Hogwarts: Wizards of Eternity.

Chapter 41: The Demon of Thought Parasitism
Hagrid is a simple and honest man. Since he accepted Roger's commission, he is indeed very interested in breeding new magical creatures.

Naturally I will do my best.

He has been working on this matter since he reached a verbal agreement with Roger nearly two months ago.

At first he conducted some experiments.

But all failed.

Those failures made Hagrid realize that the magical creatures in the Forbidden Forest were not enough to support his own experimental needs.

He needed a more special species of magical creatures, but the magical creatures Hagrid needed were relatively rare and difficult to obtain, so his experimental progress was stuck.

Even if Roger had been sharing his non-confidential information on cell transformation and modification with Hagrid during this period, it would still not work. It is difficult for a skilled cook to cultivate magical creatures without the necessary resources.

Until Hagrid met two people.

One of them happened two weeks before Halloween, when he went to Hogsmeade, the wizarding village near Hogwarts, as usual, to look for new sellers of magical creatures in the pubs.

As a result, he really encountered one. Although the other party covered his body tightly, disguised his voice, and looked mysterious, Hagrid did not suspect anything... The buying and selling of magical creatures is itself a business that walks on the edge of the law.

The buying and selling of some high-risk magical creatures is a serious crime, so this outfit is too normal.

The seller brought the Boggart that Hagrid had been looking to buy recently... Unfortunately, it was only a Boggart, the tiny magical creature that Hagrid wanted, and the other party said he had never seen one.

After the transaction was completed, the man pestered Hagrid to drink with him. Under the seller's questioning, Hagrid, under the influence of alcohol, boasted about how he tamed a rare three-headed dog.

"You have to learn how to quiet them, like... music."

"music?"

The party was over, and then Hagrid encountered his next good luck.

After asking many friends in the magical creature reselling business, but failing to find the tiny magical creature he wanted, Hagrid simply paid out of his own pocket and placed a reward in various newspapers.

Not long after, someone came to the door.

At first Hagrid didn't quite believe what the other person said, because... she was too young, and her words were a little beyond Hagrid's understanding.

But seeing the other party's confident look, Hagrid, who was particularly tolerant of children, decided to give the other party a chance.

"Does this creature really exist?"

"Of course the harassment fly exists, it's there," said the blonde girl, who looked only 10 years old.

Hagrid, who was skeptical, locked up the Boggart and the "harassment fly" together according to the instructions of the little girl Luna Lovegood.

When it comes to the breeding of magical creatures, Hagrid is one of the few masters in the world today.

He can even allow the XXXXX-level dangerous creature (the highest danger level) Manticore to give birth to offspring with another high-risk magical creature, the Fire Crab, to create a new species, the Exploding-Tailed Skrewt.

His skills were unquestionable, and then, Hagrid began his performance.

Boggart, a creature of dark magic, a shapeshifter that lives in dark and narrow places, will turn into the thing that people who meet it fear the most. No one knows the shape of a Boggart because no one has seen its true form.

According to the little girl Luna, the harassment fly is a tiny, invisible creature that can fly into people's ears and disrupt their thinking.

Hagrid wanted to use the common characteristics of the two to create a creature that was small enough but could sense people's thoughts and change itself according to the thinker's wishes.

Hagrid wanted to breed it generation after generation until the creature was so small that it no longer had any thoughts and would completely obey the wizard's orders.

To use Roger's words, it is a "parasitic beast" that can be controlled by humans and has the ability to reorganize its own physical structure.

But when time passed to this moment, Hagrid's "parasitic beast" was not successfully cultivated, but a strange thing was created...

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After systematic observation, Roger summarized the characteristics of this creature.

Normally, this creature is transparent, about the size of a grain of sand, and emits a slight yellow light, looking like a passive firefly floating in mid-air.

During this period, it was not strong, and was even a little fragile.

But once it comes into contact with humans or other intelligent creatures, things are completely different.

Its life form will transform from a material state to a semi-soul state, clinging to the brain and soul, and frantically creating illusions in the human mind that can make them feel terrified.

The fear of living beings seems to be the 'nutrients' it needs. The more fear it consumes, the stronger it becomes.

As it became stronger, it also began the next stage of transformation, changing from a semi-soul state to a 'thought body'.

This may sound a bit abstract, but if you know enough about Chinese culture, I believe many people will understand if I use the word "inner demon" to describe it.

Roger did not allow the creature to completely transform, but Roger felt that the 'demon state' was most likely not the evolutionary limit of this creature!
After finishing the last observation report and casually giving it the name of 'Demon of Fear', Roger looked at Hagrid with an expression more serious than ever before: "Hagrid."

"Destroy it."

"I will archive the data from this experiment, and all the new creatures you have bred will be destroyed without leaving a single one." Roger's tone was not passionate, but Hagrid could feel that Roger's words at this moment were extremely heavy and could not be refuted.

"Today, I will personally be responsible for the destruction."

Hearing Roger's words, Hagrid was shocked "What!"

"But……"

"No buts." Roger took out his wand and pressed it against his temple.

Roger had already become very proficient in magic such as Legilimency when he was studying the transformation of his own brain and the creation of an alchemical brain.

Roger easily extracted a piece of his thoughts from his brain.

The wizard's world does not have the kind of environment in the subspace that allows thinking creatures to grow infinitely, which is enough to give it the opportunity to grow into a cosmic disaster.

But the collective subconscious sea of all living beings does exist!
Why is it that after a spell is invented, anyone who recites the spell can use magic, rather than requiring the developer of the spell to have a considerable understanding of it and an extremely strong will to use it?
In this process, the collective subconscious plays a big role, which has been discussed in the book "Ritual Magic Is Much More Than Blood Sacrifice".

What would happen if the demon of fear cultivated by Hagrid grew to the point where it could follow human thinking, dive into the sea of collective subconsciousness, and multiply therein?
There was a similar thing in Roger's memory of his previous life.

Dream man.

This was mentioned in a chapter of "Wonderful Stories of the World". It can be simply understood as a nightmare that can be transmitted through memes and cannot be escaped, which has caused great social chaos.

This is just the best possible consideration. You know, this world exists with magic and enchantment. If the Demon of Fear can continue to grow... and become a being like Freddy in A Nightmare on Elm Street, killing people in the spiritual world, it is not impossible!

In the wizarding world, there are not many people who are proficient in magic of the soul and mind, and most of them are dark wizards like Voldemort.

If catastrophic consequences really occur, will they lend a helping hand or just stand by and watch, or even add fuel to the fire...it's really hard to say!
Roger condensed the possible serious consequences that he had deduced into a wisp of thought drawn out by the wand, and then poured it into Hagrid's mind.

Roger believes that this is a more effective way of persuasion than language.

(End of this chapter)