So they were doing Human Transfiguration, then?

Grayson, who had sat down in his seat once instructed to do so, raised his eyebrows. Sounded interesting, that did. And kinda difficult, too. Using these spells on other things was alright since he knew that it could be changed back if he needed to but on HIMSELF?! That was a different matter. What if he ruined his face? HELLO. This was an important issue!

And........... that gave him an idea for an answer.

Raising his hand in the air, he said, "Human Transfiguration is DIFFICULT," NEWT level stuff, he had heard. "and can go easily wrong so you have to be careful. If you get it wrong really badly, you could end up staying in that transfigured state, which doesn't sound like my idea of fun." Imagine having green eyebrows for the rest of your life?

No. Just no.

Kate listened to the professor, her heart nearly beating out of her chest, and tried to think carefully about the questions that had been asked. This was the professor from the Start-of-Term Feast. Well, they were all at the feast, but this was the one reprimanding the Slytherins. This was the one Kate had decided on day one that she was scared of.

Kate knew she couldn't stay scared of the professor, though. Not this scared, at least. She had to take Transfiguration, and she had to participate in the lessons. That meant she had to talk to the professor at some point. Questions were being asked now, so Kate guessed this was as good of a time as any.

Raising her hand, she said, "There's a former professor named Horace Slughorn who once used human transfiguration to transfigure himself into an armchair just to avoid somebody detecting him." He ended up getting detected, too, she remembered, and that was how he came back to Hogwarts a second time.

FINALLY. They could sit. Lacking her normal energy, Norah slid gratefully into her seat, pulling out her note-taking materials as Professor Bellaire greeted the class. Human Transfiguration. COOL. Of course the fact that it was cool meant she didn't know much about it, 'cause the only cool stuff she knew about were sparkles and plants and little bit about running but none of those things really applied here. UNLESS they were going to transfigure people INTO plants, but then again she didn't know how to do that either, so no. This third year really had no clue.

She considered raising a hand and taking a guess, but even though she was THIRTEEN now, it didn't stop Professor Bellaire from being totally and completely scary. So no again. Norah dipped her quill in ink--purple but not sparkly this time just in case that was against the rules or something in this class-- and busied herself titling her notes with big, curly letters as she listened to the other students give answers.

Wait what.

HUUUMAN TRANSFIGURATION? Duuuuuuuuude. This class was going to be awesome ALREADY. Marigold had done POORLY on this OWL - this and CoMC - and was super sad, but that wasn't going to stop her from taking this class! See! She was smiling! And it totally wasn't strained with clenched teeth or anything!

Oh. Harry Potter era answers, especially from some firstie Ravenclaw. "Wasn't there a Professor Mawdy or Moody or something who transfigured a student into a ferret? That probably couldn't have turned out well." Unless the teacher was SUPER good at transfiguration.

Margo had heard Adi tell her they couldn't sit down... jeepers she had read the rules for the class room, but guess in the confusion of all her lessons lost track of what rules went with what teachers..... Jumping up quickly, but then two seconds later they were allowed to take their seats. Holy Merlin, Margo was going to start cracking from the pressure of it all.

Listening to the Professor and then seeing the question Margo raised her hands to answer. "Professor Minerva McGonagall was an animagi and was able to transfigured herself into a cat." Margo said making sure to answer only one of the questions. She didn't need to be breaking anymore classroom rules today.

Puck was sitting there thinking of the history books she had just read when she glanced up and raised her hand. “Professor, wasn’t one failed human transfiguration cast illegally by then Hogwarts Grounds Keeper, and later Prefect Rubius Hagrid?” She asked as she looked up from her seat.

“The only other ‘famous’ name I can think of is this lady from the 1800s…Mirabella Plunkett who transfigured herself into a haddock so she could live with her merman lover” she offered with a grin. Really.

Fish lady. How’d that go?

Kyroh wiggled around in his seat, his hand on his desk. He wanted to answer one of the questions but he didn't even think his answer would be correct anyways. "Professor...." Hesitating a bit he raised his voice. "I think human transfiguration is like what Toby said. Altering your appearance and stuff. So...if thats the case isn't it like a Polyjuice potion? And if it is then I think Hermione Grange did Human Transfiguration wrong when she tried it." Even if it wasn't potions class the two kind of sounded the same so were they?

He wasn't sure at all.

