Snape asked, "So this entirely new magic can awaken animals' intelligence, and even give them magical abilities?"
"That's right."
"Then are you planning to have each of us raise a pet to help us fight?"
"Of course not."
Edward shook his head and placed Lilith on his shoulder. "Lilith was simply the quickest way to give you an initial understanding of this 'magic.'"
"Next, I'll give you a simple, direct demonstration of an ability."
"For example."
Edward said in Hermes, "Magic Is Forbidden Here."
Bang!
Snape shot to his feet, crashing into the table with a loud noise. "You... what have you done?"
Only then did the others react. To their astonishment, they discovered... they seemed to have lost their magic power and could no longer cast magic.
In other words, they had become Muggles!
Despite knowing Edward was giving a demonstration, everyone still couldn't help panicking. Molly: Oh, heavens, without magic, how am I going to cook from now on?
Dumbledore was briefly stunned. "Oh, no wonder you said you were confident you could deal with Voldemort when you came back this time."
For an old fellow like him, who had been a wizard for over a hundred years, mastered countless spells, and considered his strength exceptional, becoming a physically frail old man because of a single sentence was an enormous blow.
It felt as though someone had brutally trampled underfoot the abilities, and even the dignity, he had cherished and taken pride in all his life-this was even more despair-inducing than when he and Grindelwald had foreseen the development of Muggle technology.
Edward lifted the prohibition then.
"This is only one of the abilities I possess, but I believe everyone here has now experienced it fully."
Snape slowly sat down, his fingers clenched white, and murmured, "So, so...