harry potter book of crimes

Regarding the topic of time retrieval, both Muggles and wizards have conducted quite complex explorations and studies, but in the end, no one has been able to find a conclusion.

As a former Muggle, Maka is not a scientist and does not know Novikov's self-consistency principle and a series of rules about time paradox; but now, as a wizard, he is also far from being able to do so.

To the extent that one is exposed to the rules of time, it is even less possible to understand the mysterious and mysterious principles of magic within it.

Even though he had even met his future self once, even though he had witnessed his future self die in front of him, he still failed to accurately estimate the true horror of the rules of time.

Now holding the time converter in his hand, he only knows one thing - time backtracking will bring a huge burden to people. If the backtracking time exceeds about five hours and twenty-three minutes①, the human body will be damaged.

This rule is not a conclusion drawn from theoretical research, but is tested by wizards who have used time turners in the past years with living lives.

If we look at the situation of the future self when we first met, this rule, which has no theoretical basis at all, cannot be ignored at all.

But, what can we do with more than five hours?

Maka didn't know, but she couldn't allow him to think too much now. He had to use the time turner immediately, and it wouldn't be too late to think about it again after using it.

After putting the four extra converters into his waist pocket, he quickly hung the gold chain of the converter left in his hand around his neck and started to turn the small hourglass in the middle of the golden ring.

The moment Maka started to turn the hourglass, a loud "bang" sound suddenly appeared in his ear, as if someone had struck a gong with enough strength in his ear.

The strong discomfort made him frown immediately, but he did not stop his hands.

As the small hourglass rotated, everything around him seemed to be covered with an inexplicable layer of fog. The fog was not thick and had no color, but it made it impossible for him to see anything around him.

And then, when a large number of colorful objects entered his field of vision, he finally understood what the "four-dimensional vision" that his future self had mentioned a little bit was all about.

As time continued to go back, the colorful things that appeared in front of him were also growing longer and extending... extending from behind him to the front, and then from the front back to behind him, intricately and endlessly surrounding.

Long and winding things were left in his eyes.

Maka guessed that those long objects should all be human beings. They were the appearance of human beings in the four-dimensional world, which were the so-called "disgusting long worms" in the future.

If someone's spatial position at each point in time is fixed, such a scene will form.

But since humans exist like that in the four-dimensional world, what will it look like when I am using the time turner?

While he continued to turn the hourglass, he quickly turned his head and took a look.

No, there is nothing behind me. In other words, as a time traveler, I am not only free from time constraints, but also fixed on the original spatial coordinates.

But if this is the case, when the moment comes when he stops turning the hourglass, he will obviously be in a void universe, right?

Even if he has not learned any complicated theoretical knowledge, he still knows that the earth is rotating all the time. And it is not just a simple rotation. You know, it is still revolving around the sun!

If you think about it further...

No, before he could continue to think, the hourglass had already turned five times. Maka hurriedly put away the things in her mind, and immediately stopped moving her hands.

Suddenly, his vision suddenly shook, and his whole body twisted. Then, he realized that he was no longer in the Time Hall of the Department of Mysteries.

After hurriedly looking around, he discovered that he was standing on a hill near Hogwarts!

"...Was that the feeling of apparating just now?" Maka thought for a moment, then nodded again.

Maybe it's true, the whole body twisting that appeared at the end should be the disembodiment spell.

That unpleasant experience is like having your whole person stretched, flattened, and stuffed into a tube. Even if it's not apparation itself, it should be a similar way of moving in space.

After thinking for a moment, he confirmed this and understood that his previous worries were completely unnecessary. What's more, it's not like no one has used the time turner, so he was just imagining it on his own.

Time backtracking does not fix the traveler at a spatial coordinate, but goes backwards with the rotation of time. At the moment the backtracking ends, the traveler will be moved to his position at that point in time by the time converter.

Nearby, in order to escape from the coordinate point where I used to be.

After putting aside these messy issues about the relationship between time and space, Maka couldn't help but sigh. Because he found that even though he had experienced time travel once, he still couldn't figure out the key points. It can be imagined that the rules about time

Runes are far beyond what he can touch now.

Is this a second-level rule? No, this is definitely the depth that can only be achieved by those few third-level rule runes.

Although I have a strong desire for this kind of esoteric knowledge, it is obviously not the time to think too much now. It should be already past 4 o'clock in the morning, and in less than four hours, Voldemort and the body will fall to the ground.

Round mirror Grindelwald will follow.

There wasn't much time left for him.

Voldemort didn't need to think too much, Grindelwald was the target he wanted to deal with. Even though the deal never seemed to have any specific malice, he had to stop it.

But where Greenwald is now, he has no way of knowing.

Maka, who had a time converter hanging around her neck, could hear a slight but clear sound ringing continuously in her ears, "clicking, clicking" incessantly, with clear intervals.

This sound seemed to remind him all the time that time was marching mercilessly towards the terrible future step by step.

The first thing he can try to do is to evacuate the people in the castle.

However, as soon as Maka's right leg took a step, his whole body froze immediately. Time passed by second by second, but he was still unable to take the second step.

"...can't pass."

Yes, he couldn't go there. Because he found that if he entered Hogwarts at this point in time, he would definitely be noticed by himself at this point in time.

What would happen if your past self discovered your future self?

Maka, who had personally experienced a similar situation, immediately fell into hesitation for a while. He was not sure whether the death of his future self was due to this reason; he was also not sure whether the spherical three-dimensional rune array was due to this reason.

, does it also have the function of preventing this situation from happening?

I remember Dumbledore once told Hermione that during time travel, you need to avoid being exposed to the eyes of others as much as possible, especially your past self.

At this moment, Maka couldn't help but feel distressed about the fact that she could sense magic for the first time.

After he stayed in place for more than ten minutes, he deeply realized the difficulty of being a time traveler. A shackles called "rules" had already been placed heavily on him, a rule breaker.

The pressure on his body gave him the illusion that it was difficult to move even an inch.

It was only then that he finally realized how much effort the old Maka, who died in front of him, had to put in to break this indestructible shackles and come to him.

Now he doesn't even dare to say that he understands something. He just guesses that there must be countless problems that he doesn't understand. And in order to solve these problems, he will definitely spend at least his whole life.

After confronting his various fears for a long time, he sighed blankly.

While lamenting that he had been sighing a lot recently, he had no choice but to put the unknown dangers first, and on the premise of avoiding the worst possible situation from happening, he began to plan his next step.

road.

There were too many things he didn't understand. Just a time rule was much more complicated and complicated than all the topics he had studied so far. He had to force himself to be extremely cautious.

If you make a mistake and die in the past, nothing can be undone.

Maka looked around again. The snowy night scene and the cold air cheered him up. But no matter how refreshing the environment he was, he couldn't suppress the boredom in his heart.

After hesitating again for a moment, he simply waved away a piece of snow and sat on the ground.

Hogwarts was not far away in front of him, but he didn't dare to take a step closer there. Endless worries kept him from moving forward time and time again. Even though those worries might be just unnecessary speculations, he still found it difficult to move forward.

"At this moment... I should be still checking the rune array in the vestibule of the castle, right?" He thought to himself, then shook his head with a wry smile, "It's all in vain."

In this way, Maka pondered for two full hours on the snowy slope near Hogwarts. When a layer of gray light appeared faintly on the eastern hills, he realized that the dawn was no longer there.

Coming as expected.

"In that case, just intercept Grindelwald outside Hogwarts!"

Looking at the castle that gradually became clearer in the field of vision, Maca nodded silently and took out his staff. Counting the time, Dumbledore's funeral would begin after a while.