Kurumi immediately felt sick to her stomach when Sierra spoke. It wouldn’t feel good!? Kurumi suddenly lost all desire to cast the spell on Buta and she flopped back in her seat while the cat attempted to roll over onto its side. Being too fat, the cat merely flailed its paws in the air and its bellow wiggled like a bowl of jelly.

Biting her lower lip and looking like a small puppy that had just been kicked, she turned her gaze towards Sierra when she offered to transfigure Buta. “T-T-Thank you for the offer…b-b-but I really should do my own work,” she mumbled as she breathed in and out heavily. She would just have to be EXTRA careful with the spell so as not to hurt the fat cat.

Just as Kurumi was about to test her luck, Kurumi heard a POOF sound and the next thing she knew Sierra’s cat had vanished.

Or so she thought.

Squeaking LOUDLY, Kurumi saw the white cotton ball remains of what she assumed had been the cat. In her panic, she failed to see a hat transfigured on the table by Sierra and began flailing her arms around like a windmill before crouching on the ground beside Buta. “I-I-I promise I won’t turn you into a cotton ball,” she whimpered as she scratched the feline behind the ears.

She shot a quick glance back towards Sierra and felt all the color in her face wash away. She was going to faint…Sierra had KILLED a cat! The assignment was to turn it into a HAT not KILL it!

Standing up again, Kurumi picked up the ball of fur and wibbled some more. “M-May you rest in peace,” she said as she petted, yes petted, the fur. She would give the cat a proper burial after class.

Kurumi then looked back at Buta and continued to chew on her bottom lip. She was NOT going to turn him into a cotton ball. She wasn't even sure that he COULD turn into something that small to be honest.

Taking out her wand now, Kurumi pointed it at the cat - who was still trying to roll onto its side - and waved her wand. "Fera verto," she whimpered as an oddly colored light errupted from her wand and wrapped itself around the cat. Kurumi hear a similar popping noise and what lay before her was a melted version of what resembled a graduation cap with Buta's tail being the tassle.

MERLIN! SHE HAD MELTED THE CAT!

NOOO!

HEDIDN'TEXPECTTHEMTOTURNTHEIRCATSINTOHATS... now did he?

... apparently he did.

Helena looked at Ezra (yes, she wanted to call her cat Ezra) with a terrible expression on her face. As if Shaw was making them... kill their cats. But they'll turn them back, right? And if Shaw didn't tell them how, she'll figure it out on her own.

"Please forgive me," the girl mumbled and closed her eyes, as she pointed her wand at her new feline friend. "Fera Verto."

Now... she had to open her eyes... eventually. To see the result.

Oh.

Her hat was black, of course, and had a single white patch, since Ezra had a white paw. And the hat had... a black tail.

HERHATHADATAIL.

"Shaw?" Helena barely found her voice. "How can we turn them back?"

'Sorry, Maxine!' Rose told her sleeping cat. Right think of a hat... I keep getting the vulture one in my head so sure! 'Fera Verto!' Rose commanded and Maxine turned into the vulture hat! 'Eep! I did it! Wait, how do I turn her back?! I'm sorry Maxine!' Rose told her cat/hat. Whilst waiting though she put the hat on her head. 'Where the heck did I get this idea from?' Rose asked herself. Meow! 'Oh, it didn't completely work... Fera Verto! There we go!'

Simon looked at the Professor, he wanted them to turn it into a hat that was rubbish, why not a chainsaw or something even better, Simon smiled as he looked at Professor Shaw. "Professor do we have to turn it into a hat or can we change it into something better." Simon was trying to think or something cool. "Like a cauldron?"

Selina drew her wand from her holster per Shaw's request and stared at her frozen cat. The little bugger had been quite bored with her when she was enchanting it to freeze. Now she was just annoyed at the thing who treated Selina like she was unimportant. With a smile on her face she said easily, "Fero Verto!"

The cat even frozen seemed to get a smirk on its face when the spell didn't work the first time. Trying once more she said, "Fero Verto." Then the cat started to bubble oddly. It moved and twisted and contorted into a hat. The hat was ugly, but it was a hat none-the-less.

She smiled but then her face fell when she heard Sierra say something to Kurumi. Her eyes darted to the scene and she rolled her eyes. It was sad how jealous Sierra was of Kurumi. She would say something, but Selina had a terrible temper. Sometimes it was better to not even get her started.

Chloe really was not so sure about this. Turning a living breathing being into an inatmate object of any kind seemed rather cruel. She debated whether she would attempt such a thing at all. She had read it did not hurt the animal but she was still not so sure. Even so she was in class and knew this was the task. Thus she took a deep breath and concentrated on turing the poor feline into a hat and pointed her wand at the cat. "FERA VERTO". She saw the cat go stiff as the transformation began. She really could hardly concentrate thinking of how wrong this is. The hat formed but it had cat legs and was walking. "Eeeeeep", Chloe exclaimed and jumped away from the walking hat. She really did not want to try it again, she really did not like this.

