Left to right, left to right. Tora wanted to make sure that she got it right on the first try. Ok now to review the spell! She carefully placed her wand down so as to not make any accidental magic and said clearly, "Lepus Caput". Now all she had to do was transform the rabbit. The hard part.

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Since the rabbit was not given a name, he decided that it should be Rabbit. He was a rather dull rabbit who could not think and move at the same time, so he had remained very still when one of the Large Creatures came to pick him up. Now he was done thinking about his name. Now he could move.

Apparently the rabbit had other plans. Jumping out off her desk it started full speed for the door! Tora grabbed her wand and was just bout to say the petrifying spell when that silly rabbit san in between desks. That was just no fun, now was it. She couldn't use the spell because she might hit a student, and she honestly didn't think Professor Bellaire would appreciate that. Nor would any of the students hit for that matter.

She casually stood, trying not to be too conspicuous and wandered towards the desks the rabbit was hiding behind. She "dropped" her pencil so she could bend down and look under the desks for the rabbit without suspicion. There! "Petrificus Totalus!" the rabbit moved two seconds before the spell hit him. Billywig rot!

By some stroke of luck, or due to the fact that this rabbit was stupid, he came running right towards her anyway. "Petrificus Totalus" she whispered and the rabbit froze. She reached under the desk ("Sorry, excuse me, just lost my rabbit," she said to the student sitting there) and pulled out the troublemaker by the heel. Plopping it back onto her desk she readied her wand. She was going to get this spell!

Annabeth looked at the rabbit. It was so beautiful and fluffy. While Professor Bellaire had told them the spell wouldn't do it any harm, she wasnt' sure and wouldn't want to see the rabbit screaming or bleeding, or turned to a half hat half pet. The odd image of a half hat half rabbit - a hat with big ears and big feet jumping around - popped in her mind and upset her stomach. She placed her wand on the table and made the movement like an upside down U several times with her empty hand, pointing to the rabbit with her forefinger as if it were her own wand. She wanted to practice before hurting the rabbit.

It was time to start. "Hey there, little bunny. This isn't going to hurt. Professor Bellaire promised." Asher placed his hopping little friend on the table in front of him and pulled out his wand. But, before he had time to preform the spell, the bunny hopped across the table, onto a chair, then down to the floor.

Quickly going after the furry creature, Asher grabbed it and headed back to his seat. For his next attempt, he was smart in keeping one hand on the bunny until he was ready to preform the spell.

"Lepus Caput!" he commanded while making a rainbow shaped gesture with is wand. Nothing. "Lepus Caput!" he commanded again. Nothing. Asher picked up the bunny and placed it in his lap so he could look over his notes again.

That was quite interesting. To transfigure a bunny into a hat, though she did feel rather guilty having to use the cute lil thing. Although, Professor Bellair did say that they wouldn't feel or be harmed. Why couldn't they use it on owls?! Cassia'd gladly give her owl up for the cause. Anyone was welcome to transfigure it into anything. Shoes if they wished. And thinking of that, she made a mental note to ask about what an owl could be transfigured into. It'd be very convenient to just forget to turn it back. Yes, totally.

Right now she had a bunny to turn into a hat, though.

So far, the fury white creature was being a good boy, because he didn't squirm much. He moved alright but at least he remained in her lap. And yes she decided he was a boy and no she wasn't giving him a name. No need to get attached to a hat. In fact, no need to get attached to anything, yeah? Always better that way.

"Lep-us.. Ca-put." She said drawing the words out carefully. Had she been transfiguring any object she would have gone right ahead and tried. But there was a living being involved so she was going to practice a bit. She didn't want anything to go wrong. She grabbed a quill and waved it in the air drawing an arch, left to right. Not that complicated. Still, a bit of practice hurt no one.

"Lepus Caput... Lepus Caput.... Leh-pus Cah-put..." Kat continued to say the incantation under her breath, even trying to break the words down into syllables to make it easier to pronounce. Although saying 'Lepus Caput' sounded funny in a way. Kat didn't know why it was funny, but that was just her. Or maybe someone else found it funny too. Lepus Caput. HEHEHE. Merlin, that sounded so immature of her. Okay, she'd stop now. She had a rabbit to transfigure into an angora hat.

