Roger's existence rewrote many people's destinies, and Hermione was one of them, with a particularly significant change.
Originally, she was supposed to be part of the Golden Trio, becoming close friends with Harry and Ron, enduring hardships, and ultimately defeating Voldemort. Years later, she would have become the next Minister for Magic in Britain.
But as things stood now, Harry had embarked on a different path, Voldemort was becoming increasingly monstrous, and Hermione, lacking the trials she was meant to face, had a different mindset.
She had even begun to doubt her own magical talent due to various reasons, developing an illness.
Her original destiny was on the verge of collapse.
In Roger's eyes, since his existence had caused her fate to twist onto this path, he shouldn't turn a blind eye to her suffering.
During the previous academic year, Roger had taught her the Three-Dimensional Law to heal her.
Hermione was the fourth person, after Roger, Dumbledore, and Professor McGonagall, to master the Three-Dimensional Law.
Since Roger had primarily taught the Three-Dimensional Law to Hermione to treat her magical illness caused by her loss of confidence, he hadn't paid much attention to her magical development.
He had only given her some advice to prevent her from going astray.
He also instructed her to keep it a secret and not to spread the Three-Dimensional Law without authorization.
After that, he completely let her be.
While at school, Hermione's practice of the Three-Dimensional Law had been a steady process of building a foundation, so no major issues arose.
However, the situation changed after the holidays.
Hermione was startled when she heard the term "Second Magic," as Roger had told her to keep that matter confidential.
It was precisely for this reason that Hermione hadn't contacted Roger by letter when problems arose.
She was worried that mailing a letter might lead to a leak.
But soon, Hermione discovered the magical wards Roger had set up around her.
Hermione gave Luna a deep look. She could tell that this child had not been excluded.
But she didn't say anything. Roger must have his reasons for doing things; after all, he was the Seer.
Without overthinking it, Hermione began to recount her experiences during the summer break.
The matter wasn't complicated.
After losing the opportunity for a deep friendship with Harry, Hermione had, by chance, made other friends.
Britain was powerful, but excluding its colonies, its own territory wasn't very large. Hermione and her new friends lived quite close to each other.
Naturally, someone invited Hermione over to play during the summer holidays.
Hermione pursued knowledge and power, but the purpose of her pursuit was to become the core of her social circle, an indispensable part of the group.
This was a psychological need that arose when, as a Muggle-born who had suddenly entered the wizarding world with no elder to rely on, she had to face a strange world alone as an 11-year-old.
She yearned for courage, and she possessed it. There was a reason she was sorted into Gryffindor.
Gryffindor not only symbolized courage but also boldness and generosity.
As the Sorting Hat had said, the criteria for sorting wouldn't be too high, as some young wizards couldn't be left without a house.
However, students did possess the traits symbolized by their houses to varying degrees.
Although Hermione had read about the brutal battles and the aftermath of wars in History of Magic and Muggle history books, words were just words. Hermione had treated them as another set of formulas to memorize, similar to 1+1=2.
That's how it should have been.
Until Hermione truly saw the house-elves serving her classmates at their homes.
Wearing ragged pillowcases, bowing, kneeling, as lowly as the dirt.
In this modern society where slavery was a thing of the past, Hermione, who had received a basic education in "freedom," found it incomprehensible.
She couldn't understand why anyone would naturally enslave other intelligent beings with whom they could communicate without language barriers.
It was as if there was nothing wrong with it.
Yes, there were house-elves serving wizards in the Hogwarts kitchens and other areas.
But the generous treatment at Hogwarts and the fact that house-elves rarely appeared before young wizards meant Hermione hadn't realized it.
How much suffering of countless beings was condensed into a single line of text in history?
She argued with her friends, but her friends instead found Hermione to be making a fuss over nothing.
Their different upbringings led to serious ideological differences between them.
However, these differences didn't manifest in everyday life.
It was like how most people don't go around asking their colleagues about their political stances.
The two parties parted ways unhappily.
Later, Hermione tried to contact the house-elves but was met with disappointment once again.
Through generations of 'upbringing,' house-elves have become completely subservient to wizards; they even consider house-elves without masters to be abnormal.
She refused the helping hand Hermione tried to extend.
The young Hermione couldn't comprehend everything before her.
The world depicted in books and the real world were drastically diverging at that moment.
The shattering of her worldview, becoming an outcast among her friends once again, the impact of moral concepts...
The successive blows left her unsure of how to conduct herself, and it was then that Roger's Three-Dimensional Law appeared in her mind.
Self-dimension, medium dimension, external dimension.
"Magic is a power that can bring miracles..." Hermione murmured Roger's words and began her spellcasting.
Dimensional Magic, born from her longing!
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If one were to view Hermione's life from a third-person perspective, it would be easy to see that the word 'incomprehensible' permeated everything she experienced.
The wizarding world was entirely foreign to her; she couldn't understand it, so she used Muggle 'order' to define everything and build a comfort zone for herself.
She wished for everything around her to be orderly, which made her personality seem a bit rigid.
And this layer of defense was also incomprehensible to her young wizard classmates.
Before Roger intervened to resolve the conflict between her and Ron, allowing Hermione to learn to consider others' perspectives, a deep rift existed between them because of it.
