Hogwarts: Wizards of Eternity

After noticing this, Roger didn't pay any more attention to it.

Because the scene of Harry and Draco confronting each other in front of Professor McGonagall didn't happen as in the original fate, Roger was a little worried that his little butterfly effect might cause Voldemort to do something big.

If there really were changes in this direction, he would have to have a word with Dumbledore.

But now it's unnecessary.

Since Dumbledore has already noticed Quirrell's abnormality, there is absolutely no need for him to add to the situation.

A remnant soul without a body, with the enemy in the open and him in the open, cannot turn the world upside down in Dumbledore's home field.

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This year, he can eat and study in peace.

Roger, putting his heart back in his stomach, followed the upperclassmen to the Gryffindor common room after the dinner.

There is nothing to say about this process: the magical moving stairs that are easy to get lost in, the talking portraits, the multi-person dormitory, and the completely unfamiliar roommates.

With the doubts about whether portraits and ghosts are the continuation of life or the echo of death, and the anticipation for the next day's class, Roger fell into a dream.

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Roger has always had another question besides the fact that wizard magic is almost a wishing machine, why wizards have not developed in the direction of immortals and gods.

In Potions class.

"Potter!" Snape said suddenly, "What would I get if I added powdered root of asphodel to an infusion of wormwood?"

What root powder is put into what solution? Harry glanced at his friend Ron, and the academic渣 Ron was also stunned like him.

"I don't know, sir," Harry said.

Snape curled his lips contemptuously.

"Tsk, tsk... It seems that fame does not represent everything."

Potions Professor Snape ignored Hermione, who was about to raise her hand to the ceiling, eager to show her wisdom, as well as Roger, who also had a lot of fame in the wizarding community, and the drama of frantically targeting Harry Potter and mocking Harry Potter's unworthiness had just ended.

At this moment, the students are preparing the simple healing potion written in the first chapter of the textbook under Snape's guidance.

Cutting the ingredients with a blade, grinding the medicine with a pestle, measuring the weight of the ingredients with a steelyard, pouring water into the cauldron and cooking... Roger handled the entire process smoothly.

But his previous doubts lie in these processes.

In the wizarding society, many processes and steps can obviously be made more convenient and less prone to errors with some Muggle technology items, so why not add them to it?

Judging from the Hogwarts Express and the flying magical car, the wizarding civilization obviously does not reject taking interesting things from Muggle society.

The combination of magic and science may also be a way to break the upper limit of the power of wizarding civilization!

And this doubt was naturally solved after he ended his closed-door magic learning, really took some classes at Hogwarts, and witnessed the casting details of other wizards in the teaching process.

He ignored an important thing!

Magic is a miracle created jointly by the mind and magic power.

The casting steps of wizard magic can be roughly described as...

[I want to cast a spell → I really, really want to → my mind connects with the magic power → the magic power feels the caster's idea, and then lets the universe take care of it → a magical phenomenon occurs, and the spell is successful]

And for many spells, if the process is not accurate enough, even the wizard himself does not know what the result of the spell will be.

Although it looks like there is a feeling that 'wizards only need to think about it, and magic power has more to consider'.

But in fact, the result of the spell itself is still determined by the wizard himself. Magic power does not have its own consciousness. The deviation of the spell is affected by the wizard's own distracting thoughts that he cannot even detect.

It is very difficult for people to control their distracting thoughts, just like 'not thinking about anything in 3 minutes'. Among the 7 billion people in the world, it is not certain whether there are 7 people who can do this.

Even when people are sleeping and unconscious, their thinking will not stop.

And since human will is so important in the process of casting spells, will the wizard's perception of the world also have a very significant impact on casting spells?!

The answer is yes.

Through observing and interviewing other students and professors about their casting spells, Roger came to a conclusion.

Before a certain limit, the clearer a wizard understands the basic rules of the world's operation, the more restricted the power of the spell will be.

The reason is that he has reduced the space for magic power to exert itself freely.

For example, a spell to create high-temperature flames.

If a young wizard accepts Muggle education and knows the characteristics of flame temperature, but does not know how to create such a high temperature, he will subconsciously generate the idea of 'I can't do it', thereby self-limiting the power.

It would be good to be able to exert 30% of his strength.