Ariadne couldn't help but giggle when Josh, the Gryffindor troublemaker received 10 points from Shaw. That was fantastic, and the girl was genuinely happy, since she and Josh were housemates, after all. But now for the hard part. They had to transfigure their cats into hats. Ari liked both cats and hats, but she was worried about turning one into the other. Sure, the incantation was easy enough, but what if the cat woke up? Trying to ignore the sickening feeling she had, the girl eyed the sleeping form of her cat and prepared to do the spell, but her voice trembled when the cat moved a bit in its sleep. She got a hat, all right, but it still had a cat's tail. OH NO! This was BAD.
'Shaw, what do I do now?!?' the girl asked in a very panicky voice.

Holy Hippogriff and a Blast-Ended Skrewt!

Kurumi watched in utter HORROR as her melted cat began swishing his tail back and forth before letting out a meow that sounded like a cat being run over with a steam engine. She shook her head and tried not to cry at the image that popped into her head. Trying not to take any more awkward glances towards Sierra, Kurumi swish and flicked her wand towards Buta as she tried to remember his appearance before her looked like an elephant had stepped on him. "Reverto!" she squeaked and soon the cat had morphed back to its original state.

Why was it that every time she tried a spell out she always managed to melt something? She really should ask someone about this. Something with the manner in which she was focusing perhaps?

Observing Buta for a moment, Kurumi tried to think of something to help her focus. What SORT of hat did she want to turn him into not that she really wanted to transfigure him to behind with. After a few pensive moments, Kurumi pointed her wand at the small horse of a cat and took one very deep breath. "Fera verto," she said in a much calmer, but at the same time much stronger, voice.

Once again there was a loud POP! and Buta began to glow and melt, but this time not into a flatten kitty on the floor but into the most ridiculous looking hat she had ever seen. It wasn't the nature of the hat, per say, since she had been wanting to make a cowboy hat, but the sheer size of it.

Kurumi picked it up off the ground and set it on her head. Her head, being rather small, was quickly devoured by the hat and Kurumi found herself unable to see anything. She did have a WHOLE LOT OF cat to work with.

Ariella looked down worriedly at her cat sleeping peacefully. "We'll be changing them back, right?" she asked. Oh well. She knew the reverse spell. Even if Shaw wasn't going to teach them it, she would put her cat back to its original state after class.

She nervously took out her wand. Thinking hard about a hat, she swished her wand while saying the words loud and clear. "Fera Verto!" she said firmly. The cat started to transform slowly. It was soon a black fedora, with specks of white fur poking out at certain angles. Uh oh.

rachel nervously looked down at her evil cat, she really hoped it went right, "Fera Verto!" she said pointing her wand at it. Slowly the cat began to transform into a black hat, with a crooked top. It had odd white patches dotted around it. "We are going to transform them back, aren't we?" she asked sheepishly.

When Thea placed the cat onto her desk, Maleficent simply just sat glaring at the firstie, jerking her tail back and forth. Thea raised her eyebrows. It's as if she knows what I'm going to do?!?! She was thinking to herself.. Weirdo cat!

Picking up her wand, she began the wand movements for the spell. It seemed easy enough. Placing her wand back down, she cleared her throat and said out loud: 'Fera verto!' loudly and clearly. When it was stuck in her head, she turned back to the kitty. She was still just sitting there. Well.. he hadn't said anything about not doing it when it was still awake..
Mer, here we go then.
Swishing her wand, Thea called out 'Fera verto!' The effect was instant. Maleficent was no longer sitting infront of her.. now there was a white hat... Sweet lord..
SHE HAD DONE IT! Ahaaaa! Leaning forward, Thea inspected her hat. It seemed to be vibrating angrily a bit.. but apart from that all seemed well. Heheh.
Placing down her wand, Thea grinned triumphantly. 'I did it!' She cried out.

Wait a second. They were turning CATS into HATS? Legend yawned and rested his head on the table. That was third year stuff. At the best fifth year stuff. He actually thought they would do something interesting or important with the cats but nope. They were just turning the kitties into statues and then turning them into something fashionable.

Great.

An image of a hat popped into Legend's head and he grinned. He took out his wand and lazily flicked it around. Three. Two. One. "Fera Verto!" He said, loudly and clearly. With a small flash of light the cat transformed into the coolest hat ever.

"Want to try?" He asked Neptune lazily. His wand flicked again reversing the effect of the spell so that the hat turned back into a cat. Yay.

GAH. Sir Kitty was PURRING and being CUTE and stuff. Lexi wanted nothing more than to take him and run out of the Transfiguration classroom RIGHT THEN. He needed a bath anyway... and some clothes. Yeah.

