In the Harry Potter Without Harry Potter - Chapter 506: After

The surprise Dumbledore showed when facing both Jon and Lily was clearly not at the same level of shock as that of McGonagall.

He looked as if he was dealing with magic he didn’t understand at the moment, but was confident that he could master with ease, and with his hands clasped together, he gestured for both Jon and Lily, as well as McGonagall, to sit down.

“So, why don’t you two guests introduce yourself?”

McGonagall sat down, but she still looked like she wanted to say something like she was wondering if Dumbledore had forgotten what Lily looked like and wanted to remind him that the witch in front of him could be considered ninety-nine percent alike, not to mention a mould of Lily when she was younger.

Jon and Lily, on the other hand, sat quite openly opposite Dumbledore.

The first step they needed to do when they came to this world had actually been accomplished after meeting Dumbledore.

In this world where Voldemort had disappeared, Dumbledore would be the benchmark amongst wizards in the entire wizarding world, and with his help, Jon felt that it was basically unlikely that anything would go wrong on their trip.

“Lily Evans, Professor Dumbledore, that was my name when I was a student in this castle, then when I got married, of course, I became Lily Potter.”

After hearing Lily’s words, McGonagall’s brow furrowed even tighter, she thought that hardly anyone could lie in front of Dumbledore, but then again she couldn’t see anything of the sort on Dumbledore’s calm face, he just turned his gaze towards Jon in turn.

Meeting his gaze, Jon spoke.

“Jon Green, Professor, Hogwarts. Um, fifth year, yes, I’m a fifth-year student at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.”

This made McGonagall, whose attention had been focused on Lily and who had always thought Jon was just a kid in passing, show even more astonishment.

It was like she was shocked that Jon, at such a young age, actually had such a knack for talking nonsense with his eyes wide open, every year the acceptance notices were written by her hand, and how could a child like him, who obviously wasn’t even older than 10 years old yet, who could not even possibly be able to receive an admission letter from Hogwarts, let alone still be in his fifth year.

Dumbledore’s face, however, remained calm, except that his attention was clearly more focused on Jon.

“It sounds very much like a fantasy, but I don’t think there will ever be a day when a witch with a boy will come here and tell me a joke like that, so one of you will be able to give me a rational explanation for this right?”

Lily didn’t say another word, instead turning her head to Jon, the implication of which was clearly to hand over the speaking rights to him.

This couldn’t help but make McGonagall feel even more absurd, even Dumbledore, who had always been calm, couldn’t help but have more curiosity on his face at this moment.

Jon did not hold back, he directly pulled out the two most fundamental things that could prove their identity.

The time-turner that had been brought over by Voldemort, with its pointer constantly spinning, and the space-turner that had brought them to this world with its blue dial.

“What Professor Potter and I said is true, she really is Lily Potter, and I am indeed a student at Hogwarts, except we are both from another world.”

Dumbledore narrowed his eyes slightly as he looked at the two turners that Jon held out in his hand, not bothering to question their words at first, but inquiring.

“Can I have a look at these two?”

Jon, of course, did not refuse and naturally handed them over to Dumbledore, confident in taking them back even if something went wrong.

After carefully observing the two items, he looked back at Jon.

“So you come from another world that is roughly the same as this one, with the same Hogwarts, the same Ministry of Magic, and the same us, but with some big differences?”

As he spoke, Dumbledore’s gaze turned to Lily.

“For example, the Lily of your world is not dead?”

Lily was a little silent as he looked at her like that, thinking of a response.

“But Harry died.”

Jon added the words for her.

“It was the time-turner that Professor Dumbledore held in his hand that created the deviation of two worlds that were supposed to be the same, and created vastly different worlds.”

“Tom changed the past,” Dumbledore said softly as he looked at the item in his hand.

It was Jon and Lily’s turn to be surprised, but soon they had a sense of taking it for granted.

In the other world, Dumbledore himself was able to guess where that extra Voldemort came from, and in this world, Voldemort had been missing for so long, so it might not be impossible for Dumbledore here not to make some similar guesses.

And by this time McGonagall’s entire body was almost out of her chair!

She looked at Jon, Lily and Dumbledore in horrified bewilderment, it was clear that every word of the conversation between them was understandable on its own, but combined, it contained information that was chilling.

“What time was it in that world you were in when you arrived?”

Jon was finally able to understand the benefits of talking to intelligent people. Before he and Dumbledore had to rely on riddles a lot of the time to communicate with each other, and now it was true that the people who came up with the riddles were also masters at guessing, before anything could be said by Jon, Dumbledore himself was already trying to get to the truth.

“The 3rd of January 1996.”

Dumbledore nodded.

“Five months back in time, that’s not a long gap, it must be the most important node for him that he’s trying to reverse.”

He glanced up at Lily as he said this.

“Which means that just five months after that night, he somehow managed to use a time-turner to modify the past, which then deviated your original world.”

Dumbledore had almost guessed the whole thing, but even with all his intelligence, he could only figure it all out with the limited information he had, but there was no way to understand what he didn’t even know.

Finally, he redirected his gaze to Jon’s.

“Can you tell me a little bit about what’s going on in that world you’re in?”

Jon took a deep breath as he spoke in a deep voice.

“That’s exactly what I was going to do.”

So, all evening Jon and Lily stayed in the Headmaster’s office.

Lily recounted the first half of the story of the changes that had taken place since that night, including Voldemort’s complete rise to power, the fall of the Ministry of Magic in Britain and Hogwarts Castle, and the exile that the Dumbledore of the other world had begun with the only remaining students and professors on the wagon.

Jon, meanwhile, took over and recounted the second half of the story after he had enrolled in the school, all the way up to when they finally discovered the identity of the second Voldemort, paid the price of Dumbledore falling into a permanent coma to get the answers, and finally came to this world.

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