Chapter 842 Lost Memory

"How did this happen?"

Seeing Dumbledore's confused look, Kyle rubbed his forehead and didn't know where to start.

He came to save people, but they just met and started fighting without saying anything.

Fortunately, although Dumbledore lost part of his memory, he was still conscious. After realizing that something was wrong, he temporarily gave up the idea of ​​continuing to erase his memory.

I have to say that Dumbledore was really bad-tempered at this time and would throw his wand at the slightest disagreement. This meant that he was relatively weak now and had scruples in his heart, otherwise the consequences would be much more troublesome than they are now.

Kyle also changed a chair for himself, came out, sat opposite Dumbledore, and asked:

"Professor, you really don't remember anything?"

"I don't remember." Dumbledore shook his head.

"Then you haven't had any doubts?" Kyle continued to ask: "You think you are a professor of transfiguration, but that must have been when you were middle-aged, or even earlier. You are obviously not like this now. age group.”

"Because this is not the first time I have come here." Dumbledore explained: "I can't remember the specific number of times, but I know that I have been back many times, and the total time is not short."

Kyle sighed helplessly.

According to Dumbledore, he knew that his appearance was not the same as the age in his memory, but he did not think there was anything wrong with it, he just regarded it as normal age growth when he returned to the past again and again.

"But now it seems that things are completely different from what I thought." Dumbledore looked at Kyle, "Can you please tell me the truth?"

"No problem, but this matter is very complicated to explain. It makes me wonder where to start..." Kyle rubbed his forehead.

"Don't worry, we have a lot of time." Dumbledore said, "Grindelwald will be back at 10:23 tomorrow morning. We still have more than ten hours."

His tone was calm, as if he had instantly transformed back into the familiar Headmaster of Hogwarts.

"Let's start from the source of everything." Kyle took out the golden pocket watch, "This is the time turner we use, from the work of Salazar Slytherin a thousand years ago."

Dumbledore looked at the golden pocket watch, and a familiar memory suddenly came out, but it was very blurry, like a forest hidden in the fog, and only some faint shadows could be seen.

"Continue." He asked: "How can we get something from a thousand years ago?"

"This is about my third year, ninety-three years later, when you were the principal of Hogwarts... At the Halloween dinner that year, the school administrator's cat was suddenly petrified... "

Kyle carefully recounted the story of the Chamber of Secrets, and Dumbledore sat there and listened quietly, frowning slightly from time to time, but did not interrupt Kyle.

"...This time turner allowed me to go back three months and connected everything together. After I returned to the correct timeline, it was retained.

"It's just that it was completely broken at that time. The one we are using now was repaired by the professor yourself, Nicolas Flamel, and Professor Victor of Beauxbatons."

Some vague memories appeared in Dumbledore's mind again. He felt his forehead swelling and couldn't help but reach out and rub it.

"Professor, are you okay?" Kyle asked with concern.

"It's okay." Dumbledore took a deep breath, "You continue."

"There will be nothing after that." Kyle spread his hands, "You use this to go back to a hundred years ago, which is the current time."

"Then why did you come?"

"Because you haven't appeared since then." Kyle raised his head, "Nico thinks you must have done something to be excluded from the right time. The purpose of my coming here is to get you Bring back."

"So you're saying that after I used the time turner, I disappeared?"

"That's right." Kyle nodded.

"If that's the case, then things are a bit troublesome." Dumbledore pondered for a while, "I think I probably understand why I lost part of my memory."

"Why?"

"Because I'm disappearing," Dumbledore said quietly.

"Disappearing?" Kyle was stunned for a moment.

"That's right." Dumbledore raised his head and looked at the window above the barn. "After this summer, I tried many ways to save Ariana, including a time turner. I spent five years turning it over. I have read all the relevant knowledge I can find, and I also know a thing or two about time rejection.

"I am disappearing, and the missing memory is the most intuitive manifestation." He pointed at himself, "There cannot be two same people at the same time, so when my memory overlaps with me at this time, I will not Will come back again.”

There was a sudden silence in the barn.

