"Homework."
Before get out of class ended, Professor McGonagall stood on the lectern and said to the students in the classroom, "Read Gamp's Basic Transformation Rules, write a summary, and hand it in next Monday."
In the classroom, everyone was whispering about the trick to turning a match into a needle, but only a few people could do it. Most students could only make their matches change in some way.
"You all need to hurry. Next Monday we'll be practicing turning stones into teacups." Professor McGonagall's tone became stern. "If anyone hasn't fully mastered turning a match into a needle by then, they'll be put in solitary confinement. I hope you can put some effort into this. The little amount of training time in class is not enough for you to master Transfiguration. I hope no one will need to be put in solitary confinement by then."
As soon as Professor McGonagall left, the classroom was filled with groans and lamentations. Transfiguration was more difficult than everyone had imagined, requiring more effort than other subjects.
As everyone has probably noticed, Hogwarts doesn't have many classes, but there's a lot of homework, and magic requires a significant amount of practice. Most people are regretting not spending more time on it last week.
No one can truly live a carefree and easy life.
No, there really is one person.
Fred and the other two turned their heads to look at the guy who was packing up his books. Albert was definitely the most relaxed one in the entire school year. He had basically finished all his homework and had mastered Transfiguration first. He didn't need to worry about being put in solitary confinement at all.
I still have free time every day to stroll around the castle and take pictures.
"What should I do?" Lee Jordan reached up and scratched his short hair, looking a little anxious.
"What do we do?" Albert slung his backpack over his shoulder and left the Transformation Classroom with the others.
"Homework!" Fred also found that he had more homework than he could finish.
"Then do your best. Let me see what assignments you have." Albert deliberately took a piece of parchment out of his bag, intending to read it aloud in front of the three of them.
However, George quickly snatched the parchment from Albert's hand, glanced at it, and couldn't help but let out a wail. The parchment had several rows of writing on it, all of which were their homework assignments.
The sheer volume of homework made George feel like he was sinking into a quagmire he couldn't escape.
Fred and Lee Jordan also went over to take a look, and their faces immediately fell. Albert's parchment was written very carefully, even including the astronomy homework.
Seeing the expressions on the three faces, Albert felt like laughing and suggested, "Let's go to the library later!"
"Um..." Fred said awkwardly, "Could we borrow your homework to copy?"
"Take a look." George covered Fred's mouth, and Lee Jordan finished speaking for him.
"refer to"
"Yes, for reference."
"Actually, the homework is very simple. When we get to the library, I'll introduce you to some books…" Albert put away the parchment and said to the three of them as he walked away, "You can learn something from the books, and the homework will be easy to solve."
"Really?" the three asked excitedly.
"Of course it's… fake," Albert joked. "I'm going to Hagrid's for afternoon tea later, are you guys coming?"
"Don't change the subject."
"Yes, yes!"
"Or, you could let us look at your homework," Fred said pitifully, putting his hand on Albert's shoulder. "Besides, how could you leave us all here to have afternoon tea with Hagrid?"
"Come with us to the library later, you have homework to do anyway," George said, putting his arm around Albert's shoulder.
"Come on, let me help you with your backpack." Lee Jordan smiled and took Albert's backpack, walking at the front of the group. The three of them led him to the library.
When it comes to doing homework, having Albert around means he won't ask questions on the spot, which will undoubtedly make doing homework much more efficient.
When the group entered the library, they found that there were already quite a few students inside.
They found an empty spot and started doing their homework.
Today's homework for Transfiguration class wasn't difficult; it was just to write a summary of Gamp's basic transfiguration rules. Actually, all you need to do is read through Gamp's basic transfiguration rules, extract the important points, and organize the words in your own words—that's it!
"Is it finished?"
All three of them were dumbfounded. You finished your metamorphosis homework in less than half an hour!
Besides, I've seen you copying things all the time, is that okay?
"Otherwise?" Albert retorted. "Professor McGonagall asked us to write a summary of Gamp's fundamental transformation laws. In fact, it's just about finding the key points of Gamp's fundamental transformation laws, extracting the main content, and polishing it ourselves."
The three were speechless for a moment; it seemed to make some sense.
I quickly memorized these words and later copied a summary of Gamp's basic transformation rules, just like Albert did.
Fred and his two friends continued to bury themselves in writing their Charms class papers. With Albert's help, they spent less time searching for materials and simply copied suitable content from several useful books such as "Charms Achievement" and "Selected Eighteenth-Century Charms".
A 3-foot paper wasn't as difficult as I'd imagined.
As for the Light-Up Charm and the Extinguish Charm, the three of them had already mastered them; otherwise, they would have had one more homework assignment to complete.
Professor Flitwick also required his students to master the Light-Up Charm and the Extinguishing Charm by next week.
After the ink dried, Albert put away the parchment, glanced at the progress of the three, and began to memorize a timeline of magical history. He quite disliked magical history; memorizing those dates and events was particularly tedious. Fortunately, Albert had a good short-term memory, so by looking at it and memorizing it a few more times, he was able to remember it.
After going through all the times, places, people, and events in his mind and making sure everything was in order, Albert checked the box for the History of Magic section.
Fred and his two companions were actually making good progress; they had already written most of the paper on the 3-foot-long glowing spell.
Albert looked at the suggestion and said, "You'd better write something of your own."
"Your own things?"
"What issues should you pay attention to when learning spells, what problems might you encounter, and how should you solve them?"
These are all things I've personally experienced, so there's no need to worry about not having anything to write about; it's just a matter of how much content there is.
Before the three of them finished writing their paper on the Light-Up Charm, Albert had already returned from Hagrid and did not refuse to lend them his paper for comparison.
"Spare me, I don't want to change it!" Fred stared at Albert's parchment and realized that what he had written was indeed a mess, so he finally gave up on the idea of revising it.
It's not easy to fill a three-foot-long parchment with words.
Moreover, since this is the first time the freshmen are writing papers, the content is a bit disorganized, and I believe Professor Flitwick won't mind too much about that.