Hogwarts Card System.

Chapter 136: Impossible Food Making Technique

Late at night, in Ted's "private laboratory".

Ansu and Parker were still keeping watch for him, to prevent him from being discovered by the professor or Filch.

In fact, Ted and Mrs. Norris have a very good relationship now. The cats now come to Ted's place to eat snacks without telling Filch. He is particularly interested in the white mice, which makes Ansu very unhappy. She often swoops down in the castle corridor to take revenge when no one is around.
Filch thought his cat was sick, so he refused to eat and took it to the school hospital to ask for medicine.

In the light of the fire, there were still a few little white mice and the long-tailed monkey in the cage.

In theory, Ted's experiment has been completed, and the long-tailed thief monkey with a hairy face and a sharp mouth should be released back.

The question is, isn’t this new experiment coming again?
Professor Kettleburn: My monkey is missing! Has anyone seen my monkey?!
……

Ted has been secretly studying Azeroth's water-making and food-making techniques in recent days.

In Ted's opinion, these two types of magic are almost the most difficult to transform into local magic.

If Ted hadn't upgraded his Transfiguration spell by one level thanks to his druidic transformation knowledge, he wouldn't have dared to try it.

Other magic such as water and fire magic, magic suppression, and even "awakening" can be traced.

Awakening can restore a large amount of magic power in the body in a short period of time. If it is studied along the lines of wizard bloodline, it is not impossible.

But the art of making water is different from the art of making food.

The water-making technique is better, at least there is a magic spell called "clear spring like water" in our country, which can create water.

The only difference is whether the water is drinkable and whether it can restore magic power and physical strength.

But the art of making food is completely different.

Can the wizarding world use magic to create food out of thin air?

Yes! And no.

I say it can because it can be transformed.

To say it cannot be eaten is just a conjuration that has appearance only and cannot be eaten.

There is a well-known Gamp's basic law of transfiguration in the field of transfiguration.

There are five major exceptions, the first of which is that food cannot be conjured out of thin air.

You can turn raw materials into food, for example, if you have flour and water, you can turn them into bread, which simplifies the steps.

Most household witches are adept at what Aunt Molly does every day at home.

Logically, if water can be transformed, why can’t food be transformed?
Ted has done an experiment and found that the water he created using the water-making spell is drinkable.

Both mice and long-tailed monkeys can prove it~
But not the food.

The little white mouse ate the donut it had created and died in agony in less than five minutes.

After the autopsy, it was found that the stomach was severely damaged and there was no food residue. There was something wrong.

Ted once again used the water-making technique to create a magical spring of water that could restore magic power and physical strength, and fed it to the little white mouse.

The three mice were given different doses and showed different performances.

Two of them were in great pain and were running around and squeaking.

The last one was so excited that it started dancing crazily in the cage...

This is the one that survived yesterday’s experiment. Among the eight mice that have been used as test subjects so far, only this one has the “fortune” to participate in the third round of experiments.

Five minutes later, the other two mice were dead, with their eyes bulging and their bodies slightly swollen.

When they took it out and dissected it with a knife, they found that the muscles and blood vessels had varying degrees of damage, but there was nothing wrong with the brain.

"Like it's the consequence of excessive magical infection?!" Ted wasn't sure.

He recorded the experimental process and data in his notes, and wrote down the conjectures and subsequent experimental steps.

An Su, who was standing by, looked at the two dead mice and shook his head in pain: They died so tragically that they must not be eaten. They can only be thrown away. What a waste. Haha~
The long-tailed monkey in the cage covered its mouth with its paws, leaned against the side of the cage with a look of fear on its face, and stayed as far away from Ted as possible, wishing it could stuff itself into the iron bars.

Its IQ is pretty good. At least it can tell that many mice died in the past few days because this boy poured water into them to kill them.
And he even wanted to get himself drunk!
Long-tailed thief monkey: Help! Someone is killing monkeys! Someone, please come, I won’t dare to steal anything again~~~
"Clean up this place and bury the little white mouse in a remote place outside the castle." Ted gave an instruction, cast an invisibility spell on himself, and went out to his bedroom.

Ansu naturally followed, flapping his wings silently and disappearing into the corridor.

Parker, the spiritual crystal servant, moved his legs and feet, and then used his psychic power to command the invisible servants created by magic to do their work.

