410 The Truth Comes Out

410 The Truth Comes Out

With the final roar, Abraxas' figure dissipated like smoke.

The memory ends here.

"If I'm not mistaken..."

After thinking for a while, Callan said hesitantly: "Abraxas is using Draco's parents to threaten him so that he can destroy Voldemort's last Horcrux at a critical moment—— Is that you?"

Harry sighed and said, "He did think so, and he successfully hid these thoughts from everyone, including us and Voldemort."

"I have never been able to understand Principal Dippet's attitude towards the Malfoy family before, but now it seems that perhaps he truly understands Abraxas Malfoy better than anyone else, who was born to Lord Voldemort who grew up in the Muggle world. Incomprehensible beliefs - As a deep-rooted pure-blood supremacist, Abraxas has never forgotten his pride, although it only seems to make him appear a little - "

"A lunatic."

Karan frowned and commented: "There is no shortage of madmen among wizards, and Abraxas is one of them."

"I thought people in the Malfoy family would pay more attention to family ties, but for Abraxas, even blood relatives cannot compare to the glory of pure blood."

"This would even allow him to question and betray Voldemort."

"What a lunatic."

Karan repeated his final murmur, and then fell silent.

He thought of Abraxas Malfoy, who escaped from Azkaban in his own generation.

After getting to know this person thoroughly, he could not help but wonder who was the person who really helped Abraxas?

Could it still be Voldemort?

Harry drank butterbeer with a heavy heart and continued to explain: "Now you should understand why I said I did this for Draco. Since my death is unavoidable, there is no need to let it happen again." He was caught in a dilemma. If possible, I would rather have fewer casualties in the war than see someone die trying to protect me."

After saying this, Harry fell silent together.

It wasn't until a while later that Harry suddenly noticed that no matter how much he drank, the drink in the bottle had not decreased at all.

There are also several wandless spells cast by Karan unintentionally, and Harry's own ability to restore memories...

"What the hell is this place?"

Harry finally asked the confusion in his heart: "And how did I... survive?"

Karan interrupted the thoughts in his mind. He looked at Harry, but he didn't know where to start.

So much happened in a short period of time.

The spy Snape in the original timeline was replaced by the pure-blood supremacist Abraxas Malfoy.

Now, Callan has been replaced by Dumbledore's identity in the trance world to help Harry solve his confusion.

But in the end, Karan laughed easily.

"It's a long story. But overall, there are at least two pieces of good news."

"you are still alive."

"I have not become a real dead person living in my mind. In fact, I have been guessing that the body may be a constraint for wizards. Otherwise, there is really no way to explain the existence of trances and illusions... ..”

Harry's expression became even more confused. He had no idea what Callan was talking about.

"What trance?" Harry asked confusedly: "And I remember that I clearly pulled the trigger. Before I died - or before I came here, I felt like I was hit hard by a hammer. After shaking my head, I felt no pain, just a dull feeling, and then I woke up in Spider End Alley..."

"Okay, okay." Karan felt strange in his heart. He quickly waved his hand to stop you and said, "I'm not interested in your feelings before you die at all, and I will never commit suicide in such a crude way."

"Give you."

Karan said as he conjured a mirror and handed it to Harry: "Take a good look at yourself."

Harry took the mirror in confusion. When he saw himself in it, he immediately understood why Karan said this.

On Harry's forehead, the original lightning scar disappeared and turned into a delicate mesh scar with a circular mark in the middle.

"It's so ugly."

Karan shook his head and said with a hint of regret: "I can probably guess how much you resent the lightning scar. Many people will be the first to look at your forehead the moment they hear your name - you can imagine Think about it, when they saw such ugly scars, it was really, tsk tsk tsk..."

Harry didn't hear Karan's joke at all. He stared at himself in the mirror for a long time, and his fingers gently touched the round mark on his forehead.

It felt slippery, no different from a newly healed scar.

"how did you do it?!"

Harry asked in shock.

At this moment, the only person he could think of was Karan in front of him.

"You saved me? Can you even save me from this kind of trauma?!"

From Harry's point of view, this was no different than coming back from the dead.

"I don't know such powerful magic."

The expression on Karan's face seemed to really regret this. He wished that his healing spell could have such a magical effect.

"To be precise, it's because of the jumping pot."

Karan finally began to explain: "We first got the jumping cauldron from the God of Death, and then read the memories from my ancestors in the pensieve in the principal's office."

"Antioch once conducted a sinister experiment using a jumping cauldron, and I have seen his results with my own eyes - the ancestor of the Potter family, Linfred, successfully entered the tangled illusion inside the jumping cauldron. , and has survived.”

"This replaces the role of another magic item - the Resurrection Stone, one of the Deathly Hallows. They all have the ability to put the incomplete dead into a trance."

"The incomplete dead refers to you - Harry."

"I remember that the basilisk venom was contained in your pistol bullets, which successfully destroyed the soul fragments that Voldemort accidentally left in your body."

"Now you are just yourself, even the last souvenir has been replaced - the lightning scar has become this...well...actually, this scar looks good, I hope this won’t delay you from finding a girlfriend.”

Harry looked at Karan gratefully. He had put a lot of effort into sneaking into the center of the battlefield. He could fully imagine how much risk Karan had taken to help him.

"This scar will not prevent me from finding a girlfriend. When I was competing for the Goblet of Fire, I received invitations to dances from many girls."

Harry was finally in the mood to joke: "At least it won't be later than you."

