Ellie shook her head at the girl who broke her concentration. She set herself on fire? Really? No wonder she thought it was okay for Lafay to set kids on fire, she set herself on fire! She probably did this all the time when she was bored. Silly girl. Why didn't she just put the fire out herself? Really? If you're going to set yourself on fire, you should at least know how to put it out...

Alex nodded shocked, seriously accidentally setting herself on fire that gives a new meaning to blonde moment. Her leg hurt and she was now soaked..but hey..at least she was alive.."Thank You er.." Alex tried to remember the face oh yes! "Selena it was kind of you." She frowned at her stupidity hitting herself on the head. "Professor..er may I go to the Hospital Wing?" pointing to her burned leg with one hand holding the other up..speaking of her hands they were slightly burned to..

Good, good the professor was planning on taste-testing it then. Hehehehe that would be interesting. He sat the transfigured cupcake on top of the box of cupcakes and set them both off to the side to listen to the professor.

"Ah I see, I gotcah sir." He nodded and then took one of the little Master locks out of the box. So now they were trying a new spell? Cool.

Hor-eh-los, hor-eh-los, hor-eh-los, the boy chanted in his head. Okay. He totally had this. Fletcher closed his eyes for a moment and focused on the mental image of a nifty gold pocket watch he'd nicked from some old fogie on the Muggle underground last year. He remembered it well because it had made a great birthday gift for his father, heheh.

HOROLUS! Fletcher opened his eyes and moved his wand in three tight, clockwise circles followed with a flick at the lock. There was a little poof of smoke and then the golden watch materialized in its place.

"Awesome, it worked!" The boy beamed proudly and picked up the watch, holding it toward his ear to hear it ticking. Hmm, didn't seem to be working yet though....

Preston was checking on the work of others students, noting the various levels of success, when he heard the cry.

Spinning, he saw one with robes alight, and another extinguishing those flames. "Stay calm. And the rest of you, keep at work." He gestured to the rest of the class, while heading to take care of Miss Malfoy-Lupin.

"Thank you, Miss Zabini-Riddle. You can return to your work."

Crouching near the now singed and wet girl, Professor Kingsley's features were stern. "And how, exactly, did you set yourself on fire.?" He looked her over; yes. A trip to the healer was certainly in order.

"You may see the healer. But my question first, please."

Selena winced. Ouch. There were burns on her. "Um... it's no problem..." Selena blushed, "Are you alright, Malfoy-Lupin?" Selena said. She forgot the girl's first name. "I'm sorry... I don't really remember your first name..." Selena said sheepishly.
Selena nodded and went back to the the lock. Sigh. Back to work for her...

Destiny had no problem moving that ugly brooch off her desk. When Kingsley said to put the items ways, she threw it in her back and hoped more of the gems fell out..those blue one were horrible to look at.

Horolos.

The pronunciation was easy enough, but the wand movement.. Lifting her wand, Destiny practiced the wand movement as she waited for the box of locks to be passed to her. When the box came, she took one out, placed it on her desk and passed the box along.

Lowering her wand, she stared at the lock, trying to picture a watch in her hand. Well, her father had a snazzy looking pocket watch and the numbers were HUGE! She didn't know why he needed big numbers..he had good eyesight..weird.

One clockwise circle..
Two clockwise circles..
Three clockwise circles..
FLICK!
"Horolos!"

It worked? On the FIRST try!? Bahahaha! Well, the numbers on this pocket watch were not nearly as big as the ones on her father's, but that didn't matter!

Destiny was AWESOME at Transfiguration!

Alex flinched at the question, "I was not paying attention. Accidentally did the spell and wand movements for it instead of doing Horolos..I hadn't even noticed until you know." she waved to her burns. Seriously it was as stupid as walking into a tree that hit back. "Certainly taught me never to do it again." She muttered under her breathe. She put her wand behind her ear refusing to look at the Professor- seriously who accidentally set themselves on fire? easy answer she thought sarsastically, her.

"Incendio is nowhere near Horolos," he said simply, not believing that a first year could accidentally cast that spell effectively. "I suspect that you weren't following instructions. But, I think that the damage you have done to yourself will suffice as punishment."

Preston stood. "You are dismissed to the healer. If you need assistance, you may take one classmate with you."

