Chapter 360: Transformation Lesson from the Sleeping Bag (Edited)

The "Accio" spell is a very useful spell. With this spell, Tom no longer has to worry about not finding things. Additionally, the "Accio" spell can also play a crucial role in magical duels. It's one of the spells that Tom most desires to obtain.

"So, who's the next golden card?" After the excitement of getting the "Accio" spell subsided, Tom opened the last card and found a short wizard in front of him.

"Oh! Professor Flitwick!" Tom knew that Hermione's Enchantment level was about to improve.

After drawing two consecutive golden cards, Tom seriously considered stopping.

"I'll see what changes there are in Hermione tomorrow." With this thought, Tom fell into a deep sleep.

Meanwhile, Hermione, who was sleeping, tossed restlessly. Her pale, smooth skin reddened, and her body temperature rapidly increased. Soon, her creamy skin's surface was covered in beads of sweat.

"Mmm... Hmph..." Hermione unconsciously moaned, feeling uncomfortable in bed. Sweat was flowing abundantly, leaving large damp spots on the sheets. However, in the end, that sudden surge of heat disappeared without Hermione, who was deeply asleep, noticing anything out of the ordinary.

When Hermione woke up the next day, she felt refreshed and full of energy. Only the sheets and covers were sticking to her body, which was uncomfortable.

She pushed those things aside and exposed herself to the air to dry off a bit.

"Miss Granger, it's time to get up." Sue Li had already changed her clothes and was getting out of bed. As she passed by Hermione's bed, she gave her a hard smack on the backside while she was lying down, eliciting an angry shout.

"Sue Li!"

But the culprit of the prank had already moved away.

...

"Alright, stop writing and hand in your exams." Professor McGonagall stood by the desk, tapping her wand. All the students' exams flew automatically to the desk, neatly stacked. Many young wizards and witches looked disappointed. The surprise test in this class had too many questions, and almost half the students hadn't finished them. Some were even still writing frantically when the exams disappeared on their own.

"Were there too many questions?" Professor McGonagall was a bit puzzled. "You should be familiar with this since it's in the textbooks."

For young wizards, there was recent bad news: Professor McGonagall had become addicted to exams. Almost every few lessons, she would dedicate a few minutes before class to give her students a surprise test.

She seemed to enjoy it, but the students suffered. A surprise test every two or three days, who could bear it?! At that moment, they would think of the culprit, the sinner who brought surprise exams to Hogwarts.

"Next time, don't waste too much time on what you don't know." Professor McGonagall never considered reducing the number of questions. She took out a quill from her sleeve and placed it vertically over the students' exams.

In the next moment, the quill moved on its own, correcting the papers.

Seeing this scene, Tom was surprised. He didn't expect Professor McGonagall's Transfiguration skills to be so advanced that a quill could automatically correct exams. After all, Transfiguration exams primarily consisted of short-answer questions.

A quill that could correct short-answer questions automatically was already quite "smart." It was evident that it could judge words and phrases on its own.

Tom's surprise didn't catch Professor McGonagall's attention. At that moment, she was excitedly looking at a corrected exam in her hands.

"It's a very ingenious idea, but unfortunately, it seems to be a more suitable approach for studying curses." She made some brief comments on the exam she had in her hands, then took a few more minutes to explain the answers to the students.

After finishing grading the exams, the questions on the other side were also corrected. Professor McGonagall handed the exams back to the students and warned them to come see her immediately if they found errors in the correction.

It wasn't about changing the grades, as these surprise exams didn't count toward the final grade, but about finding any errors or logical flaws in the magical quill created by Professor McGonagall.

"Today's topic is mass transformation." After dealing with these matters, almost half the class had already passed. However, Professor McGonagall thought it was worth dedicating that time.

Knowledge would only be retained if it was constantly reviewed. What could promote students' memorization better than exams? That's why Professor McGonagall liked to give exams every few lessons.

Of course, she still had to teach the class.

As the students put their exams in their bags, Professor McGonagall began with the topic of the day.

"Surely you all remember that when Sirius Black infiltrated Hogwarts, Headmaster Dumbledore gathered everyone in the Great Hall to spend the night." Instead of starting directly with the key points of transformation, Professor McGonagall began by telling a story, a story that everyone had just experienced.

"That night, Headmaster Dumbledore waved his wand, and hundreds of sleeping bags appeared..."

"Oh!" Michael Corner clapped his hand with his fist. "That's mass transfiguration!"

He said excitedly, "Headmaster Dumbledore is really amazing; he was able to create hundreds of sleeping bags in an instant..."

Professor McGonagall cleared her throat and prevented Michael from speaking.

"It's not quite like that... although it seems like he created hundreds of sleeping bags, he actually 'summoned' them, Headmaster Dumbledore did, rather than 'transfigured' them. I hope you can distinguish the difference." Professor McGonagall corrected Michael's assumption. Transfiguration had a very important principle, and that was that you couldn't create something out of nothing.

No matter how powerful Dumbledore was, he couldn't violate this rule.

"However, he did perform mass transfiguration on those sleeping bags, but what he changed was their color." The sleeping bags created by Dumbledore were from Hogwarts' inventory, so it was easy for him to summon them.

But only he could have transformed them all into a shade of purple, for no particular reason, just because he found it pleasing.

Professor McGonagall mimicked Dumbledore's gesture that day and also waved her wand. Immediately, four sleeping bags of different colors appeared on the front row of the desk.

"Watch!" Once all eyes were fixed on the sleeping bags, Professor McGonagall waved her wand again, and the four bags transformed into a silvery gray.

"This is mass transformation, the transformation of multiple objects at once. Now I will explain the key points about it."