Chapter 654 Solution

Outside the village of Hogsmeade, a group of people were bathed in the silver moonlight cast by the full moon.

Felix looked at these werewolves, holding a piece of parchment in his hand and writing and drawing on it. Among the fourteen people, two had already completed the complete werewolf transformation and were now lying on the ground gasping for breath. Although the two had turned into werewolves at this moment, their eyes remained clear because they had been taking wolf poison potions for the past few days. The

other nine werewolves were undergoing transformation - first their bodies trembled abnormally, and then in the painful roar, every part of their torsos was forcibly widened and elongated, their shoulders were raised high, and their clothes were torn. The fat on their arms covered with black hair was hidden in the violent transformation, and their hands and feet were curled into the shape of wolf claws, and their sharp nails gleamed in the moonlight.

"So, there are subtle differences in the time of their transformation." Felix marked this on the parchment, watching these werewolves constantly opening and closing their jaws, and drooling from the corners of their mouths because of the brief loss of control and pain.

For ordinary people, this saliva is no less than poisonous.

The remaining three werewolves who still maintained their human form retreated timidly, trying to stay away from their own kind. They looked at Felix Hep, who looked normal and seemed to be recording all this with great interest, and a strange emotion surged from the bottom of their hearts.

The impact of the war was multifaceted.

In the early days, many of their kind were lobbied by people sent by the Dark Lord, who promised to greatly improve the treatment of werewolves after the war. The words sounded good, but they were not very credible, because the Dark Lord looked down on even Muggle-born wizards and preached the theory of bloodline, not to mention werewolves with tainted blood. Many wizards - a considerable number of them were pure-blood wizards or Death Eaters, or both - still called them beasts with disgust.

The only one that was somewhat credible was the reason Fenrir Greyback gave when he was deceiving them: once the Dark Lord won, werewolves could attack Muggles and expand the number of wolves without restraint. This was the fate that the Dark Lord arranged for young wizards from Muggle families.

But these words could only attract the approval of the fanatical werewolves. As far as they knew, after being threatened and wooed by the Ministry of Magic before the war, the remaining stubborn ones were basically locked up.

At this time, Felix picked a werewolf at random and stood in front of him. The transformed werewolf was taller than him, as if he could bite the skull of the human in front of him with just a lower head, but when Felix injected magic into his body, the werewolf kept his claws as far away from Hep's head as possible.

This was purely for the sake of Garlon.

The werewolf thought indignantly while straightening his body obediently. He tilted his long chin to one side listlessly. Others of his kind were already lying on the ground, gasping and looking at them. This was all the effect of the wolfsbane potion. It could keep werewolves rational during the full moon, while suppressing the wildness and energy in their bodies, making them exhausted, and even if they wanted to go out for a walk, they would not have the strength.

"Don't move." Felix said.

"I didn't move!" The werewolf growled in dissatisfaction.

"Ah, I was talking to the magic in your body - you can understand it as talking to myself." Felix said.

The werewolf turned his gaze back in dissatisfaction, lowered his head and stared at the top of Felix's head, and his heart was about to move. But he quickly moved his head away again, not wanting to do anything that would cause misunderstanding. If he really hurt the man in front of him - although even the werewolf himself thought his idea was a fantasy - the werewolf group would definitely be in trouble.

And the werewolf didn't hate Felix Hep.

Everyone present thought so, otherwise they would not have accepted the invitation, but after meeting him a few times, they found that the real Hep was slightly different from the image they imagined - in short, they felt disillusioned. "Stretch out your hands," Felix said. The werewolf hummed twice and did as he was told, and then continued to think about his own things.

Suddenly, he felt a sharp pain in his spine, as if an invisible hand reached in and grabbed it, trying to pull it out of his body.

The werewolf groaned and lowered his head with difficulty. He saw Hep pulling out strands of magic from him. Although he didn't know why he did this, he still gritted his teeth and held on until Felix Hep pulled out a ball of vague magic from his body.

He finally couldn't hold on and fell to the ground. He asked hoarsely, "What is this?"

"I want to know, too." Felix said.

He let the magic hang in the air, and then walked towards the other werewolves one by one. During this period, the other three werewolves also transformed. When the full moon rose high in the sky, fourteen balls of magic solidified in the air in front of Felix.

He stretched out these magics. They were like irregular sheets of tarpaulin, densely flashing with light spots. This shape was much more complicated than the mandrake. Felix had to be careful not to destroy the really important magic structure.

Gradually, even the slowest one in the field reacted. Although these magics came from different werewolves, they were similar in shape. If you ignore the edges and corners, you can see a three-dimensional tower structure, or more precisely -

"Is that - the spine of a werewolf?" the werewolf asked with difficulty.

Felix paced among the fallen werewolves, immersed in thought. His face was reflected in a light blue, and he seemed to be talking to himself, or giving a speech under the moonlight.

"Magic... the state of magic in wizards' bodies is obviously different from that in magical animals."

