Study Days at Hogwarts

  Chapter 747 Magic Model

After receiving the letter, Albert decided to visit Hagrid at the hunting lodge, to give him confidence, and by the way... Well, he mainly went to take some pictures of Buckbeak, and wanted to use the Transfiguration Charm to conjure a Hippogriff Winged beasts are no easy task.

  Albert first tried to deform the wood to create a contour model of Buckbeak. At least the shape should not be too different from the main body, otherwise it would be easy for people to see the flaws.

Of course, only the model is not enough. It is not too difficult to turn dead objects into living objects. As early as in the transformation class of the third grade, Professor McGonagall taught everyone the transformation spell, which is the one that turns the teapot into a living thing. Turtle's spell.

  But... there is still a big problem, the bigger the thing, the more difficult it is to cast a spell.

If it was just turning a stone into a hound, Albert would have been able to do that long ago, but Buckbeak is not small, he is still a magical creature, and the difficulty of transformation is far higher than turning a stone into a hound several times.

  Albert's first attempt failed without incident. The transformed Hippogriff was smaller in size and didn't look like a living thing at all, and the flaws could be seen at a glance.

  After experiencing consecutive failures, Albert gave up practicing and planned to ask other people for advice. Professor McGonagall is a ready-made expert in the field of deformation, much better than his half-baked ones.

   "You want to use the Transfiguration Charm to conjure a dragon?" Professor McGonagall couldn't believe his ears after hearing Albert's words.

"No, no, professor, I just want to make a model, a dynamic and lifelike model." Albert explained quickly, "You may have heard about the accident that happened in the protection of magical creatures class at the beginning of the semester, Hagrid's The hippogriff is likely to be put to death, and I want to give him a gift to make him feel better."

   "I've heard about this too." Professor McGonagall's eyes became gentle.

   "Do you know how to conjure a model like that?"

"If it's just a model, there should be no problem, but..." Professor McGonagall paused and reminded: "It should be possible to conjure a fire dragon in theory, but it can't be done in practice. Even Dumbledore may find it difficult." To achieve this level of deformation, you should be very clear that the larger the volume, the higher the difficulty of deformation."

   "What's the biggest creature you've ever transformed into?" Albert asked curiously.

   "Turn the table into a pig." Professor McGonagall looked at Albert and smiled, "I think with your current ability, you should be able to do this."

   "A demonstration at the beginning of school?"

  Albert still clearly remembered that Professor McGonagall showed everyone the magical magic of turning a table into a pig in the first transformation class for freshmen.

  Actually, Professor McGonagall was very happy that Albert changed his research direction.

  Since she knew that Albert's patron saint was a griffin, she didn't want Albert to transform into an Animagus.

A wizard's Animagus usually takes the form of his Patronus, and while there's no evidence that the two are connected, an Animagus obviously can't turn into a magical animal, or even she wouldn't know What will happened.

  However, what Professor McGonagall didn't know was that Albert hadn't given up on Animagus, but that the transformation ceremony was too cumbersome. He planned to see if he could solve this problem at once through the task.

  After Professor McGonagall briefly explained how to make a magic model, Albert found that making a moving magic model was easier than expected.

   "This is a good alternative."

   Albert felt that his original idea of ​​wanting to turn into a hippogriff was a bit silly, because he was completely overconfident in his abilities.

   After thanking Professor McGonagall, Albert planned to go to the library first and borrow some books on transformation recommended by Professor McGonagall.

  Before leaving, Professor McGonagall hinted that he should start with O. W． The Ls exam is the first priority, and the research on the transformation spell can be put in the sixth grade transformation improvement class.

  Albert was so obsessed with the training of the Transfiguration Charm that he almost missed dinner time. When he hurriedly left the Room of Requirement and rushed to the hall, he found Lee Jordan was flipping through "Classified Broomsticks", as if he was supplementing the knowledge related to the Firebolt. In his words: If you behave correctly on the field If Firebolt knows nothing, it will make everyone think that his commentary level is very poor.

   "If you can use this energy to review, I think you will definitely get a few more excellent grades." Albert couldn't help complaining.

   "What are you doing with Professor McGonagall?"

   "Discussing the Transformation Curse." Albert said casually, "I'm wondering if I can conjure a dragon."

   "Wow, can this kind of thing be done?" Lee Jordan dropped the book in his hand and asked, "It would be really cool if you could ride on the back of a dragon."

  Last time, there was no chance to ride Hagrid's Hippogriff, which caused the three of them to complain for a long time.

   "It's theoretically possible, but basically it's impossible." Albert raised his wand and tapped it lightly, and Lee Jordan's "Classifying Broomsticks" turned into a palm-sized Norwegian Ridgeback model.

  Albert had seen the Norwegian Ridgeback raised by Hagrid before, and the model on the table was made out of that one.

"so cool."

  Lee Jordan put the model on the palm of his hand and looked at it carefully. It was really lifelike, and the fire dragon actually spewed sparks at him.

After a while, Lee Jordan seemed to remember what this thing changed, and turned his head to Albert and said, "Can you change it back, I haven't finished reading that book, and I have to return it to Wood .”

"No problem at all."

   Albert waved his magic wand, and the Norwegian Ridgeback model turned back into "Classified Broomstick".

   "I'm sure this thing will be a hit." Fred and George appeared out of nowhere, apparently seeing the scene of the dragon breathing fire.

   "The transformation spell will gradually weaken over time." Albert shook his head.

   "What happy things have happened to you, tell us to make us happy." Lee Jordan asked the smiling Weasley twins.

"Team Slytherin, you went to spy on our training this evening, and you didn't even notice how ugly his face is." Fred and George looked at Montague in Slytherin provocatively and said: "The group of people It looks like a big dung egg has been stuffed in his mouth. After all, our big dung egg reserve is not enough, when is the next time we go to Hogsmeade."

   "Before Valentine's Day." Albert said without thinking. Valentine's Day falls on a Monday, which is certainly not a pleasant one.

   "Before that, there was a match between Gryffindor and Ravenclaw."

"I dare say that the Slytherin team would never want to see the Gryffindor team defeat the Ravenclaw team, and then compete with them for this year's Quidditch championship," George pointed to Harry and Harry. Malfoy, "They're jealous that Harry has a Firebolt."

   "Those guys will definitely make a mess, keep Harry out of the game, or find a way to make him fall off the broom again." Fred speculated on the Slytherin team with the worst malice he could.

"Don't worry, it's almost impossible unless they can get the dementors back, but Professor Dumbledore will never allow dementors to enter Hogwarts school again." Of course Albert knew what Malfoy wanted to do , but he didn't intend to disclose any information, "Even if they wanted to cast a curse on the Firebolt, they couldn't do it. Their level is not up to that level, so you don't need to pay too much attention to Slytherin's little tricks."

   "What if they pretend to be dementors?" Lee Jordan asked tentatively.

   "Why do you have such a weird idea?" Albert stretched out his hand and patted the other person's shoulder, sighing slightly, with an expression that you can't do it.

  Fred and George also imitated Albert and patted Lee Jordan on the shoulder lightly, which made him a little puzzled.

   "Hey, tell me clearly!"

"Your defense against the dark arts has been strengthened." Albert said speechlessly, "Do you think Harry Potter is afraid of dementors? No, he is only affected by dementors, not by The dementor passed out, and I feel really sad for the family of a Slytherin student pretending to be a dementor."

   "Yes, that's a sad story." Both Fred and George understood the meaning of the words.

   That's right, only a mentally retarded person would do that stupid thing!

  (end of this chapter)