Chapter 254 Jon's Scruples

Jon has not been idle during these times on the ship.

In addition to having already absorbed all the magic of runes in the stone slab that Sir Stoker had given him as promised, he also took a lot of time to study the forbidden books stored in the second gem.

Because of the sufficient magic power, he was able to access the contents of almost all the forbidden books at any time.

For such a treasure of knowledge, Jon certainly will not sit on the treasure mountain without using it.

In addition to some matters on the ship in which he had to intervene, the vast majority of the time, he stayed in the library, in addition to reviewing these forbidden books, he also tried to write out the books that are now missing in Hogwarts by hand.

But the reason why the forbidden books are forbidden is not just because the knowledge it contains is forbidden; forbidden books are rare in the magical world due to the existence of knowledge itself which can't be written without the help of magic.

And only a Grimoire written with magic could carry forbidden knowledge, so Jon's attempts were mostly unsuccessful, but nevertheless, he did not fall behind in learning new magic.

About the sea of forbidden books, which contains all kinds of strange and bizarre dark magic, Jon did not become fascinated, he simply and directly chose the magical world's most notorious, but also the most widely circulated three Unforgivable Curses - the Imperius Curse, the Cruciatus Curse, and the Killing Curse to start with.

The unorthodox curses and spells may work wonders in some situations, but in most cases, the most practical are these three unforgivable curses.

Perfectly contains the three effects needed to kill, torture, and control, and there is no counter spell available against them yet.

But when it comes to learning dark magic, it's not just as simple as overcoming its difficulty. Jon had already reported to Dumbledore that he intended to dabble in the field of dark magic when he was preparing to learn the Invisible Sword Curse before.

There is indeed no way around it, almost all the spells that have the most lethal offensive nature are all tied to dark magic, and no wizard can avoid it if he wants to learn lethal magic.

Of course, everyone who learns dark magic is not defined as a dark wizard, rather a person who has studied dark magic to the extreme and curses at the drop of a hat is known as a dark wizard.

Dumbledore at that time agreed with Jon's exposure to dark magic, but he also gave a cautionary note.

Regarding his advice, Jon always kept in mind how the side effects of dark magic can change a person's perception very subtly.

Dark magic is basically based on violence and abuse, and the emotions needed to cast such spells are naturally tyrannical and malicious.

It is because of this form of spell casting that frequent use of dark magic can change a person.

Whether you hurt someone with the intention of revenge, protection or some other brighter purpose, it will not change the influence of the emotion itself, otherwise, there would be no way to use dark magic anymore.

Because of this, Jon was extra careful when learning the three unforgivable curses, and asked Nick to accompany him throughout, so that he could observe if any special changes would arise when practising and experimenting with the spell casting.

But Nick felt somewhat unnecessary for him to be so careful.

"Dark magic does deserve caution, but there is no need to be cautious to this extent, Jon."

After observing Jon's close-to-a-week practice of the Unforgivable Curses, all without any significant results, Nick finally couldn't help but speak up.

"Let's think about it another way, the reason dark magic can affect a person's character is that when using them, the wizard's emotions are extremely negative, like how your emotions are extremely positive when you use magic like the Patronus Charm?"

Jon stopped practising as he listened to Nick's train of thought and nodded thoughtfully.

Nick continued.

"Whether it is too negative, or too positive emotions, all can bring a great impact on the wizard's character, but after using the Patronus Charm, did your character become kind of optimistic, in the face of all things you are sure to first think of the good side, met with everything full of hope?"

Jon shook his head.

"Of course not."

"Yes, the Patronus Charm, as the most positive magic spell, can not bring you such a change, the effect of the Unforgivable Curses will not be exaggerated likewise."

Nick said with incomparable seriousness.

"As long as you are a human, it is impossible to be happy all the time, even if a person behaves as a saint and never does anything bad, it does not mean that he does not think about doing bad things in his heart, that is his negative emotions. It is only because people can control their instincts and thoughts that some of them are more noble. The Patronus Charm is for you to vent the joy and positive emotions in your heart, while the Unforgivable Curses are for you to express the resentment, grievance, and anger in your heart in the form of magic."

"This does not have to be hidden, it also falls into one of the most important human feelings, what you have to do is not to deny this emotion, but not to let it become the whole of your feelings, it is something to do with the degree of control, although it is never going to be easy to achieve the perfect degree of control as one might think."

"I have seen a lot of people, there are many Hogwarts students who throughout history studied a variety of dark magic in the library in private, by which, part of their minds was affected by the darkness, which manifested in their characteristics quite obviously. These people were hungry for power and addicted to it, the power of dark magic made them uncontrollable, and when they quarrelled with people, encountered problems and broke rules, the first thing they thought of was using their formidable power to do evil with malice."

"These people are true dark wizards, dark magic and the emotions it represents have already become everything in their lives, they have no self anymore, it's not that they are controlling the magic, it's that the magic is controlling them."

"But you obviously won't be like that Jon, you've learned that Invisible Sword Curse before too, when it comes to all problems, the first thing that comes to your mind in the first second was how to use this magic to cut that issue in two?"

"Since you didn't have such a thought even after you learned the Invisible Sword Curse, what are you worrying about with the Unforgivable Curses? After you learned the Killing Curse, will you immediately think of using the Killing Curse first to solve all the hindrances you encounter at first moment? It will only be one of your means of solving things, not the only one."

Nick looked at Jon with certainty.

"So, have a little confidence in yourself, be bold and learn, and bring out the emotion you feel when you are most angry and want to kill the most, that's what the Unforgivable Curse needs, that emotion can't be all you have, but it certainly exists, right?"

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