After waiting for a bit as the classroom began filling up with the other Slytherins and Gryffindors something happened.
As cats were usually quite wilful no one was very surprised when a silver cat with square markings around the eyes came walking into the classroom and walked elegantly towards the teacher's desk.
Then suddenly the cat perked up and had a befuddled look for a moment before searching the room with it's eyes and then continued towards it's original destination while seemingly following a scent only it was able to smell.
But the closer it got to the desk the faster it walked until it quickly jumped on top of it.
Again most students just ignored the spectacle and even those who didn't just dismissed it since the teacher still wasn't there and there were two more minutes left until the lesson was supposed to start.
Then the cat suddenly started behaving strangely on top of the desk:
It started rolling around on the desk while purring loudly and looking around in a condition between confusion and intoxication.
Then the cat suddenly shook itself before jumping down from the desk and transforming into an elderly human woman.
It was a very angry Professor McGonagall.
With a wave of her wand she pulled out of her robe in a fluid motion she instantly revealed the little flower Julius had put there before while the present students were still in shock.
Then the Professor opened her mouth, without a doubt to deliver a storm towards the joker responsible for this, only to be interrupted by two laughing voices from outside of the classroom.
McGonagall angrily clenched her lips and marched towards the door with big steps before opening it with a quick pull, revealing what could only be the Weasley twins who had been laughing while leaning against the door, making them fall to the ground when it was suddenly pulled open.
„Would one of you two Weasleys grace me with the knowledge of what you think was this funny that you couldn't laugh about it inside the classroom?"
While the Weasley twins completely caught of guard still tried to explain themselves despite having no idea why they were suddenly questioned like this after one of them most likely just told a joke, another Gryffindor student who just arrived after the Weasley twins tried to get into the good graces of his strict house teacher by, as he though, snitching on the twins.
"Professor I saw them wait a moment in front of the door while peeking through the keyhole before one of them said something to the other one and they started laughing!"
Now completely convinced Professor McGonagall seemed ready to hand out months worth of detentions when one of the twins started a last ditch effort of getting out of this unfair situation unscathed:
"Professor I was just checking if we were too late when Fred told me a joke! We don't know what you think we did but we didn't do it!"
In the silence following this statement the whole room heard Fred's whispered „most likely" which seemed to be the last straw for the Professor, Julius wouldn't be surprised if it started smoking out of her nose when she snorted like an angry bull.
„That is going to be two months of detention with Mr. Filch for both of you as well as -20 points for each of you. Now sit down so the lesson can finally start."
That went even better then Julius expected, he hoped the Professor would already suspect the twins since he was sure they would have done at least something to warrant further suspicions but he didn't expect such a horrendous timing from the twins, how Fred couldn't hold back an inappropriate remake on the other hand was not in the unexpected and he had indeed expected something like this.
But on the other hand this meant he would have to act quickly, not that it should pose a problem to him.
And as Julius expected the Transfiguration class was extremely interesting and quite informative as well.
Of course he had already given it a few tries but his results were inadequate to say the least, he had tried replicating a certain Quinn West's method of training his magic with a metal ball but he was only able to „transform" it by using excessive magic power to form it with telekinetic power which could in no way be called transfiguration.
But due to an active participation in the lesson without being as annoying as a certain muggleborn while also achieving much better results in it than most other students, with the exception of Lia, Julius was able to also get a few points for Slytherin from the Professor and therefore presumably making a good impression.
After the lesson while eating lunch in the great hall something odd happened; suddenly a blue window like his status window appeared in front of him with only a short message:
[Go somewhere where you will not be disturbed.]
Since it would certainly not be a great idea to keep a R.O.B. waiting Julius immediately excused himself to go to the toilet were he only needed to wait for a moment before the next message appeared:
[Your last (half) wish will be patched since I changed my mind over how to grant it to you. How it has been until now was in the end almost completely useless to you and as such I have changed it to show you only the magic stat to you, but not only your own but also the stat of other people you want to look at.]
[Since you will now only receive informations concerning this rather special stat I also decided to give you more information about it's stages as you've only had information concerning the borders before. The informations will follow suit:]
After Julius finished reading the first two windows, they both disappeared, making way for a new one.
[Magic Power stat explanation:
-beneath 10 only accidental magic is possible since no magic core exists
-at the age of 11 a stat of 10 is reached (at the latest) which forms a magic core and enables the wizard to use basic spells, this core is only a round lump of magic power in the belly of a wizard
-at the age of 17 a stat of 20 is reached (at the latest) at which point the magic power making up the core takes on a liquid form which allows the use of more complicated spells as the magic power used still has the same consistency as before but just a small bit of the liquid magic power can create much more of it which can also be much more easily manipulated
-wizards with above average talent which put in hard work are able to reach a magic stat of 50 at which point the magic core crystallises which enables the wizard to focus natural magic power from the outside world through this core, giving him enough control over it to use it in spells, this results in the ability to almost infinitely use the more basic spells while also allowing the use of some of wizardkind's most powerful spells by turning small parts of this crystal core into normal magic power again, since this is very taxing on the wizard it is seldomly done
-the greatest wizards to ever grace the earth with their talents can with hard work and a genius mind reach the threshold of a stat of 100, this is only possible by using an individual method even though a working method can also sometimes be replicated by other wizards who fulfil the requirements, after reaching this threshold it is also related to this method how much bigger the growth potential of the wizard is, for example a bad method might just result in a maximum of a magic power stat of 101 or a better one might allow for one of 120]
After Julius finished reading and memorising the long field of text it disappeared, leaving him to contemplate this new flood of information.
'The first thing to do should probably be checking if I finally reached the pinnacle of the second stage.'
‚Status.'
[MP 19]
He appeared to be lucky, now there was only one step left to finally reach the point where he should be able to reach the level of at least the weakest adult wizards even without his death magic.
Satisfied Julius headed back towards the great hall, curious about the stats of his friends and, much more important, the Professors'.
Sadly Dumbledore didn't usually eat in the great hall.
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Any remarks concerning my „little" change or the new informations?
Btw: The stages after the second one (10 MP) aren't reached by meditating and doing something akin to cultivation, that was only because Julius didn't wait to naturally gain a magic core.
Thank you for reading!
PS: I would be happy if I got more reviews so one day I will have a rating on this novel :)