The Magical Principles of Natural Philosophy at Hogwarts

Gryffindor actually had a student who could legally skip all the Charms classes. Erwin made a small name for himself. Now almost everyone in the school knew him. People kept talking to him during breakfast.

greet.

Erwin didn't show any impatience and nodded in response.

"I wish I were as smart as you." Neville said enviously before going to bed that night.

"Believe me, Neville, you are actually a genius." Erwin said.

He didn't say it casually. There are more than 60 million people in the UK, but there are only five to six hundred students in Hogwarts. Every little wizard is considered one of a million and deserves to be taken seriously.

Using most of his free time on Friday and weekends, Alvin read through the "Guide to Self-Defense Against the Dark Arts" several times. This textbook for the Defense Against the Dark Arts class is divided into two parts. One part describes various common curses and anti-curse methods.

, the other part is about various common magical creatures that are harmful to a certain extent and how to deal with them. Most of these creatures can be solved with a specific spell. Erwin thinks this is why they are rated as "generally harmful."

” is the reason.

First-year students do not need to learn the entire book, they only need to master some methods of counter-cursing. Two-thirds of it is memorized content, such as the Itchy Curse can be removed with lemon water, which is very important to Erwin.

To say the difficulty is really too low.

So he also went to find Professor Quirrell, the defense teacher. He was a very strange man. He wore a thick purple towel even on a hot day. There was a strong smell of garlic in the office, which made it difficult for people to get close to him. But something unexpected happened

, Quirrell was very easy to talk to. After asking a few questions, he actually announced that Erwin had mastered all the contents of the first-year defense class. There was no need to attend class, and he only needed to remember to take the exam at the end of the semester.

The herbal medicine class was almost a purely practical course, and Erwin decided to finish this class honestly, because it would be difficult for him to come into contact with live herbs elsewhere, and there were only three classes a week anyway.

From the first Potions class, Erwin realized that Professor Snape had a deep malice towards Gryffindor. He could restrain himself in front of Professor McGonagall, but he made no secret of it when facing vulnerable students. He even gave the Boy-Who-Lived a thumbs up when they first met, deducting twenty points from Gryffindor for various excuses in the first week. Neville was especially afraid of him, almost forming a fear reflex. In this situation Of course, Erwin would not be asking for trouble. He would at least be Snape's long-lost biological son before he could be allowed to leave get out of class early.

Professor Snape is also the Head of Slytherin. With his crooked elbow, it would be strange for Slytherin not to win the House Cup.

As for the history of magic, the course taught by Professor Binns was dull and boring, and his toneless voice was like a lullaby, making people drowsy. Most young wizards did not like this course, but

Erwin soon discovered that Professor Binns didn't mind if students read other books during class as long as they didn't make any noise.

This is very good.

Hermione was almost speechless with Erwin. This guy didn't look like he wanted to go to school, but he had an amazing learning ability, which was really heartbreaking.

Eliminating the Charms and Defense Against the Dark Arts classes, Erwin can have ten more hours of free time per week. Naturally, all of these hours are spent in the library. Since the beginning of the school year, the librarian Mrs. Pince has become his

The most familiar woman at Hogwarts.

Except for the restricted book area, all books in the library are open to students throughout the year. This knowledge stored in the form of books can be said to be the foundation of Hogwarts.

A systematic learning process is efficient. Of course Erwin will not immediately learn the fireball technique, ice arrows, etc. Although there are many books in the library, there are only a few books that are purely about combat. This is actually not difficult to understand. Conventional

In society, soldiers generally account for less than one percent of the total population. Most people are not good at fighting and do not need to fight. The same is certainly true for wizards.

Hogwarts is not a military school. Its teaching purpose is to let students learn how to use magic to live and work.

Erwin is now certain that the essence of magic is that wizards use magic to change the world with their thoughts and wills, because he has personally witnessed and used transfiguration, the most unreasonable magic. Professor McGonagall even said in the first lesson

I turned into a tabby cat in front of all the students, and then changed back into human form. There is no need to ask how a cat can think without a human brain, how the overall entropy of the system has changed, and where the clothes went.

Questions like this are meaningless.

A successful magic is like the wizard making a request to the world, and then the world will satisfy him unconditionally, no matter in what absurd and twisted way, it will eventually show the result that the wizard wants.

After solving the problem of the nature of magic, the next thing to consider is magic power. When Erwin came to Mrs. Pince with a stack of books taller than him, the tall and thin woman was really surprised.

"No matter how many books you borrow, they must be returned within two weeks." She reminded: "Can you really move back to the dormitory alone with so many books?"

"Ah? Don't worry, it'll be no problem." Erwin replied casually.

Of course he has exerted an extra upward force on the stack of books to counteract gravity, and now he feels no different from holding a flower pot.

