The air in the underground chamber was so thick it seemed you could wring water from it. A deep glow flickered at the tip of Ian's wand, illuminating the pale face opposite him.
Harry Potter.
Or rather, Voldemort's Remnant Soul occupying Harry's body. At that moment, the boy's eyes had become snake-like vertical pupils, and those cold eyes lacked both reason and emotion.
It had to be said.
Faced with such a scene.
Ian's emotions churned rather violently—if this was Harry and the Voldemort inside Harry, then what was the Harry lying in the ward under Nick LeMay's care?
An impostor?
No.
A magically created double might fool other wizards, perhaps even several Hogwarts professors, but it could never fool Nick LeMay, a Master Alchemist.
"So that must be Harry too..." As Ian thought this, he seemed to reach an understanding. He immediately sorted out his train of thought and frowned.
"You used the time machine to deceive Nick LeMay?" Ian recalled accidentally triggering the time machine. Harry Potter had been in Nick LeMay's office at the time.
If Harry Potter had uncovered the secret of the time machine, then Voldemort hidden within Harry Potter would clearly have learned what had happened in the alchemy office that night.
Although Nick LeMay had used a few tricks to coax Harry elsewhere in order to protect the time machine's secret, Harry's shallow understanding of the magical world allowing him to be fooled did not mean Voldemort was equally ignorant. Through Harry's memories of that night, Voldemort had likely already seen through and begun plotting to make use of this miraculous creation within Hogwarts.
"You are clever. Far cleverer than I imagined." Voldemort's response confirmed Ian's guess. He stared fixedly at the Young Wizard before him with an exceptionally gloomy gaze.
However.
He