Connor's Hogwarts

Chapter 425 "Entering the Magic World: The Secret of Divination"

Listen carefully, this class is boring, don't doze off! (knock on the blackboard)

[Connor's divination class]

Divination can be used to trace the past, explore the present and deduce the future.

Divided according to skill proficiency, looking back at the past is an introduction, exploring the present is proficiency, and deducing the future is a master.

It's a pity that the vast majority of wizards can't deduce the future. [Proficiency] is almost the pinnacle of a wizard's learning of divination.

Even Professor Victor, who specializes in arithmetic and divination, dare not and will not call himself a master of divination. The future is unpredictable and it is not so easy to deduce.

Except for divination, all divinations about the future cannot be guaranteed to be accurate.

Below, we will explain in detail the divination in various situations separately. (knock on the blackboard)
The first is divination of the past.

Facts that happened in the past can no longer be changed, so divination can be used for more accurate backtracking.

Of course, the longer the interval, the lower the accuracy of backtracking, but in general, divination used to be the simplest of divination, which can be regarded as the foundation and entry.

Then there is divination now.

The second before the present is the past and the next second is the future, and "divination now" generally refers to divination where someone or something is at this time, what they are doing, whether they are dead or alive...the divination is the current point in time what is happening.

For example, the Weasley family has a prophet's clock, which is handed down from their ancestors, which can reflect the status of family members in real time, and the Marauder's Map, which is also one of the applications of divination for "divination of the present". One, all of these must be done by wizards who are proficient in divination.

Finally, divination of the future.

The difficulty of divination for the future is very high, and as the [time interval] of divination increases, and the accuracy of divination [target positioning] increases, the difficulty of divination will increase exponentially.

As far as the time interval is concerned, the future that wizards can accurately predict usually does not exceed 10 seconds.

Take a chestnut.

In the Quidditch game, it is known that the Quaffle will enter the circle and score in the next second. At this time, it is necessary to predict whether the goalkeeper Wood will use the left whip kick or the right whip kick first when defending. The future of Zhong Hou is simple after all, and it is difficult to figure it out by pinching fingers.

But as the future you want to divination becomes longer...for example, if you want to use divination to predict the result of the game at the beginning of the game, it is very, very difficult, almost impossible.

Otherwise, why not play a Quidditch match and let the two prophets go to the middle of the field to announce the result?
If a wizard forcibly divines the long-term future, his eyes will be blackened and he will not be able to see anything.

Every minute, every second, every choice of every person... will determine the future direction, and there are too many "variables" that affect the future.

The above is the divination difficulty classification in various situations. Next, students turn to the second page of the textbook, and we will talk about the divination principles of divination. (Knock on the blackboard!)
When wizards perform divination, they must form a magic circle first. It is a complex compound magic pattern. There are many genres. Most people cannot draw a magic circle by themselves, so they usually use magic tools that describe the magic circle, such as magic circles. mirror, crystal ball and tarot cards.

After preparing the props, what the fortune-teller has to do is to "input instructions" and "analyze answers". How to correctly input instructions and analyze answers is the content to be taught in the divination class. One point is enough, that is - the results of divination are not calculated by wizards.

This is the main reason why Connor would say that divination is somewhat like a computer.

Because divination is like a "program" belonging to the world itself - as long as you input "variables" into it, it will output a "result" to you instantly through a series of "calculations".

Speaking of which, everyone should also understand why Professor Victor is excited.

After understanding the basic operating principles of computers, Victor also discovered the similarities between divination and computers.

Input variables—information processing—get results. This is the basic process that Professor Victor saw on the computer. It seems to be the same as divination.

The more and more detailed input variables are, the faster and more accurate the output results will be. When the "variables" are too large to be measured, the future is naturally impossible to predict.

Divination does not involve information processing. Divination is just a tool for input and output. So what is the real calculation?

