When Kurumi's theory about the spell had been debunked, Kurumi simply nodded. Well, it HAD been Latin roots...so there was no wonder that the lioness had no clue. The part that got her was....flowers not being a part of the spell. That meant that the spell wasn't actually going to be used ON flowers, correct? A knot began to form in Kurumi's stomach as she gazed at the thimble in Professor Magnus' hands. It better not be...
...it was.

Kurumi's eyes sort of glazed over and the explanation about the actual meaning of the spell essentially went in one ear and out the other. Flower arranging...they were going to do flower arranging. Her heart sank in her chest and the magenta spot hidden by her ribbon grew just a bit wider. Her mother had taught her flower arranging, or ikebana, and now that she was trying to avoid things that reminded the prefect of her...it was a bloody class and homework assignment.


Kurumi's eyes came back into focus when Professor Magnus demonstrated the wand movement and she looked down at her parchment to draw a simple diagram of the movement plus some notes that she had missed earlier and then set her quill down when they were asked if there were any more question.

It was then that she heard Oakey lean over and ask her a question. "Sure," she said with a force smile back at the Hufflepuff. She was getting pretty good at wearing a mask these days. Transfiguration was one of her better subjects, but with her own magic acting haywire these days...she was concerned that she wouldn't be the role model that he was hoping her to be. "Just as long as you don't mind me melting a thimble or two on my first try." Or third...of fourth...there was no telling how her spellwork was going to go today.

Lily watched as the professor showed the class the wand movements. That looks difficult... Lily thought once the professor had successfully made a vase. After writing down the movements, Lily decided she would practice each part separately and then try combining them. So she started muttering, "Flor-en-eo...Flor-eneo... Floreneo" That was good enough for Lily.

Next she decided to practice the movements. Pulling out her wand, she re-read her instructions on what to do. "Start with a downward facing wand... then make 3 clockwise circles, getting further away and higher as you go..." Lily muttered over and over as she practiced the movements. It wasn't as easy as she had hoped. After a bunch of attempts to practice the movements she decided it would be time to try out the spell.

Laura looked at the Professor, seriously why did she always want them to practice, well at least she couldn't turn the think back into a tree, well she hoped she couldn't though it probably would be fun if that happen, just thinking about it made Laura giggle, seriously though she was sure someone would be annoyed if that happened.

Laura decided that she was ready to practice and so she did the spell and then tried to remember what the sentance was, suddenly she thought the professor had said. "Ferula." Laura said, but nothing happened, what was she doing wrong, well anyway at least nothing major had happen which was a good thing.

Transfiguring metal finger hats. Easy enough, right? Selena allowed several of the thimbles to pop off of her finger as she wiggled them. She would have to transfigure them into vases after all. Selena watched the professor work her magic and almost cringed. Darnit. It didn't exactly seem easy. Sighing, she watched the vase bounce back up into the professor's hands and smirked. Selena wanted a vase like that. But not red. Because red wasn't as cool as GREEN. Heh, she totally got this...

First off... testing the sound of it. The spell looked funny after all. "Faaall- Florianaoooo, Floreneo." HAH. SHE HAD GOTTEN IT. Selena didn't like the way it sounded though. Pulling out her wand, she twirled it between her fingers, staring at the thimbles before her. So the movement was apparently three circles going counterclockwise while moving up and away. Psht. That didn't sound too hard.

Selena closed her eyes trying to picture her vase. GREEN. Lots of it. And pygmy puffs. Or maybe ballonos. No. Pygmy puffs. Selena liked pygmy puffs. Opening her eyes, Selena looked at the metal finger hat again. Yes, she was not going to call it a thimble. That was a stupid name for a metal hat. Selena pointed her wand at the metal finger hat and turned her wand counterclockwise, moving it up and away. Why was moving a wrist so much easier than... actually... saying the word? Floreneo. Did it really need so many syllables?

Floreneo. Definition? Annoying hard to say. She was pretty sure the word would make a good tongue twister. Maybe she ought to get someone to say it over and over again till their tongue actually twisted. "Floreneo. Floreneo. Floreneo. Floraablehhhhhhh."

Was there a shortcut for this word?

