 Transfiguration HW1 Post 5
Sunshine and fresh had been calling her name all day, so Eliza took a little walk to the Butterfly Gardens. They were nice and peaceful to be in and it seemed like the perfect place to practice with her gargoyle for Professor Bellaire's class. It was still weird to think of it as Bellaire's since she was so used her being in Charms. She wondered what the Charms professor would be like. Hopefully nice and extremely helpful, she thought. I'd love to learn more Charms...but Transfig is cool too. Just more...technical I guess.
She found a patch of grass unclaimed by anyone else and pulled out her gargoyle's box, opened the lid, and sat the creature on the ground. She stretched her arms up and around as if she herself were about to be the one getting a work out. "All right Goylie. Can I call you that? Sort of sounds like girly...from Boston or something. Anyway." She cast the spell on the gargoyle to allow it to move. "Piertotum Locomotor!" And just like a charm...except it was a transfiguration spell...the thing came to life.
"Right, so. Hello again!" she said, waving to it. "A bit simpler than before, so that's good news for you." She checked around to be sure they wouldn't get in anyone's way and gave the command. "Somersault," she said, showing her fingers spinning in a circle to indicate he was meant to go end over end. She pictured what a somersault was in her mind very clearly and said it again. "Somersault!"
And the little beast flopped onto its face.
"Well then. Um...try again." She picked it back up and said, "Somersault." This time it sort of hopped up in the air first and tried to barrel roll into it, and consequentially, still fell over. "Ermm...no. Put your hands out." And it did. "Bend your head down." And it did. "Roll forward using your hands." And it did, kind of, and fell on its side.
She sighed. "Okay now do all that but faster...and all together like one movement, not all choppy." She took a deep breath and said, "Somersault." And bless its heart, Goylie tipped and rolled right over like she'd said, only she'd forgotten to explain the ending. The part where you stop. So, Goylie just kept rolling. Hopefully no one would trip over him...
"Finite! Stop stop stop!" she cried. She walked over to retrieve him, brushed him off and thought, Well, that will do.
__________________ 
... CHARMING ... HUMBLE ... REFINED ... |