In the dead of night, in Ted's "private laboratory".
Anzu and Puck were still keeping watch for him to prevent him from being discovered by the professor or Filch.
In fact, Ted and Mrs. Norris have a very good relationship now, and cats now come to Ted to eat snacks without Filch's knowledge. He is especially interested in white mice, which makes Ansu very unhappy. He often swoops down in the castle corridors when no one is around to take revenge~
Filch thought his cat was sick and refused to eat, so he took it to the school hospital to ask for medicine.
Under the light of the fire, there were still a few white mice and the long-tailed monkey in the cage.
Ordinarily, Ted's experiment has been completed, and this long-tailed thief monkey with a furry face and a thunderous mouth should be released.
The question is, isn’t this new experiment coming again?
Professor Kettleburn: My monkey is missing! Has anyone seen my monkey? !
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Ted has been secretly studying Azeroth's water and food creation techniques in recent days.
In Ted's opinion, these two magics are almost the most difficult to convert into local magic.
If Ted hadn't upgraded his Transfiguration by 1 level before because of his knowledge of Druid Transfiguration, he wouldn't have dared to try it.
There are traces of other water and fire magic, magic suppression, and even "awakening".
Awakening can restore a large amount of magic power in the body in a short period of time. If studied according to the path of wizard blood, it is not impossible.
But the art of creating water is different from the art of creating food.
The water-making technique is a bit better, at least the locals have the magic spell "clear springs like water", which can create water.
The only difference is whether the water can be drunk and whether it can restore magic power and physical strength.
But the food-making technique is completely different.
Can the magical world use magic to conjure food out of thin air?
able! But can't.
I say it is possible because it is still possible to change it.
If you say it can't be done, it means it's just an appearance and you can't eat it.
There is a well-known basic law of Gamp's transformation in the field of transfiguration.
There are five major exceptions. The first is that food cannot be conjured out of thin air.
You can turn raw materials into food. For example, if you have flour and water, you can turn them into bread, which simplifies the steps.
Most home witches are very skilled at doing it like Aunt Molly does every day at home.
It is said that water can be transformed, why can't food be transformed?
Ted has done experiments and found that the water he created using the water-making spell is drinkable.
Both white mice and long-tailed robber monkeys can prove it ~
But not the food.
The white mouse ate the donut that he had conjured up and died of pain in less than five minutes.
After the autopsy, it was found that the stomach had been greatly damaged and there was no food residue. There is something wrong here.
Ted once again used the water-making technique to create magic spring water that could restore magic and physical strength, and fed it to the mice.
The three mice received different doses and behaved differently.
Two of them were in great pain, scurrying around and squeaking.
The last one was so excited that it started dancing crazily in the cage...
This one survived yesterday's experiment. Among the eight mice used as test subjects, only one was "lucky" to participate in the third round of experiments.
Five minutes later, the other two white mice were dead, with protruding eyes and slightly swollen bodies.
Take it out and use a knife to dissect it. You can see that the muscles and blood vessels are damaged in various ways, but there is nothing wrong with the brain.
"It's like the result of excessive magic power?!" Ted wasn't sure.
He recorded the experimental process and data in his notes, and wrote down conjectures and subsequent experimental steps.
Ansu on the side looked at the two dead white mice and shook his head in distress: If they died so miserably, they would definitely not be able to eat, so they could only throw them away, what a waste~
The long-tailed monkey in the cage covered its mouth with both paws and leaned against the side of the cage with a frightened look on its face. It was as far away from Ted as possible and wanted to stuff itself into the iron bars.
Its IQ is pretty good, at least it can tell that many white mice have died in the past few days, all of which were caused by this boy filling them with water~
And he also has the intention to feed himself!
Long-tailed Monkey: Help! Someone killed the monkey! Come on, I don’t dare steal anything anymore~~~
"Clean up this place, throw the white mouse to a remote place outside the castle and bury it." Ted ordered, cast an invisibility spell on himself, and went out to go to bed.
Ansu followed naturally, flapped his wings silently, and disappeared into the corridor.
The psicrystal servant Kapa moved his legs and feet, and then used his spiritual energy to direct the invisible servants created by magic to work.
Two invisible humanoid energy bodies floated out of the window with the dead white mouse, and went to the edge of the forbidden forest in the distance to dig a hole and bury the mouse.
