The Ancient Wizards of Hogwarts

Hermione was a little distressed, but the textbook couldn't be wrong, right?

It is true that the fortune teller Wendelin was deliberately arrested and burned at the stake 47 times.

Not only was this incident written in the textbook, but Weird Wendelin was also recorded on the chocolate frog card, which is undoubtedly the most favorable proof of his deeds!

Because those who are eligible to be recorded on the chocolate frog card are all important figures in the wizarding world.

For example, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Slytherin, and Gryffindor are the four founders of Hogwarts.

Dumbledore is the Headmaster of Hogwarts. He has defeated two Dark Lords twice and is recognized by everyone as the greatest wizard of our time.

Merlin is the most legendary wizard in the wizarding world. He was once a member of King Arthur's court and is considered the most powerful wizard in history. Even today, wizards still regard Merlin as a kind of belief.

For example, the Wizengamot established an honor system in the name of the Order of Merlin to reward wizards who have sacrificed themselves and contributed to the development of wizard society. The Order of Merlin is still the highest honorary medal in the wizarding world.

And even if they are not the most well-known ones, the others are equally extraordinary.

Hangis of Woodcroft was also the founder of Hogsmeade.

Adebe Wulflin is a famous magic theorist, and his book "The Theory of Magic" is still a first-year textbook at Hogwarts.

The Invincible Andros is the only wizard known to be able to summon a patronus the size of a giant.

Artemisia Lufkin was the first witch to serve as the British Minister of Magic...

The wizarding world does not raise idlers, and no one who can appear on the Chocolate Frog Card is an idler. This also proves from the side that the deeds of the diviner Wendelin cannot be faked.

Since Wendelin's deeds are true, doesn't this explain the situation of wizards in the Middle Ages?

Ash gently stroked the girl's thick brown hair and said sincerely:

"Hermione, the content in the textbook may not be wrong, but it may not be entirely correct.

"The fact that Wendelin is on the chocolate frog card just shows that her magical attainments are extraordinary. But not every wizard is Wendelin, just like not every wizard can have the strength of Dumbledore!"

"But isn't the Fire Condensation Spell a basic magic? Even if it's not as powerful as Dumbledore, ordinary wizards can easily use it."

Hermione couldn't understand at all why a wizard could be burned to death even though he knew the Fire Curse? This is a magic that even she can learn. There's no reason why those medieval wizards couldn't learn it, right?

Ash picked up Hermione's wand on the table and asked her:

"What now? Can you still cast spells without a wand?"

"Uh~!"

Hermione frowned, but she seemed to have some understanding in her heart, "So, many wizards were killed because they lost their wands?"

"right."

Ash nodded lightly:

"Most wizards are no different from Muggles once they lose their wands, and even worse than Muggles when it comes to close combat. Take Sir Nick, for example, who was beheaded by Muggles because he lost his wand."

"Furthermore, even with wands, it is difficult for many wizards to deal with large numbers of Muggles at the same time."

Now not only Hermione, but also Cassandra found it a little difficult to understand.

During last year's summer vacation, she had fully understood what 'Muggle technology is shocking'.

Wizards' magic is fast, efficient, and easy to hide. As long as they hide their wands in their pockets, no one can tell whether they are Muggles or wizards walking on the street.

Even the most ordinary wizards can easily assassinate the big shots in the Muggle world.

Muggle weapons are also more efficient. Neither the Ministry of Magic nor Hogwarts can withstand a large-yield nuclear bomb. The bombing of Hogwarts will devastate the wizarding world, and the bombing of the Ministry of Magic will wipe out most of the wizards in the wizarding world.

No matter which one it is, it can cause serious damage to the wizarding world.

certainly--

The premise is that Muggles can find the location of Hogwarts, or be ruthless enough to drop a nuclear bomb on central London.

So in Cassandra's view, if a war breaks out between Muggles and wizards, both sides will definitely suffer:

The wizard's efficient assassination is enough to make Muggles defenseless. A wizard who casts the Disillusionment Curse can easily overcome many obstacles and appear directly in front of the Muggle he wants to assassinate. He can even use the Imperius Curse to control the Muggle's most trusted person to kill him with his own hands.

And wizards have no means of defense against highly efficient weapons like nuclear bombs.

