Hogwarts and the Atypical Wizard

The next day, Sainz and his roommates came to the auditorium chatting and laughing. Looking at everyone who was unaware, he suddenly sighed in his heart: sometimes, knowing less is a blessing.

The first week of the new school year passed like this. In the following days, Sainz and Tom were relaxed on the outside but tense on the inside, always paying attention to everything that happened in the castle.

He is still busy with classes, teaching, and research every day.

Before getting the time turner, Sainz was thinking about a question, "Can the time turner really allow people to travel through time?"

He could take twelve courses, and sometimes even had to take three courses at the same time. This was such an unusual thing that anyone would have noticed something was wrong with a little scrutiny, but no one pursued it, and for more than a year, his roommates seemed unaware.

Professor McGonagall said it was very serious when she handed him this thing, but she never asked about it in a year.

The Time Converter is an item that is a huge bug in any worldview. Is it really okay to just give it to a student to use?

Over the years, Sainz was definitely not the only one taking twelve courses at the same time. The original trajectory mentioned that several people obtained twelve certificates.

For example, Ron's brother Percy got twelve certificates. If nothing unexpected happened, he would definitely have also got the "Time Turner".

There are a lot of time-turners in the Department of Mysteries of the Ministry of Magic, and these high-risk things are just placed there.

Are all people, not just students, so cautious and abiding by the rules when using this kind of thing?

No one is a fool. Everyone knows the dangers of time, and everyone knows the benefits that time can bring.

Unless they know that the time turner cannot bring any benefits and cannot change anything!

But there is a paradox here. In the original trajectory, Harry and Hermione did use it to save the big black dog and a hippogriff.

Is there a problem here?

There seems to be a problem.

But, it is explainable!

For example, they did not see the Hippogriff - Buckbeak - being beheaded in the positive timeline. They just saw the appearance of an execution from afar.

Buckbeak, at that moment, was in an uncertain state of being "both dead and not dead".

At this time, Harry and his friends wanted to know whether it was dead or not, so they needed to go and confirm it themselves!

There is a very interesting rule in the Time-Turner - "cannot be seen", and Hermione calls it "the most important rule of magic."

Interesting, and a spectator!

Old Dumbledore found Hermione and told her that it would take time and that three turns would be enough.

"Something must have happened during this time that he wanted us to change," said Hermione.

No one ever said for sure that Buckbeak was dead.

So, it's still in an uncertain state for Hermione.

But from other people's perspective, what is Buckbeak's actual status?

Sainz speculated that in the eyes of old Dumbledore and the people in the Ministry of Magic, Buckbeak was in a state of "escape" from beginning to end.

However, because old Dumbledore was experienced, he realized that Buckbeak's "escape" was helped by someone else. Fudge and others were not so sensitive and did not realize this.

This explanation is far-fetched, but it is barely acceptable.

This is better than old Dumbledore witnessing Buckbeak's execution and then finding Hermione, who then saved him with a Time-Turner.

If this could really be achieved, it would be terrifying!

If old Dumbledore saw Buckbeak's execution with his own eyes, then the people in the Ministry of Magic must have seen it as well.

In this case, the situation where a "time turner" is used to save it appears again, which will lead to memory errors.

They clearly saw it being executed, but they also knew for sure that it escaped?

This is something that anyone would know is fishy!

Of course, it can also be explained that their memories were reset because of the "timeline repair".

If this is true, then why was Dumbledore not repaired?

If Dumbledore is also repaired, then the problem will return to the original situation, forming an endless loop.

Therefore, a more self-consistent situation is that what Dumbledore and the Ministry of Magic saw was that Buckbeak escaped, but the experienced Dumbledore realized that someone was helping, and after discovering the logical loophole, he chose to push it himself and give a reminder.

Let’s put this point aside for now and move on to the analysis.

The big black dog's condition is easier to explain. He was safe at that moment.

Up to this point, the events can still be explained using a normal worldview.

But a little later, Harry used the Patronus Charm to save himself and the big black dog, which seemed to have a bit of "time travel fatalism" meaning.

If Harry wants to survive, someone must drive away the Dementors.

If someone wants to exorcise the Dementors, they have to make sure Harry is alive and at that location at that time.

So, if Harry hadn't time traveled, he would have been dead for sure.

All signs seem to indicate that Harry and Hermione, who used the time-turner, really traveled through time.

