Chapter 41: Transfiguration
In the afternoon, the Transfiguration class for new Gryffindor students was still with Ravenclaw.
Before the first class, Professor McGonagall gave everyone a dismissal with a straight face:
Transfiguration is the most complex and dangerous spell you will have in Hogwarts. Anyone who dares to be naughty in my class, I will ask him out, and he will never be allowed to come in again.
This bluffing speech, combined with Professor McGonagall's stern countenance, immediately calmed down the eleven-year-old students, and the classroom instantly became dead silent.
In fact, Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick teach in the same way, she turns the lectern into a pig and then back again.
This scene quickly succeeded in attracting everyone's attention, and they were eager to start learning Transfiguration right away.
Gryffindor students who had just taken a Charms class knew that it would take a long time to turn furniture into animals.
Sure enough, after class, Professor McGonagall began to talk about the theory of transfiguration, and they scribbled down a large number of complex notes.
Albert opened his skill list, and sure enough, the Transfiguration Theory appeared in it, and it took him 98 points of experience to upgrade the Transfiguration Theory to Level 1.
From the very beginning, he has been staring at the content of the "Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration", pretending that he is reading the book carefully, but in fact he is looking up the extra knowledge of deformation theory in his head.
After the explanation, Professor McGonagall began to hand out a match to each of them, and began to ask everyone to try to turn a match into a needle.
"Mr. Anderson?" Professor McGonagall frowned slightly as she stared at the boy in a daze. She still had an impression of the boy, after all, anyone who saw someone break down the door of their office would still remember it vividly, not to mention how long it had been.
"Uh. Professor, is there anything going on?" Albert asked, immediately coming back to his senses and looking at Professor McGonagall with a confused expression.
"Everyone is practicing Transfiguration, why don't you give it a try?" Professor McGonagall looked past Albert to Fred next door, "Mr. Weasley, if I were you, I would concentrate before chanting the incantation. ”
Fred looked innocent, and Professor McGonagall stood next to him, putting him under a lot of pressure.
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 my wand." ”
However, Professor McGonagall did not intend to leave immediately, but withdrew her gaze and continued to stare at Albert, ready to watch him cast a spell.
"Ahem!" Albert coughed lightly, holding up his wand to the match on the table as he chanted the incantation, "Vera Verto." ”
The match quickly changed into a slender silver needle.
"Very well, everybody, Mr. Anderson has succeeded," Professor McGonagall said to the class as she looked at the silver needles that matches had turned into silver pins, and gave Albert a rare smile, adding five points to Gryffindor before leaving.
"I knew it wouldn't bother you. Fred took the silver needle and looked at it and asked, "How did you do that, do you have a trick?"
Several of the students next to him pricked up their ears to eavesdrop, as if they wanted to know the secret of Albert's immediate success.
Albert whispered, "Professor McGonagall didn't tell us to take notes before, the trick was inside. ”
A group of people immediately began to flip through the books, looking for the notes they had just written.
"You think I'll believe it?" Fred glared at Albert with disdain, clearly not believing the.
He didn't bother to ask, though, as Professor McGonagall looked over again.
A few minutes later, Professor McGonagall announced again, "Look, Miss McDoug's matches have changed, too. ”
"Transfiguration is so hard, how did you succeed in one go?" asked Katrina. For some reason, she sat next to Albert again.
"Ahem, ahem, I've practiced before, that's why I'm successful. Albert coughed lightly, he didn't have a trick to succeed, he was treated as a genius or something, so it was better not to.
"It's normal to fail, and I can't remember how many times I failed to turn a match into a needle. ”
"Still, the do's and don'ts that Professor McGonagall told us to remember were also the tricks to success. This last sentence was addressed to the crowd who were eavesdropping on the sidelines.
Katrina could naturally guess that after all, no one can succeed at one time, and her matches can change, and naturally she has practiced Transfiguration before.
For the rest of the class, everyone was practicing how to turn matches into needles. Professor McGonagall walked around the classroom, instructing the other students.
However, Albert, who had already successfully completed the match-changing needle, was bored with the rest of the time, so he found something to do for himself, lest Professor McGonagall catch himself fishing.
"Revert to your original form!"
The silver needle turned back into a match, a spell that Professor McGonagall had already spoken, and the book had recorded it. Incomplete deformations are difficult to correct, and the pronunciation of "Revert!" will restore the object or creature to its original state.
Albert held his chin in one hand and his wand in the other, and began to transform the matches on the table, turning them into all kinds of strange things, the spells were actually Vera Verto, but the closer the object was to the shape of the original object, the less difficult it was to transform.
After the transformation, it is restored again, so as to increase the experience of returning to its original form.
"How did you do that?" Fred next to him was stunned.
This guy's Transfiguration has already dumped them a street.
"How? 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 you swing your wand, think about what you want to turn into before you transform, and be clear and accurate when you chant spells. ”
The twins looked at each other, and although Albert said so, they tried to do the same, but still did not succeed in getting the match to change before the end of class.
In fact, with the exception of Albert and Katrina, no one else's matches changed.
This was a matter of course in Albert's eyes.
After all, the difficulty of the transformation technique, he is too clear here, why don't you practice hard for a few days, just want to successfully complete the transformation, and still think that his transformation talent breaks through the sky?
The first time you change an item, it's the most difficult, but as long as you succeed the first time, it will be much easier to practice later.
The homework in Transfiguration class is similar to Charms class, which is to get everyone back to practice turning matches into needles.
But it is not known how many students will practice patiently.
However, judging from the content of the "Beginner's Transfiguration Guide", there is only one kind of transfiguration magic that first-year freshmen learn, and the difference is only the size and type of items to be changed.