The last incident was still fresh in Hermione's memory. It was precisely because she realized she couldn't even understand what Roger was researching that she abandoned her one-sided 'competition' with him.
You want me to learn that?
Am I worthy? Roger felt Hermione was overthinking it.
Because it was intended for a wider audience, the version he and Dumbledore had refined was much easier to start with.
"This is..." Upon entering the Headmaster's office, Dumbledore looked at Roger, who had brought Hermione along, with a hint of confusion in his eyes.
Roger casually explained the entire story.
After listening, Dumbledore looked at Hermione and sighed softly. In truth, as the school nurse of Hogwarts, Britain's only magical school, Madam Pomfrey's skill was in no way inferior to the healers at St. Mungo's.
While Madam Pomfrey, due to her limited knowledge of Hermione's daily life, couldn't diagnose Hermione's situation as precisely as Roger, she still understood the general cause.
If Hermione had believed Madam Pomfrey's words, thinking it was just her own oversensitivity, and simultaneously taken the calming draughts as prescribed, her 'condition' would not have developed into its current severity.
It could only be said that her near-perfect memory had helped her greatly, but it had also harmed her.
"But are you sure this is really okay?" Dumbledore asked.
The Three-Dimensional Theory was proposed by Roger. Although Dumbledore had helped refine it considerably, Roger was still the owner, and how he chose to handle it was his prerogative. However, as the Headmaster of Hogwarts, and concerning his other students, Dumbledore couldn't let Roger make such a decision on a whim.
"From an impact perspective, this is something that will eventually be made public. It's fine for her to try learning it first. As for whether she's suitable to learn it, I believe there are very few people within Hogwarts more suitable than her," Roger replied with certainty.
The biggest difference between the Three-Dimensional Theory and traditional magic was that it could be analyzed and understood logically.
Wizards like Hermione Granger, who came from Muggle families and had received Muggle education, would be a better fit for this path than ordinary wizards.
Of course, traditional wizards weren't barred from learning it.
The perspective from which one understands the world is not singular.
If you insisted on applying the logic of 'Yin-Yang, Five Elements, Damp Heat Paralysis' to the Three-Dimensional Theory, you could, but you would have to be 'realistic'. Otherwise, it would be very difficult to go far on this path.
...Actually, Roger had considered the paths of 'idealism' and 'materialism' back then.
If he were to develop solely in magic, then naturally, the further he went down the idealistic path, the better, as it was the path most aligned with the essence of magic.
However, what Roger wanted was absolute Eternal Life! And magic alone was not enough to support absolute Eternal Life.
It is known that the universe is not unique. What if a powerful being passed by and casually crushed this universe? Roger would be useless even if he mastered all the magic in the world.
Assuming the existence of other worlds, Roger naturally had to establish a system that encompassed everything. And it would definitely be a system where both idealism and materialism walked hand-in-hand, allowing him to walk more steadily and further.
He wouldn't reach the limit of magic and then not know how to proceed, nor would he encounter the unfortunate problem of having to start all over again when he entered a different world.
All paths return to the One, the One proves eternal, and the myriad tribulations cannot destroy... If you can't even achieve these, what's the point of Eternal Life? Dumbledore looked at Roger, but in Roger's pupils, he saw something familiar.
It was a sense of confidence, born from the ability to handle any situation, no matter what happened.
It was something Dumbledore had once possessed.
His past self was the same, which was why he always let the children experience more and grow more.
Even if something went wrong, he could handle it and resolve it.
Until he met Roger, this confidence of his disappeared, and he began to become cautious.
After a few seconds of eye contact, Dumbledore averted his gaze.
"Alright, if that's your decision, and if she's willing." Dumbledore no longer objected.
Was Hermione willing?
It was as if someone was offering her two tons of legally acquired gold – a question that didn't require any thought.
Who wouldn't want to become stronger?
After Dumbledore nodded, Roger didn't immediately take out books to start the 'lesson'.
Roger's initial purpose in teaching Hermione the Three-Dimensional Theory was not to test anything, nor was it to make Hermione an unparalleled powerhouse.
It was to help Hermione re-establish her confidence and give her a goal to strive for.
Therefore, Roger's first lesson with Hermione began with a Pensieve.
"To give you a general understanding of the Three-Dimensional Theory, I will demonstrate what I can do with the power of dimensions."
Actually, a practical demonstration would have been better, but testing this within Hogwarts grounds might provoke the British government into starting a nuclear war.
He could only make do with the Pensieve's memory playback function.
"This is..." Hermione, her thoughts entering the Pensieve, stared blankly at everything before her.
Although he called it making do, the experience provided by the Pensieve was immersive.
It wasn't much worse than a practical demonstration.
The rain flowing upstream into the sky from the sea was already a miracle that Hermione Granger, a 12-year-old young wizard, had never witnessed before.
Then, with a thermonuclear fusion, a second sun appeared, creating the miraculous sight of two suns in the sky. Hermione, who knew what a nuclear bomb was, trembled all over.
Finally, when a giant of light, with a temperature exceeding 200 million degrees Celsius, fell into the sea and boiled the ocean, her eyes were almost wide enough to split open.
She knew there was an insurmountable gap between her and Roger.
But she never expected it to be a gap of this magnitude! I thought you were Mike Tyson, but you're actually Taro!
Hermione was still in shock, unable to snap out of it, as her thoughts left the Pensieve.
These scenes, which would have horrified even Dumbledore, were far too intense for a 12-year-old child.
After a long while, Hermione looked blankly at Roger. "...Are you a god?"
Hermione wasn't a slacker like Ron Weasley, who spent all day playing wizard chess. Influenced by the trend Roger had set, her reading volume had become incredibly extensive.
Wizarding history was also something Hermione was very familiar with.
She was quite certain that she hadn't encountered any wizard in historical records with such overwhelming physical destructive power, and that spell was most likely one he had created himself.
Is this even human?! Hermione's worldview, already shaken by magic, began to waver once more.
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Roger looked genuinely confused.
"How could I possibly be a god?"
If being able to create thermonuclear fusion and matter reorganization counted as being a god, then such a god would be far too cheap.
This wasn't like Japan, where spirits and monsters from every nook and cranny, even river sprites and tanuki, could have shrines built for them and be worshipped.
In Roger's impression, one would at least need to transcend space, time, and causality, standing above the universe like the Principle of the Circle, to cross the threshold of 'godhood.'
"Alright, don't think about such absurd things. That's just magic."
"Study hard, and one day you'll be able to do something similar."
Why not the same?
Roger's most proficient magic was Transfiguration, which had led to the creation of magic like Plutonium Man.
Hermione's strengths lay elsewhere, and naturally, she would develop in different directions.
Each person is unique. Everyone cultivates the same fundamental methods, but the 'fruits' they ultimately bear are a hundred flowers blooming in a riot of color! This is the profound mystery of the Three-Dimensional Theory.
As long as one is unwilling to be a follower and is determined to forge their own path, then each person's path will be the unique one most suited to them!
Take Dumbledore, for instance. Over the past month and more, he had also begun to gradually transform Roger's path into his own.
Roger was skilled in Transfiguration, and Dumbledore was also skilled in Transfiguration, but their developmental directions were vastly different.
It wouldn't be an exaggeration to describe it as a difference of a hair's breadth leading to a thousand-mile divergence.
With this thought, Roger suddenly turned to look at Dumbledore. "Headmaster Dumbledore, are you interested in demonstrating your research results to Hermione?"
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