The Big Boss Behind Hogwarts

"My cousin studied at Ilvermorny," Jericho said with eloquence: "This wizarding school is located in Mount Greylock, and like Hogwarts, students are divided into four different houses. go.

The school's attitude towards Muggles is completely opposite to that of Durmstrang, which may be related to the fact that the founder of the school is a Muggle.

It's interesting that young wizards go to school and choose their wands, or the wands choose their owners, rather than buying..."

Professor McGonagall glanced over with stern eyes, and Jericho swallowed the next words, and opened the "Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration".

Ten minutes later, the lion cubs of Gryffindor came in groups. Even the energetic lions did not dare to make trouble in Professor McGonagall's class, and they sat down well.

However, two Gryffindors were late. When the two little lions stumbled into the classroom, Keith and the others snickered. Professor McGonagall pursed his lips and deducted ten points from Gryffindor.

"Professor McGonagall is really strict." Jericho obviously didn't expect that the head of Gryffindor deducted more points from Gryffindor than from Slytherin.

However, the effect was surprisingly good, the little snakes were shocked, they sat down obediently, and put on the appearance of a good student.

The little lions felt even more guilty. Percy leaned forward, as if ready to answer a few questions to get back the lost college points.

Professor McGonagall walked to the center of the classroom, glanced around with stern eyes, and said: "Anyone who tries to misbehave in my class, I will ask him out and never let him in again. I warned you gone."

After the classroom fell silent, McGonagall got to the point: "Transfiguration is the most complicated and dangerous spell in your Hogwarts class, and I think it is also the most interesting spell, just like this."

As he spoke, Professor McGonagall pointed at a desk with his wand and turned it into a kitten.

The cat meowed a few times in a childish voice, which made the little witches want to hold it in their arms, while the little wizards were excited, and several bold Gryffindors had already picked up their wands and were eager to try.

But when they heard that Professor McGonagall asked them to turn matches into needles, the little wizards became silent.

Moriarty guessed there would have been a howl if Professor McGonagall hadn't been there.

"It's really hard to do." Jericho pointed his cypress wand at the match, looking as if he wanted to cast a spell on the match, but the match just thinned a little.

After the first attempt failed, Jericho shook his head: "Transfiguration has no spells to say, it's too abstract."

"Oh Merlin's beard! Mr. Moriarty, how did you do it?" Jericho blinked, as if he thought he saw a vision.

There was a pin standing upright on Moriarty's desk.

The pin spun and turned into a thin silver needle, and the silver needle tumbling again into a thick needle.

Professor McGonagall came over: "In almost five years, you are the first student to complete this transformation in the first class, Mr. Moriarty, and you get five points for that.

And the transformation between the three needles is a wonderful transformation switch, for which Slytherin adds five points! "

The little snakes gave an admiration, but Moriarty shook his head and said, "Professor McGonagall, when I performed the transformation, I found that I just poured huge magic power into the match, forcing the match to change its shape, but there is no way to change it. essence.

In fact this is a problem with most wizards today, we just use magic to force an item, maybe that's why Transfiguration has hit a wall in recent decades. "

After Professor McGonagall listened attentively to his words, he raised an index finger.

"That's a question worth exploring, Mr Moriarty.

Since you can ask this question, I think you must know the five exceptions to Gamp's basic law of deformation? "

"Yes, Professor," Moriarty replied, "First, you can't conjure food. Second, you can't conjure magic items. Third, you can't change the quantity, such as—"

Moriarty glanced at the desk: "I can turn a match into a needle, but I can't turn a match into two needles.

Fourth, dead things cannot be permanently transformed into living things, and fifth, things cannot be created out of nothing. "

"Perfect!" Professor McGonagall couldn't help nodding: "It's a pity that these are not within the scope of the first-year study, otherwise I would give you fifty points.

So, since you know the big five exceptions, why should you have doubts?

Or do you question the five exceptions to Gump's basic law of deformation? "

Professor McGonagall's eyes were full of seriousness, the students stared blankly at Moriarty with their mouths wide open, and the classroom was eerily quiet.

Moriarty looked directly into Professor McGonagall's eyes and said, "I agree with the first four, but I have illusions about creating something out of nothing.

As I said just now, using magic to force an object to change its appearance can change its appearance, but it cannot change its essence.

