Lockhart took out the nuclear deterrence theory during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, changed it, and used it.

"If there are two wizard families, each of which has the trigger conditions for the blood curse of the other family, as long as it is activated, the other family will die. Then they will eventually form a kind of mutual deterrence, a kind of terror balance, and meet each other. No one moves first.

But if one day, the patriarch of a family drinks too much wine and inadvertently touches the blood curse of the other family, then you can imagine how things will develop next.

If you are the patriarch of the victimized family—the other family suddenly sent over a dozen people to apologize to your family, and voluntarily drank the Veritaserum Potion, swearing that this time it was just an unintentional mistake, I hope you can forgive them and be willing to pay a lot. money and political resources to make atonement... how would you judge? "

If there is no foreshadowing of Lockhart before, everyone is likely to choose to forgive each other - after all, things have already happened, even if you retaliate yourself, there is no benefit at all, it will only make the relationship between the two sides worse, it is better to accept The benefits of the other party's compensation, and even more extortion, so they can get some compensation.

but…

"Should we refuse the other party's apology, and in any case, we must launch a blood curse to kill a member of the other party's family as revenge?"

After careful thinking, some eagles came to a conclusion that even he himself did not believe.

Lockhart affirmed his judgment.

"That's right! Although it's cruel to say that, and you are sure that the other party is really just an unintentional loss, but for the continuation of your family, even if you lose your interests, even if you lose both because of it, you must choose revenge."

At this point, Lockhart's meaning is very clear.

The balance of terror between the two families is because they can ensure mutual destruction. But as long as one party's deterrence is proved to be no longer valid under certain conditions, then all his potential enemies will know that he is a person whose bottom line can be changed, then his deterrence immediately becomes a joke.

It's like in "Three-Body Problem", when Luo Ji was the sword-wielder, the three-body star people didn't dare to attack the earth, because they knew that Luo Ji would do what he said, and when I", they would really break the net and drag the Three-Body Problem. The stars are destroyed together.

But when Cheng Xin held the button, the Trisolarans immediately launched an attack, because they were also very clear about Cheng Xin's thinking logic - since things have already happened, it is useless to make trouble for both sides, it is better to find a way to make Earthlings continue.

This logical way of thinking does not necessarily represent weakness, but it will make the so-called deterrence no longer exist, and finally make everyone think that they can step on you.

"Not only between families, but also the relationship between our Eagle Academy and other academies."

Having said that, Lockhart finally started to point:

“We always judge things with the most rational minds and expect everyone to be like us. But when conflict comes, we are deterred by our rationality, because they seem to think that as long as they stay strong, they will eventually back down It must be us.

Our Ravenclaw performance in this duel match is a shame in a sense, but it can also remind us and be a wake-up call in our life.

It tells us a truth, sometimes, maintaining a kind of \"irrational\' toughness does not necessarily mean stupidity, this may be another game strategy. In the words of the Orientals - \" One punch to open, lest a hundred punches come \'. "

Chapter 122 Unity Eagle Court

Lockhart's public speech in the common room quickly sparked a lively discussion within Ravenclaw.

If Lockhart talked to these little eagles in an inciting slap-on-the-top or imperative way, they might just talk to you on the surface, but they didn't think so.

But when Lockhart raised it to the level of "rationality" and "strategy", the Ravenclaw students were more convinced because they took this set.

Neither game theory nor behavioral psychology is a theory that can be derived simply through logic and reasoning, and it is not something that simply studies human beings as "rational people", but requires a large number of samples to be summarized and sorted out. Due to the fact that there are too few people in the world, the sample size is not large, even if someone wants to study it, they cannot study it.

Although not everyone in Ravenclaw is interested in this set of things, they will still obey the authority and believe the current mainstream theory until there is enough research and the old theory is falsified.

Ravenclaw's prefect, Robert Hilliard, convened an urgent academy meeting, and after discussions, he and several Ravenclaw "opinion leaders" came to a common conclusion:

"We have to show our toughness appropriately as well."

"Just being tough is useless. The foundation of toughness lies in strength, otherwise it is bluffing."

"Actually, I found that whether it is Slytherin or Hufflepuff, their advantage is not in personal strength, but in organization. They will inquire about the opponent's information in advance, and exchange magic items and magical creatures internally."

