Kennedy received a match from Professor Pride and placed it on her desk. She then pulled her wand out from her robes and cleared her mind. Focusing only the task set before her - changing a wooden match into a metal needle - Kennedy pronounced the spell "Slinario" several times before actually casting it. Feeling slightly nervous but confident of her capabilities, Kennedy pointed her wand at the match and firmly said "Slinario!" all the while keeping her mind on her goal. After she had cast the spell, Kennedy closed her eyes. She was afraid she would be unsuccessful and was afraid to look. She had most been looking forward to Transfiguration and if she wasn't good at it, she would have been heartbroken. Peeking ever so slightly, Kennedy saw a glint of light from the top of her desk. Realizing she successfully transfigured her match on the first try, Kennedy said out loud but more to herself, "Yes!" Smiling, Kennedy sat staring at her match while she waited for Professor Pride to continue the lesson.

Natalie nodded to the Professor.
Oh great! Non-verbal spells! I'm not good at them at all! she sighed but shrugged it off, waiting for more directions from the Professors.

OOC: Sorry, Rachel. Didn't know. XD

Natalie nodded to the Professor.
Oh great! Non-verbal spells! I'm not good at them at all! she sighed but shrugged it off, waiting for more directions from the Professors.

OOC: Ahh sorry, Rachel. Didn't know. XD

Alexis took a match from the Professor, and took her wand out. She put the match on the desk then, she took a deep breath in. "Slinario." she muttered. She looked and saw that nothing was different. She took another deep breath and this time she spoke very clearly. "Slinario." This time with she looked down she saw that she had transfigured the match. She smiled than listened for the professfor to speak again.

Torie took out her wand and stared blankly at the match sitting on the table before her. She figured she wouldn't have much difficult with this as their first lesson last year was changing caterpillars into pencils. The second year student pointed her wand at the match and firmly spoke the charm after giving her wand a flick. "Slinario!" she said clearly. The match grew more slender, but refused to change into a needle as it was supposed to. Torie furrowed her eyebrows and gave a hurrumph noise. Pointing her wand again, she tried the incantation once more. "Slinario!" she said. This time, the match became more slender, and had a small hole in its top, but it still kept the appearance of a match. Torie sighed. She gave her wand an aimless flick, and muttered slinario under her breath. To her relief, the match turned metalic, and finally assumed the appearance of a proper sewing needle, eye and all. She smiled in satisfaction and looked around the room to see how her classmates were faring.

Sarah had carefully and clearly written down the word she needed to use. Concentrated on it and moved her wand and said, "slinario" she looked down at it then raised her hand, "Professor did i do this right?" she questioned with a half smile on her face havlf in concentration.

Cringing slightly, Natalie took her caterpillars.
Ugh! I hate creepy crawlies! she thought to herself.
The caterpillar started to move in her hand, she shrieked loudly and dropped it onto the desk, closing her eyes.
"Oh no, go away, please go away!" she whispered in a panic.
She opened her eyes to find the caterpillar still there, "Oh no..okay, just concentrate." she whispered, not caring if people thought she was mad for talking to herself.
She started swishing her wand and thinking the non-verbal spell, nothing happened. Her heart wasn't really in it. She really hated creepy crawlies.

Kiara raised her eyebrows as she heard the Professor speaking. She couldn't believe they were actually going to use non-verbal spells already. She loathed having to do spell work without speaking since that required a lot of concentration and she didn't like to have to be focused on something for too long. As she silently cursed herself for not having sat near the third years, she grabbed a caterpillar. As she saw it, she couldn't help but grin at the thought of what her cousin would do at the sigh of that little animal.

She placed the caterpillar on her desk and took her wand off her pocket. She looked at the girl next to her who was smiling at her. Without thinking back, Kia did the same. Not wishing to be spotted by the professor and see her house losing points, the fourth year Ravenclaw looked back at the caterpillar, focusing all her senses on the animal that was moving slowly on her desk. Once she was sure that she was more than concentrated, she pointed her wand at it.

Slinario! Nothing happened. Kiara sighed and closed her eyes for a second. Then, she opened them again and focused herself once more on the caterpillar. She had to do it. She just had to. Slinario! She repeated. This one time she could swear she had seen a spark coming out of her wand. However, the animal hadn't changed in any way.

Brooke smiled and said, "Thank you." when she was handed her match. She took out her wand and pointed it at the little match. "Slinario." she said quietly. When she looked at it again only the bottom end of it had changed. She sighed and looked at it again trying to remember how she said it last time. "Slinario." she said a little more confident this time. She grinned once it had finally fully transfigured.

