"Ah-ha-"
The next morning, at the Hufflepuff dining table, Maka yawned and stuffed slices of white bread into her mouth sleepily, forgetting to spread the jam. The school uniform and robe he wore was also askew, and it looked like he had put it on casually. This sloppy appearance was a bit inconsistent with his usual neat style.
"Hey, junior, why are you so sleepy? Didn't you sleep last night?" The careless senior Charlotte obviously doesn't care about other people's clothes - although she herself is always beautifully dressed.
"Well... Yeah, a little bit." Maka nodded listlessly, her eyelids drooping, as if she would fall into sleep the next moment.
"Which little girl are you thinking of?" Senior Sister Charlotte took the opportunity to joke.
"Well, I was thinking about you, ha-" Maka answered instinctively, and yawned again after saying that.
Miss Charlotte obviously didn't expect that this guy could counterattack quickly even when he was half asleep, and she couldn't help but show a look of "I've convinced you" on her face.
"Okay! Wake up quickly, class will start soon." She raised her hand and slapped Maka on the back with all her strength. Maka was so shocked that she jumped up, including the bread in her mouth. All fell on the dining table.
"Senior, you don't have to be so cruel, right?" Maka bared his teeth and felt that there must be a red slap mark on his back.
Just then, the owls arrived.
Maka raised her head and watched the large group of owls flying in the restaurant, throwing their respective packages or letters into the recipient's lap.
"Speaking of which, my Malfurion stays in the dormitory all day long (he doesn't even want to go to the school's owl house). Apart from eating and sleeping, he has hardly been used for anything!" Maka patted her head in realization. Thigh, "Then why should I buy it? It seems I need to find something to do for it..."
Just when Maka was thinking about letting her own owl go out for a walk, a black shadow flew past the door of the restaurant, scaring the other owls away.
"Ah?" Maka heard the sound and looked up again, only to see her owl Mafa swooping towards her, and then like a bomber, she dropped a large package on the open space behind Maka, making a "boom" "A loud noise.
"Gu." Mafa yelled, then dropped to the dining table and pecked another piece of bread from Maka's plate.
"Is this the owl you raised?" Senior Sister Charlotte stared at Marfa curiously, "It's really strong. I want to raise one like this too. Where did you buy it?"
"The 'Giant Spider' of Knockturn Alley," Maka replied casually, pulling out a list from the package, "Oh, the book I ordered from Flourish and Blotts has arrived."
A few days before school started, Maka made a special trip to Flourish and Blotts Bookstore to order some books on potions and herbal medicine. Although the books he ordered can be found in the library, library books do not allow you to doodle on them.
Charlotte leaned over and took a few glances, and then said in surprise: "Junior brother, are you planning to complete all the courses at Hogwarts in the first grade?"
Maka stuffed the book list into the package, and while talking about how it was possible, she picked up the big package and walked to the lounge - he had to put these books back in the dormitory before class.
As they passed the Gryffindor House table, Harry called out to Maka.
"Hey, Maka! Hagrid asked me to go to his place for tea, will you go?" He asked Maka, waving the note in his hand.
"When?" Maka said.
"This afternoon, around three o'clock!" Harry replied.
"I have class in the afternoon. Say hello to Hagrid for me. I will change the time to see him."
Harry nodded, then leaned on the table and wrote something on the back of the note, then handed it to Hedwig to send away.
This morning was Hufflepuff's first Transfiguration lesson.
The Transfiguration class was taught by Minerva McGonagall, who, like Snape, was a strict tutor.
But unlike Snape, Professor McGonagall treats all four houses equally, and she will severely punish any student who violates school rules.
Therefore, although most students are afraid of this senior female professor who always has a straight face, they are still in awe.
I believe that there are definitely not a few students who respect her from the bottom of their hearts.
Professor McGonagall's teaching methods have always been concise and effective. As soon as the class started, she gave all the students here a slap in the face.
"Transfiguration is the most complex and dangerous spell you have in your Hogwarts curriculum." she said. "Anyone who tries to cause trouble in my class will be asked to leave and will never be allowed in again. This I have said this to every new student in my class, and I hope you will take it to heart as a warning."
