Chapter 84: Summarizing the Laws of Transformation

For some time now, he had been avoiding Professor Quirrell; in Defense Against the Dark Arts class, he always sat in the corner of the classroom, far away from Professor Quirrell, and the two maintained a tacit understanding of not interacting with each other.

Allen never expected to encounter Professor Quirrell in such a narrow pass; he had not the slightest preparation...

Moreover, he keenly noticed that Professor Quirrell was staring at his right hoof with a certain greed, a look that made Allen feel as though Quirrell would pounce on him at any moment to hug his right hoof and take a few bites...

This sent a huge alarm bell ringing in Allen's heart.

Pressure forced Allen's brain to operate rapidly, and he soon came up with an idea.

"Professor Quirrell! Are you looking for Professor McGonagall?" Allen said deliberately loudly, "Professor McGonagall is in her office!"

Then, without waiting for Professor Quirrell to react, he shouted toward Professor McGonagall's office: "Professor McGonagall, Professor Quirrell has something to discuss with you!"

Professor McGonagall's voice came from the office, inviting Professor Quirrell to come in and sit.

Professor Quirrell glared fiercely at Allen, waved his sleeve, and entered Professor McGonagall's office.

Allen took the opportunity to run back to the Gryffindor Tower, returning once again to his four-poster bed; the curtains had already been repaired by Harry using a Mending Charm, and Allen also noticed something he had ignored at noon.

Of the several unicorn hairs he had wrapped around his fingers that morning, one had turned into a lifeless, dull gray, standing out particularly prominently against the other hairs that glowed white.

Allen double-checked; the texture and length of that gray hair were very similar to the remaining unicorn hairs.

This plunged Allen into deep thought; he finally had time to ponder the trigger for his transformation today, and this time the answer was so obvious.

Yesterday when he transformed, his mind was full of unicorn hooves, and he hadn't thought about dragon claws at all; according to previous experience, he shouldn't have transformed dragon claws, yet they appeared just like that, proving that the bite from Norbert had a huge impact on his innate transformation.

Then there was the unicorn hoof; judging from the dimmed unicorn hair, he must have absorbed the power of the unicorn hair during his innate transformation, which was why he so smoothly transformed the unicorn hoof.

Combining this with his previous example of transforming a Thunderbird eye, Allen began to have some vague ideas.

To transform organs of magical creatures, a trigger is required; Norbert biting him a few times counted as a trigger, the unicorn hair was a trigger, and Professor Snape's potion was also a trigger; judging from the first two triggers, Professor Snape's potion must have contained something related to the Thunderbird.

I hope it wasn't Thunderbird droppings! Allen prayed silently in his heart.

To summarize, to transform organs of magical creatures, either the person suffers, or the wallet suffers; one must know that unicorn hair is not cheap!

Thinking carefully, both can actually be categorized as the wallet suffering.

And considering Allen's financial situation as a pauper and a heavily indebted person, ultimately, it still comes down to the person suffering.

Thinking of this, Allen felt another headache coming on; he once again experienced what it means that when a man is poor, his aspirations are short, and when a horse is thin, its hair grows long.

Even with good talent, it is useless without money.

Having money is the true ability of banknotes.

Allen's heart was filled with a sense of desolation.

However, it seemed there was still a way; Hagrid appeared to have collected many magical materials, all gathered from the Forbidden Forest; he seemed to just be hoarding them, neither selling nor using them much, so if he truly had an emergency, perhaps he could go to Hagrid to request support.

But eating from someone's mouth makes one's words short, and taking from someone's hand makes one's hands short; constantly taking materials from him was not a solution, after all, if he really wanted to explore the laws of his innate transformation, who knew how many magical materials would be needed! So, using Hagrid as a direction was fine for emergencies, but it was no long-term strategy.

The second direction Allen thought of was the research agreement signed with Professor Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall.

Although he was the one being studied, since it was research, there must be consumables for conducting experiments; surely the experimental subject couldn't provide the consumables himself? Professor McGonagall and Professor Dumbledore must at least provide some experimental consumables! After all, his research value for Transfiguration was immeasurable.

Sigh! It's all for the development of the Wizarding World! Allen sighed in his heart.

The more he thought about this direction, the more feasible it seemed; it was hard to say how wealthy Professor McGonagall was, but Professor Dumbledore's wealth was truly substantial! For him, some magical materials were really just a drop in the bucket!

Moreover, Professor Dumbledore had a phoenix pet, which provided an even more stable source of magical materials; he didn't ask for much, just one phoenix feather a day as experimental consumables would suffice!

Sigh! It's all for the development of the Wizarding World! Allen continued to sigh in his heart.

Fawkes, dozing off in the Headmaster's office at Hogwarts, was suddenly awakened by a chill of dread; it looked around puzzledly but found nothing, and soon fell deeply asleep again. It did not know that it had already been targeted by a young wizard...

After finishing his analysis, Allen put the unicorn hairs away safely in his trunk; now, the unicorn hairs held much more meaning for him, making him cherish them even more.

Just as Allen finished tidying his bed, Harry and Ron returned; they had specially brought dinner for Allen, knowing that his condition made it unsuitable for him to eat in the Great Hall.

Allen was very satisfied with their thoughtfulness, but upon asking, he learned that it was Hermione's suggestion.

After classes ended in the afternoon, Harry, Hermione, and Ron went to Hagrid's place, showed him Charlie's letter, and successfully persuaded Hagrid to agree to send Norbert away...

This made Allen breathe a sigh of relief, yet he also felt some regret at losing a stable source of triggers for directed transformation.

However, he could take advantage of tomorrow, the last day, to collect some materials from Norbert, even though it was still just a child...

But this idea was quickly shattered.

Waking up the next day, Allen found that his hands had returned to normal; he hadn't held his wand before going to sleep last night because he feared that he might damage his wand with his dragon claws in his dreams.

So today he underwent ordinary transformation again, but the organ randomly selected today was also miraculous, and Allen happened to recognize it: it was the ear of a Marwari horse, a horse whose ears are always making a heart shape (if anyone in the comments section knows, please post a picture!).

Looking at the ears in the mirror that kept making heart shapes, Allen felt his mood improve significantly, but then he sadly discovered that his hand had not completely healed; although the surface had closed, his fingers were still throbbing with pain.

Therefore, Allen lost the opportunity to send Norbert away, because under the Invisibility Cloak, there was only room for the crate containing Norbert plus two people; since Allen's injury hadn't healed, he was directly excluded.

In the end, they decided that Harry and Hermione would go to send Norbert off, because Ron had also made a mistake; Malfoy had taken his textbook, and inside that textbook was Charlie's reply letter...

But Harry still decided to proceed as planned, because Malfoy did not know they had an Invisibility Cloak.

Excluded from the operation, Allen began his wand innate transformation again that night; he wanted to continue transforming dragon claws to heal his right hand, anyway, he couldn't bear to use the unicorn hair anymore.

As a result, he was shaken awake by Harry a little after one o'clock in the morning; Harry looked utterly dejected, while Allen, who had just completed his wand innate transformation, felt that his eyes were not quite right...

He rushed to the washroom and saw his transformed eyes in the washroom mirror; these eyes he happened to be very familiar with as well:

They were the eyes of a fire dragon...