Chapter 37: Gamp

Except for Chu Yang, only a few girls from Slytherin were sitting honestly in the classroom.

After waiting for a long time, no Slytherin freshmen arrived.

Professor McGonagall's face became visibly gloomy.

As the school's Deputy Headmistress, having taught at Hogwarts for so many years, this was the first time she had encountered such a thing.

"Does anyone know what's going on with Slytherin? Where did those boys go?" Professor McGonagall swept her cold eyes across the classroom, and everyone immediately fell silent, hurriedly lowering their heads.

"Professor McGonagall, those boys seem to have played all night in the common room last night, and they all caught colds this morning. They were sent to the infirmary by the seniors."

Pansy Parkinson, with short hair, stood up, a gloating smile on her lips. She enjoyed watching those conceited boys make fools of themselves; anyway, Malfoy, whom she liked, wasn't among them.

"Thank you for answering my question, Miss Parkinson, but even so, Slytherin will still lose 5 points." Professor McGonagall, knowing the reason, looked displeased and signaled for Pansy Parkinson to sit down.

More gloating laughter came from all directions, making Pansy Parkinson, who had backfired, blush with anger.

"Quiet!" Professor McGonagall paced in the classroom and said seriously, "Now, open your books and turn to the first section of the first page..."

Professor McGonagall began to talk about some basic knowledge of Transfiguration, mostly popular science, to let the students understand what Transfiguration is and the risks of Transfiguration.

There were also some special feelings, for example, what does it feel like when a person transforms into an animal and their clothing and accessories like glasses turn into animal skin? This special feeling is something only an Animagus can experience. For other wizards, it is a valuable experience.

In addition, Professor McGonagall also briefly mentioned the five exceptions to Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfiguration.

Chu Yang summarized them—these five items are: you cannot transform anything other than food into food, but you can transform one kind of food into another, or increase the volume of food.

Secondly, you cannot turn dead things into living things, or living things into dead things. Transfiguration cannot change the target's life level and state.

The third item is that you cannot perform Transfiguration on magical objects, as there will be a strong conflict between the two due to the differences in spells and magic sources.

In addition, special Transfiguration like Animagus also has similar restrictions, which is that you cannot transform into a magical creature.

Chu Yang's understanding is that the conflict between Transfiguration and magical objects (creatures) is similar to adding two unrelated or even conflicting programming codes to a program, which destroys the normal operation of the original program.

The fourth item is quantity. You cannot use Transfiguration to turn a target from one into many. This kind of replication or creation of individuals is similar to the second item; it is not a field that human power can reach.

The fifth item is creating something out of nothing. You cannot use Transfiguration to fabricate a substance out of thin air, even if it is something you have seen and understood deeply.

These five special situations are all attempts to use magic to violate the laws of "reality"! But interestingly, Chu Yang felt in the dark that these five items were not impossible to achieve. They were more like some kind of "shackles." Once one of them is broken, magic will enter a brand-new field and undergo qualitative changes.

In the freshmen's first class, Professor McGonagall briefly mentioned some necessary precautions. Because most of the Slytherin freshmen were absent, she did not teach any spells.

"Familiarize yourself with what I just talked about." After Professor McGonagall finished speaking, she transformed into a tabby cat and sat on the podium, with human-like exhaustion in her cat eyes.

After a brief silence, four figures rushed into the classroom. It was the savior Harry and his friends Ron, as well as Goyle and Crabbe with their cheeks swollen high. "Oh, fortunately Professor McGonagall is not here, otherwise we would be miserable. She looks so serious, she can scare people to death when she doesn't speak!"

Ron complained while pulling Harry toward his seat. He didn't notice that Harry's face had already changed.

Professor McGonagall transformed back into human form from the tabby cat, but only passed by them. Professor McGonagall's target was Goyle and Crabbe, who arrived late.

"I heard you had a great time last night, so much so that you didn't even want to come to the Transfiguration class the next day? Should I tell Headmaster Dumbledore to let Slytherin House teach themselves Transfiguration?"

Professor McGonagall's face was as cold as frost, and her voice was not loud, but every word stabbed into Goyle and Crabbe's hearts. They now regretted not sleeping on the floor yesterday, otherwise they could have gone to the infirmary for treatment with the others.

"It's not like that, Professor McGonagall, let me explain." Goyle was anxious to defend himself, then felt someone gently pulling the hem of his robe. He turned his head and saw Crabbe, and also saw Chu Yang's playful smile.

In an instant, Goyle's hair stood on end, as if an electric current flowed through his whole body. He still remembered Chu Yang's feat of overturning the entire first-year boys' dormitory alone last night.

How many punches could he take?

Not even one!

"We are very sorry, Professor McGonagall, we promise it won't happen again!" Goyle quickly admitted his mistake and then closed his mouth honestly.

Professor McGonagall was stunned for a moment. She was still waiting for the other party's explanation...

"There is no next time!" Professor McGonagall glared and said loudly, "Sit down!"

Goyle and Crabbe sat down, but they couldn't concentrate on the class at all, twisting their butts, as if there were nails on the bench.

The reason they were like this was because their seats were just in the row in front of Chu Yang. Even if they didn't look back, they could clearly feel the substantial gaze from behind scanning them.

Originally, the Slytherin girls intended to ask Goyle and Crabbe some specific details, but the two were like statues in the hall, looking at their noses and hearts, motionless, until the next class.

The Potions classroom was in the dungeons, not far from the entrance to the Slytherin common room. The entire corridor leading to the Potions classroom was dark and damp, and most of the freshmen had fearful expressions on their faces.

The atmosphere here was too gloomy, which put considerable psychological pressure on a group of eleven-year-old children.

Hermione, who had originally planned not to speak to Chu Yang all day, couldn't help but speed up and quickly moved to Chu Yang's side.

Hermione coughed dryly and said sarcastically, "Your housemates are really amazing, making Professor McGonagall so angry on the first day of school."

Chu Yang nodded noncommittally and said, "I also think they are quite amazing."

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