Chapter 8： Deformation Course

Before dawn the next day, Xie Lin got up. He rinsed, went to Draco's room and glanced at Draco, who showed no sign of waking up, and was about to call him again after eating. Fortunately, there was no class today, and Schelling planned to explore around the castle and get acquainted with the environment.

Walking to the lounge, Xie Lin saw Daphne who also just came out of the dormitory. The two met to go to the auditorium to have breakfast, only to find that there was no empty figure. It turned out that the two got up too early today and it was not time for breakfast. The two did not take it seriously, and continued to explore this castle full of legends.

There are a total of one hundred and forty-two staircases in Hogwarts. Some of them are wide and large; some are narrow and small, and swaying; some lead to different places every Friday; some of them are halfway up, a step will suddenly disappear, you have to remember where. Should skip over. In addition, there are many doors here. If you ask them to open them bluntly, or poke them in the right place, they will not open the doors for you. Some doors are not real doors at all, but just a block. The sturdy wall of the door.

Schelling and Daphne walked around the nine floors, including the dungeon, and figured out the locations of the classrooms needed for class. At the same time, they found three secret passages. These secret passages are usually hidden behind tapestries and stone carvings. Behind the wall, or even hidden behind the portrait, some secret passages require specific passwords or touch certain special locations to open them.

When the two returned to the auditorium, there were already twos and threes of students sitting on the Slytherin table for breakfast. Schelling saw that Draco, who was still sleepy-eyed, was sitting with Gore and Crabbe at the moment, walked over to say hello to them, introduced Daphne to them, and several of them sat together for breakfast. Schelling casually ate a bowl of milk oatmeal, took a piece of parchment from his pocket, and wrote and painted on it with a pen.

"What are you painting?" Draco couldn't help asking.

"I'm going to draw a map of Hogwarts, recording the location of each classroom, and every secret road I found." Schelling did not lift his head, and scribbled on the paper intently.

Xie Lin just finished the drawing and flipped over the parchment. "Huh? Is this a map of the castle? Can you lend me a look?" A girl's voice sounded beside him. Xie Lin turned his head and looked over. It was from the same college. Freshman Pansy. Seeing Pansy's arrival, Daphne's eyes flashed with imperceptible disgust, but Schelling, who was as careful as a hair, noticed it immediately.

Schelling took out his wand and tapped it lightly, copied a map with the copy spell, and handed it to Pansy, "I still think I should go around the castle by myself. This is one of the joys of the new life."

Pansy stared at Schelling's wand, and said in surprise: "You have learned to copy the spell?"

Xie Lin uttered an unconfirmed "um" and said, "This curse is not difficult."

Pansy's eyes looked at Schelling suddenly became very weird. Schelling could be sure that he saw Pansy glance at Draco imperceptibly, and at that moment a look of annoyance and hesitation flashed in his eyes. . She looked at the map drawn by Schelling and frowned. The map was very detailed, and the lines and markings were very clear. The markings of the secret road and the classroom were clearly visible, and even where the stairs had to be crossed. There are no omissions in the order. This map is by no means something a child can do with graffiti. It contains high-gold skills such as space science, surveying, and architectural painting techniques. As a big adventurer in his previous life, Schelling did not touch the labyrinth. , Castle, and Dark Forest. It is easy to draw maps and routes by hand. Although it has been 11 years since he was born again, he has produced a lot of works, but the level of the paintings is still enough to make this group of kiddies beyond reach.

It didn't take long for Pansy's good friends to come to the auditorium one by one. Xie Lin knew that Daphne didn't like these girls very much, so he got up and said goodbye to them with Daphne. Before leaving, Schelling copied a few more maps and distributed them to Draco and the classmates present, saving them the risk of new students getting lost.

Schelling and Daphne did not intend to return to the dormitory. They went to the library together to explore the Hogwarts collection. Hogwarts has a full collection of 100,000 books, which is more than the combined collections of the Malfoy family, the Black family, and the grandmother's home. Daphne found a book about spells and sat down and read it quietly. Xie Lin spent a lot of time going through the books on each shelf and figured out the shelf positions corresponding to books in different fields.

