Seventh Years Lesson #1

[Professor Cole A. Halliwell]

Blue eyes swept the length of Cole Halliwell's Transfiguration Classroom, the one set aside for higher years to be taught in. It was specially configured to be ideal for the requirements of the class - it was much larger inside than outside, for one thing. The higher years transfigured much larger objects, as well as watched much larger transfigurations take place, so it was important everything was a good size.

He looked around his class, the Professor being careful to check that there was a lot of space between the desks. They'd be doing complicated work today, so he had to make sure that everything was ready, and when he realised it all was, he waved his wand, making small statues appear next to the desks, enough for one each, and then wrote the subject of the lesson on the board.

"Transfiguration of Large and Complex Animals"

Cole smiled as he sat down at his desk, flicking through a magazine (Wizard's Weekly Wizarding Weasley World, by the Weasley Twins), while he waited for his students to turn up.

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[Lillian Ann]

"The Transfiguartion of large and complex animals? Seeing as Alex isn't in this class... I don't know of any animals to transfigure."

Lils said slyly as she entered the room, leaning against the door frame for a moment as she straightened out her robes... Standing she slips down the isles to choose a seat in the back far corner, not being a friend of the idea of being trampled by someone's miscast spell... Or correctly cast but uncontrolable spell. Staying away,... Even if it left the chance of being trapped in a corner was a bit safer.

"Mornin Professor"

[roxy]

Roxy Hart made her way quickly down the hall. She had been rushing and doing things quickly all morning. Eating included. Roxy had almost choked on her pumpkin juice.She had even forgotten to put Tsukasa back into his cage. The poor creature was jiggling around in her pocket while she jogged down the hall to the Transfiguration room.Roxy glanced at her watch and stopped.Wy the hell was he running? She had plenty of time. Heck,she probably had a week to get down there to class. Roxy grinned. Well,not that long.

Roxy had promised herself that she wouldn't fail any classes this semester and that she would get to all of them. Too bad she was leaving-again. Roxy figured that she might as well get to the classes that she could while she still had time and get them over with. She could figure out what she wanted to do later and how she could make up the work. Roxy would probably kill herself if she failed any classes. Oh...What if she had gotten held back a year or something? Roxy's eyes widened and she began to charge down the hall to her class again.

Roxy was finally there. She pushed open the door and peered inside. The girl frowned. Two students? That.Was.Pitiful. Roxy made her way to the front row and stopped when there was a screeching sound. Her ferret seemed to not have liked being bounced and bopped around in her pocket. Roxy glanced up at the teacher and gave him a small smile.Hopefully,he hadn't heard it. And if he had,would he have known that it was a ferret? No...He probably thought that Roxy had made the high-pitched sound. The thought made Roxy smile. The other students probably would have as well.

"Hello..." Roxy said to the teacher,scratching her head and sitting down.

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[Jodi Peterson]

It still felt funny for Jodi to call herself a seventh year. It was long worked for, but Jodi never thought she would actually make it. It was to be her last year at the school, and this scared Jodi. Something had been her school for so long, she would not be allowed back. But Jodi knew the year wasn't over yet. Hard work was still a must.

And that is why Jodi decided to turn up to a lesson she had always hated. Transfiguration.
Jodi walked slowly into class. Standing by the door, and eyeing off the room, she sighed. She moved slowly toward the table which sat Kat Samuals, in the middle of the class.

"Hey Kat," she said, sitting down and laying her bag on the table and turning toward Cole.

[marklobo]

Transfiguration. To say that it had never been Mark's favourite class was an understatement- he had struggled with the subject since first year. To him, these classes were just one long exercise in trying not to let his frustration get the better of him.

Yet, Lobo knew the importance of the class, and had long ago resolved to just keep plugging away, working hard and making the best of things. He had never been one to daydream about things being different- time spent wishing was time wasted- or complain about his lot. He wasn't a great wizard, but he was OK with it.

As he ducked through the doorway, he surveyed the room. Four girls had already arrived. He made sure he sat to the rear of all of them.

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[Professor Cole A. Halliwell]

Well look at that. Kat was in the class and Cole didn't even blink. You could say that he had gotten over their previous life. It was sorta true. Shocking, really, wasn't it?