Alex looked away packing her things quickly before leaving..as fast as she could with a burned leg which was slow slow slow. She finally limped out of the door and to the Hosptial Wing.

Selena sighed as she watched the girl limp out. It was certainly painful. Selena looked at the pocket watch she had made. Perhaps she should start over. "Reverto," Selena said, hoping that this time the spell would come to her more easily. It did. It became back a silver, black and white lock. Selena focused on the lock and thought about each individual property that she wanted her watch to have. She imagined the ticking face, the chain it would be on. "Horolus!" Selena said as she looked at the watch. Ooh. It was telling the right time!! Selena grinned. Transfiguration was getting easier that before.

A snow globe! It was so...PRETTY! Did Vashti have to change it back into a bouncy ball? The snow globe was way better.

Sigh.

She set to writing down the properties of the snow globe:

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What is the item: A snow globe
Size: It can…fit in my hand kinda
Shape: Round, globe = sphere
Texture: Smooth
Colour: The globe part is clear, the base part is solid and black
Weight: Heavy-ish?
Defining markings: Has a cute little snowman inside the globe with loose “snow” collected at the bottom

Then she set the paper aside and picked up her wand. Okay, so. Flick, right? Sure. "Reverto."

...Nothing. Hm...focus a little more, perhaps.

Concentrating on the stuff she'd written down about her bouncy ball, Vashti performed the wave movement with another, "Reverto!" Still nothing. Connnnncentrate! Focusing even harder on imagining the snow globe becoming a bouncy ball, she tried again. "Reverto!"

Well...something had changed. The globe was down a dark shade of pink, but it was still quite clearly not a bouncy ball.

Hmmm...

But apparently time was up for now. Crud. She'd have to work on this pink snow globe later. Placing it in her bag - she'd probably have to carry it once they actually left but for now it could stay in her bag - she took out a fresh piece of parchment, dipped her quill in ink, and was poised to take some more lovely notes.

Hm... Horolos? Hor-eh-los. Hor-eh-los. Yeah, she'd have to write the pronunciation down for that one.

Pausing in her scribbling to take a lock before passing it on, Vashti quickly finished her notes before taking up her wand again. Alright. So three clockwise circles... Check. Check. Check. And a flick! Check! "Horolos!"

Aaand...nothing much happened. Of course. Try, try again.

One, two, three circles - flick! "Horolos!" There was a tiny change this time, at least. The lock numbers had disappeared to be replaced by clock numbers...but it was still clearly a lock.

Preston returned to checking on student work, looked down at the partial watch. "Good attempt. Now, use reverto to turn it back to the lock and try again. You'll want to be able to do the full transfiguration in one go."

Preston smiled, impressed as he continued around the room.

Preston watched from across the room as boy listened to the watch.

Preston returned to the girl with the quick thinking. "Thank you," he whispered as he crouched down. "That was quick thinking. If you need to take a moment or two, that's fine. But then, use reverto to make it a lock, and then try again."

He gave the girl a small pat on the shoulder as he stood before moving away.

Preston continued around the room, taking note of success.

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Originally Posted by Snape'sGirlThru&Thru

A snow globe! It was so...PRETTY! Did Vashti have to change it back into a bouncy ball? The snow globe was way better.

Sigh.

She set to writing down the properties of the snow globe:



Then she set the paper aside and picked up her wand. Okay, so. Flick, right? Sure. "Reverto."

...Nothing. Hm...focus a little more, perhaps.

Concentrating on the stuff she'd written down about her bouncy ball, Vashti performed the wave movement with another, "Reverto!" Still nothing. Connnnncentrate! Focusing even harder on imagining the snow globe becoming a bouncy ball, she tried again. "Reverto!"

Well...something had changed. The globe was down a dark shade of pink, but it was still quite clearly not a bouncy ball.

Hmmm...


But apparently time was up for now. Crud. She'd have to work on this pink snow globe later. Placing it in her bag - she'd probably have to carry it once they actually left but for now it could stay in her bag - she took out a fresh piece of parchment, dipped her quill in ink, and was poised to take some more lovely notes.



Hm... Horolos? Hor-eh-los. Hor-eh-los. Yeah, she'd have to write the pronunciation down for that one.

Pausing in her scribbling to take a lock before passing it on, Vashti quickly finished her notes before taking up her wand again. Alright. So three clockwise circles... Check. Check. Check. And a flick! Check! "Horolos!"

