Hogwarts Slytherin

Chapter 147 Black Magic

After dinner, Reggie hurriedly left the auditorium and headed to the Astronomy Tower. After being stopped by Carlo for the third time and successfully stuffing a box of chocolates, he finally put away the always polite smile on his face.

When Lily arrived at the astronomy tower, she only saw a figure running away in Slytherin robe, covering her face and crying.

"Reggie?" She looked back at the spiral staircase, and then at Reggie standing by the wall, with a confused look on her face.

"What did you just do to her?"

"Nothing." Reggie shrugged and replied with an indifferent expression: "I'm just helping her recognize the reality. What do you want from me?"

Lily was at a loss.

Reggie watched with relief as she slowly moved closer to him, "Did Lily take the wrong medicine?"

Otherwise, why are you so gentle all of a sudden?

"Isn't she angry with me anymore?"

Happiness comes too suddenly, and there must be a monster when things go wrong.

"I understand, I've been having some trouble recently..." Lily's expression was a bit hard to explain, as if she was very embarrassed to speak.

Reggie raised his eyebrows slightly and looked her up and down with a critical gaze. After a moment, he asked, "Has someone confessed to you?"

"What?" Lily was stunned for a moment, but she quickly understood and raised a narrow smile at the corner of her mouth.

"But no one asked me to help them recognize the reality." Lily said in a teasing tone, "I'm not as popular as you, Reggie - let me tell you secretly, I heard Marlene say that she overheard several Ravenclaws. The girl has spread rumors that she will give you a love potion, so be careful."

Reggie: "..."

It's time to ask Snape to secretly prepare a little antidote to the love potion and take it with you.

"By the way, what's bothering you?"

"Uh...it's nothing. I just thought about it for a long time. How are you going to deal with Mulciber and the others? They are a terrible group of people. If you go against them, you won't get into trouble, right?"

“You’ll know when the time comes.”

Reggie smiled and looked in the direction of the Forbidden Forest again, "How are you doing, Mary?"

"much better."

Lily nodded worriedly. She didn't know whether it was a good idea or not.

Now Mary started to get close to her again, but - she seemed to have gone a little too far, wishing to be by Lily's side all the time, as if this way she would feel safe.

Even the best friends need a sense of boundaries and private space.

Even good-tempered Lily felt a little uncomfortable.

Therefore, Mary is fine, but she is not fine as a whole!

The two of them walked and chatted as they headed downstairs to the Room of Requirement.

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When Reggie and Lily arrived, almost everyone else arrived, and James and Sirius arrived with them.

As soon as the group was done, Reggie acted resolutely and started to enter the theme of the activity left last time.

Without any foreshadowing, he went straight to the point: "The DAM club has been established for almost two years, and it has not introduced new people for a long time. Everyone is aware of the situation outside. While we are still at Hogwarts, we should learn something and do something right away. !”

"I'll keep it short."

Reggie said in a deep voice: "At Hogwarts, students were allowed to use black magic as long as it did not cause great harm! It was not until Dumbledore became the principal that black magic gradually disappeared from Hogwarts. Students are also completely prohibited from using black magic in private!”

"However, magic is not divided into black and white. Black magic can hurt people, and white magic can also do it. It is impossible to kill people with one shot. The great white wizard who went abroad in Hogwarts also had the current Dark Lord, and there are many more Not as good as these two wizards who are also very famous."

Speaking of this, Reggie continued: "However, just as Dumbledore himself has mastered a lot of black magic, the Dark Lord himself must also know a lot of white magic. For example, no one knows how to do a simple confinement spell. Call it black magic, right? But if I cast a confinement spell on a wizard and then kill him, in this case, the confinement spell can also become a means of killing."

"In today's magical world, there are several things that need to be paid attention to. First, the Death Eaters, I know this very well. Second, the Order of the Phoenix, James knows this better, and third, the Ministry of Magic, oh, don't show it. You all underestimated this expression."