Gryffindor will show a decisive temperament in the final victory, which we should

We have to be mentally prepared before the game, instead of scrambling after the juncture, we must keep ourselves calm at all times. "

After trying to understand the reason for the defeat of the Eagle Academy, the whole Eagle Academy finally united under the consensus and prepared to prepare for the first-year Samuel Mason and help him defeat Harper of Slytherin.

He suddenly got the attention of the whole hospital. As a Muggle-born first-year student, Yu Meisen felt a little flattered.

He was able to win the duel because of his familiarity with Latin, which allowed him to master more spells earlier than any other first grader.

"Honestly, spells aren't that hard, compared to the complex inflections of classical Latin and Roman Latin, it's like 1+ren 2 is difficult for calculus," Mason often told me his buddy.

He has mastered a lot of spells, and his family is not bad. With pocket money, he can buy a lot of equipment and potions. Coupled with the relative contempt of other colleges for first-year competitions, it is inevitable that he can stand out.

In any case, he is now the hope of the whole Ravenclaw village, and the Kitty Hawks hope that he can work hard to become the first-year champion when the distinguished guests come to watch the finals, and they don't hesitate to do so.

According to the schedule, the champion of the lower grade can challenge the runner-up of the previous grade, and if he wins, he can challenge again.

It's just that Harry and Hermione in the second grade are too strong. The spell mastered by Yu Meisen may be king in the first grade, but compared with the encyclopedia Hermione, it is a little insignificant, so there is no one in Eagle Academy. Count on him to challenge second grade success

But in any case, this is Slytherin, and it must be treated with caution. Professor Flitwick is very pleased to see the Ravenclaws finally united

"I hope you don't forget," he said to the eagles in a very high-pitched voice. "Our spiritual totem is the raven, although many people think we choose the raven only because its brain is the largest among birds. The biggest, but please don't forget that the raven is also the most united of the birds."

The energy of Yingyuan, which was fully activated, should not be underestimated, and they soon found out Harper's trump card for Mason.

"Their family is a manufacturer of magical musical instruments, especially harps. We recommend that you bring an earmuff before going on stage."

"The little curse can be saved. The protective cloak lent to him by the senior Slytherin can help him resist a lot of aggressive magic."

"Fortunately, this cloak seems to have no resistance to binding magic, and because it has to be exchanged for others to use, there must be no anti-theft spell on it. Even if you can't use the flying spell, you can use the simplest move the spell to control the cloak."

"Last time Malfoy used the Latch Spell very well. It doesn't consume much mana. You can use it as your trump card."

"But we have to learn a lesson, and we shouldn't ignore the determination of the Slytherins to overturn the car. Maybe he will throw away all his armor and musical instruments at a critical moment and try to solve the battle at close range."

"Knockback spells, movement spells, and levitation spells are enough to deal with, but considering that the opponent's third item may carry magical creatures... I can lend you my evil bird, although it is not effective for wizards, but It can restrain all magical creatures below 3X."

When a college puts all its resources on the side of the first-year students, the support Mason receives is naturally unprecedented, and if the Snake House is smart enough, they will conditionally bring more More resources are poured into the seventh and fifth grade games.

As a preview of the Chamber of Secrets concert, celebrities from the wizarding world began to arrive at Hogwarts one after another.

The first person to arrive was of course Newt Scamander, who proposed to Dumbledore that he wanted to see the basilisk's body.

Although he expressed his understanding of Harry Potter and their "following the right", he also regretted that the basilisk could not be reproduced, because the basilisk has not been in Britain for more than 400 years. area seen.

It's a pity that Dumbledore couldn't satisfy him even with such a small wish.

The basilisk skin has now been turned into a snakeskin purse by the Vezeek brothers, and taken to Hogwarts, ready to sell to those celebrities. The tendon cord of the snake was taken away by Olympian, and he wanted to make a horned snake staff no less than the one used by Slytherin.

As for the snake gall, Snape took it as a blindness resuscitation agent, and was going to give it to a few "seniors" of the Snake faction through private channels. Those old ones got cataracts.

This drug treatment is urgently needed. Snake oil is boiled into a wound medicine ointment, which is placed in Huo

Gwartz's school hospital. Basilisk venom was swallowed by Dumbledore, and Loja

Te got only one basilisk's fangs.

