The Extraordinary Apothecary at Hogwarts

The four hurriedly ate some buttered bread and milk, and went straight to the Transfiguration class classroom.

"I heard that Professor McGonagall likes to be a cat." Helen panted and climbed the stairs while telling them the news she got by chance.

Sissy nodded in agreement, and Hagrid had said the same thing before. When you enter the classroom, you should pay attention to the cats in the classroom—maybe they are real cats that can be used to practice Transfiguration, or maybe they are Professor McGonagall himself.

As soon as she stepped into the classroom, Sissy saw a slender orange cat squatting motionless on the podium from a distance.

"This must be Professor McGonagall. Have you ever seen such a thin orange cat?" Sissy dared to assure her that this was the slimmest orange cat she had ever seen.

The students who arrived early in the classroom were still talking nonsense. Sissy and the others knew the information in advance, so they quietly found a vacant seat to read books on their own.

Just when the class bell rang, and the students were still wondering why the professor didn't come to the classroom, the cat on the podium suddenly jumped down and turned into Professor McGonagall's original appearance.

Everyone was dumbfounded, and Sissy was still amazed when she saw it again.

Professor McGonagall glanced at each student with serious and wise eyes, and then unceremoniously gave them a dose of vaccination: "Transfiguration——is the most complicated and dangerous spell you will learn at Hogwarts one.

I put the ugly words up front, and anyone who tries to be naughty in my class, I will ask him out without hesitation and never come back! "

Helen probably guessed that the teacher who likes to turn into cats must be very cute. At this time, she was so shocked by Professor McGonagall's words that her expression froze, she straightened her back and did not dare to move.

The students were all buzzing. They only saw the horror of the Potions professor yesterday afternoon, and they were frightened by the Transfiguration teacher again early this morning.

The principle of transfiguration is extremely complicated, and it is very difficult to learn, but when Professor McGonagall demonstrated how to turn the podium into a big humming pink pig, everyone's eyes widened and they were eager to try.

"Transfiguration spells need to change according to the things they change. It is very simple to turn a piece of grass into a toothpick, but it is very difficult to turn a person into an elephant." Professor McGonagall saw the children With interest, began to explain the specific details.

Regarding the Transfiguration Curse, Sissi has been struggling with a question for a long time, so she raised her hand high and asked:

"Professor McGonagall, I read that the Transfiguration spell cannot conjure food, right?"

"Well, that's true." Professor McGonagall nodded, smiling slightly.

"But we can conjure animals. In this case, can we cook the conjured animals to make food?" Sissy pointed to the pink pig conjured up on the podium and continued to ask.

The children also think it makes sense. If this is the case, the statement in the book that food cannot be conjured becomes a fallacy.

"Good question Eugenie, we need such a rigorous spirit to learn Transfiguration, but also have imagination." Mag changed his usual serious expression, obviously a little excited.

"If you really gnaw a piece of meat on this pig." Mag patted the grunting pig, and asked the children expectantly, "Anyone want to come up and try?"

This... gnawing on live pigs even with belt meat?

It's better not to, I really can't say it, the other students also look weird, no one dares to fulfill this request.

"Well, it's a little hard to accept." Seeing that no one came forward, Mag waved his wand and cut off a piece of pig's ear.

The students all exclaimed, and saw that the pig didn't resist at all, as if it didn't feel that a piece of meat was missing from its body, it still stood calmly and kept humming.

Mag took the severed pig's ear and raised his voice to show everyone, "Don't be afraid, really, open your eyes and see, is this really an ear?"

Some timid students looked over carefully, and it was clear that what the professor was holding was a small piece of wood.

"Ah, what's going on here, the podium has clearly turned into a pig, how could it be?"

Sissy thought about it, all the objects changed by the Transfiguration Curse, no matter how lifelike, would not really change in essence.

McGonagall happily watched the children's different expressions. She was very satisfied that they were able to develop such an interest in the Transfiguration Charm in the first class.

"The Transformation Curse, as the name suggests, changes the appearance of objects. I can turn the podium into anything, but in reality?

After all, it is still a podium, and the podium is made of wood. Animals conjured from wood will not feel any pain, but if you turn a mouse into a pig and cut off a piece, it will definitely scream in pain. "

Professor McGonagall cast a reduction spell to change the podium back. If you look closely, you can find that a corner of the podium has been cut off.

"Got it, students, think about it, what would happen if someone really wanted to take a bite just now?"

Soon someone answered without raising their hands, "I will bite off a mouth full of sawdust!" At this time, the classroom was very lively, and the children were so excited that they expressed their opinions one after another.

Professor McGonagall didn't stop it. She didn't just ask the children to abide by the rules. As long as they listened carefully and learned the knowledge, it didn't matter if they were a little noisy.

For simple transformation, you only need to say "Villa Vito". Then Professor McGonagall explained a lot of basic knowledge of the transformation spell, and distributed a match to each student, asking them to try their best to turn the match into a match before get out of class ends. needle.

Cici sketched the shape of a silver needle in her mind as required, and then stared at the match that needed to be changed. At this moment, she needed to hold her breath and concentrate, ignoring other objects in front of her eyes except the match, and chanted the spell and flicked the wand.

"Villa Vito!"

Whoosh—the match flew out as soon as it touched the light from the wand.

Just hearing the sound of "哐啷", the students around were also startled, and an iron rod like a steel bar fell straight to the ground.

"Oh? It seems that the problem of your difficulty in casting the spell has been solved, Miss Eugenie." Mag lifted the spell, picked up the returned match and returned it to Sissy.

Qianqian nodded, still wondering in her heart, what she imagined just now was obviously a silver needle, it's too far away.

"Don't use too much force, keep it under control. The Transfiguration Charm needs 100% precision to be called a success." McGonagall pointed out and continued to observe the problems of everyone in the classroom.

After 10 minutes passed, everyone was in a variety of situations, and there were many people who kept staring at the matchstick. There were also many people who conjured up inexplicable things like Sissy, and some even lit the match somehow imaginatively.