Scrimgeour was an extremely powerful wizard, gifted at dueling and possessing a wealth of combat experience.
In fact, the Auror Office was the Wizarding World's only official force of violence, and it maintained an exceptionally high level of combat readiness year-round.
Among the Aurors still alive today, who had survived their battles, there were many powerful wizards besides Scrimgeour, including Kingsley Shacklebolt, Mad-Eye Moody, and the Longbottoms.
Even if they weren't quite as powerful as people like Professor McGonagall and Professor Snape, the gap between them wasn't all that wide.
Their rigorous selection process, their training focused on lethal combat magic, and their constant exposure to high-intensity battles all helped ensure this.
They were among the tiny handful of the Wizarding World's very best.
But even so, Scrimgeour still couldn't understand how Anton's "Mind Bus" spell worked.
Cornelius Fudge, a poor student whose head held nothing but calculations of self-interest, was even less likely to understand. To him, Anton making the entire Black Lake float with a Levitation Charm was far more impressive than this so-called "Mind Bus."
After all, that magic had been so direct and spectacular.
So when it came to the things Dumbledore and Anton discussed next, the two men could only stare blankly at each other, completely bewildered.
They probably understood only that Dumbledore had a book laying out the most basic theories of Transfiguration in Anton's possession, and that Anton apparently hadn't read it.
As for the things Dumbledore mentioned—"changing state," "state of existence," and "state of possibility"—they truly couldn't make heads or tails of them.
The book Albus's World of Transfiguration was a sort of little game of intellectual sparring between Dumbledore and Anton.
Dumbledore had believed that once Anton reached a certain state, he would be able to open the book, and the