Chapter Twenty-Eight: Magical Erosion
Hogwarts School is located next to the Great Lake, where Hogwarts School originates in the village of Hogsmeade, the only village in England with all-witching residents, and the buildings are built in a quirky style, with thatched roofs, like medieval villages, even though wizards have been able to build buildings as splendid and tall and modern as the Ministry of Magic.
But the neuroticism and eccentricity that wizards have engraved in their blood make them make all sorts of choices that would be strange to normal people.
On the one hand, because wizards with magical powers, their living habits are different from those of Muggles, and most Muggles think that things that are dangerous and troublesome are just a matter of waving a wand for them, so they are rough and frizzy, and it seems that there are no words for care and neatness in the dictionary, because for Muggles, the chaotic placement habits will make them unable to find things, but for wizards, it is just a matter of flying charms.
They're also not afraid of breaking or destroying things, because as long as you're not a magic item, a 'fix as new' will restore something that has been inadvertently damaged, and when it's messy, a 'clean up' will keep it in good shape.
Therefore, wizards have a different understanding of damage, damage and mess than Muggles, and they simply can't care about these troubles that can be easily solved by magic, so in the eyes of Muggles, they are like bear children, infinitely indulgent to themselves.
On the other hand, the bloodline that gives them magical power makes them appear neurotic, crazy and eccentric, according to the results of Chen Ang's research on Bojin's bloodline, the magic surging in the bloodline will erode their reason, this result makes Chen Ang a little surprised, because the wizards eventually developed like Cthulhu, or they eventually tend to magic.
And magic is completely different from the rational perspective of human observation of the world, magic is another way of observing the world, from a scientific, human perspective, it looks a little chaotic, difficult to decipher, its logic and internal laws, in the eyes of human beings, indescribable, a mess.
The magic of wizards is indescribable in the end.
The more powerful the wizards, the more insane they are, and of course this is also a proof of the truth that they are closer to the truth of magic, because this kind of magic itself is chaotic and irrational, if the arcane art that Chen Ang learns is the rationality and wisdom of magic, then the magic of the wizards in this world is the manifestation of the chaotic and disorderly side of magic.
Young wizards who have just awakened their magic are the closest to normal people, but as they grow up, the magic in their bloodlines will gradually erode their reason, making it more and more difficult for them to understand what humans call Muggles, because humans (Muggles) are governed by reason.
The old wizards behaved more and more strangely.
They will eat the livers of toads, the entrails of bats, the eyes of eels, and will allow their appearance to appear alienated, usually becoming uglier and more distorted, with protruding knuckles, thin as dry bones, and a spirit bordering on madness.
Of course, these are the symptoms that only the most severe wizards will have, and under normal circumstances, only the poorest wizards at the bottom will become like this in their later years, and learning the powerful black magic will also accelerate this symptom, and they will be almost mutated by the erosion of magic.
And those pure-blood families with real roots, because of the inheritance of magic and superior bloodlines, rarely have this kind of change before old age, magic erodes their rationality, but magic helps them slow down this process, pure-blood families are the product of the natural law of survival of the fittest and selection, their bloodlines are relatively stable, and they are resistant to the erosion of magic, so they die of old age, and they just look a little weird. They will carefully choose who they will marry to prevent the undesirable degradation of the bloodline.
Even so, the magic of their innate bloodline is constantly degrading, and they are getting weaker and weaker.
But for those wizarding families who are poor and have a bad bloodline, pure-bloods are entitled to look down on them, and even treat them as residues, Chen Ang investigated in the taverns where wizards often gathered, and found that most non-pure-blood families will become crazy in the eyes of normal people with normal age.
Of course, the Ministry of Magic turned a blind eye to this.
Pureblood families are not unconditional in their magic resistance, and once they refine the dark arts, they will also have this tendency to go crazy.
The term "mudblood" is not the twisted pride of pure-blood wizards, but they give these non-pure-blooded scorns after they see those non-pure-blooded, unscreened wizard bloodlines become ugly and twisted and crazy in old age, and begin to eat fishy things such as toads and bats, and become bloodthirsty and extremely mentally unstable.
They realized that if they were allowed to confuse their bloodlines, they would degenerate their 'noble' bloodlines.
Coupled with the impact of the interests of wizards with Muggle blood, there are two currents of thought in the wizarding world for this kind of magic erosion, and Voldemort, the representative of the pure-blood family, proposed that the greatness of wizards comes from blood, and wizards with pure blood are powerful, elegant and calm, while wizards who are mixed with Muggles will only become distorted and ugly in the end.
The White Wizards, led by Dumbledore, believed that the root cause of wizards becoming evil, dark and insane was dark magic, and that Muggle wizards only had a low resistance to dark magic.
Of course, in Chen Ang's opinion, both parties are stupid, no one dares to really propose that the factor that makes wizards crazy is magic, because that is simply denying the pride of the entire wizarding world, wizards are proud of their own magic, they think that everything that is extraordinary lies in those magical magic and powerful magic, let them deny magic, isn't that equivalent to denying all of them?
There is no doubt that Borgin also showed those twisted, eccentric sides, he cast the Loyalty Charm in Hogsmeade Village, but the inside was filthy and messy, and the houses were dilapidated, showing a wizarding aesthetic that was exactly the same as the Leaky Cauldron, 12 Grimmauld Square, The Burrow, etc., and the style of Hogsmeade Village and Diagon Alley.
It is not difficult for a wizard to keep it neat and clean, it only takes one or two spells, and it is not difficult to create a magnificent and spectacular dwelling with a comfortable and luxurious interior, magic is enough to do all this, but they are just dirty and cramped, what can explain all this except mental problems?
Chen Ang pushed open the creepy door with fingernail scratches, and the porch was a large, empty room, with peeling wallpaper, a worn carpet stained with dried blood, some rusty lanterns, and some chandeliers and candlesticks covered with broken cobwebs. There is a staircase leading upstairs. There were some portraits on the wall that had darkened with age, and when they heard the sound of the door being slammed, they began to wake up, and they turned their heads to look at Chen Ang, and suddenly opened their mouths and muttered, and the harsh voices intertwined with each other, and some portraits of old women began to scream.
Chen Ang looked at them indifferently, he raised his hand slightly, and said softly: "Avada suo!" ”
In an instant, the whole room was quiet, Chen Ang walked among the stagnant portraits, slowly walked up the stairs, the house-elf behind him Gollum showed a shocked expression, it excitedly shook the portraits that had been quiet, and screamed: "Grandfather Herbert, Grandma Belvina? Aunt Bernarma? ”
"Oh my God! Master...... You kill them! ”
"Shut up! Those are just false memories, their reactions, their actions are driven by the curse behind them...... Bringing a portrait to life is definitely one of the dumbest acts of all time, I wonder what these wizards think? Dead people, let them die, but they have to make a false memory, driven by magic to deceive themselves. ”
He glanced at the filthy room and instructed Gollum, "Keep this place clean and spotless, and pile all the mess into the basement for me, and I don't want to see anything useless except the necessary furniture." ”
After speaking, Chen Ang sent it a document of "Laboratory Standardization Construction", and instructed: "Just according to this standard, if you don't have something, use the transformation charm first, with your magic level, it shouldn't be difficult to build this thing." 2k reading network