Hogwarts Blood Curse Martial Arts

"My family is a descendant of the prophets of the Roman Empire. At the end of the Western Roman Empire, they were defeated in the factional struggle and the whole family moved to Britannia. Until the beginning of the tenth century, factional turmoil also broke out here, and the family continued north Move and flee to the Kingdom of Scotland."

Maharat put down the tea cup, turned to look south, and said calmly: "I awakened the blood of the prophet when I was twelve years old. It was not until I was fifteen years old that a powerful wizard suddenly picked me up and said that I could Be the one who clears the air.”

Chen Bin asked: "Who is that person?"

"Ms. Rowena Ravenclaw."

This unexpected answer made Chen Bin stunned for a moment, and asked in confusion: "Did she turn you into a Horcrux?"

"No, it's Mr. Salazar Slytherin. He came to save me." Maharat turned his attention to Chen Bin and said calmly: "I learned a lot of magic from Ms. Ravenclaw, and I learned the ability to control prophecies. My first controllable prophecy was to peek into the future of the magical world, foreseeing that non-magic users were slaughtering wizards throughout Europe. Since my magic power was not strong, I could not see clearly what was going on, so He kept spending his life trying to figure out the future, and finally exhausted his life at the age of 24 and entered the stage of leaving and staying."

After a pause, she refilled Chen Bin's and her own cups with black tea, and continued: "Ms. Ravenclaw brought her friend Mr. Slytherin to the manor, but he could only use secret methods to prolong my life. A little bit of life. However, he remembered that there was a well-known ruin near a large lake in the Scottish Highlands. He had felt a magical wave very similar to mine there, so he guessed that the ruins might help alleviate my condition. .”

Chen Bin looked at the lake below the castle and guessed: "The ruins are under Hogwarts Castle?"

"Yes." Maharat also turned to look at the lake and said softly: "There is a giant tomb deep underground, and in the center of the tomb is a dead dragon. It is a type that has never been seen before, and its size is It is four to five times that of an ordinary fire dragon, and its heart is still beating. Its physical body is dead, but there is an unknown ancient magic that keeps its heart alive. Every time it beats, powerful magic will rush out. I am two The protection of the Master of Magic is also overwhelming, and they can only stay in the tomb for a few minutes, and their magic power will be exhausted if they stay any longer.”

"This fluctuation is very close to my magic, as if it is from the same source. Ms. Ravenclaw and Mr. Slytherin returned to the ground. In the end, he and Ms. Ravenclaw discovered that this was a loss of core consciousness. The ancient Horcrux. When my life came to an end, Mr. Slytherin gave me a choice: to start another adventure through death, or to merge with this heart and become a Horcrux."

Chen Bin suddenly asked: "Who died?"

Maharat was stunned, shook his head and said: "No one needs to sacrifice, I am the one who died."

"Don't you understand?" She saw Chen Bin's disbelieving eyes and explained: "A living person needs a living soul as the casting material for a Horcrux if he wants to cheat the void. However, I retained the complete soul when I died normally. The soul only needs to convert itself into a virtual image of memory and personality, and then connect with the source of magic power to become a Horcrux."

Chen Bin found that he had entered into a misunderstanding.

There is no distinction between good and evil in Horcrux technology, nor does it require the sacrifice of living beings. Everything depends on the purpose of the spell.

He then speculated: "That is to say, the ghosts like the almost headless Nick are not souls, but incorporeal bodies with memories and personalities of their lifetimes?"

Maharat nodded and said: "Yes, all the souls of the dead cannot stay in the original world. They need to travel through the void to become a new life in another world."

"So, what's the difference between an incorporeal body and a soul?" Chen Bin was confused by her words and asked: "Nick also has emotions and memories during his lifetime, and Professor Binns can also learn knowledge after death. This has nothing to do with the soul. different."

"Bins was one of the first professors recruited when the school was founded, and he did continue to study. Hmm... It's hard to compare... How can I put it in words?" Maharat tilted his head and thought hard for a while, and frowned. He frowned and said, "The soul can be reborn in another world, but the incorporeal body cannot. It can only exist in this world forever. It cannot die on its own and cannot touch anything in this world."

"Is there no other difference?" Chen Bin still didn't understand her explanation.

"Do you think virtual images are equal to souls?" Maharat asked.

"have no idea."

Seeing Chen Bin's confused expression, Maharat thought for a moment and said with a wry smile: "Use your thinking as an analogy, use an ultra-high-pixel digital camera to take a picture of Lisa Monro's smile, then the image stored in the computer will be Is the painting still the original portrait? You can apply new paint on the physical object, or you can apply new paint on the computer, and every detail will be exactly the same, but is it the smile of Lisa Monroe?"

"Uh" Chen Bin was speechless. This was not a magic issue at all, but a philosophical issue.

"Do you understand?" Maharat understood Chen Bin's expression and continued with a wry smile: "This is philosophy. We can't define what the original soul is. It's like there is a paragraph in your memory. "Wooden Ship Theory": If a wooden ship is sailing and the parts of the hull are replaced, is it still the same ship?"

Chen Bin's hair immediately stood up when he heard this, and he said anxiously: "Wait, can you read my memory?"

Maharat's face turned red, he turned his head and looked into the distance, and asked in a low voice: "This is a very long story, are you sure you want to hear it?"

"Wait, how is Katerina doing now?" Chen Bin suddenly asked.

"I'm fine, I've been listening." Maharat suddenly turned to look at Chen Bin, showing a familiar smile.

"Where is my hometown?" Chen Bin asked in Chinese.