Chapter 35 - Animagus Transformation

Next day early morning I traveled to a secluded mountain outside London to complete my animagus transformation for the first time. After finding a secluded spot I started the transformation.

The transformation was very easy. I concentrated on my inner animal and willed my body to change. Slowly my body began to shrink and feathers began to form on it. The transformation was a slow and painful one and I could see as each part of my body changed. It was expected due to it being my first time transforming. Slowly my hands turned into wings until after a painfully long time I completely transformed into a Peregrine Falcon. I stumbled around trying to walk around the mountain top until I got proper bearing of my new temporary body. My walk was more like hopping but I will call it walking for convenience sake.

I moved around feeling my new body. I was excited while feeling my wings and trying to fly. I also felt like I had to complete certain tasks as a falcon to gain the most benefits from the Animagus after transforming back into my human body. I had learned how to fly, hunt and move around like a falcon during the time I became one with my inner animal in my mind so it was time to put it into practise and fly for real. As it was my first time, I jumped from the edge of a cliff while flapping my wings and tried to fly into the sky before I hit the ground and became severely injured. I had Sherry watching out for me if anything like that happened. However Sherry was not needed as flying came naturally to me and I flew high into the sky and started circling alone the mountain looking around. The feeling of wind while flying was amazing. The flight was much better than the one I had during the training in my mind. I flew to the clouds and started searching for my first prey from there. Even from that height I could clearly see the mountain top and trees. When I saw something moving around the bushes on the mountain after some time, I dived down with my top speed with my talons ready to strike. The feeling while diving down from that height was exhilarating and was better than the fastest rollercoasters. My talons connected and the snake which was moving around was killed in a single strike. I went to the grass and clean the blood off my talons and then again flew into the sky. I repeated shooting up and diving down routines many times and also flew around the city till I was tired and satisfied. Then I landed on the mountain and changed back. The process of changing back was also a slow one and I could see as my I transformed back into my original appearance. Without noticing I had spent the whole day flying around. I did not even feel the huger as I was that excited to fly around. It was night time now and I was too tired to check the changes in my body. I called Sherry and she popped me to my room. Then I fell asleep directly.

Next day when I woke up I went directly to look at the changes in my body. The overall appearance was same with some changes. I grew taller by a couple of inches and I felt that my body was stronger and my bones harder. My athletic body still looked the same despite the changes.

My eyesight was now very good. I could see farther than normal. The world also looked more brighter and clearer to me. It seemed like I gained the ability to see the UV spectrum of light like most birds. I did not gain it completely only some partial sight. But the advantage was that I gained the ability to see in the dark which was amazing. Mage sight with falcon eyesight made me was much more powerful as now I could even see the magic through the walls. I had to test it out to see its limits.

Looking in the mirror after transforming into my animagus, I saw that I looked similar to an ordinary peregrine falcon. I had the same blue gray wings and a curved black beak. I was a little disappointing because I wanted to stand out. I guess looking normal also had the advantage of being inconspicuous which was what I required with my animagus so I was not too disappointed.

So now my holidays were spent flying around in my falcon form and practising the transformation until I could completely transform in seconds. It gave a soothing feeling flying around in the morning just before sunrise and also got rid of my drowsiness. After more testing I felt that the falcon became more powerful and faster as my magic grew stronger. So I felt there was a chance that one day my animagus would go on to become as strong as magical birds with the increase in my magical reserves and then be known as magical animagus. But I could feel that I had a long way to go before I reached that level.

The other thing I achieved during my holidays was that I reached NEWT level in Alchemy. It had to be done during holidays because of the same reason as Potions as I needed many kinds of metals to try transmutation on. Now only Healing and Duelling was left.

I also finished carving the wand I would use for my pranks. I called it the Mischief wand as causing mischief was the wands main purpose for now. I tested it and it performed wonderfully. The magical signature from its spells were untraceable. It was a unique magical signature and I did not have to worry about someone getting punished for my deeds. The wand was only a above average fit for me but that was enough since I needed it mostly for pranks and the spells for it did need to be strong.