Hogwarts: Becoming a god from reselling fresh food

Magic Research Institute, first floor, report hall.

It has been more than a year since the establishment of the Magic Research Institute. In addition to the first batch of more than 100 talents from various disciplines, more than 200 people have successively entered to work here.

Therefore, there are more than 300 people sitting in the lecture hall at this moment.

A banner was hung above the podium: "Lecture on "Basic Principles of Animagus"."

On the podium, there is a movable blackboard divided into four grids to facilitate the speaker to write on the blackboard.

At ten past ten, Murphy walked into the hall, accompanied by Laura Krueger and Andrew Tuke. Everyone stood up and applauded. They waited until Murphy took his seat in the middle of the first row before sitting down again.

Andrew Tuke takes the stage.

He still wears black-rimmed glasses and a plaid shirt, but unlike a year ago, he has adapted to his current role and no longer panics.

"Director, everyone, welcome to the results conference of the Transformation Pathway Research Group. I am Andrew Tuke, leader of the Transformation Pathway Research Group. Today I will introduce to you our latest results: Animagus Fundamental."

"More than a year ago, I stood on this podium and proposed the theoretical vision of the deformation pathway. In order to find a feasible solution for the deformation pathway, everyone in our research group has worked day and night with great enthusiasm, trying to analyze various Transfiguration Magic, Shapeshifting Creatures, and How Transfiguration Potions Work.”

"Currently, we already have some understanding of some things, such as the biological characteristics of vampires, the mechanism of action of Polyjuice Potion, etc."

"However, our research has been slow to make key progress regarding the core of the transformation pathway: the Animagus."

"The reason for this is actually very simple. It is too difficult for Animagus to transform."

"The transformation of Animagus is almost the most difficult type of magic I know. The difficulty is not that this magic requires high magical attainments or powerful mana, but that the entire transformation process takes an extremely long time. A lot of time, a lot of patience, and a lot of uncertainty, resulting in the success rate of this magic being so small that even for a transformation master who is good at magic."

"Next, in order to give everyone an idea of ​​the difficulty of this magic, I will briefly explain its general steps."

"For a wizard to become an Animagus, there are roughly five steps."

"The first step is to hold a single mandrake leaf in your mouth for a full month from full moon to full moon. At no time should you swallow the leaf or take it out of your mouth. Once the leaf Once it leaves your mouth, you have failed and must start over.”

"The second step is to take out the leaves when the moon is full, fill a crystal vial with saliva, and soak the leaves in it to let it receive pure moonlight. If there happens to be no moonlight that night, it will still fail and you will have to start over."

"Then add a strand of the wizard's hair and a teaspoon of dew to the moonlit crystal vial - the dew must have been collected from a place where there has been no sunlight or human contact for seven full days."

“Finally, add a pupa of the Grimace Hawkmoth. Place the mixture in a quiet, dark place and do not look at it or disturb it again until the next storm with thunder and lightning.”

"The third step is to wait for the storm to come. Point the tip of the wand to your heart every time the sun rises and sets, and recite the incantation: 'Amado, Animo, Animado, Animagus.'"

"No matter how long it takes to wait out the storm, the crystal vial must remain completely undisturbed and untouched by the sun. Sunlight contamination will cause the most devastating mutations."

"During this period, the wizard must recite the incantation to himself twice a day. Once he misses it, it will fail. If it goes well, the wizard will feel the beating of another heart before reciting the incantation at a certain time. The incantation still needs to be completed normally. .”

"The fourth step is to finally wait for the stormy day. At the moment when lightning breaks through the sky, the wizard needs to immediately go to the place where the crystal vial is buried. If everything goes well, the wizard can find a mouthful of blood-red potion inside."

"The fifth step is to go to a safe place, recite the spell to yourself again, drink the potion, and start to transform. At this moment, the wizard's mind will automatically appear in the image of the creature he will transform into, and he can no longer regret it. Once transformation is complete, the wizard can switch between animal and human forms at will, and a skilled animagus can transform without a wand.”

"To be honest, when I saw these five steps in the book, I didn't find them particularly troublesome. I was also surprised that not everyone in the wizarding world knew such an interesting magic."

"But until I tried to put a leaf in my mouth, less than a day later, I was already going crazy. It was hard for me to imagine how a wizard could talk, drink, and eat with a leaf in his mouth. …”

"Not to mention the extremely low error tolerance rate where any mistake may lead to failure, and the uncertain conditions such as 'waiting for the storm that doesn't know when.' A wizard who can become an Animagus through such complicated steps, except In addition to extraordinary ability and will, you also need good luck.”

"The complexity of the Animagus deformation makes it difficult to study it. After all, it's hard to find even a few samples, so what's the point of researching it?"

"But fortunately, the director has always been extremely supportive of the transformation pathway research team. A few months ago, he recruited dozens of wizards from the wizarding world and asked them to keep trying, providing us with enough intermediate samples."

"With the samples, our research can begin."

"First step, saliva and leaves."

"This is the most time-consuming step and has the highest failure rate, so we obtained a large number of saliva and leaf samples on the first and second days, but in the first three months, we only obtained one-month-old samples. Over ten.”

"Through the examination and analysis of these ten completed samples and a large number of intermediate samples, we found that the first stage is actually a fermentation process. It is a process in which saliva ferments and separates certain components of the leaves and purifies some of them. It is also a wizard The process of taking the leaf ingredients without interruption.”

"Because this step is too time-consuming, we have been working hard to shorten it and try to reduce the difficulty of its operation. We have tried many times and tried many methods, and found that it is difficult to shorten the time through manual intervention. The entire process It’s almost impossible to leave the wizard’s body.”

"But we still found some simplified solutions. For example, we found that similar effects can be achieved by mixing leaves and saliva, carrying them with the wizard, and regularly drinking and renewing the saliva in a dark and lightless environment. "

"This method greatly reduces the difficulty of operation, so in the first few months of starting the study, we had a lot more complete samples in the first step."