Chapter 201 - 201 The time-turner tricked us.

Chapter 201: Chapter 201 The time-turner tricked us.

After bidding farewell to Nicole LeMay, Dracula couldn't wait to return to Hogwarts Castle.

Ever since he had the idea of going back in time to kill himself, the idea of getting a time-turner himself and trying to see if it would really work had been hovering in Dracula's mind for a long time, and it hadn't receded.

So, he turned his thoughts to the little wizard who held the time converter.

...

Dracula thought for a little while, and then determined how to trick ... nay, outsmart the time converter.

He first returned to his office, and while taking out a pack of blood-flavored lollipops from a drawer that he had stopped off at Dumbledore's, and removing one and stuffing it into his mouth, he stood the parchment of the Hogwarts deeds on his desk and stared at the image that unfolded on the deeds.

At that moment, there were still two Hermione figures that appeared on the deed's screen at the same time.

One Hermione was in still studying her homework in the library, while the other had quietly made her way to the lawn outside the castle to practice her magic spells.

"Is this the little wizard who is willing to study seriously? What a lot of effort."

Looking at Hermione's appearance of using her homework on the deed, Dracula couldn't help but sigh, "It's just that the method of using her homework isn't too right, making herself mentally depressed instead will be counterproductive to the learning state."

Dracula first found two Hermione on the deed at around nine o'clock in the morning, when he had just finished the fight and was about to use the deed to look for the trace of that Hooded Man, but thus he discovered the secret of the time converter.

Now that he thought about it, that Hooded Man should be the one who used the Time Changer to go back to the past.

Thinking about this, Dracula's mind jumped to something else.

"If I control myself from going back to the past to fight with my past self, then wouldn't I have run into the Hooded Man from before, and wouldn't I have discovered the secret of the Time Translator?" He thought with interest.

Wouldn't it be considered an alternative way to change the past if you did that?

Dracula pondered whether to go back to the past or not while staring at the image shown on the deed.

In the middle of this Dumbledore also used the daemon to send over a message asking him to go to the principal's office to deliberate, which Dracula decisively refused.

Shortly afterward, the Hermione in the deed's image suddenly did something else.

Hermione, who was studying her homework in the library, looked up at the hanging clock hanging on the wall and froze for a moment, then jumped up from her seat, gathered up the books in her hands in a hurry and returned them to the librarian, Mrs. Pince.

Then Hermione hurriedly ran out of the library and went to the entrance courtyard in front of the auditorium, and found a small isolated corner near the cliff.

At that moment, there was another Hermione standing in the remote corner of the entrance courtyard.

This Hermione had already finished practicing her spells for the day on the unoccupied lawn and had gone to the auditorium to have lunch with Harry and Ron before coming to this remote corner and pulling out a necklace from her arms.

The former Hermione carefully hid behind a stone pillar in the entrance courtyard and watched as the latter Hermione rattled her necklace before disappearing into dappled points of light.

Only then did she breathe a sigh of relief and step out from behind the stone pillar.

"Hermione, what are you doing out of the blue when you were just having a good meal?" A small wizard's voice suddenly rang out from within the entrance courtyard, startling Hermione.

Only to see two people, Harry and Ron, butchered over from the direction of the auditorium, with Ron still holding a chicken leg in his hand, gnawing on a chicken bone as he walked.

Hermione hurriedly stepped out of the corner and looked at her two friends with a slightly unnatural expression.

"Oh, just got tired of eating and wanted to come out and blow off some steam." She said with little gusto.

"Blow off steam?" Harry froze for a moment, "Do you need to come all the way out to the cliff face to blow off steam?"

"Harry, you don't understand!" Hermione, after a short period of sluggishness, also gradually found her form and immediately retorted, "The cliffs on the Hogwarts side are close to the Black Lake, and the wind from the lake will blow close to the cliffs, and it will be a bit cooler than the wind from other places."

"So that's it?" Harry nodded with seeming understanding.

"Since we're already here, we can just about get down here, there shouldn't be much lawn to be found by the Black Lake." Ron had finally finished his chicken leg, and after taking his greasy hands and rubbing them on his shirt, he was ready to lead both Harry and Hermione down the side steps.

