Chapter 484 The Only Hope

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Maca, who had almost passed by Harry and Ron, was now standing in front of the Hogs Head pub in Hogsmeade. He just pushed lightly, and the old wooden door opened by itself.

Aberforth certainly wasn't here today.

When Maca was waiting for Voldemort and even Greenward's attack at Hogwarts, Aberforth and members of the Order of the Phoenix headed by Kingsley also had their tasks.

What they have to do is actually very simple, but the burden on their shoulders is quite heavy. Because today, if Voldemort chooses to attack Dumbledore's funeral, the actions of his subordinates will inevitably reveal their feet.

It can be said that this is the best time to explore, or even destroy Voldemort's secret stronghold.

So Maca knew that the current Pig's Head Bar must be closed to thank customers. But it was clear that the door was open.

Although Aberforth looks big and rough, but his mind is extremely delicate, he will definitely not make such a small mistake. That being the case, maybe Harry and Ron had indeed escaped the catastrophe - Maca naturally hoped so.

He thought for a while, but without stopping, he raised his leg and walked into the bar.

The opaque windows made the room dark, but Maca didn't hesitate. He quickly walked around the bar, opened the door and walked into Aberforth's bedroom.

He hasn't been here before, but that doesn't prevent him from knowing what's going on inside.

However, just a few steps into the same dark bedroom, Maca felt that he had kicked something. Although it is true to say that it is hard, it still has a subtle elasticity.

With a wave of his hand, a soft light immediately illuminated the bedroom clearly. As his vision became clearer, he finally discovered what he had kicked.

"Isn't this Aberforth's goat?" Maca shook his head slightly, but ignored it.

Of course he saw it, the goat was under the Body Binding Curse, lying on the floor in a miserable state, completely unable to move. But he doesn't have time for a goat right now!

The portrait was hanging on the wall of the bedroom, but the girl in the painting that Harry and Ron saw didn't seem to stay on the canvas of the painting at this moment.

Maca stepped forward and tapped the edge of the frame with his fingers, trying to see if he could call out the person in the painting.

To be honest, he didn't have much hope for it. The people in the magic portrait can come and go between the portraits that belong to him at will, but if they really go to other canvases, he can't hear the other party knocking like this.

But it turns out that he didn't knock in vain this time. There are very few portraits of this girl, but right now, she is actually walking leisurely in the woods in the painting!

Seeing a slender figure appearing in the forest in the background of the oil painting, walking unhurriedly towards this side, Maca was relieved.

It would be great to get news about Harry and Ron directly from her.

"Arianna," Maca nodded towards the girl in the painting, "Did Harry and Ron leave here? Uh...you know who I'm talking about."

This girl is none other than the two sisters of Dumbledore - Arianna Dumbledore.

When the brothers Dumbledore and Grinwald were young, there was a chaotic three-way duel, and Ariana died on the spot because of a curse cast by an unknown person.

Since then, Aberforth, who loves his sister very much, has been blaming his brother all the time. Because the melee that seemed meaningless to him was sparked by a disagreement between his brother and Greenwald.

This sad past is not only Aberforth's old wound, but also his brother Albus Dumbledore's biggest knot.

past,

When Maca tried to enter different rooms of the Room of Requirement time and time again, she found the one with Ariana's portrait.

So he knew very well that Dumbledore's sister had never been talkative. If you want to ask her any questions, you must try to make her answer with a "nod" or "shake her head" as much as possible, otherwise she will definitely turn around and leave without comment.

This time, Ariana seemed to be in a good mood, at least she was willing to come out of the woods behind and listen to what he wanted to say.

When Maca asked about Harry and Ron, Ariana nodded indifferently, and then reached out and gestured towards the bedroom door.

"thanks."

Being able to clearly know that Harry and Ron are fine, undoubtedly calmed down Maca, who was full of boredom and anxiety at the moment.

"Since the two of them have left here, they should go back to the Burrow, right?"

