Transfiguration - Lesson One
 

Randver walked into the transfiguation classroom and took a seat
''hello professor Pride im Randver Scoil one of the new students you'll be having this term i just wanted to tell you that i love transfiguration
and you and i will be seeing alot of each other so i look forward to start''
he scooted over and waited for the rest of the class

Neva gives Professor Pride a bemused look and says "Nice Caterpillar". She makes her way to the back of the room. She sits at the farthest desk next to the window and begins to remove her quill, Ink and textbook from her bag. She places them neatly on her desk and awaits the arrival of her fellow pupils.

Miley walked into the transfiguation classroom. She looked for the teacher but only saw a catipillar, then realizing that this was transfiguation, then bug was probably the professor. Cool! she thought to herself, taking a seat.

Tas walked into the Transfiguration classroom looking around and noticing a new Professor. She smiled hoping that this class would be very interesting and sat down waiting for the lesson to begin.

Kay walked quickly into the Transfiguration class room and sat down at an empty desk. She pulled her hair up into a tight knot and prepared for the Transfiguration lesson.

Looking across Thump returned the smile to Chikie "Hello miss" and he stopped the tapping of his wand,resigning to slightly gnawing on the tip of the wand wondering what this class would be like.

Kat walked into the Transfiguration classroom excitedly, since it was the class she was most interested in. Smiling to the professor as she entered, she took a seat near the front of the room waiting for Erinelle to come and class to begin.

Erinelle walked into the classroom and sat down next to Kat and beamed excitedlty at her. Slipping her bag off her shoulder she took out her book, parchement, quill and ink and settled herself in a desk. She smiled absently, excited for her second lesson.

In her careful script, Erinelle wrote her name and the subject on a fresh sheet of parchement. She smoothed her black plaited hair behind her shoulders and waited for the lesson to start.

Lisa walked in and Smiled to the the professor and Attempted to help the girl off the floor before taking her seat and removing a single peice of parchment and her quil.

Dez sliped into the room and took a seat near the front pulling out her things.

Julia couldn't help but grin at the professor. She didn't even get mad! There's a first. I'm going to like this one, she thought. Man, these new professors seemed really great so far. Julia could tell she would be getting away with a lot. "Agoobwah. Julia Agoobwah," she replied. "And thank you."

Mich walked in and sat by Lisa, glad to see a familiar face. She got her quill and parchment and got ready for the lesson

Noticing a familiar face, Neva picks up her things and runs to the front of the class. She doesn't notice a chair placed at an odd angle. She trips over it and does a little dance while trying to steady herself. "Very graceful" she mutters before taking a seat next to Dez. "Hi! Nice to see a friendly face" She smiled, still somewhat embarrassed after her spontaneous audition for Stomp.

"Oh hi!" Dez said continuing to get her things out of her bag

Lisa Looked over and grinned " Hey! Finally the classes are starting!! " She said positivly beaming.She was Unsure if the smile was out of excitement or pure nervousness Because her palms were sweating too much to grip her quill so she wiped them on her robes under the table and toned down her smiled.

Neva takes her brush from her bag and begins to run it through her hair absent mindedly whilst wondering what the lesson has in store. "I hope that Caterpillar has no ominous clue to what we are doing today. My motto is Anything with more than four legs is an enemy." She says whilst eying the caterpillar with a very suspicious look on her face.

mich smiled i know she said as she wrote across her parchment
TRANSFIGURATION:
Lessson one.

Thump quickly raised his hand and said "Feraverto.I think thats one."

Zoe knew the answer. So, she raised her hand and said, "Feroverta, Professor."

"Feroverta is to change animals into water goblets..." She answered hoping she could help out gryffindor in the points.

"Correct! The 'Animals to water goblets' spell." Danni replied grinning, "Three points to Slytherin!"

"When do you think a spell like this would be useful? Reasonable and creative answers are accepted."

"Very good answer Kemma, but I was looking for something that changed to something else. Good answer none the less."

"When you're thirsty and don't care much for sanitation" Neva chuckled.

Lisa Smiled As She Imagined a Situation" If You Trapt in the Woods And Needed a Drink But nothing to drink out of. Its good because it doesnt harm the animal" She Said Raising her hand After Coping down the previous spell.

