Kennedy poked at his fluffy hair, making sure it was still there and not the mohawk. Man, if his mom had seen him with that hair style she would have so freaked out. Kennedy Escalante, are you trying to kill me?! He could hear her voice in his head...and he missed it. Even if it was mad. Shaking out of his thoughts, Kennedy prepared himself for the next spell. Color changing.

"Ristaris," he said, tapping his hair once. He had the color in mind, blue. That was one of his favorite colors, so yeah. Picking up the mirror Kennedy almost dropped it.

HIS HAIR WAS PURPLE!

How was that even possible. Well, purple was close to blue, but why didn't his hair turn into the desired color? It was probably because of the lack of concentration. He huffed in frustration and rolled his eyes. Why couldn't his brain concentrate? Taking a deep breath, Kennedy re did the spell. "Ristaris." Now, a firm voice could be heard. He quickly looked into the mirror and sighed. It was blue. His hair was blue and not purple anymore.

Bahahaha!

"Yeah she is a great girl. I am a good friend to girls, but it took me a while to tell Minnie about my feelings, actually SHE HAD to tickle the answer out of me. If she hadnt it would be a different story right now, let me tell you that. So I am thankful she tickled me that day." He said smiling at Minnie.

Harvey was keeping his promise of not getting jealous of her talking to other guys, and he felt happy that he was not feeling jealous.

"Ok you two back to changing your hair. Enough talking don't want to get into trouble do you?"

" Yeah. I'm still a bit awkward though. " said Justin.


" Okay, We'll talk later then. " answered Justin. Then Justin turned his attention back to practicing the spells that were given.

"No you are absolutely right. Ris-TAR-is!" His hair turned a very bright red. He looked in the mirror, nope not his color. "Ris-TAR-is!" Yellow is too mellow, nope

"Ris-TAR-is!" Blue is a nice color he thought looking into the mirror

Alyssa looked at the color of Jesifur's hair. "Ooooohh!!....I love the color of your hair? Are you going to keep it? It matches with your makeup, Jesifur".

"Okay, now I'm going to try the changing the color of my hair. Let's hope this works. Here's crossing fingers," Alyssa said. Concentrating really hard on the color she was hoping to get, Alyssa tapped the top of her head and said "Ris-Tar-is". She quickly checked the mirror. Yes! it was exactly the color she wanted purplish pink.

Alyssa turned to look at Minerva. "Minerva, I love that shade of purple. It so matches your curls. I hope that you're going to keep that."

She turned to the other 2 students talking with Minnie. "Oh hi there, I'm Pearl and this over here is Jesifur. I've seen you in class before, but I haven't had the chance to say hi. Nice to meet the both you."

Ouch. The sound of the professor yelling was not a pleasant thing to hear. Even though she did nothing wrong, she could feel herself blushing as though she hadn't followed directions.

For a few moments, no one said anything, but then the class began to practice once more.

It wasn't long afterwards when the professor called the class to attention again to explain that they were moving on to changing the hair color. Kourtney's hair was quite short now, and sort of spiky...kind of punk-rockish. So...which hair color should she try...?

For a while, she simply practiced the incantation without the wand movement. Ristaris...Ris-tar-is. She tapped her wand on top of her head once she felt ready and intoned "Ris-TAR-is" all while picturing fire-red hair.

She felt a tingle and peered into the mirror, only to be disappointed. Hm, not quite the color that she imagined. It was more maroon than anything. She wrinkled her nose at her reflection and tried again, concentrating really, really hard this time. "Ris-tar-is!" Fire engine red...fire engine red....fire engine red.

Now with delight did she look back at her reflection. Awesome! And hey, it looked pretty good with her green eyes. Maybe she had found a new hair-style. She couldn't wait to show Indy and Brady.

Aiden is definitely not going to make herself looks silly! Her face is already silly enough to make her hide her face in a tiny hole on the ground. As she watches the professor demonstrating the hairstyle and length changing spell, Aiden imagines a hairstyle which doesn't look silly. A it shorter shall do it.

Eyes closed, the second year Snake imagines what she looks like with a shorter hair. Hideous, she thought. She taps her head with her wand once. "Felintas," muttered Aiden clearly. The long dark hair shortens till her shoulder.



