Woaaahh getting three points? He could take that! It was better than having no points at all. Plus he did admire Professor Mcgonagall back in the day. She was an awesome witch. Anyways onto the lesson. He heard he was gonna change his ears to elf like ears? Ermm....he didn't know how he felt about this. He didn't want himself to have elf ears. He'd rather change his eyebrows to a different color. He knew he needed to challenge himself. He heard the wand movement was a simple tap and he got that down.

Any questions? Nah the professor explained it pretty well. He stayed silent till the activity was about to start.

Okay so canary creams were an ingredient-based transfiguration not a spell-based one, but there were transfiguring foods that were from spells, and now that Ruby had a better grasp on what was being discussed, and Bellaire had responded to her, she was determined to prove that she actuall knew a thing or two.

Especially since Bellaire had apparently found someone new to bully, this Quigley professor.

Elf ears? That was good, she'd look cuter with elf ears than differently coloured eyebrows. No sweat with that one. Auribus Aquta. She repeated quietly. And a wand tap. Great. Manageable for sure. Thankfully Bellaire had said the instructions out loud, and hadn't just put them on the board. She was also wondering what was fundamentally different about changing your eyebrow colour with a transfiguration spell compared to a charm. Was it like... the charm was more like hair dye? Only surface? While the transfiguration changed the natural hair colour? Probably it was that. That made sense to her.

But she put her hand up to do with what she'd said before.

"Professor, which kind of human-transfiguration through ingesting food is more effective? ingredient-based like canary creams, or spell-based like... snafius danium or something similar to that? They're both temporary, and they're both human to animal, and they're both from eating the food, sooo... is there one that's better than the other or is it more like... preference?"

Heh. Ten points. Professor Bellaire must have something against professor cat, or so it seemed at least. Hayden hadn't even made fun of him she had just hinted that she agreed with the transfiguration and she got the most points of anyone else. Her and that Kevin kid. She actually quite liked professor cat but she was perfectly happy to pretend she didn't. For the sake of points. That didn't seem very Hufflepuff-like, but Hayden didn't care.

Okay, moving on. Hayden wished she could turn her ears into elf ears, but that spell was too advanced. She didn't understand why some magic was harder to perform than others, but she decided not to ask. She could figure it out herself, yes she could. For now, she was just going to do what professor Bellaire told her and not ask questions. Well, that wasn't quite true. She couldn't stop herself from raising her hand to ask a question.

"Professor, can this spell only be used to change the color of our eyebrows? Not any other part of the body?" It was similar to the question that Kevin boy asked, so she also made sure to pay attention to Bellaire's answer to his question.

Janelle took notes as the class discussed the Professor's questions. She scribbled down the important information on her parchment while still trying to be attentive. There was so much to learn and she felt like she didn't know anything. Would there come a time when she would know as much as her classmates?

Professor Bellaire wished that transfiguration could be used on students as punishment? Yikes! Janelle took a moment to ponder that comment. When the Professor asked for questions, she remained silent. Questions? She probably had a million of them, but none she wanted to ask right now. So she just waited for the next question or activity to be presented.

She did not say he was wrong. Just not the answer she was looking for. Good enough for Dante.

Moving On.

So Dante had to make his eyebrows a different color. Well alright. At least he as not changing his ears into elf ears. Though that does sounds more awesome, thinking about it. Still it was fine with Dante. Since there was not fancy wand movement. Some of those were complicated. And the mystery of the mirrors was revealed. They were not there for people to look at their hair.

Nope.

No Questions from Dante. He was as ready as one can be to change their eyebrow color.

He had homework... Merlin. But OKAYYYY...

Zeke quickly scribbled that stuff down in the margin of his page, for later. Stupid History and having to remember things. Booooo.

Nevertheless, he continued to listed, and liked what he heard. He even raised a hand to his eyebrow for a moment, contemplating what he might look like with a different colour there... he was willing to bed his galleons that it'd look alien.