Sighing she took her wand from its holster and pouted at the kitty cat. "Sorry Sir Kitty... I need to cast a spell on you now," she said regretfully as the kitty swatted playfully at her wand.

Clearing her throat she flick the wand at the cat and said, "Fera Verto." And... nothing happened. NOTHING. It had to be because she SO didn't want to transfigure the kitty into a fur hat, but Lexi SO didn't like it when magic didn't work. She closed her eyes for a moment and PICTURED the hat she wanted the kitty to become.

This had better work or she WAS going to leave.

Nika sighed and waved her wand again. "Fera verto" Still nothing. After preforming the spell several times Nika let out a groan and glared at Shaw when he wasn't looking. This class was awful.

Nika took her head and hit it on the desk. "I." Bang. "Hate." Bang. "This." Bang. Just then she heard her stomach let out a big growl. Was she hungry!?!

"Fera verto" This time she practically shouted it as confident as ever. Her stomach let out another loud growl as she looked down at her hat. Really!? She had not transfigured her cat into a hat she transfigured it into a pizza!?! WHAT?

Well at least that would settle her stomach. Nika went to take a bite out of the pizza when she realized... It's a PIZZA HAT!

Lexi narrowed her eyes when she finally opened them, her wand trained on the kitty. "Fera Verto!" she said firmly as she gave her wand a flick toward Sir Kitty.

...



Immediately he began to change into the furry hat that she had pictured. Wowzers. Reaching out she stroked it and cooed, "It's okay Sir Kitty... I will change you back in a moment."

Looking at the MANIAC that called himself a teacher she raised her hand, "Sir, will we use Reverto to make it back into our kitty?" She wasn't sure... better ask before she try to UNtransfigure him.

Savannah stared at her kitty. She felt pity for the poor little thing. Changing her into a hat? She wondered what it feels like, hopefully it won't be too painful. Of course, Savvy wouldn't mind doing this on Mr. Fluffy, who would better off being a hat than a cat. At least hats don't use the litterbox. But doing this on this poor, little, innocent kitty?

Unwillingly, Savannah took out her wand and flicked it gently, yelling:

"FERA VERTO!"

Sparks flew out of her wand. Nothing happened.

The cat hissed. It was probably scared of what might happen to her, seeing her mates turning into hats...or weirder things. Savannah got to admitt, though, that the pizza hat was PRETTY COOL!

Savannah suddenly sprung her hand up in the air. “Professor,” said Savannah. “Will this magic harm the animal in anyway?” Putting an accent on 'any'.

EXCUSE ME! That boy has just gotten ten points!! FOR NOTHING! She so was going to accidentally cast a spell on the Professor. He doesn't even speak good English! Hmph.

Scowling, she turned to the poor stunned cat and thought: hat..what a stupid professor..hat..doing whatever he wants...hat... giving points just to random kids.. hat... someone should show him some hard time.. HAT. "Fera Verto!" She swished the wand and the cat jumped in the air, flipped a few turns and dropped to the floor looking like...

... the back of the professor's head. A ball of hair that unmistakably was Shaw's.

O_O

Louisa gaped down at the terrible thing. Gulp. Okay, someone was going to have a reeeeally hard time explaining this. She pushed the cat under the table and spoke nervously, "Isn't there a reversible spell, sir?" Her voice shook and she crossed her fingers to get the answer without the 'why'.

How could I change Ray into a hat???! Janice screamed in her head. I hope there is a reversing spell or something.

"Fera Verto!" She scramed.
Then, the hat changed into a simple camouflaging cap.
Good enough, she thought, and put the hat on her.

William hopws the teacher gives them more things to do for the lesson.

Oh riiiight. It was a transfiguration spell to turn animals into stuff....

Salander stared down at this small bundle on his desk, the bald kitty staring back up at him "Sorry lil feller, thought it was something that could give you some fur... " he sniffed, eyes getting watery by the minute. He flicked his wand and mumbled "Fuhrverto.." before sneezing violently. Startled, the hairless, bundled kitty struggle in the stickied-down scarf, meowring pitifully. All that spell did was thicken the scarf even further, weighing down the little kitten even more. Well at least it couldnt complain about being cold now can it?

Sniffling again the Slytherin lad lay a hand on the now larger bundle and whispered "Sorry lil one, messed up there a bit, lets try it again eh? And dont worry I make this quick..." and really, he only felt sorry for it since its one of the few animals that didnt give him such a hard time. Except for that allergy. With a few flicks of his wand Salander uttered a strong "Fera Verto!"

... and BAM! Just like that that, lil bald kitty is now a hat

Salander stared at the motionless fabric for a few seconds, poking his wand at it. "Wudjuhlookidat..." he mumbled between clogged sniffling, as he picked it up and examined it. Gingerly, he slipped it over his head, slipping all the way down over his eyes and down the side of his head. Must've been all that extra fabric.

