Chapter 639 Animagos

After the game, Harry made a brief victory speech in the locker room.

"I'm proud of you, each of you is great! Katie, despite the possible criticism, showed extraordinary courage and decisiveness-"

He named one by one, behind him was a huge quidditch tactical diagram. This was also the "legacy" left by Wood, with little people of various colors squirming, arrows and some strange marks, which Harry has not yet fully understood.

"I didn't think so much at the time," Katie shook her head and said.

"Dmirza, shot three goals when facing two opponents-"

Demirza smiled.

"Perx and Gut, you cooperated with each other and saved your teammates from danger many times, while creating opportunities for the offense-"

The two batsmen grinned and applauded enthusiastically.

"Ron---blocked five balls, one of them was particularly wonderful;" Harry said quickly, trying not to see Ron's weird, stiff face, and put his eyes next to him, "Ginny, take sixty, awesome result-"

"And you, the best ball seeker." Ginny said with a smile on her lips.

Harry pretended not to hear the sound of clamoring from other players, and echoed: "Yes, I... caught the golden thief." He scraped his stomach, said a few more words of encouragement, and even brought all the content of Wood's speech that year. Because he was too impressed, he said it very smoothly at this moment. Katie covered his mouth and laughed secretly, and Harry blushed and announced the end.

The players left the locker room with laughter, Ginny kissed Harry's mouth and floated away like a ballet dancer.

For a moment, Harry and Ron were the only ones left in the locker room.

Harry looked into the corner with guilt, Ron still had the gloomy expression. He opened his mouth and said, "Ron, Ginny and me--" At this time, the door opened from outside, and Hermione shouted to them, "Isn't it over yet? We're going to be late and have an appointment with Hager!"

“This is coming out.”

Harry muttered, and took the initiative to step forward and pulled Ron, but Ron fell straight to the ground, making a loud echo.

Harry was shocked. Hermione hurried over after hearing the sound. The two of them studied for a long time and finally found that Ron had been infected with a petrified curse and a sticky curse. "It was Ginny who did it! How dare she?" Ron rubbed his cheeks and was indignant about his experience. At this time, they had already arrived in Haeger's hut. Ron used his tongue cramps as an excuse to reject the homemade creamy gummy provided by Haeger.

"Your sister loves to joke, I've seen it long ago." Hagrid said absent-mindedly, grinding the sizzling sausages with tongs. "How are you doing recently? I mean your improvement class-"

Harry immediately put down the gummy covered with tooth marks and poured bitterness towards Hager with Ron and Hermione. He said how harsh the new professor was, and that the course was difficult and boring, and regretted not continuing to choose to protect the magical biology class. Hager was very happy to listen.

He handed them the sausage with oily and scorched skin, and the three of them immediately took it (including Ron). Harry took advantage of the time of making tea with Haig and quickly stuffed his sticky creamy fudge into Teeth's mouth.

Hermione glared at Harry, gritted her teeth, and did not dare to imitate.

"You are definitely exaggerating... want to make me happy," Haeger said with a giggle. After pouring boiling water into the cup, he continued: "Slughorn--I definitely have real skills, although I didn't learn anything from him... You know, I was fired in the third grade." He said vaguely, "That Professor Basharat is not simple either. I guess he and Dumbledore are old acquaintances, the kind that is closer..."

"How many tricks (how did you know)?" Ron said with a full mouth.

"Yo!" Hagrid smiled, "I saw it with my own eyes. When I was patrolling the Forbidden Forest in the morning, I saw them walking together from afar, and maybe talking about things... I found out more than once."

"Maybe it was discussing Professor Bashar al-Barshat's teaching," Harry thought for a while and said, "his class is quite controversial."

"I don't know this." Hager was stunned for a moment and said, "He has also come to me to inquire about the school - a very good person, which makes people feel like spring breeze. He is also very interested in Glopp, which is really rare..."

None of the three of them made up. For the rest of the time, they happily ate grilled sausages and drank hot tea, until Hermione proposed to learn Animagus tomorrow morning, and Harry and Ron began to rest and said goodbye and left soon.

Back in the lounge, Harry and Ron couldn't wait to borrow notes from Hermione, preparing to fight at night. However, Hermione lent the notes to Neville, and they found Neville and temporarily copied two notes from him using the copying spell. The three of them sat together with frowns.

Hermione took out the Book of Magical Text and started reading.

"How much have you seen?" Ron asked Neville.

"Not much," Neville whispered: "I'm not very good at transforming the disease. There is a lot of knowledge about transforming the human body, and I can't understand many theories."

Ron sighed and turned to look at Harry.

"I remember you read it a little too?"

"It's all failed cases," Harry said dejectedly: "I used it to relieve my boredom, but I was scared. The above said that if the practice mistakes could lead to a tail or a nose."

