The Little Superman of Hogwarts

Hogwarts' Superman - Chapter 008 [Genius? Or Fool?]

[I think I might have discovered something incredible!]

Klee muttered, "I really am a genius! Of course—except for spells!"

It must be said that Klee's narcissism is innate, engraved in his DNA.

Professor McGonagall quickly canceled the spell, and the large white pig turned back into a lectern. Klee noticed a small detail. The position of the lectern had shifted slightly, only about two or three centimeters. Although the big fat pig hadn't moved much, it had indeed moved!

Professor McGonagall carefully explained the key points of Transfiguration, including the so-called [Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfiguration]. Of course, Klee himself had already read about these things and knew them by heart, but he wanted to hear if Professor McGonagall would offer different insights.

"Historically, Transfiguration can be traced back to the early days of wizards, but it wasn't until much later that Transfiguration was developed as a separate, independent course. It wasn't until the early 18th century that Uric Gamp discovered the fundamental difference between the Transfiguration Charm and other spells, thus separating Transfiguration and making it what we see today."

"The five Principal Exceptions to Transfiguration, I must tell you, must be remembered firmly..." Professor McGonagall spoke eloquently, and at this moment, she moved her gaze to Klee's side. "Miss Granger, can you tell me what the five Principal Exceptions are?"

"The five Principal Exceptions to Transfiguration are: Food, Life and Death Conversion, Magical Objects, Quantity, and the inability to create something from nothing," Hermione said very nimbly.

"Great! Gryffindor gains 5 points!" Professor McGonagall walked up to Hermione and gave her an approving look.

"Then... next... Mr. Feynman! Please tell me, why didn't you bring your textbook?" Professor McGonagall had actually seen that Klee didn't bring his textbook long ago, and it was already very tolerant of her to only explode at this moment.

"I brought it, it's here." Klee pointed to his temple with his index finger.

"Ridiculous reason! Then please tell me, what is the reason for the existence of the five Principal Exceptions!" Professor McGonagall asked coldly.

"Buzz..." The classroom became noisy, with much discussion.

Klee remembered a joke, the joke about the sun, moon, and stars:

A wealthy businessman hated his youngest son, so before his death, he called all three children to his side and said: 'I will ask a question, and the person who answers correctly will receive my inheritance.'

The eldest son—How many suns are in the sky?

The second son—How many moons are in the sky?

The youngest son—How many stars are in the sky.

The youngest son died...

However, Klee was the kind of person who wanted to challenge the limits: "The five Principal Exceptions to Transfiguration, in the end, there are only four."

Klee stood up and looked around at all the young wizards: "Please listen to my explanation!

First, the Food Transfiguration Limit, which is to say: [Magic cannot conjure food from nothing], nor can it transform other items into food.

To be precise, it cannot be transformed into edible food. If we have to classify the transformed food, I would like to call it 'an alternative poison'!

In fact, this limit exists not only in food but also in practical creations—such as a stove. You can turn a stone into a piece of coal, but you cannot make the coal transformed by Transfiguration actually burn. The flame will first consume the magic power attached to it. It will keep burning until your magic power is exhausted.

For example, the train that brought us to Hogwarts yesterday. If you use a stone to transform a piece of coal and throw it in, it will definitely cause the engine to break down."

"Similarly, if you eat food formed by Transfiguration, your body will first consume the internal magic power.

Until the Transfiguration is dispelled, they will appear in their original form in every part of your body, such as the stomach, such as the blood vessels. This is quite dangerous! A few pebbles in the blood—your muscles suddenly grow grass or stones..."

"If you think carefully, wouldn't you think that, theoretically, if a wizard has enough magic power to use Transfiguration to transform edible food and fully attach the magic power for a long enough time, it will maintain the Transfiguration until the eater dies naturally, then we can say that this kind of magical creation is edible.

But unfortunately, this possibility only exists in theory. In reality, you can never do it—because it involves the second of the five Principal Exceptions, Life and Death Conversion! I call it: There can be no true resurrection!