He grinned, putting down the magazine and clearing his throat, the effect immediate. He had shut the students up by casting a wordless silencio, it was true, and he undid the charm as soon as they realised they couldn't speak, now having rapt attention his way. Grinning at the power of being a professor, the man stood and smiled at the class. "Welcome to your seventh year of Transfiguration. I'm afraid some of you are repeating this year.." at this he looked at Kat and a couple of other students "while some are new to the class. Either way, I hope this year is beneficial and helps you progress as wizards and witches.

"This year is very important for your magical training as it is your NEWT year. I trust you will all work hard to achieve the best grades possible - I am accustomed to expecting students to get similar NEWTs to my own, which if you ask Ms. Samuels, were pretty... Outstanding." he smiled. IT was the first time Cole had been so proud and not humble for a while, and he enjoyed the moment.

"Now, as you can see, we are focusing on transfiguring large and complex animals. Can anyone tell me what makes this more difficult than transfiguring other animals, and thus why it's been kept back to this year? Remember, saying 'because they're bigger' is not a sufficient answer. Think outside the box. Or, in this case, inside the body.."[/font]

[Lillian Ann]

"The amount of bones and their formations. The massive collection of blood and weight of organs to be transformed I suppose?"

Lils said, raising her hand, actually interested in this for once. Though that probably had to do with a certain Ovidiu trying to turn her into a teacup in her second semester. She now knew why that wouldn't work, but why would it be harder on a larger animal was beyond her.

[Jodi Peterson]

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Jodi went to speak back to Kat, but her voice seemed to have been lost for a few seconds. Looking around, she thought perhaps the teacher had used a spell to stop them from speaking. When the class was silent, she felt too bad to reply out loud to Kat, and say thank you.
Instead, she quickly charmed her quill, keeping her hands and her wand under the table to write on the parchment in front of her.
Thanks Kat she wrote onto the paper, and moved it slightly closer in her direction.
Looking up at Cole, she then remembered. Kat and Cole had history. She wasn't sure of the true details. Looking at Kat, then Cole and then back at Kat, it didn't seem very strange. They didn't seem to be ignoring each other or giving each other looks. Perhaps they had sorted everything out.
Jodi found it weird to be taught by someone only just above her age. Many of the PA's and Professors where getting younger and younger, but then Jodi was maybe hoping to be a PA after she graduated. And that would be at the end of this term. So she would be teaching the now 1st and 2nd years that she had shared a commonroom with. It didn't disturb her, she just hoped she would be able to gain the respect that a PA needed to keep a class under control.

Jodi thought about why it was hard to transfigure bigger animals, it was clear enough to Jodi. The bigger they where the more everything (bones, mass, weight ect) that they have. So ofcourse it would take more power to change something bigger, right?

[Professor Cole A. Halliwell]

"Five points, Ms. Ann," began Cole, smiling. "However that is not entirely the complete reason. Basically, larger animals are more complicated because they have more muscles, more sinews, more blood to create, a larger heart to get right, a larger brain to proces... When you go into it, transfiguration of large animals should be impossible, because there is so much to do. That, my friends, is where wands come in."

"You should know already that wands are used to channel magic, and that Wizards can technically channel it through anything. Well, wands are the best of these, and have a mind of their own - so they can do some of the thinking for you. You need to concentrate on the external vision of the animal, and also think about how they are made up. The wand will do the technicalities that we cannot process in our minds. It's complicated, but it's how it works," Cole smiled.

"Now, we shall move on to speak about the incantations and wand movements that are essential for this. As you can imagine, there are no set wand movements for each animal. There are far too many, and it would be too complicated to learn. Instead, the Department of Mysteries in the Ministry of Magic have finally come up with the universal wand movement, after years of experimentation. It is complicated, but it saves having to learn lists of movements. The movement is -" and Cole demonstrated it as he spoke. "- a double flick, a single swish to the right and then one the left, followed by a flick and a jab toward the object. Like I said, it's complicated, but it saves time. IT is important that the jab is done after the incantation is complete."

Cole smiled. "Practice the wand movement please, and then we'll continue."[/font]

[Alexander W. Black]

Sure he was late but did it really matter? Seriously it wasn't his fault that Alexander had been extremely busy with things that were out of his hands. Alexander simply shrugged looking at Professor Halliwell, awaiting for him to finish what he'd been saying. It would have been rude to just come in while he'd been talking. With a cough, Alexander stepped into the classroom sitting by an empty desk. Of course he didn't look at Lillian since he thought she would probably had been ignoring him for a while but whatever.

