Taking on the Magical World 19 Chapter 19

"I have to say, Mr. Lovegood, there has never been these many students in my class that were able to do the floating charm in the first class, you have my thanks for that. If I may, I will make sure to use your method in my floating charm class." Professor Flitwick says to me as he is using his wand absentmindedly to pick up all the feathers left on the desks.

"It is my pleasure to help my classmates, Professor Flitwick and it would be an honor for me if my method was to be taught to future students. I am sure anybody could figure it out all I did was relate mental images to magic." I say faking pure joy and humbleness.

"I am getting more and more impressed with you Mr. Lovegood, using mental images is a very high application of magic, mostly Aurors and us Professors, who mastered a branch of magic, use metal images when using magic," says Professor Flitwick nearly dancing in joy.

I know I have everything set up, I say "You over praise me Professor, I read about you after completing your Nastily Exhausting Wizarding Tests in his seventh year, you graduated from Hogwarts and then proceeded to become a Master Duellist and earned the title of 'Duelling Champion' at some point, and you have a shelf full of trophies to prove it."

"Ha, those were the younger days," says Professor Flitwick with a reminiscing look.

I nod my head along with the Professor and ask, "I was wondering if you would want to teach us students dueling since you were so good at it, you could open a club and you could invite the other heads of the houses to also teach like professor Snape vs professor McGonagall."

Professor Flitwick slowly nods his head, "Yes a dueling club would be nice, but you kids are too young."

I try a deferent approach, "Professor, many students learn about all kinds of spells when they graduate Hogwarts but they cannot use it cohesively and many fall to dark wizards and dark creatures for that reason. The dueling club would fix that Professor."

"You are correct Mr. Lovegood let me think about it," says Professor Flitwick with a thoughtful face.

I see that I need to give the Professor one final push, so I say, "Professor Flitwick, many could have fought back from Voldemort evil domination if they know how to," although a low blow on my part, I need to learn how to correctly fight, on instinct for that matter, not waving my wand around like a fool.

Professor Flitwick shivers when I say that to him, "You are correct Mr. Lovegood, learning how to duel will save many students lives in the long run from dangerous forces, I will talk to Headmaster Dumbledore about opening a dueling club and I shall invite the heads of the houses to help."

I see that my goal is achieved so I say my goodbyes to Professor Flitwick and ran along to my other classes.

Professor McGonagall class was very different, she was not a teacher you want to cross, even the twins stay in line in her class and do not dare to pull a prank over her. Strict and clever, she gave them a talking-to the moment we sat down in her first class.

"Transfiguration is some of the most complex and dangerous magic you will learn at Hogwarts," she said.

"Anyone messing around in my class will leave and not come back. You have been warned."

Then she changed her desk into a pig and back again. We were all very impressed and couldn't wait to get started, but soon realized they weren't going to be changing the furniture into animals for a long time.

After taking a lot of complicated notes, they were each given a match and started trying to turn it into a needle. By the end of the lesson, only I was able to turn my match into a needle and to show off a little I made it into a beautiful luxury needle, thanks to that I won 15 points. The twins were able to make some progress when I told them to imagine what they want with every detail and Professor McGonagall gave them five points for their partial work.

After class was over I stayed back so that I could strike up a conversation with Professor McGonagall about animagi.

"Professor McGonagall, I was reading an interesting book on animagi by a Native American wizard. He says you can skip all the complicated stuff: like putting a single leaf of a Mandrake plant in your in the mouth for one month, then putting that leaf in a crystal phial that receives pure moon rays, together with one of the your hairs, a silver teaspoonful of dew, and the chrysalis of a death's-head hawk moth. All those ingredients making a blood red potion, which is drunk after speaking the incantation 'Amato Animo Animato Animagus'."

Professor McGonagall raises her eyebrows at me and asks, "How would you go about becoming a animagi if you skip the steps needed?"

"That the thing Professor, the author said you do not need all that stuff, all you need is to find your inter-animal by being one with nature, then use the incantation 'Amato Animo Animato Animagus' then poof you can become animagi." This book was something I found in my mother's collection and with this method, I could save myself years, but I do not know the creditably of it and I do not want to end up as a half-human, half-animal, so the only person that I can run through with it is Professor McGonagall.

"This method is possible since all the blood red potion does is awakens your inter-animal, Native American wizards and witches are well known for their potionnering and animal magic, but what I do not understand is being in one with nature part," says Professor McGonagall.

I do, but there is no way I am sharing that, so I fake ignorance and say my goodbyes to Professor McGonagall and ran along to my next class.

Chapter end