Olivia grinned when she saw her reflection and the flower on her face. This part of the lesson had turned out to be a lot of fun and she couldn't believe she'd been put off by the mention of clowns at the beginning. "That's so cool!" She paused for a moment. "Yeah, too bad. I'm sure there's a spell that could make them move but I have no idea what it is or where to find it."

"Fine. Let's just get it on." The bitter was so clear that one might think that Louisa had just seen Dallin and Ellie kiss. What? That was her kind of thoughts at the moment. Going back to her desk, expecting Ryden to follow, she zipped open the costume, put her both feet inside and then her arms. THERE. HAPPY? She shot a nasty look at the professor hoping she wouldn't see that. "Would you zip it for me?" She turned her back to the girl. Yeah, she so never imagine them having this conversation before. THANK YOU.

Again. That was the most miraculous lesson in Louisa's school life - and not the good side of a miracle.

"I can paint you first," she announced quickly, "You know, I'll do some splatters of colors that match your outfit." HEHEHE. "Cool?" And yes, she wasn't going to transform the girl's face to a stinking shrimp - Louisa was nice like that.

Alyssa looked at herself in the mirror. Jesifur was really good. She liked the way she had drawn the heart shaped lip and two bright blue teardrops. Even though she had changed her mind and had told Jesifur to paint a happy face on her, she was glad that Jesifur had stuck with her first decision because she actually liked it. "Hey you're very good, Jesifur. I hope that I will do as well as you."

Alyssa picked up the paint and also painted Jesifur's face white. She then picked up the brush and lightly painted a dusting of light blue paint above her both eye line...like eye shadow. Then she lightly brushed some pink circles a little above Jesifur's cheeks. Alyssa then dipped her finger in some of the blue paint and drew teardrops right above the middle of each of Jesifur's eyes. Then she drew 3 lines branching out from the sides of each eye just like laugh wrinkles. Alyssa then picked up the red paint and dipping her finger in it, she drew a small red heart on Jesifur's nose. Then she painted Jesifur's lips with red paint and for the finishing touch, she painted a little heart at each end of Jesifur's lips so that when she smiled, it was as if she was smiling with her heart too,".

"There you go. I'm not sure I did as good job as you did, but I hope that you like it, Jesifur".

Violet & I are giving up...
 

Violet had given up on getting a partner and gloomily gone up alone to get a paint kit and costume. She felt utterly humiliated that she hadn't found anyone, as well as worried that she would not be able to handle the assignment alone.

What in Merlin's name was a clown and what was one supposed to look like? Judging by the clothes she had in her hands, the idea was to make yourself as ridiculous as possible. Violet did not like to make herself ridiculous--her mother's family did a good enough job of that to give her her fill of it.

She tried to look around at other people out of the corners of her eyes to try to get a hint of what she was supposed to do, but it was hard to see without staring outright, and she didn't want to be accused of cheating. Finally, she gave up and began to paint her face like the stained glass window in the top of the front door of the house she lived in. It may not be right, but at least she would get this over with.


((OOC: And I have to logoff & go to rehearsal now...))

Sarah raised her eyebrows. Interesting. And yet... AWESOME! Clustering towards the front like the rest of the students she gathered the items she needed. Then, returning to her desk, she decided that she wanted to do her own face. After all, it would be more funny if she could see what she was doing. If only technology worked at Hogwarts and she could take a picture to send home...

She shrugged and set to work on her makeup.

" My nsme is Willaim starr and I will be your partner" he told the girl. Make me funny, please" Willaim said to her. " I will paint you anyway you like, too" Willaim explained to her.

William sat in his chair, parchment and quill and ink resting on the desk. As the Professor asked them about people who can change their appearance, he instantly became alert. Fortunately, he had just read up on metamorphagi, and his hand shot up the minute Professor Magnus asked the question.
"They're called Metamorphagi, Professor," he said, lowering his hand. He began writing down what she said afterwards.
Having no idea what the spells could be, he remained taciturn as the other students made guesses.

Everything was fine and dandy until Professor Magnus mentioned the carnival. Will had had a bad experience at that carnival, having been scared witless by the magistrate operating the Ferris Wheel, and having been dragged onto the ride by a complete stranger with other strangers as well. And now they were going to dress like them? William did not like this one bit. Slightly disgruntled, he stood up and retrieved the baggy clown costume. He felt foolish, putting on the ridiculous attire. But he then remembered that everyone was going to be looking absurd as well, which comforted him somewhat.

Yup, he did look ridiculous. He now needed to find a partner. His eyes scanned the classroom, but, being short and all as a first-year, it was hard to see everyone in the classroom.

