Chapter 822: failed memory retrieval

Chapter 822: failed memory retrieval

Chapter 822 Failed memory retrieval

 It was evening. Professor McGonagall had had dinner after a busy day and was going back to the office to have a good rest.

Professor Dumbledore was away, and there was no one to help. The whole school affairs were all on her shoulders. In addition, she had to be responsible for the courses of seven grades. Even Professor McGonagall, who was used to this kind of life, was unavoidable. You will feel a little tired.

While passing by Slughorn's office, she clearly heard bursts of laughter coming from inside.

　　Seemingly feeling that the crisis was over, Slughorn once again started hosting his classic dinner parties.

 Professor McGonagall shook her head and walked over quickly.

　　It was so leisurely... No one in the whole school made her worry free, especially this Slughorn. Even though he had clearly rejected it twice, he still sent in an application to buy an automatic stirring crucible yesterday.

He didn’t even think about how the school director could spend money to buy such expensive things.

 Professor McGonagall returned to her office all the way. Just when she was about to close the door, she suddenly noticed an owl on the railing.

It is not unusual to see owls in Hogwarts. These messengers shuttle back and forth to the school every day, delivering letters and packages. It would be a rare thing if you don't see them on any day.

 But this one was different, and Professor McGonagall had a vague feeling that something was wrong with it.

"Who are you!"

She immediately pulled out her wand and her eyes became sharp.

 “Don’t get excited, Professor,” said the owl.

Professor McGonagall was stunned for a moment. The voice sounded familiar to her. After thinking for a moment, she tentatively asked: "Kyle?"

"it's me."

 The owl jumped off the railing, and its body began to expand rapidly. The feathers all over its body were connected together, and it returned to the shape of a robe.

"Wait a moment." Professor McGonagall did not relax her vigilance because of Kyle's appearance, and asked sternly: "What did Miss Granger want to do when we saw her last time?"

“Submit an article for Transfiguration Today,” Kyle said. “She wants to try to see if she can win the Most Promising Newcomer Award before graduation.”

 Professor McGonagall nodded and put away her wand.

“I have to check,” she said. “What do you mean?”

“In order to avoid the eyes and ears of the Death Eaters around the school.” Kyle gave an overview of the situation in the Pig Head Bar, “Under the circumstances, turning into an owl was the best choice.

 “I thought I was getting pretty good, but I didn’t expect you to see through it at a glance.”

“The magical traces of human body transformation are so heavy that anyone proficient in transfiguration can see through them at a glance.”

"Fortunately, there are no such people among the Death Eater spies." Kyle said somewhat thankfully.

"But why did you use transformation to avoid their detection." Professor McGonagall asked doubtfully: "Wouldn't it be more convenient to let the Phoenix bring you here directly?"

“There are some special circumstances, and the Phoenix is ​​temporarily unable to take me to Apparition.” Kyle said.

"Special circumstances... what does this mean?" Professor McGonagall asked nervously: "Did the Death Eaters do something else when we didn't know about it?"

"No, it has nothing to do with this." Kyle shook his head, "It's about Professor Dumbledore."

 “Dumbledore...what happened to him?”

"This is not the place to talk. Go to the principal's office and I will explain." Kyle said, "But before that, please wait a moment while I look for my wand."

Kyle rummaged through his robe with his hands.

Since the human body was deformed, it was impossible to hide the wand, so he could only hide the wand in the fluffy and thick feathers of the owl. After the feathers turned into robes again, the position naturally changed.

After searching for a while, Kyle finally found his wand behind his shoulder.

"If you learned the Animagus, this embarrassing situation wouldn't happen." Professor McGonagall couldn't help but laugh.

"But if I use an Animagus, it won't necessarily be an owl." Kyle shrugged.

 Then he hid his figure and came to the principal's office on the eighth floor with Professor McGonagall.

"Now you can tell me, what happened to the principal?" As soon as he opened the oak door, Professor McGonagall couldn't wait to ask: "Also, do you know where he is?"

Professor McGonagall vaguely felt that Kyle should know about Dumbledore's traces.

 “He is stuck in the past.”

As soon as Kyle finished speaking, not only was Professor McGonagall a bit unexpected, but even the surrounding portraits were confused. They no longer pretended to be asleep, and they all crowded into the frame closest to the two of them.

"What did you say?"

 “Where is Albus trapped?”

 …

"He is trapped in the past." Kyle said softly: "Strictly speaking, it should be a hundred years ago."

 The office suddenly fell into silence, and then the principals gathered together and argued fiercely about something.

