This is what Ravenclaw looks like..

Chapter 629: The Sun in the Deep Forbidden Forest

'3D printing?'

This was Andrew's first inkling of Dumbledore's ideas - but he quickly rejected them.

What 3D printing? That's too outdated - using the large-scale field of deformation to realize things in dreams and turn false things into true ones is simply a direct feedback of dreams to reality.

"But in that case, Principal, what about the communication function? And how can we take classes in dreams?"

"Take classes in a dream?"

Dumbledore looked at Andrew and raised his eyebrows. "You mean, students don't go to the classroom, but practice in dreams?"

His eyes lit up, but he quickly shook his head.

"No, Taylor. Dreams cannot simulate real-life spells classes. The tree may be able to hold up, but the feedback to students is too small, and it will make them lose their awe of magic - it's already small enough at the moment."

...

indeed.

Students at Hogwarts are not in awe of spells.

There are not many students in the entire wizarding world who respect spells, because potions are so magical, and professional therapists can even perform plastic surgery manually.

At Hogwarts, accidentally losing your nose or mouth is not a big deal. Madam Pomfrey is best at finding limbs for students, and then reattaching arms and legs for them.

Apart from the permanent wounds caused by the despised black magic and high-risk magical creatures, other injuries are simply child's play for wizards. Taking classes in dreams cannot replace the daily spell sparring courses.

"So, you see, in fact, we just need to communicate our ideas. It would be more appropriate to quickly reproduce the results of the discussion in our imagination using Transfiguration."

Andrew nodded to show that he understood - indeed, producing results is also important.

Moreover, as a plant with some basic intelligence, even if its development direction is temporarily wrong, it can be corrected easily - it can learn, and more contact with students can obviously speed up this process.

In short, the tree in Brazil is more inclined to the plant's spiritual function and reserves the ability to analyze dreams, while on the Hogwarts side, Dumbledore is trying to engrave the blessing of Transfiguration into it, and see if it succeeds.

If successful, then in the future, even if we consider it from the perspective of the most basic student use, Hogwarts' Transfiguration skills will take a big step forward - the finished Transfiguration product will show the problems of Transfiguration more intuitively than the current Transfiguration class.

The most important thing is that if everything goes as expected, when the tree is old enough, it will probably be a tree as talkative as the Sorting Hat.

"We've arrived at the next site. Don't think about that, Taylor. To know what a tree looks like, you have to plant it first."

Dumbledore smiled and nodded, then began to check himself - this still didn't work, there were still some differences between the drawings on campus and the actual situation.

……

"That was a good one, write it down, Taylor."

Dumbledore looked around and made sure Andrew had written down the data of the place he had just visited. He suddenly stopped and said, "Let's not go to the next place for now. Let's go deeper into the Forbidden Forest and show you something. To be honest, I'm stuck too, but maybe it can give you something to think about."

???

Andrew was stunned for a moment, but he didn't slow down at all and followed Dumbledore closely.

Hiding things in the Forbidden Forest does sound more like something Hagrid would do than coming from Dumbledore.

But if you think about it carefully, it doesn't seem strange - Hagrid himself may not be able to protect the secret of what he hid in the Forbidden Forest, but if Dumbledore asked him to keep it secret, then Hagrid would be more reliable. The most important thing is that if it is hidden in the Forbidden Forest, even Professor McGonagall will not easily find it.

But now the question is - is there anything that the Headmaster even needs to hide from Professor McGonagall?

He didn't know about it, but he didn't feel surprised. If there was something shameful, Dumbledore wouldn't bring him to see it...right...

Ah? ? ?
Ok? ? ?
Andrew blinked once, then blinked hard again.

Just as Dumbledore led him through the trees so tall that they required a man's embrace, and just as he suddenly bypassed the tree roots, a large open space suddenly appeared in the Forbidden Forest.

In the very center of the forbidden forest, a huge steel structure was lying there quietly. Under the weak sunlight, it was shaking so much that Andrew's eyes hurt.

That's right, it was steel, piece after piece of steel - just like a small factory. The ground sank dozens of meters deep. Those steel-cast guys lay there quietly with the unique flavor of alchemy, as quiet as a sleeping beast.

Andrew came back to his senses and felt it with his heart.

The entire area was enchanted - a super-large transfiguration field, a field that Andrew now had to carefully piece together day by day, just lying here.

"Professor, this way?"

Andrew took a moment to catch his breath.

“My work.”

Dumbledore's tone was as calm as ever.

"After you told me about the relationship between metal and Transfiguration, I tried all sorts of things, mixed in some alchemy and other technologies, and it took quite a while."

More than a lot - he finally understood why Dumbledore noticed the Weasley car.

So the principal goes into the Forbidden Forest every day, right? How else could he do that?
How could an average person get tons of steel in, use Transfiguration to make all the different parts, and then have Hagrid, an expert in the Forbidden Forest, keep it a secret?

"But, what is this?"

Andrew looked at the thing in front of him, and an outrageous thing emerged in his mind, but it was not very recognizable.

"The sun... I don't think so, but that's what the Muggles call it."

"Too…sunny?"

The bad thoughts in Andrew's mind were finally confirmed.

"How do you deal with the radiation, Headmaster?"

This is the most critical part, and the rest can be put aside.

"It was lead at first, but I analyzed the metal, replicated it several times and tried to modify it, then adjusted the Transfiguration field, and finally determined it to be harmless."

"In fact, for a while I used lead directly, but its performance was just as described, which was really average."

Dumbledore said in a relaxed tone, "Also, I tried Muggle alchemy, and the results were also very interesting."

"I have experimented with various materials. Since you started to unify the standards last year, I have also used a lot of data to learn from Muggles in testing synthetic materials. The results are okay, but I still can't test out the best device, let alone make it light up stably..."

(End of this chapter)