Malcolm McGonagall, author of "Believe Your Eyes, Dumb".
"Meg?" Anton opened the title page of the book curiously, but unfortunately there didn't seem to be any introduction on it.
In the wizarding world, whenever McGonagall is mentioned, Anton will be reminded of Professor McGonagall - this is inevitable because the surname McGonagall is a Muggle surname.
"He's Professor McGonagall's brother." Anna came over to take a look, put her hair behind her ears, thought for a while, and gave Anton a positive answer.
"Professor McGonagall has a younger brother?" Anton blinked.
"Well, she has two brothers. The eldest is named Malcolm, and the youngest is Robert." Anna said softly, "Their father is a Muggle. In that era, mixed-blood wizards had a more difficult life.
, in order to fight for the right to survive, both brothers joined the Saints."
"Good guy!" Anton murmured, almost thinking about what would have happened between Professor McGonagall and these two younger brothers in that era.
Interestingly, Professor McGonagall’s mother is a witch from a powerful pure-blood family, while her father is a Muggle priest.
Yes, they are the religious figures who are the main ones engaged in the witch-hunting movement.
Malcolm McGonagall seems to be a wizard with a somewhat violent personality. In the writing style of the book, Anton can feel that a mad wizard with a beard is drinking wine and speaking in a roaring manner.
The magic field that this wizard is good at is magic props, but they are not the kind of spoof toy magic props like George Fred's, nor are they the new magic props like clocks and cars like Arthur's.
It is the kind of magic prop that is more traditional for wizards. Of course, from today's perspective, tradition means black magic, and all of them can be classified as black wizards.
What they made was probably the kind of magic props similar to the 'Hand of Glory' and 'Shrunken Head' sold in Bojin Bock's shop.
It's very classical. Maybe he should have received a lot of help from his mother's family, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to follow this magical path.
All wizards who adhere to ancient crafts, the things they produce are quite cult. Even if these people have reached the master level, you will not see these in serious bookstores in Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade Village.
People's monographs.
The first half of Mr. McGonagall's book is almost entirely devoted to explaining how to protect such a fragile thing as the human eyeball.
Even though there is magic and various magical potions in the wizarding world, there are still no good solutions for many human problems.
For example, Harry's myopia, Dumbledore's presbyopia, Umbridge's obesity, etc.
What Mr. McGonagall did was to take the eyeballs out of their sockets, make them into magic props and put them back again.
The advantage is that with eyeballs maintained in this way, even if you live hundreds of years, your vision will definitely remain at its peak.
The disadvantage is that it requires maintenance, and the cost is not low.
Not everyone can accept this approach, but Anton enjoys it.
Mr. McGonagall is definitely a master-level figure, and what he explains in the book is not as simple as eyes.
——Any life in this world will undergo a process of conception, growth, maturity, decline, and corruption. No one can escape it. It is a natural process, unless it is not a life...
——After the eyeball is removed, it actually has nothing to do with you. You can even regard it as your son or brother.
——So it doesn’t need to change because you cry because of sadness, and it won’t change because you are happy. It is just a tool. It is no longer the window to your soul, but a friend who delivers information to you.
.The key is that it will not lie to you unless you intend to lie to yourself.
——This is the greatest significance of making eyeballs into magic props. It is separated from your life, separated from your emotions, and no longer carries any emotions. It can tell you what the world is like, no longer
It's the kind of picture where you can only see what you want to see.
——Your emotions cannot be transmitted to this eyeball. It has nothing to do with you anymore. It will not care about how much you care about the woman in front of you. It will only tell you clearly that when this woman expresses her love to you,
At that time, my eyes are actually looking greedily at your treasure, and the subtle changes in my nose should be that I am holding my breath to endure your body odor...
——Believe your eyes, don’t be deceived by your heart, you idiot!
——The production process of the 'Eye of Reality' is very complicated, but it is worth it. You will no longer ignore any subtle information, and you will not automatically ignore things that appear in the corner of your sight just because you are paying attention to someone...
——The 'Eye of Truth' is separated from your life cycle, separated from your destiny, separated from everything, so it will have a very unique performance in divination. The fortune teller Eudora MacMillan Witch said this is
Without spirituality, this is simply a fart. Only then can it truly glimpse the reality of destiny...
——In this way, you are equivalent to being in the orbit of two fates at the same time, one is yourself, and the other is this eyeball, which will change your fate. There is no better way to escape the shackles of fate than this.
