[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-transfiguration-master-of-hogwarts":3,"chapter-the-transfiguration-master-of-hogwarts-the-transfiguration-master-of-hogwarts-chapter-245":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","The Transfiguration Master of Hogwarts",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},2320950,4539,"Chapter 245: The Mystery of the Patronus","the-transfiguration-master-of-hogwarts-chapter-245",245,"\u003Cp>Allen speculated that Mr. Weasley must have been drunk at the time, extracting numerous memories and having his Patronus learn from them—but he still wasn’t sure how exactly to make a Patronus learn.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, Allen decided to first extract a few memories to test it out; he figured repeated trials would reveal the method.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He placed the tip of his wand against his temple, sifted through his memories, then chose one at random; soon, a wisp of silvery mist appeared at the wand’s tip.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only then did Allen realize that the extracted memory looked just like the silvery mist forming a Patronus!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Summoning a Patronus requires recalling a happy, joyful memory and fully engaging one’s emotions—was there some connection here?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he couldn’t dwell on the connection now; he still needed to find a way to make the Patronus learn this fragment of memory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Allen fumbled with his wand, holding the memory fragment helplessly—he didn’t know what to do next, and this form of memory wouldn’t last long; it would soon dissipate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, the Jellyfish Patronus seemed drawn to the memory fragment; it drifted closer to Allen, one tentacle gently brushing the wand—and the memory vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Allen stared in stunned silence; he hadn’t expected the method to be so bluntly simple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Patronus, having devoured the memory fragment, seemed unsatisfied—as if the memory had been delicious.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Jellyfish Patronus stared directly at Allen, and Allen understood its meaning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So Allen began extracting memories again; this time, he deliberately pulled out joyful ones. After consuming them, the Jellyfish Patronus grew noticeably more solid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Its interactions with Allen became more sentient—it understood his words faster and conveyed information back to him with increasing accuracy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Allen grew even more delighted; though extracting memories was unpleasant, he couldn’t get enough of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he soon realized a serious problem: when Allen cast the Clear Spring Charm to summon water, each summoned spring was different—even though the taste was identical, he knew each one was a distinct body of water.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And since the Patronus was made of silvery mist, he couldn’t be certain whether the Patronus he summoned next would be identical inside, beyond its outward form.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He feared that the Patronus he’d painstakingly trained might vanish when the spell ended, and the next one he summoned would be nothing more than a barely intelligent Patronus—forcing him to start over figuring out how to prevent the summoned Patronus from dissolving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Allen suddenly remembered the ancient magical rune parameter “ID” in the Patronus Charm—he’d once wondered why such a parameter existed, and why its value never changed each time he cast the charm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, combining this with today’s events, he suddenly understood; he stopped extracting memories and let the Jellyfish Patronus dissolve into the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a moment of preparation, he cast the Patronus Charm again; silvery mist rapidly coalesced into a solid Jellyfish Patronus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Allen examined the Jellyfish Patronus closely—it appeared dense and stable, then joyfully circled around him; when Allen tried interacting with it, it responded with clear intelligence, nothing like a barely sentient Patronus.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Allen realized: the Patronus he’d summoned multiple times was always the same one, and the enhancements from feeding it memories had been preserved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This led him to a new hypothesis: a Patronus might be a peculiar form of life existing in an unknown dimensional space; wizards, through the Patronus Charm, form a bond with one specific Patronus, allowing them to summon that same Patronus repeatedly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The unchanging “ID” value corresponded to the Patronus’s “identity number”—the key to summoning the same Patronus every time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But such a Patronus held little meaning for Allen; he could give one high intelligence, but having only one was useless to him—he sought magical intelligence to control Transfigured Beasts, and having just one slightly smarter Transfigured Beast meant little; it would be better to focus on how to make Yodel split off more detached consciousnesses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately, Allen realized a massive flaw in this hypothesis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mr. Weasley’s magical car was a Patronus that had gained intelligence; Allen deduced that Mr. Weasley’s Patronus, enhanced by memory magic, had fused with the car, and the car had been wandering the Forbidden Forest for nearly two years.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If a wizard’s summoned Patronus was always the same one, then whenever Mr. Weasley cast the Patronus Charm, he’d simply recall the Patronus fused to the car—causing the car to instantly lose its intelligence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if Mr. Weasley’s Patronus, fused with the car, resisted being summoned back, Mr. Weasley would lose the ability to summon any Patronus at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet when Allen visited the Burrow, he had seen Mr. Weasley summon his Patronus multiple times to send messages—proving Mr. Weasley could still summon his Patronus normally.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This plunged Allen back into thought: could one summon multiple different Patronuses?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it seemed one could. Allen quickly recalled passages from books he’d read about the Patronus Charm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some wizards, after major traumas, found their Patronus’s form changed—or even lost the ability to summon a complete Patronus entirely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such cases were fairly common in magical history; Allen had read many such accounts.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If that were true, Mr. Weasley’s situation became explainable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the night the magical car gained intelligence, Mr. Weasley had been drunk on brandy; under that state, he likely summoned a completely new Patronus, which, after absorbing vast amounts of his memories, grew increasingly intelligent—and fused with the car in some unknown way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After sobering up, Mr. Weasley forgot how to summon that new Patronus—but he could still summon his original one.\u003C\u002Fp>",922,"2026-06-20T16:09:24.693Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","3433ae95c75d25f8e9cda6b4cb95f0eb6d992059eca1bee02ab816ffe6bf784a","the-transfiguration-master-of-hogwarts-chapter-246","the-transfiguration-master-of-hogwarts-chapter-244",284,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-transfiguration-master-of-hogwarts-cover.jpg"]