Chapter 640 Seductive Training
The students once again witnessed Professor Hepp's cunning.
He didn't intend to give the students too much time to consider - let alone a week. While the others were hesitating, he called Harry to come up. "How can a person who aspires to become an Auror lack courage?"
Before he could react, Harry was dragged to stand in the golden circle.
"Since it's a trial class, let's just save some trouble. What do you think?" Felix asked with a smile. Harry's heart skipped a beat and he stammered, "Yes - um - " "Great." Felix said, then he stretched out his hand and pointed, and Harry's body quickly shrank and turned into a gray rabbit like Susan Bones.
"Wow!" Susan exclaimed, and couldn't help but get closer.
"No touching." Ron said cautiously. Susan rolled her eyes angrily, but she still couldn't bear to move her eyes away from the furry little guy lying on the ground.
"Are you still sober and rational, Potter?" Felix asked Harry. The rabbit on the ground nodded vigorously, opening its mouth blankly. A girl's eyes sparkled with excitement, and she screamed in a suppressed voice. She seemed to be an admirer of Harry. Felix glanced at her. Very good, you are next.
"Then, let's start asking questions... The first one..."
Harry felt that his state was very strange. His consciousness seemed to be roughly stuffed into a small drawer, which was crowded and made him feel very uncomfortable. Then his brain shook violently, and all kinds of incredible information came like a tide - first, there were small and noisy noises, the "rustling" sound of clothes, the "squeaking" sound of shoes rubbing against the floor, laughter, whispers... They seemed to be filtered by some kind of container, and then they all went into his ears;
Professor Hepp's tone was also different from normal, becoming more sharp.
Then there were changes in vision and smell.
It was the first time that Harry saw the scene behind his head directly. He could see Professor Hep and his classmates in front of him, and Professor McGonagall and the rest of the students behind him. Their skin color also became very strange, showing a gray and cold tone together with the surrounding tables and chairs, and it was a little blurry. Harry didn't know if it was because of his myopia.
If this factor is excluded, the remaining reason is very obvious: rabbits don't have good eyesight, and may not be as good as his. But Harry found that their sense of smell is quite good. He can now clearly distinguish the smell of bear biscuits in the air.
"Potter?" Felix asked with concern, "Haven't you adapted yet?" Harry came back to his senses, shook his head first, and then nodded. Felix smiled in understanding, and he raised his voice slightly so that others could hear him clearly.
"There are many differences between humans and animals in their sensory organs, so it is often difficult to adapt after transformation, causing unnecessary panic. This is also a difficulty when Animagus transforms for the first time..."
"Is that so?" Someone in the crowd asked Susan in a low voice.
Susan shook her head in confusion and whispered, "It seems so. My hearing and sense of smell have become more sensitive, but my eyesight has deteriorated greatly. But I was too scared at the time and was only thinking about the professor's question-" "No wonder you closed your eyes for a while." Her companion suddenly realized.
Several students whispered "Oops!"
Felix almost repeated the question just now.
Harry persisted for a few minutes longer than Susan Bones, but it was not to the extent of being amazing.
When he watched Susan Bones' experience before, he thought about how he would deal with it if he encountered such a situation. The first way he thought of was to rely on brain occlusion. But when he really transformed, he found that the real situation was completely different from what he imagined: he seemed to have lost his magical ability, and brain occlusion was no exception. He could only rely on his will to resist. But living in the body of a beast, his mind inevitably became confused, and the instincts in his body began to show up and gradually took over. He found that his will was getting heavier and heavier, and he was exhausted. It was as if a voice said, "Go to sleep..."
At this time, Felix raised his wand, and after a loud noise, Harry returned to normal. He gasped for breath and felt a little dizzy for a while. Felix helped him up. "I'm fine - no, I don't need to take medicine." Harry said breathlessly, and the brain block technique began to work, removing the remaining discomfort in his brain. He returned to the team.
"Your reaction is a bit big," Ron said worriedly: "Is it really that strong? More exaggerated than the Imperius Curse?"
