Volume 5: The Burning Golden Flame Chapter 313 Gabrielle's Age
The content of the notes is quite complex.
Moreover, most of the content in the article is conjecture and assumption. After all, even Adrian himself, who made the ring and gem, has never used the real function of such things.
He could only deduce, purely theoretically, how to perfect the true Animagus if the ring ever met someone who could use it successfully.
First of all, the initial preparation steps are no different from those of a normal Animagus.
Jon needs to find a single leaf of the Mandrake and place it in his mouth.
This process would last for a month, and if he accidentally swallowed or vomited the leaves, he would have to start over.
After this step is completed , he needs to take out the leaf on a full moon, fill a small crystal medicine bottle with saliva, and soak the leaf in it, so that it can receive pure moonlight. If the day when he takes out the leaf is cloudy and the moon is not visible, it means that all the previous work is wasted and he must start all over again.
When all the conditions are met, add a strand of your own hair and a silver teaspoon of dew to a small crystal medicine bottle illuminated by moonlight. The dew must be collected from a place without sunlight or human contact for seven days. Finally, add a pupa of a hawk moth and place the mixture in a quiet, dark environment.
Then wait for a stormy night. Jon needs to recite a spell that is completely different from the normal Animagus spell, and then drink the bottle of mixture.
It sounds a bit disgusting. A bottle of saliva that has been stored for who knows how long, even if it is produced by oneself, is hard to accept.
But this is indeed the complete learning method of Animagus, and all Animagus who can successfully transform have gone through this process.
According to Adrian's inference in his notes, there was no difference until the step of drinking the mixture on a stormy night. The difference was that the normal final step was to hold the wand, point it at one's heart, recite the spell, and finally complete the transformation.
When casting a spell with a ring, the final step is of course to use the ring itself, which is embedded with the gem, to complete the spell.
But when it comes to changing magical creatures, the change in appearance is only secondary; the key lies in the change of the magic within.
No matter what kind of magical animal it is, even if it is the lowest level slug, the magic contained in it is very different from that of a wizard.
The key reason why normal Animagus cannot transform into magical creatures is that wizards cannot make fundamental changes to their own magic.
For example, the basilisk's gaze can kill instantly, and its fangs are poisonous to the soul directly. These are abilities given to it by its own special magic.
If a wizard wants to turn into a basilisk, there is one thing he cannot avoid, which is to evolve his own magic power into that of a basilisk.
Otherwise, even if the appearance has changed, but the various abilities of the magical creatures themselves are gone, then the change is the same as no change.
It was for this reason that Slughorn told John at the beginning that the Animagus in the current wizarding world was a failed product of research on whether magic could be changed.
And to truly complete the transformation of magic and transform everything that magic represents into another form is an unprecedented attempt.
There is no object to learn from in history, so the notes left for Jon are only for reference. Whether it will be successful in the end is still unknown.
But no matter what, there is such a possibility in front of Jon, so of course he has to try it.
He hadn't decided what kind of magic to put on the gem he got from the maze, so an Animagus that could transform into a magical animal was undoubtedly a good choice.
After confirming it, Jon did not stop. He immediately found Lily's office and asked her for a mandrake leaf.
As it happened, he arrived at the right time. Lily was using mandrake to prepare the potion to remove the petrification. When Jon walked in, she was pouring it on Nick.
Gabrielle informed the professors about Nick's situation the night she returned from the French Ministry of Magic.
Mandrake is an important strategic material today and is readily available in the Wuping Line. After two days of preparation by Lily, the antidote was ready.
"Luckily it was Nick who saw the basilisk's eyes."
Lily's voice was a little serious. Just from Nick's current state, she could tell that Jon and the others' experience in the Arctic was unimaginably dangerous.
"If you and Gabrielle and that basilisk made eye contact, then there would be a big problem."
Jon held a piece of mandrake leaf that Lily had picked out for him. He didn't put it into his mouth immediately. Instead, he watched her pour the antidote on Nick's stiff body.
"If Gabrielle also sees the basilisk's eyes, will there be problems?"
"She drank the dead soul water, which turned her into a unique ghost state, but this state does not make her immune to direct death by magic. Whether it is the lethal effect of the basilisk's eyes or the killing curse, it can take her life."
After hearing what Lily said, Jon couldn't help but feel a little scared.
He also felt that Gabrielle's condition was obviously very different from that of a real ghost, so he had been asking her to avoid the Death Eaters' killing curses.
"So when will Gabrielle be able to return to normal?"
Lily replied softly.
"It shouldn't be long. As long as you perform well in the Triwizard Tournament, once we have completely occupied Beauxbatons, we can retrieve her body from there and let her recover."
Speaking of this, Jon suddenly thought of an interesting question.
"Gabrielle has lived as a ghost for more than a year. When she turns back into an adult, how do we calculate her age? Will her body grow as well?"
Lily carefully poured the potion along Nick's head and onto Nick's feet, and then spoke.
"That depends on how the escaped Beauxbatons headmistress, Madame Maxime, preserved her body. Generally speaking, she should have used a magic similar to the freezing spell to suppress Gabrielle's physical growth. In this case, when Gabrielle's soul returns to her body, her physical age will still be the same as when she drank the dead soul water. However, her true soul and psychological age must be calculated according to the time she has grown and experienced."
Jon blinked.
If that's the case, then if Gabrielle remains in this soul state for eight or ten years, and then changes back, wouldn't that mean that her mental age is that of an adult, but her body is still that of a child?
Seems... quite interesting?