Furthermore, her insufficient understanding of the essence of magic led her to develop a "magic sickness."
Her understanding of the operational mechanisms of real society was flawed, causing her to break with her friends.
Her inability to understand the thoughts of house-elves broke her heart.
Therefore, in her extreme longing.
The magic born under her wand was—
[Dimensional Magic: Mind Connects All Phenomena!]
At the time, Roger had used himself as a bridge, linking her and Ron's minds to resolve their conflict, ushering Hermione's life into a new turning point.
That experience had a profound impact on Hermione.
So, in her longing, her Dimensional Magic unfolded in a similar fashion.
This power could connect various things and beings, allowing the other party to truly understand one's thoughts and simultaneously allowing oneself to understand the other's true intentions.
On the surface, it seemed unremarkable, similar to the mind-linking Roger had played with before, not worthy of being called Dimensional Magic.
But in reality, it made deep use of the self-dimension and medium dimension.
For example...
It could also be used to connect magic power! "This thing..." Roger felt it looked more and more familiar the more he looked at it.
It could link everyone's thoughts and even to some extent control magic power.
Wasn't this magic just the chakra used by those "Mangekyo Sharingan" users?! It's just that it wasn't fused from spiritual energy and cellular energy.
Otherwise, Roger would have thought he'd walked onto the wrong set, that Hermione's last name wasn't Granger, but Ōtsutsuki! Hearing this, Roger frowned, but Hermione continued.
"After I gained this power, I tried to communicate with my friends and the house-elves again."
Although this power was incredible, Hermione hadn't forgotten her original aspirations because of it.
"For the first time, I realized that the world seen through wizards' eyes is completely different from that of Muggles."
"On the surface, the wizarding society's structure has entered the modern era, but in reality, wizarding society has remained stuck in the stage of 'the strong rule, and do as they please' from beginning to end."
At this point, Hermione couldn't help but feel a bit dejected.
Although she had resolved the conflicts with her friends and understood the will of the house-elves, she found that she couldn't seem to do anything.
Through repeated thought-linking, she clearly understood that society was the way it was because it was the most suitable.
Unless a massive positive variable appeared, any rash changes would only make things worse.
It's like the US doesn't know there are traitors in healthcare and the military? Do many countries in the world not know the dangers of certain economic bubbles? But what can be done? If you dare to make a move, the other side dares to make a move too.
At that time, others might even pick up the spoils, so it's better to just muddle along.
Everyone trusts the wisdom of future generations together.
After the era of humanity shining like stars, came the era of the Great Race to the Bottom.
"Wizarding society does as it pleases? Muggle society isn't any better," Roger scoffed, having just experienced the entire Gulf War two years prior.
It's the pot calling the kettle black.
Roger had no interest in discussing this issue further.
In his eyes, all the chaos in social systems were superficial phenomena; the root cause was human nature.
Instead of trying to fix the symptoms, why not research how to elevate humanity's life to a higher dimension and fix the root cause?
Roger had always only cared about magic, believing that this miraculous power held the answers to everything in the universe. "It's great that you've found something you want to do."
"But I can't give you any guidance in this area. Everyone has to walk their own life path."
"All I can give you is a word of advice."
"Don't forget that you are a student of Hogwarts. This is the cradle of youth for all wizards in Britain. No matter what you want to do, this is a suitable stage."
"And the advice is..." Roger paused here.
"You'd best not anchor the power from your dimensional magic as your Second Magic!"
Roger, Dumbledore, and Professor McGonagall had all been researching the Three-Dimensional Law.
Roger was even one of the founders.
Their research progress far surpassed Hermione's.
But none of them had begun to anchor their own Second Magic.
There was a reason for this! Previously, Hermione hadn't delved into this area, so Roger hadn't shared much about it with her.
But at this moment, Roger felt the timing might be just right.
"Hermione... since you know about the existence of Second Magic, you should also remember the 'purpose' I told you about for creating Second Magic."
Hermione had an excellent memory and immediately replied, "To deconstruct magic, to make it a bridge to magic, and to bring magic down from the unknowable, idealistic divine realm to the human world."
"That's right," Roger nodded.
Then he added, "Therefore, the ideal Second Magic should have three principles and characteristics."
"First, universality. It cannot be a single-plank bridge with a threshold so high that only one person can walk it. It should give everyone a chance to cultivate it."
"Second, duality of mind and matter. Its nature should be close to First Magic, yet it should be understandable and precisely controllable through logical thinking."
"Third... quantifiable accumulation."
"One of the reasons why wizard civilization is stuck at its current stage and has made no progress is that wizards' power cannot be quantified and accumulated."
"If any point does not conform to these three principles, then it is not suitable to be anchored as Second Magic."
Saying this, Roger looked at Hermione, wondering how many of these principles her power met.
It was self-evident.
Roger had actually discussed matters concerning Second Magic with Dumbledore.
Dumbledore thought 'mental power' was more suitable.
Roger, however, believed there was no need to rush this, and he had an idea that might have higher potential than mental power.
Roger glanced at Hermione, seeing how much she had changed from before, appearing as if she wanted to 'do something big.'
So he proposed, "Sociology is not my area of expertise, but magic is."
"If you want to research Second Magic, I might be able to give you a direction."
"Hermione... do you crave power?"
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