Harry Potter: Who cares about belated motherly love?

Chapter 270 Fighting Magic

“Yes, they are very knowledgeable.”

"After all, they are a family that has been casting spells on each other for a long time."

"I heard that... I've seen the magical instruments they used to cast spells on each other. They were neatly classified by age and type. It could almost be called a large collection. But even so, they were still safe and sound with each other. It was really surprising."

"That's true. Despite years of cursing each other, their children are fine. Well, those families are not trying to break the curse, but to deal with each other's curses, they have been constantly developing counter magic. However, some cursed magic tools that they can no longer deal with are stored in the Black Family. When you go to their house, you can see them everywhere, even in a mess, without being placed in proper containers.

But because they were too messy, if this continued it might have a negative impact, so I tried to let them deal with those things that seemed to need to be dealt with, those things that were abandoned in the process of production, and those failed works, but I found that they didn’t really understand the basic knowledge. ”

"Is that right?"

"Surprisingly, they understand the least about the most basic things. My brothers and I have studied before, but their understanding of the elementary and intermediate levels is the worst. Once they enter the advanced stage, they can fully understand it. They know some ancient words that can be used to cast spells, but they have no understanding of the rest, only a superficial understanding. With that level of understanding, I am surprised that they can exchange such advanced curses.

Well, it's a bit like math. You forget the proofs of convenient theorems and formulas that you take for granted, but you can still use them, right? I think it's very similar. But to break a curse, you have to understand these basic things. Therefore, breaking a curse is more difficult than casting a spell. When casting a spell, you just need to follow the steps to make a magic tool, prepare the spell, and inject resentment and magic power into it, and it can often be done immediately, but to break a curse, you must have a clear understanding of the basic theory. "

"Well...that's true."

"They created a lot of spells and counter-magic. There was no thought given to why the counter-magic worked, it was just 'if this doesn't work, try this'. It was done haphazardly and roughly over the generations."

"I understand."

"Those two families are very talented in black magic, but their bloodline is not suitable for removing curses. Therefore, they do not understand it fundamentally, but their skills in casting spells are very strong. They are not stressed even if they are cursed. Because they are a family suitable for casting spells, it is also suitable for them to develop counter magic. Therefore, as long as they are willing, they can do it.

However, I think the key is whether such a family can be absorbed and reconciled. At the beginning, they always complain, but the existence of the Black family who can reprimand them and make them obedient is very important.

As they complained and suffered while learning from the basics together, they seemed to gradually develop a sense of kinship and became very close. Another important point about these two families is that they wrote notes very diligently and left a lot of notes, in addition to the magic book.

They wrote down what kind of curses they had cast this year, what kind of magical tools they had made, complained that their physical discomfort must have been caused by that family, recorded how they got sick, what kind of curses they thought of when they wanted to take revenge, and wrote all kinds of things. Although the people in that family had never read these diaries, they were not interested in these materials, but they did not deal with them, so a lot of information was left. If you trace it back, you can even find the cause of the conflict in the notes of the ancestors of each family. It's really boring. Because of this, sometimes reconciliation becomes simple. Although they cast curses on each other, because they had a confrontation, although the relationship was not good, people did not die in large numbers, although some died.

After the reconciliation, the analysis progressed rapidly. In the process of looking at each other's notes, they studied 'why this magic tool can be broken by this anti-magic', or 'what effect did this spell have on them', and this in-depth research continued. It was originally a random field, but the theory was constructed quite well. Therefore, it is not necessary to have a talent for breaking the curse.

Maybe we can work in this direction? We don't have to lift the curse, we can also focus on studying magic to fight the curse like those two families did."

"I see...it is true. Counter magic can temporarily take care of curses that cannot be removed so that they do not have an effect."