Chapter 52 Transfiguration Club (page 12)
It was raining in the sky on Saturday morning, and the area around Hogwarts Castle became hazy.
Bourne arrived at Professor McGonagall's office ten minutes earlier than the agreed time, but there were still people here who had arrived earlier than him.
"Good morning, Percy." He greeted his senior, the Weasley twins and Ron's biological brother.
"Good morning to you too, Bourne." Percy responded to Bourne with a smile, not looking down on this junior just because he was a senior.
Although people who have read the original work will have a bad impression of him, thinking that a person who watched "How Prefects Gain Power" at a young age must be a hopeless official fan, but objectively speaking, Percy is actually Not only is he an excellent Gryffindor, he is also remarkable in how he treats others.
"I heard about your performance in the flying class. Thank you for saving my youngest brother." Percy shook hands with Bourne and said, "You are also here to participate in the 'Transformation Improvement Class' today, right? Do you want to hear my feelings and thoughts about participating in the Transfiguration Club activities?"
Waiting is just waiting. Percy is willing to talk about his experience, and Bourne is naturally willing to listen.
He started with the origin of the Transfiguration Advanced Class - the prototype of this advanced class was a weekend Q&A time provided for students who continued to take the Advanced Transfiguration course after the fifth grade OWLs exam. Professor McGonagall would answer some questions for them. Difficulties encountered when writing homework.
Later, it was Percy's eldest brother Bill Weasley who broke this tradition. In the second grade, Bill showed his super talent and was valued by Professor McGonagall, who allowed him to sit in on the weekend quizzes of the senior class.
Later, Professor McGonagall simply asked other lower-grade wizards to join in, and this weekend quiz gradually turned into a cross-grade club.
Regardless of grade, young wizards in the club can share their doubts and experiences in learning transfiguration at the party. Professor McGonagall will guide everyone's learning to prevent the little wizards from rashly trying to cause any danger.
"However, the first-year students were invited to join this club, and you have already broken Bill's record as the 'smallest member of the Transfiguration Club'." Percy said half with emotion, half jokingly: "I will definitely write to Bill later. A letter, I really want to see his expression when he received the letter..."
After chatting for a while, other students invited to participate in club activities also arrived here one after another. Percy and Bourne apologized and then started chatting with Ravenclaw's prefect, Penelo Crevat.
Bourne found that when talking to the Ravenclaw prefect, Percy's eyes revealed the admiration that he could hardly hide.
Except for Bourne, a first-year student, all those who join the club are juniors and above, and they come from different colleges.
Although Professor McGonagall is the head of Gryffindor, she does not treat other houses differently because of this, not only Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff, but also Slytherin seniors in the club. many.
However, compared to club members in other houses, students in Slytherin House basically only play with their own people. They revolved around a boy named Gemma Fane, a prefect in Slytherin.
While chatting, the little wizards were waiting in the corridor. Professor McGonagall agreed with them that the club activity time was nine o'clock. But at nine o'clock, the door to the professor's office was still not open.
Professor McGonagall is a punctual person, and the little wizards have rarely seen her late for class, or dragging her to class after class.
Noticing this, Percy discussed with several other familiar senior wizards, and then knocked on the wooden door of the office.
Tuk Tuk.
"Professor McGonagall, I am Percy Weasley..." Before Percy could finish his words, the wooden door he knocked on creaked, revealing a gap.
Percy was stunned for a moment, but he finally held the door handle and pushed the door halfway into the room.
"Ok?"
Looking at the unfamiliar hallway that appeared in front of him, Percy quickly retracted his body back into the corridor and looked at the surrounding environment to confirm whether they were looking for the wrong office.
"That's right." Percy confirmed, "This is Professor McGonagall's office."
At this time, some other little wizards also came over. Penello, the prefect of Ravenclaw, ignored Percy's dissuasion and walked into the hall that suddenly appeared behind the door of the professor's office.
"Will this be a test?" Penello asked curiously.
She looked at the other door in the hall, just opposite the hall. It was much more imposing than the elm door in the professor's office outside.
The door is covered with leather and filled with soft padding to block sound; the door handle is a lion sculpture made of polished brass, which highlights the characteristics of Gryffindor House and is lifelike.
"Like our Ravenclaw's eagle-beaked knocker?" Percy responded to Penello, who was actually a smart man.
The questions and answers they gave gave the other little wizards a lot of inspiration. In the end, everyone unanimously concluded that this was a classroom quiz created by Professor McGonagall.
Professor McGonagall can do this.
The question is, how to open this door?
Some people used "Alajo Opening", but the door remained motionless; while Ravenclaws like Penelope tried the same method they used to enter the lounge of their own house, starting with the brass lion door handle. Talking, but after talking for a long time, the lion didn't even move at all...
In the end, Bourne couldn't stand it anymore. Not wanting to waste time, he directly reminded: "Seniors and sisters, you were invited to attend the event today. Didn't Professor McGonagall give you anything?"
Yes, that's the parchment.
There was obviously not a word on it, but Professor McGonagall told him to bring this piece of paper with him on Saturday. He originally thought that the professor wanted him to use this piece of paper to take notes - he was also wondering, Hogwart None of the little wizards here are short of parchment - not counting those brought from home, there are boxes specially used to hold blank parchments in the college common room. There are house elves responsible for replenishing the supplies at any time, so students can use them as they please. Just take it as you go.
However, when he deciphered the card that Grandpa Horace sent with the gift, he suddenly had some other ideas.
"Since it is a Transfiguration Club, we must use magic related to Transfiguration," while guessing, Bourne took out the parchment given to him by Professor McGonagall, and some club members followed suit. They took out theirs, but some people had embarrassed looks on their faces—either they had lost it, or they didn’t bring it with them.
"That's right," Percy immediately figured out the key, and he also brought the parchment note with him. "Execute the transfiguration spell on this parchment, and then use the conjured thing to open the door."
After saying that, he looked at Bourne with encouraging eyes.
Since the idea was proposed by Bourne, according to his idea, let Bourne open the door. For the students who solved this little mystery, Professor McGonagall might give him some encouragement—mostly in the form of additional academy points. For Bourne, the "big debtor", this reward would be just right.
The other senior wizards also had no objections. Even Slytherin, who has always been at odds with Gryffindor, and the little snakes who are qualified to join the Professors Club are proud of themselves, and they are not jealous of a first-year junior.