Joel was stunned for two seconds and put down the utensils in his hand, "You're right, the point of the transformation spell is how to turn the item back to its original state without changing its properties......"

The two of them simply discussed it at the dinner table, and if they disagreed with one of the ideas, they would ask the senior students for advice or use a spell to prove themselves.

Eddie saw that their heads were almost together, and his tone was a little sour, "I'm so envious." ”

"Envy what?" Alan didn't know why, "Conversion Charm?" Professor McGonagall said that students who don't have a good foundation in Transfiguration can save the Transfiguration Charm until Year 3. ”

"You ......" Eddie choked on Alan's words, "can you be tactful?" I know I didn't do well in Transfiguration...... No, how did you take the topic away, I'm not envious of this! ”

"I'm more worried about Sergei." Allen's words made Eddie's face change, "Where the hell did he go?" ”

The two looked around, and there was no Sergei in the lively auditorium.

Alan couldn't suppress his worries, so he left his seat and walked to the faculty chair to tell Professor Flitwick the truth.

Professor Flitwick was not surprised by the news, he reached out and patted Allen on the shoulder, "I received a letter from Mr. Lowe's house before the start of school, his family has been going on a lot lately, and he will come to school later. ”

After Flitwick assured Sergei that he was okay, Alan returned to his seat to share information with his roommates.

Joel nodded, maybe Grandpa Sergei's illness is a little more serious?

Discussing the Transformation Charm with Haylis sped Joel's brain up and a hint of hunger felt in his belly, and he took advantage of the last time of the dinner to fill his mouth with two chicken nuggets.

Professor Dumbledore stood up again, the great hall silent.

"Looks like you're all well fed and drunk, so I'm going to make a few announcements," Dumbledore said, "First of all, there's a turnover of personnel, and the new Professor Quirrell will take over Professor White's pedancy." ”

He introduced Professor Quirrell to his right, and the thin man stood up with a restrained expression and bowed to everyone, "Hello everyone, I—I'm Quirrell Quirrell, and you, you can call me Professor Quirrell." ”

He bent over a little wide, and the purple turban that covered the back of his head was about to fall off, and Quirrell hurriedly clumsily helped him up, almost making a foreign appearance.

However, this scene was captured by the students in the audience, who did not hesitate to let out their own ridicule, and everyone was very dissatisfied with the successor of Professor White.

Eddie laughed, "Do you see Professor Quirrell's stupidity?" His turban looked like a cobra had been brought back from Arabia! ”

The surrounding students echoed each other, and even Cho and Marietta couldn't help but laugh.

Joel didn't laugh, he was a little scared, Eddie really dared to say that Quirrell's turban was much more powerful than a cobra.

His eyes were fixed on the teacher's seat, and he didn't know if Quirrell heard Eddie's words, his face was full of nervousness and unease, and Dumbledore waved his hand and sat down immediately.

Dumbledore cleared his throat with his hands outstretched, and the students in the Great Hall fell silent again.

"As it is a cliché, Mr. Filch wants me to remind everyone that spells are forbidden in the corridors; The selection of the Quidditch team will take place in the second week of school, and the Quidditch captains of each house will organize their own registration and coordinate the use of the venue. ”

"Finally, I must tell you that anyone who does not want to suffer an accident or a painful death should not enter the corridor on the right side of the fourth floor." Dumbledore finally said something that was mindless, and everyone in the audience looked at each other in confusion.

But when Dumbledore finished speaking, the students gave him a round of applause.

After singing the school song to Professor Dumbledore, they were finally able to go back to their dormitories.

This time, there was no longer a need to follow the fifth-grade prefect when returning to the tower, and everyone acted on their own.

Joel left the Great Hall with the flow of people, and instead of going back to the tower to rest, he took advantage of the cover of the night to leave the castle.

He circled around the Black Lake for a while, making sure that no one was watching behind him before he walked towards the Forbidden Forest with confidence.

As he passed Hagrid's hut, Joel tiptoed to reduce the sound of his feet stepping on the grass, and the dim light of Hagrid's hut shone on him through the window, casting a long, thin shadow on the grass.

Hagrid seemed to be cooking in the house, and Joel could smell the smell of some kind of meat roasting as he passed by.

The dark Forbidden Forest was in front of him, and Joel stepped inside, his wand already slipping into his hand.

It was dark, and Joel was afraid of attracting Hagrid and other unknown creatures, so he didn't dare to turn on the lighting charm, so he had to smear and find his target.

He did a lot of homework during the summer vacation and knew a certain amount about both unicorns and holly wood.

The holly is about 13 meters high, the leaves are thin and leathery, narrow and oblong-elliptic or lanceolate, the apex is acute, the base is wedge-shaped, the edges are shallowly serrate, the petals are purple-red or lavender, and the fruit is oval or nearly spherical......

This shade-tolerant tree is not uncommon in the UK, and Joel found quite a few holly trees on the outer edge of the Forbidden Forest in the dark, but it was not easy to find a holly that was growing well enough to make a wand.

The trees here have not been maintained for a long time, and there are many broken trunks, which are presumably scratched by the creatures of the Forbidden Forest.

Joel struggled to find a good-looking holly in a slightly lower part of the Forbidden Forest, and he crouched down to make a mark so he could find it next time.

At this moment, a roar came from the Forbidden Forest, and the sound was like a muffled thunderbolt, and it rushed towards the face with endless might.

Joel's heart shuddered, and the roar seemed to stir up the most primitive fear in his heart.

He sped up and pulled a sky-blue silk scarf from his bosom – the reward they had for winning the House Cup last school year, and everyone in Ravenclaw had it.

Joel used a levitation charm to hang it on the branch above the holly tree, wrapping it around to make sure it wouldn't be blown away by the wind.

Joel made sure that the scarf didn't look like it had been hung artificially, so that if the scarf was spotted by Hagrid, who was patrolling the Forbidden Forest, he would have an excuse - after all, it was very windy in the Ravenclaw Tower, and it made sense to accidentally blow the scarf into the Forbidden Forest.

After all this, Joel had just left the Forbidden Forest, he was curious and terrified by the roar, but he didn't dare to go any further, the Forbidden Forest was so large that no one knew how many strange creatures had been bred in this forest in the 900 years since the school was founded.

By the time they returned to the Ravenclaw Tower, Alan and Eddie had already washed up and were lying on the carpet fiddling with something.

Joel leaned in curiously.