Professor McGonagall has been teaching at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for thirty-five years. Apart from Professor Binns, she is the most senior faculty member among the professors who are still teaching.
Throughout his long teaching career, Professor McGonagall has almost always maintained his magnanimity and sternness.
This made almost all the teachers and students in the school feel awe of her - this was different from the simple disgust and fear of Severus Snape, and closer to the way people felt when facing Dumbledore.
Emotions.
After all, as time has passed, many successful people now active in the wizarding world were once students of Professor McGonagall, such as Lucius Malfoy, Arthur Weasley, Severus
Snape...
Compared with the friendly Professor Dumbledore, Professor McGonagall has her own way of doing things. She cannot tolerate shamelessness or stupidity, especially she hates any cheating and clever tricks - especially those who value her most.
and those who love transfiguration, trying to escape and misinterpret.
"I think I need a reasonable explanation, Miss Kaslana."
Professor McGonagall glanced at the snail on her fingertips that had released the "transformation magic" and returned to its original appearance. He pierced Elena with sharp eyes like a frost blade, and his voice was particularly serious.
"As far as I know, with your talent in magic, even without this kind of trickery, you can easily master the real transformation technique - instead of constantly using meaningless illusions like you do now.
Deceiving everyone."
There is no doubt that Elena Kaslana may be one of the most outstanding magical talents among the little witches Minerva McGonagall has seen over the years, whether it is potions or herbology.
, Charms class, Transfiguration... and even the boring and cumbersome history of magic and astronomy, she is like a born wizard, with no shortcomings in any field.
Professor McGonagall has been thinking this way for the past two months.
It wasn't until this day, under Hannah Abbott's unintentional reminder, that she suddenly realized that it was very likely that Elena had been using such illusion magic for so many days to deceive everyone's eyes, and at the same time deceive everyone.
Got a lot of bonus points.
Even now, she is still shocked by Elena's superb magical ability and imagination - creating illusions is not an easy task. In a sense, it is even more difficult than simple transformation.
The shame of being deceived for a long time, the sadness about Elena's squandering of talent, and the shock caused by the illusion magic that the girl created to cope with the course... Minerva McGonagall had a hard time telling which emotion accounted for it.
Absolute dominance, but there is no doubt that "Elena's little cleverness" ends here today.
"So Elena has been cheating?"
"I knew...how could I master it so quickly..."
"Do you think Professor McGonagall will deduct all the previous bonus points?"
"Thinking about it this way, maybe her other courses are like this too."
"Well, we have been deceived by her all this time..."
Following the conversation between Professor McGonagall and Elena, the little wizards in the classroom gradually came to their senses, stopped their magic attempts, looked over curiously, and started whispering among themselves.
Everyone's eyes were filled with excitement and inexplicable indignation, as if they had received an exciting gift.
I have to say that Elena's previous performance at Hogwarts was really outstanding.
Compared with witnessing the continuation of a legend, for most people, deep down in their hearts, they are more looking forward to seeing the bursting of a beautiful bubble, or the embarrassing appearance of a proud white swan falling from a height.
This has nothing to do with age or region. This is the root of evil rooted deep in human nature.
This rare incident, similar to a top student being caught cheating on an exam, instantly ignited the interest of most little ones. Although few people realize that the magic displayed by Elena may actually be difficult.
Higher than Transfiguration.
This is also why Professor McGonagall’s expression is particularly complicated…
If we want to make an analogy, it is roughly equivalent to a student in a middle school mathematics class who, in order to avoid tedious calculations, directly writes a set of mathematics software such as MATLAB and then skips all processes to obtain the results.
"This is not an illusion, this is transfiguration."
After Elena was silent for a few seconds, amid the whispers of the students around her, she raised her head and looked at Professor McGonagall.
"In other words, the mainstream understanding of transfiguration in the magical world is actually not fundamentally different from my magic. Professor McGonagall, you should be very clear about the contents of the 'Five Exceptions to Gamp's Basic Transfiguration Law', so I don't think I
What's wrong? Strictly speaking, what I showed is just a variation of the current modern transformation technique."
Although the girl knew very well that if she directly admitted her mistake at this time, it might just end with a verbal punishment, but feeling the sudden gloating looks around her, Elena felt that she needed to make a few excuses.
Whether it's to change the subject, or to start a debate about the nature of transfiguration.
