Anton did not completely agree with Dumbledore's statement. Just like Lao Deng himself said, everyone has their own understanding of magic.

In Anton's view, wizards, environment, and magic are factors that influence each other. The power of magic must be tapped from the heart, and the power of magic must be tapped from the environment.

Environment, an interesting factor.

As a time traveler rather than a native aboriginal, Anton has an observation of the external environment that others do not have.

Especially when there is a fork in the road in front of him, every choice he makes represents his future magical path.

It's amazing how fate ties everything together.

Anton believes in the theory of fate. It is not the kind of fate where one is born with good luck or born with bad luck. It is the kind of fate that is fickle and has an invisible hand.

He regards destiny as a great magic.

Time is also a huge magic.

The same is true for souls.

In this wizarding world, everything is wrapped in magic, and it moves skillfully among fate, time, and soul.

"I like magic." Anton put away the 'Mermaid's Song' pendant in his hand and grabbed Dumbledore's arm.

Lao Deng shrugged, "Oh, me too, it's always been like this."

Phew~~~~

In just an instant, they appeared in Dumbledore's office.

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Coming out of Dumbledore's office, Anton brought a large amount of information about world events.

There are also records of some schools participating in the competition.

Anton even saw the name of Snape's mother in the information. This woman was once the captain of the Gobstone team at Hogwarts and represented the school in international competitions.

This is outrageous, Anton has never heard of this team.

Gobushi is a chess game, a bit like checkers. Because it is more suitable for children to play, it has never been taken seriously.

Similarly, wizard chess also has competitions, and there are also clubs in schools that focus on wizard chess.

It was only at this time that Anton could feel how popular the Quidditch game was in the wizarding world. It was just one of the countless magical events in Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

There are almost no traces of these events in the original work.

Anton followed the information on the form and looked at it one by one, only to realize that many competitions were participated by two houses, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff.

Especially the 'Barnabus Finkley Award for Charming Techniques' that Dumbledore mentioned before. This competition was actually held at Easter last year, and students from their school actually participated in the competition.

"..."

To this end, Anton made a special trip to the trophy room in Hogwarts Castle, and discovered countless competitions that he had never heard of.

And there is also an interesting title that jumps out at me.

--club.

There are countless clubs in Hogwarts, usually they are established with the appearance of the organizer and disappear with the departure of the organizer.

This kind of thing is a bit novel to Anton, but it is probably common to Europeans and Americans.

He remembered that in the original book, Lockhart once organized a club - the Duel Club.

In the information, there are many more...

Professor Flitwick's Charms Club.

Professor Slughorn (retired)'s Slug Club, members of this club are now spread all over the wizarding world, and they have absolutely powerful connections.

Ambrosio Froome, owner of Bee Duke Candy Shop.

Barnabas Guffey, editor-in-chief of the Daily Prophet.

Dirk Cresswell, Goblin Liaison Officer.

Regulus Black, Sirius's younger brother.

Wendy Slinka, author of "Magical Defense Theory."

Too many.

Anton saw a lot of familiar names on the list: Lily Evans (Harry Potter's mother), Lucius Malfoy, Tom Riddle...

Life in a magic school is more colorful than imagined.

Anton is not interested in the clubs in school, but he is very interested in various competitions and organizations.

He was happy to try this new thing, and he estimated that the members of the hut would also like it. Maybe they could organize a group activity like this sometime to have fun outside the school.

Of course, it is probably not possible these days, as everyone is quite busy.

Hannah and Neville are going to study herbalism with Professor Sprout, George and Fred are breeding dwarf velvets, and Anton is focused on finding a cure for werewolves and bloodcursed orcs.

At the same time, they also have to study the "Comeback" war chess together, and develop some interesting cabin products from time to time to use them to fund their research on the war chess.

Anton went to Lupine's office to agree with him on a time to draw magical images, and then returned to the cabin.

The magic of the Mirror of Erised, the magic of the Erised Stone, Mrs. Norris' cat spirit affinity, the death cry of the Mandrake...

He needs to analyze the common magic that detects wizards' emotions, will, and memory.

A three-dimensional magical image composed of colorful stripes, patterns and dark green cracks.

Side image of soul made of black lines.

Although the workload is becoming more and more, Anton seems to have found the right path. Relying on the large amount of knowledge he has learned in the past and supporting references one by one, he is gradually peeling off the magic spell he needs from the complete image.

come out.

At the same time, as Anton's research entered a dangerous field, he moved the place of research to the underground of the cabin.

He released the little snake, and a bubble spell was cast on the snake's head to block any sound.

Anton sat at the experimental table and wrote and drew quickly.

Soon, he waved his magic wand and asked the vines of the elephant-eating vine to grab a rune snake from the snake cave next door as a test subject.

The wand turned around in his hand and pressed lightly against his neck.

"Ah~~~~~"

An extremely sharp sound came from his throat, and under the vision of the wizard's eyes, strange circles of magical images appeared, killing the rune snake in an instant.

"No, the power should be reduced. My purpose is not to kill, but to control the black thread of the soul." Anton frowned and recorded the experimental steps in his notebook.

The little snake swam along the wall, seemingly trying to find a gap in the vines to escape, but it could only run into walls everywhere.

In fact, this basement has been quietly transformed into an extremely sturdy place.

The outside of the wall woven with vines is actually made up of countless stacks of metal ores dug out of the ground. It is surrounded by stones that are not of the thickness of the city wall, top, bottom, left and right.

Between each stone is the strong and thick root system of the elephant vine, tightly wrapping everything.

If necessary, each node of these root systems can grow a vine strong enough to crush an elephant.
Chapter completed!