The Little Superman of Hogwarts

Hogwarts Superman - Chapter 031 [Matter and Soul]

"The essence of magic?" Cree and Hermione repeated the phrase simultaneously, both realizing they were touching on knowledge beyond their years.

Snape retorted, "Miss witch and little scoundrel, when you cast spells, do you feel your soul controlling the magic, or your body?"

"Of course, it's the body!" "Of course, it's the soul!" Cree and Hermione answered almost at the same time, but their answers were diametrically opposed.

Hermione and Cree, both stunned by the other's response, exchanged glances, each seeing a question in the other's eyes: "What's wrong with you? Do you know what you're saying?".

"Heh heh!" Snape sneered. "This is the essential question of magic! Magic—does it belong to the material world or the spiritual world?"

"If magic belongs to the material world, then why do ghosts exist! Why do certain spells require a specific mood to complete! Why must some spells be released with pure emotion?"

"For example, the Unforgivable Curses! Each cruel curse requires a deeply painful mood and the will to kill the target to control and form it."

Snape suddenly drew his wand and pointed it at a chair, saying, "Crucio!"

A green light instantly shot out, hitting the stool, and the poor stool vibrated violently as if suffering immense pain. After a few seconds, it seemed unable to withstand the magic and shattered into pieces!

Along with the light, Cree and Hermione also felt an extremely terrifying and eerie aura, creating a chilling sensation in their hearts, as if it was acting on the mind rather than the physical body.

Hermione shivered. Is this really the kind of content that first-year wizards should know? Such a terrifying spell?

Cree was also taken aback, wondering if his Superman bloodline could withstand the torment from the spirit.

"As you can see, these spells must be controlled by the soul and have almost nothing to do with the body, but..." Snape changed his stance and held the wand in his other hand.

"[Impedimenta]!" A stream of magic shot directly at Cree and Hermione.

Hermione almost instantly collapsed to the ground, her face flushed, as if a heavy object was pressing down on her.

Hermione said with difficulty, "I... know... this spell... it can... stop... the enemy's... movement... within... ten seconds..."

Cree tried himself and found that he didn't seem to feel any pressure. He raised his hand and said, "Why don't I feel anything? It just feels like I'm in a spider web?"

"Who knows!" Snape said. "Your body is certainly different from normal people, otherwise, why can't you cast normal spells?"

Cree twisted his lips and was speechless.

"The Impedimenta curse is a real obstacle, it will bring a force of about five hundred pounds evenly distributed on the body, preventing the enemy's actions. These forces are given by magic, they do not rely on any object, but they really affect other substances, so we can say that magic is absolutely materialized!"

"There is a contradiction!" Hermione interjected. "Is this the essence of magic?"

"If you carefully understand the history of magic, you will know that in the late nineteenth century, before Dumbledore was born, the magical world even produced two schools of thought—magical materialism and magical spiritualism."

"Magical materialism believes that magic is a small particle, we just can't observe it, because wizards themselves are composed of magic, glass cannot observe itself.

Then the so-called spells are to drive these small particles to work for us wizards! This can also explain why magic needs to be driven by spells, that is a driving message, such as ancient Runic characters."

"Magical spiritualism believes that magic is a power derived from the existence of humans or magical creatures, a kind of ability belonging to the soul. We are not driving anything to work, but just using our own [things]. This can perfectly explain the existence of Animagi—because they didn't become Animagus forms, but they were originally part of themselves!"

Cree pondered and asked, "Then why did these two schools disappear?"

"Because these two schools could not greatly help magic. In other words, they were useless, and naturally wizards no longer deliberately explained the essence of magic."

Pragmatism! Cree immediately thought of this word.

Wizards are pragmatists. Useless things will naturally cut off the inheritance, but at the same time, this also shows the narrowness of the wizarding world—they only know how to use spells, but never think about why we can use spells—accurately, maybe some wizards will think about this question, but no one answers correctly!

In a word—they have technology, but lack theory!—just like Chinese technology before the Opium War.

Cree suddenly felt a sense of crisis—could it be that there will be a second magical world?

Will the strong ships and cannons suddenly knock on the door one day?

"Amazing magic!" Hermione exclaimed.

Cree continued to ask, "But even if the essence of magic is material or spiritual, what does it have to do with my casting spells?"

"You didn't give your spells enough 'support'!"

Some wizards believe that magic is a substance, so they will use more "material" means to increase their spells.

Others believe that magic is a spiritual ability, so they will use more "spiritual" means to influence the spells, but obviously—you have no ability to control matter, nor the ability to influence the soul!

The [medium] you use to control magic is influenced by other things!"

"There are other forces in your body that are affecting magic, even affecting your soul!"

Cree was instantly thunderstruck—needless to say, Cree had already guessed the answer—it must be the Superman bloodline!

Only things inherited from parents like bloodlines can affect both matter and soul! Because the bloodline itself is the basic component of oneself!

The Superman bloodline gives Cree Superman's abilities, but to a certain extent, it establishes a threshold and affects the output of magic!

Cree quietly thought about a question:

What exactly is my Superman bloodline? Why does it affect magic?