As Kurumi came up the front to collect the things, Isabelle smiled at her and handed her the set of paints. But something seemed to be wrong. Frowning as the prefect spoke, she took in the question. Hmm, she had a feeling she knew what this question was based on, considering the Gryffindor's want to talk to her earlier in the week. Putting a hand on her shoulder she smiled. "Don't worry, it'll be fine."

Isabelle laughed at the question. As if she'd show them something they couldn't change back from. "Yes, there is a counterspell. I won't be making you walk around the school dressed like a clown." Although that was a good idea for anyone in detention.

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Tapping her head twice, Isabelle's hair slowly went back to it's original long dark hue. "Right then everyone, you've had a while to put on your costumes and the face paints - and I must say most of you are looking very good. Others appear to think they can get away with sitting and doing nothing." Grabbing a couple of face paint boxes and costumes, Issy walked around the tables of the kids that were not getting involved, and placed them down. Yes, it may be silly, but why not get in character to perform the spell?

"Okay then, once you have all finished doing that, please watch me as I properly demonstrate the first spell. I'll be handing out mirrors for you all to perform this on yourselves, as I'd rather you didn't practice on each other just yet." Not much could go wrong, admittedly, but Issy didn't want to take any risks with spell work.

Holding her wand above her head, she lowered it gently and tapped once on her crown area "Fel-in-tas!" Her hair changed again, this time to a short bob style. Grinning, Issy moved her hand away and looked around at the kids. "Now the wand movement is as simple as tapping your head once. But the concentration is the hardest part. You really need to picture in your minds eye the style and length you wish your hair to be. In your case like a clown - although there are MANY different types of clown hair. We'll move on to colours when you have all completed this spell properly."

Removing the hand held mirrors from the other box, Isabelle placed some on the desk and held a few in her hands. "First I would like you all to come and get a mirror, then imagine how you are going to look. Once you are confident you can commence practice."

She was just about to hand over the first mirror when she remembered something. "If you wish to revert back to your ordinary hair, and try more than one style, the counter spell is 'Int-ar-is' - with two taps on your head as you say it, concentrating on what you looked like before. I'll do that for you if you don't feel confident enough to try yourselves."

Scribbling on the board she added the new pieces of information.



OOC: I'm heading to bed now, but Isabelle will always be there watching. Just follow the instructions she's given, and please HAVE FUN! No excessive chatter though, and no bad behaviour. heh. I'll move on to the second spell tomorrow.

Nathan heard the girl, Jenny reply saying her name but before he could respond Jenny had gotten to work on him. He felt her poke his face lightly several times quickly and chuckled. By the time she was done he could only wonder what he looked like. He proceeded to dip his fingers back in the paint. He then began to put yellow lines lightly all over Jenny's. "You look great, I would love to be able to see myself about now, hee hee. We should probably get our clown suits on to complete the package", Nathan said trying not to crack up as he put on his clown suit.

SQUISHING. Oh how Lola was smothering the little fawn. How much she yearned for everyone else to be as small and adorable as the little boy so she too could embrace them as children of her own.

It seemed the little boy had also been proud of his hair. How could she blame him? "NO NO NO, I must start the make-up, I'm suddenly INSPIRED by that little hair of yours," she said, forcefully grabbing his hand and then making him sitting down but noticed that he seemed downright nervous. Hmm? HMM? Lola stared right into his eyes, her eyes seeping through his soul and wondering if he already knew how beautiful he would look after this wonderful make-up transformation.

She closed her eyes and then within seconds, opened them all so artistically, reaching her hands for open air because she was therefore, grabbing all of the inspiration particles around her. Lola got the brush and as soon as she held on to the medium, the little boy's face was a canvas. Tedious precision... it all had to be beautiful... BEAUTIFUL... BEAUTIFUL! "This heart will represent happiness, love, and warmth from your mother!" she started, drawing a huge red heart on his forehead. "What's your name, my darling?" He needed a name or else she would have to name him.

"AND VOILA!" Flailing her arms in the air, she grinned at the result, showing her happiness and sadness because well, the boy's face was basically art. She handed him a mirror and started explaining it all. "I already explained the heart--oh doesn't it look lovely? I wanted to go really artistic on this one, as you can see--the yin-yang symbol on your right eye! I really wanted to incorporate that because it shows the importance of a balanced mind, oh don't you love it?" Her eyes were now into his, so proud of her work. "The flower represents serenity... and you can see that rose on the other side, SYMBOLIZING the conflicts and triumph of love!"

