Volume 3: A Tombstone Stained with Sin and Blood Chapter 137 Case Study
Hermione obviously hesitated when she heard Jon's words, but then she quickly nodded slightly and said.
"I have thought about this. Magic is magical, but the knowledge I learned in the Muggle school is also objective. I have wondered why wizards and Muggles live in the same world but discover two completely different rules."
"After arriving at the carriage, I asked Professor Flitwick about this question. The professor didn't understand what the laws discovered by Muggles were, but he told me that because wizards have magic, the world we see is different from that of Muggles. Magic is like glasses with filters, allowing people who have it and those who don't have it to see different views."
Jon stroked his chin. He had never talked about these things with Professor Flitwick before. The metaphor of glasses was very apt.
"So is this world what it looks like when we put on the glasses of magic, or what we see after putting on the glasses ? Or is it that these are all real, but no one has ever thought of connecting these two worlds together?"
He said thoughtfully, and had some different thoughts on applying his original natural science theories to magic.
After chatting with Hermione for a while, Jon didn't waste time and went straight to the main topic of today.
Compared to Neville, Hermione received a formal Muggle primary school education and systematically studied scientific knowledge related to gravity. This is basically similar to Jon's situation, except that Jon has studied natural sciences longer than her and the content is more profound.
"Try to use the Levitation Spell, but when you recite the spell, don't think that this spell can make objects float. Instead, believe that the Levitation Spell directly controls the gravity of the earth. The fundamental reason why the spelled object can float is that gravity has lost its effect on it."
Hermione was a little stunned by Jon's fantasy. She raised her wand and asked unconfidently.
“Is this really okay?”
Jon was patient, he looked at the wand in Hermione's hand.
"I'm not sure if this is possible for you, but there's no cost to try this, and with Hagrid watching over you, there's no danger. You can try it on this plate of rock cakes now."
Although Hermione thought Jon's idea was a bit far-fetched, she still raised her wand as he said and pointed the tip of the wand at the stone-like rock cakes on the plate.
"Wingardium Leviosa." She chanted the spell of levitation.
However, he did not think about making the rock cake fly as Professor Flitwick had taught him in class. Instead, he tried to define a property of "making objects float" as Jon had said, so that the effect of the spell would actually interfere with gravity.
However, the final result was that nothing happened.
Hermione's levitation spell obviously failed, and the rock cake was still lying steadily on the plate. She recited the spell correctly, but it had no effect.
When Jon saw this scene, his brows couldn't help but frown.
"How do you feel?" he asked Hermione.
Hermione shook her head.
"No, I didn't feel anything. I felt that the spell and the swing of the staff were the same as usual, but my thoughts on casting the spell were particularly twisted. So when I finished reciting the spell, I could already feel that the spell had failed."
Jon's brows couldn't help but frown deeper.
Regarding the improvements on the spell, the result was somewhat different from what he expected.
When he first got the ring from Slughorn, he came up with a method of tampering with magical will and thinking in order to enhance the effectiveness of the levitation spell. In this process, the wand and the spell did not change at all, only the idea changed, and the final result was successful.
This made Jon think that such success was replicable.
After all, since coming into this world, he has not noticed any difference between himself and other people.
Since the results can be seen in him, why can't they be seen in others?
But now Hermione's attempt in front of him made him suddenly realize another possibility.
Perhaps it was not him who discovered the shortcut between magic and science. Just as Professor Flitwick said, the existence of magic is like a pair of glasses with a filter. Once you put them on, you will see a world that is completely different from before you put them on.
These two worlds may seem identical, but in fact they are so different that it is difficult or even impossible to connect them.
The reason why he was able to succeed was not because he discovered a new way of casting spells, but because he was more special than others!
Only he can use this special floating spell effect. Even if other people follow what he said, understand the principle of gravity, and replace their will when casting the spell, they can never achieve the same level as him!
Jon was staring blankly at the front of the carriage. Looking at his expression, Hermione thought that he was hit by the failure of his experimental attempt, and could not help but comfort him with a pursed mouth.
"You are already better than many people in this regard, Jon. Professor Flitwick told us during his tutoring that learning magic sometimes requires some such fantastic ideas. Only then can wizards make progress in their research on spells, and the entire wizarding world will continue to move forward."
Jon came back to his senses and did not explain much to Hermione. If it was really his personal peculiarity that made his spell successful, then it would not be a good thing to publicize this matter.
But he has not completely rejected his previous idea. After all, Hermione is the only experimental subject now, and there may be other reasons that lead to the failure. He cannot be sure that it is the special ones like John and everyone else.
He needs to expand the scope of the experiment and allow more students who understand gravity to try to use this kind of will to cast spells, so that an accurate conclusion can be drawn based on the results.
This was not a difficult task, as there was no shortage of Muggle students who had received education in natural sciences on the carriage. Among the second-year students in the same grade as Jon, there was a boy named Justin Finch-Fletchley, who almost would have entered Eton College if he had not come to Hogwarts.
Just as John was thinking about expanding the scope of the experiment and asking Hermione to try the spell again, Gabrielle suddenly shouted excitedly from the other side of the driver's seat!
"You did it, Hagrid!"
Hermione and Jon looked in the direction of Hagrid. The coachman was excitedly holding up a long fishing net. A string of water droplets dripped from the net and connected to the rippling surface of the lake.
And inside the net bag, a big fish was twisting its body, shining brightly in the bright sunshine!
