The years of welding at Hogwarts

The location of the headquarters of the British Ministry of Magic is largely related to some top secrets stored in the Department of Mysteries.

As early as the time of Merlin, some wizards discovered that there are many ancient powers in this world that were born almost at the same time as this world, such as love, thought, time, death...

Its form is difficult to explain, and its reason for being there is even more of a mystery.

These powers are ancient and powerful, attracting the exploration of wizards.

The wizards who were attracted by these naturally existing mysterious powers were called "Unspoken Men". They set up their headquarters at the source of these powers, which was also the prototype of the earliest Department of Mysteries.

It was not until 1692, when the International Confederation of Wizards passed the Statute of Secrecy, separating the wizarding world from the non-magical world, that the British wizarding world decided to establish the Department of Mysteries.

The headquarters of the Ministry.

Even so, the Unspeakable in the Department of Mysteries is still a special existence independent of the administrative structure of the British Ministry of Magic.

They do not obey the orders of any minister, and the decision-making power to absorb fresh blood and some internal research affairs are firmly in their own hands.

Looking at the hummingbird in the bell-shaped crystal glass cover, which was constantly repeating the cycle of rebirth and aging, Noah boldly removed the glass cover that was shrouding the mysterious airflow.

Then, he stretched out his hand directly toward the airflow in front of him.

However, just as his hand was about to sink into the bright airflow filled with the mysterious power of time, Noah's sinful hand suddenly stopped.

"Maybe I need some luck?"

He murmured to himself as if mocking himself, "Going into battle without any defensive measures, it would not be a good thing if someone died."

It is so ironic that the Sorcerer Supreme who played with time finally died at the hands of time.

As he spoke, he fumbled in his pocket and found a bottle of elixir.

Although the Felicis Potion is a very expensive drug in the outside market, Noah has the support of Snape, a treasure-level potion master. Although it is not as common as mineral water, it is not that expensive either.

Especially since they had just opened a blind box among the many vaults of Gringotts and found a full tank of Felicity Potion from the Lestrange family vault.

After taking a small sip of the Felicis, Noah felt an extremely uplifting feeling flowing through his brain and throughout his body.

During the period when the Felicity Potion was effective, he felt that he could do anything with his own strength, even completely mastering the mystery of time.

Of course, that was just an illusion of Noah's.

When people are pushed into a corner, they can do a lot of things, but if they can't do math, then they really can't do it.

The same is true of the mystery of time magic.

The elixir can only support Noah to do things within the scope of his own understanding, and because of the improvement of various physical indicators, the process of completing this task seems extremely smooth, as if it is easy.

Noah suddenly thrust his hand into the mysterious stream of air that was glittering in the sunlight.

Under the blowing of the air current, his hands began to move uncontrollably like a hummingbird, making circular "8"-shaped movements in the air current. The skin on his hands became dry and wrinkled during the rising process, and then returned to the white and tender state of a newborn baby during the falling process.

A fair little hand, only two fingers wide of an adult's, attached to the arm of a twelve-year-old boy, still looked a bit out of place.

Although the light in the room was very bright, it could not hide Noah's already bright gray-green eyes. His eyes were like torches in the dark even in the daytime.

Carefully feeling this mysterious force of time, Noah's tremendous magic power surged out of his body, and his wizard robe moved without wind under the influence of the surging magic power.

The mighty magical power, like a torrent of waterfalls, crashed into the force of time, shaking the entire house violently.

If Noah had not told everyone early on that whatever happened in his room was normal and they should not be too curious or come over to watch, Fox would have kicked his door open.

The hummingbird, trapped in the force of time for who knows how long, tasted freedom for the first time when these two forces collided.

But before it could be happy for long, the mysterious force of time seemed to feel threatened and launched a fierce counterattack the moment Noah's magic began to invade.

The turbulence of time disrupts the perfect cycle from rebirth to aging and then back to rebirth.

Every point in the air flow has a different time flow rate, and the turbulent time flow immediately changes the hummingbird beyond recognition.

The left side of the body may be in the process of aging and rebirth, but the right side of the body is motionless, and the most important part of the brain is aging rapidly until it turns into dry bones and does not stop...

Noah's magic was like an invisible prison, replacing the original bell-shaped glass cover, firmly imprisoning this wild power in place and gradually converging it.

