Transfiguration Lesson II
 

The door to the classroom is wide open, ready for you to enter. All the desks are in their usual positions, in fact the only unusual thing is that Professor Magnus' desk is not covered in paperwork and folders.

No, today it has several buckets lined up, each containing freshly cut and neatly tied flowers that Professor Bentley had been so kind as to let the Transfiguration professor take from the greenhouses that morning. They are in four colours - Hogwarts house colours - of red, blue, green and yellow. Some have thorns, hence the request for gloves, but all are ready to be used later in the lesson.

If you are seated near the front, you would also probably see as you walk past, a cardboard box just positioned on the floor in front of the blackboard. Filled with tiny metal things.

Professor Magnus is in her usual place - perched on the edge of her desk ready to greet you, a smile on her face.




OOC: The lesson itself won't be starting until later tonight GMT, so please keep any chatting to a minimum. And it will be open for a few days so you guys don't need to worry about it going too fast, or not having time to participate much. I promise to spread my posts out enough to give you all time. ^___^

Ira, swinging her bag and humming softly to herself, made her way towards the Transfiguration class. She remembered how fun the last class had been, all about the photo frames, and so, she was eager to see what they were going to be doing today.

She entered the classroom, and was pleasantly refreshed and surprised to see all the flowery atmosphere. Ira especially liked the red and blue ones. And there was the professor. Ira smiled and greeted, "Hello Professor Magnus! Those flowers are beautiful" Ira said, pointing over to the front table.

Then she went and sat down in one of the middle rows. See, the perks of being one of the first students to enter was to be able to choose a desired seat.

"Good day Professor," Beezus greeted the Transfiguration Professor as she entered the classroom. The first thing she saw were the flowers and it made her smile widely. "Those are so pretty Professor," the eaglette complimented. 'And in four different colors too. Much like the Hogwarts houses, but the blue ones are still the prettiest,' she grinned at her thoughts.

She then walked towards a desk on the front. She took off her backpack first, placed it beside her and finally settled down. She opened her bag and made sure she had her dragonhide gloves with her when she saw a cardboard box on the floor in front of the blackboard. It seemed to be filled with some things. Things she couldn't identify for she was already seated. Hmmmm..what were they going to do today? More importantly, what will be the role of the gloves? Were they going to plants flowers since there were many of that on the buckets?

Silvia arrived at the Transfiguration classroom. "Hello, Professor," she said before taking a seat in the second row as usual. Looking around the room Silvia immediately noticed the flowers on the professor's desk. So that's why we need our gloves today, she thought. Silvia didn't particularly care much for flowers, but she thought the blue ones were really pretty. She wondered what sort of thing they would be learning today.

Alyssa walked into the Transfiguration Classroom, glad that another class had started. She noticed the buckets of flowers lined up which made the classroom really pretty. As she walked up to the Professor, she noticed a cupboard box on the floor in front of the blackboard containing some kind of metallic thingys. She was really interested to know what they were going to learn in class today. But for now, she'd have to wait. She greeted the Professor, who was perched on her desk. "Hello Professor Magnuson. It is good to be back in another of your Transfiguration classes and from the looks of what I'm seeing so far, I know that this will be another interesting lesson."Alyssa smiled her greeting before looking for a seat nearer to the front of the classroom.

Kennedy made his way to the Transfiguration classroom. His hair was a bit messy, but not bad messy...just cool messy. He was still having difficulty sleeping because of his overly energetic kitten, that he sometimes just got out of bed, showered, dressed and left in a hurry.

He sighed, relieved that class hadn't started yet and entered. As he made his way to the front desks he noticed the flowers. Green, red, blue and yellow. Were they going to transfigure flowers into...something? Obviously, this WAS a Transfiguration lesson after all.

Kennedy placed his bag on the table and turned toward the front of the classroom. "Good day, Professor Magnus," he greeted with a smile.

Sophie noticed the pretty flowers as soon as she skipped into the classroom. "Wow, they are pretty!" She liked the blue and yellow ones especially. Sunflowers were one of her favorite flowers! She looked from the flowers to the witch. "Good day, Professor Magnus!"

Glancing around, she spotted Ira! She hadn't seen her since their first flying lesson! Smiling, she took a seat next to the Gryffindor. "Hey, Ira! Loooong, looong time, no see!"

Minerva walked into what she thought was transfigurations, but buckets were out in an open space. She smiled at the professor with curiosity. "Hello Professor, how are you today? i am excited to see what we are doing." She found a spot and waited for instructions.

Ira was just taking out her parchments and quills when she saw a girl come and sit near her. Turning to her side, Ira glanced sideways and lo! there was Sophie! The cute little Puff..

