Hogwarts Card System.

Chapter 49 Quidditch and Chaos Magic

It's unclear what kind of butterfly effect caused Harley to lose interest in flying broomsticks and have a lukewarm attitude towards Quidditch.

This has always been a sore spot for Sirius Black.

But regardless of whether Harley was selected as a Quidditch player in her first year, the Quidditch tournament will still take place as scheduled.

The Quidditch match took place as scheduled on the first Saturday of November.

A typical Quidditch match at Hogwarts School is like this:

The four colleges were divided into two groups, with each group playing one match between Halloween and Christmas, and then switching groups and playing one more match between Christmas and Easter.

The final round of the school year is held after Easter, with the top two teams from the first four rounds competing in the final.

The competition is usually scheduled for Saturday.

Ted: Why is the game on Saturday? I feel like this is robbing us of our holiday!

Companies that hold team-building activities on weekends are no good!

In Quidditch, Gryffindor and Slytherin have always been strong teams, typically playing three games a year.

The eagle and the badger were basically just there for show.

The first Quidditch match of the year was a very eye-catching one: Gryffindor versus Slytherin.

The referee was Ms. Hodge, the professor of flight lessons, and the commentator was Lee Jordan, the Hogwarts megaphone.

He was of Jamaican descent, dark-skinned, with a head of dreadlocks, and looked like the kind of person whose first word was rap, and who could rap incredibly fast.

Hermione and Ted's passion for Quidditch was beyond their comprehension.

While Ted was still running early in the morning, some students had already gotten up and gone to the stadium to reserve seats.

Are you planning to skip meals? That can't be right! Are you buying an iPhone?!

By nine o'clock, the Quidditch match was about to begin, and the arena was already packed with people—well, that's an exaggeration.

The entire school has only a little over two hundred students, and the seventh graders are away on internships.

The audience is at most two hundred people. But for Hogwarts, that's already a big event.

The robes of the four colleges were in different colors, making them clearly distinct when seated in the audience.

On the field, the Slytherin Quidditch players were all big and burly!

It doesn't feel like Quidditch; it feels more like aerial rugby.

On the Gryffindor side, there are three girls: captain Oliver Wood and the Weasley twins.

The Seeker is a boy you don't recognize because Harry is no longer with us.

Because no savior appeared, there was no Professor Quirrell casting the spell, and therefore no Snape breaking the spell only to be misunderstood and have his robe burned by Hermione.

Ultimately, without the addition of a savior with a halo, Gryffindor lost to Slytherin, just like in previous years.

Moreover, they lost badly. Slytherin's playing style was despicable and shameless, constantly committing malicious fouls.

He's the kind of person who's completely ruthless even towards girls.

All three houses were very dissatisfied with the result of this Quidditch match and were cursing Slytherin for being shameless.

Malfoy, however, came over triumphantly with two henchmen, boasting to Harley about Slytherin's great victory.

Malfoy: Ugh~ Gryffindor is so lame! Slytherin is super brave, okay?

Then Jerry ambushed him, sending him sprawling face-first into the dirt, and Ron delivered a righteous punch straight to his face!

As soon as Gryffindor and Slytherin came off the pitch, the audience started a second round!

The two sides are once again engaged in a fistfight!

But the Malfoy trio ventured deep into enemy territory alone; how could things possibly turn out well?

The story ends with Malfoy, disheveled and covered in dirt, struggling to escape with his two henchmen.

The fact that the Gryffindor lion cubs didn't tear the three of them apart and eat them shows how tough their skin is.

……

Although the crushing defeat in Quidditch was a significant blow to many Gryffindors, even Professor McGonagall was upset for several days.

But Ted didn't care; he continued with his life and studies.

After confirming the knowledge of the otherworld for this month, he finally leveled up again.

I am now a level 3 wizard/level 1 mind mage.

虽然1级升2级只需要1000经验，但2级升3级需要1000+2000=3000经验值。

There are currently 1686 experience points remaining in the experience pool.

Ted allocated the 1 attribute point he received as a level-up bonus to his Intelligence.

