allendalepharm Chapter 240 Time Roll
Chapter 240 Time Roll
Chapter 240 Time Rollback
Lockhart, who had been busy all day, finally had some free time. One day after class, he strolled over to Snape's office.
Old Si really knows how to do things; he actually captured a werewolf cub and bled it.
"You stole it?" Lockhart's expression was full of anticipation. "If Hagrid saw this, would he want to fight you?"
Snape almost laughed in exasperation. "This wolf cub is sick, Hagrid, I'll heal it! You know, an important branch of Potions is Animal Potions, which focuses on magical creatures!"
"Really?" Lockhart chuckled. "Then why did it get sick? Your so-called treatment is bloodletting?"
Snape remained silent, focusing intently on drawing blood from the wolf cub, carefully sealing the blood containing wolf venom, healing the cub's wounds with magic, and placing it in a cage.
Wolfsbane is a terrible thing, but in fact, there are many terrible materials in the field of potions, such as highly toxic, permanently hallucinogenic, and nerve-damaging, all of which can cause irreparable damage.
He is extremely adept at preventing these problems from occurring when it comes to materials handling.
After finishing, Snape didn't bring up the topic of why the wolf cub was sick. Instead, he brewed a pot of tea and changed the subject, saying, "I don't quite understand what you've been busy with lately."
"Sponsoring Percy Weasley to choose a training ground outside of school for future Quidditch duels, sponsoring George and Fred to research prank toys, sponsoring Ron to breed those silly cats, and I heard you've even started giving Crabbe, Goyle, Neville, and Luna special training, and even helping Draco pick out alchemy books from the library's restricted section—all of this seems so chaotic, a jumble of ideas, doing whatever comes to mind."
Lockhart took the teacup he was offered and smiled slightly. "It's still the same as always: wizarding life, fairytale adventures. You know, once you're in it, magic will naturally bloom."
Snape chuckled; he disliked listening to Lockhart spout these nonsensical theories.
"Simply put, the new era has quietly turned a new page without many people noticing. It needs more people to participate and enrich its content. I discovered this and gave the wheels of time a push, accelerating it."
"Then let the wizarding life in this world become more interesting, and let the fairy tale adventures in life become more wonderful and unprecedented, so that we can look forward to the magic that is unique to the new era."
Lockhart believed his account was clear enough.
Snape nodded and said nothing more.
He simply said with a wistful look in his eyes, "I just want him dead, it's that simple. The richness, wonder, and diversity of this world don't necessarily need him, right?"
“Of course!” Lockhart chuckled. “Grindelwald is right, isn’t he? He always thinks I want Voldemort to live, which is not my stance at all.”
Lockhart simply felt that he had no obligation to kill Voldemort, but if it came to it, he wouldn't mind sending Voldemort to the Land of the Dead to begin a new life journey.
Oh, Voldemort might not be able to go to the Land of the Dead after creating so many Horcruxes; he might really be destroyed.
That's none of his business.
These are the interesting moments encountered on life's journey, not the sands of life that must be grasped.
Snape visibly breathed a sigh of relief. He knew Lockhart's strength and didn't want to have different principles from Lockhart on this issue.
That would only increase the obstacles to him killing Voldemort.
His gaze was so deep as he stroked the glass bottle containing the wolf cub's blood, murmuring softly, "Do you know? Wolf cubs and werewolves are completely different creatures, with extremely unique similarities and differences between them."
Lohat nodded. "I understand. Wolf cubs are born from werewolves, so you could say they've completely transformed from humans into magical beings, and it's an irreversible change, the kind where their magical bloodline is completely fixed."
Snape shook his head. "No, it seems you don't understand. In the field of Potions, there are potions for humans and potions for magical creatures."
These are two completely different fields; even the most basic approaches are different.
He looked up at the office window. "You can think of human potions as 'the desires of the soul,' even the most basic 'Bone Spirit.' Their formulas and mechanisms of action are essentially potions that guide the soul to restore wholeness."
"The same bottle of bone-regenerating medicine will result in different bone growths on different people. This is the most obvious example."
"But the potions we make for magical creatures are different. When we make them, we don't care about the mind; we only look at the body, so we pay more attention to the laws governing the circulation of blood and flesh."
"Therefore, wizards can never create potions to resurrect magical creatures. Of course, most wizards don't know this. In fact, most wizards even regard resurrection potions used by humans as myths and legends."
Snape gently stroked the vial of blood in his hand, a cold smile playing on his lips. "I've done some research and come to some conclusions. Some potions that werewolves can use in their wizarding form cannot be used in their werewolf form."
Lockhart looked puzzled. "What do you mean?"
"Actually, if I could transform the wolfsbane in his body into the wolfsbane of wolf cubs, he might completely sever ties with his so-called Horcruxes!" Snape's eyes were filled with malice. "Then he wouldn't know that when he's dead, he's dead, and he'll never be relied upon by the Horcruxes again."
