Hogwarts: From Squibs to Greatness

Chapter 31 Gryffindor, Courage is Supreme; Their Dean, Can Become a Cat

Wednesday, August 1991, 9
In the past two days, all the little wizards in Hogwarts have discovered a strange thing.

That was Filch, who always looked at everyone with an expression of owed money. During this time, he kept smiling, and the wrinkles on his face because of the smile felt like they could kill flies.

In addition, the other party will take the initiative to salute John Williams, a first-year freshman of Hufflepuff College, and even the cat named Mrs. Norris raised by Filch will salute John, but even if the other party Even repeated persuasion could not stop Filch from doing so.

The Weasley twins even said that they felt that Filch regarded John as a god, and if he could, the other party would kneel down and kiss John's shoes.

On the Gryffindor table, Harry, Ron, and Hermione were also curious about it.

Perhaps it was the impact of John's excellent performance. Ron is not as self-motivated as in the original plot, but takes the initiative to learn from time to time.
Hermione also changed her superior tone and arrogance ahead of time, and became humble, reflecting on her own shortcomings from time to time.

Harry is also studying so hard, because of this, the relationship between the three is not as rough as before, but a trio formed in advance.

"You said it was because John helped Filch with a difficult problem?" Harry guessed.

Ron and Hermione thought about it, and nodded in agreement, because there is indeed such a possibility. John is the wizard they know best. Except for the flying lessons, there is basically nothing difficult for him. Some people even call John Young Dumbledore.

"I've never seen a student who was able to create their own spells just after entering school, even if I read the entire History of Magic." Hermione's tone was full of admiration.

Ron nodded and said, "That's true. The spell John invented is so useful. If it wasn't for this spell, I would have been unable to bear the smell of Quirrell. I don't know why he made himself So sloppy."

Hermione and Harry nodded, and even Neville, who was sitting quietly eating, nodded subconsciously when he heard this.

If he hadn't worked up the courage to ask John after the herbal medicine class yesterday morning and learned the sniffing spell, he might be the only person in the school who could smell Quirrell.

And John, who was talked about by everyone, is continuing to study alchemy in the library at the moment.

The Hogwarts library is indeed one of the largest magical libraries in the world, with a history of thousands of years. Many of the books stored here are private collections of several founders, and there is only one copy in the world.

John even discovered several alchemy notes left by Nick Flamel. According to the connection John perceived, these notes had existed in Hogwarts for at least 200 years, and the connection between these notes and the writers was still clear.

It really deserves to be the great alchemist Nick Flamel who made the Sorcerer's Stone and lived for more than 600 years.

By learning the knowledge left by these great men in the past, John's previously incomprehensible problems were naturally solved.

John even felt that if he was in the game, the reminder of "alchemy +1" might be constantly appearing in his head.

Now if he was asked to look at the fixed magic generator handed over to Filch the night before yesterday, he might be able to further modify it, reduce its consumption of magic power by half, and at the same time enhance the magic effect it casts.

After writing the last stroke, John stretched his waist, then took these alchemy notebooks in his hands, and went to Mrs. Pince to register for borrowing.

"Mr. Williams, Principal Dumbledore has greeted you in advance. You can keep these books until you graduate, and you don't need to register to borrow them."

Mrs. Pince looked at John and said with a blank face. Hearing this, John knew that Dumbledore already knew what happened the night before, and he might have checked the fixed magic generator he gave Filch.

No wonder these notebooks appeared on the bookshelf today and were discovered by him. Besides him, few people in the school seem to be studying alchemy anymore.

This should be from Dumbledore's kindness. It seems that the headmaster's office has to go.

And John was not worried that Dumbledore would be bad for him. He was not like Senior Tom, who only wanted to make trouble. He was a kind little badger.

He guessed that there was a high probability that Dumbledore just wanted to put another layer of insurance on Harry.

"I also ask my wife to help me express my gratitude to the principal."

After speaking, John took the notebooks in his hands and left the library directly.

After eating the lunch that Tom delivered to the dormitory, John washed up briefly, and then began to prepare for the transformation class and flying class in the afternoon.

As time passed, it soon came to the time for class, and John came to the classroom with his textbook ahead of time.

As soon as he entered the door, he saw the tabby cat squatting on the desk, looking at the pattern on the other's face that was the same as Professor McGonagall's glasses.

After thinking for a while, John walked up to the tabby cat, bowed his head slightly and said, "Good afternoon, Professor McGonagall!"

Hearing John's words, the other little badgers who were chatting in the classroom were all stunned.

Then, under their shocked and terrified gazes, the tabby cat that was squatting on the podium jumped to the ground, deformed in mid-air, and then Professor McGonagall appeared in front of them.

"Sharp observation, Mr. Williams, I think I'll give you two points."

Although Professor McGonagall didn't have a smile on his face, John could still feel the appreciation in the eyes of the older cat lady.

When John sat on the seat, Teacher McGonagall turned into a tabby cat and squatted on the podium again, but this time there was no little badger whispering to each other in the classroom, and they all obediently picked up their textbooks and started previewing.

When the bell rang, Professor McGonagall changed back into a human form in front of Little Badger again, which made Little Badger who entered the classroom couldn't help but exclaim.

