"It's hopeless! I've never seen a guy as stupid as you!"
Grindelwald waved his hands angrily, took a deep breath, and tried to control his emotions.
He retracted his previous evaluation of this girl. He felt that even teaching a magic pig might be easier than the stupid little girl in front of him.
In two full hours, according to Grindelwald's original plan, he had taught Elena at least three or four simple and effective little magics, and could start some subsequent lessons, instead of like now...
"I'll say it for the last time, for the last time! Clear your mind, Elena Kaslana! When casting a spell, just give your spell the will to "open"! Do you understand?! It's just a matter of time.
You can't even flow a little bit of magic power with an opening spell, so you might as well drop out of Hogwarts after five days!"
Yes, two hours have passed, and Grindelwald and Elena are still stuck in the initial teaching session, how to successfully release a complete lock-picking spell.
"But this is not logical, Mr. Gellert."
In fact, Elena already understood the problem when her second attempt at the spell failed. It was not the gestures or pronunciation, but that she could not accept it in her mind.
If we subdivide the logic of magic casting in this world, it can actually be divided into two large sections: the result-oriented black box of chaos, and the logical and self-consistent derivation of order.
As Grindelwald said before, the key to successful spell casting is that the wizard needs to understand what he is trying to do.
Elena's problem is not that she doesn't understand what she wants to do. As a time traveler from later generations, rational thinking is a brand rooted deep in her soul - she knows too clearly what she wants to do.
What do you want?
The lock-picking spell first appeared in Africa. The spell comes from the West African Shicardi symbol, but it is not clear who originally invented it.
However, as this spell was brought to England by Elton Esrick in the 17th century, it quickly became the most popular lock-picking spell in the wizarding world. It is included in the first-year curriculum of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
A very basic spell.
"You told me before that the function of this spell is to open doors and windows that are locked and not protected by magic. But we all know that the principle of locking doors and windows mainly comes from the physical barrier of the lock cylinder."
Elena glanced at the ashen-faced Grindelwald and said quickly, "But in fact, there are many reasons for door locks, door locks, chains, door bolts, composite locks... and even all kinds of weird closures.
How can the magic spell accurately express my wishes without understanding the internal principles of the door lock?"
"This is the power of magic, you just need to..." Grindelwald took a deep breath and tried his best to smile.
"I know magic is very powerful, but you still haven't answered me. Since there is a magic spell, it means it must follow some understandable rules."
"As a primary magic spell, the Unlocking Spell cannot think actively, so why can it be judged that it should use push, pull, lift, and close to achieve the effect? What is the basis for it to judge the definition of [open] and [close]?
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Elena swallowed and mustered up the courage to repeat her previous confusion again.
[Open] and [Close] are not accurate definitions of natural existence. They are things judged by subjective factors of the human brain in a specific context and situation.
For example: a false cover can be regarded as both closing and opening; except for old-fashioned door locks, compound machine locks are opened in batches; even if the necessary condition for some [opening] is [closing]
】, then there will be a logical conflict.
According to the logic of the traditional lock-picking spell, it seems to point directly to the result-the door lock is opened, and then performs an independent reverse process to complete the entire step.
This idealistic situation of inverted cause and effect obviously cannot be fooled by simply using the power of magic.
At least Elena couldn't bypass this hurdle from the depths of her heart. After all, the magic spell derived from it was not just as simple as opening a lock. Cu Chulainn's piercing death thorn spear could also be pressed.
This logic is derived in batches.
"enough!"
Grindelwald slammed the table and finally stood up unbearably.
"We will discuss this issue next time. It is just a basic lock-picking spell. Do you have to reversely deduce the creation principle and magical knowledge of the entire spell before you can successfully cast it?!"
After a long period of communication, Grindelwald also clearly understood the reason why the girl failed to cast spells. Elena is different from most modern wizards. In fact, this little mixed-race Veela is closer to those magical explorations in ancient times.
The strength of one's own beliefs, or the degree of stubbornness, can even affect the mature spell system in turn.
There is no doubt that even Albus Dumbledore may not realize this. This little witch named Elena Kaslana needs more than just the methods of releasing spells in the textbook.
, what she needs may be the theoretical system of the causes of all the curses in the entire magical world.
In fact, Grindelwald is very familiar with Elena's thinking mode, because these problems are the confusions faced by a wizard who begins to try to create new spells.
As a top wizard who has created and improved dozens of complete spells, Grindelwald is naturally familiar with this. Such quarrels and discussions reminded him of the first time he met Godric's Hollow in England.
The days spent together with Dumbledore.
However, this kind of thinking is a bit too advanced for a child who has just entered the magical world, and to be precise, it is not a good thing.
Grindelwald panted and looked at the girl in front of him who was frightened by his roar, slightly absent-minded.
After realizing this, Grindelwald could even predict that the difficulty of his magic teaching in the next few days would at least increase by a large level.
Perhaps he should sort out what spells he can accurately describe with complete magic theories, and prepare the corresponding magic knowledge again.
"Well, let's change the spell first. Before the invention of the lock-picking spell, most wizards preferred to use the explosion spell, using their own magic power to create a small explosion..."
"Although it's not that subtle, it's easy to use. But compared to the unlocking spell, this spell with certain lethality is much more difficult. If I remember correctly, you won't learn it until at least your third grade.
This curse."
Grindelwald shook his head, his wrist slowly made an arc in the air, and then said, "The spell is not complicated, Bombarda, but I guess you need to imagine what an explosion is..."
The old man's tone was somewhat waning, and he obviously didn't have much hope.
"Well, anyway, let me try it first, Bombarda..."
Elena shrugged and didn't bother any further. She obediently imitated Grindelwald's gestures and pronunciation, and pointed the wand at the corner of the room.
A bright red beam of light lit up from the tip of the girl's wand.