Hazel shook her wrist out as the professor stopped talking. That was a lot of notes! She quickly added the heading, Limitations to Conjuring, and raised her hand.

"I heard that you can't conjure food do to Gamp's Five Laws of Transfiguration. Conjuring is supposed to be very hard since you have to be very specific and concentrate a lot." She hoped they didn't have to conjure something for the lesson, but it was supposed to be a theoretical lesson. She picked up her cup of hot chocolate and took a sip. Yum!

Merlin... - or should she say Morgana instead? It sounded a lot cooler and Morgana was so powerful and a lady. Yeah, she'd say Morgana from now on. Mmmmhm.

Morgana! This class was getting a bit more complicated to follow. At least they weren't going to be doing any spell work, so Agatha had more chances of not making a fool or herself in front of people.

The young Slytherin was about to say the only thing she knew about the limitations of Transfiguration when Sophie Newell beat her to it. Again. UGH. That girl was always getting in the way. Agatha frowned at her before turning back to the board and thinking of an answer she could give. That's when EVERYBODY started saying LOADS of things, some of which Agatha DID know, she just hadn't remembered it fast enough to say before anyone else. Morgana, that was annoying!!

"Conjuring something is really hard because..." UUUGH, people had already said what she was going to say!! "...making something out of nothing is really hard, since you need to have a lot of creativity and concentrate a lot in order to get exactly what you want." She finished, very annoyed she couldn't think of anything new to say. And that talk about nothing vs. thin air was STRANGE, alright. Those little kids should quit it.

Marigold took more notes. She was happy for just a theory class, but it was just a theory class. Oh, well. She wished that it was a class she could actually sit back and relax in, though. This wasn't something she could doze off in. She was just so tired and worn out and bleh.

She finished her note-taking, paused, and raised her hand. Other students had already mentioned not being able to conjure food? Oh. She dropped her hand again, then promptly raised it again. "Can you conjure something that is alive? I don't think you can… but if you can, wouldn't that be creating new life?" Weird.

Angel looked at the Professor and smiled as she raised her hand. "Professor you can't conjure up food because of the Gamp's Five Laws of Transfiguration." Angel thought it would be awesome if you could conjure up food because it would help a lot of people but maybe if you could other people would be out of jobs because everyone would be always fed, so you wouldn't need shops or things like that.

The small break they got to copy down the notes was a relief purely for the fact that while eating the Professor didn't expect them to pay nearly as much attention to what she was saying so FOOD. Didn't even have to pretend like she was paying attention and there would be no consequences.

Alexa munched on her chips, emptying her small bowl just when she got the last word copied onto her parchment....and they were already moving on? Really? She needed more chips first, but the Gryffindor didn't dare get up in the middle of the Professor's discussion so she contended herself with sipping her hot chocolate.

Marigold's question got her curious. "I always thought you couldn't conjure life but...doesn't avis conjure birds? Ones that move on their own and everything?" Did that count as life or.....?

"But I reckon it'd be hard because of what Zander said with the concentration thing. It'd take extra focus to be able to create something from nothing. It's not like when you already have ready material." Like rabbits to hats like they did one year.

Scribble....scribble...scribble...

Adi was making his notes. Yep. No matter he might be writing some of the same things he had written in previous lessons. Repetition can be good. But now he considered the next questions posed to them.

The third year raised his left hand, quill still in his grasp. "It is more difficult because we're producing an object out of no where.'' That was difficult. Very.

Normally, Grayson found lessons that just required lectures and note-taking rather boring and tedious and he would have had a LOT of trouble taking part. BUT, this wasn't that bad. He was going to put it down to the fact that they had good because otherwise, something told him that he would have been bored out of his mind.

Sooooo munching and sipping were happening. And he wasn't spilling anything either. Or trying not to, which counted, thank you.

As for the question, the Slytherin sat back and let some of the other people answer while he tried to think of something to say. Why was conjuration more difficult? WELL. He liked Kyroh's simple answer so he was going to make a note of that. And something that Simon said triggered something in Grayson's memory. Something that no one else had mentioned before, thank Merlin. Now was his time to SHINE.