And a bit of practice with the upside down U hand movement as well. Looked like an arch and it wasn't too hard to practice. She'd try them all together later but for now, Kat was making sure that her rabbit didn't go insane. Yeah, she was stroking its fur and petting it, It was tame for now, but if it started getting crazy later she'd have to use Petrificus Totalus on it. Sighs.

Adi's rabbit looked like a... rabbit. Still. It had not changed so much as the fur colour. Meh. He knew concentration was extremely important, having found that out in Charms lesson. If he wanted to do this right, he'd have to focus on a top hat in his mind.

So, the little badger did just that. He imagined a black top hat. Right. Time to try this again! ''Lepus Caput!'' He followed this up with the correct wand movement while concentrating hard on the picture in his mind.

Looooook! The rabbit was transforming! The rim of the hat formed and slowly, the middle was forming as well! The hat was rising...rising...but hold up! Something was wrong! The hat still had the rabbit's ears sticking out on each side! "Oh man! That looks so cool!'' Maybe he could start the fashion trend of top hats with rabbit ears? Haha. Like that would work out. He needed to get this rabbit top hat back to a rabbit.

It took Adi a moment to realise that he did not know how to do that. Uummm. "Err, can someone help me get this back to a rabbit, please?'' he asked, looking around hopefully.

Ella was feeling completely conflicted about this. Like...Professor Bellaire had said that the rabbit wouldn't be feeling any pain or anything but she wasn't the one being made into a hat, yeah? And what would a Bellaire hat look like anyway? Probably all neat and sharp and stylish. Probably uncomfortable too. And then here was this adorable rabbit hopping around her desk with those little eyes and a little twitchy nose and Ella had made a HUGE mistake because she'd already named the thing in her head. Benji, she'd call him Benji. Only you weren't supposed to name things you were going to wear on your head and UGH. This was not her favorite Transfiguration lesson. And eyes for the best friend because WHEREHAVEYOUBEEN,WOMAN? Long lost bestie was getting brows.

Shaking her head as if to clear all these thoughts from her mind, the badger bit her lip and eyed the rabbit sadly. The blonde reached out and gently stroked him between the ears, those soft adorable ears. Wibble. She was so sorry about this, y'know? So sorry. "Petrificus Totalus." Chin!wobble. Maybe...if it wasn't moving, it wouldn't be as hard to turn it into a hat. ...Maybe. Poor Benji.

This was archaic, yeah?

She did know that, even though she had legs that went on for days, it didn't mean that she didn't look any less crazy flopping the rabbit around like she was right now. Sure, did Ascanius like rabbits all that much? Nah. But on the same token they hadn't really done much to him as well. S'like they existed in the same world, but didn't really hang out much. If that made a lick of sense.

And he also thought that was the ugliest hat he had ever seen. S'not a good look. Not even on Professor Bellaire who was good looking. Smiiiirk.

He didn't argue, though, as he collected a dude rabbit and brought him back to his sitting area. Sup rabbit. Sorry about making you a hat and all, yeah?

Drawing his wand out, he kept the rabbit cradled in his arms as he practiced the spell aloud, "Lepus Caput. Lepus Caput. Leh-pus Cah-poot."

Cool, that'd do. Kind of casually he pointed his wand at the thing and uttered, "Petrificus Totalus" Freeze up, little man. You don't wanna be moving for this next part.

... Oh! So the rabbits weren't going to be hurt, then? That was probably a really great thing because the idea of hurting these creatures didn't sit well with the Hufflepuff. What would his Dad say if he went home and told him this? The guy would be FURIOUS. Just like he had been when Alec had told him about the dementors and the ice cream incident from last year.

... Yeah... there was no need to think on that.

He scratched behind the rabbit's ears for a moment or two before setting it down on the table. He took out his wand and then... frowned. Leh-pus Cah-put. And upside down U. And... it wan't going to hurt the rabbit. Not at all. Although, the sight of someone pointing a wand at you was probably going to be scary enough on its own. So... he sent mental vibes to the rabbit. It probably wasn't going to work but you never know, right? Yeah?

... What was he doing?!

The Hufflepuff shook his head and set his wand down. First... the incantation. "Leh-pus... Cah-put..." That wasn't too hard to say. "Leh-pus... Leh-pus... Leh-pus... Cah-put... Cah-put... Cah-put..." Not hard at all. "Lepus... Caput... Lepus Caput... Lepus Caput!" There. That was good enough, right?