These steps were what first years had to go through to get to Hogwarts Castle for the first time, connecting the boathouse on the shores of the Black Lake to the oak gates of the Entrance Courtyard.

Hagrid took the new students up these steps every year and handed them over to Professor McGonagall.

"But I'm not some ordinary professor either," Dracula laughed lightly, "I naturally have my unique source channels."

"Of course, the point now isn't how I knew you had a time converter, it's to address the issue of your mental state!"

Dracula's face grew serious as he said to Hermione, "You don't even know how to rest on the weekends, and you have to use the time converter to study your homework and practice magic spells at the same time, under this kind of high pressure, how can your spirit not have problems?"

"But the more I learn, the more I feel like I'm still missing a lot, and I usually can't find any other time to do my homework at all ..." Hermione said sadly, "So besides saving up a few more hours with the time converter, what else can I What can I do?"

"You've learned enough, Ms. Granger." Dracula said soothingly, "What you lack now is a complete and utter relaxing break to build up your spirit sufficiently to be able to learn your new knowledge better."

"If I don't stop you, are you still going to use the time converter to continue your studies this afternoon and tomorrow?"

Hermione deflated and hesitated, but finally nodded.

"For the sake of your mental state, Ms. Granger, you must listen to the professor this time." Dracula said in a persuasive manner, "In order to prevent you from continuing to use the Time Changer, I have decided to confiscate it."

With that, he held out his hand to Hermione, "Hand it over, Granger, and I'll hold it for you for two days. In these two days you go back and rest once, don't strain your spirit too much. You should be able to understand the reasoning that too much is not enough and too much steel is easy to break, right?"

"But ... Professor McGonagall won't let me give the time converter to anyone else." Hermione hesitated.

"What, do I count as someone else?" Dracula dropped his face and said with an unpleasant expression.

"But, but ..." Hermione was still hesitating.

"Don't but, it's all for your mental state." Dracula continued to snub, "Think about it this way, if I didn't hold the Time Changer for you, would you be able to control yourself from using it?"

Hermione lowered her head and thought carefully before finally shaking her head after a long time.

As a young wizard who loved to learn, she certainly wasn't satisfied with the basics taught at school and wanted to learn something new every chance she got.

However, this semester's twelve major classes completely filled up all of Hermione's time, and every time she did the twelve assignments, she was basically able to take up all of her rare weekend time, and she didn't have the slightest chance to read any other books that she liked.

As such, the time converter was a completely huge temptation for Hermione, and there was no way she was going to let the treasure lie around and not use it, even if she was sleepy and weak!

"I see you know your own self-control as well?" Dracula smiled, "In that case, hand over the time converter."

A struggling, hesitant look appeared on Hermione's face for a long time before she finally let out a long breath and nodded towards Dracula.

She then untied the string hanging around her neck and handed the golden necklace to Dracula.

"You must keep it safe, Professor." Hermione bit her lip, apprehensively.

After wearing the time converter for so long it suddenly left her side, it made her feel a little uncomfortable.

"Don't worry, I'll return it to you before your class on Monday." Dracula said.

Immediately afterward, all of his attention was focused on the necklace in front of him.

...

After whisking Hermione off to rest, Dracula began to rummage through the item in his hands.

"Is this the Time Changer?"

He looked at the delicate hourglass, which was light gold in color overall and looked like it was hanging from a golden necklace, with a pleasant expression.

It was not in vain that he had painstakingly enlightened Hermione and tricked ... nay, held the time converter in her hands for her, this little thing did look quite interesting.

A light vaguely flowed in Dracula's eyes, his gaze fixed on the ancient Ruyani script symbols and the state of magical operation engraved on the surface of the time converter.

"Rewind time by up to five hours?" He rubbed the intricate diagrams on the time converter and smiled pleasantly.

Five hours ago was about the same time he had met the Hooded Man on the shores of the Black Lake early this morning!

In that case, it was time to go back in time and fight with himself again!

It was too early in the day for sunrise, and he was far from enjoying himself!