And suddenly, like a faint whisper, he heard something...

"MEOWR?...."

Was the hat supposed to talk back?

Raven trials in coming to an end, this is it.

"Fera Verto" there is a smoke and there is a hat, at last Raven maid it, and he tries it be fitted to his head, a little small but at least it's suitable for him.

Wait, wait ,wait, wait is Shaw expecting me to turn a cat into a hat successfully!! Thought Evie to herself. She looked down at the fluffy brown and white kitty on her desk. "Hiya kitty, our crazy professor wants me to turn you into a hat, please don't be mad if I get it wrong, I promise you will be a very pretty hat....."Whispered Evie to the little brown and white ball of fluff in front of her. Okay, just take three deep breaths, okay good good now imagine a hat, ah perfect. okay, alright relax and...

"FERA VERTO" okay good that turned out alright she thought as she looked down at the brown and white fluffy beret in front of her, she picked up the hat and rotated it in her hand. It let out a soft meow, Evie let out a squeak and dropped it back onto the desk and raised her hand.
"Ummm....Excuse me profe- I mean Shaw, h-how do you reverse the spell?" she asked her voice slightly shaking.

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Well, well…let’s get this done, Gwen told herself, looking at the cat. I want you to know I’m sorry for what will happen, she wanted to tell the animal.

‘Fera verto’, she said, pointing her wand to the cat. Ewww! That is so wrong!, she thought when she saw the result.

Once again: ‘Fera Verto!’. Hmm, this one looks better. At least it is transfigured entirely...

After a couple more times, it finally came out all right. Fine, this hat is fine...

''Well i have been in the search of the worst cat ever!'' Josh exclaimed laughing at his own words some. Yet that laughter stopped when he had heard Shaw mentioning 10 points. Huh? Had he taken them? No, no, no. Quite the opposite, he had just gained 10 points. Wow! A professor of Hogwarts had given him points and not only points but also 10 points. Yet, on the other hand, Shaw was no professor. He was a way COOLER individual.

Smirking he nodded at the man happily and focused his attention on the immobile feral cat instead when Shaw had told the class to try the spell. Well...looking around he saw some do it successfully and some do it...partly and...whatever. Who cared about others anyway? If there was anyone in this class to manage it, Josh could do the best!

Standing up before the desk, his dark brown eyes fixed on the feline, the boy simply visualised the animal as a common type of a...common hat right before tapping on it with his wand of Hazel wood rather...rudely. Hahaha. He did not need to be kind to a cat, right? He could poke it with his wand as much as he wanted. ''Fera Verto!'' then the Gryffindor prononced the words with a rather clear and loud voice to make sure he was not going to mess anything. Not that he cared about the cat, he just wanted the spell to work perfectly!

The next step was pretty simple: just stare and watch the feline change its form. Wooooooooooooo....it was changing its form! And right after Josh eyed the hat Shaw had previously transfigured, his cat was a plain black sport hat with the same colour the cat had been. Black! Black cat hat! Heheheheee. ''It would be no trouble if i transfigured a cat i know into a Gryffindor robe with this spell, would it Shaw? It tends to get dirty a lot and i have to wear it everyday.''

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This...all of this...made no sense to the Slytherin. Sure, transfiguration class usually confused her to no end anyways, but this...this was beyond confusion. She'd never heard of this spell being used for transfiguring any animal into anything other than a goblet, and even if she wanted to transfigure something into a hat, she surely wouldn't transfigure a cat into one. She'd just use the spell that Kingsley taught them a few terms back and NOT use it on a cat. Unless it was Destiny's.

Holding her wand tight in her hand, Evelyn stared at the two cats on her desk that were having some sort of stare-down of their own. She didn't like the cat that wasn't Poof, but that didn't mean she could transfigure it into a hat. Worms, butterflies, and anything small she could do. Cats...no. That was just not cool.

"Profe...Shaw. I don't understand. How can the same spell transfigure something into two different things? It's just all on the intent?" And why did they have to transfigure cats? Why not rats?

"More than just two different things. Hats are more useful than water goblets. Make a hat."

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Josh's comment about cats finally being made useful didn't slip past Kurumi. In fact, her head snapped around to look at him with a bit of a shocked expression on her face. Her expression grew even bigger when it appeared as though Shaw had actually agreed with him.

SHAW! NOOOO! SAY IT AIN'T SO!

If the man wasn't so much of a cat person, then why was this entire lesson using cats? Unless, this was the vindictive side coming out and he actually wanted students to fail and transfigure their cats into some sort of mutated hat. Kurumi glanced down at Buta and sighed. There was a whole lot of cat to work with right there. Maybe she could transfigure him into a very elaborate hat?

"Fera Verto....Fera Verto...FERA VERTO," Kurumi repeated under her breath making sure that she had the incantation right before flicking her gaze towards the cat again. She felt a slight wibble coming on.

