The Magical Principles of Natural Philosophy at Hogwarts

Erwin was a little stunned.

It turns out that the mountain-like dragon has been sleeping for so long?

Billions of years, such a long time span.

"It's hard to imagine as a human being, isn't it?" Dumbledore smiled understandingly, "Such a long time has almost erased all traces. Regarding that era, we can only learn from the demons engraved in the Dragon Rest Sanctuary.

There are speculations in the article."

"People in regular society have discovered some dinosaur fossils," Erwin said.

"Yes, this is one of the few proofs that the Age of Dragons existed."

Very good, then it can even be speculated that the bones of high-level dragons were intercepted by wizards, and then Muggle scholars could only study the fossils of low-level dragons, and the results obtained were naturally completely wrong.

"The power of the primitive dragons is beyond imagination. Some of them can even fill the highest mountains in the world into the deepest trenches." Dumbledore added.

Erwin recalled the feeling of seeing the silver-white primitive dragon, the terrifying magic power like mountains and seas.

"You told me before that the original dragon chose to sleep to avoid a certain disaster. So what kind of disaster would make such a powerful creature take this step?"

"There is a generally recognized and credible conclusion about this. There was also hatred and war between the primitive dragons. At some point in time hundreds of millions of years ago, a certain extremely powerful primitive dragon did something very special.

Amazing thing, it summoned a huge meteor,"

Very good, it's a direct match, Erwin said in his heart.

"The huge meteorite had a devastating effect, directly killing one-third of the dragons, and seemed to have destroyed some fundamental structure of the world, making it no longer suitable for the primitive dragons to survive.

"

Erwin listened without blinking.

Dumbledore took a sip of tea and moistened his throat, "The dragons gradually discovered that the effects of all magic are weakening, and the newborn babies are getting weaker and weaker. What's worse is that even the adult original dragons are also weakening.

Degeneration began to occur. They exchanged opinions, and then came to the conclusion that the world may no longer be able to support individuals as powerful as the adult dragons, and the invisible will of the world has shown a tendency to erase them.

The dragons made many attempts, but all failed. The trend of world change was irreversible, so some dragons chose to build dragon sleep sanctuaries to silence their own magic power and fall into an almost eternal sleep, waiting for the world to recover.

It will be the state it was before the meteorite came."

"But they miscalculated," Erwin said.

"Yes, the contraction of the world's carrying capacity is irreversible, and will still affect the sleeping dragons, making them unable to wake up. And the dragons that are not sleeping will eventually be lost in the long river of time, and their descendants will continue to

Degenerate and eventually form the current fire dragon."

"There is magic power, but no wisdom." Erwin murmured, something suddenly occurred to him, "So, my current dragon form..."

"It should be difficult to have room to grow."

"That's not bad." Erwin shrugged, "I don't want to become a big one."

"The primitive dragon that summoned the meteorite is now called the Destroyer, and the period when the meteorite landed is called the Cataclysm."

"A very appropriate statement." Erwin nodded.

"Over hundreds of millions of years, the functionality of most of the Dragon Sleeping Sanctuaries is gradually failing. Since the birth of mankind, over a hundred thousand years, people have occasionally entered it by mistake. They may have triggered some kind of magic script, or they may have accepted it.

Inheritance, and maybe even directly consuming the flesh and blood of the original dragon, eventually gained the bloodline of magic."

"Then this gene that can use magic spreads among humans. As it is diluted from generation to generation, there will occasionally be atavistic individuals." Erwin understood.

The question of the origin of magic was revealed. This cannot be an innate ability of human beings, otherwise the number of wizards would not be so rare.

"Those who have acquired the bloodline are the 'original wizards'. Some of them do not hide this fact, so they are worshiped and enshrined by other humans and are considered 'gods'."

"The Origin of Religion..."

Erwin took a deep breath and asked, "So how many dragon sleep sanctuaries are there in total?"

"Only two are known to exist publicly," Dumbledore said with a glimmer of light in his eyes. "One is in Jerusalem, and the other is in the Rocky Mountains of the United States. The former is the symbol of the two main religions among Muggles.

After the discovery of the latter, a large number of wizards chose to immigrate to the Americas. The original dragons in these two sanctuaries have all been confirmed dead.

Only two of them exist publicly, so how many are not public?

"Jerusalem? That means Jesus Christ..."

"You can think that he is also an original wizard."

"No wonder wizards also celebrate Christmas and Easter..." Erwin finally understood.

