"Wizard Tournament Gazette" caused a sensation as soon as it went on sale. Aside from the various articles about the competition that Lockhart had carefully prepared, the front-page headline featured an article by Anton.
Anton had delved deeply into Gray Magic. What he could jot down casually was revolutionary to everyone else.
Wizards had originated from Muggles?
That was absolutely insane!
Countless people wanted to refute him. They waved newspapers around and roared from every corner about Anton's heresy, proclaiming the nobility of wizards and insisting that they were born as an entirely different species from Muggles.
Magical Species and Non-Magical Species—someone proposed these terms.
Some even clutched Anton's book, "Wizards as Gods," and ranted about the difference between "gods" and "mortals."
Well, that argument was probably the least convincing of all. The "Wizards as Gods" described in Anton's book referred to a spellcasting technique, not some theory of bloodlines.
Ultimately, Anton's claims weren't just an argument. They were an entire theory.
In all the long ages that wizards had existed, there had hardly ever been anyone like Anton: someone who took magic apart, examining every detail so closely and explaining how it worked.
How could anyone offer a theory of their own, one they believed to be right, and use it to refute him?
As for the inexplicable doctrine of blood superiority born from their culture, it was even less capable of explaining anything about magic.
They couldn't even accept that Fantastic Beasts had more magic than wizards, let alone that a random magical Herb could hold more magic than even the most powerful wizard.
Did that make any sense?
Those who opposed Anton could only say that wizards could cast spells, and that wizards from Pure-blood families had an extraordinary gift from birth. Muggles, on the other hand,