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First Years: Lesson One; *Archived* Gryffindor and Slytherin
Topic Started: Aug 3 2013, 01:13 AM (529 Views)
Ava King
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Professor Davershire stook at the front of the classroom next to her desk watching as the students filed into the room. She smiled as she saw all of the first years, their faces showing how excited they were to learn, or in turn, how annoyed they were to be in class. Once everyone was seated, she moved forwards, greeting them with a smile.

"Hello! Welcome first years! This is Transfiguration. I hope you all are in the right classroom." She looked about the room, making sure no one stood to leave. "For those of you who do not know, my name is Professor Ava Davershire and I will, hopefully, successfully guide you through the world of Transfiguration. Throughout your first year, we are going to cover Inanimate to Inanimate transfiguration; this kind of transfiguration can only be used to make something of equal size, like a needle to a match, for example. You will soon see I believe in hands on leaning, so please make sure you bring your wand to every lesson." She looked around the class and noticed a few students who look sheepishly down.

"A little about myself; I attended Hogwarts here, and was in Gryffindor. I excelled in transfiguration, but used to home school my daughter. Eventually we decided to let her come here, and I followed, taking up a role in the class I loved so much. I have two children both of which has graduated from here." she said smiling at them all. She loved Riley and Braxton dearly.

"I am also a registered animagus, which you will learn more details about as your studies progress. But basically, I am able to transfigure myself into an animal at will." Suddenly, Professor Davershire turned into a Golden Retriever with big blue eyes, that matched her own. She jumped up on the desk and sat at the edge, looking at everyone, then just as quickly, turned back into herself, still sitting on the desk.

"Okay, to get started. Transfiguration is not just the name of changing one object into another. You must have an idea about all types of transfiguration before you actually learn them," she said with a flick of her wand at the blackboard. The following was now written there:


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Types of Transfiguration
Inanimate to Inanimate
Inanimate to Animate
Animate to Inanimate
Animate to Animate
Switching
Conjuring
Vanishing



"First off, I want to also give you some vocabulary. Inanimate means that the object is not alive. Animate, well, is something that is alive. You are all here, and most of you seem to be animate today, which is a good thing. Some of you could be a bit more animate though." Professor Davershire chuckled as she walked about, tapping on a desk or two of those in the back who seemed to be dosing off.

"Let's jump right in and discuss the first four types of Transfiguration. Inanimate to Inanimate simply changes one object that is not alive into another object that is not alive. Most of the time, these are easiest to perform. Inanimate objects will stay put while you cast your spell, leaving you to worry only about changing shape, color, size, and things of that nature," Professor Davershire flicked her wand at a vase on the table that changed into a teacup.

"The second type of transfiguration is Inanimate to Animate." Ava flicked her wand again, this time at her chair. It shook a few times, then it started shrinking while changing its shape at the same time. Suddenly, everyone saw a fluffy little kitten that walked around the class, mewing softly, before it finally cuddled against the feet of one of the students.

"It wasn't supposed to do that," Professor Davershire said with a laugh, leaving it at the student's feet.

"Inanimate to Animate Transfiguration changes one nonliving object into one living object. They are tricky to pull off, since you must essentially give life to something that would ordinarily not have it.

The third type,
" she turned toward the class and continued, "Animate to Inanimate, performs in the opposite manner of the Inanimate to Animate ones. You will use these spells to turn something that moves and breathes into something that is no longer technically alive," she said.

"The fourth type of transfiguration is Animate to Animate Transfiguration. This is one of the most difficult types of transfiguration. This transfiguration changes one animate, alive, living object into another animate, alive, living object. Since we don't have a live object here for me to use to demonstrate, I will show you these transfigurations some other time. So we end our lesson here today. And now, like a terrible Professor, you have homework on your first day," Professor Davershire said grinning and waved her wand at the board, making the homework appear.



Homework:
RP the lesson.

Extra Credit: 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.)
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Paige Rivers
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Paige was still laying curled up in her nice comfortable bed when it was time to go to the Transfiguration Classroom. Paige woke up and brushed her wild bed-hair and finished applying her Make up. Her Slytherin attire was ironed and ready for the a new lesson, she gave her robes one final stroke with her hand and walked away out of her dormitory. Paige knew that her friend Andrea was happily excited for this class, but Paige knew that this class was one bunch of Ministry Rules. Paige walked with Andrea to the Transfiguration Classroom and the both of them were talking until the arrived at the Transfiguration Classroom. Both the girls stopped at the front of the classroom and walked into the classroom sitting next to each other in one of the middle rows.

Paige listened carefully to the Professor when she began her class, it seemed interesting and Paige was already writing some notes that she might need for her exam. It was a cool fact that the Professor was a Animagus, Paige wanted to be one too when she would have the change. The Professor was a Golden Retriever with blue eyes, if you watched closely you could see that the dog was not a full dog, since she exactly looked at everyone. Paige was still listening closely and writing everything important on a piece of parchment. The white fluffy kitten that the Professor had conjured was very cute, she would want him as a pet. In the meantime Paige watched Andrea carefully, she still seemed excited in this subject. When Paige heard what the homework was Paige was relieved it was something fairly easy and began writing the second she had heard it, her handwriting beautiful and neat.


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Paige Rivers
Slytherin, First Year
Transfiguration, Lesson 1

Form of Transfiguration: Animate to Animate

There once was a cat in the town of Killendoorn. On one mysterious night a van drives into the town with lots of chemicals, but one barrel of chemicals fell of the truck and lay opened on the street. The cat came to the barrel and decided to lick it, at once she turned into a Human. When a dogs comes close to the cat she jumps into a tree and a journalist spots her. The once cat has still very cat like manners and loves to eat fish and meow with other cats on the rooftops of Killendoorn. At the end of the story there is a very special rare bird that can change the Woman back into a cat, but the people she has met in her human form are very sad that she has to leave again. When the girl wants to eat the birds she realises that she wants to stay a woman since she has changed already and now has more Human manners.

