Chapter 922 Old Deng, It's Just Begun
The hut's issue of 'Muggles turning into wizards' obviously attracted Dumbledore's attention, but he didn't seem to intend to intervene. He just called Anton to leave the school together to find someone who was said to be able to help.
"From one of the pure blood families of the twenty-eight sacred clans, if there is anyone with the most connections in the wizarding world, it must be him."
"The most well-connected?" Anton looked at Dumbledore curiously. He and Dumbledore apparated to a small town in the south of England. At the moment, they were sitting in the back of a Muggle bus, heading towards a town called Baba. Drive in the direction of the village of Dry Barberton.
Dumbledore nodded, fiddling with a strange instrument in his arms. That thing looked a bit like a nautical compass, with a little puppet in the shape of a dwarf standing on the compass needle. The little puppet swayed with the shaking of the car, as if dancing.
"Yes, even Tom has a sort of fondness for him, and it's not easy, you know."
Anton blinked curiously, probably guessing who it was.
"Horace Slughorn, once treated Tom as Professor Snape treated you."
"Oh~~" Anton's small face was wrinkled, "This is a terrible metaphor."
Dumbledore's eyes left the dwarf puppet, and he glanced at Anton, "Interestingly, my old colleague was a professor of potions and the dean of Slytherin House."
Anton grinned, he didn't like this kind of inexplicable coincidence, "So you plan to recruit him to the school as a Potions professor?"
"There are considerations in this regard." Dumbledore rubbed the bridge of his nose wearily, "Professor Snape doesn't know when he will wake up, and Professor Fiennes' teaching can only be used as a supplement. I don't want my students to Guided by him to the evil path of Potions."
"And Fiennes complained to me many times, hoping to find someone to help him share some teaching tasks. I have to consider rehiring Professor Slughorn."
Anton smacked his lips, "I thought you were going to bring me to find someone who can solve the problem of 'Muggle-turned-wizard'."
Dumbledore smiled and looked at Anton, "Yes, Professor Slughorn has a very high reputation in the pure-blood family, even old Barty Crouch will respect him. At the same time, his connections There are all walks of life in wizarding, whether it's Ministry of Magic officials, writers, or even musicians, he can help you find people. I think you will need such a seasoned elder to help you grasp this matter."
"And he's an excellent Occlumency Master, Potions Master, and Transfiguration Master. I think you'll have a lot to talk about."
"The most important thing is that since Tom announced his return, he has been sending people to find the former teacher. Professor Slughorn didn't want to help the student. He had to run around to avoid Tom's men. Sometimes even Will wait until the occupant of the Muggle house has left, and then hide in."
"I figured he'd be more than happy to do things for you if you'd offer him shelter."
"He must also know that Tom is afraid to provoke your people at present."
"Oh, here we are."
The gorgeous compass instrument suddenly stopped swinging, and the dwarf doll pointed to a Muggle house outside the window. The whole bus seemed to have stopped in time. Everyone on board, including this car, was stuck in a process of high-speed running middle.
Everything around seemed to be shrouded in white light, like a dream.
Dumbledore put away the instrument and stood up, walking towards the car door, "Let's go, kid."
Anton twitched his lips behind him, recruiting a professor, he also had to calculate himself, the old bee was indeed an old bee.
Well, he also planned to meet this professor Horace Slughorn who originally planned to help his favorite student Tom Riddle pave the way to the Minister of Magic after graduation.
After Anton and the others got off the bus, all the light behind them disappeared. The bus seemed to have not noticed the sudden loss of two people in the bus, and continued to drive forward, turning a corner and disappearing without a trace.
Walking from this not very wide road to the path between the two houses, they came to a steeper and narrow street, with rows of exquisite small buildings with gardens on both sides.
At this moment, Anton raised his eyebrows suddenly, and looked at Dumbledore in surprise, "Invasion Curse?"
This street was unexpectedly released with an extremely high-end 'defense against intrusion' magic, which spread over every corner like a spider web. This kind of magic transmits information to predators on the spider web in a way similar to the "Muggle Repelling Charm" magic.
