Riley had been putting his homework assignment for Transfiguration off, purely out of sheer stress mounting on the Gryffindor sixth year in the form of other classes. It seemed like he was always either in a class, on his way to one, or going to sleep early for one the next day...and he didn't even have N.E.W.T.'s untile next year!

Riley had taken the watch Professor Hadley had given them to practice with and had spent what free time he had, thinking up the possible designs and shapes he could transfigure it into for his assignment. But having skipped lunch, Riley made his way into the practice classroom to begin his work. Choosing a desk away from the other students after waving at a few in greeting, he set to work.

Placing the watch on the desk, Riley thought hard of the first design he wanted to make and then crossed, circled, and jabbed his wand tip above it and spoke the incantation, "Comletia!"

The watch shuddered on the desktop and then slowly began to morph into the shape of a compass. The compass looked as though it was an aged artifact made out of a wooden frame with a yellowed with age glass face. 'Hmmm.. this looks like...' Riley thought to himself and then he got excited. "Christopher Columbus's compass!" he said much louder than he had planned.

He had made his dingy old watch into Christopher Columbus's compass and that was that! He packed his things and left with his complete and utter knock-off compass, happily unaware.