thefictionvixens Chapter 191 Practice more, leave the rest to your intuition
Chapter 191 Practice more, leave the rest to your intuition
Chapter 191 Practice more, leave the rest to your intuition
What little wizard isn't competitive?
There is no such thing as a non-competitive little wizard.
Therefore, with the ranking system, young wizards will get caught up in this competition, and strive to improve themselves and become people with a deep mastery of magic.
Plans are in place!
It can be said that Ryan put in far more effort than Dumbledore to improve the magical skills of the young wizards.
As Harry entered, the screen on the wall began to count down.
"Harry can now use some of Voldemort's power. These challenges for young wizards shouldn't be too difficult for him—perhaps I could differentiate the difficulty of these challenges, with different levels of difficulty for different grades?"
"Perhaps I'll soon reach the point where I can handle things with the same ease as some of the deans —"
When he witnessed Martin's will melt away the ice within him like a blazing sun, Ryan felt as if his meridians had been opened, or perhaps he was in a state of mental detachment yet detached from the world.
It's as if the perspective has shifted to two slices: one is a calm, condescending God's-eye view, and the other is a person's ever-changing emotions.
In this state, he did many things, including going to Ollivander at night to work with him on the first batch of magic wands, and seeking out Madam Maxim to raise funds for the establishment of a magic wizarding school, etc.
Therefore, even after leaving Beauxbatons, while sightseeing, he continued to observe people's joys and sorrows, their comings and goings.
But unlike his previous purely observing attitude, he seemed to be more empathetic, more able to feel emotional fluctuations, and more sensitive.
He had a gut feeling that once he could reunite his two senses and restore them to normal, he would have crossed that threshold.
At that time, he was the only great wizard, aside from legendary wizards who were rare to see in hundreds of years, who could truly represent the pinnacle of power in the magical world.
This level is about exploring the essence of magic, that is, what magic really is after stripping away the outer layers such as potions, spells, wands, and so on.
For example, Professor McGonagall had complete control over the Transfiguration Charm; Professor Flitwick could arbitrarily alter or delete spells, changing their effects; Professor Snape scoffed at previous potion recipes and could easily create innovative versions of past solutions—
This is because the professors have begun to delve into the essence of magic in their respective fields, thus they can discard all external embellishments and act freely without overstepping the bounds.
"But I am different from the professors—perhaps my choice to explore the nature of magic is rare."
After thinking it over, Ryan estimated that Dumbledore started with Transfiguration; Grindelwald might be even better, using knowledge from multiple fields to nourish his will and spirit, thereby advancing his level; not to mention Nico Lemai and Perenel, after all, the former's name is synonymous with alchemy.
Among the cases he was familiar with and the analyses of great figures in the history of magic, Ryan had not found a wizard who, like him, had devoted himself to analyzing the nature of magic and thus embarked on a deeper study of magic.
"Why do you think that is?" Dumbledore appeared there at some point, yet his question seemed quite reasonable.
The headmaster of Hogwarts can appear anywhere in Hogwarts.
This even includes women's restrooms.
"Perhaps it's because all existing magical domains are tools developed and crafted by generations of wizards to explore the essence of magic —"
None of the knowledge in any field of magic fell from the sky.
These are treasures that generations of wizards have seized from blood and fire, from death and glory.
Even the most insignificant levitation spell is accompanied by countless corpses lying on the road, enough to pile up into a mountain.
But wizards must forge their own canes—build fortresses of magic—because wizards must master, explore, and research.
Just as ordinary people build the tower of mathematics to measure the world, various disciplines emerge, science and technology flourish, and civilization is brought to its full glory.
Dumbledore smiled and nodded: "It seems you've realized that perhaps some wizards throughout history have made the same choice as you, but they quickly discovered that this path is not feasible, because the various magical knowledge and the divided magical domains are the tools for wizards to explore magic. To try to explore the magic of unknown existence with the magic of unknown existence is nothing short of a fantasy."
"Your true situation is naturally not that you use magic to explore magic. You skipped all the tools and went directly to comprehend magic."
He spoke with a very surprised tone, as if he had seen someone praising Victoria on the Irish peninsula: "Your behavior, to put it nicely, is called getting to the root of the problem—to put it bluntly, it's called—brainless recklessness."
"That seems to make a lot of sense. My approach really is equivalent to abandoning numbers and all the measures used to measure everything in order to study materialization and biochemistry." Ryan suddenly realized, and felt like going back in time to slap himself. Instead of following the path paved by generations of wizards, he chose to take that narrow, winding path. This was simply a sign of being out of his mind!
Although he had a deep understanding of magic in various fields, he didn't use any of these tools!
Instead, by spending a lot of time in contact with tools, one develops magical intuition and uses this intuition to explore the path of magic!
"Am I... going crazy?"
"No, no, no! If you keep going down this path when it's blocked, that's madness. But you're just one step away from it, that's not madness, that's possessing unprecedented wisdom and perseverance." Dumbledore was truly amazed. After discovering Ryan's ideas, he had considered stopping him, but ultimately, because Ryan kept creating feats that no one had ever done before, he acquiesced to it all, always ready to wake Ryan up and make him turn back.
But Ryan still succeeded, which means what?
It's like someone abandoning all mathematical knowledge and drawing up blueprints for an aircraft carrier that can be put into production based entirely on intuition.
This is simply inhuman.
"You've always believed Voldemort's magical talent surpasses yours, and there's some truth to that. But your intuition for magic far surpasses Voldemort's, which might be related to the fact that you are—a prophet?"
Dumbledore planned to go back and ask Gale if the prophetic abilities of the seers could also be of some use in magical research.
It's related to prophets, but I'm a fake prophet. No, the intelligence did give some names—Lyan discovered that the names given in the intelligence did have a significant positive impact on his path of magical exploration based on "recklessness," "intuition," and "instinct."
"Maybe there's a connection? I'll look into it when I have time. By the way, Principal, I'd like to convert this place into an adventure area for the students. Do you have any suggestions?"
"You can build more places like this and mark them as places that students of the corresponding grades can enter, which will further stimulate students' interest in learning."
Moreover, this is how Hogwarts was built by countless generations of wizards.
Dumbledore said that Hogwarts wasn't built in a day, nor was it exactly the same as it is now. This castle is a treasure sculpted by time and wizards working together.