Chapter 616 Unofficial History
Ifamoni's library occupies the center of the building complex on the west side of the castle. From the outside, it is well-connected and extends out four corridor-shaped exits.
Inside the library is a spacious through-type circular building, divided into three upper and lower floors, which is somewhat similar to the architectural structure of the sword castle. The first floor is a spacious reading area, with neat tables and chairs placed in the middle of the hall, and grids are divided into functions around it. Going up the circular staircase, rows of brown bookshelves stand on the second and third floors, and the library is very rich.
Felix has been staying in the past few days.
It was summer vacation and the library could not meet anyone for most of the day. If he was tired of reading, he would stroll between the bookshelf over and over again, capturing the remaining emotions of Ifamoni students here, which often brings him a novel feeling.
For example - although they have never met each other, Felix has known several Ifamoni students. They always sit in the same position, and their thoughts when reading become a beautiful scenery that will last for Felix to enjoy.
When Felix described their appearance, as expected, these people were among the best students.
Yuria was amazed at his ability.
Felix has seen a total of three magic schools libraries - Hogwarts, Boothbaton and Ifamoni - each with its own characteristics. It is distinguished by the decoration style. Hogwarts is majestic and ancient, Boothbaton is elegant and comfortable, and Ifamoni is more modern.
This may be because Ifamoni's library was established in the seventeenth century and referenced many Muggle libraries. Therefore, both the space layout and the book index were better, and the number of books might be two or three times that of Hogwarts.
Of course, compared with Hogwarts, which was founded around the 10th century, the ancient books here account for a smaller proportion. However, Felix found research and records of native magic in a small area, which gave him a lot of inspiration.
Magic development in North America took shape later than elsewhere.
Felix looked through the history of this area and restored a superficial truth in his heart. Before the invasion of European Muggle colonists, the representative population of local magic was Indian natives. These aborigines did not have magic wands and used magic in their original and rough ways. Moreover, because they survived in a tribal way, they showed that magic was only concentrated in the hands of a few people, and poor communication was not smooth at that time. At that time, there were about 160 languages and 1,200 dialects, which made the local magic civilization completely unconsolidated and developed.
Despite this, there are still many advantages.
The founders of Ifamoni initially wanted to build a place to provide family magic education, but to satisfy the wishes of the two adopted sons, they made a similar structure according to Hogwarts's model - Felix found it interesting when he read this, because Isot Thayer had never attended Hogwarts, and everything she knew was what she told her after adding fuel to the fire by the evil aunt Gorlee Gunter. In Gomley, Hogwarts was a "dangerous place full of mud and advocated egalitarianism" and tore off the admission letter Hogwarts sent to Isot, which made the concept of "Hogwarts Magic School" only exist in the imagination of the founder of Ifamoni.
What's even more interesting is that the curse and abuse in Aunt Gorlee's mouth not only did not work, but made the young Isot think that it was heaven.
She told her imagination of Hogwarts to her two adopted sons, and the family was fascinated, so there was the ‘Ifamoni’, four slanders, branch rituals, and most importantly, the magic wand. They did it well, and the nearby indigenous people came here, which made the entire Ifamoni School finally get rid of the embarrassing scene of not being able to fill even the four academies because there were only two students (although they didn’t care). Isot himself and his two adopted sons who grew up tried to combine local magic with European magic, forming a unique feature of Ifamoni himself.
There are many things that are specious about local magic—such as primitive magic rituals, hunting war songs developed by imitating the roars of magical animals, and techniques for casting using magical plants and animals materials and organs... but Felix still recorded them and planned to leave them to try in the future.
Based on the sound magic of the Snake and Evil Bird as the sound, he constructed a sound magic. Unlike the amplified spell, it is more similar to the Snake Curse that Voldemort once used on him, and Felix also tried to incorporate the sound wave theory in physics into it.
Using sound waves to carry magic power is not only faster, but also more secret...
