13. Transfiguration

However, less than two meters after falling, a staircase appeared out of thin air and caught Miranda.

Miranda looked up at Hoffa and said, "Jump!"

Hoffa scolded secretly, a school made by a madman!

With that, he jumped off the guardrail amid the scolding of the oil painting, and after falling two meters in the air, a moving staircase suddenly turned. Caught Hoffa, as if he was afraid that he would fall to his death.

Following Miranda, the two of them navigate the stairwell that shifts in the air.

The height of the 7-story building was actually jumped down by the two of them.

As soon as she stepped on the ground, Miranda slammed open a wooden door that moved the wall.

In front of me, the corridor is constantly changing positions.

Those doors are like the wheel of a lotto draw, spinning around.

Miranda was decisive and pushed them open one by one.

At the end of the hallway, there was a black iron door, and Hoffa tried to push it in, but Miranda held him back.

"Wait a minute. ”

Hoffa stood still.

Ten seconds later, a wall crashes through it, as if to say, hey, this is my territory, buddy.

There is an oak door on this wall.

Miranda immediately pulled Hoffa into the door.

After the two disappeared into the door, the wall was unpleasantly smashed open by another wall.

After entering the door, inside the door is the classroom of the transformation class.

Circular classrooms with ring-shaped desks. The classroom was full of children, and tall men with russet hair leaning casually against the side of the podium.

When the children heard the noise, they all turned their heads in surprise to look at the two men at the door.

Hoffa's heart sank, was it still late?

Dumbledore looked at the two men who pushed the door open with interest.

He glanced up at the clock and said with a smile: "If you are three minutes late, according to the rules, I should deduct three points from you." But today is the day off for the stairs, so I'm giving you three points, so hurry up and find a place to sit down. ”

Hoffa breathed a sigh of relief.

Stairs are on holiday, and stairs are also holiday......

No wonder those guys were running around in high spirits.

The four houses were in class together, and the popular Dumbledore was in class, and the good seats near the podium in the classroom were all full.

Miranda sat down in the corner, and after taking a seat, she beckoned to Hoffa, motioning for him to sit next to her.

Hoffa was a little reluctant, because there was already a silver-haired girl sitting in the corner she chose.

But the class had already begun, and he couldn't pick and choose, so he had to sit down.

Aglaia glanced at Hoffa and Miranda, frowned and moved a centimeter to the right, showing her disgust for the two.

The cheeks of the two Gryffindor boys on her right turned red and they were speechless in shame.

The conflict between the little kids bored Hoffa, and he took out his notes and listened attentively.

In Hoffa's mind, becoming an Animagus is also one of his goals that he must overcome.

If you can't turn into a favorite animal in the world of HP, what's the difference between it and salted fish? Of course, if you want to become an Animagus. Dumbledore's Transfiguration lesson, he couldn't afford to fall behind at all.

Once everyone was seated, Dumbledore nodded in satisfaction, cleared his throat, and tapped his wand on the lectern next to him.

Suddenly, the lectern let out a roar that had been around all day.

"Roar!"

It suddenly changed from a four-legged table to a four-legged lion.

The students in the front row were startled and shrank back.

Dumbledore waved his wand again, and the lion turned into a small black and white badger in the air.

It arched its nose and sniffed back and forth a few times, and suddenly, the two ribs of the badger gave birth to wings, and in the exclamation of the crowd, it turned into an eagle with an extremely wide wingspan.

The eagle fluttered up, circled the classroom three times, and slowly landed.

As it fell, its legs fused and lengthened, and when it was fully grounded, it turned into an elegantly spotted python, hissing and spitting letters.

The python circled back to the lecture, Dumbledore's wand clicked, and the snake turned back into the lectern.

All the students were stunned, and Hoffa was among them. In his previous life, he didn't know how many movies he had seen cool magic special effects, but this kind of real and sophisticated change, he really had never seen before.

Dumbledore rarely showed his Transfiguration skills after becoming Headmaster, so much so that others did not know that he was a true Transfiguration Master.

Under the shocked gaze of the student, Dumbledore spoke slowly.

"Transfiguration, the most complex and demanding of all magic. How to change the structure of things without destroying their essence is a topic of eternal debate among generations of wizards. ”

Seeing that the students below were all listening attentively, Dumbledore waved his wand.

Suddenly, the curtains were drawn.

The classroom was dimly lit, and several projection screens were suddenly hung around it.

Dumbledore: "As the first Transfiguration lesson, the first thing I want to teach you is not magic, but the most important quality of Transfiguration, prudence. ”

As he spoke, black and white photos flashed across the curtain.

Hoffa's eyes widened, and on the projection screen, there were monsters with terrifying faces.

Dumbledore: "Some wizards have gone further than the average in Transfiguration, and all the great changes you can think of have been tried by wizards of all kinds. However, some wizards succeeded, while many more failed in their quest for knowledge.

