 Catching Up not throwing away my shot | Slytherpuff | roll for initiative | woof you ❤
Elena had been delighted to find fish on the desks when she arrived to Transfiguration. They were so cute! She was already wondering if they could keep them as pets at the end of the lesson. That would be so fun; to have a little fish friend in her dorm. She had pets at home and missed having them at school. Though a fish wasn't as cuddly as a dog, so it would be a poor substitute but it would still be fun. Except she probably should have remembered that this was Transfiguration, not Care of Magical Creatures. So the fish themselves were not the main focus of the lesson.
She was a bit distracted by watching the fish swim around and forgot to answer the first question. If she had, though, she would have probably said something about how color was important for the Transfiguration process. Of course there were ways to change the color of something, but it was probably easier to transfigure something into another thing of the same color. With that same logic, size was probably important too.
The spell they were learning being one to transform objects into fish raised a few questions in Elena's mind. The first being, were the fish already in the bowls real or had they also been transfigured from small objects? If they had been transfigured, did that make them any less real? It was sort of a confusing conundrum. It probably wasn't the point of the lesson, but Elena's curiosity got the better of her so she raised her hand to ask a question. "Professor, can you really transfigure an inanimate object into a living thing?" Could you create consciousness from nothing? Even if they couldn't take the fish at the end of the lesson, did this mean that she could make one of her own from something else?
Elena turned her focus toward practicing the incantation and wand movement. "Piscifors. PISK-i-fors. Piscifors." She said it aloud a few times to get a good feel for it. The wand movement was just a point, which seemed easy enough. Elena took a few moments to point her wand at different pebbles at the bottom of her fish bowl. She felt fairly confident in her ability to cast the spell, at least in theory. |