However, Harley always failed to understand one thing. Although Harley did not dare to turn on her Spirit Vision to gaze at Quirrell, even low-Sequence powerhouses would unconsciously feel oppressed when seeing a demigod.
Yet when Harley looked at this professor, she never felt any oppression. Only when Quirrell's gaze swept over her could it trigger Harley's spiritual warning.
Though her strength was gone, Harley's insight was still there.
She thought of the many situations in Sequence Pathways where this phenomenon could occur, such as this professor not being a demigod, but merely controlled by a powerhouse at the demigod level.
For example, being possessed or controlled by a marionettist from the Prisoner pathway, being turned into a marionette by a Bizarro Sorcerer from the Seer Pathway, or being parasitized by a Parasite from the Marauder pathway...
Although these situations were difficult to spot directly, when that demigod-level powerhouse looked at others with great malice through the eyes of the person they controlled,
those with relatively strong spirituality could keenly perceive this malice and trigger their own spiritual warning.
Therefore, Harley decided she still needed to stay away from Quirrell as much as possible. Although she did not know whether magic could actually achieve this step, keeping her distance was always right.
Consequently, Harley had no intention of asking Quirrell questions at all, and she quickly distanced herself from the classroom the moment class ended, deciding to only sit in the back row from then on and never spend time alone with Quirrell.
If there was any subject among all the courses that Harley found completely inscrutable, it was Transfiguration.
When Harley had first seen this book, she once thought that the vast majority of people in this world possessed the strength of demigods and above.
What was Transfiguration? It was turning one object into another object.
In the Sequence Pathways, there were not many Sequences that could accomplish this, and every single one of them possessed extremely formidable strength.
Those who could do it as effortlessly as McGonagall cast spells were mostly powerhouses who had reached Sequence 4.
Those who were less than demigods were not incapable of it, but it required expending quite a bit of spirituality and setting up cursing rituals as well, which could be said to be very troublesome, unlike Transfiguration which was so effortless.
However, Harley later discovered through continuous reading that this kind of transformation was actually a very idealistic spell, and most of the time it lacked any threat.
This made Harley heave a sigh of relief. If everyone in this world were as strong as the Angel of Imagination Adam, then Harley would not bother unsealing her strength and would simply concentrate on walking the magical system.
In the first Transfiguration class on Tuesday, McGonagall demonstrated her unique skill to all the little wizards, a spell called an Animagus.
Before class, McGonagall had turned into a cat, quietly crouching on the desk of the podium.
Many classmates thought the professor hadn't come, so they romped and played around, and some even wanted to go pet this cat.
Of course, none of them succeeded.
Harley, on the other hand, felt that something was wrong with the cat in front of her; after all, that human-like, solemn gaze was very unusual to find on a cat.
Moreover, when looking at this cat with Spirit Vision, the rich emotions were not something an animal could possess.
Just as Harley expected, as soon as class started, McGonagall changed back to her original form, giving many people a fright.
Quite a few students recalled their behavior of wanting to pet the cat before class and couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat.
This was simply dancing on the edge of courting death!
McGonagall repeatedly emphasized the difficulty of Transfiguration in class, and demonstrated turning the lecture desk into a pig, then turning it back again.
When Harley saw this scene, she was extremely shocked, especially upon discovering that the pig would grunt and wanted to run outside the classroom.
Was this creating a living object using inanimate objects? Did the transformed pig also have self-awareness?
Harley pondered while noting this point down, preparing to slowly explore it later if she had the opportunity.
The first class did not cover such profound knowledge.
After teaching a bunch of basic magic theories about Transfiguration, McGonagall handed each student a match.
"Next, you need to use these simple magic theories, along with the incantations in the textbook, to turn the match into a needle."
McGonagall pointed her wand at the notes on the blackboard, which were complex and profound to most people, and spoke.
However, it seemed this task was not as simple as McGonagall said; until the end of the lesson, most students' matches did not show the slightest change.
Only Harley's and Hermione's matches had undergone slight changes.
Hermione made one end of the match turn into a needle tip, but the other end was still wood.
As for Harley, she successfully made her match turn into a silver needle on the third try.
"Harley, how did you do it?" Hermione, sitting to the side, asked curiously.
Through this period of contact, Harley also realized that Hermione's nature wasn't bad, she just had a somewhat low emotional intelligence.
Therefore, Harley was naturally very willing to interact with such high-IQ talent, since after all, everyone else in Gryffindor was a reckless lion.
Take that Ron, who was late for the first class of the term and played Wizard's Chess in the common room at every free moment.
Such a decadent attitude was truly something Harley could not stand.
As for Neville, who gave Harley a good impression and was polite, Harley hadn't discovered any learning talent in him either.
As for the girls, Harley's other two roommates, Parvati and Lavender, liked discussing topics about grooming and dressing up the most.
Harley understood quite a bit about these topics, but they were all just things she learned to cope with high society and disguise herself.
If she had a choice, Harley would much rather learn a few more occult rituals.
So Hermione was still the most suitable one to befriend, as long as one could endure her nagging words.
"Just like Professor McGonagall explained!" Harley looked at Hermione with an innocent expression. "It's very simple. I felt like I understood it as soon as I heard it."
Saying that, Harley slightly lifted her chin,
"Um—if I really have to say, I expressed a very strong desire in my heart to turn this match into a silver needle."
"And then it successfully transfigured!"
"Very good, Miss Potter!" Professor McGonagall had walked over at some point.
She looked at Harley and nodded with great satisfaction.
This child had inherited her father's talent for Transfiguration, and in this aspect far surpassed her father.
You must know that back then, James hadn't even completely turned a match into a silver needle in his very first class.
"You've already found the trick! Everyone look, Miss Potter has succeeded!"
Saying that, Professor McGonagall held high the silver needle Harley had transfigured and displayed it in front of everyone,
"Very well, Miss Potter. You have successfully won fifteen points for Gryffindor, and you can also skip the homework for this class.
By the way, the homework was to repeatedly practice this magic, write a reflective report, and detail your own possible reasons for failure."
After class, Harley originally wanted to stay behind to ask for some advice regarding idealism, and quietly introduce the mystical knowledge about the spiritual realm that she had snatched from the Psychology Alchemists to see if Professor McGonagall had any different insights.
However, considering that she was likely still being watched by Dumbledore, Harley decided to take things step by step and wait until she read more books in the library before asking.
Time flew by to Friday, and early in the morning was Potions class.
In the words of all Gryffindors, Professor Snape, who taught this subject, was the professor who hated Gryffindors the most.
But Harley had a hunch that this Friday wouldn't be particularly bad.
This hunch came true during breakfast in the morning. Harley received a letter from Hagrid, who was suspected to be a half-giant.
This Hogwarts gamekeeper invited Harley to visit his hut this weekend, and also expressed his deep regret that it should have been him who went to pick up Harley back then.
Harley naturally readily agreed; after all, according to her classmates, Hagrid guarded the entire Forbidden Forest.
If she built a good relationship with him, then many herbs would surely be obtainable with ease. Just thinking about it was exciting!
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