"Good afternoon, Mr. Xenophilius," Roger said. This was his first meeting with Luna, and he recognized her as she had come with her father.
As Xenophilius approached, Roger stopped talking with Luna and greeted him politely.
"Good afternoon, Roger," Xenophilius replied with mixed feelings.
Many people had interacted with Roger as a fellow student's parent, and they all had their own opinions and thoughts about him.
Roger's first contact was with Mr. Borgin. When Mr. Borgin met Roger, Roger had just been released from prison, and all sorts of terrifying rumors were flying around.
However, after a long period of interaction, Mr. Borgin found Roger to be a very friendly child, and so he offered him some care and assistance in various ways.
In addition to his compassion, his child Hannah was the same age as Roger, so he wanted Roger to look after Hannah a bit at school, at least to prevent her from being bullied.
Regarding this, Roger had also provided some discreet care when he was at Hogwarts. There was no need to worry too much; Roger just needed to indicate that they were close, and no one would dare to do anything.
Lucius Malfoy was a semi-contact afterward. They had interacted after the Board of Governors meeting, but he was there to apologize for Draco Malfoy's offense shortly after school began.
Although Draco did not dare to provoke Roger further afterward, Lucius felt it was good to make his stance clear.
He did not want his somewhat awkward son to become a 'bad kid' in the eyes of the Seer.
The Weasley family didn't have many thoughts; to them, Roger was just a normal friend of George and Fred.
In comparison, Harry, the orphan of a comrade in the Order of the Phoenix, was closer to them.
Then there were Harry's aunt and uncle.
In Vernon's eyes, Roger was a dreadful friend of a bothersome brat.
Although he was a Muggle, as a middle-to-upper-level employee of a Muggle company and the pillar of a middle-class family, he understood at least the basics of reading people.
From the process of picking Harry up from King's Cross Station and bringing him home, he could tell from the way the surrounding wizards looked at Roger that Roger was likely very extraordinary in wizarding society.
Vernon disliked Roger but did not dare to speak ill of him rashly and offend him.
And in Harry's aunt's eyes, Roger was a different person.
Harry's aunt's feelings towards Harry had always been complex, involving love as a relative, but also jealousy and resentment stemming from Lily.
And also, fear of the unknown and dangerous magical world.
Roger's appearance actually made her feel a long sigh of relief.
With such a powerful friend looking out for him, she didn't have to worry about Harry's safety.
If she met her sister again after a hundred years, she could face Lily without shame.
As a woman who had just married and had a child, she felt she had done her utmost by raising her estranged sister's child to adulthood at the risk of her own life.
And Luna's father, Xenophilius, had thoughts quite different from all the above.
He was the editor of a newspaper and had his own channels for obtaining information.
He knew very well that many of the 'rumors' about Roger, those seemingly absurd things, were actually true.
Roger's hands were indeed stained with a lot of blood.
Unlike Harry's aunt, who knew little about the magical world, Xenophilius knew that people like Roger, who were clearly destined for great things, were always surrounded by storms and bloodshed.
Hannah's magical talent destined her to have difficulty building a stable relationship and keeping pace with Roger, even if there was some karma between them.
As for Luna...
Xenophilius did not want his only child to be caught in the storm of the turbulent era.
It wasn't a desire for closeness, nor fear, nor an inability to treat him calmly, nor seeing him as a savior. Xenophilius simply wanted Luna to live a normal and peaceful life.
But...
Looking at his daughter, who was enthusiastically asking Roger all sorts of questions, Xenophilius felt a sense of helplessness.
Just as Luna wouldn't show sadness in front of her father, not wanting to upset him, Xenophilius didn't want to do anything that went against his daughter's will.
Unless that thing was outrageously wrong.
"So, there are no moon rabbits on the moon, and no aliens on the dark side of the moon?"
"At least I didn't find any when I went. Harry and I have already walked more than half of the moon. The only life there was the two of us, and there were no ruins from previous civilizations."
On their way to Flourish and Blotts to pick out textbooks, Luna asked Roger a series of wild and inexplicable questions.
"And there are no dark wizards enslaving fire-sprite armies in Germany?"
"I haven't investigated that, but I think it's highly unlikely."
