HP: The Root of Everything - The Magician

On the train, Hermione felt both excited and apprehensive.

It was as if I were visiting the teacher's mother, or meeting the groom's parents.

In this mood, Hermione was a little afraid to look at Professor Teach sitting opposite her, and could only try to calm herself down by looking at the scenery outside the train window.

"Hermione..."

Teach's sudden exclamation startled the absent-minded Hermione: "Teacher?"

After a moment's thought, Teach Carr decided to tell his disciple something, and said, "Hermione, there's something I want to ask you. I'm not saying this as your teacher, but as a personal request."

"I was thinking... once we get to Gössel, could you visit my mother in the hospital in my place?"

"For some reason, I, as the son, cannot be present in the hospital."

Under Hermione's questioning gaze, Teach recounted his story: the heir to the centuries-old Cal family, the Auror wizard's covetousness of magical heritage, killing the wizard, evading the Auror's pursuit, and finally entering Hogwarts.

Aside from using wizards' bodies for research and transmutation, Teach Carr told Hermione everything he could.

After saying that, Teach said frankly, "Your teacher has killed many people. If you can't accept such a teacher, you can dissolve our master-disciple relationship."

To her surprise, Hermione didn't react at all after hearing it.

It was as if murder was commonplace.

Then she said to Teach, "Teacher, I'm almost thirteen years old, not some immature little girl."

"Perhaps while I'm still learning magic, I'm just a wizard who can only distinguish between good and evil; but once I've learned magic, I'll be a magician."

"Don't you always say that magic seeks the truth?"

"Then 'human beings' are also part of truth, and truth does not distinguish between hierarchy or good and evil."

"Therefore, anything that hinders us magicians from pursuing the truth is an enemy."

After saying that, Hermione suddenly felt embarrassed and made a mistake, saying, "Actually, after you engraved the Blink spell circle on the back of my hand, I had the idea of ​​studying it."

"For research purposes, and in order to draw the analytical alchemy array, I... dissected an animal."

"Teacher, do you know that knowledge has a kind of bewitching magic that makes me want to explore and dig deeper? So... without telling you, I dissected several kinds of creatures."

When Teach heard Hermione say this, he understood that magic had had some influence on Hermione's thinking, but this influence was good for learning magic. It would make Hermione treat life as equal and would not have any saintly pity.

We will not belittle life, nor will we regret it.

In magic, life is a subject of study, so there is no distinction between high and low, noble and base.

Just like the two metals 'gold' and 'silver', people perceive them as having different prices, but in the eyes of a magician who seeks the truth, they are both metals, just made of different materials.

Seeing that Hermione didn't seem to care about those things, Teach was relieved. He then nodded in agreement with Hermione's understanding of life in magic and asked, "Since you've already started dissecting and observing living organisms in order to draw the Alchemy Circle, have you achieved any results?"

After hearing this, Hermione completely disregarded Teach's past as an assassin, then took out her notebook and used her wand to draw half of an unfinished analytical transmutation circle on it: "Teacher, this is my result. Because it's incomplete, I don't know if this analytical transmutation circle is correct or not."

After carefully reviewing the document, Teach praised, "That's right, you're doing very well on the path of magic."

"This is an analytical training array that you developed yourself. Although it's not completely finished, I can see the focus of your training array in terms of analysis."

"...It's 'the structure of inanimate objects' and 'the cells of living things,' right?"

Hermione nodded vigorously, excitedly saying, "Yes, teacher! When I was observing under the microscope, the first thing I noticed was the structure and cells of the material."

"So, teacher, what does your analysis of the formation look like?"

Teach had no reason not to satisfy Hermione's curiosity, so he used the life magic in his magic circuits to draw on the small table in front of him: "My analytical transmutation array focuses on 'the decomposition and recombination of things'."

"In the process of decomposition, energy is extracted, and then this energy is used to change and reassemble what I want."

"My analytical training array is applicable to the 'creation' category."

"And your structure and cells belong to the category of 'life'."

"The knowledge of life is very complex, and it has many branches of study, the most typical of which is 'life and death'... But these are too distant, both for you and for me."

......

During the exchange of ideas on analyzing the formation, the train stopped in London.

Teach led Hermione out of the station, where they encountered the familiar taxi and driver.

Corey Bab got out of his taxi and gave Teach Carl a big bear hug, tears welling up in his eyes. "You little rascal," he said, "how could you just disappear like that for so long? You used to call me for the first six months, but then you were completely out of touch for the next year."

“If you hadn’t told me to pick you up at the station yesterday, I would have really thought you were already dead while you were avenging Ma Qi.”

After saying that, Corey noticed the adorable Hermione next to Teach, and after a moment of surprise, whispered in Teach's ear, "She's... your girlfriend?"

"Hey, hey, hey~ You've given me quite a surprise! Are you worried that Ma Qi might pass away one day, and you want her to have a grandchild with me sooner?"

"You little rascal~ let me remind you, there are laws in Britain. Don't think you can bully or abduct little girls just because you have some magical powers."

Hermione is a witch, and surrounded by natural magic, her senses are much more acute than those of ordinary people. Even if Corey Bab's voice is very soft, Hermione can hear it clearly from a distance of less than a meter.

Children abroad mature faster. Hermione, at twelve years old, is already at the stage where she's just beginning to understand and experience romantic feelings.

Corey's words made Hermione blush.

So she secretly glanced at Teach, who was a head taller than her, and thought to herself, "Hehe, girlfriend...it doesn't seem like a bad idea."

[After all, the teacher is so handsome and talented]

[That long, flowing, reddish-brown hair, tied back with a headband, exuded an air of absolute nobility.]

[His well-defined facial features were simply stunningly handsome.]

Those captivating eyes—a blend of coldness and wisdom—make my heart pound with every glance.

【That......】

Lost in thought, Hermione suddenly snapped out of it and exclaimed in surprise, "Huh... how come I'm only noticing these good qualities of my teacher now?"