It lasted until a seer divined Eloise's time travel.
Divination was an ability far more mysterious than magic itself, and the seer's prophecy left people disheartened—he had foreseen that the Mintab Family should have had twenty-five more descendants than it did now.
Yet in the actual history of the Mintab Family over the past five hundred years, there had never been any trace of those twenty-five people. They had never been born!
This meant that the Eloise incident had been fated from the very beginning, including the changes in time after her return!
Though the Eloise incident had originated from an accident, its impact had been far-reaching. It was the first documented case in the wizarding world of time travel spanning several centuries.
It was also the first time wizards had widely come to understand that time travel was not the answer to escaping destiny. Even within the cycle of fate, time travel itself was part of destiny.
But Dumbledore knew that Vaughn did not believe in fate!
Sure enough, amid the silence, he heard Vaughn say, "...This is a very interesting phenomenon. Time is like a circle formed by folding a line. All of us, every event, have been moving in circles within it all along... But I have a question. Has it been this way from the very beginning?"
"A few years ago, I read about a Soviet physicist's theory in a Muggle magazine. It was called the Novikov Self-Consistency Principle!"
"This theory was created to oppose parallel universes and parallel timelines. Its fundamental principle is simple: time and space are unique, and the past cannot be changed."
"But interestingly, it does not prohibit the existence of time travelers. It believes that throughout our long history, there have been countless time travelers. It does not even prohibit time