The Admiral of Hogwarts

"My Time-Turner seems to be broken." The moment Hermione took out the Time-Turner, she realized something was wrong.

Hugo saw Hermione pull out a long, delicate gold chain from under her robes, with a small, gleaming golden hourglass hanging from it.

This was also the first time Hugo had seen such a precious magical artifact in person. However, unlike what he had seen in movies in his previous life, this hourglass wasn't filled with sand, but with a pure golden liquid.

"Your bracelet is also malfunctioning." Just then, Victory's voice came through the Admiral Network.

Hearing Victory's reminder, Hugo slightly pulled up his sleeve and discovered that the bracelet, originally made from the branches of a sacred oak tree and the scales of red and white dragons, had turned an unsightly gray-black color.

"This is…" Hugo turned to look at Victory. "Did you think a Time-Turner comes without a price?" Victory explained quickly. "The more powerful the being trying to travel through time, the greater the price they have to pay, and this bracelet is your price."

"Of course, the power contained in just one bracelet is far from enough. So, I guess the golden chain that was wrapped around that rat's body back then is the core reason for all of this now."

"I see." Hugo nodded, suddenly understanding.

He had always been curious as to why there was such a way to travel through time and space, but neither Voldemort nor Dumbledore ever used it. Now it seemed it wasn't that they didn't want to, but that they couldn't.

As for the golden chain wrapped around Peter, although Hugo couldn't guess the specific origin of that thing, he estimated that it should have been found in Hogwarts Castle.

After all, this castle has a history of thousands of years, and many secrets are hidden within. Therefore, Peter, in his rat form, was very likely to have found some treasures left by his predecessors from some unknown corner.

Of course, there was also good news. For example, because of Victory's presence, the most dangerous temporal effects wouldn't exist.

According to Victory, because the Victory-class sailing warship, which she was based on, existed in this era, she herself was a part of history here.

And because of the connection between her and Hugo, as well as the blood connection between Hugo and Hermione, Victory could protect the Granger siblings through some means, preventing the future world from undergoing some huge changes due to the two people's actions.

You should know that these changes are sometimes fatal. For example, in history, which is their current year of 1899, a Unspeakable from the Department of Mysteries named Eloise Mintumble was trapped in 1402 for five days.

When she returned to the present, her body had aged five centuries. Because the scars left by time could not be healed, she soon died of illness in the magical hospital.

At the same time, during these five days, the life trajectories of everyone she encountered had changed. The descendants of at least 25 people were never born, and the life traces of more people had changed.

The most worrying thing was that after Eloise returned to the present, Tuesday lasted for two and a half days, while Thursday was only four hours long.

So, from then on, the Ministry of Magic directly prohibited the study of time and established strict, even harsh, legal regulations on the use of such things.

"By the way, you two should change your clothes first." Just as Hugo and Hermione were wondering how they got here, Victory opened her ship equipment space and took out a large pile of clothes.

After all, the two people's clothes had been severely weathered before. In order to avoid the clothes on their bodies directly turning into beggar's clothes in a while, Hugo took the new clothes and was driven out of the bushes by the two ladies to change clothes.

For ship girls, carrying a set of Admiral's clothing with them is a very normal thing, so Hugo quickly put on a very fitting Victorian-style men's suit.

However, the situation on Hermione's side was a bit bad. Victory naturally wouldn't have her clothes prepared. So, in the end, Hermione looked a bit baggy after putting on Victory's own clothes.

"Don't laugh!" Seeing Hugo, who was smiling as he came over from the bushes, Hermione immediately glared at her brother, and then looked at Victory with a worried face. "Victory, what exactly happened to us?"

"It should be the conflict of different magical qualities that caused the serious damage to this Time-Turner." Victory looked carefully at the Time-Turner in her hand and said.

"You know, since the serious accident in 1899, all Time-Turners have been strictly regulated. In addition to having you sign a series of documents, these converters themselves have also been set up with multiple defenses."

"To give you the simplest example, a powerful magical restriction has been set on Hermione's Time-Turner to prevent users from deliberately or unintentionally using these Time-Turners beyond their limits."

"If I'm not mistaken, the ban on yours was set by an Unspeakable. Unless the user can have magic three times stronger than Professor Flitwick, otherwise, it can only send people back 3 to 4 hours at most."

"But we have traveled almost 100 years!" Speaking of this, Hermione was about to cry.

Because when Professor McGonagall gave this thing to Hermione, she specifically reminded her of the consequences of misusing this thing. Among them, she specifically used Eloise Mintumble's example as a counter-example.

Although Hermione usually appears calm and mature, she is only a 13-year-old girl now. The thought of lying in a hospital with wrinkled skin and white hair waiting to die naturally made her unable to hold back.

"Don't worry, as long as we hide and try to see as few people as possible and release as little magic as possible, those problems won't happen." Victory smiled and touched Hermione's hair and said.

"You won't encounter such a bad thing under my protection, because I exist in this era, so under my protection you are also equivalent to people who originally lived in this time period."

"Originally lived in this time period!" Hermione, who was originally sniffling, widened her eyes after hearing what Victory said, and then looked at her with disbelief. "But this is 1899—"

"I was born in 1778." A smile that resembled a successful prank appeared on Victory's face. "So, I'm already over two hundred years old."

"Is she kidding?" Hermione turned to look at Hugo and asked. "I remember that even Nicholas Flamel can only achieve immortality with the help of the Philosopher's Stone, but he can't achieve agelessness at all."

"Victory isn't kidding." Hugo smiled and shook his head. "She is indeed over two hundred years old now, and we actually went to see her specially when we were in the third grade of elementary school."

"Are you kidding too?" Hermione widened her eyes in surprise and looked at Victory. She felt that under normal circumstances, as long as she had met her once, she would not forget such a beautiful woman with silver hair, purple eyes, and an eye patch.

But now, after desperately searching her memories from a few years ago, she found that there was no memory of this woman in her memory.

"Don't tease your sister, my dear Admiral." Seeing Hermione racking her brains to think about her identity, Victory first communicated with Hugo through the Admiral Network, and then gave Hermione a salute.

"The British Royal Navy first-rate sailing battleship Victory salutes you! Respect for the soul and the sea."