Chapter 485: Tiny Flaw

After dinner, Harry and the others sent Princess Sarah away with smiles on their faces, very friendly. However, as soon as the princess left, Eve immediately rolled her eyes with contempt.

"What's with that expression?" Harry looked at her with some dissatisfaction. He had been discussing major events with the princess's aide all afternoon and didn't know how the children were getting along.

"I can only say that this meeting was a hurt to them and the princess," Zhang Qiu evaluated fairly. "Clearly, the princess is also not very happy to contact some... non-normal humans."

Harry felt a bit apologetic, because he felt that he and the aide had a very happy conversation about the university issue.

"And we are also not very happy to listen to her talk about those Muggle house games," Eve rolled her eyes and said. "It's hard to imagine someone spending a long time training horses, and they even arranged competitions for this."

"She also likes to use a Beater's stick to hit a Snitch. Muggles are really," Luo En's expression was also a bit distorted, "sometimes you will feel they are very magical, and sometimes you will feel they are very boring."

"Very normal, magical Muggles and boring Muggles are not the same batch of people," Eve said with disdain. "If she is willing to have more understanding of the Wizarding World, or even read Narnia, but in short, our conclusion is that this Princess Sarah is a boring person without any imagination."

Zhang Qiu laughed out loud, put a hand on Luo En's shoulder, and said happily: "This reminds me of a Chinese idiom story, saying that a wizard is very interested in everything about Muggles. His daily work is to review Muggle items, he has to drive Muggle cars every day, listen to Muggle radios before going to bed, and there are a lot of Muggle books in the room."

"Then one day he met a real Muggle, but he said impatiently, that person is really boring."

Luo En hummed twice with dissatisfaction, but he had no reason to refute.

After a short pause, Harry opened his mouth again to break the silence: "Oh, by the way, I think Eve provided a very good idea."

"Regarding how Muggles should contact and understand the Wizarding World, or which Muggles we should communicate with, there has never been a good medium, or a standard of judgment," Harry said. "And I just happened to think of it, Narnia, this is a very classic magic novel—"

"And to some extent, I think its plot is quite similar to your life experience," Eve added.

Immediately after, Harry raised a finger and continued: "Maybe, but what's important is that we can use this to conduct tests and judgments. For example, a Muggle thinks he is a loyal reader of Narnia, or he likes Lord of the Rings very much. Such a fantasy novel reader who is imaginative and willing to accept supernatural things will be easier to understand and accept the Wizarding World."

"And if a person has heard of fantasy novels but is not interested in them, it means he is more willing to focus on his own real life. For magic, an ability that cannot be learned and mastered by Muggles, he will only keep his distance, and we don't need to tell him the truth of the world," Harry summarized. "And the princess is clearly this kind of person."

"Not really, in fact, the princess belongs to the third kind. She thinks her life is very beautiful, and anything beyond common sense will only destroy that kind of life," Eve said with some dissatisfaction. "Magic in her eyes is no different from heresy. She dismissed Narnia as boring crazy talk. Perhaps in her heart, wizards are all a group of annoying freaks."

Harry was stunned: "Not to that extent, right?"

"At least I can feel that kind of exclusion from her eyes and small movements," Eve sighed. "We are all trying to play a good person."

Zhang Qiu gently hugged her shoulders and said faintly: "She will regret missing a white hat."

Harry's eyes flowed between them, then said nothing, just changed the subject: "It doesn't matter, it's just a failed attempt. In the future when the Statute of Secrecy is crumbling, the Wizarding World and the Muggle world will have more such contacts. At least we got a very good inspiration from it, that is the topic of Narnia that just happens to be suitable."

"Narnia, what is that thing?" Luo En ran off immediately. "You are all talking about it, but I don't know it at all."

"A fantasy novel, and also one of the extracurricular readings for Harry and me when we were young..."

"It's similar to Lord of the Rings," Harry interrupted Eve's explanation. "Luo En has read Lord of the Rings."

"Oh, right, and it was you who sent it to Binsi first, and then I borrowed it back from him," Luo En seemed to be blaming his good brother for not giving him good things earlier. "Speaking of which, I have also been reading a new book recently, Game of Thrones, which Tang Nade sent to me. He said it very early, Lannisters always pay their debts, and Jaime charged at the fire dragon—"

"Wait!" Zhang Qiu suddenly interrupted him. "Are you talking about the story of A Song of Ice and Fire? There are no dragons in the early stage of the story, and when the Dragon Mother returned to Westeros, Jaime should be in the Riverlands. It's impossible for him to face the dragon."

