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sweetpinkpixie
Settling down in his seat, Airey couldn't help but look a bit surprised at the boy's request. Oh. So this wasn't about Astronomy homework then. He had been expecting it to be so since he had struggled just a little with the charm during the lesson.
"Transfiguration?" he questioned, blue eyes on the gargoyles on his desk now. "I...am not sure I am the best suited for doing so..." Meaning that his Transfiguration professor would be better. "But I will most certainly try." Since the boy had come to him for whatever reason and he would be a poor educator if he turned the Hufflepuff away, yes?
Make them move? "You mean using Piertotum Locomotor?" Rather advanced spell for a first year, wasn't it?
Forrest's heart sank. If Professor refused, he would have to fake a stomach ache to skip the next class when they were expected to report with their
moving gargoyles. He was his only hope, because he was a professor and he was nice.
Professor Bellaire wasn't nice though. She wouldn't take 'I couldn't make it move' as an excuse, probably.
The very short space of time until his
I'll try felt like an eternity. When he finally accepted, Forrest's face lit up as he smiled. Could he see the BIG weight off the little boy's shoulders? Hehe. He nodded enthusiastically again.
"I couldn't do it for the whole class." So, like, he knew what he was dealing with.