Dez raised her hand"If your in the wild with nothing but your wand and there's a streem & a animal near by" Dez said realizing it was a creative answer

Tas smiled as she earned new points for her House and raised her hand again. "I'd say when you want to hide the certain animal from someone for a certain period of time, because the magic wears off and you can't keep the animal in the goblet form forever, but for a period of time you can, just to hide it from someone."

Tag raised his hand. "When you've got a whole load of caterpillars, but what you really need is a goblet. Although. . . I don't know why you'd pick a cup over an insect. Caterpillars are way more interesting." Of course, Tag also thought the caterpillar might object to being turned into a drinking utensil.

Listening to all the information being presented by both the professor and her fellow students, Kat began writting down detailed notes.

Having just purchased a quick quotes quill, Neva listened intently to her professor and peers whilst her quill took down her notes.

Kemma rolled her eyes at Tag's response. Only Tag could turn a transfiguration lesson into something about loving insects.

"Well, I don't think whether or not you like catepillars is really the point," Kemma said wrinkling her nose at Tag with disapproval. Kemma turned to Professor Pride. "I mean, isn't the point of transfiguration to make use of whatever you have available?"

Danni laughed, "True, that spell is deffinetly useful when your thirsty, though if you havent mastered it I recomend using your hands instead of a furry goblet. 2 points to Slytherin"
Danni's raised her eyebrow, "You may want to see Professor Blaylock after class, your minds seem to be connected." she said with a giggle. "Though that particular idea has already been mentioned, a point to each of you for 'syncronized thinking'."
Restraining herself from giving more points than the others, Danni's smile turned slightly michivous, "Pranking is a wonderful way to use transfiguration. 2 points."
Clapping her hands together Danni exclaimed, "Yes! Its always good to think of things from a defensive point of view. 2 points."
"Caterpillars would help more if you were out of nutrition. Bugs are an excellent source of protein." Danni said eyeing the class for thier reaction.

"Ok one more question before we begin, What types of animals would be the easiest to transfigure into an object, not nessisarily a goblet. Give me an animal, an object and why you think it would be easier than another animal."

Randver rased his hand and said'' i think a beetle would be the best for trans forming into sissors becaus the rhinosorus beetle has a sharp horn and if you just make two of them you got a pair of living sissors''

Neva Smirked. "Animal - Crocodile. Object - Handbag. Why Croc? Because if anybody tries to steal your purse it can just bite them in the butt"

"probably an invertbrea, Bugs, Smaller Creatures. The bigger the animal the harder it would probably be. Like if i tried to transfigure a dragon, itd take alot more than one lesson for me to do so" lisa said quickly and smiled for gaining her house a point. not much, but its something

"A snake into a rope" Erinelle answered, "The snake is already rope shaped, so if you're not to good at transfiguration it's not as hard as turning a cow into a rope, you already have about a third of the spell done for you. You just need to make sure the rope doesn't hiss at you."

Rat to a cup becasue it is a small animal to trasfigure especially if you are a beginner. said mich raising her hand

Lua thought for a bit before raising her hand a gain "I would say a beetle and transfigure it into a button. The smaller the animal the better the spell can be preformed. In contrary, the bigger the animal the more strength and magic you need to be able to transfigure it completely".

Tas thought for a moment then raised her arm again. "The first thing that comes to my mind is a snake turned into a broomstick", she giggled. "Maybe it's all the affection of Professor Vindictus's class, but that's what was first on my mind."

Dez raised her hand again "A caterpiller into a pencil like you said because they are close in size and easy to catch" Dez said wondering if it was right

Mason raised his hand and said " I think a snake would be good to turn into a long object like a pencil or a wooden or mettle pole of some kind for defensive purposes. The snake is already long and can be held completely strait and it also doesn't have complicating protrusions like arms and legs".

Kat thought hard about the question. Coming up with an answer she replied,"A firefly into a candle because the blinkin of the firefly's Phospholuminescence resembles the flickering of the light of a candle."

"Good, but 'living scissors' would mean the spell didnt work correctly. And a pair of moving scissors sounds dangerous." she laughed.

