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.
OOC: Normal posting length be creative and have fun
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Jude Normandy
November 28, 2009 3:56 PM
Rocks and Jell-O. Crazy day! by Jude Normandy
Being a wizard, Jude Normandy had decided, was rather complicated. First, there were all new classes to adjust to. Even though he’d never attended ‘real’ school—his parents had homeschooled him—and tended to do his lessons on the roof, in trees, or wherever else he felt inclined to do them, he’d still learned normal subjects like English, maths, Spanish, and science. Now, he had to learn things like Charms, Transfigurations, and Care of Magical Creatures. And while it was definitely cool that he could move things around using only his mind and a stick, it was also kind of confusing. Also, there were new sports to adjust to. Jude had never been a sportsy kind of guy, but the Pecari felt kind of compelled to at least think about Quidditch, since all the other first years seemed to be doing it.But now it was time for Transfigurations, which seemed to Jude to be the weirdest part of magic. Charms made sense. Care of Magical Creatures was just about, well, different sorts of animals. But turning something into something else? Jude wasn’t sure how that was going to jive with him. Time to find out!
The first year walked into the classroom, picked a desk, and sat down at it. He didn’t particularly seek someone out; Jude figured that if someone wanted to sit with him, they would. Thus far he hadn’t had much trouble making friends, so why restrict himself to just a few people or just one group? Que será será he nodded to himself as the Professor began speaking.
Professor Carter, right. Things were going swimmingly until the Professor mentioned growing a third arm, and Jude’s blue eyes went very big, very fast. Nobody had mentioned that part of this class! The eleven year old was fairly certain that human beings were only supposed to have two arms. Two arms, two legs, two eyes...there was definitely some sort of divine pattern here that Jude was not particularly inclined to mess up. In order to make sure that didn’t happen, he paid strict attention to the next words that Professor Carter spoke. Three arms....
The horse was cool, although surprising, and the doll was equally shocking, but the desk was nice and normal. Jude was fairly relieved when the class was instructed to ‘start small’ and informed that they would just be hardening and softening things for that class. That was weird. In Jude’s world, that seemed more like a Charms type of thing, but he supposed the teacher would know best. Maybe the Pecari had to re-think some of the hopeful barriers he had put up in his mind between subjects.
“So, partners it is,” Jude said with a grin, turning to the person next to him. “Rocks or gelatin?”
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Starbuck Gregory
November 28, 2009 4:18 PM
Too bad it's not Jell-O we could eat! by Starbuck Gregory
Starbuck wasn’t sure about this new Professor he seemed kind of strict and she disliked strict Professors. She was amazed as he turned the desk into all sorts of things. Would she be able to do that one day? She wondered to herself as he began lecturing. She took out a pen and a notebook not caring if she was an outcast because of her muggle notebook and pen. She had her mother send her some after the first couple of days and losing her notes over and over again.She swept her hair behind her ear and smiled at the boy next to her. She knew him by sight as Jude the only first year boy in Pecari with her. Yet they had never interacted before now. She smiled as Professor Carter released them to work in their pairs. “Rocks or gelatin?” Jude said before she could even open her mouth to say something.
“I’ll take gelatin, so you could go first.” She said with a smile. Though the real reason was to not make a fool of herself by blowing something up. So far in the other classes she had done well but this one seemed tough. “I’m Starbuck we are in the same house just haven’t had a chance to talk yet.”
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Too bad it's not Jell-O we could eat!
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Jude
November 29, 2009 2:35 PM
I dunno, we might turn into Hippogriffs or something by Jude
It was pretty cool that the girl next to him was one of his Housemates. Jude recognised her by sight, but couldn’t recall having talked to her before. That was cool, though. The brown-haired first year enjoyed making new friends, especially new friends in his House. So far he’d met Delilah-with-the-shoes and Mel-with-the-voice and Jose, his roommate. Looking down at his own feet, Jude wiggled his toes a little bit and grinned. The first day of school he’d swapped shoes with Jose, mostly because Jose wanted new shoes and Jude wanted no shoes. Apparently it was school policy or something about wearing shoes to class, but Jude spent most of his time barefoot anyway, so he didn’t mind wearing Jose’s decades-old shoes with inscriptions from people he didn’t know about people he didn’t know.If the eleven-year-old had to wear shoes, they should at least have some character to them.
