The Magical Principles of Natural Philosophy at Hogwarts

Gryffindor actually produced a student who could legally skip all Charms classes. Erwin made a small name, and now almost everyone in the school knows him, and people kept talking to him during breakfast. greet.

Erwin didn't show the slightest impatience, and nodded in response one by one.

"If only I were as smart as you." Neville said enviously before falling asleep that night.

"Believe me, Neville, you're actually a genius," Erwin said.

He didn't just say it casually. There are more than 6000 million people in the UK, and there are only five or six hundred students in Hogwarts. Every little wizard is considered one in a million and deserves attention.

Using most of the free time on Fridays and weekends, Alvin read through the "Guide to Self-Defense Against the Dark Arts" several times. This textbook for Defense Against the Dark Arts is divided into two parts. One part tells about various common curses and counter-curses methods , and the other part is about various common harmful magical creatures and how to deal with them. Most of these creatures can be solved with a specific spell. Erwin thinks that this should be why they are rated as "generally harmful." "The reason lies.

First-year students don't need to learn all of this book, they only need to master part of the anti-curse method, two-thirds of which are memorized, such as the itchy curse can be removed by lemonade, which is very important to Erwin. It is said that the difficulty is too low.

So he also went to Professor Quirrell, the defense teacher. This is a very strange person. He wears a thick purple towel on a hot day. There is a strong smell of garlic in the office, which is really hard to get close to.But unexpectedly, Quirrell was very talkative. After asking a few questions, he announced directly that Erwin had mastered all the content of the first-year defense class, and he didn't need to go to class, just don't forget to take the exam at the end of the semester.

The herbal class is almost a purely practical class, and Erwin decided to finish this class honestly, because it should be difficult for him to come into contact with live herbs in other places, anyway, there are only three classes a week.

From the first Potions class, Erwin realized that Professor Snape had deep malice towards Gryffindor. He could still restrain himself in front of Professor McGonagall, but he did not hide it when facing weaker students. He even gave the boy who lived a catastrophe a note of Mawei when they first met, and deducted twenty points from Gryffindor with various excuses in the first week.Neville was especially afraid of him, and almost developed a fear reflex.Under such circumstances, Erwin certainly wouldn't ask for trouble, at least he would have to be Snape's long-lost biological son to be allowed to leave get out of class early.

Professor Snape was also the head of Slytherin. With his elbow, it was strange that Slytherin couldn't get the house cup.

As for the history of magic, the professor of this course turned out to be a ghost. Professor Binns' lectures were dull and boring, and his toneless voice was like a lullaby, making people drowsy.Most young wizards don't like this class, but Erwin soon finds that Professor Binns doesn't mind his students reading other books during class as long as they don't make noise.

That's pretty good.

Hermione was almost speechless towards Erwin. This guy doesn't look like he wants to study hard, but he has amazing learning ability, which really makes people's teeth sore.

Excluding the Charms and Defense Against the Dark Arts classes, Erwin can have ten more hours of free time per week, which are naturally all used in the library. Since the beginning of the school year, Mrs. Pince, the librarian, has become his The most familiar woman in Hogwarts.

Except for the restricted area, all books in the library are open to students of all grades. These knowledge stored in the form of books can be said to be the foundation of Hogwarts.

Only a systematic learning process can be efficient. Of course, Erwin will not immediately learn a fireball technique like Frostbolt or something.Although there are many books in the library, there are only a few books that are purely about fighting.This is actually not difficult to understand. In a normal society, soldiers generally account for less than [-]% of the total population. Most people are not good at fighting and do not need to fight. Of course, the same is true for wizards.

Hogwarts is not a military school, its teaching purpose is to let students learn how to use magic to live and work.

Erwin can now confirm that the essence of magic is that wizards use magic power to change the world with their thinking and will, because he has witnessed and used the most unreasonable magic of transfiguration.Professor McGonagall even transforms into a tabby cat in front of all the students in the first class, and then back into human form.There is no need to ask cats how to think without human brains, how the overall entropy of the system has changed, where the clothes have gone, etc., because it is meaningless.

A successful magic is like a wizard asking the world, and then the world will satisfy him unconditionally, no matter what kind of absurd and twisted way, it will eventually show the result the wizard wants.

After solving the essential problem of magic, the next thing to consider is magic power.When Erwin came to Mrs. Pince holding a stack of books taller than him, the tall and thin woman was really taken aback.

"No matter how many books you borrow, you must return them within two weeks." She reminded: "Can you really move back to the dormitory alone with so many books?"

"Ah? Don't worry, there's no problem." Erwin replied casually.

He had of course applied an extra upward force to the stack of books to counteract gravity, and now he felt no different than holding a flowerpot.

