Hogwarts: Bourne Returns from Warhammer

Chapter 52 Transfiguration Club
It was raining in the sky on Saturday morning, and the area around Hogwarts Castle became hazy.

Bourne arrived at Professor McGonagall's office ten minutes earlier than the agreed time, but there were still people here who had arrived earlier than him.

"Good morning, Percy." He greeted his senior, the Weasley twins and Ron's biological brother.

"Good morning to you too, Bourne." Percy responded to Bourne with a smile, not looking down on this junior just because he was a senior.

Although people who have read the original work will have a bad impression of him, thinking that a person who watched "How Prefects Gain Power" at a young age must be a hopeless official fan, but objectively speaking, Percy is actually Not only is he an excellent Gryffindor, he is also remarkable in how he treats others.

"I heard about your performance in the flying class. Thank you for saving my youngest brother." Percy shook hands with Bourne and said, "You are also here to participate in the 'Transformation Improvement Class' today, right? Do you want to hear my feelings and thoughts about participating in the Transfiguration Club activities?"

Waiting is just waiting. Percy is willing to talk about his experience, and Bourne is naturally willing to listen.

He started with the origin of the Transfiguration Advanced Class - the prototype of this advanced class was a weekend Q&A time provided for students who continued to take the Advanced Transfiguration course after the fifth grade OWLs exam. Professor McGonagall would answer some questions for them. Difficulties encountered when writing homework.

Later, it was Percy's eldest brother Bill Weasley who broke this tradition. In the second grade, Bill showed his super talent and was valued by Professor McGonagall, who allowed him to sit in on the weekend quizzes of the senior class.

Later, Professor McGonagall simply asked other lower-grade wizards to join in, and this weekend quiz gradually turned into a cross-grade club.

Regardless of grade, young wizards in the club can share their doubts and experiences in learning transfiguration at the party. Professor McGonagall will guide everyone's learning to prevent the little wizards from rashly trying to cause any danger.

"However, the first-year students were invited to join this club, and you have already broken Bill's record as the 'smallest member of the Transfiguration Club'." Percy said half with emotion, half jokingly: "I will definitely write to Bill later. A letter, I really want to see his expression when he received the letter..."

After chatting for a while, other students invited to participate in club activities also arrived here one after another. Percy and Bourne apologized and then started chatting with Ravenclaw's prefect, Penelo Crevat.

Bourne found that when talking to the Ravenclaw prefect, Percy's eyes revealed the admiration that he could hardly hide.

Except for Bourne, a first-year student, all those who join the club are juniors and above, and they come from different colleges.

Although Professor McGonagall is the head of Gryffindor, she does not treat other houses differently because of this, not only Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff, but also Slytherin seniors in the club. many.

However, compared to club members in other houses, students in Slytherin House basically only play with their own people. They revolved around a boy named Gemma Fane, a prefect in Slytherin.

While chatting, the little wizards were waiting in the corridor. Professor McGonagall agreed with them that the club activity time was nine o'clock. But at nine o'clock, the door to the professor's office was still not open.

Professor McGonagall is a punctual person, and the little wizards have rarely seen her late for class, or dragging her to class after class.

Noticing this, Percy discussed with several other familiar senior wizards, and then knocked on the wooden door of the office.

Tuk Tuk.

"Professor McGonagall, I am Percy Weasley..." Before Percy could finish his words, the wooden door he knocked on creaked, revealing a gap.

Percy was stunned for a moment, but he finally held the door handle and pushed the door halfway into the room.

"Ok?"

Looking at the unfamiliar hallway that appeared in front of him, Percy quickly retracted his body back into the corridor and looked at the surrounding environment to confirm whether they were looking for the wrong office.

"That's right." Percy confirmed, "This is Professor McGonagall's office."

At this time, some other little wizards also came over. Penello, the prefect of Ravenclaw, ignored Percy's dissuasion and walked into the hall that suddenly appeared behind the door of the professor's office.

"Will this be a test?" Penello asked curiously.

She looked at the other door in the hall, just opposite the hall. It was much more imposing than the elm door in the professor's office outside.

The door is covered with leather and filled with soft padding to block sound; the door handle is a lion sculpture made of polished brass, which highlights the characteristics of Gryffindor House and is lifelike.

"Like our Ravenclaw's eagle-beaked knocker?" Percy responded to Penello, who was actually a smart man.

The questions and answers they gave gave the other little wizards a lot of inspiration. In the end, everyone unanimously concluded that this was a classroom quiz created by Professor McGonagall.

Professor McGonagall can do this.

The question is, how to open this door?

Some people used "Alajo Opening", but the door remained motionless; while Ravenclaws like Penelope tried the same method they used to enter the lounge of their own house, starting with the brass lion door handle. Talking, but after talking for a long time, the lion didn't even move at all...

In the end, Bourne couldn't stand it anymore. Not wanting to waste time, he directly reminded: "Seniors and sisters, you were invited to attend the event today. Didn't Professor McGonagall give you anything?"

Yes, that's the parchment.

