Harry Potter and the Secret Treasures

Chapter 724: The Power of Pure Blood

Chapter 724: The Power of Pure Blood

“The gift of Morrigan, the goddess of war!” Evan suddenly thought of the magic concept of “blood inheritance”.

When flipping through ancient magic books, he had seen the word more than once and then looked it up.

This word might be very strange now. Most wizards had not even heard of it, but it was still occasionally heard in the ancient Middle Ages.

Only in the oldest and purest families of pure-blood wizards was the bloodline inheritance possible.

Very rare, the chance was very low, but it was not impossible!

To understand this rare special magic, one must first know the origin of the wizard’s blood.

The ancestry of wizards is very strange. Unlike Muggles, most pure-blood wizard families trace their origins to some powerful magical creatures of ancient times, such as the so-called incarnation of the gods in the world, or some kind of magical animals with great strength and intelligence, etc.

As an example in the information found by Evan, the ancestor of a pure-blood wizard family was a wild boar.

Although he was curious about how wild boars and human wizards gave birth to offspring, it seemed that this was true.

The combination of humans and magical creatures was very common in the wizarding world at that time, and most pure blood wizards were proud of it.

Of course, there were many restrictions on this combination, and the requirements for magical creatures themselves were very high. It was not that you could just find a wild boar or some other magical creature to do it, and then you could create a pure-blood wizard family.

These magical creatures living in ancient times had very strong magic power and therefore had many rare traits. Although power could not be directly transmitted to future generations, those traits could be passed down through blood.

That was the so-called bloodline inheritance, and it was also the root of the power of the pure-blood wizard families and ordinary wizards.

In simple terms, the stronger and more special the ancestors were, the more noble their descendants would be.

That nobility was not reflected in the nobility of status, but referred to the special ability possessed by family members. Depending on the ancestors’ abilities, the members of different pure-blood wizard families had different characteristics, and the methods of inheritance were also different.

For example, the Slytherin family’s Parseltongue, the ability to talk to snakes was not a skill that could be learned through hard work. This trait could only be obtained through blood, or it could not be mastered by others like Harry.

Of course, this rare method of power transmission had almost disappeared and was hard to see now.

Because the bloodline of pure-blood wizards had become very impure, the power hidden in the blood had become so thin that it could not be revealed at all.

Although they kept trying to continue this power through marriage and breeding of close relatives, it did not help.

The only result of true intermarriage within a family was extinction. Although the integrity of the bloodline and the integrity of the inheritance traits were maintained, the personality of the last generation members had become irritable and the IQ had been greatly reduced. That was an inevitable result.

Just like Voldemort’s uncle Morfin Gaunt, as the last member of the Gaunt family, he could not even communicate normally. He only spoke Parseltongue and had a rude temper and a cruel character. He brewed the ensuing tragedy together with his father. 

Intermarriage within a family was a very extreme barbaric practice. The common strategy adopted by pure-blood wizard families was to combine with other pure-blood wizard families to spread the power of family blood within a small range.

The idea was good, but in fact it did not help. The way to obtain blood power was not as simple as proportional conversion.

Until now, the so-called pure-blood wizard families like the Malfoys, had been very thin in original blood. Pure blood itself would not bring them any benefits in strength and power, but just a symbol of identity as they just married other pure blood families.

In Evan’s view, this had instead become a shackle, locking them firmly.

They kept promoting the concept of pure-blood supremacy to highlight the nobility of their status, looking down on other wizards, and they even pinned their hopes on Voldemort, hoping that he would lead them back to the past, looking for the lost supremacy.

That kind of thinking was actually very sad. It slowly decayed with the development of the times and was the last struggle of the declining pure-blood families.

Although that was the case today, in the Middle Ages a thousand years ago, the power of bloodline transmission still existed.

The Ravenclaw family was the most obvious example. This ancient family was considered to be a direct descendant of the Raven, the incarnation of the goddess of war, Morrigan, and they were likely to have acquired special abilities from the goddess of war.

In some way, this family could always ensure that there was a successor from generation to generation.

Although Evan wasn’t sure what traits they had acquired, they were undoubtedly very powerful.

The Ravenclaw family was one of the top wizarding families at the time. It ruled and led the whole wizarding world for thousands of years.

According to the information that could be found at present, that influence was not limited to Britain, but could even expand to the whole of Europe.

However, their influence quickly declined after the death of Madam Rowena Ravenclaw and became negligible!

Her daughter Helena had died in the forest of Albania in disgrace after stealing the diadem.

Other members of Ravenclaw did not gain that power, and the once famous ancient family slowly disappeared from history.

Judging from the current situation, it was very likely that Rowena Ravenclaw had voluntarily given up this power, which she called the gift of Morrigan, the goddess of war, but also the power of the curse.

The more power you could be given from abnormal sources, the greater the price one would have to pay. Perhaps that was how it was both a gift and a curse.

Rowena was a very intelligent person, even once known as the wisest wizard. Of course, she could measure the gain and loss relationship and make the wisest choice, although that choice was simply impossible to understand for those who were power seekers. 

“You are already a great witch!” Gryffindor took a step forward. “There is no need to change anything. I love you like you are now.”

“Godric, you don’t understand the pain that this power brings to me.” Ravenclaw looked at Gryffindor, the blueness in her smart eyes became deeper, and she said calmly, “I also want to have feelings like a normal person, rather than judge what response I should give based on your words and actions.”

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