"But Tang Nade said that Jaime was there when King's Landing fell. According to that, he should be in King's Landing at that time," Luo En took half a step back and looked at Zhang Qiu with very suspicious eyes. "But how could you know these? This set of books only published the first volume this year, Tang Nade can know these because he knows the author!"

"Know the author?" Zhang Qiu asked back. "If there are no accidents, the author should have died very early—I read all fourteen volumes of the novel in China. It was written by a missionary who came to China during the Yao era, and it's been almost two hundred years!"

Harry vaguely felt that there might be some trick in this ordinary fantasy novel.

"This is easy to explain," before Harry could think carefully, Eve interrupted his train of thought. "Perhaps the missionary had inspiration and wrote an opening, and then he set off for China and completed the subsequent creation. As for the writer Tang Nade knows, it is clear that he accidentally saw the opening and had inspiration, and started writing the sequel."

Zhang Qiu shook her head with a solemn expression. She sat down and said very seriously: "This is not right. If it was just a writer borrowing the manuscript of a predecessor to get inspiration, even if he said that the writer Tang Nade knows plagiarized the Chinese novel, he would definitely change the character names. It is too abnormal to copy everything like this."

"Then why could it be?" Harry also felt this trick. "If it was just a novel, no matter where the writers got the inspiration, he wouldn't have to strictly respect the character names. Even if what you discovered today is that the plot is similar, it is all understandable, but the character names are the same, only the plot is somewhat different. I think this is very difficult to explain."

"What if the missionary back then wrote a lot, and wrote it very well?" Eve continued to guess. "The writer Tang Nade knows wants to respect the achievements of his predecessors, and also wants to write the sequel for it himself, so he completely followed the character names?"

"Then how much did he have to write?" Zhang Qiu asked back. "If Luo En and I both know that Daenerys returned to Westeros, and even King's Landing fell, then he must have written at least to the sixth or seventh volume."

"Perhaps it's a guess," Eve shrugged. "If the opening wrote the story of that Dragon Mother, then anyone would know that the author wouldn't write such a character for no reason."

"But to be honest, I can't imagine what the scene of King's Landing falling would be like," Luo En shook his head. "Ned is a character I like very much. I really don't want to see him and Daenerys be enemies. In fact, I think most readers don't want to see that scene."

"He was killed by Cersei," Zhang Qiu said unsparingly. "If the person ruling King's Landing is the fool Cersei, do you feel that Daenerys attacking King's Landing is very satisfying?"

Luo En widened his eyes. Clearly, Tang Nade didn't tell him these. Then, after a long time, he reacted and said angrily: "Hey, how can you say it in advance?"

"He died in the first volume, you will see it soon." Zhang Qiu shrugged.

Eve followed up: "That's right, the missionary back then just happened to finish the first volume."

"I think things are not that simple," Harry, who had been listening to their debate, gave his opinion. "Assuming that the writer Tang Nade knows got inspiration from the missionary's manuscript, then he wouldn't fail to notice that the missionary went to China. He should easily find the full text of the novel from China."

"Do you think it's easy for ordinary people to contact China?" Eve asked back. "They have never communicated with the world for hundreds of years."

"For that writer who knows Tang Nade, it's easy, because Tang Nade and Xuanjun have a good relationship," Harry shook his head lightly. "If Tang Nade really heard about these stories of dragons and having debts to pay five years ago, I remember that was when we were in the second year, then he must not have failed to notice that China has such a complete novel in these five years, especially since the sales of this book in China must be good, because Zhang Qiu finished reading it."

Zhang Qiu seemed to be shaken. She explained: "Actually, the sales are quite poor. It's just that I have some understanding of the Middle Ages here, so I have some interest. People in the country generally think that the stories in the book are too far away, and the conspiracy means are too low-level, just as evidence to prove the superiority of China."

Eve spread her hands and said very naturally: "Things are just like this. Perhaps that writer felt sorry for the missionary's talent not being appreciated by the Chinese, so he translated it and continued to publish it."

"No, no, I think I need to find a chance to ask Xuanjun personally," Harry said very seriously. "When a thing involves Xuanjun and Tang Nade at the same time, I immediately start to suspect that it is related to the legendary lost civilization. And this time the situation is particularly tricky, or, what era is the missionary you mentioned, will it happen to be Xuanjun's youth?"

"It seems so..." Zhang Qiu answered hesitantly.

What really made Harry care was that he would never forget the pressure the old man brought to him. He desperately hoped to find some things that could help him form defenses against Ge Xuan. And if he wanted to find some weaknesses and flaws of Xuanjun, he had to start from his youth. I am afraid this book is a rare opportunity. ===== CHAPTER 486 =====