Getting to Austria was easy. Finding Nurmengard would be harder, and speaking with Grindelwald harder still. His best chance would probably come in a few years.
The plane soon landed at a secret airport in Britain where only private aircraft were allowed to land.
Will said goodbye to Hobert and told him he planned to spend some time studying magic. Hobert gave him a few hundred Galleons as spending money and told him to enjoy himself for a couple of days. He would visit Will after the Quidditch World Cup. Then he left with Lina, the Germanic beauty.
Yes, Lina had returned to England with Hobert, and the two of them planned to stay there a while. In fact, Hobert had spent five of his fewer than ten days in Germany with her.
As for Will? Someone escorted him home, where he immersed himself in the Hour-Reversal Charm...
He did not immediately investigate the Madsen Village incident or the Black Ring Wizards' Society. Instead, he threw himself into studying. After all, before he could research the Hour-Reversal Charm, he had to learn how to cast it.
Will never had enough time. Luckily, he had already begun studying the charm in Germany, or it would have taken even longer. Even so, he had only just mastered it by mid-August.
And by then, it was time for the Quidditch World Cup. (Note: See the end of this chapter for an explanation of the date.)
One morning, an elegant long-eared owl with silver-gray feathers brought Will a letter from Sylvia. Her handwriting was fluid and casual.
She wrote that her family would come to pick him up on the evening of the seventeenth. They would go to the Quidditch World Cup final the next morning.
On the seventeenth, he enjoyed a lavish