Chapter 486: A world that bears the consequences

Chapter 486: A world that bears the consequences

The whole time Jon and Slughorn had been keeping a constant eye on that Time-turner in Slughorn's office at the Department of Mysteries.

From the beginning of the duel between Dumbledore and Voldemort, there had been constant sounds of great commotion coming from above them.

They were well aware of the intensity of the duel above them, and neither Jon nor Slughorn was actually quite able to sit still here, but Dumbledore's words were not lost on them, and they always kept their eyes on the time-turner, knowing that the commotion from the upper floors was fading away and that the time was gradually coming to eight o'clock in the evening.

At seven-fifty-eight, Jon was ready with the small handful of Floo powder.

It was obvious that once again the fireplace had been used to connect to the Floo network in Dumbledore's office, it was unlikely that Dumbledore himself would be able to receive it, and it was far more likely that he had left some extra arrangement behind so that Jon and the rest of them could obtain the information they needed to be aware of.

As the minute hand on the pocket watch finally pointed to 12 and the hour hand aligned with eight, Slughorn gave Jon a solemn nod.

Jon didn't linger as he sprinkled the tiny pinch of Floo powder into the fireplace, and soon a green flame flared up in it.

"Albus Dumbledore's office."

The flames in the fireplace began to jump after he named the location where the Floo network would eventually need to be connected, and it wasn't long before the flames formed into the ageing face that Jon knew all too well.

Dumbledore's face appeared in the fireplace, and he looked ahead, his voice still as gentle as ever.

"To be able to see this retaining shadow, then I guess I really have initiated the final plan, Jon."

Hearing him sound like that, Jon didn't know why, but his heart sank slightly as he felt that something wasn't quite right with Dumbledore's tone.

"As we first had a long talk in my office after Horace had left from the wagon, the truth is that Voldemort himself wasn't scary, what was really scary was that we never did figure out what exactly happened to him or what he discovered that ended up making such a huge change."

"At first I guessed that one of his divided souls that had been made into a Horcrux gained a more primary consciousness, which made it possible for 'it/him' to complete himself, absorbing all the remnants of his soul and separating himself from the main one. But apparently, every trace proves that this idea of mine was wrong, and the changes that occurred in Voldemort were clearly much more complex than that."

"It was also right after you brought back that diary from Azkaban that I got to thinking on a deeper level. I reviewed the entirety of Voldemort's initial appearance and fight with me, as well as his behaviour at the time and his bragging about this power he had gained, and it was easy to see that the source of this great power stemmed from the strength of his soul."

Having already guessed that this new Voldemort had appeared using a time-turner, the answer to that question couldn't have been any more easier to guess.

And so, Jon's murmur was almost right up alongside Dumbledore's voice.

"The Voldemort who used the time-turner, he's still using the Horcruxes to maintain his immortality, only that Horcruxes that maintains his immortality is in another world where he no longer exists!"

Slughorn pulled his hair together, his eyes widening like two eggs as he turned his head to look at Jon and then back to Dumbledore like he too had guessed the consequences if this was indeed how things were going to turn out.

Not to mention that the time-turner was broken, even if it was intact it couldn't possibly take someone to another parallel world where there was already a deviation point in time, and if the root cause of Voldemort's immortality now originated from the same world that he had once been in, then that would mean that they could never find those Horcruxes that belonged to him, and that would mean that they would never be able to kill him!

Chills ran through Jon's body, and he had already thought of this terrible consequence as well.

A Voldemort who had sanity and ambition, who was cunning and insidious, who was unprecedentedly powerful and could never be killed?

"That's almost a future we can't even think about or face."

There was disappointment and sadness in Dumbledore's calm voice.

"I don't want this speculation to be true, and neither do Gellert, or Slytherin, or Dilys, or any of them. But it's already here, and we can't be afraid to face it just because we don't want it to be true, so we need to prove first if this is just as true as I think it is."

"Thus, I began today's attempt. That time-turner you guys found is most likely the ticket that brought Voldemort who doesn't belong in this world here, and the link between him and the other world's Horcruxes is relying on it. As long as I can kill him once and verify that he can be resurrected and the source of that resurrection is from this time-turner or not, I will be able to prove all the things in the speculation."

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