Hogwarts behind-the-scenes big boss

"My cousin studied at Ilvermorny," Jericho said: "This wizarding school is located in Mount Greylock. Like Hogwarts, it also divides students into four different houses.

go.

This school's attitude toward Muggles is completely opposite to Durmstrang's, which may be related to the fact that the founder of the school is a Muggle.

The interesting thing is that the little wizards choose their wands after entering the school, or the wand chooses its owner instead of buying it..."

Professor McGonagall glanced over with a stern look. Jericho swallowed the next words back in his stomach and opened the "Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration".

Ten minutes later, Gryffindor's little lions came in groups. Even the energetic lions did not dare to make mischief in Professor McGonagall's class. They sat down in a neat manner.

However, two Gryffindors were late. When the two little lions stumbled into the classroom, Keith and others snickered. Professor McGonagall pursed her lips and deducted ten points from Gryffindor.

"Professor McGonagall is so strict." Jericho obviously didn't expect that the Head of Gryffindor would deduct more points from Gryffindor than he would add to Slytherin.

However, the effect was surprisingly good. The little snakes were so frightened that they sat down obediently and acted like good students.

The little lions felt even more guilty. Percy leaned forward, as if he was ready to answer a few questions to get back the lost academy points.

Professor McGonagall walked to the center of the classroom, glanced around with a stern look, and said: "Anyone who wants to be naughty in my class, I will ask him to leave, and he will never be allowed to come in again. I have warned you."

Already."

When the classroom quieted down, McGonagall got to the point: "Transfiguration is the most complex and dangerous spell you have in the Hogwarts curriculum. At the same time, I think it is also the most interesting spell, just like this."

As he spoke, Professor McGonagall pointed at a desk with her wand and turned it into a kitten.

The cat meowed happily several times, making the little witches want to hug it into their arms, while the little wizards became excited, and a few bold Gryffindors had already picked up their wands and were eager to try.

But when Professor McGonagall asked them to turn matches into needles, the little wizards became silent.

Moriarty guessed that if Professor McGonagall had not been present, they would have let out a howl.

"This is really difficult to do." Jericho pointed his cypress wand at the match, as if he wanted to cast a spell on the match, but the match only became a little thinner.

After the first attempt failed, Jericho shook his head: "There is no incantation to recite for transfiguration, it is too abstract."

"Oh Merlin's beard! Mr. Moriarty, how did you do it?" Jericho blinked, as if he thought he had seen an illusion.

I saw a pin standing on Moriarty's desk.

The pin rotated and turned into a small silver needle. The silver needle rolled in the air again and turned into a thick needle.

Professor McGonagall came over: "In the past five years, you are the first student to complete this transformation in the first class, Mr. Moriarty, and you get five points for this.

The transformation between the three needles is a very exciting transformation switch, for which Slytherin adds five points!"

The little snakes let out a sigh of admiration, but Moriarty shook his head and said: "Professor McGonagall, when I was performing the transformation, I found that I just poured a huge amount of magic power into the match, forcing the match to change its appearance, but there was no way to change it.

the essence of.

In fact this is a problem faced by most wizards today, we just use magic to force an object, maybe this is why transfiguration has reached a bottleneck in recent decades."

After Professor McGonagall listened to his words attentively, she raised her index finger.

"This is a question worth discussing, Mr. Moriarty.

Since you can ask this question, I assume you must know the five exceptions to Gamp's basic law of deformation?"

"Yes, Professor," Moriarty replied: "First, you can't conjure food. Second, you can't conjure magic items. Third, you can't change the quantity, such as -"

Moriarty glanced at the desk: "I can turn a match into a needle, but I can't turn a match into two needles.

Fourth, dead things cannot be permanently transformed into living things, and fifth, nothing can be created out of nothing.”

"Perfect!" Professor McGonagall couldn't help but nod: "It's a pity that these are not within the scope of first-year study, otherwise I would be willing to give you fifty points.

So, now that you know the five exceptions, why do you still have questions?

In other words, you have doubts about the five exceptions to Gamp's basic law of transformation?"

Professor McGonagall's eyes were full of seriousness. The students stared blankly at Moriarty with their mouths wide open. The classroom was eerily quiet.

Moriarty looked directly into Professor McGonagall's eyes and said: "I agree with the first four points, but I have illusions about making something out of nothing.