And a young wizard who doesn't understand the principles of flame at all, simply thinks 'my flame can devour and engulf everything', the space for magic power to exert itself becomes larger, his spell will not only reach the upper limit that his mental power can support, but may even have the curse magic effect of 'devouring'.

Of course, if a person fully knows all the underlying principles of flame, he will not be restricted in this regard.

Even because his will is extremely clear when casting spells, and every detail is extremely clear, the mental power consumed in casting spells will be greatly reduced compared to other wizards!

So the problem of magic power is just a small matter, and it's not like there is no way to remedy it. After passing this hurdle, it may even become stronger.

The real reason why wizards reject science is another.

Science has never been a specific technology, but a way of thinking.

A way of thinking that analyzes the basic principles of the operation of all things little by little through assumptions, demonstrations, and practice.

It can even be said that in the world of cultivating immortals, enlightenment is also a kind of science.

Cultivation techniques are the formulas and theorems they have summarized from generation to generation, weapon refining is materials science research, and corpse refining and the refining of ten thousand soul banners are also a kind of application of life science.

But the same theory cannot be applied to wizards.

The characteristics of magic power are a hurdle that wizards cannot avoid when embracing science!

In the Muggle scientific community, they can turn a blind eye to the dark clouds and unsolvable problems over the physics and mathematics circles.

Even if the mathematical system itself is incomplete, so what? Anyway, the regular mathematics that is often used, such as Euclidean geometry, is complete.

But in the wizarding world, if you want to engage in science but cannot explain what magic power is, it will lead to an extremely terrible consequence...

Some wizards with weaker minds, a bit of obsessive-compulsive disorder, and a love for getting caught in the horns of thought will question magic power itself.

When wizards begin to question magic power, magic power will gradually drift away from the wizard. Magic is a miracle of belief. If you don't believe in your own magic, then you will lose magic!

Once a trend of thought appears and begins to spread, then...

It goes without saying.

Roger understood why wizards did not accept the seemingly more advanced scientific thinking, but continued to hold on to their old family property in semi-isolation from Muggles, trying to seek breakthroughs from the three paths of 'self-transformation', 'ritual', and 'external objects'.

Because, before wizards are strong enough to understand magic power, studying magic power will not have good results.

Magic power has no thoughts, but the wizards' own 'inner demons' will defeat them!

It is a bit exaggerated to say that a paper on a new theory of magic power will explode the researcher's brain, but it is not impossible to temporarily disable someone's magical abilities.

So... is there really no way for people who like to delve into the truth in the current wizarding system?

No!

Just like the book "Ritual Magic is Far More Than Blood Sacrifice", the wizard ancestors with amazing wisdom have already given the answer and the road to the future!

"Stop!" Roger, who was processing the potion while thinking about the problem, suddenly felt a sense of crisis.

Following the instinct honed on the battlefield, he waved his hand, and magic was activated.

He turned the porcupine quills that Neville, who was partnered with Seamus, was about to put into the cauldron on the desk next to him into a lid.

If the porcupine quills are put in without taking the cauldron off the fire, the boil-curing potion will become a highly corrosive poison that can burn through the cauldron and cause blisters all over the body of the person who comes into contact with it!

By that time, the potion will be all over the floor, and not to mention that I will be splashed all over, this class will probably have to be stopped halfway.

The other students around were confused by Roger's sudden spellcasting.

And Snape withdrew his attention from Harry and looked back.

He glanced at Roger and snorted lightly with displeasure: "Keen observation, one point to Gryffindor."

Then he glanced at Neville again.

"And you, idiotic operation! Why don't you take the cauldron off the fire? One point off Gryffindor!"

Back and forth, no increase or decrease. If Roger were a Slytherin, the result would probably be very different.

After Neville hurriedly did as he was told, Roger also lifted the deformation of the porcupine quills.

Well, Transfiguration.

This is the path of the truth seeker, the magic of the rational!

Roger discovered in his studies that the seemingly inconspicuous Transfiguration actually has considerable potential.

As the greatest British wizard of this century, Chairman of the International Confederation of Wizards, and Headmaster Dumbledore's best magic is Transfiguration and Defense Against the Dark Arts, and he once served as a Transfiguration professor.

And the current Deputy Headmaster, and future Headmaster, Professor McGonagall, is also a Transfiguration professor.

Is this... a coincidence?