A ruined Hogwarts

Owen took out the medium-thin book "The Mystery of Magic". The bronze cover was clean and elegant. The author of the book was Rowena Ravenclaw.

Sitting on the floor, Owen basked in the warm sunshine and quickly finished reading the book.

In the book, Ravenclaw elaborates on his views on the nature of magic. Like the wizards, she also believes that the magic of wizards is the embodiment of spiritual power and willpower, and the two complement each other and constitute the essence of magic.

The power of will is related to the wizard's own life experience and experience, and it is difficult to enhance it through specific methods. But mental strength is different. It is the product of the joint influence of the brain and thinking, and can be improved through special methods.

Because of the differences between individuals, each person's method of improving spiritual strength should be different. But after research and experimentation, Ravenclaw discovered a universal mental training method. Although this exercise method may have stronger or weaker effects on different people, it is always useful.

Owen memorized this exercise method with bright eyes. It is a method of improving mental strength by manipulating memory and thinking. It tempers the spirit through precise and meticulous operations. It is essentially similar to gymnastics for physical exercise.

"It's interesting." Owen finished flipping through the book and slowly closed his eyes, feeling that his mind became extremely active, as if he was wrapped in a gentle breeze.

"What is this?" He opened his eyes and looked at Metis.

"Did you find out? This is the blessing magic left by Ravenclaw in this book." Metis said happily, "This book is actually a white magic item she made, which can bless the readers. . It can greatly improve the efficiency of exercising your mental strength and protect your thinking so that you will not be in danger due to operational errors when using this exercise method."

"Does it represent the white magic of giving?" Owen closed his eyes again and tried this exercise method for the first time.

The first attempt is unfamiliar and difficult, and the manipulation of memory and thinking is always particularly complicated and profound. His brain seemed to be filled with balls of thread that had been messed up by Melete's play, and there were thousands of threads waiting for him to sort them out. However, Ravenclaw's blessing magic provided him with motivation and guidance like an oasis, allowing his training progress to proceed slowly but surely.

After the exercise, Owen felt tired from the bottom of his heart, and there seemed to be countless little stars spinning around in front of his eyes. He shook his head, closed his eyes and rested for a while, then waved the wand, and he really felt that casting the spell became more comfortable.

"Tsk tsk, Ravenclaw is such a treasure girl." He stuffed the books in his hands back into the bookshelf, then scanned the other books on the bookshelf, and finally set his sights on a row of books on black magic.

He raised his hand and pulled out a book from it, quickly browsing the catalog to see if he could find a description of the Black Demon Guard here.

Metis watched his actions silently, and sighed after a long time: "I will not interfere with your decision, but please remember, if you choose black magic, don't get too involved in white magic. The two are Mutually exclusive poles, greed will only lead to evil consequences.”

"So, Ravenclaw chose white magic?" Owen asked in surprise, thinking of the blessing magic in the previous book.

"No, among the four people who founded this school, Hufflepuff chose white magic, Slytherin chose dark magic, and Gryffindor...he preferred to use swords. And Ravenclaw, she is the history He is the only wizard in history who has achieved great achievements in both black and white magic." For the first time, Metis's tone was full of regret and sadness.

Under Owen's curious and probing eyes, Metis sang about the long past.

"Ravenclaw, she comes from the quiet riverside of Scotland. She was born with outstanding wisdom and creativity, as well as endless greed and thirst for knowledge. Black magic and white magic are both fields full of endless mystery. The two are completely different. For Ravenclaw, it is unacceptable to abandon either one of them. She firmly believes that the two complement each other to break through the existing bottleneck of magic."

"So, she, who is knowledgeable and extremely smart, began to look for ways to make the two coexist. In fact, whether it is black magic or white magic, if it is only done with a research attitude and not used wantonly on people, then they will be very harmful to wizards. The impact is limited to the mind."

Owen nodded, remembering Voldemort's words, and said: "Then, if a wizard uses black magic on intelligent creatures wantonly, he will constantly get some kind of feedback. While improving the wizard's black magic power, it will also It will corrode his body and mind. At a certain point, the black wizard himself will be abandoned by white magic?"

"That's right." Metis said softly, "So, I hope you can use them carefully."

She continued: "For wizards who have never had the deep imprint of black and white magic on their bodies, the contradiction between the two is that the malevolence required by black magic is incompatible with the goodwill required by white magic. When a The deeper a person is immersed in negativity, the more difficult it is to find pure positivity...But due to the necessity of emotional involvement, absolute rationality is not advisable."

"Ravenclaw has developed a method. She separates and isolates a small part of her own thinking, so that it does not affect her own mind, but also ensures that her positive and negative ends do not interfere with each other. In this way, she obtains An opportunity to climb upward together in the realm of black and white magic.”

"If you are willing, you can also find relevant information about this method here."

"This crazy attempt was successful, but it also failed. She achieved unprecedented achievements, but as a result, her main mind fell into a state of absolute sanity that was difficult to escape."

"This state lasted for many years. Ravenclaw itself did not reject this state because it greatly improved the efficiency of her study and research. Therefore, she was not keen on finding a way out of this state until many years later. Later, she unexpectedly escaped from a state of absolute sanity."

"She rediscovered her emotions, and the sadness and joy she had suppressed for too long overwhelmed her, almost destroying her heart in an instant." Metis said sadly, "She then discovered that all these years, all The joy that comes from achieving research results is far outweighed by the overwhelming sadness."

"Only then did she understand what she had done. When Gryffindor and Slytherin turned against each other, she was indifferent; when her friends drifted away from her, she was indifferent; when her husband who loved her deeply passed away She was unmoved; when her daughter, whom she had neglected since childhood, stole her crown and ran away, she watched with cold eyes..."

"Her heart was broken. This extremely clever wizard fell ill almost instantly. Hufflepuff tried his best but could not save her life. She asked someone to find her daughter and wanted to die before she died. I met her once and apologized to her, but I didn’t wait for her to come back until I passed away.”

"Greedy for knowledge, this made her and destroyed her. Before her death, she understood that the excessive greed for knowledge will only lead to disaster. There are more precious things in this world than intelligence... …”

Metis stopped here and fell into a long silence.

Owen leaned against the bookshelf behind him, his dark eyes deep and distant, as if he had returned to the time thousands of years ago through this story, witnessing the legend and end of Ravenclaw.