Chapter 487 485. A world that bears the consequences
Jon and Slughorn have been guarding the Department of Mysteries.
Since the duel between Dumbledore and Voldemort, there have been huge noises coming from above them.
They are well aware of the fierce battle above, and neither Jon nor Slughorn can actually sit here, but they have not forgotten what Dumbledore said, and they have always been staring at the time switch. He knew that the movement on the upper floor gradually disappeared, and the time gradually came to eight o'clock in the evening.
At 7:58, Jon had already prepared the handful of Floo powder.
Obviously, using the fireplace to connect to the Floo network in Dumbledore's office again, Dumbledore himself is unlikely to receive it, and it is more likely that he left some additional arrangements so that Jon and the others can receive the necessary information. information they have learned.
When the minute hand on the pocket watch finally pointed to 0 and the hour hand pointed to 8, Slughorn solemnly nodded to Jon.
Jon didn't stop there, he sprinkled that pinch of Floo powder into the fireplace, and soon a green flame ignited in it.
"Albus Dumbledore's office."
After he told the location where the Floo network finally needed to connect, the flames in the fireplace began to jump up, and it didn't take long for the flames to form the old face that Jon was very familiar with.
Dumbledore's face appeared in the fireplace, he looked forward, and his voice was as gentle as ever.
"If you can see this picture, then I guess I have really started the final plan, Jon."
Hearing his tone like this, Jon didn't know why, his heart sank slightly, he felt that Dumbledore's tone was a bit wrong.
"As we had the first long conversation in my office after Horace left the carriage, Voldemort wasn't scary in person, what was really scary was that we never figured out what was going on in him. What things were discovered, and finally there was such a change.”
"At first, I guessed that one of his souls that had been split into horcruxes had a more subjective consciousness, and then he achieved himself, absorbed all the remnant souls, and stood up to the main soul. But obviously all traces are gone. It can be proved that my idea is wrong, and the changes produced by Voldemort are obviously much more complicated than this."
"That is to say, since you brought back the diary of Azkaban, I have had a deeper thought. I reviewed everything when Voldemort first appeared and fought with me, as well as his performance at that time and what I have gained. It is not difficult to see that the source of his powerful power comes from the power of his soul."
"According to what I thought before, the reason why his soul has been strengthened in this way is that of course it is because of the fragments in the Horcruxes that have been recovered, so that it has such magical power. But it is also your portrait of Slytherin. After I brought it back from the North Pole, I learned from his communication that he gave Voldemort the magic to take back the remnant soul in the Horcrux, and this magic itself does not have the effect of strengthening the soul, because it originally It's his stuff."
"From that moment on, I also understood that Voldemort's real purpose of recovering those remnant souls was actually to regain the emotions and reason he had lost. What really made him stronger was actually another way, but if things If this is the case, there are two selves in Voldemort now, the one who has not regained his sanity is obviously the original him, and the one who is cunning and cunning is obviously the one who successfully recovered the Horcrux, and the later one. The reason behind them To become so strong is purely a new soul superimposed on an old soul, producing such an effect."
"This brings up a puzzling problem. According to Slytherin, only you can regain your own soul. Only you can reintegrate the split soul. And the new The Voldemort who appeared can do this, which means that the two Voldemorts are exactly the same, but they are not separate individuals, but how can there be two people who are exactly the same in this world?"
In the fireplace, Dumbledore's face paused when he uttered this question. The office was very quiet, and both Jon and Slughorn were thinking about this question. Even Jon had always felt that It was Voldemort's soul that was in question, but the soul itself could represent a person.
Two identical souls represent the appearance of two identical people, and there were two identical Voldemorts in this world at the beginning, but later because one of them fused the split Horcrux and the other did not, That's why there's such a difference between them.
"In the beginning, no matter how I thought about it, I couldn't figure it out. It wasn't until the end of the Triwizard Tournament that I found out that in the British Department of Mysteries, all those time-turners suddenly lost their effects for no reason more than ten years ago. This led me to a very bold guess, so in order to prove this idea, I began to look for all kinds of supporting evidence. Including determining the time when these time converters completely lost their effect, I found that Voldemort once had a long period of time. Time is left in the secrets of the Department of Mysteries, and those golden sands that Severus brought us later, and the strange time-turner you found in the chamber of the Hall of Time now."
"Time is a wonderful thing, and it can indeed allow two identical people to exist in the same world at the same time. There was even a period of time when the Ministry of Magic carried out a full range of time converters in order to avoid such a situation. Because there has always been a rumor that has been widely circulated since the time-turner was first produced, that is, people who go back to the past must not meet their past selves, nor can they do anything to change the past, otherwise There will be dire consequences."
"And we, are we bearing such consequences for Voldemort?"
Jon froze, and Slughorn opened his mouth wide!
Yes, there is only one possibility in this world where two identical people appear. He reversed the time and used a time converter to bring himself back to the past where he already had himself, and then changed the past to make the future The situation where I use the time converter will not reappear, then this world that can no longer be called the original world, there are two identical people!
This has a greater impact on Jon, because Jon knows what the original world was like!
Dumbledore will never be defeated at all, and Voldemort will never be a great gentleman at all. After that, a series of stories happened around a boy named Harry Potter.
While Jon was digesting this amazing information, Dumbledore's voice continued to ring.
"When I think about this, I am terrified and excited. The fear is because time is being played with, which is a situation that has never been recorded before. The excitement is because I may finally figure out the real reason why two Voldemorts exist side by side. But then There is an almost unsolvable problem in front of me, which is what I have also talked to you in private, Jon, if Voldemort who came to this world through the time-turner, he will use the original Voldemort's Horcrux in this timeline to make up for it If he lost his own soul, then what is the means by which he has maintained his youth and immortality?"
When this question came out of Dumbledore's mouth, Jon suddenly felt like a bolt of lightning exploded in his mind.
Assuming that the new Voldemort appeared using a time-turner, the answer couldn't be easier to guess.
So, Jon's murmur almost sounded at the same time as Dumbledore's.
"Voldemort, who uses the time-turner, is still using the horcrux to maintain his eternal life, but the horcrux that maintains his eternal life is in another world where he no longer exists!"
Slughorn pulled his hair, his eyes stared like two eggs, turned his head to look at Jon and then at Dumbledore, as if he had guessed that if things were really such consequences.
Not to mention that the time-turner is not damaged, even if it is intact, it is impossible to bring people to another parallel world where causal branching has already occurred. If the root of Voldemort's immortality now comes from the world he used to be, it means It means that they will never be able to find those Horcruxes that belong to him, which means that they will never be able to kill him!
Jon was chilling all over, and he had already thought of this terrible consequence.
A sane, ambitious, cunning and sinister Voldemort who is unprecedentedly powerful and can never be killed?
"That is almost a future that we have no way to think about or face."
Dumbledore's calm voice was filled with disappointment and sadness.
"I don't want this conjecture to be true, and Gellert, Slytherin, and Doris don't want this conjecture to be true. But the matter is already here, and we can't ignore it just because we don't want it to be true." Dare to face it, so we need to prove whether this matter is really what I think."
"So, I started today's attempt. The time-turner you found is likely to be the ticket to come here with Voldemort who does not belong to this world, and the connection between him and the Horcrux in another world I'm also relying on this. As long as I can kill him once and verify whether he can be resurrected, and whether the source of the resurrection comes from this time converter, I can prove everything in the guess."
(end of this chapter)