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Chapter 1158: Egypt and the Quidditch Final
🕑 Added 2024-06-29 06:59:29 +0000 UTCCompared with the ring, Evan had made little progress with Ravenclaw's diadem and the Time-Turner...
According to what the Titan of Time, Cronos, said and the information Evan had previously obtained, to get the key to Ravenclaw's secret treasure, he needed to use the Time-Turner to travel back a thousand years to Hogwarts and personally ask Rowena Ravenclaw for it.
Evan originally thought that he only needed to travel through time again, and he also had many questions to ask Ravenclaw.
But after the Ministry of Magic incident, the Time-Turner never took Evan back to such distant times again.
He had tried it many times. This Time-Turner could now be actively adjusted, but it could only shift within a maximum of three hours.
If he wanted to go back to the more distant past or future, it would lose its function.
Evan wasn't sure what the issue was, and the Raven on Ravenclaw's diadem had not appeared either.
The clues stopped there; he didn't know what was missing or what to do next, even though he had gathered all the necessary elements...
Evan specifically asked Dumbledore about this, and the headmaster didn't know much about it, but he still gave his opinion.
After research, Dumbledore thought that the reason why this Time-Turner did not work might be because it was incomplete. To travel back a thousand years to meet Ravenclaw in person would require a significant amount of power to support the time shift.
Therefore, Evan had to collect other Time-Turners to restore its power, similar to how he traveled to the future eighteen years later.
Since the fall of the Titan of Time, Cronos, his primordial power had been scattered across the world, forming many powerful Time-Turners.
Evan had to gather these scattered times to make the Time-Turner in his hand more complete.
It was not necessary to collect all of them, but at least, there must be enough power to go back a thousand years ago.
Running around the world to find the power of the Titan of Time sounded troublesome just to think about.
Evan did not have enough time to do this kind of thing. To be more precise, Voldemort and the evil god would not give him so much time.
Dumbledore did give him a clue, though. It was said that a time distortion phenomenon had been discovered in the newly excavated relic of Amun Ra in Egypt.
To put it simply, there might be the power of the Titan of Time there...
Evan had a deep impression of these ruins. Last summer, he almost entered them. He remembered that Bill had mentioned it was a grand temple built by Ramses II, and the long-lost magic book, the Golden Book of Amun Ra was also preserved there.
At that time, the goblin Zoser was responsible for the exploration and excavation of the entire relic of Amun Ra by Gringotts and the Egyptian government.
Evan had exposed Zoser's true identity, which directly led to the suspension and blockade of the ruins excavation.
In the past year, the excavation work had resumed, but the progress had been very slow, and news had been leaked.
There were many mechanisms, curses and magic inside this relic that needed to be cracked. The most troublesome thing was that there were some problems related to Alchemy.
This time, the Egyptian Ministry of Magic and Gringotts took the opportunity of organizing the Cairo International Alchemical Conference to publicize all the difficulties encountered in the excavation of the relic of Amun Ra, and summoned powerful wizards and Alchemists from all over the world to study and crack them together.
Dumbledore was also invited. He would not go, but suggested that Evan go and take a look.
According to the information released so far, time distortion had occurred in the hall under the relic of Amun Ra, and there were powerful time magic items in it...
In addition, the Cairo International Alchemical Conference was also a rare opportunity to increase knowledge and get to know Alchemists from various countries.
Evan hadn't expected that he would have to go to Egypt this summer...
Just like that, in a strange and tense atmosphere, Hogwarts had regained its calm on the surface.
Before the O.W.L.s exams, the last Quidditch game of the year came, Gryffindor vs. Ravenclaw.
This was the final of the Quidditch season, and the result of this game would determine the final holder of this year's Quidditch Cup.
So far, the four Houses have won and lost against each other.
The games of Slytherin and Hufflepuff had all ended, with both teams having two wins and one loss. Slytherin lost to Gryffindor in the first game, and Hufflepuff lost to Slytherin in the last game. This happened when Evan, Hermione, and Elaine were not in school.
The Hufflepuff team was very strong. Their new players were talented, but not as mean as Slytherin...
Gryffindor's current record was a win against Slytherin and a loss to Ravenclaw by a large margin.
Ravenclaw had won all the games, but their wins were all by small margins.
This made the scores very tight. For Gryffindor to win the Quidditch Cup, they needed to beat Ravenclaw by a large margin.
Although Fred and George had left the school, Harry's return had brought new vitality to the team.
He was the best Seeker in the school. Harry's return to the team had freed Ginny. Ginny and Vicky now replaced Fred and George as Beaters. The two girls performed very well, and underestimating them due to their small stature would be a big mistake for the Ravenclaw team.
The team's Chasers were still Angelina, Katie and Alicia. The three of them cooperated very well.
The Keeper was Ron. His condition was not good, but he seemed to have a kind of optimism that he had never had before.
Ron told them that his previous performance had already been bad enough; it couldn't get any worse! In that case, he had nothing to care about or lose.
The match was held as scheduled on the last weekend of May...
Given the current situation, Hogwarts students had a cold response to the Quidditch final.
Although all the teachers and students of the school still went to watch the game, they were not as excited as before. This might have been the quietest match ever, especially with the Slytherins no longer singing ‘Weasley Is Our King’ in chorus.
Since the Ministry of Magic incident, many Death Eaters had been arrested, and the Slytherin students had obviously been much more low-key.
Evan hadn't seen Malfoy and his group for quite some time.
They seemed to be avoiding Evan, though Harry mentioned that Malfoy had cornered him alone and said some meaningless things.
Anyway, this was likely good news for Ron.
As long as no one paid too much attention to him, his performance was good, and as long as they played steadily, they would win the game.
In Evan's opinion, the biggest difficulty of this game was that Harry would play against Cho Chang and Ginny would play against Michael Corner. Both needed to avoid any off-field distractions and not let their feelings affect their performance...
In fact, they were not disturbed and won the game cleanly.
This seemed to have greatly hurt the fragile relationship between Harry and Cho, Ginny and Michael.
Harry had not reconciled with Cho since their last argument, and his mind was not on this now.
Cho's performance was poor as well. Harry catching the Golden Snitch right in front of her seemed to have dealt her a heavy blow.
She finally fell to the ground crying, and threw away her broomstick as soon as she landed on the ground.
Harry did not try to comfort her. It seemed that the relationship between the two, which had not even started, was completely over!
