Caught by Snape

On a Timeline that had once existed but had now become a mirage, Sean Wallerup had already died...

It was a bold guess, but Sean felt that it made some sense.

Every study concerning time mentioned that history could not be changed, the dead would not return to life, and time would ultimately become a closed loop.

But Grindelwald had already proven that history could be changed—so long as one could bear the price of being watched by the World Will.

Yet time would inevitably form a closed loop. That was a settled conclusion.

There was no such thing as parallel worlds. There were only branches of time that had once occurred, remaining at some node in the river of time as branches of the entire world.

For various reasons, those branches had failed to continue developing. For instance, Grindelwald's journey through a hundred years, or some other method Sean did not know about.

After history was drastically altered, the branch would come to a complete halt, then merge into the river of time and become a mirage.

Of course, everything left traces. That branch of time would leave something behind as well. For example, Grindelwald's extra hundred years of experience, the Qilin blood and another shattered Blood Pact he had brought back, and that fragment that remained incomplete yet caused Sean unbearable pain—that was the Blood Pact belonging to Sean on another Timeline.

So Sean believed that, on a Timeline that had once existed, he had already died...

However, that death had become almost laughable because history had changed and time had closed into a loop again. Sean's soul itself had also been affected by that other Timeline—because the soul did not change.

Sean had none of the other Timeline's memories, spells, magic, or emotions, but he had only