What if she hurt the cat in the transfiguration process?!

"Shaw, this spell won't hurt the cat if we cannot transfigure it properly will it?" she asked in a bit of a loud squeak. Casting Reverto would also fix their mistakes, yes?

"Thought I said not to kill them cats? What'd you do over there??"

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Nika arched her eyebrow in confusion. Didn't Josh answer later than everyone else? And he was the only one getting points for it!? Ten points? Well it all goes to Gryffindor in the end so eh Nika's happy!

Nika raised her wand as she looked at the poor cat. She didn't want to hurt the poor thing, but she didn't want shaw to take out his chainsaw. "FERA VERTO!" But nothing happened... like usual.

"FERA VERTO!" Still nothing... What was the wand movement for this again?

"Chainshaw what is the wand movement for this?" She asked looking at her poor cat. She didn't want to hurt it.

"Tapping works best. But try out some combinations and see what works for you."

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Samira glared coldly at Shaw as he rewarded that Gryffindor boy points when everybody else answered too!!!! She didn't do anything other than glare though, unless the madman pulls out his blasted chainsaw again. So she just settled for glaring. A lot.

Looking down at the cat, Samira wrinkled her nose. How were they suppose to turn a cat into a hat? Didn't they usually just turn them unto goblets or something? Figures Shaw would do something unpredictable like this...

Picking up her wand, Samira let the words Fera Verto run through her head before picturing a simple hat in her mind. No need to go overboard. Samira tapped her wand on the cat, pictured a hat, and said, "Fera Verto!" Nothing happened. Ok...again. "Fera Verto!" Still, nothing. Samira was getting annoyed now. She pushed back her sleeves and said in a louder voice, "Fera Verto!" Nothing. "Fera Verto! Fera Verto! VERA FERTO!" Still, nothing. Angry now, Samira turned to Shaw sharply. "Professor!" she said loudly. "Help!"

"DON'T CALL ME THAT!" Shaw hid in his hat for a while after that GIRL made her blunder.

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What?!

Carter got ten points for being an idiot?! Well, this was Shaw's class, so that pretty much explained why Lion Boy was considered top of the class. Sierra shot a quick glare in Josh's direction, but at the same time, she made a mental note to cheat off him next time instead of Hollingberry.

Sierra looked back at the Hufflepuff cat on her desk. She was more than ready to transform it into something else. She was tired of looking at it--sitting there all nice and fluffy and looking like a Badger right there on her desktop.

She drew her wand and aimed it toward the cat. Hat...hat...any sort of hat but a yellow and black one...hat...hat... "Fera Verto!" BAHHHH. It didn't work. Stupid cat.



"I'm sure it won't feel great," Sierra said, smiling at Kurumi. Ohhh, how she loved to see the Gryffindor wibble in fear! By the time it was a hat, it likely wouldn't even realize what had hit it. "You know," she added, rolling her wand around in her hand, "I'll be glad to transform your cat, as well." She shrugged. It made no difference to her. Cat...hat...whatever.

She slowly moved her gaze away from Hollingberry and pointed her wand at her own cat once again. "Fera Verto!" This time, furballs shot into the air with a slight poof sound. Her cat was no more. On her desk instead was a hat...of some kind. She hadn't even bothered to look carefully at it yet. She did, however, notice something small and white lying next to her hand. She picked it up and showed it to Hollingberry. "Oh, look," she said, "...a furball."

This one and the little Gryffindor girl were worrying Shaw. He'd said not to kill them there cats. "Maybe you two would be better off in Charms."

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Iris listened to everything that was going on in the class, twirling her wand around her fingers through boredom. She took in everything Shaw said, frowning a bit. Cats into hats. Right. Because we all needed hats as desperately as the insane bald thing teaching them.

Then Evelyn started to quiz how it was possible. Did she not listen to Josh at all?! (The Head Girl had to hand it to him: He was pretty smart). This was a really basic transfiguration. Well, in terms of how young you are when you first learn it, anyway... and Hogwarts had never really touched on how Fera Verto could be used for anything other than goblet transfiguration. Iris wouldn't have been surprised if most of the students just assumed that water goblets were the ONLY thing that spell could make out of an animal. Being honest, she only knew that through lots of independent study at stupid-o'clock-in-the-morning in the library.

But even so. None of that justified the use of smelly, feral cats. Iris didn't really fancy wearing a flee-ridden fez...

Looking at the cat, the blonde aimed her wand at the motionless mammal. "Well, here goes, Mr Cat." Focus on a hat... focus on a hat... focus on a hat... " Fera Verto." As she tapped her wand on the cat, it slowly started to transform into a hat. A fez, to be specific. A bright red fez with a golden tassel on the top of it.

Ignoring the fact that her mind had let this silly hat become what were blatantly the wrong colours, Iris then picked the fez up so she could inspect it. Mainly to check that it was free of flees... and cat tails.