One of the main reasons why Sainz had to choose twelve courses was that he wanted to obtain a "time converter" for research.

He just wanted to see whether this thing could really allow people to "travel through time"!

The "Time Converter" is right there, and he can't ignore it for fear that he won't understand it or that there will be logical errors!

Yes, of course he understood the dangers of time, but he couldn't pretend that he didn't know about the existence of the Time Turner!

After using it and truly experiencing it, he felt that he seemed to have a somewhat understandable explanation for his doubts about time travel.

If that is not true, and it is all an illusion, and there is actually no such thing as "time travel" at all, but it is just another illusion that appears to be ongoing time travel, then he feels that his CPU seems to be able to be saved!

To this end, he introduced a variable to help himself, that is the "observer effect"!

If all of this is not really time travel, but there are really two selves existing at the same time, then everything seems to make sense!

Conversely, if there are indeed two users in the same space and time at the same time, then all the previous things can be explained.

There were indeed two Harrys at the same time, one in the hut and one outside the hut who rescued Buckbeak.

There were indeed two Harrys at the same time, one on one side of the lake with Sirius, and another on the other side of the lake who rescued "Harry and Sirius".

When the time converter is not a "time converter" but a "people and object replicator", everything immediately becomes logical.

When that thing was activated, it was not time travel, but "temporary personnel duplication". At this time, there were indeed two sets of personnel existing at the same time.

The man in the chain and the items he carried were all copied.

Then the two sets of people and things will each do their own thing, and when the time is up, the copied set will disappear without a trace, and the only thing that will be left is the "memory".

When the time comes, one set of characters disappears, and when they disappear, their "experience" will be accepted by another self in the form of memory, and then the two memories will be merged, causing the other self to feel that they have experienced a complete timeline.

It's like the two parts of a movie were connected together.

But who exactly was copied?

Is it the one after using the "Time Turner" or the one before using the "Time Turner"?

At first glance, the first impression is that it seems that the person who uses it is the one who is "copied".

But are you really that sure?

When the time comes, a set of people and things will definitely disappear, but it seems not so certain who will disappear.

At this time, we have to mention the "bystanders" again!

When everyone doesn't know that one of them "shouldn't exist", they are all real, or they are all fake.

It's uncertain!

Why do we repeatedly emphasize not to be seen?

Because if someone sees them appearing at the same time, then one of the two sets of people and things will have to make a choice.

Different people will definitely have different perceptions about which one is true and which one is false.

At this time, the "observation power" of the "onlookers" will conflict with each other, and will also conflict with the self-cognition of the observed person - that is, the "time traveler himself". The result is that the magic is affected and unpredictable consequences are produced.

However, if no other onlookers discover it, the only observer who can determine who is real in the current space and time is the person who "uses the time converter" himself. In his observation, he will naturally believe that he is the real one.

In this way, what actually disappears is "the one before using the time converter", so that a logical closed loop and a memory closed loop are formed in the end, and no memory conflict is caused.

Yes, Sainz believes that the "Time Converter" does not allow people to travel through time, it simply allows the user to have an extra self to help himself!

Of course, even so, this is still a very remarkable magic!

But Sainz couldn't ignore the holes in his theory.

There are two loopholes in this!

One is: at what point in time is the time converter used?

Is it the beginning?

Or the end?

Another question is: Why would the user think of using a time-turner?

Sainz has verified that the "Time Converter" cannot allow him to get two copies of the same item.

For example, when an apple is brought from one minute ago to one minute later, when the time is up, one of the two will disappear, which is related to the bystander, that is, the "time traveler" himself.

This is a magical effect.

However, this is also very buggy. For example, if an item is broken, the "time traveler" can go back to the previous minute and bring back the good item, and one minute later he will get a good item.

It seems that the repair spell can also do this.

Sainz had indeed deduced that the Repairing Spell was actually a time spell. To be honest, the concept of "time" itself does not exist. The Repairing Spell is more like a "Material State Tracing" spell.

Let’s put this aside for now.

But at what point in time was the time converter used?

Taking the example of taking Apple time just now, at which node is the "time converter" used?

If it was indeed used "one minute later", then wouldn't it really have time traveled?

However, if it was not used "one minute later" but "one minute ago", then what on earth made the user suddenly remember to use the "time converter"?