Schelling’s primary goal is to learn Occlumency. In this castle, he is proficient in magic such as dementia. It is known that there are at least Dumbledore and Snape, and Schelling has too many plans that cannot be easily revealed. . Schelling borrowed several books about Occlumency in the library, and planned to go back to the dormitory room and ponder it slowly.

Hogwarts first-year freshmen have a total of eight courses, namely, defense against the dark arts, transformation, potions, herbal medicine, history of magic, astronomy, spells, and the most anticipated flying class.

The next day, Slytherin ushered in the first class—Transformation Class.

Transformation class is taken with Hufflepuff students. The professor of the transformation course is Professor McGonagall, who is a strict and meticulous professor. Therefore, she treats the students of the four colleges equally, will not be partial or targeted. The freshmen soon felt the strictness of Professor McGonagall.

"Transfiguration class is the most dangerous course in your first grade, so I don't want anyone to make trouble in class. If so, I will ask him out. I have said this to every freshman, and I hope you can keep it in mind. "At the moment when the class bell rang, she stood in front of the stage and said solemnly.

Professor McGonagall took out his magic wand after finishing his opening remarks. She pointed the tip of her stick at an empty desk and quickly chanted a spell. Under the surprised gaze of the freshmen, the desk gradually wriggled and turned into a pig very naturally. "Wow!" Most of the freshmen were attracted by this magical magic and exclaimed.

"I believe that many people have already previewed the textbook and have a preliminary understanding of this course." Professor McGonagall said slowly, waving his hand to change the desk back, "As you can see, this course is extremely advanced and profound. Magic comes with risks. If you are not absolutely sure, it is best not to try it alone."

Most of the little wizards are a bit disapproving, but Xie Lin dare not take this course lightly. He probably read through all the first-year textbooks, and the most difficult thing to understand is the "Elementary Transformation Guide." This course requires not only the correct spell, but also a thorough understanding of the nature of deformed objects. Wizards who study transformation must not only have an in-depth understanding of the material laws of things, but also have a definite understanding of the magical laws that may exist in their bodies, so as to avoid the dangers caused by transformation. This can be said to be quite difficult. The effects and abilities of the transformation technique are closely related to the level of the wizard, and the difficulty increases in proportion to the complexity of the transformation. For example, a wizard who is new to transfiguration can easily turn a match into a needle, but it is extremely difficult to turn a match into a stick, and even the shape of the needle is difficult to maintain for a long time. The magical wizards can not only deform as they wish, but can even impose spells on deformed things to achieve the effect of immortality.

However, Transfiguration is not too difficult for Schelling, who has studied mathematical formulas and physics formulas in his previous life. UU Reading Schelling’s understanding of the laws of matter far exceeds that of the little wizards. All he needs to do is rely on Imagination visualizes the image of a needle in the divine consciousness. The clearer and more detailed the image, the better, and then rely on concentration to use spells to inject magic into the object to change the form of matter. This process requires absolute concentration, confidence and indomitable progress. This is why it is difficult for the vacillating little wizards such as Neville and Ron to be proficient in Transfiguration.

While the surrounding students were still tinkering with the principle, Schelling turned the match into a silver needle, and there was a lifelike snake head at the eye of the needle, which made Professor McGonagall very happy and gave Slytherin a point. By the end of get out of class, only the matches of the Malfoy brothers had completed the task-Draco was still good under Schelling's training, but he was a bit lazy. Professor McGonagall asked the class to see how the matches turned into needles, and gave them a rare smile.

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Note:

Slytherin's 1st grade curriculum: (author's setting)

Deformation class + Hufflepuff

Potions class + Gryffindor (official design)

Curse Lesson + Ravenclaw

Herbal Medicine Course + Ravenclaw (Official Design)

Black Magic Lesson + Hufflepuff

Astronomy class + Ravenclaw

Magic History Lesson + Ravenclaw

Flight Lesson + Gryffindor (official)

The intersection of Slytherin and Ravenclaw is at best traceable. In the original book, Harry was not familiar with Ravenclaw’s classmates at all. He didn’t know only four of them until the establishment of Dumbledore’s Army in the 5th grade. This shows that the main intersection of Gryffindor is Hufflepuff. In addition, the original book also mentions that the first-year courses Slytherin and Gryffindor only have two courses of potions and flying together.