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He sort of knew Dahlia's response even before she said it...because he knew the answer. Mostly he asked these things so that someone could enable him to just go ahead with it. Probably not the best to ask that of a Ravenclaw, all things considered. Apparently the tiny ice cube in juxtaposition to the size of his face and tongue were entirely too obvious to the professor...who saw precisely what the Gryffindor was trying to do. But still...the tip of his tongue HAD touched the ice cube and his results were still entirely nonconclusive. He also now wondered if the enchanted ice cube and it's water had a large index of refraction...
So many questions and no time to ask them or else he would end up looking like Kinsay James.
Mumbling a half apology, only because he had been caught, Atlas straightened his posture and shrugged his shoulders at Dahlia.
His anxiety SPIKED a bit when there was all this bread passing and tearing going on, and not just because his deskmate was getting crumbs everywhere. "Don't eat that!" he hissed, nearly knocking it right out of her hand while she tried to pass it to the Slytherin behind them. He didn't care about whatever their dynamic was or wasn't, the bread was more important!
The first question was distracting enough not to dwell on his own anyway, though he remained silent through it while his brain went into overdrive. There were benefits to both, he figured. But the more broad a spell could impact the transformation of object, the weaker he presumed it would be. Whereas if there was a spell that was specific to one object, then all that magical butter could be sucked up over one slice of bread. Magical physics and all that, even magic had its limitations. But in terms of practicality and personal preference, having a spell that worked the same on anything would be optimal.
Which apparently strolled right into the subject matter of the next question and his hand popped right back up. "Well...I would suppose it would depend on the intended result. If you wanted to transfigure something that was hard and solid as an end result. Shape too. It's like...a hedgehog is soft and squishy and already has a shape that resembles a pin cushion. But maybe if there was a stone that was trying to be transfigured into a pin cushion, the magic would first have to change the stone to something soft as well as morph the shape a bit. Or something long and narrow like a log into a single pin cushion. There is so much more material and density there that...it all has to go somewhere. Would think you would need to aim for objects of similar mass to have the most effective transfigurations...otherwise there is a surplus or deficit depending on the original object. It's all right there in the Transformation Formula even! Transformation is directly influenced by the mass of an object, which is the 'a'...and your own wand plays a big party in it too...like wand flexibility. And that's the 'w'."
This is why he liked Transfiguration, there were some rules that had to be followed and there were equations to input towards a predictable conclusion. Individual skill aside, of course, which was the 'c' in the equation but at least he could run simulations in his head.
And then there was that other Slytherin boy talking about transmuting stuff, so Atlas was pointing again. "Transmutation and Transfiguration are separate branches of magic with separate magical laws, aren't they?"
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