The ring fingers and little fingers of both hands were folded at one side, and the remaining six fingers were stretched out and touched each other. Noah silently recited the long spell he read from "The Book of Cagliostro" in his heart. Under the guidance of his extremely concentrated mental power, the magic power in his body began to flow in a certain way.

A fluorescent green light suddenly lit up from Noah's fingertips, and a complex magic circle composed of hundreds of winding lines and countless intricate runes took shape, and was held in Noah's hand like a shield.

Noah pulled his left hand back, and the fluorescent green magic circle decomposed under Noah's will, one ring tightly wrapped around another, covering his right hand like an arm guard.

With the help of the magic circle, Noah can control the mysterious power of time more easily.

He began to sort out the time veins in this violent airflow, arranging the tangled time turbulence in an orderly manner, and constantly compressing the airflow.

Activity space.

As the volume of the air flow is compressed, this mysterious force gradually reveals its true face.

It was an extremely tiny green grain of sand.

No, to describe it as a grain of sand would be too huge.

If it wasn't constantly emitting a fluorescent green light of the same color as the Time Stone, Noah would only be able to find its existence under a microscope.

Looking at the tiny speck of dust in his hand that was emitting a faint fluorescent light, Noah's expression changed again and again.

"This is……"

He finally understood where that extremely familiar feeling came from when he first saw this power.

If he guessed correctly, this tiny speck of dust should be a tiny fragment that was knocked off the Time Stone by some means.

If measured by its volume, the power it contains is less than one hundred thousandth of the Time Stone.

But even such a tiny fragment can have such power. If it were replaced with a complete Time Stone, Noah didn't even know what kind of power one of the real Infinity Stones could exert.

This is a bit too scary.

Carefully putting the dust on his hand aside, Noah hurriedly took out a small piece of vibranium and mithril alloy from his storage space.

While the effect of the Felicity Potion has not worn off, he wants to do one more thing during this precious time -

Although vibranium is difficult to smelt, permanent transfiguration is also a major problem in the magic world.

But if you just want to use Transfiguration to give an object a permanent shape without changing its essence, it is a very simple matter.

The biggest difficulty in permanent transfiguration is to permanently change matter at the molecular level, which requires magic power equivalent to the energy generated by a nuclear reaction.

And if it is just shaping, then the essence of this thing is actually the same as kneading plasticine, except that the object being shaped has changed from plasticine that can be kneaded at will with one hand to indestructible vibranium.

After a moment, Noah looked at the mass-produced imitation [Eye of Agamotto] in front of him, which looked like it was produced in Yiwu, and a look of disgust appeared on his face.

The shape of this thing, even though its appearance has been changed from the original bronze to the shiny silver of vibranium, it still doesn't look very good.

But Noah, who was not so proficient in alchemy, could only follow the records in the "Book of Cagliostro" to create his own Eye of Agamotto.

After all, no matter how ugly this thing looks, it is still a divine device that can drive infinite gems. With Noah's attainments in alchemy, he is not yet strong enough to modify the divine device according to his own ideas.

It was already a remarkable achievement for him to be able to create this thing.

Noah picked up the fragment of the Time Stone that he had just placed on the table and put it into the shoddy counterfeit Eye of Agamotto, which had only completed the appearance but had not yet engraved the magic runes. Then he nodded with satisfaction.

As the Eye of Agamotto rotated, the dazzling green light emitted by the raw stone fragments was also obscured, and it looked like an ordinary little pendant adorning Noah's chest.

The feeling of excitement slowly faded from Noah's body. When the last trace of the effect of the elixir disappeared, an endless feeling of fatigue suddenly surged into Noah's heart.

But his brain was not affected by it.

On the contrary, Noah, who had just exited the sage mode, was at his clearest moment.

The power sealed in the bell-shaped glass cover is only tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of times that of the Time Stone.

As far as Noah knew, ever since the first wizard discovered the ancient powers sealed in the Department of Mysteries, there have been wizards who wanted to take these powers away, claim them for themselves, and then slowly study them.

And none of them ever succeeded.

No matter what means they tried, these ancient forces that seemed to have stayed there since the birth of the world were like roots under their feet and refused to move even an inch.

This is also why wizards need to establish an institution like the Department of Mysteries.

Since no one can take them away, and fighting and killing is not in line with the mainstream rules of the magic world, let's put aside the dispute and jointly develop.

The power in the bell-shaped glass jar can be taken away by Snape, which means that this is not the real power of time. The real power is still firmly sealed deep in the Department of Mysteries.

