Chapter 399: 399. Time Disaster
The next day, they were all to return to the school, the last semester of Hogwarts was to commence. All seniors call it the "Nostalgia semester" because most students don't have much to do other than prepare for the NEWTs and walk around the halls of the castle that used to feel so much bigger when they first arrived in the school.
Magnus entered the train with Ragnar behind, their compartment was already selected as seventh years weren't that many.
Arriving inside the cabin, he saw Severus reading a muggle book. "What are you reading?"
"A book about a battle in China. It's called the Battle of Suiyang. It was a battle in Suiyang during the An Lushan Rebellion, between the rebel An Lushan's Yan army and the loyalist forces of the Tang army.
"A story of 10 thousand soldiers versus 150 thousand soldiers." Severus briefed them. In the meantime, Emma arrived, pecked a kiss on Magnus' lips and sat down on his lap. Ragnar sneered all he could but gradually calmed down.
"Hmm, what's so good about that? We've got stories about the 300 Spartans." Magnus asked, playing with the hair of his girl.
Severus cleared his throat and spoke, "Well, it's known not because of it being something to be proud of. The 10 thousand soldiers of Tang were great, they were able to kill 20,000 men of the 150 thousand Yan army and defend the fortress.
"But then, the Yan army decided to wait outside instead of forcing their way in. This proved to be a problem as Tang Soldiers and the Suiyang Fortress started facing food shortages. Eventually leading to a famine.
"Yet they continued to thwart all attempts of enemies. Eventually, only 1600 of them were left, all sick or hungry, and the battle would soon be a lost cause. By August, all of the insects, animals and vegetation in the besieged area had been eaten. They asked for help from a nearby fortress but got none.
"The starving Tang soldiers, numbering about 1,600 in total, fell into despair at the lack of outside help. Almost everyone tried to convince Zhang Xun, the commander, to surrender. But, the commander didn't budge, because if Suiyang fell, entire southern China would be free to conquer."
"Let me guess, Wizards came to help them, that's why you're reading this?" Ragnar scoffed.
Severus shook his head and continued, "No, what I'm about to read is a paragraph from the original book compiled in 941.
"Zhang Xun took his concubine out and killed her in front of his soldiers in order to feed them. He said, "You have been working hard at protecting this city for the country wholeheartedly. Your loyalty is uncompromised despite the long-lasting hunger. Since I can't cut out my own flesh to feed you, how can I keep this woman and just ignore the dangerous situation?" All the soldiers cried, and they did not want to eat. Zhang Xun ordered them to eat the flesh. Afterwards, they caught all the women in the city. After the women ran out, they turned to old and young males. 20,000 to 30,000 people were eaten. People always remained loyal." This is it, the battle resulted in the death of 9,600 Tang soldiers and 20,000-30,000 people were eaten, while 60,000 soldiers died on the enemy side."
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"WHAT THE FUCK!" Magnus interjected, this was not how he was expecting this heroic tale to go on. "At least tell me they won?"
Severus shook his head, "Nope, they all died soon after, fighting. But they were able to slow down the enemies long enough for the reinforcements to arrive, so I guess it was not all a waste. I personally don't know how to take this story, as a heroic tale or a tale of defenders turning on those they were defending."
"This is the most fucked up thing I've heard in a long time. Damn, who eats his own wife? See this, Emma. Be careful, there is no telling when these fighter generals and all would wanna eat their wives." Ragnar warned her.
Emma, still on Magnus' lap, seductively looked at his face and asked innocently, "Oh, I know, he can never eat me, right?"
Magnus smiled evilly, "Actually, Emma, I'm not so sure, I might just eat you as soon as we get to our room."
She blushed, "Really? You will eat your lover?"
"Oh, that's the most fun part about being lovers," Magnus replied.
"FUCK! SHUT UP! Goddamn, horny fuckers." Ragnar cursed at them, got up and left the cabin. The train was already moving so he could not go to many places.
However, he did end up with a few juniors, he sat with them and talked about some fun stuff, some crazy potions. Ragnar was, after all, still a handsome and smart man.
...
The entire day was spent on the train and evening was spent at the dinner and the sorting ceremony of all the new 1st years, this year about 300 new students entered the school, this was much more than ever before, this meant that Magnus' work was showing its effect.
However, this made the Great hall seem a bit crowded, though it was solvable with just a wave of the wand. Magnus, being the Head Boy, was supposed to show the new 70 Slytherin students to the Slytherin Dungeon. But after giving them the initial tour and informing them of the rules, he headed to spend the night with Emma, while the Prefects explained about all the fun stuff inside the common room.
"Hey there, my dear love, I have come to eat you," Magnus entered her room, closing it behind himself.
Emma seemed to have been ready, lying in the bed, she suddenly threw away the sheets from herself and revealed her completely exposed body. Then she gestured to him with her fingers to come forward while slowly opening her legs wide.
Magnus just gulped and jumped on her like a hungry wolf.
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Despite being a really busy semester for the seniors, Magnus, who was teaching Emma all the time, found himself spending parts of his days working on the time turner. He did it until he started to find out something new.
"RAG! LOOK!" Magnus cheered, calling Ragnar himself. They were inside the room of requirement.
"What? You cracked the secret of time turners?" Ragnar asked him excitedly.
"No, not that, instead, I found a way to make it even better. Now I know why it used to restrict the users from going too far behind. The main fear was that the longer the body goes back when it returns it will age that much. So if you went 100 years in the past, you will just die once you return. I have found a way to make the time turner ensure that the user's body's time stays stopped." Magnus revealed, this was huge. This changes everything, although the return system needs to be worked on.
"It's amazing, if we can stop it from ageing us then a man can infinitely go back in the past," Ragnar was elated and took it in his hand to see what runes Magnus used.
"Hmm, what's this rune, it's incomplete?" He muttered and scratched the time turner with his nail, Magnus jumped in fright, "FUCK, DON'T DO THAT'S THE ACTIVAT..."
*WOOSH WOOSH*
"NOOO!" Magnus cried in fear. "YOU FOOL! You activated it."
Ragnar, frightened, asked, "How do I stop it?"
"You can not stop the time. Dammit, I don't know where we will end up now. Crap, I don't know how we will return." Magnus was worried about his future now.
Slowly, they got engulfed in white light and their bodies disappeared from the place they stood on. A moment later, when the lights vanished, they found themselves standing in the same place, but there was a garden and green grass under their feet. The sun was shining upon their hair.
"Where the hell are we?" Ragnar wondered.
Magnus looked around, his heart quickly sank, "NO NO NO... this is bad, we're in Hogwarts before it was expanded. Look, that's the school, we're in an extension of the forbidden forest now."
Ragnar's eyes lightened up, "WAIT! Does that mean... Merlin and Arthur are alive right now?"
Magnus honestly had no idea, "I... I don't know, Rag, and I don't want to know. People in this era were savages, and rule number one of time travel, never meet people, keep the interaction as minimum as possible."
"Ummm... I don't think that will be possible, Mag... look behind," Ragnar pointed away.
Quickly, Magnus turned around, his wand in hand, out of nowhere, a tall, muscular, red-haired and bearded man with a sword appeared, "Who goes there? Children? Why are you not at school?"
"FUCK, GODRIC GRYFFINDOR!" Magnus instinctively cursed.
Godric laughed, "Bwahaha... kids, I like to hear that only from the gals in the tavern. Now, who are you two cheeky blondes?"
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