Hogwarts: This Wizard Is Not Scientific

In addition to mentioning the impact of emotions on the power of spells, the book also mentions a refreshing point of view.

Modern spells are magic invented based on modern language, but what about ancient magic?

Not only that, every country has its own language, but the same spell can be used in different languages.

Does this mean that neither language nor gestures are necessary elements in casting spells?

The magic power of young wizards is unstable, but they can make their wishes come true when the magic power bursts out - they don't even need a wand.

Many powerful wizards can cast spells without spells, and can even perform some simple magic without a wand.

Does this mean that learning magic, or even becoming proficient in using magic, is just about regaining our spellcasting instinct?

Of course, the book only mentions this theory, and even the author of the book cannot cast spells without a wand.

Andy unexpectedly discovered that the author of this book had many similar ideas to his own, but it was a pity that the author of this book was already dead.

Pandora...

Andy had heard the story of Pandora's Box.

"Is this a reminder for me not to try it lightly?"

There are many things in the magical world that are destined to happen, and even many prophecies are unexpectedly accurate.

Andy decided to trust in the guidance of fate and never try any dangerous magic experiments before his magic level reached a certain level.

"But I can visit the Lovegood family during Christmas!" Andy thought.

"Uh... forget it!"

After all, it is somewhat impolite to mention someone else's dead wife or mother.

Chapter 22 Opening Pandora's Box for the First Time

Although the visit plan was temporarily terminated, Andy still kept it in mind.

It can be seen from this book that Pandora Lovegood is a master of spells and she has in-depth research on spells.

Compared to others, her ideas may seem a little far-fetched, but they are very consistent with Andy's understanding of magic.

If Andy could get the research materials she left behind, I believe it would be of great help to him.

After attending (and sleeping through) a class on History of Magic, Ravenclaw ended its classes for the day.

From now on until lights out at 8pm, you can do whatever you want at any time.

"Andy, do you want to go to the library?" Hermione suggested as she packed up her notes.

There are so many books in the library waiting for her to enjoy, it would be rude not to read them.

"Let's go again tonight!"

"I'm going to write a letter home and then find an empty classroom to practice spells." Andy put his textbooks in order, waved his wand, shrunk them with the Shrinking Charm, and put them in the pocket of his wizard robe.

Hermione was silent for a moment.

She originally wanted to go directly to the library, but after seeing Andy skillfully casting spells, she suddenly realized that practicing magic was obviously necessary.

However, the little witch was a little shy and was too embarrassed to speak up.

"Want to join us?" Andy invited.

"Okay!" Hermione made a reluctant expression, hesitated for a moment, and nodded.

After writing the letter home, Andy took Hermione to an abandoned classroom on the sixth floor of the castle.

"How are we going to practice?" Hermione looked around and drew her wand, but didn't know what to do next.

Although she had used magic at home, she had only tried it superficially and had not studied it in depth or practiced it deliberately.

"Practicing magic is certainly not just about waving a wand foolishly."

Andy is very experienced in this area. "First, you have to be proficient in using magic, then shoot at fixed targets, then moving targets, and finally improve your proficiency in spells."

"Proficiency?" The first few trainings were easy to understand, but improving the proficiency of spells... Hermione didn't quite understand.

"Hmm...how do you explain this?"

Andy thought for a moment, waved his wand and whispered, "Burning flames!"

A flame suddenly shot out from the tip of the magic wand and formed a fireball. Under Andy's control, the fireball flew around the classroom, and finally lost the support of magic and went out in the air.

"Is this what you call proficiency?"

Hermione can also use this magic, but she can only make a flame shoot out of her wand. If it cannot attach to an object, the flame will quickly go out.

"Ok!"

Andy explained: "Not only the fire spell, but other spells can also be controlled according to our will."

"When I was a kid, I went to watch wizard duels with my parents. Those powerful wizards would often use some combination of spells - for example, using Transfiguration to change the flame into a certain form."

Hermione was clearly interested, "So what do I do now?"

"Let's start with the simplest Luminescence Charm. You should try to throw out the light from the tip of the wand."

Andy said: "If you can do this, the following exercises will be much easier."

"I see."

Hermione nodded and then asked, "What do you want to practice?"

"I want to try to incorporate emotions into magic, like this..."

Andy said as he waved his wand.