For example, once the ultrasound of a bat is combined with the magic of the Thinking House, Felix can quickly build the real environment around him in his brain and cover it with illusions. The effect of this magic is terrifying: when facing Felix, the enemy may never be able to distinguish what is real and what is illusion.
Even if it is just the simplest positioning function, spells such as invisible cloaks and illusion mantras are difficult to play a role, not to mention the damage caused to the human body by large-scale infrasonic waves.
Felix estimated that he had few chances to use it, but the pleasure of solving puzzles and constructing a new discipline made him obsessed with it. He just took the time to go back to Hogwarts and handed the snakewood branches to Professor Sprout.
"It is extremely rare for this kind of plant that retains strong vitality while also being influenced by powerful magic power for a long time." Professor Sprout said excitedly, wishing to hug Felix and kiss him.
"Can you grow a living?" Felix hurriedly changed the subject.
"It is easy to survive, but to retain its magical properties, it must be carefully cared for, and it may take a year or two to cultivate it. This is a big challenge for me," said Professor Sprout, smiling and not worried at all. "I have to go to Severus, and I find that he is very talented in this regard, and Caridy can testify!"
She hurriedly left.
After reinforcing the defense of Classroom 7, Felix returned to the Ifamoni Magic School again. During this period, Principal Ifamoni accepted an interview from the outside world and revealed a "dust-covered history" for the first time.
"The snake wood wand means childhood misfortune to Ms. Isot Sayer," said Principal Zekalaya solemnly. "Her evil aunt held the wand and killed Isot's parents and tortured her with cruel punishment-until she had the courage to escape."
"Although this wand once helped Ms. Isot Sayer when she escaped, she finally chose to bury her past with her husband and welcome a happy life. Looking back on this history, I always feel glad that her choice not only created a brand new Ifamoni, but also left us with a magical plant with powerful healing effects."
"Compared with the shadows brought by the magic wand, Ms. Isot Sayer must be more pleased to see this change - what we need is not violence, but a good medicine to heal people's hearts."
"In addition, I would like to thank Mr. Dumbledore and Mr. Hepp..."
The impact of these words is far-reaching.
At least, members of the Stewart family who have been jumping up and down these days and are active as the victim of oppression have finally stopped. The final result is, as Principal Zekaraya said, "The evergreen snake-wood tree will always stand in front of Ifamoni Castle and witness the friendship between the two magic schools..."
Yuria also successfully became a director of the Magic Law Enforcement Division because of her role in this incident. Although she is still far from his dream of "changing the living environment of American wizards", she is at least on the right track.
The first task he obtained was to represent the American Magic France Association as a accompanying member of the great wizard Mr. Felix Hepp.
The two took this opportunity to talk about a lot of the political environment within the parliament. Perhaps because they had a deeper understanding of the operating logic of the huge magic power institution of the Magic France Association, Yuria's ideas became more objective and pragmatic.
This is a difference in perspective.
In the past, Yuria, and even members of the Innovative Society, could only ask questions and find problems, and were dissatisfied and resentful because the Demon French Hokkien was content with the current situation, but now their ideas have become how to solve the problem.
"It's very tricky." Yuria sighed, "There are many practical reasons for the closure of the American magical environment and the strictness of the law. The more I dig, the more I feel a headache."
Felix made an eye-watering attitude.
"The American Demon France will restrict wizards from the Maji family, because it is a concern that the incidents of the Puritans and Purges will repeat..."
This is another dusty history. Felix nodded and thought, simply put, the Puritans were some extreme religious people, they were Muggles, and historically they were keen to accuse others of using witchcraft. These people’s attitude towards wizards can be imagined.
It is worth mentioning that when Isot Thayer, the founder of Ifamoni, came to North America, the "Mayflower" cruise she took was carrying many Puritans. These Puritans were persecuted in the UK and turned around and persecuted others in the New World.
The purgator was a wizard. In other words, he was once a wizard. They were originally a group of wizard mercenaries from different countries, who were profit-seeking and even betrayed their compatriots for bounty, such as selling wizards to Puritans and burning them to death.
