Destiny was really looking forward to the Transfiguration final. It was the subject she studied the most for and it was one of her favorite subjects. Plus, she felt she was good at it, but she was probably wrong. Oh well. She would just keep telling herself that she was..
..until someone told her to stop.
But that would mean people were reading her mind since she never said that stuff out loud! Great. Now she was paranoid, and she was afraid to walk into the room. She would be thinking about people reading her mind the whole time.
Sighing, she stepped into the classroom, and noticing the four different stations set up and the lack of chairs, wiped her mind of..people reading it. She was too busy wondering where she was supposed to sit! Surely, they couldn't take the test standing up! Unless..it wasn't a written exam! Ha! It wasn't, which meant she wasn't going to need a chair. Phew. She didn't know how to conjure one anyway.
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Station one is a regular desk. On it is a simple silver bracelet set on top of a picture. The picture if of the original item: a Hogwarts tie. The instruction sheet on the table reads: revert the bracelet to its original state.
Making her way over to the first station, and seeing the bracelet sitting on top of a picture, she KNEW what needed to be done. She had to balance the picture on her head, and try to clasp the bracelet on her wrist WITHOUT the picture falling off. Pfft, that was easy. She didn't know what that had anything to do with Transfiguration, but she was not the Professor, and she didn't know what was going through that
wonky brain of his. She picked up the picture, finally noticing what it was a picture of, and then glaced at the bracelet.
Oh.
Ohhhh.
Bahaha! She wasn't supposed to WEAR the bracelet; she was supposed to change it back into a tie. Good thing Destiny is observant and noticed what was on the picture, yeah? Yeahhhh. Setting the picture down, she picked up the bracelet and examined it. She wondered if it was expensive..but it couldn't be, since it was really a tie! Mentally slapping herself for even thinking that, she placed the bracelet down in front of her and drew her wand. She could SO do this, she could! It'd be easy as pie..which reminded her that she was hungry. As soon as she finished this final, she knew where she was going; to the kitchens.
Taking a deep breath, she glanced at the picture once more. Was that a..Hufflepuff tie? Crud..why couldn't it have been a Slytherin tie, hmm? Kingsley did
that on purpose, she was sure of it. Frowning at the tie that WOULD appear on the table, she concentrated on changing the bracelet.
"Reverto!" she said, making sure to emphasise the 'TO', and gave her wand a light flourish. At first it didn't seem like it worked, and she was juuuuust about to give her wand a rather rough shake when she looked down and HUZZAH! Sitting on top of the table, a Hogwarts tie appeared in place of the bracelet.
After poking it a few times, to make sure it wasn't going to vanish, she picked it up and slung it around her neck. This would be the closest she would ever get to being a Huffie.
And she didn't like it.
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Station two is a stool upon which rests a pink Frisbee. The instruction sheet beneath it reads: make a watch.
Only two more stations to go.
Destiny made her way over to the second station and spotted the FRISBEE sitting on top of a stool. She figured the stool wasn't for her to sit on, but it was tempting. Something else that was tempting, was throwing that frisbee, but she figures neither was allowed. Picking the frisbee up, she bent over to read the instructions. Turn it into a watch..that seemed easy enough..
..unless it was a TRICK!
She narrowed her eyes at the frisbee in her hand, just daring it to do something. What if it was one of those fanged frisbees?
SWEET MERLIN, WHAT IF IT WAS!?
Placing the frisbee back down on the stool, she took a few steps back. That frisbee was not going to get her, nope. It was going to be a watch in no time at all.
"Horolos!" she said, moving her wand in three tight circles then giving a flick. Now sitting on top of the stool was a rather..ugly
watch. What kind of watch was that!? Merlin! She would have rather had a butterfly watch or something, but THAT!?
Eww.
Afetr poking the watch a few times, making sure it didn't disappear
or bite, she picked it up and placed it in her pocket. She didn't need to be seen with a Huffie tie around her neck AND an ugly pink watch in her hands.
Plus..by the look of the next table, she was going to need BOTH her hands.
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Station three is a small table. On the table is a box with holes cut in it, containing a chicken; a small pail with chicken feed and some space to work. Under the table is another box with a stuffed chicken toy in it. First and second years may choose to use this toy, instead. All others must receive special permission BEFORE their final to do so. The instruction sheet reads: make a pillow.
Very slowly, Destiny made her way over to the third table.
A box with holes could mean one thing and one thing only: There was a CHICKEN in there.
Yeah, it wasn't obvious or anything with the clucking and all.
Taking the final step towards the table, a grimace appeared on her face. It
looked like the same chicken from class.
"You again?" she asked crossing her arms, and waiting for an answer. As the chicken clucked, she nodded her head,
"Yeah, it's me." She could totally understand chickens, since she was one herself once
for five minutes. Uncrossing her arms, she placed her wand in her mouth so she could reach in and grab the clucking creature.
Easier said than done, that's for sure.
As soon as her hands went inside the box, the chicken flapped and clucked and PECKED at her. Pulling the wand out of her mouth, she placed it on the table next to the box.
"What is YOUR problem, hmm? Don't want to be a pillow, eh?" The chicken gave a cluck, and Destiny FROWNED,
"You wouldn't DARE!" There was no way she was going to allow the chicken to lay another egg, since that was what that cluck meant.
Tilting the box, so it now lay on it's side, she reached in the pail and spread some chicken feed on the table. She KNEW the chicken would come out, since it wouldn't be able to resist it. Heck, Destiny was SO hungry, she was about to eat it..if, you know she was a chicken and all. Slowly, and I mean slowly, the chicken made it's way out, pecking the food that was laid out. As the clucking monster was distracted, Destiny picked her wand off the table and gave it a swish and a flick,
"Pulvinus!"
Oh SWEET MERLIN!
Even in pillow form, the chicken got the last word
cluck.
After giving the
pillow a couple pokes, making sure it would disappear or change back into the annoying chicken, Destiny picked it up and, resiting the urge to throw it, she placed it under her arm and walked over to the FINAL table.
Oooo, she wonder what she would have to do next.
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The fourth table is a long table with three boxes taped out on the surface, and the numbers 1, 2 and 3 taped out in them. The sheet reads: lay out your items in the appropriate boxes and leave the testing area.
Oh.
It was over.
The final was FINISHED!
Removing the pillow from under her arm, she gave it a quick wave over her head in triumph. She quickly remembered the pillow was, in fact, a chicken, so she stopped swinging it and placed it in the box marked with a three.
"Sorry, chicken pillow." she said, and gave it a wave goodbye. Moving to the box marked two, she dug in her pocket for the ugly watch and when she felt it
in all it's ugly form she pulled it out, and without a second glance, she placed it inside. Now she just needed to get rid of the Huffie tie.
It was starting to itch.
Standing in front of the box marked one, she removed the tie from her neck and placed it inside.
Now officially DONE, she stowed her wand, and quickly left the room. She needed to eat!!