So learning about Loki was pretty awesome yes? The Trickster god? This was great! Especially considering that they could change shapes really it would be awesome to change into something awesome like a Fenrir wolf but…yeah no that only made her think of Fenrir Greyback and that was just a no.

Writing a name on her parchment she couldn’t help but grin. Erased it and wrote another name instead...major grinning. Yep that was happening. She was awesome and could knock people out with her...skills.

SPOILER!!: and let it be so!

Marilyn Monroe Natasha Romanova, Black Widow

Hugh had not been paying attention. Surprise, surrpise. In his very minimal defence, though, he had been philosophising. Which was always what he seemed to be doing. If it ain't baroque, don't fix it, yo.

Now he was semi-attentive, though. Let the learning begin. He'd heard something about shifting and for them to write down what or who they'd want to shift into if they could and he was suddenly sucked back into his own thoughts.

So many possibilities and all of which meant one thing: he could, at least in illusion, be his heroes. Descartes, Socrates, Hume, Plato. They were all at his fingertips.

Choosing one would be endlessly frustrating.

But he'd eventually settled on someone begrudgingly and wrote in down before shoving it into his pocket.

SPOILER!!: DA NAME, yo

Alan Turing

They were going to LOOK like someone else? Like a disguise, or polyjuice? Dot wasn't very excited about the prospect, because, honestly, if she was struggling this much just with the book, how much worse would it be when she got to the practical part?

When she looked at her piece of paper, there was really only ONE option that was safe, right?

SPOILER!!: parchment

Dot Wojack-Gusey

Yup. She'd obviously MEAN not to change into anything, and then no one could be disappointed. Dot was no Gryffindor, man, and she wasn't about doing dumb things. She hopped out of her seat and started sliding her desk toward the wall as instructed.

Whatever it was with the case of Loki the Trickster. it was what Professor Bptros saod next, moving the class along that got Benny's attention. They were going to use belts carved with runes to change their appearance? Wicked. Maybe he could follow along in this lesson after all. It certainly seemed cool enough and not that difficult. The runes were already in place it seemed so that was one less thing he would have to understand and complete himself.

The fifth year got his hopes up as the older man first mention it allowing the wearer the ability to change into a creature as well as another human being. YES...YES...Yes. But alas, the professor appeared to have second thoughts after a few moments as he instructed them to keep their ideas to humans. Of course there was the one student who questioned the creature topic and while Benny was curious of the response, he supposed he should have a back-up selection as well.

It was a tough one, picking a person one wanted to temporarily change into. Awkward too he supposed. Finally a name came to mind and Benny had to admit it was a good one. Taking a piece of parchment, he then wrote out what he had decided on. Who knew if it would work on him anyway.

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Charlie Weasley

They were going to transform into people? WOAH. His eyes must've doubled in size because just... WOAH. This was not the Ancient Runes he remembered. When did this class become not-so-boring? And as if by the grace of Merlin himself, Zander Adair was finally starting to feel awake again. CHRISTMAS MIRACLE!! Ahem. Pft. Okay yeah, whatever. They were just shape shifting. Another day in the life. Totally. He was cool.

AHEM. Not really. SHAPESHIFTING??

Anywaaaays. The maybesortofPrefect caught that look from Old Man Botros, and returned it with a little nod. Though why the Prefects had to facilitate getting into a circle... He didn't quite understand. Couldn't be all too hard, right? Anyways. Instead of writing down a name on his parchment, he just skipped straight to the second part instead. Yeah, the pushing the desk aside and circling up part. It wasn't like he was bad at directions or anything. Just, he wasn't sure exactly who he wanted to turn into, y'know?

Like. There was an ENTIRE WORLD of people out there. And he was meant to only choose one? Of course, there was always that Neville Longbottom bloke. After reading the book by Professor Flamsteed's recommendation, Zander really liked that guy. But.. He'd probably be a pretty popular pick. Plus, he'd never really met the guy before so visualizing it would be pretty difficult.

Yeah. So he needed more time.

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"Professor, can I be a boy?" Yeah, there was no beating around the bush, and there was no point in making her words all fancy. Could she be a boy or no? That was all.

