Mrs. Granger showed quite warm hospitality to Melanie as a guest.
As the daughter of Professor Stewart, she has a very different personality from her father. Although she has a fairly high level of education, she is very passionate about life and family. If she were to become a religious person, she would be a standard middle-class full-time housewife.
The breakfast was very rich. At noon, she even asked the Italian restaurant across the street to send a few dishes over. This was very rare. You must know that when Mrs. Granger was in charge of the food in this family, she would never allow any food.
People order takeout.
"How is it? Does the food still taste good?" she asked Melanie at the dinner table.
"Very good." Melanie responded gracefully.
Mrs. Granger was relieved. After hearing Hermione say that Melanie was a foreign noble, she was afraid that she would not receive her well.
This is not to say that she is snobbish, but she is simply worried that the relationship between her daughter and her classmates will be damaged because of herself.
"My dear, it's time for us to think about our vacation arrangements." Mrs. Granger turned to her husband and said, "In more than two months, I think we can consider going on a trip, and everyone can go.
, there are five of us in the family, and Erwin’s friends.”
"You arrange it." Mr. Granger's mouth was full of Italian sausage.
"The children have finally come back. They should have a lot of fun. You can consider a trip of more than two weeks... Then go abroad. Our family can afford it."
"If you plan to travel abroad, it's best to book your air tickets and hotel now," Mr. Granger said.
"What do you think, Hermione? Which country would you like to travel to?" Mrs. Granger asked her daughter.
"Romania." Hermione said without thinking.
"Silly boy, your classmate is from Romania, is it possible that you still want to travel there?" Mrs. Granger gave her daughter an annoyed look.
Yes, I did it on purpose, Hermione thought.
"Then go to France. It's convenient to go back and forth." Mr. Granger suggested.
Mrs. Granger thought it was appropriate.
Based on Erwin's true thoughts, he felt that the so-called travel was a waste of time, because it was too convenient for wizards to go anywhere... However, he still agreed with Mrs. Granger's decision.
People cannot always be self-centered.
In the next three days, Mr. and Mrs. Granger finalized the itinerary for the trip to France. After that, Mr. Granger drove back to Manchester, where there were several patient appointments that needed to be completed at the clinic.
"Well, see you before the trip." Mrs. Granger said goodbye to her husband with a passionate kiss.
She originally wanted to take Hermione back with her husband. After all, she also had a dental license. Without her help, it would be more difficult for her husband to support the clinic alone.
But when she thought that after her family left, Professor Stewart would be left with an old man taking care of two minors, and her strong sense of responsibility made her stay.
On the other side, Erwin was discussing matters with Professor Stewart about Clayton University.
This third-rate pheasant university, which is actually controlled by the Frost family, has now managed to squeeze into the top 50 universities in the UK with a huge investment of money.
"According to your instructions, we are establishing and expanding the disciplines of archeology, religion, paleography, paleontology, etc., but the progress is very slow. Clayton University itself has almost no foundation in this area, and even with high salary, there is no way to directly
Recruit high-level scholars." Professor Stewart was quite helpless.
"Then find ways to establish cooperative relationships with professional organizations or other universities." Erwin said: "Money is not an issue."
The idea of combining theoretical physics and magic is wonderful, and indeed quite promising, but Erwin has now realized that when his understanding and strength of magic have not reached a certain level, it is best not to do this.
try.
Because it is too difficult and too dangerous.
In today's era, most of the applications of science and technology and magic can be implemented in one step. For example, apparation has unparalleled advantages over various conventional means of transportation.
But even a wizard of Dumbledore's level cannot understand the world at the level of microscopic particles. Without the ability to recognize, it is naturally impossible to create magic that directly affects microscopic particles.
Without ready-made spells and magic, he had to create his own. And Erwin felt that he might not be able to bear the consequences of introducing magic into the microscopic world.
To give a few examples, it is theoretically possible to use magic to create nuclear fission and nuclear fusion, but energy is never a problem for magic. There are many ways to provide almost endless energy, and it is not necessary to obtain energy through nuclear reactions.
As for the lethality, let alone the circumstances under which such a wide range of indiscriminate destruction can play a suitable role, the first thing Erwin has to consider is how to make himself able to withstand the central strike of nuclear weapons.
After all, his casting range is most likely smaller than the effect range of a nuclear explosion.
No matter how you look at it, it is more practical to directly impose the Imperius Curse on the leaders of nuclear-armed countries.
Strong particle collisions have an extremely small possibility of creating a micro black hole. In theory, there must be suitable magic that can increase this probability. But the problem is how to recover the micro black hole after it is created? If left unchecked, it will continue to expand and rapidly destroy the entire earth.
, and the difficulty of eliminating a black hole must be much higher than creating it.
Thinking about it this way, it seems that destroying the world is too easy for magic.
For such a "red button", Erwin thought it would be better to keep it sealed until he was absolutely sure before touching it.
The first thing to do is to work hard to improve your magic level. After you have an absolutely sufficient understanding of magic, you can then consider expanding your discovery. Eat food one bite at a time and do things step by step.
At night, after Hermione and her daughter fell asleep, Professor Stewart quietly drove Erwin to the special laboratory at Clayton University.
This is a semi-underground building with tight security.
"Professor Stewart, you have been one of the people I have trusted the most since I was a child, so I think I can let you know some secrets that most wizards don't know." Erwin had a rare expression of extreme solemnity.
Professor Stewart nodded. The young man in front of him was growing rapidly and was already someone who needed to look up to.
But he's used to it.
Erwin took out a metal disk and handed it to the professor. There was a ring of text on the disk.
