The towering bookshelves were filled with ancient books and scrolls.
All manner of rare treasures and alchemical equipment lay arranged across the workbench, while the enormous clock symbolizing the mysteries of alchemy continued ticking softly beside Ian.
"Ian, are you all right?"
Seeing Ian return, Harry Potter hurried over with great relief. "You really scared me. I only took a moment to wipe my glasses, and you vanished in a flash."
"If I hadn't been unable to take this giant clock apart, I would've crawled inside to see whether you were playing hide-and-seek with me." Mr. Savior clearly still thought like a Muggle.
His first reaction had not been that Ian had been transported somewhere else by magic.
"Were you the one who found the two professors?"
Ian raised his hands and looked at them. He had not managed to bring anything back from the past, and the grains of sand that had clung to him before had now vanished without a trace.
He did not know whether that was some rule of time travel or related to certain restrictions of the Room of Requirement.
"Yes, that's right. Once I realized you might have run into some kind of accident, I immediately went to find Professor McGonagall. She took me to Professor LeMay and Professor Dumbledore."
"The two of them fiddled around in front of this giant clock for ages before they finally managed to turn you back... Can you tell me where this clock took you?" Harry Potter was not trying to claim credit. He was simply curious about what Ian had gone through.
"To a place airplanes and rockets can't reach." Ian glanced back at the giant clock behind him. He was genuinely a little embarrassed to talk about what had happened to him.
"Perhaps even Ian himself