Chapter 381 Dangerous Time Converter

"Miss Granger, can you explain why you didn't miss the Defense Against the Dark Arts class this morning?" Les said with a playful smile on his face. "Could it be that you have also mastered the method of making automatic dolls and successfully concealed it from Professor White, who made his fortune by making dolls?"

Hermione was silent.

The facts presented by Rice left her no room for rebuttal.

After a while, after a fierce psychological struggle, she told Les that she could tell him the truth, provided that Les swears to keep what he saw and heard today confidential.

Rice was stunned for a moment, and an unpleasant memory came to his mind.

It can’t be that thing…

Thinking of that possibility, Rice's pupils dilated slightly for a moment.

Hermione didn't notice the change in Les's expression. She reached into her collar and took out a very long and thin gold necklace from her arms. Under the gold chain hung a shiny mini gold timer.

Les:!

This is really a piece of crap!

"Why do you have this thing?" Les asked in surprise.

How did the modern wizarding world become so open that even such a dangerous thing could be given to a third-year student to use?

"You actually know what this is?" Hermione was even more surprised than Les.

She originally thought that few people knew about this kind of magic prop that required school professors to write a lot of application forms to borrow, but she didn't expect that Rice recognized it at a glance.

Les curled his lips: How could he not recognize this thing? Although it was tied with a gold chain, he was very familiar with the timer at the end of the chain.

Not only did he know what it was, he also knew who had made it.

Rowena Ravenclaw.

She was the person who finally made the time-turner fully functional, and was also the first person to abuse it, leaving a deep impression on Salazar and the other two.

"Time Converter, it's mentioned in the book." A trace of solemnity flashed in Les' eyes. He looked at Hermione and asked in a calm tone with a little curiosity: "What do you do with it?"

Hermione didn't notice anything unusual about Les, she was just surprised that he even knew such unpopular things.

"It's just for classes..." Hermione spread her hands, indicating that she wanted to sign up for every class, which resulted in her schedule being

Les:…

"Is this what you do with the Time Turner?" he couldn't help but ask.

Hermione's use of the time-turner feels like the use of the ability to stop time in a strange comic. Some people can transcend the world with the ability to stop time, while others can only transcend the world...

This little girl actually just turned back time and went to class after getting the time turner. Now Rice understood why the school and the Ministry of Magic were willing to approve Hermione to use the time turner.

She is the right person to use it.

Even if Fred was as studious as George and Hermione (the possibility of this happening was zero), Professor McGonagall would never let these two people come into contact with the Time-Turner. She probably wouldn't want to tell them that such a thing existed in the world.

"What else?" Hermione asked in confusion. "I applied for this thing because my class schedule couldn't be arranged. To be honest, this thing is really troublesome. I can't let my past self see it, and I have to find a way not to expose it in front of my friends. Fortunately, I'm lucky that no one has noticed it - Les is the first one."

Rice was speechless: Are the students of Ravenclaw a little too cold to each other? It was a bit outrageous that Hermione had persisted in this state for half a semester without being exposed.

While complaining about the Ravenclaw style in his heart, Rice kept perfunctorily saying, "Indeed, this is a good way to resolve schedule conflicts."

Les didn't dare let Hermione think too much. It would be terrible if she found a "new way to play" with the time turner like her and her teacher did. It was enough to experience such a thing once.

'It's best to persuade Hermione to return the time turner at the end of this semester.' Les thought. At first, Rowena just wanted to use the time turner to find some time to read books and study magic, but then it gradually got out of control.

When she was at her craziest, she even tried to achieve immortality with a time converter, causing countless troubles to Rice and the other two.

But they didn't blame her, after all, no magician could resist the temptation of time magic. But this realm was like the golden apple in the Garden of Eden, which looked very tempting on the surface but was actually wrapped in a deadly poison.

Even Helga was brought to a thousand years later by herself because of an accident of time magic. In front of time magic, wizards are like puppets to be manipulated.

"But I can't hold on any longer." Hermione suddenly said this without any reason.

"Ok?"

"I'm so tired... Really so tired. I have to take twelve courses at the same time..." Hermione gradually lost her luster, and infinite fatigue appeared in her eyes.

Rice thought about it and took back the energy potion that had slipped to his sleeve - this thing only treated the symptoms and not the root cause, the energy it stimulated was just a "loan" that had to be repaid eventually.

"A mature wizard should learn to skip classes on his own. Some classes are just unnecessary." Les gave himself as an example. In his opinion, the most important classes that cannot be missed are Potions, Charms, Transfiguration and Defense Against the Dark Arts. Herbology can barely be counted - but generally speaking, if you are good at Potions, you can also learn Herbology by analogy.

As for the remaining classes, you can actually choose to attend them or not, especially Divination and Muggle Studies.

It’s not that these two courses are not important, but Divination relies too much on talent, and there are big problems with the syllabus of Muggle Studies.

Rice actually attaches great importance to Muggle studies. He is now concentrating on studying Muggle knowledge and almost putting all his energy on it.

If he were asked to write the syllabus for Muggle Studies, he would definitely make major changes to the course material and make it a required course.

In fact, if he still wanted to stay in Hogwarts to teach as Rice after graduation, he would actually prefer to stay as a professor of Muggle Studies rather than a professor of Potions - of course, he still had to fight for the position of Slytherin Headmaster. At worst, he could let Severus become the Headmaster and vacate the position for himself.

He wouldn't be the headmaster anyway—Helga was still alive, Rowena was still sane! He would have to be crazy to be the headmaster.

While Rice's mind was wandering, Hermione was thinking.

After a long time, she sighed and agreed with Les' suggestion.

"I don't think it's necessary to take Divination and Muggle Studies..."

