Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 41 Transfiguration

   In the afternoon, Gryffindor's freshmen's Transfiguration class is still held with Ravenclaw.

  Before the first class, Professor McGonagall gave everyone a serious warning:

  Transfiguration is the most complex and dangerous spell in your Hogwarts classes. Anyone who dares to be naughty in my class, I ask him out, and he will never be allowed to come in again.

  This bluffing speech, coupled with Professor McGonagall's stern face, immediately calmed down this group of eleven-year-old students, and the classroom instantly became dead silent.

  Actually, Professor McGonagall’s teaching methods are similar to those of Professor Flitwick’s. She turned the desk into a pig, and then back again.

   This scene quickly attracted everyone's attention, and they all wished they could start learning Transfiguration right away.

  Gryffindor students who have just taken the Charms class know that it will take a long time to turn furniture into animals.

   Sure enough, after class, Professor McGonagall began to talk about the theory of deformation, and they jotted down a lot of complicated notes.

  Albert opened his skill list, and the deformation theory appeared again. He spent 98 experience points to upgrade the deformation theory to level 1.

  From the very beginning, he has been staring at the contents of the "Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration", pretending that he is reading the book seriously, but actually looking up the extra knowledge of deformation theory in his head.

  After the theoretical explanation, Professor McGonagall began to distribute a match to each of them, and began to let everyone try to turn the match into a needle.

   "Mr. Anderson?" Professor McGonagall stared at the boy who was in a daze, frowning slightly. She still has an impression of this boy. After all, anyone who sees someone knocking down the door of his office will still remember it, not to mention how long it has passed.

   "Uh. Professor, what's the matter?" Albert immediately came back to his senses, looked at Professor McGonagall in confusion and asked.

"Everyone is practicing transfiguration, why don't you try it?" Professor McGonagall looked past Albert and looked at Fred next door, "Mr. Weasley, if I were you, before chanting the spell will focus."

  Fred looked innocent, and Professor McGonagall stood beside him, putting a lot of pressure on him.

   Albert glanced at Fred, and began to talk nonsense with his eyes open, "I just think there are some important things to remember before waving the wand."

  However, Professor McGonagall did not intend to leave immediately, but instead looked away and continued to stare at Albert, preparing to watch him cast a spell.

   "Ahem!" Albert coughed lightly, raised his wand and pointed it at the match on the table, while chanting: "VeraVerto."

  The match quickly changed and turned into a slender silver needle.

"Very good, everyone, take a look, Mr. Anderson succeeded," Professor McGonagall showed the class the silver needles turned from matches, and then smiled at Albert. Before leaving, he did not forget to give Gryffindor five points.

   "I knew it wouldn't be a problem for you." Fred took the silver needle and looked at it and asked, "How did you do it? Is there a trick?"

  The students next to him all pricked up their ears to eavesdrop, as if they wanted to know the secret of Albert's immediate success.

  Albert whispered: "Professor McGonagall asked us to take notes before, the trick is in it."

  A group of people immediately started flipping through the books, looking for the notes they had just recorded.

   "You think I'll believe it?" Fred stared at Albert with contempt, obviously not believing these nonsense.

  However, he didn't ask any more questions, because Professor McGonagall looked over here again.

   A few minutes later, Professor McGonagall announced again: "Look, Miss McDougal's matches have also changed."

   "Transfiguration is so difficult, how did you succeed at once?" Katrina couldn't help asking. For some reason, she sat next to Albert again.

   "One-time success? Cough cough, in fact, I have practiced before, so I succeeded." Albert coughed lightly, and he didn't have his own secrets of success. It's better not to be regarded as a genius or something.

   "Failure is a normal thing. I don't remember how many times I failed before I successfully turned matches into needles."

   "However, the precautions that Professor McGonagall asked us to memorize are also the tricks to success." The last sentence was for everyone who was eavesdropping.

   Katrina can naturally guess, after all, no one can succeed in one go, her matches can change, so naturally she has practiced transfiguration before.

  The remainder of Transfiguration class was spent practicing how to turn matches into needles. Professor McGonagall paced the classroom, instructing other students.

  However, for Albert, who has successfully completed the match change needle, the remaining time is really boring, so he finds something for himself to do, so as not to be caught by Professor McGonagall.

   "Return to original form!"

  The silver needle turns back into a match again. Professor McGonagall has said this spell, and there are related records in the book. Incomplete deformations are difficult to correct, and uttering "revert!" returns the object or creature to its original state.

Albert propped his chin in one hand and held his wand in the other, and began to deform the matches on the table into various strange things. The spell was actually VeraVerto, but the closer the transformed object was to the shape of the original object, the more difficult it was to deform. smaller.

   After the change, it will be restored again, so as to increase the experience of restoring the original shape.

   "How did you do it?" Fred next to him was stunned.

   This guy's Transfiguration has blown them away.

   "How did you do it? That's it!" Albert raised his wand a little, and the original button turned into a toy mouse.

   "As Professor McGonagall said, be clean when waving your wand, think clearly about what you want to become before transforming, and be clear and precise when reciting spells."

  The twins looked at each other in blank dismay. Although Albert said so, they also tried in the same way, but before the end of get out of class, they still failed to make the match change.

   In fact, except for the success of Albert and Katrina, the matches of others have not changed.

  This is a matter of course in Albert's eyes.

   After all, the difficulty of transfiguration, as someone who has experienced it, is very clear. If he doesn't practice hard for a few days, he wants to successfully complete the transfiguration, and thinks that his transfiguration talent breaks through the sky?

   It is the most difficult thing to change the item for the first time, but as long as there is success for the first time, it will become much easier to practice later.

  The homework for Transfiguration class is similar to Charms class, which is to ask everyone to go back and practice turning matches into needles.

  But it is not known how many students will practice patiently.

  However, from the contents of the "Beginner's Guide to Transformation", the first-year students learn only one type of transformation magic, the only difference is the size and type of objects to be transformed.

  (end of this chapter)