Transforming non-living objects into living objects, such as the little white pig that Professor McGonagall just transformed—of course, I don't think it's small at all, at least two hundred pounds.

From the moment it appears, it is constantly exchanging magic power with the outside world. Its magic power escape speed increases exponentially. In the first minute, it only needs to consume the magic power the size of a hair, and in the second minute, it will become two hairs... Over time, no matter how abundant your magic power is, you can't stand the consumption of time. If you don't believe it, everyone can try to calculate how much 2 to the 64th power is. That will be the magic power that all magicians from the birth of the universe to the present have accumulated, which cannot be satisfied.

In reality, the consumption of magic power will certainly not be so fast. We can use some special spells to reduce the magic escape speed, but no matter what, this speed is moving towards infinity. If you have studied Muggle 《Calculus》—this is a disgusting course invented by Newton and Leibniz—then you will understand that its escape speed is a divergent function, and it will increase to the point that the universe cannot bear it in a short time!

We can convert life and death within a certain period of time, but we cannot resurrect a person—or resurrect a stone—on the scale of infinite time!

Turning a desk into a pig is actually a kind of resurrection!

If you can understand this, then the next third one is very simple—you cannot use Transfiguration to transform magical items, because the magic power exchange of magical items to the outside world is too fast. How fast?

Faster than light, it simply cannot be stabilized. At the moment after you complete the magical item transformation, its magic power consumption will become positive infinity—no matter how powerful you use, how huge the magic array is, I'm sorry, it will consume all the magic power you attached to it in that instant!

Because the power of wizards is limited, it is impossible for magical items to appear using Transfiguration.

The fourth is that Transfiguration cannot change the quantity of items. The biggest flaw of Transfiguration is this—one item cannot be transformed into two items using magic spells.

You can use the Copying Charm to copy an item into two, but after all, the Copying Charm is actually an illusion, it is not Transfiguration.

It is easily seen through, so—students, in the future, when you learn the Copying Charm, don't use it to copy homework. Believe me, that will be a complete tragedy.

Let's return to the flaw in the Transfiguration spell. The reason it cannot transform something into two is because when the transformed object becomes two, it will cause damage to the original object.

If you turn it into two, its original body will be split into two. Once the original object is damaged, magic, in order to maintain its own existence, will first prevent the object from being damaged—because once it's damaged, the spell itself ceases to exist—this forms a paradox.

A Transfiguration spell that can duplicate an object aims to split the object into two, but the first step of magic is to prevent the object from being split into two. Thus, magic is entirely consumed in the repeated tug-of-war.

These are the five exceptions, but actually, there are only four—isn't it common knowledge that there are only four exceptions out of five?

You might ask why the fifth exception doesn't exist at all. That's because the fifth one cannot conjure an object from nothing.

Its essence is exactly the same as the fourth—the essence of the fourth is that one plus one does not equal two (1+1 ≠ 2).

The fifth is that zero plus one does not equal one (0+1 ≠ 1)!

Some wizards will conjure a white dove or a white rabbit from a hat during performances, but they are not creating something from nothing. They use 'air' as the subject of the Transfiguration, more precisely, the tiny, invisible dust particles in the air. They transform these dust particles into animals, rather than conjuring animals from thin air.

If you conjure an object from nothing, we can call it the [Creation Spell].

Then a new paradox will arise—the magic of the Creation Spell itself is meant to conjure this object, but the Creation Spell also needs to be attached with a magic that makes the object become that object. Thus, the magic we use to cast the Creation Spell is consumed layer upon layer—like Russian nesting dolls—in the process."

Cree cleared his throat and said, "In other words, the common explanation for the fourth and fifth exceptions is: any mathematical rule, such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, does not apply to Transfiguration!"

If we use magical language to superimpose it, it means: one cannot make the existence of magic violate magic itself.

This is my understanding of the five exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfiguration. I'm done! Thank you!"

After Cree finished speaking, the entire room was silent—all the young wizards, including Hermione, were dumbfounded—I understood every word he said, but why couldn't I understand it at all when they were put together?