"Then now I also obtained bloodline from a Dragon Sleeping Sanctuary..."

"Congratulations, Erwin." Dumbledore smiled, "You are the only original wizard in thousands of years. If you want, you can create a religion or a prominent wizard family. If I have a daughter or

My niece, I will definitely introduce it to you without hesitation."

The boy's pupils shrank, but his overall mood was very dull, "Wow, but I don't feel very happy."

"Why?" Dumbledore became interested.

Erwin hesitated, "Because it feels very arranged," he said.

"You want to say 'fate'?"

"Almost, it's as if someone has written an adventure script for me, and even arranged a beautiful woman." He hesitated, "Professor Dumbledore, with your strength, have you ever felt that you have something beyond us?"

Are there dimensional existences? They look at us as if we are looking at some kind of literary work."

Dumbledore did not answer directly, "Why do you feel this way?" he asked instead.

"Because after coming into contact with Hagrid's Norwegian Spinosaurus, I had an inexplicable strong desire to transform into a dragon. This desire was very unreasonable, but in the end it drove me to make preparations that were not complete and

The transformation was completed without any knowledge of the consequences.”

"Is that so?" Dumbledore thought thoughtfully, and after a while he said solemnly: "But Erwin, have you ever thought about it, if there really is such an existence that can directly control your thoughts and emotions,

How should you resist him? How can you be sure that what you are thinking about now is not arranged by the other party for you? "

Erwin was speechless.

"Smart minds always think too much. But now I can tell you clearly that there should not be that kind of existence." Dumbledore's voice was very convincing, "And the reason why you have that kind of intention

, I think it is most likely the function of the great prophecy."

"Great prophecy?" Erwin was confused, "What does this have to do with prophecy?"

Dumbledore smiled, "Most smart wizards believe that divination and prophecy are baseless hoaxes,"

"I feel the same way." Erwin said without hesitation: "And even if it is a successful prophecy, it must provide accurate time, place and people to be considered valuable. The kind that only makes people think afterwards, 'Wow, it was really accurate.

Ah' prophecy doesn't make any sense."

He had sat in on a few divination classes out of curiosity, and was 100% sure that Professor Trelawney was a witch, second only to Administrator Filch.

"You are right." Dumbledore affirmed, "But many wizards, including very smart wizards, do not really understand the true working principle of prophecy, and they do not understand the cause and effect relationship."

"cause and effect?"

"Do you think that wizards make predictions based on what will happen in the future?"

"What if?"

"On the contrary, it's because the prophecy came first and then the things described in the prophecy happened."

Erwin was stunned.

Yes, the essence of magic is that wizards make demands on the world, so shouldn’t prophecy be the same?

"Understand?" Dumbledore said meaningfully: "In a sense, prophecy is one of the most powerful magics. The correct attitude towards a successful prophecy is not to try to prevent it from happening, but to

You should assume that the prophecy will come true and then consider countermeasures."

Dumbledore took another sip of tea and said, "Of course, such a powerful magic has many restrictions. Not only does it have very strict requirements on bloodline and magic power, but the content of the prophecy is often beyond the subjective control of the prophet."

"So someone predicted that I would turn into a dragon?" Erwin murmured.

"This cannot be determined, but the main part of the prophecy should include the part where you accept the transformation into a primitive baby dragon, and the prophet is probably the primitive dragon you have seen."

"It made a prophecy that spanned hundreds of millions of years before it fell asleep? This is so ridiculous. Will I eventually wake it up?" Erwin looked like he had seen a ghost. "If this is part of the prophecy, then the answer is

Definitely." Dumbledore looked calm, "As for how to achieve it, I don't know."

Erwin took another deep breath, he had to digest this information.

In any case, the theory of great prophecy is easier to accept than the existence of higher dimensions.

"Any questions?" Dumbledore asked.

"there is none left."

"Now it's

It's summer vacation. Go pack your things. Hagrid found your suitcase in the Forbidden Forest. I'll ask Professor McGonagall to take you home directly later. The year-end banquet was held three days ago. Let me tell you this.

Good news, Gryffindor won the House Cup this year."

This was obviously due to the Boy-Who-Lived's performance in Quidditch. Three snitches in three games equaled 450 points.

Erwin responded absently, not caring at all.

"What about Quirrell?" Erwin suddenly remembered the mole professor. If it hadn't been for that guy, he wouldn't have been arrested and taken to Romania.

"He sold his soul and now he has received the punishment he deserves." Dumbledore said, looking a little sad.