Nataly was great! When Sara was a teenager, she wanted to be just like her. Nothing seemed to fuss her. If it didn't work, she just pretended it did and fixed it. Sara wondered how she could transform her things into marble too?

Finally, looking at her peep with great concentration, Sara said: "Duro!" The peep turned instantly into stone. Well, it wasn't pretty, but at least the spell had worked!

Trying the counter curse, Sara concentrated, jabbed and said: "Flexi!" Not bad Sara thought, She'd turned half of it back into a peep!

Abigail was about to give up on turning the peep to stone, in fact she was sick of looking at the thing. Deciding to give it one last go before leaving the class, she jabbed her wand at the marshmallow whilst concentrating and said clearly “DURO”...and the thing actually turned to stone! After all of that she’d finally managed ‘well I defiantly don’t want to eat it anymore, which is probably why’.

With a quick “FLEXI” the peep turned to its natural form and after finally mastering the spell she decided to stay and try it a few more times.

He laughed at the second yellow/red peep, ''Exactly!'' he nodded again. ''Weren't you listening? Professor said we could leave right after complating the practicing'' He poked the glowing peep and murmured ''Duro'' turning it into a stone. ''And this will make my last...'' he checked the stone peep whether everwhere of it was equally stiffened. It seemed alriht except a little spot which slightly had the yellow colour. ''I think i'm getting it...thanks to you'' he smiled at her and poked the peep again ''Flexi'' the peep was red and yellow. ''Looks fine'' he examined the marshmallow again. ''I think i'm done with this duro-ing and flexi-ing stuff'' he sighed ''I really need to eat something!''

Lucille watched the bot work, rather impressed. When it cam to her turn, she bit her lip and furrowed her brow at the feather, as if it had done her some harm.

She gripped her wand and pointed it towards the feather.

"Duro!" she muttered. Her voice shook, and noting happened. She narrowed her eyes and pursed her lips, angry at it.

"Duro!" she said, louder this time.

The feather quivered slightly and turned slightly grey. She poked it.

It was not feather, and it was not stone, but somewhere inbetween. Hmmm.

"Duro!" she cried, jabbing her wand a little harder. The feather turned a harder grey. She smiled.

"Flexo!" she said with the same amount of force as before. The feather reverted to its feather-stone self. She muttered the incantation one more time to ensure that it was full - feather, and smiled to herself once more.

"I didn't really do anything." Evelyn mumbled, putting everything back into her bag and standing up. "Eat the peeps if you're so hungry." she laughed, sticking her wand in her pocket and then leaned forward on the table so she could whisper to Josh, looking serious. "Don't let the professor see the spoon. Don't want to get into trouble." she suddenly smiled mischievously slightly. "C'mon. Let's go."

''Okay, no problemo, just leave it to Josh, Master of...'' he stopped ''...whatever, there's no need to mention that now'' he threw the spoon along with the two peeps into his bag careful not to be spotted by the professor. ''They are safe here!'' he told confidently and walked out the classroom with her.

"Congratulations." Nataly smiled at the younger girl. She was really good in Transfiguration for a first year.
Sara's peep was yellow. "Marshellow!!" she couldn't restrain herself and licked her lips. She had an obsession with sweets, but she didn't eat much because there was really much fat there.
"Erm...never mind." she said, embrassed. "It's my turn to turn the peep back."
She aimed her wand on the peep, concentrating on diffrent kinds of sweets. "Flexi!"
Her peep turned into a colorfull lolipop.
"Ooops." she managed to say before she started laughing uncontrollably.

Rafe's hysterical laughs gave it all away, Arianna was so furious she could have kicked him in that instant " You think this was funny?!" she said, ignoring his imitation of her voice " I wish the professor had heard, maybe he could take that snobby-know-it-all look from your face!" she raised her nose to the ceiling and slapped the hand he had on her shoulder, looking mad.

She looked at the girls defending her, and discussing either or not, to tell the professor, and she quickly stood up for Rafe, after all.. well, she wasn't really angry " No no, there's no need for that, Rafe and I.. well, we're friends, I'll get back at him at no time, no need to .. take care of me" she said, a little sharply ending the discussion, she didn't enjoy people thinking she couldn't take care of herself, reminded her of her sisters too much. She added a awkward smile, after all she wasn't trying to be rude.

She turned to Rafe with narrow eyes " And you, doggy boy" she said, refering to that day back at Diagon Alley " I'll take your advise on that reading books stuff, and I'll try them all on you!" she said poking him on the chest as she noticed him ruffling his hair. That's new.. she thought, throwing her braided hair back and pointing her wand at her, now, normal sized feather and saying " Duro!", which turned the feather into a perfect stone feather. Apparently, determination and anger made her control her wand better.

