Buck Teeth Unchanged
The increased difficulty in the fourth-grade curriculum is not just due to the Transfiguration.
The Care of Magical Creatures was still taking care of the Blast-Ended Skrewt, but by this time Blast-Ended Skrewt were three feet long and incredibly strong. They were no longer fleshy, shell-less, and colorless; instead, they had grown a thick, shiny, grayish-white armor-like structure. Their appearance was somewhere between a giant scorpion and an elongated crab, but their heads and eyes were still indistinguishable. They had become incredibly strong and difficult to control.
Hagrid instructed the students to tie a Blast-Ended Skrewt a rope and take it for a walk. As the lesson progressed, every now and then, a terrifying crackling sound would rang out, and the Blast-Ended Skrewt's tail would explode, propelling Blast-Ended Skrewt forward several meters. More than one student was pulled down by it and fell to the ground, struggling desperately to get up.
Since Skylar spoke up for Hagrid last time, the relationship between Skylar and Hagrid had eased somewhat (in the original story Hagrid deeply resented the Malfoy). This time, Skylar took advantage of the class time to hold Daphne's little hand, and the two strolled and chatted while walking the lobsters, enjoying a rare moment of warmth and comfort. Hagrid saw this but didn't say a word.
The poor Slytherin had to deal with a single Blast-Ended Skrewt each, and they immediately began to complain bitterly.
After the course ended, both Slytherin and Gryffindor were full of complaints.
The Charms teaches Summoning Charm. The pronunciation and hand gestures aren't difficult. The real challenge lies in the ability to clearly visualize what you want. For example, if you want to summon a Firebolt, you must visualize its Firebolt in your mind, the more detailed the better. Secondly, there's the limitation of magical power. Fourth-year students can grasp the charm, but to say they've mastered it is impossible.
Most magical items possess inherent magic resistance. Unless one is the original owner of the item like Harry, it's very difficult to summon someone else's magical item. To overcome this limitation, one needs at least Auror's level of magic power. Another limitation is Magical Creatures, including Fantastic Beasts and magical plants, which also possess inherent magic resistance. At a fourth-year student's level, the most they can summon is Flobberworm.
Not to mention, the Summoning Charm also carries a certain degree of danger. In 1743, the famous anti -Muggle activist Gideon Flevosh attempted to use the Summoning Charm to summon the produce of a nearby Muggle farmer, intending to take it for himself. As a result, perhaps due to excessive force during the spellcasting, he was crushed to death by the summoned haystacks and cattle.
(Note: Gideon Flewch is from the Book of Spells. He is an anti- Muggle activist who opposes wizards being able to lift and move objects with their hands like Muggle.)
Of course, the Slytherin wizards, having been repeatedly trained by Skylar over the past three terms, haven't performed too badly, even better than most of their classmates. It's said that Harry and Neville from another class have been performing terribly, resulting in Professor Flitwick assigning them extra homework.
A new member has appeared in the Charms Club activities— Cho Chang, a fifth-year Ravenclaw student.
The spells learned in the Charms Club are generally not those covered in the seven-year magical education curriculum. Instead, they are less common and obscure spells, much like extracurricular learning in the Muggle world. In this event, Professor Flitwick was instructing students on the advanced use of the Patronus Charm. As is well known, summoning Corporeal Patronus to ward off dark creatures is only its most basic application.
Patronus is actually an aggregate of emotions of joy and protection, a manifestation of the caster's mind. It can be used for many other purposes, such as having Patronus relay messages, sending Patronus to explore unknown lands, and some small, well-hidden Patronus can even be used for reconnaissance.
One of the topics Skylar is researching is how to implant consciousness into Patronus. He has gained some of Merlin's memories, although this is not equivalent to Merlin's knowledge, he can benefit from Merlin's way of thinking and inspiration for spells.
He didn't know how Merlin implanted consciousness into Peeves, but he knew Merlin's usual habits and procedures when modifying or creating spells, which was enough for Skylar.
As the two students in the club who were closest in age (the rest of the club members were NEWT students), Skylar was responsible for practicing with Cho Chang — Cho Chang was recognized as the most popular beauty in Hogwarts. As a result, Skylar immediately attracted a lot of envious and jealous glances, including from Cedric Diggory, who was ranked second on the list of girls' dream lovers, and Roger Davis, who was ranked third.
Cho Chang actually had good talent, but she spent too much time practicing Quidditch. Under Skylar's careful guidance, she finally succeeded in correcting her past bad habits in casting spells, such as overly exaggerated and forceful wand gestures, and being too focused on perfect pronunciation when reciting spells...
Gradually, she found the optimal and most suitable spellcasting technique for herself. Although she ultimately failed to make her Patronus speak, her swan Patronus actually learned to circle around her instead of blindly charging forward. This was a performance that could barely be considered as entering the top tier among the club members; at least Professor Flitwick praised this new member highly.
In the rest of the time, Skylar began to study the "Secrets of Human Transfiguration" and "Abatair Volume Four" with great fervor. He replaced meals with nutritional potions, sleep with Invigoration Draught, and used every means at his disposal, including the Time-Turner and the Diadem of Wisdom. Never before had he so desperately craved power!
Human Transfiguration, as the name suggests, is a technique that involves Transfiguration the human body.
A master Transfiguration can Transfiguration themselves Transfiguration the appearance of any person at will, including their body shape, face, and even the clothes they wear.
This is practically an upgraded version of the Metamorphmagus and Polyjuice Potion. In the Fantastic Beasts movies, Grindelwald was able to impersonate Percival Grevis for extended periods, infiltrating the MACUSA, a society full of elite Auror, without arousing suspicion—that's incredibly impressive!
