The years of welding at Hogwarts

He can't teach!

He doesn’t have this ability, you know?!

In a few years, Dumbledore might have to go to Azkaban and hire someone to teach this course.

Because the teaching quality of the Defense Against the Dark Arts class seriously dragged down the teaching level of Hogwarts, Hogwarts' ranking among the eleven magic schools in the world has been getting worse day by day.

Hogwarts used to be number one in the world for many years, but look at what it has become now?

Now it has fallen to seventh place!

If we continue like this, we will lose to Durmstrang.

After losing Durmstrang, you lost to Beauxbatons, then to Uagardo and Kodostoriz. In the end, you had nothing left to lose because your ranking was already the lowest.

No shame!

……

When the bell rang, Professor Quirrell, whom everyone had long admired, finally came out from his office at the back of the classroom.

But in just a few short steps from the office to the podium, everyone's expectations disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Because Qiluo's image is so bad

The.

He was tall, with a fair complexion and scars often between his wrinkles.

He had a large Arab turban on his head and although he was dressed decently, he smelled like someone who hadn't taken a shower in more than 10 years.

He always stutters when speaking to people, his voice reeks of Indian curry, making it difficult for people to understand him.

From what I heard people talking behind his back, Professor Quirrell was also a top student in Ravenclaw. I just don't know how he has fallen to the point of having to come to Hogwarts to be a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.

The bell finally rang for the end of get out of class, and the little wizards who came out of the classroom all looked frightened.

"Professor Quirrell is really terrible." Hermione frowned.

The fact that Hermione, a well-behaved and polite girl, could make such an evaluation is enough to show how bad Quirrell is.

It would have been fine if he just read the textbook verbatim, but his English, which was full of curry flavor, was not pronounced clearly.

If Noah didn't have good hearing, he would have thought he was reading in the language of some unknown country.

……

Fortunately, the second class in the morning was Transfiguration taught by Professor McGonagall.

As a senior educator, Professor McGonagall's teaching skills are naturally excellent as she has been deeply involved in the field of Transfiguration for decades.

With Professor Quirrell's terrible teaching as a precedent, everyone was looking forward to Professor McGonagall's Transfiguration even more.

Even though the break between classes was as long as thirty minutes, everyone still sat down in the Transfiguration classroom early.

A beautiful tabby cat was squatting on the table in the first row, with its eyes closed, and it seemed to be sleeping.

Hermione was delighted to see the cat and ran to the table in the first row and reached out to play with the cat. If Shirley hadn't quickly grabbed her, this would have been a fatal blow.

When Transfiguration reaches a certain level, one can master a spell called Animagus.

Its effect is to allow wizards to freely transform between humans and certain animals, which is called -

Gryffindor, courage supreme!

Our dean can turn into a cat!

The tabby cat on the table is exactly what Professor McGonagall transformed into. If you look closely, you can see a circle of patterns around its eyes that look like glasses.

This is because when an Animagus changes its form, the clothes on its body will also be integrated into the changed form.

If the clothes on your body don't change with it...

So, it is conceivable that when an Animagus wants to restore his human form, unless he finds a deserted place to change his clothes first, he will end up running naked.

……

When the bell rang, the tabby cat in the front row jumped up from the desk and transformed into a serious witch in mid-air.

Hermione's heart trembled with fear. She remembered that she almost got herself killed by teasing the cat just now. She couldn't help but cast a grateful look to Shirley beside her.

After finishing the roll, Professor McGonagall knocked on the table.

Under her majesty, the classroom was so quiet that even a pin drop could be heard clearly.

"I want to warn you that Transfiguration is the most complex and difficult of all the courses at Hogwarts. Anyone who dares to act naughty in my class will be asked to leave and never come back."

Except for the Defense Against the Dark Arts class, which has a new professor every year, professors of all other courses will give a carefully prepared opening speech or demonstration when they teach students the first class of their entire academy career.

Professor McGonagall is no exception.

She drew her magic wand and transformed the desk into a fat white pig, and then into a roaring lion with its mouth wide open.

Staring at the majestic lion in front of him, Noah had a thoughtful expression.

Transfiguration seems to be simply the transformation of one object into another, or simply the change of the shape of the same object.

If other magic can be explained to a certain extent using the language of Muggle science, Transfiguration is truly completely unreasonable.

Because it completely goes against people's common sense, although to wizards it is just ordinary magic, which is a matter of course.

What is the nature of Transfiguration?

During the transformation of an object, what kind of changes actually occur in the deformed object itself?

It is a top-level illusion like flowers in the mirror and the moon in the water, deceiving the five senses of everyone around it, making people mistake it for another object invisibly.

In this way, the effect of the podium turning into a lion can be achieved, but in reality, the podium is still a podium, and its essence has not changed at all.

Or is this a change and reorganization at the atomic level, where the basic particles that make up the object are completely crushed and then reconstructed into another object under the influence of magic, thus achieving the effect of change?

But if that is the case, isn’t this what is called nuclear fission and nuclear fusion?

He could use transmutation to transform uranium into krypton and barium, or deuterium and tritium into helium.

