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Ms. Maxime watched with a glass of wine, her eyes revealing a bit of cunning and contempt.
With Britain's poor recipes and cooking methods, even house-elves can't make anything good.
Perhaps France has not produced many famous wizards, let alone one as incomparable as Dumbledore... But in terms of cooking skills, ten Hogwarts schools put together are no match for Beauxbatons.
Not to mention that this was a banquet she had carefully prepared, and usually this kind of banquet was only held at the opening of a new school year.
Kyle spent half an hour on the meal before he finally put down his cutlery. He leaned back in his chair without caring about his image, not wanting to move.
He felt a little regretful. He should have just had some dry food. Why did he have to come to the restaurant to eat? If he could choose again... well, he would still come.
After trying it once, I couldn't resist it.
"Gabrielle," said Ms. Maxime, smiling, "Please take Miss Prince to the guest room."
"No, no." Kanna, who was also so full that she didn't want to move, waved her hand and refused, "This is too much trouble. We can go back by ourselves."
"It's just a guest room. What's the trouble?" Madam Maxime said nonchalantly. "If you don't feel comfortable with it, I can also let Furong go with you. It just so happens that she has been thinking about trying out the guest rooms in the school for a long time."
Is there this service?
Kyle raised his head subconsciously, but he immediately lowered it the next second, pretending nothing had happened.
Luckily, no one noticed him, so he managed to save his life. The bad thing about eating too much is that it can cause a short circuit in the brain.
Connor wanted to refuse, but Victor said, "This is my suggestion. Kyle and I may need to discuss some issues later. If it's too late, it will be inconvenient for you to go back. Just stay here for one night."
"Yeah." Gabrielle also chimed in, "It won't be too late for you to go back after breakfast tomorrow."
I don’t know if it was because of Victor’s words or the breakfast...Kanna agreed.
She glanced at Kyle and followed Gabrielle out of the auditorium.
Kyle didn't move. He was waiting for Victor.
In fact, he had almost finished asking all the questions he wanted to ask in the afternoon, and even after being interrupted, the remaining questions would not take long.
As a master of alchemy, Victor should know this, but from what he said just now, it seems like it will take a long time.
But he didn't say it, and Kyle didn't ask.
"Then I won't bother you anymore." Ms. Maxime also left.
Victor nodded at her and took Kyle back to the alchemy classroom.
But this time, as soon as he entered the door, he waved.
Several red symbols lit up on the classroom wall.
The door was immediately closed and locked, and the curtains closed automatically, and the entire classroom became closed in an instant.
Kyle instinctively grabbed his wand.
Although he also believed in Professor Victor, he still had to be vigilant.
“Don’t be nervous. Some of the things I’m going to tell you are not suitable for others to hear.” Victor said calmly: “There is no one else here now, and even if you put your ear to the crack of the door, you can’t hear our conversation.”
"What do you want to talk about?" Kyle asked, "It shouldn't be about alchemy."
"It is somewhat related." Victor turned around and asked seriously, "Has Albus Dumbledore used the time-turner to go back a hundred years?"
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(End of this chapter)
Chapter 817 Time Repulsion
Albus Dumbledore, has he gone back a hundred years?
Kyle's heart skipped a beat.
He thought Victor wanted to continue discussing alchemy with him, but he didn't expect that what he wanted to talk about was this matter.
But how did he know?
Kyle was sure that on the day Dumbledore left Godric's Hollow, they were the only two present. Even Bathilda was upstairs and had no idea what was happening downstairs.
Not to mention that Professor Victor was far away in France, so how did he know?
Kyle clenched the wand in his hand more tightly, but on the surface he remained calm and his expression did not change. "You should ask Professor McGonagall about this. How can I know Professor Dumbledore's schedule?"
"You don't know?" Victor frowned.
"Of course I don't know. I just graduated." Kyle said, "And going back a hundred years, isn't that a bit too exaggerated? The existing time converter can't do that."
"It's not from now, it's a time converter from a thousand years ago." Victor rubbed his forehead, "Strange, Nico clearly said that he gave it to you... Did I remember it wrong?"
"Um, wait a minute..."
Kyle blinked, "Professor Victor, do you know about the time-turner?"
"Of course I know. Albus approached me a long time ago and asked me to help him repair something... the time-turner."
Victor said, "The magic formula that made that thing work again was discovered by Nico and I together."
Hearing what he said, Kyle vaguely remembered that Dumbledore had said before that he would invite the most famous alchemist to repair the time turner.
It seems that in addition to Nicolas Flamel, Professor Victor is also one of them.
Thinking of this, Kyle breathed a sigh of relief.
Since the professor was invited by Dumbledore and told the truth, he should be trustworthy, but Kyle did not completely let his guard down.
"I am not aware of what you just said."