Pheewwww... he'd dodged a bludger, yep, dodged it.

When Bellaire seemed good and ready, the door closed and they were finally allowed to sit down. Thank Merlin!!! Zeke gladly parked his bottom on his seat, and then copied down what was written on the board.

Human transfiguration?

...

Hand up, Zeke spoke the words on his mind. "There are people that have the ability to change their appearance at will, I think they're called metamorphs? No... metamorphmagi!" Yeah, them, they were cool. "One of the members of the Order of the Phoenix was one," but he couldn't remember her name. He didn't like History, it was hard remembering names and dates and things like that.

oh goodness, this class seemed like it was going to be so hard. Everyone was being so awesome and answering the Professor's questions. Echo really didn't know what was going on so she tried to spell everything as she heard it as she wrote it down on her parchment, looking up to find the speaker every time they spoke.

Cilla sat down when given permission to. After Professor Bellaire asked her question, the young witch thought for a moment and then raised her hand.

"Hermione Granger used Human Transfiguration on Ron Weasley to aid in gaining access to the Lestrange vault."

Janelle had made it to class on time, barely. She made a point to leave super early for class from now on. Professor Bellaire wasted no time getting started. At least they had a number of questions to choose from. That was fortunate because Janelle was very unsure about most of them.

The answer that Janelle had was kind of in between two questions. She raised her hand and tried to sound confident. "Professor Mad Eye Moody.....well the person that was posing as him, used transfiguration to turn a student into a ferret." "He got into trouble for it too", she added. Janelle wasn't sure where she had heard that story, probably from her sister.

Finally they were given the instruction to sit down. Picking a seat Hady slid onto it setting her bag at her feet like usual. Removing her textbook, quill and parchment she set the items on the desk prepared for any note taking she knew would come.

Apparently today's lesson was 'Human Transfiguration'. This seemed like it would be a good lesson. Keeping quiet she took down her notes opting to remain silent right now.

Domino wasn't really sure if the famous person was mentioned or not because she was dazing off but she decided to take a shot.
"Sirius Black used human Transfigiration Miss," She said the first name that came to mind. "When he turned his self into a dog," she added as an after thought.

Transfiguration was on class Brooklyn always got excited about. It was never obvious, aside from her respect for Professor Bellaire, but it was there. Especially given the topic for today’s lesson, and she’d taken parchment out for notes almost as soon as she’d taken her seat. Obviously she hadn’t been about to do anything until they’d been given permission. She remembered the lecture after the opening feast. Whether or not a lot of the other Slytherins felt the need, she wasn’t about to do anything to risk losing points and putting them even further behind the other houses. Instead, she was determined to show everyone what a real Slytherin was.

She hadn’t offered any suggestions as to the question posed, however. As far as she was concerned, she’d sound worse just repeating everyone who mentioned Animagi and stuff like that. Instead, she’d just started taking notes, something she rarely ever really did. Although she’d glanced around the room once to see if the Charms professor was hiding somewhere. It seemed like an obvious choice if they were going to be taking about Animagi. Yet she wasn’t about to risk a guess about that either.

Human transfiguration, now that was interesting. It was a subject she's felt curious towards. There was a lot 'if you don't succeed you'll doom yourself' speculation, and that's most likely why she was curious of it. Maybe she'd actually find time for it this term.

That thought was all too tempting.

After the question was asked and Bellaire clarified, Beverly raised her hand. "Human transfiguration doesn't limit itself to just transfiguring basic body parts, but as well as the entire body; it takes a highly skilled wizard to accomplish that. As far as for body-part transfiguration goes, it can vary from simply changing the color of your eyes or hair, to individual animal body parts."

Hugh was hardly paying any attention. Not because he was TRYING to project a poor image of himself or upset anyone (he wasn't that complex of a person to even think that far) he just was too consumed by his own thoughts. Today it was Hume.

He was into political philosophy as of late. The implication of politics as a device in society in general, actually.

A purely human occurrence.

So when class started THAT was where his mind was...and he only swung out of those thoughts when he heard other people answering.

HUMAN TRANSFIGURATION?

Cool.

He had no comment.

He was very quiet as always in Bellaire's presence, on account of her being sort of scary. Normally, Dima would have stayed quiet until the activity started because he was so terrified of her, but something in the last question... cat... not wanting to tell people about..... Quigley..... Quigley?

