Memories have never been so clear, nor have they been so strange.
The sky was an abnormally dim yellow, surrounded by gloomy black. Like the bloodshot eyes in human eyeballs, crimson lines flashed disorderly in the sky.
It was the ruins of an old castle, and its original appearance was completely unrecognizable. Only a broken flag was visible high on the collapsed wall, and the logo on it could be vaguely discerned.
The giant bronze eagle was scorched black, with a blue background full of holes, and stained with large amounts of blood.
That's the symbol of Ravenclaw.
Sean was greatly shocked. After careful identification again, he found that this seemed to be... Hogwarts!
Under the blood-stained flag, the silver-haired woman was crying desperately.
Her voice was still cold, extremely small, mixed with a hoarse sob.
The scene was calm but so desperate. The low cry was floating throughout the ruins of Hogwarts, unable to find a place to put it.
"Stephanie...?" Sean wasn't sure.
The silver-haired woman was half-kneeling in the ruins, but her tall and charming curves could be clearly seen. She was wearing an ill-fitting sky blue dress, which was out of place in the ruins.
Although the gift had several holes and was stained with dust, it still felt like it didn't match - it didn't fit well. The dress stretched tightly around the other person's body, and the skirt should have hung to the ground.
It only reached the woman's white ankles.
Why does this scene appear in Stephanie's memory...
The crying seemed to be getting lower and lower. The woman grabbed something hard, and big tears rolled down and stirred up a cloud of dust.
Is this the reason why Stephanie fell into a coma? That silver mist brought a completely different memory, which caused the girl's abnormality?
Sean approached cautiously, and just two steps out, he felt he stepped on something soft.
It was a weak hand.
The hand stretched out feebly from the collapsed wall, no longer holding any breath of life.
Sean frowned and slowly knelt down, and then saw a scene he would never forget.
The dusty and pale face inside was very familiar to him.
Yes...it's Professor McGonagall...
Professor McGonagall's high bun had long since fallen apart, hanging feebly on the owner's forehead, which was spilled with large blood stains. Her weak hands were pointing in a certain direction, as if she wanted to grab something and protect something.
The Professor of Transfiguration's stern eyes, which were filled with tenderness and protection, lost all their luster. The glasses shattered into pieces, and small fragments pierced the skin and eyeballs.
The blood on it has long since dried up.
The shocked Sean slowly turned his head to look in the direction of Professor McGonagall's finger. It was a piece of completely collapsed stone, and something seemed to be discernible from the edge.
That stone giant... Sean recognized the original appearance of the stone pile. It was the stone giant that carried many Hogwarts students to Nurmengard.
The stone giant has been destroyed, but what about the space inside...
Sean walked over slowly and used his wand to lift rocks one after another.
Then, he froze in place, and then covered the stone back again.
Corpses, all corpses...
He saw Terry Boot, who had lived with him for several years, Ernie Macmillan, who liked to show off but was easy to get along with, and Seamus Finnigan, who was always scolded by Professor Flitwick.
…
All the students of Hogwarts collapsed inside. They seemed to be trying to escape from this magic school, which is known as the safest in the UK, under the cover of the professor.
But there was no success, only death.
This...is this the real situation in another timeline...
Sean thought of this immediately.
That silver mist actually comes from another timeline?
Is this what Grindelwald experienced in that timeline?
That……
Sean looked at the woman who was still crying again. His movements seemed to go unnoticed at all, and the crying was almost inaudible. Only the painful and desperate sobs were still lingering low and unwillingly.
He walked over quietly, wanting to see the silver-haired woman's true face.
However, when he was halfway there, Sean was surprised to find that there was an invisible magic barrier.
This is a scene where memory and soul are intertwined, and Sean finds that he cannot pass through that invisible barrier.
He gently placed his hand on the barrier. This barrier was solid and firm, and seemed to be reassuring - but just putting his hand on it was just a scene in his memory, and Sean still felt something familiar.
The power of guilt, this barrier comes from guilt.
So... the identity of the silver-haired woman has been revealed.
But why...
Sean looked into the barrier in disbelief.
That's Stephanie.
It was completely different from the Stephanie I knew.
When Sean first saw the girl, he once thought about what she would look like when she grew up, and she would probably be similar to the girl he saw now.
But Stephanie's petite figure has hardly changed much during her seven years of studying at Hogwarts. Even after graduating, the girl's height only barely reached Sean's chest.
She is already an adult, so logically there won’t be many changes in her figure...
But the Stephanie in front of me...
Sean suddenly realized that this was a barrier derived from the power of guilt.
Higher levels of magic can already be released to form a barrier, which proves that——
The [lust] in Stephanie's body has completely awakened.
And the complete awakening of [lust] brought huge changes to Stephanie.
But... Sean's brows were still firmly furrowed.
[Lust] belongs to sin, and sin has only one goal, which is to destroy the world.
How could she cry in despair among the ruins of Hogwarts...
In the memory scene, the whole thing seems to have reached an impasse.
"Stephanie? Stephanie?" Sean tried calling, but didn't get any response.
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Stephanie has fallen into despair and seems to have lost the ability to talk to the world.
At this moment, the ruins not far away suddenly started shaking.
The broken high windows of the tower made a crashing sound, the debris and dust shook, and a figure slowly and with difficulty crawled out from inside.
Sean couldn't see clearly the figure in the distance, but Stephanie stood up suddenly.
Sean finally saw the whole picture of the woman. Her palms were pressed on her chest, holding something firmly, and her face was full of tears.
