Hogwarts in a parallel world

Chapter 15 Magic and Soul

When Winters went out the next day, he told Elena everything that happened yesterday. Elena was frightened by Dumbledore's thoughts.

Elena: "You are simply wishful thinking...Does Dumbledore want to create a soul?"

Winters: "Just tell me if there is any problem in theory."

Elena: "What did Dumbledore say?"

Winters: "What Dumbledore meant was that this was the most basic step."

Elena: "That seems to be no problem in theory. After all, you are doing it according to the ideas of alchemy."

Winters: "Then what are you talking about?"

"You have to know that Dumbledore is not simulating any specific object, but a soul."

"That's why we need all kinds of ancient spells and ancient magic texts"

"Here's the problem. If Dumbledore can really simulate a soul, how can he prove that the soul he simulated is compatible with my soul?"

Winters: "The magic aggregate itself doesn't have any emotions. It's the magic itself. You can think of it as a container."

Elena: "I understand...then use this carrier to pass the Phoenix blood to me",

"That's what I mean."

There was silence.Elena: "Your idea is fine. But I'm not sure I can wait."

"I think you can wait. How about we make a bet?"

Elena: "Bet? Let me ask you a question first. How will you fulfill your promise if you lose? After all, I must have gone to report to Death at that time. Am I looking for you, or are you looking for me?"

"Can't you be more optimistic?"

"I think I'm optimistic enough. Death's scythe has been on my neck for several years. But I still haven't lost anything."

Winters: "Dumbledore is right, you have been feeling a little down lately",

Elena: "When you open your eyes every day, the first thing that comes to your mind is: There are at most four years left. You will be even lower than me."

"Anyway...I won't lose anyway."

"If you win, I will be your sister and let Aurora take a long vacation," Elena said mockingly.

"You..." Winters was choked and speechless.

Then Elena changed her tone to a vicious tone: "If you lose, be careful when walking at night, maybe I will take you away."

"... As expected of the person chosen by the Yew Thestral's tail hair." Winters couldn't laugh or cry.

Winters suddenly found that he had arrived at the Slytherin table. The most embarrassing thing was that Professor McGonagall was talking to Professor Snape in the teacher's seat.

"Sit down quickly, do you have to let your dean embarrass himself?" Elena tugged on his clothes.

"Bow down and eat as if nothing happened. In my impression, since the establishment of Hogwarts, you are the first Gryffindor to eat at the Slytherin table," Elena said.

Many students in Slytherin were suppressing laughter, and the Gryffindor table was filled with clouds.

More than once, out of the corner of his eye, he caught Professor McGonagall staring angrily at him.

"I...I can explain..." Winters said weakly.

Elena: "Explain? How are you going to explain?"

Winters: "Let's just say I was too involved in the discussion with you."

"Very good, then Professor McGonagall will probably be angry with you and retire early," Elena said sarcastically.

Winters: "Then I would say Salazar Slytherin is Gryffindor's best friend."

Elena: "Neither of these two reasons is valid",

Winters: "There's nothing untenable about this. I'm telling the truth."

Elena "You are messing around."

"I'm not messing around...and my mother is from Slytherin. It's not a big deal if I come to eat at the Slytherin table." Winters now also found that he was messing around.

"You mean you still want to come here every day? I have no objection. As long as it can keep Mag from getting angry. Moreover, according to your logic, Slaer is more qualified to come to this place to eat. His whole family except him It's Slytherin" Elena was amused.

"Um..."

"Okay, be careful next time, Dumbledore is already interceding for you," Elsa said.

Winters looked over carefully. Dumbledore was talking to McGonagall, and then nodded towards him.

"...I remember my father told me that when he was in school, he met a Gryffindor boy who often came to the Slytherin table to fall in love. He was also Professor McGonagall at the time. Why do you look so similar to him?" A boy looked at Winters and was stunned for a moment.

"It's Tom Reno, Bull. Look carefully at the boy next to Elena," Elsa said

"Of course I remember, Elsa, my father..." Then the boy suddenly shouted, "Are you Leah Lante's son?"

"Yeah...what's wrong?" Winters didn't understand why the boy was so excited.

"Your mother is also a famous person in Slytherin. She is a Muggle-born wizard who can actually speak Parseltongue. Your mother scared the whole Hogwarts. But your father...well..."

"Your father has offended the entire Gryffindor. Can you imagine what it would be like if the champion of the Young Wizards Duel Competition from Gryffindor came to the Slytherin table just to fall in love?" Elsa laughed. Said.

"And he defended his title 4:0 for three consecutive years," Kalai walked over. "When my father mentioned this, he couldn't help but say, 'Tom Raynor is a true Gryffindor.Karai admired.