Of course, Skylar, who had already awakened the "Metamorphmagus" bloodline talent, could also do this.
However, after some research, Skylar discovered that, apart from the difference between innate and acquired methods, while the effects of Human Transfiguration and Metamorphmagus similar, they are actually quite different.
Metamorphmagus is a Blood Magic allows one to freely alter their appearance using magic, but the changes are still limited to human form. For example, the caster can freely change their height, build, facial features, skin color, hair color, eye color, and so on, and can even impersonate an old person or have a man impersonate a woman. However, these still fall under the category of human form alteration.
Human Transfiguration, however, breaks through this limitation.
Human Transfiguration can not only change a person's appearance, but also perform "non-human" transformations, and these transformations don't necessarily have to be applied to the practitioner. One of the best examples is Hagrid, to warn the Dursley, conjured a pig's tail on Dudley's buttocks.
Another example of Human Transfiguration is Viktor Krum, who transformed his head into a shark's head in order to breathe underwater.
Therefore, it can be seen that if the Human Transfiguration is mastered well, it is actually an advanced version of Polyjuice Potion and Metamorphmagus. Not only is there no time limit, but it can also break through the limitations of human form to deal with different situations.
With the Metamorphmagus, Skylar already had experience in the application of magic at the cellular level, so he learned Human Transfiguration very quickly, and within just a few days he had grasped the basics of Human Transfiguration.
Time flies, and soon it's Friday, November 13th.
Friday afternoons are the favorite time for Slytherin fourth-year students and the most hated time for Gryffindor, especially for the famous Harry Potter, and especially after he became Champion at Hogwarts.
These are two consecutive Potions.
Last Friday, Potions was a torturous experience for Harry —he was locked in the underground classroom for a full hour and a half, where Harry was ridiculed half to death by Snape and the Slytherin. Not only was he ridiculed, but Snape was also extremely critical of his Potions, making him redo them again and again, causing him a lot of suffering.
Harry couldn't help but shudder at the thought of the upcoming Potions.
After lunch, he and Hermione went to Snape's underground classroom and found the Slytherin students waiting outside, most of them with a large badge pinned to the front of their robes.
The badges all bore the same inscription, each bright red letter Winky like fire in the dim light of the underground corridor: Support Skylar Malfoy —a true Champion of Hogwarts!
"Do you like them, Potter?" Draco exclaimed as Harry approached. "They have other variations too—look!"
He pressed the badge hard against his chest; the words on it disappeared, and then another line of text appeared, glowing green. "Potter Stinks."
Even Skylar couldn't help but find it funny. Okay, Skylar knew he shouldn't be like this; he knew it wasn't Harry's fault he became Champion — Harry was indeed pitiful, but... but it was really funny!
Led by Draco, Blaise, Goyle, Crabbe, and Pansy all burst into strange laughter. Each of them pressed their badge, and finally, the glaring words— "Potter Stinks" —flashed all around Harry.
"Oh, very interesting," Hermione said sarcastically to Pansy Parkinson. "Malfoy's selection as Champion is well-deserved, and you have the right to support him, but is it really necessary to mock another Champion like this? You Pure-blood families— "
She lowered her voice, but her tone became even more composed, "Is this all the glory and enlightenment you speak of? You dare not compete fairly in the game, so you resort to these underhanded tactics off the field?"
"Well said! "Skylar thought to himself, "It seems Hermione is indeed much more mature than in the original story."
Skylar has been too busy these days, preoccupied with his studies, research, and the affairs of the Sleeping Dragon Society, which has led to a reduction in his monitoring of Harry, Hermione, and their friends. Unexpectedly, Hermione's mental development has accelerated ahead of schedule.
At the same time, he suddenly remembered something—in the original books, didn't Hermione start some kind of "Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare"? But now it seems that neither she nor Harry are wearing that badge!
It seems she really is quite different from the character in the original novel!
Hermione's words were reasonable and well-founded, and her tone, though lacking its usual sharpness, possessed a calm confidence. Draco was rendered speechless, only able to snort coldly, turn his head away, and ignore them completely.
Oh no! If the plot develops like this, Draco won't use the "Densaugeo" on Harry and accidentally Hermione instead. Then Hermione won't be able to take advantage of her treatment to shrink her front teeth. What should we do?
Huh, why am I worrying about this?
Thinking of this, Skylar couldn't help but curl the corners of his mouth slightly.
He turned his head and saw Daphne standing quietly beside him, looking at everything in front of her with a calm expression, as if she were not in the same world as what was happening at that moment.
Suddenly, a strange emotion arose in Skylar's mind, and a phrase from the Chinese Muggle World inadvertently floated into his thoughts. "Looking back, there he was, in the dim light."
Throughout this semester, since the start of the semester, Daphne has been quietly by my side, so quiet that she's almost invisible, making me almost forget her presence.
I recalled our first meeting on the train; it felt like it happened just yesterday.
After Meredith disappeared, the girl said nothing on the surface, but resolutely took on the supporting role that Meredith had previously played for Skylar. She quietly began to study Astronomy, Herbology, and the History of Magic she usually disliked.
He claimed he wanted to build up his power, but then he just dumped the whole mess on her. She had to put in all the effort and care herself, handling every single detail personally.
This semester, I've been so engrossed in exploring Hogwarts and studying magic that I've barely spoken to Daphne, except during class and Sleeping Dragon Society activities. I've definitely neglected her.
But she never said anything to herself.
Not a single word of complaint, not a single word of whine, not even a hint of coquetry.
Skylar pursed her lips.
It turns out, it's always been you who's been there for me all along!
When Snape opened the door to the underground classroom, Skylar no longer looked at Harry and Draco. He openly took Daphne's hand and led her into the classroom, much to Daphne's delight.