Chapter 692: Stagnation and Change
It's the summer of 1992.
Forty-seven years have passed since the fall of Grindelwald.
Forty-seven years is not too long for the wizarding world, but according to past experience, even in the darkest period of time for wizards, one or two new magical fields will emerge after such a long time.
But now......
Not to mention a completely new field of magic, not even a new theory of magic!
At Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, for example, in addition to the "History of Magic" series, which is still being updated, children in the school are taught Transfiguration, Charms, astronomy, and Potions...... The textbooks used in these important subjects are almost identical to those used by Dumbledore when he was a Transfiguration professor, and there are no changes to the layout.
Dumbledore was well aware that there were some things that could not be turned back once decided.
Today's International Wizarding Secrecy Act is like a hard barrier, completely separating the wizarding world from the non-magical world, the mystery of magic has been guaranteed, and the society has become more and more stable, but it is difficult to have new vitality.
There was stagnation and even regression in the derivation of knowledge, which was even more terrible for Dumbledore than the wizarding wars.
To make matters worse, this kind of closure that seems to stand still in time is not limited to the British wizarding world.
For forty-seven years, magical civilizations all over the world have come to a standstill!
It's pretty scary!
If it weren't for witnessing the dying moments before the collapse of the "Soviet Union", participating in the magical transformation of the "Hyperion" up close, and under the influence of Elena, he took the initiative to learn about a lot of theoretical progress in the non-magical world......
Dumbledore hadn't even realized that the two worlds were intertwined.
Whether it's an electronic computer that hasn't been built in the Hogwarts research area, or some research on controlled nuclear fusion, or the establishment of an extraterrestrial second ecosystem, or even biological cloning and gene editing.
With the exchange with those scholars in the former Soviet Union this month, Dumbledore's sense of crisis became stronger and stronger.
Unconsciously, the non-magical world is no longer the ordinary Muggle world that wizards imagined, and in some of the top fields of research, Muggles have used the way of thinking called "science" to form a wonderful civilization no less than magic.
As Elena said, time for the wizarding world may be running out......
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The turmoil at Hogwarts has just begun.
No matter how anxious Dumbledore was, he still had to wait for time to gather a little bit, at least in this short period of a month or two, this storm that might sweep the entire wizarding world would not affect too far away at this time.
Dorsetshire, United Kingdom.
A Quidditch course near the Jurassic coastline.
The lavish lunch offered by the Gringotts Elf Empress was not without a price.
Most of the players in the British Quidditch national team are still young people under the age of twenty-five.
They were all too young to know all the gifts from fate, and they had already secretly marked the price.
Before they could secretly rejoice at the power that was pouring out of their bodies, Elena was full of firepower and caused the players from various Quidditch professional teams to fall from the clouds back to the ground - compared to the restraint of the previous match, the silver and white witch soaring in the sky could finally use her full strength unscrupulously this time.
The strength boost from "Bloody Bunonia" only ensures that the players can make the right block when facing the Bludger bombardment, so at least they will not be sent to a near-death state in an instant if they were like before......
Of course, even if you are in a near-death state, it is not a big problem.
According to Elena, Quidditch is a wizard's battlefield, and if you have never experienced the process of flying shoulder to shoulder with death, then no matter how skilled you are, you will only be a lamb to the slaughter when you encounter a true ace in the sky.
Thankfully, Flight to Hell still has a terminus.
Five o'clock in the afternoon.
With the whistle of head coach Brandon Doon, the intense and exhausting Quidditch devil training finally came to an end for the time being, and the players floated down from the air, with a trace of the aftermath on their faces.
For these players, the past few hours have felt like an unreal trip to hell.
Even Rex, the Seeker, who has always been grinning and energetic, and claims to be able to fly all day on the course without getting tired, is now full of faint soreness and a feeling of exhaustion from the depths of his bones.
He had never been so desperate to go back to his bedroom at home and lie down to rest.
On the other hand, the girls seem to have just experienced a spring outing.
Compared to these adult wizards who are training intensively for the first time, the amount of exercise this afternoon is just an enhanced version of Elena and Hannah's usual physical training at school, although a little tired, but gritted their teeth are still acceptable.
Not to mention, they all ate several times as much beef and "bloody bunonia" at noon.
As for Luna Lovegood, it is a different state from Elena and Hannah.
With an extraordinary sixth sense and an enviable ability to self-regulate, Luna was able to absorb the magic contained in beef and blood and transform it into her own power with little to no physical training.
Unless it's close quarter-marking, it's hard to hit the erratic Luna with Bludger's long-range attack alone.
So, though a little out of breath, the three little witches were in significantly better shape than the unused men who seemed to have been fished out of the water, so much so that head coach Brandon Doane began to wonder if his players had engaged in some kind of exciting multi-sport the night before the training match, so much that their fitness had dropped so much.
"So, Coach Brandon, if it's okay, we'll go first?"
"Well, see you tomorrow! Thank you for your hard day, Miss Kaslana. ”
"It's nothing, it's a little bit hard at first, and then it's good to get used to it. After all, I was only able to participate in training for a month, and if I didn't increase it a little, I am afraid it would be difficult to make a significant improvement. ”
"As long as you can win the championship, it is nothing to suffer, and it is destined to change the whole Quidditch drastically...... All right, go back, I just saw that Mrs. Scamander was at the entrance of the stadium, ready to take you home. ”
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A little late...... Sorry goo......