After the establishment of the American Demon French Association, the traitors among these wizards began to liquidate and execute the traitors among these wizards, but some people escaped punishment. They dared not show their magic again, but instead pretended to be muggles. However, this matter did not end with their death. These wizard traitors not only did not repent, but instead expanded their hatred for the American Demon French Association to the entire North American wizards and passed on this resentment from generation to generation.
Several more serious exposure incidents in the history of American magic were almost related to the descendants of the Purge. The most far-reaching time, the entire wizard world was shocked and scared. The American Magic France was severely warned by the International Wizards Federation, and thus promulgated the infamous Rapaport law, forcing the strict separation of the wizard world from the wizard world to prevent such incidents from happening again.
"In this country, some families of chickens have never seen magic, but they firmly believe that magic exists." Yuria said sadly: "It's just that they think all wizards should be wiped out."
Felix said slowly, "I heard Dumbledore mention that the people of America seem to be more difficult to deceive and deceive by magic than people elsewhere..."
"That's why," Yuria said, "but it's much more than that - when everything above is put together, the wizards of America are facing a terrible threat-"
"Muggle Government." Felix said solemnly.
"That's right," Yuria said affirmatively, "Witches are not secrets in the eyes of the Muggle government, at least for those senior officials." He added, "Since the independence of the Muggle government, there have been several vicious conflicts between the two sides. The Muggle government wants to crack the secrets of the wizards or force the wizards to serve them, but we firmly resisted. Congress secretly destroyed some laboratories and erased some people's memories... In short, all kinds of open and secret struggles have once approached the brink of war..."
"I've heard a statement," he lowered his voice, "in 1892, the then president of the Magic France Council of America and the president of the Muggle government negotiated secretly and decided to establish an agreement of non-interference, which continues to this day."
"Can I see this agreement?" Felix said excitedly.
"This matter is not found in formal historical records. I also found out from an old man in Congress. As for whether it is true, I cannot judge." Yuria shook her head and said, "I remember the reason for the fifth relocation of Congress headquarters was the 'Bigfoot Rebellion'... Anyway, since then, the American Demon and French Association has completely moved away from the Muggle political center Washington, moved to New York, and has not moved anyway."
"It's really strange to hear what you said."
Felix groped his chin, knowing that the American Magical and French Association has only been established for three hundred years. As a result, he moved five times in the previous two hundred years for various "weird reasons". However, the British Ministry of Magic has never done this once.
What exactly happened in 1892?
Dumbledore was only eleven years old at that time and had just entered school. He may not know much about this history. And as far as Felix knows, Dumbledore did not travel according to the traditional school after graduation. Instead, Grindelwald once occupied the United States for the purpose of developing his "career". Well, the old man was arrested for the first time here, and Newt made a lot of efforts...
Neither Felix nor Dumbledore told Grindelwald—in Classroom 7, a fan of magical animals, was jumping all day long—and they chose to remain silent.
Felix left Ifamoni in mid-August.
Before the parting, the principal of Ifamoni tried to keep him several times, hoping that he could teach several open classes for Ifamoni's students, but it is summer vacation and I can only make another appointment.
However, this incident made Felix think a lot. With that international exchange activity, the influence of ancient magical literature has expanded to the entire wizarding world, but if you want this subject to be deeply rooted in people's hearts, you still have to rely on school education.
Boothbaton has recruited seven or eight Hogwarts graduates this year.
After returning to the familiar campus, Felix had not yet taken a breath, the Ancient Magic Literature Yearbook activity began. Many students - such as Harry, who had just finished his trip - were surprised to find that many students who had just graduated for one or two years got together again because of this activity.
These students were deeply imprinted by Felix Hepp, and he taught them. If you had to find a different group of people, they would be the people from the Ancient Magical Arts Association. Harry never thought that he would talk to a group of old men and old ladies about the future of ancient magical arts.
"Some people are old enough to be my great-grandfathers," Ron whispered to Harry.
Chapter completed!