The slacker professor at Hogwarts

Chapter 150 Cultivating Dark Magic Creatures

Chapter 150 Cultivating Dark Magic Creatures

With the full moon approaching, Lockhart also had to get busy with his own affairs and did not participate in Snape's potion research.

He focused more on the contents of the book "Cultivation of Dark Creatures" that he had obtained from participating in Snape's adventure.

This book has come at just the right time, because from an academic point of view, Tom Riddle in the Horcrux Diary and the werewolf Coban can actually be considered as dark magical creatures.

It is a wonderful thing to gain wisdom from the future.

Lockhart flipped through the book, feeling as if he were communicating with another version of himself that was both strange and familiar. Hmm, if Tom Riddle in the diary had the chance to chat with the current Voldemort, he would probably also have that subtle sense of absurdity.

The book confirmed his earlier speculation that magical creatures involved in wizarding life would exhibit biological characteristics.

However, it also refutes another possibility: that magical creatures do not transform into magical animals, but rather change towards the state of a wizard.

This change involves a fundamental exploration of life.

So what exactly is a wizard?

From a nurturing perspective, wizards are human beings, born of mothers, that's beyond doubt. But aren't wizards who are resurrected using resurrection magic after death also human beings?

The fact that the resurrected wizard was not born from his mother, but from magic, is quite intriguing.

The future self found some research materials on this topic from ancient evil wizards and discovered that Squibs who could not perform normal magical outbursts and become wizards could not have offspring with a series of magical creatures such as fairies, giants, and Veelas. Muggles were also not allowed; only wizards could.

In other words, the wizard's biological state actually underwent a very thorough change—a magical upheaval.

From then on, it became a magical creature.

The bloodline of magical creatures is actually magic power, magic power with attributes.

This is why wizards can have offspring with magical creatures, because they, who share the same 'magical' bloodline, are essentially the same species.

Such research findings are undoubtedly anti-human and do not conform to the mainstream narrative—people are more emotionally convinced that wizards are human.

But here's the interesting part: wizards can also have offspring with Squibs and Muggles.

Thus, Lockhart in the future concluded that wizards possess two unique bloodlines: human blood and magical blood.

This is the initial research result.

It was quickly overturned, or rather, taken a step further.

Based on such research findings, Lockhart in the future would naturally have a question: what is the original source of magical bloodline?

He couldn't actually get the answer because all his reasoning failed to form a logically sound closed loop.

But what if logical thinking is abandoned?

Yes, we shouldn't try to explore this field using logic, because that's not magic.

He first assumed that humans inherently possess magical bloodlines, and then everything instantly made sense.

Why do wizards possess magical bloodlines? Because humanity has entered the realm of mystery, and the power of the mind has erupted with immense force, thus giving birth to magic.

Other animals and plants, having become involved in the wizard's life, also began to acquire the wizard's magical bloodline.

This change has continued to extend in all directions throughout the long history of magic. Changes that occurred when magical creatures left the wizarding world stabilized their bloodline inheritance, while changes in their bloodline occurred when they returned to the wizarding world.

This is a hypothesis, not a reality that Lockhart will explore in the future.

However, it is sufficient to serve as a theoretical guide for many research results.

First, the closer magical creatures get to human life, the more they tend to resemble human forms. Vampires, werewolves, giants, centaurs, fairies, house-elves, merfolk, Veela (a type of bird-like creature), and so on, their evolution is ongoing.

Secondly, excessively extreme magical attributes can harm wizards, especially dark magic, which can drive them mad and turn magical creatures into dark magic creatures. From a nurturing perspective, this means they are increasingly distancing themselves from the wizarding world, evolving in the opposite direction.

Voldemort is an example; he is transforming into a dark magical creature.

Third, how do Muggles acquire magical bloodlines? By engaging with more mysterious events and magical life, preferably the magical life of a wizard.

Lockhart conducted extensive research in this area, even approaching Hermione's parents to explore the couple's possible forgotten memories using his advanced Oblivion Charms. He ultimately confirmed that Hermione's father, due to his good reputation among a certain wizarding community for his dental skills, was frequently visited and eventually subjected to numerous Oblivion Charms.

