Chapter 143 Human Body Transformation

The first week of November passed quickly.

The first Transfiguration class of the second week of November.

Professor McGonagall was explaining the principle of cross-species transformation on the podium.

The fourth year of Transfiguration has become much more difficult than the previous three years, and even Daphne and Hermione began to find it difficult.

What? You mean Schelling? He cheated, so it doesn't count!

In Schelling's opinion, the Transfiguration courses from grade 1 to grade 3 are, to be honest, just laying a solid foundation for the little wizards.

The first two years were spent learning material Transfiguration and reverse Transfiguration (that is, restoring things to their original state), such as matches turning into needles, mice turning into snuff boxes, beetles turning into buttons, rabbits turning into slippers, and the spells to restore them to their original state.

In fact, as long as you have a solid grasp of the theory and do a good job of the details of visualization, the rest is the confidence and determination to move forward. As long as these three points are done well, there is no difficulty. After all, the purpose of this part of the course is to make the little wizards familiar with the basic needs and processes of transformation.

Don't think they sound simple. Many young wizards who lack patience and perseverance have failed at this level, such as Neville and Ron.

In the third grade, the Transfiguration class added some superficial animation spells to the material changes. Taking the "teapot into a turtle" as an example, the turtle must show some signs of life, such as crawling and shrinking into the shell.

It should be noted that one of the exceptions to Gamp's basic laws of transfiguration is that magic cannot create souls.

Therefore, those pseudo-life forms cast with the animation spell will run and jump, respond correctly to the surrounding stimuli, and make people think that it has a soul, but in fact these are just illusions.

The real situation is that this is just a behavior pattern preset by the wizard through magic.

The more skilled the Transfiguration master is, the more complex the behavior pattern can be preset during the casting process.

For example, Professor McGonagall's giant chessboard can carry the chess skills and strategic ability of the caster; for example, the armor, character statues, and monster statues left in the castle by the four founders of Hogwarts are even better, with some thinking ability. They not only know various fighting skills and use weapons to fight, but also know how to rely on strategies to defend the castle and fight in groups, just like an iron-blooded army that is not afraid of death.

In contrast, Voldemort's ability to use the Revitalization Spell is too crude. He pays too much attention to the power of magic. Therefore, although he can refine thousands of corpses into aggressive Inferi, these Inferi have no thinking ability except for their large number, great strength, and high defense. They can only attack by instinct. As a result, Dumbledore scared them away with a fire.

Of course, Schelling would not underestimate the boss in the original book. After all, Voldemort's real strength is based on black magic and combat magic. It is terrible that Transfiguration can reach such a level.

Starting from the fourth grade course, the content of the Transfiguration course has gradually become more difficult, involving the use of some switching spells, that is, exchanging two objects into the appearance of the other at the same time.

Look, it has been two months since the start of school, and Professor McGonagall is still stuck in the content of the first lesson. Goyle, Crabbe, and Justin from Hufflepuff, these three people have grafted their ears onto a cactus from time to time, making Professor McGonagall shout angrily. Of course, the three of them are not isolated cases. I heard that in another class, Neville and Ron from Gryffindor and Michael from Ravenclaw are in a similar situation.

Daphne and Draco, who performed better, can make the cactus and rose flowers exchange with each other, but they can't do it with ease.

As for Schelling? In front of everyone, he gently nodded his wizard hat and exchanged it with the witch hat on Professor McGonagall's head. This not only did not make Professor McGonagall angry, but she even happily gave Slytherin ten points.

Professor McGonagall was quite worried about the learning progress of this class of students. After all, there were many conversion spells to learn this year, and this part was really just a basic conversion spell.

There are many more difficult parts waiting for this class of little wizards, and the most difficult one must be cross-species switches.

Take "guinea fowl into guinea pig" as an example. This involves two species with completely different physiological structures and life habits. Therefore, the caster cannot succeed by simply visualizing the appearance. He must also have a deep understanding and memory of the internal structure of the species itself. For example, in the case of guinea fowl turning into guinea pigs, it is necessary to imagine which bone of the guinea fowl corresponds to which bone of the guinea pig to convert, and then other parts must also correspond one by one.

If this step is not done well, the skeleton, joints, and organs are not completely changed, and it is easy to create a guinea pig with hind legs that are not conducive to running (like chicken feet without joints), or a guinea pig with a jaw that is not conducive to biting, or even a deformed guinea pig with a wing skeleton. The above steps are not enough. Finally, you have to remove the bird habits of the guinea fowl from your mind and outline the various living habits of the guinea pig. Otherwise, it is easy to create a guinea pig that has strange behaviors such as trying to fly or pecking insects.