There was obviously not a word on it, but Professor McGonagall told him to bring this piece of paper with him on Saturday. He originally thought that the professor wanted him to use this piece of paper to take notes - he was also wondering, Hogwart None of the little wizards here are short of parchment - not counting those brought from home, there are boxes specially used to hold blank parchments in the college common room. There are house elves responsible for replenishing the supplies at any time, so students can use them as they please. Just take it as you go. However, when he deciphered the card that Grandpa Horace sent with the gift, he suddenly had some other ideas.

"Since it is a Transfiguration Club, we must use magic related to Transfiguration," while guessing, Bourne took out the parchment given to him by Professor McGonagall, and some club members followed suit. They took out theirs, but some people had embarrassed looks on their faces—either they had lost it, or they didn’t bring it with them.

"That's right," Percy immediately figured out the key, and he also brought the parchment note with him. "Execute the transfiguration spell on this parchment, and then use the conjured thing to open the door."

After saying that, he looked at Bourne with encouraging eyes.

Since the idea was proposed by Bourne, according to his idea, let Bourne open the door. For the students who solved this little mystery, Professor McGonagall might give him some encouragement—mostly in the form of additional academy points. For Bourne, the "big debtor", this reward would be just right.

The other senior wizards also had no objections. Even Slytherin, who has always been at odds with Gryffindor, and the little snakes who are qualified to join the Professors Club are proud of themselves, and they are not jealous of a first-year junior.

Not wanting to waste time, Bourne didn't waste any time. He took out his wand and cast the transformation spell on the parchment in his hand.

Then, he walked forward, holding a claw hammer made of parchment, and smashed it hard on the door handle.

One hammer, two hammers, three hammers...

When the claw hammer hit the brass lion for the third time, with a "bang" sound, the exquisite door handle fell off the door together with the door lock.

Get it done.

Burnley pushed open the door and walked in first, leaving only a bunch of students staring at his back in shock.

Penello: "I thought you meant changing a key."

Percy: "..."

The little wizards passed through the pushed-open door one after another, and they found that Professor McGonagall had indeed been waiting here for a long time, and had prepared chairs for everyone. However, the professor didn't even mention half a word about the extra points Percy expected from the academy.

Before the club began its official activities, Professor McGonagall commented on the methods of opening the door that others except Bourne had tried.

"...for doors with the counter-spell of Alajo Open, you can choose to use the two spells of 'Open Door' and 'Open Sesame' that were commonly used by wizards before the invention of 'Open Sesame'. They are both "standard spells" 'Unlocking Spell' expansion content on.

The function of the former is to... destroy the door lock. "When he said this, Percy noticed that Professor McGonagall's eyelids twitched, glanced at Bourne, and then continued: "And the effect of the latter is to pull the door off the door frame. It is precisely because these two spells will destroy the door that they are not commonly used now. "

After hearing the important knowledge points taught by Professor McGonagall, Bourne immediately took out a notebook and carefully recorded the contents word for word.

The comment period ended and the Transfiguration Club finally started its official activities.

The senior little wizards talked about all the problems they encountered recently when learning transfiguration. Professor McGonagall first summarized these questions, and immediately gave answers to individual questions. Then, for targeted questions that had a lot of questions, he took them out for all club members to discuss.

Among them, there was an interesting question raised by Slytherin prefect Gemma Fane: Can transfiguration be cast on alchemical items?

Percy felt that the answer to this question had something to do with the composition of alchemical items. He believes that most alchemical items, except for those applied to ancient magic texts and other alchemical techniques, are essentially ordinary items. Therefore, casting polymorph on an alchemical item is more like casting polymorph on the ordinary parts of an alchemical item.

Penello felt that Percy's theory was not comprehensive. She cited Ravenclaw's bronze eagle-headed door knocker and the Sorting Hat as counterexamples. They are both integrated high-level alchemical items and even have independent thoughts. If you follow Percy's theory, they are actually unable to deform.

However, the eaglets of Ravenclaw have seen the door knocker of their common room turn into a raven, and they will tell the eaglet that this is a change made deliberately to commemorate the birth of the founder.

As for the Sorting Hat, every little wizard has seen it during the ceremony. It can transform a tattered ordinary pointed wizard-shaped hat into a mouth and eyes. This may also be a kind of transfiguration.

All in all, the discussion among the little wizards on this issue is quite heated, and everyone is actively sharing their thoughts and opinions.

Professor McGonagall was very satisfied with the atmosphere, and she even took out an alchemy prop and gave a demonstration to the little wizards.

"This is a wizard's chess set."

Professor McGonagall waved her wand, used the flying spell to summon the chessboard placed on the desk in the office, and then said to everyone:

"You should know that it is an alchemy item, but in your eyes it should be of a relatively low level.

But in fact, the 'activation' magic attached to the wizard chess pieces is actually a very advanced form of alchemy.

However, because of the mass production and widespread dissemination of Wizard Chess, you will have the illusion that it is a low-end alchemical item.

So what do you think, can the transformation spell have an effect on this wizard chess piece? "

(End of this chapter)