At least...this accident will not become a topic of conversation for these students like a "holiday gift" today.
Professor McGonagall easily saw Elena's original intention, but she did not intend to fully cooperate with the girl's script - a genius who always has smooth sailing, it is difficult to guarantee that the future path will not go astray.
Taking this opportunity, Minerva McGonagall planned to temper Elena's temper a little.
However, before that, we really have to take into account the girl's emotions. This is also the experience that Professor McGonagall summed up after experiencing many things - Elena is a child who eats soft things but not hard ones, and she especially cares about
own face.
"If I remember correctly, this is the second time you have talked about the 'five exceptions to Gamp's basic law of transformation'."
After looking around at the students whispering around him, Professor McGonagall raised his eyebrows and said coldly.
"But this is the content of the seventh grade Transfiguration course, Miss Kaslana. Unless you can fully explain the concept of this aspect, I don't think it is necessary to discuss the nature of Transfiguration with you at this moment - in other words
In other words, you must first prove that you have the qualifications to study magic based on your knowledge reserves, rather than purely learning magic."
Following Professor McGonagall's voice, the discussion in the classroom instantly fell silent.
The seventh-grade course content, magic research and the essence of magic... these words are not difficult to understand, and judging from Professor McGonagall's tone, it is obviously somewhat different from the simple cheating that everyone imagined - if Elena can really
To answer those questions, perhaps it would be more appropriate to describe it as a dispute over academic concepts.
Looking at the twinkling eyes of the students around her, and then at Professor McGonagall, who had a bit of expectation hidden in his eyes, Elena instantly understood what Professor McGonagall meant, calmed down, nodded, and answered unhurriedly.
road.
"Of course there is no problem, Professor, if you think it is necessary."
"'Gamp's Basic Law of Transformation' is a magic theory put forward by the famous wizard Gamp hundreds of years ago after a long career of magic experiments. There are five exceptions to the modern transformation mentioned in it, that is, impossible magic.
Condition."
If Elena could only rely on some memories from her previous life to answer this question a few weeks ago, then after two months of study, she has completely made up for this theoretical shortcoming.
Even after combining some of her own spell-casting experience, Elena had further understanding and derivation based on the theoretical explanation in the book. Professor McGonagall also knew this - as the only one in Hogwarts
As a master of transformation, Elena naturally couldn't help but ask her for advice on this aspect.
Therefore, when Professor McGonagall asked this question, Elena instantly relaxed a lot.
The hostility and tension that had just risen gradually dissipated, and he smiled at Professor McGonagall.
"First of all, transfiguration cannot produce food, neither directly formed dishes nor ingredients. This is also the most important point, which means that there are great limitations in the transformation of matter. For example, Professor McGonagall, you
The lions and pigs transformed from a podium in a class cannot be used for cooking."
Elena paused for a moment, her eyes slowly swept over the faces of the little guys who were looking forward to watching the fun, and the corners of her mouth raised.
"These days, I think everyone should know that the food that appears on the Hogwarts plate is not magically conjured out of thin air. All the dishes are cooked by the house elves in the Hogwarts kitchen.
Come out, and then send it to the dinner plate above through transfer magic."
"The second point is exactly what today's course involves - 'living things and dead things cannot be permanently deformed'. We can only temporarily turn a snail into a glass bead, but it is impossible to turn it into a glass bead forever.
As an inanimate dead thing, once the magic attached to the snail dissipates, it will automatically change back to its original appearance. In the same way, a desk cannot turn into a pig forever..."
In fact, in the original Gamp's basic deformation law, it actually states that objects cannot be permanently transformed.
But since Elena mastered a part of the magic between transfiguration and alchemy, the description of this rule hundreds of years ago seems less rigorous in the girl's eyes, so she added part of her own understanding here.
As long as she does not change the essence and elemental composition of matter, Elena can now easily change the shape of some small and simple objects as easily as kneading plasticine.
The only difficulty is that all of her transformations are permanent.
The conventional detransformation magic in the wizarding world cannot deactivate the objects that Elena has released the "reorganization spell". This is why Elena has been reluctant to get too involved in the deformation spell - just as Dumbledore said
As such, you must be extremely cautious when dealing with any magic that cannot be reversed or reversed temporarily.
Glancing at Professor McGonagall who was hesitant to speak, Elena did not choose to explain in too much detail.