"Hey Sophie! Hiii!!" Ira softly squealed so as to not get professor's attention. "Yeah, its been looong for sure!" She replied.

"What do you suppose could we be learning today? With the flowers and all? Whatever it is, I think it will be awesome, won't it?"

Sophie was still smiling at the older girl while putting her bag on the floor. "I have no idea, but it sure will be great!" She loved flowers!

Evelyn made her way towards the transfiguration classroom in a hurry, as she was running late as usual.

The sixteen year old gave a sigh of relief when she entered the room, glad to know that class hadn't started yet. She smiled at professor Magnus. "Good Morning. Hope you're doing well today, professor.

She noticed the buckets that were lined up containing flowers of different colors. Wow. they looked really pretty. She found a seat near the middle of classroom and sat down. Looked like it was going to be an interesting lesson.

"Yup, it sure will be.." Ira replied. "And which ones do you like out of them?" she asked Sophie, "I love the red and the blue ones. They look beautiful!"

The red ones look a little better than the others, but then it maybe just because it is my house color.. Ira thought to herself.

Zhenya walked into Transfiguration and saw green flowers, amongst other flowers. They looked good!

"Good day Professor! How are you?" Zhenya greeted.

"The blue and yellow ones are the prettiest, I think!" In a way because sunflowers were one of her favorite flowers and, of course, it was her house's color. Heh! And the blue ones were just SO beautiful!

Sophie stared at the flowers again, because she thought they were indeed extremely beautiful, but she also didn't want Professor Magnus to call their attention for talking too much, even though class had not begun yet.

Vickers entered the Transfiguration classroom, nodding his head at the Professor in polite greeting “Greetings Professor Magnus”. He made his way towards the front row corner seat, and passed the flowers which brought a small smile to his face—except for one. The blue one got him staring at it a bit dumbfounded. They were orchids, that much he knew… but BLUE orchids? Slowly he lowered himself in his seat, sparing a moment's gaze at the box with the metal items within, before shifting his eyes back at the blue flower. Was it real? A rare breed? Or a deftly performed coloring charm?

Ella skipped into Transfiguration with a smile, excited about the new lesson. "Hello Professor Magnus!" she said, "How are you doing? Those flowers are lovely." She waited for the Professors reply and headed to find a seat in the front. She looked down at the box filled with-well what were those things exactly? Ella was curious.

Aaron made his way into the class and waved at the professor. He was pretty sure she was the professor who took points from Amy for the swimming cap incident last year..
'Hi tharrrr, professor!' He smiled and made his way through the class until he spotted someone familiar.
Alyssa. He hopped into the chair next to her and grinned at her. 'Elloooo, Lyssard.' He didn't care if she didn't like the nickname, lizards were preeeetty awesome.

Crossing her arms over her chest Issy smiled as the kids started coming in. First being a Gryffindor, and she duly noticed the flowers. "Good morning, and thank you, yes. Professor Bentley is certainly wonderful with flowers."

"They are, aren't they. I'll have to pass all your compliments on to Professor Bentley," Isabelle grinned, nodding her head in greeting.

"Good morning."

"Morning, Alyssa. Well I certainly do hope so." Isabelle nodded at the Hufflepuff as the girl made her way to a seat.

Oooh, prefect. "Prefect Escalante, good morning."

Another nod of the head greeted an enthusiastic Hufflepuff as they entered. "Good morning."

"Minerva, Evelyn, nice to see you both," Isabelle greeted the two girl as they spoke to her at nearly the same time. "I'm very well thank you."

Another asking after her, how nice of them. "Good, thank you for asking."

"Miss Phillips, hello," a smile spread across her face again at the obvious delight on the child's face.

"Good morning, Mister Vanderbilt." Issy caught him looking at the flowers and smiled.

"Mister Greingoth, good to see you," up and about. Her lesson was earlier than her last one, so she couldn't blame any of them if they felt a little tired.


"We'll just wait for any more stragglers, then I'll get started with the lesson!" Isabelle called out over the hubbub of the kids chatting.

Oakey came into the class room fully prepared for class, gloves included in his bag. Good Day Professor Oakey said with a smile taking one of seats a row back from the front. He saw the flowers assorted in their house colors and tried to think what they would learn today.

Justin quickly entered the classroom and greeted the professor, " Good day , Professor Magnus. " he said as he gave a slight bow before finding an empty seat and getting his book out along with his parchement and all his supplies.

Alyssa looked up when she heard a familiar voice. Her eyes opened wide in surprise. "Aaron!! What are you doing here? I mean I'm glad that you're here. But what are you doing here?,"Alyssa whispered to him. "Now behave yourself while you're here."

