[HP]Aluet

The early spring wind howled desperately outside the window.

[No matter how hard I try, Ms. Gray won't reveal anything, but I'm sure Riddle must have gotten some information from her]

I rubbed between my eyebrows, waved my wand, and watched the letter paper slowly turn into ashes and scattered on the ground.

Since returning from Hogwarts, I have kept in touch with Orion occasionally, and I would like to ask him to keep an eye on the whereabouts of Ravenclaw's diadem, but from this point of view, it is very likely that Riddle has already taken the lead ——Or maybe Ravenclaw's diadem has become his Horcrux.

I walked out of the owl shed, and the wind was blowing violently from the west. I couldn't keep my eyes open. I turned up my collar, and pressed the hat tightly with my hands, and I dare not put my fingers down on it.

I was forced to bow my head and walk faster through the street.Maybe it was because I didn't pay attention to the road, I bumped my shoulder hard on someone else, and I caught a glimpse of an old man from the corner of my eye, and quickly put down the hand holding the hat to support the man who was falling back. he.

"I'm sorry." I bowed and apologized again and again, but he seemed to be fine and waved at me.He doesn't look British, he seems to be Asian.

I just wanted to pass him and continue walking, but he grabbed me as if he saw something.

"What's the matter, sir?" The old gentleman's eyes were fixed on my neck, and I looked down and saw that the glass ball had slipped out of the collar.He stretched out his hand to take a closer look, but I dodged back for no apparent reason.

"I found it, you are indeed here." He squinted his eyes and smiled. I felt very strange. He took out his wand from his pocket and waved it in front of me like turning a page of a book. The scene began to change, my eyes were spinning, and I felt a sense of weightlessness, but I knew that my body did not move, let alone be affected in the slightest, and my feet were always on the solid ground.

I looked around in amazement, and finally my eyes fell on the old man again.It's hard for me to believe that he took me to another completely strange place without anyone noticing, I don't know how he did it, it's not Apparation anyway.However, I didn't feel any danger from him.

Although he looked like he was in his 60s, with black and white hair mixed, his legs and feet seemed to be inflexible, and he turned around tremblingly, walking towards the bookshelf in the distance.

"Sir, are you?" I asked as I followed him slowly.

He coughed a few times, but didn't answer, murmured something, and slid his fingers on the spine of the book to find something.I saw his hands were terribly dry, covered with age spots, wrinkled and dead white.

"Anai wants to borrow something from me, but I have never agreed to lend it to her..." He put down his hand, continued to walk tremblingly, passed through the bookshelf, came to the table, picked up the glasses, put them on, and started again Going back to the bookshelf and flipping through it, "I think it's probably because of you. But luckily, you grew up safely—maybe it's fate."

"My mother?" I looked at him suspiciously.

"Oh—here." He pulled out a big worn-out book and turned it from beginning to end, "Oh no, it's not it, it's not this." He shook his head, put the book back, and took out the Another, "That's right—come, come."

I approached and looked at the book with him.He turned to page 660, and I was dazzled quickly when I looked at the densely packed square characters that I didn't recognize.He used the tip of his wand to mark several words purposefully on it. I saw the words move miraculously and began to move their positions. Finally, the dozens of words he clicked on gathered into a sentence and stopped at the bottom of the page. It began to distort and change, and finally formed a circle with a black border, which actually stood up from the pages of the book, getting bigger and bigger, enveloping us and pulling us into the book.

"Where is this?" I got up from the ground, my eyes widened, and my heart was shocked.I stood in a black void, I couldn't see my feet, but the surroundings were bright. This brightness may be from the dots of light, or it may be from the strange multicolored transparent crystals around me.I reached out to touch, but felt nothing.

"Ahem..." The violent cough brought me back to my senses quickly, and I turned my head to find that the old man was pulled in with me and fell to the ground heavily.I was so frightened that I hurried over to help him up. He was covering his waist with one hand, and his legs were still shaking.White light came from my hand, I hope it can make him feel better.He stood up and waved his arms, indicating that I don't need to help him, so I let go and continued to observe everything around me, feeling very novel.

There are many black vortices at different heights and different positions in the sky. Although they are said to be black, they actually have silver lights flashing like stars. After my careful observation, the speeds of those vortices are also different. My closest two, one slow almost still, the other fast like a tornado, stared at its dark central point and even felt dizzy, as if about to be sucked into it.I approached the fast-spinning vortex, wanting to touch it with my finger.

"I advise you not to run into any of the..."

I withdrew my fingers and turned my head, part of the ends of my hair were swept into the vortex, I grabbed a handful of hair with my hands, and the ends of my hair became withered and yellow in the palm of my hand, like a messy nest of grass.I was startled, and I quickly scratched my hair with my hands to straighten it out, but obviously the dry ends of the hair had their own thoughts, "What's going on here?"

"Child, stay away from them." The old gentleman reminded me, and I naturally didn't dare to get closer.

"It's amazing, isn't it?" he asked.

"What exactly is this?"

He smiled: "It's time."

I opened my mouth wide.I don't think all the amazing things in my life combined have shocked me as much as today: "How is that possible?"

