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Originally Posted by Professor
Flicking her wand out, Issy shut the door behind the last person to enter with a simple swish. It was time to begin. "Okay then, good morning all of you," she smiled, nodding her head in greeting to all the kids assembled at their desks. Climbing up the steps onto the runway, Issy looked down on them from her prominent position. "You're probably wondering what this is for," she would be. "I thought that seeing as you've all done so well with your outfits thus far, and I have checked to see how well they hold together," with a bit of pulling and tugging, that kind of thing, "that at the end of the lesson you could all model them for the rest of your classmates."
She waited to see how audible the groan would be before moving on. "But first, you need to complete those outfits. Which leads us to those paper plates, and the easiest question you will probably be asked all day. What do you think we're transfiguring today?"
They were going to what? At first Hannah did not like this idea at all. She wasn't big on going in front of the class and doing anything. On the other hand she was fabulous and her clothes looked amazing and she knew that everybody would be dying to see her handy work so maybe it wasn't going to be that bad after all. She would feel confident in her outfit. She listened as the professor asked what they thought they would be doing today.
"I too think we will be transfiguring shoes." It did explain why they had two paper plates and all.
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Originally Posted by Professor
Looking up, she nodded to make sure they understood before launching into the actual spell itself. "You only have one word to worry about this time, 'Pedestis'. So if I wanted another pair of shoes like the ones I have on, I'd go like so..." Issy aimed her wand at the plates and very gently tapped each one while saying the incantation at the same time. "Pedestis!" Slowly the plates began to narrow and gain in height, changing colour to the black she was wearing, before separating into a different colour for the soles. "Simple really. And as I said, design is based solely on what your mind can create for you. Don't limit yourself to something easy if you don't want to. Zips and buckles will always be harder, as with the clothes, due to their metalic content. Now, are there any questions before we start? If you don't have any, and feel confident enough, give the wand movement and incantation a go, then start on the plates."
So they were going to be transfiguring shoes. It sounded cool and fun, but it also sounded like it would be difficult. She had enough problems trying to get her shirt and skirt perfect. She had a feeling that getting the shoes perfect was going to take even more work. She was glad that this was the last thing that she was doing. She actually felt pretty accomplished this term.
She paod attention to all of the instructions that the professor gave them. The wand movement was just a tap so that was easy enough. She tapped her wand a few times anyways for good measure. She put her wand down and gave the incantation a try. Pedestis.
"Ped-es-tis." Pause.
"Pedestis, Pedestis, Pedestis." It seemed simple enough, but Hannah knew better than to think like that. Time and time again Transfiguration proved to not be simple.