The first time they met, Dumbledore gathered all his ease and looked seriously at Elena, who was sitting directly in front of him.

At this time, the silver-haired little girl was embarrassed and embarrassed by the previous slip of the tongue, her little face was full of flattering expressions, and her clumsy appearance at a loss made people laugh dumbly.

However......

Dumbledore's gaze stayed in the beautiful blue eyes of the girl's lake, except for a little chagrin and panic, the rest was as clear and pure as autumn water.

Whether it's the Phoenix Fawkes, the portraits on the walls, or the interior facilities that have been slowly restored with magic, none of them attract any special attention in her eyes, and her mood changes are more from events than from the world she lives in.

Dumbledore finally understood Professor McGonagall and what the vague sense of incongruity he had in the face of Elena. She was too calm.

As a child living in a non-magical world, there was almost no awe or fear in Elena's eyes in the face of everything in the unknown magical world, even if she had learned about the magical world in advance, and what she saw with her own eyes was fundamentally different from what she heard.

"I'm curious......"

Dumbledore pushed the half-moon eyes on the bridge of his nose and said slowly.

"If I'm not mistaken, this should be the first time you've seen a phoenix. Aren't you scared of the flames on its body and the magic that suddenly disappears?"

"Afraid, why be afraid?"

The silver-haired little Lori glanced at Phoenix Fawkes, tilted her head for some reason, and replied in confusion.

"Flame is nothing but a basic natural phenomenon that emits light and heat, and to be precise, combustion is not an exothermic reaction between combustibles and oxidants. As for space travel......"

After a pause, Elena carefully recalled the scene of Fawkes's sudden disappearance and appearance, and said with some hesitation, "The sound made when this happens is very similar to the sound of air suddenly compressing together and popping due to a vacuum. I'm guessing it's closer to a short-range surface jump, but besides, it's beautiful. ”

Oxidant, exothermic reaction, vacuum, surface transition?

Hearing Elena's answer, Dumbledore was even more puzzled, if it weren't for the girl's serious face, he would have even thought that she had suddenly spoken an incomprehensible language.

"So, is that how Muggles view magic now?"

After a moment of silence, Dumbledore rubbed his brow again, reorganized his words and asked.

Elena shrugged her shoulders a little speechlessly, she didn't understand why wizards thought magic would make Muggles panic when they were approaching the twentieth century.

"Professor Dumbledore, you may be misunderstood. It's not the way to look at magic, it's just a basic operation of knowing the world. Unlike wizards' perception of the world similar to the story of inheritance, the non-magical world is to understand the origin of the world little by little through detailed fields such as chemistry, physics, biology, and mathematics......

People in the Middle Ages may have been amazed and shocked by the flames that rose out of thin air, and they would have regarded things like turning water into wine as miracles, because their perceptions and minds limited their understanding of the world.

Superstition and religion obscure their vision, so they see incomprehensible wizards as messengers of the devil or gods, rather than human beings who exist as equals as they are.

The oldest and strongest human emotion is fear. The oldest and most intense fear comes from the unknown.

Magic, an inexplicable unknown that stems from the common sense of human beings, is undoubtedly the strongest barrier that has ever stood between the non-magical world and the magical world.

However, times have changed.

The most important thing that modern science has given to human beings is not knowledge, but a way of thinking about the unknown.

With the progress of human science, the scope of "common sense" has become more and more extensive, and it has even begun to be self-consistent to make reasonable conjectures and explanations for most unknowns.

For example, when a modern person sees a flame in someone's hand on the street, he or she will probably think of it as a form of performance art, applauding with envy and wondering how he will achieve this effect.

In Elena's view, magic is just an unexplored energy source, although it cannot be fully understood according to the knowledge learned in the previous life, but it only needs to temporarily add a few black box theories, which does not involve the internal structure and interrelationship of the essence of magic, and only analyzes it from the characteristics of its input and output, it is not difficult to summarize the cognition of regularity.

Looking at the little silver-haired girl talking eloquently, Dumbledore suddenly realized that his knowledge of the wizarding world did not prevent Elena from recognizing and observing the magical phenomena that appeared in front of her.

More precisely, she used a Muggle mindset to explain magical phenomena to a certain extent in her mind, even if it may not be correct, but it was enough to dispel her fear and awe of unknown magic.

In a trance, Dumbledore seemed to see the shadow of an equally confident white-haired man in Elena.

He seems to have gone back decades ago, when he imprisoned Gellert Grindelwald in the highest tower in Newmongard, and only he knew about the conversation – or rather, Grindelwald's "prophecy".

............

The topmost floor of the Nümongaard Tower, 1945.

Losing the duel, Grindelwald was not as hysterical and depressed as one might think.

He still maintained his methodical grace, his gaze calmly looking at Dumbledore standing in front of him, as if it were just a conversation between friends, not a farewell before permanent imprisonment.

"You can imprison me, Albus, but you can't imprison the spread of thought. ”

"I admit to underestimating the abilities of Muggles, but that just goes to show that they will be even more terrible than the prophecies I have seen. ”

"Wizards, we've missed the best time to step on stage. I'd rather see Muggles raise their arms at us like angry little animals out of fear and the unknown. ”

"Rather than waiting for them to be deliberate, as we do with all intelligent magical races, to wage a reciprocal war. ”

"My change has failed, and you're not one who can change the wizarding world. However, I believe that your strength is enough to protect the entire wizarding world. ”

"However, one day, there will be a young man who once again deeply sees the shortcomings of the two worlds. ”

"A young man who can recognize the advantages and disadvantages of the two worlds from a more complete perspective, is not keen on power, has the potential to match you and me, and has the potential to guide the discourse of the magical and non-magical worlds. ”

"When he appears, make sure he is on our side, and then use your way to influence and teach him as much as possible, so that he can help the wizarding civilization continue to be proud in this world when the two worlds merge and collide. ”

"We all know that I did not succumb to your power and voluntarily imprisoned in this tower. ”

"It's for ...... For The Greater Good!"

"Assure me!Albus Percival Woolfrick Brian Dumbledore!"

“......”

Dumbledore looked up, Grindelwald's shadow reflected in his pupils,

"I will. ”

"If everything really is as you say. ”

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(Meng Meng Da Youmeng wants to eat, and the new book asks for recommendation vote support!)

(After watching "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2: The Crimes of Grindelwald", I feel more and more that Voldemort is a younger brother! Compared with Voldemort, Grindelwald not only has hair, nose and face, but also has an international following, a complete world view and a noble goal, handsome and strong magical ability, lethality from point to face, and Dumbledore's love, complete victory.) ）

(Let Captain Jack play Grindelwald and Watson play Dumbledore, this contest of appearance and temperament is really too cruel for a noseless monster, and there is no harm without comparison.) Sure enough, the gap between the world of adult wizards and the world of child wizards is too great. ）