Midnight, the restricted area of ​​the library.
Zuo Si sat quietly at a table just like yesterday, and continued with yesterday's progress, obtaining the knowledge he wanted from books that were deemed "dangerous" and "evil" by Hogwarts professors.p>
But unlike the book he accidentally discovered yesterday that recorded the summoning and manipulation of powerful fire, today he found a book related to the soul on the bottom shelf.
To be precise, the author of this book has done a lot of research on the soul and invented several spells that can affect the soul.
Although it is far from comparable to the advanced necromancy magic in Faerun that destroys, imprisons, controls and transforms souls at every turn, it provides another completely different idea.
Without a doubt!
Spells like this that require strong malice to be cast and have an impact on the target are unsurprisingly classified as "black magic".
Looking at the warning marked in red letters on the title page, Zuo Si curled his lips disdainfully and commented in a voice that only he could hear: "You want to use this method to prevent wizards from exploring and researching magic? It's really boring.
.If this method worked, there wouldn’t be so many dark wizards in history, let alone a twisted psychopath like Voldemort.”
"It sounds like you have different opinions on the content recorded in this book?"
Accompanied by a familiar voice, an old man with a gray beard and hair slowly walked out of the darkness.
He is none other than Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts and known as the greatest wizard of our time.
"I just feel that it is inappropriate to simply classify all spells that can cause shocking harm or be cast through strong malice into black magic.
After all, for any wizard who is smart and powerful enough, exploring the mysteries of various magics is as instinctive as breathing.
I believe that when you were young, you must have been very interested in this knowledge and spells.
What's more, for those wizards with malicious intentions, they don't necessarily need to use so-called black magic to kill people.
In many cases, a small bottle of poison, or a gun and a bomb obtained from the Muggle world, can easily achieve one's goals.
So the real danger is never the black magic itself, but the dark side of human heart and human nature."
Zuo Si was not surprised when the principal suddenly appeared behind him. Instead, he talked very calmly, without the slightest nervousness or fear of other students being caught violating school rules.
To be precise, from the moment he decided to come to the restricted area of ​​the library, he had no hope of being able to hide it from Dumbledore, who was the principal.
Because becoming the headmaster of Hogwarts is not just a simple position, but also provides you with many privileges based on the magical contract.
Zuo Si even suspected that Dumbledore could monitor every corner of the school at any time if he wanted to.
Otherwise, would you risk letting in Quirinus Quirrell, who was possessed by Voldemort?
And when Harry Potter was obsessed with the Mirror of Erised, he could always appear next to him in time to enlighten him, which made up for the savior's biggest spiritual weakness.
"The real danger is the human heart and the dark side of human nature?"
Dumbledore seemed to sigh deeply.
"I have to admit that what you said makes sense.
Many times, it is not the wizard who uses black magic that causes him to become bad, but he chooses to learn and use black magic after he becomes bad.
Similarly, I also admit that when I was young, I also had a strong interest in the amazingly powerful black magic.
But you can't deny that regular use of these black magic will indeed corrode a person's mind, making him inevitably become more and more extreme, more evil, and less and less concerned with life.
What's more, as a first-year student, it's still too early for you to come into contact with these.
In addition, staying up late for a long time without sleeping is not good for your body."
"So you ran to the library in the middle of the night just to drive me back to bed?" Zuo Si couldn't help but asked with a smile.
"So be it. You are indeed as smart as Snape described and have maturity that belies your age. Are all geniuses in the Muggle world like you?" Dumbledore asked curiously.
Zuo Si lightly shrugged his shoulders: "I don't know. Because I have never met anyone of the same age as me, nor have I ever taken part in any of those so-called IQ tests. But those who thought I was young wanted to deceive me.
Those who receive pensions from the government and compensation from insurance companies all suffer in the end without exception."
"Because you have seen the darkness of human hearts and humanity at a young age, that's why you have such thoughts?" Dumbledore continued to probe.
"No. I just read a lot of books. Have you read "The Crowd" by Gustave Le Bon? Have you read "Social Psychology" by David Myers? Do you know the American psychologist Philippe
The famous Stanford Prison Experiment conducted by Zimbardo and the resulting result-the Lucifer Effect?"