Aaand...nothing much happened. Of course. Try, try again.

One, two, three circles - flick! "Horolos!" There was a tiny change this time, at least. The lock numbers had disappeared to be replaced by clock numbers...but it was still clearly a lock.

"Keep at it," he said encouragingly, tapping the clock/lock to change it back to the original lock. He'd noticed her struggling with the reverto previously, and so did this one for her. Just this once.

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Raising his voice, Preston addressed the class as he walked. "If you've been successful, revert your lock and try to imagine a more complex piece for your next attempt." He paused.

"And remember, this time, if you're not successful the first time, use reverto to make it the original lock before you try again."

Ellie smiled. Yes, it was a good attempt, she thought, A very good attempt.

She concentrated again, though this time not as hard, since she had had more practice with this spell, "Reverto!" she said. And it turned back into the combination lock. Yay! She was glad to get the hand of this.

Then she tried again, to make it into a clock. Square, this time she thought.

"Horolos!" she said, as she mentally pictured the little square clock again.

It worked! It was now a little, square, ticking, black clock. Hehe. Cool.

She then tried to think of something a little more complex to change the lock into, before she turned it into a lock again.

Alright. Time to write.

Treyen nodded, and wrote down what the Professor had mentioned about the first spell. Reverto. More accurately, re-VER-toe.

But then the class was now onto the new spell. He...blinked. WHAT?!

Amy looked at her padlock, and closed her eyes, imagining an old fashioned brass clock, Horolos! she said, her eyes still closed as she imagined the clock she wanted she opened her eyes and- oh, she said, dejectledly as she looked at the plain padlock which had not changed at all, she took an deep breath and tried again, Horolos! she opened her eyes and what the ?, words failed her as she looked at her mangaled padlock, professor, what was the repairing spell again?

Selena blushed when the professor kinda complimented her on her thinking. Selena did what she had to do, or else the girl could've been completely burned and died! So... it was really nothing... right? Selena shook her head clear of the thoughts and used reverto on the watch. She was going to make an amazing pocket watch! She hoped.

Selena closed her eyes to thin up of a pretty pocket watch. Or... maybe she could make a clock! Selena thought of a silver clock, the small ones you put on your bedside tables. She saw the black hands moving. She heard the ticking sound that Selena hated. Selena imagined a black swirly design on the sides of the clock. mm. It looked amazing. Selena imagined it. The sounds, the smooth texture. Selena opened her eyes and did the correct hand movement.

With a flick at the lock, it became the clock in her mind. She wondered if she could keep it...

Giving her wand a flourish, Cadence thought hard, "Reverto!" and the clock/lock went back to being solely her combination lock. Well, at least she could nonverbally untransfigure something now? Trying to picture it clearly in her mind, a silver pocket watch, she gave her wand three tight circles, a small flick, and said, "Horolos!" This time, the combination lock obediently changed into a handsome silver pocket watch with a chain AND function minute and hour hands. Smiling she looked around for the Professor to see what she should do next.

Preston left the small ravenclaw to her own devices, seeing that she had it all well under control.

Preston walked by, tapping the boy's notes. "Re-VER-toe, was last term. This term, re-ver-TOE."

Walking over to address another question, he stood a little concerned that she'd forgotten so quickly. "The spell from earlier in class, Miss Samson. Reverto will change the lock back to its original form."

Preston continued checking on his students, taking note of a particularly elegant looking clock, before moving on, again.

ooc: keep practicing. We'll be working on this spell until at least tomorrow morning, my time. Spread it out. Enjoy

Treyen stood still a couple minutes. Blinking.

How did the class manage to start oh-so-quickly?! And more importantly, WHY didn't he notice?! He was focusing...or so he thought.

But..er..more blinking was to come, because he DIDN'T even took notice of his card being GONE! Yes, GONE! There was no card. But a paper airplane instead! AN AIRPLANE! Oh! This brought back the time when he was talking with Tiberius about planes. Big broomsticks. And Tiberius was now...well...not here. He should try and find out what happened to the boy.

After class was over, of course. There was not going to be an answer in Transfiguration, that's for sure.

Er, never mind. Reverto. Right?

Perhaps he was NOT focused.

