Hogwarts starts with stealing power

December 17, Thursday night.

As Christmas approaches, the little wizards seem to be getting anxious. They are not very serious in class, and their minds seem to be drifting outside.

The same is true for evening self-study. These days, the evening self-study is all noisy, and even Hufflepuff students are no exception.

Some students are already happily discussing where their parents will take them to play on Christmas, what food will be prepared at home, and what gifts their relatives and friends will give them.

However, the joy only belongs to other little wizards, while Lin Xia and Draco are busy as dogs.

Although they no longer have to stay in the laboratory to study the subject, there are more important things waiting for them, and they are even busier than in the laboratory.

Hermione quietly ran to the Hufflepuff lounge. She wanted to find Lin Xia and Draco and exchange information with them.

Draco's roommate Robin said, "You're late. They went out not long ago."

Hermione asked, "Where did they go? If they come back soon, I'm willing to wait."

Ture interrupted, "Don't wait. They didn't study in the lounge last week. They went to other professors for private tutoring. It seems that they have to complete some tasks assigned by the professor."

Robin nodded, "Yes, Draco only comes back when he goes to bed at night."

Hermione said helplessly, "Okay."

She left the Hufflepuff common room, but she was concerned about this matter.

For some reason, she felt that she was getting further and further away from Lin Xia and Draco. She was confident that she could be the leader before, but now she couldn't catch up.

When she was still helping Harry and Ron solve the case, Draco and Lin Xia were already receiving private tutoring from the professor.

Hermione clenched her little pink fist and gritted her teeth. She must make a full arrangement for this Christmas holiday. She might as well buy the second-grade textbooks and prepare in advance.

After the new semester starts, she will also reach a level where she can help the professor!

On the other hand, Lin Xia didn't know Hermione's secret ambitions.

She was in Professor Otti's office, receiving her private tutoring.

Just during the day, she had just attended Professor Otti Havertz's Defense Against the Dark Arts class, and was praised by the professor for her accurate casting posture.

But during the private tutoring at night, she was not so smooth.

Lin Xia aimed the magic wand in her hand at the badger transformed from stone, and used her mind to outline a complicated magic circle.

As long as this magic circle is successfully outlined, a wisp of consciousness will automatically separate into the transformed object, achieving the effect of "controlling the transformed object with the mind".

After a while, the badger turned into a stone again.

Obviously, she failed to outline the magic circle with her mind.

Professor Oti took a sip of black tea and said without surprise: "When you wanted to learn from me, I told you in advance that this 'mind-controlled transformation method' is not so easy to learn.

You have practiced with me for three days. According to the agreement, if you cannot outline the magic array in your mind and separate a wisp of consciousness into the transformed object within a week, you will lose the opportunity to learn this skill forever."

"Mind-controlled transformation method" was not figured out by Professor Oti himself, but learned from his teacher.

This kind of high-end transformation technique is far from being thought out by one person, but requires continuous improvement and perfection by several generations to achieve perfection.

The programming transformation technique figured out by Professor McGonagall himself only gives the transformed object fixed actions.

But Professor Oti's technique gives the transformed object intellectual wisdom, which is equivalent to another clone of the wizard.

At the same time, the wizard can also withdraw consciousness at any time.

When the wizard sends the transformed object out to check, if he feels that he is in danger, he can actively let the magic array collapse to let the consciousness leave.

After that, even if the transformed item is damaged, the wizard will be unscathed. At most, he will be a little mentally disturbed, but he can recover.

However, this magic is not without disadvantages. It is too difficult to get started.

And if you really encounter danger, it is uncertain whether the consciousness can be detached in time.

In the face of emergency danger, the consciousness often cannot react, or even cannot perceive the danger, resulting in the damage of the transformed item, so that the consciousness attached to it is also severely damaged and counterattacks the wizard.

Some wizards use this technique, and if they are not careful, they are likely to turn themselves into idiots.

Therefore, this magic of "mind control transformation" is listed as an advanced transformation technique and is also listed as a "forbidden technique" by Hogwarts.

As a first-year wizard, Lin Xia should not be able to access this advanced magic even if she has obtained the Hogwarts Outstanding Student Badge.

At least she cannot obtain it through the channels of the college.

So Lin Xia went through the personal channel of Dean Sprout. Coincidentally, the dean has a good relationship with Professor Oti.

Professor Oti is willing to give her a chance to test. As long as Lin Xia can pass the test, she will teach her "Mind Control Transformation Method" without reservation.

But if Lin Xia cannot pass the test, then Professor Oti will never teach her any more.

Lin Xia calmed down and tried again.

This witchcraft is very challenging to one's mental strength. Her mental strength is much stronger than that of a young wizard of the same age, after all, she is a second-life human.

But because she is still growing and developing, she is not as good as an adult wizard.

