A Professor of Magic at Hogwarts Chapter 714: A dangerous assumption

I didn't come here to find food. Hermione thought indignantly—although her principles have been polished to a very round and flexible level by successive adventures, it's strange that there are people around her who treat breaking school rules (and sometimes laws!) as simple as eating and drinking The guy——

Unless she has a good excuse, she tries to act decent.

So she hesitated to say that she had accidentally made a Sniffing Glass, inspired by Grindelwald, who had given Neville a Looking Glass. But the words stopped when he got to his mouth, um, it sounds like he has an ulterior motive...

"I'm not hungry—" Hermione opened her mouth, and her stomach rumbled in the next second. Her face suddenly felt like it was on fire.

A fire is burning in the fireplace. Hermione didn't know how she sat down. It seemed that the professor had sent an invitation. When she came back to her senses, she found herself sitting on the small round bench (provided by the house elf), staring at the sizzle in the fireplace. The grilled fish was crackling, and the face was scalding hot from the fire.

Hermione lowered her head, and Varen was looking up at her, blinking a pair of small black eyes.

"I've been quite busy during this time, and I'm not often at school." Felix said, "I heard that students like to attend classes in classroom 7?"

"Oh, yes. Professor, what have you been up to these days?"

"Just running around the world. I also dealt with a magical incident yesterday." Seeing Hermione's surprised eyes, Felix explained, "By chance, a farmer picked up an automatic machine discarded by a wizard. Stir the crucible. Although the magic on it has expired, there is still water of life and death left in the crucible. The farmer used the crucible to prepare a pair of insect repellent. The next morning, thirty cows were found unconscious... ...it's even on the news."

"Is that abandoned cauldron an accident, or was someone left it on purpose?" Hermione asked, frowning. "I know some wizards like to tease Muggles, and Ron's father has dealt with similar situations."

"It's hard to say," Felix thought for a moment, and said, "I guess it was an accident. During this period, many wizards living in the Muggle community returned to the wizarding world, and Hogsmeade alone expanded outwards. Doubled, probably dropped when moving."

"Mr. Hape, Ms. Granger." At this moment, a house-elf wearing a wide white hood appeared, holding a plate of small biscuits and three pumpkin juice pots on a silver tray. goblet. "Thank you, Uncle Yum." Felix picked up a biscuit, Hermione thanked her, and then Felix was keenly aware of the difference in address.

"You know each other, Uncle Yun?" he asked. But obviously, the focus of this appellation is not on the surname.

"Yes," said Yunbo the house-elf respectfully, "for a while, Ms. Granger came often. At that time, we were puzzled, and the elves were dissatisfied with it. Then we understood-she was Fight for our rights."

Hermione waved her hands again and again to tell the house-elf to stop talking, so Uncle Yun bowed deeply and left. In fact, Felix really wanted to know what the house-elves thought of the Pan-Magical Alliance, and he didn't know what the staff of the Ministry of Magic said. Maybe it was a few extra days of vacation plus funds for buying gifts.

The kitchen was quiet for a while. Then Hermione heard the sound of metal colliding. She turned her head and saw Varen take out a pocket knife and fork from her small pocket, and took out an emerald green handkerchief the size of a palm and tied it around her neck. When Gogou stared at him, he hesitated and took out another red handkerchief and handed it to Hermione.

"chirp?"

"Oh, I don't need it, and it's too small to fit—" Hermione whispered, but Felix said, "Give me one too." A bright yellow handkerchief was stuffed into his hand. Felix flicked it in the air, and the handkerchief grew bigger as if by magic, with a circle of rune decorations on it.

He put the handkerchief, which was several times too big, on his knees, and turned to look at Hermione.

So Hermione also took out her wand and pointed at the handkerchief, and it immediately transformed into a large tablecloth, and then the fireplace in front of them lit up, and a dozen delicious grilled fish hung in front of them, oily, look It is very appetizing.

Felix, Hermione, and Varen were each given a piece of grilled fish, and the house-elves gave the rest to the house-elf. before. Then they hid aside to enjoy their food.

This kind of behavior that violated the character of the house-elf surprised Hermione, but it really happened. There can only be one reason: the same thing has been repeated countless times, and the house-elf knows that persuasion is hopeless. No more wasting effort.

Hermione took a bite of the fish, she didn't feel the fishbone, and couldn't help admiring the magic of the Fishbone Curse.

This supper was extremely strange.

