Oh. Right...

"Err, thanks!" Sophie said, trying to give the two a proper thank you while still stretching for her rabbit. Why was the creature so hyper anyway?! Didn't it want to be turned into a nice hat? Heh.

Sophie decided that the best way to catch the rabbit would be to have her wand at the ready and sneak up on the creature from behind. This way, if she ever caught up with it, she'd be ready to cast. So she raised her wand and began to creep closer to the rabbit. It was perched on a desk three rows away, which meant the best way to do this was to cast from afar.

SIGH.

She paused in her tracks and hoped that no other student or rabbit scared her rabbit away. She slooooowly pointed her wand forward, swished it around, and then said, "Petrificus Totalus!" The rabbit froze in place, which earned a fist pump from Sophie.

Wand movement in an arch, left to right, a bit like a horseshoe. West practiced it a few times out of habit more than out of need, and then with his attention firmly on the frozen rabbit, he moved his wand again, "Lepus Caput!"

Sure enough the rabbit twitched but not of its own accord, instead it twitched and morphed and became a fluffy tophat. Which.... West wasn't entirely sure was his style but he'd give it a go he supposed? He picked it up and examined it, checking to see if there were any rabbit bits still attached. Like you didn't want the hat to poop on you for instance right? Right. But it was just a fluffy hat now, rabbit skin in fact. He put it on his head but there was a problem. Hmm.

It was just a bit too big, and therefore he couldn't quite set it at the jaunty angle that he preferred. Obviously West needed to give it another go. He put the hat down on his desk and then went to get another rabbit.

Nerida went and collect her bunny and petted it all the way to her desk. It was adorable!! It needed a name she couldn't just call it bunny, it would be... Hmm Jumper.. Yeap Jumper it would be.

She patted it as it hopped and jumped around her desk. It as adorable! Before doing the spell it was practice first. "Lepus Caput....Lepus Caput....Lepus Caput....Lepus Caput....Lepus Caput....Lepus Caput....Lepus Caput...." she said a couple times until she felt she got it down.

After getting the spell down she looked down at her rabbit, sadly it was time to petrify this rabbit. Otherwise she would probably turn something else into a hat...Though she could try it without first maybe? Or should she just petrify it? Hmm she looked at it as it bounced while she figured out which one she would do.

Alright now to practice the wand movement. It was an upside down U right? He did it a few times with his wand. He got the hang of it, i mean it was quite easy. He like the physical parts of the lesson. Now onto petrifying the bunny. He smiled down on it and knew it wouldn't hurt it. He softly pet it and let it sit down on the table. It still wanted to hop. He held out his wand and swished it and said "Petrificus Totalus!"

The bunny froze in place. It was like a statue. He smiled at it and assured it wasn't harmed or anything. He hoped he could hear him. Now onto the next part....doing the charm.

He held out his wand and did the upside U and said "Lepus Caput!"

Uhh, so Sophie needed to practice first. Maybe she should have done this before she cast Petrificus Totalus on her poor rabbit, but she couldn't help it. The animal just wouldn't cooperate and stay still, and she needed it to, so she could cast on it and turn it into a hat. No big deal, right, rabbit?

She picked up the stiff creature and brought it back to her own desk. She sat it there and tried not to look at it. It was frozen with a look of horror on its face, and if she looked at it too long, she'd start to feel guilty. Guilty was just not a feeling she could afford to have right now.

With the rabbit still as a board on her desk, Sophie first practiced the incantation. "Lepus Caput," she said. "Lepus Caput." That wasn't too hard. She then started moving her wand in that upside down U formation the professor had taught them. Okay, two easy steps--now to put them both together.

"No problem,'' Adi said to Sophie with a grin. He watched as she cast the spell. Darn, she was good for a first year. He wished he was a bit better with his wand work. Sadly, that was not so.

The first year watched his rabbit intently for any sign of changes. Nothing. Uggh! This was so frustrating! Would he never manage to transfigure it to a top hat? Sighing, he lunged for the rabbit as it tried once more to make its hop to freedom. Adi did not want to freeze his rabbit or whatever. Wasn't it going through enough, being turned into a top hat?

The rabbit glared accusingly at the young boy as if to say Why are you doing this to me? "I'm sorry,'' he said, feeling utterly guilty. "It won't hurt, I promise.'' Poor bunny. It was why he had not named it. He would have gotten too attached to it. "Alright. Let's try this again.''

Adi concentrated on the top hat in his mind. "Lepus Caput!'' He traced the upside down U movement and waited.

Looking over at Adi, Sophie smiled at his 'no problem'. She watched as he lunged for his rabbit, and she couldn't help but laugh softly at how funny it looked. She wasn't laughing at him, but rather at the situation. Was that how she'd looked earlier when she was stretching for her own rabbit?

