"Uh... it seems it's not that difficult either."
Dudley looked at Professor McGonagall, who looked like she'd seen a ghost, and said somewhat embarrassedly while touching his nose.
"My goodness!"
After a second, Professor McGonagall finally came to her senses and exclaimed directly.
"You... you just... you've already..."
Professor McGonagall was somewhat incoherent. Obviously the scene just now had given her quite a shock, so much so that even a rigorous wizard like her had cried out in surprise.
"Maybe I've got talent in this area?" Dudley said with a smile.
The feeling of casting Apparition just now wasn't as difficult as he'd imagined. He just recited the incantation, thought about that location, and Dudley naturally completed the Apparition.
He wasn't unfamiliar with this feeling at all. Like he was born knowing how to do it.
"It's similar to spirit world traversal," the thought suddenly flashed through Dudley's mind.
"Dudley... I really can't believe you succeeded on your first try."
"Do you know how dangerous this is?"
"You could've been splinched! Do you understand splinching?"
Professor McGonagall's voice rose with agitation.
She was both shocked and excited that Dudley had completed Apparition, and also worried about his recklessness.
Dudley had succeeded just now, but what if he hadn't? That would've been such a terrible situation.
She hadn't even taught Dudley some details to pay attention to during Apparition yet. Just gave a simple demonstration, and Dudley had learnt from her and completed Apparition.
If it were other magic, it would be fine, but this was Apparition. The danger coefficient was too high. Could even lead to death.
Swoosh.
Dudley waved his wand again. His body disappeared once more, and when he appeared, he was already standing at his previous position.
"Professor, you see? This really isn't difficult for me."
While speaking, Dudley tried to Apparate to other places but found that the surrounding space seemed frozen. He could only Apparate within the classroom's range and couldn't leave this area.
"Sure enough, it's limited to the classroom's range."
However, Dudley had just tried and found that those frozen spaces weren't unbreakable either. Given time, he probably could find a way to forcibly break through Hogwarts' anti-Apparition charm restrictions.
Looking at Dudley, who'd cast Apparition again not far away, Professor McGonagall was completely speechless.
She no longer knew what words to use to describe her current feelings. Shock, fear, excitement...
"I feel like there's nothing left I can teach you," Professor McGonagall said after a long while.
"Professor, you haven't taught me how to prevent Apparition yet," Dudley quickly said.
He'd come to learn Apparition partly for this, but on the other hand, he wanted to trap that house-elf.
Professor McGonagall pondered for a moment, then said, "Let's first get familiar with Apparition. I'll see how much you've actually mastered, then we'll talk about anti-Apparition."
Dudley quickly nodded.
In the following time, Professor McGonagall had Dudley cast Apparition multiple times in front of her. Although each movement wasn't far, you could tell that Dudley had truly mastered this advanced magical technique.
"Perhaps you really do have a talent for learning Apparition," Professor McGonagall finally had to acknowledge Dudley's excellence.
"Compared to other students, you're truly composed, as if apparition is an innate ability for you. Combined with clear goals and determination, I've never seen a second-year student able to reach your level at this stage."
"Thank you for your praise, Professor McGonagall." Dudley smiled.
His experience in that otherworldly realm had indeed made Dudley far exceed his peers mentally. Combined with his previous experience with spirit world traversal, Dudley had natural advantages when learning Apparition.
"Alright, next I'll teach you how to prevent Apparition."
"It's actually quite simple. When you Apparate, you use magical power to break through spatial constraints and transcend the concept of space to appear in a location. The principle of anti-Apparition is to use magical power to seal the surrounding space, or rather reinforce the surrounding space, making it difficult for Apparition to break through spatial constraints and complete the transfer."
After Professor McGonagall finished speaking, she took out her wand and waved it gently while chanting, "Prohibeo Apparatum."
Hum!
A transparent aura surged from Professor McGonagall's wand, permeating the surrounding space.
"Try Apparating," she reminded.
Dudley immediately cast the spell to attempt Apparition, but found that the surrounding space seemed frozen. His magic could no longer break through the spatial constraints here and traverse to his destination.
However, the frozen space was rapidly recovering. Probably only able to maintain for a few dozen seconds.
"The prerequisite for learning anti-Apparition is that you must first learn Apparition yourself and have some perception of space, so you can cast this anti-spell. Do you understand?"
"I understand," Dudley nodded.
At this time, Professor McGonagall's spell had automatically worn off.
"You try it."
Originally, according to the complete teaching method, Professor McGonagall should now tell Dudley the details of casting this spell and what to pay attention to.
But facing Dudley, she felt it wasn't necessary.
Dudley also didn't ask Professor McGonagall again, but carefully recalled her movements and incantation when casting the spell just now.
"Prohibeo Apparatum!" Dudley waved his wand and recited the incantation.
Hum!
A transparent aura also surged from the tip of his wand, permeating the surrounding space.
"Apparition". Professor McGonagall cast the spell. Her body became transparent but didn't immediately disappear. Instead, after a while, she suddenly disappeared and appeared beside Dudley.
"Very good. This can already be considered successful. If it were someone else, they probably wouldn't be able to complete Apparition," Professor McGonagall nodded.
She was already feeling somewhat numb to Dudley's powerful learning ability.
"Good, let me try again." Dudley began constantly attempting to cast this space-sealing spell.
By the time the one-hour class ended, Dudley could already skilfully seal the surrounding space for about thirty seconds.
For Professor McGonagall, she couldn't even cast Apparition during the first twenty seconds, but in the last ten seconds, she could forcibly complete spatial teleportation.
This was already an excellent result.
"Originally, I planned to spend a semester teaching you Apparition, but now it seems one lesson was enough," Professor McGonagall looked at Dudley and said with both relief and some complexity in her expression.