Harry Potter: From Muggle Cousin to Conceptual Wizard

Chapter 508 Achieving Animagus Status! An Outrageous Orca Soaring Through the Skies!

Under normal circumstances, the practice of Animagus requires ample patience and good fortune, and it is fraught with great danger and uncertainty.

The meticulous preparations made by Dali and his companions made the cultivation process less reliant on luck and eliminated most of the dangers and uncertainties.

However, those who practice this method still need considerable patience.

Dudley and the other students, professors, and leaders who were determined to study Animagus were required to keep a single leaf of a mandrake—the kind of mandrake with only one leaf on a petiole—under their tongues for a full month, from one full moon night to the next.

For a whole month, one cannot swallow, spit out, or damage this mandrake leaf; it must be kept in the mouth at all times, and throughout the entire process, one must be in a completely dark environment.

At this moment, the light-avoidance magic that Dudley had researched came in handy for the first time. By casting a light-avoidance spell on himself, he could block out any light source and ensure his safety, preventing the unexpected situation of irreversible skin vegetation.

You need to be extra careful when eating and drinking, so you don't accidentally chew and swallow mandrake leaves.

This would be a major challenge for others, but for Dudley, who no longer needs food, it's not a problem at all.

After a full month of consistent practice, on the scheduled night of the full moon, one can remove the leaf from their mouth, place it in a small crystal bottle filled with their own saliva, and let it soak in the pure moonlight of the full moon night.

If clouds obscure the moon at night, all efforts will be wasted, and you'll have to start over.

Dali did not deliberately use his conceptual perception ability to choose a day.

On the scheduled night of the full moon, seeing some inconsiderate dark clouds high in the sky, he secretly took action, using an excessively powerful 'Whirlwind Sweep' spell to sweep the night sky above Hogwarts completely clean.

The moon and stars at Hogwarts have never been so clear.

The cultivators naturally didn't need to start over and successfully allowed their crystal bottles to absorb the moonlight.

Then you can follow the procedure to enter the potion-making process. Hold the crystal vial up to the moonlight and add a strand of your own hair, a teaspoon of special dew, and a pupa of a ghost-faced hawk moth.

The dew here is special because it needs to be collected in a dark place where it has not seen the light of day or been touched by humans for seven days.

Dudley's light-blocking magic once again proved effective, allowing for advance preparation and isolation from external influences. This special dew could be mass-produced, enough for everyone needed at Hogwarts.

After adding all the necessary ingredients, this semi-finished Animagus potion in the crystal vial needs to be stored in a dark and quiet place, waiting for the arrival of a thunderstorm.

During this period, cultivators must not look at the unfinished magic potion, nor allow others to touch it.

This step can also involve setting aside a dedicated space to cast light-blocking and protective magic, ensuring peace of mind.

While waiting for the thunderstorm, one needs to get up early every day and, at sunrise and sunset, point the tip of the wand at one's heart and chant the spell repeatedly, reciting the special incantation of Animagus magic.

After a while, when you point the tip of your wand at your heart and chant a spell, you will feel a different heartbeat, which may be strong or weak.

At this time, you must remain calm and continue chanting the mantra without interruption.

When these signs appear, the time is actually right, but if a thunderstorm doesn't come, you have to keep chanting the mantra every day from sunrise to sunset.

Dudley is patient, but patience is only meaningful when there is nothing else to do but persevere.

So, the day after he and his group of Animagus practitioners could feel a different heartbeat, he secretly took action, using an extraordinary weather curse variant – the Thunder Curse – to alter the celestial phenomena of Hogwarts and the surrounding area.

The ancestral master Zhengyuan's lightning-summoning technique was already very powerful, but compared to Dali's magic, which relied on his extraordinary magical cultivation to control the natural weather of a place and artificially create thunderstorms, it seemed like a drop in the ocean.

Of course, apart from Dudley and Dumbledore, no one knew that the thunderstorm was not a natural occurrence.

No one knew that this time, the weather forecast crystal ball made by Dudley didn't predict the actual weather, but rather the spectacular scene that Dudley was creating.

On the day of the thunderstorm, as the first lightning bolt ripped across the sky, Dali and a group of cultivators went to the place where they had previously stored the semi-finished magic potions in small crystal bottles.

At this moment, the Animagus potion in the crystal vial was no longer a semi-finished product, but had been transformed into a finished potion with only one mouthful.

The potion was blood red. After obtaining it, the group rushed to a spacious room that had been prepared in advance.

Some professors who did not participate in the Animagus training, including those Hogwarts professors who had already become Animagus, such as Professor McGonagall, Lupin, Sirius Black, and Mr. Akimbard, the leader of the Vagabonds, were waiting here.

Be ready to cast specific protective magic at any time to ensure the safety of all cultivators.

“Amado, Anima, Animado, Animagoth…”

In the empty room, a group of cultivators pointed their wands at their hearts, chanted the Animagus incantation together, and then took their own Animagus potions.

My original heartbeat, and the other heartbeat generated by Animagus, immediately became surging and powerful, thumping incessantly.

At the same time, intense pain occurred, and dreamlike hallucinations appeared in my mind.

This illusion is the Animagus form that I am about to transform into. If there are no major emotional changes, it will be exactly the same as the Guardian God form that I have cultivated before.

During this process, practitioners must not be afraid, but calmly accept their new form.

The Tranquility Mantra once again proved its worth; with the assistance of those around who taught the Tranquility Mantra, not a single practitioner experienced panic.

For Yu Dali, this pain was nothing, and panic was nonexistent.

He closed his eyes, feeling the illusion of orcas swimming in his mind, smiled slightly, and calmly accepted it.

The next moment, he floated into the air, and the death cloak that had transformed into a wizard's robe, along with other clothing and accessories, all merged into his skin.

As for the wand that couldn't be used for the Animagus transformation, he didn't bring it with him. He had always used his fingers to complete the step of pointing the wand tip at his heart.

This is also the traditional practice of African wizards. For thousands of years, they have been casting spells without a wand. The wand is just a modern import.

Therefore, unlike other practitioners who need to put down their wands, as his clothes and accessories blended into his skin, Dudley immediately entered the transformation process of his first Animagus form.

His body swelled and stretched, and his clothes and accessories melted into his skin, transforming into smooth whale skin, either black or white.

Before long, Dali transformed into a massive orca, eight meters long and weighing six tons, hovering silently in the air.

As anticipated, the room was expanded using the Seamless Stretch Spell, becoming very spacious and open, with each cultivator separated by a considerable distance.

So even though Dudley became such a huge animal, he did not affect anyone else.

The professors who knew about Dudley's Guardian God form had anticipated this transformation into an orca. At the same time, they now needed to closely monitor the transformations of other cultivators.

Therefore, Dali, the male killer whale, didn't attract much attention in the room, nor did he intend to stay there quietly to make his presence known.

He directly opened an invisible portal and went to the sky above the Hogwarts playground.

Amidst thunder and torrential rain, soaring through the sky, no longer suppressing the urge to speak, I float in the air while letting out ethereal and profound hums.

Those students and professors who were not involved in this Animagus training heard the strange cry through the thunder and rain, and they all went to the windows of the corridors of the castle to stop and look up.

They stared in astonishment as an orca swam and flew through the clouds and lightning, their mouths agape.

This spectacle was something they had never seen before, and it should also be unprecedented in history.