Taking his wand out of his school robes, Alexander began. Slowly first knowing he wouldn't get it like a pro, well as the professor had demonstrated. And there he began first double flick, swish the to left-

He then began to the beginning, double flick, swish left, swigh right, double flick, wait no it was just one. And with such failure Alexander just kept on. Trying to get things right.

[Jodi Peterson]

'Double flick, single swish right then left, flick and jab,' Jodi whispered to herself under her breath. Closing her eyes she imagined the movement of her wand in front of her. She went through each movement one by one, trying to get the order of the movements.

She picked her wand out of her pocket. Held it into her left hand, raised above the table, at eye level. She then chanted the words once again. She then decided to move her wand with her words.

Slowly she did each of the movements, speaking each out loud in turn. Her second flick although saying only one, her arm flicked the wand twice. "Stupid arm," she said to herself, and started the process again.

[Professor Cole A. Halliwell]

After a few minutes, Cole got the class's attention again and smiled. "OK, so it's rather complicated, I'll admit, but it will help you in the long run. Part of your homework will be to learn and perfect that movement, however that's not all you'll need to do, and you'll get the rest at the end of the lesson."

He paused and then continued. "Now, make a note of that movement, because we're going to do a different one for today's lesson when we transfigure our first large animal, which will require, shockingly, a simpler movement. Those in the cat family have a double flick and then a single swish, like so," Cole demonstrated the movement, and then continued. "Now, your incantation is Panthera Leo, and we will be getting lions from this transfiguration. Tell me a hazard of this transfiguration, somebody"[/font]

[marklobo]

Mark raised his hand, though not to answer the question, but to ask one. He felt sure Prof Halliwell had left out something pretty important.

"Er, sir, are we gaun tae conjure a lion, transfigure a lion intae something else, or transfigure something else intae a lion?" He had assumed the 'large and complex cat' in question would be a lion, given the incantation. He figured it probably wouldn't be the middle one, as even Mark couldn't fail to notice that there weren't actually any lions in the room right now, but it couldn't hurt to ask.

[Professor Cole A. Halliwell]

"You seem to have forgotten to answer my question," said Cole, however he did nod at Mark. "We will be transfiguring objects into lions, and will infact start now. Once you have completed the transfiguration, you may leave, and you can do this by speaking, it doesn't have to be wordless, yet. Your homework is to write at lesast 50 words on the hazards of this transfiguration, as well as to learn the complicated wand movement already discussed. You may begin."

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Ivy was running a little late to class, she didn't care really, nothing mattered, even repeating for the 3rd time like her cousin. Nothing seemed to matter anymore, not since the death of Joshua, never being really close Ivy had still struggled to go about day to day life, it was even harder without Erik about.

Slipping next to Kat and giving a forced smile, Ivy had said nothing as Kat seemed already taken to talking to the new Head girl, Ivy nodded a friendly hello to her as well then class began. Listening carefully Ivy found herself not wanting to talk or ask questions again. She was happy to sit and take notes although she was however rather taken back by the fact that she'd soon be face to face with many lions in the room.

"Isn't it going to be a little dangerous Professor?" She asked feeling weird calling Cole 'professor' now, especially cos she was older then him too. I thought it took years and years of work to become a Professor...Hermione must just be handing out the title these days! she wondered to herself. "I'll have a go... i guess!" really any excuse so she could go. Ivy just didn't want to be here and the sooner the lesson ended the better it would be.

Choosing to stand at her desk, moving a little away from Kat so as not to hurt her, Ivy took out her wand. She hoped the Professor would not ask her to move down the front, it would make her feel very embarrassed. "ok....well" and pointed her wand at her object upon the desk. "Panthera Leo"

[Landon Tilbrook]

Late late late late late.... The thought kept running inside his head. He isde and began to run down the stairs to his next while still gathering himself up. He bumped into a few other students sometimes shouting sorry over his shoulder sometimes not even noticeing. Just the fact that he was late kept running beside him.

He walked into Transfiguration. He slipped into the nearest seat and looked around. He saw Roxy but was too busy catching to wave hi. He wondered what was going on? He sighed slipped down in his chai and looked around at the talk just paying attension to things but trying to be as unnoticeable as possible.