Chapter 110: Five Processes

"Yes, this is also the third point we need to explain."

"Wizards cannot autonomously decide what creature they want to transform into through Animagus."

"What determines what animal a wizard transforms into is heaven's will, probability, or in other words: the 'Magic Net.' The 'Magic Net' will transform the wizard into an animal that is similar in symbolic meaning to the wizard according to the wizard's 'Qi,' the wizard's personality, and needs."

"This is also the reason why we say Animagus transformation is a magic ritual. Because whether it is the Death's-head Hawkmoth pupa or the final transformed animal, the way they work is at the level of 'symbolic meaning'."

"We discovered through research materials that a wizard's Animagus form is often similar to their Patronus form. This point also confirms our conjecture."

"Because the Patronus is actually more similar to a wizard's soul avatar."

"The fourth point we need to explain additionally is the characteristics of the potion."

"Animagus potion must not be disturbed during the storage process."

"Any disturbance will lead to the mutation of the potion, which is what I said earlier, the reason why the solution is extremely unstable."

"We believe that this is determined by the characteristics of Animagus potion."

"At the beginning, we discovered a strange phenomenon, that is: no matter how precisely we control the conditions, for example, letting the same wizard use each half of the same leaf to make two potions, the final potions obtained have large systematic differences."

"We calculated the reasons for this part of the difference and found that it cannot be eliminated by any feasible operation. It is an inherent, systematic, probabilistic fluctuation in the phenomenon of Animagus transformation."

"Even if we divide the same potion into two parts with no difference in content and composition and store them in the same environment, no matter what method we use, eventually when we observe, the two potions will present different states."

"After excluding various possibilities, we realized that Animagus potion might have certain quantum characteristics."

"It will collapse into a specific state at the same time as it is observed. Therefore, the observation itself will change its form of existence. And because of the complexity of the components of Animagus potion, the probability of any two bottles of potion collapsing into the same state is almost zero."

"However, some characteristics show that this collapse process is not completely random and seems to have a certain controllability."

"In fact, in the process of researching vampire characteristics, we realized that the initial birth of vampires is likely an Animagus transformation accident."

"Even werewolves might be born from Animagus transformation."

"In this regard, we actually already have some correlation proofs. For example, the vampire's photophobia characteristic is close to the Animagus's requirements for a dark environment and the characteristics of sunlight mutation, and the mechanism seems to have several similarities. And the werewolf's full moon transformation characteristic also has some connection with the characteristic that Animagus needs to be made under full moon moonlight."

"However, the evidence is not sufficient, and we are not sure whether these two transformations were the unintentional mistakes of ancient wizards or the intentional exploration of wizards for stronger transformation magic."

"In the future, we will carry out research in this area. I believe that research on the birth mechanism of werewolves and vampires is also conducive to our deeper understanding of transformation."

"The above is our current analysis of the Animagus transformation process and the explanation of the four important issues within it."

"Animagus transformation is an extremely complex magic. Our understanding of it is still very shallow, but we can already see some potential to be applied to the Transformation Path from it."

"According to our initial vision of the Transformation Path, the first stage of the Transformation Path is mainly relying on Animagus transformation. Currently, with the deepening of research, we have been able to subdivide Animagus transformation into several small processes again."

"The first is naturally ordinary Animagus transformation. In this process, our primary goal is to solve the complex production problem of transformation potion, understand the basic principles, and find a faster, more standard, efficient, and easier-to-succeed transformation method."

"The second process, Directed Animagus. In this process, our main goal is to solve the drawback that ordinary Animagus cannot be specifically transformed, paving the way for subsequent more complex operations."

"The third process is Advanced Animagus. Ordinary Animagus converts between humans and animals. Although the animal form still has some simple thinking, it cannot use magic, and in the human form, it does not have various special abilities of animals. The two forms are split."

"But, if werewolves and vampires are also a kind of Animagus. Then they are actually a kind of Animagus that can possess the abilities of both animal and human forms at the same time. For example, vampires in human form possess echolocation, accelerated heartbeats to enhance agility, blood-sucking, sharp claws, and various abilities of bats."

"And werewolves, after transforming, also have powerful magic resistance, possess sharp claws and fangs, and their physique and build have been significantly enhanced."

"This form where human and animal forms coexist and can possess the advantages of both at the same time, we call it the Advanced Animagus form."

"Only when reaching this process does Animagus truly possess the power to help wizards become stronger, and it can be considered to have truly stepped into the Transformation Path."

"However, our theoretical construction for this process is still very weak, and there are many problems to be solved. Perhaps the most important point is how to take the advantages of both forms while avoiding the defects like werewolves and vampires."

"The fourth process is Magical Animagus. In this process, wizards can transform into magical creatures. In fact, the animals transformed into by ordinary Animagus may not be real ordinary animals. After all, it is hard to imagine that an ordinary animal can act according to human thinking, and they must still retain the wizard's huge magic power in their bodies. Otherwise, how do they transform back?"

"We conjecture that perhaps ordinary Animagus transformation just makes animals unable to cast magic, but magic power still exists."

"Finally, it is Polymorphic Animagus. This process needs to solve the problem of wizards transforming into multiple animals and multiple magical animals."

"Currently, we have walked a small half of the first process. For Directed Animagus, we also have some conjectures. For the third process, we have werewolves and vampires as references. And for the fourth and fifth processes, it is almost a blank in the Wizarding World. We still don't know the difficulties of Magical Animagus, and for Polymorphic Animagus, we can only rely on some creatures and magic that can transform multiple times for reference."

"In the future, the Transformation Path will go deeper and deeper into unknown fields, and the difficulties faced will inevitably be more and more. I sincerely hope that more people can join us to jointly promote this topic. Thank you everyone."

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