The girl next to him hadn’t introduced herself before responding with her preference of spell, so for a few seconds Jude scrambled for her name. Thankfully, she introduced herself. The eleven-year-old grinned in response. Starbuck sounded like that coffee shop Jude’s dad enjoyed cussing about. Jude sincerely hoped for his partner’s sake that her parents weren’t consumerist enough to name her after a successful corporation that made its money by disregarding human rights. His own parents had named him after the Beatles song, though, so he supposed that he was predisposed to care about things like that and reminded himself that not every first year had the sort of open-minded upbringing that he had.
“Yeah, cool!” Jude responded. “I’m Jude, I recognise you from the Commonroom. You play Quidditch too, right?” That was kind of unfortunate. The boy had been looking forward to a Quidditch-free conversation. Maybe he should’ve joined the team instead of making a face and moving on. It seemed like the one really social activity around Sonora.
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I dunno, we might turn into Hippogriffs or something
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Starbuck
December 02, 2009 4:30 PM
That could be cool too by Starbuck
Starbuck smiled when he said he recognized her from the common room she nodded when he asked about Quidditch. “I tired out for it but I’m not sure how well it went.” She frowned and then shrugged. “If I didn’t make it though I’ll have fun being in the cheering section.” She brushed her red hair out of her face and smiled.“So do you like school so far? I do, it’s very different from my home.” She said with a smile as she began to read over her notes. She pulled out her wand and picked up the can looking all around it. “All this is, is a soda can.” She frowned and then shrugged. She was nervous about doing the spell but knew she had to try or no grade. She briefly wondered what would happen if she flunked a subject in wizarding school, would they kick her out?
She picked up the wand pursed her lips together. Gripping the wand loosely she tapped the can twice, and then flicked the wand. “Lentesco.” She said and to her surprise the very tip of the can began to turn into jello it only went half way down. She frowned at Jude and rubbed her head. “I must have done that wrong.”
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That could be cool too
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Jude
December 08, 2009 2:53 PM
Cool Ice, man by Jude
“I’m sure you were super,” Jude grinned, pushing his long-ish brown hair out of his eyes. He was going to have to figure out some way to get it cut soon or he wouldn’t be able to see, and that wouldn’t go too well. It was awesome rooming with Jose and even cooler being in Pecari House (because he was pretty sure all the rest of the Houses were boring), but he kind of wondered some days if he was going to wake up to a dorm room right out of The Parent Trap. The first year wouldn’t have put it past most of his Housemates to do something like that. Except magical. Which was probably worse, because magical shaving cream probably stuck better, or sang, or turned different colours or something like that. True story.“School is pretty cool,” the Pecari answered, with an amused smile at his accidental rhyme. “Soooo different, yeah. Like, if I were at home I would totally be in a tree right now or something. Or helping my dad in the studio. Or like, studying science or math. Probably not turning cans into jelly,” of course, if that was some new environmental thing his mother probably would take him on a field trip to do just that, but that was fine by Jude. He enjoyed the field trips that his mother, who worked for the National Park Service, occasionally took him on. They were usually pretty interesting and definitely enviromentally friendly. That was good, because Jude liked the environment. Some of his best friends were trees.
Jude couldn’t help but laugh when Starbuck tried to turn the can to Jell-O like Professor Carter had done, and only got it half-way down. He poked the top half with a finger, making a face at the cool, almost slimy texture of it.
“Grossssss,” he laughed, now poking the bottom of the can which was still steadfastly aluminum. “I wonder if it’s better to turn cans into jelly, or recycle them. Did you know that making new cans out of recycled aluminum only uses 5% of the energy you would use normally to make a can? Isn’t that cool? I mean like, just think of how much energy we could save if we all recycled and stuff!” The boy’s eyes lit up in excitement. He was totally into the whole environmental thing, and his brain was now rotating around what could maybe be done with magic. If they could just use magic cans or something then the whole problem would be solved, right?
“Whoops,” Jude realised he was supposed to try the spell now too. “Uhm. Lentesco,” the brown-haired boy tried, doing the requisite wand-motion, albeit tentatively. This time, instead of turning into Jell-O, the can melted into a sickly green puddle onto the desk. Jude looked at it with one eyebrow cocked. “I don’t think it likes us,” he decided.
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Cool Ice, man
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