Hogwarts Card System Chapter 050

Who knew what kind of butterfly effect led to Harlie’s disinterest in flying broomsticks and her lukewarm feelings towards Quidditch.

This had always been a sore spot for Sirius.

But regardless of whether Harlie was selected as a Quidditch player in her first year, the Quidditch match was still going to happen as scheduled.

On the first Saturday of November, the Quidditch match arrived as promised.

Quidditch matches at Hogwarts School usually followed this pattern:

The four houses were divided into two groups, playing one match each between Halloween and Christmas, and then switching groups to play another match each between Christmas and Easter.

After Easter was the year-end final, contested by the top two teams from the first four matches.

Matches were usually scheduled for Saturdays.

Ted: Why are matches on Saturdays? I feel like this is robbing us of our holidays!

Any company that does team-building on weekends is no good!

In Quidditch, Gryffindor and Slytherin had always been strong teams, usually playing three matches a year.

While Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff were basically just along for the ride.

This year’s first Quidditch match was the highly anticipated Gryffindor versus Slytherin.

The referee was Madam Hooch, the flying instructor, and the match commentator was Hogwarts’ loudmouth Lee Jordan.

He was of Jamaican descent, dark-skinned, with dreadlocks, looking like someone whose first learned phrase was rap and who could run incredibly fast.

The students’ and professors’ enthusiasm for Quidditch was something Hermione and Ted couldn’t comprehend.

Early in the morning, while Ted was still jogging, some students had already woken up to claim seats at the stadium.

Were they planning to skip breakfast? No way, right? Were they buying iPhones?!

By nine o’clock, as the match was about to begin, the Quidditch stadium was already packed with people—okay, that’s an exaggerated metaphor.

The entire school only had just over two hundred students, and the seventh-years were out on internships, not at school.

The audience, at most, numbered two hundred. But for Hogwarts, it was already a grand occasion.

The robes of the four houses were different colors, making the division in the stands quite clear.

On the field, the Slytherin Quidditch players were all burly!

It felt less like playing Quidditch and more like playing aerial rugby.

As for the Gryffindor players, there were three girls alone, the captain was Oliver Wood, and the remaining two were the Weasley twins.

The Seeker, since Harry wasn’t there, was an unfamiliar boy.

Because the Savior didn’t appear, there was no curse from Professor Quirrell, no counter-curse from Snape (who was then misunderstood), and no incident of Hermione burning his robes.

The final result, without the haloed Savior’s participation, was that Gryffindor lost to Slytherin, just like in previous years.

And they lost terribly; Slytherin’s playing style was truly despicable, constantly fouling maliciously.

They didn’t even go easy on the girls.

The outcome of this Quidditch match displeased all three houses, who cursed Slytherin for being shameless.

But Malfoy, with his two cronies, swaggered over, triumphantly showing off Slytherin’s big win to Harlie.

Malfoy: Oh, Gryffindor is just weak! Slytherin is super brave, alright~

Then Jerry tripped him with a sneak attack, sending him sprawling, and Ron delivered a righteous punch to his face!

Gryffindor and Slytherin had just come off the field, and the audience immediately started round two!

The two sides once again engaged in a fistfight!

But Malfoy’s trio had ventured too far alone; how could they fare well?

It ended with Malfoy, disheveled and covered in dirt, barely escaping with his two cronies.

The little lions of Gryffindor didn’t tear the three of them apart and eat them, which was a testament to their thick skins.

…

Although the disastrous Quidditch loss was a significant blow to many Gryffindors, even Professor McGonagall was upset for several days.

But Ted was indifferent; he continued with his life and studies.

After confirming this month’s otherworldly knowledge, he finally leveled up again.

He was now a Level 3 Wizard / Level 1 Psion.

Although leveling from 1 to 2 only required 1000 experience, leveling from 2 to 3 required 1000 + 2000 = 3000 experience points.

He still had 1686 experience points left in his experience pool.

The 1 attribute point gained from leveling up was added to Intelligence by Ted.