"Yes, of course." He smiled at her, curiously.

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"Professor, would it be okay if I wrote down a creature? Could I give it a shot?" The Hufflepuff wasn't terribly concerned with the possible issues that might arise. If he got stuck as a dog for the rest of his days... well, that wouldn't be so awful. In any case, he was quite prepared to deal with any of that stuff. "It's cool if not. I have a human option too." He held up both his folded pieces of parchment, the shortlist as it were. Still, Toby liked the idea of... a challenge?

Hmmmmmmmm...

...

... "Okay. Students from year six and seven can choose a creature instead of a human." Botros decided helpfully.

Okaaayyy... not a Loch Ness Monster then. Boo.

But all this transforming and looking like other people illusion stuff was pretty darn awesome. Preeeetttyyyy darn awesome. Yep. But then, who was HE going to choose? Uuuuhhhhh....

Could he choose Peverell? Or like, Voldemort? Or like... Grindelwald... Borr? No no no.

...

This was HARD. WHY WERE LESSONS SO HARD?!

Raising his hand, he asked what he felt was a CRUCIAL question. "Professor?" he started, getting the man's attention. "How well do you need to know this person?" Or did they simply need to know what they looked like?

"Only their appearance. It is just an illusion after all. Meaning.. after you change into that person, if you look down at yourself, you'll see your true form. Only the others will see your new look." Made sense? That was the trick!

"OOOOOOooooooooohhhhhhh," Zeke replied, very clearly showing that he now understood. "Awesome, thank's Professor!" Cue beam.

So like... it could be ANYONE that he's seen. Awesome. Fantastic.

....

It still didn't help with the choosing.

Not. At. All.

Ugh...

In the end he scribbled down the name of someone close, someone he LIKE liked and wished was HERE with him. His sister. And at least this way the others could benefit from her temporary illusionary presence, even if he wouldn't be able to see it himself.

SPOILER!!: Parchment

Ashley St. Croix

Once that was done, he folded it carefully, and tucked it into his pocket nice and safe. Weeeheee! Then after rising from his seat he helped by moving his desk back and positioned himself beside people who were already forming a circle around the outside.

What next?!

No, Grayson did not understand what that look meant. Not even in the slightest. Was it a judgemental look? Had he said something wrong?

Eh.

But there wasn't any time to focus on that when there was talk about actually shapeshifting into something or someone else! MAN, how freaking great would THAT be? But, as he pulled out a piece of parchment, the sixteen year old came to realise that he didn't know who or what he wanted to turn into. Something awesome would be great and he wasn't gonna go for a boring ol' creature of some sort but really? How many people were more awesome than him?

Exactly.

Thank Merlin Botros had went on to say that they could shapeshift into a creature being a sixth year and all. Dead pleased he was. As for the creature, he wasn't gonna go for something like a flobberworm and a dementor would be lulzy but this wasn't Halloween so..........

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Phoenix

The animal, not the person. Though, turning into Phoenix Toros would be pretty fantastic as well.

Once the piece of parchment was folded up and pocketed, Grayson got up to move his desk back and stand somewhere in the circle. Ready, yo!

Angel was totally happy about this lesson, she couldn't wait to see what was going to happen next, she had an idea who she wanted to be and since the question her sister had asked as been answered she would go with that.

Angel had thought about trying to be Benny at first but then she had thought of someone famous, she would love to be, his song were still going strong today and she wished he had been a wizard because he might have been alive today.

Angel grabbed a piece of parchment and wrote the name on it before putting it in her pocket.



Yeah, if only she could sing like this guy could she would become a millionaire but she doubted that this trick would make that happen and she was sure it would wear off eventually now though she had to do something else the Professor said.

Changing what they looked like and appearing to be someone else? Why would she really need to learn this unless she wanted to play a trick on someone or get away with something she shouldn't be doing. It didn't make much sense to her but she didn't bother to question it.

Taking her bit of parchment she quickly scrawled down the first name that came into her head. Hopefully it didn't matter and no one would ask questions about it.

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Annabelle Marie Lynch

There. Sighing softly as she looked down at the name Hady folded the parchment in half before tucking it carefully into her pocket.