In three days, Erwin read about one-third of these books, and each book told him that apart from a few extremely expensive potions, it was difficult for an adult wizard to increase his magic power level.Generally speaking, the magical power of little wizards will gradually increase with age, and when it stops varies from person to person.There is no so-called "cultivation method". Frequently consuming a lot of mana and using magic to replenish it has little improvement in the overall level of mana.

"So it's purely based on talent?" Erwin faintly felt that there was something wrong, and decided to hold his opinion. After all, the books he read now are considered public information and cannot be regarded as absolute truth.

However, there is a book, "A Wizard's Self-Cultivation", which made Erwin realize that he had overlooked a problem, that is, successfully dodging an incoming spell is more effective than any counter-spell, and this requires sufficient observation skills and agility.Strong physical fitness can also allow wizards to recover faster after being hit by a spell. For example, the petrification spell is difficult to have an effect on larger humans.

All in all, for wizards, the body is also the capital of survival.

Fortunately, the potion was not useless in this respect. Erwin sent Saby to send a letter to the pharmacy in Diagon Alley, asking for the specific price of the potion that can increase the strength of the body.At the same time, he also added an item to his daily schedule, jogging around the castle before breakfast. Although the amount of exercise is not large, it can always produce some effects.

There was flying lessons exclusive to first-years on Thursday, and Erwin jogged back for breakfast, chatting with Hermione about why British wizards chose broomsticks as their primary means of transportation.

"Except for its flexibility and concealment, almost all of them are disadvantages. The long and narrow body of the stick is not suitable for riding, and it is too dangerous to fly at high altitude without any protection..."

The sound of flapping wings echoed over the auditorium, and a large flock of owls flew in to deliver packages. Erwin didn't find Saby, and the great horned owl hadn't returned yet.

A taupe owl gave Neville a small package, which contained a transparent glass ball, "This is a memory ball," the round-faced boy explained to the people looking around excitedly, he rarely gets everyone's attention, " Grandma knows I have no memory - hold the ball like this and it will tell you if you forgot something, and if it turns red..." Neville pulled his face down as the ball in his hand turned red. Bright.

"Then do you know what you forgot?" Hermione asked after taking a sip of hot milk.

"I'm thinking..." Neville's face became painful.

"It seems that this thing should be of no use to you." Erwin said objectively.

A blond-haired boy crept over from the Slytherin table, followed by two large valets.Erwin had a little impression of him, Drago Malfoy, a cunning little trickster who pretended to be powerful, never concealed his bad nature under Snape's connivance.

Malfoy snatched Neville's memory ball with a smirk, and the anger of Harry and Ron was immediately ignited. Just when the conflict was about to break out, Professor McGonagall noticed this side, and the two sides died down.

Erwin shook his head slightly. This is the result of the sorting. A group of children were forcibly divided into two factions. They were hostile to each other at such a young age, resulting in conflicts.

But generally speaking, artificially created low-level conflicts are used to cover up deeper-level conflicts. These days, Erwin has faintly felt the malice of the children born in wizarding families in Slytherin.

The venue for flying lessons is on the lawn in front of the castle.Mrs. Hooch, who taught the class, had capable short silver hair and sharp eyes like a falcon. She looked very capable. She was explaining the steps of using a broomstick to everyone, but Neville was too nervous to fly directly on the broomstick. Got up, and was soon twenty feet above the ground.

Neville yelled in horror, not knowing how to stop the broom.

With just a little use of his abilities, Erwin could stop Neville's broom, but he didn't because there was an adult wizard and a professional flying instructor at the scene.

But Mrs. Hooch just yelled anxiously, "Come back, child!"

Erwin couldn't believe his ears, of all the ways to deal with an out-of-control broomstick, this had to be the dumbest.

Neville finally made the right choice. After finding that he couldn't control the broom under him, he let go of his hand and fell from the air. Erwin only had time to help him reduce the speed of his fall.

There was a violent "bang", and Neville curled up on the grass.Mrs Hooch was as pale as Neville.

"Broken wrist." She checked Neville, and Erwin thought she was going to cast healing magic next, but what Mrs. Hooch said was——

"I'm taking this kid to the infirmary now, and none of you are allowed to move the broom, or you'll be kicked out of Hogwarts before you can even say a word of Quidditch! Come on, dear."

She left with a sobbing Neville.

Erwin still finds it inconceivable that a dignified Hogwarts teacher behaves like a Muggle. Could it be that Mrs. Hooch is an idiot in essence?Only good at riding broomsticks?

But Hogwarts shouldn't be able to hire idiots.Perhaps there is only one explanation, not all wizards have excellent talents in magic.They may be good at their area of ​​expertise, but otherwise terrible at other things.

This may be the situation of most ordinary people in wizarding society.