Zuo Si mentioned several psychological works in one breath, as well as a horrific experiment that most exposed and proved the dark side of human nature in the twentieth century.
Obviously, as a wizard, although Dumbledore is not as hostile to Muggles as his good friend Gellert Grindelwald, he does not know much about the Muggle world.
Not to mention psychology, which only emerged in the late nineteenth century and was gradually taken seriously in the 1950s and 1960s.
So he subconsciously frowned and thought for a moment, then quickly shook his head: "Sorry, I have never heard of the books you mentioned. Does it have anything to do with what we are talking about?"
"Of course it does. If you have read these books, you will understand that there are no absolute good guys and bad guys in this world. There is often only a thin line between them.
The choices everyone makes at critical moments are actually traceable and are inextricably linked to life experience and living environment.
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By analyzing a person's experiences at different times, we can roughly figure out his thoughts and intentions at that time.
In Muggle society, this special profession is called a psychoanalyst.
They can not only assist law enforcement agencies to find and catch dangerous criminals with high IQs, but also counsel those with psychological problems to prevent them from embarking on a criminal path that poses a threat to society.
That's why I say that the Ministry of Magic has a big problem with the definition of so-called black magic.
If I guess correctly, many adult wizards, including you, Snape and Professor McGonagall, should know the three unforgivable curses, right?
But why do you control yourselves so well instead of killing innocent people without restraint like a certain person who cannot be named and his followers?
So in my opinion, it is an extremely irresponsible approach to put all the responsibility on black magic.
To some extent, it stifles the creativity of talented wizards and hinders the development of the magical world.
The Muggle world has put forward a slogan called science and technology as the primary productive force.
Because of the power of science and technology, the world of ordinary people has achieved unimaginable rapid development in just two to three hundred years, and created a prosperous and convenient life that was simply unimaginable in the past.
In the same way, for the wizarding world, spells and magic are the primary productive forces.
Look through these ancient books and see how many great wizards have been born from ancient Greece to modern times?
Herbo, who was the first to cultivate a basilisk and invented the method of making Horcruxes, Andros, who could summon a patron saint the size of a giant, Mopsus, who could accurately predict a war, and the wizard who obtained death in fairy tales
The three Peverell brothers of the Hallows, the famous Merlin, the four founders of Hogwarts, etc.
Although many of them are evil dark wizards according to the definition given by the modern magic world, they invented many spells that continue to this day.
But what about modern times?
With various bans on black magic, I found that the world of wizards has hardly changed much in the past three hundred years, and there are basically no subversive new spells created.
However, two generations of powerful dark wizards emerged in less than a few decades.
The most important thing is that they all have the support of a large number of wizards to a certain extent.
This kind of support just reflects that many wizards are strongly dissatisfied, even angry, with the Ministry of Magic's management system and social status.
Don’t you find it strange to see such a strange phenomenon?”
Zuo Si used very sharp words to point directly to the core contradiction at the root of the magic world.
His words directly dealt a terrible blow to Dumbledore's mind and heart, making the over-100-year-old man fall into deep thought.
After all, the number of wizards is never very large, and they live in very scattered places.
Therefore, no one in the wizarding world has studied sociology. No one understands why people like Voldemort and Gellert Grindelwald can rise, and why they have so many supporters and respond to them.
But as a bystander, Zuo Si clearly saw the extremely serious internal conflicts and divisions in the magic world.
Among them, the rise of Gellert Grindelwald originated from wizards' anxiety about the efficiency and cruelty shown by Muggles in killing each other during the two world wars, so an attempt to overturn the Statute of Secrecy occurred and broke out.
revolution, trying to build a world dominated by wizards.
But as he lost to Dumbledore in the duel, the Second World War in the Muggle world also came to an end, and various countries returned to a state of peace as a whole. The nervous and anxious mood gradually disappeared, and wizards naturally
There is no longer the urgent desire and need.
As for Voldemort's second craze in the British wizarding world, its root was the pure-blood family's counterattack against the increasing number of mixed-race wizards and Muggle wizards in the wizarding world, which directly threatened their own interests and dominance.
To put it simply, the decadent conservative forces were unwilling to be squeezed out of the stage of history little by little, so they tried their best to reverse the situation and carry out a major purge of the entire magical world.
But unfortunately, they failed, and they lost miserably.
To be continued...