Harry Potter: From Muggle Cousin to Conceptual Wizard

Chapter 507 Overview of the Eight-Party Exchange Activity! The Animagus Transformation Project!

The third-year exchange program officially began the day after the welcoming banquet.

The six teams from other schools, excluding the Chinese team, obtained various gifts and permission to form alliances from their respective home bases within a week.

Of course, the gifts were far less precious than the Thunder Summoning Talisman. If they had such a powerful weapon, they would keep it as a treasure and not give it away.

The alliance was not as grand as the exchange of promise tokens between the four major schools of China and Hogwarts.

It's just a friendly and mutually supportive ordinary alliance agreement. The terms and conditions mostly cover subsequent academic exchanges and student exchange programs, and there are also clauses on establishing a defensive alliance, but there's no indication that we need to go all out.

They certainly wanted powerful allies like Hogwarts or the Chinese magical world to come and help them when they encountered danger.

However, their strength is indeed not on the same level as Hogwarts or the Chinese wizarding world.

If the alliance agreement explicitly stipulates that full assistance must be provided in times of crisis, regardless of whether Hogwarts agrees or not, the very nature of the alliance agreement itself would no longer be an act of goodwill towards Hogwarts, but rather a form of moral blackmail and hostility.

However, without explicitly agreeing to fully cooperate with Hogwarts, magic schools of similar strength and relatively close location can form alliances.

This can be seen as using Hogwarts as a platform for exchange to help various parties build allies at the international and even continental levels.

This exchange event will not include the Fire Cup, nor will there be any plans to select heroes for a championship tournament.

Seven teams from around the world simply joined the Hogwarts professors and students, experiencing the Hogwarts version of daily learning routines that had been optimized multiple times.

This process was filled with surprises and awe, competitive spirit, and everyone sharing their valuable knowledge, learning from each other, experiencing challenges together, and building friendships.

France is renowned for its healers in the magical world, and Beauxbatons shared some advanced healing spells and casting techniques with everyone.

Furthermore, in pursuit of elegance and beauty, Beauxbatons students possess more precise control over magic, and the secrets to this are shared among them through their interactions.

Durmstrang is known for allowing students to study some form of dark magic.

They came up with some black magic techniques that had been explored and were highly controllable, with side effects that were easy to overcome.

Although this was met with resistance from some students in various schools who avoided black magic, many more outstanding students cautiously accepted Durmstrang's sharing.

During the development of their school, Iphamoni incorporated the Celtic rune system and totem magic of the North American indigenous people, forming unique magical techniques, some of which were shared during exchanges.

The Waggadu of Africa share special Animagus techniques that allow them to bypass some of the limitations of European Animagus magic, enabling them to more safely transform into large animals such as elephants, giraffes, rhinos, lions, and more.

Castelobusch from South America was already skilled in herbalism and potion-making, and with the potion master Ribaschi leading the team, they naturally shared techniques on magical herbs and potion-making.

The team from the small magic school in Australia, lacking sufficient resources, could only share some techniques for dealing with and handling magical animals and herbs unique to Australia, despite their best efforts.

In addition to the special magical techniques researched by Chinese wizards over the past few centuries, which were presented by Mr. Liu Tao, the representatives of the four lineages and one school of China also shared valuable techniques from secret practitioners on how to draw upon the power of heaven and earth to enhance the power of their own spells.

As for the host Hogwarts, in addition to the already widely known Stabilizing Charm and Power-Boosting Charm, they also offered Love Protection Magic and Love-Side Magical Creature Contract Magic as secret techniques to be taught publicly.

The Heart of Love embedded in the wall of the Great Hall of Hogwarts is open to all and amplifies the power of love.

This not only greatly reduced the difficulty for each exchange team to learn Love Protection Magic and Love-Side Magical Animal Contract Magic, but also allowed the powerful positive love energy to permeate people's hearts, making the exchange activities progress more smoothly and gently.

Of course, the above are all special highlights.

During the exchange and learning process, each party shared their unique knowledge and skills in their respective fields in every Hogwarts skills course.

Spells, runes, herbs, potions, transmutation, divination, spatial magic... it encompasses everything.

Dudley can absorb knowledge from any source, and has even incorporated it into his mind using his conceptual perception abilities. Some of this knowledge has been compiled into books and stored in the Hogwarts Library and the Dream Realm's library.

But learning from books, or waiting for the Hogwarts professors to learn it and then pass it on, and sharing and exchanging ideas with peers who already know these magical skills, is always a different experience.

Learning through mutual sharing and in a positive communication environment with peers is more conducive to the understanding and absorption of knowledge.

As for Dudley himself, although he didn't need to deepen his understanding of magical knowledge in this way, the relaxed and pleasant learning atmosphere was a good way to relax in his busy schedule.

Moreover, Animagus magic, which requires a lengthy ritual for body modification, cannot be used immediately simply by learning the corresponding magical knowledge.

As the exchange and learning activities progressed, along with the transformation demonstrations by students from Vagado, a wave of desire to master Animagus swept across the entire school.

It's time to put this into practice.

Dudley, along with several professors and the team leaders, started a special training course on Patronus Charms and Animagus.

Interested students, whether from within the school or from various teams, are welcome to sign up, provided they have a certain level of magical skill and are patient enough.

The Guardian Charm and Animagus are related.

Dudley's learning plan is to first master the Guardian Charm, and then decide whether or not to study Animagus magic once you have confirmed the specific form of your Guardian Charm, which is your own Animagus form.

If you don't like the Guardian God form, or if it's not suitable for you to transform into an Animagus, you can give up training in Animagus early on to avoid wasting your time.

Logically speaking, Dudley's orca guardian spirit is not suitable for practicing Animagus.

Although orcas are mammals that breathe with lungs, they cannot stay out of the seawater for extended periods.

Spending too much time on land can cause dehydration, heat loss, and pressure on internal organs and bones due to its massive weight.

If a normal wizard were to cultivate into an orca, aside from issues of mobility and stealth, simply maintaining his beast form on land would damage his body and even endanger his life.

But Dudley, with his cheat-like abilities, was different. He mastered Animagus, transformed into an orca, and could use magic at will. Moreover, his body was immortal and indestructible, and he also possessed the ability to fly autonomously.

He could easily transform into an orca, swimming in the air, using water-condensing spells to freeze seawater at any time, or using spatial magic to summon seawater to surround him.

Of course, this form doesn't particularly enhance Dudley's strength, but it's undeniably cool!

With Dudley's abilities, he could have long since stopped focusing on practicality and instead pursued abilities that brought him joy.

The thought of orcas, capable of soaring through the skies and summoning towering waves at will, is incredibly exciting.

In order to implement the Animagus training program on a large scale, safely, and quickly, Dali and the professors did a lot of preparatory work.

Professor Sprout designated a large greenhouse area to grow mandrake.

Potions masters have focused on enhancing the instruction of skills in the Animagus potion-making process.

Hagrid collected a large number of pupae of the hawk moth and purchased a large number of crystal vials.

Dudley developed the magic of light-blocking and taught it to others.

They also crafted a crystal ball that could accurately predict rainy and thunderstorm weather, serving as a visible source of weather information.

It's worth mentioning that one of the materials used to craft this weather forecast crystal ball was a harbinger bird feather that Dudley collected through the Dudley Gang during his Muggle days.

The harbinger bird is a magical creature that can predict when it will rain.

In addition, Dudley and the professors created a safer and more reliable human transformation protection magic based on the magical techniques provided by Vagado.

With these favorable factors, it is possible to safely compress the time required for even the most skilled wizards to cultivate Animagus into just a few months.