This is what Ravenclaw looks like..

Chapter 251
"Andrew, it seems like you haven't been to the Black Lake to cast spells for a while."

Hal said this out of the blue after telling the news of the day in late January.

"Ah, casting spells by the Black Lake?"

Andrew came back to his senses from the school gossip, "Yes, I don't need to cast spells anymore, at least not before spring. I have graduated from that training."

"Great, then let's go join the mutual aid group!"

Hal looked happy.

He had mentioned the mutual aid society to Andrew a few days ago, and it would be a good opportunity to invite one more person over - Hal's grades were average, but he was well-informed, and decided to give his college a helping hand in winning the college cup.

"About what time? I'm not sure I can make it..."

Andrew was somewhat tempted - he had to admit that after reading Mr. Nick's works, he also became interested in alchemy, and communicating with students in the same group was obviously easier to get started with those subjects than studying on his own.

"At least everyone should get an E or above. Of course, astronomy and other subjects are..."

“Once on Wednesday and once on Saturday, both in the afternoon. Attendance is not mandatory.”

"I'm afraid I can't go on Wednesday. The schedule conflicts are huge. Is it okay to just go on the weekend?"

"Of course, no problem."

Hal patted his chest and made a promise - after all, there are only people with ulterior motives in Ravenclaw, no real fools...

He really couldn't imagine that there would be someone in Ravenclaw, no matter which faction, who would try to go against a guy like Andrew.

"Well, okay, it's settled. I'm going to the library. Anyone want to join me?"

Andrew stood up, high-fived Hal, then turned around and started packing his schoolbag.

"I'm going too. It's just in time to finish my homework. What about you guys?"

Kevin stood up and started to pack his things.

"No, I have some things to sort out..."

Hughes shook his head and returned to his seat. As for Bale, he went directly to the stadium for substitute training after lunch - which meant that today's post-lunch seminar was over.

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"It's really interesting. It's really interesting..."

In the library, Andrew muttered to himself that if it weren't for the environmental restrictions that prevented him from casting spells, he would even have planned to try this deformed transfiguration.

Okay, so deformity is a bit harsh, but it's not an exaggeration to say that a fourteen-year-old student can master the art of human body deformation but can't turn a hedgehog into a pincushion.

"Even the most basic spellcasting uses himself as the experimental subject. It's really... a scary order."

The original material is a mixture of English, Ugandan and Swahili. Due to the influence of Muggles, this material is not that difficult to get started, but it still requires a lot of language learning.

Compared to a translation that has lost its essence, the original text will obviously be better - this is also the significance of Professor McGonagall giving him the original material.

For him, the next step in learning Transfiguration is to focus on rule analysis, and gradually begin to explore human body Transfiguration and advanced Transfiguration from death to rebirth.

And Vagado's research in this area is even more in-depth than Hogwarts, and it also provides top-level learning materials - but the threshold is extremely high and it is not something that ordinary students can get involved in.

'Thanks to our dear Professor Lockhart for open source, otherwise the language alone would have consumed a lot of my time.'

After confirming that he had gained a lot from today's study, Andrew put on his bookmark, stretched, stood next to Kevin and whispered, "Let's go?"

"Walk."

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"By the way, you guys knew Taylor was coming today, right?"

In the study mutual aid group, the originally leisurely students became nervous one by one.

No, isn't this a mutual aid group where everyone discusses common progress and sprints towards the first place? Why invite such a pervert over?
That hand transformation technique made even the sixth graders nervous!
"Come on, it's a good opportunity for us to share the difficulties of Transfiguration, and he also needs to improve his other subjects, right..."

"That's true. Compared to Miss Granger, his other subjects are really terrible..."

There were bursts of laughter from the group.

Fortunately, the other subjects are not worth studying, otherwise the rest of the second graders could choose to give up - being the first in all subjects and being able to do miscellaneous things at the same time, what are others doing!