The reason for the failure is without exception, it is all due to a lack of prudence. ”

The black-and-white photo stopped.

Hoffa saw that the photograph was a hand-drawn drawing of a giant sphinx.

"Two thousand years before AD, the great shapeshifter of ancient Egypt, the Sphinx, reached the extreme of that time on the road of pursuing transformation. It's a pity that in the end, he still confused the difference between structure and essence, and in the process of a transformation, he turned himself into a half-human, half-lion monster, and lost his own reason. ”

The picture on the projection screen changes again.

A banshee with a human face and a bird's body with a painful expression appeared.

Dumbledore: "1000 BC, the greatest witch of ancient Greece, the Siren." In her quest to fly, she sacrificed her sanity and completely stripped her humanity of her own nature, thus turning into a monster with a human face and a bird's body, and her descendants still roam the Greek peninsula in agony to this day. ”

The projection is once again a hand-drawn drawing of a half-man, half-cow.

Dumbledore: "In 13 AD, the famous wizard Minotaur tried to turn into a bull in the process of dueling with people, but unfortunately he was carried away by anger, so he could only be a creature without a human or a cow for the rest of his life, living on his vomit......."

With the calm words of the man on the podium, the faces of the people in the classroom turned pale.

Hoffa didn't expect that some of the monsters in myths and legends were actually real, and most of them were related to transfiguration.

In his previous life, when he read the novel, he only saw the fun of Animagus, but he didn't expect that there were so many dangerous stories behind the scenes.

After a dozen cases of failed transformations in a row, the classroom was silent.

Suddenly, an arm was raised in the air.

Dumbledore nodded, "Tom, say it." ”

Tom Riddle slowly stood up and asked with a respectful demeanor, "Sir, what does it mean to change the structure but not the essence?" In my opinion, when the structure changes, the essence will inevitably change with it. ”

"Very critical question, Tom. Dumbledore said lightly:

"Every shapeshifter has a different point of view on this issue, but in my opinion, the essence is your purpose and heart. Take the inner purpose as the beacon and the fraternity and tolerance as the guide. Only then can you maintain yourself in the complex process of transformation. Of course, this change is limited to the biological changes of the Animagus. ”

Tom politely said, "Thank you, sir." ”

He sat down, and Hoffa couldn't read his expression clearly. When he read books in his previous life, he didn't know if Voldemort was an Animagus, but now it seems that Voldemort's strongest point should be a piece of dark magic, not Transfiguration.

After explaining Tom Riddle's question, Dumbledore had each student come up to the stage and take a small piece of wood and ask the students to use their wands to change the wood into other shapes.

After taking the wood, Hoffa saw the students pull out their wands and start tapping the wood continuously.

Suddenly, the classroom shimmered with colorful joy, and some students cast spells on the wood with their wands.

Some of the wood burned with a bang, some of the wood turned into a puddle of mud under the light of the wand, and some of the wood even grew two legs and ran away.

Dumbledore reminded the students loudly, "Be rational, don't be confused, and have your own goals in mind!"

But it didn't work, a group of little wizards were together, and they didn't know what to do at all.

The Ravenclaw and Slytherin students were calmer, and the Gryffindor and Hufflepuff students were almost blowing their roofs off.

The same was true of the two Gryffindor boys beside Aglaia, one of them stabbed the wood into a pig's head, and the other made the wood burst open, and his face was smeared with black by the explosion, and his hair stood on end.

With a look of disgust and sarcasm, Aglaia shifted her position a little to the left.

Without saying a word, Miranda took out her wand and tapped the wood. The wood floated, slowly transforming in the air.

Eventually, it turned into an owl-like thing that looked ugly, but could barely count as an owl.

Miranda said to Hoffa, "This Dumbledore is going to reward me with at least five points." ”

"Ridiculous. It was Aglaia who answered her.

She crossed her arms and sneered, "Are you satisfied with conjuring up that kind of garbage?"

Miranda looked at Aglaia gently and politely, as if to say, you can do it!

The silver-haired woman haughtily pulled out a wand that shimmered with silver light and pointed at the wood in front of her.

Then, under Hoffa's shocked gaze, her wood slowly began to grow and spread on the table, turning into a delicate tree-like carving. The carvings are lifelike, and even have very small leaves. You can see the lines on the leaves.

When the change was complete, she put away her wand and looked at Miranda and sneered.

Miranda shrugged as she looked at the other tree's eagle and then at her own owl. "You're amazing. ”

She didn't argue with Aglaia, she wasn't even angry.

Hoffa admired Miranda a little, he was not angry when he was scolded like this, if it was himself, he was only afraid of ......

Aglaia said to Miranda, "But you're not bad, some people don't even dare to try." ”

As she spoke, she held her head high, and the corner of her eye was firmly fixed on Hoffa.

She wanted to see this arrogant and indifferent boy make a fool of himself.