"The magic in magical animals often operates in a specific way, which is related to their own structure and works through magical patterns, which is their quasi-magical talent... The magic of wizards is free, flexible and unrestrained. When the werewolf saliva and the wizard's blood merge, magical changes will occur, making the wizard irreversibly transformed into a werewolf. Therefore, some people say that this is an incurable magical toxin, namely wolfsbane..." "

In my opinion, the transformation of a werewolf is an uncontrolled process of wizards transforming into magical animals. Oh... It is different from Animagus, which can only turn into ordinary animals. Although they actually have one thing in common, that is, the transformation process is not controlled by the wizard himself."

"The principle... is not important!"

"Animagus applies extremely advanced knowledge of human body transformation. If wizards can experience this process many times, even if they don't understand the principle, they will be able to master high-level transformation in the future."

"Werewolf transformation does not gain similar benefits."

"Perhaps it's because... the bodies of ordinary wizards are too fragile. It has nothing to do with whether they are strong or not. What's important is magic power. They can't bear their own transformation into 'magic creatures', so instead of getting any benefits, they suffer a lot..."

Under the moonlight, Felix took out the book of magic runes, holding the spine with one hand and covering it with the other hand. The pages turned quickly, and the "rustling" sound suppressed the sound of the wind in the wilderness at night. The slender hand lifted it up little by little, and slowly pulled out a section of the 'spine' made of magic runes from the book.

The werewolves opened their mouths wide.

Felix stared at his work for a moment, then pressed it down on his body.

His heart began to beat, and he raised his head to stare at the moonlight. His body was stretched out little by little, and his mane fell down - he turned into a werewolf. The werewolves on the ground were stunned.

"You - you -"

"Another form change." The werewolf bathed in the moonlight grinned, as if laughing, but the other werewolves looked at him in awe. When Felix changed back and changed his clothes, he began to adjust the sequence of ridge runes.

"To improve efficiency, find the key."

But even so, Felix could only adjust the sequence and reduce some unnecessary runes for the time being, but he could not reduce the complexity of the overall structure. So in theory, Felix actually gained an extremely complex ancient magic tonight - werewolf transformation.

It must be pointed out that Felix's transformation into a magical animal and the transformation of the magical animal's magic into ancient magic are actually two different things - the former is the ability that Felix gained after pushing the field of ancient magic to an unprecedented level and turning himself into a "magical creature". Just like the four founders of Hogwarts, Dumbledore... If you have to break it down, Felix thinks he is a "magic rune".

He can transform part of his body between flesh and blood and magic runes.

It is for this reason that Felix can transform himself into a magical animal. He thinks Dumbledore can do this, but not by "magic culture", but by Transfiguration. As for whether Rowena Ravenclaw, who told him the word "magic creature" in person, can do the same thing, Felix has a question mark in his heart. He thinks that Ms. Ravenclaw is more of a description of a state, after all, her own research direction is not this.

Take the thunderbird as an example:

Felix himself can turn into a thunderbird without any pressure, and the principle is very different from Transfiguration, but he can't teach others how to turn into a thunderbird - there is no shortcut except to study ancient magic runes in depth.

But he can transform the magic-like talents of the thunderbird itself - such as creating storms - into ancient magic, and then teach it to others, and others can also learn it.

There is an essential difference between turning into a thunderbird and controlling the storm. The former involves the change of the life essence of the wizard, while the latter only requires learning a simple ancient magic.

...

The weather at the end of February is still cold, but it is nothing for the werewolves. They lie on the ground, watching Felix Hep working hard under the moonlight, whispering to each other.

"What is he doing?"

"I don't know, but it looks complicated!"

"How are you going to spend the money?"

"I haven't decided yet. I calculated that it's enough to buy two years of discounted wolfsbane potion."

"I heard that the 'Future World' company has recruited a group of humanoid employees, including werewolves!"

"Do you want to try it?"

"Maybe it's too late..."

"It's hard to say. There was an advertisement in the newspaper a while ago."

"I remember it was recruiting trolls?"

"Are there trolls who can read?"

"Ahem--" Felix raised his head from the thick morning dew and cleared his throat, "It's almost time, let's try it."

"Try what?" asked a werewolf on the ground.

"Let's see if I can turn you into humans." Felix smiled and said, he opened the book of runes, and runes of different colors flew out of it like butterflies, condensing into shape in mid-air. Felix stretched out his hand and waved, and the rune sequence in his hand turned into a ball of magic power, which he threw onto a werewolf.

Felix looked at him expectantly.

After a while, the werewolf's body returned to human form. Felix threw him a piece of clothing and asked him to put it on, in case any villagers who got up early saw it and had a bad influence.

The wizard stopped dancing, with a shocked expression on his face, and he looked at his hands in disbelief.

"I... I'm back?" He looked up in disbelief. At this time, the sky was slightly brighter, but there was still a full moon hanging in the sky. He looked at his fellow werewolf lying on the ground, as if he was about to faint.

"Mr. Hep, am I... not a werewolf from now on?"

The people on the ground also quieted down, holding their breath and waiting for Felix's answer.

Felix shook his head.

"This is the effect of magic. If..." He hesitated for a rare moment, but still shook his head, "No, I'm not a healer. I can't cure it completely--"

"But I'm completely back now!" the wizard shouted.

