I really didn't want to practice immortality at Hogwarts

Before Snape could speak, Professor McGonagall asked Zhang Chun, "Mr. Zhang, were you in your dormitory just now?"

"Yes, Professor." Zhang Chun nodded and walked slowly down the steps, "A peaceful and happy weekend of course involves enjoying sweet dreams in bed."

"Why are you wearing such strange clothes?" Snape blocked Zhang Chun's path and pointed at the sportswear he was wearing.

Except for requiring students to wear wizard robes on important formal occasions, Hogwarts does not have strict regulations on students' daily dress. Although it is rare for students like Zhang Chun to wear sportswear in the school, it is not unthinkable.

Snape mainly wanted to find Zhang Chun's flaws in his clothing.

"Morning exercise! Isn't it allowed?" Zhang Chun had a fussy expression on his face.

"Morning exercise..." Snape looked back at Professor McGonagall and Filch, and saw confused looks on each other's faces.

"Long-distance running, exercise!" Zhang Chun continued to guide the three teachers, and then stared at the Gryffindor students. Strangely, most of the students also looked confused.

Zhang Chun suddenly realized that there was no such thing as "exercise" in the wizarding world.

Most pure-blood wizards have been intoxicated with the control of magic throughout their lives and disdain to participate in physical exercise, thinking that it is something only Muggles without magical abilities can do.Although with the increase in the number of mixed-race wizards and the gradual popularity of Quidditch, many young wizards have begun to realize that a fit body is something to be proud of, but the vast majority of adult wizards still have sickly pale skin. , skinny appearance.

"I think I have to explain," Zhang Chun thought of the words and said to Snape with a smile, "Civilizing your mind and barbarizing your body have always been the highest realm of magic learning pursued by us Eastern practitioners.

Even if it is a powerful brain - such as Voldemort's (at this point, all the teachers and students below gasped and showed horrified expressions) - if his body cannot withstand enough damage, the same will happen. miserable.

We can simply imagine that, for example, Voldemort (there was another panicked gasp in the audience) could have a body with high magic resistance like Hagrid or even a giant. Then when he wanted to murder Harry Potter, he would not There will be no bones left after being destroyed by his own magic. "

"...Mr. Zhang, we usually don't call that person by his first name." Professor McGonagall immediately stretched out her finger to stop Zhang Chun.

"I'm sorry, Professor." Zhang Chun agreed.

Snape's face was uncertain, and he said coldly to Zhang Chun, "I'm sorry, we are not used to the vulgar so-called exercise of Muggles. The pursuit of the highest magic is the glory of our lives!"

"Oops! Do you think so?" Zhang Chun had an exaggerated expression of regret and shock. Then he looked around at the students and teachers downstairs, "I'm sorry that you don't understand this matter that is related to the life and death of the wizarding world. So—sorry, I’m going to break the rules here—superficial.”

As soon as the word "superficial" came out, Snape turned around and looked at him with cold eyes. The frost in his eyes almost spurted out and stabbed Zhang Chun to death.

"Want to hear the details," Snape said after a while.

"At least the British wizarding world is actually facing a particularly big problem right now, that is, the proportion of pure-blood wizards among wizards has dropped sharply." As soon as Zhang Chun spoke, all the Gryffindor classmates and McGonagall The professor was shocked, and even Professor Snape gave him a hawk-like look.

Zhang Chun ignored them and continued, "Of course, everyone understands that I am not a pure-bloodist, but the proportion of pure-blood wizards in the entire magical world is getting smaller and smaller. Isn't it an obvious and strange problem? ?I read the "European Magical Theory Weekly" in the library, and one of the academic articles from Jean Charles, professor of the history of magic at Beauxbatons School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, mentioned something.

There were 1762 pure-blood wizards in France in 6752, accounting for 66.7% of the entire French wizarding community. However, in 1990, there were only 4861 pure-blood wizards, accounting for only 48.53% of the French wizarding community.This is France’s data, but I’d like to believe it would be similar in the UK…”

Zhang Chun paused briefly, and there was almost no other sound around him.

Teachers and students alike acquiesced in this.

Zhang Chunxin said that the data is still convincing. If you don't say anything, don't blame me for continuing to pretend to compare... No, I am continuing the academic discussion.

"What's the problem? I think the most important thing is the decline in the physical fitness of wizards as a whole. The decline in physical fitness and the unique introverted character of wizard culture have made the decline in wizard birthrates gradually become the mainstream in the past few centuries, so there are fewer and fewer pure-blood wizards. Not surprising anymore.

If we are obsessed with magic and ignore the physical fitness, and only care about how powerful the wizard's magical ability is.If this continues, it will end badly.

Remember, it is not the wand that keeps wizards alive from generation to generation, but the strong bodies of wizards and witches.A better body will lead to more children.

If we indulge in the pathological "withered wizard body addicted to magic", or even allow the traditional pure-blood wizard culture that is obsessed with magic and has no time to care about it to continue to spread, then the decline in wizard birthrates will become more and more serious, and the number of descendants will become extinct. There will also be more and more pure-blood wizard families.

This is an academic question, but it is also a social question concerning whether the wizard population can continue to exist! "

There was silence in the audience. After a long while, Professor McGonagall pushed up her glasses and said, "...This is the first time I have heard of Mr. Zhang's argument, but it does seem to have some truth to it."

