The Magical Principles of Natural Philosophy at Hogwarts

Erwin was a little dazed.

Has that mountain-like giant dragon been asleep for so long?

Hundreds of millions of years, such a long time span.

"It's hard to imagine as a human, isn't it?" Dumbledore smiled understandingly, "Such a long period of time has almost erased all traces. About that era, we can only engrave demons from Wyrmrest Sanctuary." One or two speculations in the text."

"People in normal society have found some dinosaur fossils," Erwin said.

"Yes, this is one of the few proofs that the Age of Dragons existed."

Very good, then it can even be speculated that the bones of the high-level dragons were intercepted by wizards, and then Muggle scholars can only study the fossils of low-level dragons, and the results are naturally completely wrong.

"The power of the primitive dragons is beyond imagination. Some of them can even fill the highest mountain in the world into the deepest trench." Dumbledore said again.

Erwin recalled the feeling of seeing the silver-white primitive dragon, the terrifying magic power like mountains and seas.

"You told me before that the original giant dragon chose to sleep to avoid a certain disaster. So what kind of disaster would make such a powerful creature make such a bad move?"

"About this, there has been a generally accepted and highly credible inference. There was hatred and war among the primitive dragons. At a certain point in time hundreds of millions of years ago, a certain extremely powerful primitive dragon did something very A great thing, it summoned a huge meteor, "

Great, straight to the point, Erwin said in his mind.

"The huge meteorite had a devastating effect, directly killing one-third of the dragons, and it seemed to have destroyed a certain fundamental structure of this world, making it no longer suitable for the primitive dragons to survive. "

Erwin listened without blinking.

Dumbledore took a sip of tea and moistened his throat, "The dragons gradually found that the effects of all magic are weakening, and the newborn cubs are getting weaker and weaker, and what's worse, even the adult primitive dragons are dying. Degeneration began to occur. They exchanged opinions, and then came to the conclusion that this world may no longer be able to support such a powerful individual as an adult primitive dragon, and the invisible world will has shown a tendency to erase them.

The dragons have made many attempts, but they all failed. The trend of world change is irreversible, so some dragons choose to build the Wyrmrest Sanctuary, silence their own magic power, fall into a nearly eternal sleep, and wait for the world to recover. Into the state before the meteorite fell. "

"But they miscalculated," Erwin said.

"That's right, the contraction of the world's carrying capacity is irreversible, and it will still affect the sleeping dragons, making them unable to wake up. And the non-sleeping dragons will eventually be lost in the long river of time, and their descendants will continue to Degenerated, and finally formed the current fire dragon."

"There is magic power, but no wisdom." Erwin murmured, he suddenly thought of something, "So, my current dragon form..."

"There should be little room to grow."

"That's not bad." Erwin shrugged. "I don't want to be big."

"The original giant dragon that summoned the meteor is now called the World Destroyer, and the period when the meteor landed is called the Great Cataclysm."

"Very appropriate." Erwin nodded.

"Over hundreds of millions of years, most of the functions of Wyrmrest Sanctuary are gradually failing. Since the birth of human beings, people have occasionally entered it by mistake for more than [-] years. They may have triggered some kind of rune program, or they may have accepted Inheritance, maybe even directly ate the flesh and blood of the original dragon, and finally obtained the blood of magic."

"Then this gene that can use magic is passed on among humans, and as it is diluted from generation to generation, there will occasionally be atavistic individuals." Erwin understood.

The issue of the source of magic was revealed. This could not be a natural ability of human beings, otherwise the number of wizards could not be so rare.

"Those who have obtained the bloodlines are 'primordial shamans'. Some of them do not hide this fact, so they are worshiped and enshrined by other human beings, and they are regarded as 'gods'."

"The Origin of Religion..."

Erwin took a deep breath, "So how many Wyrmrest Sanctuaries are there?"

"There are only two known to exist publicly," Dumbledore's eyes flashed a gleam, "one is in Jerusalem, and the other is in the Rocky Mountains of the United States. The former is currently the site of the two main religions in Muggles." Roots, which caused a large number of wizards to emigrate to America after their discovery. The original dragons in both sanctuaries have been confirmed dead.

There are only two that exist publicly, so how many are not open?

"Jerusalem? That is, Jesus Christ..."

"You can think that he is also a primordial wizard."

"No wonder wizards also celebrate Christmas and Easter..." Erwin finally understood.