Although wizards can still escape from the range of a nuclear strike in time with the help of floo powder, portkeys and phantom appearance, due to the lack of corresponding early warning systems, wizards cannot detect nuclear strikes in advance in advance.

Only when the nuclear bomb really falls on their heads can they react, but by then it is too late to run away.

Of course, the wizard can also use the deterrence of nuclear bombs in turn.

They can use the Imperius Curse to control key figures who master the nuclear bomb launch procedures and use them to launch nuclear bombs into Muggle cities.

But no matter what, the final result is a lose-lose situation for both sides, the world will be devastated, and both wizards and Muggles will be on the verge of extinction.

However,

These are based on wizards going to war with modern Muggles.

But Muggles in the Middle Ages didn’t have nuclear bombs!

Not to mention nuclear bombs, they don't even have guns!

Even at the end of the Middle Ages, the flintlock had just been invented, and only the regular army could field it. Even the Muggle army equipped with flintlock muskets still uses the tactic of lining up and shooting.

Isn't it easy for wizards to defeat these Muggles?

Ash understood the girls' eyes and immediately spread his hands:

"Muggles in the Middle Ages did not have as powerful technology as modern Muggles, but wizards in the Middle Ages were also not as powerful as today's wizards!"

"But……"

Cassandra asked doubtfully, "Ash, didn't you say that the magic power of the wizarding world has been declining as a whole? Logically speaking, the wizards in the Middle Ages should be stronger than the wizards today..."

Ash patiently explained:

"Medieval wizards were indeed superior to modern wizards in terms of magic power, but it is not only magic power that determines a wizard's strength, but also magic spells!

"The problem is that in the Middle Ages, a lot of the magic we use now had not yet been invented.

"For example, the disarming spell commonly used by wizards in duels was invented by a young witch named Elizabeth Smachlin, and was first used in the duel competition held on Dartmoor in 1379.

"The Shock Absorbing Charm was invented in 1820, and the Restoration Charm was invented by Orabella Nutley, who used it in 1754 to repair the accidentally destroyed Colosseum...

"Even the cutting spell was invented by Delphine Crump, a wizard in the 15th century, but she was a tailor, and her purpose of inventing the cutting spell was just to cut clothes more efficiently."

"It can be said that most of the magic used by wizards today was not born in the Middle Ages. It was not until the late Middle Ages and after the promulgation of the Secrecy Law that the spell system that wizards learn now gradually formed."

Ash paused slightly, "Moreover, the wizards in the Middle Ages have not yet formed the same whole as the wizarding world today.

"At that time, Hogwarts did not have as many students as it does now, because many wizards did not feel comfortable handing over their children to others, and most of them chose to teach their children to use magic themselves. Therefore, the vast majority of wizards were based on family units. Scattered across the UK, communication was far from as close as it is now.

"Wizards have always cherished the magic spells they invented and would not easily pass them on to outsiders. For example, the disarming curse has been the unique secret of the Smachlin family for hundreds of years after it was invented.

“It wasn’t until the establishment of the Ministry of Magic, when the Minister of Magic personally visited and paid a high price for the opportunity to publicly obtain the disarming spell from the descendants of Elizabeth Smachlin.

"So in the Middle Ages before the Ministry of Magic was established, many wizards could only use the spells they inherited from their parents. The number was extremely limited and the power was not satisfactory. Some wizards were even unable to cast one in their entire lives. Qualified magic spells simply release magic power and cause destruction, which is exactly the characteristic of ancient magic.

"But the problem is that although medieval wizards were superior to modern wizards in terms of magic power, their magic power was far from the threshold for performing ancient magic! There is an old Chinese saying that 'If you can't do something high, you can't do something low'. This sentence The words are very suitable to describe the situation of those wizards."

Hermione gradually fell silent, no longer thinking about how to refute Ash. Because she had realized from Ash's description that the situation faced by wizards in the Middle Ages was far more difficult than she imagined, at least not as easy as what was depicted in the textbooks!

"but,"

Harry asked thoughtfully, "Is this just for ordinary wizards?"

"That's right."

Ash rubbed the girl's hair approvingly and said softly, "For those wizarding families with a long heritage, the Muggle witch-hunting movement has not had any impact on them."

