Who the hell got the picture of Lao Tzu up!

Carl looked at the Daily Prophet angrily, his picture resting quietly, the corners of his mouth slightly upturned, handsome and handsome, so that people could not take their eyes off it as long as they looked at it.

Beside them, George, Fred, and Lee Jordan were happily discussing. Not only them, but the entire auditorium, all the young wizards who were eating, were excitedly discussing the matter, and glanced over to Karl from time to time.

Something else Carl admitted, but the photo ......

He didn't send a photo to the Daily Prophet?

Carl recalls everything that had been going on for more than half a year, and since the day he entered Hogwarts, he hadn't taken a photo, let alone sent it to anyone else.

Where did they get the picture of Lao Tzu? Karl racked his brains.

Wait, it won't be......

Soon, when Hela fluttered her wings and landed in front of him, Karl looked at the letter in his hand and wanted to cry without tears—

Dear Carl,

I came back from Paris with your dad, Paris was nice and we had a great time.

Also, we received a letter from a newspaper called the Daily Prophet that they wanted a picture of you, and we gave it to them.

We wrote to Mr. Weasley and asked that the Daily Prophet is a well-known newspaper and that they wouldn't do anything bad with your picture.

Oh yes, we received a sum of money, it's all gold, gold what, sorry dear, we can't remember that word, a magic joke shop called Jokowi said it was their dividend for you this month, but you are not an adult, so we keep it on our behalf.

- Louise, who loves you

Don't read it.

Is the Ministry of Magic's juvenile protection law so strict?

Also, what does it mean that you won't do anything bad with photos? Can you ask me before you make a decision?

No wonder the photo can't be moved.

However, that's not all.

The next day, also at breakfast time, the owls flooded into the Great Hall of Hogwarts, because there was no place to stay, and the owls could only hover in the Great Hall, densely packed with sunlight.

It was a spectacle that, in George's words, made the whole castle tremble.

The letter rained down on Karl's head and quickly piled up into a small mountain, nearly burying him in it.

Thank-you letters from people who have played Hearthstone are not just from the UK, but from all over the world, Asia and the Americas.

This kind of thing lasted for a full week, and the letter rain gradually decreased, but there were still a few letters every day.

On top of that, Carl also received a letter from Wizarding Weekly, and they invited him to take a children's photoshoot!

I'm Nima!

However, in addition to the egg pain, Carl was still a little proud.

Sure enough, his handsomeness is recognized by the world, and even Wizarding Weekly admits it.

However, not all letters made Carl feel painful, and the letter from "Transfiguration Today" made Carl feel quite relieved, thinking that the few articles he had written before were recognized again.

Carl thought Professor McGonagall had sent him his assignment again, but when he opened the letter, he struggled again.

Dear Mr. Carl Cooper,

I take the liberty to inform you that we have reprinted the theory of combinatorial transfiguration mentioned in your Hearthstone-related patents without your permission, and I am writing to inform you that if you have any comments, we will immediately delete them, and we will mail you the relevant manuscript fee by owl on the day after the next full moon.

I hope you can continue to support this journal and welcome you to invest again in the future.

- The editor-in-chief of Transfiguration Today

Well, it's all over now.

......

In the blink of an eye, the time has come to March, the snow has long since melted, and grass has begun to grow on the lawn outside the school.

In the past few months, with Dumbledore's approval, Carl began to patronize the forbidden book area.

Here, Carl immediately found the feeling of first arriving at Hogwarts Library.

It's a paradise.

Most of the books in the forbidden area are about black magic.

But Karl wasn't in a hurry to memorize the spells, what he valued was the theories of the magic.

Carl soon discovers that his definition of the dark arts in his first Defence Against the Dark Arts class is inaccurate.

Or that the definition of Defence Against the Dark Arts in The Forces of Darkness: A Guide to Self-Defense is inaccurate.

Black magic - a general term for magic with the intent of harming others, which is the stuff that fools children.

Black magic, to put it simply, is a spell that permanently damages the body, spirit, and soul.

In fact, none of the books in the Forbidden Books section have a definition of dark magic, and this definition is still not comprehensive enough after Carl has read a lot of dark magic-related theories and summarized them himself based on the effects of a large number of dark magic spells.

If you want to hurt the flesh, in fact, many ordinary magic can do it, the most obvious cutting spell.

If you don't use this spell well, you'll cut off your fingers if you're not careful.

But such injuries can be easily healed, and as long as one heals as before, the severed finger can be easily reconnected.

However, the damage caused by black magic to the flesh is almost irreversible.

The reason why it is almost used is because, thanks to the joint efforts of countless generations of wizards, many dark magic have been found to break their respective spells.

The Blade Shadowless Charm, the quintessential dark magic that damages the flesh, was invented by Snape, and the normal healing spell has no effect on its damage, but its counter-charm, known only to Snape, can easily heal the damage it causes.

Also that can be classified as dark magic are things like the werewolf bite and the vampire's kiss (metaphor), as they are equally irreversible.

But in comparison, magic that harms the mind and soul is far more terrifying than magic that harms the body.

Among them, the most typical are the three unforgivable mantras.

In the Forbidden Books section, Carl finds a detailed interpretation of these three magics.

Only then did he realize that these three spells were not as simple as he had imagined.

The Killing Curse, the Heart Drilling Curse, and the Imperius Curse are listed as Unforgivable Curses not just because of the effects they cause.

All the more because these three spells can all cause damage to the spirit and even the soul.

And among them, the killing curse is the most terrifying.

The Imperius Curse and the Heart Drill Spell will cause irreversible damage and damage to the mind of the person who is hit by the curse if they are hit too much.

And the killing curse is far more than the two.

For a wizard, even if his head is cut off, theoretically, if someone can help him get his head back and put it back on with healing magic in the few seconds he is still conscious, then he is a living person.

And the killing curse, it acts directly on the soul.

The soul here is not in the conventional sense, but something much more mysterious and difficult to describe.

The soul here is a fundamental attribute of life.

It's like an object, existing or disappearing, has two sides.

And there are two sides to life – to live and to die.

When life is in this state of being alive, its soul exists, and when life dies, its soul disappears.

The effect of the Killing Curse is to act directly on this root attribute of life.

It can directly give living beings the property of death.

When a person is under the Killing Curse, the part of their life that belongs to life is forcibly deprived, and then death fills it.

It may sound mysterious, but magic is such a mysterious thing.

Few wizards have truly understood the nature of the Killing Curse, and for them, the mere death of a single person is enough to create a terrifying reputation for the Killing Curse.

At the same time, it also contributed to Harry Potter's reputation as the only person to survive the Killing Curse.

In fact, strictly speaking, the person who survived the killing curse was not Harry Potter, but Voldemort.

Harry Potter didn't really come into contact with the Killing Curse, which was blocked by his mother's defensive magic at the cost of his life before it could reach him.

It was Voldemort who really suffered the killing curse head-on, and he was the one who really didn't die.

In this respect, Voldemort deserves the title of the most terrifying wizard of the twentieth century.

In addition to this, the Three Unforgivable Curses represent almost all three directions of modern black magic: killing, torment, and control.

Carl has seen a lot of black magic, and almost all modern black magic has developed from these three spells, of which, the killing curse is the most central.

It can be said that these three magic are the cornerstones of modern black magic.

The combination of these reasons has led to the great fame of the three unforgivable curses.