Chapter 150 [The Influence of Natural Magic on Wizards]
Dumbledore blinked, his half-moon glasses reflecting the moonlight. He seemed to have not heard Snape's words at all, just staring at the study room.
He looked like "this study room is really a study room".
There were no windows in the study room, but there was a faint moonlight coming through the walls.
The walls were cast with magic that was enough to let light in, and it was obvious that Slytherin had put a lot of effort into his study room.
Snape, who was standing on the side, waited for a long time, but did not get a reply from Dumbledore. He looked back at Dumbledore in surprise.
No? Say something?
The students in the school are studying the dark arts!
Finally, Dumbledore seemed to be unable to bear being stared at by Snape. He sighed helplessly and said to Rock: "... Although we have already had dinner, do you mind ordering some dessert after dinner?"
Dumbledore ignored Snape's words that had just stirred up the fire, waved his hand, and gift boxes appeared on the table.
"I don't mind, but I really hope it's not a pile of cockroaches." Rock put down the manuscript of the origin of blood in his hand casually and reached out to open the box.
As soon as the box was opened, several chocolate frogs jumped out of the box in a hurry.
Rock was a little surprised. Fortunately, Dumbledore still remembered what he liked to eat. If he ate a pile of cockroaches after the meal, it would be a bit too sweet.
Then he saw that at the bottom of the box of chocolate frogs, there was a wizard card of "Invincible Andros".
Dumbledore took out the card and handed it to Rock, "The performance on the train was very good, thanks to you being there."
"Having you by the side of the students makes me feel a lot more at ease."
Rock took the card and said that he had received Dumbledore's praise.
The wizard's spell could not conjure food out of thin air, let alone a specially prepared wizard card. It was obvious that this was a gift that Dumbledore specially prepared for Rock after learning about what happened on the train, although Dumbledore did not specifically praise this matter at the dinner party before.
Gifts and compliments are an indispensable part of human social interaction.
Rock was very happy with this.
Seeing that Rock liked his gift, Dumbledore also smiled happily, and his silver beard jumped in front of Snape, as if he was proudly saying that this was the gap between educators.
Dumbledore picked up the bloodline origin on the table. Hogwarts has countless books, including books about black magic. Although the school does not advocate it, it does not strictly prohibit students from reading these books. It just does not recommend that young wizards with insufficient strength read them, because books have magic power, and young wizards who are not well prepared can easily be confused by books.
But it is obvious that Rock does not belong to this "unprepared" group.
And it was just a coincidence that Dumbledore came here to meet Rock.
After the dinner, he and Snape were discussing the attack on the Ministry of Magic in the principal's office.
Forgive Snape for being a little out of control recently. Sirius escaped from prison, Lupin joined Hogwarts, and the Ministry of Magic was attacked because of Voldemort's looming figure.
Almost everything happened in Snape's Leisure Area.
These things made the old Slytherin snake irritable, causing him to run to the principal's office to spit venom whenever he had time.
Dumbledore, the old phoenix, couldn't pretend not to hear, so he had to say that he had done something. He had a certain idea about the resurrection magic used by Voldemort, and also locked on several black magics as targets.
But he was not sure yet, what kind of black magic Voldemort used.
The biggest unknown was the magic transformation used by Voldemort at the beginning. Where did this magic transformation come from? Did it have the effect of resurrecting wizards?
If not, then Dumbledore would be 70% sure to lock Voldemort's resurrection between one or two black magics.
If there were, then Dumbledore would have a headache.
Dumbledore remembered that it was when Voldemort came to Hogwarts to apply for a job. At that time, the young Voldemort had the confidence to challenge him for the first time.
The price was that his handsome appearance changed to a noseless plug, and his fair skin became wrinkled, like a candle burning out, with wax on his face.
Although his appearance became ugly, his increase in strength really surprised Dumbledore.
There was a difference of several dozen years between him and Voldemort, which was not the average wizard's age. In the same period of time, Dumbledore's strength was not comparable to that of ordinary wizards.