Kurumi was feeling much more relaxed in terms of Transfiguration since last term. The special meditation lessons she was having with the DADA professor were working as well...untill winter vacation happened. Then all her abilities went haywire and the fifth year found it nearly impossible to control.

Like now.

Kurumi wore a rather large crimson bow on the side of her head, something that was very uncommon for the Gryffindor to do - look THAT girlie - but she needed it to cover up the bit of dark magenta hair that refused to go back to black.

Walking into the classroom, Kurumi sort of froze for a moment when she saw how many people were already there, and quickly shuffled her feet towards the front of the room where she promptly sat down and looked at Professor Magnus. "Good day...professor," she said with a forced cheerfulness as she took out her textbook, parchment, and quill.

Lily made sure that she had her herbology gloves with her as she reached the door to the classroom. Smoothing her skirt quickly, Lily entered the classroom. As she passed the desk up front, she greeted the professor. "Good morning Professor. How are you today?" Lily asked grinning widely. She had somewhat enjoyed the last class but was hoping that this one would be even better. She continued through the class and took a seat off to one side, waiting for class to begin.

Alex entered the Transfiguration classroom and began to search for an empty seat. "Hello Professor", she said as she walked by. Finding a spot that was to her liking, Alex removed her backpack and sat down. She then began to ready herself for the start of the lesson.

"Hey Magnus," Ellie greeted as she entered the classroom. The buckets were noticed, but unconcerning.

What WAS concerning was where she was going to sit, seeing as she wasn't exactly the first one. And she actually liked Transfiguration and usually tried to sit relatively toward the front. But she didn't see an open seat today. So, back of the classroom it was. Lucky no one was freakishly tall in front of her.

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Isabelle grinned at each of the remaining students as they came in and found a seat, speaking to her as they passed. "Good morning all of you! Welcome." Although her smile faltered a little bit when she saw the huge bow on Kurumi's head. What...Hmm. She wouldn't ask. No, on with the lesson. "Alright then, lets get started, shall we?"



Flicking her wand at the board, the chalk rose up and wrote one word: FLORENEO

Walking over to the box, Issy picked one of the metal objects out of it and held it up so they could all see. Or hopefully all see, it was rather small. "The spell we will be doing today is there on the board for you to see. And it requires one of these, and a little later, a bit of fun with the flowers. Now, I'd to hear what you think this is, and what we'll be doing with it today..." Any ideas welcome. She raised her eyebrows slightly and looked around the room.




OOC: One answer each please. I'll be picking up again tomorrow to give everyone a chance to reply. And you can discuss ideas for what we'll be doing with each other if you want, but please don't chat excessively. Thanking youes.

Taylor tilted her head at the small metal thing. She had seen it before but where....... a picture of her nanny came to mind. Tay smiled and realized that she had indeed seen that met---- She raised her hand, "Professor that is a thimble...." Taylor knew that it was usally used for sewing.... she had no clue what they were going to used it for since it is used so that the skin wouldn't get poked but if that was the reason... then why did they have to have gloves with them? Tay sighed as quietly as she could and tried to think of what they were to use it for. She didnt want to sound dumb though so she kept quiet after naming the object.

sorry for her silence :( rough times ahead
 

Kurumi noticed the look about the bow on her head from Professor Magunus. She probably should explain things a bit. After all, she did promise the professor full honesty in regards to everything, but seeing as it probably wasn't going to interfere with the lesson hopefully Kurumi decided to jump that hurtle if and when it came.

Writing the usual, name, date, lesson at the top of her parchment, Kurumi copied down the word Floreneo in big letters as well and then just sort of stared at it. Latin again, no doubt. Something Kurumi knew nothing about despite the five years she had been studying spells primarily based on it. Sighing softly, she pushed the parchment a little further away from her. Her best guess was that the FLOR in it had to do with flowers and that maybe NEO had to do with new. So...new flowers? Maybe. Kurumi just did not feel like venturing a guess today though. Her heart wasn't in it.

She did look up when Professor Magnus showed them a thimble - something she was very familiar with because of her mother's constant insistence on her learning things that a proper lady should know how to do. Her heart sunk a little bit more and her eyes drifted to the colored roses and then back to the thimble. What did all this have to do with the spell and a possible activity? Well, Kurumi would venture a small guess there she supposed. But then she realized that the spell had an extra e that she had missed before. FLOR and ENEO? Hmm...maybe she would venture a guess with the spell instead. "Are we...turning flowers into metal?" she asked. "Flor means flower and I think eneo means copper or bronze in...Spanish." And then sewing with it?

Minerva put up her hand "Professor that is a thimble my grandma has one she uses when she is knitting. Could we be turning it into a cup." It was round like a cup, so maybe Minerva thought.

