{Transfiguration Classroom, Hogwarts}
{2nd Sep 1991}
{3rd Person POV}
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"Are you okay?" Daphne asked as she looked at Rigel. The boy had been surprisingly calm as he read through the detailed reports where his name was being dragged through the mud.
"Yeah, a little excited, did you know what the transfiguration spell is, I couldn't find it in our books," Rigel replied. He looked entirely unconcerned about the reports.
'He's not that much of an idiot to take things like public opinion lightly. Does he have a plan?' She thought.
"Yeah, unlike charms or Potions, the spells used in Transfiguration can be a little more dangerous so other than the theory you would not find anything useful in the textbooks. Everything would be taught to us in the class." Daphne replied. Rigel nodded as he looked back as Prof. McGonagall walked out of the room with Harry Potter in tow.
The savior of the wizarding world looked a little better than he did in the morning, his outburst in the Great Hall did shock Rigel but he would not blame him considering the photo of his Godfather was printed on the front page of the newspaper.
'At least the story remained the same, with Sirius in Azkaban the tragic ending to the golden friendship between the Marauders would have remained canon. I don't need to touch any of that for a little while though so everything is okay for now.' Rigel though. He noticed that Harry was staring at him for a little bit before he stopped.
'If the Boy-Who-Lived came after me for revenge then this would become quite cliche.' Rigel thought as he looked at Minerva. Her green dress was cut in a deep v-neck displaying a good amount of cleavage with a black bra. Whoever was responsible for the revolution in wizarding clothing needed to be given a raise or two.
While the older girls wore a more translucent shirt under their robes his year hadn't caught onto the fashion trends yet. He was looking forward to that as much as he was looking forward to Prof. McGonagall's animagus transfiguration. What he was hoping for didn't happen though he received a slight nod from the Professor.
'Don't tell me because of Harry we don't get to see the animagus transformation,' Rigel thought. The story was already changing a little as the ramifications of the age difference pulled the story away from canon. In canon, Ron and Harry overslept because frankly they were 11 and their sense of responsibility was next to nothing.
'Here though not only did they wake up on time, they went to breakfast where Harry saw the misfortune of his family plastered on the front page.' Rigel thought. The system or whatever was in control of the story before had pulled canon events together with forceful interventions but now that he was in the world, the carefully crafted web was starting to unravel.
'Now not only Harry knows about Sirius Black 2 years early, but I have to deal with his questions as well. And wasn't Harry's first class potions, why are our timetables different than canon.' Many questions and changes
~Chime~ ~Thud~
The clock struck 9:00 and with a wave of her wand, Prof. McGonagall closed the doors. Her back as straight as ever she gave everyone a stern look and the little murmurs that were going around stopped. She looked at the quiet classroom in satisfaction before she began, "Transfiguration is some of the most complex and dangerous magic you will learn at Hogwarts..."
"...Anyone messing around in my class will leave and not come back. You have been warned." Her starting speech was the same as canon much to Rigel's relief but the detail was a lot more in-depth as she began her demonstration. She took a step back until she was right beside her desk and with almost a playful wave the desk... transformed.
Rigel didn't have a correct way to describe the process as it looked like reality was shifting. The desk collapsed into itself, its texture vanished, its color changed and a moment later a pig stood in its place. The process was... magical, it looked like a desk one second and a pig the next. The whole change wasn't instantaneous but there was too much to see that he couldn't describe.
At the same time, his mana sense gave him an entirely different answer, the desk before had been plain, devoid of any mana with but the most basic runes etched onto it. After the spell changed, molded its shape and structure into a pig, its whole surface, and even from the inside, it was brimming with mana.
'The change is a lot more thorough than a surface-level illusion, the desk is really a pig right now, but is it alive? Surely not?' Rigel thought.
"What I did was an Inanimate-to-Animate transfiguration. There are 5 kinds of Transfiguration that you would study in my classroom during your 7 years of schooling. At the start of your first year, we will begin with small things and Inanimate-to-Inanimate transformation. But as you get more familiar with the whole process your understanding of Transfiguration would increase and we would attempt your first at both Animate-to-Inanimate and Inanimate-to-animate Transfiguration." Prof. McGonagall spoke and she waved her wand again.
The Class looked at the changing pig/desk in awe and after a moment's silence, she continued. "To achieve any form of Transfiguration there are some things you need to keep in mind. Firstly, Intent. Most of the Transfiguration spells, except for the first few ones in each genre are done using generalized spells. There are several reasons for this but I'll explain them when we begin learning generalized spells. But for the most part, Intent is the key ingredient that would allow you to force something to change its very nature..." Prof. McGonagall kept on going with her lecture.
"Secondly, Wand Movements and Incantation. While the Intent shapes your target, these two are important to form the spell in the first place. A mistake in wand movement would make it so that even if you are focused on the current thing, your results would differ from what you want."
"And Lastly, Practice. No matter how good your transfiguration would turn out to be, without sufficient practice you would not be able to master the spell, and in tense situations like during the practical portion of an exam you might fail to get a desired result." Professor McGonagall finished her continuous lecture. She waved her wand and different alphabets appeared behind her on the board.
"Note down these symbols for now until we begin." Prof. McGonagall started as the class erupted in motion. Rigel was a little late as he was staring at the desk that still had a lot of lingering mana that remained and was slowly diffusing into thin air.
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'I have so many questions...'
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AN - I'm focusing on more realistic classes, tell me what you guys think!
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