Chapter 556 The "Trap" Left by Dumbledore?

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"Do you stand here and let me slaughter you, or do you choose to give up on your dear teacher?"

Voldemort's laughter echoed under the night sky, causing the crows in the distance to flutter their wings, and their dark tail feathers slowly fell to the ground of the cemetery.

Sean's eyes flickered, and all kinds of thoughts kept passing by.

At first, he believed that the main target of the Returners was Grindelwald, but the divination of the Unstable Coin gave information about Grindelwald's location that no one knew. Sean then shifted his focus to the plan against Voldemort. He speculated that if the returnees were unable to find Grindelwald, they would turn against him.

The plan against his sister Ella allowed Sean to confirm this, but Voldemort's performance made Sean suspicious - the layout of this cemetery was too rough. With only the unresurrected Voldemort and some returnees, he wanted to keep Xiao Well that's unrealistic.

Just when he wondered if the other party had another plan against Grindelwald, something that could cause time fluctuations appeared again, and the scene once again changed back to the oppression of Sean - Grindelwald's safety and Sean's own Safety is at stake, and he needs to make a choice.

Borrowing Grindelwald to threaten himself... Sean found that he had made a mistake. He always habitually separated himself from Grindelwald, thinking that the returner could only focus most of his attention on the plan against one person. , subconsciously ignoring the connection between himself and Grindelwald.

At the same time, he was too confident in his ability to save his life - and that was true. He could indeed easily escape the enemy's siege, but the enemy found a way to prevent him from escaping.

Moreover, Voldemort took advantage of Sean's cautious mentality and found himself in a trap when he came to an unfamiliar place. Sean's first reaction must be defense, and the magic flame blessing was naturally the best choice - but the magic flame blessing became Sean's own cage.

That unknown object obviously needs to react with Sean's own magic power to trigger time fluctuations, and the blue fire that cannot be avoided and cannot be destroyed has become the best source of Sean's magic power.

He remembered something - the Ash Snake Riot on Halloween in the first grade was also the first time Sean saw Voldemort, no, to be precise, it was the first time he saw Voldemort's consciousness.

And that consciousness is attached to a blue flame that will not disappear.

At that time, Sean pretended that he was bewitched, and instead used Voldemort's carelessness to solve his problem of absorbing too many negative emotions.

The matter was settled satisfactorily, and Sean didn't think much about it afterwards - he now regretted that he didn't think much about it. The blue fire was obviously blessed by the magic flame...

And Tom Riddle once served as a professor in Nurmengard for a long time. With this guy's methods, it is not difficult to come into contact with Grindelwald's unique spell. Maybe he can't learn it, but he can learn it from the magic spell. Learn something new from the curse.

Just like now, someone had taken away the blessing of his magic flame and turned it into a weapon against himself.

Grindelwald didn't realize this at the time, and I didn't realize it either - no, even if I did, I couldn't tell. After all, it was just taking away a ball of fire...

The problem still lies with that thing... Sean turned his attention to the crystal bottle hanging on the chest of the returnee.

Why does this thing produce time fluctuations after it confronts my magic power? Although it is weak, it does produce...

So far, I have not experienced many time fluctuations. The two most serious ones were that the real time was distorted, and the source of that time should be that Dumbledore checked the huge memory belonging to the old Grindelwald.

The other time, of course, was when Grindelwald himself realized the truth about time travel, which directly led to space confusion and the disappearance of a year.

The common point is that memories that should not belong to this timeline...

The larger the memory and the closer it is to the memory itself, the greater the fluctuations it will cause.

Then this thing should also be related to memory, and this thing must compete with my magic power to cause time fluctuations...

However, I understand my own situation. I have never experienced memory loss, except for being affected by the magic of [laziness] not long ago... However, I only lost about an hour of memory, and in that hour I just went When we arrived in Slytherin's secret room, this memory was not critical - and even if that memory was taken away by the returnees in some way without my knowledge, this should not be the case.

Otherwise, as long as someone has taken out his own memory, wouldn't it cause time fluctuations?

An idea came to Sean's mind: "Is this golden light fragment related to my memory? It will only change when it confronts my current magic power. This means that there is magic power in that thing..."

To be precise, it should be related to the memory of "me" in another timeline, and it needs to contain the magic power of "me" in another timeline, so that the current situation is possible.

Sean frowned and looked at the group of returnees in front of him. The crystal bottles on their chests contained the memory and magic power of Sean Wallop from another timeline. Otherwise, there was no way to explain all this.

But how could such a thing exist...

In the cave where he conquered the Selma Lake Monster, Sean did find another ring. Sean from another timeline - in order to ensure safety, the other self also allowed me to truly become one in Grindelwald. Check again later to avoid unnecessary time fluctuations.

But I have always kept that ring well, and there is no way it will fall into the hands of the returnees. Sean had considered this before, so after giving Ella his original ring, he did not bring another ring. I am worried that an accident will cause time fluctuations, which will eventually affect Grindelwald.

But if the returnee possesses something with memories of "me" in another timeline, it is impossible for Grindelwald not to know about it, or in other words, the other me would not have thought of this...

The unknown secrets were grasped by the enemy and finally used against him - Sean didn't think he would make such a huge mistake, no matter which timeline he was in.

How did the returnee get this thing...

Um? Sean frowned and noticed something was wrong.

In order to give Sean a sufficient threat, all the returnees present brought crystal bottles - but if the magic item containing the memory was divided into pieces, the memory in it should be directly destroyed.

Have the returnees mastered some mysterious magic? This is indeed possible. After all, the leader behind them is the bard who entered the trance dreamland. He is a terrifying existence who successfully killed the gods. Moreover, in Sean's guess, the bard and the despicable Herbo are almost equated. , Ancient Greek wizards did have a lot of mysterious knowledge that modern wizards have not inherited...

