Even the famous Alchemy Master Nicolas Flamel is unable to create such a lost thing.
"The Time Converter doesn't have the power of destiny," Morgan corrected Ian's view once again, fully aware that much of Ian's era knowledge had long since ceased to circulate.
As for the reason.
Ian believed that the Mysterious Affairs Department played an absolutely indispensable role.
Perhaps there were related crafting techniques in the Forbidden Book Area, but with the Mysterious Affairs Department's monopoly on the Time Converter, information about it in various regions would certainly be completely destroyed or confiscated—according to the ghosts in the school, the Mysterious Affairs Department had taken away many books from the library.
There's a high probability that books related to the Time Converter were among them, because it was from that time period that Hogwarts gained the qualification to apply to the Ministry of Magic for the right to use the Time Converter.
This must have been a compromise and deal between the school's high-level officials and the Mysterious Affairs Department. As a result, Ian, who enrolled afterwards, never actually encountered a real Time Converter.
He could only speculate about the general principle of the Time Converter from a few limited books, combining it with the knowledge he possessed, definitely unable to figure one out on his own.
"So, what role does the power of destiny play in your hourglass?" Ian took the initiative to give Morgan a shoulder rub, greatly satisfying the Black Witch with his flattery.
"Throughout history, there have been very few wizards who could touch upon the level of destiny; this is something I painstakingly researched, and it certainly counts as the magnum opus in the field of Alchemy."
The Legendary Witch first boasted a little, then, with a voice full of meaning, she softly spoke, "It cannot change the outcome, but it can allow those placed in the past to pluck the strings of destiny."
This is perhaps an ailment common among elderly men and women—whenever they speak about key issues, they tend to use riddler-like tones and phrases that others need to interpret.
"Plucking the strings of destiny?"
Ian mused.
The Witch's riddler-like behavior today was not hard to understand.
"Once you hand in a satisfactory answer sheet, you will be able to appreciate its extraordinary magic power," Morgan smiled as she looked back at the Little Wizard behind her.
"As long as the outcome doesn't change, can the process be altered?" Ian expressed his understanding, and to be fair, if so, the so-called "Hourglass of Destiny" is indeed an amazing creation.
"What do you think?"
The Witch raised an eyebrow.
"If you ask me... Teacher, you really are incredible! Simply the greatest wizard in the world!" Ian promptly responded with a round of unwholesome praise.
Witch Morgan was quite pleased with this.
"Using such a tool requires strict attention: when you pluck the strings of destiny, destiny will also influence you. Do not attempt to stir destinies larger than your own."
"That would not have a good outcome," she continued after accepting Ian's flattery, reminding him again—something Ian mentioned is necessary when dealing with the bad witch.
If Ian hadn't delivered his flattery in time, who knows if Witch Morgan's concealment of this point would have become a hidden plot that causes him a big loss in the future? Just like that senior sister, the Queen, who was schemed against by the bad witch—when the bad witch plots against apprentices, she truly enjoys silently planting mines.
Of course.
If you have real skills, the bad witch will indeed teach them.
It can only be said that it's akin to accompanying a monarch, full of perils.
"Teacher, is there really no way for us wizards to reverse a death that has already occurred?" Ian felt this limitation didn't quite align with his core belief that wizards are akin to gods.
"Do you want to change your parents' deaths, or that poor girl from the town?" Morgan may not have mind-reading abilities, but she understood the intent behind Ian's question.
"Perhaps both,"
Having never met his parents in this lifetime, Ian indeed regarded this as a regret, but he was more saddened by Ariana, his good friend's inability to live a full life.
However, upon careful consideration, the rule of time not allowing changes to the past indeed has its necessity—after all, were such things to change, the future would undoubtedly be greatly impacted or entirely overturned. At the very least, Dumbledore would no longer be the Dumbledore he is today.
And this.
Would change much of history.
"I regret to tell you, plucking the strings of destiny does not mean overturning it; even you, regardless of paying a price to change the process, they will still die at the moment they are meant to," Morgan's voice held a tinge of melancholy, perhaps because her pursuit of the Hourglass of Destiny was an attempt to alter a certain regret.
"This is destiny; it transcends over all beings, even the gods," she concluded her perspective, prompting Ian to similarly sigh regretfully.
"Then, if I want to return to a certain powerful being's childhood, before they become powerful, and strangle them, surely this wouldn't allow the strangled person to come back to life?"
He persistently explored the topic of fate, even gesturing a strangling motion in front of Morgan, the gesture resembling one of strangling a small animal.