Harry Potter: Dark Alchemy

Wright didn't keep Harry waiting much longer.

The next morning, he took Harry with him to the south of St. Catchpole Village and visited the Weasley family living here.

And this is also Wright's first time coming to such a "traditional" wizarding family.

Just like what I have seen in movies, the appearance of the Burrow looks all crooked. If it were not for the support of magic, this crooked building would never have survived for such a long time.

But the existence of the Burrow and the Weasley family also solved the doubts that had always existed in Wright's heart:

That's why wizards, who were several eras ahead of ordinary people in ancient times, were left far behind by ordinary people in the twentieth century.

First of all, what is certain is that the rules of the Harry Potter world are different from those of the previous world. Because if it were the same, then there would not be colorful magical creatures born here, nor would there be humans like wizards who control supernatural powers.

Yes, humans.

At least judging from Wright's eyes, wizards still cannot escape the realm of humans. They will cry, they will laugh, they will argue with others over a gold galleon, and they will starve to death because they have not eaten for a long time.

Apart from magic, wizards are not much different from ordinary Muggles. Even if most wizards were to remove their wands, they would really become Muggles and would be unable to use magic.

But this is what makes people confused.

Unsurprisingly, both wizards and Muggles evolved from ancient creatures, and were not formed because some extraterrestrial civilization suddenly arrived and then used the earth as a huge testing ground and transformed it. But what is puzzling is that wizarding civilization, at least before the Middle Ages, was far beyond the Muggle civilization of the same period.

But at that moment after the Industrial Revolution began, Muggle civilization seemed to have wings. Ordinary humans admitted their ignorance, began to access nature's resources in their own way, and began to achieve unprecedented capabilities.

Europeans began to conquer the Americas and the oceans, and the entire earth was connected, forming a harmonious and unified historical field. Ordinary humans have gradually broken away from geographical restrictions and even begun to conquer worlds beyond the earth. Nuclear weapons have become the most powerful weapons in the hands of ordinary humans.

Even God’s authority over creation has begun to be stolen by ordinary humans. Biology is increasingly shaped by intelligent design rather than natural selection.

The wizarding world has been left far behind by the world of ordinary people. To put it bluntly, the status comparison between the two has completely changed.

Wright was originally puzzled by this anomaly, why the wizard who was supposed to be omnipotent and possessed supernatural powers was replaced by a group of ordinary humans who could only use their own physical strength.

But now I see Molly using household magic to cook, stir-fry, and wash dishes, George and Fred use magic to weed weeds, drive out gnomes in the yard, and spawn pumpkins, and Arthur uses magic to repair houses and rebuild cars...

Wright felt like he had found some clue.

Although it is still unverifiable, the first wizards should have been born among ordinary people. It may be because he accidentally ate some magical plant, or it may be because his body was contaminated with the blood of some magical animal during a hunt. There may also be other more sinister speculations. After all, the existence of hidden monsters can be inferred that there is no reproductive isolation in this world, at least there is no such thing among magical creatures.

Although the original dark wizard on paper was the despicable Herbo, an ancient Greek wizard, the real birth time of wizards should be very, very early, earlier than the time when humans entered the agricultural revolution and began to cultivate food artificially (here it should be Homo sapiens, the ancestor of modern humans), may even use "ten thousand" as the unit of chronology.

In the past, ordinary people lived together. Their lives consisted of collecting mushrooms and nuts together, and hunting some small herbivores with low attack power. Their daily lives were migration rather than settled work.

When resources are abundant, more children will be born; when resources are low, children will be born less. But infants and young children are slow and require extra care, which will put a burden on the entire human tribe and require women who are also part of the labor force to take care of them continuously.

And that was probably more than 20,000 years ago.

About 18,000 years ago, the last ice age ended and the global climate warmed. All kinds of magical creatures began to flourish, and the first wizards should have been born sometime after eighteen thousand years.

Since the end of the last ice age, the climate in the Middle East has been very suitable for the growth of wheat and other cereals, and these crops have begun to flourish.

Gradually, game and other food sources became more plentiful in places where wheat grew particularly luxuriantly. As a result, the human tribes that originally moved around were gradually able to give up their wandering lifestyle, live in a certain place for a season, and even form permanent settlements. It should be from here that wizards begin to discover the differences between themselves and others.

Other people in the village make a living by hunting and gathering. They spend most of their time collecting and grinding various wild grains every day. They need to spend a lot of effort to build stone houses and barns, and they need to bend their backs every day. Come harvest that wild wheat and then spend a lot of time grinding it.

Others still need to sow, plow, weed, pest control, water, and fertilize.

For wizards, all these things are just tasks that can be completed with a wave of a hand.

As wizards settled in permanent villages, the supply of food continued to increase, and the number of wizards began to slowly increase. When other people need to farm, they can do it with a wave of their hands; when others need to hunt, they can do it with a wave of their hands; when other people's children die of hunger, the children of wizards are under the guidance of wizards. They thrive under careful care and may inherit the magic of their father or mother.

Slowly, the wizards felt more and more uncomfortable in the settlement.

In this way, wizards may be self-exiled, or they may be expelled by others, start to leave their original tribes, and build their own wizard villages.

As time passed, the wizards' magic began to become more and more powerful, and they themselves became more and more powerful.

They can travel through time and space; build pyramids and erect Stonehenge; and use magic to reach the other side of everything they want to reach. At this time, ordinary people still only dig food in the fields.

It was around this time that wizards began calling ordinary people Muggles.

Some even call them mudbloods.

As a result, wizards began to separate themselves from ordinary people, thinking that they were superior to others.

Over the past thousands of years, wizards have invented many inventions that make life easier, less time-consuming, and more satisfying, such as magic spells, floo nets, floo powder, wands, and so on.

The wizards save all the trouble and time, but they also save all the curiosity and motivation.

This continued until the advent of the scientific revolution for ordinary humans.

Ordinary people today can also achieve some of the magic effects of wizards with the help of technology. Such as washing machines, dishwashers, telephones, mobile phones, the Internet, emails, cranes and so on. Although advanced magic such as time, space, mind, reality, etc. are still like natural chasms that separate ordinary human beings from their cognition, who can say for sure what will happen in the future?

At this time, the wizards were still wearing medieval clothes, maintaining their inherent old-fashioned attitude and condescendingly facing their former compatriots. Wizards are laughing at Muggles for not knowing magic, but apart from magic, do wizards have anything else to be proud of now?

Wizards thought they had great power and could change the face of the entire world. But the result was not what anyone expected, and it was not even what any wizard wanted to see. There is no man or god behind the creation of magic, or the intention for wizards to rely on magic for its existence.

At first it was just all kinds of small things, mainly hoping to have enough food, live a safer life, and be able to rest more while working. But the final cumulative effect was that wizards with supernatural powers began to be left behind by ordinary people, and could no longer even catch up with them.

And this is just because of a "luxury life trap" that is not luxurious.