"Transfiguration is the most complicated and dangerous magic in the courses you learn at Hogwarts." Professor McGonagall looked at the little badgers and said, "Anyone who is naughty in my class, I will ask him Get out and never let him in again. I warned you."

Hearing this, many timid little badgers shuddered. They all subconsciously sat up straight and looked at Professor McGonagall in front of the podium seriously.

Regarding the reaction of the little badgers, Professor McGonagall nodded in satisfaction, and then in front of everyone, Professor McGonagall waved his wand to turn the book on the desk into a badger, and then changed back again.

At this moment, everyone's attention was attracted, and they really began to listen to Professor McGonagall's lecture seriously.

As Professor McGonagall taught the principles of transfiguration in a simple way, the little badgers realized that it would take a long time to learn how to turn objects into animals.

John has a further understanding of the transfiguration in the main world. Compared to the world of Hal, which uses sympathy to generate connections to transform, a magic master who is proficient in transfiguration can even become another person by virtue of sympathy, and even obtain the other party's Part of body memory.

Compared with the subtlety of Hal's world, the transfiguration in the main world is more of a forced use of magic power, like some kind of magic power that works miracles with great strength.

The wizard's idea is achieved through magic, so that one thing can be directly changed into another thing, and all materials are changed, and even the dead become alive.

For example, Harry's mother, Lily, even turned a flower into a fish and gave it to Professor Horns to raise it. It was not until Lily died and the magic expired that the fish turned back into a flower.

The same is true for Animagus, who force the power of the world to act on himself through rituals, so that he can have a corresponding animal form. Basically, these animal forms are the appearance of the wizard patron saint.

This is also why keeping the Animagus form for too long will bring the characteristics of the animal form to yourself, because these two forms are you, and the two forms will overlap if the time is too long.

Of course, this is not to say that the transformation technique in the main world is very backward. In fact, the transformation technique in the main world is often completely unreasonable, and even looks like the mighty power of God.

For example, the disappearing spell in Transfiguration, which makes living or inanimate objects disappear, according to Professor McGonagall's description: turning into nothingness, turning into everything.

The things that have been cast with the disappearing spell have all become everything. To some extent, it can be regarded as turning the things that have been cast into fundamental particles.

And it's one of the hardest spells to appear on the Ordinary Wizarding Ranks, a spell that gets harder to master the more complex the thing that needs to disappear gets.

For example, a snail is an invertebrate, which is not very challenging, while a mouse is a mammal, and the requirements are much higher.

It seems that there is another reason to visit the principal's office. Compared with Professor McGonagall, Dumbledore is the master of transfiguration. The Water Prison Curse he invented and Vulcan's way are all advanced uses of transfiguration.

But these are not things he needs to think about now, looking at the matches that Professor McGonagall handed out in front of him.

John took a deep breath, and then kept imagining the shape of a needle in his mind, and then accompanied by John's firm chanting, the magical light burst from the top of his wand.

The powerful magic power hit the match in front of John, and then before John's eyes, the match turned into a shining silver needle, even with dense patterns on it, it can be seen that these patterns constitute a badger.

John picked up the match that was turned into a needle in front of him, and carefully felt the magical changes in it.

It's just the behavior of John raising the needle in his hand, in the eyes of Professor McGonagall, it seems that he invited her to check it after he finished.

So I saw Professor McGonagall walking quickly to John, took the needle from his hand, and after careful inspection, I saw an expression of appreciation on Professor McGonagall's face.

Professor McGonagall raised the needle in his hand with a smile, and said loudly: "Look, Mr. Williams has completed an exquisite transformation, for which I will give him ten points!"

Hearing Professor McGonagall's words, the other little badgers couldn't help but look at John, saw the highly finished needlework in Professor McGonagall's hands, and clapped spontaneously.

Like the previous Charms class, the other little badgers asked John to explain the key points again. Naturally, John did not refuse, and explained his current understanding of Transfiguration again.

It's just that this time, unlike Professor Flitwick, Professor McGonagall's face becomes more serious the more she listens, but the excitement in her eyes reveals her true thoughts.

Finally, Professor McGonagall couldn't help but said: "Mr. Williams, I think you can stop, I didn't expect that your research on Transfiguration has been so in-depth, what you explained is not suitable for your classmates, or Your understanding has surpassed most people, involving the essence of Transfiguration."

"I now sincerely invite you to join the Transfiguration Club I founded. Would you like it? Mr. Williams"

The other little badgers felt confused when listening to John's explanation. They guessed that John was talking nonsense, but they didn't expect that John's words were too profound, which made them unable to understand.

All right!It's because they are narrow-minded. It turns out that it's not other people's problem that they don't understand, but their own problem!
This made them look at John with admiration again. At this moment, John was officially upgraded from a school master to a school god in their hearts.

For Professor McGonagall's invitation, John naturally had no reason to refuse, and replied directly: "I am honored to join your club."

　The part where Lily turns fish into flowers is original to the movie, but I thought it was pretty good so I added it in.

　　Dumbledore's Vulcan's way is also an original movie, and according to the information I found, it didn't say that it was Fiendfire, so I personally referred to another second creation setting, which is the use of the Transfiguration Curse.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)