So, could that be the real body of the Time Stone?

Moreover, now that the Time Stone has appeared, it wouldn’t be excessive to have a few more stones, right?

Space, reality, power, mind, soul...

In addition to the Time Hall, there are many different rooms in the Department of Mysteries, including the Brain Hall for studying thoughts, the Death Hall for studying death...

There are also messy rooms like the Planetary Room and the Prophecy Room.

Noah's thoughts were not just about the top-secret research topics in the Department of Mysteries, they even extended to the legend of the Three Deathly Hallows that had been circulating in the wizarding world for a long time.

If the power sealed under the Time Hall is one of the six infinite stones,

If the brain hall is studying the gem itself, then maybe it is another gem that represents the power of the mind?

Although there are no gemstones that can directly correspond to the topics studied in other rooms of the Department of Mysteries for the time being, the Deathly Hallows can.

The Elder Wand represents supreme power, while the Resurrection Stone can play with the souls of the dead...

Is it possible that the casting of these two Deathly Hallows was based on the Power Stone and the Soul Stone? Or is it possible that these two Hallows were simply cast from a fragment separated from the original stone, just like the Eye of Agamotto that Noah is wearing now?

From this perspective, the death cloak, or invisibility cloak, whose only effect is invisibility, is actually the most impressive one.

Noah's thoughts gradually spread.

"It seems that I need to find time to borrow the resurrection stone from Old Si and study it."

Submitting to the exhaustion that spread throughout his body, Noah lay down on the bed in a sprawling position.

He felt drained both mentally and physically, and didn't want to think about these messy questions that had no answers for the time being.

Noah closed his eyes silently, and his breathing soon became even and smooth, and soon turned into a soft snoring.

……

At the same time, in the humble abode.

Harry had never felt that his life was so good as it was now. Even his life at Hogwarts School was not as good as it was now.

Life at the Burrow was very different from life at Privet Drive. The Dursleys liked everything to be in order, which was dull and rigid in Harry's opinion.

The Weasley family is full of magic and surprises...

Chapter 261 Burrow

Ottery St Catchpole, Devon, on the banks of the River Otter.

This is a small village where wizards and Muggles live together, although the Muggles here are unaware of the other true identities of the strange neighbors they see every day.

To the south of the village, hidden behind hills and a forest, a crooked little building was built among dense reeds.

Judging from the appearance that is hard to describe at first glance, the owner of this house obviously spent a lot of effort to build it in a way that makes it as close to the Muggle architectural style as possible.

But he did not have the superb skills of the old masters on the construction site, and the Muggles' architecture was not as simple as he originally imagined.

When building the wall, the man of the house didn't even think about the fact that they could use a plumb bob to find the direction of gravity and thus find a baseline that would allow the wall to be built straight.

In order to prevent the house that he had worked so hard to build from collapsing, the owner of this cottage had to use magic to assist, which resulted in a crooked cottage that was comparable to the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy.

There are four or five chimneys on the red roof, and a sign is inserted diagonally in front of the house, which reads "Humble Dwelling".

Next to the house sits a large rusty iron shed, which looks like a small industrial workshop in the countryside built with a few small broken machine tools.

It is like the torture instrument production workshop of Geng, the Minister of Punishment.

And it is indeed a factory built by Mr. Weasley with magic and hard work.

Early that morning, the few fat chickens roaming in the yard outside the humble dwelling had not yet gotten up to crow, but a series of clanging sounds came from the large iron shed next door.

The sharp noise caused by the intense friction between the saw blade and the steel plate woke Harry up from his sweet dream.

Glancing down at the towering quilt, Harry felt a little annoyed. He was originally having a tryst with the beautiful Seeker from Ravenclaw in his dream, and now he was heading towards a home run.

Even if the noise came thirty seconds later!

He only needs thirty seconds!

Thirty seconds is enough to get the job done!

Being under someone's roof, even if his sweet dream was disturbed, Harry couldn't just lean on the window and curse at the tin shed outside.

Glancing at Ron, who was still sleeping like a dead pig in the bed next to him, Harry sighed quietly. Sometimes he really envied his good friend's sleep quality.

He looked down at his disappointing little brother again, the hot feeling in his heart still did not ease. Harry chose to lie back on the bed silently, closing his eyes and hoping to continue his dream from where it was.