From Azkaban To Hogwarts

"Human Transfiguration..."

William's office was now filled with information related to transfiguration - after that bold idea emerged, he wanted to try Animagus transformation and apparation no matter what.

But this is not a problem that a pair of shoes can make up for. He must take his transformation skills to a higher level and thoroughly master the most difficult human body transformation before he can try this dangerous superimposed magic state.

Magic is actually very strict. It doesn't mean that you can become a master level figure all of a sudden by mastering any spell - even black magic, which is generally considered easy to learn, has extremely powerful constraints, let alone other spells.

Yes – black magic is relatively easy to learn.

Although many wizards do not agree with this view, William understands it this way.

Even a fourth grader might be able to master the Unforgivable Curse of Avatar - but what's the point, they can't even kill a rooster with it.

From William's point of view, to learn black magic, you must first understand the evil curses and understand how harmful they are to wizards. Only then can you reveal your malice in the release of black magic.

Subsequently, there is also the need to understand curses - the hard-to-dispel power of curses is an important part of the almost irreversible damage caused by black magic. In some cases, curses can even surpass black magic because of their purity and incomprehensible nature.

Okay, after you have mastered and understood these things, you have to learn to control black magic - pour malice and hatred into magic, and add it with enough skilled spells, so that your black magic can be aggressive and lethal. And it won't cause too much harm to yourself.

Yes, except for pure dark wizards, other wizards' use of black magic will have a negative impact on themselves. The more powerful the black magic, the higher the damage it will cause to themselves - this is the case of rash use of the power and malice of emotions. Damn it, while it hurts the enemy, it also hurts itself.

Finally, and crucially, you must learn how to unspell the corresponding spell before using it, otherwise you may be harmed by your own spell.

But even so, black magic is the easiest spell to master in the entire magic system - because other spells are too difficult, and the prerequisites for black magic are actually extremely easy to achieve if you are willing.

Not to mention that there are talents in this area - whether it is innate or acquired.

Because whether it is the viciousness of a curse or the harshness of emotions, they can actually be trained in life. It does not need to be like other spells that require a little bit of learning to force oneself up.

Even the Animagus, who William thought was a bit suspected of cheating, actually had a frighteningly high threshold.

Not to mention the tedious collection of materials, the patience and luck required to complete the ritual, simply understanding the relevant content of Animagus transformation is enough to block most wizards - this requires a strong foundation in transformation, which is enough Excellent teachers or ridiculously powerful understanding skills, as well as a lot of courage, are indispensable.

Only by completing these requirements can you hope to use this cheating tool.

Let's talk about the magic class - spell casting methods, understanding of spells, and a huge knowledge system. If you are missing any one, just grind it out slowly. Even if you complete them, there are still fighting talents and personal understanding of spells waiting for you. Otherwise, you will bite off more than you can chew, knowing a bit of everything but not being proficient in everything.

As for self-defense—among all the magic schools, this is the most talent-intensive. It requires not only superb spell talent, but also excellent combat talent. Otherwise, there would not have been an outrageous number of seventh-grade students killed by Harry and the three of them. It’s about beating him to the ground in the fifth grade...

This was William's understanding of the spell after mastering the Animagus - but unfortunately, he could not share it.

Although it seems to be a lot of eloquent information, since it involves a lot of knowledge related to black magic, it is impossible for him to tell the students about this learning system. At most, he can pick out some knowledge that has nothing to do with black magic and share it with them.

And even this can't be explained in depth - even he now has systematic thinking about magic, and the dividing lines between spells are not as strong as before. He can even use two or more basics. Spells can be used to achieve an effect that has never been thought of before. There is no need to pursue the ultimate variation of magic as before.

But how to talk about this?

Should we tell the students that magic is unified and ultimately comes down to the resonance of magic power and effects?

William himself had no way of confirming this idea, so how could he explain it clearly to students, and how could he expect students to understand? The existence of ladder learning is necessary - if he told it according to his true thoughts, then there would probably be very few students who would be able to graduate.

"It's still...a little bit...but this point is just a little bit..."

William sighed, took back the notebook full of writing, took out his wand again, expanded the space in the office again, and then added protection.

In the summary just now, he had a new idea, so let's give it another try.

The wand uses clear water like a spring, and the left hand uses the freezing spell - mix the two spells to form a new spell effect.

This is a skill he has mastered long ago - although he cannot achieve the transformation blessing effect instantly when using a spell like Dumbledore, the power of the two spells mixed is still commendable.

"It's now…"

William took advantage of the mutual influence of magic and immediately added the transformation spell - the spell shot out quickly like an ice pick instantly exploded into countless ice particles, and then wrapped around the straw man who was erected as a temporary target.

The ice particles quickly wrapped around the scarecrow and grew up, forming a very large and shiny ice cube in almost the blink of an eye.

"It's possible, it's feasible...but..."

William calculated it - due to the combination of magic fusion and transformation, the flying speed of this spell is extremely unsatisfactory. Except for the fact that the side effects are much milder than that of black magic and the magic power consumption is less, there is no way to compare with the black magic he masters. .

He shook his head and snapped his fingers with his left hand. The ice cubes and the scarecrow exploded into countless ice particles, which were all cleaned up by him waving his wand.

"It still doesn't work, it's always just a little bit behind - the transformation technique is still lacking, and the content related to human body transformation must be put on the agenda."

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"This...is too risky..."

Hermione looked through the information in front of her, hesitating.

What was in front of her was human transformation, which was considered the most advanced form of transfiguration - this was far beyond their course schedule.

Not every seventh-grade student can study this extremely difficult content. No one in her grade dared to think about this except her.

But this was the best information she could get her hands on.

