In the evening, Howl had planned to go to the Old Market for a drink and to gather some information.
But when he arrived at the Cerberus Pub, he found it closed.
Harry nodded silently. As expected, Charon had already taken his subordinates to search for clues throughout the Greek Wizarding World.
"Uncle Howl, won't they be too ostentatious, thereby alerting the enemy?" Harry asked again.
"Yes, it's very possible." Howl nodded, not denying it, then said calmly with a hint of helplessness: "However, perhaps this is a good thing; at least it means that fellow is still here, and hasn't already fled.
As I said before, if that thief wanted to escape, he would have already slipped away. There's no need to keep worrying about this and that now.
If they don't do this, the final outcome will only be an international warrant, and then the case file will be suppressed and left unresolved.
This is also why Loreton chose to cooperate with me, even though from his perspective, I am such an unpleasant and terrible guy!
As he spoke, they turned and walked back.
At the same time, Howl changed the subject, asking about a page of newspaper Harry had obtained that morning.
"Any findings?" Howl looked at Harry.
"No…" At this, Harry became distressed: "I can't understand it at all. There's nothing on it, just a snowflake drawn."
As he spoke, he looked bewildered, pulled out the incomplete newspaper, and handed it over.
Howl took the newspaper Harry handed him. In his eyes, the original ink marks on the newspaper scattered in the air like dust caught in the wind.
Finally, as Harry said, a snowflake remained.
Soon, Howl deduced the magic within it through the formulas and magic runes next to it, and at the same time, he was stunned for a moment.
It wasn't the protective spell he had casually glanced at that morning, but an extremely subtle spell…
"It's it…"
Saying this, Howl abruptly put down the newspaper. In the night sky, beneath the bustling crowd, his gaze quickly surged out of the alley and began to weave and shuttle.
Finally, he found Diogenes.
At the same time, he saw a familiar person next to him.
Huckleton?! This guy…
Howl suddenly remembered the fanaticism Huckleton had shown earlier when faced with this newspaper in his hand.
However, he didn't pay too much attention, instead focusing his gaze on Diogenes.
He simply thought that this person might be quite accomplished in magic, after all, those who practiced their ideals, in the Wizarding World, wouldn't be too weak no matter how weak they were.
But he didn't expect his attainments to be so high!
So, was this also a kind of serendipity for Harry? Howl couldn't help but wonder.
He had also obtained the spell recorded in the newspaper before, and at that time, he had spent countless hours trying to correctly analyze it.
Thinking of this, he also found it somewhat interesting.
"Uncle Howl, is this also geometry?"
"Of course." Howl nodded: "This is a type of fractal geometry. This spell is to help you improve your magic power.
In other words, it is to find infinity—that is, more magic power—within a finite space, which is the upper limit of magic power that our brain and body can hold.
Before talking about this, let's discuss a question. That is, why did Ancient Greece magic learn geometry?"
"I don't know." Harry shook his head decisively.
Howl was not surprised by this answer and immediately began to explain: "Geometry. Geo, this prefix means geography, or earth. And Metry means measurement, or to measure. Geometry, in Ancient Greece, was the study of measuring land.
And in the magic of Ancient Greece, as we said before, the Wizards at that time studied the essence of the world and the operating logic of the world.
But they needed something that could be studied. Some people studied animals and plants in nature, some studied mountains, rivers, and seas, and some studied the stars in the sky.
But there were also some people who felt that these things were not perfect enough.
Whether it was animals, mountains, rivers, seas, or even the stars. They all wrapped up the essence of the world they contained, and studying them was a waste of effort.
So they turned their attention to the world of ideas, and soon, they found the perfect thing.
That is geometry.
They found that in the real world, there are no absolute straight lines, planes, or cubes. And these things are perfect!
Studying geometry can better analyze the essence of the world.
Soon, they used magic as a bridge between the real world and the world of ideas.
Through magic, they observed the real world and deduced the world of ideas, developing a series of spells.
This is also why it was written in front of the Athens Academy: 'Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here.'"
As he spoke, Howl raised his hand, and the snowflake appeared in mid-air.
Koch snowflake!
"And this is one of them.
This shape only appeared at the beginning of this century and is not a product of the Ancient Greece era. However, it is a very good interpretation of an Ancient Greece spell!"
As he spoke, a corner of the snowflake in mid-air began to be magnified, but what appeared after magnification was still the exact same repeating snowflake.
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