So, the hand went up in the air. "I always thought that conjuration was more difficult because there are so many things that can go wrong. Think about it: if you're faced with a task an you had a solution where a million and one things can go wrong, that task is gonna seem difficult to you." Whitty logic. "And SPEAKING of things going wrong, there's a certain law that explains why things can go wrong if you conjure living things out of thin air. Like giving them two heads and whatnot. Something about Quasi-Dominance."

Leah nodded, not noticing that she was nodding A LOT today. Oh, taking care of plants and animals, how could she not think of that? She sighed at her lack of deep thinking and took notes. Hopefully they were going to come up with a plan to stop this freakish cold this lesson. At least that was what Leah was thinking everyday.

She knew conjuration was hard, because she had tried that in the second lesson. But why was it so difficult? Silently, she flipped through her textbook to the chapter of conjuration. Finding a good fact, Leah raised her hand. "Lots of things can go wrong when you attempt transfigu - I mean, conjuration. That's why it's.. difficult?" Okayy that was lame but at least she spoke up.

Quickly scribbling down the stuff on the board too, Penelope took another sip of hot chocolate before setting it down for a little bit. She could answer this question probably. Stuff she remembered from studying. So she raised her hand.

"Another limitation is magical objects. You can conjure a replica of what it looks like, but it won't have the magic that the actual one does." As for why conjuration was more difficult than other transfiguration spells? "I think it's more difficult because, even though all transfiguration requires focus and concentration and stuff, conjuration needs even more of that, since you're not just changing one thing into another. So if you're not completely focused on what it is you're wanting to conjure, it won't work or won't turn out right, which could be harmless or dangerous depending on what it is."

Beverly was jotting everything down, all right. Her quill traveled from left to right on her parchment, her cursive not as neat as it usually is. It was readable, just not...Beverly enough. It was more writing with purpose. Lots of purpose.

As for Conjuring, she raised her hand.

"The art of Conjuration is considered harder because you bring stuff into being. I think intent plays a big role in this. You have to know what you want, how you want and have a very well depict picture of it in order to be successful." Specificity. That's what you needed. "As to limitations...I think it's that something that is conjured doesn't last." Which was sort of a kick in the butt considering it requires a great deal of concentration.

West had been just sitting back and reflecting so far this lesson because he was very aware that things were almost over for him. As in... he was graduating and would soon be leaving Hogwarts for good, y'know? It made it hard to focus when your mind was just going over memories, some good and some bad...

... and a ton of them involved Bellaire, really.

He fixed his attention on her at the next question and put his hand up. "I don't know why exactly but for some reason conjuring has always been one of the easiest areas of magic for me. And I've been thinking about this a lot and I think aside from the three basic ingredients -incantation, intent and wand movement, and aside from the logical applications of Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfiguration and its principle exceptions, it has a bit to do with imagination and creativity too, on account of you're creating something from scratch so it has to tie into that part of the mind where creative process comes from." Which was kind of his thing, with his music and everything. That plus his penchant for logic? It was the most scientific branch of magic for sure. "So I guess in a lot of ways I think people are limited by their imaginations as much as they are limited by the physical and elemental laws of it, the trick is finding that balance between both, that sweet spot where things become possible." Just some musings anyways.

Lucy raised her hand and she said : " Professor I know it's dangerous because if something goes wrong you can do considerable damages especially on animals, mixing two differents species, for example.."

Ooooh, ooh! Theodore knew this one! Somewhat, anyway. He confidently thrust his hand into the air, then answered with a much more dumb downed version of what was in his head. "You can't conjure money, right?" Because that would be ridiculous. Though if it were possible then Theo needed to know how.

"And..." As some others had already said but Theo wasn't listening to them, "Law is a limitation in Transfiguration. Gamp's Law of Elemental Transfiguration." YEAH. He'd studied that and had learned the name off by heart and his face showed NOTHING but pride as he dropped his hand back down into his lap.

She may or may have not got distracted by the food. And she was ashamed to admit it even to herself. But really FOOD was good and she had not had breakfast so this was just what she needed. Did Bellaire know? Either way the woman did the snake a huge favor and probably she didn't know. So far Cassia was very contented by all the last lessons she's been to. They all proved to be fun and would serve as a great memory to look back on.

