Second Years, Lesson Four

Second Years, Lesson Four: Introduction to Inanimate to Animate Transfiguration​

Edward was the type of man who can spend an age pondering a decision, but once his mind was made up, little to nothing could deter him away from it, and becoming an animagus was no exception. He was now on the second step of the process and realised that it was either now, or wait another month to complete a rather difficult step of carrying a single mandrake leaf in his mouth for a whole month. He carried on teaching, but his voice muffled. “Goo affernoon. I’sh nishe to shee you all. Qwills and parshment out." The leaf making it almost impossible to talk. This was a theory lesson today and he pointed his wand at the board and wrote out the following:

Copy down the following:
We previously covered Animate to Inanimate Transfiguration. Now focusing on more complex and difficult Inanimate to Animate Transfiguration

Inanimate object refers to any object that is non-living. To change it into something animate, you will need to give your chosen object the illusion of life. Sight, breath, limbs, anything that makes an animate object live.

Transforming an inanimate object into something alive requires a clear and precise mental image of your target. You must visualise every detail from the shape of the eyes, the texture of the skin, and the colour variations. Without this focused visualisation at the moment of casting, the spell will fail or produce a misshapen, incomplete result.

Edward waited until everyone had caught up their notes before clearing the board and starting again.

Inanimate objects have no minds of their own. All of it must be given by you as the caster. Objects lack any sort of cognitive or instinctual processes. Therefore, the caster must create a brain for the object. For instance, if you're conjuring a frog, you must imbue it with the instinct to eat insects, a sticky tongue for catching prey, and slimy, textured skin. If this step is not performed correctly, then the object will change into the animal, but it might very well be brain dead.

Edward waited again for the class to catch up, most of his attention taken up by the mandrake leaf in his mouth, at least he hadn't had to talk much. "Wesh do a demonstastion." Edward told them, gesturing with his wand toward an empty chair to the side of the room. It bloomed into a brightly coloured flamingo, its pink feathers standing out as it strutted around the classroom with hardly a care in the world. He said as some of the students watched, fascinated as it approached them, close enough to touch it if they so wished. Edward's eyes meanwhile drifted to the clock, noting how late it was. "Classh dismissed." He said, reluctantly changing the flamingo back into a boring old chair and disappearing into his office before any questions could be asked.

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Homework: RP attendance! Extra Credit for taking notes on the lesson. Tag @Professor Edward Pirrip if you would like me to interact with your character! (but probably best not to on this occasion).

Spoiler: What the hell is going on?

Edward is becoming an animagus. One step is to carry a single mandrake leaf in his mouth for a month, which he is doing now. Source. Thank you for your patience and I am sorry

 

[Jonah Edogawa]

Jonah watched the professor confused as to what was happening since he was speaking so weirdly. And this was after Jonah had been made to go to classes. He'd attended some of the Animate to Inanimate classes though had refrained from performing any of the spells. He knew that he was going to get marked down for it but he would really rather that than carry on with abusing the poor animals. At least this time, they were doing Inanimate to Animate Transfiguration. It sounded more complex because he was going to give a non-living thing life rather than taking it away. It always was harder to give than take he supposed. He wondered if he would be able to do it seeing as he'd refused to practice the last unit. Maybe. Hopefully. There were a lot of things to consider when he finally attempts the transfiguration. He didn't want to make a brain-dead being after all.​

 

[Vikram Bakshi]

And on, and on, and on the semester went. Vikram was content with it, but it did seem to drag on from time to time. After what felt like an age from his last classes, he was gathering his things to finally head back to class again. Perhaps he was just bored. He found his seat before he turned his attention up front. This was a simple class, sometimes. Today was just a lecture. Vikram was content with that- he was good at taking notes. He bit back the urge to laugh at the Professor's slurred speech. He took a breath, keeping a straight face as best he could. Once they were dismissed, he let out a sigh. Vikram stretched as he left, biting back a yawn. Maybe a bit of sleep would set his head right again.

 

[Lilith Ilves]

Lilith arrived to Transfiguration excited for whatever they'd be doing. However her brows furrowed in confusion as the professor began talking. He had suddenly acquired a lisp of some sort because his words were rather slurred. She had half the mind to ask him what was going on until he began writing on the board and she got lost into note taking. The days objective being introduction to inanimate to animate, yet another branch of Transfiguration and Lilith was quite excited. She copied down as much information as she could, her heart and mind racing with excitement with every word down. This way seemed a bit more complex than animate to inanimate, which presented a sense of challenge and a challenge was what Lilith loved. Once the notes were done and the professor got into demonstrating it Lilith's eyes widened as the chair turned into a Flamingo. As the class was dismissed and everyone else disappeared Lilith lingered by a little longer around the chair staring at it, trying to comprehend it had just been turned into a BIRD AND BACK? After she was done marveling over it the Ravenclaw made her exit.

Inanimate to Animate Transfiguration

- More complex than animate to inanimate.
- Inanimate refers to a non-living.
- Requires clear and precise mental image. You have to visualize every detail precisely. Any mistake or failure in both focus or visualization will result in a failed spell and/or mishaps.
- Inanimate obejcts do not have minds of their own, so any thoughts and/or ideas are to come from the caster aka you have to create a brain for it.

 

[Susie Lagowski]

Susie gave Professor Pirrip a concerned look as she sat down. Was he OK? Was he... having a medical emergency? She was almost reluctant to start writing, in case he suddenly got worse and she didn't notice. But he didn't seem bothered by it himself, so after a moment she shook it off and started copying down the notes on the board. She made an effort to write legibly today, figuring this was probably important stuff that would come up in their exams. As a result, she was one of the last people to finish copying. Ugh - she was really going to have to work on her handwriting some day. After she'd written down the second part too, and petted the flamingo a little, she packed up and headed out, hoping Professor Pirrip was all right.

 

[Eoghan Blyth]

When Eoghan sat down in his Transfiguration lesson, he immediately thought the professor had gotten something caught in his mouth. Had they arrived too early? Was the professor still on his lunch break? It was hard to make notes on what they were doing when the Ravenclaw was a little preoccupied wonder why the man spent their entire session not able to speak properly, although he didn't seem to be the only one in the room that was confused. He made some notes the best he could and hoped they'd be enough for him to get through the upcoming exams, before headed out the classroom once they were dismissed.

 

[Elijah Edogawa]

Eli copied down the notes on the board, surprised they were written and not spoken like the rest of the classes had usually been. he was trying to be quick here because he was more interested in trying to figure out what was going on with the professor. He liked the idea of inanimate to animate transfiguration, but it was one of those things he wondered if it was actually possibly. How did you take something not alive and make it alive? Like turning a button into a beetle instead of the other way around? It was probably one of those is a robot a person questions in those ethics classes in muggle universities, probably not something twelve year old Eli had to worry about, but it didn’t really stop him. Was it even actually possible though? That seemed far fetched, didn’t they always talk about creating something from nothing, but this seemed different, and maybe the whole idea of creating life where there isn’t any was a different thing, after all there was always that little issue with it. He glanced up as the professor continued to mumble around whatever was in his mouth - Eli was really suspicious about it, because apparently it had been going on for a while, so it wasn’t like he had a swollen tongue or something. Soon the class was dismissed and Eli gave the man one last curious and suspicious glance before heading out of the class room.
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Inanimate to Animate Trasfiguration
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Transforms non-living objects into lifelike forms.
• Requires clear mental visualisation (shape, texture, movement).
• Caster must create a mind for the object (instincts, behaviours).
• Poor visualisation = failed or incomplete transformation.
• Demo: Professor Pirrip turned a chair into a flamingo.