Sabbath appreciated Professor York's attempts to assist him with his chilli powder bean struggles, and although he did usually love a chilli-chocolate combination, he pocketed the choc bean she'd offered for later. 'Great Scott', he thought, 'even dogs learn from their mistakes', he wasn't about to risk going through that again - well, at least not in classtime. He was relieved when the levitating bean bowl floated away.

Sabbath didn't know of any transfiguration spells as yet, so he thought it best to listen and take notes. He picked up his quill and jotted away busily.

Blaise Bellaire was hardly a sceptical child--rather, he could be awful trusting until he knew better and seldom wary of candy. For this reason, he reached happily into the bowl when it arrived by his desk but this time he plucked FIVE beans from the bowl. Last time he only took one and they all saw how well THAT turned out. Wasn't being greedy, the boy was simply increasing his chances of getting a good bean. Surely the Professor would understand.

With little in the way of hesitation, he popped a yellow one in his mouth and braced himself.

...

Banana. Huh. He could live with that and began eyeing another of his beans in serious contemplation. Of course he was aware he was meant to be giving a response while he focused on his candy and so he did. "You have the Vanishment Branch and it's got that one spell, evanesco I think it is that makes things go into..." Um...he knew this...Grand Auntie Sophia must have told him a hundred times...um...oh! "non-being." Yes. There we go.

His spell work might have been shoddy but he knew a thing or two on the subject matter thanks to the overly strict woman.

Daxton eyed the bowl of what he had quickly figured were those strange sweets that were eliciting all sorts of weird reactions from people. He could smell the sugar from even where he sat, though that may also have been due to the fact that everyone around him was eating them. He fixed the bowl with a glare, and then promptly ignored it. Sweets were stupid.

From time to time, when it got particularly loud and the warbling leaked through the gaps in the earmuffs, Daxton would press his hands down over them for a moment or two and peer around to see who was making such a noise. And when the next question came, even though he had plenty of possible answers he could have provided - he had done so much reading on the topic and remembered all of it - he still refrained from answering. Even his notes remained untouched, though Daxton was still thinking about the topic at hand, even if it did not look that way. Specifically, 'Reparifarge' was on his mind, an Untransfiguration spell, but he was in a foul enough mood that writing it down was not important enough to him.

And so he continued to sit in silence, warily eyeing the bowl of sweets that was making its round and mentally warning it to keep the heck away from him.

There's beans floating towards her after she said her answer. She's not very fond of Bertie Bott’s or sweets in general. Well, Bertie Bott’s has some not sweet flavor but she's not going to take a chance. So the Gryffindor just put the beans on her desk.

OH. OH. Four branches of transfiguration. She just said that. And she knew one of them, so Candice raised her hand in the air. "There's Duro, Professor. It allows the caster to transform things into stone. And it belongs to the Transformation branch."

Caleb knew all about the branches of transfiguration from his studying. That was a BASIC thing that he totally HAD to know. He raised his hand when the professor asked the question, an answer ready to go in just a few seconds. "Evanesco is part of the vanishing branch of transfiguration," he answered.

Yup. Nice and simple.

The beans were coming his way!! Taking two, just in case one was a bad flavour, Roo popped the first one into his mouth and gave Professor York a thumbs up and chewed it diligently. RHUBARB AND CUSTARD. Oh forgive me Mama because this was the BEST bean. He almost didn't want to eat the other one because this one had been so good. The second year placed it onto his desk and decided to save it for later when he couldn't possibly think more about the delicious flavour that had been in his mouth recently. RHUBARD AND CUSTARD.

Oooooooh. Hand up in the air for only a second, Rooney sang his name all shrill and almost died right on the spot. How dare he forget the musical element of this class? Detention? Please, no..

"Conjuration, Professor. Incarcerous conjures something that binds the defendant." And now he was going to eat that second bean. What flavour would it beeee?

He did not want another bean. Thank You Very Much Professor. He would pass because knowing his luck he would get earwax again and he did not want to have a coughing fit in this class. That would be uncool and bad for his throat.

"Fiendfyre. Conjuration."

Maybe he need a glass of water now.

Another question was asked and Janelle was ready with a response this time. Getting her maracas once again, she gave them a shake to get everyone's attention. Not raising hands was definitely going to take some getting used to.

"A conjuring spell would be the Serpensortia Spell. You can use it to conjure snakes whenever you need them." Although why anyone would want or need a snake was beyond Janelle. That was not a spell that she particularly wanted to learn because.....you know........snakes.

