Hmmm, Transfiguration wasn't her most favorite subject in the world, but she wanted to see who the new Professor was. Mr. Kingsley Ruffles wasn't at the feast, so obviously there was someone new. Unfortunately.

Making her way into the classroom, the Slytherin took a quick glance around the room before spying the Professor. "Good day to you Professor." she smiled. That is, before her eyes spotted what was written on the board. Then there was a HUGE frown. WHA?! PFfft. Muggles.

Slumping into a seat, apparently not being able to sit in the back, she stared at the card on her desk for a moment before taking out her quill and ink. She was starting to miss using her funky and weird color quills.

Chloe walked into the Transfiguration classroom with her book in hand and a smile on her face. Any class other then potions was a good class in her book. As she walked by the professor she said, "Good morning professor", and then took a seat and saw te writing on the board. 'Muggle Assisting', that seems to be a trend this term even in potions as horrible as the method had been. This will better I hope. Chloe then noticed from the board that she wasto make a name tag and quickly did just that:

name tag: Chloe then waited patiently for class to start.

Transfiguration. Finally, Rowan thought to herself as she entered the room. "Hello Professor," she said as she passed by the desk, keeping her head down as usual. She walked to the back of the room, sat in an empty seat and proceeded to fill out her card:

Rowan Firestorm-Smithson
Second year
Ravenclaw

Yet another lesson. Chyler sighed as she strode into the class, her messenger bag slung across her body neatly as she turned to find a desk in the back of the class. Her features expression, the redhead made her way to the empty desk she had spotted and she carefully set her bag down before taking a seat and, after glancing at the board, wrote her details on the card.

Hmm. Her name looked quite all right with the Ravenclaw title. A rare smile crossed her face as her forest green eyes moved back up to the front of the classroom, eying the "Assisting Muggles" title before taking out her things. Let Transfiguration begin - she was ready. With a small sigh, she turned completely to the front and waited in silence for the lesson to start.

"If you're sure." Issy gave the boy a warm grin. She wasn't entirely sure she should trust that, given he looked about 10 degrees hotter than the rest of them. Maybe she should open the windows?

But anyway...

"Alrighty everyone!" Isabelle clapped her hand together and moved back towards her desk. The start. "Good morning, and thank you all for writing down your names, as you can see I am not Professor Kingsley," that was obvious, yes? "My name is Professor Magnus, your new Transfiguration teacher. And as this is the first lesson of term, and my first here as well, I thought we could start with a question that is relatively simple, before we move on to the lesson proper." Issy rolled up her sleeves and folded her arms again. Smiling she looked at each of the faces before speaking.

"Can you explain to me what Transfiguration is, please?"

Ohhhh transfiguration. New teacher right? Lets seee if the new one cold comepete wth the old one.Actually it was cool they had new teachers but then again Fee had liked the old ones. Making her way to a free seat the blonde swang a strand of hair of her shoulder.

Ah there was a piece of paper.Probably to write their names on,Just for the teacher to get to know them and their names. How awkward would it be if he couldnt address the student properly? Taking the paper and a pen the blonde wrote verything on it and smiled.

He was a little behind in following instruction and not wanting to fall behind any further than he was, he drew out his parchment and quill and quickly scribbled his information down.

As soon as that was done, he pushed it to the corner of his desk and finally took a survey of the room. Thats when his eyes caught the words on the board and he froze dead still. Another class. About muggles? About how magic could help them? That made a total of three classes bringing up muggles. And most having some sort of indication the muggle world could benefit from wizardry. Something was going on and he wouldn't end up being surprised if it had something to do with Gevrik. His eyes slowly went to Arya, but he didn't say anything, keeping his lips pressed tightly together.

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SImon Bennett
Gryffindor
6th Year

After writting down his information on the supplied card, Simon listened as the Professor began the class in ernest with a simply introduction. He took a moment to a mental note of the woman's name before raising a hand to answer her question. "Transfiguration would be the use of magic to change one thing to another," he replied before lowering his hand.

With pride, Evan wrote the prefect adjective in the boldest way possible before raising his hand to answer the question. Because the woman just needed to know that he was THE prefect, right? Hehe. Because he just had to point that out, as if it wasn't quite obvious from his shining badge over his robes. Hehehe.

Then, with hand in the air he said "Transfiguration is, by the simplest definition, chaging a material into another different one, either completely or partially." Better to start with easy, right?

Kita frowned. The question was quite simple, there was just the matter of phrasing it. And the problem that she might get it wrong. She took a deep breath and raised a hand. "Um... transfiguration is the art of changing the form or appearance of something, like an object..." she said, her voice tailing off, "Oh! And you can vanish objects as well." That made sense right?

Rowan raised her hand. "Transfiguration, Professor, is changing an object into a different object with the use of magic."

Hmm, yes, obviously she wasn't Professor Kingsley. Was the Slytherin saddened by this? No.

Well...maybe.

But that didn't matter. What mattered was the question the professor just asked, which also reminded her of Destiny for some reason, which she came to realize, she did not see. Then again, the girl did feel still half asleep. Eh. "Transfiguration..." she started, after raising her hand of course. "Is a branch of magic that changes the nature of an object one way or another." Or something.

Jake smiled back.

He was... sure.

When Magnus introduced herself to everyone, Jake smiled. She wasn't Kingsley, this was true... and Jake, for one, was glad. That dude had been such a pretentious...

ANYWHO!

Raising his hand, Jake spoke. "Well, it's not the exact definition, but Transfiguration includes turning one object into another, for either long-term or short-term. It also includes vanishing and conjuring things. But not everything can be conjured simply."

BAM.