As I said just now, using magic to force an object to change its shape can achieve appearance deformation, but it cannot change its essence.

But if we can find a way to transform the essence, perhaps we can create something out of nothing by changing the essence."

Professor McGonagall frowned: "Your idea is quite bold, but there is one thing you said that is biased. How can you use the word 'forced' to describe the transformation?

Many powerful wizards have said this: Magic is a miracle produced by changing nature with one's own will.

Magic is a miracle, and transformation is a change before the miracle is born."

"About this, I think we can compare Animagus and Disguise Magus." Moriarty insisted on his opinion: "We all know that Animagus voluntarily turns into a magical creature.

When Magus changed into another face, he did so voluntarily.

And dead objects like matches, even though they have no thoughts and cannot speak, will they voluntarily turn into a needle?

I think the first problem lies here, if we find a way to establish a relationship with objects, so that it or they change voluntarily, and then match our appearance deformation, maybe we will find a way to transform in essence."

"As for the second question, I think it comes from the relationship between existence and non-existence." Moriarty paused and looked at Professor McGonagall: "There were only seven registered Animagus in the 20th century, Professor.

It's one of those things where when you become a calico cat, a cat that has never appeared before appears in the world!

It is true that the cat species exists, and Professor you also exist, but that calico cat does not exist. This proves that existence and non-existence can be connected through transfiguration.

If these two problems I mentioned are solved, there is no doubt that we can achieve something out of nothing, or even truly out of nothing."

"Mr. Moriarty, you are really... oh..." Professor McGonagall had an indescribable expression on her face. She pondered for a long time before saying: "Bold idea, wonderful analysis, but it's a pity that I can't do it for you."

To clear up the confusion, I suggest you contribute to "Transfiguration Today". There are many transfiguration masters on it, and you can have in-depth discussions with them."

Moriarty showed a disappointed expression, but still nodded slightly. In fact, when he was teaching himself the art of transformation, he had already questioned the five exceptions to Gamp's basic transformation rules.

The conjecture he mentioned before was actually to solve a fundamental problem, element deformation.

Moriarty raised his swastika wand, and the water element magic gathered at the tip of the wand, and a water ball the size of a fist appeared.

A cold wave emanated from Moriarty's body, once again firmly catching the eyes of the students and Professor McGonagall.

They saw the water polo, which turned into an ice puck.

Moriarty's left hand holding the wand suddenly started to tremble, and he stared at the ice ball with a gaze as sharp as a sword, but the ice ball showed no reaction.

After a while, Moriarty seemed to give up, put away his wand, and the ice ball disappeared.

The students were confused, but Professor McGonagall saw something. She walked up to Moriarty: "You want to turn the ice ball into air?"

"To be precise, it's in the gaseous state," Moriarty didn't hide anything and said bluntly: "Water is liquid and ice is solid. I can easily turn liquid into solid, but I can't turn solid into gas.

I think that changing the three states of macroscopic physics can find ways to transform the nature."

Professor McGonagall didn't know what to say. She opened her mouth feebly. The get out of class just happened to be over. She said: "Five points for your curiosity and erudition, Mr. Moriarty."

Then she left in a hurry. Moriarty guessed that she must have gone to report to Dumbledore, but this was nothing, Moriarty was not afraid of attracting Dumbledore's attention.

Because the character Lockhart established for him was that of a genius, if he acted like a mediocre person, that would arouse Dumbledore's wariness.

As he is now, Professor McGonagall must think that he is a genius full of fantastic ideas, and Moriarty has not revealed his true purpose.

When he found that he could not quickly unlock the magic of fire element, Moriarty thought of transfiguration - elemental transformation.

In other words, switching back and forth between elements.

It is impossible for the magic power of the water element to become the magic power of the fire element. There is a fundamental conflict between them, but can the magic power of the water element turn into the magic power of the earth element?

But maybe there is no earth element magic at all?

Moriarty doesn't know whether these ideas can be realized, but he will explore in this direction.

"Perhaps it would be good to contribute to "Transfiguration Today" and communicate with those old guys?"

On the way back to the dormitory, Moriarty thought to himself that wizards don't like the White Devil, let alone the Dark Lord, but a scholar who studies magic obviously won't attract too much attention.