The first White Lord of Hogwarts - Chapter 47
“This…”
Ivan’s pupils shrank slightly, and he looked at Mag in disbelief. He was even more shocked at Professor Cat’s attainments in Transfiguration.
“It’s because of the state of life, right, professor?”
Ivan said:”The owl was smashed, and in the cognition, it was already dead.”
“The vines were cut off, or even partially destroyed, but the rest could still survive.”
The survival here does not mean lingering on, but being able to maintain the original state unchanged.
The owl dropped feathers, but the feathers would grow back.
So this little damage would not break the state of Transfiguration.
But if the wings of the owl were cut off, although the owl could still survive, the Transfiguration would fail because it lost the state of flying.
Of course, this also depends on the Transfiguration attainments of the wizard who cast the spell.
Like Professor McGonagall, she had already given the owl many states at the beginning of the transformation, which made the owl’s transformation extremely stable.
Even if you chop the owl with a knife, it will reveal the flesh and blood organs inside.
Because the target of Professor McGonagall’s Transfiguration is a real creature.
In contrast, in the hands of the little wizards.
The owls they transformed may only need a casual touch to be beaten back to their original form.
“The level of Transfiguration will affect the stability of the Transfiguration.”
Ivan:”In addition, as long as the state of the Transfiguration product is changed, the Transfiguration can no longer be maintained.”
You cut off the Transfiguration vines, but as long as part of them is still there, they can grow back.
“To put it bluntly, it can still be understood as the embodiment of”mind” in Transfiguration.”
Because you need it, your transformation can be successful.
But when the transformed object loses its function, the Transfiguration will naturally be lifted.
Just like a chair is for sitting, bread is for eating, and water is for drinking.
Make the chair unable to sit, the bread that has been eaten cannot be eaten again, and the water that has been drunk has been drunk.
At the moment of losing its function, the magic has already fulfilled the wizard’s wish.
“So professor, what if the chair I conjured up doesn’t look like a chair to me, but a piece of wood that grows like that?”
“Of course, that’s possible.”
McGonagall said,”Since the two have different needs, the methods of breaking it are naturally different.”
If what you need is a chair, then just saw off one leg and the deformation of the chair will be destroyed.
On the contrary, if all you need is a piece of wood that looks like a chair.
To remove the deformation, unless you cast a spell to stop immediately, wait for the magic power to maintain the chair to run out, and cast a counter-spell, it is almost impossible to destroy its stability.
“To create a stone wall for defense, we can need a wall, a complete stone, or the stone itself.”
The first two are relatively easy to crack.
But if the wizard needs a substance like stone, then its stability is amazing.
Since it is stone, as a non-living thing, even if you smash it into pieces, as long as the magic power is not exhausted, it will still be stone after being smashed.
“Life transformation can be divided into animal transformation and plant transformation, while non-life transformation can be divided into consumable transformation and demand transformation.”
The level of sophistication of life transformation depends on the wizard’s magical attainments.
The higher the attainment of transformation, the more real and stable the life.
As for non-life transformation, it is to meet the needs of the wizard, such as drinks, food, tools, materials, etc. When the consumables are consumed and the demand cannot meet the needs, the transformation will end.
“Do you understand, Ivan?”
“Yes.”
Ivan said gratefully:”Thank you for your answer, Professor.”
“Any other questions?”
“There are two more questions.”
Ivan said:”Transfiguration can give material functions, to what extent can it do it?”
For example, turning a stone into a watch.
If this is possible, then can wizards turn a stone into a TV, a refrigerator, or a computer?
Professor McGonagall does not understand TVs, refrigerators, and computers, but she knows that telephones can be turned into watches.
“Transfiguration can create a telephone.”
McGreg said,”And the telephone has the functions of power supply and communication.”
Good!
Ivan once again confirmed the view that Transfiguration is a universal magic.
It even involves electrical signals.
“This is the part involved in the demand transformation, which wizards call subjective transformation.”
McGonagall:”And if there is subjective transformation, there will naturally be objective transformation.”
Subjective transformation is easier to understand.
“When performing Transfiguration, magic is used to analyze the structure of things.”
McGonagall:”The more you know about something, the higher the success rate and efficiency of the transformation.”
Theoretically, if a wizard can understand the structure and material composition of nuclear weapons, he can even turn a nuclear bomb into a giant mushroom.
You said the other way around, to make a nuclear bomb?
This is impossible.
Transfiguration cannot change the substance itself. This is the basic rule of Transfiguration.
Even if you can make a nuclear bomb or a bullet, they are still fake.
In the words of Professor McGonagall, Transfiguration can only change the state, not the nature of the substance.
‘This rule cannot limit higher-level Transfiguration. ‘
Ivan silently added in his mind: ‘According to Old Dumbledore, permanent transformation can achieve real change. ‘
The disadvantage of permanent transformation is that it cannot be transformed by magic.
But this disadvantage is not a big deal in the Muggle world, because airplanes, tanks, rockets, nuclear bombs, these things do not have magic and meet the standard of permanent transformation.
“So what is objective deformation?”
“The so-called objective deformation is limited by the outside world’s cognition of things.”
In simple terms, it is how others judge that the thing you deformed is that thing.
For example, Ivan transformed an apple.
How can outsiders believe that it is an apple?
First of all, the appearance, then the touch, and the smell and taste.
If these are the same as the feeling of a real apple, then outsiders will naturally think that this is a real apple.
Similarly, suppose a stone is transformed into a nuclear bomb.
How do you judge whether it is a fake nuclear bomb?
You certainly can’t detonate it to see, this is impossible.
As for other various detection methods, whether it is metal detection, radiation detection, or other various particle collisions, the conclusion you can draw is that it is real.
“Objective deformation is the deformation of various phenomena?”
Soon, Ivan extracted the key information from the concept of objective deformation mentioned by Mag.
To put it bluntly, objective deformation is a kind of sensory deception.
Apple deceives people’s five senses, and nuclear bombs deceive various detection instruments, making these dead objects mistakenly believe that they have received corresponding signals.
However, these signals are all false, just mental and data misleading.
