Hogwarts Raven's Claw

Chapter 129 Transfiguration Lesson

The next day, Monday, in the Transfiguration classroom at Hogwarts.

Most of the young wizards from Ravenclaw and Slytherin sat upright, and the few who were talking spoke in low voices, and from time to time they glanced vigilantly at the classroom door, as if some ferocious beast might appear from there at any time.

After more than a year, McGonagall's prestige has already accumulated in the hearts of Mike and his group of young wizards. Now, as long as McGonagall appears, even the most naughty students will instantly become good kids.

The only ones who could do this in the entire Hogwarts were McGonagall and Snape. As for Dumbledore, everyone who knew him knew that he was an approachable old man, so they would not be too restrained in front of him.

"Clap."

The door of the Transfiguration classroom was suddenly opened, and Professor McGonagall, with a serious face and chest held high, walked in. In just a moment, the few remaining voices in the classroom disappeared immediately.

Professor McGonagall glanced at everyone with hawk-like eyes, and nodded with satisfaction when she saw that everyone was as obedient as quails.

"Then our class today has officially begun." Professor McGonagall said, "Today our class content is to transform buttons into butterflies. I believe that everyone here should be able to do it after more than a year of study. Finally, before we officially begin, I must reiterate again, what is the most important point about Transfiguration?"

As soon as Professor McGonagall finished speaking, the young wizards in the audience shouted in unison as if they had rehearsed it thousands of times:
"cautious!"

In fact, Professor McGonagall has asked this question countless times, and she asks it again before almost every class.

Transfiguration is an extremely dangerous spell, especially when it comes to the transformation of the human body or other living things, which can easily lead to irreversible deformation.

Over the past few thousand years, countless wizards have turned into monsters because of this, such as the Kappa in Japan and the Banshees with human faces and bird bodies. These terrifying humanoid monsters are actually wizards who failed to transform.

Upon seeing this, Professor McGonagall ordered the little wizards to begin transforming, while she herself kept patrolling the classroom, and stepped forward to help any students who had problems.

Don't think this is an easy thing to say. There are very few people on the scene who can conjure up a complete butterfly, let alone a beautiful one.

The butterflies transformed by these little wizards are very strange. Some have small wings on one side and large wings on the other side, so they can't fly at all. Some simply transform into a pupa or a caterpillar. Some have no buttons at all after performing the transformation.

The above are still good, at least there is no danger.

A chubby little wizard from Slytherin chanted the Transfiguration spell and the button exploded, turning several Slytherin students around him into afro hair. Their funny appearance caused a burst of laughter in the classroom.

For this, Slytherin was deducted 10 points, not because he failed to cast the spell, but because they disrupted the class order.

Mike didn't pay attention to that side. At the moment, he was closing his eyes and concentrating on imagining the appearance of the butterfly in his mind.

From the butterfly's colorful wings to its furry body covered with scales, Mike strives for perfection.

Suddenly, Mike opened his eyes and stared at the button with sharp eyes, as if he regarded it as his mortal enemy. At the same time, he pointed his wand at the button and shouted the spell of Transfiguration:

"Veravito!"

As he shouted, the black button on the desk began to rapidly stretch and thin, and then six slender insect legs slowly appeared, and finally a pair of wings with a black base and mixed with red, yellow and other colors also stretched out.

The butterfly flapped its wings gently, trying to take off. It seemed that it was not familiar with the butterfly body, so it failed after several attempts. Fortunately, butterflies are born with a high talent for flying. After practicing for a while, it finally flapped its big wings with beautiful phoenix tails and flew up slowly, landing on the tip of Mike's stick.

"Whoo~"

After letting out a breath, Mike's heart finally settled down.

Mike tried his best in this transformation.

There was no way. Mike's performance in Transfiguration class was not good enough to impress Professor McGonagall. If he wanted to ensure that Professor McGonagall told him the secret of Cedric's Transfiguration, he had to do so when she was in a good mood.

Although this last-minute cramming may not be of much help, there is no other way at this point.

Mike silently swore in his heart that he would study Transfiguration well in the future.

Professor McGonagall had also finished dealing with Slytherin's affairs and noticed the butterfly on the tip of McGonagall's wand.

"Perfect Transfiguration, Mr. Townley!" A rare smile appeared on Professor McGonagall's serious face. "No one in the entire second grade except Miss Hermione Granger can become better than you! Ravenclaw plus 10 points."

Upon hearing this, the students around all looked at Mike with admiration, and Professor McGonagall turned around and continued to help other students.

Mike also noticed the smile on Professor McGonagall's face, thinking there was hope, and decided to add fuel to the fire.

So he got up and went with Professor McGonagall to help those students who always had problems casting spells.

Sure enough, Professor McGonagall's smile deepened after noticing Mike's actions.

This continued until the end of the get out of class, and most people in the classroom were able to turn buttons into butterflies, although the butterflies they turned out still looked like they had genetic mutations.

After Professor McGonagall announced the end of get out of class, everyone rushed out of the classroom, as if they didn't want to stay with Professor McGonagall for a moment.

But Mike did not leave. He waited quietly in the same place until he and Professor McGonagall were the only ones left in the classroom. Then Mike smiled and said to Professor McGonagall, who had just cleaned up the mess left by the students and was about to leave:
"Professor, can I spare a moment of your time?" Mike's face was filled with a smile as bright as the sun. "I have some questions about Transfiguration that I would like to ask you."

Professor McGonagall was stunned when she heard this. In her impression, Mike had never been interested in Transfiguration. Therefore, although Mike also had a high talent in Transfiguration, his grades were always suppressed by Hermione.

A light bulb suddenly lit up in Professor McGonagall's head, and she seemed to have figured something out, and her expression turned stern.

"Don't think I don't know what you're doing. I will never teach you the Animagus Transfiguration! And you must never practice it secretly!" Professor McGonagall scolded, "I know that young and talented wizards like you always think you can do anything, but please remember that the most important thing in learning Transfiguration is to be cautious. With your talent, you will definitely succeed as long as you study hard. There's no need to be so anxious."

Mike was completely confused by Professor McGonagall's long sermon. He never expected that Professor McGonagall would think that he wanted to ask about Animagus.

"Um, you misunderstood, Professor. I came to you to ask you something else. Can you please…"

Professor McGonagall looked at Mike suspiciously, and when she saw that he didn't look like he was lying, she said, "Well, come with me to my office."

(End of this chapter)