Chapter 244

It really does seem that way! Allen felt his reasoning was correct.

What, then, was something he loved but could not have? Allen fell into deep thought.

Since his transmigration, he’d always been lucky—nothing had stirred his emotions, and as someone who’d lived two or three decades and was rather laid-back, he felt little could move him anymore.

Harry’s success also reminded Allen that emotions weren’t only stirred by happy memories; a fitting thought or imagination could stir them just as powerfully.

Allen continued pondering, vaguely grasping something—his mind had opened, and suddenly he knew how to stir his emotions.

He recalled some fan fiction he’d read in his past life—what was the most enjoyable thing about fan fiction?

One, you deeply loved that world and wished to keep seeing the stories unfold within it.

Two, fan fiction usually fixed the heartbreaking gaps left by the original.

Allen felt he could use this idea to imagine something that would excite him.

His greatest regret was being suddenly torn away from Earth; though he was happy here, the regret still rose up from time to time.

Allen quickly had an idea.

He closed his eyes and began cultivating emotion; Harry and Professor Lupin noticed his movements and simultaneously grew quieter.

Allen immersed himself in his fantasy—he imagined becoming the White Dark Lord, returning to Earth with unmatched power, and mending all his regrets.

Yes, Allen was using daydreaming to stir his emotions; as the saying goes, “masturbation harms the body, daydreaming strengthens the nation”—this trick worked surprisingly well.

Soon he felt his emotions rise—he felt his mind buzz with excitement.

“Expecto Patronum!” he shouted the incantation.

A silvery light burst from his wand tip—not coiling into a ball as before, but rapidly forming into a strange creature.

Its body resembled a transparent umbrella, with long, tendril-like appendages trailing along its edge; it drifted gracefully in midair, breathtakingly beautiful.

“A jellyfish?” Professor Lupin exclaimed. “Still—congratulations! Excellent! Remarkable!” he added.

Harry genuinely rejoiced for Allen, though Allen’s Patronus was odd: “I thought your Patronus would be a panda—I was curious how a silvery one would show the panda’s dark eye patches...” Harry murmured.

Allen couldn’t help laughing at Harry’s imagination.

“Indeed! You’re an Animagus, and an Animagus’s Patronus always matches their Animagus form,” Professor Lupin said in surprise. “I once read a book that covered this.”

Allen himself grew puzzled—why was his Patronus a jellyfish? It was beautiful, but strangely odd.

“Still, congratulations to both of you! At thirteen, you’ve summoned your full Patronus—that’s a great achievement. Everyone will be proud of you,” Professor Lupin said gently.

Harry and Allen returned happily to their dormitory; Harry excitedly announced his success, drawing gasps from Ron.

They celebrated late into the night before finally climbing into bed.

Allen lay on his bed. In the dark, his ears suddenly reshaped into the ears of some animal, twitching softly as they listened to the dorm’s sounds.

He soon heard Ron and Neville’s loud snores, Harry’s and Thomas’s steady breathing—his roommates were all asleep.

Allen snapped open his eyes. In the next instant, he transformed into a butterfly and silently flew out through the open window.

But butterfly flight was too slow—moments later, midair, he shifted into a bat.

Using the night’s cover, he swiftly flew toward the second floor of the castle and entered the passage beneath the abandoned girls’ bathroom leading to the Chamber of Secrets.

He wanted to use the time to study magical intelligence.

This time, after a brief mental preparation, he stirred his emotion—his jellyfish Patronus appeared at once, illuminating the dim underground tunnel.

Allen began studying his Patronus.

What is intelligence?

Intelligence generally manifests in four aspects:

First, perceptual ability—the capacity to sense the external world and acquire information, a prerequisite and necessary condition for intelligent activity;

Second, memory and thinking ability—the capacity to store perceived information and knowledge generated by thought, and to analyze, calculate, compare, judge, associate, and decide using existing knowledge;

Third, learning and adaptive ability—the capacity to continuously learn and accumulate knowledge through interaction with the environment, adapting to changes;

Fourth, behavioral decision-making ability—the capacity to respond to external stimuli, form decisions, and transmit corresponding information.

After research and testing, Allen concluded his Patronus possessed weak intelligence: excellent perception, but weak in the other three areas.

This level of intelligence was utterly unusable!

Allen recalled the car in the Forbidden Forest—its intelligence seemed equivalent to that of a five- or six-year-old child.

Its perception and behavioral decision-making were outstanding; it clearly remembered Mr. Weasley’s instructions, and its thinking ability was solid. It had wandered the Forbidden Forest for so long and grown even more vibrant—its learning and adaptive abilities were clearly strong too.

As Allen thought of the car in the Forbidden Forest, he felt a strange sense of looking at someone else’s child.

Why was that car’s intelligence so high?

Allen remembered Mr. Weasley saying he’d used the Patronus Charm and some memory spells to create the car’s intelligence.

Memory spells might be the key.

But there were many memory spells—and Mr. Weasley hadn’t specified which one he’d used!

Allen tilted his head, watching the jellyfish Patronus float in the air, and suddenly recalled artificial intelligence from his past life. As a programmer, he’d dabbled in the field.

The core of artificial intelligence is machine learning—teaching computers to simulate or replicate human learning behavior, acquiring new knowledge or skills, and reorganizing existing knowledge structures to continuously improve performance.

At this realization, Allen understood: his jellyfish Patronus was a weak intelligence—it needed to learn continuously to become smarter.

Allen suddenly knew which memory spell to use.

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