Justin looked at what the professor was holding up and instantly knew what it was, " Professor I believe that that is a thimble. " Justin answered after having raised his hand.

Having been sitting at the same row as a certain lion Kennedy couldn't help but notice the large bow on her head. It was...quite attracting to one's eyes... or at least his. He sent a small wave her way.

Kennedy turned his attention to the front of the room and listened as Professor Magnus began the lesson. He didn't feel the need to volunteer his thought on what the thimble was because a Ravenclaw had already said it. Instead he thought about the spell and what they might be doing today. After a while, he raised his hand. "As Kurumi said, Flor means flower in Spanish," he said. "I think...we'll be transfiguring the thimble into a flower...and the flower into a thimble?" Yes, no? Maybe?

F-fa-flor- FLORENOE say what? Selena blinked blankly at the word. Then blankly at the metal thingy they were supposed to use. "I think it's a thingy used to feed pygmy puffs something other than snot." Selena offered. Because it was very much possible. If it was so. Selena needed one. And figure out what the pygmy puff would eat out of the metally thingy. As for the spell? Flowers? Maybe they would be feeding pygmy puff flowers.

Ummm...Hannah looked at the object that the professor was talking about but she really didn't have a clus as to what it was. She didn't want to not participate in the lesson but she didn't want to make a fool of herself either. The other students seemed to be in agreement that this thing is a thimble...still Hannah had never seen anything like it.

Oakey's thought's continued on what today's lesson in Transfiguration would be. Then Kurumi walked in rather silent and sat in front of him wearing a large bow on her head. When the Professor had began talking she took something from a box that Oakey had not seen and showed it to the class. Oakey couldn't see it though, Kurumi's bow was to large and Oakey had to lean to one side to see that Magnus was holding a thimble.

After Kurumi finished giving her answer Oakey leaned forward Kurumi? Oakey said to get her attention. I'm only good at changing an objects color. Could you help me during this class, today's seems kinda hard.

His eyes kept going up to the giant bow on her head and he kept trying to bring them back down. He couldn't help it though, and was that some magenta in her hair? Did she dye it over break and it didn't come out well? Was that why she was trying to hide it? Did the bow have to be that big?

Ella looked at the object and raised her hand with a smile. "Professor, it looks a lot like a thimble. My mom wears one when she sews. It could also be the top to a mini microphone. I mean they look kind of like that too." She said this with a shrug, wondering if they even had microphones in the magical world.

Vlimia had sat down and had been busying herself by writing her name at the top of her journal, and adding unnecessary curliques to each letter in a different colour of ink. The end result looked quite nice, she thought. When Vlim was done, she waited for the proffesor to start speaking. When she did, Vlimia listened intently. She raised her hand to answer "Proffesor, that is a thimble, commonly used for sewing." But what could they use it for? "Are we transfiguring the thimble into... a blue thimble-flower?" She asked. Because they did exist. "Or are we having a competition between the houses to see who can water the flowers - or fill the bucket - with water, using a thimble?" She guessed, noticing that the flowers were all in house colours. But... what did that have to do with Transfiguration? If anything, that activity belonged in Herbology.

Silvia raised her hand. "Well, the beginning of 'Floreneo' sounds like flora, which I think means flower. So maybe we'll be turning the thimbles into flowers?" Silvia had no clue what the rest of the incantation meant.

Violet raised up her hand timidly. She had thought that she had seen the small metal object the professor was holding in her hand back at home with her grandma. "Is..that a thimble professor? Are we going to transfigure them into flowers? It would be rather nice to give to a special someone perhaps." She couldn't wait to get started with doing some more transfiguring. It was always a fun class to be in. As more students answered the professor's question, she learned a few things herself, like knowing that "flora" meant flower in Spanish which was very fascinating indeed that other people knew different languages.

Alyssa looked at the metal object and recognized it but as for the word, she was stumped. She repeated the word over and over again, before hazarding a guess. She raised her hand and said. "Professor, the metal object is a thimble. It's used to your fingertip from being pricked by a needle when you are sewing. As for the word Florean has it got something to do with flowers like the word Florists is for a person who arranges flowers?

So could it be that we're going to changing the flowers into thimbles or vice versa?"

Floreneo? What was that? By its name, it obviously looked like something to do with flowers, or rather transfigure flowers into something else..

Then, Ira looked up as Professor Magnus showed them all an object. It was rather small, but Ira could see it fine. But Ira had no idea what it could be. She thought about it, imagining all sorts of weird things, but yet couldn't come to an answer. So she thought better, and sat quietly.

Then she got an idea. She had seen it somewhere. It had been on her mother's finger while sewing! But why? Maybe to avoid getting pricked by the needle? Maybe.. But since many others had already answered, Ira figured to just listen to others and take down notes.