She twirled him around for a while, still admiring her very own work. NO WAIT THERE WAS MORE. "Now... my favorite part... the moustache--you can just see how one is up and own is down. This represents OPPRESSION in our corrupted society and how we've all been generalized into mere classes than individual human beings!"

"And I thought you would look so much better with a goatee."

Pleased with her result, Lola quickly sat down in the seat of her own. "Now you do me!"

Ryden did NOT appreciate her tone, but had enough sense to know it was more directed at the professor and her silly, torturous ideas than at her so she followed the younger girl without too much fuss. With a fluid motion, she zipped up Louisa then smirked as she eyed her outfit. "You should seriously consider keeping this," she couldn't help adding, then quickly put on her own silly costume, turning around for Louisa to zip her up too.

Oh, the horror. OH THE HORROR. Please, if Merlin existed, let him NOT make Orlando walk through those doors now. Or suddenly appear in the front seat or something.

"Fine. Remember what we agreed," Ryden shrugged, sat down, closed her eyes and sighed. Here goes a nightmare.



Ryden watched and listened, stone faced. She did NOT like this professor. NOT AT ALL. Then she stood up, grabbed two mirrors and came back to Louisa. "Here, got two. Let's finish this quickly and start on the spells, ok?" she asked, then closed her eyes again.

Like pulling off a band-aid. QUICKLY.

They were what? This didn't sound fun, no. Was this one of Lord Borr's assignments too? He probably wanted to have us dance while in clown costumes. Who had made Borr so angry and why did Eino have to pay. Merlin help us all. Turning red (no, he's not a Metamorphmagus just really nervous and embarrassed), Eino got up and followed the professor's instructions. First he took a set of paint, then moved onto the costume section. Now, he didn't have anything against clowns, in fact, he loved them, but it has never been one of his aspirations to become a clown. He did feel a little better knowing that everyone was going through the same humiliation, so it's not like he would be the only one looking silly. He found a more discreet costume he wasn't too ashamed of wearing. It was renaissance styled, green and gold, with a few orange details. He took off his robes, then put the costume over his uniform. He wasn't expected to change in front of everyone, right? He looked around. No, no, others had done the same. When he walked back to his seat he applied some of the white paint stuff to his face, but it didn't really change his complexion too much, so he applied some more, then applies some of that red stuff on his nose and cheeks.

He was done just in time and the Professor demonstrated the next set of instructions. He listened and scribbled the spells and the correct pronunciation down before commencing. Eino then retrieved as a mirror so he could look at himself while he practice. Oh, great. Further humiliation. Now we have to look at our silly selves while we make ourselves look even sillier. This probably would have been fun if he was a first year, and not a self-conscious teenager.

He picked up the mirror and looked at himself. Oh, Merlin is that a pimple? Now, couldn't we learn how to make them go away? Frown.

Kind of like a catch up...?
 

...

Clowns. They were expected to dress up as clowns. Bliiiiiiiiink! And to make things worse, they had to do a spot of face painting? Whaaaaaaaat?! Now this was just not right. How was face painting part of transfiguration?! Didn't transfiguration require a wand, a spell and a, well, transformation?

Meh, she knew what she was talking about!

But wait... did this mean they were going to have to draw things on someone else's face? o_O They had the choice to be partnered up! Which meant that she could draw on someone's face!

Now... which poor soul would want to have their face painted by a non artistic person?

Kita looked around carefully. She couldn't choose a firstie, no... some of them were already scared of her. Add in a bad face painting session and she might as well go into hiding. ... Okay, maybe not.

And that's when her dark eyes landed on a blonde. A familiar blonde. Now SHE wouldn't mind being paired up with the weirdo. No... Grinning, Kita walked over to the girl and sat down next to her. "Hi!" she chirped, the grin still playing on her face, "Need a partner?"

Yeah... she was going to go mad now. Perfect.



Hearing a voice speaking to the class in general, Kita turned her attention back to the Professor. Great(!) So they were moving on and Kita and Caroline hadn't even gotten to the face paint stage yet! MERLIN!

Back to the Professor.

OH! So THAT'S where the transfiguration bit came into it! Now it all made sense. She watched in awe as the Professor's hair changed. Face painting and dressing up aside, she was kind of glad that they were learning this spell. It meant that she now knew a spell that will change her hair colour and style with just a tap of the wand. Perfect right?

Once the Professor finished speaking, she got up and went to get two mirrors before making her way back to her seat. She held out one of the mirrors for Caroline and said, "Shall we get the face painting done quickly before the spell practice?" There's no point doing it any other way, right?

"Whatever you say, PRINCE Ezra," Tori sweetly responded to her housemate, making certain to put extra emphasis on his title, similar to hers. My my, he was even BOWING. She liked that.

