The Fate of Werewolf Descendants Is Cruel / The Muggle Studies Assignment Took a Whole School Year
Unfortunately, Lucius eventually turned into a Werewolf.
"Failed? That shouldn't be the case..."
After using the Time-Turner to go back in time, Harry frowned and pondered, feeling that he must have overlooked something.
Werewolf saliva is different from ordinary viruses; its toxicity is not reduced by dilution. Harry injecting Lucius with a drop or a full injection should have the exact same effect, so it's definitely not a matter of dosage.
"Is it because he's currently unconscious and his consciousness can't control his body to make changes?" At this moment, the husky girl that Harry picked up from the Forbidden Forest tilted her head and offered her opinion.
Having spent two months with Harry, she had successfully learned to speak human language using magic; it was a somewhat mature female voice, and quite pleasant to listen to.
Incidentally, the Zouwu and Unicorn can already speak some human languages.
As Harry had predicted, Norberta simply couldn't learn it no matter what.
There's no way around it, this guy can't help but pounce on Harry every time he sees him, he's not paying any attention to his studies at all.
"Consciousness... I'll give it a try."
Harry for a moment and decided it was worth a try with the wolf girl's suggestion.
When he was studying several Werewolf transformations last month, he discovered that in addition to changes in heart rate, blood pressure, and body temperature, Werewolf are also affected by their biological rhythms when they transform.
In other words, the transformation process only begins when their internal biological clock perceives it as night on the night of the full moon.
Besides these factors, there may be another hidden one: animalistic instincts overriding rationality.
In the final stage of the Werewolf transformation, the beastly instincts completely take over, turning the Werewolf into a completely berserk monster.
This change indicates that the Feral Wolf Virus, in addition to inducing transformation, also affects the Werewolf's consciousness.
So Harry thought he might as well test whether Lucius's brain had been affected by the virus... Maybe, even though he hadn't been able to develop an antibody serum yet, he could free Lupin from the Wolfsbane Potion forever.
So, before Harry could inject the saliva again, he woke Lucius Malfoy up ahead of time.
"Ugh... where is this?! It's you?!" Lucius Malfoy, barely awakened, immediately cried out in terror, "You bastard! What do you want?! Let me go!!"
"The Malfoy family are really forgetful. Didn't I already tell you what I wanted to do last time?" Harry's face revealed a sinister smile. "I said I'd turn you into a Werewolf, and I absolutely mean it!"
"You... no, absolutely not! Harry Potter... let me go, please let me go!!"
He struggled incessantly on the dissection table, so much so that the veins on his neck were clearly visible.
However, Harry completely ignored him and plunged the syringe, teeming with the virus, into his neck.
At that moment, Lucius's eyes were filled with despair.
And when the syringe pierced his skin, his cries of agony changed from "Let me go" to...
"Kill me! Please... kill me! I can't become Werewolf, I absolutely can't become Werewolf! Harry Potter, kill me!!"
Amid his screams, Harry injected a syringe full of saliva into him, and as his heart rate and blood pressure rose, Lucius struggled even more violently.
"Kill me... kill me! I don't want to become Werewolf... Ahhh! I... I'm okay?"
After howling for a while, Lucius was surprised to find that he was still human and had not turned into Werewolf as he had imagined.
However, his joy lasted less than a second before his entire body suddenly began to change, transforming him into a emaciated wolf.
After that, his body began to constantly switch between human and wolf, and sometimes he would appear with a human body and wolf claws, or with wolf fur but a human head.
"Looks like there's been a decisive breakthrough!" Harry's face finally lit up with joy as he looked at Lucius Malfoy, who was in human form but covered in a thick layer of wolf fur.
The wolf girl's suggestion was indeed effective; the final link influencing the Werewolf's transformation was undoubtedly human self-awareness!
Lucius Malfoy was an experimental subject. Harry was able to cultivate wolfsbane antibodies in him, but that did not mean that the Feral Wolf Virus in his body would be completely eliminated.
However, the Feral Wolf Virus in his body has now transformed into a state that can be reversed at any time.
Although he will still show signs of transformation due to the influence of the full moon, as long as his human consciousness can resist the invasion of his beastly instincts, he can transform back into a normal human from Werewolf... or even not transform at all!
