SPOILER!!: Professah!
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Isabelle was a little excited. She was happy they all got what she was hoping they would say. A beaming smile spread across her face as she walked over to the board and updated with what the spells did.
"You are all correct, of course. Changing the anatomy and structure of one animal, into that of a completely different one, requires much more focus, skill and concentration. The slightest lapse and you could end up killing it, or splinching it in some very bad way - like Ashley said - a head for a leg." She gave the Slytherin a grin and carried on.
"Turning it into an inanimate object still requires you to be focussed as usual, but you are having to worry less about getting the molecular structure of another animal correct for it to work." With a flourish of her wand, Isabelle produced a little twig like stand that she carefully wound Jasper around.
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"I would like you all to practice the wand movement and incantations before coming to collect your snake. It will be easier, believe me," she chuckled, taking a quick glance at the slithering beasties.
"I shall demonstrate them without the aid of Jasper for now, and then draw them on the board for you all to have a visual reference."
Picking up the chalk she drew some lines next to the incantations to signal which way they needed to put their wands.
"As you can see they are fairly simple - but PLEASE just stick to the one I have assigned your age group." Issy looked around at all of them. She knew that a couple of them had tried to do the older students spell in the last lesson, and truthfully she hadn't been happy.
"Now, you do the wand movement and say the incantation afterwards. Those of you in 4th year and above copy me - left to right, from the bottom to the top, in a diagonal line, then straight down. Amp-lus Verm-is Verto. Make sure you say it just like that, or you could eventually have problems when we move on." She wanted to make sure they all got it right.
"Those of you that are 3rd year and younger have the easiest wand movement," Isabelle grinned. Although really they were both quite simple.
"It's a straight line from north to south. And once more, you say the spell after doing the movement - Suc-cur-ro PED-es." "Everyone go ahead and practice that for now, I'll move on to letting you handle the snakes when I feel you are all comfortable with it." OOC: I'm going to bed soon, so for now just practice into thin air, with no snakes. PLEASE DO NOT DO ANYTHING YOU HAVE NOT BEEN ASKED TO DO. ONLY PRACTICE THE SPELL FOR YOUR CHARACTERS AGE GROUP. Thank you! And no excessive chatter, if you please, Issy won't be happy about that. 
Elise nodded, still rather terrified at the SNAKE part of the lesson.
Right... Okay. Practice into thin air. She could do that.
"Suc-cur-ro PED-ehs." she said, wand still in her pocket. "Suc-cur-ro PED-es."
She'd gotten it! "Succuro PEDes." Now, for the wand movement.
North to south.
Pulling her wand out of her pocket, she traced a straight line from north to south, making sure not to think of the incantation. Non-verbal was just as dangerous as verbal.