The Mysterious Unspeakable

"Hey, kid, why are you back again?"

On the second floor of the Hog's Head Inn, Aberforth's portrait looked at Kyle standing before it and said discontentedly, "You haven't forgotten, have you? Taking up space costs money too."

"Of course. Fifty Galleons, multiplied by ten. Professor Dumbledore will pick up the bill afterward," Kyle said with a faint sigh.

He had been thrown out by Professor McGonagall.

If he hadn't pointed out Professor McGonagall's intentions, perhaps he could have stayed at school by playing dumb. But the problem was that he had pointed them out, and Professor McGonagall had admitted it herself—she didn't want Kyle to remain at school.

As the person truly in charge of the school, if Professor McGonagall didn't want him there, Kyle really couldn't stay, no matter how many excuses he came up with.

Professor McGonagall had even used one of the school's secret passages to let him leave Hogwarts without alerting anyone... which was why he had appeared in the Hog's Head Inn.

Because the exit of that secret passage was here, while its entrance was in the Room of Requirement.

Dumbledore must have told her about it... so that when Hogwarts was in danger, she could use the passage to send the students away.

Professor McGonagall's meaning was also obvious. She wanted to use the Time-Turner herself to save Dumbledore, rather than let Kyle do it.

To ensure that nothing went wrong, the best course of action was to obtain the most crucial item first... that Time-Turner.

In fact, everything Professor McGonagall had told Kyle earlier was true.

She had indeed visited Nicolas Flamel's manor once when she was young.

At the time, Dumbledore had just become Hogwarts' headmaster. Perhaps he had been in high spirits, so when Mrs. Perenelle held her six-hundredth birthday