But now her attention was back on the professor. For real. She wasn't five. So what were they talking about again? Oh, hardest transfiguration branch. She raised her hand, after having swallowed that was in her mouth. "The bigger and complicated the item the harder it would be. Also, if there was textures of some kind. Because that would require more concentration and skill," had anyone said this already? She wouldn't know. She was eating.

Sense Jonas didnt know what, he figured he would answer why.
"Is it because humans aren't meant to change the weather?" Jonas sighed. It was probably wrong. But he didn't say. Comeing from a family who expects exceeds expectations, Jonas wasn't doing a very good job at this. He should know this.

Once again the students were right on the ball, for the most part at least. The Professor noted their response, mentally compiling them to add to the notes already placed on the board. It seemed to her this revision class wasn't needed after all.

"As some of you have mentioned, food is one of five limitations to Transfiguration, another being money." As was stated by a few others. With a tap, this appeared on the board. "And the underlying reasoning behind the difficulty does lie in the level of power and concentration necessary to conjure things essentially out of thin air. Mr. Odessa brought up the point of imagination causing a stumbling block for the majority and this would of course fall under concentration; how well you can imagine the object you wish to conjure. Naturally a distracted or less creative mind would find conjuration a harder task." Something else that would be added to the notes however she did expect they would still be jotting things down on their own from time to time. Taking the initiative with their education.

"Creating something where there was once nothing, for this reason, presents a challenge."

That was the basic reasoning behind it. "Your classmates also brought up the important point that things can go wrong during conjuration, something that is most often found when conjuring animals and explained by the Principle of Artificianimate Quasi-Dominance. Conjuration of animals, when not done right, could lead to anything from stumpy limbs to severed heads but we won't be touching too much on that today this being a revision lesson." Not to mention her unwillingness to deal with the overly sensitive among them. At the moment she was in a good mood. No need to change that.

"Conjuration is not solely linked to weather Mr. Emery." Or was the boy still on the first question. The Professor sighed. It was the food, she knew it.

With another tap the notes on the board extended.

"Finally, why do you think there are limitations in conjuration such as in the cases of money and food?"

Stumpy limbs and severed heads, though? Maddie's eyebrows shot up and she tried to picture a headless Zeus. No. Nope. EW. Zeus was NOT meant to go headless. She'd gladly AVOID trying to use him where Transfiguration was concerned, thank you very much. That was an image she was never going to unsee. ...Although she WAS considering what it might be like to use a headless Zeus to scare her brothers. What? So her moral compass didn't ALWAYS point due north. She MEANT well.

SPEAKING of morals, they sort of tied in with Professor Bellaire's next question. "If you could conjure money, greedy people would take TOTAL advantage. NOT to mention that if you could have unlimited money, it'd take away from the value." Or SOMETHING like that. She wasn't SO well versed in monetary happenings but she DID think her idea held some water.

Beverly was done eating for now. It was getting a bit distracting having to choose between jotting things down and eating. Brain VS stomach. Never a good match, and not one she wanted to play while in class. Dabbing a napkin to her lips she raised her hand.

"You'd have anything you wish for if it wasn't for limitations." Nearly everything. "To survive we need food, a form to support ourselves which is money and affection. The latter which can not be bought, but with the first two you're more than half way there." Beverly paused, thinking her next words carefully. "Also, if it wasn't for limitations there would me more chaos over power. If we were able to conjure food, we wouldn't worry about it. But, if we were able to conjure money then there would be a lot of hungry-power-seekers fighting for the number one spot." Meaning, a lot of stupid heads fighting to surpass one another.

A lot of things happen because of power, Beverly was all too aware of that. Thinking about the entire magical population fighting for it would have her thinking of inhabiting Mars.

Ohh, Sophie had thoughts on this one! She raised her hand. "I think it'd be kind of like a domino effect. Nobody would need any money, because they'd be able to make however much they wanted whenever they wanted. The problem with that is I doubt anybody would work, because who would work when they didn't need to?" Certainly not her! "So anyway, you'd have nowhere to spend your money, because who would open up shops and try to sell stuff when they didn't need to make money?"

