A Professor of Magic at Hogwarts Chapter 614: Unofficial history
"A certain Hogwarts rune professor ()"
Ilvermorny's library occupies the center of the building complex on the west side of the castle, extending in all directions from the outside, extending four corridor-shaped exits.
The interior of the library is a spacious through-shaped circular building, which is divided into upper and lower floors, somewhat similar to the architectural structure of Sword Castle. The first floor is a spacious reading area. There are neat tables and chairs in the middle of the hall, and the surrounding area is divided into cubicles according to their functions. Going up the circular staircase, there are rows of brown bookshelves on the second and third floors, and the collection is very rich.
Felix has been inside for the past few days.
It's summer vacation, and there is no one in the library for most of the day. If he is tired from reading, he will walk among the bookshelves over and over again, capturing the emotions left by the students of Ilvermorny here, which can often bring His novel feelings.
For example—Felix already knew several Ilvermorny students, though he had never met. They always sat in the same position, and their thoughts while reading turned into a long-lasting beautiful scene for Felix to admire.
When Felix described them, it was not surprising that these were the best students.
Uria was amazed at his ability.
Felix has seen the libraries of three wizarding schools—Hogwarts, Beauxbatons, and Ilvermorny—each with its own characteristics, distinguished only by the decoration style, Hogwarts Tall and ancient, Beauxbatons are elegant and comfortable, and Ilvermorny is more modern.
This may be because Ilvermorny's library was established in the seventeenth century, and it refers to many Muggle libraries, so both the space layout and the book index are better, and the number of books in the collection may be Hogwarts. Two or three times that of Ci.
Of course, compared with Hogwarts, which was founded around the tenth century, the proportion of ancient books here is obviously less, but Felix found the research and records of indigenous magic in a small area , gave him a lot of inspiration. .
The development of magic in North America took shape later than elsewhere.
Felix looked through the history in this area, and reconstructed a rough truth in his heart. Before the European Muggle colonists invaded, the representative population of local magic was the Indian aborigines. These aborigines did not have magic wands, and the way of using magic was primitive and rough. Moreover, because of living in a tribal way, magic is only concentrated in the hands of a few people, coupled with poor communication-there were about 160 languages and 1,200 dialects at that time, all of which made the local magic civilization completely absent. integrated and developed.
Nevertheless, there is still a lot to like.
The founders of Ilvermorny originally wanted to establish a place to provide family magic education, but in order to satisfy the wishes of their two adopted sons, they imitated the Hogwarts model and came up with a similar structure——Felix It's funny when I read this, because Isolt Thayer never went to Hogwarts, and all the common sense she knows is given to her by that evil aunt Gormley Gaunt. , in Gormley's mouth, Hogwarts is a "dangerous place full of mudbloods and advocating egalitarianism", and personally tore up the admission letter that Hogwarts sent to Isolt, which made 'Hogwarts The concept of 'School of Witchcraft and Wizardry' existed only in the imagination of the founder of Ilvermorny.
What's more interesting is that the cursing and swearing from Aunt Gormley's mouth not only didn't work, but made the young Isolt think that there was heaven.
She told her imagined Hogwarts to her two adopted sons, and the whole family was fascinated, so there was 'Ilvermorny', four plausible colleges, and the sorting ceremony. And most importantly - the wand. They did a decent job, and the nearby aborigines came here admiringly, which made the entire Ilvermorny school finally get rid of the embarrassing situation that even four colleges could not be filled because there were only two students (although they didn't care ), Isolt himself and his two adopted sons tried to combine local magic with European magic, forming the unique characteristics of Ilvermorny.
Those native magics—such as primitive magic rituals, hunting songs developed by imitating the roars of magical animals, and techniques of using magical animal and plant materials and organs to cast spells... etc. Many things are specious, but Felix Still recorded it, intending to save it for future attempts.
He constructed a sound magic based on the sounds of Parseltongue and Witchbird. Different from the Amplifying Curse, it is more similar to the Parseltongue curse that Voldemort once used on him, and Felix also tried to integrate the sound wave theory in physics into it.
