Ancient Warlocks at Hogwarts

"So you successfully passed Professor McGonagall's exam?" Hermione finally started communicating with Andre again, although it was just out of curiosity about the NEWTs' improvement class.

"Yes, Professor McGonagall gave me an E. She said it meant exceeding expectations." Andre nodded. This afternoon, he went to Professor McGonagall's office to take a written test.

Hermione asked again: "So you don't have to go to the Transfiguration class tomorrow morning."

"Yes, I will have to take the Transfiguration Improvement Class with the sixth graders on Tuesday afternoon after the Defense Against the Dark Arts surgery." Andre said, "Fortunately, there is no conflict with other courses."

The curriculum of the advanced class is not tight, with only two classes a week, and most of the senior year is spent on self-study.

Especially after the sixth grade, students must understand on their own. There are many magics that cannot be mastered by relying on professors' teachings alone.

"Hell, our flying lessons are actually going to be with Slytherin!" Ron's curse suddenly came from the corner of the common room.

Then Harry wailed: "Oh my God, I really don't want to go to class with Malfoy's gang. He is even more annoying than my cousin Dudley."

Andre stood up and walked over to look at it. It was a notice that Percy had just posted. They would start their first flying lesson after 03:30 this Thursday afternoon.He remembered that Harry was selected for the Quidditch team by Professor McGonagall after this class.

Flying class is one of the rare physical education classes at Hogwarts, but unfortunately this class is not permanent.

Ms. Huo Qi is only responsible for letting the first-year wizards learn basic flying skills, and then the course will be ended.

After all, her main responsibility is the training and competition arrangements for the Quidditch teams of the four houses.

But although it was torture to go to class with the Slytherin snakes, the temptation of the flying broomstick still made the Gryffindor lounge instantly lively.

Everyone who comes from a wizarding family brags about how awesome their flying skills are.Most of their experiences ended with various Muggle aircraft nearly hitting them.

Harry and Andre both couldn't get a word in. They had never played with a flying broomstick.Harry, in particular, was worried that he would make a fool of himself in front of Malfoy during his first flying lesson.After all, the other party told many times about the glorious incident when he almost collided with a Muggle helicopter when he was a child.

Ron, who had had close contact with Muggle hang gliders, comforted Harry very sensibly: "I know Malfoy always brags that he is great at Quidditch, but I bet he just Talking nonsense."

In short, the flying lesson that is about to start on Thursday makes all the first-year students excited.Even Hermione looked very nervous. This was not a course that could be mastered by memorizing a book.

Andre quickly put aside his worries about flying lessons. He had to prepare for the first transformation class of the transformation class on Tuesday.

He had to work harder to keep up with the sixth-grade curriculum.Professor McGonagall made a full study schedule for him, with more books listed than the entire first-grade textbook.

Moreover, Professor McGonagall also asked Andre to publish a paper in "Transfiguration Today" this semester - his research on the Vanishing Curse was greatly appreciated by Professor McGonagall.

On Tuesday afternoon, after struggling through the pungent Defense Against the Dark Arts class, Andre quickly put away the two books "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" and "Dark Powers: A Guide to Self-Defense" and rushed out of the classroom.

In order to shield Voldemort from the back of his head, Quirrell wrapped a garlic-scented turban tightly around his head, making him look like a wizard from India.

Moreover, he never taught any spells to deal with black magic in class. He just kept repeating his experience of defeating various monsters, but the process was always vague.

Other than that, the new Defense Against the Dark Arts professor would only lead everyone in reading and reciting the full text with his stumbling spoken language.

"This is a disaster!" Ron said to Harry and Andre after the first class: "George told me that the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor last year taught well, but he encountered a problem at the end of the semester. Unexpectedly, I had to go to St. Mungo's to recuperate. This course always requires changing teachers. I suspect someone has cursed this position."

You are right, and the person who cursed this class was in the class just now.Andre looked at Ron silently at that time, suspecting that his mouth had been opened.

It was exactly three o'clock after the two afternoon classes, and the Transfiguration Advanced Class started at 03:30. It took Andre a while to find the classroom.

There were only eight people sitting in the entire classroom, and Professor McGonagall was always very demanding in selecting students, which was not unexpected by Andre.

Not every sixth-grade student can go to advanced classes. First of all, he/she must have the willingness to continue studying Transfiguration, and secondly, he/she must obtain a grade of E or above in OWLs before Professor McGonagall will let him/her continue studying.

