[HP] How to properly feed the savior

Shortly after, Umbridge fired Professor Trelawney, and Divination was taught by Firenze the centaur.

"I think his class is more worth taking than Trilawney's." When they headed to No. 11 classroom on the first floor, Riddle couldn't help but said excitedly, "The centaurs are natural prophets, but for thousands of years Come, centaurs keep their peeps into the future as much as wizards keep their wand-making secrets. Centaurs like Firenze are rare, and I daresay his people would think him a traitor."

"A traitor?" Harry was taken aback. "Did he do something wrong?"

"Every ethnic group has to have a place ahead of other ethnic groups in order to survive independently. It is like the way elves make weapons, and the centaur's knack for predicting the future. Once this secret is mastered by other ethnic groups, they will face In the event of annihilation, other ethnic groups will use their knowledge to deal with them, and because they have lost their uniqueness, it doesn’t matter if they are extinct.” Riddle explained to them seriously, “The blood of the goblin rebellion has not dried up, if Anyone who dares to tell how to make a goblin wand will become a traitor to wizards and the enemy of all wizards."

"Then Firenze..."

"Go to his class and you will know." Riddle shrugged, "Maybe he won't tell us the real secret, but just teach us some general things. Wizards also study divination, and there should be overlap with the centaur part."

Classroom NO.11 was arranged like a Forbidden Forest, with stars hanging from the ceiling, like the evening sky.According to Firenze's request, they lay down on the soft grass and observed the starry sky above their heads.

Firenze is completely different from Trelawney. This centaur does not seem to think that the results of prophecy are trustworthy. Even centaurs who are good at prophecy can make mistakes.Riddle raised his hand as they observed the smoke from the burning incense mallow and sage, "Professor, you just mentioned that Professor Trelawney may be able to make real predictions, which are different from vaunted fortune-telling, so true Will the prophecy come true? Can the future be changed?"

"True prophecies are no different from the results obtained by the centaur by observing the starry sky." Firenze said calmly, "They are all imprecise glimpses of the future. The reason why they are called true prophecies is that after all It is an interpretation of the future, not ordinary nonsense." The centaur flicked his tail and looked up at the starry sky, "The centaur and human prophets are just observers of the future, not writers. We It is not clear whether the future can be changed, we only know that the prophecy may not necessarily be fulfilled, as for whether it is because of the error in the prophecy itself, or because the future has been changed, there is no evidence to prove it.”

Everyone was silent in awe.

"An unchangeable future is hopeless." After a long time, Firenze said slowly, "Most horse people tend to believe that the future can be changed, although there is no basis for this belief. Therefore Among the centaurs, there is an unwritten rule that we do not interfere with the trajectory of fate. When we predict a disaster, it is not necessarily the best choice to prevent it, and interfering with the movement of the stars may bring about a more terrifying future." The centaur pointed to the Mars in the sky and said, "The Mars that brings war is shining brightly above our heads, brighter than ever before, it indicates that there may be an unprecedented terrible war, maybe we will all die in this war, maybe Not even the Centaurs are immune to doom. My people chose to sit by and let this future come to pass, but I chose to resist, and so I stand here with you."

After class, Harry was stayed by Firenze, and they waited in the corridor, discussing the class that just ended.

"He didn't explain anything clearly, did he?" Ron complained unsatisfactorily, "I mean the details, when the war started, how long it would last, how to win, these things, he didn't have any tell us."

"I don't think he knows." He admired a teacher like Firenze, "He is very rational and sober. He knows that prophecy has a limit, and some things cannot be predicted."

"But he's a centaur." Ron spread his hands. "I mean, if Trelawney could have predicted that Wormtail would run away, why couldn't he make a similar prediction?"

