Professor of Pharmacy at Hogwarts

Dumbledore finally gave up on continuing the discussion on "mercy" and "compassion".

He had had discussions like this with Alexis and Grindelwald many times. Unfortunately, these two people stood on one side on this issue. One of them would look blank and think that what he was doing was natural, and the other would take it for granted. Face took it for granted that this was the right thing to do.

Alexis left the principal's office confused.

He felt that Dumbledore was a little strange. He was talking about a hammer here and there, and his words were completely unfocused. Until he left, he didn't understand the meaning of Dumbledore's conversation with him or what he was going to say.

Unable to figure it out, Alexis simply stopped thinking about it. Dumbledore liked to talk about it anyway...

Neither Alexis nor Dumbledore expected that what started as a conversation about "Why do you encourage students to enter the Forbidden Forest" would soon turn into "implementing love and justice", "kindness and Sympathy" discussion.

In the end, the two of them discussed nothing, and wasted an entire afternoon.

After leaving the principal's office, Alexis met Lupin. He must have just finished teaching the little wizards and came to Alexis directly. The two happened to meet at the door of Alexis' office. .

"Go in and talk."

Alexis opened the door and took out two bottles of mead from the drawer - which Aberforth had kindly sponsored and filled by himself - and threw one to Quirrell, uncorked it himself, and poured it in. Several mouthfuls.

The only sour soda at Dumbledore's place is lemon juice.

"journal."

Lupine skillfully caught the bottle, placed it on the table, raised his head and said.

"What are you going to do with the diary?"

Alexis was stunned and looked at Lupin suspiciously.

"Isn't everything settled?"

It's only been a few days, but Quirrell has forgotten everything?

Or is it that a werewolf only has seven seconds of memory?

Thinking of this, Alexis looked at Lupine with something wrong. He put down the bottle and slowly reached into his open windbreaker with one hand.

"I mean, Alexis, it dawned on me that maybe destroying them would be a better option."

Lupine didn't notice Alexis' alert posture. He spread his hands with a very serious expression.

"Why? Didn't we agree?" Alexis did not let down his guard. He continued to maintain a posture of being able to pull out a wand and defeat the opponent at any time. "Lupin, what happened?"

Lupine pursed his lips and sat down slowly. He seemed a little nervous. He ran his hands through his hair and rubbed his face hard twice before looking up at Alexis.

"Just now, a Boggart broke into my office." When Lupine said this, he paused, swallowed nervously, and his pupils narrowed slightly.

"What did you see?"

Alexis asked.

Boggart is a non-existence unique to the magical world. No one knows what a Boggart looks like when he is alone, because he will immediately turn into an observing and fearful person.

The wizarding world generally believes that boggarts are not a kind of creature. They are similar to dementors and mischievous elves. They are a structure that people cannot understand at present.

Some wizards have specifically studied Boggarts, but with little success. Most wizards currently believe that Boggarts exist based on human emotions - this is deduced from the fact that they will deform based on observing the fear in their hearts. .

Boggarts cannot be killed, and when someone tries to kill one, more will always appear.

Alexis thought this was nonsense. He had observed Boggarts. In his eyes, Boggarts were just a ball of projections that kept changing their appearance back and forth.

Alexis didn't believe that Boggarts were the product of human emotions. He found this inference to be a bit taken for granted.

If it is assumed that man is the center of the world, the master of all things, and that everything in the world exists and operates around man, then maybe Boggart may really be the product of human emotions.

But unfortunately, Alexis knew that man was not the center of the universe.

Moreover, this inference is neither rigorous nor scientific.

In the zoological research that Alexis is currently doing, he specifically lists existences such as boggarts, dementors, and mischievous elves separately, classifying them as unknowable mysterious categories, because he firmly believes that only people's current The observation method is not sophisticated enough, so it is impossible to solve the mystery of the Boggart.

However, it is true that Boggart can reveal people's inner fears. To a certain extent, he has the same effect as the Mirror of Erised.

"I didn't see the full moon."

Lupine lowered his head and buried it deeply between his arms. The large and heavy robe made his voice sound low and dull.

Hearing this, Alexis took back her hand in her arms.

For now, not many people know the secret that Lupine is a werewolf, and only James and the others know that the Boggart that Lupine saw will turn into a full moon.

"I saw Voldemort."

Lupine's voice made him look extremely nervous, but Alexis stared at Lupine motionless.

As if he felt something, Lupine raised his head and looked at Alexis. He looked down at himself in confusion, and then looked up at Alexis, a little confused.

"Lupin." Alexis suppressed a smile and sat at the other end of the table. "Listen to me, Lupin."

"Voldemort is not that scary, he is not that powerful."

"If he is really as powerful as the rumors say, why was he killed by the killing curse? This means that he will die too. Lupin, he is just a more powerful dark wizard, not as magical as people say."

Alexis grew up next to the Dark Lord. There were many books in the Nurmengard bunker that recorded even scarier legends, which he listened to as bedtime stories.

At this time, seeing Lupine becoming frightened and anxious because of a Boggart, Alexis felt that it was necessary to talk to him about "scientific knowledge".

Because of the existence of magic spells, the wizarding world's beliefs are not as complicated as those of Muggles. Simply put, wizards don't seem to have any beliefs.

Wizards do not believe in ghosts and gods. In their view, ghosts and gods are just more powerful wizards. In history, there are many records of wizards being recognized as ghosts and gods by Muggles.

The lack of faith makes wizards bold, which indirectly gives birth to many dark wizards. Through their research on magic spells, they have indeed promoted the development of the wizarding world, but they have also caused many vicious incidents.

But on the other hand, wizards are very superstitious.

Alexis has had a lot of contact with the Muggle world. He has seen Muggle scholars explain nature through theory and logic, explore unknowable phenomena, and reveal the truth of reality. For the sake of truth, many scholars will become crazy.

Wizards are not so "stupid and studious". Wizards never believe in ghosts and gods, but once something beyond their cognition appears, wizards will not think about exploring its cause, but will be crazy about "fascination" and "worship". This This level of madness is even worse than that of religious fanatics in the Muggle world.