"Most of them have close ties with the upper class of Muggle society and have been using magic to benefit their families. The Malfoy family is one of them. Even at the height of the witch-hunting movement, members of the Malfoy family, Lucius Malfoy I still dared to curse Elizabeth I, the then ruler of the British royal family, which directly led to the demise of the Tudor dynasty.

"The position of these wizards has been completely different from other wizards from the beginning, so they have always been strongly opposed to the implementation of the "Secrecy Act". After all, the purpose of promulgating the "Secrecy Act" is to protect ordinary wizards who are being persecuted, but this is the opposite. Limitations for those truly powerful wizards."

"Pure-blood family?" Hermione immediately grasped the key point, her eyes a little startled.

"right."

Ash nodded lightly, "Most of the twenty-eight saints are opponents of the Secrecy Act, because they are not the beneficiary group of the Secrecy Act. Instead, their families have suffered huge losses because of the Secrecy Act. But the Secrecy Act The promulgation of the Law is the general trend, and no matter how much the pure-blood families oppose it, it will be in vain."

"Since the promulgation of the Statute of Secrecy, the societies of Muggles and wizards have gradually become isolated. Wizards have begun to form their own communities, helping and protecting each other, and communicating more frequently.

"Wizards no longer cherish their broomsticks. They exchanged spells with each other in a small area at first, and finally gradually expanded to the entire wizarding world. And those stubborn wizards no longer insisted on teaching their descendants in person, but were persuaded by the Ministry of Magic. Send their children to Hogwarts.

"As time went by, the wizarding world continued to grow in this friendly and mutually supportive atmosphere, and reached its peak a hundred years ago. The wizarding world at that time was no different from the wizarding world now. Any wizard can Easily cast hundreds of spells."

"Even because the magic power of wizards a hundred years ago was higher than that of today's wizards, and their strength was stronger than that of today's wizards, this inevitably led to the ambition of some wizards to begin to expand.

"These wizards are beginning to be dissatisfied with the status quo of the wizarding world. They believe that wizards are inherently nobler than Muggles and should be born to rule Muggles. This idea is not limited to pure-blood families, and some pure-blood families have even begun to be content with the status quo. , on the contrary, there are many mixed-blood wizards ready to take action.

“The change in the ideas of most wizards in the wizarding world is actually a general trend in a sense, and it also indirectly led to the emergence of the two Dark Lords Grindelwald and Voldemort on the stage of history.

"Grindelwald once set off a worldwide wizarding revolution, and even almost was elected president of the International Confederation of Wizards during the election. If he had been successfully elected at that time, a war between wizards and Muggles would have inevitably broken out.

"Even though Grindelwald's plans were repeatedly thwarted, he still had a huge number of followers, and eventually used this to start an open war against the wizarding world, leading to the outbreak of a global wizarding war.

"The aftermath of the Wizarding World War started by Voldemort still has remnants to this day, and he is even still planning a comeback. And it is foreseeable that once Voldemort comes back, there will be quite a few wizards on his side.

"This is not just a matter of personal strength, but more because Voldemort can better satisfy the interests of these wizards."

The three little ones were so shocked that they couldn't let it go for a long time. The history books would not tell them these things!

Hermione asked with some difficulty:

"So, this is all because of the Statute of Secrecy?"

Everything that is happening now, the persistence of the twenty-eight saints, and the two wizard wars between Grindelwald and Voldemort, were actually all destined to happen from the moment the "Law of Secrecy" was promulgated?

Is this the truth about the wizarding world?

"You can think so."

Ash nodded lightly. Although the "Secret Law" could not be said to be the 'source of all evil', it could still be regarded as a decisive factor.

"Well……"

Hermione lowered her head and looked at the paper she had started writing, feeling a little distressed, "Then I'm afraid I have to write a new paper..."

This paper of hers is not just wrong, it is completely wrong!

Seeing that he finally succeeded in persuading Hermione, Ash ruffled the girl's thick curly hair and asked with a smile:

"So you want to take a break?"

"want!"

Hermione put her quill down and answered decisively.

Since you can't write a paper, let's just play bird!

The girl raised her head and her eyes met Ash's gorgeous big bird.