Chapter 313 Black Magic and Quantum Mechanics

Edge of the Forbidden Forest.

The weeds after the heavy rain seem to have sprouted, with their stems growing taller and their leaves growing larger. It was covered with water droplets mixed with rain and dew, which were crystal clear and full. The branches and sticks pushed aside the grass leaves, and the water droplets fell rustlingly and penetrated into the moist ground, making the soil muddy.

"call out--"

Loren made strange noises and waved the branches in his hands. Grass blades flew and water droplets splashed everywhere.

A few droplets of water flew towards the girl behind. Hermione watched expressionlessly as the water droplets came towards her, hit an invisible film, flowed down the transparent film, and seeped into the soil.

Further ahead were Harry and Ron, who were also holding branches in their hands and making silly strange noises.

Loren broke the branch in his hand with a "click", blinked and looked at the broken branch in his hand, lost his weapon, and after withdrawing from the pioneer, he slowly fell to the same level as Hermione.

"Now, let's go play." Hermione waved her wand, used Transfiguration to turn a piece of weed into a slender and straight stick, and handed it over.

Loren glanced at her suspiciously, frowned and thought for a moment. He always felt that the way she handed the stick and the tone of her words were a bit strange, like when Grandpa Bates sent him to play in the alpine pasture when he was a child. Behavior.

"I just wanted to clear the way." Loren explained seriously.

"Yeah." Hermione said nonchalantly, shaking the wooden stick in her hand, "Then you go ahead and open the way."

"You seem to have some misunderstanding about me."

"I don't think so."

"..."

Loren pondered for a few seconds, pushed away the wooden stick, and walked side by side with her: "Didn't you say that fairies are not afraid of people? Why do you have to look for them in remote places?"

It was like this again, changing the subject when she couldn't explain it, and a smile appeared on Hermione's lips.

But she didn't hold on to it, and used the wooden stick in her hand to push away the grass: "Although fairies are not afraid of people, they will find quiet places to rest."

"Do you think there might be a little wizard who strays into the depths of the Forbidden Forest? Hagrid might be held accountable again."

"Ya Ya is guarding there, other little wizards can't get through."

"I see……"

The two of them walked into the forest along the dog-gnawed path that Harry and Ron had taken. I don’t know when it started, but Loren was holding a small wooden stick in his hand, and he was hitting weeds leisurely.

"Hermione, what is the definition of dark magic?" Loren asked, waving a small wooden stick.

While he was playing with the grass, he thought of the Shadowless Blade and why he didn't seem to have any difficulty practicing the Shadowless Magic spell, nor did he feel that his soul was affected.

"ah?"

Although she knew this man's ideas were wild and wild, the topic suddenly changed from protecting magical animals to Defense Against the Dark Arts. Hermione was still a little surprised and looked up at him: "According to Miranda Gorshak's definition, dark magic refers to Magic that causes intense or even irreversible pain or harm.”

Loren asked again: "The Crushing Curse can also kill people. Why is the Crushing Curse not a black magic?"

"Crushing Curse, fall apart..." Hermione unconsciously carried the wooden stick to cast the Crushing Curse, and thought about it carefully, "Although most of the current textbooks use Miranda Gorshak's definition, in fact some scholars also The crushing spell is classified as black magic, as well as the blasting spell, the powerful fire spell... these all count."

"It sounds like they classify all spells that can kill people as black magic. I wonder if my opening spell counts." Loren was still thinking about Shen Feng Wuying.

The wounds caused by the Shenfeng Shadowless Curse cannot be healed, and even using the counter-spell will leave permanent scars. The only time he was used on a living person was by Sirius Black...

"Your statement... is very novel." Hermione couldn't help but continue to think along his train of thought. There is no unified definition of black magic yet, but it does sound closely related to murder, like intentional homicide in the Muggle impression. , some magic is created just for killing people...

Hermione thought thoughtfully and said, "Maybe I should talk to Professor Bubbaji about this topic."

Loren raised his head and looked at her: "Didn't you drop out of the Muggle Studies class?"

