Alice was excited for Transfiguration. She had no idea if she'd be very good at it, but she was looking forward to it anyway.

"Hi Professor Kingsley. How are you?" Alice hadn't gotten a chance to meet him yet, so she was looking forward to introducing herself.

Taking out a piece of parchment Alice wrote down her name and year for the professor:

Alice Page
First Year Gryffindor
Example of practical use: transforming a bigger object (like a book) into something smaller (a rock or pebble) in order to save space, or hide if you need to

Renesemee walked into class "Good Day Professor. How are you?" She aske as she took her seat. She took off her bag and pulled out her scarf. It was her favoirte and it looked like a little brown dog.

Iris walked into the Transfiguration classroom feeling less than happy and stinking of Hot Chocolate. Normally, she'd be able to enjoy her hot chocolate in the morning without getting it all down her front.

But nutcase owls don't usually fly RIGHT into her, thus knocking her mug over.

She didn't have time to go and change though, so she had to just use a cleaning charm to get rid of the hot chocolate. The smell wouldn't go away though. GAHH. The prefect gave a smile to the Professor, "G'mornin' Professor!" She said, as she went to find her usual seat.

Then, she took her quill, ink and parchment out of her bag. Following the professors instructions, Iris began to scribble down the needed information on her parchment.

Name: Iris Beaumont
House and Year: Slytherin, 5th Year
An example of a practical use of transfiguration: Turning a hedgehog into a pin cushion.

Setting her quill down, Iris opened her bag and pulled her scarf out. No, she didn't have a Slytherin scarf with her. It was just a plain, white scarf. very fluffy and wooly. Hehe. Iris put the scarf down on her desk, and then polded her arms, waiting for the class to start.

Amy walked into the classroom "Hello Professor" she said cheerfully as she made her way to a desk
She pulled out some parchment and wrote

She placed her Emerald colored striped scarf onto her desk and waited for class to start

Salander entered the classroom slightly huffing. Sixth floor class.... huh. Why arent they all on the ground floor again? he mused as he exhaustively took a seat.

He looked at the board and started to fill in the answers, pausing at the last note and scribbling in a response....

Rubiey bounced into the Transfiguration classroom. She couldn't wait to start transfiguring stuffs. "Gooooooood morning, Professor Kingsley." She said brightly, taking a seat. She pulled out some neatly rolled parchment, her quill and began to write.

"I have an extra scar if you want to borrow it.'' She pulled out the scarf "Its black and its got bats on it"

Adelyn walked into the classroom. MEEP! She was so excited! She signed on a piece of parchment--



She set down her scarf and said to the proffesor- she didn't know his name.. "Hi proffesor! How are you today?" she asked grining.

"Good morning," he said kindly.

The kind look did not remain as he dealt with the Ravenclaw. One more stern look, and no response, though he registered the hesitance before the 'sir.'

Honestly, who taught these children manners?

Preston smiled at the first year, before moving on.

"Very well," he said, making mental note about the name.

Two Miss Shepards, then. And almost always together.

Interesting.

"Hello, Miss Lovegoods!" Preston took note of her enthusiasm as he moved by.

Preston watched another student make her way in.

And another.

The class was filling up nicely.

"And good morning to you," he replied.

[B]"Ah, Mister Kururugi. Welcome."

"I'm quite well, thank you for asking. And you?"

"I am well. And you?"

"Good day, Miss Beaumont," he said as he passed by.

"Good morning. We'll be starting soon."

Preston continued greeting students as they came in. "I am doing well. And you? How is 'it going,' to use the youthful colloquial?

Preston took note of the huffing Slytherin. Quite a haul from the dungeons, though if you left enough time, one could take it leisurely.

"Hello," he said, raising an eyebrow at her bouncing.

Preston gave a nod before moving back to the front of the room.

Preston smiled. "I'm quite well. Go take your seat and we can begin."


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"Welcome to Transfiguration! Let's begin!"

Preston Kingsley clapped his hands sharply once, to draw attention to the front of the room.

"I am Professor Kingsley and I will be your instructor. Some of you have written rather interesting things on your parchments, and, returning students, I must remind you that Gamp's Laws have not ceased to exist since last term. Please remember that when you are hypothesizing about possible transfigurations."

Clasping his hands behind his back, he continued. "New students, some of you have great imagination, but unfortunately some of what you suggested is not possible. I won't lecture today on Gamp or the Principle Exceptions, but do remember than you cannot create food. You can only multiply it once you have some. You cannot create or duplicate money. You cannot create love. You cannot create life or reverse death. You cannot create items with magical properties."

Flicking his wand at the board, the list of things you cannot do with Transfiguration wrote themselves on the board.

"That said, today we will be focusing on what you can do." He began to pace. "I had a different series of courses planned over the summer, but the events of the Triwizard Tournament have altered my plans some."

