Chapter 472
: The Ministry of Magic
Chapter 472: The Ministry of Magic
"So...Khalil...Khalil has already..."
Hermione touched the time-turner that she had recovered and couldn't bear to say the word "death".
Vader nodded.
The two of them leaned against the corridor, watching the classmates walking on the lawn and basking in the sun, and did not speak for a long time.
Regardless of whether they were close or not, the sudden departure of a classmate still made people feel abrupt and sad. Moreover, Caryl usually got along well with Hermione and the others, and his outgoing personality made him very popular in Gryffindor.
So even though Hermione was devastated when she woke up in the school infirmary and found that the time converter was missing, she could not blame him at all at this moment, and she only felt sorry for him.
But they cannot share this feeling with others, because they cannot tell others about the existence of the time turner.
"I don't know how to say this, but I...I know he was wrong, but I can understand him, do you understand, Vader?"
Hermione said in a low voice: "If it were me...if it were me...I would probably make the same choice as him..."
Wade didn't respond. He looked at the forest in the distance, and the cold corpse in the morgue flashed through his mind.
At that moment, Vader felt a deep awe for the power of time and the time converter.
The time-turner allows them to go back in time, but it cannot reverse cause and effect, and it seems to be part of the law of causality itself.
Just as the past that Khalil longs to change is actually his own future, if he wants to save his mother, he has to go to that ending himself.
Wade rubbed his arms, turned to Hermione and asked, "Want to go play in the maze for a while?"
"Play?" Hermione frowned. "I still have a paper on Animagus to write, and Professor Flitwick asked me to write a spell to break the curse..."
She felt anxious when she talked about homework. In the past, she would have run back and started flipping through her books, but today she couldn't muster the energy.
Hermione pursed her lips and looked at Wade. She saw Wade looking sideways at her and raising his eyebrows. His eyes seemed to say, "--So?"
Hermione let out a long breath, dropped her shoulders and said, "Screw the homework! Let's go!"
Vader laughed.
The two walked into the maze. The one guarding here today was Professor Trocca. He sat on Hagrid's tall chair, looking like a child who had secretly climbed onto an adult's stool.
Professor Troka was staring at a few Bowtruckles on the bushes. When he heard footsteps, he lowered his head and said, "The previous group will be out in five minutes. Wait a moment... Oh, you two."
Professor Trocca saw Vader and Hermione clearly and smiled, "Didn't go to Hogsmeade?"
"No." Hermione sighed. "I'm too busy."
"Professor, we want to go to a more difficult area," said Wade.
"Just the two of you?" Professor Trocca asked.
"Yes." Hermione asked, "Can I?"
"Of course you can. If you encounter danger, you must send out a signal. You all know spark magic, right..." Professor Troka tapped his head halfway through his speech and sighed, "Look at what I'm saying. Of course you know it."
"Is there something worrying you, Professor Trocca?" Hermione asked.
"No... of course not..."
Troka said as he sighed.
——Apart from the fact that his nephew was a wanted criminal and no one knew where he had gone, and the constant worry that his identity as a vampire would be exposed, and the worry that the curse of the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor had been passed on to his unlucky nephew, he certainly had no other worries.
"Oh, those kids left early, you can go in."
Professor Trocca knocked on the bush wall with his wand, and an arched entrance suddenly appeared. Wade and Hermione each hung a bowtruckle on their bodies, then drew their wands and walked into the maze.
The walls on both sides moved slowly, and after a while, an entrance appeared on the left side of the originally closed road section. It was the passage to an area with a higher danger level.
It's said that the danger level is higher, but in fact there are just a few more traps, a few more puzzles, and a few more magical creatures that can cause harm to people. The school recently placed some enlarged and aggressive puppets into the maze.
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Of course, there are enlarged insects, which have become a feature of the Hogwarts maze game.
Avoid hidden traps on the ground, solve puzzles, push rocks aside and access hidden paths.
A Kaba lying in the pool suddenly stretched out its palm, trying to grab Wade's ankle, but it was instantly hit by a spell of light, screaming and diving into the muddy water. A huge praying mantis jumped down from above, and Hermione screamed, flicked her wand, and blew the guy in half.
Suddenly, a rustling sound came from all directions. A large group of ants crawled over from both ends of the maze. Some climbed over the walls and approached from above and on both sides along the bushes.