"Again in your example the spell didnt work, but I wouldnt mind having a self-defending purse." Danni said with a wink

"YES!" Danni said loudly, "Exactly the answer I was looking for. Invertebre's are easier to transfigure because there is no backbone to change. 3 points."
"Very good a point to each of you."
Stopping in front of the girls desk she looked at her with a michivous gleam in her eye, "You have a good memory mate. 3 points."

Going back to the front of the class she added, "I chose caterpillars because they are invertebre, small and similar in shape to the object we want. Now everyone come up and take a caterpillar. The spell is Animaic Inanimus, try it a few times. To change your caterpillar back from a pencil the spell is Inanimus Finite. Try it a few times."

Still horrified at Professor Pride's comment about caterpillars providing nutrients, Tag swallowed and attempted to respond. "Er, Professor--" Sadistic! "Invertebrate animals, such as insects, would be easier to transfigure because they are less complicated. Animals with backbones, like mammals, are usually harder to manipulate with spells." Tag doodled on his parchment, scrawling out the words, 'Insects are friends, not food' in large loopy letters.

Lisa Walked to front practically dancing.She won them 3 points. She picked a caterpillar and returned to her seat.She Pulled put her wand and moved her notes aside, she would be pretty upset if the spell went astray and ruined her notes.She then muttered "Inanimus Finite" and waved her wand over the small caterpillar. It made an awkward movement at first but nothing changed.She tried 2 more times and she thought it looked longer and more yellow. By her 4th attempt though Lisa had a brand new muggle pencil sitting on the table in front of her. She looked up and smiled at the professor.

Dez got up and went to get a caterpiller out of the pile "thanks" she said to Proffessor Pride on her way back

Randver came up and took a catarpillar and took it back to his desk and said the spell''Animaic Inanimus it did't work in the first try but it did in the second then he said the spell''Inanimus Finite''the cattarpillar tunrned back
and Randver repeted this a few times

Tas walked up to where all the caterpillars were and took one. Returning to her seat she held the creature on her palm and pointed at it with her wand. Animaic Inanimus, she muttered trying to imagine how the pencil would look, but the spell, as usual, didn't work at the first attempt and the hairy pencil on her palm was wiggling. She frowned and muttered the spell again - this time there was a full effect and a nice pencil was now lying still on her hand.

Maya sighed and shrunk into her seat. Jeeze. She walked up and took a caterpillar. She let it creep over her shoulders and put it back down on the table. She poked it with her wand and murmered ' Animaic Inanimus. ' and quite strangely enough, the caterpillar changed into a green pencil. She poked it, hoping that it wouldn't squirm.

Neva gets up from her chair reluctantly and wimpers whilst picking up her hairy caterpillar. She sets off at a run back to her seat to shorten the time she has to hold the creature. Neva removes her wand from her belt and says in a clear voice "Animaic Inanimus". She looks dumbfounded as the thing turned into what looked to be a lump of coal. "Inanimus Finite" she sighed, turning the Caterpillar back to it's own form.

Neva leans into the creature and stares at it hard. "Right Mr hairy. I don't like you and you don't like me. But if you coopereate we can get this done alot quicker. You don't want to be squished under a size five kitten heel boot do you?" Neva smiled sadistically.

Neva shakes her arms as if to work up some energy. She points her wand at the creature and says sternly "Animaic Inanimus". She laughed as the still shaking Caterpillar turned into a pencil. "Woohoo" Sge claps and begins to do her happy dance. Straightening herself up she looked around to make sure nobody saw that and sat down in her seat. "Inanimus Finite" she grinned.

Mich followed Jacques and got up and got herself . She returned to the table and took out her wand. She muttered the spell Inanimus Finite a few times, pointing at the catterpillar each time, trying to change it.
After a few attemps Mich finaly got her catterpillar to change into a pencil, she smiled at her effort glad to have made it happen.
she muttered the spell again and the pencil turned back into a catterpillar

Erinelle wandered up to the desk and took a catapillar, she let it crawl across her hands a couple of times and laughed delightedly as it tickled her hands. Wandering back to the desk she put it on the table. Then sat down again.

Picking up her wand, she flicked it and said the spell, "Animaic Inanimus," The caterpillar shuddered and became thiner, more stick like, and then a pencil like, almost. She laughed happily and reversed it.

Once more Erinelle tired again, this time, she managed to get it right. She squealed delightedly and laughed, clapping her hands. "I did it!" She squealed.