However, resisting one's animal instincts is a very difficult thing. Lucius had been frightened by Harry and, due to his deep-seated aversion, would rather die than become Werewolf. This was how he barely managed to contend with his animal instincts and ultimately succeeded in suppressing part of his transformation.
If it were anyone else, or even a bastard like Fenrir Greyback, they would probably still transform into Werewolf.
However, it's already quite good that we've managed to get this far for now.
As for suppressing his transformation and dealing with the onslaught of his beastly instincts, Harry has other ways to solve those problems.
"It... it actually worked?" The wolf girl's eyes widened in disbelief. "If this can be completely controlled, the Werewolf threat will be gone forever."
"It's hard to say. At least we can start antibody culture now... but whether we can isolate the serum I need still requires further infection experiments."
"An infection experiment? That's..." The wolf girl was startled upon hearing this.
"If you know, just keep it to yourself, understand?" Harry glanced at the other person expressionlessly, and the latter immediately felt his hair stand on end and quickly shrank back and lowered his head.
This boy is absolutely terrifying.
The Werewolf, feared by all, were nothing more than pawns to him; he could even go to Azkaban, the most terrifying prison in the Wizarding World, without a second thought, completely disregarding the Dementor stationed there.
And those Death Eater who were once feared might become his experimental subjects, to be used and exploited at will...
"Next, we'll conduct another experiment."
Leaving the dying Lucius aside, Harry turned to the Werewolf lying on the other three dissection tables and suddenly swung his wand with all his might at Greyback, the one that was howling the loudest!
"Compel Homorphus... Forced Transformation!!"
"Roar!!"
A dazzling crimson light instantly enveloped the Werewolf's body, and the next second, Greyback began to let out painful and unwilling howls!
And his appearance gradually changed from that of a toothless giant wolf...
(P. S. Don't worry too much about the poor English; Homorphus is the English for Lockhart's Human Restoration Spell. That's all~)
Chapter 448 The plight of the Werewolf descendants is very cruel.
The agonizing howls of wolves rose and fell, one roar after another, their echoes reverberating throughout the entire combination lock case...
As Fenrir Greyback's movements became slower, Harry frowned slightly and increased the output of magic in his hands.
The effect was immediate; Greyback's tail retracted instantly, and his wolf fur began to shrink, rapidly transforming him into a human-like form.
"Ugh... Damn it, let me go! I'm going to bite your throat, let me go right now!!"
In the end, this guy not only fully regained his human form, but also regained his ability to speak; his previous roar turned into his current vicious curses.
"Thank goodness, that counts as a success." Seeing this, Harry stopped releasing his magic and instead cast a Stunning Spell to knock him out.
However, after Greyback lost consciousness, he quickly transformed back into Werewolf.
"He... how did he turn back into himself again?" The wolf girl couldn't help but feel a little frustrated when she saw this.
The spell Harry just cast concerned the future of her and her people. Now, she suddenly saw hope, but that hope was fleeting, inevitably causing her emotions to fluctuate like a rollercoaster.
"This is normal, because this guy doesn't want to turn back into a human." Harry glared at Greyback, who was convulsing in dizziness. "If I had the Imperius Curse, his recovery would have been much better. Legilimency is ultimately less effective."
With the Human Restoration Spell he obtained from Gilderoy Lockhart, and through Harry's continuous attempts, and of course, the collective deductions of the group of "cheat-like old men" behind him, he finally managed to create a barely usable version 1.0 of the spell.
As mentioned before, the Werewolf transformation is the result of multiple factors working together on the night of a full moon. The function of this spell is to completely reverse the reality of the 'Werewolf transformation', turning everything about the Werewolf back to its state before the transformation.
So don't be fooled by the simplicity of Harry's spell; it's a mixture of the magic of Mending Charm, Freezing Charm, Transfiguration, and many other spells, making it far more complex than NEWT.
The most difficult part was not changing the Werewolf's physical state, but changing Werewolf mind. That's why Harry also used Legilimency in the spell.
Legilimency is not a mandatory spell, so its effect is definitely not as good as the Imperius Curse. However, if activated at full power, Legilimency can temporarily affect the target's memory, so it is still usable.
Wild instincts are also one of the conditions for Werewolf to transform, and a very important one at that. As long as it is during a full moon, the Werewolf's wild instincts will always be stirring.
Therefore, the Human Restoration Spell that Harry developed must be continuously cast in order to suppress the Werewolf's wild nature and turn Werewolf back into human form.