"But I have to say, you are even more outrageous than your father. He was in the sixth grade anyway. You are actually in the first grade..." Bull couldn't laugh or cry.

"Boy, aren't you afraid that Gryffindor will look for you in the middle of the night?" a senior Slytherin boy said jokingly

"My mother is a Slytherin anyway," Winters said, squinting.

"So, Salazar Slytherin will stop Godric Gryffindor?" Karai suppressed a smile.Not only were many Slytherin students laughing, but Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff students were also laughing. After listening to the narration of the people next to him, Slyther even laughed and held his stomach while looking at Wen. Tes gave a thumbs up.

"Professor McGonagall won't be angry with you, because your father has already lost his temper. I heard my mother say that the head of Slytherin at the time was Horace Slughorn. And Slughorn Professor Ghorn gave Professor McGonagall a few months of Transfiguration lessons in order to calm her down." Elsa was laughing.

In today's Transfiguration class, Winters did not encounter any difficulties from Professor McGonagall as he imagined, which made Winters very grateful.

"Your father is very outstanding and low-key. I see his shadow in you. Try to continue to bring me more surprises in the future."Professor McGonagall said meaningfully after seeing Winters turn the button into a hummingbird.As soon as get out of class was over, Winters ran out without looking back.

He had already heard a lot of people talking in the corridor, and they were all similar to: he was a replica of his father, he couldn't be allowed to join the Gryffindor Quidditch team, Professor McGonagall might be mad, and so on.

"Winters, run slower. What's the big deal?" It was Aurora.

"Have you seen everything this morning? The Gryffindor table is already covered with clouds," Winters said, wiping the sweat from his head.

Aurora: "I saw everything clearly at the time. But it was no big deal."

Winters: "Ron, Hermione, Harry, they didn't...well...what does it mean?"

Aurora: "Only Ron reacted the most, Hermione and Harry didn't react at all. Ron's whole family is from Gryffindor, so of course there was a feeling of betrayal. But I told him to shut up."

Winters: "How did you do that?"

Aurora: "I warned him that I knew exactly what Winters was like and that my wand was the nerve of the yew dragon. Don't blame me for being rude if he couldn't control his mouth. Then he shut up. "

Winters "You're going to offend people."

Aurora: "I don't care. If I study in that house, I will transfer to another house at worst. It's like becoming Dumbledore if I go to Gryffindor House, or becoming a mysterious man if I go to Slytherin." Aurora It made Winters feel much better.

After dinner, Winters continued to go to the training room to explore the world of ancient spells and ancient runes.What he didn't expect was that Elena would also come.

"Aurora also wants to come, but she is really busy. She has to find time to train and is busy with homework. Let me take a look at the magic aggregate you mentioned. By the way, I will guide you in the deep sea of ​​ancient magic texts and ancient spells. Swimming," Elena said a little arrogantly.

"Then I should call you...Professor Kral?" Winters said in a very serious tone.

Elena: "I have no objection"

Winters: "You always leave me speechless. Are you that strong?"

Elena: "I'm better than you anyway"

Winters "...you are amazing"

Winters followed the previous idea and recreated the magic aggregate again, but this time it was much faster. Elena exclaimed after seeing the pure white magic aggregate with a faint white light.

Elena: "I can feel it. It's a very powerful magic but I feel... I can't tell what it is... It's like... it seems like it's the magic itself."

"It's amazing, isn't it?" As soon as Winters spoke, the magic aggregate disappeared.

Elena: "But how can this mass of things simulate a soul?"

Winters: "This requires working on ancient spells and ancient magic texts. I have read a lot and have some ideas."

Elena: "Tell me about it"

Winters "First, the time when magic awakens depends on blood. The strength of magic depends on the soul, and the wand is the key."

Elena: "Yes, I know that."

Winters: "Let me make an analogy. The soul is the "sun", so can we say that magic is the light emitted by the "sun"?"

Elena "The stronger the soul, the stronger the magic power...it can be said that"

Winters: "Let's take a bold guess. If we can store the light through proper processing, and then use the light to ignite wood or other fuels in the future, can we get the same temperature as the sun? "

Elena: "But the wood is not the sun after all"

Winters: "That's why I said that a specific method of ignition is needed, that is, those ancient runes and ancient spells are needed."

Elena: "Use those ancient runes and ancient spells to change the way "wood" burns... What you mean is to use the ancient runes and ancient spells to change the magic characteristics of the magic aggregate and make it simulate a piece of magic." soul"

Winters: "That's it."

"This is crazy, Winters," Elena said in surprise.

