Chapter 912 The Trapped Man and the Box

Hogwarts, in Professor McGonagall's office.

Under the carvings of steel, the wooden tabletop left hideous and ugly traces.

On the other side, the "quill pen" in Elena's hand kept changing.

Pens, carving knives, daggers, wooden sticks, copper chopsticks, gold bars, ham sausages, crab sticks...

Almost all things that can be associated with elements such as "stick", "stick" and "pen" can change and appear at any time in Elena's hands, just like an amorphous wishing device, and the "change it for me" The ridiculous spell seemed like a mockery.

"How did you do this, wait - what did you want to understand -"

Professor McGonagall stared at Elena in disbelief. Even most graduates couldn't transform themselves so freely.

"It turned out to be so simple - I didn't expect -"

Elena shook her head strangely, with a hint of indescribable amusement and emotion in her voice.

"I just realized that the transformation technique is not transformation at all..."

"No... Transfiguration is not transformation? What is that?"

Professor McGonagall frowned and asked quickly and impatiently.

In the magic world, the most intuitive way to judge whether a magic is effective is to judge based on the results.

Judging from Elena's current smooth transformation, she has obviously found a shortcut that no one before has taken.

After serving as a transfiguration professor at Hogwarts for decades, Elena's almost epiphanic breakthrough attracted McGonagall's full attention almost instantly - she had an increasingly clear premonition that transfiguration might be possible. An academic revolution is about to usher in.

Elena did not answer immediately. She stroked the ever-changing quill in her hand, perfecting the epiphany in her mind...

Ever since she entered this magical world, transfiguration has been a difficulty that Elena has been unable to overcome.

Although she accidentally recreated the alchemy magic, she still failed to perform the transformation spell like Hermione and others. Even the simplest [match-needle] transformation was against common sense for Elena. Heaven-defying magic.

And now she finally figured out something

——It’s not that this magic is so profound, but that it’s so simple that it makes people sad...

Elena raised her head and looked at Professor McGonagall, with a hint of mockery in her tone.

"Really...what have you been learning about transfiguration for so many years?"

"What do you mean? What do you mean, what are you studying?"

Professor McGonagall pursed her lips tightly, and the look on the face of the little witch in front of her made her a little unspeakably irritated.

"Let me ask you, how complicated and tedious is the Transfiguration to learn, Professor?"

“It’s as vast as the sea of ​​stars, never-ending—just like this endless world.”

Mag replied slowly, her tone full of pride.

"You are changing the concept, Professor McGonagall. The world is of course endless... What I am curious about is transfiguration."

"But," Elena raised her finger, looked at Professor McGonagall seriously, and said softly, "If we want to put a Hungarian fire dragon into a box, we only need three steps - find a big enough box , open it, and throw the fire dragon into the box - I just realized that the same is true for transfiguration... We are learning how to make boxes..."

While speaking, Elena shook the pen in her hand.

"For example, this thing looks like a pen, feels like a pen, functions like a pen, and has the same texture and hardness as a pen, but it is just a feather - everything is just because I gave it Case named 'Fountain Pen'."

"Transformation doesn't change anything. It uses the concept of magic to temporarily swallow the target..."

"That's enough! Don't use Muggle thinking to speculate and study magic——"

Professor McGonagall said coldly, as if she had returned to the stone hut on the shores of Loch Lomond a year ago.

Compared with last year's heart-wrenching quarrel, today's topic is even more dangerous.

Professor McGonagall seemed a little nervous, but she tried to maintain a cold and forceful class mode as she spoke.

"Transfiguration contains quite profound knowledge, Miss Kaslana, it contains all the secrets of the world, and these things will never be as simple and easy to understand as you imagine - do you understand what the meaning of infinity is?"

"Know a thing or two."

Elena said softly and reservedly.

“Human beings are limited, the world is infinite, and we have been using the finite to describe and understand the infinite.

"So for humans, the thing that can interpret the critical point of finiteness is 'infinity' - and transfiguration is such magic. We use magic to draw a limited box and use it to store and place the endless world. …”

“In other words, knowing ‘what’ the ‘result’ is is the same as knowing how to get it done.”

After a pause for a few seconds, Elena flipped through the Transfiguration textbook on her right.

"But judging from the current situation, previous Transfiguration classes did not clearly define this teaching goal."

From matches turning into needles, to beetles turning into buttons; from mice turning into snuff boxes, to clocks turning into round-faced fat chickens; from transformation spells that summon nearby objects, to disappearing spells that remove the current target of spellcasting; from "Change it quickly!" , to "I am no longer a human being"...

What wizards create are "boxes", and the solution to the curse is to open the boxes.

Professor McGonagall's extra points in class are even more intriguing - successful spellcasting will be rewarded, and exquisite and beautiful spellcasting results will also be rewarded. This behavior rewards the "box", and its priority is even the same. to "success".

