During this month, Lynn completed the first step of becoming an Animagus. On the full moon after exactly one month, she spat the Mandrake leaf from her mouth, mixed with a mouthful of saliva, into a crystal vial.
After letting it fully receive the moonlight that night and adding a series of ingredients, she buried the crystal vial underground, ensuring it would not be touched by even a sliver of sunlight.
Following that, at every sunrise and sunset, she pointed her wand at her heart and recited the incantation.
As the days passed, gradually, she felt a second heartbeat.
This heartbeat was powerful and vigorous; Lynn could feel the strength contained within it, which made her mind feel uncontrollably relaxed.
Finally, two days before Christmas, Lynn encountered a thunderstorm.
Professor McGonagall stood in advance at the spot where Lynn had buried the crystal vial, feeling the surrounding storm and couldn't help but sigh with emotion in her heart.
In a short amount of time, Lynn had mastered the Animagus transformation almost thoroughly, and she had encountered a moonlit full moon the first time she completed the first step.
Just as she was almost ready and had fully grasped the Animagus transformation, the thunderstorm arrived immediately.
Such talent combined with such luck... even Professor McGonagall was a bit envious of her student.
Perhaps the suffering she had endured in the past had all turned into the sweetness of the present.
Accompanied by Maranhao, Marietta, and Penelope, Lynn walked out of the Castle. After politely greeting Professor McGonagall,
As the first bolt of lightning streaked across the sky, Lynn dug up the crystal vial, which contained exactly one mouthful of red potion.
Lynn drew her wand, pointed it at her chest, and recited the incantation.
"Amato Animo Animato Animagus."
After reciting the incantation, she opened the crystal vial's cap without hesitation and swallowed it in one gulp.
A intense sensation of pain and an extremely distinct second heartbeat rose within her body.
The pain did not affect her much; her expression did not change in the slightest.
"Don't resist it, accept it," Professor McGonagall instructed while leading Maranhao and the other two back, "but at the same time, maintain your own consciousness. Don't let the animal instincts consume you."
Listening to Professor McGonagall's words, various instincts like tyranny and bloodlust constantly arose in Lynn's mind.
The image of the animal she was to become also grew clearer and clearer in her mind.
"What I need is an Animagus form that is dangerous enough, powerful enough, and capable enough of protecting Hermione and everyone, not to be consumed by animal instincts."
Lynn's consciousness was firm and clear, her eyes sparkling in the dark thunderstorm.
In the next moment, her vision suddenly shot upward. The four people watching from not far away gasped in unison; if she hadn't known it was Lynn, Professor McGonagall might have attacked on the spot.
Maranhao and the others were about to turn and run immediately.
Huge claws stepped on the ground, the second toe claw held high, the thirteen-centimeter-long sharp talons glinting with a cold light.
It left no doubt that it could pierce straight through a person's chest and heart in a single blow.
The powerful tail lashed out fiercely, swatting away countless raindrops. The flexible front claws clenched and unclenched in front of its chest, the sharp appearance also striking fear into hearts.
Whoosh... two jets of hot air puffed from its nostrils, and within the gaping maw below were about sixty sharp teeth.
Lynn walked slowly toward Professor McGonagall and the three older students. Professor McGonagall raised her wand warily, looking at the prehistoric creature over two meters tall and three meters long in front of her.
"Miss Lynn... are you still conscious?"
Stopping in her tracks, Lynn slowly nodded her head, indicating that she was still herself.
Professor McGonagall breathed a sigh of relief and lowered her wand.
Lynn turned her head, following the thoughts in her mind, and let out a roar in the storm.
"Roar!"
Powerful enough, dangerous enough.
This was the best choice her subconscious, in coordination with her magic, could make for her.
Her own meticulous mind, combined with the Deinonychus's claws, speed, and strength, posed an extremely potent threat to any Wizard who might threaten Hermione and everyone at Hogwarts.
A Wizard would have a high probability of missing the Deinonychus that Lynn had become, but as long as Lynn was given one chance to attack,
even a single strike from a front claw would be enough to kill a Wizard.
After all, they weren't those prehistoric creatures; they didn't have skin thick enough to resist those claws.
Extreme speed, ultimate threat—this was the choice Lynn made for Hermione and for her friends.
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