"Oh, Hughes, and Andrew, you two are here, great. Where's Nash? He hasn't arrived yet. Wait a moment..."

This is an empty house near the dean's office, which was directly used for decoration - Andrew checked last time, and this was the house of the club under the name of the dean, but it has not been taken back after being closed for a long time. The other colleges are similar, and it can be regarded as a free place in the college.

"Professor Flitwick's support is extraordinary."

Andrew sat on the sofa and watched the sixth grade prefect begin to host. "And, um, three minutes, everyone can communicate privately. We will still start on time. It's still the same old rule. The fifth graders will start first."

Before the deadline, two more people hurried in. After they sat down, the class leader announced the start of the class. A fifth-grade student took the lead and said, "It's the same as before. Let's start with the spell. I'll go first..."

"We are currently reviewing all subjects, but I still have some questions about spells that I don't understand. Um, the Spring Water Spell..."

He calmly began to demonstrate, without even introducing himself, and skillfully shot out a stream of water from his wand, which shot into the air like a fountain, then gradually fell to the ground and finally dissipated.

"It's like this. I can control the flow of water and the disappearance of time, but it is essentially still a liquid created by magic, but it is drinkable. And after the spell disappears, I can't control water anymore. What is the difference and connection between it and food?"

?

Andrew, who was already very interested, became even more excited - isn't this kind of research really too great?
But this and the first place in the exam...

It doesn’t matter much, right?

The magic exam wouldn't cover such profound content... at least not Transfiguration.

"It doesn't belong to the scope of the exam, but I can answer you, because the relationship between magic spells and Transfiguration is not that profound, just like you can't use Transfiguration to replicate the most basic offensive spell, Disarming. Its essence is to summon water, not to make water appear. In fact, if you cast a spell in a desert area, you will feel that this spell is much more difficult than before."

A seventh-year student who interrupted (Andrew didn't know him, but judging from his seat and the attitude of the surrounding sixth-year students, he should be the same) replied lazily, "Of course, this sounds a little unbelievable, but the fact is, there is an extremely difficult spell in Defense Against the Dark Arts that is used to summon a patronus. Its casting material is even the illusory yet real happiness."

"So, it absorbs the surrounding water? No, it summons the nearby water? But there is still a difference when summoning it... it's just that the added magic power dissipates quickly? "

Andrew guessed, but he could only guess—he knew nothing about Qingshui Ruquan, but when it came to Transfiguration…

"The Vagadu system of transfiguration does include the concept of summoning, but it is a spirit... The traditional transfiguration system, at least the traditional transfiguration system I have come into contact with, does not include this concept..."

"But the Transfiguration spell can't imitate the Disarming Charm... That makes sense... I can at least think about other magic, but Transfiguration can't be about transforming the opponent's wand, right? That's really nonsense..."

'At least my current magic is not enough to transform the opponent's wand, and I have already hit him, why should I work on the wand? '

Even now, Andrew has the ability to make his opponents suffer from Transfiguration - although his magic power is insufficient, he can break the magic resistance of most wizards to Transfiguration after being exposed to the rules. "You came to the right place... Let the seventh graders solve the puzzles... Really, Dean, you have put in a lot of effort..."

Andrew was deeply moved.

But there was no time to be moved - because the exchange meeting time was limited, the second person went up almost immediately after the first person asked the question.

"Transfiguration. I'm currently experimenting with transforming large objects, but the effect is very average... It's okay for normal objects, but once the object is larger than the sofa, the effect of Transfiguration will be greatly reduced..."

"Try it, um... try simple material deformation. The sofa contains too much material. It is too difficult to treat it as a whole."

Another seventh grader hesitated and answered.

Then he looked at Andrew with a questioning look.

'I? '

No, on this occasion - well, I really would.

Andrew sighed. It really didn't make sense to keep this area of ​​knowledge sharing hidden any longer.

"Skip the steps. Um, try mass transformation first. Um, try with ants, and then think about making them more widely distributed. You probably can't control the Transfiguration, so this situation will occur."

