The years of welding at Hogwarts

Seeing Snape nod slowly, Shirley pulled her father's sleeve aggrievedly, "But I don't want to admit that I have a brother as stupid, perverted and wretched as Harry Potter."

Shirley's decision made Snape overjoyed. He naturally agreed without hesitation, "Okay! Okay! Okay!"

He said "good" three times in a row, which was enough to show his extreme joy.

Their current life is already happy enough. Who would want stupid Harry Potter to rashly barge into their lives and mess up their perfect life?

Not to mention, Harry also inherited his father's face, the face that Snape hated so much.

Snape had a kind and gentle smile on his face. "No matter what you choose, in my heart, you will always be my daughter. This will not change because of other things such as blood relationship."

He gently held Shirley in his arms, "Your mother Lily wants to see you very much. Do you want to see her now?"

Shirley nodded her little head in Snape's arms, and her voice revealed some hesitation. "Maybe I'll wait until next time. I'm not ready to see her yet."

Seeing the deep love between father and daughter, Noah wanted to walk away consciously, but Snape stopped him as soon as he left the seat.

Noah raised an eyebrow, "Have you made up your mind?"

Shirley looked up curiously, "What decision?"

But Snape, who had always doted on her, did not answer her question at this moment. His pair of black eyes stared straight at Noah, "Is there a possibility..."

"If we use the time-turner to go back in time, can we prevent Lily's death?"

What a naive idea!

Noah shook his head. "You must know, Severus, that's not how time works. If you fool time, time will fool you as well."

“Any tiny change you make to the past, even if you just move a can of tomato soup from the bottom shelf to the top, can be magnified over decades and cause a world-shaking storm.”

"Not to mention, a time-turner can't actually change the past."

Snape's expression was serious and solemn. "But what if we don't change the established facts in people's perception?"

Hearing this, Noah became slightly interested.

He gestured for Snape to continue.

"Time-turners cannot change the past. This is a common saying in the magic world.

A consensus is acknowledged, but what if we do something slightly different about Lily's death without changing history?"

Snape carefully selected his words, and slowly and firmly narrated the ideas he had come up with after pondering over the past few days.

"In our and everyone else's original understanding, Lily is dead, and this cannot be changed."

"But if we travel back to the past and disguise Lily's death, and arrange everything before my past self arrives at the Potters' house, and everyone thinks Lily is dead, let her change her appearance and hide, until now she appears in front of us in another identity..."

As he spoke, Snape took out a small bottle from his pocket. Noah could tell from the sticky potion inside that it was a bottle of Polyjuice Potion, even without smelling the disgusting smell of goblin urine.

"The effect of the polyjuice potion can only last for a short period of time. If the person who takes the potion dies during this period, then he will maintain the changed appearance and will never change back."

After Snape's description, Noah could roughly guess what he was thinking.

"So, what you mean is that we travel back in time and rescue the Potters on the night they died."

"After that, we will go to another place and capture two unlucky souls. We will make them take Polyjuice Potion and then kill them. We will dump their bodies at the scene where the Potters died, creating the illusion that Voldemort and the Potters died together."

"In this way, the established facts in people's cognition will not be changed, and the history of the wizarding world will not change at all."

Snape's eyes showed a hint of excitement, "We can successfully rescue Lily without paying any price!"

Although Shirley didn't know what the two were talking about, she could hear from their few words that they were discussing how to travel through time and go back to the past to save their biological mother.

Traveling through time…

Is it really possible to realize such fantastic ideas and actions?

If it were someone else, Shirley would definitely refute the other person, so stop talking about impossible things.

But the two people who were discussing time travel in front of her were Noah and her father.

Shirley unconditionally trusted everything Snape said, so even when Snape told her that Dumbledore was actually his unfilial son born after he traveled back in time, Shirley believed it.

As for Noah, although this guy is always laughing and joking, he doesn't seem to be that reliable at first glance.