Jezzabelle stared at the object that the professor held and didn't really know what it was. Floreneo. "Well Flor is flower in Spanish," she said raising her hand, "and neo means new so maybe we could be making a new flower?"

Tayla furrowed her eyebrows, wondering what was going on with Kurumi. She'd been acting a little strangely lately and wished she could talk to her. Taking her eyes off the Gryffindor prefect, Tayla focused on the little thing Professor Magnus had in her hand. "That's a thimble, Professor," she replied, knowing what it was since she was half Muggle and had spent her childhood in the Muggle world. "And erm..." Tayla's eyes moved from the thimble to the word on the board to the bucket and the flowers and back. "We'll be turning that thimble into a bucket full of flowers," Tayla said rather unsurely, but it was the first idea that popped into her head.

Jen looked at the meddle things. She raised her hand.
"Perhaps we are going to turn the round thing into a vace for flowers?"

Jory recognised the object instantly, after all his mom used it alot. Raising his hand he said "It's a thimble, Professor and we're going to use it to,uh... turn it into a set of flowers or a single flower?'' The boy honestly had no idea what they were going to do with a thimble.

Zhenya had seen one of those before. She raised her hand and said "Professor, that is a thimble and my grandmother uses it when she sews so that she doesn't prick her finger, it just sits on the top of any finger. Would we be using it to sew something?" she asked.

No - wait... this is transfiguration, surely they wouldn't be using it for that. But she didn't have any other thoughts.

Sophie stared at the small object. "It's a... sewing thingy." Whatever that was called. Thimble, it seemed, as the others were saying. It looked like a tiny little bucket in Sophie's opinion! "We'll be turning these small thingies into big buckets of flowers?" That would be cool!

Kimalia who sat nearby smirked at Selena's response, she wasn't sure if it was right or not but the idea of it was interesting. Now then.. that still confused her on what to think of when she saw that.. object. Might as well give her input, raising her hand."Well, it looks like a wastebasket, except really really really small." Were they going to have to use an enlargement spell on it later? Hmm. "Will we be transforming the size and shape of it?"

What was he doing here? Well... this was Transfiguration, wasn't it? He was like.. sort of supposed to be here. Unless he was in a completely different room somehow.
He frowned in confusion. 'I'm here for class...?' He said and back back in his seat before yawning loudly. 'I always behave myself.'

Aaron stared at the board as the magic chalk wrote some word on the board. Floreneo. Floreneo. Aaron said the word a few times over, but every time he said it it just sounded weird. He shrugged and listened to what she was explaining now, he'd better pay attention, it wasn't as if he was a very good student to begin with.
Ah. It was a spell. Made sense. Magic school and all that..

He frowned as he stared at the object they were trying to figure out. How was he supposed to know what it was? 'Is it one of them sewing things?' He asked, it looked like those finger protector whatyacallem. 'Against the ouchie needle and what not, you know..'
He shrugged, probably not. But it was a try, right? So.... if he was right, they'd be sewing? Doubtful.

"Professor," she started after raising her hand. "It's the thing that they use to protect the finger from getting poked by the needle in sewing, right? Umm, it's called the Thimble." She had seen her aunty use it several times over the summer, but she rather not wear it since it's kind of hard and her fingers aren't big enough to fit in the thing.

Nate raised his hand and said "Professor isn't that what the muggles use to stick pins into. And are we going to be turning something metal into flowers." Nate had to think about that one.

Harvey watched as the professor waved her wand and a word came up onto the board .. he just stared at it.. Flor... Flor.. Flor-e.. Flor-e-neo... Floreneo... Floreneo.. he said to himself a coupls of times and then the professor told them that it was a spell.. so it required that little thing and the flower later on?.. just then the professor asked them a question and two.. Harvey slowly put up his hand "Thats a thimble professor.. a type of finger protection. Could we be turning them into those flowers or something?" he answered the questions as best as he could..

Elise stared at the board for a moment. Flora-WHAT?! Whatever it was, Elise was preeeee~ty sure it had something to do with flowers. Cause flowers were related to Flora... or something like that...

Raising her hand, she grinned. She knew what that was! "It's a tthim... Thim-something..." she grinned. Wait, what was it called? A thim... BLE!

"Right, it's a thimble!" she nodded vigorously. THIMBLE. Remember, Ellie!

Quoting some, but read all, I promise.
 

Spanish? Hmm. Isabelle looked at the board and read the spell to herself. Well yes, she could see how that conclusion could have been come to. "Actually it's an amalgamation of two Latin words, and flowers are not part of the spell. Good guess though."