But a new question arises: where does the huge energy generated in this process come from and where does it go?

This is totally inconsistent with the law of conservation of energy.

……

As an excellent professor, Professor McGonagall would not give lectures using a PowerPoint presentation like Quirrell.

Kedi was reading the textbook.

She explained the principles of transfiguration in a simple and clear manner, although judging from the round eyes of the students below the stage, except for a few outstanding top students, no one else probably could understand.

After this, she held up a match.

"What you have to do in this class is to turn this match into a silver needle. As long as you complete the task, you can win five points for your school."

He pointed the wand in his other hand at the match, "Vera verto."

There was a flash of light, and the match in Professor McGonagall's hand suddenly turned into a thin silver needle.

"When you are new to Transfiguration, it is very important to pronounce the spell clearly and wave the wand accurately."

"Moreover, you must firmly imagine in your mind the shape of the matchstick after it is successfully transformed. This will help increase your success rate in completing the transformation."

"Okay, now let's try it."

Professor McGonagall walked down from the podium, and a box of matches flew in the air as her wand pointed. Under the influence of magic, the matches in the box flew one by one to each student's desk.

She didn't stop until she reached Noah.

"Mr. Shafrin, where's your wand?"

The other little wizards all held a magic wand, but Noah had nothing in his hands, with nothing in his hands except a Transfiguration textbook in front of him.

And the textbook is for second grade.

"Professor, my wand is a bit special and I can't use it in the classroom."

Noah felt a headache when he thought of his two-meter-long magic wand.

When will that damn old man Ollivander send me his new wand?

"No way to use it?" Professor McGonagall frowned heavily. "That won't work. How are you going to perform Transfiguration without a wand?"

Noah could only choose to tell the truth, "I can perform magic without a wand."

Professor McGonagall's look turned from stern to suspicious. "Wandless spellcasting is a very advanced spellcasting technique. You are not the only one who can do it..."

Before she could finish, Noah picked up the matches on the table.

Without any movement on his part, the match between his fingers was transformed from a match into a silver needle very abruptly right under Professor McGonagall's nose.

Professor McGonagall instantly swallowed back the second half of what she was about to say.

What she wanted to say just now was that this was not a spellcasting skill that a first-grade wizard like you could master, so don't think about attracting attention by sensational means.

But, now this situation...

As a senior educator with more than half a century of teaching experience, what kind of storms has Professor McGonagall not seen over the years?

Uh, sorry, she has never seen such a situation before.

Chapter 40 What bad intentions could an older cat girl have?

Professor McGonagall had never encountered such an unexpected situation before.

Among the many classes of students in the past, Professor McGonagall had seen so-called Transfiguration geniuses, although none of them were as good as she was when she first started school.

The best among them would need to spend a whole class period before they could transform the match into the not-so-perfect shape of a silver needle at the end of the get out of class.

And he also needs the help of a magic wand.

But she is not incapable of completing the transformation with her bare hands like Noah, it is just that she has been deeply involved in the field of transformation for many years before she was able to achieve this level.

Fortunately, Professor McGonagall has been teaching for many years, and her rich experience allows her to quickly come up with an appropriate response when faced with such emergencies.

She pretended to be calm and nodded with satisfaction, looking at Noah with eyes full of relief.

"Well, an excellent transformation. Slytherin adds ten points."

It was not the five points promised at the beginning, but an increase of ten points directly.

Professor McGonagall looked calm and composed, but her heart was filled with turmoil.

She looked at Noah as if she were looking at some rare treasure.

Since becoming Professor of Transfiguration at Hogwarts, the most gifted Transfiguration student Professor McGonagall has ever encountered is Nymphadora Tonks of Hufflepuff House.

She is a natural Metamorphmagus, which literally means that she has been able to freely manipulate part of her body tissue to transform since her magic awakening.

Changing a face is just a basic operation for her, just like Mystique in the X-Men.

But Noah's talent for Transfiguration seems to be even more exaggerated than Tonks's. If Tonks had God opening a door for her, then Noah simply shoveled away the door and the wall together.

I recognize your talent!

When it comes to Transfiguration talent, among all the students I have ever taught, no one is better than you!

I, Minerva McGonagall, would like to call you, Noah, the strongest!

"Everyone else, keep practicing!"

After saying this coldly to the others, Professor McGonagall changed her tone to a kind one.

She placed the empty matchbox in front of Noah and immediately turned it into a beautiful jewelry box. "Come on, try it."

Normally, such transformation operations can only be achieved by a small number of top students after studying for most of the semester.

But now Professor McGonagall is directly

Letting Noah give it a try shows her trust in Noah's talent for Transfiguration.

Noah picked up the jewelry box and examined it carefully for a while, imprinting its appearance firmly in his mind, then picked up the second matchbox handed to him by Professor McGonagall.

The magic power in his hand flowed, and the matchbox was changing shape little by little.

In a short while, a jewelry box of the same style appeared in front of Professor McGonagall, who was extremely surprised.

"Try this again."

This time, Professor McGonagall turned the matchbox into a rhinoceros beetle with a shiny black shell.

But Noah's attempt at imitation failed.