He eyed the little paper airplane and took his wand. re-VER-toe. It seemed easy, but Transfiguration had managed to become difficult. So, no warranties this could work on his first try.

Treyen took a deep breath, and "Reverto!" he said, flicking his wand with as much confidence as possible and making sure he'd pronounced the spell right...when...OH MY GILDEROY!

Treyen had dropped his wand in all the excitement, because he was seeing his Ace of Spades card again. He undid the airplane! And there was his card! Oh, he was much too attached to this card now. "Yes!" he said, arms up in the air, this was the first time that a spell had worked in the first try! He was moving up, people! Moving up to become another Gilderoy Lockhart! Oh, how proud he was! And how happy! He was practically jumping up and down...but wasn't.

Okay. Where was his wand now?

Having already reverted her watch back to the normal lock combination thing, Evelyn sat for a moment, trying to think of what the new watch should look like.

Glancing at Destiny for a moment, Evelyn noted the only one try her friend had to do before she got the spell right. Pfft. Her friend's first try compared to her million tries. Looking everywhere else around the room to give her some clue as to what she could do, she finally thought of something, putting a small smile on her face. Mwaha! Surely the he would find it funny...

Closing her eyes, trying to picture the watch in her mind, the Slytherin made the three tight circles and upwards flick while saying, "Horolos."

It wasn't the color she wanted specifically, but it was still good enough. Gold in her mind was just not as good as silver. Anyways though. She got the watch on the first try this time! HA! At least she was focusing this time too and not distracted with her snake bracelet. "Professor. Does that look familiar?" she said, holding up the watch for him to see.

It looked like him right?

Muaha. He managed to get his guess right. Go Jimbo. The Farley wins again. Even more proud of himself now, Jimbo lifted his quill to write down the new notes on the board.

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Originally Posted by Jimbo's Notebook

Horolos - transfigures an object into a time piece.
Wand movement - three tight, clock-wise circles with a flick at the end.
Concentration - picture your new item in detail; note how the lock's properties will need to change.

Putting down his quill, he lifted his wand and tried the wand movement on it's own, making sure he had it right. Pointing his wand at the lock, he pictured it turning into an alarm clock. "Horolos!"

Nothing. Typical. Unsurprised, Jimbo tried again. Tight circle clockwise...one, two, three and FLICKY. "Horolos!"

The lock grew a bell. Huh. He wasn't doing so bad then. That's good. He'll have to undo it though, so he could try again. *sigh*
"Reverto!"
The bell disappeared. Trying again, Jimbo did the wand movement. "Horolos!
And TWO bells. Allllright. So, he'd have to try again.
A couple more tries later (he lost count) he had two bells, the clock hands and the teeny legs at the bottom. Good progress.
Circle, circle, circle, FLICK!
"Horolos!"

Aaaaaaandd CLOCK!

Yay!

But wait. He shouldn't get too excited. There was ALWAYS something wrong. He double and triple checked the clock but it seemed to be fine. Hmm. He turned it on and set it for 5 seconds. After those five seconds, nothing happened. URGH. That WOULD happen, wouldn't it?
So now, instead of there being a sound he can't get rid of, there's a sound he can't GET?

Someone was messing with him. This is completely ridiculous.

Growling, Jimbo turned it back to normal and tried again.
"Horolos!
Set for 5 seconds.
Wait.
Nothing.
Reverto-ness.
"Horolos!
Set for five seconds.
Wait.
Nothing.
Growl again.
"Reverto!
Set for 5 seconds.
Wait.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand nothing.

Obviously getting frustrated, Jimbo tried again. "Reverto! Horolos!
He put down his wand in an angry manner and picked up the clock to set it. He stared at it for five seconds and didn't expect anything to happen, so he wasn't prepared to silence it when it went off.

RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIN NNNNNNNGGGG!

Again, it was Jimbo who was making the noise. Jimbo the Noisemaker. Thing is, he didn't even mean to. BLAH.
Grabbing his wand from his desk, he silenced the thing and kept glaring at it until he realized that he'd done it. Yay!
Suppressing the urge to get up and dance like he did last time he just sat back and grinned.

Vashti smiled at Professor Kingsley when he changed her lock back to its original state. "Thank you, professor," she said before taking a deep, slow breath to help herself concentrate. All right. She. Could. Do. This. Focusss.

