Chapter 57: A Way to Keep Nagini Awake
Dorset County.
The Scamander home.
"Is this really Nagini?" Newt looked at the miniature snake lying in a coma in front of him.
"Yes, I've checked, it's really Nagini. She was subdued by one of my students and shrunk to her current size with Transfiguration." Dumbledore nodded.
Newt looked at a piece of dark green scale in his hand, which was the one Dumbledore had picked up in the sewer.
Based on his years of research on magical creatures, he could fully imagine how huge a snake with such a large scale would be.
But now, such a big snake had been shrunk to such a small size with Transfiguration.
"Your student is very powerful... I thought it was you who did it yourself." Newt said with emotion.
"My student is a bit special, let's not talk about it for now. Now, we should think about how to settle her down." Dumbledore looked at Nagini worriedly.
"Nagini is a Maledictus, although she has completely turned into an animal... we can't just leave her alone." Newt raised his head with a firm look.
Dumbledore nodded, but then said, "The Transfiguration that shrunk her may not last long... are you sure?"
The shrunken Nagini was not harmful, but once the Transfiguration failed and she returned to her original size, she would become extremely dangerous.
Newt said, "Let's wake her up and try. I have to see what her personality is now, and then make a plan... Don't worry, I have a lot of experience in dealing with dangerous magical creatures."
Suddenly, Nagini on the table moved.
Newt quickly asked, "Has the Transfiguration failed?"
Dumbledore looked at it and said, "No, it should be the Stupefy I added later that has expired."
At this time, Nagini on the table had completely woken up.
She raised her snake head, looked at her body in confusion, and then looked at the surrounding environment.
After seeing Newt and Dumbledore, she suddenly became excited.
"Hiss hiss hiss..."
"She seems to be telling us something..." Newt turned his head and said excitedly to Dumbledore, "If I'm not mistaken, Nagini is awake now!"
Dumbledore nodded, "I can understand some of it. She said she's awake now... Yes, I learned some Parseltongue out of curiosity."
"You're really knowledgeable, Professor." Newt said admiringly. "Uh, what is she saying now?"
Although Newt was a master of magical creatures, he could usually guess what they wanted to express based on their movements or calls.
But he couldn't accurately translate the animals' words.
Dumbledore listened to Nagini's voice again, then turned his head and took a piece of parchment and a bottle of ink, and placed it in front of Nagini.
After seeing the ink, Nagini put her tail into the ink bottle and wrote crookedly on the parchment.
After a while, a hint of surprise appeared on the faces of Dumbledore and Newt.
"You mean, you can stay awake by maintaining your current state?" Dumbledore asked.
Nagini nodded slowly, sticking out her tongue. Then she wrote on the paper with her tail.
"As the body of the beast weakens, the soul of the beast also weakens, so your human consciousness takes over? Hiss... even the soul is weakened, does Transfiguration have this effect?" Newt looked at Dumbledore in surprise.
Dumbledore fell into deep thought. As a master of Transfiguration, he knew very well that ordinary Transfiguration could not achieve this level and could not affect the soul.
That is to say... is this a characteristic of ancient magic?
Theo used Transfiguration with ancient magic to shrink Nagini to this extent.
Otherwise, even if Theo was a genius of Transfiguration, he would not be able to successfully shrink Nagini so much.
That is to say, Transfiguration blessed by ancient magic, if used on people or animals, can greatly weaken all their attributes, including physical and soul attributes.
The situation of the Maledictus Nagini was actually equivalent to two souls in one body. One was her human soul, and the other was the beast soul produced by the curse.
As she grew older, the beast soul became stronger. When the beast soul was stronger than the human soul, Nagini could not turn back into a human.
And now, when Nagini's beast soul was in control of her body, Theo directly gave her a Transfiguration of ancient magic.
This Transfiguration weakened her physical attributes and also weakened the soul attributes of the beast soul that was in control of her body at that time. In this way, the human soul, which had always been at a disadvantage, temporarily became stronger than the beast soul. Therefore, Nagini could wake up at this size.
Dumbledore finally smiled after thinking about all this.
"Perhaps, we have finally found a way to temporarily curb the onset of the Maledictus curse..."
Newt asked in confusion, "Just by Transfiguration?"
"No, ordinary Transfiguration may not work." Dumbledore smiled.
"Is there any extraordinary Transfiguration?"
"Yes... very extraordinary! Okay, I'll explain this to you later. Now that we've found a way, I'll take Nagini away first." Dumbledore stood up.
Newt nodded, "Okay, just write to me later. Now, saving people is the most important thing."
Dumbledore nodded, then picked up the cage, opened the door of the cage, "Please come in, I have found a way to help you temporarily curb the curse of the Maledictus."
Nagini nodded happily, and then slowly climbed into the cage.
Dumbledore closed the cage door and was about to leave when an owl suddenly flew in from the window.
The owl landed on the table, looked at Dumbledore, and then threw the letter in its mouth in front of him.
Dumbledore picked up the letter and immediately saw Theo's familiar handwriting.
Dumbledore smiled, then opened the letter and read it.
"Ah... so he wants to see the information, and also wants to know the name of that senior..."
Dumbledore stopped talking halfway, and his smiling face became surprised and uncertain!
...
Hog's Head.
Theo put down his quill, picked up the parchment and blew dry the ink on it, then tapped the parchment lightly with his wand.
The next second, the parchment turned into a butterfly. The butterfly flew up, circled Theo's head, and then flew out of the window and flew towards the attic...
Tom lay on the bed and turned his head disdainfully after seeing Theo's flashy Transfiguration.
Just this turn of his head was too violent, and it involved the injury on his body, making him grin in pain.
Facts had proved that when he was not strong enough, he had to pay the price for desperately fighting with Theo.
This time, not only was he sore all over, but he was also punished not to read any spell books for a day...
This was really a big loss!
Tom could only lie quietly on the bed, summing up his experience of failure, and then imagining how to defeat Theo...
After a while, a paper crane folded from parchment flew down from the attic, landed in front of Theo, and then opened automatically.
There was a line written on the paper.
[I will keep it a secret for you, also, thank you for saving me and Nagini... By the way, very beautiful Transfiguration! —Aurelius.]
Theo burned the note happily, and then turned to look at Tom.
"After reflecting for so long, do you know what's wrong?"
"I know..." Tom said unwillingly.
"What's wrong?"
"You're too bullying!" Tom couldn't help it again.
"Servants can't argue with their masters..."
Just as Theo continued to bully Tom, suddenly, a long-lost voice sounded in his mind.
"Ding! Congratulations to the host for successfully preventing Nagini from turning evil, saving the people who would have died in Nagini's mouth in the future!"
"Ding! Congratulations to the host for getting 5000 merit points!"
Theo:?
The description of Nagini's Maledictus state in this chapter is purely a second setting made up by the author. Please be gentle if you have any opinions...
(End of this chapter)
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