Professor McGonagall suddenly appeared, and Scott and Cedric finally reacted. The two of them were standing at the door of the Transfiguration Club classroom and were so engrossed in talking that they forgot the time.
“Sorry, Professor McGonagall.”
Facing Professor McGonagall’s slightly stern eyes, the two of them did not find excuses, but lowered their heads and admitted their mistakes.
Professor McGonagall did not care much about Scott and Cedric, two good students, but looked at them with a warning and turned into the classroom.
“Come in quickly, Mr. Trollope and Mr. Diggory.”
Scott and Cedric hurriedly followed into the classroom and closed the door.
Then, the two of them quickly found their seats and sat down under the good and bad eyes of other students.
“It’s really strange, Cedric and Scott, you two good boys are also late.” A girl sitting next to them said jokingly.
Angelina Johnson, a Gryffindor girl in the same grade as them, is also a chaser of the Gryffindor Quidditch team.
Scott whispered, “This is an accident, Angelina.”
Angelina smiled, and when she wanted to say something else, Professor McGonagall, who was standing in front of the classroom, looked over with sharp eyes, so she quickly shut up.
“Our first topic today.” Professor McGonagall held a magazine in her hand, “is to read and discuss a paper published in the latest issue of Transfiguration Today.”
The stern look on her face eased, “Even I was inspired by this paper.”
At this point, the stern look on her face had completely disappeared, and she couldn’t help but smile with pride.
“The author of this paper is Bill Weasley, one of Gryffindor’s best students.”
Scott was a little surprised to hear this.
Bill Weasley? Scott remembered that the Weasley twins had mentioned that the oldest brother of their family should have gone to Gringotts Wizarding Bank in Egypt as a curse breaker after graduating from Hogwarts.
A wizard who can serve as a curse breaker must generally be the best at magic skills such as arithmetic divination, spells, and ancient magic. Unexpectedly, now it seems that Bill Weasley is also quite interested in Transfiguration even after work.
He is indeed a powerful person who once obtained 12 certificates in the O.W.Ls exam.
“Start reading now.” Professor McGonagall put down the magazine, “Students who have read it before, you can take a closer look, or think about the content of your speech in the discussion later.”
The students immediately moved after hearing this, either opening their magazines and notebooks, or standing up to take new magazines from the bookshelf on the wall of the classroom.
Scott, who was sitting next to the bookshelf, turned around and took down two copies of “Transfiguration Today” and handed one to Cedric.
“Thank you.”
Cedric took it and opened it impatiently.
Scott also opened the magazine, “It seems that you haven’t had time to read the latest issue of the magazine.”
The “Transfiguration Today” magazine in the Transfiguration Club was applied for by Professor McGonagall and subscribed by the school. In addition, the Hogwarts Library will also subscribe some.
It is precisely because the club and the library have this magazine that Scott did not subscribe another copy with his own money. This also led to him often not reading it in the first place.
“Yes, I’ve been busy with Quidditch training recently.” Cedric quickly found the paper that Professor McGonagall mentioned through the magazine catalog and couldn’t wait to read it carefully.
Scott also turned to that page and saw the title of the paper at first glance – “A conjecture, maybe we can make transformation more complicated.”
“Transfiguration Today” is an academic journal that focuses on the latest developments in the field of Transfiguration. This journal will publish some articles and papers by some outstanding and knowledgeable scholars in this field.
Moreover, this magazine will also select the “Transfiguration Today” Most Potential Newcomer Award, which will be awarded to Hogwarts students who are particularly good at Transfiguration.
Professor McGonagall has complained more than once in the activities of the Transfiguration Club that no student in Hogwarts has won this award for several years.
And whenever she talked about this topic, she would deliberately look at Scott, which made Scott panic.
Although Scott showed a superior talent in the study of Transfiguration, he had never published a paper in a magazine.
Professor McGonagall had also given him advice, hoping that he could work hard to find a direction to write some papers to publish in order to compete for the Most Promising Newcomer Award, but Scott politely rejected it.
Because this was inconsistent with Scott’s own ideas.
In the past three academic years, Scott’s learning content of Transfiguration has never deviated from the content of the textbook. It’s just that in these contents, he has learned much more deeply than ordinary students.
Many students only pursue the state of being able to do it when learning magic. If a spell can be successfully cast, they think they have learned it.
But Scott doesn’t think so.
He not only requires himself to be able to do it, but also to do it well, and even always pursues better.
In Scott’s view, this is part of laying the foundation, and he must lay a solid foundation. And these basic knowledge cannot support him to write papers that can be published or even win awards.
If he wanted to publish an award-winning paper, Scott had to study some new and eye-catching topics. He was unwilling to break his study plan for a magazine’s newcomer award.
In his opinion, he was on a path of accumulation, and now he was still in the “accumulation” stage.
The Transfiguration Club classroom was quiet, with only the sound of pages turning and feather pens scratching parchment.
Scott could no longer hear any sound at this time, and his eyes were firmly attracted by the paper in front of him. As he read carefully, his eyes became brighter and brighter, and his heart became more and more excited.
This paper inspired him greatly, and some of his views coincided with some of his unverified assumptions.
After reading the paper, Scott gradually calmed down and looked at the title of the paper again – “A conjecture, maybe we can make transformation more complicated.”
After reading the paper, Scott understood that the author of the paper, Bill Weasley, did only expound a conjecture in this paper.
Although the author provided some evidence for this conjecture based on his own experience in Egypt. But these evidences are not 100% convincing.
So this is really just a conjecture.
Even the editor-in-chief of the magazine “Transfiguration Today” only commented at the end of the paper that “this conjecture is interesting enough.” From his words, we can see that he is not optimistic about the realization of this conjecture.
But Scott felt for no reason that this conjecture has great realization value and is not impossible to realize.
He wanted to continue researching along this conjecture.
