The news that Ye Feng's Transfiguration had passed review and was going to be compiled and recorded in the textbooks instantly swept through the entire school. The students had already witnessed the might of Ye Feng's Transfiguration; if they could also master it—even if they only achieved half the proficiency Ye Feng displayed—it would still be vastly superior to their current abilities.
This was not to disparage modern Transfiguration, let alone to say that contemporary Animagi were useless.
The current Animagus magic and Ye Feng's Transfiguration were two entirely different things. Traditional Animagi tended to transform completely into a certain kind of animal. The advantage of this transformation was that it completely altered one's form; in other words, unless undone by magic, an Animagus remained a true animal until then.
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