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During the last month, Hagrid had found several traces of some strangers entering and leaving the forbidden forest.

Originally, he guessed that maybe there were just some senior students messing around, what he did not expect was that after a few days of searching, he accidently discovered that a unicorn was attacked in the forbidden forest. Only then did he realize that something was wrong...

After that, Hagrid frequently ventured into the forbidden forest, trying to find out which beast was responsible for the incident, he never expected to bump into a dark wizard attacking a unicorn during today's routine inspection.

Witnessing this scene, Hagrid was filled with rage so he rushed forward to attack without thinking about it.

Obviously, if it was a sneak attack, Hagrid might have been able to defeat the opponent by relying on his innate greater strength, but in a face-to-face confrontation, Hagrid's huge stature just became a walking target.

Hagrid would have died within moments if not for his thicker skin and Cecilia, and Fang's help.

"Hagrid, such an important incident happened, you should have notified Albus as soon as you noticed something was wrong! How could you deal with such a dangerous enemy alone?" McGonagall interrupted.

McGonagall was a little scared. If Ivan hadn't arrived in time, the consequences could have been serious...Hagrid opened his mouth but didn't know how to respond. During the time when all of this happened, he was secretly raising an illegal dragon, Norbert, so he didn't dare to go to Dumbledore about anything afraid that he would read his mind.

"After entering the forest and encountering the black-robed wizard, I got separated from Fang, so I led the black-robed wizard away. I thought Cecilia had already left, but I didn't expect that she was still nearby, she jumped in to block the killing curse for me."

As he was repeating the sad incident, Hagrid's mood became more somber. Although he and Cecilia have only spent moments together, they still fought side by side today, the Unicorn blocked the Unforgivable for him, so Hagrid regarded her as a friend...

"You an I both know that Unicorns are smart and arrogant magical creatures. They do not take risks easily. Obviously, she recognized your courage and regarded you as a friend too..." Dumbledore said with relief evident in his voice, then looked at Ivan. "Halls, you did a good job, I have to say your performance always surprises me."

"I did all that I could do. Hagrid is my friend too." Ivan nodded reservedly while using Occlumency. To be honest, he didn't want Dumbledore's attention.

Dumbledore nodded, and instead of continuing the topic, he turned toward Professor McGonagall.

"Minerva, escort Hagrid and Halls back, and also notify other professors to send the students back to their common rooms...I will try to track the murderer in the forbidden forest..." A rare trace of anger appeared on Dumbledore's old face, huge magic power suppressed the surroundings as he temporarily lost control of his emotions. The heavy pressure made Ivan's heartbeat skip. Norbert, shrank into a ball on the spot, without the slightest hint of his dignity as a top predator.

It was the first time, Ivan saw Dumbledore look soo angry, he hoped that Dumbledore could find Quirrell and Voldemort and kill them.

Professor McGonagall looked at Norbert. "Albus, what about the dragon?"

"Just take care of it before the people from the Ministry of Magic come to inspect about the rumors," Dumbledore explained and waved his wand to summon countless blue light, using his wand he guided them all in different directions, and then after a while disappeared into the forbidden forest.

"How do we deal with a dragon? With a Vanishing spell?" Professor McGonagall didn't understand Dumbledore's meaning, in her opinion, the best way to make a dragon disappear from Hogwarts in a short amount of time was to use the Vanishing Spell.

'Absolutely clean... to ensure that no traces were left behind, with Dumbledore's strength, he could possibly do it, right?' Professor McGonagall was a little uncertain...

Ivan was stunned, apparently, Professor McGonagall was just a saint on the surface... he quickly explained, "Ron's older brother Charlie is working in the dragon reserves in Romania. We already have an agreement with him to send Norbert away in two days."

McGonagall didn't say anything, but she recognized it as a viable method, she glanced at Hagrid, who was still having difficulty getting up.

"Can you transfigure a stretcher?" McGonagall asked Ivan.

"Of course," Ivan instantly understood Professor McGonagall wanted to test him. He took out his wand and tapped it on a long piece of broken wood. He recalled in his mind the image of a rescue stretcher, at the same time, started to channel magic power through his wand, the branches slowly twisted and elongated...and slowly transformed into a black metal stretcher, with a hardwood board between the two metal bars for support.

The support frame and the wooden board were tightly connected as if the two were originally grown together. In order to make Hagrid lie more comfortably, Ivan then pulled some leaves and transfigured a soft cotton cushion on the wooden board.

This was his first attempt at such a complicated transfiguration and it was a challenge for Ivan, but fortunately, he was successful.

"Very good... I don't think I could find a more proficient student in Hogwarts in Transfiguration." Professor McGonagall showed a hint of admiration on her face.

She had planned to correct his mistakes and do some practical teaching, but he didn't seem like he needed it.

The spikes that Ivan had transfigured when he killed the troll were already enough to surprise her. She didn't realize during such a short amount of time, Ivan's transfiguration proficiency has greatly improved.

"Professor McGonagall, I feel that my understanding of transfiguration has reached a bottleneck, and I don't feel any improvement during the last several days." Ivan was not satisfied, because his transformation spell has reached level 3 (799 /800) a week ago. Maybe with some inspiration, he would be able to break through to level 4.

However, no matter how much Ivan practiced in the last week, the progress bar remained motionless.

"I have to remind you, Halls." Professor McGonagall said with a serious expression, "That Transfiguration is an extremely complex and dangerous branch of magic. You can never rush for quick successes. Your level is already far beyond that of your peers, so you should settle down and understand everything first."

In her decades of teaching career, McGonagall has seen too many talented wizards try various dangerous transfiguration magic in their hubris, and even going as far as to try self-Transfiguration.

Those who succeded, they managed to successfully break through the boundaries of Transfiguration, transform themselves into an animal, and even have their own Animagus form.

But the fate of those who failed was horrible...It was even considered a good result if they failed in their attempt and died in the process of transformation...The most terrifying outcome was to become a monster that is half human and half animal...

Since the self Transfiguration spell can change your very essence and cannot be reversed if it fails, they had to continue to exist in their weird form.