One skill point was added to magic power, reaching magic power level 4 (+1 magic wand).

When he held the wand, Ted's magic had reached level 5. A level that most adult wizards couldn't achieve!

The abundance of magic within Ted's body even gave him a feeling of "endlessness".

This is, of course, because the magic he currently knows is all low-level, which consumes little mana. The restored mana can compensate for a large portion of the consumed mana, allowing him to use magic for an extended period.

This also allowed him to use and refine spells more frequently, and upgrade spells.

It turns out that if you focus on upgrading the spell and use it dozens or hundreds of times a day, upgrading to level 2 is indeed easy.

Ted has upgraded several of his spells to level 2, especially combat spells like "Frost Armor," "Frostbolt," and "Iron Armor Charm."

After all, that's all he knows.

He's been studying arcane spells for Dalaran battle mages lately and has made some progress. He feels he'll be able to learn his first arcane spell soon.

That day, he found a strange magic book in the library, a handwritten copy.

The Joy of Chaos!

This is a magic book written by a Muggle—Austin Osman Spel, in the 70s.

Although he was a Muggle, his neighbor was a witch, and he had been exposed to magic since childhood, and later married her.

This book is his explanation of magic from a Muggle's perspective, and even further explores the possibility of Muggle spellcasting.

This Spell later became a famous mystic in the Muggle world, founding a "school of magic" known as the Chaos School.

This Chaos faction is not like the four warp vendors who need a just trial and are simply turned to ashes.

It means:

The world is inherently unknowable, and no belief system, whether scientific or religious, can be correct.

Because humans are a tiny part of this world, with their limited senses and perspectives, they cannot truly understand its reality. Or rather, humanity's understanding of the world is extremely one-sided…

For example, the world appears colorful to us, but to some animals it is black and white, while to others it is ten times more vibrant.

Some animals don't have eyes at all, and in their perception, the world looks completely different.

The saying goes, "You can't see the true face of Mount Lu because you are in the mountain yourself."

What we can truly understand is only the world of idealism, which emphasizes the power of will.

Why do gods and myths exist in the world? Because humans are inherently afraid of chaos, or disorder.

Rather than believing that the world is chaotic and disordered, and no one is in charge, people are more willing to believe that there are mysterious forces manipulating everything.

Even if the master of this power is a capricious god.

But the Chaos faction does not regard those religious idols as their gods.

The name "chaos" is chosen to emphasize that there are no rules, no organization, no laws, and everything is based on one's own will and practicality.

Chaos theorists believe that magic is a science arising from changes in will, and that magic is merely the art or craft of consciousness influencing matter.

Other occult and related organizations that practice witchcraft or magic believe that if magic is used indiscriminately, one will be rewarded threefold.

This school of thought believes that the phenomenon of triple reward is not an objective law, but rather occurs simply because of the user's own feelings of guilt and unease.

In other words: I don't believe in any threefold compensation; I'll get it for free! So I can get it for free! What I believe is true!

This is why this school of thought is very active, and they have even come up with the idea of ​​taking Doraemon as a god, Spider-Man as a god, and Superman as a god. These are all methods they use to practice magic, and they have proven effective in practice.

It's about taking out a figurine and constantly praying to it, treating it as your god.

This thought will eventually become a force, subtly guiding the outcome in the direction of one's prayers.

Coincidentally, there is a similar view in psychology called the "Law of Attraction"—generally referring to the idea that a person's thoughts always attract reality that is consistent with them, or a kind of "what you think, you become."

The copy of "The Joy of Chaos" in Ted's hand is the original handwritten copy by Spell, which elaborates on the possibility of "will magic".

Ted was a little dazed after seeing it: Is this thing even going to work?

The common understanding in the magical world is: Magic = Magic Power + Willpower.

Is it reliable to simply talk about willpower now?

After all, this world is material. If idealism alone could change reality, then in a fit of extreme anger, I would really punch through a 50-meter steel plate!

But putting magic aside, if it's about psychic abilities—this thing actually seems quite promising!

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(End of this chapter)