Kyle held the time turner tightly and grabbed Dumbledore with his other hand. "Every relationship, you should be able to recover your memory after we go back. It's still too late now."

But Dumbledore stepped back and avoided Kyle's hand.

"Sorry, I can't go back yet."

"But professor, you should know that you can't change anything." Kyle looked at him seriously, "Maybe it's because you want to change something that you are rejected by time and have been trapped in the past."

"No, you're wrong." Dumbledore shook his head, "It's not that nothing has changed for me, and I have a hunch that I have succeeded."

"Succeeded? Then what have you changed?"

Kyle was a little angry, especially after seeing Dumbledore's pale face without a trace of blood, which was caused by his excessive mental exhaustion.

Kyle has also experienced similar things. Although he did not lose his memory, he was not very comfortable. He felt a mess in his head every day.

But he only went back to three months ago.

But how long has Dumbledore stayed here... According to his previous description, the continuous cycle has added up to at least several decades, or even more.

Kyle pushed open the door of the barn, "Look, you are back to this time again, and you have lost all your previous memories, no matter how many times you come.

"Even if you save Ariana, you will come back here again one day, and everything will start from scratch and keep repeating. What's the point!"

"Because of you." Dumbledore suddenly smiled, "You were not there in the previous time, but you are here now."

"I'm here to save you. "Kyle said.

"This is the change." Dumbledore said calmly, "According to you, you are not from this era. Your appearance itself is enough to explain the problem."

He suddenly laughed, "I guessed it, 'my' plan, and I succeeded."

"Your plan is to use me?" Kyle raised his eyebrows.

"Not use, but help." Dumbledore stood up staggeringly. "This matter requires the participation of someone outside of time, so I ask you to help me..."

Kyle did not speak.

Now is the best time. If he takes Dumbledore away, the two can go back to a hundred years later smoothly, and everything will be back on track and all problems will be solved.

But if he chooses to stay and help Dumbledore... then everything will become an unknown.

Let's not talk about whether Ariana can be saved. The problem now is that whether he succeeds or fails, Dumbledore may be excluded by time again.

At that time, part of his memory will definitely be lost again, And no one knows how many years will be lost, maybe just like he said, he will disappear directly.

And even he himself may be excluded by time... If that's the case, they can't go back at all.

Kyle was entangled and didn't speak for a long time.

Dumbledore was not in a hurry, just sitting quietly waiting.

The sky gradually became brighter, the sun hung obliquely in the sky, someone pushed open the door, walked out of the house, and started a new day of busyness.

Godric's Hollow gradually became lively.

Kyle finally raised his head.

He looked at Dumbledore and took a deep breath, "Professor, will you definitely not leave here?"

"Yes." Dumbledore said affirmatively: "This is the closest I have ever been to success, and I will not give up no matter what."

"What if I must take you away?" Kyle took out his wand, and the red flame began to gather at the tip of the wand.

"You have lost most of your memory now, and your body is extremely weak. It doesn't seem to be a difficult thing to defeat you. "

Before Kyle finished speaking, the original flame turned into a small fire dragon, lingering around the wand.

"Even I can't use the Fiery Curse so skillfully at this age." Dumbledore said with a smile: "I think you must be my most proud student."

"It's no use for you to say this, professor." Kyle raised his arms, "I just want to take you back... You once promised me that you would just look at Ariana and not do anything else, but you broke your promise."

"I'm sorry." Dumbledore said, "If you want to kill me, I won't resist, or you can leave by yourself. This matter has nothing to do with you.

"But if you want to take me away by force... I will resist!"

Dumbledore's voice was very light, but very firm.

As he said just now, this is the only chance to save Ariana, he will never give up, no matter how much it costs.

As for whether Kyle will leave, it doesn't matter. His appearance here represents the beginning of change, which is enough.

Dumbledore also picked up the wand, and his extremely weak body once again condensed a great deal of magic power.

The confrontation between the two made the dilapidated barn begin to shake and could collapse at any time.

"Forget it, I give up." Kyle suddenly laughed helplessly and waved his hand to disperse the fire dragon on the wand.

"To be honest, in your current state, I'm really worried that I might accidentally kill you."