Kita agreed to the spoon and walked to the space where they were working before. "The unicorn will be a bit harder to turn into stone but it'll be a bit more interesting," she said. She saw Kay turning the spoon into stone and rose up to the challenge. Kita looked at the spoon and tried to stop thinking about food. She closed her eyes, took a deep breath, opened them again and said, "Duro!" The spoon seemed to changed and she smiled. She touched it and found it to be stone cold. Perfect. She muttered the counter curse and looked at how Marie was doing. "Wow!" she said when the stuffed animal turned to stone. "Well done Marie! That's brilliant!" Kita agreed with packing up and went to put the spoon away. She got back and packed up her things. "You're welcome. Thanks for being my partners! See you!" she said to Marie and Kay. She was just about to head out when she turned back and decided to wait for Kay...

"Good job" Tavelon said. "Do you want to move on to the other objects? Or should we stick with feathers for now?"

Sara didn't know what to do or say to Nataly...a lollipop... how in the world had Nataly been able to turn a marble peep into a lollipop? Sara couldn't help herself. She exploded with laughter!

"Well," Sara smirked at Nataly, "a lollipop is definately better for a sweet tooth than a puny peep!"

Then... concentrating on on her half stone peep, Sara pointed her wand at it once again, said,"Flexi" and with a satisfied grin...ate her peep.

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LouAnn lightly laughed at all the compliments he was giving her. She wasn't used to being complimented so much. She was just plain, ordinary LouAnn---the girl with a weird last name who moved around way too much for her own good. The truth was, LouAnn was afraid she'd struggle at Hogwarts since she hadn't been to a proper school in quite some time.

"Me? Bloody wicked and bright? Hmm...," she remarked. "I've been home-schooled for the past two years. I imagine I'm at least a year behind those in my year." She shrugged, then headed to the front of the room to dig through the box that housed the ordinary household items. She returned a few moments later with a small, plastic bowl. "Let's try our luck with this. I'll turn it into stone, and you can change it back." She raised her wand towards the bowl and then jabbed it forwards. "Duro!" The bowl made a half spin, then promptly stopped and turned to stone.

"I wouldn't say that you're behind, it just requires training and bit of extra reading, I love to read! I've actually been studying a bit ahead, maybe we could study sometime? I mean, we're both in the same boat, new to the whole magic stuff and we're both Gryffindors so we would see each other a lot," Rafe said with a smile. He felt like he just made a new friend. She may be older and had a feeling would be much more popular in a couple of months, but there's nothing wrong with being friends, even if she was a girl. Plus, she knew Jack so she couldn't be too bad.

Rafe looked at the bowl. "Hmm..." he took in a deep breath and completely focused, "Flexi!" he said as he jabbed the bowl and it wobbled a bit and turned back to normal. Rafe spotted a cricket in the corner, chirping away, he hated that sound. And that sparked an idea! Rafe went over and grabbed the cricket and put it under the bowl. "We could try it on this little guy!" Rafe said excitedly. "The professor says its a bit of a challenge to use live objects. Wanna try?"

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Rafe's hysterical laughs gave it all away, Arianna was so furious she could have kicked him in that instant " You think this was funny?!" she said, ignoring his imitation of her voice " I wish the professor had heard, maybe he could take that snobby-know-it-all look from your face!" she raised her nose to the ceiling and slapped the hand he had on her shoulder, looking mad.

She looked at the girls defending her, and discussing either or not, to tell the professor, and she quickly stood up for Rafe, after all.. well, she wasn't really angry " No no, there's no need for that, Rafe and I.. well, we're friends, I'll get back at him at no time, no need to .. take care of me" she said, a little sharply ending the discussion, she didn't enjoy people thinking she couldn't take care of herself, reminded her of her sisters too much. She added a awkward smile, after all she wasn't trying to be rude.

She turned to Rafe with narrow eyes " And you, doggy boy" she said, refering to that day back at Diagon Alley " I'll take your advise on that reading books stuff, and I'll try them all on you!" she said poking him on the chest as she noticed him ruffling his hair. That's new.. she thought, throwing her braided hair back and pointing her wand at her, now, normal sized feather and saying " Duro!", which turned the feather into a perfect stone feather. Apparently, determination and anger made her control her wand better.

Rafe looked over at Ari once more, waiting for LouAnn's answer.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, what was that?" he pointed to Ari's shoulder, "I think a piece of ice just chipped off, that was cold!" Rafe said in reference to her "snobby-know-it-all" comment. Rafe laughed a little.

Rafe loved it that Ari stood up for him. That was a sign of a true friend. And she did have a point she didn't need anyone to take care of her, she was a tough girl. "I couldn't have said it better myself!" Rafe said as he put his arm around her shoulder once more. "Us, Racketeers have to stick together!"

Rafe quickly removed his arm from her shoulder as soon as she called him "doggy boy." Rafe figured she didn't mean it intentionally, how could she possibly know? But, it made him feel uncomfortable a little and frankly, upset. His whole demeanor seemed to change. He was worried about speaking cause he knew he would sound like a jerk. Sparks came from the tip of his wand. He shook his head, a bit like an animal did when they were drying off. He just needed to snap out of it.

He watched as Arianna changed the feather completely to stone. "Good job Little Italy," he said a little more cheerfully. "Would you like to join me and LouAnn? We're thinking of changing a cricket to stone!"