Turning back to her frozen hat-to-be rabbit, she looked at him while she tried to put her intent into what she wanted to do. Rabbit to hat...rabbit to hat...rabbit to hat. Okay, so...this was it. She raised her wand and moved it in that upside down U formation. This was all aimed at the rabbit, of course. Did it even realize what was coming to it? "Lepus Caput!" she called out.

...and the rabbit wobbled then grew still again. Wow. What a hat. [/sarcasm]

He was ready to try again. After checking over his notes a few more times, Asher placed his bunny on the table and aimed his wand at it. "Lepus Caput!" he commanded with proper wand movement. There was a poof of smoke, but no hat. "Fail again."

He cleared his throat and positioned the bunny facing away from him. He thought that his heart might not be in it while looking into the bunny's sad little eyes. "Lepus Caput!" That time was a success. The little fluffy bunny turned into a perfect sized fluffy hat. Asher was thrilled.

It seemed like he'd gotten it well enough so she gave him a solemn nod then headed back to Mr. Snuggles. Even as a hat he was well behaved. This was a proud moment for the Gryffindor who was failing to acknowledge that the rabbit was now a hat and couldn't, in fact, do anything that could be deemed mischief...or anything else for that matter.

The Professor said that they should get a new rabbit when they got the first into a hat, but what if she didn't WANT a new rabbit, huh? What if she'd grown attached to this one and couldn't bother coming up with another name? She'd pass on making another trip to the table, thanks.

"Reverto!"

The moment Mr. Snuggles had become a rabbit again, he tried making a run for it. Lex had to dive onto her table in order to grab him by his hind legs, his front ones already scratching at the floor. "Whoa, wait stop!" Too bad he wouldn't stop wiggling. She struggled to get a firm grip on the rabbit and ended up toppling right off the desk, letting him go in the process.

Now she saw the reason for the body binding...but she still wouldn't use it. It wasn't something she would use on Felix, so she wouldn't use it on Mr. Snuggles either. Just...where'd he go? "Anyone seen a runaway rabbit????"

Kace opened his eyes and the spell didn't work. The rabbit was sitting there rigid. Hmm...he wondered what could have happened. Well...he was nervous. He was gonna try again and see if he could do it. Or possibly he could have mis-said the spell. That could have been it too.

He saw his bunny starring at him. He would get him out of there soon enough. Kace was about to do the spell again when Alexa yelled and lost his concentration. She asked if he seen a run away rabbit. He looked around his desk and didn't see it. "Sorry Alexa i haven't seen your rabbit!" he told her.

Back to business.....he was gonna master this spell. He took a deep breath and concentrated. He held out his wand and said..."Lepus Caput!" and did the wand movement and then his rabbit changed right before his eyes. He stood there gobsmacked. He did it!

Annabeth had done those upside down U movements enough to be sure she would cast the spell satisfactorily. Now she was whispering nonstop the words to herself "Lepus Caput! Lepus Caput! Lepus Caput! Lepus Caput! Lepus Caput!" as if it were a kind of mantra. She sighed and then she tried to visualize the scene, she pointing her wand to the rabbit, it turning to a hat. Fear paralyzed her! The scene of the half rabbit half hat jumping around popped in her mind once again. She didn't dare to take her wand. She began to stroke the rabbit. It seemed to be as scared as she was.

Now that Minerva finally caught her bunny almost on the other side of the room she carried it back to her seat. Placing it back on the desk. "Now Rabbit.. I really don't want to petrify you so please please please just sit nicely and listen." She pulled her wand to the ready. Alright little one I'm going to let go and do the spell. Please sit.. Please..


Minerva set the bunny down and it started jumping she sighed and pulled her wand. I told you I didn't want to do this, but would you listen noooo...Petrificus Totalus" The bunny froze and Minerva touched it. "I'm sorry, but I warned you and gave you so many chances." Now she could really do the spell.

Giving the movement, ""Lepus Caput!" She watched the rabbit turn into a hat. Giving a smile it was easy once the fluffy little guy stood still. She put the hat on just to see if it worked. This wasn't awkward at all wearing a rabbit.

So now to start over... Lovely. Sophie looked at her petrified rabbit and wondered what had gone wrong. She'd thought she'd said the incantation correctly, she'd though she'd done the wand movement correctly, and she'd though she'd had enough intent to put it all together and get a hat out of it.

Apparently not, though.

She sighed and raised her wand toward the rabbit. Come on, rabbit. Rabbit to hat...rabbit to hat...rabbit to hat. She whipped her wand into an upside down U and said, "Lepus Caput!" It had to work this time. It just had to.

Well, something did work alright, but...it wasn't what was supposed to work. She looked down and saw a beautiful hat--wearing long rabbit ears. ARGHHH. She only briefly wondered how to change the rabbit!hat back into a rabbit before POOF--it happened all on its own. Huh. She guessed the spell just hadn't been strong enough.

