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Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: London
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Patroclus Hudson
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Originally Posted by ArianaBlack  Jeez even the first year was smarter than her. "That sounds like a really good idea!" Plus it was better than anything she would've come up with. That's why he's a prefect. Now if only Nika could be that smart, then she could potentially become one too. Quote:
Originally Posted by loun4157 Christina watched as her fellow students were told "Team Shaw" and told Shaw fancy Latin words. That was all she could do; watch. She slammed her head down on her desk in frustration, shutting her book with her face after reading it for the tenth time. Transfiguration was literally the only subject she couldn't understand. She looked up for a moment to glare at Shaw, whispering angrily to herself, "I just don't get it!" It wouldn't help and it was childish and petty, but it still made her feel a little better. Quote:
Originally Posted by TwistedHearts Zara loved the idea, she sure was glad to have a friendly and SMART prefect. "You could try it on me. I won't mind it. Though should we transfigure the hair? Cause I have a hat in my bag." She volunteered. Now, how did that hat get in her bag? She still didn't know. It was in her nature to bring stuff randomly and luckily, she brought the dictionary and hat on that day. Plus, she didn't want her hair to become a helmet. Quote:
Originally Posted by affy7ann "The words are often from another language, particularly Latin. And the wand...well, it can transfigure and do magic because of it's magical core and the witch or wizard holding it. Even with a magic core, it would be useless to Muggles." Tayla answered, unsure what Shaw was asking exactly and hoping she was giving the right answer. Looking at the board, she continued. "You grouped it that way based on the Houses I suppose."
Tayla stared with her mouth slightly gaping as Shaw helped the girl write - no, saw the board with the awful chainsaw. She shrugged and answered Shaw's question. "Fera Verto is used to transfigure animals into a water goblet, but I think it can be used to transfigure animals into other objects, too. 'Fera' is Latin for animal or beast. And 'verto' means to turn."
Tayla closed her eyes and covered her ears with her hands. She wished she had gotten earmuffs! As soon as the sound of the chainsaw stopped, she began to work.
Tayla went over to Zara and Nika when she heard them call out the Gryffindors. Tayla didn't mind working alone, but it would be much better to work together this time. And besides, she just wanted to leave her seat up front and head somewhere safer. "Hi girls," Tayla smiled, sat down beside them, and opened her book. "I think it's important to include 'verto' in the spell, Tayla said, thinking aloud as she scanned her book. Because, well...'verto' means 'turn'...and this spell is for transfiguration."
She looked up from her book and continued. "And maybe this time 'verto' should come first - unlike in 'fera verto'. 'Fera' means animal, so the spell was turning an animal in to something...this time...the spell could be...turning something in to - so that's 'verto' - a shield for example - so that can be, according to Latin, 'parma'." She wasn't sure if her classmates understood what she meant - she was a little confused herself, but she raised her hand anyway and decided to give Shaw some suggestions. "Shaw, how about, 'Verto Galea' or 'Verto Pilleus' for the hard hat? Galea means helmet while pilleus means cap." "Then, for the shield, 'Verto Parma' and for the armour, 'Verto Armatus'"?
To explain how she came up with the words, Tayla repeated to Shaw what she told Zara and Nika, then she bit her lip, and waited anxiously for Shaw's answer. Quote:
Originally Posted by Berttie-bott Janet raised up her hand but still not sure of her answer. "Uhmm.. I think you grouped it based on the color of our houses. Like Red People, I think it means Gryffindor. And Blue People, Ravenclaw. And so on. the thing you wrote next to each one is what most of the house members chose. Although I still don't get the Other People part..", She answered. Quote:
Originally Posted by Rosemary McGonagall Rosemary was now quite worried about their teacher so shifted away from him slightly before taking some notes and then joining the other Gryffindors to listen in whilst still making notes. Quote:
Originally Posted by PandaGirl Okay, being silent the entire time was not a good idea, but the way the professor acted both excited and scared Heather. Mostly scared the girl, so she was unable to really ask some questions-even though she fell lost with what to do around. She looked at her fellow Gryffies working and sighed.
She could ask help from them, so why not? And she should help too since this is their house, but totally, she was lost in ...catching up..
