Malfoy Rise at Hogwarts

Chapter 11 The Metamorphosis Society
During dinner time, Draco, who was a bitch, couldn't help but took Goyle and Crabbe to the Gryffindor long table to find trouble.Schelling could only hold his forehead and be speechless. How much Draco loves Harry, why is he thinking about provoking him all the time?
As described in the original book, Draco proposed a duel between wizards to Harry in a contemptuous tone.

In his opinion, Harry, who grew up in the Muggle world and has only been exposed to magic for two weeks, probably doesn't even know what a duel is, so he would definitely not dare to fight it. In this way, he can laugh at him to his heart's content, but he didn't expect that Ron, who was at the side, couldn't help standing up to show his presence, and helped Harry answer the duel in a troubled way, "A duel is a duel! Then I will be his assistant. Who is your assistant?"

Draco looked back at Crabbe and Goyle, and said without hesitation, "Of course it's my brother."

Crabbe and Goyle: "Then look what we do..."

"At midnight, how about that? We'll meet you in the trophy room, where the doors are never locked." Draco continued, ignoring both of their complaints.

Xie Lin's slow voice came from a distance, "I said...you guys, discuss duels and fights openly in the public, and you also choose the midnight time that violates school rules; besides, you drag me into a duel without asking my opinion, is that really okay?"

Ron sneered unceremoniously: "The duel was obviously proposed by you, why? Now that you know you are afraid, you want to back down? You cowards!"

Ron's tone was indeed a little too much, and even Harry couldn't help frowning, but Harry didn't want to be misunderstood that he was on the side of Slytherin, so he chose to remain silent.

At this moment, Schelling was irritated by Ron's words. Although his eyes were expressionless, his tone suddenly became very serious, "I just don't want to break the school rules for boring reasons. Since you want to duel, you don't have to wait until midnight..."

After speaking, Schelling drew out his wand and tapped lightly on the cup on the long table. In an instant, the cup turned into a murderous gray wolf, with its sharp fangs exposed and howling frighteningly!

There were bursts of screams from the Gryffindor table, Harry's face turned pale and bloodless, and Ron was so frightened that he fell back from his chair and sat on the ground.Just as Professor McGonagall, who was on the professor's chair, hurriedly approached, Schelling waved his wand lightly, and Gray Wolf turned back into a cup in an instant, only to hear Schelling's voice without the slightest emotion: "Do you still want to duel with me now?"

Professor McGonagall arrived with a stern face, and said sharply: "Mr. Malfoy! Please explain, what's going on? Using magic to harm classmates is strictly prohibited by Hogwarts!"

Schelling turned to look at Professor McGonagall. He knew that this professor had always acted impartially and would not favor Gryffindor, so he had nothing to fear.

He replied in a calm tone: "Professor McGonagall, Mr. Weasley has never had a good impression of our Malfoy family. I don't care about it. But just now I just wanted to cancel the duel agreement between them and my brother in a peaceful way, but I was insulted by Mr. Weasley—he said I was a coward! And I was just scaring them with transfiguration. I don't think it can be called hurting my classmates anyway? There are so many people watching here, they can all testify."

Professor McGonagall questioned several students who were dining at the same table, and determined that Schelling was telling the truth. He pursed his lips tightly, because Ron's insulting behavior deducted [-] points from Gryffindor, which made Gryffindor, which had already deducted a lot of points in the past two weeks, directly at the bottom of the college rankings. Many little Gryffindor wizards gave Ron and Harry an unfriendly look.

Professor McGonagall turned his head and said to Schelling: "Even if there is a reason for the incident, Mr. Malfoy, what you did was inappropriate. You are only a first-year freshman. What if the magic gets out of control and accidentally injures a classmate?"

Xie Lin spoke lightly, but his tone was full of unquestionable confidence: "Professor, it is impossible to accidentally injure a classmate."

After finishing speaking, he waved his magic wand lightly, and the four cups on the table turned into snakes, spiders, chickens, and red foxes at the same time, and then waved lightly again, and the four small animals became entangled and turned into a head with long hair. A snake-shaped monster with a fox tail, a cockscomb, and eight spider legs, with its terrifying head held high, swallowed a forked tongue and hissed.Xie Lin waved again, and the snake-shaped monster instantly decomposed into the previous four small animals, and then turned back into four cups.

Professor McGonagall was stunned, speechless by Schelling's performance, she calmed down and said slowly: "Mr. Malfoy, what an unbelievable Transfiguration technique. Can you tell me how far you have learned your Transfiguration technique?"

"To what extent?" Xie Lin stretched out his hand and touched his chin, "I think... I should have mastered all the contents of OWL level except the conversion spell and the disappearing spell..." He glanced at Ron and said, "To be honest, just now, as long as I wanted to, I could turn him into a ferret."

This sentence made Ron startled, frightened, angry and hated, but the presence of Professor McGonagall and the aura emanating from Schelling made him unable to say any harsh words.

Although Professor McGonagall still had a stern expression on her face, Schelling could detect the inadvertent smile on her brows, "Come with me to my office now, I have something to tell you."

Schelling followed Professor McGonagall out of the auditorium, and could hear Ron cursing in a low voice before leaving, but he didn't care about that much, so he could only follow Professor McGonagall to her office.