"I have a theory to explain it." He remembered the theory of decoherence in quantum physics. "The future is made up of countless small events, and each event will have multiple possible outcomes. This is what arithmetic divination is dedicated to research. In arithmetic divination, the future is never fixed. However, what Firenze predicted The future is a macro and rough future. He also said that the horse people cannot predict the trivial things of human beings, such as whether they will be burned when they open the oven, because there are indeed many possibilities for things that are so detailed The future. However, nothing is isolated. When all events form a system, they affect each other. Just like Ron, when you are guarding the goal, you may save the ball or miss the ball. We cannot predict what will happen What was the result." When he said this, Ron blushed. "But based on your performance, and the performance of other players, we can roughly predict the outcome of the game."

"I probably understand." Ron nodded blushing.

"As for Trelawney, I also have a theory." Riddle said enthusiastically, "I think true prophecy is completely different from centaur observations and arithmetic divination reasoning. Human prophets are likely to have Some kind of fugue ability, they don't speculate the future based on the current situation, they go to the future, see what will happen in the future, and then go back to the original point in time, and tell people what they saw. For this process, the most A good example is the future that Ender saw with the Time-Turner in third year."

He was about to refute, but the other party raised a hand, signaling him not to interrupt. "I know you don't think that's a prophecy, but from our point of view, that's the closest thing to a prophecy." Ron nodded hastily to Riddle's words in agreement. "Do you remember what you thought when you predicted something would happen in Hagrid's class? You didn't disclose all the information to Hermione, did you? Even though you witnessed the whole process."

"Yes, because before that, I said that Hermione would like the arithmetic and divination class, which caused a certain change in the future. Although I don't know what kind of change, I know it did happen." He recalled the time Condition. "I think it's dangerous to use a Time-Turner, and I hope Hermione will think carefully, but she thinks my words are nonsense. So I want to prove my words by telling her what will happen in Hagrid's class ...if I told her all the details, she would have a way to stop Malfoy, the future would change again, and she would still think I was talking nonsense. So I had to choose to give her some vague outlines and not let her go Change the future so she can trust me."

"In other words, if you had told Hermione all the details at the time, she could have prevented Malfoy from angering Buckbeak, so that there would be no subsequent trial, and Hagrid wouldn't have to be so sad..." Ron said in disbelief.

"Then Sirius won't be able to escape on Buckbeak!" He lowered his voice, "You heard what Firenze said, changing the future may not necessarily lead to good results."

"But you can't deny that as long as you are given a time converter, you can change the future through prophecy, at least the future within 24 hours." Riddle said with a smile.

"Just like Hermione and I used the time-turner to change the fate of Sirius?" Harry, who came out of the classroom, also joined their discussion.

"It is because of people like you that the Ministry of Magic has to strictly restrict the use of time converters." He shook his head, "Changing the time axis like this will cause serious time paradoxes, resulting in unpredictable consequences. "

"Regardless of whether the time converter can be used or not, I think Trelawney's prophecy about Wormtail is similar to how you use the time converter." Riddle waved his hand, as if the time paradox was just a matter A trivial matter. "Part of her mind wandered into the future, but for her, that was now, so she told Harry what she saw and heard, hoping that Harry could help her-as a witness of the future, she and Ender's difference is that she can't make changes to the future on the spot, because she just went to the future mentally, and her body is still in the present. That's why she makes prophecies, and she hopes her prophecies can change what she sees future."

"You mean, just like Ender wanted to prove to Hermione, Trelawney selectively told Harry what would happen in the future in order to achieve a certain purpose?" Ron opened his mouth wide. "But her purpose should be to prevent the mysterious man from being resurrected, but we still let Wormtail escape."

"No, wait a minute." Harry frowned, "Trelawney said she didn't remember anything, she didn't know she made such a prophecy."

"Oh, I think we have reason to believe," Riddle laughed again, "that Trelawney has a double personality."

"That's right!" Harry clapped his palms together, "That would make sense, why she looked completely different when she made the prophecy."

