Professor Jacob Carter
November 27, 2009 7:53 PM
Beginner’s transfiguration (1st & 2nd years) by Professor Jacob Carter
Jacob Carter entered his classroom wearing his dark maroon robes and set down his books. He smiled glad that he had time to set up the classroom before. There where tables all over the room with four chairs two on each side. He wrote Duro and Lentesco on the chalkboard before sitting down and watching as the first and second year students filed in.Once they were all in their seats he stood up and smiled. “Welcome to Transfiguration, I am your Transfiguration Professor, Jacob Carter. You may call me Professor Carter.” He said with a nod of his head. “Now to forewarn you all I will not allow foolish behavior as Transfiguration is a highly dangerous class, one slip up and someone has a third arm. It’s not pretty and I wish to never see anything like that again. Understood?” He waited a minute for a few nods before turning to his book and opening it.
“With Transfiguration you can turn desks into horses.” He said as he tapped his desk and a large black steed appeared where the desk was. “You can turn a horse to a doll.” Once again a doll appeared where the steed had been. “And Back again.” He finished as he tapped the doll and his cherry desk appeared he smiled at the awed faces of his students. “Yet in order to do this we must start small.”
“To begin our time together will be starting we will begin with Duro and Lentesco.” He pointed his wand at the board and in his loopy handwriting by Duro he wrote Hardens objects to stone , and by Lentesco he wrote Makes objects soft .
“Duro will harden an object so its stone while lentesco does the opposite. He picked up an aluminum can he has saved over the summer by drinking soda. They were all white as he had charmed them that color. “Watch closely.” He said as he flicked his wand and then tapped the can three times. “Duro.” The can turned grey and into a hardened stone. “Remember when you cast Duro it’s flick and three taps then the spell, it’s very important.”
He paused until the scribbling has subsided and then he nodded. “Once again watch closely.” He said as he tapped the can twice, and then flicked the wand. “Lentesco.” The can turned from stone to a jelly like can shaped substance. “When you cast Lentesco you first tap the can twice then flick your wand before saying Lentesco.” He waited until the writing had stopped before he sent a two cans to each table.
“You will work in pairs, one will cast Duro the other will cast Lentesco after that you will switch spells.” He said with a nod. “The person sitting next to you is your partner; there will be no switching seats. Everyone is to stay seated until the lesson is over. If you need me please raise your hand and I will be along in a few moments.” With that he nodded and sat down at his desk thankful he could see the whole classroom, if anyone was fooling around he would see it.
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Jose Hernandez (Pecari)
December 08, 2009 3:10 PM
So it begins by Jose Hernandez (Pecari)
Jose had pulled a reasonably good grade in transfigurations last year. Nothing to write home about (there were far more interesting things going on in the school to tell the rest of his family about than his grades), but good enough that he didn't feel too worried about the class this year. He'd pull an easy A, or maybe put in a bit of effort and manage an E, and everyone would be happy. His transfiguration skill was middle of the road and he saw little need to change that.Saul had gotten a U on his RATS, so Jose just needed to do better than that when his time came. There wasn't much pressure beyond matching his cousin's standard, such as it was, seeing as how that U made Saul the second best transfigurer in the family.
Of course, he had no illusions that he'd be able to cast transfigurations better than Saul. He was just looking to grade better. He figured doing his homework and paying attention in class ought to be enough.
To that end, he took down a few key notes into his notebook as Professor Carter explained the day's lesson. Oh, he was in no danger of being mistaken for an Aladren, but he was on a mission to prove - even in these classes taught by professors who had never met his cousin - that all California Pierces were not illiterate morons. It felt like an uphill battle sometimes; if nothing else, Saul knew how to leave a lasting impression.
Transfiguration lets people:
desk -> horse
horses -> doll
doll -> desk
(pretty neat, huh?)
Start basic. Hafta stand before you can dance. Today's Box Step:
Duro: harden to stone - flick, three taps
Lentesco: Make soft - two taps, flick
Once the notes were taken and the professor stopped talking, Jose took out his wand and regarded the aluminum can in front of him. For some reason, he was inclined to believe it had once been branded with a Sierra Mist logo, but he had no basis for that; it looked uniformly white now. It was kind of sad, really.
Well, he had his assignment. "Alright, Sierra, ready? You're about to be turned to stone, which is at least a textured gray and little more interesting, right?"
He flicked his wand and mentally counted out three taps as he cast, "Duro!"
Though this particular spell was new to him, it was pretty basic, just a material change instead of material and shape change, like he'd been doing by the end of last year, so it hardened and turned a cool mottled gray obligingly.
Jose picked it up with a satisfied grin and tapped it lightly against his desk. His ears picked out a slight tinny reverberation, but there was enough of a stone-like thunk that he felt reasonably pleased by his result. He grinned at the person sitting beside him and deposited the stone can in front of his new partner.
"Your turn," he cheerfully announced.