The Bowtruckle on Wade's shoulder covered his eyes with his little paws, as if he couldn't bear to watch the cruel scene that was about to happen.
"Don't worry." Wade picked it up and put it in his pocket, saying, "A fire can solve it."
He shook his wand and was about to use a fire spell he had recently researched, but Hermione stood in front of him.
"Wait, Wade," Hermione said, "Let me try first!"
Wade was stunned for a moment, then said, "Well, okay."
Hermione pointed her wand and said, "Petrification! Flames! Break into pieces! Explode your weapons! Shrink quickly! Shrink quickly!"
Ants flew out one after another. At first, Wade was worried that Hermione would not be able to handle it with her adaptability, but then he found that the girl was gritting her teeth, as if she had completely forgotten her fear and was only focused on attacking.
Wade blocked the ants coming from other directions and cast spells wantonly. Looking at the "enemy troops" in front of him being knocked away in rows, his depressed mood seemed to be relieved.
After the ants, they also encountered beetles as big as hounds, sneak attacks from red caps, groups of mice, and a devil's vine that suddenly jumped out of the bushes.
When they walked out of the maze, although their clothes were much dirtier, the expressions on their faces were obviously much more relaxed.
The Bowtruckle jumped down from their shoulders, grabbed the parchment with his little paws, and quickly wrote down the score the two of them could get from this "breakthrough".
"It seems that games really make people happy?" Professor Troka smiled as he recorded the scores: "You are all very good students, but it is also important to combine work and rest."
"It's okay. Rest time is like water in a sponge. There's always more if you squeeze it." Hermione said trying hard.
"Listen to me, kid, you should put down those endless books and go back to have a good sleep." Professor Troka frowned and said, "Look at the dark circles under your eyes. It's not a good thing to consume yourself like this."
"I know... Actually, after this semester is over, I plan to drop two courses..."
Before Hermione finished speaking, she heard someone next to her say, "It's great that you think so...but now that you've made a decision, why don't you change your schedule from now on?"
Wade turned his head and saw that the person who was speaking was a tall man in a black robe. His face was pale as if he had not seen the sun for many years. His expression was serious, and his pair of blue eyes were a little dazed, as if they were out of focus.
He looked at the top of the other person's head and frowned slightly.
Professor Trocca got down from his high chair and asked, "Excuse me, who are you?"
"This is Mr. Broderick Bode of the Ministry of Magic." Professor McGonagall appeared and introduced him in a stern tone, then said, "Ms. Granger, Mr. Bode wants to see you."
"Okay...ok," Hermione said uneasily.
"What is it?" Wade said, "If it's related to Khalil... Mr. Bode, maybe you should look for me."
Bode turned his gaze to Wade, and his eyes flashed when he saw the young man pull a section of the gold chain out of his clothes.
"Ved Grey?" He nodded and said, "I heard that you are also one of the parties involved and can participate."
Several people came to a small lounge next to the maze, and Bode said straight to the point: "Miss Granger, this morning, your time converter was lost once, is that right?"
"Yes," Hermione gritted her teeth and said, "Khalil knocked me out and stole my Time-Turner."
"But he didn't make any significant impact on history," Weider added.
"Yes, thank Merlin, thank Kronos (the God of Time)." Bode said expressionlessly: "He did not change the known history without authorization. This is why I came to the school to find you instead of sending you all to the trial seat."
"Please be careful with your words, Bode." Professor McGonagall said unhappily, "Miss Granger is a very serious and hard-working student. She has goodwill and trust in her classmates and nothing wrong! As for Caryl who made the mistake... he died a year ago, and was careful to avoid interfering with the time."
The witch tried to suppress her sadness and argued for her students. Hermione looked at her gratefully.
"In fact, the impact has already occurred, but most people have not noticed it."
Bode said coldly: "The Ministry of Magic has detected that today's time will be about thirteen minutes shorter than normal, seven minutes shorter tomorrow, and two minutes and thirty-seven seconds shorter the day after tomorrow... until two weeks later, the time will be shortened to 1.8 nanoseconds. By then, the time disturbance will gradually subside."
"Considering the possible dire consequences of this behavior, Miss Granger, I am afraid that you cannot keep the Time Turner in your hand any longer. This is a decision agreed upon by the vast majority of the Unspoken people in the Department of Mysteries."
(End of this chapter)