In the dead of night, in Ted's "private laboratory".

Ansu and Parker were still keeping an eye on him, lest the professor or Filch find out.

In fact, Ted and Lady Loris have a very good relationship now, and now the cats and cats come to Ted's place for snacks without Filch. is especially interested in guinea pigs, which makes Ansu very unhappy, and often swoops in the castle corridor to take revenge when no one is around~

Filch thought his cat was sick and didn't eat, so he took it to the school hospital and asked for medicine.

In the light of the fire, there were still a few mice and the long-tailed thief monkey in the cage.

Supposedly, Ted's experiment has been completed, and the long-tailed thief monkey with a hairy face and thunderous mouth should be put back.

The question is, isn't this new experiment coming again?

Professor Kettleburn: My monkey is gone! Who saw my monkey?!

……

Ted has been secretly studying Azeroth's water-making and food-making techniques for the last few days.

These two spells are almost the most difficult to convert into native magic in Ted's eyes.

If it weren't for Ted's previous upgrade to level 1 Transfiguration because of his druid transformation knowledge, he wouldn't have dared to try it.

Other water and fire magic, what magic inhibition, and even "awakening" can be traced.

Awakening can restore a large amount of magic in the body in a short period of time, and if you follow the path of the wizard's bloodline, it is not impossible.

But watermaking is not the same as foodmaking.

The water-making technique is better, at least there is a local magic spell of "clear springs like water", which can conjure water.

The difference is only whether the water can be drunk or not, and whether it can restore its magic and physical strength.

But then the art of making food is completely different.

Can the wizarding world use magic to conjure food out of thin air?

Yes! Again, it can't.

I say yes because I can conjure it up.

To say that you can't is to conjure up a superficial appearance, and you can't eat it.

In the field of Transfiguration, there is a well-known basic law of Gamp Transfiguration.

There are five major exceptions, the first of which is that food cannot be conjured out of thin air.

You can turn ingredients into food, for example, flour and water, you can turn it into bread, which is a simplified step.

Like Aunt Molly does every day at home, most house witches are skilled.

It is said that water can be transformed, so why can't food?

Ted had experimented with the water he had conjured with the water-making spell, and it was drinkable.

Both the guinea pig and the long-tailed thief monkey can prove it~

But the food doesn't.

The mouse ate the doughnut he had conjured and died of pain in less than five minutes.

The autopsy revealed that the stomach had been greatly damaged and that there was no food residue. There's a problem here.

Ted used water creation to create a magic spring that could restore his magical physical strength, and fed it to the guinea pigs.

The three mice had different dosages and different performances.

Two of them were in great pain, scurrying and squeaking all over the place.

The last one was so excited that they all started dancing wildly in the cage......

This is only the one that survived yesterday's experiment, and only one of the eight mice that have been used as test subjects has been "lucky" to participate in the third round of experiments.

Five minutes later, the other two mice died, their eyes protruding and their bodies slightly inflated.

When I took it out and dissected it with a knife, there were different injuries to the muscles and blood vessels, but there was nothing wrong with the brain.

"Like the consequence of over-infestation of mana?!" Ted wasn't sure.

He recorded the experimental process and data in his notes, and wrote down the conjectures and subsequent experimental steps.

Ansu on the side looked at the two dead mice, and shook his head in distress: If you die so miserably, you must not be able to eat it, you can only throw it away, waste it, quack~

The long-tailed thief monkey in the cage covered his mouth with his paws and leaned against the side of the cage in horror, as far away from Ted as he could, eager to stuff himself into the bar.

Its IQ is not bad, at least it can be seen that many mice have died in the past few days, and this boy was irrigated to death~

And he's also interested in pouring himself!

Long-tailed Thief Monkey: Help! Someone has killed a monkey! Come on, I don't dare to steal anymore~~~

"Clean up this place and bury the guinea pigs in the middle of nowhere outside the castle." Ted gave him a command, gave himself a stealth spell, and went out to bed.

Ansu naturally followed, flapping his wings silently and disappearing into the corridor.

Kapa, the Crystal Servant, moves his legs and feet, and then uses his psionic energy to direct the work of the magically created invisible Servants.

Two invisible humanoid energy bodies floated out of the window with the dead mice and went to the edge of the forbidden forest in the distance, digging a pit and burying the rats.