So if Master Newt passed by now, he would only be able to see the long snake bone specimen. It's also fortunate that the skeleton is too big to be panned, otherwise it will also be made into a craft.

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mouth.

In addition to Master Newt, such as Amelia Burns, one of the Wizengamore court judges, descendants of Puffett, the inventor of self-cleaning dishcloths, and Montmorency, the inventor of the ecstasy The family has sent people over, and even a descendant of the Scottish king of Iona, Bardock.

The job of receiving these distinguished guests was naturally handed over to the weekend party of his club by Lockhart, because "I understand that they are children who know the whole thing.

son"

Some people were slightly critical of this, but Dumbledore, who should have acted, ignored him at all and let Lockhart do things in the school, so that some people even began to speculate that Lockhart was Dumbledore's illegitimate child.

Lockhart doesn't care about these rumors because it's so outrageous... Could Dumbledore still be old enough to have a baby in his 80s?

Chapter 123 Alumni Association

As the guests gradually gathered, Hogwarts finally took a solid first step on the road to financial autonomy.

Lockhart asked the accompanying seniors to wear gowns as a sign of respect for the distinguished guests. And Percy was embarrassed to come to Lockhart to borrow money because the dress was too old, saying that he would pay it back after he worked.

Without hesitation, Lockhart took out a thousand Galleons and set up an Alumni Association Organizing Committee Fund, which Percy and others could spend first.

"After this alumni meeting is over, I believe that this kind of small expenditure will no longer be a problem for us... But everyone, how much we can get in the end depends on whether you can show the quality of being a Hogwarts elite. now," Lockhart told the students.

So accompanied by these students, the invited guests visited the legendary secret room.

After the thrilling battle, although the interior of the secret room has been repaired, the traces of the battle can still be seen from bits and pieces. In particular, the broken bones in the passage of the secret room, and the stones in the secret room that were corroded by the basilisk venom, were not removed at Lockhart's instruction, but remained there.

To be honest, the guests who came to visit were a little disappointed, because the secret room was not as magnificent as they imagined. Except for the statue of the giant snake, other parts were really too "quaint". Now they have quite a few Kind of a "just show me this" feeling.

That's Lockhart's plan - he's going to show these people the shabby side of the school so he can ask them for money.

Sheen Shuyi and the students who accompanied them stopped talking about Zhu Tong's disappointment.

- Good caliber, told them the school's next plans.

"We're going to replace those floor tiles, clean the aisle, hang up the magic torches that won't go out, put a layer of protection on the statue, and put a chandelier in the middle. Just for some reason, listen to the principal. Said, he plans to spend fifteen years to slowly repair..."

Although the students did not say it outright, the implication was clear: no money

Compared with these minors, these guests are obviously much more sophisticated, and as soon as they hear it, they know that it is Dumbledore who is trying to raise money from them.

Although they don't hate this method of fundraising, and they do have some spare cash on hand, that doesn't mean they like to sprinkle it in the water. As social elites, donations are okay, but they always have to get something.

So they never let go, and held back their temper, waiting to see what tricks Dumbledore was going to play. It's just that they didn't expect that the person who came up with the idea was not Dumbledore J but Lockhart.

In order to entertain the distinguished guests, the tables of each hospital were lengthened to entertain these graduates.

It is a unique experience for these celebrities to be able to sit back at the long table of their college and eat a meal in their memory after many years of graduation.

Of course, this "taste in memory" is much better than what the students usually eat, and for this party, Lockhart also used public and private equipment, and emptied more than half of Rosmerta's new wine this year.

He did this completely according to the routine that his alma mater used to entertain Uyuxiu graduates in his past life memory: those university presidents would use this method to form a circle called "alumni association", and at the same time Actively use the contacts of the alumni association and employment office to help "sensible" students find jobs and contacts in advance,

Get something back from these graduates' donations.

And the graduates who donate can not only gain a good reputation, they can also gain a higher status in the circle, and at the same time gain a recommended admission place for their descendants, not to mention that the part of the donation to the university can also be used for tax credit

And all this is done in the name of the high-sounding "support for education".

It's just that in this magical world, the idea of ​​donating school donations for tax exemption has never been heard, and because there is only one magic school in the UK, admission qualifications are usually different, so these two paths are temporarily blocked.

