In fact, Alaric had once researched magic that could manipulate time, but he soon gave up because such magic was rather futile.
In reality, any act of time travel would ultimately become a part of history, as the single-line history was a fundamental rule of the world.
Breaking such a rule would only lead to the collapse of the world.
However, there was indeed a way to bypass all this—by starting from outside the world.
Based on Alaric's continuous research on time and space, combined with his experiences in the space-time tunnel, he arrived at a conclusion.
The timelines of different worlds were completely asynchronous.
The space-time tunnel was an ocean beyond all worlds, where there was no concept of time or space, and all worlds floated within this vast sea.
Within a world, time flowed unidirectionally, and history was predetermined, steadily progressing towards the future.
But in the space-time tunnel—or what could be called the sea of chaos—all the histories of all worlds were completed, observable, and influential.
In other words, within the sea of chaos, all the time and space of the world resembled a completed video, where viewers could choose any frame to start browsing the video, accelerate, decelerate, rewind, and even edit the video—assuming such viewers truly existed.
With Alaric's abilities, he certainly couldn't become such a viewer, but he could choose any frame of the video within the sea of chaos to enter that world.
Thus causing the entire video to be completely different from its original form.
However, even so, Alaric couldn't change the history of the world of Harry Potter because he himself had his personal history.
Each individual had their own personal history, and for those capable of entering the sea of chaos and traversing worlds.
Their personal history was their shackles, limiting them and preventing them from doing as they pleased.
Just as within a world, the history of the world was predetermined, for these travelers—no, for any individual—their own history couldn't be changed either.
Every time they entered a world, that world would be connected to their personal history.
And even the travelers themselves couldn't change their own history, meaning that for every world they traveled to.
The time point they chose to travel was crucial because everything that happened in this world after that time point was the traveler's own future, which they needed to create themselves.
And the history before this time point, the travelers couldn't change anymore because changing the history of this world meant changing their own history, with the outcome either becoming a part of history or disappearing before causing any effects.
Another question was, how many beings capable of entering the sea of chaos were there?
Perhaps, before Alaric, there hadn't been any.
Or even if many strong individuals who broke through the world successfully entered the sea of chaos, none of them would be able to successfully enter other worlds.
Because, essentially, there was no way out of the sea of chaos.
The illogical time-space turbulence was inexorable, and once caught up, there was only destruction.
No matter if they were gods or demons, warriors or wizards, without exception—except for Alaric.
Having said so much, it was actually because Alaric had already begun his research on time and space travel.
Although the progress was not fast, with Alaric's intelligence and his innate talent for time and space, he was sure that he could definitely produce results within a year.
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Currently, there weren't many classes at Hogwarts that interested Alaric anymore, but out of respect for the professors and for the enjoyment of his student days.
Alaric would still follow other wizards into the classroom. But his respect only went so far.
In most of the classes, he wouldn't pay attention to the professors' content, focusing instead on his own research and learning.
And the professors were fine with that; after all, having someone whose level wasn't below their own attending their class was quite a pressure—what if they made a mistake and embarrassed themselves?
As for the elective courses for this semester, Alaric wasn't particularly interested in most of them.
Divination and Arithmancy were of no use to him, as for him as a traveler, all futures deviated from the predetermined timeline.
So divination was basically equivalent to groping in the dark; Muggle Studies in his eyes was just about wizards' ridiculous prejudices against Muggles...
Only Ancient Runes and Care of Magical Creatures still held some interest for him.
The former was because Professor Bathsheda Babbling was indeed a rare master of Ancient Runes, and in this respect, Alaric could engage in some exchanges with her.
The latter was purely out of interest, as a lover of dangerous creatures, Hagrid really could show him some interesting magical creatures.
However, Divination class, which Harry disliked, did bring him some amusement.
In Professor McGonagall's Transfiguration class, she was teaching them about Animagi, and when discussing the history of Animagi.
She proudly mentioned that her student, Alaric , became the first Animagus of a magical creature in history.
Then, in front of everyone, she transformed into a tabby cat with markings around her eyes resembling glasses.
However, the reaction from the young wizards was lukewarm, which displeased her.
"Seriously, what's wrong with all of you today?" Professor McGonagall said, accompanied by a slight puff.
She had returned to her original form and looked around at the students. "Well, it's not a big deal, but my Transfiguration didn't earn applause from the whole class; that's a first."
Everyone's heads turned to Alaric again, but no one spoke. Then Hermione raised her hand.
"Professor, we just had Divination class, we read tea leaves, and..." she started.
"Ah, of course," Professor McGonagall said, suddenly frowning, "there's no need to go on, Miss Granger. Tell me, among you this year, who will die?"
Everyone stared at her.
"Me," Harry finally spoke up.
"Understood," Professor McGonagall said, her small round eyes fixed on Harry.
"Well, Harry, you should know, Sybill Trelawney has predicted a student's death every year since she came to this school. And none of them have died yet..."
There was a snicker from the audience.
"Oh, Alaric , I was just talking about you," McGonagall turned to Alaric, asking gently.
"It seems like you have some objections. So, what are your thoughts?"
"I think Professor Trelawney's predictions are quite accurate," Alaric's words caused a stir, and Hermione looked at him in shock.
Because just an hour ago, Alaric told her that he didn't choose Divination class because he felt the future was completely unpredictable, and his future would be created by himself. But now...
However, Alaric's next words made her chuckle.
"It's well known that people always die, whether it's today or tomorrow, maybe when you're old, but as long as people can die, then Professor Trelawney's predictions are accurate, aren't they?"
The classroom erupted in laughter.
Professor McGonagall also laughed, then, very matter-of-factly, she emphasized to Harry,
"I see you're extremely healthy, Harry, so if I don't go easy on you with homework today, don't blame me. I promise, if you die, you won't have to turn in this assignment."
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