The wizard at Hogwarts is unscientific

Chapter 22 Opening Pandora’s Spell Box for the First Time
Although the visit plan was temporarily terminated, Andy still kept the incident in mind.

It can be seen from this book that Pandora Lovegood is a master of spells and she has an in-depth study of spells.

Compared with others, her ideas seem a bit unconstrained, but they fit Andy's understanding of magic very well.

If we can get the research information she left behind, I believe it will be of great help to Andy.

After taking (after sleeping) a lesson on History of Magic, Ravenclaw ended the day's classes.

From now on until lights out at [-]pm, all hours are free.

"Andy, do you want to go to the library?" Hermione suggested while tidying up her notes.

There were so many books in the library waiting to be spoiled by, it would be rude not to read them.

"Let's go again at night!"

"I'm going to write a letter home, and then find an empty classroom to practice magic spells." Andy organized the textbooks, waved his wand and used the shrinking spell to shrink it, and then put it in the pocket of the wizard's robe.

Hermione was silent for a moment.

She originally wanted to go directly to the library, but after seeing Andy's skillful casting, she suddenly realized that practicing magic is obviously necessary.

However, the little witch's face was a bit thin, and she was too embarrassed to speak up.

"Want to be together?" Andy invited.

"Okay!" Hermione made a reluctant expression and nodded after hesitating for a moment.

After writing the letter to his family, Andy took Hermione to an abandoned classroom on the sixth floor of the castle.

"How are we going to practice?" Hermione looked around and drew out her wand, not knowing what to do next.

Although she used magic at home, she basically just tasted it and didn't study it in depth, nor did she deliberately practice it.

"Practicing magic is certainly not just waving a wand stupidly."

Andy is very experienced in this area, "First you need to be proficient in using magic, then you need to shoot fixed targets, then move targets, and finally you need to improve your spell proficiency."

"Proficiency?" The previous few trainings were easy to understand, but improving the proficiency of spells... Hermione didn't quite understand.

"Hmm...how do I explain this?"

Andy thought for a moment, waved his wand and said softly: "The flames are burning!"

A burst of flame burst out from the tip of the wand, and the flame formed a fireball. Under Andy's control, the fireball flew around the classroom, and finally lost the support of magic power and went out in the air.

"Is this what you mean by proficiency?"

Hermione can also use this magic, but she can only make the wand burst out a flame. If it cannot be attached to an object, the flame will quickly go out.

"Ok!"

Andy explained: "Not only the flame spell, but other spells can actually be controlled according to our will."

"When I was a child, I went to see wizard duels with my parents. Those powerful wizards often used some combination of magic spells - such as using transfiguration to change the flame into a certain form."

Hermione was obviously interested, "So what am I going to do now?"

"Let's start with the simplest fluorescent spell. You have to try to throw the light from the tip of the staff."

Andy said: "If you can do this step, the following exercises will be much easier."

"I see."

Hermione nodded and then asked: "What do you want to practice?"

"I wanted to try to incorporate emotions into magic, like this..."

Andy said, waving his wand.

"All petrochemical!"

"This is an ordinary petrification spell." Andy explained.

After calming down, Andy tried to imagine that there was a very annoying person in front of him.

"All petrified!" Andy chanted the spell.

Hermione said expressionlessly: "It doesn't seem to make any difference."

"Of course, it's difficult, or maybe I'm using the wrong emotions."

After speaking, Andy fell into deep thought.

Seeing this, Hermione didn't bother Andy, and ran to the corner of the classroom alone to practice the technique of throwing the fluorescent spell.

The Petrification Curse is the simplest offensive spell that even a first-year wizard, uh... a first-year wizard like Hermione, can master.

The petrification spell is white magic. In addition to spells and gestures, using the petrification spell requires a desire to attack.

"Are my emotions not strong enough?"

"But emotions are really difficult to control. What's fake is fake and will never become true."

Andy recalled the contents of the book.

The book "Modern Theory of Charms" mentioned that wizards can increase the power of spells under extreme emotions.

So... is it the extreme emotions that matter, or the destabilizing magic of extreme emotions?

Just like a little wizard can make his wishes come true when his magic power breaks out.

Maybe both are equally important!
Andy tries to interpret magic from a world perspective.

There is no doubt that "Harry Potter" is a children's book, and the theme of this book is love and friendship.

The reason why Harry was able to survive Voldemort's killing curse was because of his mother's love for him.

And love itself is an emotion, a force of the soul.

Put aside the fairy tale nature of the story itself and let us return to reality.

Harry's mother is obviously a great mother. Faced with the invincible Voldemort, in desperation, she formed her love for her son into a powerful protective magic, and finally successfully resisted Voldemort's killing. curse.

But magic has always required magic.

Not only that, under the circumstances, it was obviously impossible for Harry's mother to hold a wand and cast a protective spell on Harry.

She casts spells without a staff!

"Perhaps the love in despair caused some unknown changes in her magic power."

It's like the little wizard born silently under extreme negative emotions.

Of course, this is hard to do!

No one can bring themselves to certain extremes of emotion without going through it all.

But Andy is an exception.

Because Andy actually died once.

Not only did Andy die once, he also experienced the feeling of losing the world, his relatives, and his friends.

Andy recalled those memories that he had forcibly forgotten.

"All petrochemical!"

Whoosh!
The magic power in Andy's body seemed to sense Andy's mood, and the magic power that had gradually stabilized began to boil.

A beam of magical light shot out from the tip of the wand, and hit a table in the abandoned classroom at an extremely fast speed.

The table was visibly petrified by Andy's spell.

"You succeeded?" Hermione looked at Andy in surprise, as if she had discovered a new world.

She originally didn't believe Andy's lies.

Talk about infusing emotions into magic - that's not even written in the book.

But the petrification spell Andy just used was obviously much more powerful than before.

(End of this chapter)