days at Hogwarts

Chapter 119 Humanoid Restoration Curse

"【Calling God Guard】"

Dumbledore drew a circle with his wand, and the wand spewed out silver light like satin, and the silver light converged into a silver transparent phoenix

"Severus, I need your help, three bicorn horns and two-ear grass, come to the principal's office." Dumbledore said to the silver Patronus.

The purpose of bringing three copies is to leave a margin. A normal potion master also prepares three parts when brewing potions.If the three ingredients fail, then you should check the potion formula or the operation when brewing it.

The phoenix patron saint flapped its wings and flew out of the window, dragging a magnificent silver light trail behind it.

"Can the patron saint still be used to send messages?" Loren said enviously.

He only knew that the Patronus Charm could dispel the soul-destroyer. He heard that other people's Patronuses were all ordinary animals, and only Dumbledore's was a magical creature, the phoenix.

Dumbledore nodded with a smile, "Magic always has infinite uses waiting for people to explore, doesn't it?"

"I want to learn."

"Of course, unlike the spells you've learned before, the Patronus spell is the most positive emotional response..."

Dumbledore briefly explained to Loren some key points about the Patronus Charm. Loren occasionally asked questions, and Dumbledore could quickly answer them.

This ancient and mysterious spell conjures a magical patron saint who is the reflection of all the most positive emotions of the caster.Its form is usually that of the animal it is most associated with.

Because Dementors and Voldebats currently have no other means of defense, only the Patronus Charm can be dispelled, so the Patronus Charm is generally recognized as a magic spell dedicated to dealing with these two creatures.

"...But the patron saint still has many other uses. According to the records of ancient wizards, the patron saint can even be used in battle."

An old man and a young man sat opposite each other, voices of questions and answers, old and clear voices, slowly drifting away with the fragrance of tea.

After about half an hour.

"【Calling God Guard】"

Loren's wand emitted wisps of silver light, but they couldn't converge into a Patronus.He was thinking now of his days on the high mountain pastures.

Dumbledore praised: "Very good, very few people can summon the non-physical Patronus so quickly. The rest is to find your most positive and happy memory and keep practicing."

As he spoke, he seemed to notice something, and raised his head to look at the door

Snape pushed the door open, his face expressionless, his eyes unwavering like a dead fish.Even in summer, he still wears a robe.

"Professor Snape, good morning." Loren greeted obediently.

Snape squinted at Loren, then looked at the hat on the table and the little snake inside, his lips parted, and a string of sentences popped out from it, "I want to know, you want the ingredients for Polyjuice Potion What are you going to do?"

Dumbledore waved to the corner of the office, and a new wooden chair slid out and stopped in front of the desk, "This is a long story, let's sit down and talk slowly."

He also offered Snape a cup of tea.

Snape sat down indifferently, not looking at the tea in front of him.

"Because of a prophecy, Loren and I went on a long trip during the Christmas holiday..."

Dumbledore recounted the process of discovering Nagini and the ritual of Nicol's Sorcerer's Stone, but concealed a lot of content, only saying that Loren was special and that the Sorcerer's Stone ritual required his participation.

Snape only looked up at Loren when he heard the prophecy, and kept a dead face for the rest of the time.

"Great Headmaster Albus Dumbledore, do I look easy to fool?"

Snape sneered, "If you don't think so, then maybe I can ask, why is this stupid thing sitting next to him able to use the Philosopher's Stone?"

Dumbledore pretended not to hear, glanced at the shelf, and drank tea by himself.

Snape was expressionless, turning his neck mechanically to look at Loren.

Loren felt the pressure-filled gaze, and he followed suit, lowering his head like a quail, holding a teacup and taking small sips.

"Heh!" Snape sneered, took out a cloth bag from his robe, and poured out three materials.

The horns of the bicorn are similar to the buffalo horns. The black horns are curved into an arc, the surface is smooth and hard, and there are some circles on it.

Two-eared grass is a green grass seedling with two leaves on one root, like two ears.

Seeing the material, Loren tentatively said, "Then I, start?"

Snape didn't respond, and Dumbledore nodded at him.

Loren began to process the materials according to the knowledge in his mind.

Two-ear grass is a perennial herb that grows in warm and humid places. Its role in the compound decoction is to connect two unrelated people.

He tore a two-eared grass into two, and placed the blades on the Sorcerer's Stone.He slowly pressed the palms of both hands on the Sorcerer's Stone, making a gesture of holding it, closed his eyes, felt the surging magic power on the Sorcerer's Stone, and gently pushed it.

