"They're already making a move?"
After Voldemort's massacre over a decade ago, many wizards had learned their lesson.
Having personally experienced the power of strong wizards, people understood the importance of speaking and acting cautiously.
They would cast spells on their own names, so that if someone uttered their name, they would sense it and Apparate to kill. Voldemort's methods had truly made many people panic during that time.
When the Department of Mysteries was attacked this time, anyone with eyes could guess who did it, but the major newspapers reported the news as if they were feigning ignorance.
Even bold newspapers like The Quibbler, which usually dared to speak out, didn't dare to be the first to stick their necks out at this time... Even if Xenophilius Lovegood himself wasn't afraid of death, a man with a ten-year-old daughter had to consider his child.
His wife had died just two years ago, and his grief was still difficult to overcome. He couldn't imagine how his young daughter, Luna, would survive in this world if he were to die unexpectedly.
He wouldn't touch anything too dangerous until Luna was old enough to be independent.
Life is often about blissful ignorance.
"Will there be trouble?" Harry asked, looking through the newspaper just like Roger.
He was one of the few people who knew Voldemort was still alive. While most others thought this was Grindelwald's doing, Harry knew another person was involved.
Roger shook his head. "It's fine. They have those things, and they won't try to change history."
The Department of Mysteries had lost a lot of documents, as well as all the Time-Turners. Ordinary people might not know the reason, but Roger, who had communicated with Voldemort before, knew.
Voldemort was probably afraid of the timeline attacks Roger had mentioned.
If he didn't have the opportunity, it would be one thing, but if he had the chance, he would definitely want to eliminate a weakness for himself.
As for whether Voldemort would use such methods after obtaining this information.
Roger's premonition of danger had already provided the answer.
Although Roger couldn't resist the killing curse from further up the timeline at the moment, his premonition of danger surpassed the 'present.'
Once a factor detrimental to him appeared and could truly threaten him, Roger would sense it.
Ultimately, Roger was just a stumbling block to Voldemort's progress, but there was no deep-seated blood feud between them.
It wasn't enough to make someone as cautious about their own life as Voldemort risk his life to play a game of 'immortality together, mutual destruction' with Roger.
This was true not only for Roger but for others as well.
Gaining supreme status and eternal life were Voldemort's primary needs; everything else took a backseat.
The danger of altering the past was immense. No one knew how much the future would be affected by changing one thing in the past.
You might think that changing the past to kill an enemy would lead to a good outcome, but it could ultimately lead to things developing in a worse direction.
Voldemort wouldn't use such a disruptive tactic, similar to Thanos snapping his fingers and 'randomly killing half the people.'
"No, I don't just mean them... Will Headmaster Dumbledore get into trouble because of this?"
Hogwarts was a boarding school, but it wasn't a completely isolated environment. There was still a lot of information exchange with the outside world. Some public opinion trends had already reached the school.
This caused the atmosphere within the school to change.
Roger and Harry, due to their identities, had always been the center of attention. In the eyes of many, their futures were bound to be extraordinary... but that was just people's expectations for their future. They couldn't push two eleven-year-old children to the front lines of a battle against Grindelwald.
As a result, all the pressure fell on Dumbledore.
Suddenly, all sorts of opinions emerged.
Although both Dumbledore and Grindelwald were powerful wizards capable of overturning the table, Dumbledore was a person who abided by order.
As the saying goes, a gentleman can be deceived by his principles. Many people didn't have the courage to criticize Grindelwald, but they not only had the courage to criticize Dumbledore, but they had a lot of it.
Especially in European countries, led by Germany and Austria, the more they feared Grindelwald, the more they...
"The Headmaster will be fine too." Roger had been researching Dimensional Magic with Dumbledore for the past few months.
He was currently the person who knew best how outrageously powerful Dumbledore had become.
Roger found it hard to imagine who in the world today could cause trouble for Dumbledore.
Dumbledore might not be invincible in combat, but his survival ability had already maxed out.
Unless there was a truly world-altering power hidden in some forgotten corner of this world.
But Roger had no sense of that.
Compared to the storms outside, Roger was more concerned with his own endeavors.
Judging by Hermione's learning progress, Headmaster Dumbledore's judgment was correct.
Although the Three-Dimensional Theory still had many, many areas to be supplemented, its completion was not far from being ready for public announcement.
What Roger currently lacked was a suitable opportunity for promotion.
This opportunity needed to be waited for, but he couldn't just do nothing during this time. Roger had recently been thinking about how to solve the problem of his own 'immortality.'
After obtaining endless physical lifespan, the sublimation of the mind and soul should also be put on the agenda.
Roger had ideas regarding the soul.
Where there was one, there would be another. The approach Roger had taken to solve his physical lifespan could also be applied to the soul.
To put it bluntly, the soul, like the body, was a vessel for the 'self.' According to the Three-Dimensional Theory, both belonged to the medium dimension.
It's like how Body-as-Magic transforms the reliance on one's physical body into reliance on magic, and then reconstructs the physical body from a third-person perspective.
Roger just needs to strip away the reliance of his will on his soul as well. By following the same principle, Roger can then reconstruct his soul as if he were assembling a new body.
Although Roger's current mastery of Dimensional Magic isn't sufficient for this, and his understanding of the soul hasn't reached the level required for soul reconstruction.
But the path lies before him; Roger simply needs to walk it.
The greatest secret of the atomic bomb is that the atomic bomb exists and can be manufactured.
With the direction established, Roger has all the time in the world to slowly put it into practice.
But the mind is different.
Thought is "self-dimensional," and this method cannot be used to curb the aging of the mind.
Mental aging is a problem that cannot be ignored.
Just as Nicolas Flamel, who refined the Philosopher's Stone, could theoretically live for a very long time, he grew a bit weary after only 600 years.
And Dumbledore, at around 100 years old, appears old on the surface, but that's merely a judgment based on Muggle standards.
By the standards of the world's top wizards, Dumbledore is in his prime.
Yet, he already shows many signs of weariness.
This is a result of him living for an extended period with guilt, pain, and self-torment.
Roger doesn't want to face similar problems.
Currently, Voldemort is the person Roger knows who has gone the furthest down this road.
However, his path of Mind Imprint has a very significant flaw, which is the so-called Ship of Theseus problem.
There's a ship called the Ship of Theseus. Whenever a plank on it becomes old, it's removed and replaced with a new one, until not a single plank on the entire ship is from the original. At that point, is it still the Ship of Theseus?
And if those removed old planks are collected and reassembled into an identical ship, which one is the true Ship of Theseus – the old ship or the repaired ship? Roger doesn't know Voldemort's answer.
But Roger believes that "I" is what possesses "continuity."
He would never allow a version of himself from a certain period to replace his current self.
On Roger's path to immortality, there are no shoulders of predecessors to stand on; he can only forge a new path through the thorns himself.
"This is difficult."
Roger has methods for strengthening the mind, but they are merely techniques for "extending life."
They are not absolute immortality, like the one achieved through material reconstruction.
What exactly needs to be done...
Just as Roger was immersed in thought, suddenly.
"Hmm?" Roger suddenly felt a premonition of danger, which hadn't reacted for a long time, except when he was conducting magic experiments.
Although it wasn't strong.
This was the first time in several months since he reached the realm of material reconstruction.
Following the sensation, Roger began to observe the future.
The next moment, Roger's brow furrowed.
He had already seen the reason.
"Voldemort... he's playing some interesting games."
From a future perspective, Roger saw Voldemort playing a completely new trick he hadn't considered.
"Mind Imprint isn't entirely useless. Someone actually dares to walk the path to immortality like this..."
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