Among the eight people, Andre only recognized one tall and beautiful girl. She was Gemma Farley, the prefect of the Snake House.She was responsible for guiding the new Slytherin students on the first day of the term.

There are also two boys from Gryffindor, one boy from Ravenclaw, three girls, and one boy from Hufflepuff.

Andre didn't recognize any of these sixth-year students. Even the two Gryffindor seniors he met in the common room, he didn't know their names.

After all, there are about 300 to [-] people in a college. If you are not a social expert, it will be difficult to recognize them all.

Currently, apart from being a Gryffindor student in the same grade, Andre is only acquainted with the Weasley twins and Percy because of Ron.

"Hi, I recognize you, you are this year's freshman, right?" Gemma Farley, who was sitting in the middle of the classroom, saw Andre walking in, frowned her slender eyebrows, and said not very politely: " Although your height is impressive, this is not your first grade classroom!"

It seems that Professor McGonagall did not inform them, Andre thought to himself, and then he said: "Sorry, I am indeed a first-year student, but Professor McGonagall has specially allowed me to join the advanced class."

"What!" Gemma frowned even more tightly, and several others also looked at Andre in disbelief.

"Miss Farley, I have indeed specially approved Ivanov to enter the advanced class." Professor McGonagall's voice rang out at the right time, helping Andre out of trouble.

"Ivanov successfully passed the exam I set for him individually, so there is no need to doubt his strength. I think it is better for you to focus on your books. Unlike him, you only have two years to take NEWTs. , this is not OWLs, no one can easily get the certificate without putting in enough effort." Professor McGonagall said in her unique serious tone: "Next, open your "Advanced Transfiguration Guide" and let's continue talking about the human body Key points for casting spells of transformation.”

The nine people in the classroom quickly gave up all their thoughts. Human transformation was far more difficult than any transformation they had learned before.

The difficulty of this transformation technique is second only to Animagus and magical creature transformation, but the latter two are not included in the assessment content of NEWTs. During the entire teaching process at Hogwarts, Professor McGonagall will only briefly describe A brief introduction to concepts, but no actual teaching.

Among them, there are only seven registered Animagus in this century. Of course, there are still some illegal Animagus, but this cannot deny its difficulty.

It is more difficult for magical creatures to transform, and varying degrees of magical rejection will make it difficult to complete the transformation.Even if there are some powerful wizards who can transform magical creatures, most of them are magical creatures with low magic - not even as powerful as a hound.

Relatively speaking, although wizards are also considered magical creatures, the human body transformation technique for wizards is much simpler than the transformation of magical creatures.

The reason for this phenomenon, the magic world has concluded, is that wizards themselves do not have as obvious magical organs as magical creatures, such as the sniffing belly bag and the fur of invisible beasts.

Ordinary animal transformation has no magical rejection at all (including Muggles, which is also a major source of blood discrimination in the wizarding world. Many pure-blood wizards do not admit that Muggles and they are the same species.), while in human transformation, the rejection reaction is better than magic. Biological deformation is much lower, but still there.

Therefore, to complete the transformation of the human body, one must have strong magic power to directly suppress the magic rejection reaction, but most people do not have such ability.

"Construct the thing you want to transform more perfectly. This is the basis. Don't panic when you feel the magic repulsion. Identify your belief in transformation and maintain the control of the wand on the human body." Mag asked everyone to look at themselves in the mirror practise.

Andre tried several times to finally turn his hair blue. It's hard to say whether it was a success or a failure. After all, he originally wanted to make his hair shorter.

"Don't conceive of transformations that are too difficult. Slight changes will help you master human body transformation as quickly as possible." Professor McGonagall glanced at Andre and seemed to be suppressing a smile.

Gemma Farley on the side laughed very happily. Andre's new look was really funny.

The corner of Andre's mouth twitched and he ignored the Slytherin prefect. He waved the wand again, but nothing happened.

"Don't worry, Mr. Ivanov. Generally speaking, the human body transformation spell lasts only three or four hours. Maybe you can try the restoration spell. Although as far as I know, the difficulty of restoring the human body transformation is not easier than the transformation. ." Gemma Farley looked at Andre and smiled happily.

Are all Slytherins so annoying?Andre even thought Malfoy was cuter than this woman, at least Malfoy hadn't provoked him yet.