There are a lot of people, like a dinner party, but the house elves are basically silent. Judging from their contented shaking of their bodies and their tiny movements, they are in a very happy mood, which makes Hermione feel like she is in a certain place. The illusion of a mysterious tribe participating in the celebration.

And she also learned a secret from the way house-elves swallow their food - thanks to the stool she is now sitting on less than a foot high, she can see clearly - for wizards, house-elves are difficult Gender is distinguished by appearance. But today Hermione knew that the male house-elf's Adam's apple protruded slightly, while the female house-elf's neck line was softer and less noticeable. Exactly like humans.

Hermione suspected it was because the house-elves kept their heads down when they talked, which prevented this secret from being discovered. Seeing the bottom of the plate, Hermione finally remembered why she came here after eating and drinking.

"Huh, Professor?" she said, wiping her mouth with a napkin, "those kids you saved from the US government..." Felix turned to her, his plate already empty. "...there's a lot of discussion in the newspapers, but generally speaking, there are good and bad reviews,"

"It's normal," Felix muttered. "When you put yourself in the public eye, unless you're oozing bad, you always get praise and criticism at the same time. But I don't think there are many people who question the rescue." The necessity of those children, right?"

"That's right. With the publication of the book "Providing Assistance for the Opening of Magic", many anthropologists and historians have recognized ancient wizards as one of the early humans, the curator of the British National Museum Claims to have found evidence from the murals of primitive people: it is believed that wizards were first born in two groups of brave warriors and priests. The former obtained magical powers by fighting magical animals, and the latter used the blood and bones of magical animals to perform rituals ..."

Felix was noncommittal about this conjecture. He also had a similar guess, but it was just a guess. The specific origin of the wizard is too old, and no one knows the exact truth. Moreover, the criteria for judging are not uniform. What exactly marks the emergence of wizards? Is it the use of parts of magical animals to make 'magic tools', or is it counting from the first time mysterious powers appeared on ancient humans? Or - only really true when magical knowledge is summed up and flows to other gifted individuals?

The significance of each of these three is significant. The first example represents human beings trying to control magic power; the significance of the second example is that magic power emerges from wizards; the third example shows that magic can be taught, which means that the person who masters magic power changes from an individual to a group.

Maybe none of the above is correct, why can't it be Fantastic Beasts and wizards at the same time?

Felix does not place too much emphasis on the answer to this question. He asked to add this "history that has not been verified" during the negotiation only from the perspective of human morality, so that many problems can be avoided.

After Hermione elaborated on the contents sorted out from the newspaper clippings, she finally concluded:

"The controversial part lies in the methods you use to teach you - they want to solve the problem through the law, rather than face-to-face confrontation, and they argue endlessly about whether wizards have investigation and law enforcement powers."

Felix said quietly but firmly: "They can discuss, but I am not going to compromise on this issue."

Hermione bit her lip. But her purpose tonight is not for this, not to mention that Grindelwald's attitude is much more radical-he advocates complete revenge, and believes that once a country or individual steals the wizard's power, the wizard can use all means to retaliate, just like Like the witch who lost her daughter and set fire to the lab.

"How are those children doing?" she asked in a low voice.

"It's okay, except for being a little frightened." Felix glanced at her and didn't elaborate on the inside story. "The therapists at Ilvermorny will take good care of them and carry out necessary inspections—magic is not the only way to modify memories, but the methods other than magic are relatively cumbersome, and they must be kept in a closed environment for a long time. environment.”

"So, I just checked to see if they have a positioning device on them."

"Positioning device?" Hermione said in surprise, "Won't those magic substitutes fail? I read it from "Hogwarts, A School History"

"It's too passive and passive to hope that they will automatically expire when the other party intends to investigate the situation," Felix said, and then paused, as if hesitating to reveal more content, but he still said Going on: "Actually, I suspect that the local government generally knows the locations of some wizarding gathering places. The relationship between the Magic Congress of the United States and the Muggle government is not good. As potential enemies, they will naturally try to collect useful information and want to keep it completely secret." Difficult."

"But—" Hermione was surprised.

"Are you worried that they may follow their plans and initiate disputes?"

Hermione nodded.

"This possibility is extremely slim." Felix smiled and said: "All magical communities—especially schools are shrouded in magic, and the worst is protected by the Muggle Repelling Spell and Warning Spell, and the coverage Great. I want to use purely technological means to crack it - I don't know if it is feasible, but it will definitely take time, and the wizards staying inside can quickly evacuate; as for the use of heavy fire weapons... Maybe it is still possible at the beginning, but now almost completely disappeared."

Hermione looked at Felix puzzled, and Felix waved his hand so that the sound could not spread, and could only be heard by two people.