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This is not an ordinary theoretical knowledge about making magic eyeball props.
It is more like an in-depth exploration of the relationship between wizards and life. The content involved is extremely broad, starting from life itself and continuing to the topic of fate. It explains Mr. McGonagall's world view in a simple and profound way.
To use a not-so-appropriate description, it is like a fish that extends part of its body out of the water to live. Then this fish is equivalent to living in two life environments at the same time, water and air.
Then, it is different from ordinary fish.
According to this method, the wizard will show completely different characteristics from everyone else in the course of life. And it is as simple as getting an eyeball. There is no more cost-effective method than this.
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At least that's what Mr. McGonagall thinks.
The deepest magical principle contained in it lies in the division of the soul.
Yes, it means cutting the soul into two parts, the individual soul and the soul part of the eyeball.
The incomplete soul will bring about changes in destiny. The best thing is that after the eyeball is re-inserted into the eye socket, the soul is completely assembled again, and the destiny becomes complete.
Anton finished flipping through the first half of the theory on the last page, flipped through it again, turned to Anna and sighed, "This Mr. McGonagall is simply evil!"
Anna was stunned for a moment. She had just finished reading these contents while nestling next to Anton, and didn't think anything was wrong.
"He must have understood, but he didn't say it in the book." Anton curled his lips, "That is, if the eyeball made into a magic prop is lost, my soul will be completely incomplete, and even suffer the backlash of fate.
Becoming full of doom."
Anna glanced at him blankly, "Is it so serious?"
Anton raised his eyebrows at her, "A certain wizard without a nose has become mentally retarded, and is still very weak. He can't do anything, and the way he dies in the end is also very funny."
"Pfft~" Anna was happy, of course she knew who Anton was talking about.
The two continued to read, and the second half of the book contained the seven eye magic props developed by Mr. McGonagall.
These eye magic props have little connection with the first half of the theory. They don't seem to be made from the original eyeballs.
If you hadn't figured out this flaw like Anton did, you would even think that it was two books pieced together.
"Look, after I lost my eyes, I found some replacement methods, but the damage to my soul cannot be repaired, so it's useless."
Anton clicked his tongue.
Anna looked at Anton doubtfully, "So Gore is also missing the eye part of his soul?"
"No, no." Anton shook his head, "It is not easy to cut the soul. Except for Mr. McGonagall's trick, Voldemort even needs to use the life force exploded from killing to complete it."
"it is just……"
Anton thought for a while, "The soul is still intact. Logically speaking, potions or ritual magic can make the incomplete limbs grow back. For someone like Gore, even if his expression is suppressed by powerful magical power, he will still be able to express himself.
Feeling that phantom pain at certain times.”
The seven kinds of magic props for eyes in the book are worthy of Mr. McGonagall’s status as a master.
Four of them are replaced by the eyes of magical animals: the invisible monster that can see the crisis in a short period of time in the future, the cat leopard that can telepathize and hypnotize, the Thestral that can spy on life and death, and the cat civet with spiritual vision.
son.
The reason for choosing these four is that Mr. McGonagall's idea is to directly skip the completeness of life and the completeness of the soul, and work directly on filling in the destiny.
The remaining three types really made Anton’s eyes light up.
The first type is the 'reflecting petal mirror' - a baby's palm is large and is usually hung on the chest, allowing it to replace the function of the eyeball.
Its visual effect is similar to that seen by normal eyes. The advantage is that it can be placed in any corner of the world and still maintain normal visual effects.
"Oh my god!" Anna exclaimed, "This ability is so powerful, it can even allow us to stand on one side of the earth and see things on the other side."
"Quack..." Anton smiled obscenely, "Yes, it can also be hung in the women's bathroom..."
Anna rolled her eyes at him, "You can't do that!"
"You are overthinking. How stupid am I to do such a thing?" Anton curled his lips, "The principle of this thing is to directly open another window in the soul. Do you know what this means?"
Anna was obviously extremely smart and reacted instantly, "The Imperius Curse! Facing this mirror is equivalent to facing this person. Oh, even if you use the Death Curse to attack the mirror, the wizard will die directly!"
Anton nodded to her, "Yes, what's even more terrifying is that losing this mirror is more terrifying than losing an eyeball. As long as someone holds this mirror, it's equivalent to having your life in someone's hands.
Already."
"!!!"
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