside his colleagues like a mist rising from the ground, holding a tattered hat in his hand.

The members of the Order of the Phoenix seemed shocked by the fact that Voldemort's target was the "Sorting Hat". They stood dumbfounded and stared at their enemies with terrifying eyes. This seemed to make Voldemort unhappy, and his face darkened. Go down, but soon returned to the previous laziness and arrogance.

"I hope that before I see you next time, you can reflect on your mistakes, Professor Dumbledore." After leaving this sentence, he immediately Apparated, and his followers followed closely behind (one of them left The lean wizard with the goatee grabbed Severus Snape who had fallen to the ground) and disappeared into the moonlit night.

Albus finally recovered from the shock caused by this series of developments. He turned pale and staggered towards Professor Dumbledore, and the old man turned his head to look at him as if sensing his approach, blue His dark eyes were covered with a mist of mist.

Albus opened his mouth, struggling to utter the question that didn't really need an answer: "Voldemort, is that Tom Riddle?"

The old man with the same name as him stared at him for a long while without a word, and finally nodded slowly.

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Hogwarts was no longer a safe place, and more than half of the students who realized it had left the school, and for them, if it wasn't safe anywhere, they obviously preferred to stay with their families.

The remaining people swept the battlefield with heavy hearts, and the only consolation was that this short battle did not take anyone away.Alastor Moody suffered multiple fractures and had to stay in bed all the time. Frank Longbottom fell into a coma, but his life was not in danger for the time being. Other students suffered more minor injuries. He was seriously injured and could only stay in the school infirmary, including Will Dursley, who had a cast on his arm.

The silence in the curtained cubicle occupied by the three companions made the occlusion spell which Rose had cast earlier to prevent others from overhearing their conversation somewhat superfluous.

As if he couldn't bear the awkward silence at last, Will pulled out a weak smile and said, "Hey, why do you look so distraught, I won't die in front of you."

But no one answered, and Albus stared dreamily at the screws on Will's nightstand next to his bed, while Rose gave him a gouging look.The self-defeating Will sighed, sank back into his bed, stared at the tiled ceiling and murmured, "I didn't expect Tom to be Voldemort, I mean, he played with us." It's pretty good, why did it become like this?"

Albus and Rose didn't make a sound, and Will continued on his own: "If I have been looked down upon and bullied by my classmates for many years like him, I might also have the idea of ​​revenge on this unfair world. But I don’t think I have the courage to do these things, and even if I do, I won’t be able to do this.”

"I think he must hate us very much." Albus, who had been silent as if his consciousness had flown into the sky, suddenly said, "I guess if Esther is here, she should say that."

Rose clenched her robe tightly with her hands, and with a wry smile on her lips, she replied, "That's right."

Will frowned because of this confusing conversation, and shouted dissatisfiedly: "Hey, don't exclude me, why don't I understand what you are talking about?"

"Will Dursley, you are such a simple-minded fool." Rose hit his chest softly with her fist, and suddenly smiled softly, "If you don't understand, don't think about it, it's still early before dawn Well, let's sleep a little longer."

"Okay." Will, who decided to follow Rose's advice, stopped asking, closed his eyes, and soon fell into a dreamless dream.

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When Esther woke up, he found that he was in a completely unfamiliar environment. The room with luxurious furniture and decorations, and even a bathroom seemed to belong to a luxurious and huge mansion. A room is about the size of a dormitory in Gryffindor.

She got out of bed, fumbled in her pockets, and was not surprised to find that her wand had been taken away, but was somewhat relieved that the copy of The Quibbler she had shrunk down was still there.Touching the cool cover of the magazine with her fingertips, she felt a little comfort.They hadn't hurt her so far anyway, and given her a room like this, she should have been treated the best of Voldemort's prisoners.

Esther walked to the window, trying to look at the scenery outside the window, but was a little disappointed that the house was covered with thick fog, and nothing could be seen except for the nearby eaves.She changed her target to the objects in this room. Whether it was the bedside table or the drawers of the desk, they were all cleaned up, leaving nothing useful.

She had no choice but to sit on the bed and wait. After the minutes on the pocket watch made a full circle, there was some movement outside the door—that was the sound of footsteps from far to near.

Esther thought she'd see an adult Tom Riddle behind the door, but instead it was her young father who arrived.He didn't even seem to want to look at her, but locked the door with magic after entering the room, put the dinner plate with a few slices of bread and a glass of milk on the desk, as if he was very interested in the fog outside the window He stared outside and did not move.

Esther didn't intend to go on a hunger strike. She didn't know why Tom brought her here, but at least she wanted to live well until the day when she could reunite with her friends.At the same time, Esther trusts Tom not to poison her food because it would be pointless.

She walked over to finish her own breakfast quietly, then went back to the bed and sat down, and when Snape put away the plate and was about to leave, she spoke for the first time to this man who had no idea how close they were supposed to be. .

"Please send my regards to Tom, and I need a pewter cauldron, a scale, a set of crystal vials, and all the potion ingredients the school should have."

Severus Snape paused briefly, and then left quickly, looking very dissatisfied with the job he had been given, without even looking at his prisoner throughout.

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The classes in the castle were completely stopped, because the teachers were busy repairing the castle and resetting the magic that protected the castle, and the remaining students were of course not in the mood to continue the class.

The daily life of Albus and Rose is going back and forth between the dormitory, the auditorium, and the school doctor's office. Most of the time they just look at each other in a daze. They contact and quarrel.

"If we do nothing but watch all this, what if the Order of the Phoenix fails? Kind and good people will die, and the entire wizarding world will fall into a miserable and dark oppressive regime, and many people will live in unbearable pain. What are our secrets compared to this?" Albus insisted that the Order should be told everything they knew in the future world, but Rose held the opposite opinion.

"Don't you know that this will cause a paradox? If we say that our time travel did not come to a parallel world, but a slight change was made at an earlier point in time in the same world, although it is different from the past we know , but the world will correct history on its own to a route that can achieve similar results. If we intervene rashly, we may break this rule, and the moment we contact them, our future will also be erased! "

"But isn't that also one of the possibilities? Why can't we take a gamble on the possibility? What if the condition for achieving the future we want is that they should get our help? What if we don't do anything about it and our elders are all because of it?" Death, don't even mention the future!"

They bickered over and over and finally got tired of it, and the two fell into an eerie silence until Will, sitting up in bed, rubbed his eyes sleepily, laughed, and said, "Can you hear me? "

Albus and Rose turned their attention to their friends, while Will stood up the pillow and leaned against the head of the bed, leaned in comfortably before speaking: "According to the theory of time travel in the Muggle world, a One is the 'parallel world theory', of course you all know it, and the other, in my words, should be called the 'time linear revision theory', that is to say—" He stroked his hand on his thigh Draw an invisible line, then slide your finger on this line, and continue to say: "The left is the past, the right is the future, and the middle is the present. The core of this theory is that if we arrive at the past from the present and make a Some kind of action, but this action does not actually change the 'now' we know, why? Because the 'now' we saw before time travel has been developed after we have traveled to the past and made actions made now."

He paused, looked at his two confused partners, smiled briskly, and said, "That is to say, if the world we are in now is the same as our original world, then there is nothing in our memory. There would be no knowledge of 'Voldemort was defeated in 1981' which contradicts the status quo."

In the end, he ended his speech with his usual indecent words: "Honestly, I really want to see their disbelief when they learn that you are their descendants. It must be very interesting."

Rose let out a chuckle, gave Will a little punch with her fist, and she was finally convinced.

☆、Chapter 11