Hogwarts: From Selling White Peppers to Becoming a God

Chapter 233 Murong Tom of the South

Another practical lesson, and because the weather was already very cold, Murphy moved the class to a classroom.

This is the largest classroom besides the auditorium, and it seems to have been enchanted with some kind of invisible stretching spell, easily accommodating hundreds of students.

Recently, various research groups have made some progress.

For example, Dean's group, who are very obsessed with flying, have begun to prepare to make a set of armor. They plan to apply a flying charm to the armor, similar to that on flying brooms, so that they can fly according to the wizard's will. According to their idea, their ultimate goal is to design a set of wizard clothes that can replace flying brooms.

The Malfoy team made some progress, but the results were not satisfactory to them.

After conducting a brief investigation at the school, they discovered that the proportion of pure-blood wizards was incredibly small. Let alone going back five generations, there were very few without Muggle blood even going back three generations.

This wasn't what made them unhappy. After all, what others didn't know was that Malfoy had no Muggle blood for three generations. The rarity of purebloods only highlighted their own nobility.

However, after comparing the relationship between the proportion of pure-bloods and academic performance, they sadly discovered a fact: pure-bloods did not make young wizards perform better; on the contrary, to some extent, they seemed to be worse than Muggle wizards.

They used several different statistical methods—they even studied a basic statistical theory book for it—but the results were not much different.

Although the reason is unknown, it seems that pure-blood wizards are somewhat less intelligent than those of Muggle blood.

Good heavens!

Draco seems to have lost some of his faith.

They initially hesitated to submit the results, but after consulting Tom, he retorted, "If you can't even admit an obvious fact, what kind of bullshit honor are you talking about?!"

Only then did they report the results.

Murphy was very pleased with this, and even rewarded them with a set of special gold coins with raven symbols because they had made a preliminary achievement. Although they already had fairy coins, the official products rewarded by the professor were obviously very different from those made privately.

They immediately decided to use the raven coins Murphy had awarded them to make a new set, and even their previous frustration over the unsatisfactory results of their research project disappeared.

It's just a statistic, isn't it?

As Professor Murphy has said, statistics represent a holistic pattern and do not reflect individual differences.

Purebloods might not be a good fit, but I, Draco Malfoy, am a good fit, isn't that enough?

Speaking of Fairy Coins, the Weasley twins, in their third year, abandoned their original "Super Poop Fireworks" research project and proposed to study Fairy Coins to develop more useful functions. Of course, they hoped that if they succeeded, Murphy would grant them the right to make and sell new coins at school.

Murphy was very supportive of this. Not to mention that seeing the twins use their inventive genius to improve magical communication was gratifying in itself, the fact that they canceled the original terrible plan of "super dung fireworks" was enough to make him support it wholeheartedly.

If that thing actually succeeds, Murphy will definitely be held responsible for causing chaos everywhere.

A lifetime of illustrious reputation can easily turn into eternal infamy.

Besides these groups, the one that surprised Murphy the most was the Cho Chang group.

Because their research direction was closest to Murphy's previous path, he provided them with the most guidance.

Under Murphy's careful guidance, Cho Chang's group made rapid progress in their understanding of wizards' self-transformation. They even began to conduct animal transformation experiments based on Compound Decoction and Animagus transformation.

Their goal is to create a potion that, when drunk, can instantly transform a person into an animal.

As for how to transform into a specific animal, they originally intended to combine methods such as guardian spirits and the fur of specific animals to extract features.

However, the guardian spirit is related to the wizard's mood and cannot be easily changed. On the other hand, the method of extracting characteristics directly from animal hair is very unstable and can easily cause abnormalities in wizards who drink the potion.

So Murphy offered them a new idea: the shamanic ancestral spirit prayer ritual.

After Murphy captured the shamans from the Su Kingdom, they were taken to the Magic Research Institute and imprisoned, where they were guarded by several former Watchers members.

After interrogating them using methods such as mind control and truth serum, the research institute has roughly figured out the situation of the Su Kingdom's wizards and shamans.

They now know that most of the Soviet wizards live in an ancient city called Alkaim, and that the Soviet wizarding world is indeed an imperial system ruled by the Divine Eagle family. The current emperor is a 15-year-old girl named Sofia Petrovna.

Ordinary Soviet wizards also use wands, although their shape is slightly different from that of British wizards, they are essentially the same thing.

Shamanism is an ancient tradition in the Su Kingdom and a noble profession.

Their roles are similar to those of royal advisors, prophets, and religious monks.

The vast majority of them reside in a woodland called "Ancestral Mausoleum," where they practice under the guidance of several great shamans. These shamans are able to use unique magic through musical instruments, songs, dances, and words.

The most powerful of these spells is called "True Name".

Shamans believe that all things have spirits, from mountains and seas to the earth and sky, and from grains of sand and raindrops, all of which have their own "true names." By chanting their true names, one can command all things to serve one's purpose.

These real names are passed down orally among shamans and are rarely written down. Apart from shamans, there is almost no other way to know these real names.

Another type of magic is "ancestral spirits".

Shamans believe they can communicate with the spirits of their ancestors in the spirit world through certain rituals and summon them to fight for them.

These souls usually appear in the form of various animals.

The earliest ritual for communicating with them was the prayer ceremony to the spirits of the ancestors.

Murphy believes that the "ancestral spirits" summoned by this ritual have a certain degree of similarity to guardian deities and should be able to serve as a substitute for guardian deities, providing a "protective" dimension bonus to the animal transformation potion and stabilizing the potion.

However, compared to guardian spirits that are highly correlated with a wizard's mental state, ancestral spirits are more flexible, requiring no complicated steps, and are very suitable as a stabilizer for potions.

By the time Murphy had reviewed the progress of all the groups, another afternoon had passed.

It got dark very early. Around dusk, Murphy felt a little sleepy, perhaps because he was hungry. He felt tired in waves. Just as he was about to finish class, the four little ones said they wanted to ask him a question.

Hermione led the Hero Group to him. "Professor, we've encountered a problem in our research recently. Have you heard of Nicolas Flamel? Do you know who he is?"

Murphy glanced speechlessly at the four young wizards, especially Tom, who was hiding at the very back.

Hiding my head? If you're asking me this idea, it must have been yours.

Well done, you've really gotten to it.

So you've learned how to take shortcuts, haven't you?

I sent you the task, and you just want me to complete it for you?

What do you mean by "the stars shift and the constellations change"?

(End of this chapter)