Harry Potter: From Muggle Cousin to Conceptual Wizard

Chapter 120 Transfiguration Demonstration! A mentally exhausting tutorial!

When Professor McGonagall praised Dudley and invited him to do some work, her expression remained serious and solemn.

Anyone who didn't know better would think she had a problem with Dali and was deliberately trying to make things difficult for him!

I know... she does have a problem with Dali.

But given her personality and kindness, she would never make things difficult for anyone.

Dudley was absolutely certain of this, and obediently stood beside Professor McGonagall, secretly delighted.

Professor McGonagall clearly disliked him, yet she still had to acknowledge his abilities.

This feeling, the taste of it, has an indescribable beauty.

“Professor McGonagall, what do you need me to do?” Dudley asked.

“Please have your teaching assistant, Dursley, demonstrate your understanding of Transfiguration first. Then, I will supplement the lesson content with this explanation. Finally, we will walk around the classroom together to help the students complete the simplest Transfiguration spell.”

Professor McGonagall's thinking is very clear; having an assistant will greatly improve her teaching progress.

"Alright, then I'll speak freely and begin my performance!"

Dali readily agreed, believing that teaching others was also a process of deepening his own knowledge and skills.

As his imagination and mental power continue to develop, and his magical knowledge and skills become more proficient, his magical cultivation will also increase accordingly.

He could sense that his magical power had increased by about a third since he first fused with the magic stone.

The spellcasting skills gained from fusing with Quirrell's Cracked Wand played a significant role.

As he pondered, Dali, gripping Smetin's cane, strode to the open space beside the podium and began his lecture and demonstration:

"Transfiguration, Transfiguration, as the name suggests, is the magic of turning one thing into another."

There are three key points in this process of change: the output of magic, precise imagination, and concrete understanding of things.

For example, I want to transform this hardwood walking stick in my hand into an iron sword.

With a wave of his hand, Dali's cane transformed into a fine iron sword with intricate patterns, its blade gleaming with a sharp, cold light.

"During this process, I steadily output magic once, and this magic can keep the staff in the form of a sword for ten minutes;

At the same time, before the transformation, I imagined the sword's shape, size, material and other details in my mind. This requires me to have a precise imagination and a specific understanding of information such as 'sword' and 'steel'.

If I had never seen steel or known what a sword was, then no matter how powerful my magic was, I would find it difficult to conjure such a sword with precision.

Therefore, if you want to use Transfiguration flexibly, you must observe more and experience different kinds of things in your daily life, and remember them as material for performing Transfiguration.

Of course, magic is idealistic. We don't need to delve into the composition of some materials or study the principles of composition of some complex items. We only need to leave basic cognitive concepts in our minds to successfully complete the transformation.

For example, I don't know the specific mechanical principles behind a pocket watch; I only know that a pocket watch is a timekeeping tool, yet I can still conjure up a fully functional pocket watch.

As Dudley spoke, he waved his hand again, and the sharp sword transformed into a golden pocket watch with ticking hands.

"For example, even though I don't fully understand the internal organs, blood, and skeletal structure of a lion, I can still conjure up a lion that looks alive just by watching a documentary about lions."

Dudley tossed his pocket watch forward, and it transformed into a lifelike, fleshy, roaring lion, eliciting gasps of "Wow!" from the students below.

"But be careful, we are not the creators, and the living things we create have no souls."

Furthermore, if I don't continuously output magic power to control this lion, it will simply repeat the few movements I set during its transformation until the magic power maintaining the transformation is exhausted, at which point it will revert to its original form, which is my staff.

Sure enough, the lion that Dudley conjured up kept repeating the same actions: raising its head, opening its mouth, and roaring.

It wasn't until Dudley channeled more magic into the lion that the lion closed its mouth and began to wander around.

"There's one more thing I want to remind everyone: Transfiguration can't turn inedible things into edible food. Just like when I turn my cane into a cake, it only looks tempting and looks like it's edible."

With a flick of his finger, Dudley transformed the wandering lion into a plate of strawberry cream cake, floating in mid-air and tempting the new students' appetites. It slowly fell back into Dudley's hand, reverting to its original form as the Smetine's staff.

Dudley slammed his cane into the ground with a dull thud, and then concluded his story:

"When learning Transfiguration, everyone should try it from small to large and from easy to difficult."

Start with small objects, first changing their shape, like turning a wooden stick into a wooden sword. Then try changing the material, like turning a wooden sword into an iron sword. Once your magical power has increased, try turning inanimate objects into living ones, and living ones into inanimate ones.

"Clap clap clap-"

After Dudley finished his speech, Professor McGonagall could no longer maintain her serious expression and led the applause for Dudley.

Her gaze toward Dali contained a great deal of admiration and amazement, as well as a sense of the fact that no one is perfect.

It was clear that Professor McGonagall greatly admired Dudley's abilities and talents, but disliked his rude and uncouth manner.

Dudley didn't seem to care much about Professor McGonagall's opinion of him. After he finished speaking, he nodded to Professor McGonagall and handed the podium over to her.

"I don't know what to add. Assistant Professor Dursley's explanation was vivid and concise, capturing the essence of Transfiguration."

As a guide for beginners, I would like to add that when casting a transformation spell, you should make sure that your magic power corresponds to the transformation effect you envision. You can also use the spell "Transform Instantly" to assist you.

The task for everyone in this lesson is to use the box of matches on your desks to make a needle. Ideally, it should be a metal needle, but even a simple needle shape without any material change will earn you extra points.

Professor McGonagall went up to the podium, added some supplementary knowledge, and then assigned in-class tasks, arranging for Dudley to work with her to divide the class into areas, patrol the classroom, and provide guidance to each student individually.

Guiding children to perform spells is much more difficult than going on stage and randomly performing spells.

Dudley didn't initially think it was difficult, but after meeting certain people, a few individuals, and even more extreme ones in Gryphon and Badger houses, his patience and perseverance were severely tested and honed, ultimately leading to a significant improvement.

After finally guiding two or three 'skilled students' who could barely conjure up tiny needle-eye wooden needles, the transformation lesson was finally over.