In the morning deformation class, Professor McGonagall asked everyone to turn beetles into buttons.

This is an advanced course in transforming the artifact. It is more difficult to transform the living creature into a dead object than a simple dead object.

No one present did it perfectly, even Hermione could only barely do it.

"Miss Granger, the buttons are round, Gryffindor adds two points."

Others didn't even look like buttons, and Hermione was indeed quite outstanding in comparison.

Professor McGonagall was patrolling, commenting on them from time to time and pointing out the mistakes.

Ron's broken wand accidentally poked his beetle to death, and Seamo created another explosion, killing Harry's beetle.

They had to ask for a new beetle from the professor.

Professor McGonagall pursed her lips tightly. She seemed very dissatisfied, but she still gave the new beetle.

"Mr. Weasley, you need to change to a new wand. I'm worried that you accidentally die under your own misstep."

There was laughter from Slytherin, and the embarrassed Weasley's face turned red. There were too many children in his family, so he could only use old clothes and wands, and had no money to buy new ones.

"Today's class ends here. At this time next week, I will check your learning progress. If I find anyone has not mastered this deformation..."

"By the way, you don't need to write your paper this time."

"Because tomorrow we are going to welcome the exchange group from the Clock Tower. I hope you can take good care of your instruments and not embarrass Hogwarts!"

The following whispered, and they were all discussing in a low voice about the exchanges between this school and the unknown magic school.

They have more or less seen the name of the Clock Tower in the newspapers, because they are both schools in the UK and are all in London...

Half a century has passed, and the magicians who came out of the clock tower have occupied a very important part of the magic world today.

A considerable number of wizards, even pure blood wizards, are not opponents of magicians who have just graduated from the Clock Tower.

Staffless spell casting, silent spell casting, combat spell casting, high-speed holy words, fighting proficiency, a novice magician who has graduated for nine years has mastered at least the above five personal expertise.

In battle, a magician can usually defeat two to three adult wizards without any damage, and the chances of winning are greater if he has a weapon on his body.

"Although I am very confident in Hogwarts, I have to admit that Clock Tower is also a very capable school."

"Although it was founded less than a hundred years ago, the new spell casting profession created by Clock Tower, namely the magician profession, is very competitive, and previous graduates are very outstanding and knowledgeable."

The discussion below became louder, and many students from pure blood families were exchanging the rumor they heard.

"For this reason, I talked to Principal Dumbledore and believed that a communication between schools would help promote the improvement of our teaching methods, and Hogwarts also needs to usher in certain changes to better meet the changes in the future."

She had to knock on the table and increased the volume.

"We agree that it's not feasible to work behind closed doors. Hogwarts' status began fifty years ago and has been constantly facing challenges, both the clock towers and the churches you know are spared no effort to hit the traditional wizard system."

"The new casting profession is better than us. This means that if we don't know how to adapt, sooner or later, the wizard will disappear in the world, along with the ancient sorcerers, elemental mages, and ancient priests, etc., it can only become a line of words in the history of magic!"

"In the future, you will face more challenges. The revival of a large number of magicians, magic knights, virtue monks and even various ancient magic professions has brought great changes that have not been encountered in a thousand years!"

"This exchange meeting is a challenge of pre-previewing. Don't be lucky, don't measure your opponents with inherent ideas! Your opponents have been increasing from nothing to something in the past half century. Now, more than 100,000 magicians are active in countries around the world, accounting for one-third of the number of people in the magic world!"

Hermione held her hands high.

Professor McGonagall was very pleased to see her. This girl always had a serious spirit of not admitting defeat.

"Miss Granger, what are your questions?"

Hermione couldn't wait to stand up.

"Professor, I want to know why there are suddenly so many students with magic? According to past records, the number of fresh young wizards in Britain each year is only about a hundred."

Professor McGonagall nodded.

"Gryffindor plus five points. Please sit, Miss Granger, this is exactly what I need to remind you."

"The enrollment of Clock Tower is completely different from Hogwarts. They look at the so-called nature and believe that human achievements depend on some precious qualities such as diligence, which is one of the most they like."

Speaking of this, Hermione was very happy and she also received an admission letter from the Clock Tower.

"They established contact with the Muggle government, screened students with diligence, perseverance, wisdom, courage and other qualities through administrative means, and then issued notices."

"Students who receive the notice need to correctly find several entrances to the clock tower and pass a series of tests before they can successfully enter the school."

"It is said that after freshmen enter school, the Clock Tower will open a system called magic circuit for them through a secret ceremony, thereby awakening magic power and making them wizards with spell casting talents - this has a profound impact on the magic world, which means that the population of the magic world will explode, and in the future, magic will continue to spread until everyone can learn magic!"

"In addition, instead of using a magic wand, they made an enchantment prop called magic seal on their own, which combined with their own magic loops and integrated into the body, thus achieving a magic wand-like effect to assist in casting."

"Their spell casting system is all based on the magic circuit, which is a completely different theory from traditional wizards. I believe you will come into contact with it soon."

Hermione raised her hand again.

