Chapter 130: Unraveling the Mystery

Following Professor McGonagall towards the office, Professor McGonagall did not talk to Mike along the way, perhaps because of her personality. Mike was too embarrassed to speak when she did not take the initiative to speak, so the two walked on in silence.

Bored, Mike had to focus his attention on Professor McGonagall's back. After careful observation, he actually discovered something. Professor McGonagall's walking posture was very distinctive.

Each of her steps was relatively large and very powerful. Almost every step would make the hem of her long skirt fly up. At the same time, Professor McGonagall kept her chest up and looked very aura. It could even be said that it was a female version of the dragon-walking tiger step.

It stands to reason that a woman walking in this posture would be very unsightly, but Professor McGonagall was not like that. Mike didn't know how to describe her aura, but the moment he saw Professor McGonagall, the three words "strong woman" automatically appeared in Mike's mind.

I don't know how long it took, but the two finally arrived at Professor McGonagall's office.

"Please sit down, Mike." Professor McGonagall pulled out the chair from the desk and sat down. Then she took out a thick stack of documents from a book basket at the corner of the desk and started to review them. "Sorry, you don't mind me talking to you while I'm working, do you?"

Mike shook his head vigorously to show that he didn't care. At the same time, he was shocked when he saw the 5-centimeter-thick stack of documents in McGonagall's hand and the documents in the book basket that were several times thicker than that. It seemed that most of the administrative work of Hogwarts might be handled by Professor McGonagall, the vice-president, and Dumbledore might be a hands-off manager in this regard.

"Then please ask your questions. I'm very busy here."

"Okay, Professor McGonagall, actually I just want to ask what kind of spell Transfiguration is." Mike also frowned when he heard this, "What I mean is that I saw Headmaster Dumbledore use Transfiguration to solve the basilisk with a wave of his hand, and in the wizard duel between Cedric and I two days ago, Cedric also used a similar technique to almost completely render my attack ineffective.

I have no doubt that Headmaster Dumbledore can do this, but Cedric, he's just a student, how did he do it?"

Professor McGonagall stopped writing with the pen in her hand when she heard McGonagall talking about wizard duels. She was obviously very dissatisfied with the duel club set up by Lockhart, but she still answered Mike's question.

"First of all, I have to warn you, Mr. Townley. Don't try any potentially dangerous Transfiguration. I know Dumbledore and Cedric may have rekindled your interest in Transfiguration, but I still want to remind you that the most important thing about Transfiguration is caution." Professor McGonagall said earnestly, "Maybe those tragic stories I told you before, like Kappa and Banshee, are too far away from you, so you can't understand their seriousness.

Then I will tell you the simplest example. You must know the five basic laws of Gamp's Transfiguration.

1. Food produced by Transfiguration is inedible.

2. Transfiguration cannot work on magical items.

3. Transfiguration cannot create something out of nothing.

4. Transfiguration cannot change the number of original items, such as turning a stick into two swords.

5. Transfiguration cannot grant permanent life to dead things, like the butterfly we just transformed into. Once the remaining magic power is exhausted, it will return to its original state.

These five basic laws have guided countless wizards on the road of Transfiguration for thousands of years, but do you know how they were discovered?

They were all made with human lives!

Just like the first one, an unknown wizard once tried to turn a wooden stake into bread and ate it, and then he bled to death that night.

After his death, because he suspected that he was poisoned, his friends dissected him and found that all his blood vessels were full of wooden thorns.

So everyone knew that he died from his own Transfiguration. "

After Professor McGonagall finished speaking, she saw the fear she wanted to see on Mike's face, nodded with satisfaction, picked up the water cup beside her and took a sip before continuing:

"As for your question, I can tell you very clearly. To practice Transfiguration to the level of Dumbledore and his friends, you need not only extremely strong magic and mental strength, but also a very deep understanding of Transfiguration. The

first two are not difficult, but the last one is difficult.

Transfiguration is the most complicated subject. If you want to go further in this subject, you need not only amazing talent but also extraordinary efforts and time accumulation. Otherwise, there are so many powerful wizards in the world, but why are there so few masters of Transfiguration? As for Cedric's Transfiguration, I have also heard about it. His Transfiguration is not at all controlled. He can do Transfiguration like     Dumbledore

completely relying on his family secrets.

This secret technique can allow learners to instantly possess amazing transformation abilities, but the learning conditions are very harsh. As far as I know, there has only been one person in the Diggory family who has learned it in the past few hundred years, Cedric.

Moreover, the Transfiguration that is cultivated with that secret technique is just a substandard one, with only the form but not the spirit, which is far inferior to the real Transfiguration master.

To be honest, I still feel sorry for Cedric. Originally, with his talent, he could have become a master of Transfiguration, but because of practicing this secret technique, I guess he will never reach that level.

In my opinion, his father asked him to learn that secret technique, which was simply a way to force his growth. "

After listening to Professor McGonagall's explanation, McEnery suddenly understood, and at the same time, he was glad that he had rashly tried to improve Transfiguration.

But when he heard the last few words that Professor McGonagall said, he felt very speechless.

Is the secret technique that Cedric learned really as weak as Professor McGonagall said?

Please, it's so strong that it's explosive!

Mike was sure that even if Cedric were to fight an elite Auror right now, he would surely be able to wear him down with his superb Transfiguration.

Although he didn't agree with what Professor McGonagall said at the end, Mike kept a grateful look on his face. After saying a lot of flattering words about Professor McGonagall's profound knowledge and her selfless help in solving students' doubts, Mike finally left the office under Professor McGonagall's increasingly impatient gaze. As soon as he

left the office, Mike's face darkened.

Although what Professor McGonagall said just now made Mike suddenly enlightened, it didn't help him at all in how to defeat Cedric, and even completely annihilated Mike's last thought of fighting fire with fire.

Looking at a stone statue of a monster outside the office door, Mike seemed to have thought of something, his eyes brightened a little, and he murmured at the same time.

"Maybe, this is the only way..."