That's why, so far, only that old Armenia wizard has been able to cast this spell, because almost no one would want to spend the whole night facing a Werewolf and continuously expend magic on Werewolf.
The reason this spell didn't work well on Greyback was simply because that bastard didn't want to turn back into a human. Instead of helping Harry relieve the pressure, his consciousness kept getting in the way!
"Um... Lord Granger, has your spell been successfully tested?" Taking advantage of Harry's excitement over the successful experiment, the wolf girl cautiously inquired, "If it's alright, could you cast it on me...?"
She was now extremely respectful to Harry, practically prostrating herself at Harry feet, because she was so eager.
At this moment, she desperately hoped that Harry would intervene and turn her and her people into real humans!
That's right... transforming into a human was the fundamental reason why she was willing to fully assist Harry.
If two Werewolf Transfiguration and mate during a full moon, they will give birth to a litter of real wolf pups. These pups will be almost identical to wolves, only more beautiful and as intelligent as humans...
This explanation is clearly one-sided for the Werewolf descendants living in the Forbidden Forest... because they are not wolf cubs at all, but true humans!
Unlike the Acromantula, which, although equally intelligent and even capable of speaking human language, knows deep down that they are wild beasts.
But these Werewolf descendants were unwilling to see themselves as beasts as well.
The Werewolf couple had no choice but to give birth to them, but they were unable to raise them themselves, so they asked Dumbledore to let them live in the Forbidden Forest, where they were isolated from the world.
But is the Forbidden Forest truly isolated from the world?
This place is home to a large number of intelligent beings, including Centaur and Acromantula, all of whom can speak human language and have lifestyles that are extremely similar to those of humans.
Although Werewolf descendants cannot speak, they are born with the ability to understand, so their surroundings constantly remind them...
They are not wild beasts, but humans who should be living outside the Forbidden Forest!
However, reality is cruel.
Even though the Werewolf descendants always remember that they are human, they are forced to live like wild beasts, and they also face a more pressing problem...
Reproduction.
They can't just do nothing and wait until their entire tribe is wiped out, can they?
Even if a group of brothers and sisters have made similar impulsive decisions before, as time goes on, it's inevitable that some of them will lose their composure.
So at this point, besides resolving the issue internally, their only option was to seek out ordinary wild wolves.
This process is truly tragic, especially for females like the wolf girl... They possess humanity, yet are forced to be controlled by a pure beast and used as tools.
This kind of plot can probably only be seen in certain special dramas.
However, for the descendants of Werewolf, the problems brought about by reproduction are not just as simple as physical and mental trauma.
Their offspring with ordinary wild beasts have their human bloodline diluted, and their original intelligence and magical abilities gradually disappear... By the time of the wolf girl's generation, many of the Werewolf descendants had become pure beasts who could not communicate!
That's why, when Harry approached the Werewolf descendants in the Forbidden Forest, the wolf girl readily chose to follow him.
For the wolf girl, Harry was her last lifeline, and that of her people who still retained human consciousness!
"You said you wanted to use this spell on yourself? Not now!"
However, despite the wolf girl's earnest expectations, Harry still poured cold water on her hopes.
"Why...?"
"Listen, keep this in your mouth... don't take it out for a month!"
However, just when the wolf girl was about to fall into complete despair, a patch of new green suddenly appeared before her eyes.
That was a Mandrake leaf!
Chapter 449 The Muggle Studies assignment was a year overdue
"Uh, this is..."
The wolf girl, who was lamenting her ill-fated life, unconsciously stuck out her tongue after seeing the leaves in front of her.
"Please... you're a wolf, can you stop acting like a husky?" Seeing that the other was still dawdling, Harry couldn't help but urge, "Hurry up and put it in your mouth."
"Oh..." The wolf girl shrank her neck and quickly took the leaf from Harry's hand with her tongue, carefully putting it in her mouth.
"From today until next full moon, for a whole month, you must not swallow it, bite it, or take it out of your mouth at any time, understand?" Harry solemnly instructed, seeing that the other person had already put the leaf in their mouth.
"Ah... but then I won't be able to eat..." the wolf girl protested weakly.
For canines, the tongue is essential for eating.
"I'll have someone feed you your three meals a day, including water," Harry said calmly.
"Well... alright." Seeing that the other party had already made all the necessary preparations, the wolf girl had no choice but to agree.