The young man ran a hand through his hair as an act almost like desperation. It was so hot. BLAHHH. He undid the second button of his shirt, regretting the t-shirt he wore underneath.

So now his shirt and tie were all over the place and his hair was standing up on end in places. Nice.

Zane nodded to Evan, his prefect. "Evan's right, in it's basic definition it means to change something in some way. It could be as simple as changing hair or eye color, or as complex as a mouse to an elephant." You can do that right? Zane thought so.

Chyler thought for a moment. What was transfiguration? Change. To transfigure, to change? The redhead thought for a moment before raising her hand. "Transfiguration is the art of changing the appearance and or form of an object," she said, not being particularly bothered if her answer was wrong. True, it would bug her a bit but this question would not appear on her OWL - at least, she was almost sure it wouldn't - and therefore was not one she needed to stress over.

Lexi filled out her card, then raised her hand, "Professor, Transfiguration also conjures and vanishes things, not just change things from animate to inanimate or the appearance." That sounded like a bunch of gibberish. Clearly she had been spending too much time with Dakest... Odd boy.

Oh great. This should be good!She quickly raised her hand.''Transfiguration is the art of changing the form and appearance of an object and the vanishing of objects.''she sat down. She turned and saw everyone raising hands,knowing the answer. That was nice to see. She listened to them,taking some quick notes.

" Transfiguration is chaging one living creature or an object into a different
living creature or object.Rex told the professor. "Example" Changing a rabbit- nice and innocent animal into a lion- king of the jungle" Rex explained to the professor.

With her arm raised, hand barely twinkling and trying to make it taller than usual, Annie answered the first question. "Transfiguration," she sighed trying to take some breath in order to complete her sentence, "...is the art of changing the form of objects, their appearance, and why not, disappear them..." She ended and took her hand down. It was not a very original answer, but it was a definition you seriously had to know since you were first introduced into magic, right?

Rocking his chair back and forward one last time before Hyun stopped and Balanced on all four. He raised his left hand in the air upon hearing the question. "Transfiguration is changing the form and shape of objects and/or animals" he lowered his hand down and continued to rock his chair again.

Effy hesitantly raised her hand, "Transfiguration is the art of changing the form and appearance of an object and umm it can include vanishing and conjuring objects." She was pretty sure she remembered the definition right; she had read this in her textbook right before class.

Arya was too busy STARING at the heading on the board, she almost missed all the commotion around her. All the students filling in, and greeting been given out. She didn't miss Sabel joining her though, and sent him a smile. It was only when the class finally started did she finally turn her attention to the professor. The hand clapping helped. Heh.

The first question was an easy one, and one she didn't really care to answer as she wanted to get on to the part about muggles, and how they could assist them. Especially with the statute. She'd caught the look that Sabel had given her, and returned it with a look of her own. Yea. This was going to be another interesting lesson for sure.

Slowly she let her gaze turn from the rest of the class and listened to their responses. Mind still not all there.

Ahh, the first answer. Isabelle smiled in the Gryffindor's direction. "Very simply put, Mr Bennett. And that is indeed one part of Transfiguration, yes." But not the only part. Who would get all of it?

"That is correct, Mr Cartwright." But still not the complete answer. Maybe she should have phrased the question to include the whole of the subject?

"Vanishing! Yes, most certainly, Miss Lewis. Not just changing the appearance of something, but vanishing it as well. Good." Issy smiled at the Hufflepuff. One other form down, which was left?

"That is part of what it is yes. Correct." More smiling. So much so, Issy was beginning to get face ache. Not that it could be helped.

"Indeed it is, Miss Flores-Shepard." Hmm, double barrelled, and smart too. Very good.

"Ahhh, Jake. Yes Transfiguration does indeed cover conjuring as well." The piece she was looking for. Now they had all been said. Her class was SMART.

"A mouse to an elephant? A little more complex than we'll be doing today, but yes I suppose you could do that." Not that she'd ever tried. No space for it. Issy smiled, before moving onto the next answer.

"That is correct. Partially, as I said before." With a nod, she moved back around her desk towards the board as she listened to the next answer.

"Absolutely right, Miss Denver." Isabelle smiled at the class and clasped her hands together.

"That is correct, yes." Another smile accompanied the reply. So many children all speaking at once.

"You could do that, Mr Trigwell, but I'm not sure a lion at Hogwarts would be allowed. Apart from the Gryffindors of course." Isabelle grinned at the boy, before moving on.

"Yes, Miss Robles. You are correct." They all were. A very good bunch she had here.

"Correct Mr Kim," Issy smiled, eyeing what he was doing. "And please try not to break the chair just yet." She didn't want to repair anything right that second.

And the last answer before they moved onto something else - "That is exactly right, Miss O'Reilly."


"You are all correct, of course. Transfiguration itself is basically changing the appearance of an object, person or animal. Then you have vanishing, switching and conjuration, which all fall under the same heading." Flicking her wand the chalk by the blackboard rose in the air and hovered waiting for something to write. As Isabelle wiped off the instructions for them to write their names, she got the chalk to add the following: GAMP'S EXCEPTIONS.

"Now before I set the question that will kick start the actual lesson, and get your brains being all creative, I would like to make sure you know what the five exceptions to Gamp's Laws of Transfiguration are. Can anyone tell me? One answer each please."

Rowan had NO idea so she listened and took notes as some of the other students answered.

The quidditch captain smiled back as the professor accepted his answer, writing down any notes provided by the others he thought was usefil. "Food can not be created from nothing but can be duplicated," Simon replied supplying the first exception he remembered. Strictly speaking he remembered for all the times he needed to remind Josh of that fact when he was his usual hungry self.