"This... this was transformed by you?"
Hearing the voice, Link looked over and found John staring at him with an expression of disbelief. At the same time, on the table in front of John, there was a strangely shaped stone apple with quite an abstract art style.
"Yeah."
Link admitted it directly, which made John open his mouth even wider in astonishment.
"When did your transfiguration become so good? This is really beautiful."
The muscles on Link's face twitched violently for a moment. If he hadn't had some previous interaction with John, Link would have thought that John was mocking him.
Pausing slightly, Link was just about to respond to John when he saw John's face suddenly turn extremely pale, and even his body started trembling slightly.
Link immediately realized something, and when he looked up, he saw that Professor McGonagall had unknowingly already arrived right in front of them.
Professor McGonagall's gaze swept over the works of Link and John, then she sighed and asked, "Do you two have anything you don't understand that you want to ask about?"
"N-no... no, Professor McGonagall." John stammered, his head almost burying itself under the table.
Link, however, was much more composed. He stood up directly and asked in a sincere tone, "Professor McGonagall, I don't know why, but I always cannot change the essence of an object. Clearly, I completely followed the steps described in the book. I'm very puzzled about this."
Professor McGonagall gave Link an approving look, then picked up Link's stone apple, studied it for a moment, and said, "The key to transfiguration lies in constructing a model of the object you want to transform into in your mind. The more complete this model is, the higher the success rate of your transfiguration spell."
"You have done very well in changing the shape, which means your imagination and model construction ability are very strong. However, the reason why you can't transform the stone into a real apple, I believe, lies in your imagination of the item's essence. In other words, perhaps you are too focused on the apple's appearance, and have neglected its inner essence?"
"Close your eyes and carefully imagine. What is placed before you now is a real apple. It has a crisp texture and is full of juicy moisture; its flesh is a pale white with a hint of orange-yellow. When you take a bite, a rich apple fragrance will immediately burst forth..."
Following Professor McGonagall's description, Link slowly closed his eyes, gradually completing the so-called apple model in his mind.
Once Link felt it was almost complete, he opened his eyes, raised his wand, and aimed it again at the stone apple.
A strange sound suddenly rang out. Under everyone's gaze, a vivid red color slowly crept up the stone apple in front of Link and gradually spread to every corner of the apple.
John, beside Link, was already too shocked to speak, while Professor McGonagall directly picked up the apple, pinched the indent with both thumbs, and easily broke it into two halves, revealing the enticing apple flesh inside.
Professor McGonagall smiled and nodded at Link, saying, "Well done, Link. Hufflepuff +10 points!"
As soon as Professor McGonagall said this, everyone's eyes in the classroom focused on Link.
But Link himself didn't particularly care about the points addition, because, as he had said before, the so-called points addition actually didn't mean much to Hufflepuff House.
Besides, he now had something even more important to pay attention to.
[Transfiguration lv1 acquired]
Looking at this message, Link let out a deep breath, and a happy expression finally appeared on his face.
Compared to the point addition, obviously, finally acquiring a level for transfiguration was much more exciting.
Without much hesitation, Link continued to raise his wand and aimed at the stone next to John.
Just like before, the stone apple in front of John rapidly swelled, became round and full, and turned brilliantly vivid.
At the same time, a notification flashed across Link's retina.
[Transfiguration experience +1]
Seeing this, Link nodded in satisfaction, but soon, his expression became stiff.
Because he discovered that, although he did gain experience points in transfiguration, the experience bar barely moved at all.
And the growth rate of this experience bar was almost the same as when filling up the spell "Full Replenishing Charm" from level 3 to level 4.
This meant that just to level up transfiguration from lv1 to lv2 would require 100 experience points.
Link was completely dumbfounded.
You have to know, casting transfiguration consumes several dozen times more energy and magic than the Full Replenishing Charm. At this rate, even if Link did nothing else but practice transfiguration all day, it would still take about a month to level up to lv2.
For a moment, Link's expression turned somewhat bitter. Because he had a premonition that, later on, other advanced spells would probably have even thicker experience bars, and that was not good news for him.
At the same time, Professor McGonagall also noticed Link's performance.
She nodded slightly, and a rare, obvious smile appeared on her face as she said, "Good job, Link. It seems you have indeed put in a lot of effort this school year. However, you missed quite a bit of homework before, so you still need to continue working hard."
After saying this, Professor McGonagall hesitated for a moment and then added, "How about this, if there's anything you don't understand about transfiguration, you can come to me."
Hearing this, Link's originally dim eyes immediately lit up, and he hurriedly thanked her, "Thank you Professor McGonagall."
"No need to thank me. Just keep working hard." Professor McGonagall casually threw down these words, then turned and went to instruct others.
Most of the Hufflepuffs hadn't finished the class assignment yet, and she needed to continue giving guidance.
At this moment, Link was still in a state of excitement. After all, Professor McGonagall had just agreed to answer his questions even outside of class time, which would undoubtedly greatly accelerate his progress in transfiguration learning.
At the same time, it also meant a lot of transfiguration experience.
Instantly, the gloom in Link's heart disappeared completely. He smiled and sat back down at his seat, but out of the corner of his eye, he noticed the Slytherins were staring at him intensely.
Instinctively, he turned his head to look, and saw that most of the Slytherins had unpleasant expressions, and even Emily Victoria, who was being surrounded by others, was now looking at him with a gaze full of disbelief.
Link understood immediately. They were probably, like the Ravenclaws before, feeling unhappy seeing him gain points.
This was normal. After all, Emily Victoria, even after perfectly completing the transfiguration first, was only awarded ten points, which obviously felt a bit unfair compared to Link.
And this would likely cause Link to be targeted by them.
But Link didn't care about it at all. Because although Cedric and the others had said Emily Victoria was very scary, Link still regarded her as just a student.
Since she was a student, she had to abide by Hogwarts' school rules, and even if she wanted to attack, she couldn't go too far.
Moreover, Link himself was not someone easy to mess with.
Thinking this way, instead of lowering his head like other Hufflepuffs, Link met Emily Victoria's gaze directly.
Then something strange happened. Link clearly saw a blush quickly climb onto Emily's cheeks, just like the stone he had cast transfiguration on.
Immediately after, she turned her head away abruptly, avoiding Link's gaze.
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