Chapter 822 Failed Memory Extraction

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

Professor Dumbledore was not there, and there was no one to help. The whole school was all on her shoulders. In addition, she was responsible for seven grades of courses. Even Professor McGonagall, who was used to this kind of life, could not help but feel a little tired.

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

As if he felt that the crisis had passed, Slughorn started to hold his classic dinner party again.

Professor McGonagall shook her head and walked over quickly.

It was really leisurely... There was no one in the whole school who made her worry-free, especially this Slughorn. Even though she had clearly rejected him twice, he still submitted an application to buy an automatic stirring crucible yesterday.

He didn't even think about how the school director could pay for such an expensive thing.

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

It is not uncommon to see owls in Hogwarts. These messengers shuttle back and forth in the school every day, delivering letters and parcels. It is rare to not see them one day.

But this one is different. Professor McGonagall vaguely feels that it is a little bit wrong.

"Who are you!"

She immediately drew out her wand, and her eyes became sharp.

"Don't get excited, professor." The owl said.

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

"It's me."

The owl jumped off the railing, and its body began to expand rapidly. The feathers on its body also connected into one piece, and it returned to the shape of a robe.

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

"Submit to "Transfiguration Today." Kyle said, "She wants to try to get the Most Promising Newcomer Award before graduation."

Professor McGonagall nodded and put away her wand.

"I have to verify it." She said, "What do you mean?"

"In order to avoid the eyes and ears of the Death Eaters around the school." Kyle roughly recounted the situation of the Hog's Head Inn. "Under the circumstances at that time, turning into an owl was the best choice.

"I thought I was pretty good, but I didn't expect you to see through it at a glance."

"The traces of magic on the human body deformation are too heavy. Anyone who is proficient in Transfiguration can see through it at a glance."

"Fortunately, there are no such people among the Death Eaters' spies." Kyle said with some relief.

"But why do you use Transfiguration to avoid their detection." Professor McGonagall asked in confusion: "Wouldn't it be more convenient to let Phoenix bring you here directly?"

"Some special circumstances have occurred, and Phoenix can't take me to Apparition for the time being." Kyle said.

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

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

"Dumbledore...what happened to him?"

"This is not the place to talk, go to the headmaster's office, I will explain." Kyle said, "But before that, please wait a moment, I will find my wand."

Kyle searched in his robe with his hands.

Because the human body cannot hide the wand, he can only hide the wand in the fluffy and thick feathers of the owl. When the feathers turn back into robes, the position will naturally change.

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

"If you learn Animagus, this embarrassing situation will not happen." Professor McGonagall laughed a little.

"But if I use Animagus, it may not be an owl." Kyle shrugged.

Then he hid his body and went to the headmaster's office on the eighth floor with Professor McGonagall.

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

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

"He is trapped in the past."

As soon as Kyle finished speaking, not only was Professor McGonagall a little surprised, but even the portraits around were also confused. They stopped pretending to sleep and squeezed into the frame closest to the two of them.

"What did you say just now?"

"Where is Albus trapped?"

...

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

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

Professor McGonagall looked at Kyle in confusion, "So, what is going on, how could Dumbledore go back a hundred years ago? The existing time converter can't do this at all. Going back to a month ago is already the limit. "

"It can't be done now, but it can be done a thousand years ago. "Kyle said. "You should remember that after the secret room was opened, a damaged time converter appeared..."

Then Kyle told the story from the beginning to the end of the discovery of the time turner to Dumbledore's use of it to return to the past.

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

From evening to late night and 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 ago?"

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 a statement shared by Professor Victor and Nicolas Flamel." 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 Lupin and Tonks' wedding," Kyle said.

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

"Leave 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 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, 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 rudely.

Phineas' 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, don't tell anyone. This is the safest thing."

"It's not necessary." Kyle 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 forever. within the time.”

"What should we do?" Professor McGonagall asked.

"Don't worry, 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 in 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 talked for about another hour, feeling his mouth dry for a while, but he finally explained everything clearly.

"The problem now is that Professor Dumbledore cannot solve the problem of time rejection alone. Maybe he doesn't even realize that he is being 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.

"Telling it 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, even wizards like Dumbledore will be trapped in it, let alone you.

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

"No, Professor, only I can 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.

And 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 was what he thought of 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, There will be no problem.

"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 way Kyle could 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 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, and every time it fails, it may come back to bite the wizard.

She regretted a little. When Kyle proposed to extract the memory just now, she should have helped to do it 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 didn't think it was because 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 my turn 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.”

With that said, 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.

Under normal circumstances, when the memory turns into blue light and leaves the temple, it means that the magic has succeeded, 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 experience and suddenly realized something.

That glass of ‘raspberry juice’!

If there was anything different about him recently, it was the glass of 'raspberry juice' he drank at Nico's Manor.

If I remember correctly, the house elf Tata said that it took Nicole and Nico a few 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, if his inability to retrieve memory this time might also be related to the 'raspberry juice'.

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

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

And 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 will 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 in a stern tone, "This is very important, do you understand?"

"Well...I'll try my best." Kyle said,

Professor McGonagall raised her eyebrows.

"What I mean is that 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 a 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."