Chapter 21 Explanation: Dragon Pox, Bloodline Reversion, Lucius Philosophy (24/06/21)
Chapter 21 Explanation: Dragon Pox, Bloodline Reversion, Lucius’ Idea (240621)
1. Reader "Good night": I have always wanted to ask what this dragon pox is. In another book, I saw dragon syphilis. Could it be that Abraxas is a dragon knight?
Dragon Pox is inspired by the Muggle smallpox Small Pox. The symptoms are pockmarks on the face and the skin will turn green forever. In severe cases, it can lead to death. Mild symptoms include green and purple spots between the toes and sparks shooting from the nostrils when sneezing.
This is a disease unique to wizards, and Muggles are immune to it (Squib doesn't know, so he doesn't know if it's a magic problem or a genetic problem).
This is not a terminal disease. In the 17th century, Gunrcida (the one-eyed hunchbacked witch statue on the fourth floor) had already invented a treatment. Of course, the success rate is not 100%. The younger the patient, the higher the success rate.
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2. Some readers thought: Don’t some big families have intermarriages? The offspring should have all bloodline abilities!
In theory, it is true that all children of pure-blood families should have the blood of all ancestors.
However, the setting of this book is that blood reversion is a very difficult, rare, and high-threshold phenomenon. Bloodlines that are too old are too diluted, so even if you want to return to your ancestors, you can only trace the bloodlines of close relatives, which are stronger.
The protagonist is able to return to the bloodline of the Malfoy family because traveling through the innate world activates the magic eye. The protagonist is able to return to the Black family bloodline because he has reached the three-in-one state.
If you want to rent back, you must have an adventure, which explains why there are so few people who inspire bloodline talents in the original work.
Therefore, being able to return 1-4 bloodlines is the upper limit for the protagonist (Author: Don’t keep repeating the bloodline plot, you will be spat)
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3. Reader "falling apart": This reader criticized the book's description of the Malfoy family for not conforming to the original characters - the Malfoy family only showed the supremacy of pure blood, and in fact there was not that much prejudice. The novel also mentioned that his family was in Before the Muggle Protection Act, they were the family that had the most contact with Muggles.
There is actually nothing wrong with the latter part. The Malfoy family is not really an extreme pure-blood supremacy, because there are indeed people in the ancestors who interact with Muggles, such as Lucius I. But there is a problem with the logic. Lucius II himself is only a member of the Malfoy family, and he cannot be equal to the entire family.
Lucius II and Draco (when they were young) were indeed very pure-blooded, and this is not made up by the author.
First, Draco is a person who talks about Muggles. He even cursed Hermione to die during the Chamber of Secrets incident. Remember, it was death, not petrification or injury. A child can be so vicious. Isn't it the influence of his parents?
Secondly, the Draco chapter in Pottermore also mentioned that after the end of the 7th part of the original book, Draco changed his ways, put down his pure-blood ideals (which shows that this person is not bad and can be saved), and finally married and He's as gentle as Astoria. Lucius strongly opposed the union of the two. From then on, family gatherings were filled with a tense and depressing atmosphere.
Third, and more obviously, Lucius and Narcissa explicitly objected to Draco and Astoria raising their son to be kind to Muggles. You said, this is not pure-blood prejudice, what is it?
The author sets it as follows: The ancestral motto of the Malfoy family is "survival first" and "profit first", but Lucius II was so deeply influenced by his father Abrasax that he forgot the family's ancestral motto.