After taking a pinch of ants from the jar, Serena placed them hurriedly on her desk. She was not exactly an ant lover. In fact, she usually stayed as far away from them as possible. Luckily they all stayed in the same spot and didn’t wander off, especially toward her, which was more than she could say for the unfortunate Slytherin girl.

Watching carefully as Lee performed the incantation, she removed her own wand and practiced the wand movements a few times before actually attempting the spell. Sweep and jab. She repeated as she performed the movements. Finally, she decided to give it a try. Sweeping her wand through the air, she gave a sharp jab at the end and intoned. “Inverti Apocri.” She waited a few moments and was disappointed to see the ants transform partly into rice. They looked like rice but were still walking around on her desk.

She giggled a bit at her mistake and looked up as the professor gave the counterspell. Waving her wand once more, hoping to get this one correct, Serena said. “Inverta Retosis.” A few moments later, the walking rice transformed into ants. Silently cheering herself, she once again cast the first spell, concentrating deeply, and was successful.

She attempted each spell twice more and was met with success each time. It was actually sort of fun, especially when they changed back into rice. Satisfied, she held her wand loosely in her hand and waited for further instructions.

Alicia followed the Professor's instruction and nodded slyly as she pointed at the ants once more and said "Inverta Retosis!" immediately they turned back into ants "Such a simple counterspell" Alicia said, smiling. Again, she practise dhe wand movement and incntation of the spell and counterspell, "Inverti Apocri" and "Inverta Retosis!"repeated the process 2 times before finall putting the ants back into the jar, and placed the jar on her desk, waiitng for further instructions

Brookelyn quickly took a pinch of ants with a disgusted look on her face and placed them on the far left corner of her desk. They stayed pretty much in the same spot, but she stuck one of her books in front of her hoping that that would somewhat prevent them from coming anywhere near her.

Looking up at the board she picked up her wand and started to practice the 'swish and jab' movement. Once she thought she had it down she put her wand back on the desk and wispered the spell on the board. She looked around at everyone else to see if she was saying it right. Thankfully she was, so she decided to put it all together.

Picking up her wand again she said, "Inverti Apocri." Nothing happened. She rolled her eyes and tryed it again. "Inverti Apocri." This time the ants looked the same except that they were stiff and couldn't move. By the sixth time, she had finally gotten it.

"Thank God! I thought I would never get it!" Brooke exclaimed. Then looked back up at the professor for more instructions.

:: Professor Ganymede nodded and said, "Yes, something like this will be on the O.W.L.'s and as for N.E.W.T. students," She paused and pointed to a small poster on the wall of a large red and blue King crab, "That's what they have to be able to Transfigure or something similar to it." The crab in the poster snapped its claws threateningly and crawled about in it's picture nervously.

"We will be wrapping up soon. Can everyone please either deposit rice into the jars or thier remaining ants. Try to make sure they are all in there." She scooped her own ants up and shook them off her hand and into the jar infront of Lee.

She then tapped the jar with her wand and whispered a name. Her mouth twisted into an evil smile, her eyes changed to a dark deep brown. She peered out of the classroom window in the direction of the greenhouses and she actually cackled.

"Muahaha.." She was a bit loud. "I mean, haramcaffcaff. I seem to be getting a sore throat." She covered her mouth and her evil smile with a hand.

A few deep breathes later, she had on a more serious face. "All the ants in?" She asked the class. ::

Jackie looked at the crab painting. Great, I have to transfigure that? she thought. Shaking her head, she picked up her pieces of rice, made sure she had left none behind, then put them in the jar in the front of the classroom.

Alicia nodded, she had put the ants in a long time ago, she smiled and took the ants from her jar and deposited them in the Professor's jar/s. She then looked up at the professor and started packing up a little bit.

Aj looked oddly at Professor, she turned her rice back into the jar and eyed the teacher strangely, laughing a bit, "alright, professor?" she asked, glancing in the greenhouse direction as well.

Sonya put her rice into the jar, thinking about how they had been ants just a second ago. She wished she had the courage to ask the professor what she was going to do with the rice. she hoped the teacher wouldn't eat the rice that used to be ants!

Brooke looked down at the rice in the corner of her desk and scooped it into her hand. She walked up to the front of the classroom where the rest of the jars were and dropped them in. When she got back to her seat she started to pack up, but decided not to put her wand away until she knew for sure that they were done.

riana glanced at the professor as she got up and placed her ants/rice into the jar. Smirking slightly, she quickly hid her face as she went back to her seat and sat back down, ready for put her things away.