When there was a call for questions, he was stumped. Usually he had a hundred and one questions, but right now... he couldn't think of any. Instead, Zeke just sat and listened to he other questions being asked, ready to write down anything useful. The whole points thing she was giving out did seem a touch unfair, but he wouldn't say anything out loud.

Domino was happy. She got the three points back that she lost in Professor Madox's office. Questions...Nope, no questions that she could think of.

Three points! AWESOME! Why was that so awesome?! Those were Kate's very first points to earn since becoming a Hogwarts student. Those were some special points right there. Also, they were awarded to her from the professor she was most scared of. Kate still hadn't talked to the woman other than answering her questions, and she wasn't really sure if she wanted to. Something told her you could all too easily get this woman angry at you.

Questions? She didn't have any, but Ruby did. Kate remembered her name from working with Gabe in Arithmancy. She had nooooo clue what Ruby was talking about, though. She guessed it was some advanced type of discussion only an older student would be able to have. So instead of saying anything at all, Kate just listened and waited for the word go.

Yes and no? But if he wasn't right, that meant he was wrong. Kyroh shifted in his seat abit the detention with Catman popping back into his thoughts. Eyebrow colour change? Huh.

Kyroh wiggled his eyebrows as the instructions ran through his mind. It all sounded pretty dangerous to him. It didn't seem SMART to aim your wand right at your EYES. Hesitantly the third year raised his hand. "Professor what if I miss my eyebrows?" And it got to another place like uh, 3 centimetres or so below?

Norah shook out her hand as it started to cramp from all the note taking that was going on over here. Purple ink or not, her fingers were probably about to fall off or something by the time Professor Bellaire was done replying to the students. PHEW. But what did she have against Professor Cat Man? Sure, he gave a bazillion people detention 'n all that, but he was a CAT. Cats were hard to hate, 'specially when they got all snuggly.

EYEBROWS? Whaaaaaaaat no way! The Hufflepuff sat on her hands to warm them up for all the COOL magic she'd soon be failing at doing. Eyeing herself in the mirror, Norah arched one eyebrow, then both, and wiggled them up and down again, wondering which color would suit her best. Was glittery a color? Raising a hand in the air, she waited to be called on before asking, "Do you get to pick which color you turn them?" She thought she'd look funny with blue eyebrows, but eyebrows were weird in themselves so what did she know. What was the POINT of eyebrows anyway? Her eyes already had eyelashes, she didn't see why they needed headscarves made of hair up there.

Earth to Hughbert? Hello. Are you paying any attentio-

OH THERE YOU ARE. Hi.

He was obviously lost in thought about some greater philosophical thing, yo. Duh. Pardon him.

He did happen to catch the end of what the professor said. Namely the part about transforming his ears into elf-looking things. Pointy. For no real reason other than aesthetic.

Rather pointless one too. As he'd rather keep his own ears, thanks!

But he repeated the incantation in his head anyway.

Dima felt so scandalized. He DIDN'T want to know that about Quigley. The professor had made it clear on the night of the feast that he was embarrassed about something relating to his later-revealed cat form, and now he knew what.

Not to mention how disrespected Quigley already was... and knowing he was a failed animagus didn't exactly help, did it? Bellaire seemed so happy about it, too......

He stayed silent. This class wasn't fun today. And he disliked bullies, even if he disliked the Charms guy more.

Very happy sitting and listening he was... yep... until Kyroh asked THAT question.

...

Great Circe... what if they DID miss? And, while they were on the topic of missing things and disasters happening to their faces, what if... well, what if they just messed up the spell?

Hand up, Zeke raised HIS question.

"Professor, what if you get the spell wrong and it turns your face into a... pumpkin or something?" Translation: Could they DIE? Because he'd like to avoid that if possible, living was pretty awesome.

SPOILER!!: Professor Bellaire

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Originally Posted by Davvy_Wavvy

"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?"

