Harriet wasn't overly good at Transfiguaration. But then she was only a first year, so that was expected. She liked the lesson though. Well. Maybe not when the professor got a big spider out. Hattie did not like spiders. She blinked, hoping that the Professor was not going to bring the spider too close. She didn't want to be too close. She took a deep breath. It was okay. Answer the question Harriet. She wouldn't let her fear of the creature stop her from learning.

She thought over the question for a few moments, before she raised her hand. "Does it make it easier because a pin cushion is similar to a porcupine? In the sense that they are both prickly" She murmured, in quiet voice. "But that would also suggest that if we transfigured the spider into something similar to the spider that it might be easier.... " Which made sense, not that she wanted to go near the spider. "Though a porcupine doesn't go as fast as a spider. So that might make it harder" Physically rather than magically.