Maverick stood fidently at the front of the , his eyes sweeping across the rows of curious students.

  "We're here to uncover what sce really is, then dive into what makes it different from magic, what they have in on, and... most importantly, what happens whewo e together."

  He rofessionally trained espionage agent, skilled i of precise word choice, subtle body nguage, and pelling expressions. By using these skills, he made it feel like the students were hearing aing story, naturally capturing their attention.

  "So... what is it that Muggles call sce?" He asked, pag slowly across the front of the . "Is it of any use to us? Or could we eve in the first pce?"

  The room was silent.

  "This year," he tinued, his voice softening slightly, "we will e to uand the ao these questions, piece by piece. And today, I'll expin what sce is in the simplest way I . After that, I'll show you a glimpse of the endless possibilities it holds... possibilities that, I hope, will ge how you see the world."

  He paused, giving the students a moment to absorb his words and waited to see if anyone had questions. No one did.

  "Alright, let's begin with the simple question. What is sce?"

  He gave the students a moment to think.

  "Yes?" he asked, nodding toward the little wit the front of the css, whose hand shot up immediately.

  "Sce is uanding how things work," she answered, doing her best to sound fident.

  "Exactly," Maverick said, pointing at her with a smile. Miss know it all for a reason... He thought, his eyes glinting with approval. "What's your name?"

  "Hermione Granger, Professor," she replied, fidgeting slightly, now aware that the entire css was focused on her.

  "Well, Ms. Granger, five points to the House of Lions."

  Her face brightened immediately, the earlier stiffness disappeared as she beamed with pride.

  Maverick turo face the css again.

  "Sce is about uanding the world..." he paused, then added with emphasis, "through logic... Sce is, in the simplest of terms, cause and effect."

  He fshed a small smile at the students.

  "Why did I say through logic?... Well, let's think about magic for a moment."

  He gnced across the students. "Magic is not logical. You cast a spell, and something happens acc to the spell you intended. Or in other words, acc to your i. But... you 't expin why. It simply does. Magic, does not follow logic the way sce does."

  The students looked puzzled, their brows furrowing. Only the teachers seemed to uand.

  Maveriew it would take more than a simple expnation to make these young witches and wizards grasp the differehis was an unfamiliar cept to them.

  He turned and walked toward his desk, the students' eyes following him in eager anticipation. He picked up a small ball, prearranged for the demonstration.

  Returning to face the css, he tossed the ball into the air twice before looking back at Hermione.

  "Here, catch!" he called.

  She was startled but quick with her reflexes, easily snatg the ball out of the air. Maveriodded in approval, a smile f on his lips.

  "Now," he said, addressing the css once more, "you all saw me throw that ball to Ms. Grahe logical expnation would be that the force from my hand—" he gestured with his hand to illustrate, "made it move through the air, and she caught it. This is cause and effect, or as the Muggles phrase it, the w of motion... a basic principle of sce that applies to everything."

  He studied the faces of the students and noticed that only a few seemed to uand, while most still looked uain.

  "Now watch," he said, retrieving his wand, which everyone saw him pull from the holder strapped to his wrist.

  As all the students watched in silence, Maverick flicked his wand, and the ball floated from Hermione's hands and ba.

  "Did you all see that?" he asked, holding up the ball. When he looked at their expressions, he realized they had misuood. "I'm not talking about the Levitation Charm. I'm talking about how it happened..."

  "There was no force or reason that made the ball float to me—it just did. That's because of magilike sce, there's no clear cause-and-effect expnation for it. Instead, the cause is repced by my will. And that, children, is what magic is—shaping the world with your will."

  He paused, teasing the css. "Now, you might ask, what's so impressive about cause and effect, or this so called w of motion in sce when magic, like what you saw just now, cause things to happen at will?"

  The students exged gnces, unsure how to respond, but Maverick could see they were starting to grasp the subtle differeween magid sce.

  His voice softened. "That simple a of me swinging my hand to throw the ball... the force that made it move... uanding the 'how' and 'why' behind it, is called sce."

  "Muggles have done just that... figured out the principles behind this w of motion, why and how the ball moves the way it does when thrown... a me tell you, this has allowed them to do things that even we, magicals, would sider impossible."