But for Schelling, he has already mastered all the Transfiguration skills at the OWL level through self-study from the "Professor McGonagall's Transfiguration Notes" he obtained in the first grade. Even the Vanishment spell that is only required in the fifth grade, Schelling can perform it skillfully.

To be frank, Schelling is now more than enough to take the OWL exam. Schelling's eyes have long been on the Transfiguration skills at the NEWT level - Conjuration and Human Transfiguration. Among them, Human Transfiguration is the magic that Schelling covets the most.

Let's talk about the Conjuration first.

As mentioned earlier, the Conjuration spell is a magic that creates something out of nothing through magic power. For example, "Flocks of Birds" and "Dragon Out of the Cave" are the two easiest Conjuration spells to cast, and the effect is also the most stable.

To be honest, most wizards use the Transfiguration Spell just to make life more convenient, just like the three Peverell brothers in "The Tales of Beedle the Bard", who transformed a bridge when they encountered a river, saving a section of the journey; Quirrell transformed a rope to tie Harry up; Professor Flitwick transformed many golden bubbles when making Christmas decorations; Dumbledore transformed hundreds of purple sleeping bags in the hall when searching for Black...

How about it? Does the Transfiguration Spell seem useless?

But the fact is that the upper limit of the Transfiguration Spell is extremely high. Those who are really good at it can basically be regarded as elite Aurors, and the top ones. Even if they meet a great wizard, they can fight a few moves.

Before 1984, supporters of the Appleby Arrows had the tradition of shooting arrows into the sky when the Chaser scored a goal. Imagine the picture of a rain of arrows? (Note: From "The Magic Quidditch", this tradition was banned because it was too dangerous)

In the first chapter of the first part of the original book, Dedalus Diggle conjured a meteor shower in the sky of Kent! Imagine what would happen if he turned the trajectory of the meteor to the earth? Do readers dare to say that Harry Potter is a low-magic world? Of course, even if Diggle has the madness to destroy the world, whether he has enough magic is another matter.

Okay, even if the meteor transformation spell has other unknown limitations. There are also thundercloud transformation spells and tornado transformation spells!

Dartmoor Wilderness in 1379, European Duel Tournament.

In the final battle between the runner-up wizard and the third-place wizard. The third-place wizard conjured a large thundercloud, which not only poured down cold raindrops crazily, but also attacked with thunder and lightning! The runner-up wizard used the tornado transformation spell to blow away the thundercloud, the opponent, the referee, the audience, and the nearby big trees!

(Note: From the Book of Spells, the champion won with the Disarming Spell, which became a classic duel teaching material of "don't use range skills in one-on-one battles")

Isn't this a low-magic world?

Why didn't these magics appear in the original story? Please, there are very few group battles in the original book. Even if there are, they are just brawls with less than 20 people. Why use range skills? It's better to just eat the big melon!

Another transfiguration spell used in battle comes from Voldemort, that is, in the fifth part of the original book, in the battle between Dumbledore and Voldemort——

Dumbledore cast a spell at Voldemort that made Harry, who was watching the battle, stand up all over his body. Voldemort did not choose to use the Shield Charm, and he probably guessed that the Shield Charm could not take this move. In the end, he used the Shield Transfiguration Spell to create a silver shield to block Dumbledore's attack, which shows the importance of the Transfiguration Spell in actual combat.

As for the human body transformation, the reason why Xielin was envious was that he had activated the talent of the Disguise Magus. He wanted to know what the effect would be if the two were combined.

As usual, Professor McGonagall announced the end of get out of class after assigning the homework on cross-species transformation.

Without waiting for everyone to leave, Xielin walked to the podium and asked Professor McGonagall to learn human body transformation.

Professor McGonagall was a little surprised and stared at Xielin for a few seconds. After the little wizards left the classroom, she organized her words and said, "Xielin, I know that your learning progress is much better than your peers, but it is still too early for you to learn human body transformation in the fourth grade. It is a course content for the seventh grade..."

Professor McGonagall is very optimistic about Xielin, and she said this for Xielin's good.

Maybe Xielin's transformation spell and cross-species transformation have really been mastered. But after that, there is the vanishing spell, and after the vanishing spell, there is the transfiguration spell. Human body transformation is a more advanced, more difficult, and more dangerous magic than the transfiguration spell.

Xielin is so greedy and reckless, it is easy to get into an accident. This is what Professor McGonagall tried to avoid.