Source: Minoes
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Andrea Focoso
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Andrea was very eager this morning, knowing that today was her first Transfiguration lesson of the semester. She was thankful that Paige tolerated her excited babble all the way to the classroom and even encouraged her in it. She knew that this wasn't her friends favorite class but that didn't stop Andrea from talking eagerly about everything she knew about it. When she and Paige dropped into their seats side by side, still chatting, she took out everything she thought she could possibly need for class today and straightened when the professor began.

Andrea was fascinated as the professor started to speak about what they'd be learning in their first year. She had heard of a lot of the subjects Professor Davershire brought up but that was because she'd practically read the library out of books on the topic. She took notes eagerly and her eyes got wide and round when the professor transformed in and out of her Animagus form. She would love to, at one point in time, become an Animagus. Judging by the look on her Slytherin friend's face, there might be a possibility of Andrea and Paige becoming one together...it would be fun. The homework was relatively easy but it allowed for creativity, which Andrea appreciated being the writer than she was. When the class was over, she waited for Paige to finish up before heading out to the common room to begin her assignment; she'd decided to talk about an old Greek tale she'd heard long ago.

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Andrea Focoso
Slytherin, First Year
Transfiguration Lesson 1

My father used to tell me stories of the ancient Greek gods and their wonderful magic. There was one story in particular which I found rather fascinating and it stuck in my head for the longest time. It was the story of Narcissus (and Echo but she's a smaller part). Now Narcissus was a beautiful man, more beautiful by far than any who lived in his village...and he knew it. One day, while out walking in the forest and humming a tune the local wood nymphs had written for him, one of the nymphs caught sight of him and fell instantly in love. Now this was Echo, who had long since been cursed by Hera for fooling around with Zeus and so she could do little else but repeat his last words. He spurned her and broke her heart before wandering off.

Now young Echo was the favorite of the goddess of love and beauty, Aphrodite. Angered by Narcissus' refusal to even attempt to love Echo, she cursed him to fall in love with the next person he saw and yet, he'd be unable to be with that person. By this point, Narcissus had made it down to a nearby river where upon glancing into the still water, he immediately fell hopelessly in love with his own reflection. So great was his affection and inner turmoil that he stayed by the banks of that river for many years. Taking pity on the boy, Aphrodite changed her spell a bit and Narcissus was transfigured into a beautiful weeping willow tree, destined to forever hang and watch his own reflection.

Type of Transfiguration: Animate to Inanimate

Source: My brain; it is an actual story but I heard it by word of mouth.



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Perseas Stratis
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Transfiguration was one of the new subjects that Perseas was really looking forward to. It was in his blood. His family was known in the past for its animagus and if the rumors were true about the family's ancestry, his ancestor Circe was one of the greatest witches of all time. A pioneer really in transfiguration. By just knowing this background information about hs family, he was able to feel the greatness of the subject. In addition, his older brother was studying to become an animagus when the time was right and Perseas was considering the idea of becoming one as well.

He entered the class for the first and took a seat at the front unlike what he used to other classes.
Professor Davershire looked like a genuine nice person and although Perseas was always taking out of his bag a piece of parchment to start creating maps of the school to mark down its secret passages, this time he didn't even bother to make that thought. He listened absorbed to the professor when she mentioned that she was an animagus. He watched jaw dropped as Professor Davershire transformed flawlessly into a golden retriever. Just with the idea he could turn into something cool, Perseas was already determined to study hard for this subject and undertake the appropriate training.

For Perseas it was also the first time he considered to write down notes. Usually, he was either memorizing them on the spot or he was preferring to study them from a textbook. He found particularly interesting the three last types of transfiguration. Switching, conjuring and vanishing. Obviously they were advanced forms of magic but Perseas noted them down to check them in case he was going to the library.
His concentration was owned by Professor Davershire as she continued with demonstrations like turning a vase into a teacup and her chair into a fluffy kitten. He wished she had casted then non-verbally so that he could note down the incantations and attempt to try them as well.

It might was sounding unlikely but Perseas was excited about the homework he was assigned. The professor dismissed the class after a nice first lesson and Perseas decided to spend some time on the library to find more information about the different field of tranfiguration they had referred to and to do his homework.


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Perseas Stratis
Gryffindor, First Year
Transfiguration, Lesson 1

Circe's Magic - Animate to animate


Circe the ancient greek witch also known to muggles as a minor goddess of magic, was living on the island of Aeaea. She was famous for her part in the adventures of Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey. Circe was described as living in a mansion that stood in the middle of a clearing in a dense wood. Around the house prowled strangely docile lions and wolves, the transformed victims of her magic which were usually strayed sailors. When Odysseus arrived on her island with his crew, she invited them to a feast of familiar food, a pottage of cheese and meat, sweetened with honey and laced with wine, but also laced with one of her magical potions and turned them all into hogs with her wand. Odysseus, who was left behind at the ships, set out to rescue his men, but was intercepted by the messenger god Hermes who had been sent by goddess of wisdom, Athena. Hermes told Odysseus to use the herb moly to protect himself from Circe's witchcraft. Having resisted Circe's magic, he drew his sword and threatened the witch. Circe was impressed with Odysseus wit and unleashed his companions from the effect of her powerful magic
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