HP Bella's Lie

30 - New Time Turner

Riddle was suddenly speechless.

"Actually... I also want to tell you something." The front desk didn't notice his absence, and said hesitantly, "I... I'm going to Denmark."

Riddle was taken aback: "Why?"

"I want to apply to the University of Copenhagen," said the front desk, "ever since I saw the latest scientific papers on my father's desk, I've always wanted to go to Denmark. To see Bohr, Heisenberg, Pauli... those gathered Young talents at the University of Copenhagen. I yearn for their free and talented thinking. Although the best physics laboratory in the world is in the UK, I am more yearning for Mr. Bohr’s Institute of Physics Theory. It is the battlefield of young people’s dreams , you can't imagine what a great era it is now, all the physical theories that have lasted for hundreds of years are being questioned, and almost every young person with enthusiasm and ideas for physics is likely to create a new legend. New The trend of thought sweeps through classical physics like a whirlwind, and the authority is retreating! A new era is born! And the Ball Institute is the center of this era!"

The more he spoke, the more excited he became, and a flush of excitement appeared on his face.

This is the familiar look of Riddle, every time their research progresses, he will be like this, full of passion and blood, eager to communicate with others.

"You are still the same..." Riddle chuckled with emotion.

It seems that he hasn't felt so relaxed for a long time. Although it's very small, but... even the smile can come from the heart.

"There is one more important reason..." The conversation at the front table changed, and a trace of melancholy appeared on the youthful face for the first time, "You just came back, so you may not know. The UK has been...not peaceful recently. If possible, you'd better Don't return to the Muggle world for five years."

Riddle frowned: "What's going on."

"Since last September, Germany has been bombing the UK, and London is now in ruins. My mother was injured in an air raid, which made my father decide to leave the UK temporarily. We will leave when my mother recovers from her injuries."

Riddle recalled: "But—my house is still intact?"

"Isn't that your magic? I thought..."

"I didn't..." Riddle suddenly thought of something, "It's Bella."

It was as if a hammer had been punched in the chest, and there was a dull pain aftershock.

The atmosphere suddenly became heavy.

The front desk asked: "Are you still thinking about her?"

Riddle glanced at him lightly.

The front desk sighed: "You must have fallen in love with her."

Riddle stepped away from him.The front desk scrambled to catch up: "Why, did I hit the spot? But, I advise you to look away early, the dead cannot be resurrected..."

"She's not dead." Riddle stopped suddenly, staring into his eyes and said each word, "Bella is not dead."

The front desk shrank its neck.

"She's just... not born yet." Riddle turned his head and murmured, then glanced at the confused front desk, "Forget it, you don't understand."

"Wait!" The front desk grabbed his arm, "Is this the truth you have been refusing to tell me? What happened to Bella? Is she a wizard too?"

"She's my wife," said Riddle.

The front desk froze.

Riddle said: "She was a powerful wizard. Traveled back in time to my childhood. Then she died of magical backlash."

Front desk: "What, what?"

Riddle: "Baby Bella hasn't been born yet, and she's dead as an adult. Seems like a paradox, doesn't it?"

The head at the front table was a little dizzy: "This...that...she..."

Riddle didn't seem to care about his words at all, and cast his eyes on the distant mountain peak, as sharp as to cut through the future: "She is still alive. I will wait for her."

The morning light in the forest gradually brightened, and the chilly wind shook the hair tips of the two of them, as if the birds of time had stopped.That was the first time Riddle showed real emotion at the front table.

Half a month later, news came that the mother at the front table had recovered from her injury. During the war, he hurriedly wrote a letter, and dubiously sent it out through the owl gifted by Riddle to say goodbye, and then left the UK with his parents.

During this period, Riddle went to experience the war between Britain and Germany. The German bombing became more and more intensive during this half month. He saw with his own eyes that the small shop that was thriving the day before was razed to the ground overnight.London's bustling downtown area has been reduced to a paradise of rubble and ruins.When the air raids were fierce, the sky over London was filled with smoke and fire, and the high dome of St. Paul's Cathedral seemed like a sharp sword pointing to the sky, declaring the sonorous determination of the British.Firefighters sprayed bombed buildings without sleep, children conducted emergency evacuation drills at schools, rescue teams rescued survivors from the rubble every day, countless people lost their homes and gathered in various parts of the city of refuge.

The searchlights at night were more dazzling than the brightest stars. Riddle wore the Muggle Ignoring Charm and walked on the bustling commercial streets of London in the past, remembering the time when Bella brought her here for the first time.It was not long after they met for the first time, and his ragged clothes were replaced by delicately pressed clothes for the first time. He still remembered Bella's loving and joyful eyes at that time.

His footsteps stopped.The upscale and sophisticated clothing store is gone.

At this position, it is now in ruins.

The rumble of shells shot up to the sky not far away, and the sound waves spread over, shattering his memories.

Riddle's face sank like water, and he suddenly became angry.The gravel and rubble at the feet were rolled up by an invisible force, forming a hurricane-like vortex in a blink of an eye, and bursting in all directions!The smoke and dust and the loud noise exploded one after another, and the power was no less than that of real shells!

It's just that under the background of real war and smoke, it doesn't seem to be a miracle.

When the gunpowder smoke cleared, Riddle had disappeared in place.

Back at home far away from the hustle and bustle, Riddle took a deep breath, suppressing the magic power of his rampage.

Although it is the Muggle world, even though it is only Muggle London... But, it is also a place where traces of his relationship with Bella have been preserved, and no one else can get their hands on it!

Germany, Nazis, Hitler.

Muggle, fighter.

hot arms.

——Dangerous things are either destroyed or seized.

In addition to the regular study and appointment of books in the old house, Riddle took the time to order several Muggle newspapers, and trained the owl to pick them up and deliver them to the school regularly.

In sixth grade, Riddle deliberately took all the electives.Because of his excellent grades and conflicting schedules, he got a time-turner specially requested by the school from the Ministry of Magic.

After getting a new time-turner, Riddle disassembled it and studied it from head to toe.As for the elective courses, he only chooses the ones he is interested in, and the others rely on books and friends' notes.

But the results of the study disappointed him.No one has been able to clarify the principle of the Time Converter until now, but a great wizard at the beginning just happened to invent it, and that method has continued to this day, and no one has gone into it.Even with the amount of books in the old house and the Hogwarts* district loan license that Riddle got from Slughorn, there are only a few books that mention the making of the Time-Turner, but most of them are few. I didn't even have the specific steps to make it, let alone the principle.

Dismantling the Time-Turner is only a symbolic statement. Magic items are fundamentally different from Muggle machines, and it is impossible to pry into its working principle through disassembly.Riddle could only try to study it through various analytical, stimulating, and manifest magics. Unfortunately, time is too mysterious, deeper than death and the soul, and he can only get a few plausible hypotheses.This made Riddle, who had always been invincible in the magic field, taste the frustration for the first time.