"I really don't know how Sirius and the others did it." Ron muttered.

They opened Hermione's notes and read them in silence. They were surprised to find that Hermione didn't fully understand. She marked many questions on the notes, and it seemed that she was going to ask questions tomorrow. The three of them discussed in a low voice, and finally agreed that if even Hermione felt embarrassed, they had no need to waste time, so they decisively skipped these difficulties and greatly accelerated the progress.

When the lights were about to be turned off, Harry yawned in tears. He had only finished watching one-third of his mind, and now he was covered in trance. He saw the light flashing in Hermione's eyes.

"Hermione, your eyes—"

"What's wrong with my eyes?" Hermione asked in confusion.

"...It seems to be glowing." Harry said honestly, Ron and Neville raised their heads and stared at her and looked at her.

"How is that possible? I didn't use magic again." Hermione said, and Harry thought he had read it wrong, so he patiently continued to read the notes. After a while, Hermione went upstairs to rest, and the lights in the lounge dimmed.

Ron yawned and cast a light flame spell, causing a circle of white flames to roam around them. Harry and Neville's hair stood up and became so scared that they immediately became energetic. They stayed until one or two in the morning before going to bed.

The next day, Harry was awakened by Hermione's pet Crook Hill.

Harry woke Ron and Neville again. When they got dressed, Hermione was already waiting at the door. They didn't even eat breakfast and knocked on the door of the staff lounge. When the door opened, Harry, Ron and Neville were still swallowing the bear cookies provided by Hermione.

"It's just a few of you," Felix said with a kind look on his face.

They walked in and found that the tables and chairs in the staff lounge were piled up in the corner, with a large area empty in the middle. Professor McGonagall was wearing an emerald green tartan robe, his hair was tied behind his head and combed into a tall bun, with a serious expression.

Harry and the other four were surprised to find that there were a few more people they didn't know today, all of whom seemed to be in the seventh grade. There was a golden circle on the floor in front of Professor McGonagall, with a diameter of about two feet.

"Okay, students," Professor McGonagall said seriously: "A few new faces appeared among you. They are the best in the Transformation Club and will attend class with you." Harry suddenly realized, and Professor Hayp walked through the crowd, leaned against the wall, and looked at them with interest.

Professor McGonagall continued: "Many of you are not qualified to study Animagus, but they only got excellent results in the O.W.Ls exam in the Black Magic Defense Arts class and showed certain potential-" She pursed her lips, obviously not very recognized by the decision of the last professor.

She always felt that Sirius' bet was too much of a playful thing.

"—Therefore I ask you to do your best, put in more effort, and face this matter with the most rigorous attitude. There are many rules that you need to abide by. If I find that you violate any one, I will kick you out of the classroom without mercy."

Professor McGonagall looked around majesticly, and the students were silent and did not dare to speak out.

Professor Happ smiled at them behind Professor McGonagall. He was in a good mood today. In Class 7, Tom Riddle, who was hiding in Hogwarts Castle in his mind, finally took a critical step. He found an "old document" in the library's forbidden book area - a note from a certain ancestor of the Gunter family. The content on it was obscure and difficult to understand, and few people were interested in it.

Riddle compared repeatedly and finally concluded that Gunter's notes were true. He was ecstatic and believed that this was a gift from his ancestors and was destined to belong to him.

He tore off the previous pages and asked the professors in the school in a mess, and found that this was the book about the spells of the patron god. After that, he spent "months" to ponder one by one, and was amazed at the powerful patron god magic recorded in the book. The essence of this magic is not to be able to deal with dementors, but to be similar to summoning magic, creating a group of concrete products of the spiritual power that is not afraid of death.

But unfortunately, the notes are incomplete and lack detailed learning methods. There is only one prompt to tease Riddle's eagerness to "mobilize the power of his mind and explore the touch of life." Thinking of what happened that night, those three "dead" idiot companions, Riddle naturally came to a conclusion: he perfected this magic in the future and took the initiative to teach others to act as a thug to fight against the dark wizard Dumbledore.

A new path appeared before Tom Riddle, and it was extremely bright. He wanted to become the principal of Hogwarts and the Minister of Magic. He wanted to use Hogwarts students and the Ministry of Magic Aurors for his use, and drown his enemies with the army of improved patron saints.

After thinking for a long time, at the end of the sixth grade, he found Principal Dipet and expressed his wish to stay in school after graduation, even as a teaching assistant.

Tom Riddle is full of confidence in doing noble things with unrighteous thoughts.

"...I have finished talking about the difference between transformation animals and Animagus Transformation. To sum up, the former is passive, and once the Chinese art cannot independently resolve the curse; the latter is an active choice, and the wizard can decide on his own when to restore the human form. It should be noted that the former will cause the human reason to gradually disappear until it becomes a beast, while the latter can maintain a relatively low degree of wisdom..."