He still wasn't going to take anymore beans, for the record. He didn't trust Professor's with food. It wasn't even Professor York who had brought on that skepticism. Poor woman was just subjected to all the horrible antics of Professors before her. Hardly even her fault. She could blame Flamsteed, Culloden, and Dakest for that. It was all them.

Anyways, candy aside he had an answer to the next question. YES. But it required another ding of the triangle, which he was starting to realize was a really annoying ding. Why did they have to do the musical thing in this class? It wasn't Zander's forte (GET IT FORTE? like music, HA HA HA zander pls).

So he decided to stay quiet on this one. Let the others take a turn. He was going to suggest the spell they used that one time to transfigure beetles to buttons. That was a good one.

Marisol liked the cello music. Sophisticated. But she realised that it had been distracting her, and now the new professor lady was asking questions. Whaaaaaa? Mari was not as rubbish at Transfiguration as, say, Potions or Divination, but this whole branches concept was new to her. Sigh.

The fifth year did, however, know what a Transfiguration spell was. "What about the Bat-Bogey Hex? Dunno what branch." Mari wasn't positive that counted, being a hex and all, but at least she understood what was going on now.

And duuuuhhh, she wanted in on the beans! The Slytherin reached for a bean that was pastel pink with cloudy blue swirls. It matched a nail pattern she had seen on that muggle phone app....what was it called? Anyway she and her best friend Sara, whose dad was a Muggle and who actually knew about non-wizarding culture, had tried to replicate the design. They had failed miserably, but it still made Marisol feel wistful and nostalgic, because Sara was in Seville. Five hours by aeroplane.

The candy floss flavour of the bean was lost on Mari's tongue as her mouth went dry. But she was off-topic....

Beatrice listened to all of the suggestions, nodding from time to time, thoroughly enjoying the sounds of singing and music. Once the last student had spoken, Beatrice waved her wand at the board, and their suggestions popped up.

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Conjuration
Avis
Ferula
Fiendfyre
Orchideous

Transformations
Draconifurs
Vera Verto
Animagus
Permuto motus
Stiricidium Nubila
Gemino
Serpensortia
Cauldron to Sieve
Duro
Incarcerous
Bat bogey

Untransfigurations
Reparifarge

Vanishments
Evanesce

“Alright. Now that we have a bit of an understanding,” and she knew her older students might be getting a bit bored, “Let’s do an activity!” She hadn’t planned too much for their first ever lesson together, instead wanting to keep it simple, informative and fun. “I want you to split into groups. Keep your wand on you, and put everything else under the lid of the desk. Now, first and second years I want you over by the front corner, third to fifth years in the middle over there, and sixth and seventh years in the back there.” She waited until they had all moved away from their desks, and she vanished them with a flick of her wand. “Don’t worry, they will be back,” she said quickly, not wanting to freak her students out. Hopefully they all had their wands on them, because she didn’t want to have to un-vanish them just yet. There was now plenty of space for them to practice what they needed.

“I don’t mind if you work in pairs, groups or by yourself for this, whatever works best for you.” She waved her wand at the board, and next to the list of spells, there appeared;

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First and Second Years

Incantation: Flintifors
Wand movement: Point and flick upward
Effect: Turn a small creature into a matchbox

Incantation: Vera Verto
Wand movement: Three taps
Effect: Turn an animal into a goblet

Third to Fifth Years

Incantation: Lapifors
Wand movement: Point wand at target (small Merlin statues)
Effect: Transforms target into a rabbit (controllable by wand)

Incantation: Fungifors
Wand movement: ‘n’ shape
Effect: Turns object into a mushroom

Sixth and Seventh Years

Incantation: Avis
Wand movement: ‘m’ shape
Effect: Conjures a flock of birds

Incantation: Crinus Muto
Wand movement: Arch
Effect: Change colour and style of target’s hair

“Okay, so as you can see there’s a few tasks on the board. I want you all to follow these instructions on the board to practice these spells. Some might be more difficult for some, but that’s okay. We have the year to practice.” Transfiguration was a very difficult topic, after all, and Beatrice was a great believer in practicing to precision.

She walked behind the desk and reached underneath to pull out some small containers. Opening them all, she revealed a container of worms, and mice. It’s okay, they were ventilated containers. “The worms are for Flintifors, and the mice for Vera Verto. There were plenty of mice for them to each have one.” When they were ready they could come and get the items to practice with.

“The next group, I have some small statues of Merlin here,” she pulled them out and placed them on her desk. “Your task is to transform the statues to a rabbit and back, and then into a mushroom and back. You can keep it slightly easier by transforming the statue into a mushroom, or more difficult by transforming the rabbit into a mushroom.” Take their pick!