"All petrified!"

"It's a normal petrification spell," Andy explained.

After calming down, Andy tried to imagine that there was a very annoying person in front of him.

"Petrify everyone!" Andy chanted the spell.

Hermione deadpanned, "It doesn't seem to make any difference."

“Of course, it’s hard, or maybe I’m using the wrong emotions.”

After saying that, Andy fell into deep thought.

Seeing this, Hermione did not disturb Andy and ran to the corner of the classroom to practice the technique of throwing the fluorescent charm.

The petrification spell is the simplest offensive spell. Even a first-year wizard, uh... a first-year wizard like Hermione, can master it.

The petrification spell is white magic. In addition to the spell and gesture, using the petrification spell also requires the desire to attack.

"Are my emotions not strong enough?"

"But emotions are really difficult to control. What's fake is fake and will never become true."

Andy recalled the contents of the book.

The book "Modern Theory of Spells" mentions that wizards can increase the power of spells when they are in extreme emotions.

So...what is important, the extreme emotions, or the unstable magic brought by extreme emotions?

Just like a little wizard who can make his wishes come true when his magic power explodes.

Maybe both are equally important!

Andy tries to interpret magic from the world's perspective.

There is no doubt that Harry Potter is a children's book, and the theme of this book is love and friendship.

The reason why Harry was able to survive Voldemort's killing curse was because of his mother's love for him.

Love itself is an emotion, a power of the soul.

Putting aside the fairy-tale nature of the story itself, let us return to reality.

Harry's mother was obviously a great mother. Facing the invincible Voldemort, she, in desperation, formed her love for her son into a powerful protective magic, which ultimately successfully repelled Voldemort's killing curse.

But magic is always needed to perform magic.

Not only that, under the circumstances at the time, it was obviously impossible for Harry's mother to hold her wand and cast any protective spell on Harry.

She casts wandless!

"Perhaps the love born out of desperation caused some unknown changes in her magic."

It was just like the Obscurus that was born when the little wizard was in extreme negative emotions.

Of course, this is hard to do!

No one can allow themselves to experience some extreme emotions without going through this.

But Andy is an exception.

Because Andy actually died once.

Not only did Andy die once, he also experienced the feeling of losing the world, losing his loved ones, and losing his friends.

Andy recalled the memories that he had forced himself to forget.

"All petrified!"

Whoosh!

The magic power in Andy's body seemed to sense Andy's mood, and the magic power that had gradually stabilized began to boil.

A beam of magical light shot out from the tip of the wand and hit a table in the abandoned classroom at an extremely fast speed.

The table was visibly petrified by Andy's spell.

"You succeeded?" Hermione looked surprised, as if she had discovered a new continent, and looked at Andy in amazement.

She didn't believe Andy's lies at first.

Something about incorporating emotions into magic—that's not what the book says at all.

But the petrification spell Andy just used was obviously much more powerful than before.

Chapter 23 Is this the legendary epiphany?

"I succeeded!"

Andy's face was also full of surprise, but then he looked annoyed - Andy could already feel that the boiling magic power in his body was calming down at an extremely fast speed.

Andy tried to continue recalling the memories he had forgotten, but found helplessly that he could no longer enter his previous state.

After all, too much time has passed.

The first time Andy recalls something, he can still feel a strong emotion, but if he recalls it one after another, the effect will obviously be much less than before.

Time is the best medicine in the world.

Andy hated this statement, but had to admit it was true.

"How did you do that?" Hermione demanded.

"Remember the book you picked for me?" Andy took out the book "Modern Theory of Spells" from his pocket.

"The curse stops immediately!"

Andy enlarged the shrunken book and handed it to Hermione. "Take a look at the first chapter of this book. It talks about the influence of emotions on magic."

Hermione opened the book and read it carefully.

The little witch pulled her hair in annoyance. She really shouldn't doubt the book. There were things she didn't know, just because she hadn't read the book yet.

While Hermione was reading, Andy waved his wand again.

"All petrified!"

Andy felt that he had become much more proficient in the use of the petrification spell, and the power of the spell seemed to have increased.

But that's it.

Because Andy can't go back to the previous state.

And Andy vaguely felt that the emotion he had used before was wrong.

The reason why black magic is considered evil is because certain negative emotions are required to perform black magic.