"Of course not!"
Andy spread his hands, and there was also a hint of mockery in his tone, "The current magic world is like a puddle of stagnant water, everyone is enjoying themselves without the slightest pursuit."
"Professor Dumbledore, can you imagine? There are nearly a thousand students at Hogwarts, but they all mostly aspire to find a decent job after graduation."
"To be honest, I have no interest in these people!"
"But if they have a higher pursuit in magic, I will look at them highly. However, the truth is ... apart from being able to use magic, they are not the slightest bit different from muggles."
"Those who don't work hard themselves aren't worthy of being helped."
"And I don't like to change other people's lives and ideas."
At the end of his sentence, Andy added, "I am only doing this for myself ... and my family and friends."
Dumbledore: "..."
To be honest, when Dumbledore heard Andy say the words 'I think magic transfiguration is the future of wizards', he was a little wary inside.
Undeniably, in theory, magic transfiguration is indeed the future of wizards ... because magic transfiguration can raise the upper limit of a wizard's strength.
Some of the abilities obtained through magic transfiguration can even be inherited through the bloodline.
The reality, however, is that talent stands in the way of this!
Dumbledore originally wanted to persuade Andy, he wanted to tell Andy: that there is a huge gap between the ideal and the reality, that can never be crossed.
But after listening to Andy's words, Dumbledore was even more worried and a little depressed.
Dumbledore had mixed feelings!
He was worried that Andy would have the idea of changing the world - the idea was good, but it had to be gradual, as well as discovering a really feasible way to implement it step by step.
If you went into action with just a passion, then no matter whether your idea was good or bad, what was waiting for you in the end was failure.
Because this is society!
Living in a group of human beings, you have to think about interpersonal and social relationships - too high up on the ladder, you can't gain the support of the masses.
In Dumbledore's opinion, although Andy was friendly and amicable on the surface, in reality, he thought highly of himself and didn't put other people in his eyes.
Dumbledore understood this mentality very well.
Because he was also like this when he was young, thinking highly of himself and looking down on mediocre others.
That's why he was attracted to Grindelwald, who also had outstanding talent--because in young Dumbledore's view, he and Grindelwald were the same kind of people, who shared a common language, a common ideal, and could communicate without any obstacles.
As for the others ... they were boring to listen to!
It was only after experiencing the loss of his sister, coupled with many years of life experience, and witnessing Grindelwald's failure, that Dumbledore came to understand all these truths.
Originally, Dumbledore had a lot to say.
But Andy's words blocked it all back!
Andy was simply uninterested in the magic world, in other people.
Even without using Legilimency, Dumbledore could feel that all these words were true.
This was contradictory!
When Andy clearly expressed the idea of 'not wanting to change the wizarding world', Dumbledore hoped very much that Andy could step forward and change this wizarding world that was waning.
How wizards and muggles are going to get along in the future, Dumbledore may not be able to witness it.
But just from the current situation, the rapid development of Muggles is compressing the wizard's living space step by step.
Otherwise, when Voldemort rose to power, why did those pureblood families frantically support him? The pureblood theory was only one of the reasons, Voldemort's attitude towards Muggles was equally appealing to them.
It was because they saw the threat of Muggles but despised them from the bottom of their hearts that they chose to enslave them through the form of war.
It's just that they hadn't even got past the hurdle of the wizarding world.
If wizards wanted more room to survive, they had to make changes.
Dumbledore was acutely aware of this.
It's just that he hasn't found the path of change that is actually feasible.
After thinking about it, Dumbledore suddenly asked, "Collins, do you have any views on the magic world?"
"Well ..."
Andy pondered for a moment and responded, "There's nothing to think about, the magic world is like this, so we have to deal with it and live!"
"Professor, let's get back to magic!"
Without waiting for Dumbledore to speak, Andy jumped the gun and said, "You seem to have just talked about ... magic transfiguration?"
Dumbledore: "..."
"Yes, magic transfiguration!"
Dumbledore nodded and explained, "Magic Transfiguration ... is actually the use of external forces to transform the body by way of Transfiguration. Or rather, it is the incorporation of external forces into our bodies."
"Just like the Animagus Transformation, it is borrowing the magic power of the celestial phenomenon to create an animal's body."
"There are usually two types of such external forces."
"The first is the magical power we steal from magical creatures; the second is borrowing the magical power from nature."
At this point, Dumbledore suddenly turned his head to look at the already drowsy Phoenix and asked, "Have you seen Fawkes?"
Andy and Hermione turned their heads to look at the same time.
"Is Fawkes ... the name of this phoenix?" Hermione asked curiously.
"Yes!"
Dumbledore explained, "There is a rumour in the Dumbledore family that whenever a member of the Dumbledore family needs help, the phoenix will appear."
"I wasn't the first person to attract a phoenix. There was another member of the Dumbledore family who was helped by a phoenix more than seventy years ago ... He was my nephew."
Andy asked, "Then he...?"
Dumbledore looked a little sad, "He was an Obscurial and was not yet thirty when he passed away."
Andy: "..."
"Sorry!" Although there were a lot of things he wanted to say, Andy couldn't say anything else at the moment other than a sorry.
It was well known that there had never been an instance of an Obscurial living past the age of ten after being parasitised by an Obscurus - at least that's what was written in the books.
However, an Obscurial who lived past the age of twenty ...
Then again, think about what Dumbledore had said earlier: whenever a member of the Dumbledore family needed help, the phoenix would appear.
Andy suspected that Dumbledore was showing off to him.
And had evidence of it!
Andy also suspected that Dumbledore's sister - Ariana Dumbledore - was also an Obscurial and had lived past the age of ten and died in an accident.
'Hiss...'
Andy sucked in a breath of cold air.
The bloodline of the Dumbledore family was truly terrifying to the core!
Two Obscurials who had lived past the age of ten or more, plus the ceiling of the magic world in front of him ...
Andy glanced at Phoenix Fawkes.
Was it because the Dumbledore family's ancestors, made use of the power of the phoenix to complete the magic transfiguration?
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