The Marauders?
Harry paused at the name. It was a name he had never heard before. Until then, he had only heard of the Death Eaters, the name for Voldemort's former loyal followers.
Were the Marauders a similar group?
As Harry speculated, he turned to the first page, and his eyebrows gave an involuntary twitch. Because the very first page contained-Transfiguration notes.
Harry flipped through a few more pages. They were all notes on Transfiguration, rich in content and detail.
They recorded a wealth of tips for studying Transfiguration, from the most basic Inanimate Transfiguration to intermediate Living to Inanimate Transfiguration and Living to Living Transfiguration, and even advanced Inanimate to Living Transfiguration. There were even some descriptions of Transfiguration's ultimate mystery, Bestow Life Upon the Inanimate.
Clearly, however, although the notebook's owner was highly skilled at Transfiguration, he was still far below the level of those authors of weighty tomes.
The section on Living to Living Transfiguration still contained plenty of tips and much of the author's own understanding. But by the section on Inanimate to Living Transfiguration, these were much scarcer. Most of it read more like summaries of textbook explanations.
Harry's own abilities were very limited, so he could not judge the notebook's author's true level. But judging by the section on the most basic inanimate transfiguration, many of the tips matched some of Harry's own impressions from studying Transfiguration.
Interesting. Very interesting.
Harry found this fascinating and flipped through a few more pages. Then he came across a page with only a single line of writing.
Unlike the neat notes before it, this line was large and scrawled, suggesting that the writer's emotions had been running rather high at the time-what on earth was the brain of the wizard who invented the Animagus transformation made of?