"Huh? The door is unlocked?"
Maka, who had almost passed by Harry and Ron, was now standing in front of the Hog's Head pub in Hogsmeade. He just pushed it gently, and the old wooden door opened by itself.
Aberforth is definitely not here today.
While Maca was waiting for Voldemort and even Grindelwald to attack at Hogwarts, Aberforth and the members of the Order of the Phoenix headed by Kingsley also had their own tasks.
What they have to do is actually very simple, but the burden on their shoulders is also quite heavy. Because if Voldemort chose to attack Dumbledore's funeral today, his men's actions would inevitably be exposed.
It can be said that this is the best time to explore and even destroy Voldemort's secret stronghold.
So Maka knew that the Pig's Head Bar must be closed to customers at the moment. But obviously, the door is open.
Although Aberforth looks rough and rough, his mind is extremely delicate and he will definitely not make such a small mistake. In this case, maybe Harry and Ron had indeed escaped the disaster - Maka naturally hoped so.
He thought for a moment, but without stopping, he raised his legs and walked into the bar.
The opaque windows made the room dark, but Maka did not hesitate. He quickly walked around the bar, opened the door and walked into Aberforth's bedroom.
He has never been here, but that doesn't stop him from knowing what's going on inside.
However, just a few steps into this equally dark bedroom, Maka felt herself kicking something. Although it is true to say that it is hard, it still has a subtle elasticity.
He waved his hand casually, and a soft light suddenly illuminated the bedroom clearly. As his vision became clearer, he finally discovered what he had kicked.
"Isn't this Aberforth's goat?" Maka shook her head slightly, but ignored it.
Of course he could see that the goat was under a full-body restraint spell and lay miserably on the floor, unable to move at all. But he doesn't have time to care about a goat right now!
The portrait was hanging on the wall of the bedroom, but the girl in the painting that Harry and Ron saw did not seem to be on the canvas of the painting at this moment.
Maka stepped forward and tapped the edge of the frame with her fingers, trying to see if she could call out the person in the painting.
To be honest, he didn't have much hope for this. The person in the magic portrait can come and go between the portraits that belong to him at will, but if he really goes to another canvas, the other person cannot hear him knocking on it.
But the facts proved that his knock was not in vain this time. There are very few portraits of this girl, but right now, she is actually taking a leisurely walk in the woods in the painting!
Seeing a slender figure appear in the forest in the background of the oil painting, walking slowly and leisurely towards this side, Maka breathed a sigh of relief.
It would be great to get the news about Harry and Ron directly from her mouth.
"Arianna," Maka nodded towards the girl in the painting, "Have Harry and Ron left here? Uh... you know who I'm talking about."
This girl is none other than Ariana Dumbledore, Dumbledore's biological sister.
When the Dumbledore brothers and Grindelwald were young, there was a chaotic three-way duel, and Ariana accidentally fell into a spell cast by an unknown person and died on the spot.
Since then, Aberforth, who loved his sister very much, had been blaming his brother. Because the meaningless scuffle in his opinion was caused by the conflicting opinions between his brother and Greenwald.
This sad past event is not only an old problem for Aberforth, but also the biggest problem for his brother Albus Dumbledore.
In the past, while trying again and again to enter different rooms in the Room of Requirement, Maka discovered the one with Ariana's portrait.
So he knew very well that Dumbledore's sister had never been talkative. If you want to ask her a question, you must try your best to allow her to answer by "nodding" or "shaking her head", otherwise she will turn away without comment.
This time, Ariana seemed to be in a good mood, at least she was willing to come out of the woods behind and listen to what he had to say.
When Maka asked about Harry and Ron, Ariana nodded calmly, and then stretched out her hand to motion towards the bedroom door.
"Thanks."
Being able to know clearly that Harry and Ron were fine undoubtedly gave Maka, who was full of boredom and uneasiness at the moment, some peace of mind.
"Now that the two of them have left here, they should have gone back to the Burrow, right?"
