From Azkaban

The development of the entire spell was very difficult only in the very beginning, from zero to one. After taking the first step, Locke's development of the spell began to become faster and smoother.

It felt as if he was assisted by God. It was as if Locke knew all the correct answers unconsciously and copied them down. Every choice and step was correct.

It went so smoothly that Locke had an absurd feeling that no matter how he developed and advanced the project, he would succeed.

In the end, with this feeling, Locke successfully developed his own original magic, and the effect far exceeded expectations.

Originally, Locke only intended to create a magic that would allow the body to absorb 100% of the food eaten and convert it into nutrients, promote the body's absorption of nutrients, and use these nutrients to automatically strengthen the body.

In this way, combined with high-intensity prisoner fitness, Locke can achieve his goal of strengthening his body.

But now the effect of this formed magic far exceeds the initial assumption, because in the process of constructing and creating it, Locke was greedy and thought that it would be great if the absorbed and transformed nutrients could become absolutely balanced. After all, the food in Azkaban is very monotonous, and the nutrition is naturally also monotonous.

So Locke thought, it would be great if this magic could be evenly distributed according to the knowledge in his memory, turning the extra single nutrient into other missing nutrients.

Originally, this was just a random idea of ​​Locke's. He just wanted to give it a try to gain experience, but he didn't think it would work.

But who would have thought that he would succeed so smoothly without any setbacks. He easily added this function into the magic and completed the development of the magic in one step.

That was the first version of this magic, and it was essentially a success that exceeded standards and expectations.

But people are never satisfied. Such easy success made Locke feel that he could do better.

So, with the mentality that he already had a guaranteed bottom line, Locke began to iterate. In just half a month, he completed three iterations.

Now, this magic created by Locke can not only absorb 100% of the food he eats and convert it into various nutrients needed by the human body, but also automatically adjust and change the optimal nutritional ratio based on Locke's current physical condition.

Beyond that, its real power lies in the features that came out of Locke’s second and third iterations.

In the second iteration, Locke successfully linked this magic with the magic power in his body, allowing it to absorb magic power autonomously. This way, Locke no longer needed to distract himself to actively mobilize magic power replenishment, and it directly changed from an original pseudo-passive to a true passive.

As for the final third iteration, Locke added the ability to use more magic power combined with absorbed nutrients to directly strengthen the body.

Under normal circumstances, ordinary people need to exercise in order to transform the absorbed nutrients. The more nutrients they take, the stronger the exercise must be. Otherwise, excess nutrition will bring various negative effects.

But Locke now relies on this magic, using magic power to replace the original training process. Through the effect of magic, he changes the normal rules and directly achieves the effect of strengthening the body in one step.

In other words, from now on Locke only needs to eat and eat, and ensure a good supply of magic power, and his physical fitness will continue to get stronger. As for how stronger it can become, Locke doesn't know, after all, it is the power of magic.

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To be honest, Locke never thought that he could actually change this magic into such an outrageous state.

Feeling the magic that had already started to work, Locke now really felt that he might indeed be a genius in magic. After all, there was no other reason for such a result.

"Could it be that I really have a golden finger?"

With this thought flashing through his mind, Locke shook his head with amusement. It had long been confirmed that he did not have a golden finger.

He has been very plain and simple since he crossed over. The only difference he encountered was the strange space he entered when he first crossed over.

But in the past month or so, Locke has been so busy every day that he wishes he could split every second into two.

Apart from daily meditation, eating, and developing his own magic, he basically spent the rest of his time reviewing and studying the various knowledge in his previous incarnation's deep subconscious memory.

Because there was no one to teach him, Locke could only learn by himself, try things out on his own, discover his own mistakes and correct them.

There is simply not enough time at the end of the day, so from the very beginning, Locke has replaced sleeping with studying by entering the consciousness space.

Under such circumstances, Locke would have thrown that strange space to an unknown place long ago.

"So maybe I'm really a genius!"

