Chapter 17 Grindelwald’s Prophecy
When they met for the first time, Dumbledore restrained all his ease and looked seriously at Elena, who was sitting directly in front of him.
At this time, the little silver-haired girl was embarrassed because of her previous slip of the tongue. Her little face was full of fawning expressions, and her helpless and clumsy look made people laugh.
However……
Dumbledore's gaze rested on the girl's beautiful lake-blue eyes. Apart from a little annoyance and panic, the rest were as clear and pure as autumn water without any impurities.
Whether it was Phoenix Fox, the portraits on the walls, or the indoor facilities that were slowly restored with magic, they did not attract any special attention in her eyes. Her emotional changes came more from the events than the place she was in. world.
Dumbledore finally understood Professor McGonagall and what the vague feeling of incongruity he felt when facing Elena was. She was so calm.
As a child living in a non-magical world, facing everything in the unknown magical world, Elena's eyes showed almost no awe or fear, even if she had learned information about the magical world in advance and had seen with her own eyes the Hearing is fundamentally different after all.
"I'm curious……"
Dumbledore pushed the half-moon eyes on the bridge of his nose and spoke slowly.
"If I'm not mistaken, this should be the first time you have seen a phoenix. Aren't you afraid of the flames on its body and the magic that suddenly disappears and appears?"
"Afraid? Why be afraid?"
The silver-haired little loli glanced at Phoenix Fox, tilted her head in confusion, and answered in confusion.
"Flame is just a basic natural phenomenon that emits light and heat. To be precise, isn't combustion just an exothermic reaction between combustibles and oxidants. As for space travel..."
After a pause, Elena carefully recalled the scene where Fox suddenly disappeared and appeared, and said with some hesitation, "The sound made when this happened is very similar to the sound of air suddenly compressed together due to vacuum. I guess, This should be closer to a short-distance surface jump, right? But then again, it’s really beautiful.”
Oxidizing agent? Exothermic reaction? vacuum? Surface transition?
Hearing Elena's answer, Dumbledore became even more confused. If he hadn't seen the serious look on the girl's face, he would have even thought that she suddenly spoke an unfamiliar language that was difficult to understand.
"So, is this how Muggles view magic now?"
After a moment of silence, Dumbledore rubbed his brow again, reorganized his words and asked.
Elena shrugged rather speechlessly. She especially didn't understand why wizards still thought that magic would scare Muggles as we were almost approaching the 21st century.
"Professor Dumbledore, you may have some misunderstandings. It's not a way of looking at magic, it's just a basic operation of understanding the world. Unlike wizards' understanding of the world, which is similar to inherited stories, the non-magical world is through Detailed fields such as chemistry, physics, biology, mathematics, etc., to understand the origin of the world bit by bit..."
People in the Middle Ages might be surprised and shocked by the flames rising out of thin air, and would regard turning water into wine as a miracle, because their cognition and thinking limited their understanding of the world.
Superstition and religion have obscured their vision, so they will regard the incomprehensible wizards as devils or messengers of gods, rather than as human beings who exist equally with them.
The oldest and most powerful human emotion is fear. The oldest and most powerful fear comes from the unknown.
Magic, an unknown that cannot be explained and originates from outside human common sense, is undoubtedly the strongest barrier that has ever stood between the non-magical world and the magical world.
However, times have changed.
The most important thing modern science has given human beings is not knowledge, but a way of thinking about unknown things.
With the advancement of human science, the scope of "common sense" has become wider and wider, and it has even begun to be able to make self-consistent and reasonable guesses and explanations for most unknowns.
For example, when a modern person sees flames appearing out of thin air in someone's hands on the street, they will most likely think of it as a kind of performance art. While applauding with envy, they will curiously guess what method he used. achieve this effect.
In Elena's view, magic is just an undetected energy source. Although it cannot be understood completely based on the knowledge learned in previous lives, it only needs to temporarily add a few black box theories, which do not involve the internal structure and nature of magic. If the mutual relationship is analyzed only from the characteristics of its input and output, it is not difficult to summarize the cognition of regularity.
Looking at the silver-haired little girl talking freely, Dumbledore suddenly realized that his understanding of the magical world did not actually prevent Elena from recognizing and observing the magical phenomena that appeared in front of her.
To be more precise, she used Muggle thinking to explain magical phenomena to a certain extent in her mind. Even though it might not be correct, it was enough to eliminate her fear and awe of unknown magic. .
In a daze, Dumbledore seemed to see the shadow of a similarly confident white-haired man in Elena.
He seemed to have returned to the conversation that only he knew about decades ago when he imprisoned Gellert Grindelwald in the tallest tower in Nurmengard - or rather, Grindelwald "prophecy".
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The top of Nurmengard Tower in 1945.
Grindelwald, who lost the duel, was not as hysterical and despondent as people imagined.
He still maintained his methodical and elegant demeanor, looking calmly at Dumbledore standing in front of him, as if it was just a chat between friends, rather than a farewell before eternal imprisonment.
"You can imprison me, Albus, but you cannot imprison the spread of thoughts."
"I admit that I underestimated the capabilities of Muggles, but this just shows that they will be more terrifying than the predictions I have seen."
"The wizards have missed the best opportunity to stand on the stage. I would rather see the Muggles, out of fear and unknown, losing their minds and raising weapons against us like angry little animals."
"Instead of waiting for them to seriously launch a reciprocal war after careful consideration, just like we do with all intelligent magical races."
"My change failed, and you are not a person who can change the magic world. But I believe that your strength is enough to protect the entire magic world."
"But one day, there will be a young man who once again sees the shortcomings of both worlds."
"A young man who can recognize the advantages and disadvantages of both worlds from a more complete perspective, who is not keen on power, who has the potential to rival you and me, and who may lead the discourse of the magical and non-magical worlds."
"When he appears, make sure he is on our side, and then use your own methods to influence and teach him as much as possible, so that he can help wizard civilization continue to exist in this world when the two worlds merge and collide. The pride continues.”
"We all know that I did not succumb to your power and voluntarily be imprisoned in this tower."
"But for...the greater good! (For The Greater Good!)"
"Promise me! Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore!"
"..."
Dumbledore raised his head, Grindelwald's shadow reflected in his eyes.
"I will."
"If everything is true as you say."
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(After watching "Fantastic Beasts 2: The Crimes of Grindelwald", I feel more and more that Voldemort is a younger brother! Compared with Voldemort, Grindelwald not only has hair, nose and face, but also has international followers. With a complete world view and a lofty goal, the magical ability is handsome and strong, the lethality is from point to point, and there is Dumbledore's love, a complete victory.)
(Let Captain Jack Sparrow play Grindelwald and Watson play Dumbledore. This competition in appearance and temperament is really too cruel for the noseless monster. There is no harm without comparison. Sure enough, the world of adult wizards and the world of child wizards The gap is too big.)
(Many scenes have been deleted in China, so that the whole movie seems a bit broken. At least five scenes are not shown in the trailer)
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