Chapter 40 – Transfiguration Class! Part-3

    {Transfiguration Classroom, Hogwarts}

    {2nd Sep 1991}

    {3rd Person POV}

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    ''Metamorfo?no Me?tallo~, Metamorfo?no Me?tallo~, Metamorfo?no Me?tallo~, Metamorfo?no Me?tallo~'' Rigel kept mumbling in his head as he focused on performing the wand movements of the spell, he could once again feel the colors of his wand, or rather more accurately the mana flowing through his wand shift as he went through the wand movements of the spell.

    The way spells worked, at least from what his mana senses revealed to him, was that just by holding your wand in your hand a small amount of your mana weaves through it. The color of the mana depends on two things, the intent behind the spell and the wand movements.

    As his wand moved through the air, the mana it contained changed from one color to another, the changing color also depended on the wand movements that happened before and the wand movements that followed.

    Let''s say he takes the first spell as an example.

    The wand movements to the material changing spell that changes the material of the match to metal were a combination of two moves. The first motion was a circular spiral with the tip of his wand, and at the same time, he had to pull his wand backward. When he focuses on turning the match into a needle and thinks about the incantation of the spell, the mana, which was originally blue turns into a soft green.

    Rigel was okay with this change, having learned all the charms from the charms textbook he knew what he was doing. If he did some other motion like flicking his wand upward then the mana color would change to red indicating that the function or intent of the spell had changed.

    After practicing a few times he focused on the match and thought, ''Metamorfo?no Me?tallo~''. He smoothly pulled back his wand in a circular motion before he pushed his wand through the imaginary spiral he had created and aimed at the match. A spell formed and the green-colored mana left his wand, it was invisible to the naked eye but when it came into contact with the match it stuck to it and started spreading all over it.

    His first transfiguration attempt was not as successful as he had hoped as the spell failed to affect the entire match. The match did turn more shiny as it changed from a brown piece of wood to a mix-matched texture of iron and wood.

    He stared at the match for a moment as he thought about what went wrong, he closed his eyes as he tried to imagine the difference between his and Prof. Minerva''s attempt at casting the spell.

    Rigel closed his eyes again as he focused on the sensation of Prof. McGoanagall''s last spell, the final spell was a little confusing it gave him a little insight as to how spell creation worked, at least some form of it.

    ''The final spell had traces of both the spells combined, but maybe the reason I didn''t get a new spell was that it was not a spell recognized by canon or was it something else?'' Rigel thought, the questions remained in his mind but he put them aside for now.

    He opened his eyes and looked at the spells, before experimenting he needed to learn the spell. So he picked up his wand again and focused, the thought of turning the match into a needle was at the forefront of his mind as he repeated Prof. McGonagall''s actions.

    "Morfo?no AichmMe?tallo~" This time a semi-translucent spell emerged from his wand, the thin layer of moving spell was visible as it impacted the match and slowly it transformed into a needle. The whole process took 5 seconds, it was slower than Professor''s spell by 4 seconds but at least the spell worked. A popup window appeared in front of him informing him of the newly learned spell.

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    [New Spell learned!]

    [Spell: Basic Metal Generalized Transfiguration unlocked!]

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    ''Huh, that was a generalized spell, didn''t Professor tell us that this wasn''t a generalized spell?'' Rigel thought but before he could ponder some more, Daphne nudged him slightly and asked, "How did you do that?"

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    AN - Last chapter for Transfiguration Theory for now, it will come up later again but I don''t want to overwhelm you guys this soon!

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