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[Professor Penvellyn]

As the years went by, Eleanor had come to the conclusion that second years had the easiest classes of them all. First years were still struggling to get a firm handle on their powers and she had a few complaints that the lessons just weren’t taxing enough. Third years and above were focusing on upcoming exams. Thus, second year was clearly the victor.

Penvellyn thus strove to make the lessons more fun, albeit difficult. Upon each desk was a cage that contained a pair of delicately soft fluffy rabbits. Each set was as close to identical to the other one as Eleanor could manage to acquire. After all, what good was a pair of unmatched slippers? The two that sat on her own desk were dappled grey and white. One pushed its nose through the gap between the bars and Eleanor petted its soft head.

Hopefully the children would enjoy the lesson as much as she did, particularly because they might get something out of it besides new information. She stood very tall and proud next to her desk at the front of the room while the first few students arrived. She nodded in reply to their greetings, but never said anything until everyone was in their seats; it served no purpose to repeat herself when the students were too busy chatting or looking about to listen.

[Orion Baines]

"Good morning professor" said Orion politely as he came into the room. The Slytherin wished he could be good at transfiguration which seemed to be about the most difficult Hogwarts subject and the one where mastery most impressed. Unfortunately, he was rather bad at it and the best he could hope for was a respectable OWL grade after which he could abandon it in favour of something he was actually good at.

Orion was not at all keen on animals which were dirty and smelly and the sort of thing that other people dealt with before handing them over to you ready for riding/eating/wearing as appropriate. He eyed the rabbits with distaste and hoped he would be turning them into something less alive and more useful

[Adelaine Beaumont]

((OOC: eep, i put DADA first until i realized it was transfiguration.))

Adele rushed down to the first floor and into the slightly chilly Transfiguration classroom. She was under the impression that she would be late, but saw that there were only a few students seated. She took out the pocket watch her father had given her over the holidays and glanced down at it; five minutes late.

"Er, hello professor," she smiled sheepishly.

She looked at the watch again; it implied that she was now six minutes late. With a frown, she realized someone must have bewitched it and sank into a desk at the back of the room. It wasn't until she nearly knocked it over that she noticed the small cage on her desk. Two white and brown rabbits stared out at her as she looked around the room. What could they be using bunnies for?

Edited by Adelaine Beaumont, 06 December 2011 - 09:58 PM.

[Ellenore Clark]

Ellen skipped through the halls on her way to Transfiguration. She knew she was a few minutes late,so she decided to make her entrance as big as possible. She strode in and threw her arms up in the air dramatically.
"I. Have arrived," she said with a dazzling smile. She quickly headed to her seat and stared at the rabbits in the cage.
"Why on earth are there two nasty creatures infecting my learning space?" she asked herself.

[Allison Cassidy Rose]

Allison smiled gently and called a greeting to the professor as she made her way into Transfiguration. Only a few students had gathered and their were plenty of empty seats to choose from. A desk near the front seemed to be calling her name, and only once she had taken a seat did she notice the cages of rabbits on each desk. sticking her finger through the bars she gently petted the soft head of the snowy furred rabbit before her. The warm smile on her face quickly lost its place as she realized these creatures would be the subject of their spells today. Knowing how easily spells went wrong, she spent the remainder to the time before class fretting over the innocent rabbits safety.

[Professor Penvellyn]

“Students, please take your seats quickly, we have quite a lot of work to do this morning.” Eleanor patiently waited for the sound of scrapping chair legs to subside. “There we are, now, as you can see, you each have a pair of similar or identical looking rabbits. It is the goal of this lesson to teach you to transfigure them into matching furry slippers. Any questions?” The spell was rudimentary and overly stressed in some areas of the world. Penvellyn hoped her second years would be able to handle the task after one or two lessons.

Approaching the chalkboard, Eleanor wrote the incantation “Lepedibus” above a drawing of a sideways figure eight with a straight line from where the two circles joined going down. “Watch carefully,” she instructed, placing the chalk at the center of the drawing. “You’ll start here, move to the left counter clockwise, pass through the middle, move clockwise around the right half of the image, and then point your wand down sharply.” The reason the spell was so difficult to grasp was the fact that the incantation and wand movement hardly lined up.

