"Professor, why do I feel like the atmosphere is a bit strange?" Harry, sitting in the back row, quietly asked Kayson, who was also in the back row.
"How should I know? You, Dumbledore's favorite student, should be the one who knows," Kayson said, patting Harry's big head.
"Ah? Professor, you can't just say things like that!" Harry felt the even stranger atmosphere, as if all the air around him had been sucked out. And indeed, he wasn't the only one; the other Little Wizards also had the same symptom.
Just as Kayson was puzzled, the symptoms of these Little Wizards suddenly disappeared. Grindelwald then smiled: "I believe you all experienced that feeling just now. Now it's time to learn about magical pressure, or spiritual pressure, or whatever you want to call it."
"You just need to know that it is a very useful combat technique. A Wizard projects magic outwards to form a field to suppress others. Even if a person with strong magical pressure is not skilled in spells, they can always gain the upper hand in a Wizard duel."
Draco swallowed hard, gathered his courage, and raised his hand to ask, "Professor, the magical pressure just now didn't seem to have much… effect. How should it be used in combat?"
Grindelwald showed a benevolent smile: "That's, of course, because as a Professor, I cannot be serious with you all… Moreover, magical pressure is divided into simple outward projection and targeted projection. For example, what you just experienced was simple outward projection. Right now, I am targeting you."
The next moment, Draco, who had been standing, plopped down onto the stool, and the magical pressure still hadn't disappeared, as if it was wrestling with Draco and that poor chair.
"Ahem, I think this is enough for the Little Wizards to understand what this magical pressure is," Kayson used his magical field to amplify his skeletal control of magic, lifting the magical pressure Grindelwald had exerted on Draco.
"Professors your age are not suitable to be Professors," Kayson said, rolling his eyes from the back row.
"There's no helping it. When I was in school, Durmstrang still had a corporal punishment room, though it's still there now," Grindelwald's words made all the Little Wizards shiver involuntarily.
"Alright, since your Professor Kayson doesn't want me to continue demonstrating, let's just start learning. Before that, I want to see your magic level… You all still remember magical projection, right?" Grindelwald sighed and then asked.
The Little Wizards in the entire classroom looked at each other, and finally, no one spoke.
"... Children, you've disappointed me a bit. Magical projection is your innate ability to cast spells before you even got your wands. Although you use this crude application of magic less after getting your wands, you can't just forget it, can you?… Don't you ever use magic to make potato chips line up and jump into your mouths when you're bored?"
The Little Wizards still shook their heads.
"Oh… Now I need all of you to stand up. Muggle-born Wizards stand in one row, half-blood Wizards stand in one row, and pure-blood Wizards stand in one row." Grindelwald hadn't stopped sighing since he arrived in this classroom.
The Little Wizards quickly formed their lines. Harry looked at the Muggle-born and half-blood lines, then stood in the Muggle-born line.
"I will write a super long blackboard note later. Pure-bloods copy it ten times, half-bloods five times, and Muggle-borns two times," Grindelwald said.
At this moment, Harry couldn't help but feel excited; he had really picked the right line!
Kayson coughed twice appropriately.
"Professor Kayson, if your throat is uncomfortable, please go to the infirmary," Grindelwald said.
"No, I am expressing my dissatisfaction. You should maintain basic equality when teaching students," Kayson responded directly.
"I don't mean to give pure-blood and half-blood Wizards special treatment. I just think that pure-bloods and half-bloods, who should have been taught by Wizards before enrollment, are still like this. They deserve punishment, and I am confident I can teach Muggle Wizards, but they need to build a foundation," Grindelwald explained.
"Oh, you're right, but I still think we should maintain procedural justice. Our teaching of Little Wizards should be absolutely fair," Kayson shook his head, rejecting Grindelwald's explanation.
"Alright then, all of you sit down. Everyone will copy it ten times."
"Ah?" A chorus of wails instantly erupted in the classroom.
"Cough, cough." Kayson frowned and coughed, and the wailing immediately died down.
Grindelwald looked at this scene and smiled indifferently. Then, he casually picked up a piece of chalk and threw it behind him. The chalk was captured by his magic and began to write on its own, while he himself began to lecture vividly.
Until class was dismissed, Grindelwald and Kayson were the first to leave the classroom, while the Little Wizards… most of them hadn't even finished copying the first draft of the blackboard notes.
On the other side, Grindelwald, seeing Kayson's strange gaze, stopped and explained, "How do I explain it to you? I am a Wizard supremacist, not a pure-blood supremacist. Please don't assume things about me with your terrorist-like narrow-mindedness."
"Oh, yes, if you really don't want others to think that way about you, then please don't do things that are easily misunderstood, such as dividing Little Wizards into factions for learning tasks… In other words, would someone like you also dislike Wizards being too united?" Kayson retorted.
"Oh, alright, alright, I'm scared of you now. It won't happen next time, how's that?" Grindelwald sighed and said.
"I hope so," Kayson said, shrugging casually.
"Hmm… Why do you think other Professors are so afraid of me?" Grindelwald suddenly asked a question out of nowhere.
"What?"
"Why are they afraid of me? Logically speaking, everything I've done has always been from the perspective of Wizards. Even if there should be fear, it shouldn't be them who are afraid," Grindelwald clarified his question.
"Who knows what your true thoughts are? Every ambitious person shouts their slogans loudly, but their real goals are unknown to anyone."
"And more importantly, Wizards and Muggles are both human beings. It's perfectly reasonable for the Professors, as human beings, to fear and dislike you, a Dark Wizard who kills your own kind," Kayson said with utmost frankness.
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