Her face looked exactly like the Stephanie she knew, but the coldness and indifference between her brows and eyes had disappeared.
There was only the despair of giving up, and the utter hatred revealed after seeing that figure.
"You are not dead... As expected, you are famous and known as the greatest, the kindest, and the most generous in the world -" Stephanie gritted her teeth and showed a sarcastic and hateful smile.
The figure staggered over step by step, revealing a gray and sad face.
"Albus Dumbledore." Stephanie wanted to chew the name that came out of her mouth.
Sean's eyes widened.
The old man with scars all over his body and serious injuries is Dumbledore!
How can this be!
This scene that is completely different from the real world obviously originated from the silver mist. This cannot be the memory that Stephanie imagined. This also proves that the memories contained in the silver mist come from another timeline.
However, in that timeline, the person who became the principal of Hogwarts was clearly Grindelwald!
Dumbledore was imprisoned in the Nurmengard Tower as the loser of the decisive battle, but in the end he sacrificed his life to help Grindelwald travel a hundred years!
Why did Dumbledore appear in the destroyed Hogwarts?
Why does Stephanie hate Dumbledore so much?
Dumbledore dragged his broken body closer step by step, with great sadness on his face.
"Stephanie..." Dumbledore coughed, his expression pitiful and painful, "This is my fault alone. There is no need for you to do these things to innocent people..."
"Innocent?!" Stephanie's voice was nothing like what Sean remembered. Her tone was extremely sharp because of the huge resentment. "Innocent?! Dumbledore, you deserve to die, but everyone here should too."
die!"
Sean was horrified, this conversation... was all the destruction here done by Stephanie alone?
Dumbledore tried to save something. He sat down with difficulty and looked at Stephanie painfully: "Everyone has a chance to choose. They are cowardly, and I am stupid - I am willing to pay more for my stupidity.
, but cowardice should not be the ticket to death."
"Is it just cowardice and stupidity?" Stephanie's hatred almost turned into reality, "This is betrayal, this is the most terrible and painful betrayal!"
Her tears fell heavily, accompanied by blood.
"He trusted you so much... He never questioned the decision made by Albus Dumbledore... He carried all the pain alone for your plan and for the lives of this group of cowards...
…”
Stephanie almost screamed: "He's desperate! He just wants some final care, a little help, just a little bit!"
The entire sky was trembling violently because of Stephanie's pain, and the huge power derived from [lust] was like raging waves crashing against the shore called the world.
The space seems to be collapsing.
Stephanie's face was tragic and desperate: "A poor man who lost all his men...he returned to the place he once called home to find those he tried his best to protect..."
"what about you?"
Dumbledore lowered his shabby face and remained silent.
"Where are you!" Stephanie screamed.
Her tears still couldn't stop falling.
"You all forgot about him... You all forgot about him..." Stephanie murmured, repeating the infinite pain, "How could you? How could you forget him?"
"Even if you forget...even if you forget...this poor guy who has nothing, can't you give him a little sympathy?"
Stephanie collapsed completely, and the power of guilt had completely exploded. Dumbledore's body was blown up and down like leaves in the wind, leaving no room for resistance.
"He died in the darkest corner of Hogsmeade! He was wearing a Ravenclaw uniform, and the biggest hole on it let in the most cold wind! He took out his own through that hole
Heart, he took out his soul for you cowardly and stupid betrayers!"
Tears welled up in her eyes, her silver hair was flying like the wind, the sky blue dress Stephanie was wearing became intact, and Sean also recognized the origin of that dress.
It was the Christmas ball, and Stephanie only wore the dress given to him.
"He carried your world on his back and was licked by rats in the sewers, and the holes in his face were filled with greedy insects one after another - he died as if the world would never notice.
Her sad and desperate tone became more ruthless and colder, and Dumbledore's last voice was nothing but a sigh.
[Lust], he looked proudly at the ruins and the dead Dumbledore.
"You don't deserve to live like this, and he doesn't deserve to die like this - I'm here to avenge her, and also for my poor and stupid brother."
"Wizards are still humans in essence, small and despicable..."
[Lust] Without taking another look at Dumbledore, who was completely dead, she looked towards a distant place, with pleasure and charm intertwined on her face.
After licking her lips in excitement and anticipation, she slowly took steps.
At this time, Sean, who had been watching all this from outside the barrier, discovered that the barrier finally disappeared.
He didn't have time to think carefully about what happened, so he quickly took a step forward.
"Stephanie! This isn't real! Wake up!"
What responded to him was [Lust]'s superior gaze, and he took a look at Sean who suddenly appeared.
"It's getting interesting..." [Lust] stuck out his tongue and turned it around his lips seductively.
Damn it, it’s not Stephanie’s soul that’s in charge anymore…
Sean concentrated, the wand hidden in his sleeve ready to go.
But this is not reality, this is memory!
"You are not a memory that should exist in this world, but you are just a memory -" Facing [Lust], Sean remained calm.
[Lust] laughed playfully, and her demeanor suddenly became like a lively and lovely girl.
"I don't like what you say, brother~"
"Stephanie, I'm Sean, I'm not dead, don't be immersed in false memories." Sean ignored the other party's teasing and let his soul and body stare more closely, hoping to call the real Stephanie.
"Oh~" [Lust] smiled with the charm of a mature woman again this time, "Do you know that the person the little girl is talking about is you? Geez, it's really heartbreaking..."
"Let's go, I must remind you -" Lu Lu looked pitiful again, she even shrunk her figure, "Memory is not false~"