Her mind was already able to outline half of the magic circle. It was not that she could not outline the remaining half, but that her mental strength was often insufficient at the last moment.

It was not that she could not do it, but that her strength did not allow it. This was purely a flaw of insufficient strength.

She tried again, but still failed.

Professor Oti waited patiently until the bell rang to urge the little wizard to go to bed, and then she said, "Lin Xia, you should go back and rest."

Although she failed again today, Lin Xia had found the reason and her face was very calm.

She said politely, "Thank you for your guidance today."

Professor Oti could see that the little wizard was sincerely thanking her.

To be honest, she had been teaching at Hogwarts for several years, and she had also met some self-proclaimed genius students who came to her to ask for advice on this witchcraft.

But these students failed without exception.

Even Professor Oti herself had made full preparations at the time, collected information from all sides, and deliberately strengthened her mental strength. She used the state of an adult wizard in his prime to successfully challenge within seven days.

When Professor Otti was a student, she was also called a genius. Her talent was not bad, but even she was not sure when she was a student.

Among so many students who came to ask for advice, Lin Xia had the best attitude.

She also saw that Lin Xia was not unable to draw the magic circle, but was stuck in insufficient mental strength!

If the complicated magic circle could not be drawn, the deformed object would collapse faster.

But Lin Xia was different. She could maintain the deformed object for longer and longer. From the first day of training, she could only maintain it for one minute without disappearing, to now she could maintain it for five minutes without disappearing. She has been making progress.

This made Professor Otti like her and was also a little satisfied.

She was only in the first grade, and she could achieve this step. She was really gifted.

"Wait," Professor Oti stopped Lin Xia, pondered for a while, and said, "I can feel that you are not unable to outline the magic circle, but you are stuck in insufficient mental power.

You are too young. Even if your mental power is far beyond your peers, it is still too young. Now the most urgent task is to improve your mental power."

Professor Oti made up his mind and said, "So, in the next few days, you can take potions to temporarily improve your mental power and see if you can reach the entry level. If it can be done through temporary improvement, then I will continue to teach you."

She is not a pedantic person and must stick to the rules.

If it is a little far away, she will not say so.

But it is just a matter of time to enter, and Professor Oti is willing to help Lin Xia cheat a little.

Lin Xia was originally thinking about how to get some wool from Qi Luo to increase her mental power.

She also fell into a misconception of thinking. She didn't expect that mental power could be temporarily improved through potions.

She thanked Otti: "Thank you, Professor."

Professor Otti waved his hand: "It's because you have met the conditions. Go back to the dormitory!"

...

Another potion class.

There are only two days left before the Christmas holiday, and the little wizard is completely restless.

Compared to other little wizards who are eager to go home, Harry is not.

Last week, Professor McGonagall came to register the list of students who stayed in school for the holiday, and Harry signed it immediately.

He didn't feel sad at all, and even felt that this was the best Christmas he had ever had in his life.

Not only did he stay, but Ron and his twin brother also stayed because the Weasleys were going to Romania to visit their second son Charlie.

"To be honest, I really feel sorry for some people." In the potion class, a Slytherin student said loudly, "They have to stay in Hogwarts for Christmas because their families don't want them!"

Some Slytherin students were snickering and looking at Harry.

There are people who admire Harry in the school, and naturally there are people who hate him.

He looked so ordinary, and his performance in class was ordinary, except for his talent for flying broomsticks.

But how could he defeat You-Know-Who with just a flying broomstick?

Some young wizards thought Harry was just a show-off, while others thought Harry was hiding his strength. They said all kinds of things.

In any case, these young wizards didn't like Harry very much, especially the wizards from Slytherin.

They couldn't tolerate that Harry, the legendary hero, was so mediocre, and he also rejected the solicitation of many noble families and made friends with poor Weasleys and Muggles!

So in class, they liked to see Harry make a fool of himself the most, and laughed whenever they caught him.

Harry weighed the ground minnow vertebrae with a blank expression, ignoring them. The more these people paid attention, the more they jumped.

"So, this is the style of Slytherin, taking advantage of the professor's absence to belittle the students' families?"

Draco was grinding the powder of the vertebrae, feeling a little irritable.

He was in a bad mood these days. He had not made any progress in the special training with the dean.

This made him anxious, fearing that he would not be able to participate in the action with Lin Xia this time.

One step slow, every step slow.

He had been given the opportunity, but he did not grasp it. This was too sad.

Draco unceremoniously turned on the mocking mode: "If this is the demeanor of Slytherin, then I am very glad that I did not join it. Is it the style of your college to be arrogant and conceited?"

"What happened?"

Snape walked in from the classroom and just heard what Draco said, and shot a gloomy look at him.

Draco replied calmly: "Nothing, Professor, just teaching a few arrogant little bugs a lesson."