The days of hanging out at Hogwarts

Hermione's long-awaited Transfiguration Club soon issued an announcement, and the list of young wizards recruited was posted on the bulletin board in the common room. The long list of names surprised many people.

"Neville Longbottom..."

Neville read the name on the bulletin board and felt that his own name was strange. Immediately, he was overwhelmed by a burst of ecstasy. He pressed Seamus with one hand and Dean with the other, using their shoulders to jump for joy: "I passed! I passed!"

"Neville has entered the Transfiguration Club and wants to turn us into meat pies first!" Seamus and Dean yelled funny, and they ran away in a hurry with their hands raised.

Hermione tugged on Loren's sleeve and looked at their names in the announcement with wide eyes and excitement. They both passed.

"You don't want to imitate Neville and support me in jumping, do you? I can't bear it." Loren twisted her hand away.

Hermione couldn't help but patted his arm. Hermione was in a happy mood and didn't think much about it.

Not surprisingly, both Harry and Ron passed the exam.

The first event of the Transfiguration Club was held in the Transfiguration classroom. The group came to the classroom early and chose a good seat in the front row to sit down, waiting for the classroom to fill up one after another.

Ron muttered: "Why are the club activities just like the usual classes? There is no freshness anymore."

"Of course it's fresh. We give ourselves extra lessons through exams." Loren said with a smile.

"Stop talking. If you keep talking, I won't want to go to class."

Slowly, little wizards sat in every seat, with the juniors sitting in the front rows and the seniors sitting in the back.

There are not many people. Transfiguration is the most difficult subject, and many young wizards learn it from scratch in ordinary classes. They don't want to endure this hardship again in extracurricular clubs.

A typical technique in transfiguration is to turn a mouse into a goblet. The difficulty of this magic is not only to turn living creatures into dead ones, but also to transform all the mouse hair all over the body into smooth glass surfaces. Little wizards often conjure furry goblets. How to reduce the remaining mouse hair is something everyone knows. A problem that every little wizard will encounter.

There is an interesting story in Hufflepuff:

Question: How to reduce the remaining mouse hair?

Answer: How much hair you lose due to torture will reduce the amount of rat hair.

Although it's just a joke, you can feel the pain of some little wizards who don't have the talent for transformation.

Some students did not take the selection exam, and some did not pass the exam. The rest are the little wizards sitting here, about 100 of them.

There are many familiar faces from Loren, the twin brothers, Percy and Penelo, Cedric, Rolf, and Marcus and Draco from Slytherin. There are no freshmen, they have no foundation at all and are not suitable for participating in club activities.

There was a pattering outside the window. The rain had not stopped for several days. Dark clouds and fog enveloped the sky and the wilderness, making everything gray. All the candlesticks on the walls were filled with brilliant candlelight, illuminating the entire classroom, bright and cheerful.

Professor McGonagall walked into the classroom with sharp steps and a smile on her face: "Let's check the list first, starting from the second grade: Loren Morgan, Hermione Granger..."

She read the names of the club members one by one, and the little wizard whose name was read answered loudly. From the second grade to the seventh grade, every one was missed. Loren felt that Professor McGonagall was much gentler than usual.

After counting the list, Professor McGonagall looked at the young wizards below and the vigorous vitality on their bodies: "I once told you that transfiguration is the most complex and dangerous spell in the Hogwarts curriculum. You guys You may be wondering, what are the dangers of spells such as a match turning into a needle, a beetle turning into a button, a teapot turning into a turtle, a guinea fowl turning into a guinea pig, or a plate turning into a mushroom?”

"Yeah! What's the danger?" George asked loudly.

Professor McGonagall did not answer immediately, but asked another question: "Can anyone tell me what branches of transfiguration there are."

Hermione raised her hand with a "swipe" and stood up after receiving Professor McGonagall's signal. She answered loudly: "Cross-species transformation, human transformation, summoning, Animagus, manifestation and basic transformation."

"Very good, Miss Granger. Gryffin -" Professor McGonagall stopped in time and said with a smile, "I even forgot that this is in a club, there will be no extra points in class."

"It's okay! We don't mind!" Fred yelled.

There was a burst of laughter from the audience.

