Hogwarts: Wizards of Eternity

"So soon, he's making moves," Roger remarked.

Having lived through Voldemort's slaughter more than a decade ago, many wizards had learned to be 'good'.

Having personally experienced the power of a strong wizard, people understood the importance of being cautious in word and deed.

Casting a spell on one's own name, so that reciting it would trigger a sensation, allowing Voldemort to Apparate and attack—his methods truly made many people panic during that time.

This time, with the Department of Mysteries under attack, anyone with eyes could guess who was behind it, but the major newspapers reported the news with an air of feigned ignorance.

Even the normally bold and outspoken newspapers like The Quibbler didn't dare to stick their necks out at this time—even if Xenophilius Lovegood himself wasn't afraid to die, a man with a 10-year-old daughter had to consider his child.

Having lost his wife just two years ago, his grief was still difficult to overcome, and he couldn't imagine how his young daughter, Luna, would survive in this world if he were to die unexpectedly.

Until Luna grew up and could be independent, he wouldn't touch anything too dangerous.

Life is, after all, about muddling through.

"Will there be trouble?" Harry asked, as he flipped through the newspaper like Roger.

He was one of the few who knew that Voldemort was still alive; while most others thought this was just Grindelwald's doing, Harry knew there was another figure involved.

Roger shook his head: "It's fine, they won't try to change history with those things in their hands."

The Department of Mysteries had lost a lot of data, as well as all the Time-Turners; ordinary people might not know the reason, but Roger, who had communicated with Voldemort, knew.

He guessed that his mention of timeline strikes had frightened Voldemort.

He wouldn't pass up the opportunity to eliminate a weakness if he had one.

As for whether Voldemort would use these materials after obtaining them...

Roger's danger prediction had already given the answer.

Although Roger couldn't currently withstand killing moves from the upper reaches of the timeline, his danger prediction transcended the 'present'.

Once a factor detrimental to him appeared and could truly threaten him, Roger would sense it. In the end, Roger was just a stumbling block to Voldemort's progress, but the two didn't have a deep-seated blood feud.

It wouldn't make Voldemort, who cherished his life so much, risk playing a '天地同寿，同归于尽 [Let's perish together]' game with Roger.

Not just Roger, but the same went for others.

Gaining supreme status and eternal life were Voldemort's primary needs; everything else had to take a back seat.

The danger of modifying the past was enormous; no one knew how much one change to the past would affect the future.

You might think that killing your enemy in the past would bring good results, but it could ultimately lead to things developing in a worse direction.

Voldemort wouldn't use this kind of scorched-earth tactic, similar to Thanos snapping his fingers to 'randomly kill half of all people'.

"No, I don't just mean them—will Headmaster Dumbledore get into trouble because of this?"

Hogwarts was a boarding school, but not a completely closed environment; there was still a lot of information exchange with the outside world, and some social trends had already blown into the school.

Changing the atmosphere within the school.

Roger and Harry had always been in the spotlight because of their identities; in many people's eyes, their future would surely be extraordinary—but that was just people's expectations for their future; they couldn't push two 11-year-olds to the front lines of the battle against Grindelwald.

So, the pressure all came to Dumbledore's side.

For a time, all sorts of opinions emerged.

Although Dumbledore and Grindelwald were both powerful wizards with the ability to overturn the chessboard, Dumbledore was a person who adhered to order.

As the saying goes, a gentleman can be deceived with principles. Many people didn't have the courage to attack Grindelwald, but they not only had the courage to attack Dumbledore, but they had a lot of it.

Especially the European countries led by Germany and Austria, the more they feared Grindelwald, the more they...

"The Headmaster will be fine too."

For the past few months, Roger had been studying dimensional magic with Dumbledore.

He was now the clearest person on how ridiculously powerful Dumbledore had become.

Roger found it hard to imagine what anyone in the world could do to Dumbledore.

In battle, Dumbledore might not be invincible, but in terms of survivability, his stats had exploded.

Unless there was a truly powerful being hidden in some corner of this world, with the power to turn the world upside down.

But Roger didn't sense anything about that.

Compared to the storms outside, Roger was more concerned about his own business.

Judging from Hermione's learning situation, Headmaster Dumbledore's judgment was correct.

Although the Three-Dimensional Theory still had many, many things to be supplemented, it was indeed not far from being ready to be published.

What he currently lacked was a suitable opportunity for promotion.

This opportunity needed to be waited for, but he couldn't be idle during this time. Roger had recently been thinking about how to make himself 'ageless'.

After obtaining endless physical life, the sublimation of the mind and soul should also be put on the agenda.

Roger had ideas for the soul.

Where there was one, there was two; Roger's idea for solving physical life could actually be applied to the soul as well.

To put it bluntly, the soul, like the body, was a carrier of 'self'; according to the Three-Dimensional Theory, both belonged to the medium dimension.

Just like how Body-shifting Magic transformed one's dependence on the physical body into dependence on magic, and then reorganized the physical body from a third perspective.

Roger only needed to strip away the will's dependence on the soul as well, and follow suit; at that time, Roger could reorganize his soul as he would reorganize a new body.

Although Roger's current dimensional magic attainment couldn't do this, and his understanding of the soul didn't reach the level of soul reorganization.

But the road was under his feet; Roger only needed to walk it.

The biggest secret of the atomic bomb was that the atomic bomb existed and could be made.

With the direction in place, Roger had time to slowly practice.

But the mind was different.

Thought was in the 'Self Dimension', and this set of methods couldn't be used to curb the aging of the mind.

Mental aging was a problem that couldn't be ignored.

Just like Nicolas Flamel, who created the Philosopher's Stone, could theoretically live a very long time, but he was already a bit tired after only 600 years.

And Dumbledore, around 100 years old, looked very old on the surface, but that was only judging by Muggle standards.

According to the standards of the world's top wizards, Dumbledore was completely in his prime.

But there was already a lot of twilight in him.

This was caused by his long-term life in guilt, pain, and self-torture.

Roger didn't want to face similar problems.

Currently, Voldemort was the person Roger knew who had gone the furthest on this path.

But his path of imprinting thoughts had a very significant flaw, which was the so-called Ship of Theseus problem.

A wooden ship called the Ship of Theseus, every time a plank got old, it was taken off and replaced with a new plank, until none of the wood on the entire ship was from the original ship, was this ship still the Ship of Theseus?

Then, if those replaced planks were collected and reassembled into an identical ship,

Who was the real Ship of Theseus, the old ship, or the repaired ship?

Roger didn't know the answer in Voldemort's heart.

But Roger believed that only that which possessed 'continuity' was 'me'.

He would never let a version of himself from a certain period replace the current him.

Roger's path to immortality had no predecessors to stand on, he could only blaze a new trail through the thorns himself.

"It's difficult."

Roger had methods for how to make the mind strong, but that was just the art of 'extending life'.

It wasn't a one-and-for-all absolute immortality like material reorganization.

What exactly should he do to...

Just as Roger was immersed in thought, suddenly.

"Hmm?" Roger suddenly felt that, except when doing magical experiments, the danger prediction that hadn't reacted for a long time suddenly sounded an alarm.

Although it wasn't strong.

But this was the first time in several months since he had reached the realm of material reorganization.

Following the sensation, Roger began future observation.

The next moment, Roger frowned.

He had already seen the reason.

"Voldemort—playing quite the tricks."

From the perspective of the future, Roger saw Voldemort playing a brand new trick that he hadn't thought of.

"Thought imprinting isn't useless after all; there are still people who dare to walk this path to immortality..."