Volume 7: A World with Bad Consequences Chapter 485 A World with Consequences
Jon and Slughorn remained in the Department of Mysteries.
Ever since the duel between Dumbledore and Voldemort began, there have been constant loud noises coming from above them.
They were well aware of the intensity of the battle upstairs, and neither Jon nor Slughorn could sit there for long. However, they had not forgotten Dumbledore's words, and they kept staring at the time-turner until the noise from the upper level gradually died down and it was almost eight o'clock in the evening.
At 7:58, Jon had already prepared the small amount of Floo powder.
Obviously, using the fireplace to connect to the Floo network in Dumbledore's office again made it unlikely that Dumbledore himself would be able to receive it. It was more likely that he left some additional arrangements so that Jon and the others could receive the information they needed to know.
When the minute hand on the pocket watch finally pointed to 0 and the hour hand pointed to 8, Slughorn nodded solemnly to John.
Jon didn't stop, he sprinkled a pinch of Floo powder into the fireplace, and soon a green flame ignited in it.
"Albus Dumbledore's office."
After he told Jon the location where the Floo Network needed to be connected in the end, the flames in the fireplace began to jump, and soon the flames formed the old face that Jon was very familiar with.
Dumbledore's face appeared in the fireplace. He looked forward, his voice still as gentle as before.
"Since you can see this photo, I guess I have really started my final plan, Jon."
Hearing his tone, Jon didn't know why, but his heart sank slightly. He felt that Dumbledore's tone was a little off.
"As we had our first long conversation in my office after Horace left the carriage, Voldemort himself is not scary. What is really scary is that we never figured out what we found in him, and that he changed like this in the end."
"At first, I guessed that one souls that was split into a Horcrux had a more subjective consciousness, which was why it became itself, absorbed all the residual souls, and competed with the main soul. But obviously all the traces can prove that my idea is wrong. The changes in Voldemort are obviously more complicated than this."
"It was after you took the diary back from Azkaban that I began to think more deeply. I reviewed everything that happened when Voldemort first appeared and fought me, as well as his performance and his boasting of the power he had gained. It is not difficult to see that the source of his powerful strength comes from the strength of his soul."
"According to what I thought before, the reason why his soul was strengthened was because he had recovered the fragments in the Horcruxes, which gave him such magical power. But it was only after you brought Slytherin's portrait back from the Arctic that I learned from his communication with him that the magic that could recover the residual souls in the Horcruxes was given to Voldemort by him, and this magic itself did not have the effect of strengthening the soul, because it was originally his thing."
"From that time on, I understood that Voldemort's real purpose in recovering those residual souls was actually just to regain his lost emotions and rationality. What really made him stronger was actually another way. But if this is really the case, then Voldemort now has two selves. The one who has not regained his rationality is obviously his original self, and the wily and treacherous one is obviously the one who successfully recovered the Horcrux, the one who came later. The reason why they became so powerful later was purely because a new soul was superimposed on an old soul, which produced such an effect."
"This leads to a very puzzling problem. According to Slytherin, only one can find his own soul again. Only one can merge the originally split soul back together. And the newly appeared Voldemort can also do this. This means that these two Voldemorts are exactly the same, but they are not split individuals. But how can there be two exactly the same people in this world?"
In the fireplace, Dumbledore's face paused when he asked this question. The office was very quiet. Jon and Slughorn were both thinking about this question. Even though Jon had always thought that the problem was with Voldemort's soul, in fact, the soul itself can represent a person.
Two identical souls mean the appearance of two identical people, and in the beginning there were two identical Voldemorts in this world. However, they became different later because one of them fused the split Horcrux and the other did not.
After figuring this out, Jon suddenly saw the time converter that was continuously losing gold sand, and a chilling thought suddenly arose in his mind!
"At first, I couldn't figure out the problem no matter how hard I thought. It wasn't until after the Triwizard Tournament that I found out that the time turners in the Department of Mysteries in the UK suddenly lost their effects more than ten years ago. This gave me a bold guess, so in order to prove this idea, I began to look for all kinds of evidence. This included determining the time when these time turners completely lost their effects, finding out the secret that Voldemort had stayed in the Department of Mysteries for a long time, and then the golden sands that Severus brought us, and now the strange time turner you found in the Chamber of Secrets in the Hall of Time."
"Time is a very 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 imposed all-round restrictions on time turners in order to avoid such a situation. This was because there has been a rumor circulating since the time turners were first made, 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 extremely terrible consequences."
"And are we bearing such consequences for Voldemort?"
Jon was stunned, and Slughorn's mouth was open!
Yes, there is only one possibility in this world for two exactly the same people to appear. He reversed time and used a time turner to go back to a past where he already had a self, and then changed this past so that the situation in which his future self used the time turner would not occur again. Then, in this world that can no longer be called the original world, there are two identical people!
This had an even greater impact on Jon, because Jon knew very well what the original world was like!
Dumbledore would never be defeated, and Voldemort would never become a great man. The series of stories that followed revolved around a boy named Harry Potter...
And just as Jon was digesting this shocking information, Dumbledore's voice continued.
"When I think of this, I am both terrified and excited. I am terrified because time has been manipulated in a way that has never been recorded before, and I am excited because I may finally understand the real reason why two Voldemorts exist side by side. But then there is another nearly unsolvable problem before me, which I have also discussed with you privately, Jon. If Voldemort, who came to this world using the time-turner, used the Horcrux of the original to complete his soul, then what is the means by which he has maintained his youth and immortality?"
When this question came out of Dumbledore's mouth, John suddenly felt like a bolt of lightning exploded in his mind.
Since we have already guessed that this new Voldemort appeared using a time-turner, the answer couldn't be easier to guess .
So, Jon's muttering almost sounded at the same time as Dumbledore's voice.
"Voldemort, who used the Time-Turner, is still using the Horcrux to maintain his immortality, but the Horcrux that maintains his immortality is in another world where he no longer exists!"
Slughorn grabbed his hair, his eyes wide as big as two eggs. He turned to look at Jon and then at Dumbledore, as if he had already guessed the consequences if things were really like this.
Not to mention that the time-turner was not damaged, even if it was intact it would not be able to bring people to another parallel world where causality had already deviated. If the source of Voldemort's immortality now came from his former world, then it would mean that they would never be able to find his Horcruxes, which also meant that they would never be able to kill him!
Jon felt cold all over, and he had already thought of this terrible consequence.
A Voldemort who is rational, ambitious, cunning and insidious, unprecedentedly powerful and can never be killed?
"That is a future that we can hardly imagine or face."
There was disappointment and sadness in Dumbledore's quiet voice.
"I don't want this guess to be true. Gellert , Slytherin, and Delis don't want this guess to be true either. But the fact is already here. We can't be afraid to face it just because we don't want it to be true. So we need to first prove whether this matter is really as I think."
"So, I started today's attempt. The time-turner you found is most likely the ticket that brought Voldemort, who does not belong to this world, here, and the connection between him and the Horcruxes of another world also relies on it. As long as I can kill him once and verify whether he can be resurrected, and whether the source of resurrection comes from this time-turner, I can prove everything in my speculation."
