Don't Mention My Name When You Get Beaten Up Later

Harry's mind was already picturing himself after learning powerful magic.

When Dudley provoked him, he would flash a calm, faint smile just like Uncle Mu En's.

Dudley would surely try to get physical. Knowing Dudley, he'd grab Harry's clothes first, intending to throw him.

Then, Harry would calmly raise his hand, his fingers shimmering slightly, and fling Dudley into the flower bushes in front of the entire school.

Afterward, he'd brush off his clothes and say, "Don't get my..."

"What are you thinking about?" Mu En's voice snapped Harry back.

Harry flinched, his face flushing. He coughed twice. "N-nothing."

Mu En couldn't help but chuckle. He had a vague idea of what Harry was imagining, and he could understand it. He'd had similar fantasies when he was younger.

"Don't get ahead of yourself," Mu En said with a smile.

Hearing this, Harry's mind flashed back to Mu En's "you'll have it coming" smile.

"First, we need to understand what Magic Power is. Oh, do you need a notebook?"

"Yes!" Harry blurted out instinctively, not even sitting down yet.

Mu En got up and headed to the basement. After a moment, he returned with a stack of yellow parchment, a fountain pen, and several items Harry didn't recognize, including a small wand.

It looked exactly like the wands the wizards in Diagon Alley were holding.

Mu En placed the stack of parchment in front of Harry and handed him the pen.

"I'll use this to take notes?" Harry asked, surprised.

Mu En gave a mysterious smile. "Using this has a certain flair, makes it seem like it was crafted by ancient masters."

Harry nodded in understanding. So that's how it was.

"Back to the main topic. Don't just write down what I say! After I finish speaking, you should review my words and take notes in your own way. Understand?"

Harry nodded repeatedly, his heart filled with anticipation for magic. "I understand."

"To get started with magic, you absolutely cannot avoid the topic of Magic Power," Mu En said slowly, leaning back on the sofa like an old man telling a story.

"Magic Power is an abstract concept, not a tangible energy. You can think of it as the physical strength we need for Spellcasting.

Physical strength is consumed, recovered, and increased. Magic Power is the same.

If the laws of the World are like strings on a lute, then spells are the sheet music, and Magic Power is the plectrum that plucks the strings. Without Magic Power, you cannot connect with the laws of the World, and therefore cannot cast spells. Do you understand?"

"I understand," Harry nodded. It wasn't difficult to grasp.

Mu En nodded, giving Harry time to take notes, then straightened up. "Now that we've covered Magic Power, let's talk about how to use it."

"Wands?" Harry asked.

"Bingo!" Mu En praised slightly. "But that's not entirely accurate. It's just that wands are the mainstream method for wizards to cast spells nowadays."

As he spoke, Mu En spread out all the items he had brought upstairs in front of Harry.

There was a dried, shriveled lizard, a plump-looking pufferfish, rings, and a wand.

He even saw Uncle Mu En take off a pile of rings from his hand and then pull out the wand, taller than himself, that he had seen before from his sleeve.

"These are all items used to channel Magic Power. We can collectively call them – Casting Implements."

With that, Mu En divided all the items into two piles, left and right.

"You have Magic Power within you, we can agree on that, right?"

"Yes," Harry nodded. "But... I can't feel it, and I can't control it."

"That's normal. Most people can't control Magic Power. In ancient times, spellcasters even considered magic a divine miracle and defined themselves as people who communicated with spirits." Mu En said.

"So, are there really gods in this world?"

"This world doesn't know. But I met one before, and I wanted to kill it, but I lost... No, don't get sidetracked!" Mu En suddenly realized.

"Sorry," Harry quickly lowered his head, smiling awkwardly and avoiding Mu En's gaze.

"Most people's Magic Power is chaotic. So, throughout the long history of magic, Casting Implements have been divided into two types."

Mu En pointed to the pile on his left: two rings, a small wand Harry had seen before, and some bracelets, eyeball pendants, and so on.

"These are Conductors. They are responsible for drawing out Magic Power, allowing the spellcaster to complete Spellcasting normally."

Then he pointed to the other side, which included the rings Mu En had worn before, bracelets, and the enormous wand.

"These are Amplifiers. They can enhance the effectiveness of the spellcaster's spells, achieving twice the result with half the effort."

Mu En noticed Harry's intense gaze fixed on the Conductors. At the same time, Harry asked with some anticipation, "So, Uncle Mu En, with just a Conductor, even I could successfully cast magic?"

Mu En nodded. "That's right. Conductors can help spellcasters correctly guide their Magic Power to complete Spellcasting."

After speaking, he changed the subject and asked, "Have you noticed any difference between these Conductors and Amplifiers on the table?"

Harry looked closely but couldn't see any difference between the two. They both came in various forms: wands, rings, bracelets, and even some seemingly gruesome animal products.

Similarly, they all bore different artificial marks, no natural items...

Harry looked and looked, racking his brain for a long time, before coming up with a rather strange answer.

He then replied somewhat uncertainly, "These amplifiers, Uncle Mu En, are all on your person. And these conductors were just brought up from the basement."

"That's right!!" Mu En nodded, affirming Harry's answer. He then said seriously:

"Harry, the first thing I must tell you is that what I say is not absolutely correct. In the path of magic, everyone has their own views.

So even my words, and the knowledge in books, you must remember to view them with a dialectical perspective."

"I understand," Harry nodded.

Seeing Harry nod, Mu En pushed all the conductors aside: "So what I'm saying is, all wizards who use conductors are trash!!"

"Huh?" Harry gasped in shock.

Mu En continued, "Don't even think about these conductors. If you can't control your magic power on your own, I will never let you touch a casting implement."

!!

Mu En's words instantly destroyed Harry's little idea. He looked bitter, but after a moment, he nodded firmly again.

"I know, I'll work hard!"

Saying that, he wrote in his notebook: "Wizards who can't cast spells independently are trash!!"

Harry had clearly taken Mu En's words to heart, changing "use conductors" to "can't cast spells independently."

Mu En looked at what Harry had written and showed a look of relief.

This kid is truly smart.

Actually, in his previous world, there was a detailed process for how wizard apprentices learned to control their magic power. But this world seemed to have chosen another path.

A path that relied on conductors.

He had previously confiscated several wands from the Ministry of Magic and researched them. How to put it...

These wands had very low amplification efficiency for spellcasters. The core and rune sections were all designed to guide and stabilize the wizard's internal magic power. As for amplification efficiency, it all depended on the wood of the wand itself.

For example, the warlike nature of aspen wood provided a slight amplification for some attack spells.

And the toughness of cedar wood, in the hands of someone with strong willpower, would slightly increase their spellcasting efficiency.

But the amplification efficiency was generally quite ordinary.

Of course, Mu En wasn't looking down on it. The formation of a world's magic system inevitably has historical reasons, and it must be viewed macroscopically.

If the wands in this world tend to be standardized conductors, then their wizard population must be much larger, and there would naturally be many mid-level experts. After all, everyone can cast spells and participate in magic research.

This point had already been confirmed by the Complete Book of Household Charms and the fact that a low-level minion used an Instant Death Curse that touched the origin to attack him.

If Mu En's previous world was like a pyramid, then this world tended towards an olive shape.

With everyone having such easy-to-use conductors, there wouldn't be too many beginners at the bottom.

His previous remarks... were just to give Harry some motivation.

After all, he didn't want the person he was mentoring to only be in the middle of the olive.

As for the sentence Harry had written in his notebook...

Mu En stood up and patted Harry's shoulder: "If you get beaten up at school in the future, remember not to mention my name."