Two invisible humanoid energy bodies floated out of the window with the dead white mouse, went to the edge of the forbidden forest in the distance, and dug a hole to bury the mouse.

Invisible servants are very useful. They don’t need to eat, drink, complain, or be paid.

The only downside is that its intelligence is average and it cannot be given too complex commands.

But the spiritual crystal servant Parker can command them in detail, which makes up for the shortcomings.

……

The next day, Ted came to Professor McGonagall's office after school.

"Come in."

Ted pushed the door open.

Professor McGonagall looked up and saw that it was Ted.

Wow, what a rare guest!

She sat up straight, took off her glasses and wiped them with a piece of fine cotton cloth, looking at Ted with unfriendly eyes.

Ted has been in trouble quite a bit this year and was even punished to be sent to the Forbidden Forest.

If it weren't for the fact that his Transfiguration Skills had improved by leaps and bounds recently and it looked like he had put a lot of effort into it, I would have to deal with him~
"Ted, what can I do for you?" Professor McGonagall continued to wipe her glasses, not even willing to look up at him.

Ted smiled very brightly, just like when he was taken to Diagon Alley by McGonagall.

"Professor, I have some questions about Transfiguration that I would like to ask you."

I don't know if it was Ted's bright smile that worked, or if it was his efforts in Transfiguration that touched Professor McGonagall, but she finally put on her glasses and looked Ted in the eye.

"Sit down." Professor McGonagall waved her hand gently, and a chair appeared behind Ted.

Ted sat across from the desk, holding a thick notebook, looking very well behaved.

"Tell me, what questions do you have?" Ted's pretense worked, and Professor McGonagall began to like him a little.

"Professor, I would like to ask about Gamp's basic law of transformation, especially the first of the five exceptions..."

Professor McGonagall pushed up her glasses and looked at Ted carefully. "It's too early for you to learn this."

Gamp's Basic Laws of Transfiguration are extracurricular knowledge for fifth graders.

But she thought about it and realized that even if she didn't tell him, given Ted's personality, he would probably look it up himself. Didn't he already know something?
"Okay, do you have a problem with not being able to conjure food?" she asked.

"Excuse me, Professor, is it true that we can't conjure up food? I mean, is it true that we can't eat it?"

Professor McGonagall stared into Ted's eyes. "From what you said, you have already tried it, right? You are not stupid enough to eat something you made, right?"

Ted smiled and said, "Of course not. But why can the water from the spring be drinkable?"

"Fool, because Spring Water is a spell, not Transfiguration..."

As an extra effort to cultivate good students, Professor McGonagall told Ted a lot about Gamp's basic laws of transformation, especially the question Ted asked about "creating food".

Transfiguration can only create things that you are familiar with most of the time, and most of the time it is not permanent.

This is why the food that is transformed cannot be eaten. Once the magic effect wears off, it is hard to say what is in your stomach.

Magic can even cause unpredictable and terrible damage and consequences.

This is why Gamp's basic law of transfiguration states that food cannot be conjured out of thin air.

Is it actually possible?
can!
Just as Newton's three laws of motion have limitations, Gamp's fundamental law of deformation is naturally only relative to normal conditions.

Cutting-edge transfiguration can create food, but it is very, very, very difficult!

The difficulty is totally disproportionate to the benefits.

One must be at least a master of Transfiguration to be qualified to attempt research in this area.

Even Professor McGonagall had never thought of such an unreliable research direction.

Are the ingredients so expensive? There is no need to conjure up food!

You can definitely create fruit on a fruit tree.

Although it cannot be created out of thin air, it can accelerate its growth, and you can also use growth spells and expansion spells.

The productivity of the wizarding world is very high, as can be seen from Hagrid's huge pumpkin on Halloween.

Once this powerful productivity is put into production, there will be no need to worry about survival materials.

This is also why many wizards are so weird, they have no pressure to survive. Food, clothing and shelter are not a problem at all, so they can do whatever they want.

Imagine if Professor Quirrell put the energy he put into studying the bloodlines of magical animals into improving species.

It's true: the pig is as fat as an elephant, but its nose is short. If the whole school kills one, it will be enough to eat for half a year.

……

No matter what, Ted at least learned that the magic world also has magical effects similar to food making, but they are very advanced.

I can still continue my research.

It's just more design experiments and attempts.

Write, I need more guinea pigs!
(End of this chapter)