And as for food...

"I think the problem with conjuring food is that we don't know what can go wrong with it," she added. "Then if we put it in our mouths, we could potentially be harming our bodies and not even know it." What if they had accidentally conjured some poison or something in with the food?!

Severed heads and stubbed limbs............yup, she'd just keep hoping animals walked in through her kitchen window like Felix did or head down to the Magical Menagerie. Lex would have to pass on trying her hand at those in case whatever the hell it ended up being was freaky beyond belief. Ew. Just ew. You couldn't have snuggles with deformed things nor could she think of anyone that would WANT to. Her kneazle had all four limbs, his fur was in check and his face was very kneazle like, just the way she liked it. Yikes.

The Gryffindor took a sip of her hot chocolate while the rest of notes appeared on the board. She'd probably have to copy these for Lottie later on so she'd actually have to be taking down the whole thing.

After copying off the last of it to her parchment she raised her hand. "Maybe because of the impracticality Professor? I mean all conjured things disappear after a time right? So if someone conjured money and used it, they'd get what they want and the shopkeeper wouldn't have money once it all vanished....?" Because that made sense right? If someone gave her money that vanished for her services, she'd pop them one and hope it rearranged their face enough.

"And like with food, even if you conjure it and eat it it'd vanish and it'd be like you never ate? I'm guessing conjuration isn't for anything that's meant to last and things like food and money need to be long lasting and sustainable, yeah?"

Mooore notes! Adi scribbled some more as Professor Bellaire spoke. His writing was untidy but he couldn't help it. Bellaire had a lot to say on the topic. As for the next question, Adi had ideas. Or rather, an idea.

"People would get greedy, Professor. If they aren't already. They would just take advantage of it all.'' Yep. That's all he had to say on that.

Penelope continued jotting down some notes here and there and then copied the added ones on the board too. Fortunately her hand wasn't cramping yet. And then came another question, another which she figured she could answer. So she raised her hand.

"It'd probably be really chaotic if there weren't limitations on these things. If food and money and things like that could just be created whenever people wanted, they probably wouldn't appreciate them as much since they don't have to work for any of it, and most would just try to keep creating more and more without end." Which probably wouldn't be good for anyone in the long run.

The Gryffindor was once again drowning in notes. There was just so much going on and so much food too. So again, he began scribbling once again. There was just so much to take down. Man. Anyways, back to Bellaire for the next question. Honestly, the third year wasn't really sure about any of this stuff. So he mainly just sat quiet and scribbled down some more, until he heard an answer that he really liked.

"Yeah, I agree with Lex. If we were able to conjure money, then it'd essentially be worthless because it wouldn't last. Kind of like leprechaun's gold." So then maybe it was because of how pointless it would be. It just wouldn't fulfill the purpose that it was meant for, so why be able to do it in the first place, right? And if not then... More notes.

Uh... well, Dima had already tried to participate in the class. And he had offered a REALLY LONG answer for the last question, one he was very proud of, so what was the point in trying again? He scribbled down more notes about the answers from his classmates, but for the most part did nothing.

Except for eating. THAT was important.

Once he'd swallowed most of it, the first year jabbed a finger at Maddie. "What she said, ma'am!" Not that he'd actually HEARD or absorbed any of it, but Maddie was super smart. She had to have something right, yeah? Yeah! Nailed it!

The Professor nodded slowly, acknowledging one student after the next. For the most part they agreed that it would cause more trouble than it was worth. "Some would argue that with money being redundant it would eliminate greed. If everyone could afford everything then no one would be in need however it would create an imbalance between our world and the muggle world. I am sure many of you are aware of the opportunities to exchange galleons for muggle coins. It could fall onto the same level of what they refer to as money laundering." If they did not know what that was, they would need to have a word with Professor Hadley, she was moving on.

"I was looking for the point that it does not last." Mr. Adair had been spot on in theorizing it would prove worthless. "If the money does not last then it is not truly "

Were they understanding as much? A glance at her watch told her they had to be wrapping up.

"Be sure you have taken down these notes. When you are done you may help yourselves to more of the food. You're dismissed, have a nice summer."