Chapter 109: Muggle Wisdom

Once the sand table plan was confirmed, the children were suddenly full of enthusiasm, imagining what a cool thing they had completed.

"However, I think the sand table is cool, but the blueprint for making the sand table still needs to be drawn by us by hand." Harry said. "We can formulate a plan, divide the work and cooperate, draw the map of the whole school little by little according to the scale, and then we can make the miniature model according to the construction drawings."

"Then, Jin Ni and Eve, you are responsible for the map from the fourth floor to the eighth floor. You only need the conspicuous structural parts, but you must measure accurately." Ma Erfu pondered slightly and began to divide the work. "And Crabbe and Goyle are responsible for the first floor to the fourth floor, and Lu Na and Cui Ge are responsible for the hidden passages and stair trajectories."

"Harry, you have to find a way to track the people in the school, and Pan Xi and I will handle the confidentiality spell, including covering the entrance to the headquarters and optimizing the interior decoration."

"Very reasonable division of work, we can start doing it next week." Harry said. "But don't be too anxious, just take it slow. Pay attention not to delay normal study."

Then, the children gossiped about some other embarrassing things in the school. Amidst laughter, Ma Erfu announced that this week's salon was over.

Early Monday morning, Harry and Luo En rushed to the Muggle Studies classroom. Through Harry's narration, Luo En also developed a strong interest in Dr. Professor Professor Doudou and couldn't wait to come to listen to his class.

However, when they arrived at the classroom, they found that someone had arrived earlier than them. It was Hermione, who was already sitting in the front row, leisurely flipping through her textbook.

"Oh, Hermione, are you planning to take Muggle Studies?" Harry greeted her. "Then what about Divination class?"

"Eh? Harry?" Hermione looked a bit surprised. "Why would you ask that? I thought you knew."

"Know? Know what?" Harry was also confused.

"Uh, I'll explain later." Hermione said, holding back a laugh.

"Alright, but I'm curious why you still want to take Muggle Studies." Luo En scratched his head. "You should know quite a bit about Muggles."

"It is precisely because I know a lot about Muggles." Hermione said confidently. "Who can refuse a class with a full score on the report card?"

"As for you, Luo En." Harry pointed to his textbook. "You don't know much about Muggles. This class is very useful to you, and if you don't study it well, it's inevitable that you will fail."

"Is it that serious." He muttered while previewing his textbook.

"Oh, children." Dr. Professor Professor Doudou walked into the classroom with a full face of smiles. "I am very happy to see that you are so interested in Muggle stories. We can start class at any time. But before that, I want to introduce myself first."

"In fact, after graduating from Hogwarts, I went to study electrical engineering at a Muggle university and finally obtained a doctorate in mechanical and electrical engineering from Oxford University." He said. "So you can also call me Dr. Professor Professor Doudou."

"Is this true?" Luo En whispered.

"Fake, he went to be an Auror after graduation. It is said that he has been serving as a security guard by the Queen's side and only had some free time in recent years." Harry explained in a low voice.

"Uh, this class is actually intended to teach you some skills in identifying Muggle items and living in Muggle society." Dr. Professor Professor Doudou said. "But I want to start a bit earlier, talking about how Muggles got used to life without wizards after the Statute of Secrecy began to be implemented."

"Of course, regarding how to disguise yourself in the Muggle world, I believe most professors or parents are eager for you to learn this, but it is actually very simple." He shook his head and said. "You can wear wizard robes, wear wizard hats, hold wands, and walk swaggeringly on Muggle streets, telling everyone you meet that you are a wizard."

"No one will believe it." He smiled. "As long as you don't cast spells—of course, even if you cast spells, it doesn't matter. Most Muggles will still think it's some kind of trick, and generally, no one will call the police. Even if someone calls the police, you only need to explain that it's a street magic trick."

"Unless, I mean unless, you go crazy and are determined to break the Statute of Secrecy, tirelessly telling every Muggle policeman that you are a wizard." Dr. Professor Professor Doudou said in a terrifying tone. "Then the Ministry of Magic will send an Accidental Magic Reversal Squad to beat you up and then erase the memories of those Muggles."

"Believe me, they hit quite hard." He showed a lingering fear expression.

The children laughed happily.

"Alright, let's go back to Muggle stories." He wrote three lines on the blackboard. "This class of ours is divided into three parts: the first part is what difficulties Muggles encountered after leaving wizards, the second part is how they were pleasantly surprised to find substitutes for magic, and the third part is the astonishing achievements Muggles have made today."

