Early mornings like this weren’t fun, especially when they were with the Professor you had to be on your toes with. Yes, she was going to be extra careful around Professor Bellaire considering her particular affinity for the torture chamber…even if she wasn’t a fan that her friend had been in there to begin with considering the time didn’t fit the crime…still she did understand that Ror was…out going, crazy, like a spitfire ball of energy…obviously, she was in the wrong house.

“Good morning Professor Bellaire,” Puck gave the Professor a little nod before she made her way into the classrooms all while making sure that her uniform was neat, tidy, not a hair out of place…yes she probably looked like she was school girl Barbie…mint condition…in box. Yep. Perfect.

She did watch at the notes appeared on the board and grinned. So were they learning how to transform themselves today? Puck wondered amused at the idea.

There HAD to be another time for this lesson than the crack of dawn! Couldn't she change the schedule or something? He'd rather have another class after dinner than getting up early.

Still, he was here not bright and yawning but still here. He entered the classroom and was too tired to get in to trouble now so he had made sure his uniform was on right , was adjusting his tie as he walked past the Professor and gave her a nod. "Hello"

Then he found a desk somewhere in the middle of the class and stood next to it before he looked at the board. Oooooh HUMAN transfiguration? Now that was interesting!

Agatha walked into the classroom looking very solemn, because she knew her uniform and hair and all of her was completely clean and neat. Luckily Transfiguration was early in the morning and not in the afternoon. If this lesson had been the day before right after lunch, Agatha would be doomed, thanks to Peeves and his bloody tomatoes.

Anyhow, she was perfectly groomed that morning, and gave professor Bellaire her most polite smile. "Good morning, professor." She said before looking at her classmates to decide who she'd stand next to. No one called her attention so she chose a random place, far from the stupidest kids.

Yaaaaaawwwwwwnn!

Emmylou rubbed her eyes as she walked into the classroom. She hadn't slept good last night but she had went to bed early so there was still no excuse for her to be tired. She was going to try her very hardest and focus on Transfigurations because the class was interesting but she also didn't want to hear Bellaire yell at her if she accidentally fell asleep so there was some motivation for her to stay awake.

Honestly eight in the morning was a horrible time for any class whether it was her favorite class or not to start. Now the perfect time would be eight thirty or nine in the morning. Those were the perfect times ever. Emmylou looked over at Professor Bellaire and smile. "Hello Professor Bellaire. Good Morning. How are you doing?" Emmylou gave her a small wave and another smile as she found a seat for herself.

Thank Merlin Zeke managed to get up in time to save himself from getting into trouble. Otherwise he probably would have faced point loss as well as a stern talking to from the scary Professor. The young Gryffindor seemed confused for a moment, but clearly he figured it out in the end and wouldn't make that mistake again.

...Human Transfiguration? Lux was a little surprised at hat since it was supposed to be advanced to her knowledge. Transfiguration was hard enough as it was, so this advanced stuff was probably going to make her bang her head against the desk. Speaking of her desk...could she please sit down soon?

Janelle arrived for Transfiguration class ahead of time. Her sister had warned her about the Professor's ways so she took special care to make sure she was neat and tidy. As she entered the room, she saw some of her friends. She smiled, but did not speak or give the usual wave. No need to get on the Professor's bad side right off the bat. Finding an empty desk, Janelle stood behind it and placed her bookbag on the floor. Hopefully they wouldn't have to stand for too long.

Sophia religious checked her watch every minute that ticked by. That door would be slammed shut as the clock struck 8 and zero cares would be given about who was late. It would be up to them to get the notes from their classmates and also to come up with an excuse to explain their absence to her.

"Good morning...good morning all." Smart of you to be on time. She closed her eyes and count to ten as another student came in and sat down. Hadn't everyone been made aware of her classroom rules? She really was trying to hold it together here and not go dragon because it would be quite unfortunate for the whole class if she did. So once again the transfiguration professor turned a blind eye.

Last time.

As soon as the clock struck 8:am the classroom door slammed shut and locked itself. Whoever wasn't here was going to miss class.

"You may all take your seats. Then I'll like someone to volunteer answers to these questions. Please take one question..do not answer all three." Everyone needed a chance to show their head wasn't full of air.

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Evie was standing behind her chair, because had followed the rules. Also because she was mildly frightened by this professor from the things that she had heard from her brother and other students. Oh, good, they could sit now. Evie did so and listened closely. Human Transifiguration? That made her a little nervous, too.

Evie studied the questions and decided to let the others answer first while she collected her thoughts.

Mercifully Professor Bellaire seemed to ignore the fact that Margo had taken a seat. The Hufflepuff probably forgot about not sitting until given permission. She'd get used to it, Adi was sure. Anyway, the door was shut and the lesson was on the way.

Adi shot Benny a smirk as questions were being written on the board. The boy was going to pay extra careful attention to this lesson. Yep! There would be a day when he turned his bestie into a dragon!

After sitting and reading each of the questions, he raised his hand to answer number three. "I read Gwenog Jones of the Holyhead Harpies would turn persons into wood lice when they disagreed with her." That was so mean of her.

Finally the class had started and that meant she can sit down now. Thank you very much. Bianca just watched Bellaire wrote some questions about human transfiguration on the board.

Oh, the famous person in history who used transfiguration. She's gonna answer that. History of Magic was her all time favorite subject. She raised her hand and gave an answer. "Professor, one of the famous person who used transfiguration is Viktor Krum, the triwizard champion from Durmstrang. He transfigured himself into a shark at the second task of triwizard tournament in 1994, although he didn't do it perfectly." The transfiguration, of course.

It was a relief when Lux was allowed to sit down. It wasn't as if she couldn't handle being on her feet for a time, she just felt weird doing it for Bellaire because it felt like she was standing at attention.

Once seated, she began taking things she would need out of her bag, all the while listening to the Professor. She wasn't too knowledgeable when it came to human transfiguration, but she did know some things. Raising her hand, she decided to give one of the questions a go. "The ancient witch Circe liked to turn sailors into pigs." As to WHY she did that...Lux had no idea.

People were all answering the easy one about human transfiguration. He was going to answer that one too, but considering he was trying to get into Bellaire's good graces...maybe he'd take a chance and answer the bonus, because he was 99.9% sure he knew the answer to that one.

He raised his hand. "For the last question, I believe Gilderoy Lockhart once tried to mend Harry Potter's broken arm after a Quidditch accident, but rather than transforming the broken bone into a healed bone, he vanished it completely," he said confidently.

Finally he could take his seat. Though no flopping into it in this class. Dante listened and looked at the questions on the board. Well at last she gave us options. Dante did not know who she was talking about with the fourth and fifth questions. So those were out. And he was not the biggest fan of history. So nope no historical figures. Though Bellaire was kind of famous. Everyone here knew who she was.

"Well one famous person in history who used human transfiguration is you, Professor Bellaire."

Smile. And since she was teaching them. She must know human transfiguration.

Maybe. Dante did not know. He was only a second year

Angel was glad when she could sit down and then she smiled as she listened to the Professor, this was amazing and now she was going to try and answer one of the question.

Angel raised her hand. "Didn't Peter Pettigrew, fake his own death by using human transfiguration." Angel thought that he was a famous wizard though he was a bad guy and had betrayed his friends.

Bambi promptly sat, retrieving her things quickly from her bag and setting up her table for note taking. She dipped her quill in the inkwell and quickly wrote down the title of the lesson when the first question was called out.

Hmm.

She eyed number four and bit her lip. She was no expert on Hogwarts but as far as she knew there was only one Professor who dealt with Transfiguration other than Bellaire, and that was Quigley. Right, avoid question number four like the plague.

She raised her hand. "Professor, there was Thaddeus Thurkell who turned his sons into herdgehogs because they were born squibs," bright and cheery answers, as always. She remembered reading that in a book once and being absolutely horrified.

As Kace was in his seat next to Emmy, he saw the Professor's question which meant she was starting and he sat down in his seat. He remember losing points last term because he sat down in class. Bloody Merlin he knew this teacher wasn't fooling around.

The puff looked at the questions on the board and he knew one Professor who was great a transfiguration. She could turn herself into a cat. "Professor I know back in 1991 a Professor named Minerva McGonagall used human transfiguration to transform herself in a cat." She was quite successful at that too. He wished he could be an animagus sometimes.

But what did he know about history. If he was wrong he was wrong.

Toby stared up at those questions as he sat there, 'uhmm-ing' very quietly to himself in thought as hands went up all around him. The first question he knew, but he was old enough that the information had been covered in class before. Three of those questions involved history, and Toby could get fuzzy on. Which left... 'Expound on human transfiguration', except... Toby didn't know what 'expound' meant. Up Toby's hand went, as he raised it into the air before properly thinking through what he planned to say.

"Human transfiguration is, like... super complicated and tricky and, like, I think it's one of the hardest things you can learn. Basically you can use human transfiguration to alter your appearance and physical characteristics. Sometimes people can transfigure themselves into animals, but I think that's way different from being an animagus, which is having an specific animal form you can learn to transition into whenever you like. And I'm not sure if being a metamorphmagus counts as human transfiguration, because technically it is but its also more of a natural ability that can't be learnt." And, uhh... he'd stop there before this turned into confused/confusing, speculative rambling. That was sort of all he knew and most of it was guesswork.

Sophia put her hand up to get the attention of all the students there.

"Let me just add that the bonus question about the professor...is for a current professor..as in..one that is teaching at Hogwarts right now... but keep the answers coming about former professors we well."

ooc: Don't worry guys just adding this in to clarify, you will get your points for your answers in a little bit.

Oh wow so no one either knew the answer to the last question or they were all just too scared to say it. Kevin wasn't , in fact, he had a grin on his face as he actually raised his hand up in the air. Something he didn't do very often. " i'd say Catman ...i mean Professor Quigley" It HAD to be. Especially after the little hint she had just given. "He's an animagus and although the cat form is good his hearing is way too sensitive" That was why the rule of silence was in the rules with that class, not to mention that he acts so not rational when someone even speaks up. Transfiguration gone wrong.

Human transfiguration. Like transfiguring parts of their body? Hayden wondered exactly how that worked. Would she be able to transfigure her arm into something and leave the rest of her body normal? She didn't know but she figured the whole point of this lesson would be about that topic and her question would be adressed. She didn't want to ask Bellaire because the transfiguration professor kind of scared her. She did wonder if being an animagus counted as human transfiguration. She assumed so, because Bellaire seemed to be hinting at that. So Hayden raised her hand.

"Professor c- er Quigley can turn into a cat."

Man, she was tired, and maybe taking her seat wasn't such a good idea for the risk of her slumping over and falling asleep on her desk. Bellaire would eat her for breakfast. Must. Stay. Awake.

Questions were already being thrown at her, and her brain wasn't registering things. How did people function this early? Hands were raising right and left and all AJ could think about was that she really should have eaten breakfast. As if on cue her stomach rumbled. Goodness.

Wait... Quigley was who she was getting at for the bad transfiguration person? But his face was so perfect. Hmm... maybe she was missing something.


Anywho, why not take a stab at it? Her hand was raised. "Transfiguration changes something completely. Like a horse into a house." Could you do that though? "And Charms is where you enhance an object instead of changing it completely." Made sense to her.

Eden had been here the entire time, standing, looking very collected(more so than usual in the presence of Bellaire) and simply winced as people.....sat. She would have warned them--but it seemed Professor Bellaire was eager to start class. SO much so that she didn't even take points away.

Rude. Eden had lost FIVE points her first time in this class last term. HMPH.

But anyways. Human Transfiguration. Those questions were...oddly worded. IT seemed Bellaire had some...hidden agendas. Hmph. Eden wiggled her eyebrows at the board and tried to think of how to answer any of them. If she could answer any of them, that is.

But she did raise her hand. "Um-well--Transfiguration is changing the appearance of an object without changing what it's made of--whereas Charms changes the matter involved in an object in some way, shape or form."

Actually, Eden wasn't sure she was right. But she said it anyways?

Yes Adi, he caught that look sent in his direction once the specific topic at hand was revealed by Professor Bellaire. Human transfiguration. That was something new and interesting, though it also made Benny just a touch nervous. There was the added possibility of trouble if anything went wrong. Or perhaps he was meerly over thinking the whole thing. He would just have to wait and see.

Benny sat down at his chair when Bellaire gave them permission, carefully setting his belongings out on his desk. Parchment and quill resting in front of him for notes and such as the class was begun in ernest. He looked at the questions added to the board and wondered about what possible answers he could give to any of them. There was another look sent his way from a certain Hufflepuff.

Adi was certainly going to be enjoying this lesson.

Finally he raised his hand to try and expond on the subject matter as best he could. "Human transfiguration is the act of changing the makeup of part or all of a human into something that is like a creature or non-living." Certainly that made sense in a way. "Like the sea urchin jinx." That had been something that he had caught in his reading.

Okay, first of all... What was with this new standing before the class started rule all about? Word probably got out to Bellaire about the past few lessons and... Maybe she was just taking precautions or something. OR maybe it was just another weird strict Bellaire thing she was trying out. Wouldn't be the first time, actually. But anyways, this lion was starting to get real tired of just standing around until FINALLY!

Sitting. Yup. That's what he was going to do.

As he read over the questions, he had to stifle a laugh at the bonus before looking over to Kevin with a huge grin. There was only one current Professor who could turn into an animal and that was catman. Heh. And you know, he put both Kevin AND Puck in detention and that did not slide well with this kid. Nope. His best mate AND CoPrefect in crime. Blasphemy. That's what it was. But as there were only a few questions to be answered, Zander let everyone have a chance. He'd get his turn to speak up later maybe. But for now, smiling at Kevin.

Well... that was hard wasn't it? Not the questions but actually knowing what they were. Ruby squinted at the board and then gave up on it, listening to other people's answers instead until she caught the gist of what was being discussed but by that time most of the answers she would have given had been said. Sort of. She tried anyway, hoping it addressed one of the questions she couldn't read at least.

Hand up.

"Anyone who eats canary creams is using human transfiguration temporarily, professor."

She did not eat those things. High sugar and fat content, and if she was going to wear feathers it would be as a fashion accessory.