Then she transformed her lectern into an elk and back again.
Most of them were attracted by this magical magic, and naturally they were one by one. In fact, Maka is probably the one who understands the difficulty best among the students here. He had learned about this from the "Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration" before.
So far, Maka has read several textbooks required by the school, and among them, he thinks the most difficult one is probably the current course.
The difficulty of transfiguration does not only depend on the wizard's research on its principles. This is just a starting point. To be truly proficient in using transfiguration, the biggest difficulty lies in a thorough understanding of the properties of objects before and after the transformation.
Wizards who learn transfiguration must not only study the physical properties of objects in depth, but also have the highest possible understanding and control of the magical properties of objects - this is very complex and profound, and can be said to be endless.
For example, if a beginner wizard can turn a match into a sewing needle of about the same size; then, a transfiguration master can turn the match into various models, materials, and even textures. And maintain it for hundreds of years!
Of course, apart from the gap in accuracy and consumption, the biggest difference lies in the understanding of it.
This is a long-term study course that is quite time-consuming, and Maka discovered that there are no shortcuts in it and can only be accumulated through daily study and research.
In class, Maka turns one of the feathers assigned to him into a metal lump. He didn't have very good control over the shape of objects, but Professor McGonagall still nodded at him - for a beginner, being able to make a qualitative change in an object was already an extremely good performance.
In the afternoon, there was another drowsy history of magic lesson. Professor Binns always talks about boring historical events in the magical world in his monotonous tone. The emotionless teaching style made almost all students lose interest in this course.
But Maka listened with interest. Because he discovered that the content taught by Professor Binns was not actually written according to the text, but was sorted out in a very orderly manner, and occasionally there were some contents that were missed in the textbook. I believe that this respected Hogwarts’ only ghost professor carefully prepares his lessons every night.
Of course, this may also be because the ghost doesn't need to sleep at all, which gives him a lot of extra time. If you don't do something, you will definitely be so bored that you want to die all over again.
"I heard that Professor Binns was the History of Magic professor at Hogwarts during his lifetime, until one day when he came to teach, he accidentally forgot his body." Ernie sat next to Maka. Said quietly.
"As you said, Professor Binns not only devoted the rest of his life to teaching, but also continued to maintain this extremely difficult persistence even after his death." Maka nodded and said.
"Listen to what you said, it's true!"
Ernie was stunned for a moment and realized that this seemed to be the case. He couldn't help but straighten up his waist and listen to the class seriously, but soon he lay down again - the class itself was too boring.
The history of magic course might be extremely difficult for other students, but Maka felt that time passed in the blink of an eye.
"Maka, where are you going? Aren't you going to the lounge to play wizard chess for a while?" Ernie said a little surprised.
The History of Magic classroom is on the second floor. The little badgers in the dormitory were all exchanging gossip information with each other while walking downstairs. Only Maka was stepping on the upward stairs.
"Oh, I have to go to the library. I need to look up some information." Maka turned around and said without stopping, and soon disappeared from Ernie's sight along the automatically turning stairs.
The library located on the fifth floor of the main castle of Hogwarts is a huge library with a huge collection of books.
Here, you can find almost all kinds of magic books that are currently being released on the market or have been released in the past. Of course, there is a large area here that is the so-called "restricted book area". It cannot be borrowed without the signature of the principal or the Defense Against the Dark Arts professor.
The librarian was Mrs. Pince, a thin, old and irritable woman who looked like an old buzzard grumpy from hunger.
She regards the books in the library as her life and will kick out any student who attempts to alter or damage the collection. In her opinion, these precious books are her forbidden possessions, and if possible, it would be best for no one to come in.
It was just after the end of get out of class, and there were only a few first-year Gryffindors in the library—their house had no classes scheduled this afternoon.
"... magical creatures... magical creatures... here!"
Maka stood on tiptoe and pulled out a book called "Habits and Origin of Humanoid Magical Creatures" from the high bookshelf. She immediately stood there and started to look through the pages.