Chapter 550 Time Paradox! Is There Still a Piece of History that Has Not Been Completed?
Hogwarts, library.
"Hi! Um... good afternoon?" Andy said rudely.
For Hermione, she and Andy had only been apart for a few minutes.
But for Andy, after using the time-turner three times in a row, Andy hadn't seen Hermione for nearly ten hours.
To be honest... I'm a little hungry.
But even so, the Andy in front of Hermione was not the Andy at this time, but the Andy from two hours later.
As for Andy at this time... he should be arguing with Snape now, and then preparing to deal with Voldemort's stone, and he probably won't be able to take care of this for a while.
"Uh..."
Hermione looked at Andy and suddenly asked, "Have you done your business? How is Azkaban?"
"Guessed?" Andy asked back.
Hermione raised her eyebrows, "You look tired."
"Okay!"
Andy sat opposite Hermione and sighed, "I'm not only very tired, but also starving. Hermione, do you have anything to eat?"
"Help..."
Andy hasn't eaten for nearly ten hours.
It's noon now.
If he makes it to the evening...Andy thinks he might faint from hunger.
"I left a little for you..."
Hermione glanced around furtively, and seeing that Madam Pince didn't notice this, she secretly took out a small paper bag from her pocket.
"Professor Dumbledore asked you to go out, so I guessed that you would use the time converter."
Hermione said as she handed the paper bag to Andy, "That's all, just eat something first!"
"Great..." Andy almost burst into tears.
It feels good to have someone thinking about you.
Thinking about Dumbledore again...I don't know if he has eaten now.
No one should be thinking about him, right?
Happiness is made by comparison!
Compared with Dumbledore, Andy felt very happy.
"Hermione, you are so nice." Andy said.
"Eat quickly!" Hermione pretended to read a book.
After reading for a while, Hermione raised her head and asked, "Are the casualties in the Ministry of Magic serious?"
"Hmm..."
Andy pondered for a moment, "Let me think about it, how should I say this... This time when I used the time converter, I encountered a very strange thing, and I still have no clue."
Hermione immediately became interested when she heard it.
The little witch likes strange puzzles the most.
Especially the puzzles that Andy can't solve.
"First, Dumbledore told me that the Ministry of Magic sent him a letter, which mentioned that a masked man blocked the mysterious man and saved some Aurors."
"He suspected that the masked man was me, so Dumbledore and I went back three hours ago."
"We went to Azkaban!"
Andy tried to make it as simple and clear as possible: "There, I saw the masked man... He was me! Or, the masked man was my future self."
"I recognized him at first sight."
"Hermione, we checked together that the founder of Azkaban was Axtis, who was studying the magic of death."
"You know, I'm very interested in this."
After a pause, Andy continued: "There is a hidden room in Azkaban, and I went in... I mean, the masked me went into that room."
"After returning to Hogwarts, I traveled through time again, put on the mask, and completed that period of history."
"But there is a problem here!"
This is also the most difficult part for Andy to understand.
"The reason I know about the hidden room is because I saw 'my masked self' enter that room."
"But 'my masked self' is my future self, and the reason he knows about the hidden room is because he saw..."
"...He saw the masked man enter that room."
At this point, Andy looked at Hermione and said helplessly: "It's a bit confusing, but you should be able to understand it."
Hermione nodded gently.
This kind of logical problem is not difficult for her.
"You in the past saw 'your future self' enter the hidden room, so you know the location of the hidden room."
Hermione concluded: "But the reason why 'your future self' knows the location of the hidden room is because he saw it in the 'past'."
Andy nodded and said: "That's it!"
"My future self told me the location of the hidden room."
"When I reached that time point, I traveled back to the past, told 'my past self' all this, and then entered the hidden room."
"There is a problem here!"
Andy stared at Hermione and said seriously: "The hidden room is unknown, and I shouldn't know this secret."
Hermione also looked solemn.
What Andy experienced was a completely illogical time loop.
‘You in the future’ told ‘you’ a secret, and when ‘you’ arrive in the future, you have to travel back to the past and tell this secret to ‘you in the past’.
If the timeline is expanded, this is an infinite loop.
But where does this secret come from?
The past and the future are mutually causal, and there is no third person involved from beginning to end.
“Andy, you know about the time paradox, right?”
Hermione thought for a moment and said, "If a person goes back to the past and kills his parents before he is born, then this person will no longer exist."
"Then the question is... since this person does not exist, how did he kill his parents?"
"There are many time paradoxes like this."
"Since it does not make sense in scientific logic, many scientists believe that time travel is not feasible."
"Of course, magic has done it."
After a pause, Hermione continued, "For these time paradoxes, scientists have put forward two hypotheses."
"The first is that when we travel through time, we will be forced to act in a special way to prevent these paradoxes from happening."
"The second is the theory of parallel time and space."
Andy listened carefully.
Andy knows a little about science, but not much.
It's a bit embarrassing to say that Andy is not as good as Hermione in this regard.
After all, the little witch is a real academic master.
"So what?" Andy asked.
Hermione spread her hands, made an expression of "I am helpless too", and said: "That's all I know."
"But normally, information can't come out of thin air."
"Andy, think about it carefully, maybe you overlooked some details."
"Maybe it's more serious than this..."
At this point, Hermione looked solemn.
"Andy, maybe... maybe there is a piece of history that has not been completed!"