Hogwarts: Becoming a god from reselling fresh food

Murphy asked several questions to test Hermione and Tom's mathematical abilities, and the results were not surprising. The two's mathematical abilities were equivalent to the fourth or fifth grade of ordinary elementary schools. Tom's mathematical abilities were slightly higher, but they were equivalent to those of elementary school students. level.

This is already the best among British children. If Harry and Ron were allowed to do it, there is a high probability that multiplication within ten would be incorrect.

"You two need to catch up on mathematics in the future. Apart from other things, you must at least understand some simple analysis tools." Murphy said, "Quantification is the first step in research. If it cannot be quantified, it will be difficult to conduct an in-depth analysis of something. .”

Hermione was a little shocked. She rarely dissatisfied her teachers in her studies. "But, teacher, we haven't even finished learning some simple spells. Isn't it too early to start studying advanced magic now..." "

This is also the sentiment of many little wizards. After all, it is too strange for children in first and second grade to start engaging in magic research.

"I'm not asking you to achieve anything," Murphy said, "but I hope that you can learn to understand and study the ideas of magic from exploring the unknown, instead of following what others say and reading from the book."

This is also the reason why Murphy chooses to teach children in grades one to four and gives up directly on students above grade five.

Children who have studied magic at Hogwarts for four or five years have become accustomed to the school's indoctrination education method, and their thinking patterns have most likely been fixed, making it too troublesome to change.

"Okay, you two come over here."

Murphy said, taking two children to a stand.

It was a tripod with a wand fixed on it. The tip of the wand was pointed at a target one meter away.

Behind the tripod, there is a barbed wire fence with a human silhouette, and dozens of strange boxes are installed on the wire fence.

"This is a portable magic tester." Murphy pointed to the boxes and said, "It took me a lot of effort to make them usable at Hogwarts."

The magic power around Hogwarts fluctuates very strongly, and the more sophisticated the electrical appliances, the more unusable they are. Murphy has been studying these magic testers for a long time before they can operate normally in a high-concentration magic environment.

Simply replacing electricity with magic power is fine for ordinary electrical appliances, but for equipment like the magic tester, which requires extremely high accuracy, it is easier to stabilize the magic power than to make the device more resistant to magic.

As he spoke, Murphy took out an old-fashioned camera and pointed it at the stand.

For the same reason, modern cameras were difficult to use at Hogwarts, so he had to use this old, bulky spotlight camera.

"This camera is used to take pictures of these portable magic testers," Murphy said. "When we do the experiment later, we need to monitor the status of all the magic testers at the same time. There are dozens of magic testers here. It’s difficult for the eye to distinguish and record them instantly, so I use a camera to take pictures first, and then record them one by one.”

Seeing that the two of them still looked confused, Murphy thought for a while and explained.

"This set of things is used to test the magic effect of the wand."

"I want to understand the principle of the wand first, and then prepare to start making the wand."

"Aren't you surprised? Wizards and magical animals both have magical powers, but the magic of magical animals does not require the use of wands and the like, while wizards do. Of course, not all wizards need it. It is said that some foreign wizards do not Not using a wand."

"But in short, we wizards can't use many spells without the wand. I'm curious about what role the wand plays in this."

"Have you two made any assumptions about this?"

Hermione and Tom both shook their heads. They had just entered the wizarding world and everyone used wands, so they took it for granted and never thought about why.

This is also the reason why little wizards of Muggle origin enter schools every year, but they are still unable to bring scientific thinking to the wizarding world.

They are too young when they enter school, and their worldview is easily changed. When faced with a completely unfamiliar field, they will naturally follow what others say.

Therefore, Murphy, a guy who came to Hogwarts with the soul of a Muggle adult, is an anomaly.

"Well," Murphy nodded and encouraged, "Let's not make any scientific inferences, let's just guess. What does this property of the wand remind you of?"

Tom frowned and had no clue, but Hermione thought about it and raised her hand, "Teacher, it's a bit like an antenna."

Murphy's eyes lit up, "Not bad! Very good! Very good!"

"Your idea is exactly the same as the teacher's first guess!"

"Look at the wand's appearance, coupled with its ability to enhance the wizard's spell ability, isn't it just a magic antenna?!"

"Excellent, Miss Granger, you now have an important quality to become a researcher, the ability to associate."

"The laws and rules of all things in the world are interlinked and similar. The ability to associate is to connect two things that may not be the same in nature, but have some similarities, and use the laws of those things that we are familiar with to Cracking the unknown.”

"Associative ability, that is, correlation prediction, is a magic weapon for researchers to solve difficult problems."

"The so-called research is actually the process of observing things, summarizing, revising, observing again, summarizing and revising again. The most critical step of summarizing the rules is actually, to put it bluntly, guessing."

"We guess that the reason why the apple fell to the ground is because of gravity, we guess why light has diffraction effect because it is a wave, etc. All the laws are based on guessing, and association is a good guessing method. "

Hermione blushed at the praise, but she still wondered: "But, teacher, what you mentioned seems to be the method used by Muggles to study science. Can it also be used to study magic?"

Murphy nodded, "Yes, it's the same method. What do you think is science? What is magic? What are the differences between them?"

This question stumped the little girl. She wrinkled her face and thought hard, but Murphy did not interrupt and waited patiently.

After a while, Hermione suddenly seemed to think of something, "I heard the school teacher say that science is materialistic and must follow rules, and spiritual things are called magic. Is this the difference between them?"

This was probably what her teacher at Muggle school said.

"The teacher probably just made a metaphor." Murphy said, "The so-called idealism and materialism are actually philosophical concepts. It is a way of looking at the world. Materialism means that the essence of the world is material, and consciousness Produced from matter, idealism means that the essence of the world is spirit, and matter is the product of spirit.”

"What the teacher said, science is materialistic, is that science provides a materialistic world view. But in fact, the more important attribute of science is that it is a set of methodology, a set of methods for understanding the world. "