Hogwarts: Starting as a Serpent Demon

Witt pulled his memory back and looked at it two or three times, but he couldn't see any change in Snape's expression.

“Why are you staring at Snape?” Flitwick said helplessly. “If you could see Snape’s intentions, then he’s lived all these years in vain.”

......

Witt frowned and thought for a moment, then tentatively said, "You mean, stare at me?"

"That's right."

Flitwick smiled with satisfaction: "Watch your movements. Snape started with the first spell, then the second and the third. You could clearly feel that he was actively reducing the intensity of his attacks, but you didn't react in time and fell into Snape's offensive rhythm."

“Look here, you’re still using the strength you used to block the first spell to defend against his second spell, which means you can’t withdraw your strength quickly.”

"It indirectly affects the strength of your second spell attack. Snape can defend more easily, and his next attack will naturally be faster."

Witt replayed the video several times before realizing the problem Flitwick had pointed out, and couldn't help but show a disappointed expression.

Talent alone cannot completely compensate for the huge age gap.

Don't be discouraged.

Flitwick comforted him, saying, "For your age, you've done very well. If Snape were your age, he probably wouldn't have been able to handle it."

"In a wizard duel, the most important thing is to hold back your power and then accelerate."

"Snape deliberately reduced the force of his spell when casting the second spell, in order to gain a faster attack speed and thus control the rhythm of the battle."

"You couldn't keep up with his pace and started to fall into a slump."

"Fortunately, after a few rounds of fighting, you realized the problem and tried to reverse the decline."

"The first half of this battle was all about the basics of wizard duels," Professor Flitwick summarized. "You can't use all your strength, and you can't hold back all your power."

"By striking the right balance and knowing when to advance and when to retreat, you can outperform most people."

Vitti nodded; he roughly understood.

Attack and defense is a game of strategy, a mix of deception and reality. If you always go all out, it's easy for your opponent to see through your patterns and seize your weaknesses to deliver a fatal blow.

Witt knew this, and he would actively increase or decrease the force of his attacks.

The key issue is that he didn't do well in the second half.

The game of defense is more important than offense. You can't win everything by defense alone. Don't think about a perfect defense. As long as you can block it, you've succeeded.

Even if you fail to block the attack, as long as the damage to the attacker is within your expectations, it is still a victory.

Being injured does not mean failure; showing weakness to the enemy is success.

Throughout history, countless people have fallen at the last step of achieving success, and countless others have lost their lives because they underestimated others.

This arrogance etched into human genes is an age-old weakness.

But this is easier said than done. You can't defend yourself completely. What if your opponent suddenly increases their strength and knocks you out in one fell swoop?

Wizards are typically high-attack, low-defense classes; most of the time, getting hit once will result in death.

One bad bet and you're done for.

I can't learn it, I can't learn it.

Witt shook his head. He felt that in a real battle, defense had to be effective, and staying alive was the most important thing.

Wizard duels are mostly not life-or-death battles; they rarely involve killing each other. Real battles, however, are aimed at taking your life, so you must be careful.

"Pay attention." Seeing that Witt had recovered, Flitwick tapped the blackboard and continued his lecture.

"The following section covers advanced knowledge of wizard duels. By analyzing different spells and the strength of the opponent's defenses, you can guess the type of spell they are going to use, especially powerful spells. Once you guess correctly, you can secure victory."

"How can you guess when someone is casting a spell silently?" Witt felt like he had been studying fake magic for a year, which was why he didn't understand anything now.

He's not incapable of Occlumency; there's no way he could let Snape read his mind.

How did Snape guess it?

“Silent spellcasting is not spellless spellcasting.” Flitwick explained to Witt very seriously: “Only spellless spellcasting results in true chaos, where even the spellcaster cannot know the final effect of the magic, and naturally cannot guess it.”

"The little wizard's magical outburst is spellcasting without incantation."

"Silent spellcasting requires chanting incantations, but without making a sound. Incantations can help wizards accurately target the effects of magic."

“The process of locking in during the incantation can be detected using magic.”

"How can we find out?" Witt was like a sponge, frantically absorbing knowledge.

"To discover the magic that the other party is about to use, you need to study and understand the nature of spells and transfiguration in depth in order to comprehend this process."

Flitwick shook his head and said, "I can only give you a simple explanation today, so you can have a basic understanding of coarse cloth."

"You need to understand that the essence of spells is controlling concepts, while the essence of transfiguration is changing or giving concepts."

"Take the Levitation Charm as an example."

“Wizards can lock onto the concept of levitation through spells and manipulate this concept to make objects float.”