But Voldemort still relied on magic transformation to make up for a lot of the gap...
Such a terrifying increase in strength, if anyone can do it, then Dumbledore only thinks it may be related to the four giants of Hogwarts.
Tom Riddle may have received Slytherin's legacy during school.
Dumbledore frowned and looked at the origin of blood in his hand. He had read this book before. There was nothing substantial in it. Slytherin just recorded his thoughts.
This study is not Slytherin's secret room, and the core things are not here.
Dumbledore even thought that Voldemort might not have been to this study. Tom might have found the secret room directly.
Unfortunately, the clue was broken... Dumbledore shook his head, but he was not too sorry. After all, this magical transformation was not necessarily related to Voldemort's resurrection.
Perhaps he should look for it from Tom's interpersonal relationships... After all, no matter how talented one is, he still needs a teacher to teach him.
Which teachers at that time were close to Voldemort?
Hmm... Slughorn?
Dumbledore thought he could take some time to visit him, but now he still had to remind Rock. Although Rock was not the kind of young wizard who was not well prepared, it was not a good thing for Rock to try magic experiments randomly.
Dumbledore considered the sentence, "Kid, this magic experiment will not work. I know a guy who used this magic experiment to make himself very ugly, um... so that he couldn't even find a job later."
He was trying to persuade Rock, and trying not to make himself look so bossy.
But Rock pinched his chin and only listened to the first half of Dumbledore's sentence, "Do you also think this way is not feasible? I think so too. Slytherin seems to have reached the wrong conclusion at some points."
Hmm?
Dumbledore and Snape raised their heads at the same time.
Questioning the magic theories of the four giants of the academy? This is really bold enough.
"Oh, it seems that our reincarnation of Merlin not only has to teach us teachers a lesson, but now he has to teach Slytherin a lesson." Snape mocked.
Ever since Professor Flitwick praised this kid as the reincarnation of Merlin in the first year, several professors have never stopped praising Rock.
And now, the professors have stopped praising Rock, and more often, they think Rock is reliable.
At the end of the dinner, Dumbledore carefully told everyone the whole story in the teacher's seat. All the teachers were glad that Rock was there, otherwise the students would have suffered.
This feeling of relief is as if Rock is not a student, but their reliable colleague.
Snape actually has the same view of Rock...
Even Snape, the professor of the Snake Academy, is not averse to questioning Slytherin. He also questioned the teaching materials of the potion class in the third year, and also studied many new practices in potions.
It's just that he is now the number one Rock hater in Hogwarts, so he has to sing a different tune for Rock.
"What do you think about this blood fusion experiment?" Dumbledore suddenly asked.
Rock: "I have a point of view. I don't quite agree with Slytherin's definition of the source of blood power as magical creatures."
"This practice essentially puts wizards in a low position, believing that wizards steal abilities from magical creatures."
Wait! Dumbledore's radar sounded, and he keenly smelled the smell of "wizard supremacy".
This reminded him of an old friend - the first generation of Dark Lord, Grindelwald.
"Very interesting statement..." Dumbledore immediately became serious.
Rock nodded and then explained: "I think wizards are actually a kind of magical creature. Muggles define humans and dogs as animals. There is no reason for wizards to be superior to magical creatures. He is not a low-level magical creature as Slytherin said, nor is he a high-level magical creature as the Ministry of Magic now believes, but an equal and parallel relationship."
The misunderstanding was resolved.
Dumbledore breathed a sigh of relief.
Rock: "Humans and dogs are also parallel, but there is no reason for humans to fuse with dog blood in order to obtain dog's sense of smell, and even if they have dog's blood, they can't have dog's sense of smell."
"The blood of ordinary creatures does not contain magic power, this cannot be generalized-" Snape stopped talking here.
He suddenly thought of Voldemort, who did not seem to show any special abilities after completing the magic experiment.
Magical creatures have all kinds of abilities, some can be invisible, some can grow larger or smaller, and some can control lightning... With Voldemort's mentality, it is impossible not to fuse a powerful magical creature.
