The Magical Principles of Natural Philosophy at Hogwarts

Eating is a fundamental problem for every species, at least on this planet.

Erwin took his own suitcase and walked nearly fifteen kilometers on foot before arriving at the nearest village to Nico Flamel's hermitage.He walked into the first convenience store he encountered and bought a lot of packaged food with a shelf life of more than half a year. The total weight seemed to be just enough for a child his age to handle. These foods are packed in suitcases.

Then he visited several other convenience stores and supermarkets in the town, repeating the same operation until his suitcase was full.

The reason for such trouble is obviously to avoid the attention of ordinary people as much as possible.

After all, the Wizarding Secrecy Act is an important law promulgated by the Ministry of Magic.

According to the description in the History of Magic textbook, the fundamental purpose of this law is to protect wizards from the persecution of Muggles.With a little thought now, Erwin could understand why.

Long before he entered Hogwarts, he believed that wizards and ordinary people were different classes with obvious differences between high and low, but the magical talent that determined the class was completely determined by the blood, which meant that there was actually no difference between the two classes. ascending channel.

Such a class structure is very unstable, which means that there is only opposition between the upper and lower classes. Human history has proved that such a social structure will inevitably collapse completely in a short period of time.Ordinary people have every reason not to regard wizards as their own race, and hatred and hatred can easily breed.

It is true that wizards have the absolute ability to suppress ordinary people, but they are elite wizards who know how to use magic spells to resist cold and hot weapons, can skillfully use apparition, master the oblivion curse and even the Imperius curse. You can easily disrupt a country.

The number of such wizards is less than one percent of the entire wizard population, and most wizards are just commoners, ordinary people who are not talented enough because of their lack of intelligence and blood concentration.

A typical example is Mrs. Hodge, who teaches first-year flying lessons at Hogwarts. Her full magical power may only be at the level of familiarizing with a few common spells in daily life. The disarming spell, and people like her are all over the wizarding society. In a sense, they are no different from ordinary Muggles, have an ordinary job, and live an ordinary life.

In other words, most wizards may not be as effective as a cowboy who drew a gun very quickly in the western United States 100 years ago.

Like the Cowboys, wizards have a serious dependence on weapons. The magic wand allows the most common wizards to have good spellcasting ability, which is a great advantage compared to other magic races, but the corresponding disadvantage is also quite fatal. , once the wand is destroyed and taken away, the human wizard loses most or all of his spellcasting ability.

Sir Nicholas, the ghost of Gryffindor, accidentally offended a noble lady in the fifteenth century, so he was immediately deprived of his wand and then executed by a Muggle executioner the next day, which shows that ordinary people at that time Already know how to deal effectively with wizards.

Not everyone has the strength level of a Hogwarts professor. Compared with ordinary people who are tens of thousands of times stronger, wizards are actually in a weak position.The Ministry of Magic, the government jointly elected by ordinary wizards, naturally had to give priority to ensuring the safety of ordinary people and their children, so there was the "International Confederation of Wizards Secrecy Act".

Today, it has become a basic morality in the wizarding society not to expose magic to Muggles easily, and most people will consciously abide by it.

This is what Erwin learned after entering Hogwarts.

Having said that, since Jesus Christ was actually the original wizard, the large-scale witch hunt in the Middle Ages may not be as simple as it seems...

While paying, Erwin thought absently.

The suitcase is full, and that much food should last a month or two.

Magic also cannot get rid of people's need for food. It is not feasible to use transfiguration to turn other things into food, because food digestion is a very complicated process, and transfiguration may fail at any time during this process.But meal making seems feasible?Simply imitating photosynthesis and using air components to directly synthesize organic matter such as starch, this should be possible without very advanced magic spells.

However, Erwin has not found any content about the meal-making spell in any book. There are many spells and potions that promote the growth of non-magical plants, but let a corn seed grow and germinate quickly and then produce mature plants. Corn, which is essentially the same as meal making, is to generate energy out of thin air.

Perhaps this is an example of the degree of cognition limiting the development of magic. Without knowing the mechanism of plant growth, it is naturally impossible to simulate photosynthesis.

After enjoying a fairly good steak in the restaurant in the town, Erwin leisurely returned to the hut,

"Where have you been?" As soon as he entered the door, he saw the old man in the wheelchair.

Before Erwin could say anything, seven or eight test tubes flew towards him, filled with liquids of various colors.

The kinetic energy was subconsciously activated, and these test tubes stopped firmly in front of Erwin, floating in the air.

