Pixxi absolutely beamed towards the Professor,
"Thanks, Professor Magnus," she said.
"I think I'll keep practicing my blue hair a bit more." Pixxi had to admit that Professor Magnus was the nicest Professor she had, and Transfigurations was slowly starting to become her favorite subject.
She tapped her head twice and said the counter incantation. If she were to do this, she wanted it done properly, from the beginning. How else would she learn? Her hair was still in the transformed pixie-style, but her red, normal color had returned.
She concentrated harder then ever on the shade of blue she wanted. Professor Magnus had also told her to put emphasis on the 'TAR' part of the incantation, so she mumbled the incantation under her breath while holding her eyes firmly closed and thinking about her hair and how she wanted it to be.
After a minute or so, she decided that it wasn't possible to be more concentrated than she was now, especially with all the students around her talking amongst them and shouting spells. She put the wand to the top of her head and pictured the blue, pixie hair she wanted.
"ris-TAR-is" she cried out. She hurriedly looked at her reflection and scrunched up her nose. It certainly wasn't what she had expected. The color was more of a
black-with-blue-stripes.
She sighed, tapped her wand twice at the top of her head and muttered the counter incantations once more. She tried yet again to really concentrate on the exact shade of blue she wanted. Why was this so difficult? If it was one thing Pixxi didn't like, it was not to be able to do things. She was an impatient soul, and she felt some anger build up in her.
'Shake it off,' she thought to herself, took a deep breath and tried to concentrate once more.
Still with her eyes closed, the
exact shade of blue she wanted printed on her mind, she raised her wand to the top of her head and tapped it once,
"ris-TAR-is" she said with feeling. Something felt different this time. She smiled hopefully and felt the anger disappear from her stomach when she looked at her reflection and saw the
perfect shade of blue covering every inch of her short hair.
"Professor Magnus! I did it! I actually made my hair blue," she grinned widely, waving her hand enthustiasticly towards the Professor to see.