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.

 

[Lumos Walden-Cade]

The holidays, as usual for the Cade's, was centred mostly around the annual family reunion/summer ball that the family enjoys putting on. The only thing Lumos really dislikes about it is he's always supposed to wear this silly suit that his mum insists on. Normally she's not a bad person, but he really wishes she wouldn't keep telling him he's supposed to dress up when all he really wants to wear is a pair of washed out jeans and a shirt he doesn't have to tug at all the time. It's not that the suit doesn't fit perfectly either, because it does, he just really doesn't like the texture, or the restriction of not being able to run around with Nox pretending to know a lot more spells than he actually does. Not that it really stopped them from doing that, it's just harder with all the adults around. They were fine though, that's what shield charms are for anyway.

Lumos sits up a little straight as the professor introduces the lesson and his quill sits idly to the side, since Lumos doesn't take notes, so he clearly won't need this. The idea of turning one thing into another is cool, and he's seen both of his parents do it at different times. Given his mother is a Metamorphmagus though, that's the part that really sits with him, the ability to change one's appearance at will? He remembers when she used to make faces for him and Nox when they were really little and he loves watched her do it with Eden too. His eyes widen in fascination as he watches the quill change into a spoon and then a bird. Now if he could turn into a bird, how cool would that be? Ideal probably. The concepts all seem really complex, but he's a determined sort of person, he's going to make it work for him. He can't wait for next weeks lesson, it's going to be great, he can just tell!​

 

[Rose Edogawa]

Rose tried to push down her nerves and look entirely unbothered as Professor Odegard greeted them with a friendly smile. She wrapped her fingers around Sayuri's arm, silently begging her sister not to leave her side as the class started. She'd heard about transfiguration being one of the most powerful branches of magic, kaachan often lamenting that she found the branch difficult. She wasn't entirely sure how touchan felt about it, but he had been a better student than their mum, so she figured it would make sense that he was okay with it. He had gone on to work with Muggles though, so it was hard to tell. She watched a little fascinated as the professor started turning things into other things, surprised at how easily he went about it. Maybe it was his years in the craft, but it was still a little disheartening to watch him do it as though this was going to be the easiest thing in the world when she knew for a fact it was going to be difficult. She took a steady stream of notes, trying to pull out the bits of information she knew she would struggle with the most and added short little personal notes to them, just to make sure she wasn't forgetting the things she was trying to remember. Rose couldn't really see herself being very good at the class, but she would try. As the class finished up, she kept a tight grip on Sayuri, heading out of the class before anyone changed their mind about wanting homework.

@Sayuri Edogawa ​

 

[William Potter-Cade]

Transfiguration seemed like a cool area of magic and William was looking forward to learning it. He didn’t know much about Professor Odegard but he seemed like a pretty cool guy. William took his seat in the classroom and waited for the man to start his lesson. He started once a list of terms appeared on the board which described the seven types of transfiguration magic, William made a note of all seven then waited for Professor Odegard to go into a little more detail, William made more notes as the professor described to them the meaning of the different types, some, if not most, were pretty self explanitory but he appreciated the detail the professor was able to give them all the same. Once the lesson was over and Professor Odegard hard finished going through the types of Transfiguration, William packed up the notes he had made and made his way out of the classroom.

 

[Sayuri Edogawa]

Sayuri stepped into the Transfiguration classroom, eyeing the professor with slight wariness. Since starting Hogwarts, the Slytherin hadn't been very impressed with the collection of professors she'd had for her classes. While she knew that Elijah had enjoyed Transfiguration and that Jonah nearly failed the class, she wanted to see for herself what the professor was like. So far, at least, Professor Odegard seemed to be a fairly decent instructor. She watched as the Professor met and demonstrated different types of Transfiguration, though it did pique her interest a little, and she was curious too about something, so she raised her hand to a question. "When you transfigure an inanimate object to an animate and transfigure that again into another animate, would it then be considered animate to animate transfiguration? Or would it still be considered inanimate to animate?" Does the type of transfiguration depend on the life or lack thereof or does it depend on what can be seen? Not to mention the lack of a soul for a transfigured being and yet life was being mimicked. As the class wrapped up, Sayuri packed away her things and looked forward at the prospect of eventually performing spells on her own.​

 

[Sybil St. James]

While Sybil was still figuring herself out she was glad to have lessons to focus on in the meantime. Her holiday had been good and her father had been pleased with her grades and the progress she had made so far. Which made going into the next semester a little easier too. She took her seat for the first lesson and was ready to get to work. She didn’t know much about Transfiguration but she had remembered her old tutor telling her there was a lot of theory involved. As she got out her things to take notes she was proven right as they started covering stuff right away. There was a lot to cover but she did her best until it was finally time to leave.