days at Hogwarts

Chapter 184 Animagus Teaching Class
Hermione's long-awaited Transfiguration Club soon issued an announcement, and the list of recruited young wizards was posted on the bulletin board in the common room. The long list of names surprised many people.

"Neville Longbottom..."

Neville read the name on the bulletin board, and suddenly felt that his name was a little strange.Immediately overwhelmed by a burst of ecstasy, he pressed Seamus with one hand and Dean with the other, using their shoulders to jump happily: "I passed! I passed!"

"Neville joined the Transfiguration Club, trying to turn us into meatloaf first!" Seamus and Dean shouted funny, and they fled hurriedly with their hands raised high.

Hermione tugged at Loren's sleeve, staring excitedly at their names in the bulletin, and both passed.

"You don't want to help me jump like Neville, do you? I can't bear it." Loren twisted her hand away.

Couldn't help but patted his arm, Hermione was in a very happy mood and didn't care too much.

Not surprisingly, both Harry and Ron passed the exam.

The Transfiguration Club's first event took place in the Transfiguration class classroom. A group of people came to the classroom early, chose a good seat in the front row, and waited for the classroom to be filled with people one after another.

Ron muttered: "How come the club activities are the same as the usual classes, and the novelty is gone."

"Of course it's fresh. We passed the exam to give ourselves extra lessons." Loren laughed.

"Don't talk about it, I don't want to go to class anymore."

Gradually, every seat was filled with young wizards, the lower grades sat in the front rows, and the senior grades sat in the back.

Not many people.Transfiguration is the most difficult subject, and there are many young wizards who learn it to death in ordinary classes. They don't want to suffer this again in extracurricular clubs.

There is a typical operation in Transfiguration, which turns a mouse into a goblet.The difficulty of this magic is not only to turn living things into dead things, but also to turn all the rat hair all over the body into a smooth glass surface. Little wizards often create furry goblets. How to reduce the remaining rat hair is a daily question A problem that every little wizard will encounter.

Hufflepuff has an interesting anecdote:
Q: How to reduce the residual rat hair?
Answer: As much hair as you are tortured, the mouse hair will be reduced.

Although it's just a joke, you can feel the pain of some young wizards who don't have the talent for transfiguration.

Some of the students did not take the selection exam, and some of them failed the exam. The rest are the little wizards sitting here, about 100 of them.

There are lots of familiar faces from Loren, the twins, Percy and Penelope, Cedric, Rolf, and Marcus from Slytherin, Draco.Without first-year freshmen, they have no foundation at all and are not suitable for club activities.

There was a patter of rain outside the window, and the rain hadn't stopped for several days. Dark clouds and mist covered the sky and the wilderness, and it was gray everywhere.All the candlesticks on the walls are full of bright candles, illuminating the whole classroom brightly, brightly and cheerfully.

Professor McGonagall walked into the classroom with brisk steps, with a smile on his face: "Let's check the list first, starting from the second grade: Loren Morgan, Hermione Granger..."

She read the names of the club members one by one, and was answered loudly by the little wizard who read the names. From the second grade to the seventh grade, every one was missed.Loren felt that Professor McGonagall was much gentler than usual.

After checking the list, Professor McGonagall stared at the little wizards below, watching their vigorous vitality: "I told you before that Transfiguration is the most complicated and dangerous spell in the Hogwarts curriculum. One may wonder, what dangers are there in spells such as matches turning into needles, beetles into buttons, teapots into turtles, guinea fowls into guinea pigs, plates into mushrooms?"

"Yes! What's the danger?" George asked aloud.

Professor McGonagall did not answer right away, but asked another question: "Can anyone tell me what branches there are in Transfiguration."

Hermione raised her hand with a "swipe", stood up after getting a signal from Professor McGonagall, and replied loudly: "Transspecies transformation, human body transformation, summoning, Animagus, appearance and basic transformation."

"Very good, Miss Granger. Gryffin—" Professor McGonagall stopped in time and said with a smile, "I forgot that this is in a club, and there will be no extra points in class."

"It's okay! We don't mind!" Fred exclaimed.

There was a burst of laughter from the audience.