Or, it could be success in itself.

It is obvious that the magical world still treats the world with the familiar unreasonableness, and it has never changed.

"On the last day of every week, Hogwarts Academy City will draw up small scientific research projects for the next week."

Elena lightly snapped her fingers, and the quill in her hand returned to its original state.

She turned her fingers over, held the slender pen tube and handed it forward, and continued solemnly.

"I hope you can come and sit in and coach, you know how to make things change, and someone else can answer another - well, the answer we're looking for in class - why, and what's the use... "

"Why?"

Professor McGonagall raised her eyebrows and asked softly.

Her eyes stayed on the quill in Elena's hand, and she couldn't see the expression in her eyes clearly.

"You are the Professor of Transfiguration at Hogwarts. It is up to you to decide where this course should go in the future."

"So...Miss Kaslana, do you think that the future of transfiguration will undergo a new stage of huge changes based on the theoretical basis of Muggles? Will people who cannot perceive and release magic tell us how to learn magic?" You know, there's a proverb in the wizarding world: A chocobo can never describe the Quidditch pitch as a Chaser sees it—"

"But I have also heard another proverb: Those in authority are obsessed, but those who watch are clear." Elena whispered.

"Let's go here today, and we'll be here at the same time next Saturday—"

Professor McGonagall said calmly, took the quill handed over by Elena, and wrote a few strokes on the parchment.

"These are the books you will start reading next week, the props you will prepare, and the monthly barometer you will consult... After you have completed all these preparations and have adjusted mentally and physically, we will start Anima Gus’ study.”

"Okay." Elena said.

Regarding the invitation to establish a research project on transfiguration, she just mentioned it casually.

No matter which field they are in, the more accomplished top scholars are, the less likely they are to be persuaded and impressed.

In the magical world, the gap between wizards and Muggles must be taken into consideration. Rather than directly leveraging the cornerstone of modern transformation magic education from Professor McGonagall, it is okay to let those former Soviet scholars unilaterally fiddle with it first. harm.

[A certain scientific Hogwarts] There are too many tasks to be completed, and there are some things that you have to take the initiative to get.

"Besides, since you can barely complete the magic transformation now, make up lessons starting from the next class -"

Professor McGonagall tapped the pile of textbooks on the table and added thoughtfully.

"You have missed too many classes. I have to find a way to keep you up with the teaching progress and see your limits. Considering your safety, it is best not to use transformation outside the classroom for the time being. Technique, do you understand?"

"clear."

Elena nodded, she couldn't wait to go back to the bedroom to sort out her findings.

This is just the tip of the iceberg of the mysterious magical world, and detecting and guessing the principles of the 'non-magical side' is just a ticket for subsequent experiments. There is still a lot waiting for her to uncover and write.

But one thing that is foreseeable is that every time she takes a step forward, the world will suddenly move forward.

"Attention, Miss Kaslana... there is a big difference between occasional success and mastery!"

After glancing at Elena who was a little distracted, Professor McGonagall raised her voice slightly and said extremely seriously.

"But in your case, you know what I'm talking about. As your professor, I don't allow you to practice in private - even if you succeed ninety-nine times, if one mistake is deflected to alchemy magic, you may be harmed. You, and perhaps the people around you... When you lose control, you simply cannot rescue and recover in time..."

"I understand, so Professor, what do you think I just-" Elena blinked and asked softly tentatively.

"Many wizards will find shortcuts that appear to be 'rules' when learning magic. Not just magic, but also Quidditch, potions... and even exams and love. People can easily sum up experience, but most of them are useless. An unfounded coincidence.”

Professor McGonagall waved her hand impatiently and glanced at Elena with sharp eyes.

"Today's class is over. It's time for you to go back to the dormitory and sleep. Exploring the nature of magic is not your thing, at least not what you have to think about now. Your task here is to learn the Animagus and make up for it. The Transfiguration lesson I left behind. Now take the Transfiguration textbooks I put on the table and you can leave..."

"yes."

Elena whispered and responded obediently.

Immediately afterwards, she picked up the entire set of transfiguration textbooks on the table, stuffed it into her chest, and walked quickly to the door.

When she opened the door, Elena looked back at Professor McGonagall. She was looking at the quill in trance. Her wand was unconsciously swaying up and down in her right hand, as if simulating the spell-casting process in her mind.

As a top wizard who has studied transfiguration for most of his life, it is impossible for Professor McGonagall to not understand her conjecture just now.

In the magical world, when a wizard is curious and hesitant, she must have only one choice.

"Change--"

The moment Elena closed the door, she heard a very soft murmur from behind her.

At the same time, there are subtle and familiar fluctuations of magic.

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