"I took a shortcut. I considered the problem from the perspective of ancient magic runes." Felix saw that the wizard was about to speak, so he raised his hand to stop him and continued, "Through research - not my research - I found that werewolf saliva is highly toxic, at least to Muggles, and for wizards, once bitten by a werewolf, they will be irreversibly transformed into werewolves."

"The so-called lycanthropy is actually the wolf poison that transforms part of the wizard's body structure. You can simply understand it as: like a magical animal, you have an extra spellcasting organ. Of course, I'm just a metaphor, the actual situation is more complicated..."

"This spellcasting organ will be affected by the waxing and waning of the moon, and on the day of the full moon it will spontaneously absorb the magic power in the wizard's body. You are forced to undergo a series of complex werewolf transformations."

"We have an extra spellcasting organ?" The werewolf asked blankly, "Can it be removed?"

"No," Felix exhaled, "At least I can't do it at the moment. I said - the spellcasting organ is just a metaphor. In fact, your body has been completely changed by wolf poison. Blood, saliva, body organs, bones... This is not my research area."

"Then what did you do for me?"

"Reverse the transformation process. If the werewolf transformation is considered a curse, then my approach is to find a way to break the curse, although it is only temporary."

"Can we learn it?" the werewolf said eagerly.

"I can publish it, but it is too difficult to learn. This magic uses thousands of ancient magic runes..." Felix said, "I will try to improve it in the next week, and I still need your cooperation."

On the way back to the castle, Felix was thinking all the way. His biggest discovery tonight was actually the magic structure diagram of the werewolf from the perspective of magic. On this basis, he actually had two vague ideas.

In addition to the ancient magic 'Reverse Werewolf Transformation' that he demonstrated -

You can also try to use advanced human body transformation. The general human body transformation only changes the appearance and body shape (although this is already the content of the advanced class), but Felix's idea is to go a step further on this basis, and change the magic structure in the body together.

This approach is similar to Animagus. It's just that its transformed form is human. It

's not that no wizard has tried this idea before, but the internal body structure of the werewolf did not change after the transformation, so naturally there was no effect. Now with the werewolf magic structure diagram discovered by Felix, the situation may be very different.

Felix, walking on the road, suddenly had an idea: Why is it a bit like the blood magic studied by Salazar Slytherin?

He pondered for a while, with a smile on his face. Have I reached this level, using ancient magic words to analyze other people's magic path? This feels so good...

The previous two methods are only temporary solutions, not fundamental solutions.

The first one - the ancient magic 'reversing werewolf transformation', is actually to restore the wizard in the werewolf state to human form, and spend the full moon safely in human form during the magic. Generally speaking, it is a substitute for the wolf poison potion. The advantage is to maintain the human form, and the disadvantage is that it is difficult to learn.

If Felix hadn't helped, he estimated that Lupin would have a hard time doing it. But after learning it, you can say goodbye to the wolf poison potion, which seems to verify a point of view in the magic world that potions and magic are mutually replaceable.

The second method - involving the transformation of the human body that involves changes in the internal structure of the body, is also extremely difficult. Felix believes that no one except Dumbledore can do it, but now with the werewolf magic structure diagram he provided, the difficulty may drop sharply.

The advantage is that the wizard is in a pure human state during the transformation.

As for the last idea - Felix frowned - it is to completely destroy these magic structures infected by wolf poison, once and for all. At that time, the werewolf will no longer be a werewolf. But this method involves the essence of magic, and a mistake may cause even the wizard to fail and become a squib.

Dumbledore's caution about magic was still ringing in his ears.

In fact, there is a fourth idea, Felix thought. That is to publish the magic structure diagram of the werewolf. Perhaps Snape, Belby, or Slughorn, the potion masters, can come up with a solution from the perspective of potions.

Felix planned to ask Lupin at that time to see what he thought. March 10th happened to be his birthday.

The next morning.

Harry knocked on the door of the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor's office.

He came here to avoid Ron and Hermione's endless questions. He was now forced to reveal the details of the Dumbledore family's meal that he saw in the Pensieve. He really didn't want to talk about what happened later, so he found an excuse to come out for some fresh air.

As a result, he found that he was warmly welcomed by Professor Bagshot, which made Harry a little flattered.

"Please take a seat, Harry." Grindelwald said kindly, and put a book on the side.

"Professor Bagshot, are you studying ancient runes?" Harry asked in surprise.

"Why, don't I need to learn new knowledge at my age?" Grindelwald said, glancing at Harry's hand, "You stole the show yesterday, Harry."

"Oh, well - I guess so." Harry muttered.

"I heard that you want to be an Auror in the future, a good idea," Grindelwald said softly, "I happen to know a few spells that are very powerful and should be helpful to you. They are not dark magic." He saw Harry's expression and added.

Harry murmured his thanks. He was indeed worried that Professor Bagshot was going to teach him dark magic. After all, the professor had personally admitted that he had followed the dark wizard Grindelwald.

Until then, Grindelwald seemed to mention it casually.

"I saw a black gemstone ring on your hand yesterday. Why aren't you wearing it today?"