First Years, Lesson Two

First Years, Lesson Two: Transfiguration and the Ministry of Magic
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This week Professor Edward Pirrip stood outside his classroom greeting the first years as they arrived. He greeted each student by name as they arrived, keeping a quiet count in his head as they passed. Once confident that everyone had arrived, Edward followed them into the classroom and closed the door behind him and limping towards the front of the class.

"Welcome back first years! I'm pleased to see you all survived your first week." He greeted, flicking his wand towards the blackboard behind him to make a piece of chalk start writing Transfiguration and the Ministry of Magic. "As you probably picked up last week, Transfiguration is not only fascinating and complex, but also one of the most dangerous and powerful branches of magic. And with great power," he paused for effect, "comes a department full of Ministry rules and regulations, along with punishments in place for any misuse of Transfiguration. And yes, the Ministry will find out. They always do."

Edward paused briefly, his expression serious as he covered something important, he did not want the students to think he was joking, "Using this type of magic on another human, or even an animal, with the purpose of harming them or entertaining yourself will lead to severe punishments." He continued, hoping these kids understood this was a serious situation. "There are also laws for using Transfiguration on yourself. People like me, who have mastered Transfiguration to the point of altering their physical selves into an intelligent creature that represents them are known as Animagi. They must be registered with the Ministry of Magic. This registration must include both their Animagus form as well as any special markings that can help identify them." He gave the class a moment to catch up, noticing a few frantic scribblers. With a wave of his wand, the chalk began writing bullet points on the board to help them out.

"But it’s not just about people and animals. Even inanimate objects can be dangerous since most weapons are inanimate objects. There are also some objects that are classed as 'muggle artifacts' - things created by non-magical people or are specific inventions of theirs. Meaning that if we would like something like that, we would have to obtain it the non-magical way. This is the reason flying carpets are outlawed in most countries, but broomsticks are not."

He straightened up when he realised the time and clapped his hands together. "At the end of the day, there are numerous ways to abuse Transfiguration and each of its branches, which we'll be covering more in depth in future lessons. Unfortunately, that's all we really have time for today. If you're interested, you can read up on more about it in the library or come and visit me in my office. Class dismissed!"

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Homework: RP attendance! Tag @Professor Edward Pirrip if you would like me to interact with your character! Write out notes from the lesson for extra credit.

 

[Taylor Davids]

Taylor lid into her seat and noticed that their professor had chosen not to be a dog today. Maybe it wasn't as good the second time around. She wondered if he enjoyed being four legged, she could see how that might be a fun challenge, especially since from what she'd seen only one of his legs worked correctly when he was a man. Did he have a limp as a dog? Was that rude to ask? She would have to pay close attention next time to see. She took notes as the mentioned ministry punishments, and wondered if they really did always find out? She would have to remember not to test the theory, not that it was something on her agenda generally anyway. It was kind of chilling though, if she was honest. When he mentioned flying carpets though, she put up her hand. "Professor why are Flying Carpets illegal?" By the end of the class her notes were a mess of facts and questions, some of which she asked and others she put aside for another time. Transfiguration was definitely one of the more fascinating subjects.

@Professor Edward Pirrip​

 

[Lewis Edogawa]

Lewis liked this class because their professor could turn into a dog and what wasn't cool about that? He held his fist out to the professor for a fist bump and then took his seat on the room, trying not to let wandering thoughts take him out of the room. Especially after the words severe punishments and animagi were mentioned, because that was honestly one of the coolest abilities he thought anyone could have. Turning into an animal? Yes please, not that he had any need or want to do it himself. That part kind of piqued his interest a little bit and then his notes started consisting of; Animagi = must register!!—dangerous if untrained—can’t use on people for fun (boo)—Ministry always knows??? though he didn't know how true that last part was. The bit about flying carpets was kind of cool and when his cousin asked about them he kind of wanted to know too??? Because that seemed like a question that needed to be answered??? When the lesson ended, Lewis stuffed his quill behind his ear and grinned at his notes that said; no turning Jonah into a puffskein at the end.​

 

[Annika Nightray]

Nik sat next to her cousin as she took a seat, elbowing him slightly in the side so that he was paying attention. She liked Pirrip because he explained things a little, and it was usually in a way that she could understand it. She was intrigued about animagus, but she knew plenty and she knew that it was hard to achieve and not really something she was really interested in. She took a couple of notes but wasn't really that interested. She didn't much care about the ministry either, so anything said to her about the ministry was probably correct.​