"These three forces, more or less, have the shadow of some wizards with powerful magic. They either joined for their ideals, or they are simply the founders! And these people are also the main reasons for the instability in the magic world."

As for the Ministry of Magic, there are also powerful wizards, but if you want to say that they can compete with Dumbledore and Voldemort, there are really not necessarily any... If there are, they will not be just unknown people in the British wizarding world, unless they come from other places. The country, however, with the arrogance of British wizards, would hardly be willing to accept wizards from other countries in charge of the Ministry of Magic.

This allowed Reggie to rule out this possibility to a large extent. The other two forces had at least one superpower to testify, but the Ministry of Magic had none.

Of course, there is a very low probability, but this probability is so small that it is almost non-existent.

Everyone, look at me and I look at you. Guna talked to Lily yesterday, and today she is willing to say a few more words and asked: "But does this have anything to do with the theme of our event today?"

"Yes! And it has a big relationship!"

Reggie's reply was straightforward, sonorous and powerful, "In the past, Hogwarts banned the study of dark magic under the pressure of Dumbledore. This also resulted in many students who were not strong enough and treated those students who were happy and stress-free. I also let it go a little bit! Now, our DAM club has its own complete operating system. Whether it is alchemy items or spells developed in the past, they have good effects. It is time for the club to go out and let more people see the achievements of our club. exist!"

Guna said nothing more.

Sirius then asked: "Then what do we need to do? Moreover, I think Principal Dumbledore may be doing this to protect the safety of students in other colleges. You know, when black magic is banned, there are still many The young student is suspected of being infected by dark magic and was injured. If more people are allowed to learn it - probably only Slytherin would be very happy about it."

The last werewolf incident was exactly what Reggie said. After Lupine woke up, he was called to the office by Dumbledore.

When Lupine learned what happened from Principal Dumbledore's mouth, his whole body felt dizzy.

The inner connection between heaven and man is endlessly complex.

On the one hand, he was terrified of the tragedy he almost caused, and on the other hand, he was disappointed in his friends.

And... the guilt towards the kind old man.

Yes...he has no reason to resent how innocent he is.

My first reaction after learning about the incident was still to worry about other people.

Although he didn't break up with Sirius because of this, he still couldn't help but become a little colder.

Sirius is a very smart man.

He was keenly aware of this - Moon Face was angry.

After all kinds of subtle attempts to show weakness to the other party, Lu Ping finally openly talked to him.

It was only from the person involved that he understood what Reggie meant.

Now Sirius has no resentment, but he just feels angry inside: "Why do you say that to an octopus monster?"

So at this moment, I deliberately jumped out to challenge Ruigi.

Rui didn't seem to care and said with a smile: "The best defense is offense. There is Dumbledore at Hogwarts. What if after graduation? Can you still expect them to be lucky when facing the Death Eaters' spells?" Luck like elixirs? Defense Against the Dark Arts will not teach us how to defend against black magic! Only by learning black magic first can we know how to deal with it!"

Happy education is a learning method that is advocated when you have a strong person or background to give you the full details.

Ordinary little wizards, when their life safety is not guaranteed, just want to spend their school days happily, there is actually no need for it!

He continued in a deep voice: "And not only for self-protection, but also - to discover more ancient spells! The ancient spells in the past were very powerful, but as modern wizards became more and more simplified, the spells also became more and more powerful. It is getting simpler and simpler, but the effect is also greatly reduced. On the contrary, black magic retains more shadows of ancient magic spells. Now, the original intention of our DAM society is to research advanced magic. We should let more people look at it again To the charm of the spell!"

Having said that, Reggie even said bluntly in the end: "One more thing, let wizards no longer have to hide! Perhaps only Lily among you knows how big the Muggle world is and how small the wizarding world is! I want to make the wizarding world A bright light can appear on the map of the world and have our own country. Muggles can come to wizards' territory, and wizards can also go to Muggles' places."

