Chapter 9: Studying the Idea of a Blood Curse

"I'll give you ten minutes. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" Phoenix said when he saw Philip.

"I'm serious about this. ”

"Not convinced. ”

"Listen," Philip pulled over a chair and sat down, "is the Secrecy Act going to be repealed?"

Phoenix's expression suddenly became unfathomable.

"Where did you hear that?" he asked unhurriedly.

"My father said that, he wanted me to ask you. ”

That's right, Philip's father is the director of St. Mungo's Hospital, and it's normal to be well-informed. This can't be hidden, at least the higher-ups of the wizarding world know about it.

"Yes, and it's almost certain that the Secrecy Law will be repealed, but the timing of the repeal will have to be considered. Not only did Phoenix answer in the affirmative, but it also revealed a little bit that only a very small number of people know about.

"Wow, that's great. Philip was overjoyed.

"Excuse me," he really didn't expect Philip to be so happy, "why are you so excited?"

Philip sat down triumphantly and said to Phoenix, "That's good news for me." I had been researching blood spells, looking for a cure for a terminal illness. My father thought I was wasting my time. The Blood Curse is only possible for pure-bloods, and it is not a must. Worldwide, there are not many patients with this condition and it is not taken seriously. ”

"However, if Muggles and wizards must intermarry on a large scale after the Law of Secrecy is lifted, until wizards fully assimilate Muggles, it will take a long time, perhaps centuries. Do you know what that means?"

He didn't know the exact numbers, but he did understand that wizarding society in general was growing, in large part because of intermarriage with Muggles. This is still because of the law, even if the average wizard falls in love with a Muggle, considering all the legal provisions and the actual situation, he will not get married and have children - compared to the harsh laws in the United States, Europe at least does not explicitly prohibit intermarriage with Muggles, but that's all.

But after the secrecy law came into contact, the two worlds immediately enjoyed each other, and Phoenix didn't believe it.

Mixed-race families are usually miserable.

Far from it, Professor McGonagall is a victim of the Secrecy Act.

A few days ago, during an exchange with Perth about the Wizengamot court, Professor McGonagall's nephew, who was an employee of the Incident Reversal Team, was mentioned and the two had a good relationship. In a way, they are all of mixed race. However, he was born in Perth, so he was only an illegitimate child, and if it weren't for the fact that Daphne and Astoria could not inherit the family business, he might still be the obscure little clerk of the Ministry of Magic.

The two came from similar backgrounds, worked together, and soon became friends.

Probably in order to form a faction, Perth said a lot about the McGonagall family, and read between the lines to hope that Phoenix would agree to let Sester mention David McGroom to the post.

Professor McGonagall's father was the president of the Scottish Presbyterian Church, and her mother was a Hogwarts graduate witch. Minerva's father, Robert McGonagall, was a priest who fell in love with Elizabeth Rose, a passionate fellow villager. Like everyone else, Elizabeth concealed the fact that she was a wizard. She had not been able to muster the courage to tell her lover that she was a witch or that she was in love with a Muggle, and the two eloped under the wrath of their parents.

Shortly after Minerva McGonagall's birth, it was no surprise that this special family was in crisis. Minerva's revealed wizarding talent caused Elizabeth to become more and more withdrawn, often separated from Minerva for many days at a time. Because of Minerva, it became more and more evident that she had a talent for witchcraft: a toy placed on top of a cabinet was found in her house. The family cat listens to her before she can speak. Occasionally, her father's bagpipes could be heard playing on their own in a distant room.

Eventually, under Robert's questioning, Elizabeth burst into tears and revealed herself by pulling out her wand hidden in a locked box under her bed. This incident completely ruined the originally harmonious family. Although the family was not torn apart by this event, the aftermath will never be erased.

After the birth of the two sons of the McGonagall family, the parents worked harder, and Elizabeth to be precise, to hide the accidents and embarrassments caused by magic.

It can be said that the standard model of a mixed-race family - a Muggle with a brain defect or something, or a true love invincible is extremely rare.

When Professor McGonagall came of age, she almost followed in her mother's footsteps and married a Muggle. In the end, she chose to give up love, and eventually married Elphinstone Urquhart, her boss from her early years at the Ministry of Magic.

After that invisible wall collapsed, such a thing might not happen again, but how would Muggles feel when they knew that the other person was a wizard. In this way, it can be very different to reveal the identity after having love and children. However, this is only an inference, and it may be the exact opposite, and the combination of Muggles and wizards has become a large-scale, common phenomenon.

Phoenix told Philip his point, and he thought about it for a moment.

"Perhaps, my analysis," he said earnestly, "after that, intermarriage will become the norm, and pure-bloodism will reach its peak." ”

"To put it simply, people always want to be superior to others, whether it is true or not, whether there is a basis or not, people always want to be a little more noble than most people. When the time comes, pan-pure-blood or wizarding supremacy will surely emerge, and Muggle and half-blood wizards will become mainstream supporters of these ideas. In order to make themselves superior, intermarriage among wizards became more common, with half-blood and Muggle-born wizards striving to promote intermarriage, resulting in a new, near-consanguineous situation. ”

"From what I've received from my father, wizarding consanguineous marriages are different from Muggle consanguineous marriages. He said, "Generations of intermarriage have maintained a situation where both parties are shamans, and even if they are not related by blood, they will slowly deteriorate." ”

"What do you mean?" Phoenix encouraged him to continue.

The exact reason for this is unknown, but both parents are wizards, and this has been the case for generations—a Spanish wizard's research thesis, whose paper is being reviewed by the Magic Vanguard—and the undesirable conditions of having difficult children, blood spells, etc., are on the rise, and children are more likely to inherit their parents' excellent magical talents than mixed-race wizards. His argument is supported by a lot of data, and he believes that the best combination of a magical family is a combination of a good pure-blood wizard and a good Muggle-born wizard. This is the case with most of the well-known archmages we know, such as Headmaster Dumbledore. ”

In this case, combine this view with future trends. In the future, there will be more and more wizards suffering from blood spells, and this condition will become a terrible and common condition. For wizards, it is time to start researching and finding a cure for this disease. ”

"I'm going to make this my goal for the future. If only I could succeed—" Philip couldn't help but wonder.

Needless to say, fame and fortune are certain, and this is far more important than the invention of the wolf poison potion.