This is controversial in the wizarding world, but Professor Victor feels that he has discovered the truth, and perhaps she can live on this subject.
Well, after talking about the basic principles of divination, we will enter the final content of this class, the practical application and practice of divination, and finally we will talk about the most cutting-edge research results and research directions of divination (wake up ! Shoot the blackboard!)
Although it is difficult for wizards to accurately predict the future, it does not mean that wizards cannot "divinate the future".

In fact, wizards have long realized that divination is difficult to predict the future. They know that it is very difficult to accurately predict the future, but this does not mean that they give up using this "program" that belongs to the world. On the contrary, they think of tricks The only way to "predict the future" is to start with divination's [Target Positioning].

What does that mean?In fact, it is very simple. Since the accurate result is difficult to predict, then we should blur this positioning and make the result of divination "high probability" accurate. Therefore, arithmetic divination came into being.

Let's take another chestnut.

Captain Wood wanted to win the next Quidditch match, so he asked classmate A, who was proficient in arithmetic and divination, to help him. Then classmate A, who was proficient in arithmetic and divination, took out a set of tarot cards, did a fortune telling for Wood, and got A bunch of decks that can be interpreted in any way other people think.

Then classmate A mysteriously told Wood that you have a high winning rate in this game, but there may be bloody disasters, you must remember not to be careless, dodge more, and the secrets must not be leaked, you need rat tail juice and so on
After a flick, Wood left happily, and finally the result of the game came out, and Gryffindor won, but Quaffle didn't talk about Wood, and dealt with him face to face, causing him to vomit three liters of blood and leave the field midway. Everything was exactly in line with the divination result.

Question, from this point of view, is this arithmetic and divination reliable? (spread hands)

From the professional point of view of wizards, this is of course reliable. Wizards no longer go to accurately predict the future, but to calculate the "probability" of events, and then after thousands of years of studying this set of "laws of nature" To sum up, it becomes one of the practical applications of arithmetic divination - Tarot cards.

Although the results of divination may be vague and ambiguous, it is indeed a proven and useful magic. Most importantly, divination is very objective and will not change with the subjective will of the caster. of
It means that when you want to divination the outcome of an event, no matter who you switch to divination, the conclusion you get will be the same, the only difference lies in the level of detail of the divination.

Unless you have the blood of a prophet.

The next thing I want to talk about is the cutting-edge research on divination in the wizarding world.

What I said before was just the general wizard's understanding of divination, but there are always some unique people in this world, such as the blood of the prophet, they can predict the accurate future unreasonably.

Wizards have never given up on the exploration of prophecy. They all want to understand the difference between ordinary wizards and prophet blood.

The explanation generally accepted by wizarding scholars today is "cost theory".

The price to be paid for divination by ordinary wizards is different from that of prophetic bloodlines. Ordinary wizards only need to pay magic power for divination, while the price for divination by prophetic bloodlines is vitality.

Wizarding scholars believe that divination is more of a "deal" than ordinary magic, a deal with the world itself.

You are responsible for providing information, paying the price, and the world will return you some information according to the "rules". If the price you pay is high enough (life), the information you get will be precious enough-for example, from the future with thousands of possibilities , find a node where all worldlines intersect.

However, under normal circumstances, ordinary wizards simply cannot find this window to trade life with the world.

[Wizards without "spiritual vision" cannot make predictions] This is the news revealed by the blood of the prophets, so many wizards believe that this so-called "spiritual vision" is actually a window to pay the price to the world. The blood of the Prophet can be seen.

The previous wizards couldn't prove this conjecture, but Professor Victor felt that this conjecture might be confirmed here, as long as she could complete the project sent by the students—make a computer that belonged to the wizard!
　Fo, I am writing this chapter and I am confused, who am I, where am I, and what am I doing. Damn, why do I want to understand divination as a Muggle (ノ=Д=)ノ┻━┻
　　After I finished writing, I felt dizzy myself, ahaha, I hope I can provide a little help to friends who suffer from insomnia ()
　　
　
(End of this chapter)