Chapter 200 Grandfather Paradox
The picture that appeared on the land deed aroused Dracula's curiosity.
He immediately forgot his purpose, put the traces of the hooded man behind him, and instead enthusiastically directed his magic power to the land deed in his hand, looking at the detailed pictures of the interior of Hogwarts Castle on the land deed.
Dracula saw a Hermione Granger walking towards the library on the fourth floor of the castle with a tired face and a thick stack of books in her arms;
The other Hermione was hiding behind a large pillar, avoiding the sight of the previous Hermione. After the previous Hermione left the corner of the corridor, she hurriedly left her current position and ran towards the auditorium.
"Are these... two Grangers at different points in time?" Dracula raised his hand in vain, letting the land deed float in front of him, and watched the scene in front of him with interest.
In fact, not long after the semester started, he had already begun to pay attention to Hermione:
As a top student at Hogwarts, Hermione Granger was full of energy and high morale every time she attended class in the first two school years, as if she was on the playing field!
The professor's questions were like flare guns in her eyes. Whenever the professor asked questions, she would be the first to raise her hands high.
Except for the classes held by Snape, a potions professor who blatantly favored his own house, the professors and young wizards would be surprised if she did not get house points for Gryffindor in any class.
However, after the beginning of this semester, Hermione's state in class was much worse than before.
She would still raise her hand to answer questions reflexively, but when answering questions, she would occasionally respond a little too slowly and suddenly forget the topic asked by the professor; sometimes, she would stand up but not be able to answer the question she was rushing to answer;
Not only that, Dracula found that he was distracted more than once in class.
The phenomenon of mind wandering is quite normal in young wizards like Harry and Ron, but when this phenomenon occurs in Hermione, it is quite strange.
"I see." Dracula raised the corners of his mouth and showed a rare excitement in his eyes. "I wonder why Granger's mental state has been a little weird lately. So it's like this..."
A special word quietly emerged in his mind——
Time turner!
Dracula had already heard of the concept of a time-turner, when Nico Flamel mentioned it to him in a casual conversation.
According to Flamel, the British Ministry of Magic has an ancient department called the Department of Mysteries, which appeared even earlier than the British Ministry of Magic.
In the Department of Mysteries, there are many silent people who study the secrets of the magical world, including some magical energies that are rarely known to the world.
These things are usually not known to anyone other than the higher ups of the Ministry of Magic and the silent man in charge of research.
But Flamel was different. His alchemy skills had already been recognized by the entire magical world. Even an ancient and proud department like the Department of Mysteries had invited Flamel to study with them.
Flamel mentioned in casual conversation that there is an energy called "time" stored in the Department of Mysteries, and the Silent People have always wanted to use it.
And the way they utilize it is to create an alchemical product that can freely store and use time energy.
In Flamel's conception, the name of this alchemical product was the Time Turner.
"Yes, after all, more than a hundred years have passed, and it's time to come up with some tricks."
Seeing the two Hermiones, one diligently preparing for tomorrow's homework in the library, and the other hurriedly eating with Harry and Ron in the auditorium, Dracula chuckled, raised his hand and snapped his fingers.
A dark moon slowly appeared beside Dracula.
He reached for the Hogwarts title deed suspended in the air, walked into the dark moon, and came to Flamel's home on Montmorency Street in Paris, France.
"Old guy, are you at home?"
Dracula walked through the living room in a familiar way and knocked on the old door of the studio.
With a creak, the door of the studio opened, and the white-haired Flamel appeared at the door with a surprised expression, looking at Dracula in front of him with some suspicion in his eyes.
"Old guy, why are you here suddenly?" Flamel asked without any politeness.
"Huh? You don't seem to welcome me?" Dracula walked into the studio without anyone else, and sat directly on Flamel's workbench filled with experimental equipment. He crossed his arms and looked at it with a half-smile. Flamel.
"Slow down, don't knock over my crystal ball!" Although Flamel reminded him, he had no intention of stopping Dracula. Instead, he closed the door without any surprise, and then sat aside. on the chair.
It can be seen that he is already used to Dracula's behavior.
"Don't you think about why you are not welcome here?" LeMay said leisurely while tidying up the somewhat scattered countertop.
"Why should I reflect?" Dracula chuckled and asked, "As the owner of this house, shouldn't you reflect on why you don't welcome your rare guest?"
Flamel glanced sideways at Dracula and tugged at the corners of his wrinkled mouth, "I've never seen a guest like you before. He just appeared in someone else's living room without saying a word."
Dracula smiled, not taking his words of unwelcome seriously.
If he really wasn't welcome, Flamel wouldn't have given him permission to enter the safe house with the loyalty spell cast on him until now.
As the only owner of the Philosopher's Stone, there are always some desperate dark wizards who want to gain immortality from Flamel. Therefore, he is always in danger.
Every wizard who is allowed to enter Flamel's house has been confirmed to be a good person with good character and integrity... Of course, Dracula may be excluded.
Flamel's good friends, such as Dumbledore and Newt, in addition to a phoenix embossed bronze mirror connected to the phoenix embossed book, also have a gold card. Only the person holding the card can see Monmo The house at 51 Runcie Street.
Dracula does not need this card representing authority.
He is the only keeper of the safe house besides the Flamel couple.
The unwelcome talk is just a different way of joking between two lonely people with long lives.