"How long do the effects of the spell last?" Or maybe it stayed until you used a counter-spell? Penelope was interested in this eyebrow color changing spell. How did it work? How did all color changing spells work? A simple answer like 'magic' would not satisfy Penelope. How did magic work? She had lots of questions, but she didn't think that Professor Bellaire would want to or be able to give her answers to all of her questions. "If you do the spell on one eyebrow or ear, does it change both of them, or do you have do do it on each eyebrow or ear?" Penelope had a lot of questions.

SPOILER!!: Kyroh

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Yes and no? But if he wasn't right, that meant he was wrong. Kyroh shifted in his seat abit the detention with Catman popping back into his thoughts. Eyebrow colour change? Huh.

Kyroh wiggled his eyebrows as the instructions ran through his mind. It all sounded pretty dangerous to him. It didn't seem SMART to aim your wand right at your EYES. Hesitantly the third year raised his hand. "Professor what if I miss my eyebrows?" And it got to another place like uh, 3 centimetres or so below?

Miss his eyebrows? How could Kyroh miss his eyebrows? The wand movement was a tap to the areas, and they had mirrors, so it was hard to miss. Kyroh would probably have to poke himself in the eye with his wand to miss.

Angel listened to the Professor and heard her ask if anyone had any questions and since she didn't have any, she just sat in silence... she just hoped that they could reverse what they did because if anything went wrong she didn't want to keep with funny colour eyebrows.

A LOT of points were being handed out already in this lesson which quite surprised the young Slytherin. Maybe she should've tried to answer one of the questions. Oh well it was a bit to late for that now and she didn't happen to have an questions that weren't already either.

Shifting in her seat she took down quite a bit of detailed notes about everything that was already being said. The incantation for changing ones eyebrow color seemed fairly simple enough as did the wand movement, thus being a simple tap. Getting this wrong would be a clear failure on Hady's part so she knew she wouldn't allow that to happen.

For now though keeping her mouth shut and attention focused on the Professor was in her best interest.

Sophia frowned just a little bit. "Questions related to the lesson Mr.Hirase." She eyed him clearly telling him to drop it."You got bonus points because you answered a bonus question.." Wasn't very difficult. "The spell is for changing the colour of your eyebrows, if you use it for anything else and it doesn't work out, you'll stay like that or I'll owl Mungos to come get you."

"Naturally it would be the spell based transfiguration that would be more effective Miss Banner...in that it would last longer, unlike an ingredient based one which would have the body fighting off whatever unnatural substance was ingested."

"The spell can be used on your head but we are focusing on a smaller area..the eyebrows. Focus on the eyebrows." Sophia really didn't want them getting ahead of themselves because she was in no mood to right any wrongs today. They really would stew in their mess for a day or two.

"If you miss your eyebrows, we'll have to get you glasses Mr.Scabior. My suggestion to you is not to miss your eyebrows." What if he missed...psssh. Why would he miss?

"Think about the colour you want to turn your eyebrows to. Concentrate."

Aye aye aye. Sophia sighed exasperatedly and shook her head. "Well if you accidentally turn your head into a pumpkin Mr. Rogers, you'll just have to walk around with a pumpkin head. Focus."

"The spell will last until you do the counter-spell and no..one eyebrow and one ear at a time."


Right so now that they had all asked their questions, it was time for them to start practicing.

"Everyone, position yourself in front of a mirror and start practicing. I cannot stress enough that you need to be careful and that you need to focus because you will be stuck with the result of your transfiguration spell...begin."

Lucas listened intently as class began and tried to answer questions but many people raised their hands faster and decided to bow out. He sighed but soon after new spells were put in the ring that sounded quite intriguing. He wrote down the name of the spells and then decided to try it. "Capi", he suddenly heard people asking the professor absolutely rediculous questions like what if you get the spell wrong and you're head turns into a pumpkin, are these youngins so naive to not think the professor can fix anything, really? A grin formed on his faced and then, "HA,HA,Ha,HA,HAAAH....", he just could not help himself, he just could not stop laughing.

