The Perfect Time-Turner? / A Mistaken Journey Through Time and Space

"Is that all you want to complain about?" Luna Lovegood rolled her eyes at Harry. "Don't you have anything to say about the fact that the child's mother is Ginny Weasley?"

"What can I explain?" Faced with Luna Lovegood's questioning, Harry rolled his eyes helplessly. "With such a ridiculous backstory, these two brats are obviously from another time. Only they're stupid enough to believe that this is their past."

Well, Harry now understands why Luna Lovegood suddenly got jealous of Ginny Weasley.

So she started acting up because the divination predicted this whole thing!

But Harry maintained that it was absolutely impossible!

Ginny Weasley... she's not even comparable to Hermione or Luna Lovegood, not even to Norberta. Harry could never have a child with her!

"I think there's something else that's more worth noting," Hermione said with a subtle smirk, also directed at Harry. "Think about these three children's names carefully. Have you noticed that they're all names of elders... except for Luna Lovegood?"

Indeed, the eldest and second sons of this person used the names of his father, godfather, Dumbledore, and Severus Snape, but the youngest daughter, in addition to being named after his mother, also used the name Luna Lovegood.

"Hmph, it seems... no matter the timeline, some people just can't give up on that Loony ~" Hermione glared at Harry. "As the person involved, shouldn't you explain your thought process when you chose that name?"

"It's actually quite simple; you just need to make an analogy," Luna Lovegood said casually before Harry could even speak. "He named his children after his elders, so in his heart... he might want me to be his godmother."

"Huh... is this an acceptable explanation?" Hermione was completely dumbfounded by the girl's train of thought.

"Alright, why are you getting more and more absurd? Instead of complaining, let's get down to business."

Harry menacingly reached out and ruffled the hair of both girls into a mess, while secretly cursing under his breath amidst their protests...

What kind of lousy names are these? He truly lives up to his nickname "Potter).

After a flurry of complaints, the three continued watching the memories playing in the crystal ball. Most of these were fragments of stories told by a couple about the child's growth, without many actual images.

Of course, it's fortunate there were no visuals, otherwise Harry would have definitely smashed the crystal ball!

Haha, this isn't a story, it's just a list of fallen soldiers!

Someone's eldest son was named after Sirius, right... but Sirius is gone now.

This brat in front of me is named after Albus Dumbledore and Severus Snape... but they're both gone now.

Someone also had a godson, Teddy Lupin, who, as the name suggests, was Lupin and Tonks' child, which was something to celebrate... and then the couple also passed away.

After that, there Dobby, the House-elf who loved freedom and was almost like a brother to Harry... He was gone too!

Besides these, there are many others, such as Colin, Fred...

What's ironic is that Harry didn't learn about the deaths of many people from the memories of this bratty kid named Albus Severus Potter, but rather from the memories of another bratty kid... Scorpius Malfoy.

It seems this person rarely talks about the past with their children, which is understandable.

What's the point of bringing up that past? So many people died because of him, and he couldn't even protect an owl!

Even Hedwig had to shield him from the Killing Curse!!

"Let's continue..."

Harry had no idea how he managed to suppress his anger and the profanities that threatened to spill out as he watched all this, but he had no time to wonder why those two brats had traveled through time.

He wanted to keep watching, to see just how many more outrageous and infuriating things had happened in that damned timeline!

However, upon closer inspection, there were quite a few shocking revelations...

"This is impossible?!"

This time, it was Hermione who screamed, because she discovered that in the memories of the brat Potter, she was actually his aunt!

She actually married Ron Weasley, someone she had almost no connection with!

No... what a joke! Why would I choose that guy over Harry who's right beside me?

And according to the child's father's secret revelation, it was actually Ron Weasley whom he actively pursued?!

After getting married, the couple frequently argued due to personality clashes, sometimes requiring counseling to help resolve the issues...

Isn't it obvious that I was blind back then?!

Oh, and besides this utterly ridiculous marriage, I've also become the Minister of Ministry of Magic... Seriously, that's absurd!

Hermione couldn't believe she was working with a bunch of con artists and idiots, and had to put up with all the clamor from a group of former Pure-blood, all without even having to pull out her wand and shoot them all?!

Join the Ministry of Magic?

She would never do it, unless Harry asked her to.

"So, perhaps having no memories is the luckiest thing..."

As for Luna Lovegood, she was somewhat relieved that the brat, Potter, didn't have any memories related to her... at least she wouldn't be as speechless and furious as the Know-it-all.

