Dumbledore raised his head and said gravely, "I think you... no, we have run into a problem."
"What happened?"
"You said I found the Time-Turner in Cornelius's office and then gave it to you, but... Scrimgeour just searched the Minister's Office from top to bottom and found no Time-Turner."
Chapter 256: Ariana
Edward froze. This really was... quite a surprise.
"Either something unexpected happened and someone took the Time-Turner that should have been there, or it was never found there at all, and my future self simply made that up."
Grindelwald spoke up. "Those two possibilities actually amount to the same thing. As long as we find another Time-Turner before you meet Albus on the twenty-fifth, there won't be any problem."
Edward immediately understood what he meant. It came back to the same principle:
As long as you knew nothing about something in the past, it was as good as never having happened. Even what you knew might not be true. You only needed to make its outcome match what you knew in the future.
"I think I understand."
Edward took out the Time-Turner and sat down on the sofa, then took out a quill and parchment and wrote his divination statement: "The origin of this Time-Turner."
"The origin of this Time-Turner."
"The origin of this Time-Turner."
"The origin of this Time-Turner."
After silently repeating it seven times, Edward leaned back and entered a dream.
Darkness filled his vision once again. As a faint light appeared, a blurry image gradually emerged in the dream. Then the view slowly drew closer, revealing a luxurious manor-Malfoy Manor.
The scene shattered and shifted. Edward entered the Malfoy family's villa and said something to Lucius, whose expression was astonished.
The scene shattered and shifted. A woman in a white dress appeared. She approached slowly,