Hermione glanced at him and said confidently: "I just don't go to class, but I still communicate with Professor Bubbaji. Professor Bubbaji is a wizard but has lived in Muggle society. She and I are the opposite, exchanging views. It’s an inspiration to us all.”

"So energetic..." Loren muttered, "So when are you going to drop out of the divination class?"

"At least until after October 16th."

After hearing the girl's answer, Loren tried hard to think about it, and finally shook his head dejectedly. He couldn't remember what terrible thing happened to Lavender.

It stands to reason that all the accidents this year have been cleared up by him, and Voldemort is far away in Ilvermorny. No matter how you think about it, it will be a stable and safe year.

"Loren! Hermione! Come here, we have found the fairy lair!" Not far ahead, Harry and Ron shouted loudly, waving their hands.

…

Tuesday, afternoon.

It's rare that Hermione's class is not full today.

The first period is the time for elective courses. Arithmetic Divination and Ancient Runes are taught at the same time. There are no classes in the second period in the afternoon until dinner time. In the evening, they will go to the astronomy tower for stargazing. As usual, Hermione started with a lesson on Ancient Runes, and then used the Time-Turner to go back to the beginning of class and join Loren in a lesson on Arithmancy.

Professor Setima Victor's lectures are very detailed. When encountering a complex calculation process, she will carefully explain how each step is calculated, instead of just explaining the detailed calculation process in one sentence and letting the students do it themselves. calculate.

She also asked the little wizard to list out the detailed calculation process. One calculation took up a whole page of parchment, so the homework for the Arithmetic Divination class seemed scary.

For a polynomial addition, it takes several lines of calculation process to write the final answer. Loren was particularly troubled by this. He did the mental arithmetic too quickly and did not have a detailed calculation process...

The assignment in the previous class was to use arithmetic divination to predict a person's personality based on the numbers in their names. The character designated by Professor Victor was Principal Dumbledore.

Arithmetic divination is not terrible, but Dumbledore's full name is Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore. The little wizards looked at the alphanumeric tables one by one, almost going blind.

After several classes, there were only a dozen people left in the class. Apparently, many little wizards dropped out of class due to the torture of math.

"We will talk about the chapter about using birthday numbers to calculate a person's death date in the next class." Professor Victor looked at the time, closed the book, and looked around at the students in the audience, "How many days are there yet?" Minutes, let’s talk about homework.”

"Oops, I copied your fortune telling last time, principal, so I just wrote the answer."

"Huh? But I figured out that the principal is a housewife who is good at housework and loves sweets. After comparing Loren's homework, I realized that I was wrong."

"Merlin's beard! The headmaster is a housewife? It's so wrong, why didn't you check it again?"

"Didn't you notice it when you copied your homework?"

The little wizard in the audience murmured for a while, and even Loren was murmuring in his heart, wondering whether his homework would be criticized.

Professor Victor smiled gently and seemed unable to hear the discussion of the little wizards and could not see their panic expressions. Her voice continued: "I know that many people don't want to write calculation processes. I just started to get into arithmetic divination. Sometimes, I also feel that simple addition and subtraction do not require writing down the calculation process. But students, arithmetic divination is not mathematics, it is not a subject that only looks at calculation results. The numbers that appear repeatedly in the calculation process are also a revelation, such as 13 if Repeatedly, this indicates bad luck. The magic number 7...

“I hope that when people use arithmetic divination, they will not just look at the calculation results, but see the deeper meaning of the numbers during the calculation process.

"It doesn't matter if the calculation is wrong, just like there is a little wizard who calculated it. Principal Dumbledore is a housewife. How can this not be a possibility? Unlike the prophecy of divination, the future of arithmetic divination is not destined, but full of possibilities. of.

"Of course, if the results of divination are too far from the facts, you still need to recheck the calculation process. When you have time, you can do the calculations for your friends around you. Anyway, we do not need to open the third eye for arithmetic divination.

"Okay, that's it for today's class. See you next week, everyone."

Professor Victor, who had finished connoting a certain divination professor, packed up his books and papers and slowly walked out of the classroom.