"It is a thimble, correct. But we won't be turning the flowers into anything," Issy grinned at the Hufflepuff.

"A cup is very close actually. Something similar."

"It certainly does, but the origins of the spell lay in Latin, as is usual. And we won't be using the flowers yet, as I just said." Smiling at the Prefect, Issy moved on to the next answer.

Issy's eyed strayed onto one of the Slytherin prefects when she spoke. And then widened when her words sunk in.

Something other than snot?

What on earth was this child feeding her pets? It was --- "Umm, not quite, no. But thank you for the...input, Selena."

There certainly were some interesting answers coming forth today. Mini microphone top. Well it was knobbly, so she could see that. "I suppose it does look a bit like that, but a thimble it is."

Now that was a good idea for a game. Unfortunately, it had nothing to do with spell work, so wasn't what they were going to be doing. Isabelle smiled at the suggestion though. "As fun as that sounds, we won't be doing that I'm afraid. And the thimble is going to be something FOR the flowers."

"Good guess, both of you, but no."

They all seemed to be distracted by the idea of the flowers. Maybe she should have hidden them until the time to use them. "Not turning anything into flowers today."

"You're right on the first part of the word, but the flowers are not actually part of the spell. Good guess though."

"In Spanish neo might mean new, but not in this case," Issy winked.

A wastebasket? "Well yes, I guess it does really," Isabelle said. "And you are quite close with that idea..."

Ohhh, ding! ding! They had a winner.

Isabelle beamed as she looked at the child. "You are exactly right! Well done!"




Flipping the thimble over in her hand, Isabelle turned her grin to the rest of the class. "Those of you who said this is a thimble are quite correct. But we won't be using it for sewing today - we'll be transfiguring vases for these flowers to go in later on," she gestured to coloured blooms in the buckets.

"The spell itself is formed from two Latin words..." Picking up the chalk, Issy decided to write it on the board herself rather than use magic. "Flora, meaning flowers, or plants. And Teneo, meaning 'to hold'."

"To hold flowers. A vase. Any kind that your imagination can come up with. And the flowers themselves will be for later, so you can all have some fun arranging them. Now, before I show you the wand movements, could you all come up and collect a handful of thimbles - you'll need some more for homework, so feel free to store them in your bags." Isabelle used her foot to shift the box to the front of the room. It was a little heavy, as there were hundreds of the things in there.

Laura did what the Professor asked and then stored a few in her bag since the Professor had said she would need them for homework, why was Professor always giving out homework, it wasn't fair, seriously didn't they do enough at school without having to do extra, well she wasn't going to say anything about it but she did raise her hand and ask the Professor. "What's so important about these things anyway Professor?"

Ella listened to the Professor as she spoke, smiling because she had correctly identified the object as a thimble. She began copying the notes off the board, excited to do some flower arranging when all was said and done. Her mother would seriously appreciate the skills she was learning as she was an avid gardener and Ella seemed to be working with plants and flowers quite a lot these days.

When the instructor asked the students to grab a handful of thimbles Ella stood slowly, knowing there would be a rush of students to the front. She waited until there was some room around the box and walked over, grabbing her handful. She returned to her seat wondering how many thimbles she should keep out and how many she should save for homework. She raised her hand to ask. "Professor, how many thimbles should we keep out for this activity?"

Jezzabelle quickly made a note of the actual meaning of the word on a piece of parchment and moved to grab some...thimbles? Odd shaped things thimbles. She grabbed four and moved back to her seat. They did kind of look like cups. She sat back down and waited for further instructions.

Alyssa quickly jotted down what the Professor said and what they would be doing for lesson today before getting up and retrieved a handful of thimbles from the box that contained them. She then returned to her desk, sat down and waited for further instructions.

Quickly scribbling what the Professor said on a piece of parchment, Ari thought it had been best in the end that she hadn't answered the previous question, because, as it turns out, her guess was wrong. The girl had thought they were going to transfigure the thimble into a flower without thorns, because that's what the object did, protected one from prickling their fingers. But it seemed this wasn't a matter of logic. Ariadne left her seat and went to the front of the class to get some thimbles, as instructed.

Oh, so good. They were going to be transfiguring thimbles to vases. That was a good idea. Wow! This term, transfiguration classes were becoming fun.

Ira listened and nodded as Professor Magnus explained the spell to them. She noted down it in her parchment. Then following others, Ira made her way to the front of the class to take some of those things Thimbles. There were so many in the box.

As instructed, Ira took a handful of them and returned to her seat. Some she kept aside on her desk and the rest, she put in her bag. Then she waited for the next instructions.

Silvia wrote down the incantation and its meaning in her notebook, then walked up to the front and grabbed a couple of thimbles from the box, already thinking about what she wanted her vase to look like. She returned to her seat and waited for further instructions.