The two blades of grass are held up by a strange force, like a mimosa, and the leaves shrink and roll up and down until they stop rolling.

The temperature above the Philosopher's Stone kept rising, causing the air to twist slightly, and the blades of grass melted into two drops of emerald green liquid like ice.

Loren's thoughts moved slightly, and the invisible strange force flew to Dumbledore and Nagini respectively with two drops of green liquid.

Nagini swallowed the liquid of two ears of grass in one gulp, and the slender body of the snake glowed slightly.

And Dumbledore tapped his drop of liquid lightly with his finger, and the juice melted into his fingertips, as if being absorbed, and Dumbledore's finger also shone slightly.

Loren let go of the Philosopher's Stone, picked up two horns, put one into Nagini's hat, and motioned Nagini to put it on; let Dumbledore hold the other.

The horns of bicorns are usually ground into powder for use, but this ceremony is obviously different from ordinary potion brewing, and the whole animal is used.

An unknown red light reflected in his eyes, following some mysterious guidance he murmured: "(up is down, down is up)."

The two horns trembled slightly, as if they had a strange connection.

Loren nodded to Dumbledore, indicating that he could start casting spells.

Dumbledore pointed his wand at the horn in the other hand, "【Human Form Appears】"

Fierce and magnificent red light poured in from the thick end of the horn, and the horn in his hand and Nagini's coiled horn shook violently.

The wind from the magic power blew Dumbledore's beard and hair, and the red light shone on his face, making the old wizard show a trace of heroism.

At the same time, the other horn in the hat emitted a fiery red light, and the red light was wrapped around Nagini on it.

The bright light of the mantra of restoring the human shape continued to output, and the red light on the other horn became brighter and brighter, dazzling.

The swirling wind in the office made the three people's robes flutter. Loren's eyes widened, staring carefully at Nagini shrouded in red light.

The snake coiled on the horns gradually flew up, leaving the hat and horns, and her tail was tightly wrapped around the sapphire, clenched in her hand like a fist.

Nagini floated in the air and reverted to a gigantic boa constrictor, bigger than the entire table.The web-like lines on the boa constrictor's back gradually disappeared, and the scales on her body seemed to melt, and gradually fit together, melting into a black shell.

The red light gradually turned into the color of blood, and the boa constrictor inside was shaped and changed by some mysterious force. The huge boa constrictor's head gradually shrunk, and the protruding and cracked mouth gradually flattened out. The eyes, nose and mouth moved closer to the human face.

The tail changes into two limbs, and the upper body also differentiates into two limbs, which are the positions of the hands and feet.A black scaly hard shell covered it, and only a torso and four limbs could be seen. Except for the eyes, the face was also covered by a hard shell.

At this point, the boa constrictor has completely disappeared, and now floating in the air, it is a human figure shrouded in blood.

After waiting for a while, it still looks like this, and the changes seem to have stopped.

"Why can't it take shape?" Loren asked.

All the steps were carried out according to the ritual, and the previous process was also very smooth, but Nagini just shed the snake's body and transformed into a human silhouette, without taking shape.

Although Dumbledore maintains a strong output of magic power, he doesn't seem to be struggling at all. He has a solemn face, "Because she is lost and has been acting in the body of a snake for decades, she has long forgotten her human appearance. "

Although Nagini retained her wisdom with Ravenclaw's sapphire, the snake's body still had an impact on her.Decades of time allowed her to adapt to the snake's body and distorted her cognition.

Loren immediately remembered Flamel's words, "Only in his own heart can he see himself clearly."

What does it look like on the inside?
He exclaimed, "Mirror of Erised!"

The Mirror of Erised can reflect the desires in people's hearts. No matter what Nagini's current desires are, they must be participating in them with a human body.

"Fox!" cried Dumbledore.

"Hey!" Fox behind the shelf let out a cry and disappeared.

In a blink of an eye, a flame ignited, and Fox landed in the middle of the office with a huge mirror in his claws.

Loren sent the mirror to Nagini with the floating spell, "See what you look like!"

The Mirror of Erised floated in front of Nagini, reflecting the blood-cursed orc's inner desire.

Nagini, who covered his whole body with a black hard shell, only exposed his two eyes, saw the scene in the mirror. Tears flowed from his pure black eyes, and the tears evaporated quickly in the light of the spell.