"Tell me, do you need my help with anything this time, or do you have any questions to ask me?"
Flamel quickly tidied up the workbench and looked up at Dracula.
"Can't I just come to visit you?" Dracula smiled at him.
"Come on, we have known each other for hundreds of years, and I have never seen a time when you came here just to connect with me!" Flamel said sarcastically, "Just tell me that after you woke up this time, When have you ever come to me and asked me for help?"
"First you came to me to ask about the world situation in the past hundred years; then you contacted me to chat with a few young wizards and talk about the magic stone; you came to me some time ago to help you determine the similarity between the two dark energies..."
"Don't you feel guilty that I, a lot of my age, have been treated as a tool by you?" Flamel said, with a hint of gnashing of teeth unknowingly in his tone.
"Okay, okay, my fault." Dracula raised his hands to express surrender, "I really have something to ask you this time."
Flamel looked back and shook his head in surprise.
"I'm really unlucky to meet an old guy like you." He sighed, "Tell me what questions you want to ask me this time."
Dracula nodded, jumped down from the workbench, and said to Flamel:
"I want to know everything about the Time-Turner during the hundred years I slept."
Hearing Dracula's question, Flamel turned to look at him in surprise.
"How do you know..." He was halfway through his words when he remembered something again, "Oh, that's right. Since you teach at Hogwarts, it's only a matter of time before you discover the time turner... …”
As he spoke, Flamel's expression gradually became serious.
"Brad, I hope you don't think about the time turner." He said solemnly, "If someone else gets the current time turner experimental product, they may not be able to do anything, but that If you are the one who got the time turner... I wouldn't trust it."
"Oh?" Dracula became interested, "So... the time turner can really completely change time?"
"It's not as exaggerated as the conversion time, but it can take a person back to the past." LeMay said softly.
"I know it can make people go back to the past." Dracula nodded, "I saw two Hermione Grangers on the Hogwarts title deed, that is, one of my students. She used the time turner to Go back in time and learn your lessons.”
"So my question is not whether the time turner can allow people to go back in time, but to what extent it can do it..."
"Being able to go back to the past means being able to change the history of the past, or even change the direction of the future?" Dracula stared into Flamel's eyes and asked softly, "If the function of the time turner is so powerful, how can Will it be distributed to those little wizards, just for them to use for learning?"
Dracula didn't think it made sense.
It’s hard to say how powerful the power of time is, but if it can really bring people back to life and make things change the rules of operation, then it must be a very foul energy...
And if the time turner can be mass-produced, the possibility of falling into the hands of a dark wizard with ulterior motives will become very high. Wouldn't it cause chaos in the entire magical world?
"Actually, the time turner is not as unsolvable as you think." Flamel took a deep look at Dracula and explained to him, "Time conversion also has its corresponding rules. A person can go back to the past. But this cannot change the course of history.”
"Even if someone uses a time turner to travel in time, the history he changes is only the established history that has already happened. Everything this person achieves forms a closed loop, and our world is the final one that has been changed. ending."
"How do you say it?" Dracula asked, "Is there a clearer explanation?"
"In other words, there is only one timeline in this world!" Flamel emphasized the word "timeline".
"I don't understand very well." Dracula shook his head, but an expression of interest suddenly appeared in his eyes, "But I have an idea, please listen to it and see if it is true-"
"Since I can change the past, I can make a hypothesis: If I get the time turner and go back to the past to kill myself, since I am dead, then I will not get the time turner, and then I will not I will go back to the past... push it to the end, who killed me?"
Dracula's problem actually has the same meaning as the grandfather paradox that is widely circulated in the Muggle world——
If a person goes back in time and kills his young grandfather, since the grandfather is dead, then the time traveler's father will not be born, and without a father, there will be no time traveler... In this case, who killed him? Where is my grandfather?
In the same timeline, this paradox is of course impossible to achieve. It was not until the emergence of the theory of parallel universes that everything that happened in this paradox had a slight possibility of realization.
But according to Flamel's explanation, there are items like time turners in this world, but there is only one timeline.
This doesn't seem reasonable.
After hearing Dracula's question, Flamel couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth.
Who on earth would think of going back in time to kill himself... Oh, if this person is Dracula, that's quite normal.
"A very profound question." Flamel controlled his expression and nodded thoughtfully, "Actually, similar situations like what you mentioned have occurred before."
"There was a silent person in the Department of Mysteries at the end of the last century. She used a time turner to return to the past during the experiment, but she died because she stayed in the past for too long. During the experiment of returning to the past, Eloise was trapped Up to five days in 1402."
"Her travels changed the life trajectories of everyone she met in the past. At least 25 descendants disappeared from modern times and became existences that were never born!" Flamel said in a deep voice. "That's why the Ministry of Magic has established hundreds of laws regarding the use of time-turners."
"But doesn't this conflict with the time conversion rules you mentioned before?" Dracula asked.
"Yes, these two points did create a big conflict." Flamel sighed and said to Dracula, "So this involves the self-healing ability of the time conversion rules."
"If the behavior that occurs during the time transition does not have a great impact, then the rules of time can repair it, bring the world line back to the final ending that has been changed, and make the logic of time transition self-consistent."
"However, if one person causes too great an impact during time travel, then part of the time rules will completely collapse and time will not be brought back to the main line, resulting in catastrophic consequences!"
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