A certain Hogwarts rune professor

Chapter 472 Time and the Hourglass

Professor McGonagall kept them after Transfiguration the last week of May.

"Potter, Weasley, Granger, you go to the room next to the auditorium below at nine o'clock tonight," Professor McGonagall said to them, "Mr. Bagman is going to tell the warriors what the third item is there .”

Coming out of the Transfiguration classroom, they stood in the corridor looking out towards the Forbidden Forest, where a group of staff members was walking across the grounds.

"What are they going to do?" Harry asked puzzled. "It looks like it's going to the Quidditch pitch."

They stayed for a few minutes, and the men turned a corner in front of the Quidditch pitch and walked in the direction of the edge of the Forbidden Forest.Harry heaved a sigh of relief, he didn't want the stadium to be destroyed, a resident of Ilvermorny was enough.Seeing that there were still 10 minutes before the History of Magic class, they hurried to the classroom.

When the class bell rang, the ghostly Professor Binns floated in through the walls, lecturing in a monotonous voice for decades.

"Not even the good food in Room Seven could save him," said Ron.

Harry looked fidgety, he was now desperate to find out what the third item was, and call it a day.After preparing for such a long time, he is more confident than the previous two games, but his focus has undoubtedly shifted to other places.

Do you want to ask Hermione where did she get the information about Voldemort?He couldn't help thinking about this question, and at the same time imagined that after he knew the source of the information, he could investigate it during the summer vacation.Surely Sirius would not refuse this request, he could cover himself so that the Ministry of Magic could not be sure whether he was using magic outside the school...

Harry looked at his watch, which had stopped. He turned to Ron to ask the time. Ron had a blank expression on his face, nodding his head.Harry didn't want to disturb Ron's sweet dreams. He took off the broken watch and put it in his pocket. When his fingertips touched a hard object, he took it out and saw it was a dusty hourglass.

It was given to him by Varun, and it was hidden in the deepest part of his pocket at some point, and he forgot it.

Harry stared at the solidified dark golden sand in the hourglass, thinking alone.

An idea suddenly occurred to him.Surprised by the thought, Harry looked around—no one was looking at him, so Harry quickly took out a piece of parchment, wrote a line on it, and handed it to Hermione, who was listening intently.

This is what Harry admires. Although Hermione also finds the history of magic courses boring, she can always listen to them and use the knowledge when appropriate.At this time, Hermione looked at the parchment that suddenly appeared in her History of Magic textbook, and she bulged her cheeks in dissatisfaction.

Harry motioned her to look at the words with his eyes, and Hermione read it with her head down. The small words on it read: "Did you bring that discarded Time-Turner with you?"

Hermione nodded slightly, dropped her head lower, and pulled a slender gold chain from her collar.Harry's eyes widened as she placed a gold timepiece on the parchment and gently pushed it towards him.

"Thank you." Harry muttered softly, and couldn't wait to pick up the gold timepiece—according to Hermione, a good Time-Turner would glow, but the one in front of him looked very old.Its core is an hourglass with spherical ends, surrounded by several rings of metal ring brackets, and adjustable knobs on the edges.

Taking a deep breath, and holding it, Harry put the dusty hourglass and the Time-Turner together, and was surprised to find that the two hourglasses were almost exactly the same height.Exactly the same... can it be replaced?He broke the time switch hard, trying to remove the hourglass on it, but the hourglass didn't move at all.

He had no choice but to stop, not daring to continue exerting force.Harry looked up guiltily, only to meet Hermione's shocked eyes.

"How did you come up with this idea?"

Hermione couldn't wait to ask as soon as the class was over. At this time, they had just come out of the History of Magic class. In the last half hour, Hermione forgot Professor Binns on the podium for the first time——"Giant nature is cruel, they Cannibalism kills more people than all other causes combined..." - she tossed her notes aside, staring at Harry's hourglass and the broken Time-Turner, her eyes twinkling shine.

"I don't know. It's just... a flash of inspiration?" Harry said innocently, and Ron looked at them with some confusion.

They finished their meal quickly and walked through the door of the common room. Fred and George were promoting a new product with their good friend Lee Jordan. It was a hat-shaped thing, and Harry would definitely lean over to look at it. See, Twins products are usually fun - as long as it's not on him.

But today they walked straight past the crowd, ignoring the exclamation around them, and went straight to the hidden corner.At Hermione's eye, Harry produced the hourglass and the gold timer, which he had put together on purpose, especially to keep the two different hourglasses at the same height.

"Hiss~" Ron gasped. "Could it be—"

"Yeah, we thought so too," said Hermione excitedly, "I didn't notice it at all! Even though they're about the same size...but...who would have thought to put them together? One from thousands of years ago Ancient Greek dark wizard, one from the late alchemist Nico Flamel."

Ron picked up the dusty hourglass and shook it vigorously. The dark golden substance inside solidified into a ball and stuck to the inner wall of the glass, motionless. "Except for one thing," he said, "they are all broken. Hermione, are you here?" Waste of time, you said it yourself, Professor Haipu checked."

"Oh, oh..." Hermione said perfunctorily, "But Professor Happe probably didn't know that Varen took the goblin's hourglass secretly. In his impression, he had asked Varen to return everything."

Harry's heart was pounding, and it dawned on him that if they could fix the gold timer, they'd have a Time-Turner that wasn't restricted by the Ministry, though he didn't know what it was going to be used for yet, huh? Min said a bunch of restrictions earlier.

