"Hagrid, are you all right?" Hermione looked at Hagrid's soulless expression, a little worried.
Light looked at the stunned and bewildered Hagrid, sighed, and stepped forward. "Hagrid, is Norbert powerful?"
Hagrid said with an absent-minded look, "Norbert is a Norwegian Ridgeback. It's not the most powerful, but it's still very powerful." There was pride in his tone.
"Then do you know the most mysterious and spooky Curses at Hogwarts?" Light's mysterious and spooky expression startled Hagrid.
"What, what Curses? Is it related to Norbert?" Hagrid's face, blackened by Norbert's fire, lost its daze and was filled with nothing but tension.
"Sort of. At Hogwarts, as long as you're a powerful person, you'll be cursed by this Curses. Even the headmaster and the heads of the houses can't escape it." Light lowered his voice and scared Hagrid in a gloomy tone.
"What Curses!" Hermione and Ron also looked at Light nervously.
"It's the Single Dog Curses (a made-up Curses for single people)!" Light said with a straight face.
(Three question marks)
"Light, don't joke around!" Hagrid mumbled angrily after his confusion.
"I'm not kidding. Think about it carefully. Aren't the headmaster and the heads of the houses single? Think about it some more. Most of the professors are single!" Light guided the three of them to think.
After a moment, "It seems so!" Hermione said in a panicked voice! Hagrid looked as if he had just discovered some earth-shattering secret.
"As far as I know, to be a professor at Hogwarts, you have to be basically single! To become the head of a house, you gotta be single for thirty years. And to be the headmaster, it's forty years!"
"There's a rumor that the Dark Lord once wanted to be a teacher at Hogwarts, but was rejected by Headmaster Dumbledore!"
"The reason was that he had a partner and a daughter! It's really scary!"
"With a solemn and serious expression, Light really got Hagrid all confused and fooled!"
"I understand! I shouldn't have let Norbert bear this scary Curses!"
After saying that, Hagrid turned towards the direction where Norbert had been taken away and shouted with a sad face:
"Norbert, you have to be happy! You have to be cheerful! You have to find someone to be with!" As he shouted, Hagrid began to gradually come to terms with it!
"Thank you, thank you all!"
Light and the other two left amidst Hagrid's thanks!
"Just ask if you want to! Don't hold back!" Light saw how Hermione and Ron were bursting to ask questions.
"Light, is that Curses at Hogwarts for real?" Hermione couldn't hold it in any longer.
"Fake! I was just kidding Hagrid! Otherwise, I don't know how long he would have been sad."
"But, but! What about the headmaster and the heads of the houses..."
"This is a really scary reality. You guys wanna know?" Light seriously interrupted Ron.
"Yes!" Hermione and Ron looked at each other and said in unison, showing great tacit understanding!
"Do you think there are more wizards who have amazing talents like you, or more ordinary wizards with no special talents?"
"The answer is, there are more wizards with no special talents!"
Light answered his own question.
"But you still haven't explained why they're all single yet!" Ron pouted.
"That's what I'm gonna explain!"
"Let's use Ron as an example!" Ron, who was pointed at, nodded blankly.
"Suppose there's a wizard chess tournament! You're the first place and I'm the second place! If I'm not as talented or capable as you, how should I defeat you and get the first place?"
"Why should I want to get the first place? What's so good about the first place!" Ron looked completely confused.
"Maybe I shouldn't have asked you! What do you think, Hermione?" Hermione gave Ron a sidelong glance.
"I'd practice hard and try my best to overtake the first place!"
Hearing Hermione's confident and assertive words, Light's mouth twitched constantly.
"Perhaps it's my fault. I shouldn't have told you all these big words!"
"Come on! Keep going! Keep going!" Hermione and Ron said anxiously.
"Then let's use Harry Potter as an example! After all, his case is more representative!" Light said helplessly.
"Suppose I'm the second-best Seeker and I want to defeat the first Seeker. How can I do it?"
"This is a gap in talent! You can't catch up merely by working hard! Harry Potter led Gryffindor to defeat Slytherin as soon as he joined the team! That's just hopelessly talented!"
Light didn't let Hermione continue to talk about working hard again.
"In a situation where even efforts are in vain, how can I win?"
"No longer insisting that hard work can overcome everything, Hermione quickly came to a conclusion."
"Then I'd disrupt him and make him lose focus."
"But how can you make me lose focus? My teammates already cooperate with me very well. There's no way to find a breakthrough from them!"
"So what should we do! It's basically impossible to win!" Hermione and Ron couldn't think of a way.
"Good! In this situation, I very coincidentally meet Harry Potter and his family! His family aren't very proficient in Quidditch! They're not as excellent as Harry Potter's teammates!"
"A professional team wouldn't bully an amateur team. You're not going to!" Hermione and Ron turned pale, as if they had guessed something.
"That's right. My team and I will do whatever it takes to get involved, torment Harry Potter's family, and make him lose focus! Jiejie!" Hermione and Ron looked at Light with expressions of disgust.
"Ahem. Suppose we analogize this situation to the wizarding world. Without the restrictions of rules, those dark wizards would target the families of their enemies."
"You know, wizards aren't animals. Not that the powerful ones always fall in love with each other. More often, they marry the ones they like. And there are many weak wizards. There's more love between the strong and the weak."
"So do you understand now?"
"Seems like I got it!" Ron looked at Light, half understanding.
"I get it! It's that the enemies target one's family, but one's family lacks the sufficient strength to fight back!"
"So many who are still alive after being targeted in various ways are single!" Hermione analyzed.
"Exactly. So the most stable relationship is a marital relationship developed from a comradeship, just like Harry Potter and his teammates. There's a certain gap but not too much, and they won't become each other's weaknesses!"
"And those who don't attain this kind of relationship are likely to lose their partners in this chaotic wizarding world."
"And those who can become professors at Hogwarts are basically excellent in some aspect compared to ordinary wizards!"
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"In such a situation, they will attract attention and become targets! And then be attacked where they are weak. So it's basically easy to achieve success!"
"I see!" Hermione nodded, lost in thought. Ron seemed to have related it to the situation of his own family and also understood something.
Light looked at the two in front of him and felt a twinge of regret. He felt that he shouldn't have instilled such a dark view of reality in them at this time.
After that, the three of them walked along in silence.
During dinner, Harry Potter even wondered why Hermione and Ron seemed so preoccupied!