And finally, her seniors. “You lot, I want you to practice conjugation and human transfiguration at its basic level. First I want you to conjure a flock of birds. Once you’ve successfully done that, I want you to find a partner, or you can work by yourself,” she pulled out some handheld mirrors, “And transform the hair and style of your victim. Oh,” she dramatized a face palm, “I mean partner,” she let out a mischievous smile. It was fun, anyway. “Don’t worry, if you or your partner are unable to untransform the hair, I will be able to.” So none of the ladies would end up with a bad hair day.

“I’ll be floating around, so if anyone needs any help or a partner, just sing out,” literally.

OOC: Hi guys - hope you have fun with this. I'd like to see 2 posts minimum per spell (4 total). If you want Beatrice's help with anything just shout out to us

When the list appeared on the blackboard at the front of the class, the Gryffindor wrote everything down in his transfiguration notebook with his pink flamingo quill. He liked this quill. Not only was it shockingly different it was also a very good quill to write with. Money well spend he would say. His parents weren’t that happy when he came home with it though cause they knew that they had lend him their money so technically it was their money that got in to buying the quill.

When he was done writing everything down, Yoongi turned his attention to the writing next to the list. He ignored everything until he got to the sixth and seventh years at the bottom. And his heart skipped a beat. They were going to CHANGE THEIR HAIRS?! Aflskfgaighfla YES! If he was successful he wouldn’t have to go to Hogsmeade and get a haircut there. Oh he wanted to have red hair so badly. Maybe, if it worked, he could show Professor Dakest his hair! …….though he didn’t seem that excited about the whole hair concept. Sigh. But before he could grab his wand , and point it at himself he heard that they first had to practise the Avis spell.

BOOOOO!

With a loud sigh, telling everyone that could hear him that he was not happy with this and wanted to go straight to the hair changing, Yoongi waved his wand in an M shape “Avis”

No more Bertie botts beans? Boo. Why she didn't take more beans when the Professor offered? Aaaaaaaarrrrrrgggghhhhhh... Now she regretted her decision. Maybe after class, she could ask Professor B more. Hehehe.

The lioness then copied the spell that Professor B has written on the board. Damn, writing with right hand was soooo difficult!!! She gave up writing and listened to the Professor. ACTIVITY TIME!!! Good good good, this was she's looking forward to. Ava then gathered her stuffs and put them under the desk and went to the front corner. They're gonna perform two spells and... Oh look, they're gonna use worms! Transforming worms into matchbox? That didn't sound difficult. Taking a worm, she pointed her wand and flicked it upward. "Flintfors!"

Apparently the worm still stayed as a worm, not changing into the matchbox yet.

..............

Let's try again?

"Flintfors!" Ava tried for the second time.

Sigh. Here they went again with requiring spell work. Blaise dropped his remaining beans on his desk and scowled up at the board full of instructions--which he hoped his quill was jotting down. Thankfully copying didn't pose nearly as big an issue so he didn't worry about that. What he worried about was having instructions written then told to practice without demonstration or further advise.

Of course.

That's how it'd been going all week anyway. Why should he have expected any different now? The boy couldn't wait til he wasn't a First Year anymore--a sentiment he held onto as if he STILL wouldn't know anything next year at this rate.

With a heavy sigh the boy walked up to the desk and collected both a rat and a worm but by the time he turned around his desk was gone and his quill and notepad were his only indication of where he'd previously been standing. Wow. Awesome. Now he didn't have a seat to sulk in. The boy walked back to his spot and flopped down on the floor crossing his legs. Might as well get started. "Flintifors." Point. Flick. Point. Flick. Point. Flick.

Did it surprise him nothing was happening to the worm? NOPE. Point. Flick. Point. Flick. In all fairness it might have been the lack of intent but the boy had been perfectly serious when he'd sworn he was done trying and didn't want his wand anymore. This was just so the Professor wouldn't complain he wasn't trying with everyone else.

Woah!

Look at that epic list!

Adi just had enough time to make a note of it all when Beatrice was announcing the activity. Well, this was going to be cool! He liked that the woman had divided up each class with their own spells. He followed the instructions then headed over to the group with sixth and seventh years, mirror clutched in his hand. He was super pleased that Beatrice had included Human Transfiguration in this lesson.

Right! It was time to get cracking!

''Avis!'' The Hufflepuff was doing this non verbally as usual. He focused as best as he could as the incantation was thought and the 'm' shaped wand movement was made. Come on! Where were those birds at?

