International students at Hogwarts

Chapter 104 A History of Magic

As long as it is human, it will be affected.It is especially difficult for history books to ensure truthfulness and objectivity.

For example, Chen Shou's "Three Kingdoms" was completed five years after the Western Jin Dynasty unified the Three Kingdoms. Is it close enough to the Three Kingdoms?

In order to write this book, Chen Shou collected a large amount of materials and screened them. All the historical materials that he thought were unreliable, doubtful, or unreliable were not recorded in his Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms.

But this involves subjective judgments and reduces the degree of reliability.Why do you think this matter has developed like this?In fact, lean thinking is quite necessary in history.

And this kind of deletion also caused the Romance of the Three Kingdoms to be extremely brief, and most people could not understand it.It was not until Pei Songzhi's annotations for the Romance of the Three Kingdoms that the book became easier to understand.

Pei Songzhi's bets are no different than those of other people.Other notes are often just explanations of place names and word meanings, but his notes include all the historical materials he has seen, including those that Chen Shou saw but did not use and those that Chen Shou did not see.He annotated all these historical materials behind Chen Shou's original text.

He not only makes notes, but also expresses his views.For example, if he thinks this item is unreliable, he will add it, but he will mark this item as unreliable and explain why he thinks it is unreliable!If the two historical materials are contradictory and he can't draw a conclusion, he will put the different materials side by side and let future generations judge by themselves.

It can be called the grandfather of DLC and the master of ancient patches.

This makes Pei Songzhi's Anthology of the Three Kingdoms highly credible, but such history books are rare.

In the same way, why are Professor Binns' words absolutely credible?Because he lived through that era?

No way.Personal experience does not mean that you know the truth.

So Lu Ren raised his hand.He needed to identify Professor Binns' sources.

Professor Binns is speaking today about the demon Emeric.He was a short-lived but powerful wizard who once became the master of the Elder Wand.He still used his wheezing, dragging voice to slowly and firmly tell a story that should have been very passionate.

His voice made it difficult to concentrate, and he would soon fall into a drowsy drowsiness.

At this time, the hand that was raised suddenly was like a firecracker exploding in the middle of the night, attracting the attention of all the little wizards.

Harry put his glasses back on, which were about to slip off the bridge of his nose, and Ron's dull eyes gradually brightened.Hermione put down the pen in her hand, and tidied up the scattered notes by the way, lest they slip under the table.

The little wizards woke up from their half-dream and half-awake state.

Professor Binns was also taken aback. He has only a very weak sense of consciousness about the living students, so students who ask him questions often startle him.

Professor Binns regained his composure after a brief shock, and continued to say in his dry voice, "What's the matter?"

"Professor, do you have a reliable source for these historical materials?" Lu Ren asked straight to the point without any politeness.

Professor Binns had a rare emotional expression on his face, and he seemed to be smiling.As a historian, Professor Binns understands how valuable the question asked by the little wizard just now is.

He knew everything, he knew that almost no young wizards in the audience were listening to his lectures, and he also knew that most of the homework was for official business, but he didn't care.The long life span allows him to see many things.

He didn't worry about the historical inheritance of the magic world, because wizards like Lu Ren who had the potential to become historians would emerge every few years.

Who was the last one?Looks like Bathilda?
"My course is history of magic. I study facts, not myths and legends. Facts need reliability. I will collect important news from the wizarding world from all over the world, and I also communicate with other wizards. I will analyze the reliability of sources , compared with the history books."

Professor Binns' tone was a little lighter, and he explained the source of his historical knowledge in a calm voice and monotonous sentence patterns.

He didn't seem annoyed at all, even if his lecture was interrupted.

"Do you still have any questions?"

"No more. Thank you Professor."

"Very good," Professor Binns paused. "You must remember that the research on the history of magic cannot blindly follow authority. You must have the ability to think for yourself and the spirit of questioning. You must be good at collecting and analyzing data."

He rarely deviated from the subject of his lecture, and gave the little wizards a piece of advice from the elders.Then, he started to give lectures dryly again.

It seemed like an insignificant episode just now, but both sides of the question and answer got satisfactory answers.

Binns found another good seedling, and Lu Ren's doubts were answered.He looked down at the book A History of Magic.

'What a treasure this is! 'Lu Ren sighed from the bottom of his heart.A highly reliable history book!For an ethnic group, history is extremely important. How pitiful are civilizations like ancient Egypt and Babylon whose history is buried and hidden from the world!
Their culture was buried in the long river of history with the passing of civilization.This made Lu Ren, who was born in the Central Plains, feel extremely uncomfortable.

Without him, the rabbit dies and the fox is sad, and things hurt its kind!

Seeing the ruins of Rome, the pyramids of Egypt, and the unrecognized characters of Babylon, people in the Central Plains will sigh from the bottom of their hearts.After all, they were all brothers who played cards at the same table back then, and now there is only the Central Plains left...

The opponents changed one after another, but the player from Zhongyuan kept playing against the new kid on the table.

Maybe they have the upper hand for a while, but wait and see!Hu has no luck for a hundred years!A hundred years from now, let's see what remains of today's players.

Lu Ren stopped listening to Professor Binns' scripted babbling, and started to read the history of magic by himself.

In fact, calm down and read it, this book is quite interesting.

Unlike the Transfiguration textbooks, there are not so many strange words in the history books, but more vivid people and stories.Lu Ren loved to read these since he was a child, like the ancient Chinese reading in the Chinese exam, if there are biographies, Lu Ren will be really happy: there are new stories to read.Lu Ren seldom failed to get full marks for this kind of biographical test questions.

There is actually no difference between the book History of Magic and the Central Plains history books that Lu Ren has read, even the vernacular version.And he also gradually understood why it was difficult for little wizards to see these historical facts.

It starts with the character image.A historical figure must have three images: history, literature and folk.These three possibilities are very different.

For example, Cao Cao in the Three Kingdoms has a very complicated historical image. Mr. Yi Zhongtian once commented on Cao Cao in this way: he is extremely clever and stupid, cunning and treacherous but also frank and sincere, open-minded and suspicious, magnanimous and narrow-minded.

In the literary image, thanks to the blessing of Luo Guanzhong, the number one Shu blower in the world, Cao Cao is a big villain.Luo Guanzhong may be the patriarch of fan humanities, and his fan "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is much more popular than the original.Fan authors should really pay homage to this old man before publishing a book.

And his folk image is very interesting: Captain Mojin and the patriarch of Lao Wang next door, when talking about Cao Cao, they are nothing more than images of "good wife".

In some film and television works of later generations, barrages are often seen, saying: This Cao Cao doesn't act like it.

Then Lu Ren wanted to ask: Well, have you seen the real Cao Cao?
The image that lives in a person's heart is the folk image of that person.

Here comes the problem. Those wizards in the ancient magic world only have historical images, not literary and folk images.This makes the study of them extremely boring.

What if there is a wizarding coalition army that burns 80 goblin water troops in Loch Ness, the demon Emeric pulls out the old wand stuck in the lake, and Grindelwald causes Dumbledore to forget to lock a door in Nurmengard Stories like taking advantage of the situation, then the history of magic class will be much more interesting.

Unfortunately not.

No wonder the little wizards are not interested in this thing - there is no sense of substitution at all.In their eyes, these historical figures are nothing more than boring names.

　Talk about my own views on history and history books.The words of a family are insignificant!
　　
　
(End of this chapter)