To vanish completely from this world!
hiss~~
Lockhart gasped.
I've realized that I can't underestimate anyone or any magical field now.
Holy crap, Voldemort and the Horcruxes are disconnected?
Furthermore, Voldemort wouldn't have been so unaware of being out of control, so he wouldn't have been so desperate to protect his life.
"How exactly do I do it?" Lockhart asked expectantly.
Snape looked down at the wolf cub's blood, remaining silent for a long time. "Give me some more time—"
He looked up at Lockhart, his expression unusually serious. "This shouldn't be told to anyone; it's best if only I know."
The reason I'm telling you this is to remind you that no magic in this world is foolproof. You need to understand that as long as magic exists,
There must be a counter-curse!
"The magic for restraining, dispelling, and restoring the three unforgivable curses does exist, but no one has discovered it yet, or someone has discovered it and hidden it as family knowledge. But whatever the possibility, it will definitely be thoroughly researched by wizards in the future and widely spread."
"The same principle applies to breaking the curse on Horcruxes!"
"The same applies to your so-called 'thunderstorm and wildfire'."
"Now that you've stepped into the war, you must be aware that he's already researching a counter-curse against your 'Thunderstorm Mountain Fire' spell, waiting for the opportune moment to deliver a fatal blow!"
"What will you do then?"
"You must even realize that it's not just your enemies; many interested individuals may be researching the counter-spell to your magic!"
"Your dazzling presence will inevitably hinder the interests of some people; that is beyond doubt."
Lockhart's lips curled up slightly. "Hehe, I happen to have some ideas for new magic. If that's the case, it's a good time to put them to the test."
Snape was stunned. "New magic?"
Lockhart shrugged. "You have no idea how many adventures I've gone through with the Madago cat over the years. Now that I've bred the Madago cat into Hakimi, I naturally have my own gains, which is perfectly normal, isn't it?"
Snape immediately became interested. "What kind of magic?"
"Refresh!" Lockhart's face lit up with excitement. "I call it refresh! At first, I wanted to study the splitting of Madago cats, oh, I should call it replication, but my willpower was too strong, and I couldn't create any clones or anything like that."
"Then I studied Voldemort's magic notebook, 'The Unquenchable Flame of Life,' and guess what? I succeeded!"
"This is an interesting spell that encompasses areas such as bloodline magic, the connection between humans and nature, memory and time, and magical bloodlines."
Lockhart was quite smug. "I call it 'Refresh Magic.'"
Of course, academically speaking, it has a very proper magic spell—time rollback!
This spell is actually not unusual at all; there is a very similar spell in the wizarding world called the Healing Charm.
"Restore to its original state!" With a single incantation, the entire destroyed street can be easily restored to its original condition.
The effect of "time rollback" is also roughly the same.
The only difference is that it targets living organisms.
It might be easier to understand using Lockhart's previous description: "loading a save file," except that this loading doesn't require saving beforehand.
All traces of life have long existed in the river of time.
He only needs to extract the existence of a certain life state from the long river of time and "refresh" it to the present.
This magic is ridiculously powerful!
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to call it a spell for longevity.
But it has some problems.
That is, the incompatibility between the self that existed in the past and the present soul, as well as the current world. This problem can be big or small.
When it's small, it can affect spellcasting abilities.
When it gets really big, you could say it's a curse of time.
When there is a serious disconnect between the individual and the collective, society, nature, and all things, and this disconnect occurs on various levels, then a shaman needs to frantically pursue this period of time, otherwise it will bring great problems.
Therefore, immortality is only theoretical. The further back in time we go in updating the timeline, the more likely it is to bring terrible consequences.
Regarding this point, Lockhart needs to observe the connection between Voldemort and Tom, these two intriguing figures, more. He suspects that Voldemort's transformation into a snake and his subsequent mental impairment may not necessarily be due to the Horcruxes; rather, the Tom in the Horcruxes within the diary is the biggest problem.
Especially in the original development, he suspected that Voldemort's change was completely irreversible after Harry killed Tom.
So he was also thinking about whether he could summon the dark magic creature, the Crimson Ghost Ship, and take Tom out of the ship and kill him completely to see what would happen.
If you don't greedily pursue things like immortality, but simply refresh your life a few hours ago, that's a kind of magic that can almost be called a miracle.
Of course, Lockhart wouldn't think he was invincible because of this.
Just as Snape said, when a spell appears, there is always a counter-spell waiting to be discovered.
Voldemort ruined everything because he trusted the so-called "Horregularities" too much.
Learn from past mistakes.
So don't stop. The wonders of the magical world have only just begun to unfold. There is still so much more to discover and explore.