Professor McGonagall's office is a small study room on the side of the corridor on the second floor. There is a burning fireplace here, and the Quidditch field can be seen from the window. Behind Professor McGonagall's desk, there are densely packed books on metamorphosis, as well as students' papers on metamorphosis.

It seems that Professor McGonagall's title of "hat embarrassment" is really not groundless, and Ravenclaw is also suitable for her, Sherin thought to himself.

After Professor McGonagall sat down at the desk, she stared at Schelling for a few seconds before she organized her words and said, "Mr. Malfoy, you are the most talented student in Transfiguration I have ever seen. Your progress in learning is much higher than that of students in the same grade. In order not to waste your talent, I would like to invite you to join my Transfiguration Club."

"Transfiguration Club?" Xie Lin looked puzzled, he knew the original book by heart, and never remembered such a club.

All he remembered was the Dueling Club that appeared in the [-]nd grade, the Slug Club that appeared in the [-]th grade, and the Gobstone Club run by the students... By the way, it seems that when Vicky Frobisher and Ron of Gryffindor competed for the position on the Quidditch team, they said that they paid more attention to the "Spell Club". Maybe the Transfiguration Club is a similar society.

"That's a club I formed. Once a week, some of your senior students who are outstanding in Transfiguration will discuss and research content related to Transfiguration. Of course, I also hope that you can often publish some academic papers on "Transfiguration Today" to contribute to Transfiguration." Professor McGonagall explained.

After finishing speaking, Professor McGonagall also took out a book from the bookshelf. It was her transfiguration notes when she was preparing for the OWL exam. It was filled with many private tips and experiences that were not found in textbooks. She gave it to Schelling. She was very optimistic about Schelling and looked forward to his future achievements in the field of transfiguration.

[Professor McGonagall's transfiguration notes obtained! 】

"It's my honor, Professor." Xie Linlin bowed respectfully and walked out of Professor McGonagall's office.

Back at the long Slytherin table in the Great Hall, Draco and his followers, Daphne, Meredith, and Pansy couldn't wait to surround him, "What did Professor McGonagall ask you to come to the office?" Draco couldn't help but ask first.

"Nothing special," Schelling explained in a nonchalant tone. "She invited me to join her Transfiguration Club and gave me a book on Transfiguration."

"Transformation Club?" Several people said in unison. "what is that?"

"I heard that Professor McGonagall founded the club himself." Schelling thought for a while and said, "Let's discuss and study content related to metamorphosis."

"Are you kidding me?" Pansy was surprised and speechless when she heard Schelling's words. Schelling was very sure that she unconsciously glanced at Draco again, with a complicated look in her eyes.

"You are amazing, really enviable." Meredith was a little jealous, which was undoubtedly Professor McGonagall's special care for Schelling.

"Of course, it doesn't matter whose brother I am. If my brother worked harder and spent more time studying and doing homework instead of trying to disgust the Gryffindors all day long, he would definitely be no worse than me, right, Draco?" Sherin said with a smile.

"Of course!" Draco replied proudly.

At this time, Schelling caught a glimpse of Harry and Ron who were trying to eavesdrop not far away, and said indifferently: "Potter, Weasley, don't you think it's very rude to eavesdrop on others?"

Draco and the others turned their heads and saw the two people who were indeed sneaking around, and immediately stared at them angrily.

Not to be outdone, Ron said: "Why do you say we eavesdropped? We just happened to pass by. Do you need your approval to pass through the aisle?"

Xie Lin shot back lightly, "It doesn't matter, the duel just now is not over yet, but I don't intend to break the school rules for you, how about this, right here, under the witness of everyone, I challenge you now to decide the outcome with a game of wizard chess, do you dare?"

Schelling knew that it was mentioned in the original book that Ron's most confident talent was Wizard Chess, and he would not accept the challenge. Schelling just wanted to hit him hard at what he was best at, so that he could experience all-round crushing.

A flush of excitement flashed across Ron's face, "Dare! Why don't you dare!"

Schelling replied: "Of course, even if it's just a contest of wizard chess, I won't waste my time just to win you. If you want to compete, you need to bet on your chips—how about [-] Galleons?"

Ron blushed immediately. All his savings didn't even have a single Galleon. How could he take out [-] Galleons, but facing the Malfoy family he hated, he couldn't admit to being poor no matter what. He lost his momentum and lost face.

Schelling ignored him, "If you don't have a Galleon on hand," Schelling turned to look at Harry, "Even if this incident wasn't caused by you, it still has something to do with you. It's not too much for Galleon to let you out, right?"

"Okay! I trust Ron!" Harry promised proudly.

After the dinner time was over, Xie Lin happily took Draco and his group back to the Slytherin dormitory with his newly earned [-] Galleons.

Sitting on the long table was a distraught Ron, and Harry, who was also not very good-looking. Harry could only comfort Ron in a low voice—but this comfort did not seem to be very effective. Losing Gallon was a trivial matter for Harry, but this wizard chess was played in full view, and he was defeated by the Malfoy family in public. Ron suddenly felt unloved.

Feeling so humiliated by the pity all around was looking at him, he covered his face and ran all the way into the Gryffindor dormitory, with Harry hastily following him out of the Great Hall.

(End of this chapter)