The Emerald at Hogwarts

Chapter 219 Roaring Letter and Transfiguration

The sorting ceremony ended with Ginny Weasley being assigned to Gryffindor. The little girl did not go to Ada, nor did she go to her brothers, but sat with her friends she had just met .

Professor McGonagall left with the Sorting Hat and footstool, but she never returned to the teacher's table.

Dumbledore stood up to start the new school year with a speech, also introducing the new Defense Against the Dark Arts Professor Gilderoy Lockhart.Lockhart greeted the students with what he thought was an elegant gesture, probably never realizing how oily he was.

There was sparse applause in the auditorium, but Lockhart sat down contentedly.It never occurred to Lockhart that this applause was not a welcome to him, but full of sympathy from the students for him. This was also the warmest applause in his Hogwarts teaching career.

After the New Year's dinner started, Dumbledore also left the auditorium. About 10 minutes later, Dumbledore returned to the auditorium with Snape, but Professor McGonagall did not come back until the end of the banquet.

The Gryffindor lounge was very lively. Harry and Ron received a warm welcome. Their Gryffindor behavior did not bring any loss to the college. The students only admired them. Galloping in the sky!
It's just that Harry and Ron were not happy for long, because Percy and Hermione were watching them eagerly.And the roaring letter the next morning caused poor Ron to die directly socially.

At that time, everyone was enjoying breakfast in the auditorium. Errol swooped into the auditorium like a bomber, and the roaring letter was the blockbuster carried by the owl.

Although "the plane crashed and the people died", Errol still dutifully delivered the roar letter to Ron.

Fred and George, who were sitting beside Ada, hurriedly lowered their heads. Even though the red letter was not addressed to them, the two brothers were still full of fear towards the letter.

The two brothers looked at each other silently, Percy lowered his head and pretended that he didn't exist, and even Ginny pretended not to know Ron.When Ron opened the Howling letter tremblingly, Mrs. Weasley's thunderous roar echoed through the Great Hall, shaking the dust from the ceiling.

The sound, a hundred times louder than usual, rattled the plates and spoons on the table, and the echoes from the four stone walls were deafening.

Ada felt as if the auditorium was really bombed, her ears were buzzing, even though the roaring letter was over, Mrs Weasley's roar still lingered in her ears.

The auditorium is like being washed by the tide. Everyone will unconsciously raise the volume when speaking. If you don't do this, the other party can't hear what you are saying at all.

It wasn't until I left the auditorium that Ida felt that her hearing had returned to normal. She and the twins hurried to the Transfiguration classroom. Their first class in the new school year was Professor McGonagall's Transfiguration.

When the three rushed to the classroom, the Gryffindor students and Hufflepuff students had almost arrived.Professor McGonagall stood on the podium in a black robe, looking at every student who entered the classroom.

The class bell rang, and Professor McGonagall said, "I'm glad to see you sitting in the classroom again. I hope this hot summer vacation hasn't made you forget what you have learned."

Professor McGonagall walked off the podium slowly, and she said as she walked among the students, she said: "In this school year, we will continue to learn more advanced transfiguration techniques, which will also involve more complex property changes, and at the same time we will have to study in depth Animagus content."

Animagus refers to wizards who can transform themselves into some kind of animal while retaining magical spells.But Animagus cannot turn into any animal at will, and the changed animal is related to the personality of the wizard.

This is an extremely advanced form of transfiguration, and it is dangerous. Therefore, the Ministry of Magic strictly controls this form of transfiguration, requiring all Animagus' transformed animals and characteristics to be registered with the Ministry of Magic's Misuse of Magic Office. .

Professor McGonagall is one of the seven Animagus registrants, and she also introduced this subtle magic to the students in the first grade.

For a long time, although Ada was very good at transfiguration, Professor McGonagall never allowed her to learn this kind of magic privately, and she herself was not very interested in this kind of magic.

If the Animagus could turn into a magical creature, Ada would be very interested in studying this kind of magic, but unfortunately it can't.This magical transformation is restricted to nonmagical creatures.

After Professor McGonagall briefly introduced the teaching content of this semester, she just walked back to the podium.She took out a teapot and placed it on the desk.

"Today we are going to learn how to turn a teapot into a turtle." Professor McGonagall said, "You have learned how to change the shape of objects, but today you have to give them 'life' while changing the shape of objects."

Professor McGonagall pointed her wand at the teapot, and she slowly recited the transformation spell. Under the effect of the magic power, the teapot changed its shape, from a non-living teapot to a living tortoise.

The pattern of this turtle is very beautiful. It crawls slowly on the desk, exploring this new world for it.

After Professor McGonagall finished the demonstration, he emphasized the points that need to be paid attention to, and then asked the students to try it by themselves.

There was a beautiful teapot on everyone's desk, and there was the sound of chanting spells and waving wands in the classroom.

Compared with Professor McGonagall, who turned into a turtle all at once, the performance of the students was a bit horrible.Someone knocked the teapot into the air, the teapot leaped high and drew a beautiful arc in the air, and then fell to the other side of the classroom, and someone turned the teapot into a pile of rubbish.

There are not many people who can change the shape of a teapot and turn it into a turtle shape, let alone make this turtle "walk like flying".

George kept poking his wand at the living turtle in front of him, but he was wasting his energy, the turtle was only living, not a real turtle, and it was impossible to move.

He sighed helplessly, and said to Ada beside him: "Come on, show it, and let me know that this kind of magic can also be done by students."

"Don't be discouraged, it's done well, at least it's in the shape of a turtle." Ada said, and then cast a spell on the motionless turtle.The tortoise, which had been motionless just now, had life in an instant, and began to walk and crawl on the desk.

By the end of get out of class, only two people had managed to turn the teapot into a turtle, Ada and Hufflepuff's Cedric Diggory.

This is a sad result, but it is the norm in Transfiguration classes. Very few people can master Transfiguration in a short period of time, and more people rely on a lot of practice.

Transfiguration is a very difficult subject, at least one of which requires talent and perseverance.

(End of this chapter)