"Cryston!" A female voice choked out.

The black hard shell wrapped in the red light cracked, like an eggshell, revealing a snow-white and moving ketone body.

Before the red light faded, Dumbledore quickly transformed into a black dress with a black hard shell, covering Nagini's body.

The red light subsided, and the body fell onto the table. The newborn Nagini's eyelids trembled, and he fell into a deep sleep without waking up.

The three looked at the black-haired girl on the table.

Loren was overjoyed. Nagini's success showed that Grandpa Bates could also succeed. No matter how difficult the werewolf's illness was, it was far less difficult than that of the blood-cursed orc, and Grandpa Bates did not forget his appearance.

He blinked, looked at Dumbledore, and wanted to ask him what to do.

"I'll ask Professor McGonagall to put her in the staff quarters."

Dumbledore, who continued to output magic power effortlessly, seemed to become a little tired after hearing the name in Nagini's mouth. He waved his hand, "Go back first."

Although Loren still had some questions to ask, he also saw that Dumbledore's mood was not right, so he picked up the Philosopher's Stone and turned away without saying much.

"Goodbye, principal."

Snape looked at Dumbledore, then at the dark-haired girl on the table, and left the office without saying a word.

Dumbledore's eyes were deep, and he said unconsciously, "Cresten, Cresden..."

In the corridor, two figures, one big and one small, slowed down after leaving the eighth floor.

Snape's face was tense. He was full of doubts from the moment he received the notice, came to the office with the materials, and then witnessed a process of reversing the blood curse orc.

But Dumbledore chose to conceal it.

For a person who came out of that era, Dumbledore didn't tell him, and he knew he shouldn't know.So he didn't try to get any inside information from Loren.

Compared with this, he cares more about another point.

Snape cast his eyes on Loren, "Have you learned anything from the ceremony just now?"

"What did you learn?" Loren looked back at Snape, and asked tentatively, "Learn how to use the Philosopher's Stone to deal with two-eared grass?"

Snape glanced at him sharply, "Idiot! The ceremony just now is a standard magic process."

"As I said before, some fixed processes are called rituals, the wizard completes the ritual, and the magic achieves the effect."

Loren thought of it when he heard this.

Both the spell and the potion conform to the rules of the ceremony. The spell has specific incantations and casting actions, and the potion requires specific materials and a specific brewing method.

Snape believes that potions are stricter than spells, and they abide by the rules. They are rituals that are more in line with the essence of magic.

"The ceremony just now was perfect. From the perspective of potion, the horn of the bicorn and the two-eared grass are the raw materials in the compound decoction..."

Compound soup can make two people connect, change the appearance of one person into another person, and the ritual effect just now can change the magic of one person into another person.

That means that the characteristics of the bicorn and the two-eared grass are to replace, to replace the appearance, to replace the brand of will in the spell.

If you can master this characteristic, you will be able to use two materials to achieve the effect of copying and seizing any characteristic of others, such as memory, knowledge or even talent.

Loren was dumbfounded when he heard it, and he knew how powerful this thing would be if it was really made out just by hearing the concept.

Especially the last one, stealing other people's talents.Wizard talents include Disguisemagus, Parseltongue, inborn magic of all kinds.

Even the magic itself, if Snape's idea came true, could even make a Squib magical for a short time.

Snape said: "If you develop any kind of potion, your name will be recorded in the teaching materials and be passed down for thousands of years."

"But it's not realistic at all." Loren interrupted mercilessly.

This kind of conceptual idea is really wild, and the success of this ceremony is because the Philosopher's Stone played a big role.At present, there is no record in the wizarding world of achieving the effect of using the Sorcerer's Stone without using the Sorcerer's Stone.

I have never heard of other people refining the elixir of life, and I have never heard of others succeeding in turning a stone into gold.And now it seems that the effects of the two materials are time-sensitive, whether it is the compound decoction or this ceremony, there are very big restrictions.

To sum up, Snape was promoting his theory of potion supremacy again, and by the way made a big deal for him.

"Understand, the nature of magic," Snape stared at him, as if trying to engrave the words on Loren's mind.

　The words in that ceremony are in real Hebrew.

　　The incantation for the Restoration Charm is Homorphus, which is a compound word of the Latin "Homo" and the Greek "morphe-", which means "person" and the latter means "form".I couldn't find a standard Chinese translation, so I wrote one on my own.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)