Fortunately, transfiguration has never been related to black magic. This book was not in the innermost section of the restricted book area. She just secretly changed the cover of the book and easily borrowed it.

After all, she was a frequent visitor to the library. She borrowed a lot of books each time and her grades were good enough. Mrs. Pince lent the book to her after briefly reviewing the titles.

She had been studying the contents of the book assiduously during this period - it was a quite painful reading experience, and even she was deeply aware of the difficulty of those spells.

Fortunately, she had enough skills and knowledge reserves to get through this difficulty. After a few months of pain, she was convinced that she fully understood the above things - even if the price she paid was that her grades this semester were not that good. Even though she could only maintain the first place in some classes, and could only maintain the top three in the Transfiguration and Potions classes, she still completed these.

She hadn't bought a book from Flourish and Blotts in a long time, she didn't go to the library much to scan books, and her newfound spells were almost zero - but it was all worth it.

Of course, the premise is that she needs to master human body transformation.

"Just for a moment of anger..."

"No, I'm not angry for a moment!"

Hermione shook her head - she knew what she was doing.

After entering the fifth grade, her performance in the self-defense class was no longer as important as his. Her performance was still outstanding, but compared to Harry's absolutely stunning performance, no one paid much attention to her excellence.

Potions class is no longer good - she can complete the professor's requirements very well, but Harry will occasionally perform perfect operations, which will be greatly praised by the professor. What is even more terrifying is Neville, before the Christmas vacation His potions have improved to an astonishing level, and after returning to school at Christmas, his potions have never failed...

As for Transfiguration... Harry's level of Transfiguration completely surpassed hers, even if Harry didn't spend much time on it - she could see that if she learned and mastered it quickly, Harry would understand it almost instantly, and there was a huge gap. Disappointing...

"So, just like the professor said..."

She nodded and firmed up her thoughts, "It's time for me to give up some things and start specializing in one course, and Transfiguration is my best choice."

In fact, this decision should have been made long ago - as the number one in her grade, she knew about the existence of the time turner, but her time turner had already been returned.

Although many wizards returned the thing after a year of study, she knew very well that some students held it until the end.

She should have learned to give up some courses at that time, but she was really reluctant to give up at that time. It was not until she was stimulated by the results of Harry and Neville this year that she finally made this decision.

She thought about it, researched it, and finally set her goal on transfiguration.

In the self-defense class, she could never achieve the superhuman acuity in fighting like Harry. She had to admit that if she and Harry really had a duel, she would definitely lose.

Potion? Not to mention—she knows the difference between perfection and excellence better than anyone else.

A curse? That one also takes combat talent.

Only transfiguration is the most suitable for her. Her transfiguration has always been very strong, and Professor McGonagall has always praised it. Moreover, transfiguration is definitely not weak when used in combat, and there is no need to demand so-called combat talent.

More importantly, if her progress is recognized by Professor McGonagall, then the professor will spare no effort to support the students of his college - which means that it is very convenient to ask for advice, and she may even get individual training like Harry. .

She prefers to achieve through her own efforts - always has been the case.

There are two very distinct peaks in the highest realm of transformation, Animagus and Human Transformation. After thinking about it for a long time, she chose Human Transformation, which relied entirely on strength.

Animagus really relies too much on luck - the complicated rituals are okay, but waiting for a thunderstorm is just...

Human body deformation is different. If you can, you can, and if you can't, you can't. Understand the content, learn it, and then use it—this is what she is best at.

Therefore, she changed her learning methods and devoted a lot of time to it, striving to conquer this supreme transformation technique.

She has mastered all the theory and has begun the practical part.

She did a lot of experiments with mice. Although she failed at the beginning, she became more and more successful in the future - human body transformation itself is the sublimation of animal transformation. In order to forcibly improve the level of transformation, she almost taught herself during this period. I took all the sixth grade courses.

"Meow!"

"Okay, Crookshanks—no more guinea pigs to feed you this time."

Hermione scratched her cat's chin. This was how all previous experimental props were treated, and it was quite effective - but everyone disliked Crookshanks even more...

"Then, let's get started..."

She stretched out her left hand - the first part of human transformation is naturally the partial transformation of the body, just like what the Durmstrang warrior showed last year.

"You can do this, Hermione."

She persuaded herself to be careful enough, then pointed her wand at her left hand and began to perform the transformation spell.

That is a very unusual power.

"Is this what it means to be transformed?"

She felt the magic power curiously, then opened her hand, closed it, opened it again, and closed it again - the arm changed at an unpleasant but extremely smooth speed, and finally turned into a large-sized one that looked like It's the tiger's front paw.

"very successful…"

Hermione looked at her left hand curiously, not panicking at all. She tried opening and closing her palm to feel the surprise.

The easiest animal to observe around her is Crookshanks. Naturally, the first human body transformation was imitated by Crookshanks. However, it was too dangerous to shrink the arms rashly, so she could only choose to transform into a larger one. Cat paws.

"Next, release..."

She waved her wand and after a few seconds saw her left hand again.

"The clothes are a bit torn... I still can't control them well enough..."

Perfect human body transformation should be possible even with clothes, but there are still some problems with her control.

She mended her clothes easily with the wand, and she began to change again, even deliberately controlling her left arm to change between cat paws and tiger paws.

Crookshanks lay quietly next to her, staring at Hermione's hands with great interest, and even occasionally pushed Hermione to show her how to extend her paws correctly.

One person and one cat were having a lot of fun until there was a knock on the dormitory door.

"Ah! Wait, Hermione, you skipped class?"

The girl who came back was stunned for a moment, and then she was frightened by herself - how could it be possible?

"ah?"

Hermione thought about it for a moment, and it seemed like - but she didn't seem so panicked now.

"It seems...I have to go find the professor and apologize. See you later."