"How is it impossible?" He raised his hand, and the whirlpools in front of him suddenly changed into rivers flowing in the air. These rivers are not affected by gravity, and their widths and speeds are also different. They do not intersect each other. There are different directions, but several are parallel.

The old man stood there with his hands behind his back, like a god in control of everything.

"Control time?" I feel incredible.

"No, no, no—of course not, time is uncontrollable." He said, "Our family has studied the way of time for generations, but we have never been able to control time. Time is the most mysterious existence in this world."

"But, when I was at Hogwarts, I heard there was a time-turner—" I frowned.

"The Time Converter is made by the Lin family, kid." He laughed, "The real history cannot be changed, and the Time Converter is just a lie, it will only trap people in a cycle and cannot get out... ..."

"The Lin family?" I remembered the ones recorded in the family history books.

"Yes, your mother and I are pretty good friends - my name is Yongmu Lin."

I immediately remembered the memories I saw from Heinrich. Grindelwald mentioned this special name, and I still have a deep impression: "It's you?!"

"You know me?" The old man raised his eyebrows unexpectedly, "That's really rare, the only time I saw you was when you were a baby." He pointed to the glass ball on my neck , "Do you know how this thing came from?"

"My father said it was an artifact of our family and would protect me," I replied.

Mr. Lin smiled and shook his head: "When you were young, your mother found me and asked me to borrow that treasure. I didn't agree to lend it to her. She asked me to help her find a way to save your life. She was too scared, Green Devo has approached her many times, and she doesn't want to do those hurtful things, but she dare not refuse.

So, I helped her and I made this thing with her - I didn't name it because it's just yours.It can't really protect you, but Anais branded it with life. To some extent, it will be exhausted. I don't know under what circumstances it can help you. , in short, I hope it can bring you luck, child. "

I rubbed my sore nose: "But why did he lie to me that it was left by the predecessors?"

"At that time, I also felt scared. I was afraid that Grindelwald would find you sooner or later, and found out that I helped Anais, which would implicate me--I knew her character, she was too stubborn, and she didn't care about anything. Maybe I promised Grindelwald, she can't even pretend. I actually didn't want to help her, but she begged me repeatedly, and I couldn't bear it, so I agreed. I told her not to tell anyone , maybe she just made up such a reason to let Andric prevaricate you." He sighed, "Now that Grindelwald is defeated, I think the day is finally over..."

I listened to his tone, and my heart tightened.

"One wave is not flat, and another wave will rise again."

I was so overwhelmed by this heaviness that I couldn't breathe.I don't know how many people have heard similar words.

"Has Tom Riddle been looking for you?" I asked.

"He came to me three times. The first time he visited me as a collector, trying to extract some information about the treasure from me. The second time he came to me, I realized that something was wrong with him, and I I was very worried about the safety of my family, so I preemptively claimed that the treasure was sold by me and asked him to buy it back. In fact, I put a fake in a box and sold it to the store as jewelry, but I still didn’t plan well enough. , the counterfeit was made exactly like the real treasure, but no magic was used, so he easily found out that it was a fake, and then asked someone to send me a letter."

Everything aligned with what I knew at the time.

"So, I let my family members leave here, and I also handed over all my property in Gringotts to them. I hope they can live in anonymity and safety. As for me..." He raised his hand Looking at it, there was endless sadness in the black eyes, and I saw the tears that could not be detected, "Ah... I am old, child. I have already eaten the evil consequences of desire and greed, and the rest of my life How sad it is to be destroyed in one's own hands."

"Mr. Lin..."

He sighed and turned his gaze to me.He waved his hand, the river changed again, and the space in front of him was distorted. I felt my whole body being squeezed out of a space. I took a few steps back and put my hands on the bookshelf next to me, feeling dizzy Suddenly he stood firm, and found himself reappearing in the room, with Mr. Lin still holding the old book in his hand.He closed it, turned it over, and opened it in the middle again, and the book became an hourglass in his hand, exactly like the one I had seen in that jewelry store with Riddle once.

"It's what your mother borrowed from me—and it's what Tom Riddle wants from me." He held the hourglass in front of me, his fingers like marionettes Moving rhythmically, the hourglass began some strange deformations in his hands, sometimes turning into a spherical object, sometimes turning into a boxy wooden box...

"What's the use of this thing?" I couldn't help asking.

"Guess what, I didn't use it at all. I watched my love fall into the flood of time, but they were too complicated, and I couldn't find her again." He looked out the window at the tree, The voice is as old as another century, "Everything in the world follows its own growth law, just like the leaves of this tree-spring grows, summer greens, autumn withers, and winter dies. This is the law of nature and their destiny .Once violated, will pay the price.

How many people yearn to get out of the control of time, but I finally understand that it is impossible—even if there is, it must be sick and distorted.One can break the rules, but one can never disobey the rules.It is precisely because I know this that I can face everything that will happen calmly. "

He stuffed the hourglass into my hand, and it turned into a ring in my hand. The ring was transparent, the same color as the hourglass, and there were dots of fine sand flowing inside. .

"Maybe I can't wait until the dust settles. If you meet someone from the Lin family one day, please give this to him for me."

I gripped it silently.

"It will, sir."