However, privately, she also felt a little disappointed.

Has that person over there stopped mentioning themselves to their family much after getting married...?

Chapter 732 The Perfect Time-Turner?

After roughly reviewing the memories of the two mischievous kids, it's absolutely impossible for Harry not to be upset.

It's truly a miracle that someone, as the main character, could turn a winning situation into such a game.

But what truly infuriated Harry was not the departure of those important people, but the fact that he couldn't find a single useful word in the child's memory!

He only knew that Sirius, Severus Snape, Lupin, and the others were all gone, but he had no idea how they had left!

It seems that every time these people are mentioned, that guy always invariably bestows upon them the title of 'great,' then laments, 'They have left us forever,' or perhaps adds some Ravenclaw's Diadem phrase...

But they will always be with us.

Screw you!

If you want them to stay by your side forever, then don't let them die!!

Besides these, there are many other unsettling and ambiguous matters, such as why Hermione married Ron Weasley?

For example, why did that guy gradually lose contact with Luna Lovegood...?

Perhaps, of all the things that happened in that timeline, the only thing Harry wasn't curious about was why that person married Ginny Weasley and how that brat was born... because it had absolutely nothing to do with Harry!

In short, there were so many things to complain about that the fact that this brat was sorted into Slytherin and became best friends with Draco Malfoy's child became less important.

Of course, Harry didn't really care about this kind of thing.

To reiterate, he has no prejudice against Slytherin House.

The Britain Wizarding World is just a tiny society of a few thousand people, probably smaller than the average university campus in China. Therefore, interpersonal relationships can be precisely defined down to the individual level.

Not all Slytherin students are scoundrels; it's just that those who frequently appear in public happen to be the type who court disaster.

So Harry simply couldn't be bothered to find out how these two brats, whose fathers were rivals, went from being like-minded to being birds of a feather.

All he wants now is to find the child's father and beat that guy to a pulp!

This ending isn't a happy ending at all, is it?

Good grief, being the male protagonist in a children's book means not only does everyone have to revolve around you, but they all have to die for you?!

Bloody hell, Blood Ma is awesome!

"Harry, don't think too much about it." Hermione stepped forward and gently tugged at Harry's sleeve. "After all, that didn't happen here. Sirius and the others, and us... aren't we still here?"

To be honest, Hermione's feelings right now are the same as Harry's —a mixture of shock and anger... not only about what happened in that timeline, but also about the existence of that timeline itself.

But she knew that Harry must be feeling even worse than she was right now.

Because the 'he' there clearly lost more people he cherished than the 'he' of today.

No, it should be said that they lost almost everything, including themselves and Luna Lovegood...

"I know..." Harry nodded gently, trying to calm himself down and not want Hermione to continue worrying.

"Oh dear, it seems we misinterpreted the previous Prophecy ~" Luna Lovegood exclaimed for no apparent reason.

A hint of hidden joy appeared in her eyes, but at the same time, new doubts arose.

'If it wasn't Ginny Weasley, then who was it?'

Luna Lovegood subconsciously looked at the crystal ball in front of her, and for the first time felt as if her eyes were covered by a thick fog, and she couldn't see anything clearly at all.

If the Graphorn doesn't represent this branch of the alternate dimension, and the third snake head isn't that person... then what will happen next?

"Alright, let's get down to business." Harry had already composed himself. "It seems we need to be careful with the third match of the Triwizard Tournament."

It's quite a rare find that we managed to extract information about the Triwizard Tournament from the mind of the mischievous kid, Potter.

Unlike everything they are experiencing now, in that timeline, it was Harry Potter, not Hermione, who became Hogwarts' fourth Champion and, together with Cedric Diggory, seized the Triwizard Cup in the maze of the Third Game.

As it turned out, the trophy was made into a Portkey, which teleported the two of them directly to Little Hangleton's grave... the place where Voldemort's father is buried.

There, Voldemort finally completed his plan to resurrect his physical body, and Cedric Diggory met a tragic end in front of Harry Potter.

Another name added to the list of the dead, what a pity...

Harry always thought Cedric Diggory was a rare talent among Britain wizards, and even believed that he might become the head of Hufflepuff House someday, but he just died like that.

The two mischievous kids' initial intentions weren't bad; they wanted to save Cedric Diggory, which is why they wanted to travel through time.

However, not only did they wear the wrong clothes, but their methods were also incredibly childish... They actually hoped to disrupt Cedric Diggory's progress and prevent him from taking the lead. Their thought process is definitely inherited from their father!

