Repairing Ravenclaw's Diadem
The sound came so suddenly, and in this kind of room... Anyone with a weak heart would probably be frightened.
But Anne didn't turn around; her gaze remained fixed on the clocks. She asked, "Why did you come here?"
"You didn't follow, so I came to check if you were lost..."
Anne turned around, looked at the "Loony" who had been staring at her the whole way, and laughed:
"Luna, I'm not lost. Actually, if you keep walking forward from this room and go through that door, you can also reach the Hall of Prophecy that Harry is looking for."
"Why didn't you tell Harry?" Luna asked, her eyes still blurry with confusion. "He's in a hurry to save Sirius."
"That was just a trap, a trap Voldemort had carefully prepared for Harry," Anne explained.
Sirius wasn't captured at all, and he's not here.
Luna raised her golden eyebrows slightly.
Anne seemed to know what she was thinking and said softly, "You want to ask why I didn't tell Harry?"
Luna nodded.
"Professor Dumbledore asked Harry to learn Occlumency, and I warned him beforehand that Voldemort had already noticed and that he should not trust what he 'sees'."
Before arriving, Professor Snape also asked Harry to wait patiently.
Anne asked earnestly, "Did Harry hear that?"
Luna shook her head.
"You see... reckless, impulsive, and disregarding consequences, that's Harry now," Anne said, staring into Luna's gray eyes.
"A person must be able to do things, but also learn to bear the consequences... This trap is a lesson for Harry."
Luna squinted and began to think carefully.
"As for safety... you don't need to worry." Anne smiled slightly.
"Cedric will cast a Confundus Charm on Harry, making him 'lost' for a while, so he won't encounter the Death Eaters so quickly."
"I've also prepared a backup plan. Harry might get hurt, but he won't die."
Luna didn't speak, she just blinked.
She wasn't actually worried. Ever since she discovered that the person in front of her wasn't Anne, but William... Luna knew that this adventure wouldn't be too dangerous.
Perhaps it was a blind trust born from being so used to hearing Anne tell William's summer adventure stories...
"Aren't you going to ask me what I'm doing here?" William glanced at the girl suspiciously.
Luna wasn't too surprised that she realized she wasn't Anne.
The two are best friends, and Luna is also a natural-born Legilimency.
It would be strange if they couldn't even notice this.
As for Anne herself?
She took Polyjuice Potion and became Hermione, Hermione in turn became William... The two of them went together to the trial at the Merlin Memorial Hall.
William sensed something was amiss when Umbridge suddenly confessed and chose a location far from the Ministry of Magic for her trial.
This was completely unexpected; Umbridge had somehow become involved with the Death Eaters.
But it doesn't matter... we'll just play along.
Luna looked around the room curiously and asked, "Where is this place?"
"The Time Room of the Department of Mysteries." William stretched his shoulders.
He had transformed into Hermione many times, but this was the first time he had become Anne, and he was still somewhat unaccustomed to this body.
All I can say is... girls are all troublesome.
William didn't let Luna leave, but continued walking deeper into the room, with the girl following behind, seemingly wanting to see what he was up to.
William casually remarked:
"Luna, do you know when the Ministry of Magic was founded?"
"In 1692, the International Confederation of Wizards passed the International Statute of Secrecy, deciding to completely separate the Muggle World from the Wizarding World, and only then did United Kingdom establish the Ministry of Magic," Luna said after thinking for a moment.
Clearly, although Luna's brainwaves seemed to be on a different wavelength from everyone else, she was still paying attention in her History of Magic class.
"The Ministry of Magic had several locations considered... even Merlin Memorial Hall was one of the options," William said in a low voice, seemingly testing her.
"But in the end, I still chose this place. Do you know why?"
Luna thought for a moment and then brought out "Old Lovegood's Quotations":
"My dad says there's treasure and gold deep underground here."
William chuckled. "That's not entirely wrong... There is indeed treasure beneath the Ministry of Magic, but it's worth far more than gold."
That's right... it's the Department of Mysteries.
The Ministry of Magic chose this location because of a mysterious and powerful force underground.
William led Luna to the far end of the room, where a bell-shaped crystal glass dome stood.
The bell-shaped crystal glass dome stood on a table, filled with a swirling, Winky current of air.
"What is this?" Luna stared at the airflow with fascination.
"The power of time," William said, pointing to the egg in the glass case. "Look..."
Luna looked in the direction of the finger and saw a small, jewel-like egg floating in the air.
As it rose inside the glass dome, the egg cracked open with a snap, and a hummingbird emerged.
Hummingbirds, carried by rising air currents, begin to grow feathers, grow larger, and age.
As it descends with the airflow, the hummingbird gradually shrinks until it reaches the very bottom, where it hatches into an egg once more.
From birth to old age, and back to birth... the life of a hummingbird is thus presented to the two of them.
William suddenly reached out, through the bell-shaped glass dome, his hand sinking into the shimmering airflow.
Luna stared intently, her mouth slightly agape, seemingly quite surprised.
Because William's hand was growing very fast, and then wrinkles appeared on his skin, like an old man's hand... When it fell back to the bottom, it turned into a baby's hand.
William felt the wondrous power of time, and finally, at the point in time when it began to be inserted, it retracted.
"There's a power of time in this room," he said with a sigh.
"The wizards of the Department of Mysteries have been trying to understand this power, and they even invented the Hour-Reversal Charm."
That is, the principle of Time-Turner.
"What are you trying to do?" Luna asked William. "Do you want to take this power away?"
"I can't take it with me." William shook his head. "This power has been here for a long time."
The wizards couldn't take it with them, so they established the Ministry of Magic here.
William tapped the Safety Watch, took an item out of it, and then explained:
"I will use the power of this time to help repair a legendary magical item."
Luna looked closely and saw that it was a Scabbers Diadem with an inscription on it:
Exceptional wisdom is humanity's greatest treasure!
"Ravenclaw's Diadem?" The girl was utterly shocked.
The Diadem that had been missing for a thousand years was now in William's hands.
William didn't speak. He took out a small bottle of Felix Felicis, took a sip, and said:
"I might need some luck tonight... it's a skill."
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