Schelling smiled helplessly, "Professor, I am just preparing for the Triwizard Tournament! The champions from the other two schools are all seventh-year students!"

Professor McGonagall looked at him suspiciously and was about to refuse again, but she saw Schelling's wrist shake, and a stream of light appeared on his wand, landing on a desk.

The desk seemed to shake, and then quietly turned into Schelling's appearance, even the uniform and wand looked exactly the same. Although the expression on his face was a little dull, his eyes were already bright. If you just glanced at it, you really couldn't tell that it was a fake doll. Finally, Schelling used a perfect vanishing spell to make it disappear completely - the whole process included four OWL-level branches of transfiguration, namely material transformation, activation spell, conversion spell, and vanishing spell, and they all showed impeccable and perfect performance.

Professor McGonagall's eyes narrowed, knowing that the boy was showing her his level of transformation. She could do this level of Transfiguration, but not when she was 14 years old.

This is a true genius!

Among her many students, the last Transfiguration wizard James Potter could not catch up with him.

(Note: Although James successfully mastered Animagus in the fifth grade, it took him three years to learn the Transfiguration spell Amato Animo Animato Animagus. The spell is not as described in other fan fictions, as long as you read it correctly, but it has a very high requirement for the level of Transfiguration)

"Come with me." The serious lines on her face softened a little and walked out of the classroom.

Sherin's face was happy, and he hurriedly followed.

After arriving at her office, Professor McGonagall accurately took out a book from the bookshelf and handed it to Sherin.

Sherin took a look at the title of the book - "The Secret of Human Transfiguration".

He opened the cover, and every page was filled with Professor McGonagall's notes. Xie Ling was delighted. He had also seen this book in the library, but it only contained the steps for practicing human transformation. Professor McGonagall's book contained extremely detailed precautions and methods to increase the success rate, which was what he really needed.

"Let me explain in advance that human transformation is completely different from the transformation you have learned before. It involves many huge and complex factors. If the spell is cast incorrectly, it is very likely to cause serious consequences."

"Take this book first and read it carefully when you go back. After reading it, you must tell me in advance when you start practicing. I will follow you throughout the process to ensure your safety. You must not practice secretly in private, understand?" Professor McGonagall's smile gradually faded, and he said seriously.

"Professor, please rest assured. I promise you that I will never do anything that puts myself in danger or disappoints you." Xie Ling hurriedly spoke to assure.

Professor McGonagall nodded with satisfaction. "I know you have always been a reliable person. In addition to the Triwizard Tournament, I made an exception to teach you this advanced knowledge in advance. But in order to make you more impressed and prove that I am not joking, I will give you two examples-"

"The Sphinx, the ancient Egyptian master of transformation, can be said to be a legendary figure in the field of human body transformation in that era, but she still made a mistake-she confused the difference between structure and essence. It was this fatal mistake that made her turn herself into a monster with a human face and a lion's body, losing her emotions and reason;"

"The Siren, a famous witch in ancient Greece, she She spent her whole life pursuing flying, but it was just a transformation accident that accidentally sacrificed her sanity and turned into a harpy monster. It is said that to this day, her descendants, the Harpy, are still seen wandering in the Mediterranean. "

(Note: The Harpy is a legendary creature in the Harry Potter world, and its existence has never been confirmed. But every wizard knows what the Harpy means, and also knows the appearance and personality of the legendary Harpy. In the original book, Ginny described the angry Veela as "similar to the Harpy". The Holyhead Harpies, to which Gwenog Jones belongs, are named after the Harpy)

Sherin was a little surprised. He guessed that human body deformation would be very risky, but he didn't expect it to be so dangerous. He thought for a moment and asked, "Professor, what is the difference between structure and essence?"

Professor McGonagall replied, "The answer to this question actually varies from person to person, but in my opinion, essence is what you are pursuing. Changing the structure is only a means, not an end. Only by following the original goal can the caster not lose his way."

Sherin thought about her words quietly, and did not ask any more questions. He said softly, "Thank you, Professor."

[Professor McGonagall's "The Secret of Human Transfiguration" is obtained! ]

I know that most of my readers have read other fan fictions and are accustomed to the second-year mastering Animagus (but not the vanishing spell or the transmogrification spell). To be honest, James (the male student union president, the academic bully) took three years to prepare, and the protagonist took one or two years to prepare, which can be said to be gifted, but most of the author's preparations were completed within two or three months. You say this is not Mary Sue/Long Aotian, what is this?