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In order to make a Deluminator, Dumbledore obtained a time-turner.

The Time-Turner is an alchemical product closely managed by the Ministry of Magic and an "archaeological invention" of its Department of Mysteries.

Why do we say "archaeology-invention"?

This is because its prototype is actually a golden compass discovered by the "Silent People" from the ancient ruins guarded by the Department of Mysteries. The Silent People dismantled the compass and then reassembled it into a time turner.

However, due to technical reasons, the "Silent Man" cannot completely restore the golden compass. To put it bluntly, the time turner is just a castrated product.

According to the "Silent Man"'s estimation, the golden compass must contain other more amazing functions, but it is no longer possible to figure it out.

It's not like they haven't tried.

For example, using time turners, people from the Department of Mysteries have conducted a series of complete and complex magical experiments.

They asked at least 27 people to travel back in time, and 27 is the minimum amount of data required for a set of data samples to perform quantitative analysis.

However, the results of the experiment were not satisfactory: in the past timeline, apart from obtaining some additional "copies" of the time turner, the "Silent Man" of the Department of Mysteries did not have any other positive significance at all. reward.

There was nothing they could do to prevent the established fact that the Golden Compass was dismantled and then reassembled into a time turner.

On the contrary, some experimenters will not only die due to bizarre accidents after returning to the past, but also may have some extremely dangerous effects on the future due to the changes he/she made to the past history.

An experimenter once tried to go back more than 100 years ago, and when he returned to the agreed meeting place, some important characters who had been recorded in official history were found to only exist in some fairy tale books today.

After that experiment, experiments with the Time-Turner were forcibly terminated, and a magical contract ensured that no one could try again.

However, these experiments ultimately determined that the maximum amount of time that could be traveled back in time using a time-turner without serious harm to the traveler or time itself was approximately five hours.

Until now, Time-Turner No. 1, pieced together from the original components of the Golden Compass, is still stored in the deepest recesses of the Department of Mysteries of the Ministry of Magic.

There are also an unknown number (but definitely no more than 27) of time turners brought back from the past by time travelers, which have also been managed by the Ministry of Magic at a corresponding level. And it is worth mentioning that, perhaps because time travel itself changes the timeline, the appearance of those time turners (copies) brought back from the past is not exactly the same as No. 1.

Some of them are similar to No. 1, and look like an ancient timepiece called a "sundial"; some look like a small water clock, or a small clock placed inside a glass cover; and Some have pocket watch-like shapes.

Among them, the closer the time converter is to the shape of a modern clock, the clearer its function is, the less uncertain it is when used, and its safety level is relatively high.

Therefore, if those pocket watch-type time turners can pass a series of complex application processes (which even include asking professional seers to divine the applicants) and have a supervisor, the Department of Mysteries can authorize magic. department or certain individuals for use.

Although the limitations of "certain individuals" here are not stated clearly, they are only for the sake of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

For example, some young wizards with exceptionally good grades will inevitably encounter the dilemma of time conflicts with elective courses when they are in school. If they can obtain dual approval from the dean and principal, then he/she can temporarily obtain the permission to use a time turner. One spot.

Of course, even at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, there is only one place that can apply for a time turner every year.

This spot is generally reserved for the young wizards with the best talent, the strongest self-control, and the hardest-working students.

As luck would have it, Dumbledore perfectly met these three requirements when he was a student at Hogwarts (he even had time to play gobstone and ten-pin bowling games, and participated in the school club) .

Naturally, Dumbledore used a Time-Turner when he was in school.

It is precisely because of this that when studying the basic principles of the Deluminator, Dumbledore's ideas also extended to the Time Turner.

He found a large amount of information from the Restricted Book Zone of Hogwarts, and specifically visited Knockturn Alley and the magic black market in many countries. Only then did he get two half-damaged time turners - this should be the mysterious secret of that year. In the "Silent Man" experiment of the Department of Affairs, an experimenter who went back in time but failed to return to the agreed location of the experiment due to some accidents (cannot be determined to be dead) left behind.

Regardless of whether ordinary wizards can recognize it, even wizards with this knowledge should know the corresponding magical laws: that is, once such a time turner is discovered, it must be handed over to the "Silent Man" of the Department of Mysteries. Personal collection is strictly prohibited, let alone dismantling for research.

But the young Dumbledore took apart the half-damaged time turner, and he took it apart two at a time!

You know, time magic is the most mysterious and dangerous branch of physical magic. The magic related to it, if used slightly carelessly, may have a great impact on other people and the user, and may even bring disaster to the real world.

Dismantling two half-damaged time turners is more dangerous than dismantling two nuclear bombs that are about to explode.

If an ordinary wizard took over and dismantled those two gadgets, the best result would be to be trapped in a cycle for a period of time, and there is a high probability that he himself would not be able to realize the cycle of time - he would really be barred from reincarnation forever... …

But Dumbledore successfully dismantled them into parts.

Although he could not fully understand all the time magic contained in it, after studying it for a period of time, this talented wizard still used a self-consistent method to reassemble them into important components of another alchemical product. .

He made a deluminator.

The reason why a deluminator can extinguish a street light on a street is not because it can destroy the light bulb inside the street light, but because it can temporarily return the light emitted by the light bulb to the "past".

And this is very scary.

Because the physical properties of those lights can be understood as a kind of energy radiation, since the extinguisher can "extinguish" street lights, it actually has the ability to "extinguish" other energy radiation.

Grindelwald once predicted nuclear weapons and warned wizards: a terrifying Muggle invention that could wipe out the wizarding world.

At present, there is really no wizard who can invent any magic spell that can offset the crisis caused by the explosion of a nuclear bomb.

However, if you use Dumbledore's Deluminator and press it lightly when the nuclear bomb explodes, it is very likely that the explosion will be eliminated invisible.