Stopping at the top of the circle of desks, he crossed his arms in front of his chest. "It was suggested to me that Transfiguration was not a practical discipline mostly. After all, why would you need to turn a matchstick into a needle? Or a rat into a water goblet? Or a chicken into a pillow?"

"What might be some everyday useful applications of transfiguration? How can transfiguration make your life easier?"

Raising his hand, he replies "Well, sir if you needed for instance a needle and didn't have one, but had a match, or a small stick, or whatever was close, you could transfigure the item into what you need."

"It's not necessarily just because you want to transfigure something for fun. Most likely it's because we'll need to use transfiguration for something we need."

Alice smiled back at the Professor. "I'm doing well also."


Alice took out her notebook and copied down the list that appeared on the board.



"Well Professor, I read somewhere that some statues can be transfigured into actual creatures. Perhaps if you had a rabbit statue and there was a small space in your house you couldn't get through or you needed to get under, you could just transfigure the statue, and have it go under and get it for you. For example a rabbit statue?"

Hand up in the air, with scarf and everything. "But what if you only had a chicken and wanted to sleep, but didn't want anyone to steal that chicken, huh? The best you could do is turn it into a pillow...no one will steal the chicken, then" for some odd reason his eyes were to that Slytherin girl, the one friends with the Giraffe.

Chicken. Ha.

The hand was still in the air, one may want to tell Treyen that it isn't necessary to stay up the whole time he answered, "It depends on what you need at the moment and what you have...like the chicken example, though I'm not sure how many people will be under such circumstances" hand down.

Kurumi was bubbling on the inside as the professor began class. She had been waiting all year for Transfiguration and the day was finally here. Adjusting her name plate an moving her scarf a little more to the right, Kurumi raised her hand to answer the professor's question.

"Kurumi Hollingberry, Professor," she said as a brief introduction. "Use of a Switching Spell could be very useful. Being able to switch the intended target with another item of the caster's choice could perhaps even save your life."

Nia raised her hand. "You can transfigure yourself, right?" she partly asked. She thought one could, but since she'd never actually done it yet...

"So then, if you lost an earring down the back of a sofa and you couldn't reach it, you could transfigure yourself so you could reach it. Either into a small creature, or just make your arm thinner so you could fit it down the gap."

Seeing movement at the corner of his eye, the lad turned his head to face a young Puff then smiled at the rather amusing scarf design "Oh hey thanks for this kiddo! Whats your name?" he mumbled quietly.


Everyday applications? Salander thought about a usual predicament he seems to find himself when he eats "Well, when you have so many spoons and you need to cut into a nice piece of steak, we can just transfigure one of those spoons into a knife. "

"Good, sir" she said " Some everyday use of transfiguration might be to turn a spoon to a fork"

"Your welcome" she said as she handed the scarf to the Slytherin, "My name is Renesmee but everyone calls be Nessa. Whats your name?"

Danika raised her hand, gracefully, for she wanted to address some of the things the Professor just said.

"I do not know vhether you think it true..." the Transfiguration being not a practical discipline stuff, "...vut I disagree, for as much as theory can be over helpful, ve get novhere if practice does not take part in it, and I find that practice allovs less mistakes vhen dealing vith Transfiguration" especially the human part, it was much more successful if one practiced, otherwise it could turn out to be a rather chaotic experiment.

And now, Transfguration making life easier. "I do not think it makes it easier...it is more, like, current" yes, the explanation is coming, "Vy transfiguring an object into something ve need now, it saves time. It saves present time, vut not for long. That is why is current, vecause the effects eventually go avay" the hand was down, she'll leave the examples for the Hogwartians.

As Professor Kingsley began class, Emmaleigh gave him her attention. So, there were thing you couldn't do with Transfiguration? well, her example seemed to fall into the acceptable end of the spectrum. As the information appeared on the board, Emmaleigh began taking careful notes.



So, how was transfiguration useful? She tried to think about where she might be able to use it in her every day life. "Transfiguration would be practical if you're on holiday and realize you forgot something at home. You wouldn't be able to summon it because then in would fly through the air over muggle towns right?" She was pretty sure she had read that some where. "So you could just transfigure something into your favorite sweater, or a pair of boots or what ever it was you forgot. But, as long as its not magical." she added quickly.


Then, she heard one of the older students answer, and chose to add to it. "You could just transfigure a pebble or something into an earring. It would probably be easier than turning yourself into an animal. Although, not as cool." she admitted. "But then, you could just preform the summoning spell too."

Kellen put his hand up, "Transfiguration can also make your life easier by turning something that is bothering you into an item that is either inconsequential or beneficial. If your lawn is covered in weeds, for example, you could use transfiguration spells to change those weeds to flowers, or to water."

Amy raised her hand "well if your shirt got all ripped you could transfigure it into a brand new shirt I suppose"