Studying with Professor Carlo has given Carl a lot of insight, and he has a deep understanding of what Professor Carlo said: how important it is to have a cool head, crazy ideas, and let go of prejudices.

Dark arts is indeed a completely different field from the current knowledge of magic at Hogwarts.

The more classes Carl took, the more he felt how right it was to impress Professor Carlo.

Even though Professor Carlo hadn't taught him any dark arts, the dark arts had completely caught his eye.

Compared to the conventionalized magic, Carl felt that the dark arts were more in line with his perception of magic.

Magic is not a tool that can be achieved with tools, but a miracle that is "impossible".

He liked Professor Carlo's words very much, and at first he was a little incomprehensible, but when Professor Caro explained, he understood the mystery:

There are many ways to kill people, as long as you cut off the enemy's head, dig out the enemy's heart, and make the enemy stop breathing, no life will survive.

The means to achieve this can be a knife, a poison, or a magic, and in terms of the end, they do not make any difference.

But what about the other way around?

Let those who have dropped their heads live, let the duged hearts continue to beat, and let those who have stopped breathing breathe again.

This is a miracle that only magic can do, and it is the essence of magic called magic.

But Hogwarts, or the Ministry of Magic, is killing this miracle.

There is no such miracle in their textbooks, where magic is only a tool, a tool for life, a tool for making a living, and even a tool for the enemy.

Maybe it's more magical than the science that the average person learns, but fundamentally, it's no different at all.

Even if this kind of miracle existed at Hogwarts, no one was interested, and the people here, including Karl before him, were caught up in the conclusion given by the Ministry of Magic:

Ghosts are the echoes of the dead, the imprint of a deceased witch or wizard in the secular world.

But what is an echo? What is an imprint?

How far is this resounding, this imprint, from the present world?

It's a boring question, because you can continue to ask anything, and eventually it becomes a kind of contemplation.

But Professor Carlo explains the importance of this issue from another angle:

"What is to be alive? Where is the boundary between life and death? ”

Ghosts react to the present world, have certain memories, and people can even interact with them.

But they are not alive, they do not have life.

If we define that a physical body is alive, what about the Boggart? Is this magical creature that can transform anything alive? Is it life?

What about the Dementors?

Is the so-called life a state or an energy that exists substantially?

There are other questions, such as what is the essence of magic? Why can it change the world? Is there a force called "magic", or is there a rule of "magic"?

These things are worth exploring for wizards, and it takes not only great wisdom to explore them, but also to break the shackles of being human.

And it is precisely to break the shackles of being a human being and make black magic black magic.

Hattings agreed, but he did not fully agree.

"I can't go into the details of Karl, this professor's theory is indeed very solid, but I can't say that he is all right, it involves the contract between you and Polo, I can't tell you what I think, it involves some knowledge outside of this world. It can only be said that at this stage, you can study with confidence. ”

Before the Easter holidays, Carl had been obsessed with the mysteries of magic, and he largely ignored Fred and George except for the most basic homework.

Fred and George only thought this was the tacit understanding between Carl and them, so they continued their grand career.

Fortunately, most of the time, their adventures were only superficial, and they only stayed at the fight between friends, and occasionally fought with Filch, and did not make much of a fuss.

However, such a quiet time is obviously not the main theme of Hogwarts.

In March, after the Easter holidays, the atmosphere at Hogwarts School was tense again.

It started out with an unexpected discovery.

I don't know if most of the Gryffindor naughty ghosts fell silent, or it was a joke of fate, but with the efforts of Percy, Carl and others, Gryffindor's house score gradually recovered from the bottom, and by Easter, it was back in second place with a score of ten points ahead of Ravenclaw.

Of course, Slytherin was still far ahead.

However, a Ravenclaw senior named Penelope calculated that as long as Gryffindor won the championship by a large score in the league, then Gryffindor could win the House Cup.

So what is this larger score?

One hundred and fifty points.

It was a very delicate score, and based on what Carl had heard, Gryffindor probably wouldn't have thought about it if it weren't for it—because the Golden Snitch was worth so many points.

This means that as long as Gryffindor keeps the score tied and gets the Golden Snitch, then the championship is in sight.

As it happens, Gryffindor has a good team and a legendary Seeker - Charlie Weasley.

There is no doubt that this match is extremely important for Gryffindor.

Slytherin also know the importance of this game, and obviously they are not the Hufflepuff group of good guys.

As a result, the smell of gunpowder in the school became stronger.

At first, the two sides were able to maintain basic restraint except for some harsh words and fierce faces, but as Oliver Wood was struck in the hospital by a vicious curse flying from the shadows, tensions between the two houses reached a point of flux.

Oliver Wood is the goalkeeper for the Gryffindor team and is likely to be the next captain.

The people of Gryffindor are outraged by his attack, and Charlie demands that the prefect hand over the murderer, and he assures that no one will lynch him, and he will take the murderer to Professor McGonagall.

The Slytherin prefects swore that they were not the ones who did it, and that they were willing to work with Gryffindor to find out who the murderer was.

No one believed it, and Carl felt that there might not be many people even within Slytherin.

"You're going to put the whole thing on the edge of uncontrollable!" Charlie warns Slytherin, a prefect named Terrance Higgins. "Gryffindor isn't very good-tempered."

Terrence Higgins was calm about Charlie's warning: "That's why I'm sitting here hoping for a good result." ”

He stood up, glanced around the Gryffindors that had gathered around him, and suddenly smiled:

"Unfortunately, it didn't turn out well. But—"

His voice suddenly stretched long, and he straightened up his slightly messy emerald green school uniform.

"Slytherin is not afraid of challenges."