But Roger didn't find it annoying; on the contrary, he was very interested.
Luna was a very interesting person, of course, in a magical sense.
Magic was a miracle of the mind, and a wizard's thoughts greatly influenced their magic.
The same Three-Dimensional Law yielded completely different results in Roger's hands compared to Dumbledore's.
Normally, as people age, they gradually blend in with their surroundings, assimilating to a certain extent with those around them in terms of thought.
Even so-called unconventionality often just means shifting from following the crowd's voice to following a niche group's voice, jumping from one circle to another.
But Roger, who knew his fate, knew that Luna had always maintained her fairy-tale perspective in observing the world around her, and she would sincerely believe in the unbelievable.
until it was disproven.
If such a mind were to study the Three-Dimensional Law, would it undergo some very interesting changes?
Even setting aside these thoughts, purely exploring how Luna viewed everything happening in the outside world provided Roger with a different perspective.
Oh, I almost forgot. The last time we met, I wanted to research what that so-called Pestering Mite actually was with Luna.
I'll find time after school starts to ask her if she's willing.
...If I still have the energy to research this at that time.
After placing the last required textbook into his shopping cart, Roger felt an uncharacteristic heaviness in his heart.
The first stage of the Time Plague had met the minimum requirements after about two months of preparation.
The Time Phantom Shuttle Spell used during the journey had also completed the other preparatory work.
The Virtual Reality architecture was sufficient.
What was now lacking was the next upgrade for the Second Brain: the differentiation of thought threads.
Once the fourth requirement was also met, the extremely high-risk Path of Immortality, which he had been inspired to pursue by Snape at the station, could officially begin to be explored.
Could he survive? Or, to be more precise, would the entity that survived still be 'himself'?
Roger didn't dare to guarantee it.
"Your mood has changed."
"Oh?" Roger looked at Luna, who had suddenly spoken and changed the topic, with confusion.
"The flight path of the Pestering Mites has changed, from orderly to somewhat chaotic."
Roger noticed that although Luna's gaze was fixed in his direction, she wasn't looking at him, but at something behind him.
"...Hmm, it's changed back now."
Luna's gaze towards Roger became even brighter. This was the first time she had witnessed such a change.
Roger couldn't see the Pestering Mites, but he could see other things.
Meeting Luna's gaze, Roger watched the trembling of her pupils. Through the computational analysis of his Second Brain, Roger had a rough idea of the distribution of Pestering Mites around him.
...The distribution area is this wide?
Roger frowned slightly. Just as he was about to ask for clarification.
"Roger!"
"Oh, Merlin's beard, I finally found you!"
"I'm telling you..." The figure rushed up to Roger, but halfway through her sentence, she realized there was another person standing in front of Roger.
She restrained the anxious expression on her face, smiled somewhat awkwardly at Luna, and stopped what she was about to say: "Uh, hello, my name is Hermione."
"Luna," Luna extended her hand and shook Hermione's.
It was strange. Although it was her first time meeting Hermione, Luna felt a sense of rejection towards her from somewhere deep inside.
Why? From the looks of it, she was a friend of the Seer, so she shouldn't be a bad person. Why was she having this feeling? Luna believed in all sorts of incredible and even impossible things, but she was rarely hurt by deception.
This was because she had very strong intuition, which could not only be used to sense the location of others and see the Pestering Mites.
She could even sense to some extent whether others had malicious intent towards her.
And she didn't feel any malicious intent from Hermione towards her.
"Hermione, you seem so anxious, is something the matter?" Roger asked from the side after they had greeted each other.
"Actually..." Hermione glanced at Luna, hesitating for a moment.
Then she said, "It's about 'that magic' you taught me."
As she spoke, Hermione held up three fingers.
"I think I've touched upon 'that realm' you mentioned."
Hermione lowered one of the fingers she was holding up.
Two fingers.
Roger instantly understood the meaning behind Hermione's words.
"You've developed Second Magic?"
While speaking, Roger quietly cast a silencing charm, something he often used when discussing matters with Voldemort.
He was very skilled at it.
Second Magic?
Luna blinked in surprise.
When Roger cast the silencing charm, he did not exclude Luna.
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