"Then now I also got blood from a Wyrmrest Sanctuary..."

"Congratulations, Erwin." Dumbledore smiled. "You are the only primordial wizard for thousands of years. If you want, you can create a religion, or build a prominent wizard family. If I have a daughter or Niece, I will definitely introduce you to you without hesitation."

The boy's pupils shrank a bit, but the overall mood was very flat, "Wow, but I don't feel very happy."

"Why?" Dumbledore was interested.

Erwin hesitated, "because it felt a lot like an arrangement," he said.

"You mean 'destiny'?"

"Almost, it's as if someone wrote an adventure script for me, and even arranged for a beautiful woman." He hesitated for a while, "Professor Dumbledore, with your strength, have you ever felt that you have surpassed us?" Existence in another dimension? They look at us like some kind of literature."

Dumbledore didn't answer directly, "Why do you feel this way?" He asked rhetorically.

"Because after I came into contact with Hagrid's Norwegian spinyback, I inexplicably had a strong desire to transform into a dragon. The transformation was accomplished without knowing the consequences."

"Is that so?" Dumbledore was thoughtful, and after a while he said solemnly: "But Erwin, have you ever thought that if there really is such an existence that can directly control your thoughts and emotions, How do you resist him? How can you be sure that what you are thinking now is not arranged by the other party?"

Erwin was dumbfounded.

"Smart heads always think too much. But now I can tell you very clearly that there should be no such existence." Dumbledore's voice was very convincing, "And the reason why you have that kind of will , I think it is very likely that it is the effect of the big prophecy."

"Great prophecy?" Erwin was already confused, "What does this have to do with prophecy?"

Dumbledore smiled, "Most smart wizards believe that divination and prophecy are groundless tricks,"

"I also have this feeling." Erwin said without hesitation: "And even if it is a successful prophecy, it must provide accurate time, place and people to be considered valuable. It's just that people feel 'wow, it's really accurate afterwards. Ah' prophecies mean nothing."

He had sat in on a few divination classes out of curiosity before, and was 100% sure that Professor Trelawney was a witch, only second to Administrator Filch in the level of an idiot.

"You're right." Dumbledore affirmed, "But many wizards, including very smart wizards, don't really understand the true working principle of divination, and they don't understand the cause and effect relationship."

"cause and effect?"

"Do you think that wizards make predictions based on what will happen in the future?"

"if not?"

"However, on the contrary, it is because there is a prophecy first, and then the things described in the prophecy will happen."

Erwin froze.

Yes, the essence of magic is that wizards make demands on the world, so shouldn't divination be the same?

"Understood?" said Dumbledore meaningfully. "In a sense, divination is one of the most powerful forms of magic. The correct attitude towards a successful prophecy is not to try to prevent it from happening, but to We should assume that the prophecy will come true and then consider countermeasures."

Dumbledore took another sip of tea, "Of course, such powerful magic has many restrictions. Not only does it have very strict requirements on blood and magic power, but the content of the prophecy is often beyond the subjective control of the prophet."

"So someone predicted that I would become a dragon?" Erwin murmured.

"This cannot be determined, but the main part of the prophecy should include the part where you accept the transformation into the original young dragon, and the prophet is likely to be the original dragon you have seen."

"It made a prophecy that spanned hundreds of millions of years before it fell asleep? This is ridiculous, will I wake it up in the end?" Erwin had a hellish expression. "If there is such a part in the prophecy, then the answer is yes." Dumbledore looked calm, "As for how to realize it, we don't know."

Erwin took another deep breath, he had to digest the information.

In any case, the idea of ​​great prophecy is easier to accept than the existence of high dimensions.

"Any questions?" Dumbledore asked.

"Nothing."

"It is now

It's summer vacation, go and pack your things. Hagrid found your suitcase in the Forbidden Forest. I'll ask Professor McGonagall to take you home later.The year-end banquet was held three days ago, and I have good news for you, Gryffindor won this year's House Cup. "

This is obviously due to the performance of the Boy Who Lived in Quidditch. Three snitches in three games directly scored 450 points.

Erwin responded absently, he didn't care about that at all.

"So what about Quirrell?" Erwin suddenly remembered the ghost professor, if it weren't for that guy, he wouldn't have been arrested and taken to Romania.

"He sold his soul, and now he has received the punishment he deserved." Dumbledore said, with a sad look on his face.