Now came the fun part of the class. Lex took a glance around at all the buny activist in the room. Merlin, they worried too much. The Professor said the rabbits would be fiiine and if they were so worried the rabbit would die a hat, why not just change it back? This was all practice. The Professor didn't say they'd have to keep it that way forever.

Alexa looked down at her rabbit. Going against her better judgement she'd decided to name him Mr. Snuggles. There were only so many creatures you could give a terrifying name to. Her and Cassia's spider could have a vicious name, but this little nose twitcher? Not so much? He could be a plush toy. Maybe she should have asked Cassia to name him for her. It would be of no consequence this time.

"Alright, what'd you say we get this over with?" She asked, grinning brightly at the furry little thing. The nose twitch it gave in response was good enough for her.

"Lepus Caput!" No petrifying first...he was a well behaved bunny--oooh and a pretty hat too! Ahem, but still a bunny and she would change him back. Mhm. But first...

Wasn't that the little firstie who'd tried bribing her with candy? She watched him for a moment, seeing what he might have needed help with. His rabbit was a hat. It was meant to do that, yeah? He said back...he wanted it a rabbit again then? Alright then. Lex gave a little pat to her bunny!hat before walking over to his desk.

"If you want to reverse it you just have to use reverto. Here, lemme show you, then the next time you make him a hat you can practice changing him back on your own, okay?" She asked patiently before raising her wand. "First is the wand movement." And she showed this to him a few times--slowly--so he could see how simple it was. "Then...reverto!" And just like that the hat went contorting again until it was a twitchy bunny.

"You think you got that?" Reverto was one of her first learned spells, but only because she kept messing up and needed to redo things back in her first year.

Benji just look so...still. Ella bit her lip and eyed him sadly, wondering if Sir Treyen would never speak to her again because of this. He'd probably never let her hold Luna or visit his bunnies and all of this was weighing heavily, y'know? Why did it have to be rabbits?

Decided she had to do something productive, the blonde looked away from the rabbit and practiced the incantation a few more times. She started off quietly at first, her voice raising only when she was confident she had it down.

"Lepus Caput...Lepus Caput...Lepus Caput...Lepus Caput!"

Okay, so Adrienne probably shouldn't turn anyone into a hat. But still, the fact that she could, if she wanted to, was pretty empowering. Look at all of these petty humans! Look at how easy it is to make them into stylish, skin-covered accessories!

...yeah, she needed to get her thoughts back to class, and especially the rabbit that was squirming around in her hands. She let go of it with just one hand to grab her wand, but to her surprise it gave a particularly fierce wriggle and managed to hop its way onto the desk in front of her. "Petrificus Totalus!" she said quickly, and its front legs locked, its muscles tensed up, and it froze in place; the only thing moving was its small black eyes, which were creeping her out a bit anyway.

"Lepus Caput," Adrienne muttered under her breath and, confident that she could say it correctly, she did the wand movement once too. There, that was fairly simple. "Lepus Caput!" she said again, this time at the same time as she waved her wand at the stock-still rabbit, and... well, it sort of worked. Its facial features seemed to be gone, and its legs, and it was certainly much more round than it used to be, but a pair of ears and a fluffy white tail were still very obviously here. Humph.

As the professor talked, Adelaide looked down at the adorable little bunny in her arms. It had finally stopped fighting against her which was good. She still didn't like the idea of petrifying it or turning it into a hat. Even if Bellaire said it would be all right. Didn't need to have the guilt of hurting an innocent animal with her all day.

"Lepus Caput. Lepus Caput." She mumbled the spell under her breath a couple of times, making sure the pronunciation was right before she even attempted it on the little rabbit.

So practice time. Adelaide pet the little rabbit before setting it on her table. Surprisingly it didn't hop away, it just sat there. Looking at her trying to figure out why she'd stopped holding it. She pulled out her wand and pointed it at the rabbit. "I promise not to hurt you." She whispered to it as she got ready to practice the spell.

"Lepus Caput." She did the proper wand movement and everything, but the little rabbit was too smart for her. It started to hop away the second she started talking. "Petrificus totalus!" The spell hit the rabbit and it froze mid hop.

Adelaide felt horrible. But the professor said it was okay. And she needed the rabbit to be able to finish the lesson. She grabbed the petrified rabbit and sat it in front of her. She frowned and readied herself to do the spell again. "Lepus caput." The rabbit changed into a very pretty hat. She gave a slight smile, still feeling a bit guilty. Even if it was safe.

