Chapter 20: Legends and Facts
And there is no mention of how Merlin solved the problem, and it is directly disappeared later.
This is a eunuch!
It is not known whether it was true or whether it was gone or if it was removed by Dumbledore.
It's still possible that Dumbledore would have done such a thing, if he didn't think Zhang Jin should know what was going on.
So the things I really want to see in the whole book are gone, only a lot of legends or speculations, and the effect is really limited.
Although you can also learn some things from it, such as the origin of black magic, some historical secrets, and some strange magical effects.
But the key is that I don't know if it's true, and I don't know if I can believe it.
If you go to the experiment and find out that it is fake, wouldn't it be over, not to mention the waste of time and energy, do you think those materials are Chinese cabbage and can be found casually? That's the material used in ancient times!
So this kind of historical secret is only the secret that is really confirmed, and what is the value of speculation? Do you have to verify it yourself? Where can I find it? How to verify?
Especially the part about blood fusion and dark magic, only talking about the results, but not mentioning the method, this narrative always has a sense of Dumbledore's déjà vu.
The key is that you can't just rely on a few words to verify it, you have to verify at least one direction, which is completely nothing, only the result who can deduce the principle.
It is estimated that Dumbledore did it on purpose, for fear that others would learn some dark skill and be lured by dark magic.
While those results are somewhat credible if they were actually written by Dumbledore, they are of no practical value.
Just like when we read novels, we often see the protagonist practicing and then increasing his skills, but can you understand how it increases? Can you practice? Definitely not!
It's just cool.
There are also legends that sound like that when combined with Muggle mythology, a closer look reveals that there is something unreasonable in them.
It would be nice to have three of them to be true.
This is also considering that it may have been written by Dumbledore, so it can increase the credibility of the situation.
However, there are also many legends that are not groundless, but have certain facts.
Like centaurs, goblins are alive, but whether they are so is open to debate.
Of course, whoever believes in the legend is a big fool.
It can only be said that some clues in the legend can provide some clues for people to discover the truth.
As for whether you can find useful clues from the legend, it depends on your own ability, and it will also test your luck.
Perhaps the biggest harvest of these legends is about Merlin.
Merlin is only mentioned at the end of the book, and the mention of Merlin, coupled with the legend that Merlin wrote "The Origin of Magic", at least shows that Merlin really exists.
You read that right, in fact, the wizarding world is skeptical about whether there is such a person as Merlin, mainly because many legends about Merlin are contradictory and even exaggerated.
There are too many and exaggerated stories about Merlin in the wizarding world, and Merlin is simply omnipotent in the eyes of wizards.
Even the wizards prayed, complained, etc., and they all mentioned Merlin, and almost every day they opened their mouths, they would talk about Merlin, and they were all nonsense, and the more they spread, the more evil they became.
In general, the number of legends about Merlin increases by several every year, and it is still the kind that spreads widely.
Wizards generally believe that Merlin was the creator of the current magical system, creating the current methods and theories of spell casting, so Merlin is known as the god of magic.
It is said that early wizards used wands without a wick, and were thicker and heavier than today's wands, like trekking rods.
Merlin is also said to have been the first wizard to propose the addition of a wand core to his wand, and was heavily promoted by Ollivanders.
Later, as Merlin improved the way of casting spells, making spell casting more and more skillful, those bulky wands were gradually replaced by the current dexterous wands.
These legends are believed to be true.
However, the Slytherins are rumored to be a student of Slytherin House, and once vigorously promoted the idea of pureblood, which can be said to be the originator of the theory of pureblood supremacy.
This is also widely believed to be true.
But that's funny!
The Big Four founded Hogwarts around the 10th century, and Merlin must have been after Slytherin if he had been born in Slytherin House.
However, when the Big Four established Hogwarts, magic had already formed a system, so what else did Merlin do?
And at that time, the concept of wizards had already been formed, and it was almost impossible for Merlin to become a "god" after that.
Another theory is that Merlin was active around the fifth century, when the wizarding world was indeed in a time of great change, and the magical system was established at that time.
If that's the case, it's more credible.
And according to the meaning of the book, the author clearly agrees that Merlin lived in the fifth century.
And this legend is quite similar to a saying in the previous life.
That is the famous Arthurian legend, in this world neither Muggles nor wizards can confirm the legend of King Arthur and Merlin, and the two sides happen to have opposite ideas.
Muggles recognize the existence of King Arthur but deny Merlin, while the wizarding world agrees more with Merlin and believes that the so-called King Arthur is just a puppet controlled by Merlin.
In the previous life, Merlin and King Arthur are both legends, but they are more similar to the legends of the wizarding world.
Legend has it that Merlin was a great magician of elven blood, and that he died because of a lake fairy named Vivien.
In the end, they all learned the true meaning of magic in Avalon.
And the description of Avalon in the previous life is too much like the current Hogwarts, which is strictly hidden.
Most likely, it's a hidden magical world.
But the wizarding world never had anything more about Avalon, as if no one was interested in the place, no one mentioned it, no one talked about it, only the legend of Merlin.
It's an incredible thing, it's the place where Merlin learns the true meaning of magic, like the place of preaching in the novel, a place that any wizard who practices magic should aspire to, and it's been overlooked.
This is really magical, Zhang Jin believes, only magic can do this kind of thing.
It's like a mantra of faithful loyalty, as long as the person who keeps it secret doesn't say it, no one can mention what is being kept secret.
Isn't it alike?
Of course, all this is just Zhang Jin's speculation, and there is no real evidence.
I'm sure I'll look for it when I have time in the future.