But he never failed to make decisions on some major issues, not to mention that he possessed a mysterious power that could always turn the impossible into possible.

Facing the hopeful gazes of Shirley and Snape at the same time, although Noah couldn't bear to say no, he still shook his head slowly.

"I've already told you, Snape, time doesn't work like that."

"Besides, if you fool time, time will surely fool you in another more cruel way."

Noah put two fingers together to form a pen and waved it in the air. A golden line emerged from the void as his fingers moved, extending forward until it passed through the wall of the restaurant.

“You think time is linear.”

As Noah spoke, he casually pointed his finger, and a certain spot on the golden line suddenly turned into a dazzling red with the touch of his fingertips.

"Assuming this is our history, this point represents the night the Potters died."

He casually tapped the golden line, a spot behind the red dot, and turned it blue. "And this is the time point we are at now."

"Perhaps you are thinking that we can travel back from the present to the past, rewrite the true history on the night of Lily's death, and then use a false appearance to pretend that none of this happened, so that this timeline will not change at all."

As Snape's eyes dimmed, Noah spread his hands and said, "You are totally wrong."

"First of all, the first problem we face after returning to the past is how to save Lily that night."

"The biggest prerequisite for saving Lily is to kill Voldemort."

"If we simply replace the Potters with two unrelated unfortunates, then Voldemort's killing curse will not be deflected by the ancient magic of love."

"So, in order to maintain the original course of history, we have to fight Voldemort."

“Even if we succeed in defeating Voldemort in the end and fabricate the illusion that the Potters are dead and Voldemort is missing, the history of this world has already changed since the moment we fought Voldemort.”

Noah shrugged his shoulders. "And all this is based on the premise that time develops linearly."

He stood up, took out a package of pasta from the kitchen cabinet, tore it open, took out a few strands, and placed them on the table in front of them.

"If time is linear, then if we go back in time and change history, the result should be something like this.

"

Noah placed two strands of spaghetti close to each other in a parallel position, then pressed one point on the spaghetti and bent the other straight spaghetti in another direction.

"Going back to the past and changing history will inevitably lead to the creation of a new time branch."

Noah looked down at the noodle that had been bent by external forces. "A new present, a new future."

"But here's the problem. Time is not linear. If we travel back in time and change history, then a fulcrum will be created."

He placed two strands of spaghetti crosswise together. “While we were creating a whole new future, we also succeeded in creating a new past that was completely unfamiliar to us.”

"This leads to two different paths of history, uh..."

“Maybe even more than two.”

Having said that, Noah paused slightly and waved towards the stove in the kitchen at the back. The pot of cooked pasta automatically flew to the plate in front of him, tangled together like a tangled mess.

Noah motioned for Snape to look at the plate in front of him.

"Changing the timeline will lead to infinite possibilities that we can't imagine. You will create a lot of time branches like this plate of spaghetti."

"Some of them may intersect with each other, while others may diverge quite significantly."

"But no matter what, there is only one result."

As he spoke, Noah poured a large spoonful of black pepper sauce onto the plate in front of him, picked up the fork and casually stirred the noodles on the plate.

“That’s a mess.”

Chapter 265: Wizards in small places have never seen the big world

Listening to Noah's description, Snape's face looked extremely bad.

"Is there really no other way?"

Noah really wanted to tell Snape and Shirley, who were extremely eager in front of him, that if they did not consider the serious consequences that might result from this, then the method they had just mentioned would come in handy.

But if you want to save the Potters without paying any price, or only pay a small and acceptable price, to be more precise, you want to save Lily's life.

Well, there was nothing he could do.

At least before he obtains the complete Time Stone, or successfully seizes America Chavez's power, he currently has no way to deal with Lily's death with a low enough cost.

But if the ceremony of resurrecting the dead is just performed in an incomplete way, like the Impure World Reincarnation Technique in Naruto.

That might still be possible.

But can Snape and Shirley accept such a walking corpse accompanying them?

