Chapter 13 - Learning Transfiguration (2/2)
Dumbledore and McGonagall thought at the same time, ”I never thought of those Goblins. It's a very serious issue, indeed”.
McGonagall then said, ”what you have done is completely new and can be considered as forbidden magic. I hope you'll keep it a secret to protect yourself. It's also because of this, I never award you any points as you never did Transfiguration but did Transmutation instead.
Albus and I decided that every weekend, you'll practice Transfiguration under my supervision. In this regard, you have no choice of refusing it. You can see how you transformed living mice into a non-living thing rare metal permanently”.
Later after McGonagall left, Dumbledore said, ”you have tremendous magic power and potential, Neal. You have talents in all areas. In all my life, I have only seen one person with such potential. All you need is to improve control over it”.
Neal replied, ”yes, I understand. But Professor, when should I practice Transfigurations? you know that I'm practicing potions under Prof. Snape, right?”. Dumbledore replied, ”Ah, yes. Indeed. Severus told me about it. Seems like your pet is quite different, after all”.
Neal went back to his room and thought about it for a long time. He sighed, ”well, I thought its just an accidental magic when I turned that cricket ball into a Silver ball”.
Slowly, the days went on. The attention is also quite down and moved to Harry Potter, once again. Mainly because of the two reasons. One is because its the Quidditch season and Harry made a record by catching the snitch three times in a row and made Gryffindor win every time.
The finals between Gryffindor and Slytherin was being set just before Christmas. Slytherins are working harder this time to defeat Gryffindor in the finals and so do they.
The second reason is that Draco did an amazing thing to spy on them while they meet with Hagrid and pass it to Prof. McGonagall who caught them red-handed and took 50 points away from them.
When they argued and angered her, she took away 50 points from each of the students along with Malfoy who was also out of the bed in midnight which made Neal, a bit angry.
Daphne scolded him, ”so what if they lost 150 points in a night. We've also lost 50 points too. Do you think there's only Slytherin and Gryffindor Houses in Hogwarts?. You've lost all the points I worked so hard until now”.
As Malfoy apologized, Neal replied, ”you have only one choice to redeem yourself. Make Slytherin win the Quidditch finals”. Malfoy asked, ”how can I do that? I'm not even a member”. Neal then replied, ”you idiot. Use your brain, a little bit. You are a Malfoy”. ”So?”.
Daphne continued, ”yeah, you are right, Neal. Harry has Nimbus 2000. Malfoy can buy one for everyone on the team by spending a little more than 1000 Galleons”. Tracey was shocked, ”1000 galleons? that's more than enough for me to live in luxury for a whole year”.
Draco thought for a bit, ”I don't have that much money with me, right now. I need to ask my father to buy them for me. Come to think of it, I can even become a member of the team with it”.
As November is about to end, Neal made improvements in Transfiguration. After making hundreds of Pure needles, he finally transfigured a match into a normal imitation silver needle which can be untransfigured.
McGonagall smiled as she untransfigured a silver needle back to a match, ”My efforts finally paid off. Good job, Slytherin”.