"Nice."

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"Shaw, we can still transfigure the cat back, right?" she asked, looking down at the still sleeping animal on her lap. Without waiting for an answer, though, Brielle practiced the spell deep in her mind. Fera Verto. Fera Verto. Fera Verto.

Closing her eyes, a white, wide hat came to view. It was the most practical transformation the cat could make, seeing its size and fats. Snapping her blue eyes open, Brielle pointed her wand to the animal and said as loud as she could, "Fera Verto." Her animal slowly shifted in its sleep, as if slowly mutating into another being. Soon enough, the hat she had been imagining appeared. Except that it had white ears poking at the top.

Sigh.

"It's effects will probably wear off on its own with time. But try Finite. Them over there have been using reverto. Either should work. Being experimenters."

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Turning the cat into a hat? Heather hugged Serpahina close. Were they going to turn the hat back into a cat? She didn't want to lose Seraphina! She wanted to keep the cat. The purring cat on her arms was still calm and she set it down on top of a table. "Seraphina, i have to turn you into a hat." the cat narrowed its eyes on her. "Don't get me wrong, Serpahina...please? i hope this won't hurt you, okay? So...are you all right with that? You can scratch me if you don't want to." but it seems the cat was so calm, it only stared at her and then made one move: it nodded its head. Heather smiled. "Thank you Seraphina! I'll turn you into a pretty hat! I promise!" She said, thinking: 'i hope i do this well...knowing my unlucky streak with casting spells...'

Seraphina stood up straight awaiting to be tapped by Heather's wand and the girl took a deep breath. What was that wand movement again? What was that spell again?

CHOCOLATE AND CHIPS! What is that spell? Oh...Fera Verto...that's it.....right? and that wand movement...this better be it...

holding her wand, she flicked it one...two...three and tapped it on the cat. "Fera Verto!" she said, thinking hard of a cute little hat. Her eyes was still closed when she heard that the cat had not made one sound. OH MY. Did she just kill the cat? She opened one eye and looked at the table.

There sat not a cat but a hat. A very pretty one too! Heather beamed. She did the spell really well! She took the hat with great care. "Seraphina, i told you you would be a pretty hat." she said and put it on top of her head and faced Shaw. "Shaw! Shaw! I did it!" she chirped happily to the professor she usually was nervous though...

Shaw gave the girl a toothy grin. "Good on ya!"

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Kurumi immediately felt sick to her stomach when Sierra spoke. It wouldn’t feel good!? Kurumi suddenly lost all desire to cast the spell on Buta and she flopped back in her seat while the cat attempted to roll over onto its side. Being too fat, the cat merely flailed its paws in the air and its bellow wiggled like a bowl of jelly.

Biting her lower lip and looking like a small puppy that had just been kicked, she turned her gaze towards Sierra when she offered to transfigure Buta. “T-T-Thank you for the offer…b-b-but I really should do my own work,” she mumbled as she breathed in and out heavily. She would just have to be EXTRA careful with the spell so as not to hurt the fat cat.

Just as Kurumi was about to test her luck, Kurumi heard a POOF sound and the next thing she knew Sierra’s cat had vanished.

Or so she thought.

Squeaking LOUDLY, Kurumi saw the white cotton ball remains of what she assumed had been the cat. In her panic, she failed to see a hat transfigured on the table by Sierra and began flailing her arms around like a windmill before crouching on the ground beside Buta. “I-I-I promise I won’t turn you into a cotton ball,” she whimpered as she scratched the feline behind the ears.

She shot a quick glance back towards Sierra and felt all the color in her face wash away. She was going to faint…Sierra had KILLED a cat! The assignment was to turn it into a HAT not KILL it!

Standing up again, Kurumi picked up the ball of fur and wibbled some more. “M-May you rest in peace,” she said as she petted, yes petted, the fur. She would give the cat a proper burial after class.

Kurumi then looked back at Buta and continued to chew on her bottom lip. She was NOT going to turn him into a cotton ball. She wasn't even sure that he COULD turn into something that small to be honest.

Taking out her wand now, Kurumi pointed it at the cat - who was still trying to roll onto its side - and waved her wand. "Fera verto," she whimpered as an oddly colored light errupted from her wand and wrapped itself around the cat. Kurumi hear a similar popping noise and what lay before her was a melted version of what resembled a graduation cap with Buta's tail being the tassle.

MERLIN! SHE HAD MELTED THE CAT!

"Hey now. You one there. We gotta problem?" Them ones Shaw really worried about.

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NOOO!

HEDIDN'TEXPECTTHEMTOTURNTHEIRCATSINTOHATS... now did he?

... apparently he did.

Helena looked at Ezra (yes, she wanted to call her cat Ezra) with a terrible expression on her face. As if Shaw was making them... kill their cats. But they'll turn them back, right? And if Shaw didn't tell them how, she'll figure it out on her own.