In his opinion, Harry and Ron would never run off to Hogwarts again. But who knows, the facts are always so unexpected sometimes, and people are often caught off guard after the fact.

Maca casually sat down on the chair next to her, regardless of the dirt on it, and just let out a long sigh again.

He is not the kind of hero who can witness a large number of people die without changing his face, let alone the kind of king who can commemorate the victims on the list of honor. He couldn't maintain his little bit of "little selfishness" after going through that kind of disaster.

To put it bluntly, he was still thinking about how to save that terrible disaster and try to save those who shouldn't have died.

As for the method...of course there is not no way. In fact, the way to recover from the defeat had already appeared during the last school year's semi-finals.

Maca pondered for a moment, then took out a thick magic notebook from his waist pocket. After lightly stroking the words "Book of Evil" on the cover, he finally opened the book, which he hadn't read carefully for a long time, and turned it directly to the last page.

In the original "Book of Sin", the "Rule Rune Guidance Table" was undoubtedly the one he had read the most times, and the third was the three-dimensional rune array on the last page.

This rune array drawn by the magic thread is extremely complicated. Although he has read it so many times and has been studying it unremittingly until now, the progress in it has not been satisfactory.

However, he could more or less guess that this is probably a rune array used to cross time and space. It was it that brought the future self back to the past and stood in front of him.

Don't say that this rune array diagram is very likely to have major flaws, even if there are no flaws, it is impossible for him to use it in practice now.

"Do you want me to spend most of my life researching and understanding it, and then get a new "Book of Sin" and send it back to the past?" Maca forced a helpless smile, "...it's useless to read it! "

With a muffled "snap", this heavy notebook was closed again.

However, after closing the diary, Maca's movements suddenly stopped. As if thinking of something, he frowned slightly, staring at the book in his hand in a daze.

It wasn't that he discovered something new in this "Book of Sin", but a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his heart.

Occasionally this happens when a person is struggling to think or remember something.

That kind of feeling is like a vague feeling passing by in my heart, as if I can almost figure it out, but I can't catch its actual content.

"Time-Turner!"

In a flash of inspiration, Maca finally grasped the idea that almost slipped through his fingers.

"This is really... this is really..." Once he remembered this thing that he had almost forgotten in a corner of his mind, he clenched his fists with excitement, "Why did I forget it? ?”

For a moment, Maca's mind was filled with the word "time-turner". He stood up abruptly, and walked back and forth in Aberforth's old bedroom to relieve his anxiety. excitement.

He knows that now is not the time to be happy, or in other words, the next is the most critical moment. He had to calm down again and plan his next move as carefully as possible, so as not to fail again when the time came.

After taking a few deep breaths, he suppressed the joy in his heart, and sat back on the dirty armchair again.

He still vaguely remembered that in this world without him, Maca McClain, Harry and the others relied on this "time-turner" to save the fate of Sirius Black's death. But after that, the Time Turner seemed to be destroyed due to an accident...

"It was destroyed because of what? Now..." Maca searched hard in the distant memory that had almost disappeared, trying to find any traces of clues, "Yes, Hermione once applied for it. Courses that have conflicting schedules ... apply for ..."

As he desperately remembered, he muttered to himself: "...Ministry of Magic! Yes, the Time-Turner is stored in the Time Hall of the Department of Mysteries!"

In that world without Maca, the cabinet containing the time-turners was hit by a stun spell during the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, causing the time-turners in it to fall into an endless loop. Cannot be used anymore. Although Maca didn't remember such details, he at least recalled some of the reasons.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help feeling relieved.

Although he encountered Voldemort's ambush in the Hall of Prophecy of the Department of Mysteries, and fought a big fight in the Hall of Death. But at that time, he and a group of black dead were just passing by in the time hall, and those time converters should be fine.

"It's not too late!"

After a little thought, he decided to make a quick trip to the Ministry of Magic. After all, the Time-Turners were his only hope for now.