The original question sentence now turned into an affirmative sentence. Locke stretched out his legs and moved his body twice to get out of bed. The moment his feet touched the ground, the two small stones on the ground turned into a pair of old black cloth shoes that fit his feet in the blink of an eye.

Transfiguration is a profound and unique magic. Thanks to the class memories and textbook memories dug out from the subconscious of his previous incarnation, Locke has a good understanding of this magic.

I have to say that Professor McGonagall is really a very good teacher. She teaches very well and the textbook is very thorough, allowing Locke to complete the process of understanding this magic from zero to one and successfully display his talent.

With his talent and the improvement brought by visualization, Locke can now perform this unique magic at will.

And because of the knowledge he gained from his previous life, Locke's skills in transfiguration are ever-changing, and his imagination far exceeds that of the current wizards in this world.

After all, the core point of this knowledge lies in understanding and cognition. If you want to cast a spell, the caster needs to completely imagine the appearance of object B in his mind, and then cast it on object A.

However, in the wizarding world, the scope of this imagination is very broad. It does not require in-depth understanding at the atomic and molecular levels like materialism. Generally speaking, wizards only need to have a sufficiently detailed surface cognition.

The advantage of doing this is obvious, as it does not require much prior knowledge, but the disadvantage is that it requires a lot of talent, and permanent deformation cannot be achieved.

Essentially, a wizard only changes his appearance, while internal changes are entirely dependent on magic. When the magic that maintains the internal structure disappears, the internal changes will naturally return to their original state. In this way, the magic will become invalid, and the changed things will return to their original state.

If you want to achieve permanent transformation, you need to accumulate profound magical knowledge, powerful magic power, and be proficient in transfiguration. All three are indispensable.

According to the original work, the only ones who can do this are Dumbledore and Voldemort, and of course Grindelwald.

As for Professor McGonagall, Locke felt that she had not yet reached that realm. This was not nonsense, but the result he came to based on his memory of watching previous classes and combining it with the original work.

Volume 1: Chapter 8 Transfiguration/Patronus Charm

"Snapped!"

Locke stood up from the bed wearing black cloth shoes, stretched out his hand and snapped his fingers, turning the cell door into a cloth curtain.

"It is me, the humanoid elf."

Locke amused himself with a smile as he watched the steel cell door turn into a door curtain according to his thoughts.

Now he no longer thinks that time travel is bad. Although he lived a very comfortable life in his previous life, if he were given the opportunity to go back now, he would definitely refuse without hesitation.

After all, magic is really great. Just like now, Locke can make the world change according to his will at will. Such ability is incomparable to worldly things.

"Transfiguration is the magic that best matches and is most suitable for use with scientific knowledge. Other magics are either too idealistic or involve too advanced fields."

Although in essence, Transfiguration is actually very unscientific, the core theory of this magic is understanding and cognition.

Otherwise, why do we say that Transfiguration is the domain of the masters? In addition to the necessary talent, the most important thing about this magic is the accumulation of knowledge and experience.

Now Locke has both of these things, and he still has a lot of room for improvement in terms of talent.

Because with the success of his self-created magic, Locke's body will no longer be a shortcoming, and his body, soul and mind will soon be balanced.

By then, a balanced and powerful body, soul and mind will lay an extremely solid foundation for Locke's magical path, allowing him to fundamentally surpass other wizards.

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Locke opened the door curtain and walked out of the cell, just in time to see the back of the Dementor leaving in the corridor. More than a month had passed, and Locke was now able to face the absorption of a single Dementor without losing consciousness.

"If I escape from prison now, no one should be able to stop me. After all, I have learned the Patronus Charm."

Looking at the Dementor's back as he left, a fluorescent light flashed on Locke's fingertips. That was the light of the Patronus Charm.

Locke learned the Patronus Charm from the deep memories of his previous life. The principle of this magic is actually very simple. The reason why it is difficult to learn is mainly because ordinary wizards do not have such strong control over their emotions and thoughts and memories, and their control over their own magic power is also generally poor.