Oh, cool! Vases! That should be a useful spell to Sophie back home! If only she could do magic outside the school...

She got up and went to the front of the room and collected a handful of thimbles. Before going back to her seat, though, Sophie turned to Professor Magnus. "Can we use this same spell on any object, Professor?"

Justin listened as the professor explained what the thimbles were for. then stood up and went to get some of them from the box on her desk. Looking at them as he returned to his seat he nearly tripped over a first year. Then he sat down and kept a few on his work space and put the rest in a little pocket in his bag.

Sweet, she was almost correct for once. After writing down the definition and info, Kimalia got up to grab a fistful of those thimble, thingies.. they still looked like tiny wastebaskets to her, before putting them in her bag for later.

Make a vase out of a thimble? Vickers eyed the metal bucket the flowers sat in and the thimble on the Professor’s hand. Yeah he could see it, in fact other than the size they look practically the same. As the Ravenclaw stood to collect a small handful of thimbles, he lifted his other hand slightly and turned to the Professor “Professor Magnus, would this spell allow us to create more sophisticated vases, maybe of different shapes or material? The thimble looks very similar to the metal bucket there… I mean an engorgement charm can work too if all we need to make is a metal pot large enough for the flowers isn’t it?”

Violet stood up eagerly to collect the thimbles. This sounded like a good lesson. She was very artistic, so designing a vase would be brilliant and her sort of thing. Maybe it could be decorated with little flowers? Violet had loads of ideas. Flowers were pretty. Especially in Huffie colour. She took a handful and put them into her bag for when they were needed, before returning to her seat and focusing on the Professor.

Annabelle did what the professor asked her to do. She went to the front of the class and took some thimbles and even some extras to practice on for homework. "This will be a cool spell to tell my mother about when i get home." she thought to herself and then stored the thimbles into her bag. She went back to her seat and awaited more instructions from the professor.

Lilly stood up and went to the front of theroom, taking a fistful of thimbles and putting them into her bag for later. The flowers looked pretty and smelt nice and she was glad that they would stay where they were for the time being. Transfiguration was always so fun!

Minerva got up and went to the front of the room where she retrieved the thimbles. She put a few in her bag and the rest in front of her and then waited for the next steps.

Jen walked up grabbed a handful of thimbles and sat back down. Okay more like 5 or 6 but, still.

Lily copied down the professor's notes into her notebook. This was going to be similar to the paper into frame type of thing, though vases might not be as easy to personalize. Lily put down her quill as the professor asked them to come and get thimbles. Lily had never used them before for anything, she hadn't even seen them before... Walking up to the front of the room, Lily picked up 8 thimbles, to both use in class, for homework, and maybe to give to her mom back home. Once she had her thimbles, she walked back to her seat, and waited patiently to learn the spell.

Zhenya didn't think they would be doing sewing. Well, now that she knew they were turning them into vases it made much more sense.

She grabbed a huge handful of the thimbles and put them into a small compartment in her bag for homework. Maybe she could send one to her mother?

Instead of offering an answer to the question that had been posed to the class, Stella had merely stayed quiet, looking at the flowers. There wasn't much point in repeating everyone else, after all. Even if she had known the metal object was a thimble. At least she'd managed to stop playing with her ring, and her attention had gone back to Professor Magnus as the thimble discussion came to a close. So they weren't actually doing any Transfiguration with the flowers this lesson, just making vases for them. That was interesting, even if she couldn't help but agree with Vickers' comment about the thimbles seeming more like they'd just replicated the buckets the flowers were currently in. Although, she well knew that the point of Transfiguration was to make things look different. Not just larger.

They needed to collect some thimbles for the lesson, though, so she stood up and walked over to the box. There were still quite a few left in there, but she still only took a semi-large handful before carrying them back to her desk. "Will we need to find our own flowers for homework?," she asked, raising her hand after placing about half of her thimbles inside her school bag, and the rest on her desk. She could hear Oberon starting to play with them, but hopefully nobody else would notice. Even metal tigers liked to play, it seemed.

Selena smiled brightly at the professor, expecting her answer to be completely correct. "You're welcome Professor Magnus~" Selena chirped. Her answer was probably correct. It made the most sense. To her at least. But obviously the professor had other plans for this thing. Sighing, Selena slumped in her chair. There went feeding Kent something else. Kicking her legs back and forth in her seat she STARED at the metal thingy. Not really that pretty and apparently not a cup for a pygmy puff. Maybe it was a cup for a cru- nope. It was thimble.... used for sewing. Selena didn't sew. She didn't play with needles. Those things were dangerous.