Professor McGonagall looked at Kyle inexplicably, "So, what is going on? How could Dumbledore go back a hundred years ago? It is impossible for the existing time turner to do this. It was already the limit months ago.”

“You can’t do it now, but you could do it a thousand years ago,” Kyle said. "You should still remember that after the secret room was opened, a damaged time turner appeared..."

 After that, Kyle told the whole story from the discovery of the time turner to Dumbledore's use of it to go back to the past.

 Because there is a lot of content, Kyle took a long time.

From evening to late night, and then into the early morning, it was obvious that Professor McGonagall had many questions during the process, but she held back and did not interrupt Kyle.

“So you’re saying that Dumbledore not only repaired the time-turner he took from the Chamber of Secrets, but also used it to go back a hundred years?”

Professor McGonagall rubbed her forehead. The amount of information she had just received was too much and she needed to sort it out.

"That's right." Kyle nodded, "No one has seen Professor Dumbledore during this time, because he does not exist in the current time at all."

 “Wait, that’s not right.”

At this time, a female principal suddenly said: "If it was a time turner, Albus should have come back long ago. This is a... well, balance of time."

“Because of time repulsion, this is what Professor Victor and Nicolas Flamel said together.” Kyle explained: “After all, it was something from a thousand years ago. Although it was barely repaired, there are still some problems.”

 “When did this happen?” Professor McGonagall asked in a deep voice.

"A month ago, at noon on the day of Lupine and Tonks' wedding," Kyle said.

“In other words, Dumbledore has disappeared since then?” Professor McGonagall paced aimlessly back and forth in the principal’s office while whispering:

“He left without saying a word...Didn’t he think about what would happen if the mysterious man led Death Eaters to attack the school at this time?”

"I guess he should have thought about it." Kyle said, "Or he originally wanted to go back quickly, but he just didn't expect that he would be trapped in the past time and unable to come back."

“Why are you telling us now about such a big thing?” Professor McGonagall turned to look at Kyle and said sternly.

"Yes." In the portrait, Phineas was also supporting him, as if he didn't want to miss this opportunity to add insult to injury. "Since you know, you should tell us Albus's whereabouts as soon as possible instead of..."

"Please be quiet, Principal Black." Professor McGonagall frowned and interrupted him unceremoniously.

Phineas's tone hesitated, as if he was offended, but looking at Professor McGonagall's eyes, he still said nothing, silently closed his mouth, and stood aside.

"This is Professor Dumbledore's request." Kyle explained: "He thought that he might be trapped, so he asked me to keep it a secret for him until he comes back."

"In that case, why did you tell me again?" Professor McGonagall regained her composure at this time, "Since it needs to be kept secret, it is safest not to tell anyone."     "There is no need." Kai Er shrugged, "I haven't finished what I just said. The time repulsion that Professor Dumbledore encountered cannot be solved by himself. If no one helps, he may stay in the past time forever."

 “What should we do?” asked Professor McGonagall.

 “Don’t be in a hurry, you still need to be patient and wait for a while.”

Then, Kyle told her what he encountered after going to France this time, including the flaws of the time turner he heard from Professor Victor, and the solution he gave after meeting Nico later.

　　…That’s it, so I came back first.”

Kyle continued talking for about an hour, his mouth felt dry for a while, but he finally explained everything clearly.

“The problem now is that Professor Dumbledore cannot solve the problem of time exclusion alone. Maybe he doesn’t even realize that he is excluded, but just keeps repeating things that he has experienced countless times.

“Without anyone helping him, he may never come back, but if Professor Victor’s method succeeds, maybe he can come back that day, so there is no need to keep this matter secret.

“The reason for speaking out is to prepare the school...if he really doesn’t come back, at least someone knows why.”

"That won't happen." Professor McGonagall took a deep breath, "He is Albus Dumbledore."

 “Yeah.” Kyle smiled.

 “Then what do we need to do?” Professor McGonagall asked.

“It’s not you, it’s me.” Kyle knocked on the table and immediately had a glass of fresh lemonade on hand. "After the time turner is repaired, I will use it to go back in time and help Professor Dumbledore correct his wrong path."

"no!"

As soon as Kyle finished speaking, Professor McGonagall immediately objected: "We know nothing about time travel, and even wizards like Dumbledore will be trapped in it, let alone you.

"Anyway, leave it to us professors. You are just a freshly graduated student. You cannot and should not take risks."

 “No, Professor, I have to go.”

Kyle sighed, "Although I don't want to take risks, there is no way. We have encountered too many things, and only I know what happened."

