The Goal Was Basically Accomplished

Yinsen had not figured out how he had done it in his haste, but he finally understood why his research into the power of time had made no progress.

He had gotten one thing wrong: Yinsen had habitually regarded time as a great river that constantly pushed everything floating upon it forward.

But he had been mistaken about one thing: time was not "singular."

He had only just realized this. Before, he had always wanted to "connect" to the so-called River of Time, then find some object moving forward within it and return it to where it had once been or where it would be in the future.

Now he understood that every object possessed a river of time entirely unique to itself. What he needed to do was not connect to a great river and search for something within it, but use his own power to "connect" an item with the river of time it had experienced, then "operate" upon that object's own time river.

He had thought of that, but he still did not know exactly how to do it. The replay of the chess pieces on the board before him had actually occurred spontaneously due to some residual temporal fluctuations on Hermione's body. It had not been an effect Yinsen had consciously controlled.

Moreover, muddleheadedly "connecting" to a river of time was not without side effects. Yinsen felt a little dizzy, much like seasickness...

"How ironic. I never got seasick, even on stormy oceans, yet a little river has made me dizzy."

Although Ron, Harry, and Hermione were all curious about how Yinsen had done that just now, they noticed that his complexion did not look good. The kind Gryffindor lions immediately asked about his condition with concern.

"Do you want us to take you to the