The invisible servant thing is very easy to use. You don’t need to eat, drink, complain, or pay a salary.
The only bad thing is that he has average intelligence and cannot give too complicated orders.
But Parker, the spiritual crystal servant, can command them in detail, which makes up for his shortcomings.
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The next day, Ted came outside Professor McGonagall's office after school.
"Dong dong dong~"
"Come in."
Ted pushed open the door and entered.
Professor McGonagall looked up and saw that it was Ted.
Hey, rare visitor!
She sat up straight, took off her glasses and wiped them with a piece of fine cotton, looking at Ted with an unkind look.
Ted has been in trouble a lot this year and was sent to the Forbidden Forest.
If it weren't for the fact that his transformation skills have improved by leaps and bounds recently, and he seems to have put in a lot of effort, I would have to deal with him~
"Ted, what can you do?" Professor McGonagall continued to clean her glasses, not even wanting to look up at him.
Ted showed a very sunny smile, just like when he was taken to Diagon Alley by Mag.
"Professor, I have some questions about transfiguration that I would like to ask."
I don’t know if it was Ted’s bright smile that worked or her efforts in transfiguration that impressed Professor McGonagall. She finally put on her glasses and looked at Ted.
"Sit down." Professor McGonagall waved her hand gently, and a chair appeared behind Ted.
Ted sat across from the desk, holding a thick notebook, very well-behaved.
"Tell me, do you have any questions?" Ted's pretense worked, and Professor McGonagall was somewhat pleased with him.
"Professor, I would like to ask you about Gamp's basic deformation laws, especially the first of the five exceptions..."
After hearing this, Professor McGonagall pushed up her glasses and looked at Ted carefully: "It's still too early for you to gain knowledge in this area."
Gamp's basic deformation law is an extracurricular extension knowledge for the fifth grade.
But she thought about it, and even if she didn't tell him, with Ted's character, he would probably look it up himself. Didn’t he already know something?
"Okay, do you have any problem with not being able to conjure food?" she asked.
"Excuse me, Professor, is it really impossible to conjure food? I mean, is it really impossible to eat it?"
Professor McGonagall stared into Ted's eyes, "You mean, you've already tried it, right? You're not stupid enough to eat the things you conjured, are you?"
Ted sneered: "Of course not. But why is the water transformed from a clear spring like water drinkable?"
"Fool, because clear spring water is a magic spell, not a transformation spell..."
Out of additional training for good students, Professor McGonagall taught Ted a lot about Gamp's basic transformation laws, especially "conjuring food" that Ted asked about.
Most of the time, the transfiguration spell can only change things that you are familiar with, and most of them are not permanent.
This is why the conjured food cannot be eaten. Once the magic effect wears off, it's hard to tell what's in your stomach.
Magic can even cause unpredictable and terrible damage and consequences.
This is why Gamp's basic law of transformation stipulates that food cannot be transformed out of thin air.
Actually, can it?
able!
Just like Newton's three laws also have limitations, Gamp's basic deformation law is naturally only relative to the normal state.
The cutting-edge transformation technique can transform food, but it is very, very, very difficult!
The difficulty is completely out of proportion to the benefits.
You must at least be a master of transformation to be qualified to attempt research in this area.
Even Professor McGonagall has never thought of such an unreliable research direction.
Are the ingredients that expensive? There is no need to conjure food!
You can definitely produce fruits on fruit trees.
Although it cannot be born out of thin air, it can accelerate growth and use growth spells and expansion spells.
The productivity of the wizarding world is very high, which can be seen from Hagrid's big Halloween pumpkin.
Once this powerful productivity is put into production, there is no need to worry about survival materials.
This is why many wizards are so weird, they have no pressure to survive at all. Food, clothing, and housing are not a problem at all, and you can naturally do whatever you like.
Imagine if Professor Quirrell had put his energy in studying the bloodline of magical animals into improving species.
That's really it: a fat pig competes with an elephant, but its nose is short. If the whole school kills one bite, it will be enough to feed them for half a year.
…
No matter what, Ted at least learned that the magic world also has magical effects similar to food creation. It's just very high-end.
You can still continue your research on your own.
It’s nothing more than more design experiments and attempts.
Write, I need more guinea pigs!
(End of chapter)
