First Years, Lesson Five: Learning Flammeus Tailora (match into a needle)
It had been hard work teaching with a mandrake leaf in his mouth for a month, but Edward was reaching the end of this unpleasant step of Animagus training. The next step would be even tougher, but he'd work on that over the school break. For now, he stood at the front of the classroom holding a large box of matches which he casually tossed from one hand to the other, still keeping speech to a minimum but the students must be used to that by now. He got the attention of the student closest to him and motioned that he was going to throw them the matchbox, then lightly tossed the box of matches for them to catch, "Nice catch, ava hoose point on me." Edward mumbled around the leaf, nodding approvingly. "Take a shingle match, then passh the box along, pleash." He paused, eyes narrowing slightly. "Nobody even think about lighting it unlessh you want to loshe sheveral hoose points an get absholutely drenched when I put out the flame." He warned them.
Once everyone had a match, Professor Pirrip summoned back the box and removed one match for the demonstration. "Today we are turning matchesh into needles and using the 'three tap' method again." He didn't have a hope of pronouncing the spell correctly that he pointed his wand at the board and wrote Flammeus Tailora Then he pointed his wand at the match and non-verbally turned it into a needle. In the blink of an eye the wooden shaft became sleek metal, and the red phosphorus tip shifted into the needle eye for threading. "Shhimple. You may begin!" Edward walked around the class observing, then dismissed them at the end of the lesson.
Note: "Finite" is a counter-spell, not Untransfiguration, and shouldn't be used to reverse any transfigurations.
Homework: RP trying to turn your match into a needle! Extra credit to whoever claims the student catching the box of matches. Tag @Professor Edward Pirrip if you would like me to interact with your character (though probably best not to this week)!
