[HP] Illusion

Harry fell asleep as soon as he got back to Grimmauld Place. Fortunately, this year's Christmas was a few days longer than usual, and when he came back, the holiday was still four days away.In the middle of the journey, he seemed to be woken up by Kreacher a few times in a daze, but each time he woke up for a short while and then fell asleep again, without even having time to eat.

Until Harry woke up again, he found that Ron and Hermione were sitting on the chairs beside him. As soon as he moved, the two woke up, and the two immediately went to the bed and sat down, their faces covered worried look

"Merlin, Harry, you finally woke up!" Ron looked very excited, and his voice was loud, "What's going on with you, you've been asleep for three days!"

Harry's ears were buzzing, and he almost fell asleep again, clutching the quilt over his head.

However, seeing Ron and Hermione around, the young man was actually woken up with a fright. Fortunately, he was still in good spirits after sleeping. "Why are you here? Did I sleep for three days?"

"Can we not come?" Ron said angrily, "Kreacher informed us. He was worried about your problems, but you didn't let him take you to St. Mungo's."

Harry had a vague impression of not going to St. Mungo's, probably in a half-dream.

"Harry, to be honest, where have you been these days? Why are you so tired?" Hermione asked, looking at Harry sternly.

This man's chin is full of fine stubble, and the round chin in the past looks more and more prominent. Although the cheeks are not sunken, it is obvious that there is almost no flesh. Not only the face, but his body has lost a lot of weight. Compared to the situation he had made up for a month ago, he seemed to have lost weight again.Now that he looks like this, no matter how you look at it, he is overdrawn.

But why did Harry push himself so hard?Hermione frowned, it wasn't the stressful situation Harry himself described.Something must have happened!

"I haven't slept in the past few days, so that's why I'm like this." Harry's eyes were still a little sleepy at this time, he yawned, struggling to get up and get out of bed, Ron and Hermione quickly helped him up, "Didn't I say that I was going to take a short trip? In addition to looking for the information I need elsewhere, I also went to some forests on the German border. There are very rich resources in it, but it is also very dangerous..."

"Really?" Hermione asked skeptically.

Harry sighed, "Look, I have failed. In order to catch a local magical animal, I spent several days and nights in that forest, and I never closed my eyes." His expression also looked particularly regretful.

Ron asked blankly: "Really? What are you looking for? We don't need magical animals to crack our defense system?"

Hermione: "..."

"I mean, I was researching a potion recently, but because its effect was not as good as expected, so I went there to see if I could find a substitute." Harry said with a natural expression.

——Well, he really doesn't understand the world of potions.

Ron still looked at Harry blankly, "When did you do more potion research? Didn't you say that time is tight? And..." He twitched the corner of his mouth, and the biggest question was: "Are you Not the Potions Master."

"Of course it's because I discovered a certain characteristic of this magical animal before, so..." He turned his gaze to Hermione, "Hermione, do you know what I mean? When you go to school, you always want to put all the questions I understand."

"But there's no need to do that, is there?" Ron said carelessly.

Harry had already given up communicating with Ron, and devoted himself to attacking Hermione. As long as Hermione didn't suspect him, he would have escaped.

"I'm planning to go again during the Easter break," he whispered.

"No way, buddy, are you crazy?" Ron looked at Harry like a monster, "I haven't seen you so persistent in studying before."

"Probably because..." Harry whispered, "Maybe we don't understand the magic of studying."

Ron made a disgusted expression directly: "..."

Hermione thought everything Harry was saying was bullshit.

But she didn't know how to refute him.

"Did you really go to the German border? Didn't you go somewhere else?" Hermione pressed.

"Why don't you come with me next time? I really think I'm missing an assistant." Harry blinked.

Ron gave him an angry look and said nothing.Harry sneaked a glance at Hermione, and found that she still had an expression of disbelief, but he had roughly explained the matter, and if she really didn't believe it, there was really nothing he could do.