Continuing to kick her legs back and forth, Selena wrote down the spell and it's use before standing up and skipping over to the box of metal thimbles. Who knew, maybe they could use it to feed a pygmy puff something other than snot. Selena picked up each metal thimble one by one, putting each one on her finger till she had a total of ten. Now she had fingers with metal HATS. Yup. She would be changing the metal finger hats into pretty vases now apparently so Selena waited for further instruction.

Vashti quickly scribbled down in her notes the spell's incantation, the two words and their meanings that formed it, and what the spell was supposed to do. As she did, she started thinking about what kind of vase she might create. It would change into any kind that she could imagine, eh? Hm...

Still thinking about her vase design, she got up and grabbed a handful of thimbles when the professor said they could. She set a few on her desk then placed the rest of them into a pocket inside her bag.

Taking notes of everything the professor was saying Hannah only looked up when she heard the professor say that they needed to get them several thimbles and homework....of course there would be homework. She silently got up and went to the front on the class. With a handful of thimbles she made her way back to her desk and waited for further instructions.

Isabelle had been stood to the side, to give the kids enough room to swarm to the front, but remain close enough in case they needed anything. And it seemed that a few did have questions.

"Important about what things, my dear? The thimbles? They're just the things you will be using the spell on today. They don't have any magical qualities on their own, if that's what you mean."

"I would say two should be enough, because we won't be putting any water in them until you're all sure you like your designs. And before that you can revert them back to keep trying," Isabelle grinned, eyeing the handful the girl had.

That was a good question.

"In theory yes. But it works best on anything that has the quality of a container - like the thimble, a cup, a bucket etcetera."

The kids were full of good questions today, she liked it.

"You're quite right, a charm could be used to make them like the buckets. But it is the more complex, and different, styles and materials I want you all to aim for today. No plain metal pots." Although if that's what they got on their first try, she wasn't going to scold them for it.

"You will indeed, and Professor Bentley has given us permission to use Greenhouse Three for that. But I'll explain when I post your homework later." Isabelle gave the girl a nod and smile, before walking round to the front of her desk.



"Now you all have your thimbles, I'd like you to pay close attention to the wand movement I am about to show you." Rolling her sleeves up, Issy took her wand back out of it's holster and placed her thimble on the front of her desk so they could all see. Although it was more her wand they needed to be keeping an eye on. "You need to point your wand directly downwards, vertical, right near your object. Then do three clockwise circles, moving your wand further away, and upwards, from your thimble with each one, like so..."

Isabelle did just as she had told them, swirling her wand clockwise and inching it away with every circle, almost as if she was flourishing something from the end of it. "Floreneo!" Almost as if it was growing out of the thimble, a red vase spread upwards and stood, complete, when Issy finished moving her wand.

Beaming at them all, she pocketed her wand again and picked up the vase. It was made of rubber, but they didn't know that - so she bounced it on the ground to prove it had worked properly. It came rebounding back up towards her face, and she caught it just before it hit her nose. "There we go. Mine is rubberised, just to show you the sort of thing you can do. Now, those of you with questions, please ask - the rest of you can begin with practice."



OOC: I'm off to bed now. Isabelle will still be there, but I'll reply to questions tomorrow. You may chat with each other about the task, but nothing else please. Have fun!

Ella nodded with a smile when the Professor answered her question. "Okay, thanks Professor." She left two of the thimbles sitting on her desk and placed the rest carefully in one of the pockets in her bag.

She watched with wide eyes as the Professor demonstrated what they were to do, looking away only to add things to her notes. When the Professor's vase was done, Ella nodded approvingly. Not that she needed Ella's approval or anything. It was quite a nice one and Ella hoped hers was nice too. When she threw it towards the floor Ella gasped. Why on earth would the professor ruin her perfectly good vase?! "Oh no!" she said, covering her mouth which was in a wide O shape. Ella was surprised and relieved to see that it hadn't smashed all over the floor and was in fact made of rubber. She couldn't stifle her giggled as she said, "Good one, Professor!" with a smile.

Ella didn't really have any questions so she decided it was time to practice. She pulled out her wand and placed it on her desk next to the thimbles. Then, she decided to practice saying the spell. "Alright...Flor-Flor-what was it again? Oh right, Floreneo!" When she had the word part down, Ella began to practice the wand motion without her wand. She pointed her hand down towards the thimble and practiced making the circular motion away from it. After a few tries without her wand, Ella decided to give it a go and try and change one of her thimbles.

Once he heard and watched the professor's instructions he jotted down notes. He wrote the spell, the meaning, and the wand movement down. Once that was done he began to practice the spell underneath his breath. "Floreneo. Floreneo. Floreneo. Floreneo." After he was sure he did it right he waited for further instructions.