Chen Ang was temporarily staying at Boggin's estate in Hogsmeade, the only village in England that was entirely populated by wizards. Hogwarts School was located next to the large lake that originated from the village. The architecture here was eccentric. The cottages had thatched roofs, like a medieval village. Even though wizards had been able to build tall, modern buildings like the Ministry of Magic, Chen Ang was still unable to do so.
However, the neurotic and eccentric nature of wizards was engraved in their blood, so they would make all kinds of choices that normal people would find strange.
On one hand, it was because wizards who mastered magic power had different living habits from Muggles. Most Muggles thought dangerous and troublesome things were just a matter of waving their wands. Therefore, they were clumsy and impatient. It was as if the words "careful" and "tidy" did not exist in their dictionary. For Muggles, messy and disorganized habits would make them unable to find things, but for wizards, it was just a matter of a flying spell.
They were also not afraid of breaking or destroying things, because as long as it was not a magic item, a "Repair as New" spell could restore it to its original state. And when it was a mess, a "Clean as New" spell could make it as neat as new.
Therefore, wizards had a different understanding of damage, damage, and mess than Muggles. They could not care about these problems that could be easily solved by magic. Therefore, in the eyes of Muggles, they were all like naughty children, endlessly indulging themselves.
On the other hand, the magic bloodline that gave them made them neurotic, crazy, and eccentric. According to the results of Chen Ang's research on Boggin's bloodline, the surging magic in the bloodline would erode their rationality. This result surprised Chen Ang, because wizards eventually developed in the direction of Cthulhu, or in other words, they eventually leaned towards magic.
Magic power, on the other hand, was completely different from the rational perspective that humans used to observe the world. Magic power was another way of observing the world. From the perspective of science and humans, it seemed somewhat chaotic and difficult to interpret. Its logic and internal laws were indescribable and chaotic in the eyes of humans.
The magic of wizards, in the end, was indescribable.
The more powerful a wizard was, the crazier he would be. Of course, this was also the proof that they were closer to the truth of magic, because this kind of magic itself was chaotic and irrational. If the arcana that Chen Ang learned was the rationality and wisdom of magic, then the magic of the wizards in this world was the manifestation of the chaotic and disorderly side of magic.
The young wizards who have just awakened their magic are the closest to a normal human being. But as they grow older, the magic in their blood will gradually erode their rationality, making it harder and harder for them to understand humans — or what they call Muggles, because humans (Muggles) are governed by reason.
The behavior of the old wizards was getting weirder and weirder.
They would eat the livers of toads, the innards of bats, and the eyes of eels. They would allow their appearance to change, usually becoming uglier and more distorted, with protruding knuckles, skinny as bones, and close to insanity.
Of course, these symptoms would only appear in the most severe cases of Mages. Under normal circumstances, only the poorest Mages at the bottom of society would become like this in their later years. Learning powerful black magic would also accelerate this symptom. They would be corroded by magic to the point of almost mutating.
And those pureblood families with deep roots, because of inherited magic and superior bloodline, rarely showed such changes before old age. Magic eroded their rationality, but magic helped them to slow down the process. Pureblood families — they were the product of natural law and human selection, the survival of the fittest. Their bloodline was relatively stable, and they were resistant to the erosion of magic. So even when they died of old age, they only looked a little weird. They would carefully choose their own marriage partners to prevent the deterioration of their bloodline.
Even so, the magic of their natural bloodline would continue to deteriorate, and they would become weaker and smaller.
However, for those poor sorcerer families with poor bloodlines, pure-blooded sorcerers had the right to look down on them, even to the extent of viewing them as scum. Chen Ang had investigated in the taverns where sorcerers often gathered and discovered that most non-pure-blooded families would become lunatics in the eyes of normal people as they aged.
Of course, the Ministry of Magic turned a blind eye to this.
The magic resistance of pureblood families was not unconditional. Once they became proficient in black magic, they would also show signs of this kind of madness.
"Mud Seed" was not the twisted pride of the pure-blood sorcerers. It was a disdainful title given to the non-pure-blood sorcerers after they saw the sorcerers who were not pure-blood and had not been filtered for a long time become ugly and crazy in their old age. They began to eat stinky things such as toads and bats, and they became bloodthirsty and mentally unstable.
They realized that if they allowed non-pureblood to mix with their bloodline, it would cause their "noble" bloodline to deteriorate.
Coupled with the impact of wizards with Muggle blood on the interests, there were two schools of thought in the magic world about the erosion of magic. The representative of the pureblood families, Voldemort, proposed that the greatness of wizards came from their bloodline. Wizards with pure blood had strong magic power and were elegant and calm, while wizards with mixed blood with Muggles would eventually become twisted and ugly.
The light wizards, led by Dumbledore, believed that the root cause of wizards becoming evil, dark, and crazy was black magic, and that wizards with Muggle blood only had a lower resistance to black magic.
Of course, in Chen Ang's opinion, both sides were idiots. No one dared to propose that the factor that caused wizards to become crazy was magic, because that would be denying the pride of the entire magic world. Wizards were proud of their own magic. They believed that all that made them extraordinary was those magical spells and powerful magic power. If they were to deny magic power, wouldn't that be the same as denying everything about them?
Undoubtedly, Bojin also showed his twisted and eccentric side. He cast the Fiery Loyalty Curse in Hogsmeade Village, but it was dirty and messy inside. The houses were dilapidated, showing the same aesthetics of wizards as the Broken Cauldron Pub, Number 12 Grimmauld Square, and the Shack. It was surprisingly consistent with the style of Hogsmeade Village and Diagon Alley.
For wizards, keeping clean and tidy only required one or two spells. It was not difficult to create a magnificent, comfortable, and luxurious residence. Magic was enough to achieve all this, but they just had to be dirty and small. Other than mental problems, what else could explain all this?
Chen Ang pushed open the door, which was full of fingernail scratches and made people's hair stand on end. The porch was a large, empty room, with peeling wallpaper, tattered carpets stained with dried blood, some rusty lanterns, and some chandeliers and candlesticks covered with broken cobwebs. There was a staircase leading upstairs. On the wall, there were some portraits that had turned black with age. Hearing the sound of the door being pushed open, these portraits began to wake up. They turned to look at Chen Ang and suddenly opened their mouths to mumble. The ear-piercing sounds intertwined with each other, and some of the portraits of old women began to scream.
Chen Ang looked at them coldly. He raised his hand slightly and said softly, "Avada wants to kill!"
Suddenly, the whole room became quiet. Chen Ang walked among the frozen portraits and slowly walked up the stairs. Behind him, the house-elf Gollum showed a horrified expression. It excitedly shook the silent portraits and screamed, "Grandpa Herbert, Grandma Belvena? Aunt Bernamo? "
"Oh my God! Master … You killed them! "
"Shut up! Those are just fake memories. Their reactions, their actions, were all driven by the curse behind them … Letting the portraits come to life is definitely one of the most stupid things in history. I really don't know what these wizards were thinking. Let the dead die, but why did they create a pile of fake memories and use a curse to deceive themselves? "
He glanced at the dirty room and ordered Gollum, "Tidy up this place. Make it spotless. Put all the messy things in the basement. I don't want to see anything useless except for the necessary furniture."
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