"I think everyone has noticed that the teaching content at Hogwarts is mainly about basic transformation, summoning, and cross-species transformation. It rarely involves human body-related spells."

Professor McGonagall's words sparked a flurry of discussion, and Hufflepuff's little wizard Cedric asked loudly: "Yes, Professor, why is this?"

"This is related to several special events that happened in the magical world." Professor McGonagall began to explain, "A witch named Mirabella Plunkett fell in love with a mermaid while on vacation in Loch Lomond. , but her family fiercely opposed such a marriage, so Mirabella turned herself into a haddock and disappeared, never to be seen again.”

"The Ministry of Magic suspected that there was something wrong with the transfiguration she used on herself, and some unpredictable changes occurred. In addition, no one helped her break the spell in time, and she became one of the countless haddocks in Loch Lomond. "

After Professor McGonagall finished telling the first story, she paused and looked at the little wizards talking about it.

Hermione suddenly remembered something, she turned around and tugged on Loren's clothes: "We have seen Mirabella's pictures, do you remember?"

"Huh? When have we met?" Loren was not impressed.

"When I was investigating Nico Flamel last year, you tricked me into eating a lot of chocolate frogs, and one of the pictures was of Mirabella."

Speaking of this, Hermione couldn't help but slap him in the face, and then sighed: "It's such a pity that such a beautiful witch has turned into a fish forever."

Ron was puzzled: "Why doesn't she become a mermaid? Can't a cod marry a mermaid?"

"Transfiguration cannot turn people into magical creatures. Mermaids are also a type of magical creatures." Loren explained.

"This is too..."

The little wizards couldn't tell how they felt. If Mirabella hadn't been so impulsive, or if there were other wizards around to protect her, such a tragedy might not have happened.

Or, if Mirabella didn't understand human body transformation and cross-species transformation, the tragedy would not have happened.

Professor McGonagall began to talk about the second thing: "Thaddeus Thirkell was a wizard. All seven of his sons were squibs. Out of disgust, he turned all seven of his sons into hedgehogs. Because After living as hedgehogs all year round, they can’t think like normal people even after they return to human form.”

Many young wizards became indignant, and even Slytherin found this behavior disgusting.

"A long time ago, the teaching at Hogwarts included human body transformation, Animagus and other related contents. After more tragedies caused by transformation, the Ministry of Magic issued a new education order, which greatly revised the teaching content. Abridgement of scale.”

"The rectification effect is remarkable, and the number of accidents caused by transfiguration has been greatly reduced. However, the development of transfiguration has also been greatly affected. Branches such as basic transfiguration, summoning, and apparition have flourished, and branches such as human transfiguration, animagus, and cross-species transfiguration have flourished. development has stalled.”

"For a long time, there were only single digits of registered Animagus. As a student, Principal Dumbledore was very successful in the field of Transfiguration and published many articles in the magazine "Transfiguration Today". Even though He has only one article dealing with the field of cross-species metamorphosis.”

At this point, Professor McGonagall felt a little depressed. Looking at the young wizard in the audience, she felt a little more excited: "Transfiguration is a more complex and profound spell than Charms. I firmly believe that a fully developed Transfiguration Magic will bring progress to the magic world!"

The little wizards have somewhat understood that the focus of the Transformation Club seems to be on these once deleted contents.

The chirping and energetic discussion made Professor McGonagall even more happy: "The main activity of the Transfiguration Club is the teaching of transfiguration theory. I will hold another selection exam after returning to school during the Christmas vacation. The young wizards who pass the exam will be selected into the Ah Club." Nemagus teaching class!”

boom!

A huge thunder exploded in the little wizard's ears. This news sent them into a frenzy, and some of them shouted excitedly.

"I want to be an owl!"

"I want to become a lion!"

"tiger!"

The first event of the Transfiguration Club didn't have much substantive content. Professor McGonagall told the young wizards the teaching plan, follow-up exam arrangements, and the time and place arrangements for future activities and it ended.

But the storm caused by Animagus was not over. The Transformation Club took over the limelight of the Spells Club and became the most popular topic among the young wizards. During dinner, the entire auditorium was discussing the Animagus.

