Connor's Hogwarts

Listen carefully, this class is quite boring, no dozing is allowed! (Knock on the blackboard)

【Connor's Divination Lesson】

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

If divided according to skill proficiency, tracing the past is entry level, exploring the present is proficiency, and deducing the future is master level.

It is a pity that most wizards cannot deduce the future. [Proficiency] is almost the pinnacle of wizards learning divination.

Even Professor Victor, who specializes in arithmetic divination, neither dares nor would call himself a divination master. The future is unpredictable and not easy to deduce.

Except for prophecy, all divination of the future cannot be guaranteed to be accurate.

Below, we will explain in detail the divination techniques under various circumstances. (Knock on the blackboard)

The first is to divine the past.

The facts that happened in the past cannot be changed, so more accurate retrieval can be carried out through divination.

Of course, the longer the time lapses, the more accurate the traceback will be. But generally speaking, divination used to be the simplest form of divination, and it was regarded as a basic and introductory method.

Then there's divination now.

The one second before now is the past and the next second is the future, and "divination of the present" generally refers to divination of where someone or something is at this time, what they are doing, whether they are dead or alive... Divination is about the current point in time. What's going on.

For example, the Weasley family has a seer's clock, which is something passed down from their ancestors. It can reflect the status of family members in real time. There is also the Marauder's Map, which is also one of the applications of divination to "divide the present". First, these must be done by wizards who are proficient in divination.

The last thing is to predict the future.

Divining the future is very difficult, and as the [time interval] of divining the future increases and the accuracy of the [target positioning] of divining increases, the difficulty of divining will increase exponentially.

In terms of time intervals, wizards can generally predict the future accurately, usually no more than 10 seconds.

Give me a chestnut.

In a Quidditch match, it is known that the Quaffle will enter the circle and score a goal 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. This is divination of the future. This kind of divination takes one second. The future of Empress Zhong is, after all, simple and difficult to figure out with just a few clicks.

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

Otherwise, why not play Quidditch? Wouldn't it be better if the two masters of prophecy went to the middle of the field to announce the results?

If a wizard forcibly divines the long-term future, his eyes will only go dark and he will be unable to see anything.

Every choice made by every person every minute and every second... will affect the direction of the future. There are too many "variables" that affect the future.

The above are the divination difficulty levels under various circumstances. Next, students will turn to the second page of the textbook, and we will talk about the divination principles of divination. (Knock on the blackboard!)

When a wizard performs divination, he must first form a magic circle, which is a complex compound magic pattern. There are many schools. Most people cannot draw a magic circle alone, so they usually use magic props that depict 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 "enter instructions" and "analyze answers." How to correctly input instructions and analyze answers is what is taught in the fortune telling class. I will not go into details here. We only need to know Just one thing is enough, that is - the results of divination are not calculated by wizards.

This is also the main reason why Connor would say that divination is similar to computers to some extent.

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

At this point, everyone should 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 - and 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 the input variables are, the faster and more accurate the output results will be. When there are too many "variables" to be measured, the future will naturally be impossible to predict.

Divination does not involve information processing. Divination is just a tool for input and output. So what is actually being calculated?

This is quite controversial in the wizarding world, but Professor Victor feels that she has discovered the truth, and perhaps she can become famous throughout the ages on this subject.

Okay, after talking about the basic principles of divination, we move to the last part of this lesson, the practical application and practice of divination. Finally, we will also talk about the most cutting-edge research results and research directions of divination (please wake up) ! Shoot the blackboard!)

Although it is difficult for wizards to predict the future accurately, this does not mean that wizards cannot "divine the future".

In fact, wizards have long understood that divination is difficult to predict the future. They know that it is difficult to accurately predict the future, but this does not mean that they have given up using this "program" that belongs to the world. On the contrary, they think of taking advantage of it. The best way to "predict the future" is to start with the [target positioning] of divination.

What does that mean? In fact, it is very simple. Since the accurate results are difficult to predict, then we can blur the positioning and make the divination results accurate with a "high probability". Therefore, arithmetic divination came into being.

Let’s give another example.

Captain Wood wanted to win the next Quidditch match, so he asked classmate A who was proficient in arithmetic divination to help. Then classmate A, who was proficient in arithmetic divination, took out a set of tarot cards and gave Wood a fortune, and he got It's a bunch of decks that others think can be interpreted any way they want.

Then classmate A mysteriously told Wood that you have a high winning rate in this game, but there may be a bloody disaster. You must remember not to be careless, dodge more, and the secret must not be leaked.

After a round of deception, Wood left happily. The final result of the game came out and Gryffindor won. However, the Quaffle ignored Wood and dealt with him, causing him to vomit three liters of blood and exit midway. Everything was completely consistent with the divination results.

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

From the professional point of view of wizards, this is of course reliable. Wizards no longer predict the future accurately, but calculate the "probability" of events, and then after thousands of years of testing this set of "natural laws" In summary, 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 practical magic. The most important thing is that divination is very objective and will not change with the subjective will of the caster. of

This means that when you want to divine the outcome of an event, no matter who you choose to divine, the conclusion you draw will be the same. The only difference lies in the level of detail.

Unless you have the blood of a prophet.

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

What I talked about 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 prophets, who can unreasonably predict the accurate future.

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

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

Ordinary wizards have to pay different prices for divination and prophet blood divination. Ordinary wizards only need to pay magic power for divination, while the price for prophet blood divination is life force.

Wizards and scholars believe that divination is more like a "transaction" than ordinary magic, a transaction with the world itself.

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

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

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

The previous wizards were unable to 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 - making a computer for wizards!

fo, I am so confused as I write this chapter, who am I, where am I and what am I doing? Damn it, why do I, a Muggle, have to understand divination (ノ=Д=)ノ┻━┻

After I finished writing it, I felt dizzy myself, haha, I hope it can provide some help to my friends who have insomnia ()