Transfiguration 1:6

Lesson Six: Learning Gemelitiar (book into a jewellery box)​

"Good morning everyone, today's lesson will be kept relatively short." Leif said cheerfully as his students took their seat. "To begin, I would like you all to please pull out your textbook and place it on your desk. For a spell. We aren't doing more theory, you can all relax." He waited for everyone to pull out their books, nodding once it looked like every desk had one. "Good. Today, we are going to turn these books into jewelry boxes. Or trinket boxes, whatever you like to think of it as."

Leif paused as several students oohed at the thought. He walked over to his desk and pulled out a book of his own to be used in the demonstration. "We will, of course, be using the three tap method as usual. The incantation is 'Gemelitiar.' Like this." Professor Odegard tapped his book three times and incanted the spell, "Gemelitiar" and the book immediately changed into a beautiful jewelry box made of mahogany wood, inscribed with sentences from the books pages in reference to its previous form. Garnets and opals accented the boxes lid.

"Easy. Try to visualise a box that suits you and what you like, draw on familiar things that are easy to visualise, or memories of jewelry boxes you've seen before. I would like all of you to begin, I will be walking around as always. After you are done, use the rest of your time to study. Exams are right around the corner after all."

Note: "Finite" is a counter-spell, not Untransfiguration, and shouldn't be used to reverse any transfigurations.

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Roleplay attempting to turn your book into a jewellery box for full marks.

 

[Victoria de Lacey]

It was hard to believe she would be heading back to see her mother in a few short weeks. Rory would be graduating, she will have completed all of her exams, and then she will have to see off most of the people she'd been getting to know over the year, and just hope nothing major happened over the break to make them not want to be her friends when second year rolled around. It was... strange to think any of this was happening, and it left her feeling quite pensive as she walked into her final transfiguration class of the year - she hoped she'd learned enough to pass her exams, that's all she could bring herself to worry about for the moment. The professor let them know that this wasn't just a review, but they would be learning one final spell, and she raised an eyebrow curiously. She wouldn't have time to really get this one into her repertoire if that was the case, but she supposed she could deal with it. Her fingers hovered over her textbook as she tried to grab hold of the racing thoughts in her head, ideas for what he box could look like. She closed her eyes for a moment, trying to picture her mother's jewellery box back home - she would be able to see it in person in a few short weeks. It was a delicate little thing, filled with some of Tori's most favourite of her mum's possessions. They didn't have much, but they had what they needed and that had always been enough.

Tori took a breath, tapped her book three times with her finger to practice, before pulling her wand out of her robes and placing it on top of the book. "Gemelitiar", she wasn't saying the spell to use it yet, only to practice how the words sound. She had never been a note taker and so she'd found this had always been the best way for her to learn something. She picked up the wand again, closed her eyes and tapped the box three times before whispering, "Gemelitiar". She opened one eye, peeked at the book and frowned, nothing seemed to have happened. Determined, she steadied her focus and tried again, imagining the fine details in her mind, something to match the outlandish decor of her bedroom, and still be similar to the one her mum had. Polished wood, the soft interior of it, the small, hidden compartments, the way the outside was smoothed over with years of use. This time, with a softer shimmer, her book began to change, its cover taking on a warm wooden tone, intricate carvings forming along the edges. When it was done, her book had turned into a lovely jewellery box, simple yet familiar, with a sweet touch of her own design and style.​

 

[Winnie Calida]

It felt odd to Winnie that she was already at the end of the first year of her schooling, that everything had gone mostly to plan. She knew that this last stretch would be the deciding factor, but she was hopeful that her parents would be happy. She felt sure she’d manage to pass everything well. She had been working hard on it. The slytherin was getting herself together and then headed out of the dorm room and to her first class of this final week of her first year.

Winnie walked into the transfiguration classroom and took her usual spot in the room. She looked to the professor and though she was eager to get to the spell, she was pretty unimpressed about the fact that they would be using their textbooks for the spell. She listened along and took a couple of notes from what the professor was telling them, and then when they were supposed to, she took her wand and then her textbook. She pointed her wand at it and tapped three times before saying ”Gemelitiar,”. She had to do the spell a couple of times before it worked and then when it did, she made sure the professor changed it back before she left the room.