Harry stared at those two lines, his mind buzzing.
Ezra Hughes... turned into a baby... the child in the Hospital Wing, Wade had also said "turned into a baby"...
Was it a coincidence? Had two, or even more, people been struck by Time Magic at the same time, with only that American Auror Office director making the papers?
Or... was the man in the news the same person as the baby in the Hospital Wing?
If it was the former, then this was far too terrifying—it meant that more people had suffered, and some might even have died without a sound.
If it was the latter... then why would a powerful wizard on the other side of the ocean have anything to do with Wade, a student studying at Hogwarts?
Countless questions bubbled up from Harry's chest like bubbles in a boiling kettle, making his head swell from all the thinking.
At a time like this, he really wished he could borrow Hermione's brain... or Michael's would do too...
Just then, Ron suddenly sucked in a sharp breath. "No way! Gellert Grindelwald? How did he get mixed up in this too?!"
The reason the news of the Auror Office director turning into a baby could only take up one line was naturally because the reporter had an even more explosive story to focus on.
The latter half of the report read:
[Most chilling of all, of course, was Gellert Grindelwald's appearance... Why had he personally acted on Niccolo Hawthorne's behalf? What profound and dark bond existed between them?
We cannot help but wonder whether the Time Magic secretly researched by Hawthorne had resonated with Grindelwald's dangerous ideas of old. Or perhaps the president of the Magical Congress of the United States of America himself was a piece Grindelwald had positioned