But if we can find a way to deform the essence, maybe we can create something out of nothing by changing the essence. "

Professor McGonagall frowned: "Your idea is quite bold, but there is one thing you said is biased, how can you use the word 'forced' to describe deformation?

There are many powerful wizards who once said this: magic is a miracle produced by changing nature with one's own will.

Magic is a kind of miracle, and transformation is a kind of change and change before the birth of miracles. "

"On this point, I think there can be an analogy between Animagus and Disguise Magus." Moriarty insisted on his opinion: "We all know that when Animagus transforms into a magical creature, it is voluntary. It was also voluntary when Junmagus turned into another face.

And dead things like matches, though they have no mind and no mouth, will they become a needle of their own accord?

I think the first question is here, if we find a way to connect with objects, so that it or they will change voluntarily, and then change with our appearance, maybe we have found a way to change the essence. "

"As for the second question, I think it comes from between existence and non-existence." Moriarty paused and looked at Professor McGonagall: "There are only seven Animagus registered in the 20th century, professor you It's one of those things, when you become a tabby, a cat that has never been seen before appears in this world!

It is true that cats exist, and so do you, Professor, but that tabby cat does not exist. This proves that existence and non-existence can be linked through transfiguration.

If the two problems I mentioned are solved, there is no doubt that we can achieve a certain degree of creation out of nothing, or even a real creation out of nothing. "

"Mr. Moriarty, you are really... oh..." Professor McGonagall had an indescribable expression on her face, she pondered for a long time before saying: "Bold idea, wonderful analysis, unfortunately I can't help you To clear up the confusion, I suggest you contribute to "Transfiguration Today", there are many masters of Transfiguration on it, and you can discuss with them in depth."

Moriarty showed a disappointed expression, but still nodded slightly. In fact, when he was teaching himself Transfiguration, he had already questioned the five exceptions to Gamp's basic Transfiguration Law.

And the conjecture he mentioned before is actually to solve a fundamental problem, element deformation.

Moriarty raised the cedar wood wand, the magic power of the water element gathered at the tip of the wand, and a fist-sized water ball appeared.

A cold current emanated from Moriarty's body, once again firmly catching the eyes of the students and Professor McGonagall.

They see the water polo and it turns into a puck.

Moriarty's left hand holding the wand suddenly trembled, and stared at the ice puck with a sharp sword-like gaze, but the ice puck didn't respond.

After a while, Moriarty seemed to give up, put away his wand, and the puck disappeared.

The students were puzzled, but Professor McGonagall saw something, and she walked up to Moriarty: "You want to turn the puck into air?"

"A gaseous state to be precise," Moriarty said bluntly without concealing it, "Water is liquid, and ice is solid. I can easily turn a liquid into a solid, but I cannot turn a solid into a gas.

I think that changing the three states of macroscopic physics can find a way to deform the essence. "

Professor McGonagall didn't know what to say, she opened her mouth weakly, just as the get out of class was over, she said: "Five points for your thirst for knowledge and erudition, Mr. Moriarty."

Then she left in a hurry, Moriarty guessed that she must have reported to Dumbledore, but it was nothing, Moriarty was not afraid of attracting Dumbledore's attention.

Because Lockhart set him up as a genius, if he behaved like a mediocre person, it would cause Dumbledore to be wary.

As it stands now, Professor McGonagall must think he is a genius full of whimsical ideas, and Moriarty has not revealed his true purpose.

When he found that he couldn't quickly unlock the fire element magic, Moriarty thought of Transfiguration - Elemental Transformation.

Or switching back and forth between elements.

It is impossible for the magic power of water element to become magic power of fire element. There is a fundamental conflict between them, but can the magic power of water element become the magic power of earth element?

But maybe there is no earth element magic at all?

Moriarty doesn't know if these ideas will come to fruition, but he will explore in that direction.

"Maybe it would be good to contribute to "Transfiguration Today" and communicate with those old guys?"

On the way back to the dormitory, Moriarty thought to himself, wizards don't like the White Lord, let alone the Dark Lord, but a scholar who studies magic obviously won't attract too much attention.

There are no accurate official settings for the five major exceptions to Gamp's basic transformation rules. The only thing we know so far is that food cannot be conjured. The remaining four are my thoughts. Do you have any other ideas?