Who is Leibniz, and what kind of wizard is Newton?

Only Professor McGonagall fell into deep thought. Professor McGonagall tapped her chin with her index finger and paced back and forth in the classroom. No one dared to disturb her. Five minutes of silence passed like this, and everyone looked at each other—only Hermione was frantically recording what Cree had just said, filling a whole page.

Five minutes later, Professor McGonagall "came back to life." Her eyes were full of doubt as she said, "Did you think of all this yourself?"

"Of course! I'm a Transfiguration genius!" Cree boasted wildly.

Professor McGonagall smiled helplessly, adjusted her expression, and stood on the podium, solemnly saying, "Because of Mr. Feynman's amazing achievements, I will award Gryffindor twenty-five points!"

"Wow…" The whole classroom gasped.

However—obviously, Cree's performance time had come to an end, because Professor McGonagall took out a box of matches, and everyone was given one.

"Now, I will teach you the Transfiguration spell. The task for this lesson is to transform this matchstick into a sewing needle.

Accurate and clear incantations, as well as unwavering belief, are your most powerful helpers!

Transfiguration Spell…"

With Professor McGonagall's spell, the matchstick was easily transformed into a sewing needle—it looked full of metallic luster, hard and perfect.

It was Cree's turn to have a headache…

Cree reluctantly took out [Hercules] and whispered, "Transfiguration!"

Of course—nothing happened! This made the expectant Professor McGonagall slightly disappointed, but after all, it was the first time, perhaps after a few more tries, Cree would perfectly cast the Transfiguration spell.

But what awaited Professor McGonagall was—continuous disappointment—Cree roared more than forty times, but the wooden matchstick was still a wooden matchstick.

Professor McGonagall simply turned her head to look at others. As soon as she looked up, she saw Hermione's matchstick—the tail had already been transformed into the shape of a needle.

"Five points to Gryffindor for Miss Granger!" Professor McGonagall said, glancing at the disappointing Cree.

Unfortunately, until the end of the class, Professor McGonagall did not see even the slightest change in Cree's matchstick…

[Damn it! Why won't my magic come out?] Cree covered his face and left the Transfiguration classroom, followed by Hermione, who was covering her mouth and laughing secretly.

At lunchtime, Cree didn't say a word and silently ate. Because he was angry, he ate about five people's worth of food in one go. Of course, due to the super digestive ability of the Superman bloodline, he didn't go to the hospital wing.

The afternoon's Charms class was the same for Cree. Professor Flitwick, the Charms professor, was a dwarf. Although his teaching level was not as good as Professor McGonagall's, he could barely be considered qualified.

Unfortunately, Cree could understand every word and easily infer from one instance, but unfortunately, even the simplest spell—Wingardium Leviosa—Cree could not cast—you must know that Neville, who had consistently ranked last in Gryffindor, could make the feather float a little bit. Cree was not even as good as Neville. Professor Flitwick not deducting points from Gryffindor was already thanking God. Cree was simply devastated.

However, fortunately, the young wizards were now learning more theoretical knowledge, and only the simplest spells were practiced. Cree felt that if he could find a way to cast even one spell, then perhaps he could find the ultimate solution.

The last class was Herbology—in fact, this course should be translated as [Planting Class] more appropriately.

Cree finally regained his confidence in the last class on Monday—Planting class is just memorizing + hands-on operation.

As for memorization ability, who can compare to the [Super Memory] that comes with the Superman bloodline?

As for hands-on ability, who can compare to the [Super Strength] + [Super Control] that comes with the Superman bloodline?

In the first class, Professor Sprout completely fell in love with Cree, because Cree successfully demonstrated his ability as a [Living Edition · Human Flesh Camera · Herb Encyclopedia].

Professor Sprout gave Cree a full fifteen points of extra credit in one class!

Thus, on the first day of school, Cree completed the achievement—[God Who Gets Forty House Points in One Day]

After dinner, Percy, who had heard about this, changed his mind about Cree like lightning, and affectionately called Cree [Christian Student].