Chapter 197 Ancient and Modern Magic

Hermione seemed to have remembered something, "Professor, is this what you used in the public class last year, this magic rune?"

"No, what was demonstrated in the public class is real ancient magic, only with this magic rune as the core," Felix said.

He looked at the time and said gently, "That's about the end for today, as for how to discover the power of individual magic runes, I'll schedule that part for tomorrow. You can try it yourself when you get back, there's no danger, but it might cause you some distress."

"Distress?"

Felix curled the corners of his mouth, "If I remember correctly, the effect of one of the magic runes I taught you is very interesting. I wonder if you can spot it?"

Hermione had some resentment in her heart, the professor's bad taste reappeared again ...

By this point, Hermione almost understood the logic of the overall system of practical ancient runes- if an analogy, she thought of the radio she had dismantled with her own hands.

Magic rune is the basis of everything, the status is equivalent to the electronic parts in the radio.

But both individual magic runes, and electronic parts, are relatively independent and can exhibit their own characteristics, such as the heat of a resistor, the glow of a small light bulb, and the magic rune that means light, as shown by the professor.

These characteristics are not essentially good or bad in terms of strength and weakness, but with the addition of subjective human judgment, there is a difference: Glowing characteristics are obviously a little more useful than heat characteristics in some cases...

And the rune circuit corresponds to the circuit in the radio, when the runes have formed a circuit by combination, which will gain a specific magical function, such as the burst rune circuit demonstrated by the professor a long time ago.

She still remembered that Professor Hap had described it as "very unstable", which meant that it would be very difficult for a Single Rune Circuit to be used stably.

The only way to create a fully functional artefact is to have multiple rune circuits working together, just like her beaded pouch.

As for ancient magic, she had little access to information, so let's assume the same relationship.

Hermione thought that it would be easier to understand with such an analogy, and she put her idea to the professor, looking at him with an anticipating gaze, "What do you think?"

Felix cast an approving glance, "That sums it up very nicely, Miss Granger. It's perfectly acceptable for the current you."

The young witch nodded, she had been exposed to so much new knowledge today that she would need to reorganize it when she returned.

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When Hermione left, Felix sat down on the couch, his gains tonight had made him think more deeply about the similarities and differences between ancient and simplified magic.

He had previously thought that ancient magic is powerful, but difficult to control; and simplified magic, which is not particularly powerful, but perfectly adequate, its biggest advantage is simple and easy to learn, the probability of losing control is much lower.

In fact, it is almost inevitable that simplified magic will replace ancient magic -

Simplified magic can basically be seen as a collection of incantation + casting action + magic power mobilization.

The 'incantation' represents the power of the mind, which can be omitted when one becomes proficient, i.e. Non-verbal spell casting.

And the latter two - 'spell casting action' and 'magic mobilization' can be mixed up in most cases.

This is because under the system of simplified magic, spell-casting action, and magic mobilization are bound together with one another, and a spell-casting action corresponds to a way of magic mobilization, which is the essence of the whole simplified magic system.

The benefits of this approach are amazing.

Wizards did not have to spend a lot of time learning how to mobilize and harness their magic, and this part of the knowledge was naturally integrated into the Hogwarts teaching system.

Theoretically, once you learn the normal spellcasting actions, you are qualified to master most of the spells under the same system.

The reason why it is not all spells is that some less popular spellcasting moves have been removed from the existing Hogwarts teaching materials, which means that the young wizards cannot master the magic mobilization behind these spellcasting moves.

However, if the professor wanted to teach extra, he could just spend more time on the new spell-casting movements while explaining the spell, and the young wizards would find the spell a bit difficult and not very comfortable to use.

It is because the combination of spellcasting and magic mobilization is so tight that many young wizards only know the former and have no idea about the latter, but this does not affect their ability to use magic in any way.

An extreme example would be.

Some gifted wizards can master the corresponding magic by virtue of the other's incantations and spell-casting actions just by seeing someone else cast a spell once.

What is even more convenient is that once the spell is familiar enough, the spell-casting action can be omitted, and everything seems to revert to magic mobilization itself.

Only most wizards do not see this process from the beginning to the end.

If one is not satisfied with what is taught at school, the library of Hogwarts also has plenty of materials for young wizards to refer to and study in-depth, provided that they choose the right books.

All of the above reflections can be counted as the advantages of simplified magic - easy to learn, independent system, and also retains the possibility of continuous improvement.

This is far superior to ancient magic.

You know, ancient wizards don't even have a standard harmonized spell-casting technique, and every single ancient magic they learn means an adventure, and they naturally prefer the same type of magic to reduce the risk of losing themselves in learning new magic.

In addition, ancient wizards followed the teacher-apprentice system in learning, and communication was not as convenient as it is now, which also led to heavy bias, and many wizards only mastered a few fire magic in their lifetime.

According to Felix's speculation, only after he had mastered the characteristics of numerous practical ancient magic runes, as well as the way the magic runes combined, could one truly bring out the power of ancient magic.

Even with a few fire magics, one could make a huge mess by using them.

And simplifying magic is not all advantageous -

This practice produced an inevitable conclusion: for present-day wizards, the more ancient those magics are, the more difficult they are to master.

This is because some ancient magic inherits the ancient wizards' understanding of magic, but this understanding seems out of place in the current magic system.

For example, the Patronus Charm focuses more on the use of the power of the mind.

And the way in which it mobilizes magic is not within the basic spell-casting actions taught at Hogwarts, which means you have to relearn several, or even a dozen, ways of mobilizing and harnessing magic, which is difficult for almost 90% of wizards.

Felix realized this early on and thought of getting rid of the shackles of the simplified magic framework.

He first looked through books in the library to learn more ways to mobilize magic and harness it.

He also tried to uncover powerful magic from various ancient runes, mastering and harnessing them.

In fact, this has been the choice of many wizards - to improve their knowledge of magic, their understanding of magic, in the pursuit of powerful magic.

Then Felix settled on the practical ancient runes that he believed went straight to the essence of magic and developed them all the way to today.

At present, it seems that magic runes are the essence of magic?

In a short year, he had seen Slytherin's bloodline magic, Ravenclaw's memory magic, and Dumbledore's vaguely revealed Transfiguration.

Everyone took the right path, although Felix had no doubt that he had chosen the path with the greatest potential.

If he were to judge now, there is and can only be one essence of magic, and that is magic - the magic that wizards are born with.

With magic, there are hundreds of blossoming and colourful worlds of magic.