Professor McGonagall nodded and signaled her to ask a question.

"Professor, did our duel class follow the example of the clock tower?"

"Yes, every graduate of the Clock Tower is very good at fighting. In previous years, there had been conflicts between Hogwarts graduates and Clock Tower students. The opponent can easily defeat three times or even five or six times of enemies by casting spells faster, flexible and changeable strategies, and skillful spells."

“Since then, Hogwarts has offered duel classes, and we think it is necessary to enable students to master the art of caster duels and improve your competitiveness.”

Professor McGonagall was worried that she saw the decline of traditional wizards and the rise of the new generation of spell casting systems.

"Students, you may be very young, so you don't feel deeply, but I have taught for many years and witnessed the changes in Hogwarts over the years."

She sighed a long time.

“Since the school suspension storm began fifty years ago, Hogwarts’ situation has been bad.”

"The capable professor left school and went to other magic schools, such as the clock tower that had just been built at that time."

"There are shortages of students, and even one year of freshmen are single-digit."

She was talking about the year when the Basil monster killed Myrtle of Ravenclaw. Although the school was not closed, who would send her children to danger?

"The Ministry of Magic's funding review of Hogwarts is becoming increasingly strict, and education grants are reduced every year to support the development of emerging magic schools. Clock Tower is our biggest competitor, and they account for more than 60% of the Ministry of Magic's education funding."

Because the clerk of the Ministry of Magic has now become the director of the Magic Education Department, he has a great say in this regard.

In addition, the Clock Tower graduates poured into the Ministry of Magic, and the Clock Tower faction and the Hogwarts faction have formed a situation of competing with each other.

In the end, the Ministry of Magic's limited education funding continued to tilt towards the clock tower - after all, the latter trained thousands of outstanding graduates every year, dozens of times more than the hundreds of people in Hogwarts.

As long as you are not blind, you can see the decline of traditional wizards and the rise of emerging spell casting systems.

The Muggle government is more inclined to work with the Clock Tower because the latter masters the core technology—the technology that allows anyone to possess a magical talent is the highest secret.

"Students, you live in the present, this is the best era. Because magic has ushered in rapid development, new theories are proposed every year, brand new magic is invented, and ancient spells are discovered and reappeared in the world..."

Then she changed her voice:

"But it is also the worst era, because these changes are not led by us, we must catch up or we will eventually be eliminated."

Her words were heavy and full of affection, which deeply touched these eleven or twelve-year-old wizards.

Everyone could hear the helplessness in her words and the eager expectation for them.

Everyone was silent and felt an invisible pressure, and even Malfoy was not staring at Harry.

"Professor, is there no way Professor Dumbledore?"

Finally someone couldn't help asking questions.

"He is the greatest white wizard of the last century, and he has defeated two generations of Dark Kings!"

Professor McGonagall just shook his head this time and announced the get out of class was over without answering.

Hermione, Ron, and Harry gathered together, and many others, like them, were discussing this mysterious clock tower.

Many students from the pure blood wizard family were talking loudly, especially Slytherin. Many of their parents had a wide connection and could hear a lot of rumors.

"Dumbledore had no choice. He himself was not an opponent of the Dean of the Clock Tower. Even the mysterious man who tried to attack the Clock Tower failed, but no one knew what happened. But later the mysterious man never dared to get close to there again."

"I know that the clock tower is the only safe place. The mysterious man dared not get close to that nearby. They all said that the founder of the clock tower took action to warn the mysterious man."

Malfoy secretly talked to a Slytherin girl.

His father knew more about it when he worked in the Ministry of Magic.

"I want to say that the Clock Tower is much better than Hogwarts, and we are also recruiting wizards who are naturally awakened. They call this natural magical circuit smooth, but my father asked me to follow my godfather, so I came."

Malfoy's godfather was Slytherin Dean Snape, where he could give a private lecture and learn advanced magic.

Soon, the students dispersed and there were still classes in the afternoon. Potion class was not a class that could be easily passed.

Because of the heavy pressure, Hermione planned to stay in the library in the afternoon. She always felt that she had learned too little and tried to persuade them to attack more and strive to win glory at the exchange meeting.

Harry and Ron felt that she was annoyed and didn't want to accompany her. They used the excuse of doing homework. Quidditch trained and avoided her.

"As sooner or later, you will understand the importance of hard study! Professor McGonagall said it! This is a competitive world!"

In the communal lounge, the disappointed Hermione threw down her words and ran away.

"Maybe Hermione is right."

Harry recalled Professor McGonagall's serious face and the words she said were a little hesitant.

"So what, not everyone belongs to Miss All-Travellers."

Ron still looked unmotivated, and he was listlessly flipping through his deformation textbook.

"I felt dizzy when I saw those books and couldn't read them at all. She always looked like that, as if she knew the most."

"Don't do this, Ron, Hermione can give the academy points every time, and you can borrow her notes to copy and apologize."

Ron lay on the table in frustration.

"Okay, it's mine this time. I'll go later... to borrow her homework next time..."
Chapter completed!