"Professor McGonagall, since the 14th century, in Europe alone, the number of Muggles has increased more than tenfold, but the number of wizards has remained at the same level, and even decreased in the [-]th century. This is actually A big question about the survival of the wizarding community."

snort!Snape snorted dismissively.

Zhang Chun smiled, turned around and continued to provoke Snape, "Professor, haven't you discovered a fact? There are fewer Slytherin students in Hogwarts than in other colleges, both in terms of total number and proportion. Why is this? ?”

Snape gave him a cold look and said nothing.

Zhang Chun ignored his reaction and continued, "That's because Slytherin College almost only recruits pure-blood wizards whose parents are both wizards. The original source of students is relatively stable and small. In addition, sometimes you have pure-blood wizards. The students who are descendants of wizards are selected from other colleges because they are particularly smart, particularly loving, and even particularly brave, so the ones left to you are the least."

(Negative emotion value from Professor Snape +668.)

Professor Snape remained calm and silent, but the Gryffindor classmates slowly began to talk.

Zhang Chun looked around at his classmates and teachers, with a smile on his lips.

The decline of wizards is not an issue worth avoiding. The disappearance of pure-blood wizard families that lasted for thousands of years did not just happen today.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see this terrible trend and worry that wizards will become extinct if they wake up overnight.

The dark wizard Grindelwald noticed this fact 50 years ago, and Voldemort also noticed this fact 20 years ago, but the solutions they gave were all wrong. They thought they solved the problem of "powerful magic and pure blood". , the decline of the wizard community is easily solved.

But from the perspective of Zhang Chun, a person who has traveled through time and experienced and witnessed more "cage-changing birds" and "the decline of the dominant nation", he can clearly understand that the decline of wizards is actually a kind of involution. The self-destruction of ethnic groups caused by culture.

The Ministry of Magic has noticed that without the addition of new awakened wizards, the normal reproduction of the wizard community cannot be continued. If these non-pure-blood wizards cannot become real wizards, only relying on this kind of "purity" similar to the N-generation single inheritance of the Malfoy family "Bloodline", I am afraid that the wizarding society will die naturally before it survives the 22nd century.

But the introduction of newly awakened wizards will encounter opposition from the original wizards.As the number and social status of pure-blood wizards continues to decline, these "elites of the supernatural world" who have been practicing magic since thousands of years ago will inevitably be diluted by newcomers sooner or later, and their ordinary status will almost disappear.

Without the inherited wizard family (pure-blood family), can the wizarding world still be called a wizard?

This is something that pure-blood wizards cannot tolerate, and something that the Ministry of Magic dares not face head-on.

So the Ministry of Magic, the highest administrative and law enforcement agency in the wizarding world, can only cover its eyes and pretend not to see.

It is not difficult to understand why in the original book, on the one hand, the Ministry of Magic was very brutal against the Death Eaters and those who opposed the introduction of new wizards, and even threw them into Azkaban at every turn, but on the other hand, they were taboo about Voldemort's return. Mo Shen even turned a blind eye and tried his best to cover it up.

Because social contradictions are covered up and pretended not to exist, this is the psychological basis for these Ministry of Magic bureaucrats to enjoy today's happy life with peace of mind.

What about the future?What is the future of the wizarding community?

Who cares about that... After I die, even if the floods surge...

The end of the world won't arrive on my watch anyway.

The real elites of the wizarding world are obsessed with Galleons and better magic, and they don't bother to put down their bodies to solve the problems around them, even if the problem is serious enough to threaten the entire ethnic group, or even the simplest things that benefit the ethnic group and their own family - —I don’t even want to give birth to a child.

There is no other reason - the quality is not high enough.

How cool would it be to be skinny and never see the light of day, obsessed with ancient and profound magic, while squeezing the new generation and other races?

How real it is to boil a potion to extend your life for hundreds of years.

What should we do if conflicts finally break out?

It hasn’t broken out yet, so let’s wait and see.

Besides, if the world ends, I’ll do whatever it takes, as long as I’m free and happy, what kind of social responsibility and historical mission do I need? !

Let’s live a good life, but we still have to continue to struggle and solve problems – are you tired?

……

The two professors stared at Zhang Chun with more or less awe in their eyes, especially Professor Snape. He wholeheartedly believed that he was catching "the evil deeds of despicable students", but he didn't want to be pretentious by this little guy for no reason. Slap in the face.

Discussing the "problem of reproduction in the wizarding world" is not a pretense, but what people say about the problem is very reasonable.

It's really Professor Snape - even if he was slapped in the face, he still had to look in awe.

Professor McGonagall cleared her throat loudly, "We are here to investigate which student violated the school rules. Since all the Gryffindors are here, we will not disturb everyone's weekend, Mr. Zhang," she turned around Face came and said to Zhang Chun,

"Please continue your long-distance running exercise. I am very interested in your question about the decline of wizard society due to the declining birthrate. I will have to ask you for advice later."

"I dare not, this is just a purely academic discussion." Zhang Chun said with a modest smile.

The two professors and Filch left. The Gryffindor classmates stared at Zhang Chun curiously but had nothing to say. Zhang Chun smiled and greeted Harry, Ron and Hermione.

"Let's go and exercise. I can't sleep at this point anyway. Come with me for a long run by the Black Lake."