Harry Potter: Another Chance

Chapter 203: The Anomaly

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"Dialogue"

'Thoughts'

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Chapter 203: The Anomaly

"The worst-case scenario?" Dumbledore asked.

"You mean the one you wrote at the end of that book?" Harry added. It was the part that unsettled him the most about that book.

"That was an idea I had a long time ago when I was pondering about the ultimate consequences of time travel…" Professor Silverbell stated.

"You talked about the limit of parallel realities and possible collapses that could occur in a distant future," Dumbledore had recently re-read that book too in advance of this meeting.

"Every time someone travels in time and changes something… even if it's something small… a new alternate reality is born. I and my colleagues could never discover why this happens, but it does… perhaps it's the universe's way of addressing the issue of having possible futures occurring at the same time. But in any case… we do know that it happens. And we also know, thanks to Arithmancy, that nothing is truly infinite… so these parallel timelines must also have a limit."

"And what happens when we reach that limit…" Dumbledore muttered. Already dreading the answer.

"There are a few possibilities… none of them good. Realities will start to collide with each other. Perhaps only enough to make more room, but perhaps a chain reaction would commence, and then it will continue until only one timeline is left, or… none."

"That's a grim picture…" Dumbledore said.

"But according to you… that was not supposed to happen until a very distant future," Harry pointed out what he said in the book.

"Indeed… I did my calculations back then and I'm still confident in them. If we kept abusing time travel at the same rate, we should have maybe three or four hundred years before a collapse event occurred. Or it should have been that way at least..." The professor said.

"But you think it is happening now," Dumbledore asked.

"I don't think… I KNOW it is happening now. I could even tell you when it started if examined a few more points of convergence," Professor Silverbell said.

"I can think of a few places for that," Dumbledore said.

"But why is it happening now?... that's what I would like to know," Harry asked.

"I would love to know that too. Some major anomaly must have occurred to trigger this reaction…" Silvebell concluded.

"An anomaly…" Harry didn't like the sound of that.

"So… if I understand this correctly," Dumbledore started. "Countless timelines or realities… are colliding against each other and being destroyed. And if we don't find a way to stop this… we will eventually be one of the realities that are destroyed…"

"That is correct… collisions could happen at any moment but it will need a powerful one to destroy a reality. I have detected that thousands of collisions happened at this point of convergence… this Chamber. They weren't strong enough to destroy the realities themselves but ... it is possible for 'things' from one reality or timeline to enter another one during one of these collisions...this is very dangerous." The tiny professor explained while he looked around the place.

"And how do we stop this from happening? There has to be a way," Dumbledore was not willing to just give up and wait as their world collapsed.

The old man considered the question for a moment. "There may be… if this was caused by some anomaly… then by eliminating the anomaly that triggered this situation, it may stop it. But then again… it may not, in that case, we can only hope to be the one reality that survives."

"That's…" Dumbledore glanced at Harry, who had been quiet for a while. "What do you think, Harry."

"Uh?... oh…" He got a bit distracted with his own thoughts. "Well… Professor Silverbell is the expert. I will trust his word."

"I would like to examine other points now. I may gain some useful information then," the professor said.

"I recommend taking a look at the Hogwarts Express, Hogsmeade, and Diagon Alley too. Any point with a high concentration of magic can create a convergence, right?" Harry suggested.

Professor Silverbell nodded. "That is correct. Timelines tend to stick closer in places with a lot of magic."

"Let's hope… nothing happens…" Dumbledore was extremely worried. After all, Hogwarts is one of the greatest points of magical convergence in the entire world.

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Once they left the chambers, the Headmaster went on to accompany the professor on his task.

Harry said that he wasn't feeling well and went separate ways.

He had heard more than enough from Professor Silverbell already, and if there were some important findings, Dumbledore would inform him.

Instead, Harry walked all the way to the Room of Requirements.

When he entered, the room was still changing shapes.

"Ha… even you can't give me what I need. Just give me the usual training room. I need to test some things."

The Room of Requirements changed again, this time creating a large empty space with a dozen training dummies all around him.

"At least my headache is gone…" He actually was starting to feel great now.

There was no pain anywhere in his body.

He took off the black robes he was wearing, leaving himself only with the underwear from yesterday.

"Definitely a shower and some change of clothes after this…"

Harry examined his body very closely.

It was strange… the effects from yesterday's ritual should have gone. Morgana had to remove it completely to save his life.

"So why do I still have the effects?" The muscles on his body were much larger and more densely packed. They felt tough like iron to the touch.

"And…" He glanced at the most distant dummy and was still able to pick up all the details of the design and could even see the wood grain despite being over sixty feet away (18mt).

"And I'm not wearing my glasses… what is going on with me?" He could see much better than when he used his enchanted glasses.

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