But the key is how they got this thing... Even if it is divided into pieces, it can still fight against Sean's magic power and cause time fluctuations...

Moreover, how do they know this thing belongs to Sean Wallop in another timeline? This doesn't make sense...

If they knew the truth about time travel, why would they go to such trouble to infiltrate Hogwarts to obtain Trelawney's prophecy? Can't we just go to Grindelwald directly?

Voldemort also personally proved just now that they only knew part of the information. They knew that the time fluctuation was related to Grindelwald, and they also knew that today was very important to Grindelwald - Sean should not appear in Trelawney. It was prophesied that his information should not be revealed.

How can you confirm that this thing will be effective for me?

Unless... someone revealed it to the Returned.

The person who knew the inside story revealed part of the information to the returnee... In fact, this thing was provided to the returnee by the person who knew the inside story.

And this person apparently only has one name.

Albus Dumbledore...

Dumbledore had seen the huge memories belonging to Grindelwald for nearly a hundred years. Before Grindelwald formally merged into one, only he had a clear understanding of all the history and all the stories in the other timeline.

Of course it will also include Sean Wallop in that timeline.

And the returnees have always had a very strange trust in Dumbledore from top to bottom...

They clearly knew that the old man was very scheming and very sophisticated, but they still trusted Dumbledore in a way that Sean could not understand at all.

Can an Unbreakable Vow have such a powerful effect? Sean doesn't think so.

In order to achieve his goal, Dumbledore would not hesitate even if the person he had to sacrifice was himself. How dare he stop the greatest Albus Dumbledore even if he died?

The returnees couldn't all be a bunch of idiots. How could they trust Dumbledore so much?

When thinking of this, Sean first frowned, then showed a self-deprecating smile - he had always trusted Dumbledore, believing that this wise old man had always been on his side.

So, if my guess is not wrong and I trust Dumbledore enough...

Then everything here should be Dumbledore's arrangement. He was convinced that the Returners would make plans because of his actions. He expected this to happen and expected that the Returners would use this unknown item to threaten Xiao. kindness.

What does Dumbledore want?

Sean sadly found that the idea that had occurred more than once came to his mind again.

The Riddler gets out of Hogwarts!

Seeing that Sean was silent for a long time, but did not make any gesture of escaping, Voldemort, who was held in his arms, let out a sharp laugh.

"It seems you made the right choice, Wallop - oh, oh, how touching, this dazzling teacher-student relationship...hehehehe."

The returnee laughed sharply along with Voldemort.

Sean raised his head and looked at the ugly baby, and he said calmly: "Is this your plan? If I were you, it would be more reasonable to directly use all this to deal with Grindelwald. Well, stupid."

Voldemort sneered disdainfully: "Grindelwald will naturally have someone to deal with, and my target is you, Wallop."

Is there someone to deal with Grindelwald? The leader of the Returned who never showed up? Or Dumbledore?

When Sean entered the venue today, he discovered that Dumbledore in the referee's seat was not himself at all. As a master of illusion spells, he could sense that the Dumbledore there was just an illusion. I filled the illusion with some kind of magic that I didn't understand, making the entire illusion more real and more lasting.

But will Dumbledore really go against Grindelwald? Divinations from the Unstable Coin also indicate that Grindelwald's hiding place is unknown to anyone.

What else is hidden here...

Voldemort looked at the silent Sean with a satisfied attitude. He seemed to be laughing so much that he couldn't stop laughing. He was so happy.

"I still prefer your unruly attitude just now. I really hope you can show it to me again, Wallop."

Sean glanced at him indifferently, and just twitched his lips in disdain: "A lost dog picked up bones dropped by others. Does all this make you so happy? Tom."

Voldemort's eyes turned cold, and then, at his signal, one of the returnees pulled off the crystal bottle from his neck and threw it towards the ball of fierce fire that belonged to Sean.

A strong sense of season came immediately, and the crystal bottle was melted directly by the fierce fire, and the golden fragments inside were missing - and then, the weak fluctuation of time spread again.

If this fluctuation becomes more frequent, Grindelwald may really be watched by the will of the world... Sean thought silently.

But it seems that the returnees don't know how Grindelwald played with time - once the world's will completely awakens, the entire world will be destroyed.

This is inconsistent with the core appeal of the Returned - they obviously want to control the world to accomplish a certain purpose, rather than destroy the world.

Of course, I can't go there with the mentality that we will both die together, although I am indeed quite impulsive and I don't like to be in vain with these conspirators...

Um? This is my character……

Sean suddenly felt that he seemed to have grasped something. That intuition seemed to be brewing in a corner of his body, but he didn't know how to open the right door.

If the speculation is correct, what does Dumbledore want from me?

Sean tried his best to think back in his mind, trying to find any clues that Dumbledore might have left.

But he found nothing...

It shouldn't be. If Dumbledore wanted me to do something, he would definitely leave some vague hints. This would leave too much uncertainty for me to guess.

Couldn't he have said it without prompting?

Sean suddenly realized that he seemed to know...

Under what circumstances is it absolutely forbidden to say anything? That would of course lead to serious consequences...

For example, strong time fluctuations...

The time fluctuation will be stronger because the closer the connection between the person in the memory and the person who knows it is... Dumbledore did not give me a hint, so my close connection with the "tip" will cause very strong time fluctuations?

That means that Dumbledore knows that I can think of this even without prompting - the intuition between Sean and Sean.

Like taking a magical elixir and entering a trance, I acted entirely on my own instincts.

So, the things in the crystal bottle are left by me in another timeline? Why am I doing this, why am I threatening myself?

On purpose...