After watching another demonstration which was changing hair colour by Magnus, Aiden thinks of a hair colour. Black. Yes, black should be nice. With full concentration, Aiden taps her wand one more time to change her hair colour. "Ristaris," she says the incantation clearly.

As she looks at herself in the mirror, she realises she looks more like a mime in Diagon Alley the other day instead of a clown. Ahh~ This is good enough for her!

" Nice to meet you too. I'm Justin. Pleased to meet both of you " said Justin.

"Aww Alyssa thank you. I actually think I am going to keep it awhile. I love your color!"

India tapped her hair once with her wand and quickly spoke the word Felintas as she spoke the words she noticed ehr hair changing - she put her hand up to her hair and nearly squeaked as she realized it was no longer her soft long flowy wonderfulness but a big mess of curls. Looking in the mirror as she only had the costume on - the hair colored, and the hair now frizzed-out-and curled that she looked like Annie.

Any minute now she could start belting out Hard Knock Life and it would just go with the ebb and flow of the day. That of course just made her laoguh - so, quickly she painted her face white...she looked like a red-haired giesha who forgot to put her entire face on despite the costume, and the hair that is. Quickly she applied the red on her lips, her cheeks, and made up her eyes....and painted on the black line of her eyebrows.

Oh Merlins shriveling shorts she looked creepy. Like a clown but big-dimple-cheeked clown. Like any minute from now she was about to jump out from behind a corner and say having a good time? In a sinister way....a way that would send chills down Lafay's back.

Did professor Magnus just say that their hair style and length might not be fixed?!

Nora was very tempted to turn it back to normal just that moment, to be sure that she'll have her hair back, but she didn't want to lose points or something. Slytherin had lost enough, right? Time to earn points.

"Ristaris," she said with a tap on her head, and then looked in the mirror to see her red hair. Not carrot red, but she'd always wanted to see herself with dark red hair. Hehe.

Corey put his hand up... his hair remained unchanged for right then.

"Professor... could I practice on a dummy or somethin'? A dummy with a wig?" He wasn't really used to his err.... new wand yet after all. And he didn't much want to accidentally make his own head implode.

With their faces painted (and the costume crisis seemingly averted), Marilyn was ready to attempt these spells. Looking at Evelyn, she smirked. They looked like fabulous superstars!

Well, time for spell work...

She'd watched the Professor's example and tapped herself on the crown to change length, clearly saying Fe-lin-tas...but nothing happened. And nothing continued happening for next several attempts.

O.o Not to sound conceited, Marilyn had never had much difficulty casting. She knew she was adept to most magic and easy picked things up...So, why wasn't she getting this...The Professor had tapped...Marilyn had tapped...What was difference?

Getting irritated, she centered. Closing her eyes briefly and taking a deep breath, she focused.

Short hair...a bob...picturing it...

"Fe - lin - tas..." Enunciating each symbol, she tapped the top of her head, this time feeling a change. Grabbing the mirror again, she looked at the now shorter hair. "What do you think?"

Now, for a different color...

Well, what color should we shoot for? Green....? Nah, too obvious.

Red?...too Gryffindor...

Same motion, emphasis on TAR...Okay, Marilyn was ready to try. Not wanting to demonstrate failure, though, she tried her hardest to get it right on the first go around.

Visualize...visualize...

"RisTARis..."
Tap...

She'd been going for pink...but when she looked in the mirror...Well, it wasn't fully pink...

Meh..."What do you think, Evelyn?"

Now, they practiced the Ristaris spell.


"Ris-TAR-s!" her hair become red now. She didn't like it.

"Ris-TAR-is!" now her hair become blue. "I think my white hair better. Intaris!"

Lilly tapped her hair. She had rainbow in mind. "Ristaris" she said firmly. Cool, she had rainbow hair! It was much more intresting than boring blonde!

Kurumi's short pixie hair was beginning to frizz a bit due to the stress she was feeling about not being able to perform the spell properly. What was going on? She had never struggled this much before and would have GLADLY accepted her hair melting to her head just to prove that she was at least performing some magic.