But these were not a problem at all for Locke, who had practiced the visualization method. After observing and remembering it, he successfully used this magic in just a few minutes.

And because of his thorough understanding and powerful control over his own mind, when he used the Patronus Charm to summon his Patronus, he also gained a face-pinching ability, which could change the appearance and size of his Patronus to a certain extent.

So, Locke took action and molded the patronus, which was originally a giant eagle, into a thunderbird, well, the thunderbird in Newt's box in Fantastic Beasts.

To be honest, Locke's giant eagle was already very handsome, but who can blame the Thunderbird for being even more handsome? As the saying goes, strength is not important, being handsome is a lifelong thing.

"Let's wait a little longer. My visualization method is far from reaching its limit. I can't find such a useful training acceleration tool as Dementors outside. Besides, we haven't dug out all the things that can be dug out here." Locke dispersed the light in his hand.

From the perspective of the original work, Locke's current attempt to escape from Azkaban has a high probability of success.

After all, in addition to the magic of his predecessor, Locke has now also mastered the transfiguration technique that is essential for high-end bosses, and can now turn dead things into living things, and is working towards turning living things into living things, that is, human body transfiguration.

This stage can be seen as two stages. The first stage is the transformation of living things into dead things, and the second stage is the transformation of fully developed living things into living things.

Next, there is the multiple transformation spell, which is to cast the spell a second, third, or fourth time on an object that has already been transformed once, making it more complex, more flexible, more powerful, and more difficult for the enemy to break with magic.

This stage can also be divided into two stages. The first stage is the superimposed deformation on the dead object, and the second stage is to continue to apply new living deformation after turning the living object into another living object.

Different from the human body transformation from a living thing to a dead thing, the human body transformation from a living thing to a living thing is extremely dangerous and can lead to disaster if you are not careful. And it is an absolute taboo to continue to transform the human body after the human body has been transformed from a living thing to a living thing.

Professor McGonagall's Transfiguration skill is probably at the stage of multiple transformation, which is the highest level of Transfiguration magic below permanent transformation.

In comparison, Locke's transformation skills seem to be very average. Well, it is indeed only average.

However, this general Transfiguration is completely sufficient to deal with the Aurors stationed in Azkaban. Combined with the Patronus Charm that has been mastered, if there are fewer Aurors in Azkaban, they probably won't be able to stop Locke who is determined to escape.

Of course, as Locke said, after gaining enough strength to escape from prison, he was not in a hurry to leave. Perhaps this is the confidence that comes with strength.

Before, he would be anxious to leave, mainly because he felt insecure staying in this place. Now that he feels safe, his mentality has naturally changed.

“This is a great place.”

With a slight smile on his lips, Locke stood in front of the cell door and waited for a while. After making sure that all the Dementors had gone down, he raised his foot and walked out of the corner.

The reason why Locke waited for the Dementors to leave was not because he was afraid of them, but because he did not want to meet other Dementors on the way and be sucked again, which would waste his time.

Once before, Locke encountered another Dementor when he came out to get food. Seeing that Locke was alive and kicking and didn't look like he had been demented, the dementor gave himself another meal without saying a word, and let Locke sleep well in the aisle for a night.

After that, Locke would plan before going out, and would usually wait until the Dementors patrolling the two floors were gone before leaving the cell.

"Click, click, click"

In the dark corridor, the sound of dripping water continued to be heard. Locke walked out of the corner and saw seven people lying in the cell with lifeless eyes and their bodies twitching constantly.

Locke didn't linger on the scene for too long. He had seen such scenes many times in the past month. At first, he felt some moral sympathy in his heart, but after seeing it so many times, he no longer felt that way.

The main reason is that these seven guys themselves are not good people. Some of them came in by killing wizards in breeding areas while poaching magical animals, some came in by capturing people in the Muggle world for experiments, and some came in for engaging in magical terrorist activities.

Anyway, every one of them is a talent, and they deserve the fate they have today.