When Ella had practiced saying the Floreneo correctly and the movement, she picked up her wand, ready to work. Ella pointed her wand at the thimble the way the Professor had told them to. She imagined a beautiful glass vase that was curvy and colorful and like nothing she'd ever seen before. She began turning her wand in the clockwise circle motion, inching it away with every new circle she created. "Floreneo!" she said, hoping the thimble would change. She looked down at her desk to see that the thimble had changed but not the way she had hoped. It now looked like a rainbow colored tiny glass bedpan. "Erm-that's not right..." Ella turned the thimble back to its original state and sighed, hoping the next try would be successful.

Deleate please.

Justin watched as the professor showed them the wand motions and was amazed when she dropped the vase she had just made. And to his relief it bounced back up into her hand. Wow, that was quite a feat.then Justin took a thimble and placed it in front of himself and held his wand vertically over his thimble and traced it clockwise thrice and said, " Floreneo" Nothing, so he tried it again, " Floreneo." and his his thimble resembled something close to a vase.

Oakey had a sigh of relief when he saw that they were just turning the thimbles into flower vases. That shouldn't be to hard he thought thimbles were kind of like mini vases with the way they were shaped. The wand movements looked difficult though. Oakey smiled when Kurumi joked about melting her thimbles. That'll be less then how many I'll probably melt. he joked. Oakey inched his desk up an inch or two to see what Kurumi had put in here notebook. Rumaging through his things he pulled out his note pad and quill. Do you mind if I put that in mine? He asked holding up his note pad to her. He set it back down and poorly recreated what Kurumi had put in hers.

Sophie nodded and went back to her seat. She sat up straight to watch as Professor Magnus demonstrated what they were supposed to do. Vertical position, clockwise, three circles, move wand further away... that seemed easy enough! The red vase looked pretty cool and Sophie couldn't wait to make her own!

She was about to get her wand when Professor dropped the vase. Sophie's eyes widened as she waited for a big crash sound. Instead, the vase REBOUNDED BACK UP! "Wicked!!!" She exclaimed with a big smile on her face. Nice vase for clumsy people!

Rubber vase! Rubber vase! Would Sophie be able to transfigure her metal thimble into a BOUNCING RUBBER VAAAASE??? She really hoped so! Finally grabbing her wand, she pointed down at a thimble, in the vertical position Professor Magnus had just showed. Oh, wait. It would be best if she practiced the incantation first, no? Meh.

Sophie put down her wand and stared eagerly to one of the thimbles. Okay, just a couple of times then actual practice!! "Florr-" She was so focused on the thimbles she had totally forgotten the word. She glanced at the blackboard. "Oh, right. Floreneo! Floren- Floreneo. Floreeneoo! Floreneo." That was it, wasn't iiit?

She began muttering the spell under her breath,"Floreneo. Floreneo. Floreneo. Floreneo."

Once Amelia had the incantation down she decided that it was a good time for her to start practicing the wand movement. Pulling out her wand, he recalled how Professor Magnus had created the vase. She'd try to do that in a bit but first she wanted to get the movement down as perfectly as possible.

She made sure to move the thimbles on her desk off to the side for the moment; she wasn't going to do the vase yet so there was no need for her to have any thimbles in the area. Pointing her wand vertically, she made the first clockwise movement, then the second, and then the third. She made sure to move upwards with each circular movement.

It seemed pretty easy to her and it was almost time for her to start trying to make a vase.

Alyssa jotted down in her journal what the Professor told them about the spell and what they would be doing with it before watching closely as the Professor demonstrated the wand movements to change the thimbles into vases. Once the Professor gave them permission to practice the spell, she first practised the incantation, carefully pronouncing each syllable. "Floreneo.....Floreneo.....Floreneo....Floreneo"

Then she unholstered her wand and practised the wand movements. Pointing her wand downwards vertically, making sure that she started off near the thimble, she swirled her wand clockwise and as she made each circle, she made sure that she was circling out and away from the thimble.

She practiced the wand movements a few times before going back to pronouncing the incantation again. "Floreneo....Floreneo...Floreneo..."

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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.

So it was a thimble.

Gideon wrote it down within his notes aloneside the spell from earlier as he listened to the professor further explain what they would be doing for the class. Transfigurating something into a vase certainly made sense when involving flowers. When the breakdown of the spell was added to the board, the 5th year added it to his parchment wanting to be fully prepared for their task and anything later on they might need the information for...like homework. As instructed, once he finished the last of his notes for now, he got up from his seat to the box, grabbing a bunch of thimbles for himself before returning to his desk to await them moving on.