Andrew thought about it for a moment and responded like this - this question had never stumped him. He had made too many attempts due to his lack of magic power. This could be considered his personal training technique.

"Is that so? Okay, I'll try it when I get back!"

……

The fifth graders came next. After they asked all their questions, they left the room in a hurry - there was nothing they could do. The fifth graders' time was extremely precious, or in the words of the seventh graders.

"Let's send the fifth graders away first, and then we'll come one by one slowly. Anyway, everyone's time is not that valuable, and it doesn't hurt to listen more."

So, then the second grade began.

After all, the threshold for admission is to be close to the first place in last year's exam, or at least have the ability to develop into the first place. There is not even an exam in the first grade, so although there are obviously good seedlings, they are not convincing enough.

As for those who did not perform well last year, they can only hope that their scores will be good enough this year to be admitted.

There is no way - after all, everyone's time is not as cheap as the class leader said, we can't just wait for you to come and ask how to do the homework, right...

"Spells come first, Nash."

"Ok!"

Nash almost couldn't wait to stand up and start asking his own magic questions - compared to the fifth graders, the questions now were of standard difficulty in the exam. Although they might not be tested, they were within the scope of the examination.

The most important thing is that Andrew can understand it.

After all, he had started to work hard after being pulled out by his own dean for a private lecture. Although he was just rehearsing in advance and making sure he could cast spells, the second graders were only able to pull away like that...

Next was Potions, but everyone was almost equally not good at this - fortunately the seniors were able to handle it.

Not being so good just means that you can't get first place, it's not that bad.

"What about you, Taylor?"

"The question of the spell..."

Andrew listed several of them with great enthusiasm - anyway, he didn't get anything for free.

There is no doubt that even the seventh grade did not need to help, as several senior students could easily answer his questions. After all, the difficulty of the questions was average.

But no one looked down on him - my god, this kid actually has a better solution to a problem that even the seventh graders couldn't solve. He is also a big shot who was pulled here by the professor to take charge!
So, the third-year student who was good at Transfiguration asked a question that was not within the scope of the exam, and then quickly got several answers.

...

“It’s been a great harvest…”

Two hours passed in the blink of an eye, and Andrew took out his notebook directly when he reached the middle part.

Under his leadership, several people followed his lead and started recording together.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand, just write it down and use it later!

"I don't know if it's an illusion, but it may not be an illusion..."

Andrew was even a little afraid to speak - he was afraid that his dean would scold him.

But after thinking for a long time, he still went to the dean's office after the exchange meeting and knocked on the door.

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"So, that's it?"

"That's probably it..."

Andrew sat down obediently and didn't dare to speak loudly.

He felt that he was on some strange path.

At first, the magic questions asked by the fifth grader were too advanced for him to understand. But after the third grader started asking questions, his understanding of magic began to change.

Yes, knowledge of spells - starting from the third grade, Andrew began to be able to use Transfiguration to analyze some spells.

Self-study was not enough, but after those seventh- and sixth-grade students began to explain, the difficulty was reduced. From what they said, Andrew could even use the system of Transfiguration to understand...

In other words, he began to analyze the spell using Transfiguration thinking.

This is a really heretical idea...

However, contrary to his expectations, the professor's eyes became gentle.

"Probably, there's nothing wrong with that."

"In alchemy, it even connects many things together... Although the essence of the spells, the incantations, the gestures are all different, and the power of the spells also varies, there is still unity."

"Don't look at me like that, Taylor. I've also studied alchemy. Or rather, no wizard who tries to go further on the path of magic has not studied alchemy. After all, it integrates the ultimate fantasy of most systems."

"Well done. Keep up the research. This is a good topic. Of course, don't think that it's all magic. A spell is a spell, not a Transfiguration..."

The professor smiled kindly, "You can come to me if you have any questions. Of course, don't ask me about basic spells..."

(End of this chapter)