Once everyone was done they took a brief break to ease their minds a bit before the second portion of the class began. "how could you just let me suffer like that I thought we were friends!?" Tracy asked dramatically. "You could see the board just as well as I could , besides I was the first person here so I got started earlier than everyone else is all." Nick said with a scoff. "I'm still mad and I'll only forgive you if you give me a special spell no one else knows!" she said while puffing out her cheeks. -
"Looks like I'll never be forgiven , oh well." Nick said with a shrug as he began to lovingly polish his wand with a special potion made just for that purpose. "Oi! I was just joking , don't give up so easily!" Tracy said in a panic. "I am aware , what would you ever do without me after all?" Nick said with a grin. "Wow , arrogant much?" she teased. "Arrogance is talking big when you can't back it up , Confidence is knowing that you can." Nick said wisely. Tracy rolled her eyes "yes yes , I get it , your soooo great." she said in exasperation.-
"Just so we're clear on that." Nick said with a chuckle. Soon enough their break was over and Mcgonagall waved her wand causing a single match to be placed in front of each student. "Your task for the next three lessons is to use the knowledge you have just obtained to turn your match into a needle. you may begin." she said before standing at the front of the class to overlook the students. Nick barely had to do anything as he simply pointed at the match with his wand and spoke "VERTO!". Immediately his match turned into a perfect golden threading needle including the hole at the blunt end.-
Mcgonagall and everyone else was left dumbfounded at how easy he made it look since he succeeded spectacularly on his first try. "10 points for Gryffindor for being the first to succeed." Mcgonagall said plainly since she had a sneaking suspicion that Nick was going to cause her headaches. Tracy attempted to copy Nick but her match merely grew slightly more pointy on one end and she pouted. "Afraid this isn't one of those things I can really give advice on since it's based on the person doing the spell rather than the spell itself." Nick said with a helpless shrug when he saw the begging look a few people gave him.-
"You are quite correct Mr. Iron , but what should we have you do now that this task is clearly inadequate?" Mcgonagall said loud enough for everyone to hear. Nick fell into thought for a moment before causing a golden galleon show up on the table in front of him. "How's about a game i just came up with then?" nick asked with a smile. Mcgonagall seemed interested "Oh? And what might the rules of this game be?" she asked curiously.-
"It's quite simply really , since I can only do inanimate to inanimate transfigurations currently the topic will be that. So to begin with I will transfigure this coin with many visible flaws and then you'll transfigure it into something else but with one less flaw. We will repeat this over and over again until one of us can't any more. Materials can be reused but shapes and materials must always be a different combination in such a case." Nick explained eagerly. "Both an exercise in transfiguration and memory? Very well I shall indulge you." Mcgonagall said before transfiguring an intricate and comfy chair out of the stone floor.-
Nick changed the coin at first into a wooden sphere but many parts were still golden and it was uneven and dented all over , a terrible transfiguration really. Mcgonagall then waved her wand turning it into a small quill only slightly less flawed than the sphere before it. This went back and forth for the remainder of the class to the point it started to get really heated. Mcgonagall didn't even realize that the rest of the class wasn't doing their assigned work as they watched the game instead.
Over time most of the flaws vanished but due to the rules at least one visible flaw must always remain so that flaw started to get harder and harder to spot. Right before the end of the class Mcgonagall played a little dirty to win by turning the thing into a small glass statue of a bird but with a single sand grain sized piece being ice instead. Nick looked and looked but simply couldn't find the flaw until she pointed it out announcing her victory. She clearly enjoyed the game as she was smiling widely and she didn't even assign homework to the class.
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