First thing Nigel had to remember was no more yawning while entering class. Second was he was thinking he would have to freeze or paralyze his rabbit before trying this spell. Dang, cat won't stop wandering his desk. Third, was remembering the name of the spell. Caput and something with a L. Lepus was it. Lepus Caput. "Lepus Caput Lepus Caput"

Now onto freezing Ser Pounce-a-lot. Sure why not name a rabbit after a cat. Plus Nigel liked the name. "Petrificus Totalus"

There now Nigel can transfigure Ser Pounce-a-lot peacefully.

He CLEARLY made a mistake while choosing the rabbit. This one was something similar to the Mad Hare in the muggle story book "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland". If he didn't catch it earlier, the bloody furry thing would've ran all around the class!

Angeal was struggling with his hold on the rabbit as he tried to perform the spell on it. There was one other way... "Petrificus Totalus!" The rabbit stopped moving, froze into statue-like being and he put it on his table. He made the wand movement the teacher demonstrated earlier, took a deep breath and muttered "Lepus Caput!"

The hat looked decent enough. Angeal picked it up to take a closer look, then threw it back onto the table, startled. "Good Merlin!" exclaimed the first year, pointing at the hat. The hat looked pretty normal except for the un-transfigured, moving rabbit ear.

Okay, so she was ready to roll now? Hmm...

Sophie glanced down at her rabbit, suddenly a little unsure of her ability to successfully cast this spell. She'd just seen one demonstration and...well, she didn't think that'd be enough. A whole rabbit was at stake here!

Just as that thought left her mind, a nearby rabbit pounced across a desk, and her own rabbit responded by jumping a few feet high and then landing on the next desk. Sophie grew wide-eyed and reached for her rabbit, but the animal was on the run now. "Err, what's that spell again? The one to stop it?" she asked no one in particular.

Petrifi... Total... Err.

Deep breath. Concentrate. "Lepus Caput" she said clearly, moving her wand in the rainbow shape from left to right. Since the rabbit was petrified, she was unsure if she had actually managed to transfigure it into a hat. Otherwise the rabbit would have stopped squeaking, and she would have known if she succeeded without the daunting task of actually looking at her hat creation.

She peeked open one eye and saw a white blur. She squeezed her eyes shut again. What if it hadn't transformed at all? No, that was ridiculous. Her transfiguration spells always worked to some degree. She opened her eyes a little bit wider this time to see what had actually become of the troublesome rabbit. Well. It was certainly a hat. There was no doubt that what was now sitting on her desk was a hat, albeit a rabbit colored, furry hat. Hey, at least there were no ears! Still, she would have to try again. She didn't get it right the first time. She placed the hat to one side, disappointed, before standing up to get another bunny.

This time she would do it right!

"Petrificus Totalus," Adrienne said to the first year, but not until after she'd watched her struggle with the rabbit for a few moments. It was always good to see someone other than her having trouble with dumb things. Heh. Eheh.

Right! She refocused on her own problem, which was this rabbit's refusal to actually become a hat. It stubbornly insisted on having ears. "Lepus Caput," she said again, firmly, concentrating on hats. Hat-hat-hat-hat-hat- okay, nothing was changing. Adrienne squinted closely at it. Perhaps... one of its ears was shorter now? By a little bit? She tried again, this time thinking about the wand movement, trying to make it a perfect upside-down U. To her satisfaction, the tail did a sort of wiggle and then simply became a lighter spot on the almost-hat she had there. It wasn't perfect, but it was an improvement.

Forrest was fairly sure he got the spell alright, so he grabbed Robbie again. He looked around for a moment to watch people, because he still didn't want to do this. But it was Professor Bellaire--currently, she wasn't bella at all FYI--and he wanted to help Hufflepuff win the cup again so... Robbie was to be sacrificed only for a while. As soon as his hat was graded, Forrest would return him back to his bouncy rabbit self.

He took a deep breath, readied his wand, and aimed at Robbie's little tail. He figured if he miscast the spell, the least useful part was his tail. He took another deep breath, drew his wand from left-to-right in an arch as was shown by the professor, and was saying in the process "Lepus Caput."

Did it work?

Oh! It was the girl that loved candy! Adi grinned gratefully at her and watched carefully as she demonstrated. Reverto. That was easy! He'd remember it. Look at that! His rabbit was back to itself again! "Thanks a lot!'' Adi said. "I think I've got it now.'' He had to remember to give this girl some chocolate frogs some time.