Kace was glad he did the spell but he wondered if the hat fit. He tried it on but there was a tiny problem. That hat was too big. It went over his face practically. He could smell the hat too. It did smell like a new hat but the fact he was wearing rabbit skin freaked him out. He took off the hat and decided to give it another go.

He went up to the front of the class to get another rabbit. Awww it looked even cuter than his first one. This one was kind of chubby. He smiled and pet its ears and cuddled it first. It was even more gentle with him. As he got back to the desk, he noticed the rabbit was sitting still on his desk. Huh? I guess it wasn't a hopping type. "Well you are much better than my friend over there i will tell you right now." he said to his bunny friend.

"Since you do not bounce, i will try to give the spell a go." he told him to brace himself. It just sat there and blinked at him. He said to himself..."Lepus Caput...Lepus Caput...Lepus Caput...Lepus Caput...Lepus Caput...Lepus Caput...Lepus Caput...."

Now onto the next step.

With the rabbit no longer wiggling in his arms, Ascanius set the petrified rabbit on the desk and just looked at it. S'not the most ideal situation. The rabbit literally had no will, but he wasn't going to argue ethics about this, yeah? He didn't care THAT much.

Twirling his wand in his hand like a drumstick, he made a U-shape with his wand and uttered, "Lepus Caput." And yeah, he was pretty sure it looked awesome. Drummer advantages.

However, he did feel a ping of guilt as the rabbit shook and warped into a hat. Right. This was awkward. Where was its heart? Where was its bum? Was the opening to the hat its bum? He did NOT want to put his head there.

The rabbit was so fluffy, so cutie! Annabeth looked at the rabbit as she was stroking its head and its body. To her surprise, the rabbit fell asleep. The girl looked around. While the others were casting "Petrificus Totallus" on their rabbits to stop them, she had managed to stop the scared rabbit with her love. She smiled, satisfied. Now, the spell.
AAAAAAAlright. The girl grabbed her wand and pointed towards the rabbit. It was even more cute now that it was sleeping. But she needed to cast
the spell.
"Lepus Caput!"
While making the movement and saying the words, she visualized a beautiful pink pointed hat.
"Oh, it works!" The rabbit was transfigured to a black pointed hat. Not pink, to her disappointment. Nevertheless, it was a beautiful hat and was very soft to touch. She gazed at the hat amazed, had it worked properly or the rabbit was under the hat? Carefully, she raised the hat and peered under it, and then into the hat. It was fine, there was no signal that it was a rabbit few minutes ago. She placed the hat on her head and waited for the teacher comments with a grin on her face.

Hmm.. this was a very nice hat. Wade knew the rabbit was safe as a hat, the Professor said it wouldn't be aware of it and as long as he didn't burn it or do other damage to it. There was really no harm or reason to feel weird making use of the hat. Nope. He had just about put the hat on his head about to go get himself another to try, when he heard Lexy Pexy's voice about a wascally wabbit on the loose.

He blinked, before he then looked down at his feet. So THAT's why he had that extra fuzzy feeling by his leg. Such a sweet thing, even though it was chewing on one of the carrots from his lunch bag. He slowly crouched down before scooping it up. "Is this yours, Lex?" He held it out for her to see. If it wasn't.. looks like he's in a perfect state to turn into a hat.

Time to make ourselves a hat!

The fifth-year stroked the rabbit's fir some more as she watched others turn theirs into hats. Did seem that hard to do, good sign. She shifted to the edge of her seat her hand on the rabbit while her other hand reached for the wand. All set, if only the rabbit would stop MOVING! She was afraid to grab it tightly. Wouldn't want to choke it to death or anything. She wouldn't be able to live with the burden.

Grabbing the fury creature by its ears, she decided it was ok if she gripped it tightly now. It'd be appreciated if it like stopped....dancing or whatever it was doing. They'd totally play together after it became a hat...then a rabbit again.

""Lepus Caput," She said waving her wand in the correct motion. And voila! A hat! Cool, yeah! Cassia put her wand on the desk then inspected the hat with both hands. Cool, she wouldn't have guessed it was squirming just a bit ago. The color was nice, too. Creamy!

She placed the hat on her head then turned to Lex, "Lex ..look.." Did Lex really lose her rabbit. Cassia grinned at her best friend. "It couldn't have gone far, let's go search for it," She told her standing up and taking off the hat. "Reverto," She uttered and was relieved when the rabbit appeared again unharmed and still squirming. "Umm..maybe my rabbit will help?" If only the Slytherin understood that it wasn't a dog to sniff and search.

Oooh, and the head boy just found a runaway rabbit, maybe it was Lex's?

Kace was gonna transfigure his rabbit. He was sure of it. The hat was gonna be perfect and the teacher might be impressed. Maybe...anyways onto the lesson at hand. He had his cute little chubby rabbit at hand and he was sitting still minding his own business.

