Chapter 247

"You have it backward, Harry," Barty Jr. gave a bitter smile. "We planned to seal Deng Buliduo and Voldemort together, and then we just happened to be able to use the backup plan of blowing up the TARDIS here."

"Why seal Deng Buliduo as well?" Harry pondered. "Unless the 'we' you mentioned doesn't refer to you and the Doctors?"

"Right, this is Yanayev's plan. He hopes to eliminate any wizard powerful enough to exceed a certain level. And because of the Horcruxes, it's hard to completely destroy Voldemort, so we can only consider sealing him."

"That painting," Harry murmured. "If the current space-time has been frozen, Neville wouldn't be able to send the painting back to the past, so where did the painting come from?"

"That's right, the painting and the Stasis Charm were both given to you by me," Barty Jr. admitted. "After I learned that the Chronos Moment had a problem, I kept thinking about how to find another way to seal Voldemort. When I had the answer, I immediately went back to the past, disguised myself as Neville, and gave you the painting and the Stasis Charm, because Neville is also a time traveler, and you would prioritize thinking that this was a way for him to solve the problem for you in the future."

"Actually, your plan changed from the Chronos Moment to the Stasis Charm, and finally to the TARDIS explosion, all aiming at Voldemort," Harry said. "Must destroy Voldemort, Yanayev thinks so too, right?"

"No, have you ever thought that if the TARDIS hadn't exploded, the timetable wouldn't have been locked, and we could have returned to the past according to the original plan, returned to before the final battle, ambushed and captured Voldemort?" he said. "This is a completely feasible plan."

"It doesn't matter," Harry suddenly thought of the various events he encountered during time travel last year. "So this is the choice of fate?"

"If we had gotten out together, I would definitely have said that to you. But now that it's like this anyway, I'll tell the truth," Barty Jr. gave a bitter smile. "The TARDIS is also a paradox machine. In other words, I can choose which plan to use myself, whether to safely ambush and arrest Voldemort, or to blow up this space-time."

"The reason for choosing to blow up this space-time is because Yanayev also hopes to eradicate Deng Buliduo and the Department of Mysteries, and this is a rare opportunity to achieve all goals in one go."

"Why..." Harry's heart sank.

"Wizards powerful to a certain extent will become a strategic deterrent force that a country cannot ignore. He can rely on his own magic to carry out strategic strikes against another country in countless ways that are impossible to guard against, and we cannot pose a threat to him by means of ordinary wizards or Muggles."

"I might as well make it clearer. If any country tries to occupy Britain by some means, or destroys Britain, or may pose a huge threat to Britain, once Deng Buliduo gets angry because of this and attacks that country by any means, he cannot be stopped. Ordinary wizards cannot pose a threat to him, and he can easily crack all the means of Muggles. No country can deal with this situation."

"And in the eyes of foreigners, Deng Buliduo and Voldemort are just Britain's civil war. No matter who becomes the winner, he can continue to ensure that Britain has a powerful wizard with deterrent power, and Voldemort is even more difficult to deal with than Deng Buliduo because of the Horcruxes. So, if there is an opportunity for them to perish together, Yanayev will not let it go."

Harry couldn't help but ask, "But Deng Buliduo has already been marked for a destined death, why be so anxious?"

"The main reason is that this is incidental," Barty Jr. shrugged. "Of course, there are other factors, such as Deng Buliduo being a person with a strong sense of justice, who will hinder our plans, and so on."

"Now, Death is isolated, Deng Buliduo and Voldemort are forever sealed in this frozen space-time, and Yanayev can finally start his actions with great fanfare. Using magic as an auxiliary to manufacture high-power weapons that can be used in conventional wars, and even special devices that can change the situation of Muggle wars, this is the direction of the future of the Cold War."

"But the most cutting-edge and urgent topic is using magic to counter nuclear strikes. Malice detection and prevention systems, en-route nuclear strike interception plans, anti-nuclear bomb wards, radiation cleaning spells, etc. As long as Yanayev solves the problem of nuclear bombs, he will dare to escalate the Cold War into a hot war. Under non-nuclear war, with the assistance of wizard troops, Yanayev is confident that he can clear the European continent within three months."

"And what are the wizards of other countries doing at this time?" Barty Jr. looked at Harry with a smile. "With the Death Eaters and the Order of the Phoenix leaderless, as long as they are guided a little, they will fight into a ball, and then call friends and companions. The wizards of the European continent will all be involved in this war between Dark Magic and anti-Dark Magic. The war will last for ten to twenty years until the Soviet Union accumulates enough technological generation gap, and then end all this and liberate everyone from the boring Statute of Secrecy."