"I think everyone has noticed that the teaching content of Hogwarts is mainly about basic transformation, summoning, and cross-species transformation. Spells related to the human body are rarely involved."

Professor McGonagall's words sparked a wave of discussions, and Hufflepuff's little wizard Cedric asked loudly: "Yes, Professor, why is this?"

"This is related to several special events in the wizarding world." Professor McGonagall began to explain, "A witch named Mirabella Plunkett fell in love with a merman while vacationing in Loch Lomond. , but her family vehemently opposed the marriage, so Mirabella transformed herself into a haddock and disappeared, never to be seen again."

"The Ministry of Magic suspected that she had a problem with the Transfiguration technique she used, and some unpredictable changes occurred. In addition, no one helped her break the spell in time, and she became one of the countless haddocks in Loch Lomond. "

After Professor McGonagall finished telling the first story, she paused and watched the little wizards talking.

Hermione suddenly remembered something, she turned around and pulled Loren's clothes: "We have seen Mirabella's picture, do you remember?"

"Huh? When did we meet?" Loren had no memory.

"When I was investigating Nicole Flamel last year, you tricked me into eating a lot of chocolate frogs, and one of the pictures was Mirabella."

Speaking of this, Hermione couldn't help but slapped him, and then sighed: "It's a pity that such a beautiful witch has become a fish forever."

Ron was very puzzled: "Why didn't she become a mermaid? Isn't cod also unable to marry a mermaid?"

"Transfiguration cannot turn people into magical creatures, and mermaids are also a kind of magical creatures." Loren explained.

"This is too..."

The little wizards couldn't tell what it was like. If Mirabella hadn't been so impulsive, or had other wizards guarding her, perhaps such a tragedy would not have happened.

Or, if Mirabella doesn't understand human body deformation and cross-species deformation, the tragedy will not happen.

Professor McGonagall began with the second thing: "Thaddeus Circle was a wizard whose seven sons were all Squibs, and out of disgust he turned them all into hedgehogs. Because Living as hedgehogs all year round, they can't think like normal people after they return to human form."

Many young wizards became indignant, and even Slytherins found this behavior disgusting.

"A long time ago, the teaching of Hogwarts included human body transformation, Animagus and other related content. After the tragedy caused by the transformation technique increased, the Ministry of Magic issued a new education order, which greatly expanded the teaching content. scale reduction."

"The rectification effect is remarkable, and accidents caused by transfiguration have been greatly reduced. However, the development of transfiguration has also been greatly affected. Branches such as basic deformation, summoning, and appearance are flourishing, and branches such as human body transfiguration, Animagus, and cross-species deformation development has come to a standstill.”

"For a long time, there were only single digits of registered Animagus. When he was a student, Principal Dumbledore made a lot of achievements in the field of transfiguration. He published many articles in the magazine "Transfiguration Today", even if It is him, and there is only one article in the field of cross-species transformation."

Speaking of this, Professor McGonagall was a little depressed. Looking at the young wizards in the audience, her heart cheered up a bit: "Transfiguration is a more complicated and profound spell than Charms. I firmly believe that the comprehensive development of Transfiguration Art will drive the progress of the magic world!"

The little wizards understood a little bit, and the focus of the Transfiguration Club seemed to be on these content that had been deleted.

The chattering and energetic discussions made Professor McGonagall even happier: "The main activity of the Transfiguration Club is the teaching of Transfiguration Theory. I will hold another selection test after I return to school during the Christmas holiday. The little wizards who pass the test will be selected into A Nimagus teaching class!"

boom!
A huge thunder exploded in the ears of the little wizard. The news sent them into a frenzy, and some people shouted excitedly.

"I want to be an owl!"

"I want to be a lion!"

"tiger!"

The first event of the Transfiguration Club didn't talk about any substantive content. Professor McGonagall told the young wizards about the teaching plan, the follow-up exam arrangement, and the time and place of future activities, and then ended.

But the turmoil caused by the Animagus did not end. The Transfiguration Club took over the limelight from the Charms Club and became the most popular topic among young wizards.During dinner, the entire auditorium was discussing the Animagus matter.