"The Vagado Magic School in Africa has been deeply studying this area, and some of the information you have in your hands comes from here." Professor McGonagall said, "You will find that the training you will receive is different from what you see in books - if you have really read these information seriously." Her last sentence became harsh, and many students lowered their heads guiltily.

“…That content is an improvement made by Professor Hepp and I, and we will try our best to keep you safe, but if anyone wants to quit, you can bring it up now.”

The students gathered their heads together and began to whisper quickly.

"What does Professor McGonagall mean?" Ron asked Hermione in a low voice. Harry pricked up his ears and listened. At the same time, Ernie looked worried when he saw Susan Bones and Justin. The members of the Transformation Club brought by Professor McGonagall looked as usual. Obviously, they had known this knowledge in advance.

"Simply put, the learning steps will change," Hermione said briefly.

Harry looked up at the ceiling and tried to recall what was in Hermione's notes. He could clearly repeat the first step, that is, from the first full moon to the end of the next full moon, the caster must hold a leaf of Mandelagra in his mouth, and he cannot swallow the leaves or take out his mouth; after this step, the leaves full of saliva must be placed in a crystal medicine bottle at the full moon, and add a strand of his own hair and a silver teaspoon of dew under the pure moonlight.

In fact, there are also requirements for the source of dew. Harry thought, it seemed that he wanted to find dew that had never been exposed to the sun... Finally, he added a pupa of the ghost-faced moth, and after all, he put the medicine bottle secretly in a quiet and dark place, waiting for the storm of thunder and rain to come.

"You can wait until the class is over before making a decision," said Professor McGonagall. "So I will not explain too profound content today, such as the methods of controlling magic in human deformation. They have been proven in practice to effectively reduce the difficulty of Animagus' learning...Felix?"

Felix, who became a teaching assistant, lazily stretched out one hand and shook it in front of the students. They were a little confused at first, but then they opened their mouths in surprise - Professor Haypu's right hand was slowly stretched out, like the claws of some kind of carnivore, with thick and powerful joints and the curved arc of the forearm radius reminded them of a series of words such as "strong" and "violent". The professor's right hand was covered with a layer of fluff on the back and wrists, and five long nails were protruded out.

Felix raised his arms and made five deep scratches on the wall, and sparks splashed around the wall, making a harsh sound of teeth.

"Oh, thank you, Felix, that's OK." Professor McGonagall said in an unnatural tone.

Felix shook his hand, and the hair on his arms fell off and turned back to the human form, but all the students were still staring at the skin on his arms in a daze. They were eager to know which creature the professor used as the deformation template. If it were a complete biological individual, it would probably be able to kill them with one foot.

"What you see is a relatively advanced deformation, so don't consider it like Professor Hayp..." Professor McGonagall said with some anxiety, "Let's go on... and need a volunteer next, who is willing to cooperate with the demonstration?"

Several arms raised up tremblingly, and Professor McGonagall finally chose Susan Bones.

"Stand in the circle in front of me, stand... Miss Bones." Professor McGonagall directed, and Felix walked over, and the two of them stared at Susan Bones at the same time, which made her a little scared. "Don't worry," Professor McGonagall comforted: "Just get a layer of insurance, I will observe the whole process, and stop immediately if there is an accident."

The other students formed a circle, their eyes flashing with anticipation.

"What do I need to do, professor?" Susan Bones asked with a tremolo.

"Try to stay awake," Felix said, which sounded like Susan was about to endure some inhuman pain, and she took a step back in a hurry, even the other students thought so.

Felix cleared his throat and explained, "I will use a transforming technique to make you become a small animal. During this period, you must try your best to remain calm to fight the increasingly strong wild impulses and avoid being driven by instinct... Of course, Professor McGonagall and I will transform you back before you get out of control."

"This is just a demonstration. When it comes to real practice, Minerva and I will slow down the process as much as possible, giving you plenty of time to experience the subtle changes in the body when it is transformed, which will play a crucial role in the real Animagus... Last question, Miss Bones, what animal do you like?"

"I like unicorns," Susan whispered.

"No, I mean...ordinary animals."

"Maybe it's a little rabbit." Susan said uncertainly.

"Rabbit? Very good, stand firm."

Felix took out a wand that was no longer commonly used from his pocket, pointed at Susan, and with a "bang", Susan disappeared in place, replaced by a furry, gray-fed rabbit. The rabbit screamed and stayed in the golden circle.

"Others back down, don't scare her." Professor McGonagall snapped.

The student who approached, retreated with reluctance to leave his eyes. The person standing behind stood on tiptoe, trying to see more clearly.
To be continued...