Her attention, however, was disrupted further when she heard some of the first years she had met recently talking among each other. She smiled, until conversation began to turn far away from the task at hand.

"Pssssst," she whispered, leaning over a bit. "Harvey, Minerva, Justin, I know you guys are excited about being able to perform spells and all," her voiced faded for just a moment. First years were performing the spell and she couldn't. At least no one suspected that she was incapable, right? For the first time ever she was actually glad to be a Metamorph. "...but...can you guys try to save the conversations about houses and whatnot until after class. Some people might not be able to concentrate on the spells." Like herself, but that wasn't entirely their fault.

Kurumi leaned back in her seat again and set her wand on the table, arms folded across her chest. This reminded her of a film she had watched as a child, one about a young witch who suddenly couldn't perform magic - like flying on a broom - because she was losing herself and her confidence. Was that what was happening now? Or had something been in her pumpkin juice?

After taking a few moments, she picked up her wand again and looked at her reflection. She hated doing it...but she didn't want to appear incapable and, well, she wasn't hurting anyone in using her abilities, right?

Kurumi closed her eyes again and focused on a color - the color of her eyes. But what feeling could she envoke that would make her hair turn the same color. Her thoughts, for some reason, focused on her own house and the lion that was on its crest. Kings of the jungle, Gryffindors had a sense of regality to their name. She thought about some of the nicknames given to her recently, Cookie Princess, Pretty Prefect Princess, Ambassador of Cuteness - Merlin, how did her father get in her head?! - and she began to feel something. Her eyes shot open and she immediately tapped her head. "Ristaris!"

Nervously, Kurumi peeked into the mirror and saw that her hair was now a violet color, but no thanks to the spell.

The first spell is Felintas. Spell that changes hair style or length.

Jonathan sighed. His hair right now is blonde and semi-curly. All he has to do is somehow make it straight right? He took out his wand and concentrated. He didn't need to make his hair shorter, it is already short. He also didn't like to make it long. He'll look like a girl. Okay.

Concentrate. Straight. Straight. Straight. He tapped his head with his wand "Felintas!" he uttered out. Did he do it correctly? He looked at himself on the mirror and his semi-curly hair is now straight. Awesome!!!


Ristaris...

The spell that changes the color of the hair. Jonathan smiled. FINALLY!!! He gets to change his hair color back to normal. Being blonde for the first part of the term didn't make him comfortable even though people said it was okay. No. Blasted hair color.

He got his wand again. The professor already told them TAP ONCE ON THE HEAD. With the same wand movement he said "Ristaris" he looked at his reflection in the mirror hoping it worked....................... IT DIDN'T!!!

Okay. Don't panic. Just do the spell again and this time full concentration. "Ristaris" he called out as he tapped his head with his wand. NOTHING!!!! What was going on? Is there something he missed? Jonathan frowned. Everyone seemed to be having a problem with the hair color too. Maybe he just needs to concentrate a but more.

Wait.

Jonathan stood, he recalled the professor telling them to emphasize TAR for the spell to work. Is that why it's not working other than maybe the fact that his concentration on the color is not as much? Well..... Worth a try.

Jonathan breathe. AGAIN. He taped his head with his wand again. CONCENTRATE. "RisTARris!" he said as he closed his eyes. Did it work? He looked at his reflection for the third time. He opened his eyes and smiled. He has a new hair color... It worked. He should have concentrated more and have put much emphasis on the spell.

Willow looked into the mirror and concentrated hard on what she wanted to see. She imagined her long, white-blonde hair turning into a colour her mother wouldn't let her in the house in! Trying to hold in giggles, she regained her concentration and said "Ris-TAR-ris!" Opening her eyes, she looked into the mirror again and saw two bright blue eyes looking through a BRIGHT PINK FRINGE!!! She'd done it! Feeling accomplished, she looked around at all her classmates changing their haircolour too! This was beginning to be her favourite class!

Emily listened to her answer and nodded. Okay, well at least potential criminals in the room would get the message. But other spells could do that? Hmm. Anyway, hair colour!