*stabs spelling mistake-->difficulty*

Cassandra smiled at Brooke, who was seated next to her. She also pulled her wand out of her pocket and said "Slinario." The match turned itself into a small thin pointed object, that was dull on one end with a slit through the metal. Cassandra touched it. It was metallic, undoutebly a muggle instrument of some sort. She knew what a match was, but the needle instrument was foreign.

Cassandra sat back and hoped she had done it correctly.

Sam scratched his head right hand as he looked down at the caterpillar in his left. He let the small bug down on top of his desk. He placed his hand quickly inside of his robes and pulled out his wand. He held the wand firmly, but with a somewhat loose grip as he concentrated on the caterpillar. Sam then cleared his mind, which was very hard to do at this moment, and pointed the wand at the center of the caterpillar. The spell grazed the tip of his tongue and filled the edges of his mind. This was going to be the first spell that was to come of his wand, and nothing at all happened. The caterpillar crawled slowly along the desk.

Dinara looked at the object on her desk. At first she thought it was a good needle. But then she examined it a bit closer. There was defintely a hole for the thread, but the tip was a bit dull. She hoped that the sharpness of the tip didn't matter. But deep down she knew that the needle should be sharp.

Amelia looked over at her friend Dinara, and smiled, then looked back at her match that the Professor had given her. She hoped that she would be able to successfully transform a match, seeing as how much she looked forward to this class the most. Carefully gripping her wand, she muttered the spell softly in her head first: Slinario.

She pointed her wand at the match and concentrated for a moment, "Slinario", Amelia spoke in a nice clear voice.
She smiled at the brilliant light that shone from her new needle. First try... i can't believe it, she thought, i guess transfiguration really is my subject.

Aurora Took the match and set it on her desk. She concentrated really hard on the incantation Slinario. She then picked up her wand and tried it for the first time. She saw a small glimmer of light and when she looked at the match.. it had transfigured.. not completely though... she got a wooden Needle. "Oops!" she said out loud. "Guess that wasnt it!"

Cassandra looked at the Fourth years trying to perform their non-verbal spells. She remembered her father trying to teach her how to cast a non-verbal spell, the year she left for Hogwarts.

Even then she was a dissapointment to him. She covered her thoughts with a smile and waited for her professor to evaluate her work.

Kiara took a deep breath and eyed the caterpillar and her wand. Her concentration was failing for some reason or maybe it was because she simply couldn't master the spell. No. She could master the spell, it was the concentration bit that was missing. She closed her brown eyes softly as she pretended to be looking at the floor. Clear your mind she told herself.

She kept her head down for perhaps a minute or two until there was only one thing occupying her mind: the spell. She then looked back to the caterpillar and took a firm grip on her wand. She was a Ravenclaw and Transfiguration was her best subject so why shouldn't she be able to do this easily?

Slinario! This one time, something funny happened. The caterpillar somehow jumped so that once it was back on the desk it was had flipped. Feeling slightly disappointed, Kia sighed and started muttering.

Dinara looked over at Amelia and smiled. She was happy to see that she was able to transfigure her match successfully as well. Dinara looked up at Professor Pride and waited to get feedback on her result.

Amelia looked over at Dinara's needle and let out a small chuckle, "Well, it looks like mine is a bit shinier than yours, no?"

Dinara had to laugh as she nodded in agreement. She just hoped that it was up to Professor Pride's par. After all, it was her first time trying to transfigure anything. She was quite proud of herself.

Aurora looked around and noticed that most of her class was able to transfigure their match... she hid her under her hand and tried to sink lower in her seat. She hoped the Professor wouldn't see it. She didnt want to be the laughing stock of Ravenclaw.

Ringo stared at his caterpillar, wrinkling his long nose in disgust. He gave it a half hearted poke with his wand.

Cassandra looked at the Gryffindor who poked his caterpillar and whispered "Poke it again, and you'll be sorry..."

Cassandra hated witnessing any kind of cruelty to animals. She didn't care if the boy was a fifth year.

"It's not like I hurt it..." he hissed at her. Who was she to threaten him?

She had been quiet all through the class taking as many notes as possible, not wanting to miss a thing. Ariana stared at her match her brain having gone to mush after all the studying she had done over the past week. She held her hand out shaking slightly and muttered the spell over and over in her mind Slinorio...nope, not it...Slimario...hm... still doesn't sound right...Slinario. Ok ,got it now let's try. She raised her wand and took a deep steadying breath as she said aloud, "Slinario" her wand pointed at her match. The match seemed to quiver or a second but nothing else happened.

After a few more minutes of saying the spell in her mind again she tried one more time "Slinario" she said, more determination in her young voice. This time the match began to change, stopping once it was half transfigured. "Well, it's a start" she muttered to herself as she loked around and saw everyone elses work.