Oh, man. That's... that's wha...???

"The Charms professor is a failed animagus?"

His hand was half raised, and the statement was almost more to himself than in response to Bellaire. Failed... failed animagus?

Why was she telling them this? Did... did Quigley want them to know? He hadn't wanted Dima to know, that was for sure.

Well yes there was that and to be honest as laws were as lax as they were back then Hogwarts would be infested with woodlice. Yep.

"Very good Mr.Rehman. You're obviously reading. 3 points."

"Very good. That is an example of what we're going to do today. Transfiguring ourselves. Though...not into sea creatures...not yet. 3 points."

"Well she was quite a woman. There is nothing like helping a person to show their true form." Most men were pigs..everyone knew that. The woman had the right idea. "3 points."

Sophia tapped her nose repeatedly as she thought about the boy's answer. "Yes and no. Lockhart was an idiot. He did end up performing a form of transfiguration but it was vanishing. One doesn't exactly transfigure a broken bone or any sort of illness into something else. Healing is a completely different chess match all together. 2 points."

Sophia fought the smile that was curling unto her lips. She did shake her head at the boy but there was a hint of smile as she did so.

"Not the answer I was looking for Mr. Barrington."

"That is correct Miss Valentine. Pettigrew used as form of human transfiguration called animagus transformation. Which as you will learn later on does not require a wand once you have mastered the art of it."

"Ah yes! 3 points." If that had happened to her, perhaps she would have turned Rhea, Tyler and Ariana into hedgehogs as well.


Oh yes McGonagall was her idol. All time favourite professor in the history of professors...almost. "The transfiguration professor was an animagus and was probably the most skilled of her time. 3 points."

"You are right on all counts Mr. Tempus. But let me just clarify that being a metamorphmagus does qualify as human transformation. You are transfiguring your body from one form to the next. The metamorphmagus would just have an advantage because it comes naturally and they unlike the rest of us, won't have to spend months or years learning to do it. 5 points."

Sophia smirked.

Well it seemed her students weren't as air headed as she thought. Kevin surely surprised her if no one else did.

But they were right. It was the new Charms professor. She wouldn't debate on that though. Hehe

"10 points to you both."

"That is correct. 3 points." Sophia felt like she needed to go through this every single class because for whatever reason, people were still mixing up the two.

"Basically you just described charms."

"Correct. transfiguring the human body into something other than it's natural form. 3 points"

"Canary creams...." More nose tapping. "Well yes, they do aid in transfiguration but they would fall more into the potions field. 3 points" No expertise or naturally ability or any ability by the person being transfigured was used, after all.

"That is correct Mr.Whitlock. And if you become distracted or mess up. You best believe you will be left in that state to learn your lesson."

"That is correct. That was fine human transfiguration. 3 points."


"A Professor Moody Miss McAlistor and yes he did. I wish we could use that as punishment today." She sighed. "3 points."



"That is correct. And ladies..." She tsked. "Never change yourself for a man. 3 points."


"Like I said to Miss Banner. Yes...and no..human transfiguration in the sense that you are using natural abilities or a wand to transfigure the human body, even though potions such as polyjuice and skelegrow are used to 'transfigure.'"

"And your home work will be to bring me the name of that person Mr. Rogers. But yes..3 points."

"That is correct Miss Ashcroft. 3 points."


"That is correct. Sirius Black was an unregistered animagus. 3 points."

"And that is also correct." And she expounded lovely so.."Five points."

Sophia Bellaire almost grinned in unbridled glee, but alas she forced a neutral expression on her face. "Well let's just say...he's had to live with his lapse." So the rest of them better not mess up.

"Alright so now that we are a bit clearer we will move forward with our lesson." She turned to the board to scribble some other things down.

"First to fifth years will be changing the colour of their eyebrows, using this transfiguration spell, "capillus colorum"while the 6th and 7th years will be changing their ears to elf like ears using this spell auribus aquta. These are the simplest forms of human transfiguration we can do without actually using potions or canary creams. Both require a simple tap of the wand to the areas." That was simple enough right?

"The mirrors are to be used to monitor your progress."

She looke at them all. "Questions?"

Three points, AJ had just scored her house three whole points and from Bellaire of all people. Her spirits went up a tiny bit despite of everything else being wrong in her personal life at the moment.