One, two, three circles. Flick. "Horolos!"

There was a bit more of a change this time - the numbers had changed again and the center part of the lock had disappeared, replaced by the two hands of a clock. They didn't move, but at least she was getting there! Still had to work on getting rid of the rest of the lock and actually making it look like a clock, though.

At least she could practice Reverto again.

With a flick of her wand, she said, "Reverto!" And...YAY! The clock-like parts had changed back into their original lock-like parts. She getting better at Reverto at least! YAY!

Or it could just be beginner's luck but she tried not to think that negatively.

" "mkay." She returned the smile and turned to her lock, picking it up and pondering on what type of watch she wanted it to be. It took her a moment, but she decided that it would be easier to picture a watch without straps than one with, so she went for a gold pocket watch.

Twirling her wand, she concentrated on the spell before tapping the wand and saying, ""Horo-" Oh...wait. Wrong wand movement. Silly Arya.

Glancing at her notes, she looked at the wand movements and turned back to her lock. Turning her wand in three circles she repeated. "Horolos!"

The lock changed from a silver to a light goldish color. Meh, it was a start.

"Reverto...re-VER-toe, no...re-ver-TOE. That was it." Adelyn thought to herself, trying to remain calm. She wanted this to be easy, but she knew it wasn't going to be. She took a deep breath, as the Professor came around, transfiguring everyone's object. Adelyn barely had time to blink before her silver bangle was transformed before her eyes into a rubberband. "Oh!" She heard herself say quietly once she realized it. "It's okay, Adelyn...it's okay. Just, use the spell. You can change it back. Can't be that hard, right?" She sighed, thinking to herself.

Adelyn studied the rubberband. It was just a common, every day rubberband. What more could she say about it? She pulled out her parchment again, taking note of the new properties.

What is the item: a simple rubberband.
Size: fits around a wrist.
Shape: round?
Texture: smooth.
Color: tan.
Weight: very lightweight.
Defining markings: none that I can see.


Finally, Adelyn was ready to try the spell. She moved her wand in the motion, simply testing it out; a swish from the bottom left to the upper right. Easy enough. She closed her eyes, picturing the way the bangle should be, then opened them to see the rubberband. "I can do this." She thought to herself. Then, she swished her wand, saying: "Reverto!" Adelyn looked down at her desk. It was still a rubberband. "No big deal. You can't get everything on the first try. Just try again." She thought to herself, before swishing her wand again and saying "Reverto!" The rubberband had changed color to silver, and she could faintly make out the engraving. That was better.

Adelyn tried once more, picturing the bangle clearly in her head, not noticing the rest of the class. "Reverto!" She said, clearly and confidently. Looking down at the place where the rubberband once sat, was her bangle. Adelyn smiled to herself, and reached out to touch the smooth silver of her child bangle.



Adelyn felt herself blush a deep shade of scarlet. The class was continuing and she had just finished changing her bangle back! "Oh no...I really hope this Professor doesn't hate me..." She thought, extremely worried, and anxiously scribbled down the notes he had written on the board. "Horolos...hor-eh-los...I think I've got that much." She said to herself, then proceeded to practice the wand movement. Three tight clockwise circles, then a flick. Not so bad. Looking down at the lock, she performed the movement while saying "Horolos!" Nothing. Adelyn sighed, but not to be discouraged, tried again. "Horolos!" This time, the lock changed color; from silver to a light gold. Another try: "Horolos!" Finally, the lock changed into a simple, gold pocket watch; like the one her father had. "Yes!" Adelyn grinned at her success.

Looking down at the pocket watch, Adelyn said "Reverto!" changing it back to the lock. In her mind, she pictured a more complex clock; the one that sat on the mantle back home! It was wooden with a flower design; she could do it. She concentrated hard on what she wanted, then took a breath before saying "Horolos!" In front of her sat the clock from back home. "Awesome." Adelyn smiled, although it was probably just luck.

Carter placed his scarf in his bag and took a lock. He placed it down on the desk on concentrated on a clock. He thought of the numbers and the round shape. "Horolos" he said moving his wand in three circles. The lock then changed into a wall clock. It had twelve numbers and a circle face. But it looked off... he forgot something...

The hands!!

"Reverto." he said. The clock transformed back into the lock. Time to try again.