What if the archaeologists had missed something? What if that something would re-write history? What if....

What if they could look like someone else?

Apparently, they could. It was both a thrilling prospect, and a daunting one. She didn't know who she wanted to look like. Really, she liked looking like herself.

The first thought that came to mind was potent. Dragon! And almost immediately discarded. Professor Botros had said that creatures were allowed, but they were difficult. And there were accidents that could happen. Unexplained accidents, which usually meant the really bad sort.

Even with that risk, the Professor had just said only sixth and seventh years. Pooey. Oh well, perhaps another day. Or another year.

She pondered over her options before an idea sparked and she scribbled it down.

SPOILER!!: Amur's note

St. Nicholas

Festive spirit and all that, right? She wanted to know if it would work too. If it did, it might explain the muggle myth about the jolly old fellow that her mother had used to tell her about when she was really young.

Folding the paper up carefully in her pocket, Amur glanced around at her other classmates. Right. Now to move desks.

Angel had the name of the person, she wanted to be, she would stick with it but she had just thought about history and how she could have seen what some of the famous people like King Richard looked like but alas that wasn't to be and now she had a few things she had to do like move the desks.

Angel started to move her desk against the wall, she wanted it to be line up perfectly with the wall, she knew it would make it easier for her to get things put away at the end, when she was sure it was line up against the wall straight she smiled this lesson was going to be amazing, though she couldn't wait to see who Benny, AJ and Adi had picked, she would be keeping a close eye on them to see if she could tell who they were.

Angel had some how managed to move her desk on her own, well that was an achievement for this diva surely, she hadn't even broke a nail if she had the Professor would have known about it, now thought it was time, making sure she had everything she needed she went and did what everyone else was doing, hopefully no hand holding was needed.

So what was next? Oh yeah she had to move her desk out of the way. Quickly putting her quill and parchment into her bag she then set her bag on her chair. With one easy motion she pushed both her chair and desk off to the side of the room with everyone else's. That had been simple enough really.

Looking around a moment Hady spotted an empty space between to others that were already in the center of the room starting to form the circle they had been told to. Making her way over she stood in an empty spot and waited for the next instructions.

The next step of the lesson was probably just about as simple as it could get and yet Layla still had an inkling that with the school, anything could go wrong. One of the kids would probably trip up on their way or something, it seemed likely. She herself stood up, making sure not to lose the paper from her pocket as she did so. Nobody else appeared to be moving yet and she questioned whether she had come up with her name far too quickly compared to the others. They were thinking too much into this.

She chose to push the desk the muggle way, mainly because it gave her the satisfaction of some kind of workout for the day. Wizards and witches were so lazy when it came to chores, it made her wonder how fast their metabolisms must have been so that they weren’t rolling about on the floor. At home she would train almost every day for sports, here that was nigh-on-impossible.

She was only a couple of metres away from the back wall of the classroom anyway and it really didn’t take her too long to carry the desk over where it was out of the way and scoot along the chair with her foot. She headed back to the centre of the room, her arms folded across her chest almost in a defensive manner rather than coming across as arrogant. The blonde was anything but that.

The seventeen-year-old then waited for further instructions.

Proper grin for Botros over here, except now Toby felt sort of guilty because his other option had been the professor himself, and it would have been neat to show him that. He could just go with that option anyway, but THAT seemed pretty insulting after he'd just plainly asked about becoming a creature. Sigh. Maybe they'd get another go.

Sending his other parchment off to his pushed-back desk with a flick of his wand, Toby slipped the one labelled 'Staco' into his pocket as instructed earlier. Didn't seem wise to keep hold of both of them; that could get confusing.

So he was already in place, and now ready to go.

Cutty was folding up his parchment, when he heard Botros say something about using the illusion to become an animal to upper years. But...

"Booht, Professor Botros, I want to keep me own head." He said quite forgetting that the Professor (or anyone for that matter) would have no idea what he was on about. Couldn't have read the parchment already to know the choice Cutty had made or the reasons behind it, "Can I try an animal form as well? Is it much harder?"