Before he was gonna start the spell, he heard Wade say he found a run away rabbit. He hoped it would be Alexa's. Who knows how the teacher would react to a bunny on the lose. But thankfully the head boy found it. Kace noticed the other hat and should revert it back to normal. Kace said "Reverto!" and then the bunny came back unharmed. He smiled at it and it was sitting with the other rabbit. It looked like they could be brothers.

Kace moved his wand and said with an upside down U shape..."Lepus Caput!" and concentrated and the rabbit molded into a perfect hat before his eyes. "AWESOME!" was all Kace could muster. He even tried it on and it even fit perfectly. Hmmm...maybe he could change the color of the hat. Let's find out shall we?

Mo sat slumped against his desk, his nose pressed up against his rabbit's nose as they stared deep (and cross-eyed) into one another's eyes. Ostensibly, he was trying to get permission from the rabbit to subvert its will and turn it into a hat. A HAT. Not even something necessary or lovely, but something flip and occasionally quite stupid looking.

But he couldn't get any sort of feel. The rabbit was just lethargic and uninterested in communicating, and Mo just felt BAD about things. "Lepus Caput," he tried out the words, giving the rabbit another inquisitive look. "If you agree to this, flick your ear. If you'd rather I not, then wiggle your nose." Pause pause pause.

No motion. Sigh.

There was a hat on her desk.

She'd done the spell and watched the rabbit change and now she had this fuzzy hat. She didn't want to wear it though, y'know? Despite how warm she knew it'd be and how amusing she assumed she'd look in it. She just... didn't want to wear it. Instead she pushed it gently to the corner of her desk and eyed the front of the room.

Ella would have to do this to another rabbit now that she'd gotten the spell right, yeah? Frown. Maybe it'd be easier if she didn't name the next one. Maybe.

The blonde got up from her seat and smoother her robes before headed to where the other bunnies were located.

WAIT. WHAT?!

A runaway rabbit?? Lottie knew the voice by heart. BY HEART. It was Lex, and she lost her rabbit. Well, yes, of course, that was bound to happen. Felix has ran away from her, you know? But if there was one rabbit running awaaaay... shouldn't THAT tell them something about this spell? SHOULDN'T IT?

The Hogwartian stared at the rabbit she was stroking. Mmmhmm. It was calmed, considering. However, she could sense how the calmness went away the moment she took her wand in her other hand.

THAT RIGHT THERE WAS A SIGN.

It's so... not fair to the rabbit. Unless it was fearing the runaway one. Did it bite? Did it run away to FREEDOM? How do we know the answers to these questions? And most importantly, why was Lottie not practicing the spell, eh?

Maybe because she was never going to transfigure a rabbit into a hat.

It was obvious from what was going on around him that Mo was falling behind, and he made faces as he set his lazy rabbit on his desk and pointed his wand at it. How practical was this spell anyway, unless he wanted to smuggle Titus into a country disguised as a fedora.

"Lepus Caput. Lepus Caput. Lepus Caput," Mo said it very quietly, feeling his way around the words until they felt good and right in his mouth. Turn your bunny into a hat. No big deal, right?

He made a little squeaky noise when he finally drew out his wand and gently touched the rabbit right between the ears. One try, at least. Just so he knew. "Lepus Caput."

After finishing her practice Nerida waved her wand and cast Petrificus Totalus on her poor adorable rabbit, but she couldn't help it. It had to be done, Jumper would not stay still just bouncing all over the place. She gave a look at the now stiff creature in its bouncing position... Did people really were rabbits for hats? Had she?

With the rabbit still as a rock on her desk, Nerida moved her wand in an upside down U formation and then said "Lepus Caput," and in front of her changing from an adorable bunny rabbit was an adorable hat.

So another rabbit was in order yeah? Or did she just revert this one? Adelaide looked around the room, seeing a mixture of both. She opted for the first option. It was probably best and maybe she wouldn't have to stun this one.

She pushed herself from the seat and went and grabbed another rabbit, holding it closely to her like she had with the one before. She continued to pet it all the way back to her seat. This one was a lot less squirmy than the last one and actually seemed to cuddle into Addi. That was going to make transfiguring it even harder. She sat back down and gently placed the rabbit on the desk.

It just stared at her...before hopping all over the desk. Oh gosh. "Petrificus totalus!" The little rabbit hopped out of the way of the spell. So this one was going to play tricky was it? She groaned as she tried to catch the little rabbit. She ended up catching it and held it up to her face. "Why are you being so difficult?" She pointed her wand at it while she was still holding it. "Petrificus totalus." It stopped moving and Addi set it back on the desk next to the other rabbit!hat.

"Lepus caput!" And voila. Two rabbits turned into two very nice angora hats. How long were they supposed to do this again?