Using sound waves to carry magical power is not only faster, but also more secretive...
For example, once the ultrasonic waves of bats are combined with the magic of the thinking cabin, Felix can quickly construct the real environment around him in his brain and cover it with illusions. The effect of this magic is terrifying: Facing Fei When Lix, the enemy may never be able to tell what is real and what is unreal.
Even if it's just the simplest positioning function, spells such as invisibility cloak and illusion spell will hardly work, let alone the damage caused by large-scale infrasonic waves to the human body.
Felix estimated that he would rarely have the opportunity to use it, but he was addicted to the fun of solving puzzles and constructing a new discipline. He just took a trip back to Hogwarts and gave the snakewood branch to Professor Sprout.
"It's extremely rare for a plant to retain its vigorous vitality and be affected by powerful magic power for a long time." Professor Sprout said excitedly, wishing he could hug Felix and kiss him.
"Can you grow a living?" Felix hastily changed the subject.
"It's easy to survive, but if you want to retain its magical properties, you must take good care of it. It may take a year or two to cultivate it. This is not a small challenge for me." Professor Prout smiled, not worried at all, "I have to go to Severus, I found that he is very talented in this area, Caredy can testify!"
She left in a hurry.
Felix returned to Ilvermorny School of Witchcraft and Wizardry after re-strengthening the defenses of Room 7. During this period, Principal Ilvermorny accepted interviews from the outside world, and for the first time revealed a piece of "dusty history".
"Snake wood wand means childhood misfortune to Ms. Isolt Thayer." Principal Zekaria said solemnly, "Her evil aunt held this wand and killed Isolt's parents, and tortured her with cruel punishments—until she had the courage to escape."
"Although this magic wand once helped Ms. Isolt Thayer when she fled, she finally chose to bury her past with her husband and welcome a happy life. Looking back on this history, I always feel that Fortunately: because her choice not only created a brand new Ilvermorny, but also left us a magical plant with powerful healing effects.”
"Compared with the shadow brought by the magic wand, Ms. Isolt Thayer must be more pleased to see this change-what we need is not violence, but a good medicine that can heal people's hearts."
"In addition, I would also like to thank Mr. Dumbledore and Mr. Haip..."
The repercussions of these words are far-reaching.
At least, the members of the Stewart family who have been jumping up and down these days, active as victims of bullying, finally calmed down, and the final result, as Principal Zekariya said, "the evergreen snakewood tree will It will stand forever in front of Ilvermorny Castle, witnessing the friendship between the two magic schools..."
Uriah also succeeded in becoming a director of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement due to her role in this incident. Although there is still a long way to go from his dream of "changing the living environment of American wizards", at least he is on the right track.
And the first assignment he got was to represent the Magical Congress of America as an **** to the Archmage Mr. Felix Heap.
The two took this opportunity to chat a lot about the political environment within Congress. It may be because of a deeper understanding of the operating logic of the Magic Congress, a huge magical power organization, that Uriah's thoughts have become more objective and pragmatic.
This is a difference in perspective.
In the past, members of Uria and even the Reform Society could only ask questions, discover problems, and feel dissatisfied and resentful because of the Magic Council's complacent approach to the status quo, but now their thinking has changed to how to solve the problem.
"It's very tricky." Uria sighed, "There are many practical reasons for the closed magic environment in the United States and the strict laws. The more I dig, the more headache I get."
Felix made an attitude of all ears.
"The Magical Congress of the United States restricts wizards from No-Maj families for fear of a repeat of what happened to the Puritans and Purifiers..."
This is another piece of dusty history. Felix nodded and thought, simply put, the Puritans are some extreme religious people, they are Muggles, and they are keen to accuse others of using witchcraft in history. The attitude of these people towards wizards can be imagined.
It is worth mentioning that when the founder of Ilvermorny, Isolt Thayer, came to North America, the "Mayflower" cruise ship she took carried many Puritans, and these Puritans were in the British mainland. After being persecuted, he turned around and persecuted others in the New World.
The scavengers are wizards. Or rather, once a wizard. They were originally a group of wizard mercenaries from different countries. They were mercenary and even sold their compatriots for bounty, such as selling wizards to Puritans and burning them to death.