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"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."

And move on they did, Professor Magnus grabbing their attention once more and speaking of the wand movement needed for the spell. Gideon watched with close and apt attention to make sure he could get it right and be able to mimic it. It was probably well that he was so focused seeing as it certainly seemed one of the more complicated spells at least movementwise. Point down at object---three clockwise circles gradually pulling upward.

Eventually the woman had a nice red vase. A nice...bouncy vase as she demonstrated as she threw it on the floor. That had been a surprise! One that was never to be expected. Gideon wrote down what they were taught, debating with himself if he had any questions but simply staying quiet for now.

Amelia thought that now she would start practicing the spell with BOTH the wand movement AND the incantation.

Pointing her wand directly downwards she made her counterclockwise movements while moving her wand away from the desk. "Floreneo."

Kurumi managed to giggle at Oakey's response. She liked this Hufflepuff and was glad that he hadn't been eaten a plant in his first year. Of course, Kurumi had only heard rumors about that, having not been there herself, but she was glad nonetheless. That Ravenclaw Quidditch captain had been a weird one anyway. "I am sure you will do just fine," she nodded. He would probably have to calm her down the way things were going. "You mean my notes?" she asked, pushing them a little closer to him to be able to see. "Of course not, go right ahead." Although, her notes were a little...incomplete at the moment. Her mind was rather distracted.

Glancing back at Professor Magnus now, Kurumi raised her hand. Best to try and ask questions that would prevent her from doing too much unnecessary melting, right? "Professor, it sounded like there was just a little bit of inflection at the end of the spell when you said it. Do we need to place emphasis on any part of the spell, or it it more monotone?"

Minerva put her hand up. "Professor, so if we think of the design of the vase we want that is what will come of the thimble, kind of the like the frames?" she wasn't sure why she was still amazed at all the things she could do with magic, but it still amazed her. She looked at the thimble and couldn't wait to make it into something nice and purple. She started practicing saying the word "Floreneo, Floreneo" she then decided to pull out her wand and practice the movement without saying anything.

Amelia had an idea what she wanted to try out. She wondered if she drew a picture of the vase she wanted and looked at it while doing the incantation, keeping it in her mind... if it would work when it came to doing the spell.

She took out a piece of paper and a pencil from her bag and started to sketch it.

Annabelle put the thimble down on her desk. She had a memory of what the wand movements the teacher did. She hoped she wouldn't mess it up. "Alright downwards, vertical right near the object." she told herself as she wrote it on her notebook. She mimicked it. "Then three clockwise circles moving far away and upwards each time." she told herself. Then she did the movements once and it failed..."Hmmm what did i do wrong?" she wondered. Maybe she didn't concetrate more. "Professor could you help me do the clockwise cirlces? I am kind of confused on it?"

Silvia repeated the incantation several times to herself. "Floreneo...Floreneo..." After reciting it for a minute or two, she pulled out her wand. Holding it vertically above one of the thimbles, she practiced the clockwise circles. What seemed like a simple task turned out to not be as easy as she thought. The angle required of the wand when making the circling motion was not the most comfortable and tired her wrist quickly. She would have to build up more endurance in her arms. For now she ignored the tired wrist and kept practicing.

Alyssa decided to practice the wand movement for the spell Floreneo. Pointing vertically downwards near the thimble, she swished her wand clockwise three times, making sure that with every circle her wand moved outward and upward away from the thimble.

Once she was sure of the wand movements, she decided to concentrate on what she wanted her vase to look like. She pictured in her mind the various shapes she wanted them to look, and decided that once the Professor had given instructions for them to actually cast the spell, that she would try out transfiguring some of the thimbles she had into some of the designs she had pictured in her mind.

Vickers noted down the incantation with the proper wand movement onto his parchment. Just as he glanced up he thought the Professor dropped her newly transfigured vase! Gasping, he nearly lunged forward to catch it-- just to see it bounce from the floor and back to the Professor's hands.

*staaares*

"Its made out of rubber"


Then they were told to try the spell themselves. Nodding eagerly he practiced the wand movement over a vacant part of his desk whispering the incantation and performing the wand stroke alternately. When he could feel he's gotten the hang of it, the Ravenclaw reached out for a thimble and set it at the center of his desk. Wand pointed down, he paused for a moment before starting to turn his wrist around clockwise thrice "Floreneo" he uttered as he drew his wand hand upward. Almost immediately the thimble transformed into a simple glass vase.

