It had taken Lydia a little while to get used to the way Professor Grimsbane adored opening and slamming her classroom door with a bang, but after a month of classes with her she would finally no longer jump every time it happened. Now Lydia sat quietly and attentively at her desk, not too far away from some of her fellow first years like Ewan, Beth, and Rylee's little brother Reese.

Lydia pondered the professor's question. She'd only been taking Transfiguration for a little over a month. And before coming to Hogwarts she'd never even known about magic. As a result she often felt like she was at a disadvantage here, like she was playing catch up while some of her peers who'd been born into the wizarding world already knew certain things. However, just by comparing the two, Lydia thought she knew the answer to the questions, at least the one about the difference between a charm and a transfiguration spell. Charms seemed to only change an aspect of a thing or produce a certain effect. Wingardium Leviosa levitated objects. That was a charm, but it didn't transform those objects into something else. That would be transfiguration. Transfiguration seemed to completely transform an object, changing not just its properties, but its entire configuration and makeup.

Lydia remained quiet though. She wasn't entirely certain, and she didn't want to risk sounding like an idiot in front of her peers. Besides, it seemed like Professor Grimsbane was directing her question mainly to the older students. Phew, at least the professor didn't expect first years like herself to be experts at this already.