 Kyle had a vague guess that Dumbledore should have returned by now, otherwise there would be no way to explain where the time turner that was suddenly sent to Beauxbatons came from.

 He was the one who participated in the whole process and knew all the details, and only he knew what to do at what time.

 This point also occurred to him when he was at Nico Manor.

"It still doesn't work." Professor McGonagall insisted: "You can tell me everything in detail... No, I remember there is a pensieve here, and I will teach you the magic spell to retrieve memories. As long as I experience it myself, it will No problem anymore.

“In any case, it is the professor’s responsibility to protect students, rather than letting students take risks. We stay in the castle like nothing happens.”

 Professor McGonagall's tone was very firm and there was no room for Kyle to refuse.

 “Okay.” Kyle nodded and agreed...for the time being.

 After Nico repairs the time turner, it will definitely be delivered to him, and he can make his own decision by then.

But now...since Professor McGonagall wants to know the specific situation, let her see it.

“I can actually use the magic to extract memories.”

Kyle found the quaint pensieve from the cabinet under Dumbledore's desk, took it out and placed it on the table.

 Then he put the wand against his temple, preparing to extract the memory of the night he first arrived at Beauxbatons.

 It was the time when Professor Victor talked to him after dinner.

Kyle stirred up the wand, and a blue light was drawn out along the wand, but just two inches later, the light suddenly broke off.

 “Are you okay?” Professor McGonagall asked nervously.

 The memory spell is one of the most complex spells. Every time it fails, it may backfire on the wizard.

She regretted a little. When Kyle proposed to extract the memory just now, she should have helped her instead of letting him do it by himself.

It was also because Kyle was usually so good that she subconsciously felt that even a memory spell would be fine.

 “It’s okay.” Kyle waved his hand.

 Unlike Professor McGonagall, he did not think that his spell had failed. He was sure that every step he took was fine, but his memory was still broken.

Kyle pressed his wand to his temple again.

"Stop." Professor McGonagall hurriedly called him, "It's me this time. I'll help you."

"Maybe not, Professor." Kyle shook his head, "I have learned Occlumency. It will prevent every magic that tries to view my memories, and it is not under my control, let alone retrieving memories, so this It can only be done by me.”

 Speaking, Kyle stirred the wand again.

 The result was the same as last time, even this time it only moved an inch, and the blue light representing the memory was disconnected.

This time, Professor McGonagall also noticed something was wrong.

 Normally, when the memory turns into blue light and leaves the temple, it means that the magic has been successful, and all that is left is to extract it.

This is not difficult, or there is no technical content at all, even a freshman who can use a wand can do it.

 But Kyle failed twice in a row, something was obviously wrong.

 But Professor McGonagall didn't know exactly what was wrong, because this was also the first time she had encountered such a situation.

Kyle was also a little confused. He carefully recalled his previous experiences and suddenly realized something.

That glass of ‘raspberry juice’!

　　If he had anything different recently, it would be the glass of 'raspberry juice' he drank at Nico's Manor.

If I remember correctly, the house elf Tata said that it took Niko and Nico several days to make it. Kyle didn't think it was just a drink that tasted good. It must have some effect that he didn't know about.

Just out of trust in Nico, he didn’t ask and drank directly.

Now think about it, whether his inability to retrieve the memory this time may also be related to the "raspberry juice".

  But what’s the use of this? Kyle couldn't understand.

Professor McGonagall couldn't figure it out either, but after two consecutive failures, she no longer dared to let Kyle try again.

 At this time, the sky outside was already very dark, with large dark clouds covering the moon, which made people feel a little depressed.

“I will think of other methods later.” She said, “Before that, I’ll put aside the method of viewing memories and write down the process.”

“In addition, if the time turner is repaired, you must tell me as soon as possible, and you must not act without authorization.” Professor McGonagall said sternly, “This is very important, do you understand?”

 “Well...I’ll try my best.” Kyle said,

 Professor McGonagall raised her eyebrows.

"I mean, I try to write down the process in detail." Kyle said quickly: "But Professor McGonagall, there is a big difference between watching the process and experiencing it personally."

"I know." Professor McGonagall said, "But I can't watch you take risks. Apart from Dumbledore, you may be the only one who has a chance to defeat the mysterious man."

"And Harry." Kyle said, "He is the savior, and he also killed the mysterious man once."

"Ah, yes, and Mr. Potter." Professor McGonagall said, but her tone was a little perfunctory. "If his human transformation is half as good as yours, maybe I can feel more at ease."

 (End of this chapter)