But for the rest, Lockhart intends to develop it.

Although it is unfair to say that rich people donate money to gain their family's status in the school, from an objective point of view, this also promotes the development of education to some extent. And even without this channel, the so-called "upper society" would still rely on various ties such as blood to be linked together. It is not as good as this method of robbing the rich and helping the poor, at least it can support more students.

- After a sumptuous dinner, the long tables in the Great Hall of Hogwarts were put away and replaced by armchairs for guests and students to enjoy music.

Although I still don't know what medicine is sold in Dumbledore's gourd, this does not prevent everyone from enjoying the music, not to mention that Dumbledore invited the well-known singer Warbeck and the Skull Band who will never fail.

It was not until the concert was successfully concluded that Dumbledore slowly announced a series of new initiatives at Hogwarts.

The first is the donation to repair the secret room. Hogwarts will set up an obsidian stone tablet at the entrance of the secret room, which will be engraved with the name of the repairer.

Secondly, from now on, dueling clubs, gobstone clubs, wizard chess, and Quidditch teams of various academies openly accept social donations, and sell the advertising rights of jersey protective equipment, and the commercial organizations that fund the players also have the right to let the owners

Holders of the right to read words.

But the most interesting thing is that the third rule that Dumbledore said must be directed to the research room.

"In the past, Hogwarts students had to choose their majors once in the third year, and only receive a career guidance in the fifth year, which is not only too rigid, but also not conducive to the connection between students and the job market. So we hope to have closer contact with the society and wider cooperation.

If you have an industry and need talents, you can set up a research laboratory in Hogwarts in advance, and commission the training of the graduates you need. We will educate the students according to your needs and increase them for them. More professional courses and related practical exercises

For example, the same is the defense against the dark magic, the defense against the dark magic required by the Gringotts spell breaker is more inclined to the ancient black magic confrontation, while the adventure travel agency requires employees to be more proficient in the confrontation of magical creatures, and the St Mungo's Hospital needs it. It is the ability to remove curses and curses, and to remove wounds caused by magical creatures. It seems to be the same, but it is actually very different.

We hope that in this way, our graduates will spend less time adjusting to the society, and will be able to work directly upon graduation. And you can also reduce the cost of some training and the cost of recruiting new employees, the best of both worlds. "

None of the people present thought that Dumbledore would come up with such an idea. Regardless of whether they end up paying for the project or not, they have to be good

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Chapter 124 The person who seizes the opportunity

Knowing that these VIPs needed time to think, Dumbledore did not force them to make a decision immediately, but invited these people to stay at Hogwarts and prepare to watch the finals of each grade of the Dueling Club.

The distinguished guests had originally included this item in their original itinerary, and seeing Dumbledore taking the initiative to give them time to think, of course they would not refuse.

The owls at Hogwarts have been busy since that night - and over the next few days, they will have to deliver many letters to these distinguished guests.

It can be seen that the big guys who still stay are those who are interested in "directed training" like Hogwarts, and those who are not interested in student duels and directed training, basically said their goodbyes that night. .

For example, Master Newt Scamander, after seeing the snake skeleton wrapped in snake slough at the entrance of the secret room, he lost interest in this trip, and simply donated 500 Galleons and set off on the return journey .

He doesn't need this kind of directional training, because anyone who likes magical creatures is 100% his disciples and grandchildren.

In addition, there are some people who are very clear-headed, and they also don't hesitate to choose to donate directly.

On behalf of the Extraordinary Medicine Master Association, Mr. Granger donated 2,000 Galleons and a lot of medicinal materials to set up a potion laboratory. On the other hand, laboratories are required to share research results with associations.

At the same time, he also added an additional condition—the lab's potion raw materials are provided by the association.

He thought very clearly that because of the special nature of the potion, its production process could not leave

The participation of the wizard himself, and the foundation of the existence of the Apothecary Association is whether enough potion makers can be united.

- The potion prepared by an experienced pharmacist, the potion output is equivalent to three potion apprentices, and the effect of the potion is better than that of ten apprentices combined, which is ultimately reflected in sales In terms of price, that is a hundred times the potion produced by the apprentice.

It can be seen that the potion industry is like other traditional handicraft industries.