She buried herself in her book, hoping to find something useful at least so she could help her fellow Gryffindors. Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie Scooting even closer to Selina, Kurumi noticed a rather petrified Heather clinging to her book and decided to grab her by the arm. " Psst, Heather," she whispered so as not to startle her too much and cause her fellow Gryffindor to throw her textbook at her or anything. " Come work with us. Selina can speak Latin."
Kurumi pulled out her textbook and flipped through the pages to scan some of the spells listed there. Overhearing Patroclus' idea about transfiguring one's hair into a helmet didn't seem like such a bad idea, so she began to scan her textbook, as well as a Latin dictionary, for anything that may work.
Picking up her quill and parchment, Kurumi jotted down some words that seemed like they would be useful - Selina could check her work later. SPOILER!!: Kurumi's parchment Latin words:- galeo-, galea-, galeat-, galei-, galer- (means helmet)
- cassis (also helmet)
- scutum (shield literal)
- contego (to shield)
- Tego Texi Tectum to cover, bury, conceal, hide, protect, shield
- Mutatio (to change, alteration, transformation)
- Verto (to transform)
Looking up for a moment, Kurumi found herself especially drawn to the last words on her list, and wondered if there was a way to separate them. She supposed she could try and then Selina could come over and correct her butchering of the language.
" Galeoverto Tectum..." she said aloud. It didn't sound too bad. Smiling, she added that to her parchment. Now, what could a potential wand movement be?
Using her quill as a makeshift wand, Kurumi looked at her textbook and closed her eyes for a moment to envision what a helmet looked like. The first thing that popped into her head were old samurai helmets with a crescent moon made out of some sort of metal mounted on the top. Not the most practical in her mind, but it made for some beautiful clothing. Tracing an upside down half circle in the air, Kurumi paused to think about what ought to come next and found herself wanting to jab her quill, so that is what she did. Quote:
Originally Posted by fanficfanatict Selina heard Kurumi beckon to her and she thought hard about her request. She knew from the top of her head the word for iron it was ferrus. However, her request for robot would be hard being that Latin was a language established before technology so there were no words dealing with technology in Latin. But she had an idea, "Okay, well, the Latin word for iron is ferrus, but there is no Latin word for robot because well Ancient Rome had no robots. But we could say giant, which is gigas. So you could say Gigantis Ferrum." Quote:
Originally Posted by PandaGirl A friendly voice? AH! it's Kurumi! Heather swore she could have cried at this instant-the professor was rather scary, especially when he did the chainsaw thing.
she moved closer to her and Selina and tried to help.
Seeing Kurumi work on the spell, she thought of one, "would swishing and flicking the wand work as a wand movement?" oh sure, maybe.
Patroclus smiled as little pockets of Lions began to appear all around the classroom, "Lions!" he called, "Let's work together!" he added, waving them all over to his desk, that sat perfectly in the middle of the Room. "Everyone has great ideas so far," he smiled nodded at all those who had offered up a suggestion, such as Kurumi, Selina, Zara Nika, and Tayla, but he also smiled at the girls that hadn't suggested something. "Kurumi seeing as though you have an awesome list of notes already do you want to have the task of Lion Scribe?" he asked on his precious little Lion Cub, he knew he could trust her. "Zara, for the time being I think we might save the practice run until we have something that couldn't get hurt to try our spells on!" he smiled in reaction to the girls offer to be the test-dumbie, he didn't want to vanish anyones clothes, not in a room full of students! "Shaw!" he called to the Man of the Hour, "Could we perhaps have a dumbie in Gryffindor Robes to try out our spells on!?" You never know something may work! "So," he turned his attention back to the group, "We need wand movements, Rosemary, Christina, Heather and Janet, do you have any ideas of a good wand movement?" he asked of the few girls who seemed a little lost.
Then turning to Kurumi he sumarised some of the spells they had already suggested, "So we have had; 'Verto Galea', 'Verto Pilleus', 'Verto Parma', 'Verto Armatus', 'Gignatis Ferrum', 'Corpus Armatura', 'Corpus Armatura Cassida', 'Cambrair Scutum' and 'Contego' but we need more!"
More they needed, MORE!
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