They were going to do what? Excitement was happening. It sounded super difficult but fun if she could manage to do it. The older kids got to do a more fun form of transfiguration and that was a bummer, but you weren't going to hear any complaints from her. No sir, she didn't want to lose those points she had just earned.

Questions? She should probably ask some, but she was just so excited to get to the activity that she kept her mouth closed and hoped everybody else would follow suit.

Ten points. TEN POINTS GIVEN for making fun of Professor Quigley. Who was this woman and why was she so awesome now?!

Kevin's grin did not fade away, in fact it became larger when he heard the earned points and he wondered if something had happened between her and CatMan. Actually, that was a good question.

"I have two questions!" he said , this time not raising his hand because why? "You gave me and her" he waved vaguely to the other girl who had mentioned Professor Quigley. "the most points. Do you have something against him? and if yes , what?" BECAUSE HE COULD SO USE IT AGAINST HIM ONE DAY! Yeah yeah , he knew that the man was also trying to help him with his behaviour but just in case things got wrong and he needed blackmail information.

"Also, can that spell be used to change eye colors?" Because having normal looking eyes and not one lighter brown than the other would be fantastic.

He would start with transfiguration his eyebrows in a bit.

...Was Professor Bellaire calling men pigs? Lux didn't agree with her there, but hey 3 points was pretty awesome!

Listening to her fellow classmates give replies, she made sure to take note of as many things as possible in case it came up during the exam. So far the topic wasn't proving to be as hard as she originally thought.

Oooh, she got to change the colour of her eyebrows. That was really cool! Since she didn't have any questions, Lux remained silent.

Ahh, so they wouldn't be practicing this form of Transfiguartion on a friend as yet? How disappointing. But then again, they had to start at the basics so one step at a time! Changing their eyebrow colour was cool.

Adi made a note of both incantations and wand movement in his book, listening to Kevin's questions with interest... particularly the first one.

As for questions, he had none. Just one eager Puff ready to get started here.

Oh hey, five points. That made Toby smile, mainly because it had just been the kind of 'speak and hope' response he was so used to giving. There were a lot of points being covered right now, and Toby tried his best to get them all written down. He was still writing when Professor Bellaire explained what they'd be doing in the lesson, and made sure to jot down both spells, even though he'd be doing the ear thing. Maybe he'd try turning his eyebrows pink in his own time.

Aaaaand nope, no questions, just lots of writing. Though something did finally register as he looked back over his notes and properly processed the part about Quigley. Wait, what? Had Dima said something about him being a failed animagus? And Bellaire said... something about a 'lapse'. Whatever it was sounded like something that wasn't Toby's business, though, so he tried his best to quell his curiosity.

Okay, anyway, yeah. No questions. Ready to go.

BLASPHEMY. That'w what this was. Or some other word that meant cruel. Did Blasphemy mean cruel? Maybe he could ask a Ravenclaw. But okay still. How come Zander was always grouped with the younger kids? Didn't graduating from fourth year meant that now you were counted as one of the older more capable ones? Okay, granted he wasn't actually very good at Transfiguration. Not bad, but not good. BUT STILL. He had waited his whole life for the moment when Bellaire would let him do the older kid stuff and now he was right back at square one. Blasphemy.

Sigh sigh siiiiiigh.

Okay no he didnt' have any questions because the task was pretty straight forward, but he was particularly interested in Kevin's question. Not that he really cared to say much about the Charms Professor, but where Kevin was involved Zander was too. Like seriously, flesh eating slugs?!!? Was that necessary, Quigley!? WAS IT REALLY!?

And if Bellaire had some information that could be used to help Kevin get a leg up..... Then he was all ears. Not that he'd do anything with the information himself. Prefect. Also he needed to stay on the good side. For OWLs and things.

For once, Benny had actually done or answered something well in Bellaire's presence. That was a bonus on top of the three points she gave him, the fact that he felt good about his answer. Listening as what each year was given as their future activity, he had to admit he was mildly disappointed. eyebrows seemed so...little...to do. Especially in comparison to the elf ears transfiguration that had been given the sixth and seventh years.

Seems he still wasn't considered an upperclassman in this lesson at least. Oh well.

Any questions? Nope he couldn't think of anything at the moment. And he certainly wasn't going to follow up the one already given about Professor Maddox. That was likely to get ruffled feathers out of the woman.