Unexpectedly, Karan touched his chin thoughtfully: "Maybe it is possible. It is not necessarily a good thing to pass on the blood of Antioch. Maybe I should learn from Isolt Thayer. A daughter's actions cut off the evil bloodline."

Harry couldn't tell for a moment whether Karan was joking to scare him or if he was really serious.

"Forehead......"

Harry had no choice but to change the subject and said: "Should we leave here? Ron and Hermione may still be worried about us. And Abraxas Malfoy, I don't know if he succeeded."

Facing Harry's gaze, Karan nodded in agreement: "You are right, we should leave early. I don't want my body to be discovered by Death Eaters, unless they regard it as a corpse. It would be troublesome to add another curse."

Harry looked at Karan expectantly, and Karan also stared at Harry with some vague expectancy.

The two people stared at each other silently for a while.

"So why haven't we left yet?"

Harry's patience was gradually exhausted, and he blinked and asked.

Karan was equally confused: "Shouldn't you be the one taking us out?"

He remembered that in the original timeline, it was Harry who made the final choice to return his consciousness to the body of the Forbidden Forest.

"Didn't you bring me into this... or some illusion?"

The expression on Harry's face gradually turned into one of horror: "Then why didn't you take us out?"

Karan waited quietly for a while, and when nothing changed, he sighed and said, "When did I say this?"

"Like you, I was also a person who was forcibly taken to a trance."

"Otherwise, how do you think I managed to get out of the Anthony Yard? I don't remember Dumbledore ever showing this ability. Only the master of the trance can do it."

Harry couldn't understand what Callan was talking about anymore, but that didn't stop him from becoming crazy little by little.

"Then we can never leave here?"

He stared at the drink bottle in his hand, and a strange thought suddenly came to his mind - at least he wouldn't starve to death, nor would he die of thirst, and he could immediately conjure up whatever food he wanted.

Just as the two of them were becoming depressed, the door to the room was suddenly pushed open from the outside.

Has a third person entered the trance?

Karan and Harry turned to look, wanting to know who the person who came in was.

When the figure of the visitor appeared from behind the door, Harry thought carefully for a while, but he did not recognize him at all.

Only Karan murmured the other person's name, his tone full of surprise.

"Cadmus Peverell, are you still...alive?"

The person who came was none other than Cadmus Peverell, the second oldest of the three brothers. His soul was cruelly used by Antioch, and he eventually replaced the Forbidden One on the jumping cauldron.

But Karan never expected that the person he saw would be him - taboos cannot retain the memory of their lives, except for that little bit -

"Obsession."

Cadmus did not greet the two of them. He stood stiffly at the door and explained in a stiff tone like a machine: "I have long forgotten all the past, it is the obsession I left behind, and the magic of Tiao Tiao Cao. The ability is enough to allow me to talk to you here."

Not only did he speak in a robotic tone, but he also looked like a crudely made intelligent robot that couldn't react much and was far less agile than Linfred.

The scene happening in front of me was like watching an alternative memory.

In the sight of the two of them, Cadmus spoke again, as if trying to buy time.

"I see you - Callan, Guspard, and Steve."

"In the memory left behind by Antioch, I, who became the Forbidden One, saw you outside my memory with my own eyes."

"This made me remember the three of you and became part of my obsession."

"You need to be warned."

"I have to tell this warning so that you can tell more people."

"I never realized that Antioch would deceive me so deeply. He took advantage of everything at his disposal - my wife Elsa Slytherin, and his two brothers, Ig and I. Notus.”

"He is willing to give up all emotions, and even everything, just to achieve the highest pursuit - the ultimate in magic."

"Antioch never gave up on this goal. He wanted to thoroughly study the nature of magic and learn all the magic that had ever existed, or even that did not yet exist."

"You have to stop him."

"Even if death has never done this, you must stop him."

"Otherwise...the dark ages are coming."

It’s the dark ages again…

Just as Karan's heart became heavier, the expression on Cadmus's face suddenly changed, making him look more like a human being.

From Cadmus's eyes, both Karan and Harry noticed that they were full of complexity and nostalgia.

"It feels good to have consciousness again."

Cadmus murmured in a low voice: "It's a pity that I don't have much time..."

This is the real Cadmus, not the robot anymore!

After realizing this, Karan immediately asked: "What is all this going on? Is it because of my patron saint? Because of the Thestral? Or is it because of the Antioch blood in me?"

The reason for traveling through time this time has puzzled Karan for a long time, but neither the three people outside the memory mentioned by Cadmus nor the completely different development of this world allowed Karan to figure out the real reason.

Is this really something a time turner can do?

Cadmus lowered his head to look at Karan, and his eyes suddenly became more complicated.

"The descendants of Antioch..."

There was no resentment in his eyes, only endless regret and sadness.

"Promise me you will never become my brother."

"Never..."

The words that were about to blurt out suddenly stopped.

The curiosity in Karan's heart dissipated little by little, and he did something that could finally give the person in front of him a sense of comfort.

"I promise you, Cadmus."

"I will never turn into that evil ancestor, that's not what I want," Karan said.

Cadmus looked at Karan gently, a smile appearing on his increasingly gray face.

"Fortunately, you are different..."

He finally rejoiced and disappeared in a puff of black smoke.

Karan and Harry then began to switch consciousness.

At the moment when they were about to escape from the trance, they heard a whisper in the wind.

"How wonderful it would be to meet you in another world..."

"Elsa..."

"Elsa..."