"Trelawney's main character is an old liar who relies on prophecy to bluff people in exchange for prestige, respect and status. It is undoubtedly dangerous for such a person to master prophecy." Riddle analyzed, "So her Reason and her sense of self-protection constitute the second personality. This personality usually controls the ability of prophecy and is not used by the main personality, but where the main personality is unaware, the second personality will use prophecy to predict the future, and It tells the prophecy to the right people when it deems it necessary to avoid a future it doesn't want. Trelawney chose you, Harry, because you're the one who can decide whether Wormtail lives or dies."

"But I didn't really understand that prophecy," said Harry ruefully. "I let Wormtail go, and I brought Voldemort back to life, and made him stronger than ever."

"You know the prophecy, but it doesn't mean you have to act according to the prophecy." He comforted Harry, "You do what you think is right, even if its result is not satisfactory, we can also believe that it is not the worst Because we don't know the whole future, we don't know what kind of person Wormtail will become in the future, and whether he will make any crucial actions to determine the fate of all of us."

"But the problem that has been bothering me is not here." Riddle leaned on the railing and thought. "If my assumption is correct and Trelawney's second personality went to the future, then in theory, she should know that Sirius is innocent, right? She will hear the whole truth, why her second personality Didn't the duo tell Harry the prophecy that Sirius was innocent?"

"Yeah!" Harry exclaimed, "if I hadn't mistakenly thought Sirius killed my parents, we wouldn't have wasted so much time in the Shrieking Shack, and Lupine wouldn't have changed because of the full moon." Become a wolf so I won't let Wormtail go!"

"I think there are two possibilities." Riddle held up two fingers, "One is that Trelawney cannot know the complete future, she may only see a part of the fragment, or she can only see the picture, but hear There was no sound, so she didn't understand Sirius' role in this."

Harry nodded.

"The second possibility is that Trelawney saw more than one future."

"What do you mean...more than one future?" Ron's mouth twitched. "Can there be many futures at the same time?"

"Yes, it is possible." Riddle said seriously, "Do you know Schrödinger's cat?"

Harry and Ron looked bewildered.

"You should read more books." Riddle shook his head, "It was an experiment, which probably means putting a small amount of radioactive elements in a closed system, and the radioactive elements have a 50% probability of decaying. , a neutron is released, which triggers a series of mechanical reactions that culminate in breaking a bottle containing a poisonous gas, releasing the gas into a closed box containing a cat. In your Before you open the box, there's a 50 percent chance that the cat is dead or alive, but if you open the box, you'll only see a dead cat or a live cat."

"I don't understand." Harry and Ron said in unison.

"He was talking about the theory of many worlds." He immediately understood what Riddle wanted to express. "The future is like the cat in the box. Before we arrive in the future, the future is uncertain, but when we arrive, the future is certain. Everything that happens in the present is certain. There are many possibilities. However, the prophet is equivalent to a cheater. We made an appointment for an hour to open the box to see if the cat is still alive, but the prophet opened the box first, saw the cat was dead, and then came back to tell us , an hour later we will find the cat dead."

"It's much easier to understand this way." Harry showed a clear expression.

"If only things were that simple." He shook his head, "According to this, if the prophet sees the cat dead, and we open the box an hour later, it's impossible to see the cat come back to life, right? "

"Yeah, if the cat doesn't come back from the dead like Voldemort," Harry joked.

"But according to Firenze, real predictions can also be wrong. The prophet has seen the cat dead, but the cat is still alive. How can you explain this phenomenon?"

"Well……"

"The theory of many worlds is a method of explanation." At least he is also inclined to believe in many worlds.For him, the world he originally came from is not the future of this world, because in the world he came from, the Soviet Union did not disintegrate and the Cold War did not end, but in this world, the first invasion did not happen, the Soviet Union has Gone is the Cold War, long since gone.The only explanation he can think of is the theory of many worlds—the world he originally came from and this world are two parallel universes. "Cats do not have a 50% probability of dying or alive. Cats have two endings. Because of the two endings of cats, the world is divided into two parallel universes. In one world, the cat is dead, and in the other world, the cat is still alive." Alive. We can only slide into one of the universes, but the seer can see the other."