Some things just need to be told to Professor Dumbledore. If Dumbledore thought that Minerva McGonagall could know all this, the old wizard would have taken the initiative to tell McGonagall this knowledge instead of sealing it.
"The third point is that transfiguration cannot produce magic items. Whether it is a flying broomstick, an automatic stirring cauldron, a wand, or even the gold Galleons and Silver Sickles produced by Gringotts, they cannot be transformed - perhaps in appearance.
You can get close to them, but when they are put into the coin bag, they will not count automatically and will just become ordinary items without magic power."
Sitting on some of the largest gold mountains in the entire magical world, Elena naturally carefully studied these coins circulating in the magical world.
There is no doubt that the cunning and suspicious goblin will not forget the matter of currency anti-counterfeiting.
All gold coins are attached with exquisite magic. The character number imprinted on the edge not only represents the minter's information, but also has the functions of anti-oxidation, reinforcement, and automatic counting - this is why the wizards are so terrible
The reason why he is able to use such a complex and complicated currency system is because of his mathematical skills. The coins produced by Gringotts can perform some simple "change and calculation".
"The fourth point is that transfiguration cannot change the quantity of an object. For example, we cannot turn a mirror into two snuff boxes, nor can we turn a desk into two pigs, or turn seven people into one
Gourd. Unless you use the 'whole transformation' technique, all the objects that connect an area are wrapped in magic and transformed."
Regarding this point, Elena has even made some more dangerous attempts.
When she was lost some time ago, she once thought of treating the stone wall in front of her as an individual entity, turning them into gravel, and trying to temporarily open a straight passage to the distance.
Unfortunately, Hogwarts Castle seems to have already carried out magical protection in this regard.
Any transformation spell on the main body of the castle will be locked to the entire Hogwarts Castle by default. There is essentially no big difference between using the transformation spell to drill a hole and turning the castle into a Transformer.
"As for the last point, although Mr. Gamp describes it in his book as 'transfiguration cannot be made out of nothing' and classifies it as an exception to the last type of transfiguration, but..."
Elena raised her eyebrows, with a look of nostalgia in her eyes.
"I am more accustomed to calling it the principle of [equivalent exchange] - without sacrifice, there is no gain. If you want to get something, you must pay the same price. This is also the most basic concept in ancient alchemy. Just like what I learned after senior grade.
Summoning spells are either projections formed by magic or the use of transfer spells, but they do not directly conjure objects out of thin air."
"So...am I qualified now? Professor McGonagall."
At the end of the sentence, Elena tilted her head, a look of contentment on her delicate face.
"Based on the nature of modern transfiguration, I think there is nothing unusual about what I did. After all, the transfiguration we are learning now is actually just a relatively advanced illusion... This explanation is satisfactory to you, Professor McGonagall.
Yet?"
Looking around at the sudden realizations on the faces of the other students in the classroom, as well as the admiration in their eyes, Elena curled her lips quite speechlessly. These first-grade children were so fooled that they had no position of their own at all.
But from the beginning, she didn't take the comments of these first-year classmates to heart. She just wanted to take this opportunity to let Professor McGonagall understand that it was actually the most ideal for everyone to keep the same as before.
Condition.
What a little witch with terrible talents.
Professor McGonagall took a deep look at Elena, filled with emotion.
There are many people with excellent magic talents, but those who can try to analyze the essence of magic from the beginning. Over the years, only a few people have been born in the magic world - and like Elena, who has been in the first grade
What she started to explore had never appeared before in her mind.
"Overall, there really isn't much wrong with it. Because of your wonderful answer, Hufflepuff gets five points. But..."
Professor McGonagall paused for a moment, frowned at Elena's proud look, and continued with a half-smile.
"This does not seem to be the reason why you did not complete the class assignments as I asked in class."
"Eh?!" Elena blinked, as if something was not quite right.
According to the script in her mind, this should lead to a happy ending, rather than any strange follow-up.
Professor McGonagall pushed her glasses slightly, and a dangerous light reflected from the edge of the lenses.
"I will make corresponding special adjustments to the content of your subsequent courses - on the other hand, let us discuss the punishment for not turning in your homework for two consecutive months. Perhaps I need to remind you that as a Gryffindor
As the headmaster of the college and the deputy headmaster of Hogwarts, I have the right to directly decide to punish you..."