Hogwarts: Atypical Slytherin

"Magic is more like a part of our body." Claudia's eyes jumped briskly among the people sitting upright, but soon returned to the center of the crowd.

"Everyone here," she said, "are all beauties among the crowd. But that's not what I want to say -" "What I want to say is: among all of you here, who still remembers the first time when you were born?" What about the feeling of using magic like our limbs and our blood?"

"Before going to Hogwarts to learn magic, without getting a wand, and without knowing the spells, can we not use magic?"

"Is that so?"

The inventor of spells among wizards may be a physicist in the Muggle world.

Just like some Muggles have been asking themselves in their minds since they were born: "Why? Why is the world presented to me like this? Why does this thing look like this? What is 'seeing'? Why Can it be 'touched'? And why is it 'touched'? Is this the way this object is?"

Outstanding people who are born with knowledge have consciously explored this law since they became conscious. And people whose talents have not been wiped out by the environment can even count and combine this pattern, and then turn it into something more powerful.

In today's study session, the speaker, who often introduces new ideas, rarely put away her magic wand. Her hands were empty, but it did not affect her control of this magical power.

"I thought, I wanted it, so I got it." She raised her hand, her open palm facing a certain direction, but apart from the initial movement, she said nothing, and she didn't even make any other gestures.

But something brushed past the top of Daphne's hair, and she could feel it. When she returned her attention again, the girl on the main podium was already holding a cone-shaped transparent crystal bottle in her hand.

"This is the source of the initial curse." The girl's tone on the podium was very slow, and each word was pronounced very clearly. The occasional sentence fragments sometimes sounded a lot like Professor Snape - the one from their college. Mr. Dean, who always looks unhappy.

"There is no magic spell. I just reach out and subconsciously want to achieve this result. The guidance of magic power is also the same feeling."

"So - I hope that in the future learning of magic spells, everyone will not forget the initial feeling -"

"Even if we neglect to practice, they are indeed things that flow in our bone marrow. No one will forget to breathe, but no one will deliberately breathe in daily life."

"But we are deliberately practicing the spell."

"The reason why the Retrieval Charm is the simplest spell - the first practical lesson we came to Hogwarts was a shortened version of it - why do people think the Levitation Charm is the simplest spell?"

"It's because-" Daphne turned her head, wanting to see what kind of person could make such a hoarse voice, "Maybe it's because it requires only one imagination."

"Tell me more specifically?"

The black-haired boy stood up. He looked around at the people around him expressionlessly, and then continued his answer: "The only imagination, or willpower, required for the floating spell is to 'get up'."

"The object he is facing is the closest to us and easy to locate, but it does not require directional benchmarking."

"As you said, the 'I want' part of the Fetching Spell is different if you split it up. The object of the Fetching Spell is a certain object, regardless of the distance, but it has a The end - it could be someone's hand, somewhere, he needs a place to stop moving - and that requires a different form of magic to guide it."

"As for the floating spell, when we stop the magic output, the floating stops. From a certain point of view, there is no end."

"Though I don't understand the reason, miss."

"This is a really brilliant answer! Erwin!" The black-haired girl called "Miss" on the podium became elated because of this answer. "Because of 'inertia' and 'gravity', they also make up this world. Kind of a rule. You hit the nail on the head!”

"If we want to explain the relationship, we may need to spend some time to discuss it - but this is not the focus of our course today." She said, "So I will find a time, during our next club activity, Interested students can continue to participate.”

"Thank you, Erwin." She smiled contentedly, "You don't have to stand up."

After the beautiful but inhuman-looking boy sat down, she continued her speech: "Theoretically, all spells can be 'dismantled', and spells involving high-energy changes, It may be very complicated, but it may also be very simple, and the complexity of a spell can depend on several points: For example, in addition to using the spell, using other methods to achieve the effect of using the spell requires the consumption of materials-not How much magic power is there, whether the item is scarce, and whether the process is complicated. These will all affect the complexity of the spell."

"But no matter how complicated the specific curse is, my friends." Her eyes turned around in the classroom, and she seemed to see many of the people sitting below listening to the lecture with bitter expressions on their faces when they heard this. , and she laughed again.

"But that's not what I'm talking about today."

"Leave the complex research on magic spells to specialized scholars -" she turned her palm upwards, and the crystal bottle was firmly suspended directly above her palm, "Since everyone is here to learn this simple and fast method Spellcasting, then we won't talk about topics that make some people feel like their heads are being nagged by thousands of Cornish elves."

There was a burst of laughter from the crowd.

"In short, recall the feeling of using magic when you didn't need to use magic at the beginning to achieve a certain result. Everyone's first successful magic is different." She pulled a boy who looked trembling and stood up. Get up, "Just like Neville, he subconsciously used a magic circuit similar to the levitation spell. - In other words, there is a more appropriate spell - slow down the fall."

"Is-is that so?"

"That's it." Clooney patted the back of his hand, "Just like what I learned first - maybe it's because I live too comfortably. The simplest thing for me is like an arm. Instead of using the magic spell, it became a fetching curse."

"Because this way I can lie in bed without moving, but the books I need can continuously fly to me from the bookshelf."

The students around him laughed one after another.

"Talent-" The girl took her eyes away from the Gryffindor boy and returned to the crowd. Several times, she even stopped at Daphne. In such an environment, Daphne felt a very subtle emotion rising in her heart - this feeling - it was like being inadvertently paying attention to Professor McGonagall in his class.

No, maybe it's different. Daphne thought. She found this older girl very interesting. She knew too much, and often she had never heard it from anyone else before she came to this secret little classroom. She is very kind, but seems to be far away from everyone.

And if such a person is willing to direct her forward-exploring gaze to you one day——

"You will feel a little flattered." Daphne couldn't find a suitable word to describe this inexplicable but spontaneous emotion, "Because she really makes me feel--"

But the girl's words would not stop just because she was distracted. Just listen to her continue: "Talent - everyone has it. It's just that everyone's talents are different."

"I don't agree with comparing people to barrels." Claudia gently patted the Gryffindor boy on the shoulder and motioned him to sit down. "Some people compare people to barrels. The talent he possesses is the plank on the barrel, and the water that the barrel can hold is his talent. So some people have come to the conclusion that people's talents must be equally distributed in order to get more."

"Perhaps this statement may be true of the person who proposed the idea, but I do not agree with it, my friends."

She leaned on the edge of the wooden podium, blocking the old man behind her. At this moment, Claudia was facing everyone - everyone could clearly see all her movements. She seemed to be about to talk about a very serious topic. She folded her arms to her chest and her expression became a little solemn.

"Some people are good at flying and coordination, some people are good at using magic spells, some people are born sensitive and can detect the hearts of others, and some people are clever and calculating. These are all types of talents."

"A person who is good at spells but knows nothing about potions. Or is good at flying but cannot tell the difference between different herbs. Do we conclude that this person is incapable of achieving great things?"

"This is obviously unrealistic and irrational."

"To put it another way, some of our students have an instinct for using and understanding magic spells, but they cannot understand the principles and processes of transfiguration."

Many people nodded in agreement.

"But does this mean that people with magic talents need to spend more time studying and understanding transfiguration to supplement their so-called 'shortcomings'? Everyone?"

"I still believe that everyone has different talents, my friends. You should discover your own strengths, study them and develop them. That is the secret to your victory."

"Of course!" Claudia's serious expression disappeared into the gradually playful tone as the long conversation came to an end, "This doesn't mean you don't need to add 'short words' board', basic knowledge is also important.”

"But never put the cart before the horse, my friends."