Dumbledore's Conjecture

"The Headmaster agreed, Percy. Just wait for the owl."

Voldemort smiled and said, "Come to my office tonight. I need to have a meeting with you all."

"Thank you very much, Professor. What time do I need to be there?"

"Eight o'clock. The meeting won't be long," Voldemort said, waving him off to go eat.

After Percy left, he brought over a bowl of pumpkin soup and a meat pie, and began to eat while reading his book.

Origin of Magic. He was reading this book because he wanted to explore the roots of magic—every outsider, it seemed, had such thoughts.

Unfortunately, however, the book offered no clear answers. According to its contents, the specific origin of magic had never been recorded in history.

The book contained many speculations about the missing origin of magic. Voldemort vaguely remembered the most convincing ones:

The first theory: Magic predates the appearance of writing, making it impossible to record the origin of magic.

The second theory: Through long family and master-apprentice lineages, the origin of magic was lost in the river of history as families and factions died out.

The third theory: The witch hunts of the Middle Ages caused a great schism in the wizarding world, preventing wizards from hiding such forbidden items, leading to a break in wizarding history.

The fourth theory: During the time magic circulated in the world, people didn't think it needed to be recorded. By the time they wanted to find answers, those answers had already been buried by the river of history.

Besides these, there were many conspiracy theories, such as conspiracies by pure-blood families or the Ministry of Magic causing trouble. However, the book only briefly touched upon these less reliable claims.

Voldemort didn't believe any one theory was more correct. He was too lazy to delve into the issue, as he considered it meaningless.

Instead, the speculations about the origin of magic were what he truly wanted to understand, and most of the book was related to this:

First speculation: Bloodline Theory.

Bloodlines created wizards. Squibs were rare among pure-bloods, while children of Muggle-born wizards had a high probability of lacking magical talent. This suggested that wizards originated from bloodlines.

Second speculation: Destiny Theory.

There were Squibs among pure-bloods, and children with magical talent could be born to Muggles. This suggested that destiny bestowed magical talent upon children.

Third speculation: Mutation Theory.

Wizards were mutated humans, and this mutation could be inherited through bloodlines. This could well explain wizards among Muggles and Squibs among pure-bloods, as both were considered mutated.

Fourth speculation: Ancients' Creation Theory.

Wizards had many special bloodlines, such as Metamorphmagus, Blood Curse, Veela Constitution, and so on. Perhaps the ancients stole the blood of Magical Creatures and gained abilities from it.

Fifth speculation: Magical Creature Theory.

Wizards were not human but a type of Magical Creature distinct from humans. Through long periods of mating and evolution, they eventually took human form.

Sixth speculation: God of Magic Theory.

There existed an invisible God of Magic who manipulated everything from behind the scenes, deciding who was human and who was a wizard.

Beyond these, there were many other speculations, some seeming quite reasonable, but more were absurd and unrestrained.

The book provided evidence for all these speculations, while also pointing out their flaws.

Take Ancients' Creation Theory, for example. According to this theory, wizards were artificially created by consuming, applying externally, or injecting the blood of Magical Creatures, thereby turning humans into wizards.

Within this conjecture, there was a powerful counter-argument:

Gentlemen who propose this conjecture, please tell us, where did the Magical Creatures come from?

A simple rhetorical question made this conjecture teeter precariously. The text below also listed some rebuttals from wizards, but none were convincing.

Voldemort found himself lost among these speculations, as if each had some merit, yet none could explain everything clearly.

"Page 236, let's see what Dumbledore wrote..."

Voldemort muttered to himself, turning the book to page 236.

Indeed, on the side of this page, there were many densely written words. He had skimmed through a lot of content during his initial read, so he hadn't noticed this handwritten annotation.

He first turned his gaze to the main content of the page:

Does He truly exist?

If He exists, how does He make decisions?

Some speculate that He might determine the fate of children by rolling dice. Let's not discuss the truthfulness of this conjecture for now.

If He truly exists—let's assume so for the moment—then, while being the God of Magic, could He also be the deity of Muggles?

This was a bold conjecture. But if this were the case, then Vampires, Werewolves, Veela, Goblins... so many races might share a single deity.

Then, does He truly possess life?

This large section of text was circled and an arrow pointed to the side. Below it were Dumbledore's annotations, which Voldemort eagerly began to read:

Does He truly possess life?

A deafening question. These were the most astonishing words I've read in ten years, and the ones that have enlightened me the most.

For a long time, I focused on researching the origin of magic and explored countless hypotheses, but no answer satisfied me.

Until this sentence appeared, I couldn't help but wonder, what if the God of Magic is not a living being, but a Magic Origin?

Like magic itself, it is wondrous and elusive.

We can assume it has several traits:

Bloodline Trait: Passed down through blood, but with a certain chance of breaking.

Random Trait: Randomly bestowed upon a person, such as the child of a Muggle.

Hidden Trait: Many Squibs showed magical talent as children, but they couldn't use magic after becoming adults. However, perhaps the talent is still there, just hidden.

We can think of more traits for it, enough to satisfy all speculation, but the same question troubles me:

Does it truly exist?

I don't know, but I want to try, to search for this lifeless source of magic.

Here, I will write down my thoughts on the search, so that viewers can follow this path, or other paths, to continue exploring.

I will choose a magic that I am most familiar with and is sufficiently magical, and try to find the root of magic within magic.

We must always pick fruit from the tree, not from its reflection below.

I hope this is the right direction, although I don't hold out much hope for it anymore, I am too old.

Later generations, please continue to explore the mysteries of magic, it is magnificent here.

The text ends here without a signature. If Dumbledore hadn't mentioned it, it was a passage he wrote, and Voldemort wouldn't have paid much attention to it.

But after he read this passage carefully, his heart couldn't help but become excited.

"The source of magic hidden within magic, very much like the Cosmic Constant proposed by Einstein. This might be a great guess, but no matter what, we'll only know after trying..."

Voldemort, in his excitement, made three meat patties, far exceeding his usual portion. Only by doing so could he quell the excitement in his heart.

As for action...

At nine o'clock, he needed to go to the second-floor Defense Against the Dark Arts classroom to teach the seventh-year Ravenclaw students. This was his first class after joining Hogwarts.

He couldn't find any reason to ask for leave, not a single one.