Harry felt his whole body trembling. He tried to remain calm and said, "But you won't have a way to deal with Master Xuanjun, and the Magical Congress won't sit idly by either."

"Yes, we are still discussing how to mobilize the Magical Congress to participate. In fact, as long as the White House discovers that we are laying out in the war, the Magical Congress must also come to intervene. This war is not only to avoid cooperation between wizards and Muggles on the European continent, but also to divert the attention of the White House and the Magical Congress," Barty Jr. breathed a sigh of relief. "As for Master Xuanjun, we actually didn't intend to be his enemy at all. He is intoxicated with his own eternal, self-sufficient Heavenly Empire and doesn't have many ideas for expansion. Yanayev has talked to him several times, and it seems they have reached some kind of agreement."

"Oh, by the way, have you noticed that I haven't moved for a long time?" Barty Jr. said.

Harry noticed that it seemed to be true. He was just sitting on the rubble, moving his lips slightly.

"My time is running out, and my feet have lost sensation," he tried to squeeze out a smile. "But I am relieved. At least before falling into stasis, I can tell you these things. There will be an audience who knows how magnificent a plan is behind all this. Every step we take is not aimless, but carefully designed."

"I want to say how important it is for the Wizarding World and the Muggle World to have a common leader, and what an excellent commander Yanayev is," his tone revealed a hint of relief, but his raised hand could no longer fall.

Harry walked forward a few steps. "I've heard that you are a Metamorphmagus, so what was your name before you became Barty Jr.?"

"At that time, I was also a Doctor, oh... I don't want to leave..." He didn't have time to say his name before falling into stasis. Harry sighed. Perhaps, letting him fall into a long sleep with the name of the Doctor was also a kind of relief.

Harry sat down quietly. He knew he still had a month, but he wasn't going to use this month to wait for death, but to hope for hope in this month. His hope was Zhang Qiu.

If space-time had been frozen, then the black dog he saw in the Magic Tower, the whispers he heard, and the moment before the explosion, he heard Zhang Qiu tell him to go get the Chronos Moment. These things shouldn't have happened, but they did.

The Chronos Moment had an anomaly in advance, and there was the "time rift" mentioned by Zhang Qiu. This gave Harry a guess: if the river of time is really a river, and an explosion occurs somewhere in the river, not only will water splash out of the river, but bubbles will also enter the river. Perhaps, this "bubble" is the "time rift" produced by the explosion that can be utilized, and Zhang Qiu must have been planning some means.

Harry sat in place, cheering himself up while uncontrollably starting to think about Yanayev's plan. He had to admit that this plan was very feasible. If Barty Jr. hadn't told him the truth, he might have been foolishly thinking about leading everyone to fight the Death Eaters after getting out, using Fleur and Krum to connect the wizards of the European continent, and clearing Voldemort's remaining forces bit by bit.

But now it seems that this can no longer be done. The Soviet Union is eager for the Death Eaters and the Order of the Phoenix to fight, the more lively the better. Moreover, the White House obviously hasn't discovered where Yanayev's winning move is laid out. They are laying out aimlessly everywhere, and the result is adding chaos to the Wizarding World. Perhaps they still think that the key to Yanayev's layout is on him, so they sent people to help the Death Eaters instead.

Even Donald, who seemed to be on his side, didn't care about defeating the Dark Lord at all. Just like the movies he took time to invest in, this person's attention was focused on intellectual secretaries and pool parties.

If he gets out, Harry thought, what should he do after getting out.

From Britain's perspective, he should try to reach some kind of ceasefire agreement with the Death Eaters, and then persuade the Cabinet through the Ministry of Magic as soon as possible, also starting to study how to use magical power to strengthen the Muggle army or avoid nuclear strikes.

But he really didn't want to reconcile with the group of people who killed his parents and tortured Neville's parents, and he was even reluctant to negotiate. In Harry's heart, even if he wanted to go against Yanayev, he had to clean up the Death Eaters first, or, it wasn't necessarily that he had to go against Yanayev.

Harry realized that long before he knew it, ideological struggles had already occurred around him: he actually felt that selling his country to the Soviet Union wouldn't be a big deal, anyway, the Soviet Union's system and ideas were better; while Ron, since accepting the inheritance of the Knights of the Round Table, had become a loyal defender of Britain.

For the White House, as long as Britain is still Britain, then the situation is favorable to them.