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Jose Hernandez (Pecari)
So it begins
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Jethro Smythe
December 10, 2009 8:33 AM
It does? by Jethro Smythe
Jethro had found transfiguration quite difficult last year. Quite often the spells didn't do what he wanted them to do, but the main problem was that his attention span didn't last long enough to take in the incantation, wand movement and what it was they were aiming for as a completed transfiguration. Besides, he didn't have a very good imagination, and that was apparently essential in achieveing a good transfiguration.His parents hadn't been much surprised by Jethro's grades following his first year. They hadn't said as much to Jethro, of course, but they still were set in the habit of speaking about him when he was present, sure he wouldn't take on board what had been said. For the most part, this was true, but hearing his sister making excuses for him had let Jethro put two and two together. He hadn't passed every class - in fact he had failed most of them. Luckily Sonora didn't require him to retake grades, otherwise Jethro would graduate in his thrities. As it was, he just wanted to pass as many classes as he was able. Transfiguration might not be one of them.
Jethro took a seat a did his best to pay attention. He watched the desk change into a horse then a doll then a desk and that confused him enough that when cans were thrown into the occasion as well he found it much simpler to just watch a dustball that was dancing around in the corner of the room. So when the person next to him - Jose, a boy in Jethro's year who he knew a little - said it was his turn, Jethro was completely befuddled. "My turn for what?" he asked.
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It does?
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Jose Hernandez
December 10, 2009 9:42 AM
Yeah, I'm pretty sure. It begins. by Jose Hernandez
Though 'my turn for what?' had not been the response Jose had been expecting, upon further consideration of his partner, it should have been. If Saul flirted with the edge of ADD, Jose was pretty sure Jethro had wandered well beyond that line. Of course, it wasn't like half his family wasn't easily given to distraction. He was used to needing to work to maintain people's attention. Jose accepted the challenge of getting not only himself but also Jethro to pass the day's assignment."We're turning cans," he lifted Jethro's still-aluminum one and put it back down. "Into stone," he picked up his own mostly-stone can and thumped in back into place. "Then we trade off and make them soft. Here," he shifted his notebook over so Jethro could read what Jose had written down. His handwriting was reasonably legible, so he wasn't too concerned that that might pose a problem. "Those are the spells." He tapped his finger against the last two lines.
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Yeah, I'm pretty sure. It begins.
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Jethro
December 10, 2009 11:28 AM
Okay. You lead, I'll follow. by Jethro
Exasperated sighs, rolling eyes and expressed disappointment were the sorts of things Jethro expected from conversations with others, particularly concerning classwork. What he hadn't been expecting Jose to re-explain the class to him, and even pass over some notes. "Thank you," Jethro said, sounding mildly surprised by the turn of events. "I sometimes need to be told things more than once," he said, and it was repetition of something he'd frequently been told rather than a modest excuse."That's a good stone can," he told Jose, pointing at the transfiguration his classmate had already completed. Then he looked back at Jose's notes, because they were there for his benefit so it would be quite rude to ignore them "Duro," Jethro said, reading the word aloud. "A flick and three taps - oh, with your wand." Looking at the white can in front of him, Jethro picked up his wand (which he had at least remembered to take from his bag at the start of the lesson), flicked it from his wrist and tapped the wand three times, and then he incanted the spell. It was easier than usual to imagine the outcome because he could see Jose's stone can sitting right on the desk before him. Therefore his surprise was less than it otherwise would have been when his can did turn grey in color and adopt a grainy texture. "Oh wow," Jethro said, because although the transfiguration was probably just visual, it was better than he usually managed on his first attempt. "Thank you," he said again to Jose, sounding effusive, and yet still a little surprised.
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Okay. You lead, I'll follow.
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Jose
December 10, 2009 2:52 PM
I think I can handle that by Jose
Jose quirked a quick grin at Jethro's admission that he sometimes needed to be told things more than once. "Don't worry about it. My whole family would never get anything done if we weren't told what to do in triplicate." He suspected that was part of why the Matriarch/Aunt-and-Uncle/Cousin system had evolved. The cousins weren't responsible to just one set of parents, but to every set of parents, because, presumably, one of them would eventually get across whatever message needed to be imparted to the kids under their charge.Merlin only knew how many times Regina or Maria or Joshua or whoever was in charge now had to say something to get the aunts and uncles in line. Bo Pierce was an Uncle, after all. Jethro was downright focused in comparison to Saul's father.
Jethro had even gotten the duro spell to work. "Great!" Jose congratulated and picked up the can to bring it over to his desk. Though it looked stone-like, it dented in at the sides like an empty aluminum can would. He decided not to mention it. Jethro probably needed the confidence, and it wasn't going to hinder Jose's ability to use the softening spell on it.
He put it down directly in front of him, and cast, "Lentesco!" Jose gave the faux-stone can a double tap of his wand and then flicked the length of cedar wood over it. In his mind, he pictured a cylinder of store-bought cranberry sauce, still indented with its can's ribbing and jiggling a little as it stood on end.
It almost worked. It turned a cranberry color and jiggled. And then it collapsed in on itself and made a pile of goo.
"Huh." Jose poked at it with the tip of his wand. It jiggled some more. "Well, it got soft," he commented, deciding to look on the bright side and count the attempt as a success.
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Jose
I think I can handle that
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