A trace of surprise flashed in LeMay's eyes, only a trace.

"Drink it all."

This is the potion that needs to be drunk before blood grafting?There were so many, and Erwin looked at them one by one, and he didn't know any of them. "Master Flamel, what are these effects..."

However, Master Flamel had turned his wheelchair and walked away.

Erwin wasn't angry either, after all, the old man should have been waiting for him for a long time.

There are Roman numerals on the stopper of the test tube, which should indicate the order of drinking. Erwin drank them all without doubting him.

The feeling of drinking each potion is completely different, but fortunately, he can bear it. In the end, what he felt was very deep sleepiness.

He went to his new bedroom and fell into a deep sleep.

The next day, Erwin was awakened by Esmeralda, and then called by LeMay. The old man turned him into a primitive dragon for some tests, and then drew some blood.

This was the case for four days in a row. Erwin was given a set of potions at night and then tested in the morning. LeMay didn't say a word, and Erwin didn't ask too much.

Flamel spent most of the day in the alchemy room. Although he was very curious about what the master alchemist was doing, Erwin kept his warning in mind and neither asked nor dared to inquire.

From the fifth day onwards, LeMay stopped testing him and did not need him to provide the blood of the original dragon. It seemed that the master had obtained the data he wanted.

Erwin felt the changes in his body. His physical indicators, strength, endurance, nerve response speed, and five-sense acuity all improved significantly. He even felt that he had grown taller.

This should be the effect of the potion that LeMay asked him to drink, which is much more effective than the money-losing physique enhancement package provided by the Diagon Alley Pharmacy.

Erwin hasn't been idle these days. In LeMay's hut, besides Esmeralda, what he's most interested in are the tools that have the ability to act autonomously.

It should be that they each wrote rune codes that work automatically. Erwin asked Esmeralda, and then learned that the corresponding technology was recorded in a certain book of Master LeMay.

This is great, Master Flamel promised Erwin that he could borrow books to read at will.

Esmeralda quickly found him the corresponding books, which fully demonstrated the superior functionality of a smart housekeeper. "Put the tip of your wand against the cover, and then you can switch to the language you want." She also reminded very intimately.

The book was originally in French, but Erwin successfully switched it to English according to what Esmeralda said.

Very good, this is what an advanced magic book should look like.

Many of the banned books at Hogwarts have weird spells attached to them, but this book is completely absent. After all, it is a private collection, so there is no need to keep any defense mechanism.

Erwin read it for three days and didn't even finish a quarter of the book. He realized that he had underestimated the difficulty of the runes. In fact, the most basic and basic rune code is obtained.

He already has the feeling of reading a book from heaven.

However, according to a specific way of thinking, you can still learn something from it. It is no need to think about creating a rune-driven version of the sweeping robot. Erwin’s plan is to slightly improve his suitcase and add an automatic follower to it. Function.

In the past, when he carried a suitcase, he either pulled it by hand or pushed it with kinetic energy, which was a bit troublesome. It would be much more convenient if it had the function of self-following.

It is very reasonable to carry out technological improvement in order to save a little effort. This kind of internal drive is very reasonable.

Of course Erwin would not directly describe the new runes on the suitcase, that would be too stupid, firstly, it might conflict with the traceless stretch runes of the suitcase itself, and secondly, if it fails, the more than 200 Galleons The suitcase may be scrapped directly.

He plans to add a metal plate to the bottom, and engrave a new rune on that metal plate.

Thanks again to Esmeralda, she provided the alloy plate that Erwin needed. Naturally, there is a workshop in the residence of the master alchemist, which can directly meet the general material needs.

Only a single function is required, so the difficulty is naturally greatly reduced. After many failures, six samples were produced and many experiments were performed, Erwin can finally declare success.

Looking at the suitcase with automatic follow, Erwin nodded in satisfaction.

More improvements can be made to it in the future, such as automatic opening, and an item stored in it can be automatically retrieved according to the command. This requires more advanced rune knowledge, but Erwin thinks it can be looked forward to.

When the boy was obsessed with tinkering with inventions, he didn't know that Esmeralda would report his actions every day to Nicole Flamel. The master alchemist didn't pay attention to him, on the contrary, he knew his state like the back of his hand.

A month passed in the blink of an eye, and Erwin's height had grown to 1.7 meters [-]. He felt that he was almost as described in the advertisement of the Diagon Alley pharmacy, "with the physical fitness equivalent to a horseman."

This means that the formal blood grafting is about to begin.