I'm the King of Curry at Hogwarts

Chapter 9: Is Transfiguration Idealism or Materialism?

"You mean this? [Remember this site's domain name]" Louis put down his knife and fork and said with a serious expression, "As you all saw, that hat originally wanted to sort me into Gryffindor, but I seem to have offended him terribly, so he played this trick on me."

"What did you do to it?" Harry asked, intrigued. As he wrote down what he wanted to eat on the card, he said with great interest, "The Sorting Hat should be easy to talk to. I kept telling him I didn't want to go to Slytherin, which is why he sorted me into Gryffindor—you know, he always thought Slytherin would be great for me."

Louis thought to himself, "You could go to more than just Slytherin; with the Voldemort fragment, a relic, you could even go to Azkaban." Harry's success was partly due to his own strong desire, but perhaps Dumbledore also gave him special treatment.

After all, while the Gryffindors were braver and more mischievous, they were still much better than the Slytherin rabble.

There was a theory that Louise largely agreed with in his previous life: that Dumbledore intentionally or unintentionally guided Harry toward the Weasleys, hoping that the warmth of the Weasleys would prevent Harry from going astray.

To be fair, he also quite liked the Weasleys.

"I said he was dirty," Louis said, forking the small sausage he had just put down, lying without batting an eye.

"I think so too," Ron said with a laugh, shaking his red head. After laughing for a while, he suddenly said with a serious expression, "Slytherins are all dark wizards—uh, I'm not talking about you, Louis, I'm just worried that you'll be bullied by them or led astray by them."

Louis thought to himself, "You're absolutely right. It would be a real shame if I, with my eighteen-point talent in dark magic, didn't become a dark wizard."

"A philosopher once said that prejudice is further from the truth than ignorance." Louis took a sip of coffee, the rich, bitter aroma invigorating him. "There are good people in Slytherin too, like me."

As they were talking, he saw the blonde senior walk by and sit down next to him.

"And this senior student is also a good person," he added.

The senior student's cold gaze swept over the freshmen, sending a chill down their spines. Ron quickly changed the subject: "Ah, who said that? Was it the Muggle Prime Minister?"

"You guessed pretty much right." Louis put down his coffee cup and winked at Ron. "But it's not British."

The first class today was Professor McGonagall's Transfiguration class. It's on the second floor after going up the stairs from the Great Hall, then turn right. Harry and Ron got up early this time so they could have a heart-to-heart talk with Lewis, so they weren't late.

Louis secretly thanked his two companions; without them, he would probably be the one threatened into turning into a pocket watch.

On the platform of the Transfiguration classroom, a silver tabby cat sat alone, poised like a tiger. There was still half an hour before morning class, and the classroom was nearly empty. The tabby cat saw two lion cubs from its own house walking together with a Slytherin snake, and its pupils contracted as if seeing light.

Louis recognized Professor McGonagall—after all, he had visited her home just last month. He looked around and sat down in the area belonging to Slytherin House.

Before long, Malfoy entered the classroom with his two henchmen. After exchanging a few pleasantries with Louis, he chose to sit next to him.

Professor McGonagall arrived late, after all the students had gathered. She glanced indifferently at Louise and began her intimidating speech to the new students from the podium.

"Transfiguration is the most complex and dangerous spell in your Hogwarts courses. Anyone who misbehaves in my class will be asked to leave and never be allowed to come back. I have warned you."

Louis felt she should have added a warning: "Don't say you weren't warned."

To be honest, Professor McGonagall was known for her impartiality, and the young wizards trembled at her words.

Then, Professor McGonagall waved her wand, and the podium in front of her instantly transformed into a grunting pig, which nudged and sniffed around the floor beside her, looking utterly comical.

"Cool," Ron exclaimed sincerely.

Professor McGonagall waved her wand again, turning the pig back onto the podium.

"This is just a small application of transfiguration," she said. "You have a long way to go before you learn how to bring objects to life."

"Professor," Ron raised his hand.

"Weasley, is there a problem?" Professor McGonagall noticed the eager Ron.

"Professor, I'd like to know, is it okay to eat the pig that turned into the podium?"

As soon as Ron finished speaking, the classroom erupted in laughter. Ron's cheeks flushed red, just like his hair. Malfoy laughed the loudest, jokingly telling Crabbe and Goyle that the Weasleys probably asked that because they couldn't afford pork.

"Silence." Professor McGonagall frowned slightly and tapped the blackboard with her wand—like a pointer. She glanced around at the students and said very seriously, "Any object created by a Transfiguration Charm is not edible, and the effect of a wizard's Transfiguration on an object is time-limited. Once the Transfiguration Charm on an object wears off, the object will automatically revert to its original form, for example—"

With a flick of her wrist, she transformed a piece of chalk into a slug. Under the watchful eyes of her classmates, she waved her wand and flung the slug onto the blackboard.

A strange thing happened: the slug instantly turned back into a piece of chalk and fell with a thud into the storage compartment under the blackboard.

"When the transformed life form loses its life, the spell will automatically be lifted. Furthermore, wizards cannot conjure food out of thin air, and even food transformed from a physical entity is inedible."

She glanced at the crowd below the stage and said, "I know what you're thinking. The food that appeared on the plates in the Great Hall during yesterday's freshman party wasn't conjured up by Professor Dumbledore out of thin air. Rather, it was the house-elves of Hogwarts who cooked the food and then used magic to transfer it onto your plates."

"Understood, Professor." A few scattered replies came from below.

What followed was a long and tedious lecture on the basics of Transfiguration. Louis took notes for a long time and discovered that the core idea of ​​Transfiguration was "emphasizing subjective consciousness".

It's not that the Transfiguration Charm is idealistic. Idealism means that consciousness comes first and matter second; consciousness precedes matter. The Transfiguration Charm, however, prioritizes matter over consciousness. Consciousness cannot create matter out of thin air, but it can influence matter.

It does sound quite materialistic.

(End of this chapter)

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