When Dumbledore finished his love talk, everyone remained silent for a few seconds, with their own thoughts.
Professor McGonagall had already seen Dumbledore's Patronus before during Order of Phoenix gatherings, where the gossip about it started to spread. So she was just pondering over what he said and the theories behind it.
You know, Dumbledore rarely uses his Patronus, so many believed that his Phoenix, Fawkes, was mistaken for it, doubting the credibility of the news. That's why his Patronus being a phoenix was still treated as an exaggerated rumour.
Hermione is looking at the most unique, mythical creature-shaped, ghostly bird Patronus in the world in awe.
It is common knowledge that Patronus and Animagus transformation shapes are common creatures and animals like cat, dog, crow, and lion.
At the start of the year, when she mentioned that she would learn Animagus magic this year, Andy asked her to wait, claiming the possibility of directly learning the magical creature transformation that he is researching. Giving many examples and theories behind it to persuade her.
One of the examples he gave was Dumbledore's Patronus.
So, seeing the Phoenix Patronus made her excited, with thoughts of her possible magical creature transformations popping into her head.
Harry, on the other hand, remained silent for a few seconds with Dumbledore's words swirling in his head, giving him a headache when he tried to understand how to do it.
Then he just shook his head and turned directly to Dumbledore to ask him the steps.
"Professor, can you explain how that works in simple terms?" Harry had an eager look, like a child asking his parents for a toy or candy. "How can I make my Patronus bigger? Can my stag turn into a Unicorn or something?"
Dumbledore remained silent for a second before answering.
"Harry, after learning the Patronus charm, all that needed is finding and experiencing our love." Dumbledore had a soft look in his eyes as he explained, "Then you need to pursue it wholeheartedly. Eventually, your Patronus will change."
"But- I-I am-" Harry stuttered, trying to ask about his uncertainties.
But Dumbledore interpreted him and said with a smile, "Harry, my child. With your pure heart, you will definitely be able to achieve it in time."
"You..."
And they talked more on that subject as Harry continued to ask his doubts.
For Harry, Dumbledore is like Ron and his family. He is like a grandfather figure to him, so he didn't feel it was wrong to ask so many questions; it felt natural to him.
Dumbledore too answered him seriously, probably due to guilt or something else.
Andy didn't listen or put his mind on their conversation because they were just discussing something Dumbledore had already answered in different wordings. So he just concentrated on his own thoughts.
From what Dumbledore said and the growth of his Patronus magic, Andy's sure he is already going in the right direction.
Once he can accept his love for magic and his family and recognise it without a shred of doubt, his Patronus magic will probably undergo a transformation if what Dumbledore said is true.
But that's not important. The reason he asked Dumbledore for advice before was to perfect the body and true soul fusion magic.
He needs to think about his words more and try to find some inspiration or an idea from them.
Andy fell into a deep thought, thinking about how to improve Animagus magic.
Instead of just using the power of the sun and moon by reciting an incantation at sunrise and sunset and absorbing moonlight through the potion to create an animal body, he needs to incorporate magic transfiguration seamlessly into the ritual as well to make use of the power of nature, like the sun and moon.
This step can be perfected through experiments; the only thing left to ponder is how to fuse the power of nature with the body before the final Animagus transformation.
The reason Dumbledore's Patronus was able to transform using pure love was because it is originally a spell that uses positive emotion to manifest, so pure love is helpful to its growth.
When Andy does something he loves, like learning magic and playing with Isa, the Fat Cat also absorbs his happiness and grows bigger and more condensed.
But could it help to improve the Animagus magic?
Fusion... fusion...
"Shriek!"
While Andy was pondering and many ideas were popping on and off inside his mind, an elegant, but loud, Phoenix cry sounded.
Just from the sound, without even looking up, everyone here understood that their ride, Phoenix Fawkes, was summoned and arrived, as they all had seen and used Fawkes as transportation before.
"It's getting late; let's leave." Dumbledore smiled at them and motioned for them to come closer.
When everyone gathered, a tongue of flame enveloped them, and with a flash, they all disappeared from the place and appeared at Hogwarts.
At the entrance hall, they all parted ways, with Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall making their way up the stairs and the trio heading toward the Great Hall to eat.
During dinner, Harry was very enthusiastic, asking various questions about many spells he used, giving Andy a headache, who answered briefly because Hermione also looked at him with shining eyes at the questions, interjecting when the spell she was interested in was brought up.
After dinner, Andy swiftly left with Hermione, claiming he is tired.
When they made their way to the Ravenclaw common room, Andy said goodnight and left for the dormitory, unable to hold on to his thoughts any longer, wanting to think about the spell improvement from where he left.
As soon as he entered, the chatting roommates greeted him.
After brushing off their enquiries briefly and saying goodnight, Andy plopped on his bed without washing up like usual. Then he used occlumency to empty his mind and calm his thoughts.
In his mind, an empty, borderless white room, like the one he saw in Germany, appeared.
As he initially began to think, many scenes began to appear and pop off around him like a bubble.
He pondered over how he had fused his mind with many things before.
As he was immersed in his memories, the obvious answer, which was always in front of him, clicked in his mind.
Positive emotion... love... unstable magic...
He fused his mind with other things using those things.
Whether it was Patronus magic or his magic power. Andy used positive emotion and unstable magic to fuse them.
Just like negative emotions are good at serving, killing, and destruction. Positive emotions are good at fusion and protection.
Like how the soul got sliced using negative emotion when creating the Horcrux.
Finally, Andy got a gist of how to fuse his body, the power of death inside his flesh, and his True soul.
Taking the first and important step.
Once he raises his Constitution to seven and his body gets fully filled with the power of death, Andy decided to raise his True Soul to seven as well, to make his magic unstable, and then use his yearning, passion, obsession, and love to fuse everything into one, becoming a complete being.
All he needs to do before that is use the Death Eater as a rare consumable to perfect the ritual, potion, and spell.
Well, although others might need rituals and such for magical Animagus transformation. For Andy, who is planning to fuse his body with magic using this method, he can skip many steps thanks to the panel.
Moreover, he already has an animal form. So he just needs to fuse death power with it, his body, and his True soul. Completing his final transformation.
While pondering and coming up with many theories, Andy grew tired and fell into a deep sleep.
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