"Then be brave and tell Professor Flitwick. After dropping these two courses, your schedule will probably return to normal and you will be much less stressed."

"One third of the school year has passed. Can I really drop out of classes?" Hermione looked at Les suspiciously.

"Of course." Les really hoped that Hermione would drop the unnecessary and useless courses so that she could return the time turner.

Make her hand over this dangerous little thing before she discovers the correct use of the time-turner.

"Okay, you make sense." Hermione was convinced by Les.

She walked out of the library in a hurry. Maybe it was an illusion, but Rice felt that her steps were much lighter when she walked out.

"You know, she has that thing."

"I know." A figure emerged from the bookshelf opposite Rice. It was Rowena Ravenclaw, who went by the alias Spector.

"Aren't you afraid that she will repeat the same mistake?" Les said with a sarcastic smile.

"Don't be afraid." Rowena looked calm and composed, as if she had Rice in her grasp.

"If she can figure out the usefulness of the time converter, I will tell her the limits of what she can do." Rowena's face remained calm.

"Then I definitely won't come out to clean up the mess. You can try." Les sneered.

Do you really think Hermione is my student? There is no such thing as an infinite guarantee.

"It is very beneficial to use the time converter properly. You can have several extra hours every day. If you are brave enough, you can have forty-eight, seventy-two, or ninety-six hours in a day..."

"And then create a huge mess and waste days trying to make up for it, right?" Les interrupted Rowena unceremoniously.

"No one has ever guaranteed that the time-turner won't break down, especially if you use it repeatedly to return to the same point in time." Rice pointed out the fatal weakness of the time-turner.

Rowena had suffered such a big loss before, and the time-turners preserved in the Ministry of Magic are all antiques. God knows when they will suddenly become scrapped, especially when the user is a wizard like Rice.

This is just like a fat man riding in a dilapidated helicopter. It may be convenient, but if an accident occurs...

"It's not too late to catch up. Go out and find Granger and borrow the converter from her. You need it, Salazar." Rowena said quietly.

"Don't call my name outside." As for the topic of borrowing the time turner from Hermione, Les avoided the topic.

It's like a Pandora's box, once opened it can't be closed.

As for the time converter, Rice thought it would be best not to use it as much as possible, because he didn't dare to bet that he would become addicted to the feeling of using it.

It is really difficult for wizards like them to resist the temptation of double or even several times more time every day.

The reason Hermione felt so tired was that she had not found the real way to use the time converter. She only went forward one or two hours each time, and only went back two or three times at most at the same time. The real way to use it was to go back twelve to twenty-four hours at a time, and then go back repeatedly, and use the extra time to properly allocate part of it for rest and the other part for research and study.

This is the real use of the time turner!

It allows the user to master a new spell, or skillfully prepare a new potion, or finish reading a book in a very short time.

"I actually have one kept in my private classroom. Do you need it?" Rowena whispered to Les.

Les didn't answer. He decided that if Rowena really brought that thing to him, he would destroy it with a spell as soon as possible.

The corner of the library returned to peace.

After a while, Hermione came back with a leisurely pace - her neck was empty, obviously she had returned the time-turner.

"Professor Flitwick agreed to help me drop those two courses!" Hermione's tone was filled with irrepressible relief and joy.

When the Time-Turner was freed from her neck, she felt as if a huge burden had been lifted off her shoulders.

"Congratulations." Les had a smile on his face, and he didn't mention a word about the conversation he had just had with Rowena.

"Let's read a book." Rice took out a copy of the Encyclopedia Britannica from his backpack and started browsing it with great interest. Hermione sat opposite him and took out a book she had just borrowed from the library and started reading.

Rice flipped through the pages of the book very quickly. He only skimmed through most of the content and read carefully and repeatedly only a small number of contents that interested him.

While flipping through the encyclopedia, he was also thinking about the possibility of building an internet connection within Hogwarts.

"This is impossible." After Rice tentatively discussed the possibility of building the Internet with Hermione, Hermione rejected Rice's idea outright.

"You are not allowed to use any electronic devices on the campus of Hogwarts." Hermione quoted what she had read in "Hogwarts: A History".

"Oh? Why?" Les was a little curious. When they set up various defensive magic around the school, they didn't consider any electronic equipment - such things didn't exist at that time.

Hermione: ...

She was stumped by Les's question.

In the end, he could only stammer that electronic devices would malfunction on campus.

"So this is the work of a certain principal? Based on the time when electronic devices appeared, it must be the last two or three generations?"

Hermione had no answer at all, but Rice felt that his speculation made a lot of sense.

They have an advantage in exploring the answer to this question because Dumbledore lived so long! He graduated from Hogwarts in the late 19th century and became the headmaster of Hogwarts in the mid-20th century, which coincides with the development of electronic devices.

If a headmaster set up magic to interfere with electronic equipment around the school, then even if it was not set up by Dumbledore, he would most likely know about it.

Les decided to send Helga to find out.

Thinking of this, he left the library and headed straight for Helga's office.

"Electronic equipment interference?" Helga's face showed confusion. "First of all, what is an electronic device?"

Helga's question made Rice's breath hitch.

Afterwards, he had to patiently explain to Helga what electronic devices are, which inevitably involved the popularization of concepts such as electricity, and Helga nodded repeatedly after hearing that.

"Muggles have come up with a lot of new things over the years." Even Helga had to admit that the area outside Hogwarts had become really too unfamiliar.

"So you should go and ask Dumbledore as soon as possible. I am very curious - this is very important for establishing the Internet within Hogwarts."

“What is the Internet?”

Les:…

He even had the urge to drink the Polyjuice Potion and transform into Helga to ask Dumbledore.

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