  None of the students' expressions showed that they believed the st part of what he had said. Of course, it was expected. Magicals were a proud bunch, even if they disagreed with one ahey wouldn't easily believe that sce could do things that magic could not, just because he said so.

  He decided it was time for the demonstration ahe ball out in his palm, showing it to the css.

  Without any wand or intation, he made the ball float for a moment before transfiguring it into the shape of an aircraft. It was small, about a meter long.

  A few students gasped, and even the professors appeared genuinely impressed by the seamless transfiguration.

  "Who tell me what this is?" he asked.

  A few hands shot up. "An airpne?"

  "Correct," Maverick said, smiling. "This here is an aircraft... of course, the real ones are much, much bigger than this. It's used by Muggles as a means of transport through the air. It fly faster than the quickest broomstick, and it's rger thahe biggest dragons alive today. It also fly tinuously for lohan any dragon, and weighs as much as 500 tons—that's over a million pounds."

  The students stared, unsure of where Maverick was going with the expnation.

  Mavericed toward the teachers sitting at the back of the room.

  "Professor Flitwick," he called, and the small half-goblin teacher, who had been lost in tration, looked up, startled.

  "Ah, yes, Professor," Flitwick responded, his voice slightly flustered.

  "Very simple question, Professor," Maverick said. "You are one of the few Great-Maguses in the world, one of the most powerful people alive today... Would it be possible for you to levitate ten Hungarian Horntails at the same time?"

  "What?" Flitwick blinked, fused by the randomness of the question, but quickly collected himself in almost the moment.

  The other professors, including Dumbledore, chuckled in amusement.

  Cough! The charming Professor of Charms cleared his throat. "I mean... I could maybe mawo... or three. But ten would be impossible."

  He g Dumbledore. "Perhaps, Headmaster—"

  "Unfortunately, levitating ten dragons is beyond even me," Dumbledore interjected with a smile, his eyes twinkling as he looked across the css.

  Maverioticed that the students were now looking at Dumbledore and Flitwick with awe and admiration.

  "You see, children... What I'm trying to say is that with sce, it's possible.

  Using sce, it's possible to make an aircraft, which is dozens of times more massive than the rgest dragons, fly at incredible speeds... much faster than the fastest Quidditch broomsticks...

  While the most powerful among us, just admitted that it would be impossible for him..."

  The students listened ily, their expressions growing more serious.

  "By uanding cause and effect, by learning the logic behind why things happen, Muggles are able to do incredible things..." Maverick tinued, his tone passionate.

  "That is sce. Learning the mysteries of the world, the how and why behind everything that happens around you every day."

  He paused, gng at the students, who now seemed to finally grasp what he was trying to say.

  One of the students, a sixth-year who had actually chosen the course as aive, raised his hand.

  "Please," Maverick gestured for him to speak.

  "Professor, you say Muggles studied this force that... after you throw a ball, it moves through the air and falls somewhere else... but I don't uand how it move a big object like an aircraft..."

  "Excellent question." Maverick cpped, looking at him appreciatively.

  "Remember what I said about Muggles naming this force a w?" he asked, looking at the student, then across the css.

  They all nodded after a moment, and he tinued, "Well, this w isn't something they ied. They just figured out how it works. Also, the reason why such a heavy object like an aircraft move through the air involves a lot of plicated stifiowledge, like aerodynamics, gravity, retivity, bustion, and more."

  "These are also ws of sce Muggles have studied and learo manipute. Only when all of these ws work together does the aircraft fly. But even if you study with me every day for the wo years, I ot teach you exactly how it funs. All you o know is that these stific ws work together to make it possible. And... the w of motion be said to be the core principle of it."

  "It's like in magic. Without Magical Energy, even if you have i, emotions, the corretation, the best wand, and knowledge of the skill... you ot cast magic."

  The student who asked the question hough still more puzzled than realization from the looks of it.

  "I know it sounds plicated... that's why we're here. Over these wo years, I'll simplify and teach you the most important ws of sce."

  "'I will teach you the basiuggle biology, chemistry, and physics... so when you graduate, you'll have a more profound uanding of everything you see... It even help you in magic, because remember what I said in the beginning—it's when sd magie together that the real miracles happen."