Carefully taking her caterpillar, Kemma laid it gently on her desk. She paused. Theory was one thing. Actually having to transform it was something else. It look so helpless, just waiting there on her desk. Kemma licked her lips apprehensively. Just do it, just do it! Don't think about it. You'll be changing it back. It won't feel a thing, right? Right?

Pulling out her wand, Kemma flicked in the caterpillar's general direction and uttered "Animaic Inanimus." Nothing happened. She tried again. Nothing. Maybe she needed to get the wand closer. She flicked her wand closer and closer, saying the spell louder and louder. This was getting frustrating. Then...

She didn't mean to flick so hard. Her wand came down upon the poor caterpillar's body with a resounding squash. Gooey innards squirted from both sides and the invertabrate's lack of vertebra was clearly demarcated by a large impression in the center of its person. Kemma was horrified and immediately burst into tears.

Dez went back to her desk and sat down. She moved her notes onto the floor next to her bag and tryed the spell "Animaic Inanimus" she said waving her wand, nothing " Animaic Inanimus" it worked she now had a pencil spe picked it up "cool" she murmered then set it back down "Inanimus Finite" the pencil changed back "sweet" she murmered

Walking up to the desk, Kat took a catipillar back to where she was sitting and began working on the spell. Taking out her wand, she said the spell,"Animaic Inanimus" To her surprise it worked the very first time as the catepillar instantly became a simple pencil. Now for the hard part she thought.

Picking up her wand again she said, "Inanimus Finite" and the catepillar returned to it's original state.

Neva, bored, decides to be a little bit of a smart *** and adjust the colour of her pencil. " Technicular Introverta" she says and turns the pencil lumionous green with pink spots. " Technicular Introverta" , yellow with brown spots. " Technicular Introverta" purple with black stripes. " Technicular Introverta" rainbow coloured.

She decides that enough is enough and reverts the creature to its original form and creats a little fence so it doesn't wander off.

''what's wrong kemm''said Randver he then noticed the caatarpiller
on the desk''oh dear that's not good i don't think thas't suposed to happend uhhhmm it's ok it was not your foult don't be sad kemm
uuhhhmm the catarpiller would not want you to be sad uhhh im sure
if the catarpillar turned into a ghost its happy don't feel sad kemm''

Serena was amused. Already Professor Pride had managed to make an impression and a good one at that. As Serena had predicted, she was having no trouble keeping reign over her class. Rising from her seat, she walked over, waiting for a break in the group before scooping up a caterpillar. She wrinkled her nose slightly, not really caring for any types of insects, vertebrates or invertebrates.

Upon sitting, Serena removed her wand, repeating the words a few times in her head. Once she had accomplished the correct nonverbal reciting of the spell, she pointed her wand at the caterpillar and intoned. “Animaic Inanimus.” She watched as the caterpillar began to transform, but the process stopped soon, leaving a yellow pencil with a eraser end wiggling. Suppressing a giggle, Serena chanted “Inanimus Finite” and the caterpillar returned to its original form.

Trying to clear her mind of all thoughts, Serena waved her wand once more, repeating the spell. This time it worked. With a smile of relief, she changed the pencil back to a caterpillar. However, her delight was interrupted by the sound of someone bursting into tears. Looking over, she spotted a Ravenclaw who had apparently flicked her wand just a bit too hard. She glanced up at Professor Pride, wondering just what she would do.

Tag collected his caterpillar from the front desk, eyeing Professor Pride warily. She looked a bit shady. . he doubted she'd come about these caterpillars legally.

He sat back down next to Kemma, then watched, horrified, as she hacked the poor thing in two, sending guts flying every which way. Tag looked around wildly. What was this, some sort of insect torture chamber, hidden under the guise of education? Very quietly and carefully, Tag slipped his caterpillar into his pocket. There had to be some way to save them. . .

Mason went and got his Caterpillar. He sat down and tried the spell. "Animaic Inanimus". The Caterpillar wiggled strangely and turned yellow. He tried again "Animaic Inanimus". The Caterpillar grew longer.He tried again "Animaic Inanimus" The Caterpillar grew a Sharp point on his nose. He was discouraged. He decided to try one more time. "Animaic Inanimus" the Caterpillar made a "pop" sound and became a pencil. He looked at it shocked. He couldn't believe he did it. He looked at it closer and saw that it squirmed slightly. He didn't care. At least he had made a pencil. now how to change it back.

