Hogwarts: I am Voldemort.

Chapter 35 Dumbledore Conjecture
"The principal agrees, Percy, just wait for the owl."

Voldemort smiled and said, "Come to my office tonight, I need to give you a meeting."

"Thank you very much, Professor, what time do I need to arrive?"

"Eight o'clock, the meeting won't be long." After Voldemort finished speaking, he waved him to eat.

After Percy left, he brought a pumpkin soup and a meatloaf, and started eating while reading the book.

[Origin of Magic], he read this book because he wanted to explore the root of magic—every outsider would have such an idea.

Unfortunately, the book does not give a clear answer, and even according to the inside, the specific origin of magic has never been seen in history.

There are a lot of content in the book, which are speculations about the lack of the origin of magic. Voldemort generally remembers a few convincing ones:
The first statement: Magic originated before the appearance of writing, which makes the basic conditions for the origin of magic not recorded.

The second argument: The long-term family inheritance and master-apprentice inheritance system allowed the origin of magic to disappear in the long river of history with the demise of each family and faction.

The third argument: The history of witch hunting in the Middle Ages caused a large fault in the entire wizarding world. Wizards did not dare to hide these contraband, which led to a fault in the history of wizards.

The fourth argument: In the years when the origin of magic was passed down to the world, people didn't think it needed to be recorded, and when everyone wanted to find the answer, the answer had been buried by the long river of history.

In addition, there are many conspiracy theories, such as the conspiracy of the pure-blood family, and the Ministry of Magic is doing bad things, but these unreliable claims are only mentioned in the book.

Voldemort didn't think which statement was more correct, and he didn't bother to explore the question because it didn't make sense to him.

On the contrary, the speculation about the origin of magic is what he really wants to know, and most of the content in this book is related to this:

The first guess: blood theory.

Bloodlines create wizards, and there are very few squibs in pure blood, while the children of Muggle wizards have a high probability of not having magical talent, so it can be seen that wizards originated from bloodlines.

The second guess: Destiny.

There are also squibs in pure blood, and children with magical talents can also be born in Muggles. It can be seen that it is destiny that bestows magical talents on children.

The third guess: variation theory.

Wizards are mutated human beings, and this mutation can be inherited through blood, which can well explain wizards in Muggles and Squibs in pure blood, because both are mutated.

The fourth guess: predecessors create theory.

Wizards have many special bloodlines, such as Disguise Magus, Blood Curse, Veela Physique, etc. Perhaps the predecessors stole the blood of magical creatures and gained abilities from it.

The fifth guess: the theory of magical creatures.

Wizards do not belong to human beings, but a kind of magical creature different from human beings. After a long mating evolution, they finally became human form.

The sixth guess: the theology of magic.

Behind everything lies an invisible god of magic who decides who is human and who is a wizard.

In addition to these, there are many speculations behind, some seem reasonable, but more absurd.

For all these guesses, supporting evidence has been found in the book, and at the same time, loopholes have also been found.

For example, the predecessors created the theory. According to this theory, wizards are created artificially. Through methods such as eating, externally applying, and injecting the blood of magical creatures, human beings can become wizards.

In this conjecture, there is a powerful rebuttal:

Gentlemen who make such conjectures, where did the magical creatures come from?

A simple rhetorical question directly shattered this conjecture. Below are some examples of wizards' rebuttals, but none of them made sense.

Voldemort was also lost in these conjectures, as if all of them made sense, but none of them could explain everything clearly.

"Page 236, look what Dumbledore wrote..."

Voldemort murmured inwardly, turning the book to page 236.

Sure enough, on the side of this page, there are a lot of densely packed text—because he was reading roughly before, he skipped through a lot of content, so he didn't notice this handwritten mark.

He first looked at the main content of this page:

Does he really exist?

If so, how does He make decisions?
Some people speculate that He may decide the fate of the children by throwing a sieve. Let's not discuss the authenticity of this conjecture.

If he really exists - let's assume this first - then is he the god of magic, and at the same time, is he also the god's residence of muggles?

This is a bold guess, but if this is the case, then vampires, werewolves, veela, goblins... too many races may all have the same divine residence.

So, does He really have life?
This large paragraph of text was circled and led to one side by the arrow. Below it was Dumbledore's annotation, and Voldemort couldn't wait to watch it:

Does he really have life?

Deafening question, this is the most surprising discourse I have read in ten years, and it also makes me the most enlightened.

For a long time, I have focused on the research on the origin of magic, and I have explored countless ideas, but none of the answers satisfied me.

Until this sentence appeared, I couldn't help thinking, what if the god of magic is not a living body, but a source of magic?

Like magic, it is magical and elusive.

We can assume that it has several properties:
Bloodline characteristics: Bloodlines are passed on from generation to generation, but there is a certain chance of breaking.

Random trait: Immediately blessed on a person, such as a Muggle child.

Hidden traits: Many Squibs, who showed magical talents when they were children, but as adults, they can no longer use magic, but maybe the talents are still there, just hidden.

There are more features we can think of for it, which is enough to make it all guesswork, but the same problem bothers me:
Does it really exist?

I don't know, but I want to try, to find this lifeless source of magic.

Here, I write down the ideas I am looking for, so that viewers can continue to explore along this road or other paths.

I will choose a magic that I am most familiar with and is magical enough, and try to find the root of magic in the magic.

We shall always pick the fruit from the tree, not in its reflection.

Hope this is the right direction, although I don't have much hope for this anymore, I'm too old.

Latecomers, please continue to explore the mysteries of magic, this place is very magnificent.

The text ended here, and there was no signature behind it. If Dumbledore hadn't mentioned that this was a passage written by him, Voldemort would not have paid much attention to it.

But when he finished reading this passage seriously, his heart was excited uncontrollably.

"The source of magic hidden in magic is very similar to the cosmological constant proposed by Einstein. This may be a great guess, but in any case, you will know after trying..."

Voldemort excitedly made three meatloaf in a row, which far exceeded the previous weight, but only in this way could he smooth out the excitement in his heart.

As for action...

At nine o'clock, he needed to go to the Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom on the second floor to teach Ravenclaws in the six or seven years old. This was his first class after joining Hogwarts.

He couldn't find a reason to ask for leave, not at all.

(End of this chapter)