Hogwarts Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor Peter

Chapter 91

"Before I became the headmaster, I used to be the Transfiguration teacher at Hogwarts," said Dumbledore, "Professor McGonagall was also my student, but I think Professor McGonagall and Professor Peddie Road are very good at Transfiguration. Teaching is more suitable than me, ah - please forgive my arrogance, sometimes my thinking and skills are too advanced, making it difficult for students to understand."

The students listened quietly to the headmaster's words, their expressions were a little confused. They hadn't seen how far Dumbledore's "ideas and skills" were ahead of ordinary wizards, but they only vaguely knew that the headmaster was a powerful wizard.

Dumbledore gestured to Peter politely, "Especially Professor Pedro's magic engraving technique. I highly recommend this technique. It can simplify the extremely complicated transfiguration technique to a level of difficulty that ordinary people can achieve."

With a wave of Dumbledore's wand, a huge marble statue appeared on the stage. The students didn't understand it, because although the statue was as tall as five people, the workmanship was very rough. Its muscles were several irregular polygons. , the head is just a bumpy sphere.

Peter and Snape looked up at the statue, waiting for Dumbledore's further movement. They both knew that Dumbledore's work could not be so rough. Dumbledore flicked his wand again, and the statue's irregular muscles Immediately, it became lifelike, and the face was added with solemn and deep features.

"Transfiguration is the art of imagination," said Dumbledore in a deep and engaging voice, "first imagining the rough shape, and then fine-tuning it—"

He waved his wand again, and the statue was methodically covered by layers of leather armor, chain mail, and plate armor. When the shoulder armor and helmet were put on, they lightly collided with the main body of the statue, making a rhythmic sound, and finally , the mask was put down with a click, and a long stone sword appeared in the statue's hand. Now it has changed from a simple marble statue to a fully armed knight.

"After that, add some flowing magic."

Dumbledore casually pointed at the statue of the knight, the armor on its body immediately gave off a metallic luster, gorgeous reliefs diffused on the surface of the armor, when its eyes emitted blue light from the gap in the mask, The students in the stands exclaimed.

"Finally, a little inspiration." Dumbledore said with a smile.

The statue of the knight moved. It held the sword flat with its right hand, and gently wiped the edge of the sword with its left hand. Wherever its left hand went, flames burst out from the blade, and the whole sword burned blazingly.

The students cheered, applauded, and applauded. They were all impressed by Dumbledore's skills. The knight statue walked around the stage rumblingly, with a flaming sword standing on its chest.

"This is Transfiguration," said Dumbledore. "Use magic to change everything, and use magic to turn imagination into reality. On the premise of respecting the basic laws of magic, we can do whatever we want."

Dumbledore swung his wand again, and another statue appeared between him and Peter, an ugly, grinning, wide-eyed figure with bat-like wings on its back.

He raised his wand slightly, and the statue spread its wings and jumped up. The armor covered its whole body, and a sharp spear appeared between its two front paws. It hovered over the stands for a week, boom It landed back on the stage with a bang, and it stood in a crouching position with its spear at its side.

Now the students finally understand what Dumbledore said at the beginning. His magic skills are so amazing that ordinary students can't even read, let alone study. Even excellent students like Hermione can only stare at him. share.

Dumbledore smiled and said to Peter: "Peter, as a comparison, can you please demonstrate your magic engraving skills to everyone?"

"Okay, Professor Dumbledore." Peter nodded and took a step forward. He knew what Dumbledore had transformed with his transfiguration. It was a gargoyle equipped with armor. A dozen gargoyles were placed on the roof of the castle as an emergency defense defense, and it was one of the first few items Peter engraved.

He shook his wand, and a gargoyle with the same head appeared on the stage in an instant. It kicked on all fours, soared into the air, flew a few times in the air, and landed heavily on the side of Dumbledore's gargoyle, forming a gargoyle. Perfect symmetry.

"Look, the speed of Professor Pedillo's engraving magic to conjure gargoyles is much faster than my traditional transfiguration." Dumbledore said approvingly, "It's an amazing invention."

Peter bowed slightly politely, but he knew in his heart that Dumbledore used magic power and imagination to conjure gargoyles from scratch, which meant ever-changing and emerging in battle, and Dumbledore's magical attainments were not yet Peter could go above and beyond.

A knight with a flaming sword came towards two squatting gargoyles, and the stage was booming precariously, making people worry that it might collapse at any time.

Dumbledore tilted his head slightly to Peter, "Let's add a little drama to this acting class." Peter understood, the two gargoyles straightened up and held their spears in front of them, and the knight's flaming sword slammed down heavily. At the same time, the gargoyle's two spears also pierced its chest.

For a moment, rubble, gravel, and armor flitted about, and knights and gargoyles crumbled to powder, but before the shards could affect anyone, Dumbledore and Peter let them disappear without a trace, Now there are only three wizards left on the stage, and those three huge statues seem to have never appeared before.

There was warm applause from the audience, and Dumbledore bowed gracefully.

When the applause gradually subsided, Dumbledore continued: "Magic, like any skill, contains parts that can be taught and parts that cannot be taught. Maybe I am a bit arrogant to say this, but a lot of my magic is my own. It cannot be taught to you.”

Fawkes patted his wings on his shoulder, and he stroked its feathers with his hands to soothe it.

"Ah, I remember when I was your age... my OWLs examiner, Ms. Greselda Marchban, once praised me for 'doing things she couldn't think of with magic', but she didn't Knowing that the most unexpected magic I ever performed as a schoolboy was on a sheet of sourdough pie that my old friend Ephias accidentally ate for breakfast—"

Snape's face became even uglier, he looked as if he was choking on a pie with fillings, and he gave Dumbledore a cold look, but Dumbledore caught his eye in time.

"—he ate more than usual, and didn't have any trouble in the bathroom afterwards, well, it's really inappropriate to talk about this here," said Dumbledore, "Next, after Professor Peddie Road announced Before everyone's points ranking, I would like to ask a student to come up to the stage to accept a challenge, if successful, this student will get [-] extra points, if he fails, [-] points will be deducted."

(End of this chapter)