In the Harry Potter Without Harry Potter

Chapter 222: Muggle Philosophy

Lunch was sumptuous.

One could tell that Sir Stoker was in a good mood, and at the table, he and Jon talked about many things, most of which were about his life at sea over the years.

"Actually, at first I wanted to go a little further north and find a place to settle in the Arctic Circle. But, it would be a problem to even make a normal living there, with a fireplace burning all year round, which would be a heavy burden not only to me but also to Rabier, so I eventually gave up on that idea."

Jon didn't say with flattery, but with sincerity.

"The scenery here is very pleasant, and if I ever retire in the future, I will consider spending my old age in a place like this."

"In fact, when I first came here, my life didn't flow that well." Stoker recalled, "Because this is not part of the muggle's shipping lane, this place was classified by the Norwegian Ministry of Magic as a marine magical creature sanctuary, there were a lot of magical creatures that used to be in the nearby sea have been driven to here."

"And those merpeople, the Ministry of Magic did not order them to move, but they were forced to migrate here, originally they were living in the seashore area, but now that area of seawater is heavily polluted by muggles, and it is easy for them to be found, so they later migrated to this place in group one by one."

"And because of this experience, they did not treat me well when they learned that a wizard had moved in here to live. It wasn't until later when one of their clan members was accidentally injured and strayed to my tower where I helped to heal him that their impression of me somewhat changed."

What he said made people a bit saddened, not only do the land humanoid magical creatures like Centaur, Giant, and other magical creatures races have less and less space to live, but even the ocean is the same.

As long as the wizards decide to maintain the Statute of Secrecy, such a situation is unlikely to change, as muggles expand their access to nature, they will always get a clear understanding of the world, after all, the Earth is only so big in total.

Sir Stoker suddenly and coldly asked.

"Professor Johnson, I wonder what you think of Muggles?"

Jon did not hear much deeper meaning in his question, it felt like it was just a casual inquiry.

"I have no prejudice against muggles." He said, "Although Durmstrang was more after the ancestry at the establishment of the school, in fact, in the school, everyone is very open to the issue of ancestry, everything is mainly based on ability."

For this Jon is not talking nonsense, Durmstrang's school style is a little strange, as long as you are good enough to play within the rules, then you can get more resources than others, not as fair as Hogwarts, but it's also not based on ancestry.

Sir Stoker laughed.

"I don't think most wizards actually have any prejudice against muggles, except for those arrogant, cocky, stubborn old things. But in the end, the reason why those old-minded people loathe muggles is also because of historical issues; in the past, muggles were indeed foolish and especially did a lot of things that hurt wizards."

"It's just that since the beginning of this century, the muggle world has completely changed."

While talking about this, Sir Stoker became enthusiastic, he seems to have a deep understanding of the history of muggles.

"Muggles are not as ignorant as before, they are actually beginning to gradually understand the world, and in a very different way from us, using their own perspective to understand the rules of the world."

"It seems to me that for wizards the rules of the world are not fixed, our consciousness can change matter. When we have a stone in front of us, if we close our eyes and start thinking whether the object we see with our eyes in front of us is a stone or not, our 'will' will drive the magic to make changes to the world, if we are firmly convinced that the stone is a sheep, then even without the presence of a wand and an incantation, if our 'will' is strong enough, the stone that was there before we closed our eyes would become a sheep after we open our eyes."

"But for muggles, it is different, in their eyes, the rules of the world are fixed, the stone is stone, there is no way to change it even a little with their strong 'will', the matter is the basis of the world and possesses primary characteristics, while consciousness is secondary, the human consciousness can not directly produce any changes to the world."

Jon looked at Sir Stoker with some surprise.

He didn't expect that there are actually wizards in the magical world who know so much about the theory of muggles, and also such a wizard has come from an ancient wizard family.

"About whether the rules are fixed or not, it is actually all about the philosophy of who dominates the matter and the 'will', I never thought that you, Sir, would have understood the muggle concept?"

Neville and the group sitting nearby were all basically listening in confusion, with only Hermione blinking in a half-understood manner.

And after seeing that Jon was actually apparently not unfamiliar with what he was saying, Sir Stoker had a surprised look on his face.

"Professor Johnson also knows something about the Muggle concept of understanding the world?"

Jon blurted out casually.

"I was actually a Professor of Muggle Studies for a while before I became a Professor of Transfiguration, so I have some idea about these. But I need to correct you on one point, Sir, in this issue of whether the rules of the world are fixed in matter as well as 'consciousness ', the muggles are actually not unified."

"While there are many muggles who believe that matter came before 'will' and 'will' can only be used to understand the matter, there are also many muggles who believe in the existence of an omniscient and omnipotent God in this world, and even among wizards there is no shortage of such people, is there?"

Sir Stoker said irrefutably.

"Indeed, there is also a large group of such people among the muggles, in fact, our existence proves that what they believe is not wrong, maybe the so-called omniscient and omnipotent God is a wizard with unprecedented magical power in ancient times?"

"But the biggest group of contributions in the Muggle world are people with a different kind of thinking. For us what they believe in is definitely wrong, and matter can be completely changed according to the 'will' of the wizard. But for them, what they believe is completely correct, because without magic they can indeed only passively understand the matter and rules of the world, rather than changing them."

"It is because of this difference in understanding of the world that the magical and muggle worlds have developed in two very different directions, except that while the development of wizards has been going on for thousands of years, and the magic we have mastered is gradually being perfected, the development of muggles has just begun."

"But it is just at the beginning of these past decades, they have made a feat that wizards have not done or even thought of doing for thousands of years."

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