Janelle always had to pay careful attention and be extra focused in Transfiguration. To say it was complicated was an understatement. So it couldn't be as simple as turning an animal into something else. They were going to learn about the Concept of Live Transfiguration. What? Janelle had a feeling this wasn't going to be easy.

Then the questions. Not one, not two, not three, not four, not five, but six questions. Well Janelle knew that there was no way that she was going to be able to answer all of them. Soooo, she would just have to pick and choose. It took a while for her to come up with something, but she raised her hand and gave it her best shot.

"I think you teach us how to transfigure porcupines into pincushions because .........I'm not really sure why. You want us to be prepared for any situation? We might need to actually do this one day?" They would have to do this for OWL's? Ok, Janelle was drowning here. It was time to move on. "It's probably easier to transfigure something if the thing you're changing and the thing you're changing it into have some of the same characteristics. It's not that big a jump from one to the other. I think you probably can transfigure an animal into something that is characteristically different, but it would be a lot harder to do. So to answer your question, it's not impossible to change a tarantula in to something non prickly.......but it would probably be really hard."