"Please forgive me," the girl mumbled and closed her eyes, as she pointed her wand at her new feline friend. "Fera Verto."

Now... she had to open her eyes... eventually. To see the result.

Oh.

Her hat was black, of course, and had a single white patch, since Ezra had a white paw. And the hat had... a black tail.

HERHATHADATAIL.

"Shaw?" Helena barely found her voice. "How can we turn them back?"

Shaw laughed. "I think that hat is an improvement! Don't change it back!" HAHA

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Simon looked at the Professor, he wanted them to turn it into a hat that was rubbish, why not a chainsaw or something even better, Simon smiled as he looked at Professor Shaw. "Professor do we have to turn it into a hat or can we change it into something better." Simon was trying to think or something cool. "Like a cauldron?"

"How's a cauldron more useful than a hat?"

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Ariadne couldn't help but giggle when Josh, the Gryffindor troublemaker received 10 points from Shaw. That was fantastic, and the girl was genuinely happy, since she and Josh were housemates, after all. But now for the hard part. They had to transfigure their cats into hats. Ari liked both cats and hats, but she was worried about turning one into the other. Sure, the incantation was easy enough, but what if the cat woke up? Trying to ignore the sickening feeling she had, the girl eyed the sleeping form of her cat and prepared to do the spell, but her voice trembled when the cat moved a bit in its sleep. She got a hat, all right, but it still had a cat's tail. OH NO! This was BAD.
'Shaw, what do I do now?!?' the girl asked in a very panicky voice.

"Well don't panic for starters. Panicking ain't gonna turn your cat into a hat. I think it's alright. Just wear it around, it'll grow on ya. Maybe start a new trend."

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Holy Hippogriff and a Blast-Ended Skrewt!

Kurumi watched in utter HORROR as her melted cat began swishing his tail back and forth before letting out a meow that sounded like a cat being run over with a steam engine. She shook her head and tried not to cry at the image that popped into her head. Trying not to take any more awkward glances towards Sierra, Kurumi swish and flicked her wand towards Buta as she tried to remember his appearance before her looked like an elephant had stepped on him. "Reverto!" she squeaked and soon the cat had morphed back to its original state.

Why was it that every time she tried a spell out she always managed to melt something? She really should ask someone about this. Something with the manner in which she was focusing perhaps?

Observing Buta for a moment, Kurumi tried to think of something to help her focus. What SORT of hat did she want to turn him into not that she really wanted to transfigure him to behind with. After a few pensive moments, Kurumi pointed her wand at the small horse of a cat and took one very deep breath. "Fera verto," she said in a much calmer, but at the same time much stronger, voice.

Once again there was a loud POP! and Buta began to glow and melt, but this time not into a flatten kitty on the floor but into the most ridiculous looking hat she had ever seen. It wasn't the nature of the hat, per say, since she had been wanting to make a cowboy hat, but the sheer size of it.

Kurumi picked it up off the ground and set it on her head. Her head, being rather small, was quickly devoured by the hat and Kurumi found herself unable to see anything. She did have a WHOLE LOT OF cat to work with.

HAHA This one there. Shaw didn't know whether to laugh or cry at her. "That right there is fUHHHHHH-neeeeeeeeeee! Five points for biggest hat!" Would have been ten but Shaw had been nervous about that one all during class.

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Ariella looked down worriedly at her cat sleeping peacefully. "We'll be changing them back, right?" she asked. Oh well. She knew the reverse spell. Even if Shaw wasn't going to teach them it, she would put her cat back to its original state after class.

She nervously took out her wand. Thinking hard about a hat, she swished her wand while saying the words loud and clear. "Fera Verto!" she said firmly. The cat started to transform slowly. It was soon a black fedora, with specks of white fur poking out at certain angles. Uh oh.

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rachel nervously looked down at her evil cat, she really hoped it went right, "Fera Verto!" she said pointing her wand at it. Slowly the cat began to transform into a black hat, with a crooked top. It had odd white patches dotted around it. "We are going to transform them back, aren't we?" she asked sheepishly.

"Yup," Shaw answered both girls.

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Savannah stared at her kitty. She felt pity for the poor little thing. Changing her into a hat? She wondered what it feels like, hopefully it won't be too painful. Of course, Savvy wouldn't mind doing this on Mr. Fluffy, who would better off being a hat than a cat. At least hats don't use the litterbox. But doing this on this poor, little, innocent kitty?

Unwillingly, Savannah took out her wand and flicked it gently, yelling:

"FERA VERTO!"

Sparks flew out of her wand. Nothing happened.

The cat hissed. It was probably scared of what might happen to her, seeing her mates turning into hats...or weirder things. Savannah got to admitt, though, that the pizza hat was PRETTY COOL!

