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以及不全是HP

1. Meaning
Harry Potter didn't know Latin, so he couldn't have understood exactly what sectumsempra meant, and only saw it as an attacking spell, yet it worked equally well for him as for the half blood Prince who actually knew what he was doing.
Also, Avada Kedavra is Aramaic and few people know this, yet all can use it to kill.
Why do spells work?
How do people settle on the best word?
Is there innate magic in words, if so, how???

2. Translation
You say sectumsempra in Latin and it means to cut up your opponent, yet you say "神锋无影” in Chinese. You say Avada in English and even though you don't understand it it's still the Aramaic word BUT when you say 阿瓦达 in Chinese it's just the English pronunciation transliterated into Chinese characters. It means nothing if you see it from a Chinese perspective, so to revive the innate meaning in the spell you have to retrace 阿瓦达 back to Avada and you're left with a cruel instance of mispronunciation. However, mispronunciation is liable to produce wrong or deficient magic, so how does 阿瓦达 still work for the Chinese, how does アブラカダブラ or abracadabra in Japanese Katakana still work as Avada for the Japanese???

3. Bede
The tales of Beedle the Bard was "translated from the ancient runes by Hermione Granger [with] commentary by Albus Dumbledore." Beedle lived in the Middle Ages why in the world should he write in runes? What runes? Most probably futhorc but this is insane... why would you publish a children's tale in runes in the first place... and who translated it into Middle English and distributed it??? This might be a nod to the Celtic heritage but still quite an enigma.

4. Silent
Silent spells work without one uttering the incantation.
So we can see that magic can be distributed per se (as seen in children) AND magic doesn't exactly need spells (still the example of children).
So...
(I) Lily Evans can (presumably) do an orchid simply by her intention, in her childhood.
(II) Lily Evans can produce an orchid with "Orchideus" after she studies in Hogwarts.
(III) Lily Evans can produce an orchid without "Orchideus" after she rises to higher levels of Hogwarts education.
Is (I) and (III) the same?
If so, what is the meaning of the stage of spell usage when you go to school to learn spells and then had better do without them?
One can argue that this argument is meaningless, as you learn much more complicated magic than "Orchideus" in school, and the girl Lily might only get a single flower while the grad Lily may have a bunch.
One might also say that such spells as Confundus charm or the unknown curse by Avery couldn't work to their full potentials without being uttered out loud.
So do spells in some sense channel magic and intention and hence reinforce the results? But back to 1 & 3 why do seemingly meaningless or mispronounced or historically derived spells also work?

5. Wandless
So here comes the matter of:
A. Source: human body in our case
B. Conductor: w/ or w/o wand
C. Conductor': air
D. Receiver
E. Reinforcer: wand?
F. Reinforcer': incantation
A. Source
When you use Avada, a green light shoots from the tip of your wand and directly goes to your victim. You would be perfectly fine because ordinary wands don't backfire.
But broken wands do, and Lockhart was hit by his own Obliviate which _worked perfectly well_. So, if you have a broken wand and it backfires with Avada do you die? So, if you get rid of the wand and the green light shoots from YOUR BODY, it touches you first, it _comes from you_, literally, do you die?
The wand directly the spell, and if in an analogous situation you use your fingertip as the wand tip and Avada comes out, do you die?
If it's not your fingertip but your entire body, where does the green light start from, which direction should it take?

B. Conductor: wanded or wandless.
Bigger wands, bigger personality.
Shorter wands, worse shortcomings.
Wand length → personality and ideals (and in some instances, physical height)
Wand wood → character and ability
Wand core → character and talent
A wand imbued with (or in sync) with your personality affects your magic. It enhances and directs your spells.
Without this wand you would be
1) fighting barehand
2) losing a little emblem of character
3) without direction OR
4) with direction induced by your _intention_. Intention is such a big problem.
Say Voldemort wants to kill Lily badly and he wants to save his own neck badly yet he is not armed with a wad can he force Avada in Lily's direction without killing himself? We don't know.

6. Peverell
Antioch
Cadmus
Ignotus
1200s
Hogwarts set up a thousand years ago.
Wizards seem to have no history extending beyond the end of the first millennia? Why?

Historical Synchronism:
Can magical scholars use the intellectual and trading links between civilizations to pinpoint exact points in western magical history that are obscured by lack of evidence and set down a relative as well as absolute chronology?

Suppose just as wizards had to go into hiding in the Middle Ages, they wiped out their existence from the recognition of humankind during similar years in the classical Dark Ages, and scholars had literally no written record of human or wizard kind in those years following the Bellum Magicum Proximum (tentative naming) except a passing mention somewhere in alchemical literature. How do they reconstruct the remote history of wizard-kind?

Can magic stand on its own??? Or is the magic in your body linked with a higher and more transcendant magic outside???
Cf Mana
ppl gifted with MORE magic are more talented and actually SHOW them at young age, and it practically leaks out
Whereas if you shut it in by force you GO MAD. So using magic is channeling force, but where does this force come out? Like Chi? Or like mana?
You can use spells
You can use potions
You can use runes
How do the other two work so potently?
Transfiguration: is it going back to the metamorphoses of the earliest humans? see M1.313-415
【我的巫师界一定要有条专门的法律：
不可把muggles变成石头，与杀**瓜同罪。因为变不回来】

……………I’d say the answer to all my questions actually lies in truth condition :) o**k