"It's okay," Harry muttered softly, "It's like temporarily changing a body. I understand Voldemort-" There was a gasp next to him. "-Why Voldemort's brain is not normal." He insisted on finishing his words.
On the other side, Felix called up another student, this time it was a witch, the one who was suspected to be Harry's admirer just now.
"Students who have experienced transformation should stand together and exchange experiences in fighting against beast transformation. Miss Elvira, do you want to try it? As far as I know, your Transfiguration and Potions grades are both good..."
Elvira glanced at Harry who walked to the side of Susan Bones, and agreed after only a few seconds of hesitation. Professor McGonagall and Hermione stared at him with a rather strange expression, and Felix pretended not to see it.
Elvira only persisted for less than five minutes, and began to ignore Felix's questions. There was no way, he could only transform her back. Elvira immediately ran to Harry's side happily and chatted with them happily, seemingly not affected at all.
Under Felix's skillful persuasion, all students actively or passively experienced the rabbit's perspective. When the last person finished, these students felt a sense of relief for no reason. It seemed that it was not as difficult as they imagined, with so many people accompanying them to persist.
When the students left, talking and laughing, they had already regarded the morning experience as a novel and interesting experience class, and many of them were ready to brag to their companions.
"Minerva, I'm worried that this class will lead to a wave of imitation among students. It's better to publicize it in the near future. It is strictly forbidden to transform classmates privately."
Felix touched his chin and thought. Professor McGonagall snorted as a response. She was not very satisfied with Felix's behavior of inducing students with words. "This approach reminds me of Professor Bagshot, but he-" Professor McGonagall hesitated for a moment, but still did not say her suspicion that Bagshot was a saint. She pursed her lips and said, "He has been retained for observation now."
"Minerva, I am different from Professor Bagshot." Felix shrugged, "I just break the fear in the students' minds and let them know that their fear is only the 'unknown' itself. After all-sometimes we have to admit that decisions made when we know nothing are often neither rational nor objective."
Professor McGonagall opened her mouth, somewhat convinced. She swallowed and continued, "Okay - you have a point, but do you know who I think of?" Without waiting for Felix to reply, she announced the answer neatly, "It's Dumbledore. He's full of weird ideas, but the last time he went to such lengths was to convince me to add a Muggle snack to the school menu -"
"You agreed?" Felix asked in surprise.
"Of course not!" Professor McGonagall said angrily as if she had been wronged, "He's already unreliable enough, especially this semester... Humph, I won't..." She yelled in an annoyed voice, obviously she had been suppressing it in her heart for a long time. Felix acted as a good listener, nodding, smiling, and agreeing with short words from time to time.
"Is this true?"
"I'm really surprised."
"Thank you for your hard work, Minerva."
Professor McGonagall stopped, her face slightly flushed. She adjusted her square-framed glasses, feeling a little embarrassed by her own loss of composure. She changed the subject stiffly, "By the way, what's the matter with your Transfiguration?" She suddenly glanced at his arm.
"Human body transformation." Felix pretended to be stupid.
Professor McGonagall said with some disapproval: "I am the professor of Transfiguration."
After she left, Felix put his hands in his pockets and frowned. The question that had been lingering in his mind for a long time resurfaced, is there something wrong with Dumbledore's body? He couldn't see it now, which seemed to mean one thing, that Dumbledore went much deeper in the soul realm than he did.
But Dumbledore didn't want to talk about this issue, and he didn't get a response after several indirect attempts.
Felix suddenly felt a little tricky.
Time passed day by day, and in the blink of an eye it was December. During this period, the students took several unique Animagus teaching classes, and the content they were exposed to became more and more advanced, involving some knowledge of human body transformation.
"What did I say?" Professor McGonagall yelled at Ron, "Just familiarize yourself with how magic is mobilized, don't let it work--" Ron had a bitter face, his arm was twice as thick as a normal person, and fine scales grew on the surface of his skin.
Professor McGonagall waved his wand and restored his arm to its original state.
It had been four weeks since the first class, and it had snowed a few times, and the weather was getting colder. Felix's approach really worked. No students quit voluntarily, and only two were persuaded to quit because they couldn't keep up with the progress. They were too poor in both willpower and transformation skills.