Savannah suddenly sprung her hand up in the air. “Professor,” said Savannah. “Will this magic harm the animal in anyway?” Putting an accent on 'any'.

"Magic won't, but I guess you might. 's why I trained you up so good. Shouldn't be nothin' to worry about."

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EXCUSE ME! That boy has just gotten ten points!! FOR NOTHING! She so was going to accidentally cast a spell on the Professor. He doesn't even speak good English! Hmph.

Scowling, she turned to the poor stunned cat and thought: hat..what a stupid professor..hat..doing whatever he wants...hat... giving points just to random kids.. hat... someone should show him some hard time.. HAT. "Fera Verto!" She swished the wand and the cat jumped in the air, flipped a few turns and dropped to the floor looking like...

... the back of the professor's head. A ball of hair that unmistakably was Shaw's.

O_O

Louisa gaped down at the terrible thing. Gulp. Okay, someone was going to have a reeeeally hard time explaining this. She pushed the cat under the table and spoke nervously, "Isn't there a reversible spell, sir?" Her voice shook and she crossed her fingers to get the answer without the 'why'.

Another girl to worry about. Shaw rubbed at his stubbly chin. "Well yeah. Like I said, it'll probably wear off on its own but you can try a couple of other spells. Reverto or finite."

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Oh riiiight. It was a transfiguration spell to turn animals into stuff....

Salander stared down at this small bundle on his desk, the bald kitty staring back up at him "Sorry lil feller, thought it was something that could give you some fur... " he sniffed, eyes getting watery by the minute. He flicked his wand and mumbled "Fuhrverto.." before sneezing violently. Startled, the hairless, bundled kitty struggle in the stickied-down scarf, meowring pitifully. All that spell did was thicken the scarf even further, weighing down the little kitten even more. Well at least it couldnt complain about being cold now can it?

Sniffling again the Slytherin lad lay a hand on the now larger bundle and whispered "Sorry lil one, messed up there a bit, lets try it again eh? And dont worry I make this quick..." and really, he only felt sorry for it since its one of the few animals that didnt give him such a hard time. Except for that allergy. With a few flicks of his wand Salander uttered a strong "Fera Verto!"

... and BAM! Just like that that, lil bald kitty is now a hat

Salander stared at the motionless fabric for a few seconds, poking his wand at it. "Wudjuhlookidat..." he mumbled between clogged sniffling, as he picked it up and examined it. Gingerly, he slipped it over his head, slipping all the way down over his eyes and down the side of his head. Must've been all that extra fabric.

And suddenly, like a faint whisper, he heard something...

"MEOWR?...."

Was the hat supposed to talk back?

Shaw LAUGHED. "Well don't that beat all!" HAHAHA. "You gotta hat that looks like a cat!" The Quarantine section was actually doing alright. Whodofthunkit?

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''Well i have been in the search of the worst cat ever!'' Josh exclaimed laughing at his own words some. Yet that laughter stopped when he had heard Shaw mentioning 10 points. Huh? Had he taken them? No, no, no. Quite the opposite, he had just gained 10 points. Wow! A professor of Hogwarts had given him points and not only points but also 10 points. Yet, on the other hand, Shaw was no professor. He was a way COOLER individual.

Smirking he nodded at the man happily and focused his attention on the immobile feral cat instead when Shaw had told the class to try the spell. Well...looking around he saw some do it successfully and some do it...partly and...whatever. Who cared about others anyway? If there was anyone in this class to manage it, Josh could do the best!

Standing up before the desk, his dark brown eyes fixed on the feline, the boy simply visualised the animal as a common type of a...common hat right before tapping on it with his wand of Hazel wood rather...rudely. Hahaha. He did not need to be kind to a cat, right? He could poke it with his wand as much as he wanted. ''Fera Verto!'' then the Gryffindor prononced the words with a rather clear and loud voice to make sure he was not going to mess anything. Not that he cared about the cat, he just wanted the spell to work perfectly!

The next step was pretty simple: just stare and watch the feline change its form. Wooooooooooooo....it was changing its form! And right after Josh eyed the hat Shaw had previously transfigured, his cat was a plain black sport hat with the same colour the cat had been. Black! Black cat hat! Heheheheee. ''It would be no trouble if i transfigured a cat i know into a Gryffindor robe with this spell, would it Shaw? It tends to get dirty a lot and i have to wear it everyday.''

"Team Shaw Captain!" Shaw gave a battle cry when his favorite boy did the deed. "Wouldn't be no trouble to me. Maybe to the cat, but not to Shaw."


Everyone seemed to be getting the hang of the spell, so Shaw figured his work was done for the day. "How about we call it a day? Shaw's pretty tired and the Quarantined Section is giving me a good case of the paranoias. Keep practicing and you'll be as good as me and right as rain with this spell."


Shaw scribbled out homework on the board:

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List 5 scenarios that being a master of Fera Verto would be useful, and why you think it'd be useful.