Hogwarts: The Unscientific Wizard (TL)

After the successful magic transfiguration, Andy felt less pressure. Once the weight on his heart was lifted, Andy felt a lot more relaxed.

At least he no longer felt that fatigued.

From mid-March to early April, Andy spent most of his time studying the ancient wizards' methods of controlling magic.

In those days, there were no wands, and hand gestures were not considered a perfect method of casting spells.

Therefore, if ancient wizards wanted to use magic, they had to master the operation of their magic powers before the age of ten.

Once they turned ten, they could only become ordinary wizards with limited magical powers.

There was a lot of information in the restricted section, and Andy spent a few days carefully looking through it.

The ancient wizards' method of controlling magic was actually related to mental strength.

After all, the mind controls magic.

If you want to learn magic, you can't bypass the mind.

The key is how to control and guide magic.

Modern wizards need to use wands to guide their magic when casting spells.

If one relies solely on their own mental power, it is impossible to control magic in a stable state.

But then again, if a wand can channel magic, it means that a wizard's magic is not as inflexible as an iron block.

In other words, the magic of an adult wizard is just less active than that of a young wizard.

The ancient method of casting spells was to strengthen the control of the mind over magic through repeated practice until the mind could guide the magic.

Here's a simple example.

Before the start of the third year, Harry inflated his aunt like a balloon without a wand in his hand.

This shows that even without a wand, a wizard can forcibly guide magic and successfully cast a spell with the help of intensely fluctuating mental power.

It's just more difficult.

This is what ancient wizards practised.

When their magic was unstable, they used certain specific emotions to guide it. In the process, the magic would gradually adapt to this emotion.

Once the ancient wizards' magic became stable, they only needed to use this emotion to guide the magic to successfully cast spells.

This is different from the way Andy trained his magic when he was young.

Andy's training only involved forcibly mobilising magic and did not involve the application of mental strength.

"It's more like a preliminary fusion of mind and magic..."

In the Room of Requirement practice room, Andy sat cross-legged on the ground, holding the notes he had compiled during this time in his hands, with a thoughtful expression.

The more he studied magic, the more Andy felt that behind the complex theories of magic, many things led to the same conclusion.

Ancient magic and modern magic may seem very different, but in fact, they are just different ways of guiding magic.

At its core, the so-called 'spell' is using magic to turn your intentions into reality.

For example, the cleaning spell.

When you subconsciously identify something in your mind as 'rubbish', you can use the cleaning spell to get rid of it.

As for the incantation and the spellcasting gestures, they are just a way to guide the magic.

Ancient magic is the same.

The difference between the two is the way to guide the magic.

Having come to this conclusion, Andy felt that his understanding of magic had deepened.

It was Saturday, April 9th.

After nearly a month of unstable magic, Andy's magic had returned to a stable state.

Although it had only been less than a month, Andy felt that he had made great progress.

Not in terms of strength,

Rather, in terms of... opening the door to wandless magic!

In any case, Andy now had six points in the [Mind] attribute.

Compared to the professors and students at Hogwarts, Andy's mental strength is second to none—if you don't count Dumbledore.

So Andy picked up all the magical theories that involved the concept of the mind very quickly.

In particular, after Andy completed the improvement of the Patronus Charm, he initially integrated the mind and magic. In the field of the mind, Andy could be considered an authority in the magical world today.

As for gesture casting, Andy didn't learn it.

Although gesture casting is also a form of wandless casting, the speed of casting is too slow, and it is inferior to even using a wand.

"Looks like I can only stop here for now... I wish I had more time."

The magic in his body has stabilised, and there won't be much more to gain from practising any longer.

Once he spoke, Andy snapped his notebook shut, then lifted his left hand slightly, and the notebook flew into the air before whizzing into the pocket enchanted with an undetectable extension charm.

''Not bad!'' Andy muttered with a smile.

Unlike hidden casting.

Which involves holding the wand in one hand and guiding the direction of the spell with the other.

This technique may seem like wandless casting, but in essence, it still requires the wand.

This time, Andy didn't use his wand.

But that was the limit.

It is not easy for ancient wizards to cast spells without wands. At Andy's current level, there are not many spells that he can cast without a wand.

He is probably at the level of an ordinary third-year wizard.

Of course, Andy is now qualified to learn real ancient magic.

If ancient magic can be cast, it will be more powerful.

But who would pursue power in magic?

To kill someone, a Killing Curse is enough.

If you don't want to use the Unforgivable Curse, the Smashing spell will do.

There are so many spells that can cause death.

As for destructive power... the Blasting Curse, the Fiendfyre Curse... these spells are all very powerful.

To be honest, when Andy first started learning magic, he complained that the power of the magic in the Harry Potter world was too weak and not comparable to the magic in other fictional settings.

But after two years of learning, Andy no longer focuses on the power of magic.

Or rather, he no longer focuses purely on the power of magic.

The magic in this world has a very high upper limit, and it involves many different fields.

Time, space, concepts, cause and effect, fate, killing, destruction... You can find any field of magic you can think of in this world.

It's just that wizards have limited potential.

Andy realised this a long time ago.

So what Andy needs to do is remove the limit on his potential.

The first step is to transform his body through magic so that he can evolve into a magical being.

The second step is to complete the fusion of mind and magic.

At present, Andy has already achieved the first step.

The system update was a pleasant surprise.

So Andy's next task is to complete the second step.

This month of magic practice has undoubtedly given Andy greater confidence.

Ancient magic may not be as diverse as modern magic, but precisely because ancient wizards had difficulty casting spells, they focused on the very core of spellcasting.

That is, mind control of magic!

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