As the list made itself visible by Professor York, Hady was sure to write it all down on her parchment. She also went ahead and wrote the other years info as well. Her eyes fixed on what the sixth and seventh years would be working on and she grinned a little bit. Avis she already could do she had done that last term and well the hair coloring one made her laugh quietly to herself. She'd be doing that to get the green streaks in her hair only she'd used a different charm. However those weren't her tasks for the day.

So setting her parchment aside the fourth year made her way to the font of the room and collected a small Merlin statue for herself and returned to her desk. Placing the statue down Hady slipped back into her seat and pulled out her wand. "Lapifors..lapifors..lapifors," she recited softly to herself getting a feel for the incantation.

After a few times of repeating the incantation she fell silent and pointed her wand at the statue. That was an simple movement. Not much to practice for there.

It was time to give it a go then. Focusing on the Merlin statue Hady pictured it changing into a rabbit. With a firm point of her wand at the statue she spoke clearly her voice filled with intent on what she wanted, "Lapifors". Not lowering her wand or looking away from her target she watched as the statue began to change form slowly growing rabbit ears and a fluffy cotton tail.

That as it. Only a partial rabbit. Wrinkling her nose a little bit she stared at the half transformed statue ready to give it another try.

Sooooo... no birds then?

Hmph.

Adi stared at the space where he had made the wand movement. Obviously he had not focused enough. And there was that stab of disappointment that he usually felt when he didn't get something right on the first try. Of course he knew he couldn't always be the best right off the bat but that didn't help keep the disappointment at bay.

But there was nothing to do but try again, right? ''Avis!'' There went the silent incantation! There went the 'm' shaped wand movement! There went intent and focus! What did the proper combination of those result in?

Half a dozen little canaries zooming around before him!

Wheeee!

Yeah, he saw that knowing look from Adi...their eyes meeting in understanding. Draconifurs was THEIR spell now. Plenty of others were being said, including their branches and Benny was copying them down as best he could. Thankfully Professor York helped by adding them all correctly on board so he quickly filled in the ones he might have missed or mixed up in amongst the sing-song voices and the instruments.

Now onto the activity.

Was it just him, or was the woman reminding him of Adi. And yeah, Benny did notice the first word she used to the people they could color and change the hair of. Eyes to you Adi. The Gryffindor seventh year followed the instructions, taking his wand and an offered mirror and leaving the rest in his desk before joining the group of older students. At least they were working on human transfiguration which would perhaps further his animangus stuff.

But first...conjured birds

Wand movement and incantation were easy enough. Was is a lower or upper M? He would find out he supposed. "Avis..." he spoke aloud as he made the M-shape with his wand.

After saying the incantation out loud, Yoongi watched and waited....... After a few seconds he knew he had failed. No matter though, he would simply try and try again until he had it right. Or atleast until class was over. But as he tried a second time, a third time, fourth time, he began to get frustrated because he didn't even want to do this "Avis!" fail... spell. He wanted to go straight to the hair spell!

As he focused again, trying to imagine tiny canaries flying around, he jumped in shock when the sound of a BLAST went of somewhere near his right and he saw that Adi had successfully used the spell. Feeling jealous but still holding up two thumbs, Yoongi decided to try again.

"Avis!" -BANG!- A second blast sounded through the classroom and the Gryffindor's face was hidden in the smoke but once he cleared it away with his free hand, he saw a few canaries flying around him. HE'D DONE IT! TIME FOR THE HAIR SPELL WOOOHOOO!

Little bitty baby canaries. Just look at them zooming around like happy Hufflepuffs. It warmed Adi's already warmed heart to see them twitting around. And Yoongi was giving him a thumbs up! He grinned, gave his friend a word of encouragement then watched him give the spell another go.

EEEEP! All that smoke! Coughing, Adi fanned before his hand before his face, trying to clear the smoke. "Yoongi! You okay, dude?" With the smoke clearing, the first thing he noticed were the canaries flitting about! COOL! Moooore canaries! "Good job!'' Yoongi didn't seemed to be harmed in anyway which was good.

After watching their canaries some more, Adi decided to go for the hair changing spell. He had saved the best for last! Holding the mirror in his hand, he focused it on his awesome hair. So sleek and shiny it was. Mhmm. Be jealous, all you dudes with average hair. Hehe.

Anyway... here goes nothing!

''Crinus Muto!'' The arching movement was made. BAM! Aqua colour replaced Adi's usual black hair. And the style? It was spiky in the middle and shaved to both sides like a rocker's hair. You know... like a mohawk? Well, it WAS a mohawk.

