In the Harry Potter Without Harry Potter

Chapter 498: Method

The so-called to seek professional help, of course, was to find someone who had achieved great heights in alchemy to help research this time-turner.

And in the entire magical world, the one who was at the pinnacle of alchemy would certainly be Nicolas Flamel, who had once created the Philosopher's Stone, but he had long since passed away many years ago, however, his once most honoured pupil could be found right within the Witching Horizon.

Slughorn and Jon didn't pause, they soon found Iniesta, the best master alchemist they knew after Nicolas Flamel.

Iniesta looked haggard when Jon and the others found him.

As the nominal supreme leader of the Witching Horizon after Dumbledore's departure, Dumbledore's current true situation certainly had not been concealed from him, so his pressure and burden were extremely heavy, how to arrange the personnel who had already been evacuated to Northern Europe, and how to carry out the defences and personnel movements if Voldemort continued to invade the north in the future, all of these needed to be decided by him.

However, after knowing Jon and Slughorn's intention, he stopped the work on his hands and picked up the time-turner in the wooden box with incomparable gravity and seriousness.

Since they wanted him to help them with the research, Jon, of course, did not hide anything, and recounted the origins of this time-turner clearly, and there was really no need for them to hide it, but instead, if they just made a big deal out of it, it might even have a small impact on Voldemort's reputation.

Iniesta soon made some discoveries as well.

"There's really nothing special about this time-turner from an alchemical point of view."

He looked up at Jon and Slughorn.

"The materials it uses are actually quite normal, not to mention attacks like Fiendfyre Curse and Basilisk's Fang, even a normal blasting curse would have a high probability of destroying it."

Listening to him, Jon couldn't help but frown.

"And what is it that makes it so sturdy now?"

Iniesta rubbed his chin as he voiced his guess.

"I don't know if I'm right, but if it really has been given the property of being indestructible, then the only possible reason is out of the fact that it's not something that belongs to this world."

"When travelling through time, the change between two different timelines, from one world to the other, gave it this unusual change."

Jon and Slughorn looked at each other.

"So is there any other solution?"

The question sent Iniesta into a moment of contemplation, and he paced back and forth in the same spot in silence for a long time, during which time Jon and Slughorn did not disturb him.

"Perhaps there is a way to do that."

He looked up suddenly as if something had occurred to him.

"I need to go somewhere first, to see if I can find that thing my teacher left behind, it won't take long, two days at the most I'll be back and give you an answer!"

Iniesta then left behind all his work within the Witching Horizon, and the whole man disappeared into Northern Europe as if he had evaporated, and no one knew where he had gone.

However, he did not take away that time-turner, and it still remained in Jon's hands.

At this point in time, Jon and Slughorn could only choose to put their trust in Iniesta, but of course, they didn't just put their faith in one basket, and after leaving Iniesta's place, Jon returned to Durmstrang with the Time-Turner in his hand.

And just as he was about to knock on the door and enter the Headmaster's office, the door to the Headmaster's office was suddenly pushed open from the inside.

Aberforth came out from inside with a somewhat grim face, as if he had endured a very unpleasant conversation.

But when he saw Jon, the expression on his face eased a little, and he greeted Jon, it's just that afterwards he didn't have the intention of chatting further, and soon left with hurried steps.

Jon was a bit puzzled, holding a wooden box in his hand, he walked into the Headmaster's office, Grindelwald didn't seem to have any changes in his expression, he was still calmly looking at a piece of parchment in his hand, and when he saw Jon walking in, he only slightly raised his head and glanced at him.

"Mr Headmaster, I hope I can trouble you to look at this."

Jon didn't say anything else other than that, he just got straight to the point and placed the wooden box containing the time-turner on his desk, then opened it up.

Grindelwald's eyes also shifted to the time-turner, he had already learnt what it was from Jon's mouth before.

"Want me to see something?"

Jon said seriously.

"A way to destroy it."

Just after his words, Grindelwald shook his head.

"It's obvious that even the Seer doesn't have the means to see the future of the other world, and it's obviously a mistake for you to come to me and try to get me to do you this favour."

After hearing his words, Jon couldn't help but feel a little disappointed, although he hadn't originally held much hope in Grindelwald, he always felt that it was a possibility.

However, Grindelwald obviously still had something left to say, as he looked at Jon with a very puzzled expression, and to be exact, he laid his eyes on the ring that Jon wore on his finger.

"Whilst I can't see much of anything about this time-turner at the moment, I may be able to give you some information about this thing you're wearing on your hand."

Jon froze at first, not reacting to what Grindelwald was talking about, but after he saw the last remaining notch for a gemstone on the ring he wore on his hand, his whole body reacted instantly!

He still had the very last of the gem that Adrien had crafted that he hadn't got yet.

Grindelwald pulled out a piece of parchment, he held a quill and wrote out a place name on it, and then handed that piece of parchment to Jon, while a deep light spread in his eyes, and he said faintly.

"If you are free, you can make a trip to this address to have a look, there might be some surprising discoveries."

Jon took the parchment and saw an address on there that was located in the southernmost part of France, then seriously thanked Grindelwald.

Grindelwald looked like he just considered the fact that he had helped Jon, as a mere lift of his finger, and he waved his hand.

"If there's nothing else, then don't bother me here, I still have a lot of work to do, I'm not as free as you think."

Jon also had the sense not to stay any longer, he quickly left Grindelwald's office, and after finding Slughorn again to place that Time-Turner in his custody for the time being for now, he took Fawkes, one person and one phoenix together secretly re-returned to France.

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