After the establishment of the Magical Congress of America, they began to liquidate and execute the traitors among these wizards, but some escaped punishment. Death and end, these wizard traitors not only did not repent, but extended their hatred of the Magic Congress of America to the entire North American wizards, and passed this resentment on from generation to generation.
Some of the more serious exposures in American magical history have almost all involved descendants of the Scavengers. The most far-reaching time, the entire wizarding world was shocked and terrified. The Magical Congress of the United States received a severe warning from the International Federation of Wizards, and thus promulgated the notorious Rappaport Law, forcing No-Maj and the wizarding world Strict separation to avoid such incidents from happening again.
"In this country, some No-Maj families firmly believe in magic even though they have never seen it." Uriah said sadly: "It's just that they think all wizards should be exterminated."
Felix said slowly, "I heard Dumbledore mention that people in America seem to be more difficult to be deceived and deceived by magic than people in other places..."
"That's the reason." Yuria said, "but it's more than that—when all the above are put together, the wizards of America face a terrible threat—"
"The Muggle government," said Felix gravely.
"That's right," Uriah said affirmatively: "Wizards are not a secret in the eyes of the Muggle government, at least to those high-level." He added, "Since the independence of the Muggle government, there have been many Several vicious conflicts. The Muggle government wanted to crack the secrets of wizards, or force wizards to serve them, but we resolutely resisted. Congress secretly destroyed some laboratories and erased some people's memories... In short, all kinds of open and secret struggles, once Approaching the brink of war..."
"I've heard a saying," he lowered his voice, "In 1892, the then chairman of the Magical Congress of the United States and the president of the Muggle government secretly negotiated and reached an agreement of non-interference, which has continued to this day."
"Can I have a look at the agreement?" Felix said excitedly.
"This incident can't be found in official historical records. I also heard it from an old man in Congress. As for whether it is true, I can't judge." Uria shook his head and said: "I I remember that the textbook said that the reason for the relocation of the fifth congressional headquarters was the 'Bigfoot Rebellion'... Anyway, since then, the Magical Congress of the United States has completely moved away from Washington, the center of Muggle politics, and moved to New York, and has not moved since then."
"It's really strange to hear you say that."
Felix groped his chin. You must know that the Magic Congress of the United States has only been established for 300 years. As a result, in the past 200 years, it has moved five times due to various "weird reasons", but the British Ministry of Magic has never done so. Pass.
What happened in 1892?
At that time, Dumbledore was only eleven years old~IndoMTL.com~ just entered school, he may not know this history, and as far as Felix knows, Dumbledore did not travel according to the school tradition after graduation, On the contrary, Grindelwald was once entrenched in the United States in order to develop his "career". Well, the old man was also arrested here for the first time, and Newt contributed a lot...
Neither Felix nor Dumbledore told Grindelwald—the memory of a certain Fantastic Beasts lover in classroom seven was alive and kicking all day—and they all chose to remain silent.
Felix left Ilvermorny in mid-August.
Before leaving Ilvermorny, the headmaster kept him several times, hoping that he could give a few open classes to the students of Ilvermorny, but now it is summer vacation, so we can only make another appointment.
However, this incident made Felix think about it. With that international exchange activity, the influence of ancient runes has expanded to the entire wizarding world, but if this subject is to be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, we still have to place our hopes on it. in school education.
Beauxbatons recruited seven or eight Hogwarts graduates in one go this year.
After returning to the familiar campus, before Felix took a breath, the Ancient Rune Yearbook activities began. Many students—such as Harry who had just finished his trip—was surprised to find that many fresh graduates The classmates of two years got together again because of this activity.
These students are all deeply branded by Felix Haip, who taught them all by himself. If you have to find a different group of people, it will be those from the Ancient Rune Association. Harry never imagined that he would be talking to a group of old men and women about the future of ancient runes.
"Some people are old enough to be my great-grandfather," Ron whispered to Harry.
But no matter how weird it was, three days later, the "Ancient Magic Text Yearbook" with their names printed on it was also published nationwide.