: The First Opening of Pandora's Spellbox

Chapter 22: The First Opening of Pandora's Spellbox

Although the visit was temporarily suspended, Andy still kept it in mind.

This book reveals that Pandora Lovegood was a master of spells, possessing a deep understanding of magic.

Her ideas, compared to others, seemed somewhat whimsical, but they perfectly aligned with Andy's understanding of magic.

If we could obtain the research materials she left behind, it would be of great help to Andy.

After finishing (or sleeping through) a History of Magic lesson, Ravenclaw ended his day of classes.

From now until lights out at 8 p.m., you are free to do whatever you want.

"Andy, shall we go to the library?" Hermione suggested while tidying up her notes.

There are so many books in the library waiting for her to enjoy; it would be too impolite not to look at them.

"Let's go tonight!"

"I'm going to write home, then find an empty classroom to practice my spells." Andy tidied up his textbooks, shrunk them with a shrinking charm using his wand, and then put them in the pocket of his wizard's robe.

Hermione was silent for a moment.

She originally intended to go directly to the library, but after seeing Andy's skillful casting of spells, she suddenly realized that practicing magic was also clearly necessary.

However, the little witch was a bit shy and didn't dare to speak up first.

"Want to come along?" Andy invited.

"Okay!" Hermione made a reluctant expression, hesitated for a moment, and then nodded.

After writing a letter home, Andy took Hermione to an abandoned classroom on the sixth floor of the castle.

"How are we going to practice?" Hermione looked around, drew her wand, but didn't know what to do next.

Although she used magic at home, it was mostly superficial; she didn't study it in depth or practice it deliberately.

"Practicing magic is certainly not about foolishly waving a wand."

Andy is very experienced in this area. "First, you need to master the use of magic, then practice hitting stationary targets, then moving targets, and finally improve your spell proficiency."

"Proficiency?" The previous training items were easy to understand, but improving spell proficiency... Hermione didn't quite understand.

"Hmm... how do you explain this?"

Andy pondered for a moment, then waved his wand and whispered, "Burning Flames!"

A burst of fire shot out from the tip of the wand, forming a fireball. Under Andy's control, the fireball circled the classroom once before finally losing its magical support and extinguishing in mid-air.

"Is this what you mean by proficiency?"

Hermione can also use this magic, but she can only make her wand produce a single flame, which will quickly go out if it cannot be attached to an object.

"Um!"

Andy explained, "It's not just the fire spell; other spells can also be controlled at our will."

"When I was a child, I went to watch wizard duels with my parents. Those powerful wizards often used combination spells—for example, using polymorph to transform flames into a certain shape."

Hermione was clearly intrigued. "So, what should I do now?"

"Let's start with the simplest glow spell. Try throwing the light from the tip of the staff."

Andy said, "If you can get to this point, the rest of the practice will be much easier."

"I see."

Hermione nodded, then asked, "So what are you going to practice?"

"I want to try incorporating emotions into magic, like this..."

Andy spoke while waving his wand.

"They'll all be petrified!"

"This is a normal petrification spell," Andy explained.

After calming down, Andy tried to imagine that there was a very annoying person in front of him.

"Petrify them all!" Andy chanted the spell.

Hermione said expressionlessly, "It seems there's not much difference."

"Of course, it's difficult, or perhaps I'm using the wrong emotions."

After saying that, Andy fell into deep thought.

Seeing this, Hermione didn't disturb Andy and went to a corner of the classroom to practice her technique of throwing the glow charm.

The Petrify Charm is the simplest offensive spell, and even first-year wizards, uh… Hermione-type first-year wizards, can master it.

The Petrification Spell is white magic; in addition to the incantation and hand gestures, one must also have the desire to attack to use it.

"Am I not emotional enough?"

"But emotions are really hard to control. What's fake is fake, and it can never become real."

Andy recalled the contents of the book.

The book "Modern Spell Theory" mentions that wizards can enhance the power of spells under extreme emotional states.

So... what's important is extreme emotions, or the unstable magic they bring?

Just like a little wizard who can make his wishes come true when his magic explodes.

Perhaps both are equally important!

Andy tries to interpret magic from a global perspective.

Without a doubt, Harry Potter is a children's book, and the theme of this book is love and friendship.

Harry survived Voldemort's Killing Curse because of his mother's love for him.

Love itself is an emotion, a power belonging to the soul.

Let's set aside the fairytale elements of the story itself and return to reality.

Harry's mother was clearly a great mother. Faced with the overwhelming power of Voldemort, she desperately channeled her love for her son into a powerful protective magic, which ultimately successfully deflected Voldemort's Killing Curse.

But casting spells always requires magical power.

Moreover, under those circumstances, it was clearly impossible for Harry's mother to hold a wand and recite any protective spells to Harry.

She's casting spells without a staff!

"Perhaps it was love born of despair that caused some unknown change in her magic."

Just like the Obscurus born from a little wizard under extreme negative emotions.

Of course, that's very difficult to do!

No one can generate extreme emotions without experiencing all of this.

But Andy was an exception.

Because Andy actually died once.

Andy not only died once, but he also experienced the feeling of losing the world, losing his family, and losing his friends.

Andy recalls those memories he had forcibly forgotten.

"They'll all be petrified!"

Whoosh!

The magic within Andy seemed to sense his emotions, and the magic that had been gradually stabilizing began to boil.

A beam of magical light shot out from the tip of the wand and struck a table in the abandoned classroom at incredible speed.

The table was visibly petrified by Andy's spell.

"You succeeded?" Hermione looked at Andy with surprise, as if she had discovered a new continent.

She initially didn't believe Andy's nonsense.

The book doesn't mention anything about incorporating emotions into magic.

However, the petrification spell that Andy just used was clearly much more powerful than before.

(End of this chapter)