Marie walked at the teacher's desk & took a caterpillar. Then walked at her places. She try to concentrate a little, then tooked her wand & waved at it. She prononced the spell "Animaic Inanimus". First nothing happens. She didn't knew what she was doing wrong. She tooked a deep breath. Perhaps it was the way she was moving her wand. She try again & said "Animaic Inanimus", she said the spell with a more convinced voice. This time the spell seems to worked. The little caterpillar transformed into a cute muggles pen. She was very happy with herself. She had a huge smile. She decided to turned back the caterpillar. She flicked her wand above the pencil who was the little invertebre before & said "Inanimus Finite" & the caterpillar return to his true form.

She was extremely happy with herself. At least the practiced she had pay off.

Danni ran over as a small Ravenclaw girl burst into tears. "Its all right dear. Scorgify! I know you didnt mean it. Here try this one." as she spoke Danni handed her another caterpillar and while she wasnt looking put a charm on it so that the small bug was 'unsquishable'.

Getting to her feet she walked back to her desk and picked up the caterpillar she had been playing with earlier. She placed him on her shoulder and once again began to walk around the classroom. Spotting Tag slip his caterpillar into his pocket she leaned in behind him and whispered, "you can keep him if you manage the spell. If not... he can always join Snork here." she said grinning and pointing to the little green guy on her shoulder.

Connor felt a little silly, he'd never even known he was a wizard until last year, and now he was being taught spells.

The caterpillar he had gotten seemed fairly angry when the wand was pointed at him. "Animaic Inanimus" he said closing his eyes. When Connor open them, to his amazement a pencil was sitting on his desk. He'd done it... on the first try

Lisa Looked over just in time to watch this act and giggled silently. He was saving a caterpillar that would die before it got out of his pocket. She then looked proudly at her own pencil and wondered if she should sharpen it and use it in her classes... Would that hurt it? she wondered to herself and then raised her hand "Does this hurt the caterpillars at all?Can they feel anything??" She asked the professor.

Having mangaged to transform her caterpiller several times back and forth, Sylvia looked about the room, wondering if anyone needed help. Satisfied that everyone seemed to be doing alright, with the exception of Kemma who was recieving help at the moment, she picked up her text book and turned to a more interesting chapter, underlining and taking notes with her caterpencil...

Neva looked about the room and noticed Sylvia writing notes with her newly acquired pencil. She scribbles a note onto a piece of parchment :-

She floats the parchment to Sylvia with her wand and taps her on the shoulder with it.

Mason had managed to change the Caterpillar into a pencil and back with only the side affect of it still being bright yellow. He had no idea how to fix this so he waited for instructions.

"Nope, they cant feel a thing. Sort of like getting knocked out, one second everything goes blank, then the next your ok again." Danni said grinning.

Looking at another girl from her hou..erm.. Slytherin house she nodded and said, "Yep thats it! Now see if you can turn it back."

Si went and got his Caterpillar. He sat down looking over his notes tried the spell "Animaic Inanimus" and the Caterpillar became a pencil, then trying the turn the caterpillar back "Inanimus Finite", smiling Si looked around the class at the others

Kemma hiccuped a few times, trying to stop the flow of tears with big breathes. Wiping her eyes, she looked around and saw some of the other students staring. Taking the new caterpillar from Professor Pride, she felt immensely comforted. At least the professor hadn't yelled or called her a murderer or anything. She'd been positively nice, and Kemma had never needed that kindness more.

Catching Tag's eye, Kemma flushed and tears pooled in her eyes. She blinked them back. Somehow Tag being right there made is all so much worse.

Taking a big step back from her desk, Kemma practiced the spell with her wand out of caterpillar range. This time she used a lot less flick. Miraculously this seemed to work quite a bit better. With a suprising pop, the caterpillar was there one minute and a the next he was a pencil. Kemma gasped with consternation. It was almost as bad as killing him. This encouraged her to work twice as hard at turning him back into a caterpillar. He will survive. He will turn back into himself. He will, will, will!

And to her great relief, he did.