When she'd entered with the rest of the student, Vera had had to keep her head down and hurry to a seat when she'd noticed Carton in his dog form. Something told her that petting an animagi Professor was probably frowned upon and she wasn't looking to risk it and get into detention this early.

Thankfully she didn't have to contemplate going up and touching the dog anyways, as class began and there stood Carton in his fully human form - already encouraging them to think so early in the lesson. What did Hogwarts teachers have against jumping straight to lectures so she could zone out? But.. at least she had an answer. Hand shot up and she waited to be called on. "Canary creams are a type of transfiguration and a candy that can momentarily turn the person who eats it into a bird." Which was arguably useless, but there were other type of transfiguration spells she didn't know the names of that did much of the similar.