"Since there is the concept of floating, there will naturally be the concept of falling. When you silently recite the incantation to lock onto the concept of floating, I will use a spell with the concept of falling to attack you, which will increase your magic consumption and the difficulty of locking on without you even realizing it."

"Your defense will become weaker."

"The two wands Snape unleashed before using any weapon other than yours were essentially a harassing attack with multiple concepts. From the moment you began chanting the spell, he discovered your intention and used two spells in succession to test you."

"As a first-year student, you haven't learned much magic. Snape, as a professor, knows those powerful spells recorded in the library better than you do. He easily detected the magic you were using and calculated the time it would take you to cast the spell."

"If he can get one step ahead of you and use his weapon to eliminate you at the right time, he can easily win."

"And that is indeed the case."

"If you don't have that powerful bloodline magic."

“Professor,” Witt asked as cautiously as possible, “the essence of a spell is to lock onto and control a concept. So, wouldn’t the Killing Curse be manipulating the concept of death, which is why it’s an instant death curse?”

"So only inanimate objects, which don't have the concept of death, can withstand the Killing Curse?"

“At your age, you shouldn’t be exposed to the Unforgivable Curse so early,” Flitwick lectured Witt seriously before explaining to him.

"All spells used by wizards must come from the heart. Only when you genuinely want an object to float can you perceive and manipulate the concept of levitation, understand?"

"understand."

Witt nodded repeatedly, not daring to ask any further questions.

He really wanted to ask, if I could create an extremely powerful magic with the concept of connection and transfer, would I be able to transfer the concept of death contained in the Killing Curse?

This creates a chain of Avada Kedavra.

That's a chain of Avada Kedavra, a chain of Avada Kedavra that will confuse anyone who sees it.

But Witt dared not ask these questions aloud, unless he wanted to be taken to Azkaban by Dumbledore.

Perhaps this is what Mr. Grindelwald called the "evil research" he did back then.

They were simply exploring the possibilities of magic, and their only goal was to leave a valuable legacy for future generations.

Dumbledore was still too conservative.

Witt left the classroom with some regret. The professor was indeed a professor; he had learned a great deal today. He would like to ask Professor McGonagall about Transfiguration next time he had the chance.

As a studious and diligent student, Viter didn't discriminate between any types of magic.

In the courtyard of Hogwarts, Witt, who was passing by, noticed Draco standing in a corner, acting suspiciously. So he went over and greeted him, "Still alive? Professor Snape didn't kill you."

"Almost."

Draco turned around in alarm, only to breathe a sigh of relief when he saw it was Witt. He whispered to Witt, "You'd never guess what I saw in Professor Snape's office."

"Besides those various herbs or magical biological organs soaking in the potion, what else can you see?" Witt said speechlessly, "It can't be that Professor Snape is keeping a mistress, can it?"

"How did you know?" Draco stared at Witt in disbelief, his mouth agape.

?

Witt responded to Draco with the same surprised emoji.

How could the phrase "Snape keeping a mistress" be combined with "Snape keeping a mistress"?

That's impossible, Snape isn't that kind of person...

Suddenly, a thought flashed through Witt's mind. He grabbed Draco and asked impatiently, "Does that person have red hair?"

Snape was courting disaster. In the original story, the Resurrection Stone couldn't summon the dead; it could only summon a phantom from the user's memories that was more real than a ghost but more illusory than a real person.

The so-called resurrection is simply a way to keep people stuck in the past.

When you invest enough emotion in this phantom, it will extract your emotions, magic, and even your soul.

It's somewhat similar to Voldemort's diary, except the diary is an active tool, while the resurrection stone is a passive one.

That's why the phantom neither revives nor disappears, remaining in a state of despair.

When you realize this, you will feel despair, and your despair will be transmitted to the other person, making her even more desperate.

Generally speaking, the person resurrected is the one the user loves most, and her despair will naturally affect you.

And so, stepping on his right foot with his left, he spiraled upwards.

Until this despair exceeds your limit and you ultimately choose suicide.

“It looked like he had red hair,” Draco said uncertainly. “I didn’t dare to look closely. I only remember that Professor Snape was even angrier than he was in the Great Hall. His eyes were so terrifying that it looked like he really wanted to kill me.”

He was also holding a black stone in his hand.

As Draco spoke, he couldn't help but shiver.

That was the closest he had ever come to death in his life.

"Then there's no way out."

What on earth is Dumbledore doing? Has he lost his mind? How could he hand the Resurrection Stone to Snape?

What's the difference between this and throwing meat buns at a dog? This bun even tastes like arsenic.

"You absolutely must not tell anyone else about this, understand?"

After warning Draco, Witt went straight to Snape's office.

"Araho Cave is open."

"Who is it?" Snape's irritable voice came from the back door of the office.