About This Book

Some platforms cannot display the supplementary material volume, so I am adding some of this book's settings here in a separate chapter.

About This Book:

From Kamar-Taj to Hogwarts tells the story of the magical world in Britain and other countries from 1937 to 1945. Substitute names are used for the countries in the story—you know why.

The protagonist, Xiwen, had his soul escorted by the Ancient One to the Harry Potter universe in 1925. His origins in Kamar-Taj were not merely a cheat granted by transmigration; they would also become relevant to the plot later on.

The protagonist enrolled a year before Tom Riddle, otherwise known as Voldemort. Tom's characterization will not be spoiled so early. Other familiar names, such as the legendary Auror Alastor Moody, Miranda Goshawk, author of The Standard Book of Spells, and the personalities and histories of the professors, have all received some secondary interpretation. I have tried my best to stay true to canon, but a one-hundred-percent restoration is certainly impossible, so please bear with it.

The Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them storyline will be included, but I will have to wait for the third film to come out and analyze it before fully integrating it into this book, so as to avoid major contradictions with the movies. That is why the early stages contain more daily-life content. If you do not enjoy that, feel free to stockpile chapters before reading.

About Ghosts:

In Doctor Strange, the astral form and physical body could most likely act separately. For details, see the post-credits scene in the final episode of WandaVision, so given the strength of the protagonist's soul, multitasking should not be much of a problem.

Ghosts in the Harry Potter world could also touch one another. For reference, look at Nick's five-hundredth deathday party, where ghosts danced in pairs. The forms of ghosts and astral bodies in the two worlds were somewhat similar, with abilities such as passing through walls and transparent bodies, so for the sake of following the ghost storyline, they have been set to work the same way in this book.

Also, after the story progresses for a while, the ghosts will make some major moves. I am not forcibly tying them to Helena.

P.S. The following are two explanatory sections from the supplementary material volume. Those who have already read them may skip them.

About Transformation:

In my view, Transfiguration should be divided into four branches—Transformation, Switching Spells, Conjuration, and Vanishing Spells. Strictly speaking, Switching Spells could even be classified under Transformation.

The following are my personal summaries of the four branches and the knowledge corresponding to them:

Transformation, also known as Transubstantial Transfiguration:

This referred to any transformation that altered the form of a target in some way. It also included advanced transformations, such as Trans-Species Transformation and Human Transformation.

Human Transformation also included Animagi, Metamorphmagi, and werewolves.

Additionally, Untransfiguration was the counter-spell to Transformation, used to restore transformed objects to their original state.

For example, Vera Verto was used to turn a bird into a goblet.

Switching Spells:

They exchanged the properties of two objects. Hermione had once considered switching dragon teeth and jellybeans, though the incantation was unknown.

Since the former type of Transformation changed a single object, while Switching Spells exchanged the properties of two objects, I believe they were not entirely the same.

Conjuration:

This meant conjuring objects out of thin air. Based on an interpretation of the wiki, it seemed that rather than summoning something, it was more accurate to say that magic was used to construct an object.

Because of translation issues, Chinese readers often confused it with the Summoning Charm. In fact, Conjuration belonged to Transformation and was the opposite of the Vanishing Spell. Examples included Avis, which conjured a flock of birds, and Serpensortia, which conjured a snake.

Vanishing Spells:

They made objects disappear out of thin air, dispersing them into the world. Many Harry Potter fans had been misled by a certain company's game into thinking that Vanishing Spells could be used on people, and some even believed their power rivaled the Unforgivable Curses... In fact, they could not. Like most Transformation spells, Vanishing Spells could not be used on magical things. If you ask me, using one on a person might at most make their clothes disappear. Have I discovered something incredible?

The incantations were Evanesco and Vipera Evanesca—the counter-spell to Serpensortia.

Transformation had to follow Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfiguration, which had five exceptions. Only food was mentioned in the text.

This was actually easy to understand. After all, Transformation was sustained by magic. Even if transforming food succeeded—for example, if someone ate food transformed from a stone—once the magic vanished and the food turned back into stone, the result was easy to imagine.

About Hogwarts Professors:

When reading the original books, readers might rarely have considered the number of professors at Hogwarts. After all, only the protagonist's classes were shown from beginning to end, and those few professors seemed more than enough.

But if you considered the seven years and four Houses, with two Houses sharing a class, that meant there were fourteen classes in total. Even excluding the sixth- and seventh-year advanced classes, where all four Houses attended together, there would still be twelve classes.

Taking Herbology as an example, with three Herbology lessons per week, Professor Sprout would have to teach thirty-six lessons a week. Moreover, Hogwarts classes were double periods, two hours each. That was clearly impossible.

Of course, through the combined efforts of many fans, this plot hole had already received several possible solutions. I chose the one I considered most reasonable and added some of my own thoughts, forming this book's setting.

The setting was as follows:

Each compulsory subject at Hogwarts had several professors—I personally considered three to five professors reasonable. Among the professors for each subject, there should be a teaching group leader, equivalent to a department head in our terms. It was perfectly reasonable for each Head of House to serve as the department head of the subject they taught. In addition, outstanding students who had just graduated could remain at the school as teaching assistants, helping professors ease their teaching workload.

This also explained some settings in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: as everyone knew, before Professor McGonagall became the Transfiguration professor, Dumbledore taught Transfiguration. Yet in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, Dumbledore was the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor. As for McGonagall appearing in the films, please ignore her, or treat her as an outstanding graduate who remained at the school as a teaching assistant and happened to share Professor McGonagall's name, because Minerva McGonagall was only born in 1935, ten years later than this book's protagonist...

The story of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them took place around 1926. Dumbledore was around forty-five at the time and should not yet have been a Head of House. He was merely a member of the teaching group, under Professor Galatea Merrythought's supervision. At some point after 1926, perhaps due to the former Gryffindor Head's retirement or Dumbledore's excessive prestige, he obtained the position of Head of House—and a Head of House deserved the position of department head.

At that time, Professor Melesi had not yet retired, so the position of Defense Against the Dark Arts department head could not be considered. Therefore, it was only natural for him to turn to teaching Transfiguration, a subject he was equally skilled in.

This setting could also be reflected in other ways. After Harry Potter and the others graduated in 1997, Neville remained at Hogwarts as a Herbology professor. However, Professor Sprout was still far from retirement age, so Neville was more likely to have first remained as a teaching assistant before being promoted to a member of the teaching group.

After all, Professor Sprout had to teach students while also tending to so many greenhouses. She certainly could not manage it all alone, so she must have had plenty of helpers.

As for the fact that every Defense Against the Dark Arts professor cursed by Voldemort met a bad end... It was hard to imagine how to patch that plot hole. But from my perspective, once the curse on the subject was discovered, the number of Defense Against the Dark Arts classes was probably reduced. Young wizards only had one class per week, which meant a Defense Against the Dark Arts professor would teach twelve classes a week. That was barely manageable...

Those were some of the settings. If there are still parts you do not understand, feel free to discuss them in the comments. I will reply when I see them! Thank you all for your support!

One more word: as a new author's new book, having several generous readers continuously support it with recommendation votes has truly moved me. I do not know whether they would like their names mentioned, so I will not mention them for now. My sincere thanks once again!