West had been just sitting back and reflecting so far this lesson because he was very aware that things were almost over for him. As in... he was graduating and would soon be leaving Hogwarts for good, y'know? It made it hard to focus when your mind was just going over memories, some good and some bad...

... and a ton of them involved Bellaire, really.

He fixed his attention on her at the next question and put his hand up. "I don't know why exactly but for some reason conjuring has always been one of the easiest areas of magic for me. And I've been thinking about this a lot and I think aside from the three basic ingredients -incantation, intent and wand movement, and aside from the logical applications of Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfiguration and its principle exceptions, it has a bit to do with imagination and creativity too, on account of you're creating something from scratch so it has to tie into that part of the mind where creative process comes from." Which was kind of his thing, with his music and everything. That plus his penchant for logic? It was the most scientific branch of magic for sure. "So I guess in a lot of ways I think people are limited by their imaginations as much as they are limited by the physical and elemental laws of it, the trick is finding that balance between both, that sweet spot where things become possible." Just some musings anyways.