Especially the members of the Transfiguration Club, happily repeating Professor McGonagall's words, dancing and talking about the two transfiguration tragedies, about the Ministry of Magic's education order, and about their plan to revitalize Transfiguration.

And the little wizard who wanted to easily give up the club exam was almost remorseful. Although Transfiguration was expensive and boring, it was an Animagus!

A group of students made up their minds that they must take the selection exam next year, and they must take whatever they say.

Saturday night, Gryffindor lounge.

It has been a while, and the little wizards are still discussing club affairs with great interest, not only the Animagus, but also the Charms Club and Potions Club.

The Quidditch team had just come back from training, and the fast-running twins had already washed off their mud and rain. They were sitting in front of the fireplace to keep warm, and a group of people were surrounded by a large square table next to them.

Loren sat on the carpet, looked at the blueprint of the Deluminator given to him by Dumbledore, and tried to disassemble the alchemy circle on it.

In fact, there is a faster and more convenient method. Project the Deluminator into the Book of Fantasy, and Flamel can disassemble the entire magic circle in a few minutes.But since there are ready-made blueprints, Loren wants to try it himself, which is also a compulsory skill for every alchemist.

Hermione sat back to back with him, a large tome spread out on her lap.Since Professor McGonagall announced the selection of members of the Animagus teaching class, Hermione immediately went to the library to sort out a book list. Dozens of books were all about human body transformation, cross-species transformation, Animagus She plans to finish reading—or memorize—before Christmas.

Seeing Ron shivering, is this the world of a top student?

Harry just came back from training and was still washing up. Hermione looked unfriendly, so Ron could only ask Loren, "How was Harry and your Potions Club activities?"

Ginny, who was looking around at Harry's figure, moved her ears, moved closer to Ron, and listened to their conversation.

"I have been configuring rue essence, and each grade rotates different jobs. It is rather boring, but the atmosphere is not bad." Loren looked away from the blueprint, pinched the center of his brows to relax his tense nerves.

There were basically no fools in the Potions Club, and they quickly realized that this was an early adaptation to the work of apothecaries, and not only did they not complain, but they adapted well.

After familiarizing themselves with their work section, with the cooperation of a Ravenclaw senior in the seventh grade, several grades began to rotate.It is estimated that the situation will not change until the first transaction is completed.

"Prefect, tell us, what is the senior branch of the Charms Club doing lately?" a third-year Gryffindor wizard asked.

Percy sighed and said, "Oh, Professor Flitwick took us to study ancient magic."

"Cool!" A group of junior wizards exclaimed enviously.

"It's not cool at all. The ancient magic is chaotic and unstable. It keeps exploding every time it happens."

Percy is very melancholy. He and Penello participate in activities together, and they are always bombed, and they have no image at all.But Penello seems to be closer to him.

Seamus was even more envious, full of envy.

"Ron! Loren! We should go!" Harry shouted standing at the exit of the lounge. He had just washed up, and the ends of his hair were still a little wet.

Their confinement was not over yet, Ron was going to wipe the trophy in the trophy room, Harry was going to copy envelopes for Lockhart, and Loren was going to learn the Oblivion Curse.

Ron got up, bounced around and pestered Harry to ask about Quidditch.

Loren turned around and stuffed the blueprint of the extinguisher into Hermione's tome, and moved her shoulders to the side, letting the back of the sofa take his place and Hermione leaned on it.

"Don't wait for me in the lounge at night, go to bed early." Loren instructed.

Hermione was so dizzy from reciting the book, she didn't hear what he said at all, she raised her head and smiled at him in a daze, her consciousness slipped into the book again.Cute as a little squirrel.

When they came to Harry, the three of them talked about Quidditch and got out of the Gryffindor lounge.

"George and Fred have been scouting the situation of the Slytherin team. According to their report, the Slytherin team members rode the Nimbus 2001, and when they flew up, they could only see seven vague light green shadows, like sprays. Swishing through the air like an airplane." Harry looked gloomy and preoccupied.

"Quidditch is not just a sport of speed..."

"I know, but..."

Having a headache for knowledge and study, youthful affection growing in the dark, worrying about the ball game with the college next door, this is the youth in the school.

(End of this chapter)