One thing, Harry is very confident, that is, it is absolutely impossible for Ron and Hermione to imagine where he went, and it is impossible for ordinary people to imagine.

"Kreacher," Harry called, "get me some liquid food, I'm a little hungry."

In fact, Harry was not hungry at all, but after all he had slept for the past three days, if he still said he was not hungry, the two of them would be more worried.and the point is

"Do you want something to eat? I told Kreacher to go." Harry said, looking at the old elf who was listening to him.

"Harry, I've always wanted to ask, what is that?" Hermione pointed to a stone basin on a wooden shelf in the corner of Harry's bedroom, above which there was still a faint silver mist.

"That's the Pensieve." Harry said nonchalantly, but if Hermione's hand was placed on Harry's heart, he would clearly feel his chaotic heartbeat.

Hermione raised her eyebrows, "Of course I know it's a Pensieve, but was that Dumbledore's thing before?" She saw it once in the headmaster's office.

"It's Hogwarts now, and I borrowed it." Harry said half-truthfully, "The main reason is that I have thought too much during this time, and I am afraid that I will not remember many things, so Just borrow it and use it."

Ron muttered something, but Harry couldn't hear it clearly, "Didn't I lose weight before, and I felt that my memory seemed to be getting worse at that time, so I plan to borrow this Pensieve until my body recovers. "

"Dude, you really know how to make the best use of everything," Ron said with wide eyes, worried, "but is there really something wrong with your memory?"

"Poor health and memory loss are also possible conditions. It's not that I immediately forgot what you just said to me. I'm just in case." His memory is actually not much worse than usual, but Occasionally, I feel powerless, probably because my body function is still declining.

"Let's go to St. Mungo's again." Hermione took Harry's hand and said seriously, "Your body looks worse than the last time you checked. You can't go on like this. I think you need regular checkups." That's right."

Ron nodded: "Dude, don't take it seriously, we're just worried about you."

Looking at the expressions of the two, Harry felt an indescribable feeling fermenting in his heart.

They are the only people in this world who can make me nostalgic and make him willing to work hard to live.

"I see," he heard himself say.

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Hermione and Ron stayed that night, but both of them asked for leave to accompany Harry, so they had to go back to work early the next morning, and Harry had to go back to Hogwarts the next day. , this is the last day of his vacation.

When he went back, he tried to wear more clothes to make himself look fatter, and he also used transfiguration to slightly change his face so that he didn't look so terribly thin—at least it wouldn't make McGonagall When I saw him, I knew something was wrong with him.

—he should have done it long ago!

After returning to Hogwarts, McGonagall didn't see any clues, and everything went on as usual.

In fact, this matter is not so pessimistic. If his body is really caused by traveling back and forth between two worlds, then, because only three weeks of Easter vacation does not seem to be enough, so he I plan to move the time to travel to that world next time to this summer vacation.

In this way, he still has half a year to recuperate, so as long as he adjusts well during this period, maybe his health will be better?

Harry’s wishful thinking was very good, and after he noticed his physical condition, he did well. At least he rarely stayed up late or even stayed up all night. Most of the time he was obsessive-compulsive and lay in bed early. Gone are the days of relying on vitality supplements and pick-me-ups.

He's still thin, but he looks more energetic than before.

After a period of filling and filling, although his body looks a bit complex, this situation is obviously like a water tank with a big hole and the entrance is only the size of a bottle cap. can only be slowed down.

In fact, it’s not that he didn’t think about finding some ways to curb the deterioration of his body, but when he checked the books in the library, he found almost nothing——

Most books on time travel do not say anything about the physiological decline of time travel.Actually, that's right, when Hermione had the Time Turner back then, she didn't look abnormal, and her body wouldn't be in his current condition.

Harry unconsciously stroked the "pendant" on his chest, the sand inside had returned to the state of being only on the hourglass, and it would not leak down.

Could it be because of the immature relationship of this time-turner?Because it was a relationship more than 1000 years ago, so the function is not perfect to leave such sequelae?

But... what's wrong?