  Maverick observed the expressions on all of the students. If he had to guess, he'd say that they had uood about 30% of what he had expihe whole time. But he wasn't disappointed, because with his st demonstration, he was sure that all of the students would realize the greatness of sce.

  He smiled, looking at the silently listening css. "I have o demonstration to show you today. It's also reted to the w of motion, but on a much grander scale... A me tell you in advahis will blow. Your. Mind."

  The students perked up, their attention fully locked in. Even those who had seemed bored before were now focused and intrigued.

  "Alright, if you would all focus your attention on me... please stand up and close your eyes... Professors, that includes you," he said, gng across the students before turning to the teachers.

  The students and teachers rose to their feet, following his instrus—some with curiosity, while the teachers wore expressions of amused anticipation.

  One sed... Two seds...

  The was utterly still.

  Three seds...

  With a casual wave of his hand, he transfigured the tables and chairs, making them vanish, while the ined rows leveled seamlessly into a ft surface. Using precise magical energy manipution, he ensured everyone remaieady, preventing anyone from losing their bance.

  Simultaneously, he flicked his finger, casting the spell, "Illusio Lunam Le," now at master level proficy, and silenced any hat would have apahe transformation.

  However, for this demonstration, he used a watered-down version of the spell, ensuring that the professors present could easily dispel it with a mere thought if they wished.

  He had no iion of revealing the full extent of the spell's capabilities. At its master proficy level, the spell was so refihat he could manipute all their senses with just a simple gesture, fident that even the Arch-Magus Dumbledore would be fooled for a time.

  Moreover, if a wizard of Dumbledore's rank were caught off guard and not directly attacked, they would remain unaware of the deception for as long as he desired. And if even an Arch-Magus could be deceived so thhly, there was little ce that anyone of a lower rank could resist his arras.

  "Do not be armed by what you see," he said calmly.

  "And slowly open your eyes..."

  As the students obeyed, a collective gasp filled the room, some students even grabbing on to their friend while only a few thought to remain calm.

  In their perspective, they were no longer in the , nor weren't even inside any tained space.

  Instead, they found themselves h in the air, or so it seemed, and below them y the ey of Hogwarts Castle, its grandeur fully visible.

  "Do not be ed. This is a variation of a fusion Spell I created," Maverick expined. "For those of you who have experienced watg a memory through a Pensieve, you may uand what's happening now. And for those who don't know what a Pensieve is, allow me to expin."

  "It's an alchemical creation that allows you to view another person's memories, immersing you as if you were there in that very moment yourself."

  "Likewise, you are now in an illusion spell. What you are seeing is the world in my mind. You're still ihe , but yht and hearing are being maniputed by me."

  He g the professors, who were watg him with a mixture of amazement and curiosity.

  "If it helps, breaking free from this illusion is quite simple. Just close your eyes and focus for a moment to break free from the illusion, and it will cel the spell." He reassured them. This was true and iional—once again, he had no iion of revealing the full extent of the spell's capabilities.

  "For the professors, a quick pulse of magic will easily release you as well. But I suggest you all hold off for now, or you might miss what I'm about to show you."

  With a subtle smile, he tinued, "In this demonstration, I want to show you the power of stific ws—how the w of motion, which we discussed earlier, works on a much grander scale."

  Spreading his arms wide, he added with aed expression, "Beyond that, this will also give you a glimpse into the perspective of the world through the eyes of a Muggle. And by perspective, I don't mean mere guesses or theories. I mean actual facts—what they've discovered about this world... and even beyond it."

  The students listened ily, their amazement still fresh as to what they were seeing. Many turheir heads and bodies, whispering to each other as they looked around in all dires, trying to absorb the surreal se unfolding before them.

  "I need all of your attention on me now," he said, amplifying his voice so it reached every perso. "This will be a journey, one I assure you will stay with you forever as an unfettable memory."

  He waited until everyone's focus was solely on him, then with a smile full of excitement, tinued, "We are about to go on a journey..." He raised his head to the blue sky. "To the stars."

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  Author's Note:

  Just a quick update — up to Chapter 107 is already avaible on P AT r30n!

  PAT r30n [.] / RyanFic