In his opinion, Harry and Ron would never run stupidly to Hogwarts again no matter what. But who knows, sometimes the facts are always so unexpected, and people often find out after the fact that they are unprepared.
Maka casually sat down on the chair next to her, regardless of the dirt on her head, and just let out a long sigh again.
He is not the kind of hero who can watch a large number of people die without changing his expression, nor is he the kind of king who can commemorate the victims on the list of honor. He couldn't maintain his little "little selfishness" after experiencing such a disaster.
To put it bluntly, he was still thinking about how to undo that terrible disaster and try to save those who didn't deserve to die.
As for the method... of course it's not impossible. In fact, the method to save the defeat had already appeared during the top three tournament of the previous school year.
Maka pondered for a moment and took out a thick magic notebook from the pocket on her waist. After gently touching the words "Book of Sin" on the cover, he opened the book that he had not read carefully for a long time and turned it directly to the last page.
In the original "Book of Sin", the "Rule Rune Guidance Table" that he had read the most times was undoubtedly the "Rule Rune Guidance Table", and the second most important thing was the three-dimensional rune array diagram on the last page.
This rune diagram drawn by magic threads is extremely complex. Although he has read it so many times and has been studying it persistently, the progress in it is not satisfactory.
However, he could more or less guess that this was probably a rune array used to span time and space. It was it that brought his future self back to the past and stood in front of him.
Not to mention that this rune diagram is very likely to have major flaws. Even if there are no flaws, he can't actually use it now.
"Do you want me to spend more than half my life studying to understand it, and then get a new "Book of Sin" and send it back to the past?" Maka forced a helpless smile, "...it's all in vain!"
With a muffled "snap" sound, the thick notebook was closed again.
However, after closing the notebook, Maka's movements suddenly stopped. As if he had thought of something, he frowned slightly and stared at the book in his hand in a daze.
It wasn't that he discovered something new in this "Book of Sin", but a flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his mind.
This happens occasionally when a person is thinking hard or trying to remember something.
It was like a vague feeling passing through my heart, as if I could almost understand it, but I couldn't quite capture its actual content.
"Time-Turner!"
In a flash of inspiration, Maka finally caught the idea that had almost slipped through her fingers.
"This is really... this is really..." Once he remembered this thing that he had almost forgotten in a corner of his mind, he clenched his fists with excitement, "How could I forget it?"
For a moment, Maka's entire mind was filled with the word "time turner". He stood up suddenly and walked back and forth in Aberforth's old bedroom to feel relieved. of excitement.
He knew that now was not the time to be happy, or in other words, the most critical moment would be next. He had to calm down again and plan his next move as carefully as possible to avoid falling short again.
After taking several deep breaths, he suppressed the joy in his heart and sat back on the dirty armchair.
He still vaguely remembered that in this world without him, Maka McClane, Harry and the others had relied on this "time turner" to save Sirius Black from death. But after that, due to an accident, the time turner seemed to be destroyed...
"Why was it destroyed? Now..." Maka tried hard to search in the distant memory that had almost disappeared, trying to find the slightest clue, "Yes, Hermione once applied for it to go to those places. Courses with conflicting schedules… Apply…”
While desperately trying to remember, he murmured to himself: "...Ministry of Magic! Yes, the Time Turner is stored in the Time Hall of the Department of Mysteries!"
In that world without Maka, the cabinet containing the time turner was hit by a stun spell during the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, causing the time turners in it to fall into an infinite loop, never to be seen again. Cannot be used. Although Maka didn't remember such details, he at least recalled some of the reasons.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but feel relieved.
Although he encountered Voldemort's ambush in the Prophecy Hall of the Department of Mysteries, and even had a huge fight in the Death Hall. But at that time, he and a group of Black Death disciples were just passing by in the Time Hall, and those time turners should be fine.
"Without further ado!"
After thinking about it for a moment, he decided to go to the Ministry of Magic immediately. After all, those time-turners were his only hope now.