Hogwarts: This holy light is righteously evil

Looking at Professor McGonagall standing in front of him, Puni smiled slightly.

"Thank you very much. As expected of one of the seven Animagus recorded by the Ministry of Magic, it is so lifelike. I almost didn't realize it just now."

Although Professor McGonagall appears to be a very serious person, anyone who hears a compliment that happens to hit the nail on the head will smile.

"Study hard in class, and feel free to ask me anything you don't understand after class—as long as you are skilled enough, I will help you when you want to complete Animagus."

Professor McGonagall's stern expression softened: "However, there's one thing you might need to understand."

"Please speak."

"After you become an Animagus, some of your habits may change—becoming more like the animal you transformed into."

Puni blinked. "So...do you like eating fish more now?"

Professor McGonagall paused, a slight smile playing on her lips. "Yes, Mr. Lestrange."

Marcos, standing next to him, was dumbfounded.

Isn't Professor McGonagall one of the most difficult professors to work with?

How come Professor McGonagall didn't get angry when Puni made that kind of joke, but instead just nodded in agreement?

Are those upperclassmen lying?

Before they could even finish being shocked, Puni spoke again.

"Professor McGonagall, at yesterday's Sorting Ceremony, I almost became the Sorting Hat—unfortunately, the Sorting Hat wouldn't give me that chance."

Professor McGonagall's expression remained unchanged upon hearing this, but she glanced at Puni: "The Sorting Hat's embarrassment is one of the things that cannot be mentioned—after all, it means that it is very likely to make a mistake in the matter of sorting wizards, so it naturally has to avoid it."

"It's not that it cares about the future of freshmen who are assigned to the wrong house, but it's a matter of face—after all, it's an intelligent being the same age as Hogwarts, and it's too embarrassing that even an eleven-year-old wizard can't handle it."

Puni nodded: "What you said makes a lot of sense. Perhaps my request was too abrupt, after all, the Sorting Hat has already decided my house affiliation."

Professor McGonagall paused, then countered, "Speaking of which, you covered the Sorting Hat's mouth twice yesterday. Is it because you're not satisfied with either of the two houses it planned?"

Puni shook his head: "It's just a college, Professor McGonagall."

"The first time, the Sorting Hat simply ignored my wishes and wanted to put me directly into Slytherin. The second time, I wanted to ask it to delay announcing my house affiliation so that I could become a Hat."

"Oh? Slytherin, Mr. Lestrange? Forgive my bluntness, but you are a pure-blood wizard, why don't you want to go to Slytherin?"

"Ah, well..." Puni chuckled, "I'm all alone, I don't have many relatives. When I get there, I might get tormented by the other little wizards. I don't like trouble."

"I thought you had some kind of problem with those pure-blood families," Professor McGonagall said, looking at Puni.

—Actually, her talking to a junior wizard like that was already a bit too much.

But for some reason, she always felt like talking more to Puni.

This child has an inexplicable charm.

"I don't have any particular opinions, after all, everyone has their own choices. It's just that I can't agree with some of their choices—for example, many mixed-race families. I think it's very loving that they can put away their wands, pretend to be Muggles, and never use magic again, just to keep their families stable. I'm afraid only love could make them make such a choice. In short, I admire them very much."

—Puni can't bring himself to hide his wand and act like an ordinary person year after year, doing everything himself.

He had experienced this kind of life in his previous life; it wasn't fun or interesting.

Puni's casual remark silenced Professor McGonagall.

Professor McGonagall lowered her eyelids, and the image of her mother involuntarily surfaced in her mind, along with the thought of how she herself had almost hidden the wand back then.

Enveloped in love?

After a moment, Professor McGonagall nodded and then walked back to the podium: "Go and find a seat."

Even after all four of them, including Puni, were seated, Marcos and his two companions were still in a daze.

On the very first day of school, I was able to have a free and open conversation with the strictest professor.

Puni is really something!

Soon, people began to enter the classroom one after another. It wasn't just people from Ravenclaw; people from the other three houses were also rushing over.

Transfiguration is a course that runs throughout the young wizards' entire school life, and it covers a great deal of content, definitely not just repeating the same Transfiguration spell over and over again.

On the contrary, even when some adult wizards attempt to transform, the spell may fail or even have the opposite effect, potentially harming themselves or others.

This is a very large course, and Puni and the others still need to start learning from the very basics.

"To learn Transfiguration, you don't just need to change the shape of an object—how do you make a part disappear, how do you add it, or how do you transform it?"

"Disappearance spell, transformation spell, summoning spell... these are all things you will need to study in depth in the future."

"In this lesson, I must sternly tell you—Transfiguration is extremely dangerous, the most difficult magic to master at Hogwarts, and some of you may never learn it to a high level in your entire lives."

Professor McGonagall stood on the podium, her face serious.

She first demonstrated by transforming the long table in the center of the podium into a robust bull.

The cow's horns and fur looked so real, with every detail of the texture and curves clearly visible, that everyone present couldn't help but gasp in amazement.

Even Puni, it could be said, was seeing such outstanding transformation magic for the first time.

"You must be rigorous in learning Transfiguration, because advanced Transfiguration can even transcend the boundary between life and death, achieving the transformation between inanimate objects and living beings."

Moo-!

The bull raised its head and bellowed at just the right moment.

"It is also worth noting that this deformation has clear limitations. For example, once the deformed object is severely damaged, it will automatically return to its original state."

Professor McGonagall's wand shot out a beam of light, which struck the bull in the face.

As if slapped, the bull turned its head to the side, then spun around and transformed back into the original long table.

"Even if it remains intact, most transformation effects can only last for a period of time. Of course, in some extreme cases, it may last until the caster dies. I'm just telling you the general situation."

"Transfiguration spells that last for extremely long periods are not something you need to consider right now."