After Quirrell, who was possessed by Lord Voldemort, bit the dust, the peaceful campus life at Hogwarts lasted for quite a long time, right up until...
The arrival of final exams.
Kyle wasn't worried about the final exams at all.
There are three types of people in this world who are the most badass: Chinese transmigrators, Japanese high school students, and Western drifters.
As a Chinese transmigrator, combined with his previous experience wandering as a drifter, he counted as occupying two of these three categories.
Moreover, he had a head start of half a year compared to other first-year students, and at the same time, he had the tutelage of two wizards at the apex of the magical world, plus a near-master level Potions Master.
If he still couldn't pass the first-year final exams, he might as well hit himself with an Avada Kedavra and restart his life.
Compared to Kyle's relaxed ease, the other students were having a much harder time.
Especially the savior trio. They didn't know that Voldemort had already gone dormant. While worrying about final exams, they also had to live in fear regarding the Philosopher's Stone behind the trapdoor.
As the days passed one by one, amidst the students' extreme reluctance, final exams finally arrived.
The first exam subject was Professor Flitwick's Charms class. The exam content was to make a pineapple tap dance across a desk.
Kyle didn't know what a tap dance was, but as long as he made the pineapple dance, it would be fine.
He used Transfiguration to make the pineapple sprout arms and legs, and also used the Doubling Charm (Geminio) to turn one into three.
Professor Flitwick watched with great interest as Kyle used Transfiguration to conjure up a pile of musical instruments nearby.
Under the effect of magic, the instruments automatically began playing Gokuraku Jodo, and the three pineapples started hopping around on the desktop.
"To manipulate so many instruments simultaneously while also controlling the pineapples to dance... truly amazing magical control. Even upper-year students would find it difficult to achieve this level."
Professor Flitwick did not skimp on his praise for Kyle. "This is likely the highest standard among the students."
The second exam was Professor McGonagall's Transfiguration.
Professor McGonagall's exam task was to turn a mouse into a snuffbox. The more exquisite the snuffbox, the higher the score; conversely, the lower the score.
This didn't stump Kyle at all either.
The Transfiguration curriculum taught at Hogwarts was divided into four stages, from difficult to easy.
The beginning is the transformation between inanimate objects, which is far too easy.
Usually, before the Christmas holidays of their first year, students would finish studying this phase. Then they would begin the next stage—transforming animate objects into inanimate objects.
This stage is slightly harder, and they would spend about a year and a half studying it.
It isn't until the third year that Professor McGonagall would have students begin learning the third stage: transforming inanimate objects into animate objects.
Of course, "animate" here doesn't mean truly endowing the transformed object with life, but merely giving it the appearance of a living creature and making it act according to certain laws within a programmed magical construct.
By the fourth year, students would begin learning the transformation between animate objects, such as turning a guinea fowl into a guinea pig.
Beyond that lies the realm of Human Transfiguration.
The most profound magic within Human Transfiguration is the famous Animagus, which allows a wizard to transform into a specific non-magical creature.
Becoming an Animagus was still very far away for Kyle. His current Transfiguration level was only just scratching the surface of transforming inanimate objects into animate ones.
However, this was more than enough to handle the first-year Transfiguration exam.
"Hermione Granger!"
Professor McGonagall soon called out the little beaver's name. Hermione, who had been waiting outside the classroom for a long time, stood up with a whoosh, her steps stiff as she walked toward the door of the Transfiguration classroom.
"Hermione, relax. Your level of Transfiguration already far exceeds the young wizards in your year," Kyle saw Hermione's nervousness and comforted her with a smile.
Hearing Kyle's words, Hermione took a deep breath, then confidently pushed open the door and entered the classroom.
Just a few minutes later, Hermione came out of the classroom. It wasn't hard to tell from the joy overflowing on her face that she must have performed very well in the exam.
After Hermione, it was soon Kyle's turn.
His Transfiguration skills were praised by Professor McGonagall, as expected. Needless to say, his score would definitely be the highest.
The Potions exam, on the contrary, had a small accident.
Everyone else received the ingredients for the Forgetfulness Potion, but why did he get a set of ingredients for the Draught of Peace?
The Draught of Peace is a potion used to calm and soothe agitation and anxiety.
Brewing this potion would take a lot of effort even for a fifth-year student, because it is one of the possible exam questions in the O.W.Ls Potions subject.
No need to think about it; this was definitely the Old Bat making things difficult for him.
He had been studying Potions with the Old Bat for five months. He had read about the brewing method for the Draught of Peace and had memorized it.
But he hadn't had time to practice it hands-on yet.
However, with Kyle's cooking skills—no, Potions level—brewing the Draught of Peace wasn't impossible, just very difficult.
Because the exam time was only a short two hours, which was only enough for him to attempt it once. If he failed, there would be no time to start over.
Seeing the smugness revealed by the faint curve of the Old Bat's mouth, Kyle sighed helplessly and began to process the moonstone and hellebore in front of him.
Regarding the Old Bat's deliberate obstruction, he really didn't have any good way to fight back right now.
Why didn't he have the Resurrection Stone in his hand!
If he had the Resurrection Stone, would Snape dare to act like this?!
If he had known earlier that Snape was this detestable, he would have let the Sorting Hat put him in Slytherin House.
With his ability to cause trouble, if the Slytherin hourglass wasn't empty for even a single day, he would count it as a loss.
He would have directly ended the Old Bat's House's six-year winning streak for the House Cup, pissing him off to death.
The moonstone needed to be ground into powder. Kyle, extremely irritable inside, directly used his monstrous strength. Treating the moonstone on the table as Snape, he slammed his palm down violently.
A thunderous explosion successfully caused more than half of the little wizards in the classroom to knock over their cauldrons.
"Kyle Dumbledore! What the hell are you doing!"
Snape's roar rang out in the Potions classroom. He rushed over fiercely, reaching out a hand to grab Kyle's ear.
However, Kyle's movement made him freeze on the spot instantly.
Bang!
Another slap, and another piece of moonstone was turned into fine powder.
The laboratory table underneath had been converted into steel using Transfiguration; otherwise, it would have been smashed to pieces along with the moonstone long ago.
Wandless magic, physical enhancement, absolute control over magic, controlled magical outburst...
Snape saw at least four advanced spellcasting techniques in this one slap of Kyle's.
Leaving aside the spellcasting techniques, Snape didn't feel that his own frame was much harder than that piece of moonstone.
Looking at the expression on Kyle's face, he was obviously in a very unpleasant mood.
If he went up and pulled Kyle's ear now, and this little demon king of the Grindelwald family backhanded him with a slap on the body...
Even if he only had one breath left, Madam Pomfrey could pull him back from death's door, but in that case, his dignity as the Potions Professor would also be completely lost.
Forget it, forget it. Let the little demon king do whatever he wants.
He was definitely not chickening out; he just knew how to judge the situation.
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