Phoebe looked strangely at the proffesor, she wasn't the only one that had noticed her wierd laugh. Phoebe turning to AJ muttered,"did you think that was wierd?" Phoebe scooped up her ants before they could run away and put them back in the jar.

Lee placed his grains of rice in the jar which Ganymede could transform back later if she wished. He walked up to her after hearing her strange scitzophrenic-like types of laughter moments before, "I hope your behaving Gany-... professor."

AJ shrugged and looked at Pheobe, "i don't think that was weird, i know that was weird," she said and laughed, going back to her seat.

Phoebe laughed as well following AJ back to her seat, "It is a bit suss" she added.

Yashu tried it quickly. He waved his, touched it with the tip of his wand and said, "Inverti Apocri!" The ants started turning longer and very soon, it turned white. Yashu put the rice into the proffesor's jar.

Tia took some ants out of the Jar, looking reproachfully at them as one particular ant tried to – err – well, bite her finger. She didn't dislike ants, in general, but she tended to avoid them if she could. Placing them on her palm, she made her way back to her desk and, not very generously, put down the ants. Some of them wandered off in different directions. Heaving a weary sigh, Tia gathered them all in one place.

She tapped her desk with her wand, gluing the ants to the desk [The Poor things, she thought to herself, trying to repress a chuckle] and practised the wand movement for a while, without casting the spell itself. Finally, sure that she knew the movement well enough, she swept her wand over the ants, taking care to unglue the helpless creatures first, and said "Inverti Apocri" in a clear, strong voice, the fingers of her left hand crossed in the pocket of her robes.

Suffice it to say that her first attempt did not go as planned. The ants did not budge, but remained where they were, though expanding slightly. Raising an eyebrow, Tia threw them a look of distaste, before trying the spell once more. It worked this time, and the ants turned into rice, almost immediately. She tried the counter-charm and then, once or twice, the transfiguration spell again.

Scooping up the rice in her hand, she dropped them in the Jar. No one would be have been able to tell, she thought as she looked at the Jar full of rice, that this rather multi-coloured hotchpotch of "food" had once been a multitude of ants. Even though the rice looked quite peacefully pretty now [It wasn't moving, for one thing] Tia would not have eaten a pinch of it for the world.

She made her way back towards her desk, sitting down and immersing herself in looking about at the various students in the class; however, she did not pocket her wand, just in case the Professor asked them to do something else. She smiled up at the Professor, watching her rather wicked expressions and then turned back to looking around at everyone else.

Amanda took some ants . "Inverti Apreci."she said clearly,watching the ants turn into half ant,half rice."Oh,Inverti Apreci."she said again and they turned into full rice."erm.professer,i think i did it."she said dropping the rice in the jar.

:: Professor Ganymede forced her most serious of faces and told Lee in a flat tone, "I have a sore throat. That is all." She then rubbed her neck a few times to prove that idea.

She then wrote something on the board.

Assignment: Write a detailed explanation of todays Lesson.

"Now, this is due in three days. Please remember not to practice this spell in the Great Hall." She smiled at them and walked about collecting the now ant full jars.

"Class dismissed. Very good job everyone." She placed all three jars on her own desk and opened a purple bag. It was the same purple bag from when she was a student.

She watched the students leave. ::

Amber gathered her things and walked out, waving to the now 'Professor' Ganymede Craft. It felt odd calling her that, for she was a student with her for some years. She scratched out the homework assignement, gave Professor Craft a smile, and walked out with a whistle.

Amanda got her books and bags and walked to the door.."I had an enjoyable lesson professer."she said and left for the common room.

Ariana wrote down the homework, sure that she would be able to do this one no problem. She got up and put her things away and moved to the door as she said, "Good bye Professor, it was an enjoyable lesson." she was still a bit curious at the professors demanour, but she shrugged it off and headed toward the swimming rock.

:: "Yes, Have a wonderful day." She followed the last student to the door and then closed her classroom door. Her room was empty.

"Now, onto my next idea." She muttered while cantering over to the desk with the jars and bag. She placed the lids on the jars loosley and shoved them upright into her purple bag.

"Such a lovely day, perhaps a walk will help me pass my boredom." She giggled while pulling the bag strap onto her right shoulder and covering herself with her cloak.

Finally, she opened her classroom door and left smiling. ::