But if an accident really happened, like the one on the covered bridge, if Hermione hadn't had a time-turner in her hand and found Professor Heppe in time to save the scene, one or two of them might have died, at least Pettigrew Peter had Likely to escape.

Harry was very concerned about this matter, "Let's try anyway! What if it works?"

"The question is, how do we take it apart..." Hermione said, frowning.

"Yes, we don't have any tools. Is there a shop in Hogsmeade that sells pliers?" Harry asked.

"Don't be silly," said Hermione, "it's more sophisticated than anything you've ever seen, and it's more than a pair of pliers or a screwdriver can fix...Let me see," she eyed the broken gold timepiece over and over again. , said to himself for a while: "No... This is definitely not something we can handle, unless..."

"Unless what?"

"Unless we can get previous research materials." Hermione said decisively.

"You mean—" Ron glared at her.

"This broken time-turner used to belong to Nicole Flamel, the professor mentioned that Mr. Nicole Flamel left a lot of things, I thought, well, if the professor allows Warren to give away the broken time-turner , then he shouldn't mind if we read some information..."

"Shouldn't we go directly to Professor Haipu for help?" Ron asked puzzled, and he reminded, "This is the fastest way."

"Of course," said Hermione solemnly, "but we've got to at least have some proof, don't we?"

……

At 08:30 in the evening, they came out of the lounge and went downstairs to the auditorium.Along the way, Ron asked Harry what a screwdriver looked like, and Harry first explained the purpose of the screw, and then explained the different types of screwdrivers, "There is a kind of tool box that contains tools of various sizes, and they can also unscrew nuts—"

"What's that?" asked Ron in amazement. "Dad will love it. He's got a drawer full of switches."

In the hall, they met Beauxbaton's warrior, Fleur greeted Harry warmly, leaned down and kissed each of his cheeks.There was an expectant expression on Ron's face, Hermione snorted dissatisfied, and the expressions on the faces of the two boys were dizzy.

When he came back to his senses, Harry found himself sitting on the sofa in the room next to the auditorium, and the big man in Waggadu was smiling at him foolishly. How did he sit down?He had no memory of walking through the auditorium at all.

"...my sister Gabriel will be coming over next month, with mom and dad. A few days before the third project..." Fleur said cheerfully from the sidelines, and Harry looked left and right, Ron and he sat Together, looking at Fleur with the same obsession, where's Hermione?The next second he saw Hermione, she sat down with Collins.

They waited until nearly ten o'clock, when the lights were about to be turned off, before Bagman hurried in.

He was wearing yellow overalls that looked like an oversized baby dress, and his face was rather tired, his short blond hair stuck to his forehead with sweat.He pulled himself together and stretched out his hands, looking at the warrior in the room.

"Hello!" he said.

"First of all, I want to congratulate everyone. Yes, that's right. The game has finally reached the final stage. I think it's something worth celebrating, both for you and me." Bagman wiped his face. Sweat on his forehead, "To be honest, I've been exhausted recently. I just communicated with the staff about the venue today. There were too many problems. Fortunately, Hagrid helped out with ideas..." Harry and Ron exchanged a panic eyes.

"When the competition is over, I must apply for a vacation... Cough cough, let's get down to business, the third item—" He blinked his eyes, "is a maze. The third item is very simple and clear. The trophy of the competition is Put it on the top of the maze, whichever team can touch it first will get full points."

"Top?" Krum asked in a low voice.

"Yeah," Bagman stroked the straps on his chest, "I never said there was only one level in the maze, did I?"

"So we just have to go through the maze?" Fleur said, and she confirmed, "Find the right way?"

"Of course not, Miss Delacour," Bagman shook his head, his voice brightening, "Hagrid provided a whole bunch of animals... and some spells that had to be broken... and stuff like that, it's A competition of speed. The warrior team with the leading score enters the maze first. We will post the scores and order of the two games in the hall. Today is too late, we have to wait until tomorrow..."

"In addition, there is one more thing to remind you. It is not allowed to attack each other in the labyrinth castle - we will supervise the whole process - but you can snatch trophies, of course, only when the same team does not gather together." Barger Man watched the warriors staring at him blankly, with a smile on Yuanyuan's face, "You will find that the trophy is the door key. When three people from a team touch it at the same time, it will Play a role and get you out of the maze."

The room suddenly became very quiet.Bagman waited for a few seconds, then stood on tiptoe uneasily, "That's it! Warriors!"

……

"I can't believe it! They allowed the Warriors to do it!" Ron said in disbelief.As soon as they emerged from the auditorium, he couldn't wait to give his opinion.

"It's not a fight, it's to grab the trophy." Harry corrected him without thinking, he thought it was normal, and a faint voice in his heart was eager to try.

"But - if we don't attack each other, how do we get the trophy from him?" asked Ron.

Harry also hesitated, "I guess there will be restrictions, such as not allowing the use of curses or something... Bagman said that he will post the detailed rules tomorrow."

"I still think we need to be careful," said Ron.

At this time, Harry noticed that Hermione had been silent, and he looked at her curiously, "Hermione, what's wrong with you?"

"Oh, uh," Hermione straightened her hair in a panic, "remember what Bagman said, the parents of the warriors will be invited to watch the game, I haven't told my family yet... Actually, um," she said cautiously He glanced at Harry and Ron incredulously, "I made up some lies. I said in the letter to them... there is only one warrior in each school, Hogwarts has two because of an accident...the other one is of course not me ...Oh my god, I told them the No.2 warrior is Harry!"

Harry and Ron opened their mouths in surprise.

(End of this chapter)