Winters: "Just tell me if it makes sense."

Elena: "That's the truth...but it will definitely require extremely complex and large amounts of ancient spells and ancient magic texts."

Winters: "Don't worry, Dumbledore has been thinking about this for a long time."

Elena: "It's not Dumbledore's problem, it's my parents"

Winters: "What happened to them".

Elena: "This is unprecedented. Once an accident occurs, I will definitely be twisted into a human shape by powerful magic. They cannot afford this consequence."

Winters: "I thought at the last minute, your parents would agree."

Elena: "They have been shaken since my last accident. But they are more willing to wait, maybe to escape. But that day will come."

Winters: "I think I know a few spells already"

Elena: "Those ones."

Winters: "Water, fire, wind, earth, soul, stars, sun, life."[space]

Elena: "What's the reason?"

Winters: "As you said, this is an application of alchemical ideas. Alchemy clearly mentions that everything is composed of wind, fire, water and earth."

Jelena: "Compatibility?"

Winters: "Exactly."

Elena: "Then the stars and the sun represent time"

Winters: "So...soul and life represent purpose...but there must be something missing."

Elena: "I guess it's some kind of fixed spell..."

"Soul-condensing cold" Winters and Elena said at the same time.

"It should be something similar. Or it may be a modified version of the Soul-Condensing Cold spell, or it may be its predecessor," Winters said excitedly.

Elena: "These ancient spells should be the basis. There must be other things."

Winters "Yes, Dumbledore is currently looking for all the other ancient charms."

Elena: "What have you been busy with these days?"

Winters: "Absolutely. These ancient charms are already giving me a headache. What I'm looking for is not the streamlined ones now, but their most ancient state."

Elena: "I think you should stop for a while. That knowledge has been passed on several times. Your thinking is fine, but these are really not things you can solve."

Winters: "I know. So Dumbledore told me that my task is to recreate the magic aggregate in the shortest possible time, and he will be responsible for other things."

Winters seemed to have a deep understanding of ancient spells and ancient magic texts under Elena's explanation, but just like in the past, he made mistakes both when listening to them and when he wrote them himself.It’s just the content of 3 pieces of paper, but it just doesn’t work.Then he couldn't help but sigh: "My third grade is over."

"Don't be like this, the ancient magic texts and ancient spells in the third grade are not that difficult or simple." Elena looked at Winters and said.

Winters: "Stop comforting me. The more you talk, the more panic I get."

Elena: "There's nothing to panic about."

Winters: "Forget it...I'm going to start the next test."

Winters lit a piece of wood with his wand, and then recreated the magic aggregate again. He stared at the burning wood, and a strange thing happened. The magic aggregate at the tip of the wand suddenly became incandescent.

Elena: "Winters, what are you doing?"

Winters: "I'm going to give it a try. You're right, it's not a good feeling to have Death's scythe on your neck."

Elena: "You can't do it."

Winters: "I know, but I can make some preliminary preparations first. Please stand back."

Winters kept thinking about various ancient spells in his mind, and then arranged them in a certain order. The magic aggregate first became incandescent, then began to emit streaks of lightning, and then turned purple-black. . . .Then both Winters and Elena heard a strange sound. Winters was familiar but couldn't identify it at all, and then the magic aggregate turned into gold instantly.

Winters: "What's that sound?"

Elena: "Where is the cry of the phoenix?"

"What?" Winters suspected that his ears were broken.

Elena: "I was lucky enough to hear it once. A wild phoenix called like this before its nirvana, but it was not as ethereal as this sound."

Winters: "I guess this would be a good sign, nirvana and rebirth."

"I'm not a phoenix." Elena glared at him angrily and with a smile.

"Of course you are not a phoenix, but think about it, only the blood of the phoenix can cure your illness... wait until you are cured..." Winters was thinking about the best escape route.

"What will happen when I get better?" Elena asked alertly.

"He became the Phoenix Man," Winters said, turning around and running away.

"Winters, if you can, don't come out tomorrow!"

"Anyway, the book I ordered on invisibility has arrived. Do you know if I can't come out? And it's time for you to take medicine," Winters said loudly with a smile.

Elena: "I don't remember the wrongdoings of villains, so I'll spare you once. Winters, wait a moment. What are you thinking if you don't send me to the door of the Slytherin lounge? I'm going to have an accident... "

"I didn't run out of your sight. Anyway, I know the spell of Soul-Condensing Cold. I really can't freeze it again." Winters already knew it.

Winters sent Elena to the door of the Slytherin lounge.After making sure that Elena was okay, she started running towards the Gryffindor lounge.He finally made it to the Gryffindor Common Room just before 10:30pm.

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