"I think there's something else fishy about the other person," Hermione said seriously. "Delphi Diggory, supposedly Cedric Diggory's cousin, is supposedly the one who's been helping these two kids the whole time, but she didn't come with them."

"This person is definitely suspicious; her identity is absolutely fabricated!" Harry nodded firmly. "I know Cedric Diggory's family very well; he's never had a cousin as a relative!"

Cedric Diggory was definitely one of Harry's few good friends at school, so he naturally knew quite a bit about Cedric's family.

As far as Harry knew, the Diggory couple didn't have any other siblings, so it was impossible for Cedric Diggory to conjure up a cousin out of thin air!

"And then there's that Time-Turner," Luna Lovegood said, pointing to the old pocket watch on the table. "It's very different from any Time-Turner we know. While traveling through time, these two kids also used it to span several decades... But isn't it only supposed to go back a few hours?"

"Using Time-Turner does allow for long-distance time travel, but it has very serious consequences," Harry said, shaking his head slightly. "When people travel from the past back to the present, their bodies age rapidly, causing a series of serious disorders. It can even cause many people who should have existed to disappear on the spot because they were never born!"

"But this Time-Turner isn't like that," Hermione interjected, frowning. "And if we disregard the time travel aspect for now, it seems that when these two children decided to use it, they already knew it could travel to any point in the past, and that they wouldn't be harmed by it."

"As you can see, this is almost a perfect Time-Turner. Apart from the limitation of only being able to stay in the 'past' for five minutes, it has absolutely no drawbacks!"

Chapter 733 A Farce of Time Travel

Hermione was right. Functionally speaking, the Time-Turner they captured, though it looked dilapidated, was indeed much more powerful than the one they had used before.

Clearly, the person who created this Time-Turner originally intended to break the shackles of the Hour-Reversal Charm and achieve true 'time travel,' rather than the current 'time reversal.'

Harry had studied the Time-Turner, and because his captor August Rookwood was once an Unspeakable of the Department of Mysteries, he also had some knowledge of the Hour-Reversal Charm and time travel.

The Hour-Reversal Charm can only rewind a limited amount of time, just one hour. This spell is extremely unstable, so it must be sealed in a special hourglass enchanted with magic. This is how the Time-Turner was made.

Based on current observations, the longest possible backtracking time that will not have a serious impact on the user or time itself is approximately five hours.

If this time limit is exceeded, it could very likely lead to catastrophic consequences.

The Ministry of Magic's most serious accident to date was that of Eloise Minttab, a wizard who died in 1899. She was one of the Unspeakable of the Department of Mysteries, and her main job was to study time travel.

In one of her time travel experiments, she unleashed a spell that caused the Time-Turner to spin forward 4.35 million times, taking her directly from 1899 back to 1402, five centuries earlier!

She was trapped in the distant past for five days, and was eventually thrown back into the present due to the repulsion of the time rules. Her body aged rapidly to nearly 500 years old, and she ultimately died in St. Mungo's Hospital despite all efforts to save her.

Her accident also directly led the Ministry of Magic to halt all time-related magical research from that year onwards, and to seal away all Time-Turner that existed at that time!

Since then, the specific methods for casting the Hour-Reversal Charm and the craftsmanship of the Time-Turner have ceased to be passed down, even within the Department of Mysteries.

To date, the only wizard in the Britain Wizarding World who might understand these techniques is Professor Unspeakable and the Head of the Time Chamber.

However, it now appears that the Time-Turner in the hands of these two mischievous children operate on a principle that is clearly different from existing technology.

It truly allows users to travel through time, rather than going back to the past. The years that have passed from the past to the present will not cause users to age rapidly, and their bodies and ages will remain the same.

As for the fact that you can only stay for five minutes after traveling through time, it's more accurate to call it a flaw rather than a limitation.

Judging from the dilapidated state of this Time-Turner, it is likely just a defective product or an experimental one, which is why it can only travel for five minutes at most.

Of course, there's an even stranger problem: something that was supposed to be used for time travel ended up mysteriously traveling through time... But Harry simply didn't want to think about that.

Breaking the framework of the Hour-Reversal Charm might be achievable through painstaking research, but transcending time and space is simply a power that a wizard could never possess!

There are no parallel universes in Harry Potter. Harry has always been clear about this. He has used the Time-Turner many times to correct the past, and each correction has an effect on the present. It will never create any branching universes!

What's more, these two brats are 14 years old this year, and their world is already in 2019, so their timelines are completely out of sync.