He briefly looked around for a student to delegate the work of moving his desk to one side or the other, not because he didn't want to do the work himself, but the joy of trickery amused him to no end. The djinn boy leaned forward and pushed his desk with the corners to the side of the room, clearing the space needed for the students to get into a circular formation and standing nearby for in case he had anymore questions and Professor Botros would not be able to hear him from the circle of students.

Putting the palms of her hands against the edge of her desk and planting her feet firmly on the ground, Amur push-shoved the desk inch by inch to the wall with the others of its kind. She settled her backpack on her chair, tucked it in and turned back to the room proper.

Circle. Right.

She moved into the center of the room with the others. "Professor, do...we need to hold hands for this?" Because that was usually what happened when people got in a circle, wasn't it? But still, please no? She wasn't a germaphobe, but who knew what hand-washing hygiene was like with some people.

Wait they could choose a creature now? This assignment was getting better and better. Kace was thinking about which creature he could do. He went with his favorite one and changed his topic and scribbled out his previous choice. He got out his quill and began to scribble out and put back in....



Once he picked out his creature, he was even more excited and nervous to do this assignment.

With the person all picked out and written down, Benny slipped it in his pocket for safe keeping. It was then that he noticed others moving their desks around and remembered the second part of what they were supposed to do. Right...get everyone in a circle in the middle of the room...without desks. So the Gryffindor packed up most of his belongings to make things easier and then got in front of his desk, proceeding to push said piece of furniture off to the side.

There...all set for the fun to begin.

So now for the hard part... Who exactly did he want to transform into? Uh. Zander Adair had absolutely no clue. Of course his mind went straight to all the smart people he knew. Like Lottie or Sophie Brown. But it'd be weird turning into Lottie since she graduated and all... And since Sophie's Toberson was in the room, that'd probably be real strange too. So uh. Who else?

.... Uh.

Gryffindor was stumped, yo. Decisions were real hard, okay?

Um. Maybe uh. The blonde scratched his head a bit as he looked around the circle. As if maybe if he concentrated hard enough, it would just come to him?? After maybe five ENTIRE minutes, the Gryffindor finally came up with something... Maybe not something brilliant, but it was something... Y'know?

SPOILER!!: Parchment

Godric Gryffindor

Who said that Ancient Runes couldn't be fun? This activity sounded like it was going to be a-ma-zing. Janelle was excited, but there was just one problem. Who did she want to become? That was a hard one because she had soooo many choices. There were so many cool people she'd like to trade places with for a little while.

After giving it a lot of thought, Janelle had narrowed her prospects down to two names. Finally, she made a decision. Grabbing her quill, she wrote the name down on a piece of parchment, folded it and slipped it into her pocket. This was going to be very interesting.

Damien, with the parchment neatly tucked away into his pants pocket and his sleeves carefully rolled up got to the simple, task of pushing the desk toward the wall, which, considering his scrawny arms was not all that easy, but he relished the small bit of physical work. He was a boy that was used to moving around a lot, whether it was playing basketball, riding his bike or occasionally taking a go at hockey- Damien loved doing strenuous activities and he'd felt sluggish lately without it.

There, desk, meet wall, wall, meet desk. That done and over with, Damien entered the circle, taking the spot next to Puck. "Psssssstttt. Puckenstien. Psssst." Damien lightly poked the Prefect, a playful grin on his face.

THEY WERE GOING TO TURN INTO PEOPLE!?!? He could be ANYONE!?!? Anyone AT ALL??!?!? Kyroh's eyes widened and his thoughts immediately fell on one person. He HAD his choice yeah but what if he chose wrong? Maybe he had to think about it a little more.

Yeah. That seemed smart.


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But who else would he be?

There were plenty of people in History that were pretty cool but was there anyone he wanted to turn into? Not really. And people he knew now? It would be COOL turn to turn into his dad. OR Dima! OR HELPER MO OR TOBY!!!

But he also wanted to turn into someone that wasn't so far off from HIM. Kyroh the boy wonder. Or rather... picking up the quill, Kyroh quickly wrote the name down on the parchment.

SPOILER!!: Parchment

Miles Morales