Just then he heard that voice. Sophie Newell's. The spell to stop the bunny? Adi glanced over to her. "It's Petrificus totalus,'' he said.

Okay. Back to work. The eleven year old grabbed his rabbit. Why did it keep trying to escape? "Lepus Caput!'' he said clearly as he did the wand movement. Concentraaaaate!

It didn't work. But it didn't go horribly off, either. Just, nothing happened. Forrest was glad, actually, because burning Robbie would be such a trauma.

Anyways, back to the task at hand.

He took another deep breath, watched people again, and turned his gaze back at Robbie. He leaned forward to whisper into his ear.

"Don't worry buddy, I won't mess it up."

He was awfully determined too. He took another deep breath and did the wand movement while speaking the words. He aimed at his stomach this time. He waited.

And waited.

And waited...

...and it worked. There stood, now, a perfect black angora hat.

Grin.

Minerva just sat there waiting to start her rabbit hat. This didn't seem to hard, the hardest part seemed to be getting the rabbit to sit still, which she didn't want to petrify the poor thing if she didn't have to even if it wouldn't hurt. When Bellaire gave them the go ahead Minerva looked down at her rabbit. "This won't hurt I promise. It will just tickle, maybe?" She could hope it would at least.

Setting the rabbit all her desk she didn't get her hands off when hop.. hop.. hip-pity hop. The rabbit was gone off the desk to the floor. Okay so this wasn't going to be as easy as she thought it would be. Reaching down and grabbing the rabbit she put it back on her desk. "Now Mr. or Mrs. Rabbit." She wasn't sure really which, but that didn't matter now did it.


Pulling her wand Minerva let go of the rabbit just to do the movement quickly "Lepus Caput" She thought she had gotten it, but the bunny took off the desk again. Gosh darn it this thing was fast. Getting up she went after the escaped rabbit.

There was really nothing else to do but try out the spell and Ella's heart just really wasn't in it. Unfortunately, she'd already paralyzed Benji so she really couldn't pretend he hopped away or something. Maybe...she could just hide him in her bag until later? But then he might get jostled around and that wouldn't be good either. Frown. She'd need to just get this over with. Yeah.

Eyeing the little guy sadly, the blonde did her best to imagine the hat that she was going to create. Concentration was key and she didn't want to have to do this more than once if she could help it. When she had a clear picture in her mind, she got her wand and focused on getting the spell correct.

Drawing the upside-down U shape, the blonde said clearly, "Lepus Caput!"

Alright so the bunnies won't be harmed. He felt better knowing that. At least he wasn't the only one concerned for his health. But it seemed the professor was annoyed answering the question but Kace had to know! Once he got his bunny, he was petting him. He seemed adorable...or it could be a she....Kace had no idea. But he wanted to name him. I guess he could name him...Hopper! Yup!

The bunny was wiggling his nose and twitching his ears. "Aww it is okay." he said sweetly and patted his ears gently and scratched his ears and his foot was tapping. He liked it. He had bunnies like this on the farm back home, so he knew their likes. Alright time for spell practice!

He was gonna practiced saying the spell first. He heard the professor say the spell and copied it down. Lepus Caput it was. Hmm..interesting spell. He kept saying it though. "Lepus Caput....Lepus Caput....Lepus Caput....Lepus Caput....Lepus Caput....Lepus Caput....Lepus Caput...." he said for a couple times.

Then it was time to petrify this rabbit. He didn't want any chances. Plus he was bouncing around on his desk. He even bounced right onto his lap. He smiled and rubbed his belly.

Gentle pets* It sure was a soft bunny.. warm bunny.. fuzzy little bunny.. His lips curved into a smile as he thought of that lullaby Minnie Mouse sang to him a lot. Maybe he could do the same to this one. This little one. Yes.. He cleared his throat before still petting and softly singing, "Hush little bunny, don't hop the desk.. Wadey's going to turn you into a nice fluffy hat.. And if that fluffy hat does not hop.. Then Wadey will never have to do this to you again."

Ehh, the lyrics could do some tweaking, but it make Fuzzy the bunny stop moving. Heh. Wade aimed his wand at Fuzzy the bunny, from the left to right drawing the upside down 'U' shape before saying clearly, "Lepus Caput." Fuzzy the bunny was being very good in behaving and not moving while he watched it transfigure into a nice hat.