Voldemort opened "Magical Tuning: Introduction to Transfiguration." He first skimmed the table of contents and found that every chapter listed there had a corresponding section in "A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration."
At that point, he rather wanted to close "Magical Tuning: Introduction to Transfiguration" and move on to the next book.
After all, to him, the contents of "A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration" were already far too distant, and the magical knowledge within was far too shallow.
In the end, he did not do it, mainly out of curiosity about Vizet. He wanted to see what tricks Vizet could have played with "A Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration," this elementary Transfiguration textbook.
Transfiguration was a branch of magic concerned with adjustment and shaping. It was not the crude twisting of an object into another form, but a harmonizing process in which, through the cooperation between will and magic, we magnified an object's possibilities while guiding it to transform into another form...
Transfiguration was not a process in which we denied an object and then imposed our will upon it, but a process of "commonality" between us and the object. Through will and imagination, we let the object accept the guidance that came from our will and slowly transition into the final form you imagined...
Transfiguration was like a performance. Your will and magic were the instruments, imagination was the score, and the music created after the instruments and score worked together was the final form of the object after you transformed it...
When actually performing Transfiguration, you could first look over the "score" and decide what you wanted to turn the corresponding object into. Then wave your wand like a conductor, guiding the "instruments" to play the melody. When will and magic followed the guidance of imagination, the object's transformation, like