In fact, all the professors in the academy had done a collective research on Jon's improved curse before.
That was because a first-year student was able to improve a curse. This kind of thing was too shocking. Even though it was said to be collective wisdom on the surface, the teachers were not fools. They could tell that this matter was entirely led by Jon.
Even Professor Sprout didn't argue too much about this matter. She was the clearest about the details. From the beginning to the end of this matter, including those improved curses that revealed an obvious personal style, could basically prove that Jon played a role in it.
With this as a foundation, she didn't seem too surprised when she found out about Jon's bloodline later on.
There was nothing to be surprised about in the first place. Jon definitely had a strong backing behind him. Professor Sprout was very clear about this. The identity of Hufflepuff's descendant only surprised her a little. She had a train of thought that was similar to, "I knew your identity was powerful, but I didn't expect it to be this powerful."
This matter didn't even cause much of a stir in the circle of professors — except for Professor Mag. This witch was completely in charge of Harry's affairs, so she didn't care much about Jon's situation. She only asked about the School Championship Competition's scores, and didn't continue to ask about it.
However, for the other professors, this matter was obviously not that simple.
Some of the improved curses that Jon took out to "sell" were modified by the relatively low-level Wizard. They had a very strong personal style — that is, personal applicability. Some curses were used in a different style for each person. The Wizard's understanding of magic was different, so the direction of improvement would naturally be different.
Among the curses that Jon sold, this type of curses occupied a very small proportion.
A larger proportion was occupied by "universal curses."
"Universal curses." As the name suggested, the biggest value of this type of curse was its universality. It had the same strengthening effect on all Wizards. There would never be any difference based on the user's magic attribute and academic school.
And this was the real "value" of these curses. Professor Flick had studied them for so long, and finally chose Jon's curses because of the universality of these curses.
As a leading figure in the study of curses, Professor Flick's research on curses could be said to be at the peak of perfection. However, his high achievements and attainments also brought about limitations. The curses that he modified had a very distinct personal style, to the point that even Dumbledore had difficulty removing them.
This problem could only be completely solved when Professor Flick advanced to a legendary Wizard and his understanding of magic reached a new level.
There were so many wizards in the world, but how many legendary wizards were there?
Dumbledore was the only one in the entire West (and now Grindelwald was included). The East's magic world was very mysterious, but it could not be that much more ridiculous than this number. Moreover, the East's magic world was especially prone to infighting. This was a much more serious atmosphere than the West.
Below the Wizard level, there were countless Wizards waiting to become legendary. There were Lemay and his wife, who had lived for countless years, and geniuses like Snape. Professor Flick did not seem to have much hope among them.
Therefore, in recent years, Professor Flick had given up on modifying curses. He only relied on communicating with other curses researchers to cooperate and come up with some "pseudo-modified curses." In other words, several equally distinct personal styles offset each other to achieve a more general effect.
However, this was a huge waste of time and energy. If Professor Flick had the time, he could have taught his students some of his spellcasting habits and techniques, which would have been more than enough time to nurture many excellent adepts.
— — With the current trend in the magic world that pursued results, this kind of method was not unacceptable.
Anyway, everyone just wanted to become stronger. How to become stronger, what kind of curses to learn, and how to simplify the curses were not within the scope of the students' consideration.
Moreover, the students' thoughts were very simple. Even the great Wizard could not solve these problems, so how could the students solve them?
If they had the time, they would rather practice magic. As the saying goes, practice makes perfect. Practicing magic was much more meaningful than simplifying curses.
Therefore, in the end, other than the students of Ravenclaw who were still modifying curses, no other little Wizard would do this.
In other words, they were not even interested in researching curses anymore. Everyone was thinking about how to become stronger. Jon once heard a few teachers complain that students nowadays were less and less interested in learning. Everyone began to be interested in powerful curses and transformations. No one liked research, astronomy, and so on.
This situation was not strange in the first place. In this world, both the Wizard and Muggle schools were like this. Of course, everyone preferred courses that could give them instant gratification. It was normal to stay away from courses that required time and energy and were likely to be unprofitable.
However, the difference between the Wizard and Muggle schools was that there were enough people in the Muggle school. There would always be people who were interested in the more unpopular and obscure subjects. Some would even choose them because of the corresponding benefits of these subjects. However, there were only so many people in the Wizard school. In the end, there were very few people left for unpopular subjects and researchers.
Otherwise, Professor Sprout would not have been so surprised when he first heard Jon say that he wanted to become a researcher in the future.
And this was all due to the environment. It was not a big problem.
"The real problem is that Jon does not have the ability to come up with so many universal curses. He does not have the ability to do so, so there must be a more powerful reason behind him."
Snape was half right. There was indeed someone behind Jon, but it was only Helga.
Those curses were only created because Helga was bored and wanted to teach Jon.
The universality was only because of the legendary witch herself. As a legendary, her analysis was universal.
"Jon's background is not as simple as it seems."
Dumbledore recalled what Perenal said after his old friend died. "But no matter if it is the Hufflepuff family or something else, we are not enemies with Jon."
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