According to Snape's understanding of Voldemort, the other party will definitely fuse the ability to kill anyone with a glare, such as... the basilisk.
But no, the other party does not have this ability, which also shows that magic experiments cannot bring special abilities to wizards, and the key to Voldemort's resurrection has nothing to do with magic experiments.
Dumbledore and Snape looked at each other, and their eyes lit up at the same time. They didn't expect that there would be extra gains this time.
Snape became serious: "How do you explain that? The talents that human wizards can find can almost be found in magical animals, such as the Legilimency of the magical creature cat-leopard."
"I think it has something to do with the environment. Wizards who are born with Legilimency may have ancestors who lived in the same environment as cat-leopards." Rock replied.
"Environment?" Snape smiled and found the right opportunity to step on Potter: "Harry is with you every day, and you all stay in Hogwarts, but I haven't seen Harry become so good. Even Neville won't drink the potion he brews."
Rock explained: "There is a book called The Origin of Species among Muggles. Just like the origin of our bloodline, it is the exploration of Muggles themselves. You can roughly understand the content of it as the environment that promotes human evolution."
Dumbledore was a little absent-minded on the side. Watching Rock and Snape discussing Muggles, he always reminded him of the time he was with Grindelwald.
"Of course, my view on the influence of the environment on wizards has nothing to do with Muggles. It is mainly based on werewolves and Animagus." Rock said.
Werewolves and Animagus, Snape was naturally familiar with these two things.
Several of his rivals during school, the Potter clique, were made up of these two things.
Among them, Animagus is the most unique transformation technique. The steps to learn it seem very complicated, but the key points are actually three, potions, ritual spells, and environment.
The most critical thing is the environment. You need to wait for a stormy weather before a wizard with magic can turn into an animal without magic.
Werewolves transform during the full moon.
What the two have in common is probably the environmental requirements - storms and full moons.
Dumbledore on the side seemed to have suddenly caught something after hearing Rock's words, "Is it natural magic?"
There are many natural magic powers, some flowing from mountains, rivers, heaven and earth, and all things, and some born from the stars in the universe. Therefore, astronomy and astrology are also important knowledge in the magic world.
Storms and full moons bring different natural magics.
"Yes, I think natural magic has the power to change the shape of a wizard at a specific time and layout."
"In the past, maybe some ordinary humans and some ordinary animals changed under the influence of natural magic, and this magic affected the bloodline..."
"But this is just my guess. There is no evidence to prove..."
Snape and Dumbledore both became serious. Rock's introduction of environment and natural magic was an angle that they had never thought of.
And Rock also thought of this because of the Twenty-Four Solar Terms Valley in the alien world.
"There are various natural magic fields all over the world. Some creatures have the right time, place and people. They gradually evolve in this environment. The reason why both "Cat Leopard" and wizards have Legilimency is very It may be that both of them were under the influence of the same natural magic, so they evolved similar abilities."
Snape listened to Rock's words and suddenly had a question: "In other words, if you want to follow Slytherin's idea to obtain the ability of a magical creature, you only need to be under the same natural magic power as the creature. Is it possible to evolve similar abilities?”
"Not necessarily..." Rock shook his head and looked at Dumbledore: "I think the Dumbledore family is the best explanation."
Um?
Dumbledore looked up from his thoughts.
Rock asked extremely seriously: "Does anyone in the Dumbledore family have the same ability to be reborn as the Phoenix?"
"...No, there has never been such a record..." Dumbledore shook his head silently.
It would be great if it really happened... If his sister could be reborn, then maybe his entire destiny would change.
"Sure enough..." Roark turned back: "In my guess, the Dumbledore family may have been under the influence of the same magic as the Phoenix at close range."
"It's just that the Dumbledore family has not evolved any ability such as rebirth, but has other abilities..."
"For example, the magic power of members of the Dumbledore family will contain certain qualities, and the Phoenix will regard wizards with such qualities as the same kind. Therefore, when the Dumbledore family is in crisis, the Phoenix will come to help."