It was the weekend, and Harry came to the library early in the morning. At this time, there were no students in the library, and only Mrs. Pince was sitting in her seat.

When she saw Harry, Mrs. Pince was obviously not surprised at all: "Tell me, what book do you need to find?"

Harry had begged her many times before, and Mrs. Pince seemed to be used to this way.The young man didn't talk nonsense, "Please give me a list of books about time travel, as well as books about goblins and the centaur race."

In fact, he only needs time travel. As for other aspects, most of them are used to confuse the public.

"Book list?" Mrs. Pince raised her head, "Complete?"

"Well," Harry nodded emphatically, he didn't seem to have made such an invitation before, and usually just asked her to help with the introduction. "Complete book list including the *zone."

Mrs. Pince frowned, and most importantly, she didn't say anything. She quickly rummaged through the cabinet and took out three parchment rolls. "It's all here," she thought for a while and said, " But you have lent out most of the part about traveling through time and space, so you should focus on the centaur and the goblin, right?"

"Have I read them all? Why are there so few?" Harry knew that he had indeed read dozens of books, but he didn't expect that he had almost read them all. He looked at the list of books and realized something was wrong, "You read Isn’t there a lot of books here?”

Mrs. Pince snatched the parchment roll from his hand immediately, her face suddenly became very bad, "Sorry, this is the old part."

"The old part? So what's the new part?" Harry asked puzzled. "Is it gone already?"

"Of course not, because part of it was burned four years ago." Speaking of this, Mrs. Pince's face was a little ferocious, and she looked a little distressed. "It was in that big battle, you know."

Harry knew that the entire Hogwarts suffered heavy losses, but he had never heard of the library being burned down. However, during the period when Hogwarts was counting the losses, he was very busy, busy to appear in court, to give People testified, there were still various interruptions, and by the time he returned to Hogwarts for his seventh year, the place had returned to its original calm.

He didn't know! !This was the first time Harry had heard Mrs. Pince talk about it.Hogwarts is known as the most comprehensive library of books in the wizarding world, and there are even many orphan and rare books in it. If some of them are destroyed, there may not be any other places. In this way, the entire wizarding world The losses are huge.

Harry checked the list, most of which he had read he had ticked off, and some he hadn't found in the library.The young man's fingers slid across the titles of the books on the parchment, and soon he found the titles of several books, which seemed to contain what he was looking for.

"Can you give me a copy of the old book list, not limited to the three categories I told you before?" he asked.

"What exactly are you looking for?" Mrs. Pince's expression was still not good. "Through time and space, centaur or goblin? If it's the former, then with all due respect," Mrs. Pince said, "I know seven or eight years ago, the storage All the time converters in the Ministry of Magic were destroyed. After that, the Ministry of Magic has no more time converters. I personally think that is the best thing. Although time travel has become a reality, people can go back to the past. , it is always possible to change what happened before, and if the entire timeline changes as a result, the consequences can be disastrous, and I hope you can take this into consideration."

"Of course," Harry nodded, "I think so too."

Mrs. Pince's face looked better.

Of course, Harry got the book list in the end, and Mrs. Pince would hardly refuse reasonable requests from students and professors, but the book list was longer than he could have imagined—he knew that the Hogwarts book collection would definitely There are many, but the dizzying long list of titles can definitely scare anyone.

Harry focused on checking the parts he needed, about time and space, the Pensieve, goblins, potions, etc. He found that many books were indeed burned, although Hogwarts still kept them. Quite a large portion, but there are a lot of parts, and it's definitely possible that he needs it.

Harry looked at the book list in front of him in a daze, not even knowing that Kreacher was bringing breakfast, until Kreacher called him a lot of voices before he realized it.

"Master." Kreacher's expression was not very good, "If Master does this again, old Kreacher will tell Miss Granger and Mr. Weasley about Master's situation."

"Wait, Kreacher, are you threatening me again?" Harry was stunned, and hurriedly said, "Also, am I doing that again? Didn't I have a good breakfast?"