The Invisible Servant is a very useful thing, no eating, no drinking, no complaining, no paycheck.

The only bad thing is that the intelligence is average, and you can't give too complicated orders.

But Puck, the spirit crystal servant, can command them in detail, which can be regarded as making up for the shortcomings.

……

The next day, Ted came out of Professor McGonagall's office after school.

"Knock knock~"

"Come in."

Ted pushed the door in.

Professor McGonagall looked up and saw that it was Ted.

Yo, rare guest!

She sat up straight, took off her glasses and wiped them with a fine cotton cloth, and looked at Ted with a careless look.

Ted has caused a lot of trouble this year, and he has been punished to the Forbidden Forest.

If it weren't for the fact that his transformation technique has improved by leaps and bounds recently, it seems that he has put a lot of effort into it, and he would have to clean him up~

"Ted, what's the matter with you?" Professor McGonagall continued to wipe her glasses, not even wanting to look up at him.

Ted had a very sunny smile, just like he had been when he had been taken to Diagon Alley by McGonagall.

"Professor, I have some questions about Transfiguration."

I don't know if it was Ted's big smile that worked, or if Professor McGonagall was impressed by the Transfiguration effort, and she finally put on her glasses and looked at Ted directly.

"Sit down." Professor McGonagall waved her hand slightly, and a chair appeared behind Ted.

Ted sat across from his desk, holding a thick notebook, very well-behaved.

"Tell me, what questions do you have?" Ted's pretense worked, and Professor McGonagall looked at him somewhat pleasing to the eye.

"Professor, I would like to ask about the basic laws of Gamp, especially the first of the five exceptions......"

Professor McGonagall pushed her glasses and looked at Ted carefully, "This knowledge is still too early for you. ”

Gamp's Basic Deformation Law is an extension of the 5th grade extracurricular knowledge.

But she thought about it, even if she didn't say it, with Ted's character, she was afraid that she would look it up by herself. Didn't he already know something?

"Well, do you have any questions about not being able to conjure food?" She asked.

"Excuse me, Professor, can't you really conjure food? I mean, can't you really eat it? ”

Professor McGonagall stared into Ted's eyes, "Listen to you, you've already tried, haven't you?" You're not stupid enough to eat what you've conjured, are you? ”

Ted scoffed, "Of course not. But why is it that the water from a clear spring can be drunk? ”

"Fool, because a clear spring like water is a spell, not a transfiguration......"

As an extra nurture for good students, Professor McGonagall tells Ted a lot about Gamp's basic transfiguration laws, especially Ted's question about "conjuring food".

Transfiguration can only conjure up something familiar to you most of the time, and most of them are not permanent.

That's why you can't eat the food you conjure, and when the magic wears off, it's hard to say what's in your stomach.

Magic can even cause unpredictable and terrible damage and consequences.

That's why Gamp's Basic Transfiguration Law states that food can't be conjured out of thin air.

Actually, can you?

Yes!

Just as Newton's three laws have limitations, so Gamp's fundamental law of deformation is naturally only relative to the conventional state.

Cutting-edge Transfiguration can conjure food, but it's very, very, very difficult!

The difficulty is completely disproportionate to the benefit.

At the very least, you have to be a master of Transfiguration to be eligible to try this research.

Even Professor McGonagall had never thought of such an unreliable research direction.

Are the ingredients so expensive? There's no need to conjure up food!

You can make fruit on a fruit tree.

Although it cannot be born out of thin air, it can accelerate growth, and you can also use growth spells and expansion spells.

The productivity of the wizarding world is very high, as can be seen from the large pumpkin on Hagrid's Halloween.

Once this powerful productive force is put into production, there is no need to worry about the survival materials at all.

That's why a lot of wizards are weird, they don't have any pressure to survive at all. Food, clothing and housing are not a problem at all, and naturally you can do it casually.

Think of Professor Quirrell if he had focused on the spirit of studying the bloodlines of Fantastic Beasts on improving species.

That's really: the fat pig race elephant, but the nose is short, and the whole school kills one bite, enough to eat for half a year.

……

Either way, Ted had at least learned that the wizarding world had magical effects similar to those of eating. It's just very high-end.

You can still continue to research on your own.

It's just more design experiments and experiments.

Write to me, I need more guinea pigs!

(End of chapter)