She flipped her red locks over one shoulder and snorted. Of course she probably looked hideous, but if they were playing along.... "Thank you, my darling prince. You look handsome as always yourself." Heh. Snort.

"You don't like pink?!" Tori tried her best not to sound surprised, but couldn't help letting a little gasp escape her lips. "Well not to worry. I LOVE pink and you are just gonna be pink-ified riiiiiiiiiiight now." She smirked evilly as she sat him down in the chair in front of her and started applying copious amounts of white paint to his face.

HEHEHEHE. Tori giggled a little as she tried not to get any in his eyes or mouth. Then came two giant pink circles on his cheeks, a splash of red around the mouth and on the nose, and then some lovely mime-like eyeliner.

When she was done, Prince Ezra was nearly unrecognizable as anything BUT a clown. "Perfect!"

Catching up.....
 

"Yeah. Well, you look almost perfect." Jenny grinned again. "Just one more thing..." Jenny reached for the red face paint and dipped her finger in it before turning to Nathan (who was already putting on his clown costume) and painting a...a...hm. What should she put on there? Shrugging, Jenny just poked one red dot on Nathan's nose. "There!" Almost wanting to giggle at Nathan's face, Jenny quickly put on her clown costume when she suddenly heard the professor speak again.

Wha? Spells already? Jenny quickly pulled out a piece of parchment and scribbled the incantations down before scrambling to the front of the class. After picking up a mirror, she rushed back to her seat, only realizing she picked up two mirrors instead of just one. "Here you go," Jenny handed a mirror to Nathan. And where did the sudden need to rush come from?

Shrugging to herself, Jenny looked down at her parchment. These seemed hard to remember for some reason.

And the professor too. ^_^
 

Louisa zipped Ryden's outfit, ignoring the comment she shot at her, and stared down at the painting kit. But the professor interrupted. Sighing, relieved, and hoping that the woman had finally seen sense and decided to apologize and start a serious mature lesson..

..or not.

Louisa huffed when the teacher finished, waited for her partner to get the mirrors and then spoke, "Okay. Stay still." Grabbing a brush from the paint kit, a red one, and passed it on Ryden's left cheek in a shapeless line. Another one on the right cheek. Then came the green brush; a circle here and another one on the other cheek. Next was a yellow color; a triangle on the girl's forehead. Lastly, the blue brush which painted Ryden's whole chin.

Louisa moved away squinting her eyes at Ryden thoughtfully. Hmm. Not bad. For a person who had artistic skills next to nothing. "Done. Used the colors of four houses." Yep. She took a mirror and put it in front of the girl, "See? Nothing's silly." No. Just bad and awful.

Ashley wrote down everything, even though he was fairly certain he would never need to know any of this information. As strange as it all was, he had to admit that the face-painting and dressing up was actually kind of fun. And there was no need to feel like he looked silly, when everyone else in the room had to look pretty silly as well. At least he hadn't gotten crazy with it, deciding to be a dark clown. That was a thing, he was sure. And if it wasn't... well... the clown police weren't here to tell him so.
Now for the next part.
He practiced the hair tapping first, the same way he learned all spells; making sure he had the wand movement right came first, then the words, then he put it all together with the concentration to get the job done. Once he felt confident that he wouldn't mess this up, he went to get a mirror, thanking the professor before heading back to his seat.
He was nervous, but he looked into the mirror, making sure he knew what color and style everything even was to begin with, so he knew what he was changing from, and what to change back into when he was done.
After thinking of a style and length, he tapped his head in the way that had been demonstrated, with a "felintas" to wrap it all up, lengthening and frizzing his hair. It also became a weird, bright blue colour, though that only lasted for a few seconds. Hopefully no one saw that.

hehe Rebel Stella. Off doing her own thing. ;)
 

Psht. Stay still. Like she had a choice. If she could run out of this lesson right now, she would and WOULDN'T look back. So she sat still until Louisa finished, and the blinked as she moved away before snatching the mirror and gaping at herself.

OH. MERLIN.

Ryden squeezed her eyes shut, averted the mirror before opening them to glare at Louisa. It wasn't really her fault... but she wanted someone to glare at. "Your turn," she growled and all but shoved the girl down into the chair.

RIGHT. Erm. RED lipstick - Bridget once showed her how to put it. It didn't look TOO bad on Louisa... just a little smudged. NEXT. Brushes. Picking up the blue brush, Ryden painted two circles on the younger girl's cheeks, then using the green brush, painted her whole forehead and chin. THERE. That looked... sealike, or something. With a final touch, Ryden painted Louisa's nose red.

Fantabulous.

