In the afternoon, the new Gryffindor students' Transfiguration class was still held together with Ravenclaw.
Before the first lesson, Professor McGonagall gave everyone a head start with a stern face: "Transfiguration is the most complicated and dangerous spell in your lessons at Hogwarts. Anyone who tries to misbehave in my classroom will be asked to leave and never be allowed to come back in."
This harsh statement, coupled with Professor McGonagall's stern face, instantly subdued the group of eleven year old students, and the classroom instantly became dead silent.
Professor McGonagall and Professor Flitwick's teaching style were not even close to each other, as she turned her lectern into a pig and then back again.
This scene quickly managed to attract everyone's attention, and they all couldn't wait to start learning Transfiguration right away.
The Gryffindors who had just had charms class understood that it would be a long time before they could turn furniture into animals.
After this demonstration, Professor McGonagall began to talk about the theory of transformations, and they brushed off a bunch of complicated notes.
Albert opened his skill list, and sure enough, Transformation Theory appeared again in it, and he spent 98 experience points to level up Transformation Theory to level 1.
Since just now, he had been staring at the contents of the 'Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration', pretending that he was reading the book carefully, but actually consulting the extra Knowledge Theory of Transformation that had appeared in his head.
After the theory was explained, Professor McGonagall started handing out a match to each of them and began having everyone try to turn the match into a pin.
"Mr. Anderson?" Professor McGonagall stared towards the boy who was fidgeting and frowned slightly. She still remembered the boy, after all, anyone who saw someone take down their office door would remember it vividly, let alone how long it had been.
"Er, Professor, what's the matter?" Albert asked as he immediately looked back at Professor McGonagall with a confused look on his face.
"Everyone is practising putting Transfiguration, why don't you try it?" Professor McGonagall's eyes passed over to Fred next to Albert, "Mr Weasley, if I were you, I would concentrate before reciting the spell."
Fred blushed innocently, Professor McGonagall was standing right next to him putting a lot of pressure on him.
Albert swept his eyes over Fred and began to open his eyes, "I just thought it would be a good idea to memorise the important points before waving my wand."
However, Professor McGonagall had no intention of leaving right away, but instead returned her gaze to Albert, ready to watch him cast the spell.
Albert coughed softly, raising his wand and pointing it at the match on the table while chanting the spell, "Vera Verto."
TL/N: This is not the correct spell according to the wiki. This is the spell for transforming an animal into a water goblet and the spell for the match into needle transformation is not revealed in the books.
The match quickly took off, transforming into a slender silver needle.
"Very good, look everyone, Mr. Anderson has done it." Professor McGonagall showed the class the silver needle the match had turned into, and flashed Albert another rare smile, not forgetting to give Gryffindor five points before she left.
"I knew this wouldn't be hard for you." Fred said as he took the silver needle and looked at it, "How did you do that, is there a trick?"
Several of the students next to him perked up their ears to eavesdrop, as if they wanted to know the secret to Albert's immediate success.
Albert whispered, "Didn't Professor McGonagall have us take notes earlier? The trick is in there."
The group immediately began flipping through their pages, looking for the notes they had just taken down.
"You think I'll believe that?" Fred glared at Albert with contempt, clearly believing it to be nonsense.
However, he stopped asking questions because Professor McGonagall looked his way again.
After a few minutes, Professor McGonagall announced again, "Look, Miss MacDougal's match has changed too."
"Transfiguration is so hard, how did you manage to do it all at once?" Katrina couldn't help but ask. For some reason, she was sitting next to Albert again.
"First time success? Cough, I actually practised it before, that's why I succeeded." Albert coughed lightly, and didn't have the trick to succeed on his own, it was better not to be treated as a genius or something.
"Failure is a normal thing, and I don't remember exactly how many times I failed before I successfully turned matches into needles."
"However, those notes Professor McGonagall had us memorise are also tricks to success." These last words were addressed to the crowd that was eavesdropping from the sidelines.
Katrina could naturally guess that, after all, no one could succeed all at once, and it was only natural that her matches were able to transform because she had previously practised Transfiguration.
The rest of the time in the Transfiguration class, everyone was practising how to turn matches into needles. Professor McGonagall, on the other hand, walked back and forth in the classroom, instructing the other students.
However, for Albert, who had already successfully completed turning matches into needles, the remaining time was really boring, so he found himself something to do before Professor McGonagall caught him dawdling.
"Reparifarge!"
The silver needle transformed back into a match, Professor McGonagall had already talked about this spell and it was recorded in the book. Incomplete transformations were difficult to correct, reciting 'Reparifarge' will make the object or creature return to its original state.
Albert held his chin in one hand and his wand in the other, and began to transform the matches on the table into all sorts of strange things, the spell was actually 'Vera Verto', but the closer the transformed object was to the original object, the less difficult it was to transform.
After the transformation it was resumed, using this to increase the experience of Reparifarge.
"How did you do that?" Fred, who was next to him, looked stunned.
This guy's Transfiguration was already far away from them.
"How did I do that? Like this!" Albert lifted his wand a little and what had been a button turned into a toy mouse.
"Like Professor McGonagall said, wave your wand cleanly, think about what you're going to turn into before you transform, and be clear and precise when you recite the spell."
The twins looked at each other in disbelief, and despite what Albert said, they went about trying in this way, but still hadn't succeeded in getting the matches to start changing before the end of class.
In fact, no one else's matches changed except for Albert's and Katrina's.
This was a matter of course in Albert's eyes.
After all, the difficulty of Transfiguration, he knew too well, without practising hard for a few days, wanting to successfully complete the transformation was basically impossible.
The first time to make an item change was the most difficult, but as long as there was a first time, it would become much easier from then on.
The homework for the Transfiguration class is similar to the Charms class, in that you are told to go back and practice.
It is unknown how many students will actually have the patience to practice.
However, from the contents of the 'Beginner's Guide to Transfiguration', it seems that there is only one type of Transfiguration magic that new First Year students learn, and the difference is only the size and type of the magical item to be transformed.