Of course, this memory retrieval was performed with the consent of the Grangers.

Not only this couple, Lockhart also searched for the parents of many Muggle wizards in the future, obtaining many corroborating cases.

Thus, the book *Black Magic Creature Breeding* arrives at a final magical theory:

—When a creature enters into a mysterious event, magic naturally blossoms. Depending on the strength, characteristics, and legendary status of the magical traces it acquires, it ultimately forms a magical bloodline, or alters its existing magical bloodline. Moreover, these changes mostly manifest as noticeable alterations in offspring through bloodline inheritance, but if the intensity is too high, it can directly change the creature's own state.

Based on this theory, Lockhart later figured out the characteristics of werewolf contagion.

That is the infusion of magical bloodline, which gives the wizard an additional magical bloodline. Moreover, this bloodline infusion is not the wolf poison theory of potion-making, nor the magical accident theory of transfiguration, nor the biological state change theory of species cultivation. Instead, it is analyzed from the perspective of the original magical awakening, which leads the wizard into the mysterious events of werewolves.

This is a way of interpretation that has never been seen before in the history of wizarding.

Therefore, Lockhart proposed a completely new solution to the wolf poison problem—to integrate werewolves more into wizarding life, so that the werewolves' magical bloodline would spontaneously change towards the wizards' magical bloodline, and ideally, they would participate in the wizards' mysterious adventures.

If this reaches a certain point, the offspring will exhibit characteristics of werewolf magical bloodline degeneration or even disappearance.

Even more so, with greater involvement, there's a chance that the werewolf can directly change its state and revert back to being a wizard.

Lockhart conducted some experiments in this area in the future, with remarkable results; many of the werewolf's offspring began to change into humans.

This was a very difficult experiment because wizarding society generally rejected werewolves from participating in wizarding life, which ultimately forced werewolves to participate more intensely in werewolf mystical events, strengthening their magical bloodline.

So...

Here comes the interesting part.

In a society where the International Confederation of Wizards and the Ministries of Magic in various countries generally uphold the Law of Secrecy, and where the wizarding upper class generally excludes Muggles, how can we get Muggles to participate more in wizarding life?

The answer is right in front of us—Muggle wizards.

They are more likely to influence their Muggle relatives and those around them.

For example, Harry Potter once turned his aunt (Vernon's sister) into a balloon and flew into the sky. Of course, it's not just things like that. Muggle wizards all receive their basic education in Muggle schools and live in Muggle communities.

In theory, every Muggle wizard can influence far too many people.

"What an interesting and wonderful statement..."

Lockhart flipped through the book he was going to compile with great interest. Much of the content was difficult to understand because it lacked a lot of logic, and many parts were often replaced with "mysterious events," "adventures," or "magic" to replace the missing parts.

This is not necessarily the truth.

However, when applied to real-life situations, it often proves to be true.

Then it can be used.

Lockhart stroked his chin, pondering how to arrange some experiments to verify his hypotheses.

The night of the full moon is almost here, and Voldemort is waiting for me to give him a surprise.

Professionally trained, get to work!

Tom, get to work!

……

Late at night, the Ministry of Magic believed that Corban Yaxley, who was imprisoned in the Bloodline Hall of the Department of Mysteries, was actually at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Inside the fairy tale book floating in mid-air in Lockhart's office at the magic school.

Also featured in the fairy tale book are Voldemort's Horcrux diary and the basilisk raised by Slytherin.

Lockhart stood in front of the fairy tale book, gazing intently at the interesting developments within, occasionally waving his wand to cast spells that influenced the progress of the story.

"Where is Professor Lockhart?" Tom clearly sensed that the person holding the diary was no longer the wise professor.

"He's dead, torn to pieces by my own hands!" Coban answered smugly. "What are you, anyway? My master gave you to me to keep safe for him."

"I'm the one who can help you!" Tom clearly sensed an opportunity. It seemed he had escaped the dangers of Hogwarts and was far away from Dumbledore. Now it would be much easier to kill someone and resurrect them.

He immediately took a liking to the person he was talking to.

Maybe this guy is much better than that Ginny Weasley.

(End of this chapter)