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| First Years: Lesson One; *Archived* Introduction | |
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| Topic Started: Apr 9 2016, 05:45 AM (83 Views) | |
| Professor Aeon Summers | Apr 9 2016, 05:45 AM Post #1 |
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Canine Animagus ☼ Spell Inventor Magical Menagerie Proprietor Transfiguration Professor 1-4 Brodie's Familiar
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To the first years entering the Transfiguration Classroom for the first time, the room appeared devoid of any authoritive presence. No professor waited to greet them by the door, which had instead been left open with a note telling them to enter and take their seats, nor did any await them at the desk located toward the back of the room when they walked in. Instead, a large husky sat in the center of the room, tail wagging as it happily watched the students file in. Once it seemed like everyone was present, the canine got to its feet and leapt toward the professor's desk, it's body shifting in the air to take on a more humanoid form. Professor Summers landed on the edge of his desk, now himself once more. "Transfiguration." He started, looking across the sea of eleven year olds with a bright smile. "Is a very powerful branch of magic capable of changing almost anything from one thing to another, whether it be a quill into a spoon, or a person into a dog. Like you've just seen." Aeon got to his feet and wandered back to the center of the classroom. "Good morning and welcome to Transfiguration. I am Professor Aeon Summers, your teacher for the next few years. I will be providing you with the tools and abilities that are an absolute necessity for each and everyone one of you as capable witches and wizards. The other subjects pale in comparison to the power transfiguration holds. Your only limits here is your imagination. You will learn everything from manipulating, conjuring and even vanishing the very matter that makes up our physical world." Summers stopped to withdraw his wand, whipping it toward the blackboard behind him. Immediately, the inanimate chalk was imbued with magical life and floated up to start scrawling across the board.
"Now, some of you may not be familiar with all of the terms written here, so we'll begin the day with some vocabulary. Take notes if you feel you need to, but it's all very easy to remember. Let's start with inanimate. Inanimate means that something is not living, for example a rock, or a chair. Buildings, furniture, it's all inanimate. Animate on the other hand, is the opposite. Anything living. You, me, your pet goldfish. Even the grass we walk on. Simple, right?" Summers looked across the rows of faces, hoping they were keeping up. It wasn't a difficult concept. "Now that we have those key terms out of the way I can explain what the combinations on the board mean. Let me know if you need me to slow down at all. It's all just really exciting stuff, even for me. I'd honestly be surprised if any of you got bored by this subject. It's amazing. First of all, we have inanimate to inanimate transfiguration. Simply put, it's changing one thing that isn't living, into another thing that also lacks life. This is easiest to do regarding objects of the same size to begin with, like so." Summers waved his wand once more, transforming a random students seat into a comfortable armchair. Waving his wand again, a vase in the corner of the room became a small teacup. "As you gain more experience, you won't need to worry about retaining the same general size. Inanimate is the best to start off with, as the target does not move and lacks the complexity of living creatures. Which brings us to inanimate to animate." Another wave of his wand, and the cyan quill sitting in its inkpot on Aeon's desk transformed into a chirping blue bird, its feet coated in black ink. It fluttered its wings a few times before taking flight, circling the room a few times. "As you see here, we are capable of changing something without life into something living. Don't be fooled by it though. The living creature you create lacks a soul and is only alive through you. True life is something we cannot give." As he finished speaking, the bird reverted to a quill and floated slowly back down toward the floor. "That there is simply untransfiguration, something returning to what it once was. But it is indeed possible to turn something such as a bird into a quill through animate to inanimate transfiguration. I'm sure you all know by now that it means turning something alive into something that isn't. Of course you don't kill the targeted creature, but merely halt its life for a short time." The wizard stepped forward and retrieved the quill from the floor, glancing at the clock overhead as he straightened back up. "And finally, animate to animate changes a living thing into another living thing, such as a guinea pig into a rabbit, or a human into a toad. A favourite among fans of muggle stereotyped witches. Unfortunately, that's all we have time for today. In the following lessons we'll be doing actual wandwork, so look forward to that. If you turn your attention to the board, Mr Chalk has gone ahead and kindly left you all some easy homework to do before our next class. Make sure you write it down and do it for some easy house points. See you guys later." Summers finished, gesturing for them to leave once they were done. Homework: Choose one of the types of transfiguration and write about either a real myth or a legend where one thing was transformed into another (or you can make a story up.)Transfiguration,1,1 |
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| Zared Katsaros-Styx | Apr 9 2016, 12:01 PM Post #2 |
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[justify]Zared was pretty sure that this semester would go worse than the first, he had a bunch of classes that he didn't like in the slightest and wasn't at all looking forward to doing any of them. He had class preferences and wasn't looking forward to having to deal with the different set of classes and professors. Zared was however back at school, and looking forward to doing more with his best friend, he had come to really appreciate the friendship given him by Lestat and really enjoy being able to do more with him during this semester. He still hated the boy's twin and he was still as silent but he appreciated the friendship that was shown to him by him. The first year slytherin gathered the things he would need for the day of classes feeling rather bored by what he would have to do during this term, and knowing that this first week would be like the last one in that they'd do nothing but just sit around and he definitely wasn't looking forward to that. Zared was curious about transfiguration, he'd heard about it, read some of the spells, seen his parents preforming some of the spells, but to him it was still very new and he had no idea if he was going to like it. But, he sat down in the room, leaving a space open beside him for Lestat to sit down when his friend eventually arrived, which was a little before the dog at the front of the room, which Zared had ignored became the professor. He would never admit to thinking that was a cool little bit of magic but even to him it was. The young slytherin just listened to the introduction by the professor and just nodded along to himself as he did. It was a rather long lesson, and so as the professor kept talking the boy just slowly copied down what was on the board behind the man, vaguely listening to what was being said, the professor was explain what it all was, but he was just happy to sit and copy down what was on the board to fill in later with his own reading. Eventually the professor drew the class to a close and he was able to pack up his things and leave the room. [/justify] |
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| Lilyanna Hope | Apr 11 2016, 01:38 AM Post #3 |
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seventh year | intelligent | bossy | asperger's syndrome
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Lilyanna was very excited to be getting back into the swing of things after the first semester. She had had a pretty good break and was very excited to see what new things she will learn in the rest of her first year. Hogwarts was proving to be alright for her but there was still a part of her that didn't like it very much and she just hoped that she'd be able to ignore the idiotic classmates that roamed Hogwarts without getting too angry this semester. She was back to a fresh start and entered the Transfiguration classroom with a smile on her face, very eager for the lesson to begin, and sat in the very front seat of the classroom. She had read lots and lots of books before coming back to Hogwarts to get a bit of an idea of what she might be learning and thought that it was probably going to be interesting. Lilyanna stayed silent as the rest of the students entered the room, completely oblivious to the random dog at the front, starting to become a bit impatient. When were they going to start? She jumped as the dog sitting right in front of her turned into a human and Lilyanna took deep breaths as she attempted to fix her hair which had misplaced itself from the sudden appearance of the professor. "Seriously!?" she snapped at the professor, trying to recover from what just happened. Hopefully he didn't do that every lesson. Once everyone was settled the professor began to talk and Lilyanna jotted down as much as she could out of what he was saying. All the types of transfigurations mentioned Lilyanna had attempted to read about from books out of the library but she was still excited to learn other things from their professor this year. Once the class was dismissed, she quickly scribbled down the homework and exited the classroom. |
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