Cool! The colour changing spell could be used on their heads or rather, hair, too! Adi made a note of that. It might come in handy sometime.

Annnnd practice time!

"Ready, Benny?" Adi asked as he closed his book and left it on ne side of his desk. He shot a glance at AJ. It was in Transfiguration classes he mostly helped her out but he had a feeling she would refuse his help this time around so he would just go practice by himself, yeah?

The Badger got to his feet and headed for a mirror closest to him, muttering the incantation as he went. "Capillus colorum... capillus colorum... capillus colorum...''

With her free hand the small second year rubbed at her temples lightly. She was seriously beginning to get a headache. Ignoring the throbbing in her head she continued to take detailed notes going so far as to star the fact that the spell would work on her hair. Cause hey most girls had a want for changing their hair color.

However she needed to keep on track here. Muttering under her breath "Capillus colorum...capillus colorum.." as she got to her feet slowly. Making her way to the mirror she stood before it simply staring at herself for a moment as she continued to repeat the words.

Without knowing the correct incantation she clearly wouldn't get very far.

.....

That was it? He'd have to live with a pumpkin for a head? Great mother of Circe help him!!! Zeke nodded to show he understood.

Focus.

Focus.

And not on fruit or vegetables. He doubted very much that cantaloupe would be an ugdrage from a pumpkin.


Then came their marching orders. Zeke did exactly as he was told and positioned himself in front of the closest mirror. Though, before he jumped right into it, he figured he'd practice the incantation first. "Ca-pill-us co-lor-um." ...


And again. "Cap-illus Color-um."

"Capillus Colorum!"

Ruby wondered if that was something Culloden would agree with. Wouldn't it vary? Like she wasn't great at potions, her brother was, sooo he could probably do a bang up job of an ingredients-based transfiguration potion, while she probably could better him at a spell-based one. But it was Bellaire, sooo Ruby said nothing. The fact that she'd spoken up at all so far was a pretty big deal, really.

But mirror time.

Time for the manic pixie dreamgirl aesthetic or something.

Ruby tucked her hair carefully behind her ears and looked in the mirror. Time to get started.

Alright, this should be interesting, let's see if Domino can successfully turn her human ears to elf ears. Maybe if she liked it, could she keep them? She shrugged. Probably not.
"auribus aqut," she kept muttering as she went to a mirror.
She pointed her wand at her left ear.
"auribus aquta." She said.
she smilled when her ear turned into an elf's ear.

Adi was still muttering the incantation as he stood in front of the chosen mirror. ''Capillus colorum... Capillus colorum...'' He broke the words into syllables occasionally just to get a better feel of the pronunciation. Still muttering, he eyed his reflection then raised his hand to flatten his hair. Why keep it messed up, anyway? AJ didn't hang around anymore to appreciate it.

So... what colour was he going for? Orange, of course! His favourite colour. Well, one eyebrow would be orange and another would be a different colour, just for the fun of things.

Time to get started! "Capillus colorum!'' Tap of the wand on the right eyebrow!

Margo couldn't believe the Professor was letting them do their own human transfiguration! This was going to be pretty exiting, however, if she screwed up she would be stuck with it..... That made Margo a little hesitant to try. But f she wasn't going to try what was the point of the lesson.

So taking a mirror and positioning herself right in front of it, so she was centered appropriately Margo pulled out her wand and just practiced saying the spell a few times before actually moving on. "Capillus Colorum" Okay....now that Margo had the sound down right so was ready to give it a whirl.

"Capillus Colorum" Margo said taping just her left eyebrow to start with...and it turned!!! "My eyebrow is BLUE!!!!!!!!!" Margo said to no one in particular!!! She had done it on her first try!!!! Awesome!