"Here, take a look, bask in my awesome skills and let's move on," Ryden said offhandedly, shoving a mirror into Louisa's face and trying VERY HARD not to think about how she looked.

Minerva took a deep breath. She was never a fan of clowns. But the hair she could deal with, she did change her hair purple by mistake the other day. She still didn't have a clue how she did it, but wished she could remember so she could make it purple again. Not to self ask the professor one day. Minerva sat up "Does anyone want to be my partner?"

Kourtney grinned, pleased that Olivia was happy with the flower. "We're very cool looking clowns." She said with a laugh.

Her brow then crinkled as she thought about Olivia's words. "Hmm, I'm sure there is, but we might have to ask the professor about it...like after class or something. I think it would be really great if she could do it." Oh, she would totally ask the professor for help with that spell.

As the professor began to speak once more, Kourtney turned her head in that direction, listening carefully to the spoke instructions. Hmm, this could be a really useful spell, especially when involved in a formal occasion or any occasion that was not casual. Such useful spells they were.

Since Kourtney had her own mirror, she simply allowed the rest of the class to retrieve one and pulled out her own, peering into it. The butterfly really did come out great. She scrunched up her face and wiggled the muscles in her cheeks. If she did that, the butterfly almost did seem like it was moving.

Okay....so, she wanted to look like a clown so that entailed a bit of frizzy and poofy hair. Well..her hair was naturally curly, so she didn't have much to do there, but she definitely needed to shorten it and poof it up. For a moment, she simply stared at herself in the mirror, imagining what she would look like with the clown hairstyle.

Soon, she was ready to try it. Raising her wand, he tapped the top of her head, concentrating on changing the style into that of a clown. Felintas! Nothing happened. She hadn't really expected it, but still....

Kourt drew in another breath and once more pictured the hair style. It was a little hard to keep the picture in mind and say the incantation, but there was a way to do it. Felintas...Felintas...Tapping her wand on the top of her head, she intoned "Felintas." A tingle was felt and she watched as her hair shrunk and her curls became tighter. Now she was a brown, frizzy haired clown. She had to admit that she looked kind of ridiculous since brown really didn't go well with her outfit or her facepaint, but at least she had did it!

Now to go back to how she was...She raised her wand again and tapped her head twice, saying "Intaris" Her hair slowly relaxed back to its original state.

She grinned towards Olivia before raising her wand to practice further.

Alyssa went forward and pick up a hand held mirror from the box. Going back to where she originally stood next to Jesifur, she took out her wand.
Concentrating on what length she wanted her hair to be and gently tapping her head said the spell "Fel-in-Tas". She immediately felt a strange sensation.

She looked in the mirror and saw that she had hair that grew to her waist. "Yay! that's what I wanted my hair to be like. But I think that I look weird in that hairstyle." So she picked up her wand again to revert her hair back to its usual style. Concentrating on her hair style, she tapped her head twice with the wand and said "Int-ar-is". She looked back in the mirror and the length of her hair was back the way it was. "Cool" She then practiced a couple more time changing and reverting her hair style until she was satisfied with the hairstyle that would look 'crazy' with her costume and make up.

Louisa expected something to fly her way when Ryden glared at her - a shoe would be the first thing to pop into one's head. But no. The girl had accepted it very... good considering what this Ravenclaw was capable of. The shove-into-the-chair move didn't prove of that point, though, but Louisa wanted this to be over just as much as Ryden did so she sat still, closed her eyes.

She felt the sticky lipstick on her.. not only lips but the surroundings of her mouth too. What the heck was this girl doing? Everybody knew that lipsticks are applied INSIDE the mouth. Not that Louisa remembered putting those, so she just shut up.

Once finished the girl hurried picking up the mirror Ryden had thrown at her, shot daggers-like stare at her and looked at the thing in the mirror.

Wait... was that her face? O__o

She wanted to faint. She wanted to die. She wanted to attack the teacher. She was a dang seaweed, a female one with the lipstick all over her mouth!

Louisa gulped. Put the mirror down, the reflecting surface downward, and got her wand out. She was NOT going to talk to this lousy hand-worker, at least Louisa's drawings made sense.. in maths! HMPH.

The girl, so miserably and silently, tapped the wand on her head, "Felintas." Nothing happened, of course. Her mind had no concentration when she looked like a... seaweed. The costume was wrong, though, she might as well wrap herself up with actual seaweed and she'd be ready for a sea-raiding - camouflaged already. "I SAID FELINTAS." Tap. Her hair did change. Instead of being tall wavy, it was frizzy shoulder-length black hair. And no, she was not looking at that in the mirror - she just touched it, winced, and knew it worked.