"Alright!" the boy whispered exuberantly to himself, having gotten it right on the first attempt....

... but as he stared he could see various imperfections in the glass. He reached out, thinking of turning the vase around gently with its brim when---


*S H A T T E R S !!*

Listening as Professor Magnus answered the other questions that had been posed, Stella found herself going back to the idle ring-spinning. Until her own question was addressed, and she nodded. As long as they had Professor Bentley on their side, they wouldn't have to forage for flowers. At least, as long as they respected the rules of the greenhouse. But either way, apparently Professor Magnus wanted to focus on the spell for the lesson, and the flower discussion would happen later.

The demonstration didn't go unnoticed by Stella, either, as she paid close attention to the wand movement as well as the pronunciation of the spell itself. She kept thinking of it all as either a spiral or concentric circles, and the vase that sprouted from the professor's thimble got the slightest of intrigued smiles. She thought it was rather simple, really, although she flinched as the vase then got dropped. A rubberized vase could actually be useful, aslong as the water and flowers didn't spill out if it got dropped. But then, right now it was just an empty vase, and they'd been instructed to practice.

She didn't want to go straight into actually trying the spell, even if she thought she'd be able to manage it. Visualization was always key, so she ignored the thimbles still scattered over her desk as she flicked her wand out of its holster. Practice, then actually trying the spell out for real. Floreneo. Flo-ren-e-o. Floreneo, she repeated silently, before saying the incantation aloud a few times. Minus the wand movement, even if she thought it wouldn't do much to her desk by itself. "Floreneo. Floreneo. Floreneo," she said, glancing over as Kurumi asked about inflections. That was another thing that could be important, and just meant that they should hold back that much longer. She could practice the wand movement, at least, so she chose a blank spot on her desk. Pretending a thimble was there, she pointed her wand downward and swirled it in a tight clockwise circle, widening it slightly as the first finished and continuing until she'd circled the imaginary thimble three times.

Only to jump a little as she heard something shatter nearby, and she glanced over to see Vickers with a pile of broken glass. At least it wasn't an explosion.

Harvey listened as the professor explained what the thimble was for.. and he was surprised that they were going to turn that little itty bitty thing into a vase?! well that was cool! He then heard the professor say that they were to go and collect a handful of those itty bitty thimbles.. so thats what he did.. he went and collected a handful and put half into his bag and the rest onto his desk..



Harvey then watched as the professor demonstrated how to do the spell and wand movements.. Harvey watched carefully not wanting to get it wrong.. he saw the wand movement that she did as well as the incantation that she said.. he then watched as she bounced her vase to prove it was rubber.. and since he had no questions he went on with practice.. he first decided to practice incantation.. "Floreneo...Floreneo...Floreneo...Floreneo...Floren eo..Floreneo...Floreneo...Floreneo...Floreneo" he chanted as he was supposed... he then took out his wand and practiced the circular wand movement that the professor had done.. he kep on practicing and practicing.

Messer jotted down some notes onto his notebook after Professor Magnus explained to them about the spell and what the thimble was for. Errr..Did she say that they're gonna try and transfigure that thimble into a vase?! Well, in that case he need a lot of thimble because he might melt down some of them. Messer went to the box in front of the classroom and collected a handful of thimble before he went back to his table. He put some of the thimble in his backpack like the Professor said.

The young badger's eyes went back to Professor Magnus when she demonstrated to the class how to do the spell. He tried to remember all the movement she did, so he won't get anything wrong when he tries the spell. When she gave them a green light to practice, Messer decided to practice the pronunciation first. "Flooorrrrr-eeeeee-NOH..fLooor-EEEE-NOOOOOO..FlooOOOo-eeee-new.." No that was just wrong. What was it again? "Flooorrr--EH-neo..Floreneo." That was it, wasn't it?

After getting her thimbles from the front of the classroom, Alex listened to the Professor's instructions. Once the Professor was finished, Alex got to work on practicing the spell. First, she repeated "Floreneo" to herself several times. Then she silently practiced the circular wand movement. "OK, time to put it all together", Alex said.