Erwin read about one-third of these books in three days. Each book told him that except for a few extremely expensive potions, it is difficult for an adult wizard to increase his magic level. Generally speaking, young wizards

A wizard's magic power will gradually increase with age, and the specific time when it stops will vary from person to person. There is no so-called "cultivation method". Frequently consuming a large amount of magic power and using magic to replenish it will only slightly increase the overall level of magic power.

"So it's all about talent?" Erwin felt vaguely that there was something wrong, so he decided to hold his opinion with reservations. After all, the books he read now were public information and could not be treated as absolute truth.

However, there is a book, "A Wizard's Self-Cultivation", which made Erwin realize that he had overlooked an issue, that is, successfully evading an incoming spell is more effective than any counter-spell, and this requires sufficient observation.

And agility. Strong physical fitness can also allow the wizard to recover faster after being hit by a spell. For example, the petrification spell is difficult to have an effect on larger humans.

All in all, for wizards, the body is also the capital of survival.

Fortunately, the potion was not ineffective in this regard. Erwin sent Sabi to deliver a letter to the Diagon Alley pharmacy to inquire about the specific price of the potion that could increase physical strength. At the same time, he also added it to his daily schedule.

I chose one item, jogging around the castle before breakfast. Although the amount of exercise is not large, it can always produce some effects.

There was a flying lesson exclusively for the first grade on Thursday. Erwin jogged back to have breakfast and chatted with Hermione about why British wizards chose broomsticks as their main means of transportation.

"In addition to being more flexible and concealed, they almost all have shortcomings. The long and narrow stick body is not suitable for riding, and it is too dangerous to fly at high altitudes without any protection..."

The beating of wings echoed over the auditorium, and a large flock of owls flew in to deliver the package. Erwin did not notice Sabi, and the great horned owl had not returned yet.

A gray-brown owl gave Neville a small package, which contained a transparent glass ball. "This is a memory ball," the round-faced boy explained excitedly to the people who were looking around him. He rarely got everyone's attention. "

Grandma knows I have no memory - hold the ball like this and it will tell you if you have forgotten something and if it turns red..." Neville looked down because the ball in his hand turned red.

Bright.

"Then do you know what you forgot?" Hermione asked after taking a sip of hot milk.

"I was thinking..." Neville's face turned painful.

"It seems that this thing is of no use to you." Erwin said objectively.

A blond boy quietly walked over from the Slytherin table, followed by two bulky followers. Erwin had a bit of an impression of him. He was Malfoy, a little cunning guy who pretended to be powerful. Under Snape's connivance, he never

To cover up one's bad nature.

Malfoy immediately grabbed Neville's memory ball with a smirk. Harry and Ron's anger was immediately ignited. Just when the conflict was about to break out, Professor McGonagall noticed this, so the two sides stopped.

Erwin shook his head slightly. This was the consequence of the sorting. A group of children were forcibly divided into two factions. They were hostile to each other and had conflicts at such a young age.

But generally speaking, artificially created low-level conflicts are used to cover up deeper conflicts. These days, Erwin has vaguely felt the malice of the children born in Slytherin wizarding families.

The venue for the flying class is on the lawn in front of the castle. Mrs. Huo Qi, who teaches the class, has short silver hair and sharp eyes like a hawk. She looks very capable. She is explaining the steps of using a broomstick.

Wei was so nervous that he flew up on his broom and was soon twenty feet above the ground.

Neville screamed in horror, not knowing how to stop the broom.

With just a little use of his abilities, Erwin could stop Neville's broom, but he didn't do that because there was an adult wizard at the scene who was also a professional flight instructor.

However, Mrs. Huo Qi just shouted anxiously, "Come back, child!"

Erwin couldn't believe his ears. Of all the ways to deal with an out-of-control broomstick, this was probably the stupidest one.

Neville finally made the right choice. After realizing that he couldn't control the broom under him, he let go and fell from the air. Erwin only had time to help him reduce the speed of his fall.

There was a violent "bang" and Neville huddled on the grass. Mrs. Hooch's face was as pale as Neville's.

"The wrist is broken." She checked Neville. Erwin thought she was going to use healing magic next, but unexpectedly, Mrs. Hooch said -

"I am sending this child to the infirmary now. None of you are allowed to touch the broom, otherwise you will be kicked out of Hogwarts before you even say a word of Quidditch! Come on, my dear."

She left with a whimpering Neville.

Erwin still found it a bit incredible that a dignified Hogwarts teacher behaved no differently than a Muggle. Could it be that Mrs. Hooch was essentially a loser? She was only good at riding a broomstick?

But it should be impossible for Hogwarts to hire idiots. Perhaps the only explanation is that not all wizards have excellent talents in magic. They may be good at their own professional fields, but other than that

The external performance in other aspects is very poor.

This may be the situation of most ordinary people in wizarding society.