"That's right." Nataly smirked back after she finished laughing and started licking hungrily her lolipop.
She aimed her wand at the feather, this time determinded to do it right. "Flexi!"
Hal of the marble was still a feather, but it was better than the first time, so she was satisfied.

Kay started to pack up her things. "Thanks Marie for your help. That unicorn thing was brilliant like Kita said. Tell your friend Arianna that we only wanted to help." She said as she pick up her bag. "Class was different to say the least." Kay waved her hand at Marie and run to catch up with Kita. "Was that class something or what?" she said. "I so hungry lets go" Kay said to Kita with smile. Kay thought until next class, Marie. Kay really want to talk to Kita about Marie acting the way she did. Something wasn't right and she couldn't put her finger on it.

"You too," said Lucille, blushing slightly. "Erm..i don't really mind. What do you think?" wow, she was indecisive. "Erm, should we try something else, or...er...you chose."

STOP IT! she told herself. BE NORMAL!

Ana was distracted playing with the feather, well actually trying to tickling herself, and like everybody knows that is kinda difficult. Sunddely the teacher gave them new instruction, so she decided to try to work on the feather and quick.

Ana pointed her wand and said "Duro!" nothing, it would be too much to ask this to work at the first time. "Duro!" she said again this time the feather turn hard... like a stone. "Flexi!" Ana said pointing the wand right to the feather and it turned to its original state.

Time for something more consistent she said heading to the boxes.

"Yeah," Kita agreed. "That class was totally different! It was so cool, though!" She smiled back at Kay and said, "Yeah. I was getting really hungry in that class." She noticed Kay thinking about something and was about to say something when she decided to drop it and ask later. Or if Kay wanted to ask her, then she'll ask in her own time. Kita followed Kay out of the door and towards the Great Hall...

Carter continued trying to to turn objects to stone. "Duro." he said jabbing toward the feather with his wand. He smiled as it harded. YES!!

"Oooh." Ema nodded in understandingness. "That makes sense...thank you." she thought a little bit. "Just another quick question though, if you don't mind, Professor...when someone or something living is turned to stone, is he, she or it aware that they have been turned to stone? Do their brains still function? Can they see with their eyes and understand the situation? Or are they just as any old block of stone?" Either way it would be a shame. On one hand, they would know what was going on and be able to think and see and stuff, but on the other hand, they would be tormented by it.

"And if they were able to think and stuff while they were turned into stone, would they be able to produce a unspeakable spell thingy to change themselves back?" she asked.

Tiberius skipped to the front and grabbed a peep and, rummaging through the box of miscellany, a ball of yarn.

Setting the peep on the table, Tibi paced backward from it, imagining it turning to stone. He imagined the change in appearance, texture, weight and consistency. Brandishing his wand, he gave a quick jab and cried, "Duro!" With a soft 'pop' the peep had taken on the appearance of stone. Walking over to it, Tibi picked it up and noticed that it was, indeed, like stone. Smiling, he whispered a happy 'I'm getting the hang of this!' to himself and place the peep back down. "Flexi!" And just like that, the peep was back to normal. Sticking it in his pocket for later, Tibi turned to the ball of yarn.

He thought about just turning the ball as it was.. but then he thought about how it might look if he made a SHAPE with the yarn and then turned that shape to stone. Unraveling a large portion of the yarn into an abstract web of sorts, Tibi stepped back and prepared to practice the spell again.

He thought about how the yarn would look as a stone abstract piece of art as he jabbed. "Duro!" Walking back over to it, Tibi scrunched his face. The effect was cool, but he didn't quite like how a few pieces were laying. Realizing he could reverse the spell and try again, he smiled. "Flexi!" Once the yarn was re-shapeable, Tibi placed it how he thought it would look better. Concentrating once more... "Duro!" There, that was amazing.

Tibi frowned. He'd have to turn it back and put the yarn back in the box even though he wished he could keep it. But in the meantime, he thought he'd let it sit and enjoy a peep. Popping the marshmellow in his mouth, he wondered whether it was just his imagination or if it did taste a little like sand...

When it came to Transfiguration, Daphne didn't really have much of an ambition. Large household items like a toaster or a blender weren't things she had any plans on practicing on. She'd start small; with a butter-knife for example.

Clearing her throat, Daphne shook her wand arm before patting her cheeks for non-existent sweat. Pointing at the silverware, Daphne raised a challenging brow. "Duro."

And I dare you not to turn to stone butter-knife.

But it did turn to stone, and for that the blond was thankful. Not so bad. Not so bad.

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"And if they were able to think and stuff while they were turned into stone, would they be able to produce a unspeakable spell thingy to change themselves back?" she asked.

"No, they would not," Svensson replied.

"All right, everybody," Professor Svensson clapped his hands to get the attention of the remainder of the class. "That's enough practicing. Off you go, and I'll post the homework on my bulletin board as soon as I put these desks back." The transfiguration professor shooed the students out the door and shut the door behind them.