Loren immediately stood up and turned around, tugging on Hermione's sleeve and walking back: "Hermione, let's go and see how that person figured out that Dumbledore was a housewife. I must relay it to Dumbledore."

Seeing his excited and impatient expression, Hermione sighed helplessly: "Principal Dumbledore won't want to hear this."

Loren retorted: "How do you know he's not interested if you didn't tell him?"

"No normal person would be interested."

"Do you think Dumbledore is normal?"

"..."

The textbooks and notebooks in front of Hermione were moved to Loren's desk: "Go and read it. I'm going to ask Professor Bubbaji about black magic."

"Black magic?" Loren looked back at her with a confused expression.

"You said that black magic is related to intentional homicide. I think this is an issue involving the law and the definition of magic. This may explain some differences in social consciousness between Muggles and the wizarding world. I have some questions and want to ask Bubba Professor Gee," Hermione explained.

"..."

when?

When did he no longer understand what Hermione said?

"Well," Loren frowned and nodded, with a deep expression, "I think what you said makes sense. Go ahead and tell me when you come back."

Hermione pursed her lips and smiled, but did not expose him.

"See you tonight."

…

After dinner time, the little wizards lined up to climb up to the astronomy tower, where they had to observe the astronomical phenomena under the leadership of Professor Aurora Sinister.

Astronomy is a compulsory course in grades 1 to 5 and an elective course in grades 6 to 7. In astronomy, students learn the names of stars, constellations, and planets, learn their locations and movements, and learn about the environment on these planets or moons.

The content of the course is not much, but the class hours are too few, so it seems to span a long time.

Hermione and Loren walked at the back of the group, talking quietly about dark magic.

"Professor Bubbaji said that there are also records of black magic among Muggles. That was in the Middle Ages. Many ordinary people thought that wizards were evil and all magic was evil, so it was all black magic." Hermione He whispered under his breath.

"It sounds like a moral description and definition," Loren said.

"Yes." Hermione nodded, "Before Ms. Miranda Gorshak made the definition, the mainstream concept in the wizarding world believed that a kind of magic was evil, then it was dark magic.

“The three unforgivable curses, including the Death Curse, were invented to harm or control life and soul, so they are undoubtedly black magic.

"As for the controversy over evil curses and poisonous curses such as the Crushing Curse, Professor Bubaji believes that they are both black magic and not black magic."

Loren asked with interest: "Is there quantum mechanics in the magic world? Schrödinger's black magic?"

"Schrödinger's black magic..." Hermione was so amused that she couldn't help laughing. "What Professor Bubbaji means is that many magics cannot simply be black magic or white magic. When wizards use them properly, they are just ordinary magic." of magic. When a wizard uses it to harm a living being, that's black magic."

"So Professor Bubagi's claims are idealistic?"

"You can say it." Hermione said thoughtfully, "It's like the Defense Against the Dark Arts class we studied. Although the name of the class is Defense Against the Dark Arts, so far, what we have learned is to deal with some dangerous magical creatures. Although it is general They are classified as black magic creatures, but no creature is born evil."

Loren immediately gave a counterexample: "The basilisk, its gaze can naturally take away life."

"This is what I refuted Professor Bubbaji." Hermione smiled, "But that is an artificial creature cultivated by a dark wizard. Perhaps the ritual of hatching the basilisk itself is black magic, so it has that evil look. .”

Loren recalled that his Divine Blade was basically used to process potion materials at the beginning of practice, and was only used against Sirius... At that time, he must have had evil thoughts to harm his life, but Loren did not Know if your soul is affected.

Does black magic only affect the soul when it harms life?

If changes in the soul are difficult to detect...

Loren asked: "So, how do we tell whether a magic is black magic?"

"This..." Hermione looked up at the night sky, remembering what Professor Bubbaji said in the afternoon.

"Hermione, I can't strictly define what black magic is, but if you let me see under what circumstances that magic is used, I will know whether it is black magic."

It's late September, and a week has passed since the new moon. The crescent-shaped Emei Moon has turned into a semicircular first quarter moon, and is gradually completing...