The Magical Principles of Natural Philosophy at Hogwarts

To Melanie, a guest, Mrs. Granger showed a very warm hospitality.

Although she is the daughter of Professor Stewart, she has a very different personality from her father. Although she has a relatively high degree of education, she has great enthusiasm for life and family. If she believes in religion, she will be a standard middle-class full-time housewife .

The breakfast was very rich, and at noon, the Italian restaurant across the street even delivered a few dishes. This is very rare. You must know that as long as Mrs. Granger was in charge of the family's food, she would never allow anyone Order takeout.

"How is it? Is the food still in your taste?" She asked Melanie at the dinner table.

"Very good." Melanie responded gracefully.

Mrs. Granger was relieved. After hearing Hermione say that Melanie was a foreign nobleman, she was afraid that she might not be well received.

This is not to say that she is snobbish, but purely worried that the relationship between her daughter and her classmates will be damaged because of her own reasons.

"Honey, it's time for us to think about our vacation arrangements." Mrs. Granger turned her head and said to her husband, "In two months' time, I think we can consider going on a trip, everyone. , our family of five, and Erwin's friends."

"You arrange it." Mr. Granger just stuffed his mouth full of salami.

"It's hard for the children to come back. They should have fun and consider a trip of more than two weeks...then go abroad, our family can afford it."

"If you plan to travel abroad, it's best to book your air tickets and hotels now," Mr. Granger said.

"What's your opinion, Hermione? Which country would you like to travel to?" Mrs. Granger asked her daughter.

"Romania," said Hermione without thinking.

"Stupid child, your classmate is from Romania, is it possible that you still want to travel there?" Mrs. Granger gave her daughter a reproachful look.

That's right, I did it on purpose, Hermione thought.

"Then go to France, it's convenient to go back and forth." Mr. Granger suggested.

Mrs. Granger thought it was fitting too.

In Erwin's true opinion, he felt that the so-called travel was a waste of time, because it was so convenient for wizards to go there... But he still agreed with Mrs. Granger's decision.

One cannot always be self-centered.

In the next three days, the Grangers confirmed the itinerary for the trip to France. After that, Mr. Granger drove back to Manchester. There were several patient appointments to be completed at the clinic.

"Then, see you before the trip." Mrs. Granger said goodbye to her husband with a passionate kiss.

She originally wanted to take Hermione back with her husband. After all, she also has a dental license. Without her help, it would be more difficult for her husband to support the clinic alone.

But when she thought that after her family left, it would be Professor Stuart, an old man taking care of two minors, and her strong sense of responsibility made her stay.

On the other side, Erwin was talking to Professor Stewart about Clayton University.

This third-rate pheasant university, which is actually controlled by the Frost family, has managed to barely squeeze into the top [-] universities in the UK under the investment of money at any cost.

"According to your instructions, we are establishing and expanding disciplines such as archaeology, religion, paleography, and paleontology, but the progress is very slow. Clayton University itself has almost no foundation in this area. Even with a high salary, there is no way to directly Recruit high-level scholars." Professor Stewart was quite helpless.

"Then find a way to establish partnerships with professional organizations or other colleges and universities," Erwin said. "Money is not an issue."

The idea of ​​combining theoretical physics and magic is wonderful, and it is indeed quite promising, but Erwin has now realized that it is best not to do this when his understanding and strength of magic have not reached a certain level try.

Because it is too difficult and too dangerous.

Most of the applications of science and technology in today's era, magic can be done in one step. For example, apparition has unparalleled advantages over various conventional means of transportation.

But even a wizard at Dumbledore's level cannot understand the world at the level of microscopic particles, and if he cannot recognize it, it is naturally impossible to create magic that directly affects microscopic particles.

Without ready-made spells and magic, they could only create their own, and Erwin felt that he might not be able to bear the consequences of introducing magic into the microcosm.

To give a few examples, it is theoretically feasible to use magic to create nuclear fission and nuclear fusion, but the problem is that energy is never a problem for magic. There are many means to provide almost endless energy, and it is not necessary to obtain energy through nuclear reactions.

As for lethality, not to mention under what circumstances such a large-scale indiscriminate damage can play a suitable role, the first thing Erwin needs to consider is how to make himself able to withstand the central strike of nuclear weapons, After all, his casting range is likely to be smaller than the effect range of a nuclear explosion.

No matter how you look at it, it is more practical to directly impose the Imperius Curse on the leaders of nuclear-armed countries.

Strong particle collisions have an extremely small possibility of creating miniature black holes. In theory, there must be suitable magic to increase this probability, but the question is how to recover the miniature black holes after they are created?If left alone, it will continue to expand and destroy the earth rapidly. The difficulty of eliminating black holes must be much higher than that of creating them.

Thinking about it this way, it seems that it is too easy for magic to destroy the world.

For such a "red button", Erwin felt that it was better to seal it up and wait until he was absolutely sure before touching it.

The first thing to do is to work hard to improve your magic level. After you have an absolutely sufficient understanding of magic, you should consider expanding and discovering that you have to eat food bite by bite, and do things step by step.

At night, after Hermione and her daughter fell asleep, Professor Stewart quietly drove Erwin to the special laboratory at Clayton University.

This is a semi-underground building with tight security.

"Professor Stuart, you are one of the people I trust the most since I was a child, so I think I can let you know some secrets that most wizards don't know." Erwin is a rare and very serious application.

Professor Stewart nodded. The young man in front of him was growing rapidly, and he was already something to look up to.

But he's used to it.