As students became more proficient in the course itself, Felix also thought of new and more labor-saving teaching methods.
For example-
one day Professor McGonagall came a little late, and when she arrived, she found that the staff lounge was filled with single tables used for wizard level exams. On the tables were small animals, including rabbits, owls, minks, honey badgers, foxes, little lions, eagles, hounds... They stayed on the tables honestly, their movements were stiff, like a row of animal specimens.
Two or three inches above the heads of these animals, various snacks were suspended, nuts, fruit preserves, owl food, sausages, meat pies, etc., exuding an enticing aroma. From time to time, the creatures below the food raised their heads and looked at them with eager eyes, and then quickly looked away.
Professor McGonagall was stunned.
In addition, Felix also specially set up supervisors.
A house elf stood respectfully on an empty chair, with his hands clasped nervously on his chest, as if praying. He had a protruding nose, and his big bat-like ears swung back and forth as his head moved. He was dutifully inspecting the wonderful scenery in the staff room.
Soon his eyes lit up. "Mr. Happ," the house elf suddenly shrieked, pointing excitedly at a honey badger. Professor McGonagall looked in the direction of her finger. The little guy supported his body on his two hind legs, waving his front legs in the air in a funny way, trying to reach a piece of yellow honey above.
"Well done, Yun Bo," Felix praised, turning a page of the book slowly, and then gently waved his wand.
The honey badger turned into a wizard in the blink of an eye, and Justin walked to the chair next to him dejectedly and sat down. "Thirteen and a half minutes, not bad." Felix said calmly. But he was the first to fail, Justin thought disappointedly, even some girls lasted longer than him.
"Chi!"
He lowered his head and saw a Niffler looking up at him, holding a piece of parchment in his hand, constantly urging him.
The professor really spared no effort... Justin thought, not only did he bring the Niffler to the ancient magic class, but now he also uses it as an assistant. He took the parchment and began to fill in the contents carefully. It is said that these questionnaires will be collected by the Hogwarts Library and will most likely be stored in the restricted area.
"Thinking - relatively clear; self-evaluation, seven points; today's transformation sample - um - honey badger, feeling... not used to it, restrained... not feeling like a fish in water as other students mentioned... I will choose next time -" He raised his head and looked for inspiration from the small animals.
After thinking for a moment, he lowered his head and wrote, "Pine marten." Justin put a question mark on it, thought about it, and decided to cross it out and fill in "Pheasant" instead. Many people chose their own Patronus today, maybe he can try it too.
Soon, the second student was restored to human form. One after another, they found a seat and sat down skillfully and began to fill in the questionnaire. Another picked up a can of demulcent from the table, poured himself a small cup, drank it silently, and then enjoyed the moments when others made a fool of themselves with great interest.
A white peacock walked around the table in a triumphant manner, and then fluttered down, making an "Oh-oh-" sound. A flash of white light passed by, and Draco Malfoy appeared with a pale face, and he staggered to hold the table.
His eyes collided with the little lion lying on the table. Draco glared at it fiercely, then turned his head to glare at the sleek hound. A few tables away, a miniature beaver kept raising its nose and its whiskers twitching.
Within five minutes, they all became students.
Before the class ended, Felix and Professor McGonagall distributed some fresh leaves to each student.
"Is this a mandrake leaf?" Ron looked at his share in surprise, "It doesn't look like it."
"Because it's not a mandrake, Weasley." Felix showed a sly smile, "I just plucked it from the Christmas tree that Hagrid moved to the hall this morning. He didn't even notice it. He used the Disillusionment Charm..."
"Well done, professor." Ron whistled softly.
Professor McGonagall ignored their stupid remarks. She cleared her throat and said to everyone, "It's still two weeks before Christmas. Now is the time - since you have persisted to this point - Felix and I plan to gradually introduce you to the preparations for Animagus from today."
"The leaves given to you are enchanted. Next time we meet, I want you to make sure they are still in your mouths."
"Then I will give you the real Mandrake leaves."