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(13/4/04 8:25 pm) Reply
Transfiguration: Tortoises and TeacupsOOC: My apologies for any lack of quality in this lesson. I'm only doing it because we really need to have class!
McGonagall looked sternly over her squarish glasses as the class assembled.
"Good morning, class. Please take out your homework and pass it to the front of the row. Mr. Pettigrew, please take them up and put them on my desk. Thank you.
OOC: If there wasn't homework before, there is now. Everyone did it unless it's characteristic or plot-advancing for your character not to do homework.
"Today we will transfigure tortoises into teacups," McGonagall began, placing the smallOOC: See? reptiles on each desk. "Likely a positive change from the subjects of last class, which, by the way, are happily back to being spiders and living out the remainder of their short, carnivorous lives. Now, as for tortoises, would anyone like to tell me why being turned into a teacup does not harm the tortoise?"
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(13/4/04 8:38 pm) Reply
Re: Transfiguration: Tortoises and Teacups
"Because it's so slow it might as well be inanimate?" Morgan asked, forgetting to raise her hand and swallowing a giggle.
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(14/4/04 3:22 pm) Reply
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"Believe it or not, Miss Bendigeid, you are on the right track too.
"Class, think about other transfiguring you've done, a match into a needle, for instance. Why a match into a needle? - aside from the fact that that's what I told you to do."
James raised his hand, "Well, a match and a needle are pretty similar, aren't they? In shape and size and whatnot."
McGonagall nodded with a satisfied expression, "Precisely. Now apply that to the tortoise and the teacup..."
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Tortoises
Rose groaned. Transfiguration was her worst subject, and this discussion was not making alot of sense to her. BW
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(15/4/04 5:31 pm) Reply
Re: Tortoises
OOC: Aw, ruin all my fun, why doncha.
IC:
"Need help?" Morgan asked Rose on hearing the other's moan.
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(15/4/04 7:50 pm) Reply
Re: Tortoises
McGonagall looked around with pursed lips and a tiny sigh. No one was getting into the discussion. She'd wanted them to come to the conclusion themselves.
She gave the class a sweeping look that said loud and clear, Take notes! "You see, animals, when they are turned into something with similar properties, are not harmed. They exist as themselves in a sort of suspended, pleasant state of being. They also easily change into something similar - dissimilarity causes discomfort like putting a too-small shoe on the wrong foot Even Animagi can't control what they turn into. It's a difficult bit of magic, so there's no way you could make it harder by chosing what you become safely.
"With tortoises or Animagi, however, they are NOT really teacups or pincushions or cats or what have you. They still keep their minds and instincts. So if you turn anything into something it isn't and bang it around, it's going to really want to bite you. Just like if you pet me when I'm a cat, I'm going to feel decidedly rumpled."
Her lecture continued for some minutes. When she finished she clapped her hands, "So, now that you've had plenty of time to sympathize with your poor little tortoise, let's see if you can change it. I'll tell you now it will be more difficult, because you're thinking about it more. A lot of being able to do good transfiguration is having good brains and not actively using them. Know that and try anyway." She folded her arms and surveyed the class' attempts.
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(16/4/04 5:54 am) Reply
Poor Turtles!
"This is not going to be pretty," Lizzie stated plainly to absolutely no one. "I'm sorry little guy, or girl, or, well, whatever you are." She raised her wand and almost started the spell, but then brought her wand back down again and looked at the turtle. "There's no way turning you into a piece of dishware won't hurt you," she said to it. So, she looked around the classroom waiting to see if someone else was going to transfigure their turtle.
Aaron took out his wand, pointed it at the tortiose, and muttered the spell. b[/b] Where the tortoise had been there was a small (and slightly scaly, Aaron thought with dismay) goblet.
They're TORTISES, not TURTLES!
Rose groaned again. "It's going to be harder?! It's hard enough as it is!" She looked at her tortoise, that looked a little pathetic, she thought, and cast the spell. There was a small *pop* and there wasn't a tortoise, but a perfectly formed, although a bit greenish, teacup. She gaped in Astonishment. It had WORKED?
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(16/4/04 9:24 pm) Reply
close enough!
"Nice job," Lizzie said when she saw Rose's teacup. She turned to the tortise. "Sorry little guy," she said as she quickly waved her wand. There was a "pop" sound and then she saw her teacup. I was almost perfect...it was the pefect color, and size, but right where there was supposed to be a handle, there was a tail. "Oh, shoot," she said to herself. "Um, professor? I think I need some help here," she said aloud, trying to catch the professor's attention.
Re: Transfiguration: Tortoises and Teacups
After a couple more tries Aaron got it perfectly. Well, almost perfectly. It looked like it had never been a tortiose, but if he turned it over he could tell there had once been feet. Well, almost anyway.
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(17/4/04 8:04 am) Reply
Re: Transfiguration: Tortoises and Teacups
Morgan tried to scare up pity for the tortoise, but it just didn't bother her as much as it evidently did her classmates.
"Being a teacup's probably fun, little guy," she murmured under her breath. The spell, and then - one lovely, milk-white teacup with all its proportions correct.
Although she didn't think it was supposed to have scales.
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(17/4/04 8:30 am) Reply
Re: Transfiguration: Tortoises and Teacups
McGonagall spot-checked her student's progress.
"Aaron, you're holding your wand wrong," she adjusted it in his hand, "Rose, your tortoise is being stubborn - turn it back and then try again and it should be white."
McGonagall eyed Lizzie's tortoise and cast Lizzie a reproving glance. "You're still thinking about hurting the tortoise. It's not going to him any harm to be a cup for a while. And you stop that," McGonagall poked the tortoise, who was giving Lizzie a baleful look, "you know it doesn't feel like anything."
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Re: Transfiguration: Tortoises and Teacups
Aaron re-adjusted his wand and tryed again. It didn't look any diferent from the top, but he turned it over and there weren't any feet!
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(17/4/04 10:38 am) Reply
Lizzie
Lizzie gave a slight laugh when the professor addressed the tortoise. "Sorry professor, I'll try again." She waved her wand and said the incantation. Before her eyes se saw her turtle turn into a teacup. A tail-less teacup this time.
Rosalee
Rose turned her tea cup back to a tortoise, then took a breath. Ok, here goes. She re-did the spell. The tea cup re-appeared with a *pop!*....still slightly green. Stubborn, stubborn tortoise, Rose thought. Being white won't hurt you!
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(17/4/04 4:02 pm) Reply
Attempt Number Two
Morgan sighed - she didn't think that a scaly teacup, no matter how white and well-formed, would get past McGonagall's scrutiny for long. She untransfigured the tortoise before doing it again - more slowly this time.
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Gwen prodded her tortoise with her wand, causing it to freeze and grow a handle-shaped spine from its back. "This really isn't working," she muttered under her breath...and tried again.
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