Chapter 41 41. Combination experiments
Will is something that cannot be measured concretely.
In the magic world, to release all spells, there is will or can also be called thought, emotions are involved in it, and occupy the same important position as magic power in the process of casting spells.
Like the 3 Ds of learning Apparition—destination (goal), determination (determination), deliberation (calmness), all of which are actually manifestations of will.
But the biggest difference between people is the gap in thinking. Different people also think that I must be able to accomplish something, and there are absolute differences in terms of determination.
In magic, this is extremely intuitive.
For the same spell, such as the floating spell, when the magic power, pronunciation, and accuracy of swinging the staff are exactly the same, the strength of the will determines the strength of the floating spell.
Of course, there will be such gaps in other conditional variables, but it is absolutely not so obvious in consciousness.
As said in the original book, the real dark wizards with dark hearts will never learn the Patronus Charm, because with their mentality, there is no way to construct any beautiful thoughts in their minds. Other conditions are fine, but it directly leads to Can't even learn this magic.
According to Slughorn, Jon's will is much stronger than that of normal wizards.
This is also the reason why he can forcibly use the floating spell that should have failed.
But even if such a weak effect is used, it is useless at all. The next thing Jon needs to do is to keep trying to pronounce the spell.
Because there is no precedent at all, so there is no most accurate pronunciation that has been tried countless times by predecessors for him to learn directly.
Even Slughorn can't help him at this point, and he can only rely on Jon to use the exhaustive method to explore bit by bit.
This kind of workload is actually not small. Although it is just a spell, the Levitation spell has a total of eight sounds. According to the length of the sound, there are almost thousands of combinations of different pitches, but if he will have more than a week of vacation left If you put everything into it, you can basically test it out.
But before the official start, he first ran to McGonagall's office and asked the Transfiguration professor to conjure himself a weighing scale.
Because a strong will helps him make the wrong spells work, he needs a more precise comparison to try out the difference.
In the next two days, Jon stayed in the dormitory completely. He prepared a large stack of parchment, starting from changing the syllable of the first sound of the spell, constantly changing the tone and length of the sound, and then observed himself on the scale. changes in the body.
Most of the mispronunciation changes are insignificant even if the spell takes effect. The intuitive display on the scale is that Jon's weight is between 500 grams and 1000 grams lighter than before casting the spell.
Such an effect is of course far from ideal, and it will not provide him with any help at all, let alone allow him to fly into the air under the blessing of the floating spell as he expected before.
The attempt continued like this until Neville and Ron returned to the carriage after their vacation.
After Neville returned to the dormitory, he found that Jon seemed to be obsessed, chanting the wrong levitation spell over and over again all day, and then went on the scale to measure his weight.
"What's the matter with you? Aren't you the first among us to learn the Levitation Charm? Why can't you even say it now? And even if it's practice, you should be holding a wand, right?"
Neville looked at Jon worriedly, with an expression of doubting whether he was under some evil spell.
But as long as he explained to Neville that the professor taught him, with Neville's current EQ, he was sensible enough not to ask any more questions.
"Two kilograms, this is the biggest weight loss so far, but it's definitely not much." Staring at the scale on the scale, Jon shook his head in disappointment, and typed one of the pronunciation combinations on the parchment paper again. A difference, and then marked up the weight reduction.
Seeing that he has done so many experiments, Neville has already seen what he wants to do, so he can't help complaining.
"I think it may be because you went to the toilet just now, but the effect has not improved at all."
Regarding his reminder, Jon thought about it and nodded deeply. He picked up the quill again and crossed out the weight marked next to the pronunciation combination, and wrote it on according to his own excretion just now.
"But can you really succeed in such an attempt?" Neville couldn't help but said, "Professor Flitwick said when we first learned the Levitating Charm that this spell can't affect wizards, otherwise it won't work." There's no such thing as a broomstick."
Jon didn't answer his question directly, but just shrugged and said.
"I'll try again."
As he spoke, he focused on the pronunciation of the next set of spells written in advance on the parchment.
"Well, this time let's shorten the three tones of 'Jia', 'Vi', and 'O', and lengthen the five tones of 'Yu', 'Di', 'M', 'Le', and 'Sa' , try again."
Neville just sat on the edge of the bed and watched Jon stand up and start chanting, but he still couldn't help muttering.
"Okay, you happened to reverse the correct pronunciation of the Levitating Charm this time (in the original book, Hermione taught Ron to pronounce it correctly: Yuga-Dimlev-O-Sa), it's a strange thing to succeed. "
Just as his voice fell, Jon had already pronounced the spell pronunciation of this combination very clearly.
"Yu-gadi-mu-le-viosa-!"
The moment the spell was uttered, Jon noticed the specialness of this time.
The magic power has never been mobilized so obviously, just like when he used his wand to cast spells normally!
Without a wand as an outlet, the magic power passed through the ring from his body, and then returned to his body.
The sudden lightness in his body almost caused Jon to stagger, lose his balance and fall to the ground. Fortunately, he immediately supported the desk to regain his stability.
Neville also noticed that Jon was abnormal, but he didn't immediately think that it was Jon's experiment success, but looked at him suspiciously.
"You're not pretending, are you?"
Jon showed an extremely excited look on his face. He didn't speak, but gave Neville the answer directly with practical actions. Just supporting the desk with one hand like this, he jumped up on the spot.
"Boom!"
The next second, his head hit the carriage's three-meter-high ceiling.
(end of this chapter)