"That is to say," Harry's face wrinkled into a ball, and he seemed to be thinking very painfully, "the future where the cat is dead as seen by the prophet does exist, but it is not the future we are experiencing?"

"That's right." He was glad Harry was keeping up, even though Harry knew nothing about quantum physics. "The cat box experiment is a very simple system. Our world is much more complicated. If every slightest event has more than one outcome, then there will be countless parallel universes in our future. Professor Trelawney may not Sees all future possibilities, but she probably saw more than one."

"Prophecy itself is one of the possibilities in the future." Riddle added, "Trelawney may have seen herself make countless prophecies, from telling you that Sirius is innocent, to telling you that Wormtail is the culprit." The culprit, anything is possible. But there is only one prophecy, which has the greatest chance of stopping Voldemort, and she has seen the result, so she chose this prophecy. We cannot predict which prophecy will be most helpful to you, but Terry Laurie can. On this theory, it's not that Trelawney didn't foresee the possibility of you letting Wormtail go, but she clearly thinks it's still the best option."

"So should I act on the prophecy?" Harry asked wistfully.

"From my point of view, no matter what action you take, it has been foreseen, and the prophet thinks that is the best outcome. So instead of worrying about what to do because of the prediction, it is better to think about what you think is what to do. That's right." Riddle suddenly laughed, "Besides, the so-called best result is only the judgment made by Trelawney's second personality, how can you be sure that her second personality is absolutely kind and just, definitely Will she choose the best outcome for everyone? What if she only considers herself? It is ridiculous to think that the prophecy is sincerely helping you, maybe she is using you through the prophecy. And Even if Trelawney is really so great and wise, how can she see the future is all the future? There is no evidence to support this, maybe there is a better possibility, but she didn't see it, but we can create it .”

"Yeah." Harry curled his lips mockingly, "Trust Trelawney? I'm so crazy."

"Ender, do you think what I said makes sense?" Riddle asked him.

"Huh?" He was still immersed in his memories, thinking about the feeling of using the time-turner. "Compared with the theory of many worlds, I also support the theory of historical consistency."

"What is that?" Ron looked broken.

"It's similar to the theory of many worlds, but in the opposite direction." He explained with a smile, "The theory of many worlds believes that there are multiple futures, while the theory of historical consistency believes that there is only one future, and the way to reach the future is that there are countless possible superpositions. However, after reaching a specific future, the redundant history will be shaved off by Occam’s razor. As far as my experience is concerned, there are indeed two possibilities in my past, one is what I remember, Hermione told me , My prediction is correct, she does like arithmetic divination, one is that I don’t remember, I didn’t make the prediction that Hermione likes arithmetic divination, so it caused her another reaction. Because the future has been determined, it is redundant That history disappears, but it existed when the future was uncertain."

He didn't really like that explanation, though.If the redundant history is shaved off, is the history with the Zerg invasion completely gone?Does this mean that the earth is already safe, and there is no need to train a commander to lead the human fleet to destroy the home planet of the Zerg?If that possibility no longer exists, how was he born?After all, if there is no need to create such a commander, then his parents would have no possibility of giving birth to him.

Could it be that his existence is a paradox of time?Born from the void, will it also return to the void in the end?

Could this be the reason he was able to see multiple versions of himself co-existing in one space-time using the Time-Turner while others could not?

What is he?How is existence defined?He remembered that the Sorting Hat once said that his life experience was not as simple as he thought, is it related to this?

"Hey, what are you thinking? So engrossed?" Riddle waved his hand in front of him.

"It's nothing." He slapped the other person's hand and muttered in a low voice, "I just don't like things like prophecy."

"Neither do I," said Ron, sighing.