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. new
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 to others, her ideas seemed a bit wild and unreasonable, but they were very consistent with Andy's understanding of magic.
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 8pm, all hours are free.
"Andy, do you want to go to the library?" Hermione suggested while packing up her notes.
There were so many books in the library waiting for her to pamper her, and it would be rude not to read them.
"Let's go again tonight!"
"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 spellcasting, she suddenly realized that practicing magic was obviously necessary.
However, the little witch is a bit thin-skinned and is too embarrassed to take the initiative to speak.
"Want to come together?" Andy invited. new
"Okay!" Hermione made a reluctant expression and nodded after hesitating for a moment.
After writing a 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 took out her wand, but she didn't know what to do next.
Although she had used magic at home, she had basically only had a superficial taste of it. She had not studied it in depth or practiced it deliberately.
"Practicing magic is certainly not just silly waving of a wand."
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 first few trainings were easy to understand, but improving spell proficiency...Hermione didn't quite understand.
"Hmm...how to explain this?"
Andy thought for a moment, waved his wand and whispered softly: "Fire is raging!"
A burst of fire shot out from the tip of the wand, and the fire formed a fireball. Under Andy's control, the fireball flew around the classroom, and finally lost the support of magic and went out in the air.
"Is this what you call 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.
"Um!"
Andy explained: "Not only fire spells, but other spells can also be controlled according to our thoughts. New"
"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, "What should I 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 subsequent 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 petrified!"
"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 emotion."
After saying that, Andy fell into deep thought.
When Hermione saw this, she didn't bother Andy and ran to the corner of the classroom to practice 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 Spell Theory" mentions that wizards can increase the power of spells under extreme emotions.
So... is it the extreme emotions that matter, or the unstable magic they bring?
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 power 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 magic without a wand!
"Perhaps the love in despair caused some unknown changes in her magic power."
Just like the obscurus born by the little wizard under extreme negative emotions.
Of course, this is difficult to do!
No one can let themselves have some kind of extreme emotion without going through it.
But Andy is an exception.
Because Andy really died once.
Andy not only died once, he also experienced the feeling of losing the world, losing relatives, and losing friends.
Andy recalled the memories that he had forcibly forgotten.
"All petrified!"
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 magic 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.
"Did you succeed?" Hermione looked surprised, as if she had discovered a new world, and looked at Andy with surprise.
She originally didn't believe Andy's lies.
Talking about integrating emotions into magic - that's not what the book says at all.
But the petrification spell Andy just used was obviously much more powerful than before.
