Aphasia at Hogwarts

Devour?

A gleam of light flashed in Guan Qiong's eyes, and he thought of the previous battle with his future self.

During that battle, he was entangled and swallowed whole by his future self in his Animagus form tentacles.

But afterward, he woke up in Gryffindor's bed with no abnormality in his body, and even the power of time was enhanced a little, making him think it was an illusion or a dream.

But now it seems that what the future self devours is a cycle of time.

As bizarre as this may sound, it's not impossible, especially when it comes to time, and anything can happen.

But if this is the case, Guan Qiong has to be cautious.

You know, outside of himself, he will use the time converter five times in total, so that in the same time period, there will be six selves doing different things at the same time.

These six are all himself, but they belong to different time points.

If you put it another way, you can also regard the five extra selves as your own clones, created with the power of time.

But now, one of the five clones was swallowed up by his future self and completely disappeared.

What would happen if all five clones were swallowed up?

What would happen if all the six selves were swallowed up?

Was he replaced by his future self and reborn to this point in time, or was the character 'Guan Qiong' completely swallowed by the long river of time, and then disappeared, leaving only a dead body somewhere in Hogwarts? years of bones.

There was a solemn flash in Guan Qiong's eyes, with a sense of crisis.

In the next few days, things were as expected by Guan Qiong. The fifth time of using the time converter every day would make him jump directly through a period of time and come to the end.

Although in the eyes of others, Guan Qiong has not changed at all. He is in class, reading in the library, helping Harry practice the Patronus Charm, and doing homework with Hermione.

But only Guan Qiong knew that every time, part of his time was completely swallowed up.

And, he still can't stop.

One day, he tried not to use the time-turner, so that there was only one of him in Hogwarts castle that day.

Nothing happened that day, but the next morning, Guan Qiong was awakened by a nightmare.

In his dream, he heard the sound of chewing and wild beast-like breathing, as if something was approaching him.

It was as if that future self was approaching him.

When he woke up the next day and looked at the Time Converter again, he found that the inscription on it was a little dimmer than before.

At the same time, the power of time on him has increased a lot.

Judging from the previous situation, this is the result of the future him devouring the time loop.

On the same day, Guan Qiong tried to use the time-turner again, and when he used the time-turner for the fourth time to create his fifth self, a piece of silver suddenly appeared among the continuously elongated colors around him.

And in that piece of silver, he saw another self, climbing towards him, the tentacles on the lower body were dancing, as if they were going to devour him.

Fortunately, the elongated colors around her blocked the other self, Guan Qiong returned to the previous time point as she wished, and followed Hermione to the library.

Although the time converter was used successfully this time, Guan Qiong's heart was lifted even more.

Only then did he understand that every time he used the time converter, he was stirring up more waves in the long river of time, and it was those waves that surrounded him and protected him.

And that future self is going to break through these waves, come to his side, and devour himself.

And he's already done it once.

And, almost predictably, it won't be long before he comes back for a second time.

This gave Guan Qiong a headache for a while.

"What's the matter, Guan Qiong, you don't seem to be in a good state recently."

In the library, Hermione whispered to Guan Qiong next to her.

There was more worry in her eyes. Although Guan Qiong behaved normally these days, she still felt something different.

In the past, she would occasionally meet Guan Qiong who was practicing magic in the Room of Requirement, and sometimes the two of them would practice each other together.

But in the past few days, Guan Qiong has never been to the Room of Requirement once. From Hermione's point of view, this is completely unlike Guan Qiong's style.

Unless, he was troubled by something.

Guan Qiong remained silent. In front of him, there were several books related to time. Unfortunately, he did not find a solution to his current situation from them.

As for telling other people to help, Guan Qiong hesitated.

The power of time is unpredictable, and information plays a crucial role in it. He can't guarantee that if he speaks out the matter and introduces other people's information into it, things will change unpredictablely.

If he told Hermione about it, it was possible that the future him and the future Hermione would appear at the same time next time.

After all, the current Hermione knows what happened to him, which means that the future Hermione knows, and if the future Hermione wants to help him, it is possible to go back to the past through the time converter, which is the present time part.

In terms of time logic, this is a very reasonable thing.

Then, Hermione's time loop was also swallowed up by her future self, which would be troublesome.

"I'm sorry, Hermione, but I can't tell you now." Guan Qiong shook her head, and a spot of light appeared between the two of them.

"Is it related to the Time Turner?" Hermione asked, looking at the book in front of Guan Qiong.

Guan Qiong thought carefully for a while before slowly nodding, "Yes, I encountered some strange things and need to find some information."

"Let me help you." Hermione reached out, took a book from Guan Qiong that he hadn't read, and put it in front of her, "Two people are always faster than one, where are you looking for?" content."

"Thank you, Hermione, looking for something about magical creatures in time." Guan Qiong first thanked Hermione, and then gave a direction.

He didn't dare say it was about the time loop, or using the time-turner to go back to the past from the future, it was too obvious, and with Hermione's cleverness, it was easy to guess.

If it is a magical creature of time, Hermione will only think of other aspects, which can also reassure Guan Qiong.

Moreover, after seeing the Animagus form of her future self, Guan Qiong had no choice but to guess that perhaps, her strange state of mind in the future had a certain connection with the magical creature.

"That's it." Hermione's eyes flashed, she guessed something in her heart, but she didn't say it, she just flipped through the book in front of her, "It's nothing, we are friends."