Although Noah is willing to believe in Snape's deep love for Lily, and believes that Shirley will not be averse to the existence of her biological parents, can the Potters accept him as he is?

With the Resurrection Stone in hand, Noah could ask Snape to ask the Potters for their opinions.

But Noah felt that before he had the fighting power of Doctor Strange, or before he obtained the Soul Stone, he should refrain from playing with the souls of the dead.

Didn’t you see that after Doctor Strange took over his own corpse in the parallel universe with the help of sleepwalking, the souls that crawled out of hell frantically tried to tear him into pieces?

Although they didn't last more than a few rounds in the body of their junior brother Benedict Cumberbatch, they were forcibly captured and woven into a ghost version of the floating cloak.

But Noah didn't think that with his current strength, he could easily flatten and roll those hideous-looking and mysterious evil spirits like his junior brother.

For some things, it is better not to try them beyond your ability if you know they may cause big trouble.

So Noah just sighed helplessly and warned in a serious tone, "Unless Severus, you are willing to take the risk of messing up the world, I have no way."

Not only Snape, but even Shirley, who didn't quite understand what was said, had her bright eyes dimmed.

Although Shirley didn't understand what Noah said about time not being linear, time branches, parallel universes, etc., this did not prevent her from judging from the conversation between Noah and Snape that what they were discussing about traveling back in time to save their parents was not an impossible thing to achieve.

However, if she wants to save her parents, she will have to make the world pay a heavy price for her parents to live again.

This was unacceptable to the kind-hearted Shirley, she could not make such a selfish decision.

Noah snapped his fingers. "But at least we still have the Resurrection Stone, right?"

As he said this, he stood up and left with the plate of pasta in front of him, leaving Snape and his daughter alone.

After finishing his noodles in the living room, on his way back to his room, Noah reached into his collar and pulled out an oval metal object shaped like a small rugby ball.

Looking down at the Eye of Agamotto Youth Edition hanging on his chest, Noah fell into deep thought.

Since the principle of the time converter is based on a very small part of the power of the time stone,

So, is it possible that the Resurrection Stone in Snape's hand gets its power from the Soul Gem?

According to the original book, the Three Deathly Hallows were gifts from the god of death to the three Peverell brothers.

The Elder Wand represents great power.

The Resurrection Stone is a magical artifact that can bring back the souls of the dead.

The invisibility cloak is a small piece of cloak torn from the god of death, which allows the holder to avoid death.

But that is just what is said in a children's story book "The Tales of Beedle the Bard" that is circulating in the wizarding world.

The reality is that the Elder Wand can amplify the power of a wizard's spells to a certain extent, but it itself cannot give a novice wizard powerful power.

All it can do is amplify.

If you are a wizard with a combat power of five, oh no, your combat power must be at least ten points compared to ordinary people.

If you are a loser with a combat power of ten points, and the Elder Wand can double your strength, then you are just a big loser with a combat power of only twenty points.

This level alone is not enough to make the Elder Wand worthy of its title as a divine artifact.

Take a look at what the artifacts in the neighboring world of Azeroth look like.

Let’s first talk about the famous Ulthalesh the Deadwind Reaper.

Its holder does not need to possess great power. Even if he just swings it lightly, he may be able to harvest all life within a radius of several kilometers.

Of course, without strong power to control this deceptive artifact, the ultimate result is that the soul of the holder will be devoured by Ulthalesh, and become a ghost under this deceptive artifact.

Let’s talk about the Destruction Warlock artifact scepter that Sargeras specially created for the invasion of Azeroth.

It also does not require the holder to possess any powerful strength. It can use the power contained in itself to chisel open a space hole leading to the twisting void. The aftermath of the power released in the process can raze several blocks to the ground.

This is what we call a magic weapon!

Although their side effects are terrible, this is the real artifact that can give the user extraordinary power!

Look at the Elder Wand again, what the hell is that?