"Granger... Since your career direction is the Minister of Magic, and you have indeed shown potential in this area, we can discuss this issue in depth. I don't want this conversation to be made public, Neither Harry nor Ron nor your parents can disclose, not a single word... Do you agree?"

Hermione agreed nervously.

"Very well, let's take the United States as an example. Due to historical reasons, their proportion of wizards is much lower, about 40,000 to 50,000. Let's discuss the most extreme situation-these wizards are suddenly devastated It was a blow and suffered heavy losses, but the possibility of half of the wizards surviving is still quite high, and this is the result of the fact that the Magic Congress of America was too stupid to find any clues.”

Hermione imagined that scene for a while. She had watched human war documentaries and had a clear idea of ​​the horror of dense artillery fire. Her body shook violently, and her face turned pale.

"But then?"

Felix said in a calm tone: "This is the beginning of the war, not the end. Once this happens, there will definitely be a large number of wizards fleeing, but there will also be a large number of wizards staying to fight to the death. , because they lost their loved ones and their friends, everything... A man who has nothing but vengeance becomes a beast without reason, and at the same time the hardest fighter. We know from past history that weapons are The replacement is the fastest in the years, but I am 100% sure that the growth rate of wizards will only be faster than this, especially when they choose to let hatred fill their hearts, war will make people cold and numb, and Fiendfire will just be The most merciful means..."

"No, that's terrible, we must not let this happen," Hermione whispered.

Felix looked at her quietly, and after a moment said: "This is what we are doing. Well, forget it. The above is just an academic discussion, a hypothesis, and it is basically not The assumption that happened. Otherwise, why are we working hard for the past few months? You should go back, it’s almost time to turn off the lights.”

Hermione walked out of the kitchen silently, and Varen yawned and curled up in Felix's arms. They came into the foyer, and Hermione said suddenly, "Wait, Professor, I have something very important to tell you, and that's why I came to you—I went to your office, but you weren't there."

The shock she received just now was too great, and she almost forgot the real purpose of this trip.

"What is it?"

"When we were sorting out the newspaper clippings this morning, Harry, Ron and I discussed a possibility..." Hermione quickly recounted what happened during the day, and Felix shook his head slightly, "The Magic Society of America is on guard against this move." , They had some conflicts with the Muggle government for this. As for the young wizards who have not yet entered school, it is indeed a breakthrough, but Ilvermorny—"

"Professor, you want to say that Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry has included their names, don't you?" Hermione said first.

Felix's expression became serious, and Hermione obviously wanted to say that there was a loophole that could be exploited... A picture suddenly flashed, which was what Professor McGonagall had said to him: "Three students refused to enter the school. "

Actually, refusing to enter the school is not a big deal, he didn't pay much attention to it before.

The process is fixed. Generally, when this happens, Hogwarts will send a number of professors to communicate with the parents, and report to the Ministry of Magic after the communication fails. supervision. This process generally lasts until adulthood (the more you don’t care about it later), that is, at the age of 17, it means that those who give up magic will basically not accidentally cast spells because of emotional loss, and their magic power will gradually become silent because they have not been tempered for a long time .

This is different from Obscure. Obscures are often physically or mentally abused as children, becoming resentful and repressing their magical abilities, refusing to cast spells. They have little contact with those who have given up magic, because it is difficult for the Obscure to live beyond ten years old.

Felix also mentioned something to Professor McGonagall after knowing what happened to Dumbledore's sister ~IndoMTL.com~ and knowing that some rare silent people may live past ten years old.

"...the light in Hagrid's hut was always on, making us think he was in the house all the time, but in fact he was out. Harry's Marauder's Map has a limited search range. Once Hagrid goes deep into the Forbidden Forest, he can't be found at all. People." Hermione continued, and then her lips began to tremble, "but the question is, was he really in the Forbidden Forest at that time? What happened to him? We don't know anything about it..."

There is no need to go on.

Felix completely understood her thoughts, but because of this, his expression was unprecedentedly solemn.

The area covered by Harry's Marauder's Map is the area that can be monitored by the Magical Congress of America. Hagrid represents those young wizards who have not yet entered school. Even if there is a danger, it will be noticed quickly, but what if the whole family decides to immigrate one day? Or some other reason? The boundless sea is beyond the reach of the wizard's magic.

At this moment, while they were talking, would there be a ship or two, or a submarine, carrying little wandering wizards? No one knew what happened to them until they set foot on land. Naturally, it also includes the possibility of never being able to land.