"I admit that." Dumbledore held onto the chair, "I can only dispel the Fiery Curse twice more at most, but you should know more than just this one spell."

"You also taught me another spell, which belongs to Rune Magic." Kyle shrugged, "It's quite useful, but it makes a lot of noise. Not to mention this broken barn, the whole street might not be saved."

"Then I really saved my life." Dumbledore smiled calmly, "When are you going to leave... By the way, after you go back, let Hogwarts choose a new headmaster as soon as possible. Didn't you say Minerva is the professor of Transfiguration? I think she's pretty good. That child is very responsible."

"No, I'm not going back for now." Kyle sat back in his chair, "I'm going to stay and help you."

"Aren't you afraid?" Dumbledore hesitated for a moment, "Just now I was selfish and wanted to ask for your help, but if you stay, you will probably be rejected by time like me."

"It is indeed possible." Kyle said, "To be honest, it would be a lie to say I'm not afraid, but I just carefully sorted out my memories and found some very interesting things, all of which I had never noticed before, so I decided to stay."

"What memory?" Dumbledore asked curiously.

"For example, this..." Kyle picked up the time converter and looked at it carefully in front of his eyes. "You obviously took this thing away, why did it appear again, and it ended up in my hands."

"Oh?" Dumbledore blinked, "What did you think of?"

"It's hard to say." Kyle shook his head, "Under normal circumstances, you should have returned to the correct timeline and then sent it out, which was also my initial idea, but now it seems that I sent it back."

Dumbledore's eyes lit up, but he said nothing, just looked at Kyle calmly and asked, "What do you think this represents?"

"I can't tell..." Kyle frowned and said, "I haven't understood time, maybe... now is the right time, and it is also the past that has been preserved."

Dumbledore's eyes lit up even more.

"Besides, there is another interesting thing." Kyle continued.

"Tell me about it."

"It's a person I met, but I can't tell you now." Kyle put away the time converter, "Anyway, it was because of this discovery that I decided to take a gamble.

"What time is it now?"

"Eight o'clock." Dumbledore blurted out.

"How do you know?" Kyle asked, "Is there a clock here? "

He looked up and saw nothing on the barn except a few protruding pieces of wood.

"It's the rooster raised by the Corder family." Dumbledore explained, "They crow on time at eight o'clock every day, which is also the time when Grindelwald and I meet every day."

After being reminded by him, Kyle really heard a faint crowing sound.

"Also, the young me and Grindelwald will be back at ten twenty-three."

"I noticed it just now. Is this time so accurate?" Kyle asked.

"Because Ariana had an accident at this time." Dumbledore's voice was heavy.

"You mean, when you come back this time, she will..."

"That's right." Dumbledore closed his eyes, "After we come back this time, Aberforth will be furious because of my leaving without saying goodbye, and we will have the most intense quarrel in history.

"Grindelwald went to look for the invisibility cloak, but to no avail. He was already angry, and Aberforth's curses made him even more angry. The two began to fight, mercilessly using the most vicious spells on each other."

"Can Aberforth beat Grindelwald?" Kyle expressed doubt. Rather than a fight, he believed that Grindelwald was beating Aberforth unilaterally, and it was very cruel.

"He is my brother after all." Dumbledore smiled bitterly, "I subconsciously chose to help him, which made Grindelwald even angrier, so the fight between the two turned into a melee between three people.

"Ariana saw everything in the attic, she ran out and wanted to stop us..."

At this point, Dumbledore suddenly choked up, and his eyes were filled with tears.

But Kyle could understand.

Aberforth and Grindelwald had already fought a real fight, the kind that would not stop until death, and Dumbledore would definitely try his best to stop them.

Although Ariana is an Obscurial, she is also an ordinary girl who can't even use the Illumination Spell. If she rashly breaks into the battle between wizards, the result can be imagined.

Any spell could kill her, and even under the stimulation of magic, the Obscurial in her body would erupt.

Thinking of the little girl who longed to make friends with others and could be happy for a long time after eating a candy, Kyle sighed.

Now it's good, even if he knows that staying will be dangerous, he wants to help more.

There's no way, who made him soft-hearted.

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