Transfiguration 1:1

Lesson One: Types of Transfiguration

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The door to the Transfiguration classroom stood wide open, with Leif leaning against the wall right next to it. He had thought carefully about what to do, deciding against waiting on his students inside of the room. Instead, he was stood outside. Greeting them with a warm smile in the hopes of calming any nerves they might have. They were first years, after all. This was another new room, new subject, new professor to get used to. A whole lot of things to get used to. Once he had a feeling they were all inside Leif stepped inside himself, leaving the door open just a crack to spare any latecomers of drawing full attention to themselves by having to open the creaky door.


"Welcome," He greeted his class as he strolled over to his desk, giving a small flick of his wand to lift a piece of chalk near the board before he turned around to face his students. "To Transfiguration." Leif smiled, trying not to grimace as the chalk made a terrible sound while underlining the term transfiguration on the blackboard behind him. "My name is Professor Leif Odegard and I will be your teacher for the next few years." He introduced himself. "Transfiguration 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.." Leif explained, tapping one of the quills on his desk and turning it into a spoon as he spoke. "Or even a person into an animal." He finished with a slight grin, pointing his wand at the board behind him to make a list appear.

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

"Since I don't want to assume all of you know each and every term written on the board here, we'll start with some vocabulary. I'll try to make it quick as to not bore you, so make sure to pay attention and write along." Leif told his students, knowing kids their age had an attention span that generally didn't last more than thirty minutes. "Inanimate refers to something that isn't mobile nor living. It doesn't move, like a rock, a chair or even a building. Those are all inanimate. Animate, as you might've guessed, is the exact opposite. Anything living, moving. Like you and I, the owls up in the Owlery or the creatures in the lake." He explained, looking around to see if there were any faces that screamed confusion or perhaps excitement at his mention of the lake.


"Now let's combine those two. Inanimate to inanimate transfiguration simply means turning one non-living thing into another. Like how I turned that quill into a spoon. This is the easiest form of trasnfiguration, especially when you start with objects that are roughly the same size." Leif waved his wand at one of the books on his desk, turning it into a delicate silver box of similar size. "Inanimate to animate transfiguration," He waved his wand again, turning the cyan quill that had been sitting in an inkpot on his desk into a chirping bluebird, "You guessed it, turns a thing without live into something living. Don't be fooled though, while the creature looks alive it lacks a soul and isn't truly living. True life is something we cannot give." He finished explaining, waving his wand to turn the bird back into a quill which slowly floated towards the floor.


"If I had turned that bird into a different type of quill instead of using untransfiguration, that would've been an example of animate to inanimate transfiguration. For that type of transfiguration it's important to note that you don't kill a creature when you turn it into something inanimate, it's more like pressing pause on their life for a short time." Leif told them, picking up the quill and placing it back into the inkpot. "Finally," He continued, glancing at the clock to see time was almost up. Although some of his students' faces could've told him the same. "Animate to animate changes a living thing into another. Like a snail into a slug or a human into a toad, the latter being particularly populair in Muggle stories." He laughed. "Right, that's it for today. I know all of this theory can be tiring but it's important to understand what we're talking about before we'll be able to get out our wands and actually try to perform magic. You all did great today, though. See you next week!"

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Rp the lesson for full marks

 

[Winnie Calida]

Winnie had enjoyed being home. Her parents hadn’t been happy with all of her choices in the semester. Her mother hadn’t loved her writing for the monthly, but Winnie had argued it firmly, and her parents had relented, that it was a more fruitful extra curricular than most others. She made sure to tell them she had bonded well with Vikram, that she had made good friends with some of the other students. She has received more instructions for this semester and is hopeful that she’ll manage them to a T. Winnie grabs the last few things she needs for the day ahead and then goes to class.

Winnie walked into the transfiguration classroom and took a spot in the room. She glanced up at the professor once she was settled and the man got started on the lesson. She took the time to get down what the seven types of transfiguration and then to get down what the professor was saying about each of them in turn. She didn’t want to get any of it wrong as the professor first described them. She was making sure that she was also paying attention to what he was doing, as he did go on to demonstrate a number of the types. Then the lesson was wrapped up and Winnie packed up her things and headed out of the room.

 

[Victoria de Lacey]

The break has not changed her mind about how things at school have been progressing, in fact it feels even more now like her friends are avoiding her than ever. With the exception maybe of the girls in her dorm, who she sees every day, and maybe Jasper, none of her other friends even seem to care about anything she has to say. Does she chase after one friend in favour of another or does she turn her back on all of them? Honestly she misses Professor Potter, and she thinks if she could speak to her maybe she could resolve all of this. She had problems when she was at school, but they all seemed to be fixed now, she doesn't want to have to wait until she's her dad's age to fix everything, how if she supposed to concentrate then?!

Tori sits up a little straighter in her seat as the professor launches quickly into the lesson. Transfiguration is a really interesting lesson, she thinks, and she has to wonder how someone has figured all of these different modes out, clearly someone far smarter than her. Probably a Ravenclaw to be honest. They had all of this last semester, she is pretty sure which is why she's with the Slytherin's today. She's sitting in the front because she knows she needs to pay attention and though there are no wand movements today, she wants to be ready for them when they come. Introductory lessons are fine for now, but she hopes they won't be around forever, sometimes she thinks they just need to get over with. She takes notes eagerly as the demonstration continues, nodding along as he answers his own questions. Professor Odegard certainly knows what he's talking about, she can see that. He also seems like really nice. And like nice looking. The class wraps up and she smiles to herself, okay, maybe the rest of this year won't be so bad after all.​

 

[Esme Styx-Cade]

Esme sat in Professor Odegard’s classroom and waited for the lesson to begin. She was excited for Transfiguration because she knew it would be complicated magic but she was looking forward to the challenge she knew it would provide. The professor introduced himself and then moved onto telling them more about what they would be learning over the course of the year, he started by discussing the different types of Transfiguration. She wouldn’t get to learn all the different types of Transfiguration during the first year, it sounded like the types of transfiguration would cover what they would learn during all seven years they would be taking the subject. She liked the idea of being able to turn something into something else and was excited to learn how to do it and finding out what the limitations of it would be. Once the lesson was over Esme packed up the notes she had made and made her way out of the classroom once they had been dismissed.