Erwin took out a metal disc and handed it to the professor. There was a ring of text on the disc.

Professor Stewart looked it over carefully, "This looks like a script used by the Nordic peoples for divination."

"It can only be said that these are magic words, and the characters used by the Nordic people should have evolved from them."

Erwin took out a small wooden block, placed it in the very center of the disc, and tapped one of the rune letters with his finger.

"Watch carefully."

The rune lit up, and this light converged on the central wooden block, and after a few seconds it dimmed, and the wooden block turned golden yellow with a metallic luminescence.

It turns into gold.

Such an unreasonable material transformation can no longer arouse Professor Stuart's emotions. His attention is mainly on those words, "So these...'rune' can directly show the effect of magic?"

"On the surface, this is the case, but I worry that the essence may be the other way around. These runic texts can display various magical effects after being composed into a string, and many of the magical effects do not have corresponding spells."

"So you have doubts?" Professor Stuart seemed to understand.

"Yes, I suspect that it is not the rune that exerts the effect similar to the spell, but the spell that activates the rune... Maybe this world is composed of runes, and these runes that make up the world are in another dimension, and we cannot Any form perceives it, but when magic is used, it responds to it."

"I understand. It's like a virtual world made up of data in a computer. You have doubts." Professor Stuart nodded slightly, "I didn't expect you to reach this level now."

"'realm'?"

"Yes, many outstanding scientists will have such doubts in their later years, that is why the world is like this? Our understanding of the world is constantly expanding, from the universe at the macro level to the electron at the micro level With quarks, these things have their own laws of operation, but the question is, who determined the rules?"

Erwin nodded slightly.

"This is why there is a saying that 'the end of science is theology'. We still cannot discover the most fundamental truth. A double-slit interference experiment is enough to make many physics researchers doubt life... The analogy is the same with magic, since You have guessed that our world is probably essentially a world made up of codes, so let’s extend it, who wrote these codes? Is the writer and the setter the same existence?” Professor Stewart looked directly at Ai Erwin.

Erwin was stunned, but then he understood a little bit, "You mean, I don't want to think too much?"

"My opinion is, keep your faith, keep your faith, your faith is to pursue the truth." Professor Stewart nodded slightly, "but don't think that you can discover the most fundamental truth, this road has been followed by generations of countless people .”

"I see." Erwin nodded.

Although Professor Stewart can't help with magic, he is a person who has done research for most of his life after all. He can still guide Erwin in terms of spiritual will and personal philosophy.

Keep the faith, keep the faith.

Two days later, while eating breakfast, there was a loud noise outside the window.

Mrs. Granger opened the window and found that it was a little owl, which should have hit the glass just now.

Mrs. Granger was used to it, "Hermione, I have your letter!" she shouted.

"Come on, Mom!"

Hermione came down the stairs, took the little owl from its mother, and untied the letter tied to its leg. The chubby little bird pecked her finger curiously.

"A letter from the Weasley family?" Hermione was a little surprised, "They actually changed the owl?"

The Weasleys' original messenger was an old burrowing owl named Errol.

Hermione opened the letter, and after reading it, she turned to her mother and said, "I think we're going to have to change our summer travel plans."

Half an hour later, Erwin also saw the letter, along with a "Daily Prophet".

There is a striking line on the front page of the newspaper:

Ministry staffer wins big prize

Arthur Weasley, head of the Ministry of Magic's Misuse of Muggle Artifacts Office, has won the annual Daily Prophet's Golden Galleon Award.

The prize amount is seven hundred Galleons.

"No wonder old Errol doesn't have to be squeezed anymore." Erwin smiled.

Seven hundred Galleons was not a small amount for an ordinary wizarding family, and it was even more timely for the Weasley family. It was almost the annual salary of Mr. Arthur Weasley.

But having said that, the grand prize of the "Daily Prophet" is actually [-] Galleons?You must know that the price of a newspaper is only five coppers, and there will be owls for special delivery, so the cost will not be reduced.Even if the net profit for each copy sold is two nuts, if one-tenth of the wizarding society in the UK subscribes to newspapers, plus the small amount of advertising revenue, the amount of this big prize is almost one-third of the annual profit.

Whoever runs this newspaper is a genius.

Continuing to read the letter, Mrs. Weasley decided to use the money for the whole family to take a trip to Egypt and visit their second son who worked in Gringotts, Egypt. They planned to stay in Egypt for a month.In the letter, Ron asked Hermione and Erwin if they would like to go together.

No wonder Hermione said travel plans would change.

"Egypt is more interesting than France," Hermione said.

"I have no objection, but it's embarrassing for you to travel with someone else's family. Why don't we go with the whole family?" Mrs. Granger said, "But you need to ask your father for advice first... But he probably won't No, he'd rather have another chance to talk to that Mr Arthur Weasley."

"I'm afraid I can't go," Erwin said.

"Why?" Mrs. Granger was a little surprised.

"Professor Dumbledore arranged a special summer study for me. If I go to Egypt for a month, there will be a time conflict."

"Special study? Like last year?" Hermione raised her eyebrows.

"Yes."

As a good student who has always been strong, Miss Nutria felt a little uncomfortable inside.

"The headmaster values ​​you so much? That's a good thing." Mrs. Granger was very happy for Erwin. "You still have to focus on your studies. After all, there are many opportunities to travel."

Erwin agrees.

Melanie said that she would also like to participate in this special study, so in order to take care of the two children who stayed at home, Professor Stewart was unfortunately deprived of the opportunity to travel, but the old professor didn't mind.

"Have fun," he said to his daughter with a smile.