"So we prepared three sets of textbooks, namely 'Early Muggle Taming Records', 'Human High-Quality Muggles', and 'Muggle Confusing Behavior Awards'. In fact, this also represents the three changes in the views of the Muggle Studies academic circle." Dr. Professor Professor Doudou raised the book in his hand. "Wizards have gone from sympathizing with Muggles, to marveling at Muggle ingenuity, to now almost completely not understanding Muggles."

"In fact, the academic circle now has a hidden tendency to fear Muggles, so much so that the famous Dark Lord publicly expressed his intention to clear Muggles." Dr. Professor Professor Doudou commented objectively on Voldemort's thinking. "This is inaccurate. Fear comes from the unknown. If he were willing to go to a Muggle university to study like me, he would understand that the existence of Muggles is beneficial and harmless to wizards."

"This is because Muggles cannot release magic, but wizards can easily use any Muggle item. As long as you study this class well, you will realize this point."

"Alright, now let's officially start class. Please turn the book to the first chapter, 'Early Muggle Taming Wild Armor Records'." Dr. Professor Professor Doudou raised the textbook in his hand.

In the following class, he vividly described how Muggles independently solved the problem of decorative armor walking around in the castle without the help of wizards after the Statute of Secrecy was signed.

They tried to fix the position of the armor with wooden frames, and even invited strong knights to wear the armor that could walk by itself, because they were certain that as long as the armor felt tired, it might not walk around randomly.

Harry looked at the illustration of "Armor holding a sword and fighting a knight" and almost couldn't help laughing out loud.

Finally, Muggles creatively came up with the idea of misaligned armor, which was to exchange parts of different armor, making each part of an armor come from different sources. This way, when it wanted to take a walk, it wouldn't be able to move randomly because the hands and feet were not its own.

After finishing this part, he turned to the second chapter, explaining how early Muggles tamed dancing knives and forks. They introduced spoons, making the knives and forks realize that their formal tableware status was threatened, and finally had to make a compromise, promising not to cause trouble for diners when on the dining table.

At the end of the course, Dr. Professor Professor Doudou pretended to be moved and praised: "Muggle wisdom is no less than that of wizards. Oh, this is humanity, how great it is."

When walking out of the classroom, Luo En also said with full emotion: "I really don't know that early Muggles encountered so many difficulties, and they overcame them one by one without magic. How magical is this. Hermione, does the armor in your house still move randomly?"

"There is no armor in my house." She said stiffly.

"It can be seen that this problem has not been completely solved. Many Muggles chose a more convenient method, which is not to place armor at home." Dr. Professor Professor Doudou patted Harry on the shoulder.

When he said this, Harry couldn't help but start to suspect. There was no armor placed in Downton, whether it was because of the change in modern aesthetics, or because they would move randomly from time to time? Or, was it precisely because of the restlessness of the armor that it prompted the modern decoration aesthetic of not placing armor?

A Muggle Studies class opened up a brand new train of thought for Harry. The history of the two worlds was not isolated. Before the Statute of Secrecy, it could be judged from a more holistic perspective of human history, and even after the Statute of Secrecy, the mutual influence of the two worlds was reflected in every aspect.

After finishing the Transfiguration class, Harry and Luo En enjoyed a sumptuous lunch together. Hermione looked like she was starving; she ate more than two people, and many people at the dining table cast surprised looks at her.

In the afternoon was Hagrid's Care of Magical Creatures class. Harry was also very expectant. They stepped on the slippery grass and walked toward Hagrid's hut. Hermione followed by their side. She seemed to have been intentionally avoiding Neville since school started. Harry didn't say anything, because he couldn't imagine what topics he could chat with Hermione about.

Hagrid was waiting for his students in front of his hut. He stood there wearing his mole-skin coat, the huge hunting dog Fang following at his feet, looking a bit impatient.

"Come on, children, we are going to explore the most real Forbidden Forest this term." He said loudly, "Of course, we will start from the simple part."

Hagrid led them toward a familiar direction. Harry almost thought Hagrid was going to take them to visit Aragog. If he let the old spider see him and Luo En again, Harry was worried it would be so angry that it would faint.

He stopped in an open space. Harry noticed that there were quite a few fluffy little things on the trees and on the ground around here.

"I am very grateful to the enthusiastic children who gave me quite a few suggestions." Hagrid said, "I believe you will like Puffskeins." ===== CHAPTER 110 =====