Andy took the book from the bookshelf, turned to the part he had read last night, and continued reading.
The Collins family is not an ancient family of wizards. According to family records, the earliest wizard in the family appeared two centuries ago.
By today's standards, the Collins family can be considered a half-blood wizard family.
Therefore, there are not many magic books in the house, most of which are popular books that can be bought in bookstores. The few rare books are also obtained by our ancestors from their friends.
Since Andy's magical power is not stable, his family strictly forbids him from reading books related to spellcasting to prevent him from accidentally casting spells, losing control, or causing harm to himself.
Those magic books were cursed, and as long as Andy touched them, the alarm in the house would sound.
"It's like they're guarding against thieves," Andy complained habitually, but his mind was completely immersed in the contents of the magic book.
The first human wizards did not have wands, so it was difficult for wizards of that era to cast spells. Many wizards only knew one or two spells. If they were not skilled in casting spells or lost control of their emotions, their magic might even go haywire.
"So... controlling your emotions is important for casting spells?"
"Or should I say... heart and will?"
Andy turned his eyes to the side, and under the influence of strong will, the feather pen on the desk slowly flew up.
Andy had already been able to do this skillfully a few years ago.
At first, Andy thought he was a one-in-a-million magical genius. He believed that as long as he learned how to cast spells, he could surpass Voldemort and outshine Dumbledore.
However, his mother Helen eventually ridiculed this idea.
The most crucial reason Andy could cast simple spells was that his magical power was not stable enough.
As he got older, Andy found that his wandless spellcasting was becoming increasingly difficult. Every time he concentrated to cast a spell, he felt a strong sense of stagnation.
However, Andy has been consciously practicing his 'wandless casting' skills, even though it has become increasingly difficult.
According to Helen's explanation, this feeling of stagnation mainly appeared because Andy's magical power had gradually stabilized, and his emotions when casting the spell were not strong enough.
Once Andy has a magic wand in the future, it will be much easier for him to cast spells.
Andy also found the same explanation in the book.
"So this is how the Obscurus is born?"
In the book Research on the Development of Ancient Witchcraft, there is an entire chapter devoted to the introduction of Obscurus.
According to the book: When a wizard child is forced to suppress their magic due to physical or psychological abuse, they will experience extreme emotional pain, creating a dark parasitic magical force called "Obscurus."
When an wizard reaches an emotional and mental breaking point, they lose control of their body and release their Obscurus.
The book says that the power of the Obscurus is extremely strong and uncontrollable.
"So, emotions—or mental power—can be integrated with magic to make it stronger?"
However, according to the book Research and Development of Ancient Witchcraft, Obscurus can only be born in the bodies of young wizards under the age of ten, and they will not live beyond the age of ten.
When the young wizard is over ten years old and the magic power in their body becomes relatively stable, no matter how strong their emotions are, they will not create an Obscurus.
"The fusion of spiritual power and magic power can be a research topic for the future."
The current system seems to be of no help to Andy, but the above data can help him better understand his abilities.
The data on the right side of the system includes five attributes: magic, soul, mind, thinking, and will.
Leaving aside magic and soul for now, according to the system's classification, mind, thinking, and will are obviously three different forces.
"Forget about the mind, but willpower—are you talking about some magical defenses? For example, the Cruciatus Curse and the Imperius Curse?"
Andy continued to flip through the book.
He had read the chapter about Obscurus several times. After making sure there was no information missing, Andy continued to read the rest.
Half an hour later, Andy closed the book.
"Rubbish book!"
Ancient magic and modern magic are two completely different things, and the explanation of ancient magic in this book is simply an introduction to its 'development history,' without any substantial content.
Well! This is actually a history book and has nothing to do with magic.
"Is someone coming?"
Andy looked out the window to relax his eyes, but saw a small black dot appear on the distant mountain. The small black dot was approaching his home quickly and gradually became clearer.
"Oh my God, it's him again!" Andy looked a little sad.
Meeting Ron Weasley was definitely a major mistake in Andy's future plans.
There are four mountains between the Weasley family and the Collins family. Andy once rode a children's version of a flying broom to visit his neighbors, and the Weasley family was no exception.
What Andy didn't expect was that the Weasley family actually had a kid of the same age as him.
Well, Andy was actually a little surprised at first. After all, Ron was a character in the original Harry Potter book, and he was one of the three main characters.
Ron in the first movie was still very likable, especially his self-sacrifice in the chess scene.
However, after Andy became familiar with Ron—after a few words—Andy wished he had never met him.
Because the two had absolutely no common language!
Andy wanted to talk to Ron about magic. After all, the Weasleys were a famous family of wizards with a long tradition in the wizarding world. Although they were down and out now, they would never sell the magic books in their collection.
But Ron always wanted to talk to Andy about Quidditch or some wild bragging.
If he were really eleven years old, Andy wouldn't mind being friends with Ron, but Andy was not really eleven years old after all.
In just a moment of reminiscing, Ron had already landed in front of the Collins' house on a children's version of a flying broom.
"Andy!" Ron looked up and waved at Andy, who was standing in front of the window.
"Wait a moment, I'll go downstairs and open the door for you."
After putting the book back on the bookshelf, Andy sighed and ran downstairs.
Andy was a Muggle in his previous life, so he has an almost fanatical passion for magic.
But Ron was clearly not like that.
He is just an ordinary kid from the wizarding world.
Just like in Andy's previous life, everyone knows that technology is amazing, but learning math, physics, and chemistry is also a huge torture.
However, perhaps it was precisely because Ron was born into the wizarding world that he only had Andy as his little wizard friend of the same age.
(End of this chapter).