Daily Life at Hogwarts Chapter 41: Transfiguration

In the afternoon, the Transfiguration class for freshmen in Gryffindor is still taking place with Ravenclaw.

Before the first class, Professor McGonagall gave everyone a stern face:

Transfiguration is the most complex and dangerous spell in your course at Hogwarts. If anyone dares to be mischievous in my class, I will ask him out and never allow him to come in again.

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

In fact, Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick taught in the same way, she turned the desk into a pig and then back again.

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

Gryffindor students who have just taken Charms know that it takes a long time to turn furniture into animals.

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

Albert opened his skill list, and sure enough, Deformation Theory appeared again. He spent 98 experience points to upgrade Deformation Theory to level 1.

From the very beginning, he has been staring at the content of the "Transformation Guide for Beginners", pretending that he is reading the book seriously, but in fact he is 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 had an impression of this boy. After all, anyone who saw someone tearing down the door of his office would still remember it, not to mention how long it had been.

"Uh. Professor, what's the matter?" Albert immediately regained his senses and asked Professor McGonagall with a puzzled face.

"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, in Concentrate before chanting the mantra."

Fred looked innocent, and Professor McGonagall was standing next to him, putting a lot of pressure on him.

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

However, Professor McGonagall did not intend to leave immediately, but withdrew his gaze and continued to stare at Albert, ready to watch him cast a spell.

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

The match quickly changes, becoming a slender silver needle.

"Very well, everyone, look, Mr. Anderson succeeded," Professor McGonagall told the class to see the match turned into a silver needle, and gave Albert a rare smile. Before leaving, he did not forget to give the Ranffindor added five points.

"I knew it wasn't a problem for you." Fred took the silver needle and looked at it and asked, "How did you do it, do you have any tricks?"

Several students next to him pricked up their ears to eavesdrop, seeming to want to know the secret of Albert's immediate success.

Albert whispered: "Professor McGonagall didn't let us take notes before, the trick is there."

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

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

However, he stopped asking because Professor McGonagall looked this way again.

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

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

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

"Failure is normal, and I don't remember how many times I failed to successfully turn a match into a needle."

"However, the dos and don'ts that Professor McGonagall asked us to remember is also a recipe for success." This last sentence was addressed to the people who were eavesdropping.

Katrina can naturally guess. After all, no one can succeed all at once. Her matches can change. Naturally, she has practiced Transfiguration before.

The rest of the Transfiguration class was spent practicing how to turn matches into needles. Professor McGonagall walked back and forth in the classroom, instructing other students.

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

"Restore!"

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

Albert rested his chin in one hand~IndoMTL.com~ holding a wand in the other, and began to deform the matches on the table, turning them into all kinds of strange things. The spells were actually VeraVerto. The shape of the object, the less difficult it is to deform.

After the change is completed, it will be restored again, thereby increasing the experience of returning to its original shape.

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

This guy's Transfiguration has left them all over the place.

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

"Like Professor McGonagall said, be clean when waving your wand, think clearly about what you want to transform into before transforming, and be clear and precise when chanting a spell."

The twins looked at each other. Although Albert said so, they tried it, but they still failed to make the match change before the get out of class ended.

In fact, with the exception of Albert and Katrina's success, no one else's matches have changed.

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

After all, the difficulty of Transfiguration is too clear for someone who has come here. If he doesn't practice hard for a few days, he wants to successfully complete the transformation, and he thinks that his transformation talent will break through the sky?

It is the most difficult to change the item for the first time, but as long as the first time is successful, it will be much easier to practice later.

The homework in Transfiguration is similar to that of Charms, in that you go back and practice turning matches into needles.

But it is unknown how many students will practice patiently.

However, from the content of the "Transformation Guide for Beginners", there is only one type of deformation magic that a first-year freshman learns, and the difference is only the size and type of the object to be changed.