In particular, the members of the Transfiguration Club happily repeated Professor McGonagall's words, danced and talked about the two transfiguration tragedies, the Ministry of Magic's education order, and their plan to revitalize the art of transfiguration.

And the little wizard who wants to give up the club exam easily is almost regretful. Although the transformation technique costs hair, although the transformation technique is boring and boring, it is an Animagus!

A group of students made up their minds to take part in next year's selection exam, no matter what.

Saturday night, Gryffindor Common Room.

Some time has passed, and the little wizards are still discussing club matters with great interest, not just the Animagus, but also the Charms Club and the Potions Club.

The Quidditch team had just returned from practice. The fast twins had washed off the mud and rain and were sitting in front of the fireplace to keep warm. A group of people gathered around the large square table next to them.

Loren sat on the carpet, looking at the blueprint of the Deluminator given to him by Dumbledore, and trying to dismantle the alchemical circle on it.

In fact, there is a faster and more convenient way. By projecting the Deluminator into the Book of Fantasy, Flamel can dismantle the entire magic circle in a few minutes. But now that there are ready-made blueprints, Loren wants to try it himself. This is also a required skill for every alchemist.

Hermione was back to back with him, a tome spread across her lap. Since Professor McGonagall announced the assessment and selection of members of the Animagus teaching class, Hermione immediately went to the library to sort out a book list. Dozens of books were all about human body transformation, cross-species transformation, and Animagus. She plans to finish reading - or memorizing - the content before Christmas.

Ron was trembling when he saw it. Is this the world of a top student?

Harry had just come back from training and was still washing up. Hermione looked untouchable, so Ron could only ask Loren: "How are Harry and your Potions Club activities?"

Ginny, who was looking around for Harry, moved her ears and moved closer to Ron, listening to their conversation.

"I have been configuring rue essence. Each grade rotates different tasks. It is boring, but the atmosphere is not bad." Loren looked away from the drawings and pinched his eyebrows to relax his tense nerves.

There were basically no fools in the Potion Club, and they quickly realized that this was an early adaptation to the job of a pharmacist. Not only did they not complain, they also adapted well.

After getting familiar with his own work section, with the cooperation of a Ravenclaw senior in the seventh grade, several grades began to rotate. It is estimated that the situation will not change until the first transaction is completed.

"Prefect, tell us what the senior branch of the Charms Club is doing recently?" asked a third-year Gryffindor wizard.

Percy sighed and said, "Alas, Professor Flitwick took us to study ancient magic."

"Cool!" A group of junior wizards exclaimed with envy.

"It's not cool at all. The ancient magic power is chaotic and unstable. It keeps exploding every time it happens."

Percy was very melancholy. He participated in activities with Penello and was always bombed into disgrace. He had no image at all. But Penello seems to be closer to him.

Seamus was even more envious, full of envy.

"Ron! Loren! We should go!" Harry shouted standing at the exit of the lounge. He had just finished washing, and the ends of his hair were still a little wet.

Their confinement is not over yet, Ron has to go to the trophy room to clean the trophy, Harry has to help Lockhart copy envelopes, and Loren has to learn the Oblivion Charm.

Ron got up, jumped up and went to pester Harry about Quidditch.

Loren turned around and stuffed the deluminator blueprint into Hermione's tome and tucked it away. He held her shoulder and moved it to the side, letting the back of the sofa take his place for Hermione to lean on.

"Don't wait for me in the lounge at night. Go to bed early." Loren asked.

Hermione was so dizzy from reciting the book that she didn't hear what he said clearly. She raised her head and smiled vaguely at him, and her consciousness slipped into the book again. Cute like a little squirrel.

When they came to Harry's side, the group of three people talked about Quidditch and got out of the Gryffindor lounge.

"George and Fred have been scouting the Slytherin team. According to their report, the Slytherin team members are riding Nimbus 2001. When flying, they can only see seven vague light green shadows, like sprays. It was whizzing through the sky like a plane." Harry looked downcast and worried.

"Quidditch is not a sport that only pursues speed..."

"I know, but..."

Having headaches about knowledge and study, young emotions growing in the dark, and worrying about the ball game with the college next door, this is youth in school.