This is not a simple spell, it is one of the high-end map spells like the Loyalty Curse.
"How?" Dumbledore laughed, "I don't think this man will let you down."
Anton blinked, one eye suddenly turned azure blue with electric light, and looked towards a building across the street.
There, countless images of magic power surged rapidly, and in the field of vision of Anton's magic eyes, on this Muggle street where there was no magic power surging in other places, it seemed that colorful searchlights were lit up.
Feeling the wet and cold street near the mountains due to the climate, Anton pulled out his wand and gently swiped it towards the air in front of him.
Immediately, the water vapor became thicker and condensed into fog, floating in the air, reflecting the sunlight in the sky and shining.
Dumbledore looked at the cloud of mist curiously, and could vaguely feel that the light refracted in the mist had begun to change, and finally a hall with a fireplace and sofas slowly emerged.
"What kind of magic is this?"
With more than a hundred years of life, a fanatical love for magic, and never giving up the study of magic, Dumbledore dare not say that he understands everything about magic, but he is definitely one of the most knowledgeable people in the wizarding world today.
But the magic in front of him made him unable to feel any trace of other magic, it was a brand new and strange magic!
Anton chuckled, "I recently studied the subject of gray magic. You know, I told you about this part of the content. It is actually very closely related to 'everyday magic' and 'general consensus of mankind'."
"So, I tried to introduce Muggle science into magic, and made some subtle attempts."
"Science?" Dumbledore looked at Anton in disbelief.
"That's right~" Anton chuckled, "Grey magic pays attention to the individual and the environment. I think you must know more about this than I do. After all, you taught me a lot of this part."
"The "Wizard is God" I studied before is to try to figure out the spiritual power in the depths of the individual soul."
"Conversely, we can also start with the 'environment'."
"It's the 'collective consciousness' I studied before. The characteristics of the universe itself, the principles that are naturally applicable, are subtly influenced into the minds of Muggles with the largest human population. It is definitely a better research direction."
Anton motioned Dumbledore to look at the water mist, "This thing is called the refraction of light!"
"The refraction of light..." Dumbledore repeated the phrase in a murmur, and looked at Anton with some excitement, "You mean that you are not using 'scientific content', but using the general consensus of Muggles Under this collective consciousness of 'science content'?"
"That's right!" Anton was very excited that Dumbledore could understand what he was talking about, "We talked about the origin of wizards before, do you remember, I think wizards originated from Muggle's understanding of the mysterious and supernatural eager."
He danced and gestured, "From this perspective, Muggle science will be the biggest turning point in completely changing the wizarding world!"
"As Muggles explored the world and the universe, as they attributed their ailments to germs rather than the curse of the devil or the punishment of their own lack of morality, as they understood more and more, as they ascribed to science The popularity is getting wider and wider..."
"Muggles' sense of mystery to this world will gradually dissipate."
"I think that when technology reaches a certain level, Muggles, who occupy the majority of the human population, will have the least desire and identification with 'mystery'..."
"Then, by that time, using Muggle's firm views on science in turn will be a new way of magic, and it will definitely bloom with stronger effects than magic in previous history."
"From the perspective of 'grey magic', magic is grafted onto science. With the development of science, magic will become more powerful!"
"Merlin's beard!" Dumbledore exclaimed.
Listening to Anton's narration, he seemed to feel that an extremely huge magical new continent appeared in front of him. Looking through the clouds and mist, it was the corner of a towering wizard tower on the edge of this new continent, which already made him yearn so happily.
At that moment, Dumbledore seemed to have returned to his childhood, the wonderful feeling of devoting himself to the wonderful magical world without planning a great goal such as peace for this world.
At that time, every time he saw magic, he would be amazed, delighted, and enthusiastic about it.
how long……
I have never felt the beauty of magic again. How long has it been since I was numb to everything I saw?
After seeing everything about the human heart, fate, time, life, etc., do you really think that magic has no way forward?
Anton quacked and laughed, and told him—Old Deng, it's just the beginning?