Ignoring the seven people in the cell who were still twitching due to the aftereffects of being sucked, Locke walked slowly to the stairs, glanced in the direction of the downstairs, and then stepped up the stairs.

Volume 1: Chapter 9 I came to Azkaban for sightseeing

Walking up the stairs, Locke quickly approached the upper level, and soon he saw the end of the stairs.

After taking a few steps forward, Locke stood on the top floor of Azkaban. He succeeded! He climbed up to the top floor. Ahem, he was out of luck.

Standing next to the stairs, Locke looked forward. In the dark and narrow corridor just like the one below were cells lined up side by side. It was even colder than here, perhaps because the floor was higher.

"They are all treasures that can be dug up, but before digging for treasures, we have to do important things first."

Locke walked forward. Although his footsteps were small in the silent corridor, they were very obvious. All the Death Eaters in the cell who were slowly recovering from the influence of the Dementors heard them.

"They are worthy of being Death Eaters. They are quite powerful. They recovered so quickly after being sucked by the Dementors. I wonder if they developed resistance after being sucked for so long."

Locke looked at the Death Eater who had obviously regained consciousness in the cell, and it was obvious who was better than the seven guys below.

While Locke was observing the Death Eaters, the Death Eaters in the cell were also observing Locke.

Originally they all thought that the Aurors had brought in a new prisoner, but who would have thought that they actually saw a prisoner, a prisoner who was left alone and walking in Azkaban on his own.

The Death Eaters watching this scene narrowed their eyes slightly, not understanding what was going on.

"who are you?"

The silence did not last long, and a low and hoarse voice came from a cell. Locke looked and found that it was a man with half-long hair that was sticking in clumps because it had not been washed for a long time, an unkempt beard on his mouth, and thin cheeks.

"What do you call it?"

Locke did not answer the man, but took a few brisk steps forward and stood in front of the man's cell, and asked with a smile on his face.

"Sirius," seeing Locke coming, the man stood up and looked at Locke through the cell door.

"Oh~~", Locke said with a bit of surprise after hearing the man's answer, and looked him up and down.

"You are Sirius. I heard that you were the one who leaked the secret to Voldemort's rural terrorist. It's better to meet you in person than to hear about you for a long time. You are indeed a handsome man."

Locke naturally knew that Sirius was wronged, but that didn't stop Locke from teasing him. After all, he was responsible for that incident. If he hadn't temporarily put his feet on the ground and let his IQ rise far, how could he have ended up like this.

"You and I!"

Locke's words contained so much information that Sirius didn't know whether to refute him or say that he was so brave to say that name, in front of all the people in this place, and used such a... contemptuous name.

"You shouldn't say that name. You are also a prisoner in Azkaban. You should know what kind of people are imprisoned here."

In the end, Sirius gave up defending himself with words. After all, he was willing to be imprisoned in Azkaban in order to atone for his sins.

Just as Sirius finished speaking, the Death Eaters in other cells finally reacted with a look of shock and anger. They were shocked that Locke dared to call him by that name, and even more angry that Locke dared to be so disrespectful and add that derogatory term.

Although they could not fully understand the meaning of terrorists, they could roughly understand what it meant. Combined with the word "country" and Locke's teasing tone, the Death Eaters, as long as they were not stupid, could understand that Locke was mocking their master.

"You damned Mudblood! How dare you say that!"

The female prisoner next to Sirius had her eyes wide open, her face distorted with extreme anger. She raised her shackled hands and grabbed the cell door, squeezed her face into the gap of the cell door, glared at Locke fiercely, and was ready to attack wildly.

Unfortunately, Locke knew her identity as soon as he saw her, so he was not interested in listening to this crazy woman. He gently raised his hanging left hand, and the next moment the shackles on her hands turned into a ball gag and were tied into her mouth.

“Wuwuwu! Wuwuwu!!”

"!!!"

Locke's casual Transfiguration shocked everyone in the aisle, including Sirius.