Chapter 165 Standing on the Shoulders of Those Who Came Before You

Will she be responsible for three meals a day these days?

Elena couldn't help but raise her head, glanced at Grindelwald, and laughed secretly in her heart.

Although Gellert Grindelwald's expression and tone were extremely casual, it seemed that after finishing the course requirements, he just said something like "remember to close the door" or "you need to wash your hands before eating".

Unfortunately, decades later, a well-known social philosopher in the non-magical world proposed a law. When a person has a bad initial impression and attitude towards a thing and makes remarks to support it, the subsequent behavior and original attitude will often appear. Inconsistency.

No matter how hard Grindelwald tried to hide it, he could not completely hide the faint expectation and pleasure in his tone when he mentioned three meals a day - in fact, no matter what tone he said this sentence, there was nothing between the lines. All of them are naturally filled with the word "really fragrant".

"Deal, but I also have a few requests."

Elena leaned back on the chair, raised her index finger and shook it, and said with a serious face, "It's okay to listen to your magic, but as for cooking, I have the final say. Whatever I want to eat, we can What to eat.”

Anyway, it is much easier to prepare food for two people than for one person. In fact, it will not increase her workload much.

But she is not here to be a cook for others. A arrogant old potato is not qualified to order food in front of her. This must be made clear from the beginning.

As for whether Grindelwald is used to the cooked dishes, or whether he is willing to eat them, that is not a question that Elena needs to consider. After all, if he really doesn't want to, the first-generation Dark Lord can also choose to rub the potatoes by hand. Well.

"What else can you conjure up besides potatoes, cabbage, bread, bacon..."

Grindelwald couldn't help but let out a sneer. There were only a few ingredients left by Dumbledore in Nurmengard Castle. They were all the most basic food. Even if the girl deliberately misbehaved, it wouldn't be weird or unpalatable. The situation - at least better than using his own magic to slowly roast the potatoes.

"Okay, don't waste any more time. Pull out your wand and focus, you have less than three hours left to learn magic."

Grindelwald looked up at Elena, with a hint of majesty in his cloudy eyes, which reminded Elena of the old dean she met when she was at school in her previous life.

"As I said before, magic is an extremely rigorous knowledge. It is extremely dangerous to directly try to cast spells beyond the basic knowledge."

The old man said, his voice was not loud, but it carried a convincing power. Once it started to involve the field of magic, Grindelwald seemed to be a different person, with pride and pride shining on his old face. Serious light.

"The first thing you need to understand is that whether it is German, English, French...the vocabulary and grammar that people use for daily communication today are not the real medium for spells. Half of our common spells today come from various countries. The wizards obtained inspiration from the ancient runic writings and gradually evolved and invented the results. For example..."

As Grindelwald spoke, he raised his finger and pointed at the pillow at the head of the bed, and read softly.

"Fliegen".

The soft pillow was pulled up from the edge of the bed as if by an invisible line, and flew into Grindelwald's hands along a parabola. The next moment, Grindelwald threw the pillow back and read it again.

"Accio".

Just like the previous state, the pillow flying in mid-air was once again pulled back into Grindelwald's hands by the power of the curse. No matter the arc, speed, or even the position where it fell into his hands, there was no difference.

"You see, if you really want to recite incantations to cast spells, it is much more important to understand what you are saying than to remember how to make sounds. Body movements and thoughts are the precious talents hidden in the body The key to stimulating it." The old wizard held the pillow with one hand, shook it toward Elena, and further explained.

"By the way, what was that sentence before?" Elena blinked curiously.

"That's the flying curse from the wizards over there in Germany. We all recite it like this there."

Grindelwald shrugged and grinned, "You wouldn't want the students at Durmstrang School of Witchcraft and Wizardry to have to remedial English before going to school, would you? What about the wizards in South America? What about the shamans of Africa and Egypt?”

"But, as far as I know, the spells of most foreign wizards are also..."

Erin frowned in confusion. In her impression, during the Triwizard Tournament in the original book, most of the spells cast by students from Durmstrang and Beauxbatons were also related to Hogg. Same as Watts.

"That's right, whether it's the Lighting Curse, the Obstacle Curse, the Petrification Curse, the Disarming Curse, the Cruciatus Curse, or the Soul-stealing Curse, in the magical world you are exposed to, many foreign wizards use spells that are similar to the spells you are about to learn. Exactly the same.”

Grindelwald nodded, with a look of helplessness on his face.

"That's because, at least for now, from the perspective of the types of spells that have evolved from the ancient runic writing, the spells based on the ancient Anglo-Saxon language system are the most practical and stable. More importantly, within hundreds of years In the era before the explosion of spells, wizards in the ancient English system not only created most of today's mainstream spells, but also spread their footprints to all parts of the world."

In fact, the earliest magical writings did not have phonetic sounds. They were more descriptions and manifestations of certain phenomena, such as cuneiform writing, ancient runic writing, hieroglyphics, etc. - for those who lived in ancient times For wizards, even spells are not the core element.

However, the emergence of audio spells has greatly reduced the energy and time that subsequent young wizards need to spend on the path of magic exploration. The pronunciation of some ancient magic characters has disappeared, but the pronunciation of ancient runic characters has been intact. It has been preserved and developed even more vigorously.

In that era when everyone was groping in the dark, the influence that an outstanding wizard could bring should not be reflected in the power of the world. More importantly, it could make their students more powerful. More time to pave the way to magic for those who come later.

Hundreds of years ago, the British magical world was lucky enough to have nearly a hundred such great wizards emerge in one breath, so that even today, the rune spells interpreted in the Anglo-Saxon language system are still part of the magic The mainstream of the basics of casting spells in the world.

Grindelwald paused, glanced at Elena meaningfully, and made a nasal sound, "Do you really think that the talents of your little wizards at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry are far superior to those of wizards elsewhere? The real reason It’s actually very simple, because compared to other little wizards, you have almost no damn language barrier in learning and understanding spells.”

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Gu~ Sure enough, I can get inspiration after going to the zoo.

Now, I have completed a lot of the world view of the magical world, and I am confident that I can write well even about magic.

Gu~ There should be one or two chapters later, right?