Professor Stewart looked at it carefully and said, "This looks like the writing used by the Nordic people for divination."
"I can only say that these are magic texts, and the characters used by the Nordic people should have evolved from them."
Erwin took out a small wooden block, placed it in the center of the disk, and then tapped one of the magic letters with his fingers.
"Watch carefully."
The magic text lit up, and this light converged on the wooden block in the center. After a few seconds, it dimmed, and the wooden block turned golden yellow, glowing with a metallic cold light.
It turned into gold.
Such unreasonable material transformation can no longer arouse Professor Stewart's emotions. His attention is mainly on the words, "So these...'magic texts' can directly show the effects of magic?"
"That's the case on the surface, but I'm worried that it may actually be the other way around, because these magic words can display various magical effects after being composed into strings, many of which have no corresponding spells."
"So you have doubts?" Professor Stewart seemed to understand.
"Yes, I suspect that it is not the magic text that exerts a similar effect to the magic text, but the magic text that inspires the magic text... Maybe this world is composed of magic text. These magic words that make up the world are in another dimension, and we cannot
Any form perceives it, but when using magic, you can get their response."
"I understand, it's like a virtual world composed of data in a computer, and you have doubts about the nature of this world." Professor Stewart nodded slightly, "I didn't expect you to reach this state now."
"'realm'?"
"Yes, many outstanding scientists will have such doubts in their later years, that is, why is the world like this? Our understanding of the world is constantly broadening, from the universe at the macro level to electrons at the micro level.
Like quarks, these things have their own operating rules, but the question is, who determined this rule?"
Erwin nodded slightly.
"This is why there is a saying that 'the end of science is theology'. We still cannot discover the most fundamental truth. A double-slit interference experiment is enough to make many physics researchers doubt life... The same is true for magic. Since
You have already guessed that our world is probably essentially a world composed of codes. Then, by extension, who writes these codes? Are the writers and setters the same existence?" Professor Stewart looked directly at E.
Irvine.
Erwin was stunned, but then he understood somewhat, "You mean, I don't want to think too much?"
"My opinion is, keep your faith and be firm in your faith. Your faith is to pursue the truth." Professor Stewart nodded slightly, "But don't think that you can discover the most fundamental truth. This road has been walked by countless people from generation to generation.
, it’s the most normal situation that you can’t reach the end alone.”
"I understand." Erwin nodded.
Although Professor Stewart can't help with magic, he has been doing research for most of his life after all. He can still guide Erwin in terms of spiritual will and personal philosophy.
Keep the faith, keep the faith.
Two days later, while having breakfast, there was a loud noise outside the window.
Mrs. Granger opened the window and found a small owl, which must have hit the glass just now.
Mrs. Granger was already used to it. "Hermione, there's your letter!" she shouted.
"Coming, Mom!"
Hermione walked downstairs, took the little owl from her mother's hand, and untied the letter tied to its leg. The chubby little bird pecked her finger curiously.
"It's actually a letter from the Weasley family?" Hermione was a little surprised, "They actually changed the owl?"
The Weasley family's original messenger was an old owl named Errol who was about to be buried.
Hermione opened the letter, and after reading it, she turned to her mother and said, "I think our summer vacation travel plans are going to change."
Half an hour later, Erwin also saw the letter. Along with the letter was a copy of the Daily Prophet.
There is a striking line on the front page of the newspaper:
Ministry of Magic staff wins huge prize
Arthur Weasley, Director of the Ministry of Magic's Office for the Suppression of Misuse of Muggle Artefacts, has won the Daily Prophet's annual Golden Galleons Award.
The amount of the prize is seven hundred galleons.
"No wonder old Errol doesn't have to be squeezed anymore." Erwin smiled.
Seven hundred Galleons is not a small amount for an average wizarding family, and it is a timely help for the Weasley family. This is almost the annual salary of Mr. Arthur Weasley.
But then again, the grand prize of the "Daily Prophet" is actually seven hundred galleons? You must know that the price of a newspaper is only five copper knuts, and there are owls specially delivering it, the cost will not be reduced. Even if every copy sold is net
The profit is two knuts. Based on the fact that one-tenth of the wizards in the UK subscribe to newspapers, plus a small amount of advertising revenue, the amount of this grand prize is almost one-third of the annual profit.
The person in charge of running this newspaper is really a genius.
Continuing to read the letter, Mrs. Weasley decided to use the money to send the whole family to Egypt and visit their second son who worked in Gringotts, Egypt. They planned to stay in Egypt for a month. In the letter, Ron asked Hermione and
Erwin, would you like to come with us?
No wonder Hermione said there would be changes in travel plans.
"Compared to France, Egypt feels more interesting." Hermione said.
"I don't have any objections, but it would be awkward for you to travel with someone else's family. Why don't we all go together?" Mrs. Granger said, "But you have to ask your father's opinion first... he probably won't object.
, he really hopes to have another chance to talk to Mr. Arthur Weasley."
"I'm afraid I can't go," Erwin said.
"Why?" Mrs. Granger was a little surprised.
"Professor Dumbledore arranged a special summer study for me. If I go to Egypt for a month, there will be a time conflict."
"Special studies? Like last year?" Hermione raised her eyebrows.
"Yes."
As a good student who has always been strong, Miss Nutria felt a little uncomfortable inside, but this feeling only lasted a few seconds.
"The principal values you so much? That's a good thing." Mrs. Granger was very happy for Erwin. "You still have to put your studies first. After all, there are many opportunities to travel."
Erwin agreed.
Melanie said that she also wanted to participate in this special training, so in order to take care of the two children who stayed at home, Professor Stewart was unfortunately deprived of the opportunity to travel, but the old man didn't mind.