"Didn't he come to you to ask for the time converter?" Professor Victor was stunned.
"No." Kyle shook his head and chose to continue hiding it.
The more people knew that Dumbledore was not there, the more likely it was that the matter would be exposed. In the current situation, Kyle did not dare to take the risk, even if the other party's current identity was credible.
He hadn't even told Professor McGonagall and Mrs. Weasley that they were far more trustworthy.
Besides, this professor seemed a bit... well, how should I put it, it seemed that he was not very good at anything other than alchemy, so there was a high possibility that he might let something slip.
"Oh." Professor Victor nodded. "Well, I didn't expect him to last until now. I even made a bet with Nico before, guessing when he would go to find Ariana."
"What do you mean?" Kyle's eyes lit up and he asked with interest.
"I guess less than half a year, but Nico thinks it will take longer, at least a year."
Professor Victor rubbed his forehead and said, "I have to admit that he knows Dumbledore better."
"So what's your bet?" Kyle asked curiously.
“Entrance to Paris Fashion Week.”
"What?" Kyle rubbed his ears, thinking he had heard it wrong.
"It's a Muggle activity." Victor thought Kyle didn't know, so he explained, "The French Ministry of Magic has a good relationship with Muggle leaders, and many people in the Ministry of Magic are my students, so every once in a while, I always receive some strange things."
Victor moved his fingers, and a drawer next to him opened automatically. It was filled with various small items, flyers, souvenirs, etc., and the most numerous of them were tickets.
Kyle took a quick look and saw tickets for all kinds of things, including football, fashion week, lingerie shows, music festivals, car races...
"I'm not interested in these and have never been there," Victor said, "but Nico loves them. He's very interested in everything Muggle and he always finds excuses to get tickets from me.
"Of course, even without those excuses, if he wants it, I will definitely give it to him."
Victor picked a few tickets from the ones he had bought and handed the others to Kyle. "Take them if you like."
"Ah, no thanks." Kyle waved his hands.
If Connor saw some of these things, he would probably be shipped back to England by owl.
"Professor Victor." Kyle changed the subject and said, "Why did you feel that Professor Dumbledore had returned to the past?"
"Because he hasn't appeared for a long time, and there is no news." Victor said, "Except going back a hundred years, I can't think of any other reason that could make him disappear for such a long time."
"But now it seems that I guessed wrong." He continued: "Maybe I was busy writing new textbooks recently and didn't pay much attention to his situation. You don't have to worry about it. Just pretend I didn't say anything."
"But now I feel relieved."
"Don't worry?" Kyle asked doubtfully, "What do you mean?"
"Oh, it's nothing serious." Victor said slowly, "Just a week ago, Nico noticed that the magic formula we used to drive the time converter was not perfect, and it might cause confusion in the user's time.
"In other words, he came back, but he didn't come back."
"Can you tell me more about it?" Kyle asked solemnly.
"It's time repulsion." Victor explained: "Under normal circumstances, if the person using the time converter does not make any mistakes, he will definitely be able to return to the correct timeline, which is the time he decided to return to in the past.
When a person disappears, he who has returned to the past also comes back, so that a perfect connection can be achieved, ensuring that this person can always exist in the present time. "
"So what do you mean by time repulsion?"
"He just can't come back." Victor didn't seem to be good at explaining this kind of thing. He thought for a while before continuing:
"For example, if a person uses a time converter to go back to five in the morning at eight in the morning, then he will return to eight in the morning three hours later and complete the handover with himself.
"But if he is excluded by time, then there will no longer be eight o'clock in his world. The best time is only seven fifty-nine, or even earlier."
"If that's the case, what will happen to that person?" Kyle asked nervously.
"I don't know." Victor shook his head. "It might stop at 7:59, or it might go back to 5 o'clock..."
"Of course, you don't have to worry about these." He waved his hand and said, "Fortunately, Nico discovered it early and Albus has not taken any action yet. As long as you go to him and repair the magic runes in the time converter a little bit, and with the help of the Philosopher's Stone, there will be no problem at all."
"He's gone back." Kyle sighed.
"That's good...wait, who did you say went back?"
"Professor Dumbledore." Kyle smiled bitterly, "He has already used the Time Turner."
"So you just said he didn't..."
"I'm sorry." Kyle said, "We can remain calm now, basically because the Death Eaters are afraid of Professor Dumbledore. The fewer people who know something, the less likely it is to be exposed."
The classroom fell into a depressing silence.
"Okay, I understand your thoughts." Victor's voice was a little dry. "Unfortunately, I was just feeling lucky that Albus didn't use the Time Turner too early, but I didn't expect..."
"Sorry," Kyle said again.
"It doesn't matter. In fact, you did a good job." Victor shook his head. "Hiding Albus's whereabouts is indeed the best choice for you."