There are eight people in the DAM club, and without exception, they are all third-grade wizards.Five purebloods, one half-blood, one half-blood, and one Veela half-blood.

At this moment, they are discussing the future of the magic world without any shame!

If anyone hears it, they will only think that they are a bunch of ignorant little guys, especially the leader, whose mind must be full of splendens.

No matter what, no one takes them seriously.

But now, at least for this moment, they are hopeful.

You can't extricate yourself in the beautiful magical world outlined by Reggie!

Because everyone knows more and more, and their strength becomes stronger and stronger. Like Ruigi, ordinary seventh graders are not necessarily his opponents. For such a talented person, what he says is unbearable. believe.

As the professors often say - he will definitely do great things in the future.

Such a naked statement made Sirius feel a little dazed.

Living with Muggles?

There are also many Muggle-born wizards in Gryffindor... They all seem to be very friendly.

In that case——it seems pretty good!

However, what Reggie wants to express is very obvious. He is going to start developing black magic in the future. For students like Lily, they have been told that black magic is evil and unforgivable since they first came into contact with the magic world. How can they get it from Reggie? , has become the future of the magic world. Does genius have a long-term vision?

But Dumbledore is recognized as a very great wizard, why would he say something different from Reggie?

Lily fell into a dilemma, thought for a moment and said, "But Dumbledore said that black magic will gradually erode the soul of a wizard."

Reggie frowned.

Sometimes in order to avoid trouble, people will always exaggerate the bad aspects of a thing by exaggerating it from beginning to end.

To be honest, long-term use of black magic will indeed erode the soul of the wizard, but that is when you use black magic to torture other people!

Moreover, with all due respect, the quantity and quality of the accumulation of black magic required for this outcome are closely related.

Such as the Cruciatus Curse.

When Bellatrix uses it, she can torture people to death without letting them die.

Don't underestimate this, it's actually very difficult to do.

The pain of the Cruciatus Curse is unimaginable to those who have not been hit by it. The Longbottoms were both excellent Aurors and hardcore members of the Order of the Phoenix. Their strength and willpower were not something ordinary wizards could resist, but they also ended up like that.

When being tortured frequently by the Cruciatus Curse, the feeling as if the heart is being crushed can actually make the tortured person prefer to stop physiological functions in pain. In other words, give up the will to live.

So if a person is subjected to several Cruciatus Curses, the person being tortured will accidentally go to see Merlin.

Most wizards' Cruciatus Curse cannot achieve the effect of Bellatrix.

This is the difference between the quality and quantity of the same spell cast by different wizards and with different frequency of use.

To put it simply, if you are just a wizard who cannot cast black magic on people and cannot make up his mind to kill the other person, then black magic will not corrode your soul at all.

The worry in Lily's words seemed to Reggie to be asking for trouble, at least for her.

Just like a fitness novice who occasionally goes to the gym but is worried that he will grow tendons.

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"I am very happy to help you improve your magic skills. Now, let me see how much you know about curses. Sirius, do you want to go first?"

They came to the dueling platform transformed from the Room of Requirement. They skipped the step of saluting each other during the duel and directly raised their wands and pointed the tip of the wand at their opponent.

The dark room was instantly lit up by spells of various colors, and Reggie watched carefully from the side.

Most of the curses they used were just small curses circulated among students. What makes people laugh or cry is that many of them were circulated by the small Slytherin group.

Needless to say, it was Emily who impressed him.

Emily's understanding of dark magic is similar to that of Sirius, but it may be due to lack of combat experience. Obviously Sirius knows more about combat skills than she does at this point.

"Very good, Emily! You know a lot of spells. Muriel is strong enough, but she lacks combat experience and the spell casting speed is not fast enough." Reggie first affirmed and then analyzed her shortcomings.

Emily wiped the sweat from her forehead, "I hate fighting and killing people the most, but I prefer to be humane."

"I have to take a rest, Lily, come and try."

Lily walked to the opposite side of Sirius, stood still, and tightened her grip on the wand in her hand.