The 1 skill point was added to Magic Power, reaching Magic Power Lv 4 (+ 1 with wand).

When holding a wand, Ted’s magic power had reached Lv 5, a level most adult wizards couldn’t achieve!

The abundance of magic power within Ted even gave him a feeling of “inexhaustibility.”

This was, of course, because the spells he currently knew were low-level spells with low consumption. The recovered magic power could largely compensate for the consumed magic power, allowing him to use spells for extended periods.

This also allowed him to use and practice spells more frequently, upgrading them.

It proved that focusing on upgrading spells, using them dozens or hundreds of times every day, made leveling up to 2 indeed simple.

Several of Ted’s spells had reached Level 2, especially combat-oriented ones like “Frost Armor,” “Ice Lance,” and “Shield Charm.”

After all, those were the only ones he knew.

Recently, he had been researching Arcane spells from the Dalaran Battle Mages and had already made some progress. He felt he would be able to learn his first Arcane spell soon.

One day, he found a strange, handwritten magic book in the library.

Chaos’s Joy!

This was a magic book written by a Muggle—Austin Osman Spare—in the 1970s.

Although he was a Muggle, his neighbor was a witch, and he had been exposed to magic since childhood, later even marrying her.

This book was his attempt to explain magic from a Muggle’s perspective, and even further explore the possibility of Muggle spellcasting.

This Spare later became a famous occultist in the Muggle world, founding a “magical school” known as Chaos Magic.

This Chaos Magic was not the kind of Chaos associated with the Four Chaos Gods of the Warp, which required righteous judgment and instant annihilation.

Its meaning was:

The world itself is unknowable; no belief system, whether scientific or religious, can be entirely correct.

Because humans are but a tiny part of this world, with their limited senses and perspectives, they cannot truly grasp the world’s reality. Or rather, human understanding of the world is extremely one-sided…

For example, the world appears colorful to us, but to some animals, it’s black and white, and to others, it’s ten times more vibrant.

And some animals have no eyes at all; in their perception, the world is entirely different.

As the saying goes, “One cannot truly know the mountain’s face, for one is standing on it.”

What we can truly know is only the subjective world. It emphasizes the power of will.

Why do gods and myths appear in the world? Because humans are inherently afraid of chaos, or disorder.

Rather than believing the world is chaotic, disordered, and ungoverned, people prefer to believe that mysterious forces control everything.

Even if the master of this force is a fickle deity.

But Chaos magicians do not view those religious idols as their gods.

The name Chaos is chosen to emphasize: no rules, no organization, no laws, everything is based on one’s own will and practicality.

Chaos magicians believe that magic is a science born from changes in will, and that magic is merely the art or craft of consciousness influencing matter.

Other occult and related organizations that practice witchcraft or magic believe that if magic is misused, it will be repaid threefold.

However, this school of thought believes that the phenomenon of threefold repayment is not an objective law; it appears only because of the user’s own guilt and unease.

That is: I don’t recognize any threefold repayment, so I’ll just freeload! Therefore, I can freeload! What I believe is true!

Because of this, the ideas of this school are very active, even leading to practices like using Doraemon as a god, Spider-Man as a god, or Ultraman as a god—all are methods they use to practice magic, and they are effective in practice.

It means taking out a figurine and constantly praying to it, treating it as one’s god.

This thought, in the end, will become a force, subtly guiding the outcome in the direction of one’s prayers.

Coincidentally, there’s a similar concept in psychology called the “Law of Attraction”—generally referring to how a person’s thoughts always attract a reality consistent with them, or rather, it’s a “wish fulfillment.”

The Chaos’s Joy in Ted’s hand was Spare’s original handwritten manuscript, detailing the possibility of “Will Magic.”

After reading it, Ted felt a bit dazed: Can this thing really work?

The common understanding in the magical world was: Magic = Magic Power + Will.

Now you’re just talking about will; is that reliable?

After all, this world is material; if pure idealism could change reality, then in a state of extreme anger, I really would punch through a 50-meter steel plate!

But putting magic aside, if it were psionics—this thing actually seems to have potential!