“I suggest you all take a moment or two in order to make a fluid motion with your wand. Go ahead and say the incantation if you wish, you shouldn’t product a spell without meaning to at this point in your education.” First years were always a liability and Eleanor maintained the idea of keeping wands down on the desk during the first half of any lesson. But second years, nearly third years with Spring well on the way, were expected to have better control.

“You have five minutes to practice, and I expect to see at the very least rabbits without legs by the end of the lesson.” Actually, she really only hoped that none of the students managed to duplicate the creatures; they seemed to multiply on their own quite well.

[Ellenore Clark]

Ellen practiced the wand motion. She wasn't worried about the incantation. After she was confident with the movements, she studied the rabbits. She waved the wand again. Next, she would pair the movements with the incantation.

"Lepedibus," she said, waving the wand. She frowned as the rabbits only slightly changed, the legs had disappeared. She giggled at how odd the rabbits now looked.
"Lepedibus!" she said again. The rabbits did happen to turn into slippers, the problem was, they still had ears. "At least they look cute!" Ellen said successfully.

[Orion Baines]

Orion thought it would be rather mean to leave the poor rabbits without legs, even if the professor could doubtless restore them instantly. He really wasn't looking forward to learning human transfiguration in the later years of his Hogwarts career, he could comfort himself with the knowledge that he probably wouldn't ever be good enough at tramsfiguration to attempt it.

He decided it would be sensible to get a clear idea in his head of what he wanted the finished slippers to look like, not that he really wanted fluffy white slippers. Or wanted them at all actually. Wafting his wand absent mindedly in the direction of his rabbits, he was distinctly surprised to observe their fur gradually darkening. Well at least he'd done something too them. Perhaps he had better get on and try and learn the spell he was supposed to be doing.

[Adelaine Beaumont]

Adelaine practiced the wand movement, then looked rather pitifully at the two rabbits in front of her. Did they really want to be changed into slippers? She doubted it. Then again, where was this concern when she (disgustedly, of course) turned beetles into buttons?

"Lepedibus," she said pointedly, her wand directed to the shabby bunnies. A few feet disappeared, and they seemed to get considerably furrier, but not much more than that happened. Hopefully she would get better results by her third try...or fiftieth.

[Professor Penvellyn]

Though Eleanor had only intended for the students to perhaps wave their wands or attempt the incantation, she certainly couldn’t chastise anyone for diving right in. She watched with mild amusement as some students diligently mastered the movement while others struggled as if they had just purchased their wands the day before. Walking between the seats, Eleanor made quiet suggestions to those that seemed to be unable to grasp the concept. “Make the movement less rigid… You’re missing the middle syllable… You shouldn’t be eating in class!”

Thankfully, there were no disasters or hijinks. None of the rabbits grew fangs and none of the students shot anything hazardous from their wands. Considering it a productive day, Eleanor decided to allow the students to leave ten minutes early. “Be certain to do the readings; there will be a quiz at the start of the next lecture over the topics to be covered next week.” She doubted half of the students had heard over the scraping of wooden chair legs on stone floor.

As the bodies filed out of the room, Eleanor moved from one table to another, rounding up the rabbits and setting them back to their original state. She carefully petted the soft fur and made sure they were all accounted for before carrying them to her office and locking them inside.

[Adelaine Beaumont]

Adelaine frowned as her rabbits still sat there being....well, rabbits. Crossly, she straightened the cage on her desk and stared at them. Perhaps telepathy would come into play; would willing them to turn into slippers work?

"Turn into slippers this time, you two," she whispered, pointing her wand at them again and taking a deep breath. "Lepedibus."

With a small twitch, the furry critters became even furrier and flattened a bit. But that was it. Before she knew it, the professor was bidding them farewell and the students were filing out. Wasn't it early? Adele quietly gathered her things, deciding she was in no hurry. With one more look at her rabbits, she sauntered to the from of the room.

"Er, professor, I assume you'll be changing them back," she rendered anxiously, glancing back at the flattened rabbits. "I'm a bit worried about them in this state..Bye!"

With that said, Adele headed out of the classroom and onto her next class, pushing the disfigured bunnies out of her mind.