She looked at herself in the mirror and picked up a strand of her light brown hair. It was so... boring. But what colour to choose?
Red! That would be good. Show her Gryffindor pride and all! She grabbed her wand again she tapped her head and cried "Ristaris!" Her mouth fell open at the result. Her hair had gone pink. Well that wasn't what she'd been going for! Mabye she should put more emphasis on the tar bit?

Ashley sat quietly and watched the others, still very unsure about what to do. How many points would he lose if he really didn't do anything at all? But then, how many would he lose if the professor thought he was doing the spell wrong and not following directions?
It sort of dawned on him that either way, he wasn't following directions. Even so, the whole thing made him nervous. There had already been yelling, and he didn't want to be involved in any more of it. Perhaps he could just wait for his hair to change on its own and pretend he'd done it with the spell. Sadly, he knew already that at the moment, his eyes were no longer hazel, hovering somewhere in the blue-grey zone instead.
So, he was already in trouble, if something like that became noticed. But he started to wonder just how it would be noticed. Did the professor check everyone's normal colouring before they'd started? Probably not. For all she'd know, that was the colour they had always been.
With a sigh, he took up his wand again and aimed to tap his head, looking in the mirror. But he was still too nervous to try, and put both items back down without doing anything.

...

"Well nothing is stopping you from doing so." Looking down to the outfit on the floor, Evelyn scrunched up her nose and leaned over to pick it up before placing it on her desk. It was touching her things, but she'd rather that happen than the professor take points for 'letting germs make cities on the outfit' because it was on the floor.

Professors seemed to be doing stuff like that lately. Was she being overdramatic? Probably.

Moving onto the next spell already?

Only this time it was two taps instead of one, and she'd soooooo rather try and change eye color instead of hair color. That would have been soooo much cooler. Yet, Professor's orders called for hair color! Eh. That sandwich kid, Corey, had the brilliant idea though. Then again...could they also practice on other people? She didn't mind trying to change the length of her hair, but changing the color?

Nevertheless, she eyed the clown outfit on her desk before raising her wand and tapping it twice on her head. "Ristaris." WORK. Darn spell. Woooork...she did NOT want reddish brown hair! This was nowhere NEAR blond!

Scowling, the Slytherin girl looked over to Marilyn once her name was said, and her eyebrows shot straight up on her forehead. What... "I think...you look like a clown." Huuuuh.... "Perfect for this class though. Completely."

They were moving on. Eino quickly scribbled down the incantations for the next two spells before attempting to cast them. He brought his wand up to his head, then tapped it with more force than it was probably necessary and said the incantation. "Ristaris." Almost immediately he saw his slightly longer hair change to dark, dark, black. It was so black it resembled a raven, and it was shiny too, shiny black. It was definitely an unusual look for him and made his black eyes look extra creepy. Still, he could rock it. Maybe. It was very unclown like, so he repeated the spell and this time his hair changed to a pretty shade of green, grass green.

"Professor," He began after he raised his hand, "would these work any type of hair, including fur?" He wanted to know if he could use these spells to change the length and the color of Ino's fur. Her fur was very, very, very short, giving the impression that she didn't have any fur at all, but maybe he could make her into a fluffy kitty. Although, he didn't really want to, he was just curious.

Jackie cringed inward. Changing her hair colour wasn't on the list of her priorities right now. But that was what was required right.
She glanced at her chestnut mane of hair. What was the spell? Ristaris, yea?
She took her wand and tapped her hair, thinking of ginger. 'Ristaris', she said faintly. Nothing happened. Maybe she wasn't concentrating enough.
'Ris-TAR-is.' She tapped her hair again. It turned ash blonde. Ew! What was this?
'Ris-TAR-is.' Ah, finally, it turned ginger. She almost skipped in joy. But she didn't like her look. Her chestnut looked better. She waited for the Profesor to glance this way, so she could change it back to chestnut again.

"Intaris!" Harvey tapped his head, he looked in the mirror it was back to normal look. "Ris-TAR-is!" He concentrated hard on the color yellow as he thought it would be fun. He opened his eyes and looked in the mirror, he had bright yellow hair which he did not like. "Intaris!" He changed back to his normal look.