Harry Potter: From Muggle Cousin to Conceptual Wizard

Chapter 454 Guiding Outstanding Students to Create Their Own Magic! Luna's Regretful Incident!

Third, Dudley plans to intensify his efforts to continue guiding talented and perceptive students to create their own magic.

In the first Charms class of the previous school year, Dudley explained the importance of mental power to the first-year students of Gryphon and Slytherin, as well as Professor Flitwick.

When students cast spells, they should consciously mobilize their inner will and thoughts to enhance their magic, thereby increasing the success rate, stability, and power of the spell.

At the same time, Dudley also explained in class that mental power is the key factor in creating new magic.

Afterwards, Dudley continued to emphasize the role of mental power to his students in his "Practical Magic Skills Enhancement Class".

It also influenced the teaching methods of Professor Flitwick, Professor McGonagall, and several other Defense Against the Dark Arts professors, causing them to strengthen their explanations of mental powers, especially for younger students.

Generally speaking, the younger the child, the fewer distractions they have. Children's thoughts on what they want and what effects they want to achieve are often simple and direct.

In this situation, if there is a strong desire, it is easy to achieve it with the help of magic.

This is one of the principles behind the magical outbursts that occur in young wizards.

The fact that Dudley was able to guide young Harry to create the Stabilizing Charm and the Power-Enhancing Charm proves that his theory was correct.

Last academic year, under his guidance, this theory was put into practice once again.

The most obvious example is Seamus, the explosive genius. He used his mental powers to control his violent magic and developed many uses for the Explosion Charm, achieving the effects of many other spells with variant Explosion Charms.

While this isn't entirely a self-created spell, developing numerous variant spells based on existing spells is no less difficult than creating a new spell.

In the new academic year, the Hogwarts General Consciousness's initial task of "unifying the thoughts of the four houses" has achieved further progress and is not far from being fully completed.

It's time to put more effort into the task of inheriting and innovating magic.

At the same time, encouraging all teachers and students to strengthen their research and study of magic and improve their overall combat capabilities is also an important measure to make good use of the development period of the 'Sharpening Stone' plan.

In addition to the launch of a series of major events in the field of learning, such as the widespread teaching of love and protection magic, joint research by teachers and students on the exclusive inherited magic of the four academies, and encouragement and guidance for outstanding students to create their own magic.

There are also things happening at Hogwarts about the students and professors themselves.

This isn't about forming a joint team from the four academies; it's about some more personal matters.

It is October 1992, and the new school year has just ended a little over a month ago.

Similar to the timeline of the original story, Hogwarts now features three new students who are featured prominently in the original narrative.

Furthermore, in just over a month, these three new students became good friends with Harry and several other Gryphon students.

Perhaps that's not entirely accurate. One of the new students got the opportunity to enter Hogwarts early in the last few months of the academic year because his mother was receiving training and performing official duties in Hogsmeade Village. He became familiar with the students.

The three freshmen are Ginny Weasley, Luna Lovegood, and Colin Crevy.

The freshman who had the opportunity to enter Hogwarts and make friends in the previous school year was none other than Ginny, the sister of Ron and the Weasley brothers.

Of the three young wizards, Ginny and Colin are huge fans of Harry.

When Ginny is with Harry, she is shy and bashful, her eyes full of affection, which is quite different from her poised and confident demeanor when she is with others.

When Colin faced Harry, he was filled with adoration, and he took out his magic camera, which he almost never let go of, and started snapping away.

Just like in the original story, both of them joined Gryffindor House.

As for Luna, who has a free-spirited mind and an ethereal temperament, and who joined Ravenclaw just like in the original story, she also developed an interest in the famous Harry and Dudley very early on.

Her father, who founded The Quibbler magazine, instructed her before the start of the school year to collect more exclusive information about Harry and Dudley for later use in writing the magazine's character columns.

But Luna is different from Ginny and Colin. She is introverted, or rather, she has her own little world of her own, in which few outsiders can break in.

She doesn't want to force herself to find a partner.

At the normal pace, she would have to wait a while before she could get to know Harry, Dudley, and other friends privately under certain circumstances.

But Ginny sped up the pace.

Last school year, when the Weasleys accepted a mission from Dumbledore to lead some members of the Order of the Phoenix to search for Muggle talents for Hogwarts in the Muggle world, they temporarily placed Ginny in Luna's care.

During that time, Ginny and Luna formed a deep friendship.

Therefore, at the beginning of the school year, Ginny introduced Luna to her good friend whom she had met a few months earlier.

Luna is an extremely reserved little witch. Although she doesn't talk much, and when she does speak, it's in a light and slow tone, but her words are often insightful and get straight to the heart of the matter.

Harry, Ron, Hermione, Neville, and their friends initially didn't get used to Luna's personality, but after spending some time together, they realized that Luna was a very good friend.

As for Dudley, during his grand speech at the start of the new school year, he spotted Luna in the crowd.

Don't misunderstand, this "looking up" is not the same as that "looking up".

Dudley was after the unfortunate events that Luna had unlocked.

The system message at the time was as follows:

【Ding--】

[First encounter with Luna Lovegood, unlocking the current regret event!]

[Mother who died from a curse experiment (Level A)]

[Details of the unfortunate incident: Luna's mother, Pandora Lovegood, was a witch who loved to conduct spell experiments.]

During a spell experiment when Luna was nine years old, she made a fatal mistake, triggering a violent explosion of magical energy, and was unfortunately killed on the spot.

Luna witnessed her mother's death and was deeply grieved.

Although she eventually came to terms with her father's guidance and her own psychological adjustment, realizing that she would eventually reunite with her mother in the world of the dead, her mother's passing remained a somber shadow over Luna's entire life.

She still thinks of her deceased mother from time to time, and silently grieves.

[Non-existent nymph hooks and harassing horseflies (Grade B)]

[Details of the unfortunate incident: Luna was a wizard who was very interested in strange and unusual things. She believed that there were two magical insects in the world, namely the nymph and the harassing fly.]

Although she disliked these two magical insects that could harm people, she really wanted to see them and confirm their existence.

Note: 1. The maggot is a strange creature that resembles a maggot, is completely black, has three eyes, has three to five thousand small teeth in its mouthparts, and has a sickle-shaped hook on its tail. It often parasitizes a plant called mistletoe.

If a wizard is hooked by the tail hook of a nymph, his life will be in danger.

2. The harassing fly is an invisible, illusory creature that can burrow into a person's ear, disrupt their thoughts, and make them feel depressed and preoccupied.

3 In this world, the hookworm is a real and amazing insect, but its numbers are quite small and it is rarely noticed by people;

The harassing horsefly does not exist; it is merely a creature imagined by Luna.

Initially, Luna may have imagined bad moods and irritability as an annoying, phantom insect because she disliked them, but over time, she seemed to have come to believe it wholeheartedly.