Chapter 67: Wizards and Muggles

"Professor...... Professor Dumbledore ...... Jon ran out of the house, having just put on an extra robe and his wand, "I'm ready!"

Albus Dumbledore was waiting for him at the door.

"Efficient, Jon. Dumbledore pulled a silver lighter-shaped object out of his pocket and flicked it away.

With a click, the nearest street lamp was lit with a pop.

"It's so much better!" Dumbledore asked, "How's your grades in flying lessons?"

Jon thought Dumbledore might have done it on purpose, but he could only honestly reply, "It sucks, Professor......"

"Oh, yes......" Dumbledore suddenly realized, "I remember, Rolanda told me about this two weeks ago, and it was a bit bad...... But in that case......"

He rummaged through the pockets of his cloak and pulled out an ugly-looking wand.

Dumbledore didn't say any incantations, just waved his wand, and a cloud of silver smoke floated out from the top of his wand...... After a few seconds, it solidified into a silvery-white translucent animal, like a ghost!

More precisely, a phoenix.

"Hold on to its feet, Jon!" Dumbledore's Phoenix Patronus flew in front of Jon.

Jon was stunned, hesitated for a moment, and then held out his hand.

Instead of passing through the Patronus's body as expected, it was as if grasping a slippery, cold leg.

It's not magic...... Why do Patronus Spirits have entities?

"What kind of magic is this, Professor?" Jon said, a puzzled expression.

"A Patronus!" Dumbledore explained calmly, "a symbol of the heart, a guard summoned by a positive force, a kind of magic that can be considered profound!"

"Patron Saint...... How do they have entities?" Jon couldn't help but ask, "Can you fight alongside us?"

As soon as he spoke, Jon realized that he had lost his words...... As a first-year student, he shouldn't have known anything about Patronus, and he shouldn't have asked if a Patronus had any physical presence while grabbing it by the thigh.

Fortunately, Dumbledore didn't seem to notice.

"Of course......" the headmaster nodded, "but summoning a physical Patronus is quite difficult, and not that I brag, there are few wizards in the world who can do that." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Jon suddenly felt his feet off the ground and fly into the air.

Dumbledore was not far behind, and he also flew through the sky...... There was no broomstick, no Thestrals, not even a wand, and it was like a breeze that swayed upward.

"Where are we going, Professor Dumbledore?" Jon asked in a loud voice, changing his hand.

"Don't worry, the appointed time is half past nine, and we still have plenty of time to walk around the neighborhood together. ”

......

A cool breeze blew across Jon's cheeks, and he added a coat to keep it from feeling cold.

Dumbledore had already flown to the front, so fast that he needed to soar at full speed to catch up with Jon's Phoenix Patronus.

Chasing the wind like this, it doesn't want to talk at all.

However, Jon has been observing the landmarks under his feet, and the geography of Southampton, he still knows a little better. He observed that Dumbledore was taking him northeast.

After about ten minutes, they finally landed slowly.

Jon's face turned slightly pale.

"Doesn't seem like this way of traveling?" Dumbledore quipped.

"Yes, Professor...... I hate flying!" Jon said honestly, "except when I'm in a plane." ”

When the word "airplane" was mentioned, Jon suddenly noticed a flash of sadness in the corner of Dumbledore's eyes.

"Well, we'll travel differently later......" but fleetingly, "I think you're familiar with the city in front of you, Jon." ”

"Yes, this is Winchester!" Jon hurriedly said, "Once the ancient capital of England!"

"Yes, the greatest wizard in the history of England and Wales, Merlin Ambrosius...... It was here that King Arthur was helped to unify Britain and build a new nation from the Romans and Germans!" Dumbledore said with a serious expression.

Jon also made his expression as serious as he could.

But he didn't quite understand the meaning of what Dumbledore said, just to visit the monuments, or to educate himself on patriotism?

It's a bit ridiculous.

"Wizards and Muggles in Britain lived in harmony for a long time, until the spread of Catholicism spread throughout England and the contradictions between the two sides began to appear......," Dumbledore continued, "The war between wizards and the Church began, a war that lasted for nearly a thousand years. ”

Hogwarts was created and became the heart of the wizarding faction...... Many witches and witches were imprisoned and sentenced to death for practicing witchcraft. While some, such as Lisette de Lapan in 1422, escaped by magic, others such as Sir Nicholas de Mimcy Boltington in 1492 were not so lucky, having their wands stripped and imprisoned in a dungeon, unable to use magic to escape their death. ”

"By the seventeenth century, the conflict was at its peak...... As the capture of wizards became more brutal, the wizarding family began to live a double life, using hidden charms to protect themselves and their families. By the seventeenth century, any wizard who chose to be friendly with Muggles would be suspected or even abandoned by other wizards. ”

"The wizards killed a Muggle king (Charles I, 1649) and put Oliver Cromwell, then Headmaster of Hogwarts, into the position of Lord Protector, but Cromwell was soon assassinated, and the wizards had to overthrow another Muggle king (Charles II, 1688)......"

"Finally, in 1689, the Muggles signed the Bill of Rights, which completely expelled the Catholic power from Britain, and ushered in the moderate Protestant Muggle monarchs, William III and Mary II, and at the same time, the wizards signed the Wizards' Federation Secrecy Act, which kept themselves out of the sight of the Muggles, turning wizarding stories into legends in the Muggle world......

"Since then, hundreds of years of peace have been ushered in between the wizarding world and the Muggle world!"

Dumbledore's introduction is over.

"Professor, you know so well!" Jon complimented him busily.

"No!" Dumbledore shook his head with a serious face, "Actually, my History of Magic got a pretty bad grade......"

"Those words just now were told to me by a friend of you!"