339. What kind of owl do wizards still use to deliver messages?
"I'm not going to teach you a simple fire spell."
"It can be regarded as an advanced version of the Fierce Fire Charm, and it is the result of my research after spending a lot of time researching it-Blue Fierce Fire."
"In addition to being malleable, it should be more stable and more powerful."
"Ordinary fire burns everything that can be burned, and it grows endlessly. And these blue fires can burn even ordinary fires. ”
"Of course, it's three times as difficult as the average fire."
Grindelwald is a pragmatist wizard, so what he talks about in his small class is basically dry goods, and you must be in a hundred and twenty points of spirit, otherwise missing any point is a great loss, and don't expect Grindelwald to tell you a second time.
As he himself said, the difficulty of Blue Flame is indeed not ordinary, and in the first class, even Dudley, who had the assistance of the Data Magic Eye, failed to master the trick of transforming the flame from red to blue.
"Bell, bell, bell"
At the end of the lesson, I heard the phone beep ringing in Dudley's pocket.
The phone showed that it was Karkaroff calling, and Dudley did not shy away from it, and answered it in front of him.
Grindelwald didn't communicate with Dudley during the whole class, and didn't even bother to look at him, but from the moment the phone beeped up, Grindelwald's eyes never left Dudley, quietly waiting for Dudley to make the whole call, and then took the initiative to say the first words of the whole class to him.
"Muggle telegraph?"
Faced with Grindelwald's initiative to talk, Dudley naturally answered his doubts: "Professor, there is no telegraph anymore, this is a phone bug, you can also understand it as a mobile phone used by ordinary people. A communication tool that allows you to communicate freely even if you are thousands of miles apart. ”
"Phone? Mobile phone? Where's your phone line? ”
Grindelwald lived in a time when there were no mobile phones, but they were still the most old-fashioned hand-cranked phones.
"There's no need for a phone line, it's a biometric signal."
Dudley didn't care if he understood it or not, and simply explained it to Grindelwald.
"Is this alive?"
After looking at the human side of the phone bug, Grindelwald couldn't help but exclaim: "Have the Muggles developed such advanced technology?" ”
"Professor, Muggles don't know this technology, it's unique to wizards, to be precise, it's my unique way of contact, and it's not universal."
Dudley went on to explain.
"No popularity?" Grindelwald grasped the key words in his words very accurately, and his face unconsciously showed a hint of ridicule: "So wizards still use the old-fashioned way of owl sending letters to deliver messages?" ”
"Yes, professor, they think it's convenient."
"Convenient?" The sneer on Grindelwald's face became more and more obvious: "The owl's way of delivering messages is slow and laborious, and it has long been outdated, and Muggles can get the news in a very short time, and it may take us more than half a day." ”
"Is the phone now widespread in the Muggle world, and the kind of mobile phone you are talking about?"
Telephones were a rarity in his time, but he firmly believed that after so many years, the world of ordinary people must have developed to an incredible point.
"As you might expect, most homes now have access to phones, and even mobile phones aren't a big deal."
Mobile phones have been around since 1983, text messages in the first sense have appeared in 1992, and now in 1995. The first "flip phone", the Motorola 8900, came out, and Dudley happened to get a few, and he planned to give one to the people of the disciplinary team.
"Like this."
With that, Dudley handed the latest Motorola to Grindelwald.
Grindelwald looked at Motorola carefully, his face full of surprise: "Incredible"
Soon he returned the Motorola to Dudley, and he took a seat on his own, and then said to Dudley, "If you don't mind, can you talk to my old man?" ”
"Let's talk about the lives of ordinary Muggles right now"
Dudley wasn't the slightest bit unequivocal, and since Grindelwald wanted to hear it, he was willing to talk to him about it.
It's ridiculous to say, maybe this 'dangerous dark wizard' who has been imprisoned for fifty years is the wizard in the entire wizarding world who knows best how powerful technology is.
He was perhaps more sober than the half-blood wizards who were born into ordinary families.
So, under Dudley's vivid description, Grindelwald revealed the side of today's ordinary people's world little by little.
As Dudley began to tell, Grindelwald was at first as usual, but when he heard that electric lights, refrigerators, and televisions had become common in the world of ordinary people, even he couldn't help but change color slightly.
"Muggles are no less skilled than magic, I knew it then."
"Tanks, missiles, bombers can easily destroy the homes that wizards have worked so hard to build, and the most dangerous weapons. The vast majority of wizards are unable to escape. ”
Even if there is an apparition, ordinary wizards will definitely not be able to run, and the key to the door can be reversed, but you have to know when the other party will attack, otherwise it will be too late for you to run when the bomb explodes.
The period in which he was was perhaps the only chance was now. After more than fifty years of development, the wizard. hehe
To put it mildly, even the most clever healer can't save the brain that bursts like a goddess scattering flowers.
After hearing the location of the Ministry of Magic's base, Grindelwald didn't know what expression to use to describe his mood at this time.
"Built underneath the phone booth."
"It's really in line with my impression of the stupid Ministry of Magic, arrogant, unenterprising, and losing itself in the lust for power."
Grindelwald was merciless in his complaints about the Ministry of Magic.
"You're right." Dudley agrees with Grindelwald: "If it weren't for that, Senior Tom wouldn't have almost turned the entire wizarding world upside down. ”
"I know him. He was an unscrupulous lunatic, but even I had to admit that he was powerful. ”
"He used a very dangerous magical transformation to get his current power."
It's not surprising that Grindelwald would know about Voldemort, don't underestimate any powerful wizard who stirs up the storm, this so-called 'prison' can't keep him in place at all, no matter how strict the Austrian Aurors are, the reason why he's here is just because he wants to be here, that's all.
In the books, it is mentioned that Tom has undergone many dangerous magical transformations, and when he reappears, he has changed his appearance and named himself Lord Voldemort.
He gave his face for power, and he would rather be cursed for the sake of immortality.
(End of chapter)