Hogwarts: Wizards of Eternity

Defense Against the Dark Arts, legend says it's a cursed course by Voldemort, and in recent years, almost no one has been able to teach this course for two years.

All the teachers assigned to this course generally encounter various misfortunes within a year of starting to teach.

They are unable to continue teaching students for various strange reasons.

But this time, Quirrell 'fell' too early.

This is indeed a problem that must be addressed immediately.

"Do you have any recommendations?" Dumbledore asked.

When communicating with the Seer, Dumbledore is always direct and doesn't beat around the bush; in Dumbledore's view, that's meaningless.

Since Roger brought this up, it shouldn't be without a reason.

But Roger shook his head: "No recommendations, just asking... If you have to find someone from within the school to substitute, then Professor Snape and you personally are the most suitable. If you recruit from outside the school, I'm a bit curious who it will be?"

Currently, the top talents within the school are Dumbledore and the four House Heads.

The Head of Hufflepuff is the Herbology professor, which isn't suitable. The Head of Ravenclaw is the Charms professor, very strong, but more skilled in wizard combat, while dealing with Dark Arts creatures, which is part of Defense Against the Dark Arts, is outside his area of expertise.

He knows some, but hasn't reached the level of a domain expert. They all have strict requirements for themselves and probably wouldn't agree to come and lecture from the textbook, turning the life-or-death course of Defense Against the Dark Arts into a soft course.

Professor McGonagall is the same, so it's either Professor Snape, who specializes in this area, or Headmaster Dumbledore.

After listening to Roger, Dumbledore thought for a moment and then said: "Let's go with Professor Snape then."

Christmas break isn't far away, and in such a short time, it's really difficult to find someone reliable enough... Hogwarts isn't Dumbledore's personal fiefdom.

Although he has the ability, he's unwilling to disrupt the order with force, so he still needs to discuss some things with the School Governors.

The transfer of internal teaching staff like Quirrell is easy to handle, but recruiting from outside requires the approval of many people.

Since they were talking about Snape, Dumbledore took the opportunity to say: "I heard you went to Snape before to ask about the path of magic."

Roger, not feeling the need to hide anything, frankly said: "I also asked Professor McGonagall and Voldemort. Now I know what path I want to take."

Hearing that Roger actually went to Voldemort to ask such a question, Dumbledore raised an eyebrow, and the portraits of former headmasters behind him started chattering noisily.

But neither Roger nor Dumbledore cared about these magical portraits.

Seeing that Dumbledore didn't have any particular reaction to this, Roger continued: "Professor McGonagall, Professor Snape, and Voldemort gave me the answers 'Proficiency,' 'Passion,' and 'Power,' respectively."

"Among them, the answers from Professor McGonagall and Professor Snape may seem different, but they are essentially the same."

"Magic is strengthened by the desire of the heart. If a person puts enough passion into magic, they will naturally become proficient."

"'Passion' can increase a person's magical talent, as long as you believe in magic, magic will respond to you."

"Of course, there are also examples of people who are not passionate enough but are very proficient."

For example, the demolition expert Seamus Finnigan, and some people who have suffered abuse, or perhaps are not interested in the Dark Arts, but have Dark Arts talent due to their distorted minds.

"And Voldemort's answer is not wrong either."

"As long as the heart is strong enough, every kind of magic has extraordinary power. But magic always has a focus."

Taking Avada Kedavra as an example, even if Voldemort were ten times stronger, he couldn't conjure food with the Unforgivable Curse unless he robbed someone.

"So, the answer is obvious."

"I love this wonderful world, I look forward to the infinite possibilities of the future, I am greedy, I want to watch and possess it all forever, so I will pursue eternal life."

"All my ideals, all my desires, at the center of it all is... 'Me'!"

"And what is wonderful, what is possible? Its essence is change."

At this point, Roger paused before continuing: "The path I want to take is one that takes 'Me' as the core, controlling change until I become change itself, and finally transcending change!"

As Dumbledore listened, he frowned slightly.

He could understand what Roger meant, but he found it difficult to understand what kind of path this was and what methods would be used to achieve it in the end.

For some reason, Dumbledore had a faint sense of foreboding in his heart.

But he didn't want to ask directly, because this undoubtedly touched Roger's true core secrets!

Unless it was a relationship like Professor McGonagall and Roger, which was almost like a teacher and disciple, it was really difficult to ask.

Seeming to see Dumbledore's thoughts, Roger smiled and said: "If you are interested, I can go back and write down the specific operating methods in a book and send it to you to read."

"What?" This time Dumbledore was truly astonished, so surprised that it took him two seconds to realize what Roger was saying.

Although Roger is usually a very upright person, this time is different.

For example, this is almost equivalent to the United States revealing all its technological details and all national classified files to China, plus all national financial flow information, complete information transparency!

Who wouldn't be stunned hearing that?!

"My path is not something that needs to be kept secret."

This was also Roger's idea after establishing his own path.

The former Roger didn't want to make his eternal life technology public because he didn't want everyone to use the same thing uniformly, without innovation, reducing the overall potential of the human race.

But.

It's difficult for one person to build skyscrapers.

The almost impossible path to eternal life needs more help.

Methods similar to cultivating Hagrid and Harry, planting trees and picking fruit in the river of time, are indeed feasible.

But planting ideas upstream and harvesting fruits downstream is too slow and has too many variables.

So, he wants to play something special.

Roger wants to establish a path for the wizarding civilization!

Just like in many legends, the ancients had immortals who passed down the Immortal Dao. After a path is passed down, everyone who walks on this path will bloom with completely different brilliance according to their own differences!

Some refine essence into qi, refine qi into spirit, refine spirit into emptiness, and refine emptiness into the Dao.

Some swallow a golden pill, and my life is up to me, not heaven.

Some abandon the Golden Pill Dao and start with the Nascent Soul, Transformation God, Tribulation Transcendence, and Great Ascension.

So, what about magic?

Does this system, which emphasizes the mind and looks 80% like the warp power of Warhammer 40K, have a chance to create something new that can both move forward and bloom in a hundred different ways?

In this world, people's thoughts really have great power, and the thoughts of all beings are rituals that can change the world.

If Roger's vision goes smoothly, everyone who learns magic in the future will become their own 'cheat'!