"Master is too obsessed with these things. Old Kreacher has discovered it a long time ago. You must not skip breakfast, and you must have a regular work and rest routine, and three meals must be normal. These are for the sake of your master's health. Please don't embarrass old Kreacher. ’” Tears welled up in his bulb-sized eyes, and he looked like he was about to hit the floor.

"I don't," protested Harry, picking up his breakfast and starting to eat it, "I'm doing pretty well these days."

"But Master's health is not good," Kreacher said unhappily, "it must not get worse, Master please take good care of your body."

"Of course I will..." He still has a lot of things to do, so of course he can't just go down like this, "Don't worry, I will definitely treat myself well."

There are still a lot of memories that he has not gone to. If he really wants to change something, his current body may not be able to last that time, so he also consciously regulates his body.

Harry obediently ate his breakfast, and Kreacher left satisfied. Harry continued to look at the long list of books in a daze, and suddenly felt that he could actually travel through two worlds and there was one more thing he could do—if He can enter Hogwarts and read all these books, maybe he can find out the reason why he can travel through these two worlds, because before he didn't know that some books had been destroyed, of course Harry didn't Dare to hold out too much hope, he has been disappointed too many times before.

But what if there is?

Thinking of this, Harry really couldn't wait.

But obviously the Easter holidays are far from enough time for him to go to that world. He took there for a month before, so this time, it is likely to be more than forty days. In this way, two Easter holidays are not enough .

Or wait until summer vacation?

In fact, summer vacation is also good, because he has two months of vacation, the time is relatively abundant, and he will not have no time to adapt to this world, but if this is the case, he will apply not to pick up Muggle students this year... …

Something flashed through his mind, but Harry didn't think about it any further.

And he's also very busy recently, for example, he's going to start doing the things he promised Ron and the Auror Department, because he has to take care of both sides, and he's really too busy.

The point is, if he doesn't plan his time and energy well, then his body may still be unable to hold on.

What he needs most now is to find a balance between them.If he can find that balance, then maybe he'll be able to...

Harry shook his head, this matter is still a bit far away, at least he has been a little busy recently.

A semester is not long, in fact, it is less than half a year.In the past six months, Harry has taken care of himself very well. Apart from being a little thinner, his mental state is much better than before, and he doesn't look particularly obtrusive.

He also went so well with his short lessons with the Aurors that the Auror Secretary even wanted to hire him as a consultant, but Harry refused.

First of all, he doesn't think he has such a level. When it comes to experience, many seniors have much more experience than him. Secondly, he doesn't have enough energy or health. He really can't take care of so many things.

However, he agreed that if there is any new research, he will share it with the Auror Division, and with Ron around, he also maintains a close relationship with Ron. For Ron, he is not interested in being a consultant or not. How many.

During this period, Harry checked his body. Of course, the data was still a bit unsatisfactory, but it was obviously better than expected.He found a lot of potions for himself to replenish his body, and he was completely self-sufficient. With such various adjustments, he managed to fill up some gaps.

The summer vacation is approaching, which means that his journey to that world will also begin.

Even though he has been here for half a year, as long as he travels through the correct memory, then that world is actually a few days later, that is, the time before little Snape and Lily got on the train.

But this time, he brought a lot of things, including the Hogwarts book list.

Although he couldn't bring back the books in that world, if he could read them, he might be able to copy one from his memory, which would be regarded as saving many orphaned and rare books.

Fortunately, the hourglass and the key were quite powerful. Anyway, when he came back, it happened to be two nights before little Snape and Lily went to the train.

Young Snape was visibly delighted to see him.

When Harry saw little Snape, the boy was soaking wet, glowing red and steaming, apparently he heard Harry's shout on the way to take a bath, and then ran out in a hurry.

Looking at the boy who was only wearing a towel and showing his upper body, Harry said, "..."

"Go back quickly." Harry couldn't help urging, "Don't catch a cold, you're going to Hogwarts the day after tomorrow, right?"