A half transfigured Merlin statue just wasn't cutting it for this Slytherin. She was going to get a rabbit. No doubt about it.

First though she was going to cancel the charm so she could start over. A simple and quiet spoken spell did the trick. Now to give it another much better go.

With a firm point of her wand at the Merlin statue she clear spoke the incantation needed, "Lapifors!" Hady knew what she wanted to see and nothing less then what she wanted to appear was going to happen. Her wand still fixed on it's target nearly immediently the statue was gone and in it's place was a white fuzzy rabbit. Or well the 'statue' was the 'rabbit' now. YES!

Hady couldn't contain the grin that formed on her lips as she looked at the rabbit. Could she please keep the bunny? Pleeeaaasssee!!!!

Norah copied down the spells written on the board just in time for her desk to VANISH. That's right. Poof. All gone. She bent over to pick her notes up. She got to do the bunny one! YEEEES. With renewed enthusiasm, she jumped up from her seat and gathered with the other fifth years in the middle of the classroom. They were the oldest bunch in this group, uh huh. That meant she'd be really good, right? Riiiiiiight?

She repeated the incantation under her breath as she went to retrieve a little statue. "Lapifors, lapifors, lap-i-fors, laaapifors." Setting the statue down, Norah faced it and pointed her wand at its itty bitty face. "Lapifors!" She concentrated hard on a cute little bunny, willing it to appear instead of the statue which was cute, but not as cute. C'mon c'mon little fluffy bunny. Carrots! Cotton tails! All the things!

Even just a glance at the statue was enough to inform her that it was very much still Merlin. And not a rabbit. Too bad, because maybe rabbits could make really good wizards if you let 'em. Only letting her disappointment show for a moment (prefects were supposed to be happy, right? Or had she made that rule up), she reset her stance and tried again. "Lapifors! She concentrated hard again, eyebrows furrowed as she thought of that rabbit with all her might. This time the statue was still very much a statue, but had sprouted a good deal of fur. Fluffy merlin was a start, but it wasn't exactly what she'd been looking for. With her face set in a frown in reaction to her failure, Norah eyed the statue distastefully and tried not to let a giggle burst through. Fluffy statues really should be in style.

Still nothing.

Well, transfiguration was quite difficult. That's what the Professor said. But she didn't give up on trying. Was it because she used her non-wand arm? Well, it did work at the other class. Why was it not working here??

Woah, you need to be calm, girl.

Okay, The young lioness gave more try. "Flintifors!" She pointed her wand to the worm and flicked it upward. Still nothing. "Flintifors!" One more try and....

Still nothing.

"Flintifors! Flintifors! Flintifors!" She didn't stop trying, pointing her wand flicked it upward. Again and again and again and again. Until finally.... BAM!

Finally she DID transform the worm into a matchbox. Yaaaaay!!!

"Looking handsome as ever, Adi,'' the Puffer told his reflection appreciatively. He was starting to think he could pull of ANY hair style AND colour of it. Mhmm. He admired the hair some more as he pondered on the next style. What should he do next?

Oh! He knew!

''Crinus Muto!'' Once again, the arching movement was made. He watched his hair grow out straight until the set on the back of his head touched his shoulder. The part at the front grow in close proximity to his eyes, almost covering them. And the colour? It was magenta.

He peeked at his reflection though the strands. "Looking good still but I think the mohawk suits you better.''

Yoongi grinned at Adi as he asked if he was okay and then reached inside his pocket to grab a facial wash tissue. He cleaned his face in case the blast had left soot on it and then grinned happily at the little birds around his head.

But now that he had been able to conjure up the birds, IT WAS HAIRSTYLE TIME! The Gryffindor fast walked to the front of the class, grabbed a hand mirror and walked back to his place. He already knew what he wanted! Red hair , shocking red! and and and....wait he didn't know what style.

He overheard Adi telling his own reflection that he was as handsome as ever and Yoongi chuckled. Did he sound like that too each morning? What? he liked his own face there was nothing wrong with confidence right?

Anyways, Yoongi first focused on getting the color right. He held up the mirror in front of his face and looked at his blonde hair. 'Red red red, i want it red' he thought , picturing the color in his mind. "Crinus Muto!" he said and waved his wand in an arch. The top of his blonde head turned red. Then it faded down until each hair was transfigurated and he grinned at his now red colored hair. "Professor? professoooor~? " he sang cause his triangle was gone "Does the color stay or vanish after a while?" please say it will stay...