Chapter 624

When she turned back, Master Scamander, who had always been smiling, spoke.

"Regarding the definition of 'people' and animals... earlier, the attempts to define which magical creatures should be classified as 'animals' were extremely simple and crude."

Mr. Scamander was happy to popularize the history of magical creatures to young wizards.

So everyone listened to Mr. Scamander's exposition while drinking pumpkin juice, eating the extra pumpkin pies, roast beef, roast chicken, pork chops, and lamb chops on the table.

It is worth mentioning that there were also two wireless radios in the Fairy Tale Workshop; now, the low broadcast sounds of the Muggle world and the wizarding world sounded together with Mr. Scamander's magnetic voice.

"Burdock Muldoon, the chairman of the fourteenth-century Wizards' Council, stipulated that any member in the wizarding world who walks on two legs is hereby granted the status of 'people', while all other members maintain the status of 'animals'."

He convened all 'people' to attend a summit meeting with a friendly attitude, to meet with wizards and discuss new magic laws, but to his extreme frustration, he found that his judgment was wrong.

The meeting hall was crowded with goblins, who brought many two-legged animals, finding every one they could find.

Just as Bathilda Bagshot tells us in her "A History of Magic":

Amidst the harsh calls of Diricawls, the mournful cries of Augureys, and the piercing, incessant songs of Fwoopers, almost nothing could be heard. When wizards tried to consult the documents in front of them, all kinds of pixies and fairies circled above their heads, giggling and chattering.

A dozen trolls started waving the clubs in their hands to smash the hall, while hags slid around the hall looking for children to eat.

The chairman stood up to preside over the meeting, but slipped on a pile of Porlock dung, so he cursed and fled the hall."

His words caused bursts of low gasps from Neville; he seemed to have been scared by this terrible scene.

And Sean, while recording these in his magical creature notebook, was thinking about magic history, thinking about the goblin's arch-fire behavior in wizard history.

"As we can see, merely possessing two legs does not guarantee that a magical creature can, or will, be interested in the affairs of the wizard government."

Mr. Scamander said.

"With resentment, Muldoon abandoned any further attempts to let non-wizard members in the wizarding world join the Wizards' Council."

"Does this become the first appearance of the contradiction between goblins and wizards?

I remember that three centuries later, goblins also instigated a group of people to make a scene at the Ministry of Magic because they were dissatisfied with the Quidditch reform."

Sean thought and spoke.

"Maybe, maybe not. The history of magical creatures tells me that wizards were not always the masters of the magical world; there are many epics in this that we have not known."

"Whether the magic of wizards and magical creatures was once from the same source? Has also always been an unresolved question in magic history."

Master Scamander explained slowly.

Sean didn't move, seemingly having been netted into the vastness of magic history.

"Let us continue to move the pointer of time."

Later, Muldoon's successor, Madam Elfrida Clagg, tried to redefine 'people', hoping to establish closer relationships with other magical creatures.

People, she declared, are those creatures that can speak human language. Therefore, all those creatures that could be understood by council members were invited to attend the next meeting.

However, the problem appeared again. Those trolls taught a few simple words by goblins were the same as before, preparing to destroy the hall. Grindylows chased each other, running around the chair legs of the meeting hall, and as long as they could reach, they would twist people's ankles."

Master Scamander continued to tell, Hermione frowned tightly, seemingly thinking about how to solve this problem.

"Then, how to distinguish between people and animals?

And what made wizards the masters of the magical world?

Perhaps, it is knowledge and wisdom that allowed wizards to walk a brand-new path in the field of magic.

If there is any other difference between wizards and magical creatures, then only the wisdom passed down from generation to generation remains."

Sean, who had once stood on the shoulders of giants, seemed to have realized,

"So, a real war would break out between wizards and goblins, not magical creatures like dragons or giants, because this is a life-and-death collision between two intelligent creatures."

Sean's gaze was burning.

He suddenly understood that it was wisdom that achieved the vastness of wizard magic, not a simple academic subject like the field of magical creatures that is studied and appreciated.

He thought of the development of science, which actually coincided with the development of magic in the field of wisdom.

At the same time, he naturally thought of the distinction between sensibility and rationality in the boundary.

"A novel explanation, and also... a reasonable explanation."

Newt pondered for a while, looking at the young wizard with a dazed and alarmed gaze.

So he continued: