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MadMadamMalfoy · 05-19-2021, 11:18 AM

It's a crisp Autumn afternoon at Hogwarts, but not just any afternoon. Today is Halloween! Students attending today's transfiguration lesson will find the classroom adorned with a few simple decorations. There are several paper pumpkins stuck to the walls, and a large jack-o-lantern sits on the professor's desk. As students walk past the desk, the jack-o-lantern lights up and cackles. Notice a pattern with the decorations? Could this be a sign of things to come, or is the professor simply obsessed with pumpkins?

Beside the cackling jack-o-lantern are three plastic skulls, and an identical trio of skulls sits on each student's desk. Even Professor Carton has gotten into the Halloween spirit (pun not intended!) with a costume of his own! He stands in his usual place at the front of the room, greeting each student with directions to NOT touch the plastic skulls yet.

OOC: Welcome to transfiguration! Please keep in mind that this is not the first IC lesson your students would've had with Professor Carton this term. Class will start in ~~18-22 hours~~ HAS STARTED!

Lesson Progression
Q1: Why do people believe there's no room for creativity in transfiguration? Why do you agree or disagree with this statement?
Q2: Name an example of creativity in transfiguration, either through visualization or application.
Main activity - making jack-o-lanterns with Melofors
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Mini activity: Decorate the school with jack-o-lanterns

Watson · 05-22-2021, 02:46 AM

Professor Carton wanted an example now!??!

Hmmmm......

She paused, trying to think of an example. She quietly giggled at Evan's response, imagining him casting the spell on someone mean to make a joke out of it. Boy, she'd pay to see him do that. Melofors. She wrote the name of the spell down. She'd have to practice that later

Her eyes widened when a thought popped into her head. "Speaking of duelling like what Noah said, could you transform your opponent into a creature? Like a duck? Or a swan? But could you transform them into a duck with a top hat and a cane?"

That was creative, right? Right?

Deezerz · 05-22-2021, 03:30 AM

It was her biiiiirthday so it was hard for the now TWELVE YEAR OLD to pay attention in class. Especially Transfiguration. She'd rather be soaring the skies or tending to mandrakes or for the best EVER subject, brewing potions. Alas, she was here and dreaming about birthday cake and all of the gifts she was bound to receive today.

Sigh. It was hard being a birthday girl.

Serena just about caught the question. After some thought she raised her hand. Was she right? Only Merlin knows. Meh. "A creative use could be transfiguring a family of mice into a set of fine dinnerware if you don't have any or yours got ruined, and your mean grandmum is coming to dinner. And if she's not impressed she'll disown you." Nod. Nod.

Not that it's happened to her. Her family was incredibly well off and they didn't need her grandmum's wealth. That and her grandmum ADORES her. Absolutely ADORES her. And they had many, many fine dinnerware that's either new or passed down from generations.

That happened to her uncle's neighbor.

Felixir · 05-22-2021, 03:51 AM

Nem had plenty they could have said to Fox on the topic of evil, and good, and everything that was said to be in between, and the many things that existed outside of those concepts. Maybe they would, one day. Hard to say for sure.

That Flamsteed Clone, he was a funny one. Not so unlike Nem, especially at that age, though they had a feeling he was a little more genuine in how innocently he - quite literally, sometimes - pointed things out. Nem knew they'd seemed just as innocent to a lot of people, and so that didn't necessarily mean anything, but they were confident enough in having the measure of others that they didn't doubt their assessment for a moment.

The next question was one Nem was more willing to answer, not least because they did not need to cast their mind very far to happen upon something that could be fun. Topical too, even, depending on how you looked at it.

"Sir," they said, raising their hand to get Carton's attention, and providing their answer in a matter-of-fact tone, without a trace of provocation. "I read, once, about a man who murdered his father, then transfigured the body into a bone and buried it in a garden to... hide it, or get rid of it entirely, I'm not sure." Far more effective methods available than that, but maybe Crouch had for some reason intended to come back for it, and wanted it hidden only temporarily, unlikely to be given much consideration even if found. Or he was just doing what he could with what he had. Regardless, it served a purpose for Nem. "Would that be considered a creative use for transfiguration?"

astrocat · 05-22-2021, 01:24 PM

Ash could think of creative uses of transfiguration. Not quite as suspicious as Nem's answer, but not innocent either. "Say you wanted to smuggle contraband. Like illegal dark objects, or supplies during a war, or something that just had super high taxes on it. Doesn't really matter. You could transfigure it into something else, like children's books or pebbles, or cool lamps. Then when your cargo passed inspection, you turn it back into the real stuff and distribute it. That would be creative." And yes, she came up with that idea herself. She was quite proud of it. "It would be good if you were a smuggler or a pirate." And yes, smugglers and pirates were generally considered bad. But Ash could think of situations where they did good things, so... they couldn't say that her idea was evil in all situations.

DaniDiNardo · 05-22-2021, 02:38 PM

He couldn’t have said it better himself.

Emmerson may have squealed if she wasn’t working so hard to be professional and the perfect student for class. Keeping it classy, the little girl smiled...beamed....looked like it was Christmas. Same difference, really.

Coming down from the high of getting that last answer SO right, Emm had to buckle down to come up with another one. By far, Nem’s was the most interesting. She didn’t think she could top that and while that brought her into a small panic, the Gryffindor buckled down to think harder.

Creativity in transfiguration.

Creativity. How did she like using it...?

Oh!

“Well, Professor. If you wanted to decorate your own dance studio and had the right materials and the right spells, you could make a TON of different designs. The same spell that turns a piece of wood into a chestnut wardrobe, could get you one with a nice French finish or a more modern cut and trimmings. That part is ALL imagination. You gotta decide what kind you want, within reason. You could have a different studio all week and then you’ll feel like you’re really going places and seeing the world when really it’s the same room and the same spells.”

sweetpinkpixie · 05-22-2021, 02:48 PM

Last term, Atlas would have never DREAMED of speaking up in a lesson...let alone talk back to a professor. Not even Professor Williamson or Professor Auntie June. He was too afraid to and considering the number of Crucio's he had seen right before his very eyes, not to mention TWO Killing Curses, the Gryffindor had every reason to zip it.

But now...was different. He felt a little safer and therefore it was a testament and a GOOD thing that he was behaving the way he was. At least that was what mum had said and it was permission he was going to run with.

Tail smaller now and more manageable, Atlas politely thanked the professor before his mouth was back at it. "Distracting for who, professor? That seems like a vague and kind of subjective sort of blanket statement." His question was rooted in genuine curiosity and a need to know. "I find some costumes here VERY distracting for various reasons." He glanced around to find someone he could point at and Evan Nam...so Atlas pointed at that Ravenclaw. "I have minor bovinophobia."

Just saying.

Anyway, not to be entirely derailed from the actual lesson or anything.

Atlas personally found the very nature of Transfiguration 'creative'. You WERE creating something through magical modification and manipulation, so it seemed like the concept was engrained in the literal magical DNA, so to speak. So, well, he struggled with finding an answer to this next question as he found everything changed through spellwork to be rather creative.

"I've always thought switching spells were pretty neat," he offered with a small chirp. "You could pull off some pranks really well with that, switching an apple someone is about to bite into with something else...or switching your homework with your brother's because they switched yours that morning and you want to keep your hard work because you spent forever on the essay and it's not your fault that they didn't and are trying to take credit for something you did."

Hypothetically speaking.

NiallNIP · 05-22-2021, 03:35 PM

Quinn smiled brightly at the compliment. He was always happy when someone thought he was doing good at something. Knitting, baking, growing plants... it was satisfying to do well. And it felt good being praised for it. Was that selfish? That he wanted praise? It's not like his whole purpose for doing that stuff was to be complimented on it... was it? He wasn't sure now. Huh.

Uh, a-anyway, um... a creative use for transfiguration... "Um, well, you could definitely change things into animals for a variety of purposes. Like if you wanted to move a piece of furniture, change it into a weasel and let it walk on its own," he was pretty sure he was referencing an answer he gave last term, during the Migalifors lesson. "Or if someone needed to get into a tight space, you could turn them into a ferret. Or somewhere up high, a bird... lots of different things."

MadMadamMalfoy · 05-22-2021, 06:18 PM

SPOILER!!: Individual replies ^_^

Seeing no more hands in the air, Norman felt the time was right to move on. “Based on your answers, I see you have no shortage of creative ideas,” he addressed the class, smiling slightly. “Today we’re going to put that creativity into practice with a fun little project.” At least he hoped they’d find it fun! Although he was usually the practical no-nonsense type, he felt they could all use something lighthearted after last term, and the Halloween holiday seemed like the right time.

“We’ll be making jack-o-lanterns using the spell Mr. Nam mentioned, Melofors.” he continued. Did the skulls and pumpkins make sense now, kids? “While this spell gives the impression that the target has a pumpkin for a head, it doesn’t actually transform its target. Instead, it conjures a pumpkin around the target’s head. You’ll be practicing on the plastic skulls, but before we get into the spell demonstration, we have something else to do.”

Reaching behind his desk, he pulled out a box full of art supplies: paint, brushes, markers, colored paper, glitter, and glue, among other things. “Using these materials - or your own, if you have them, decorate your three skulls,” he instructed. “You can use magic to decorate if you wish, but these must stay in the form of a skull for the Melofors spell to work.” In other words, no turning the skulls into other things! “You may start now; we’ll move on in fifteen minutes.”

OOC: Main activity time!

For part 1, your character needs to decorate the three plastic skulls on their desk. Magic is allowed, as long as they DO NOT transform the skulls into anything. Part 2 will go up AROUND 11 AM EDT tomorrow (5/23).

Chelliephone · 05-22-2021, 06:41 PM

He'd all but stopped paying attention to the conversation between one of the T-Rex's and Professor, having instead moved on to looking at the other costumes in the room, until he noticed Atlas' finger pointing at him. Evan blinked, hearing 'bovinophobia and raising an eyebrow slightly. Was that... a real thing? And was it something the Gryffindor was actually afraid of or just an example to try to prove his point. He should have felt sorry for it it was a fear he certainly hadn't meant to cause issue for anyone and yet...

With a zombie in the room and the young man dressed as one of the greatest prehistoric predators himself, the idea he was afraid of a cow struck him as funny. But he tried to school his features to not show that, instead remaining as passive as he could and not wanting to get involved in... whatever was happening there.

Ah, but yes, good, they were moving on! And they were actually using Melofors?? Well that sounded fun, and now that he considered the day it was also unsurprising. Good way to tie in a holiday, Professor Carton! The decoration part was not Evan's forte and he...wasn't actually sure what to do with his skulls. Preferring the muggle way of doing things, he opted to picking up some paints and figured he could decorate them colorfully, Day of the Dead style, so just essentially a lot of different, vibrant colors on each of them.

He considered glitter but... frankly, he wasn't looking to be a sparkly cow for the rest of the day so he opted for just the colors.

MadAlice · 05-22-2021, 11:16 PM

Violet knew already what she wanted to do with these skulls. She was going to paint them like those sugar skulls she'd seen in that neighborhood in New York the autumn she was there. She'd thought those looked fantastic. She wasn't that good at art, but she thought she could manage to paint lines and things on a skull.

She felt rather gothic sitting there in her all-black clothes and her dark eye makeup, handling these skulls. She pulled some paints and brushes over to her and began to paint.

FearlessLeader19 · 05-22-2021, 11:26 PM

It seemed she had put that explanation over sufficiently enough. This helped her feel better about herself. But her own snuff box? Well, she’d have one full of magical creatures on it. Maybe purple and gold coloured. Maybe. Claudine never thought of having one of her own.

The mention of a project intrigued the sixth year. It had to be involving these skulls. How right she was. Then Claudine’s face was lighting up. An art project! How thrilling! Without hesitating, she went to collect some of the supplies. She’d use her own wooden coloured pencils if she needed to.

And so she began to work on the first skull. Already there were designs in her mind: the first skull would be decorated with purple and gold glitter; the second with paper cut outs of ghosts and skeletons and the third would be decorated with the words ‘Happy Halloween’ charmed to flash bright neon colours.

Emzily · 05-22-2021, 11:49 PM

The Gryffindor relaxed when the professor responded well to her apology. Getting in trouble in classes just was not an option for Remy! She finally smiled when her answer was declared correct, then listened for the activity portion of the lesson. Ooh, decorating the three skulls!

Remy went to the front of class and eyed all of the materials laid out in front of her, deciding to get a bit of everything to really get her creative juices flowing. She plopped it all down on her desk before sitting down again.

She decided to paint the first skill red all over with black polka dots dotted around, much like a ladybug. She added some red glitter all over before moving onto the second skull. Remy covered the skull in glue and then used a brush to carefully place glitter in a rainbow sequence all over. So far they were looking AMAZING, best in the class.

For the third skull, Remy said, “Hmmm…” aloud.

She decided to try her hand at drawing this time, and used marker pens to draw spooky spiders all over the skull. It definitely wasn’t her favourite out of the three, but she was still pleased. Remy lined them all up and sat back, waiting for the next part of the activity.

Cassirin · 05-23-2021, 01:18 AM

Decorating skulls? Very Halloween, although not very magically inclined. Phoebe was frankly feeling a little relieved that they were doing something creative to kick the class off. Not because she didn't think she'd improved dramatically since the days when she'd been terrified of her own inability to cast a spell, but just because sometimes it was nice to let the professor lead them astray sometimes. No professor had dared last term, so putting glitter on a plastic skull felt like a reminder that the world was better than it had been.

And she was definitely doing glitter. Lots of it, sprinkled liberally over strategically applied sticking charms. One of her skulls had sparkly lips and eyebrows (where they would go, should skin be applied), one had purple cheekbones and a teal jawline, and the third was just silver. All over SILVER, to match her dress.

wednesday · 05-23-2021, 03:33 AM

Ollie was happy with the professor's approving nod. She liked when her teachers were happy with her work. It made her work worth it, even if it was a simple response. It was being on the teachers good side that really made Ollie haply. She isn't a perfect person and when you have an in with the teachers they let more slide - not that Ollie was bad or anything.

Time to decorate! She picked up her supplies and sized up her skulls. She decided to do some basic makeup. She wasn't allowed to wear any at home, so this would be good practice for when she could. She did three looks on the three skulls. One the first, a basic everyday, "no makeup" makeup look. On the second, a pretty glam look. And on the third, a very bold evening look. She sat back and looked at her work. Thank goodness she was practicing.

sweetpinkpixie · 05-23-2021, 06:56 AM

Atlas was about to follow up with a WHY to that statement, because when you were trying to make a valid point you NEEDED evidence and facts to back up your claims, but the professor was giving him one of those LOOKS that adults gave when they were done with a topic of conversation. In this Gryffindor's experience, that tended to be when he had mum or dad backed into a corner and had managed to poke enough holes in logics that they just wanted to wrap up the conversation. The Gryffindor's suggestion still stood that there ought to be more specifications as to what constituted as 'school appropriate'.

But at least one thing was clear, he could use this to his advantage when Aries came at him about wearing something like this next year.

And also maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaybe the professor was invalidating the severity that was bovinophobia. BUT did he know that more people were killed by cows in a year than sharks? It was like FIVE TIMES the number of people even. Sharks were horribly misunderstood and judged by their appearances.

Did Atlas want to continue the conversation in the man's office? Not particularly. He had got enough from this interaction to confirm that appropriate and distraction were subjective terms...and he had better understanding to how that translated to Professor Carton. Hmmm...

Zoned out a bit while class carried on, he tuned back in when the task was assigned and arts and crafts were one of the last things he thought he would be doing but..he wasn't going to complain. He got to work with his hands (his spell arsenal didn't really have anything that came to mind that he would find applicable in this context) and go for a bit of self expression. Though he had no real angle that he was inclined towards at the moment. So Atlas jumped up and over to the supplies, grabbing a random assortment in his dinosaur arms, and then back to his desk to drop it all off...and the lid on one of the glitters he had scooped up and it all came pouring out and over his desk...and on the floor...and then there were glittery dinosaur tracks in the classroom.

Watson · 05-23-2021, 12:11 PM

A duck with a top hat and cane was absolutely creative and she was glad she got a smile from the Professor.

She had never heard of bovin-what-phobia before? So when she saw Atlas saying that and pointing at her brother, she quickly gathered what it was about. Lisa pursed her lips to stop herself from cracking a smile or a chuckle at the statement before wondering if Atlas did suffer from said phobia. If he did, then it wouldn’t be perhaps nice to chuckle at it, right? She then glanced down at her hands, letting out the tiniest chuckle before re-focusing and mentally coming back to the lesson to hear the next steps.

Decorating skulls was their task! Neat! She liked to decorate things. And she already had a picture in mind for the three skulls.

Duck, Duck, Goose!

Ah yes, she’d have one regular duck and then one with a top hat so she’d have to construct that with paper, and then she’d make a goose! She just needed to figure out how to make that top hat. Hmmmmmm....

She’d find a way to make the top hat. Lisa jumped out of her seat and then went to grab the necessary supplies. She gathered lots of yellow, white, blue, and black pieces of paper and markers for her task. After the first trip of supplies back to her desk, she went to go grab some white glitter and then looked down at the feet of her onesie to see sparkly glitter. Huh? She didn’t remember dropping glitter somewhere.... buuuut anyway! She didn’t drop it so she didn’t need to clean it up.

She started with the ducks first. With pen in hand, she quickly decorated them more like cartoon ducks. Big eyes to make them super cute. She took a brush and added just a small speck of glitter to the eyes to make them look f a b u l o u s ducks! Once the first two were done, she switched to the goose and just added white paper before ripping up the black paper into little strips. Those would be her feathers. With the strips in hand, she began applying them to the back of the skull flattening then so that they’d stick.

Last but not least.... she needed to make her top hat for one of the ducks and she wanted it to be just large enough so it could rest on the skull on an angle. Lisa picked up a piece of paper and began folding it into a box... Hmm.... she wasn’t sure if that was going to work so instead she grabbed a fistful of markers and then wrapped the paper around it. She tapped the paper around the cylinder type shape and then cut out a circle for one end. Then she attached the circle with tape to one of the ends. Lisa gently pulled out the markers and placed them on her desk. Lastly, she bent the open end of the hat about two centimeters to create the brim.

Eh ... close enough. Not perfect but she figured that people would get it. Lisa sat back ready to admire her work and then paused. Her masterpiece was not yet finished. The duck on her left needed a monocle for his snazzy top hat! Thus she drew a monocle on one off the duck’s eyes to make him look like Scrooge McDuck. Heh.

*PhoenixRising* · 05-23-2021, 12:17 PM

Apollo had been quite distracted with the halloween decorations and costumes of his peers in today's lesson. Also his dormmates wearing those huge costumes was impossible to miss and had Apollo with a minor case of fomo since he wished he had a brother to dress up in a huge distracting costume with. And was that REAL blood on Kinsay's outfit??? All things that were really quite contemplative for the second year in his jeans and cowboy fedora hat. He should have taken the mustache potion that Bella had given him at the start of the term, but weirdly was nervous taking it??? Why was he nervous? Bella wouldn't poison him? Also, Emmerson pretty much was nailing the creativity in transfiguration questions which meant more time for Apollo to concentrate on these halloween costumes and decor.

Oh, they were making jack-o-lanterns?? Actually it was that moment that Apollo was GLAD his dormmates hadn't included him in the dinosaur costume because he actually had fully use of his limbs. He took some of the markers back to his desk - no glitter thank you very much - and started sketching some silly face onto one of the colored papers to practice before he would put a face onto the skull. Art wasn't really his forte; it generally required too much focus to be anything worthy, but he tried. At least he didn't have to draw a dinosaur. Silly faces he could do and if they looked deformed, well, all the sillier, right??

MadMadamMalfoy · 05-23-2021, 03:20 PM

From his place at the front of the room, Norman watched the students set about their task decorating the plastic skulls. As he was not particularly artistically inclined himself, he felt it wasn’t his place to critique their work, but he was impressed at the range of their creativity: Evan Nam’s Day of the Dead inspired skulls; Blackthorne’s sugar skulls; Blaze’s festive use of flashing letters; Gaeltheos’s bright colors and spiders; James’s glitter; Burke’s makeup looks; Adara-Stark’s silly faces; Lisa Nam’s ducks and goose. The top hat on one of the ducks may have gotten a smile from him.

He glanced toward Flamsteed, curious to see what the boy would do with his skulls. The glitter spill did not go unnoticed, but he saw no reason to say anything about it. He simply drew his wand and aimed it at the spilled glitter on the floor, intending to vanish it before it made an even bigger mess. He’d deal with the glitter on the desk later, so as not to distract Flamsteed from his work.

Looking at his watch, Norman saw it was about time to move on, and he addressed the class, “Great job on your skulls so far! If you need more time to decorate, you can come back to it in a minute. For now, eyes here.” He paused a moment to give the students time to pay attention.

He picked up one of the plastic skulls from his desk and continued, “Once you have your skulls decorated, you’ll need to conjure your pumpkin. First step is to visualize your intended result - this is where the element of creativity comes in. What color is your pumpkin? How wide is it? How tall? How long is the stem? Is it perfectly round? Smooth? Bumpy? Sort of lopsided?” Those were just some examples.

“When you have your concept in mind, cast the spell by making this wand movement - pay attention! This one’s a bit tricky,” he said, demonstrating in the process. “Upward curve to the right, downward curve to the right, U-shape, upward curve to the left; then say, Melofors. If you’ve done this correctly, the spell will emit an orange light.” Just in case, he drew a diagram of the wand movement on the board behind him, along with the following information:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Blackboard

Melofors

Pronunciation: MEL-oh-fors
Wand Movement: Click here!
Type: Conjuration
Use: Encases target’s head in pumpkin

Aiming his wand at the skull, he made the wand movement and cast, “Melofors!”Bright orange light shot from the tip of his wand, and soon there was a pumpkin, long and narrow with a red-orange color, concealing the skull in his hand. He set the pumpkin down and picked up another skull, just in case anyone missed the first demonstration. “Melofors!” Another pumpkin, this one short and round with a bumpy texture and a leaf stuck to its stem, appeared.

Setting the second pumpkin down, Norman said, “You have about twenty minutes to practice Melofors on your skulls, starting NOW! I’ll be coming around to help you; just raise your hand if you have trouble.”

OOC: Main activity part 2!

For this part, your character needs to practice casting Melofors on their three skulls. Partner/group work is allowed but not required. As always, catching up is allowed. I’ll be posting periodically throughout this part, so if your kid needs help, please indicate in the title of your post. The final part of the main activity will go up in 36-48 HOURS.

Chelliephone · 05-23-2021, 03:49 PM

Considering they were encasing these heads in pumpkins, not turning them into as he had mistakenly thought earlier, he didn't feel much necessity in making his heads perfect. But this was kind of fun and he was enjoying the small creative break before they got to spell casting. He was pretty pleased with the results, all neon colors and he had decided to change one of the skull heads to black to make the colors pop even MORE. That one was most definitely his favorite.

Hearing that it was time to move on though and that Professor Carton needed their attention, he averted his gaze to the front of the classroom as instructions for the spell were given. He stared at the design for a minute, definitely thinking it was in fact a tricky one and trying to find some type of correlation to a pattern in his mind. Perhaps a bite from an apple? No, no it looked more like someone trying to draw a nose on a face starting from the chin up. He watched the Professor's examples as well, before they were released to work on their own.

He stared at his skulls, before picking up one of the paintbrushes he'd been using and pulling out a piece of parchment from his bag to practice the movement. The first one was pretty wonky.. the second a little bit better. But he still kept going until there was about 15 small designs on his page, but a consecutive 3 created that looked proper. He grabbed his wand, shaking out his wand arm so that he wouldn't be tense while casting.

Evan stared at the first skull, pushing the other two off to the side a bit, and practiced the wand movement one more time for good measure. Satisfied he had that part right, he did it again, adding "Melofors!" accompanied by a flash of orange. He was pleased that he'd gotten the spell and yet...

He had clearly not focused his envisioning what the pumpkin would look like. Because the pumpkin was... ugly. It was mainly orange with weird white splotches (he'd wanted white), and the stem was longer than the height of the pumpkin. It did encase the skull but... only barely. Overall, he was not pleased with the creative portion, so he pushed that pumpkin aside so he could continue onto the next.

Watson · 05-23-2021, 05:44 PM

So they were going to learn how to cast Melofors? She nodded, listening to Professor Carton talk through what they need to visualise and understand. Conjure said pumpkin. What colour is the pumpkin? What shape? How wide? How tall? She paused, thinking through the shape of her pumpkin first and then drew it on a piece of parchment to help her visualise it clearly.

Next, Lisa had to practice the spell. She decided to first tackle the wand movement with her quill. She drew the half moon crescent shape meeting a cartoon cloud or w-shape. Once she had gotten the shape right, she picked up her wand and then traced the outline in front of her. Upward curve to the right, downward curve to the right, a "U" shape.....

"MEL OH fors. Mellllohfors. Melofors." She repeated that as she looked at the wand movement that she had driven in front of her. Half crescent meets a cute, round 'w'. Upward curve to the right, downward curve to the right, U-shape, upward curve to the left. Then speak the incantation... Upward curve to the right, downward curve to the right, a "U" shape.....

Now she had to visualise the pumpkin. She closed her eyes and tried to focus on what it could look like. They had to be small and cute (just like she was

) and round too. Lisa could picture the pumpkin- it was about six inches wide and seven inches tall. It was cute. Very cute.

She opened her eyes. Upward curve to the right, downward curve to the right, a "U" shape. "Melofors," she spoke, trying her hardest to imagine the pumpkin in front of her. No orange flash appeared. She bit her lip and tried again with more emphasis on the wand movement. "Melofors!"

The pumpkin that she had visualised appeared in front of her but it leaned ever so slightly to the right, its stem was shorter than anticipated and the body of the pumpkin WAS bigger, aaand it had these weird bumps on it that she didn't want. It was an apricot yellow. She frowned. She could work with this.

Now onto the other two...

MadAlice · 05-23-2021, 08:38 PM

Ugh, the wand movement for this spell was really tricky--drawn in the air, it looked like some strangely-shaped fishhook or something. Violet decided she'd better practice it for a while before she tried to use it on one of her sugar skulls.

Then, when she thought she was ready, she placed one skull (they were so pretty, Violet almost hated to transfigure one) in front of her, pointed her wand ahead in preparation, and began the multiple curving motions. But somewhere in the middle she got muddled, almost as if she were running into herself, and when she finally exclaimed "Melaflors!, she got a lopsided, lumpy mess that still looked like a plastic skull, but a very misshapen one. "Bother! Violet muttered under her breath. And she only had three skulls. But wait--this spell she did know. "Finite Incantatum" she cast, and the skull resumed its former shape, complete with decorations. Good thing I didn't use magic to decorate it, she thought.

She practiced the wand movements again, a number of times, until she thought she really had it, then tried again (on a different skull, just to make sure) and cast the Melaflors spell once more, picturing a pumpkin as hard as she could. This time it worked--mostly. The skull had indeed turned into a big, round pumpkin, though it was somewhat bigger and oranger than Violet had visualized. Oh well, the teacher wouldn't know what she'd been thinking--she hoped.

But still, in doing this for real, it was important for the result to come out the way you intended--what if she was trying to do something more complicated than a pumpkin? So she tried again on a second skull, this time taking a few minutes to visualize it more completely before beginning. It was hard to think of the wand movements and what she wanted the pumpkin to look like at the same time.

When she felt had a strong picture of an light yellowish-orange pumpkin, about 1-1/2 foot wide, in her head, she cast the spell again. "Melaflors!

Emzily · 05-23-2021, 08:56 PM

Soon after finishing her skulls, the activity was moving on to the good part. The magic. Remy watched the demonstration with an eager smile on her face, paying close attention to the wand movement. Excited, she turned to Ollie. "Let's work together." She didn't give her friend much of a choice. "No more cauldron surprises, though." Remy giggled. If the professor had gotten REALLY annoyed, then Remy's coolness would be totally different right now.

Remy placed her favourite decorated skull in front of her first, the ladybug one, and pulled out her wand but then placed it on the desk. Had to practise first. "Melafors... melofors..." She referenced the board quickly, "Mel-OHHHhh-fors." Yeah, she needed to work on her pronunciation.

"Mel..." Remy was suddenly distracted by Ollie's skulls she had decorated, with a range of different make up looks. "They look pretty cool... did you bring any of your own make up to Hogwarts?" If so.... Remy was thinking MAKEOVEEEEEEEEEEEER....

Imsosikk07 · 05-23-2021, 08:58 PM

SPOILER!!: Acitivity

Looking at his watch, Norman saw it was about time to move on, and he addressed the class, “Great job on your skulls so far! If you need more time to decorate, you can come back to it in a minute. For now, eyes here.” He paused a moment to give the students time to pay attention.

He picked up one of the plastic skulls from his desk and continued, “Once you have your skulls decorated, you’ll need to conjure your pumpkin. First step is to visualize your intended result - this is where the element of creativity comes in. What color is your pumpkin? How wide is it? How tall? How long is the stem? Is it perfectly round? Smooth? Bumpy? Sort of lopsided?” Those were just some examples.

“When you have your concept in mind, cast the spell by making this wand movement - pay attention! This one’s a bit tricky,” he said, demonstrating in the process. “Upward curve to the right, downward curve to the right, U-shape, upward curve to the left; then say, Melofors. If you’ve done this correctly, the spell will emit an orange light.” Just in case, he drew a diagram of the wand movement on the board behind him, along with the following information:

Aiming his wand at the skull, he made the wand movement and cast, “Melofors!”Bright orange light shot from the tip of his wand, and soon there was a pumpkin, long and narrow with a red-orange color, concealing the skull in his hand. He set the pumpkin down and picked up another skull, just in case anyone missed the first demonstration. “Melofors!” Another pumpkin, this one short and round with a bumpy texture and a leaf stuck to its stem, appeared.

Setting the second pumpkin down, Norman said, “You have about twenty minutes to practice Melofors on your skulls, starting NOW! I’ll be coming around to help you; just raise your hand if you have trouble.”

[COLOR="Black"]OOC: Main activity part 2!

For this part, your character needs to practice casting Melofors on their three skulls. Partner/group work is allowed but not required. As always, catching up is allowed. I’ll be posting periodically throughout this part, so if your kid needs help, please indicate in the title of your post. The final part of the main activity will go up in 36-48 HOURS.

Examining her now red skull making it almost look like an apple with its color, she continues to listen as she watches and pays attention to the next part of the activity. Listening to his words, she began to think of what kind of pumpkin she was going to conjure up. Perhaps an interesting one. Perhaps something plain...I think we'll go with a unique sort of pumpkin...orange...and green...stem...a little longer than usual...and nice and smooth.

SPOILER!!: The pumpkin she is picturing

Watching his movement with the wand, she practiced a couple of times after watching him making sure she got the movement down nice and easy. She nodded and then looked at her skull. Holding her wand in her hand, she began to move her wand in an upward curve to the right, at first, followed by downward curve to the right. Ok...so far so good. She then did a U-shape followed by an upward curve to the left as she looked at her skull then says with a bit of confidence, "Melofors!" to the skull.

wednesday · 05-23-2021, 11:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Emzily

Soon after finishing her skulls, the activity was moving on to the good part. The magic. Remy watched the demonstration with an eager smile on her face, paying close attention to the wand movement. Excited, she turned to Ollie. "Let's work together." She didn't give her friend much of a choice. "No more cauldron surprises, though." Remy giggled. If the professor had gotten REALLY annoyed, then Remy's coolness would be totally different right now.

Remy placed her favourite decorated skull in front of her first, the ladybug one, and pulled out her wand but then placed it on the desk. Had to practise first. "Melafors... melofors..." She referenced the board quickly, "Mel-OHHHhh-fors." Yeah, she needed to work on her pronunciation.

"Mel..." Remy was suddenly distracted by Ollie's skulls she had decorated, with a range of different make up looks. "They look pretty cool... did you bring any of your own make up to Hogwarts?" If so.... Remy was thinking MAKEOVEEEEEEEEEEEER....

She smiled as her friend instructed her they would be working together. No, she wouldn't be pulling the candy out again. Getting close to getting Remy in trouble was enough. "No promises!" She winked and laughed. She was glad that her friends here at Hogwarts were different than the ones at muggle school. She had some excitement in her life!

She watched as Remy moved her ladybug skull to the center of her desk. Remy had made some fun skulls! Ollie looked back over to hers. Should she have gone with more of a Halloween vibe? oh well, not like they would stay like this for long. She then moved her two skulls off to the side and her "evening look" to be centered in front of her.

She listened as Remy struggled to read off the word written on the board. Thankfully, she knew how to pronounce it so she could help Remy if she needed. "Oh, Thank you. I don't think they look that good." She tilted her head looking at her dramatic look that sat in front of her. She'd seen better. "No, I'm not allowed to wear makeup." She wondered if Remy was. Probably.

FearlessLeader19 · 05-24-2021, 12:38 AM

Oh yeah.

Claudine was satisfied with how her skulls turned out. She hadn’t even taken notice of any of her fellow students’ work so wrapped up she was in her own. But yes, she needed some time to add some finishing touches to the skulls. For now, her gaze moved back to Carton.

You know what sucked? The fact that Melofors was a Conjuration spell. Claudine royally sucked at this spell type. That was why, after making her notes about the incantation and wand movement, she sort of took her time in finishing up decorating her skulls. Of course the inevitable couldn’t be delayed so eventually she swapped a glitter tube for her wand.

Claudine began with the wand movement because it was one of the most complicated she had ever encountered. Five or six tries later, she felt confident to give the spell a go. “Melofors!’’ Cue the great complication of a wand movement intended for that purple and gold glittery skull.

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