{Transfiguration Classroom, Hogwarts}
{2nd Sep 1991}
{3rd Person POV}
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'Metamorfóno Métallo~, Metamorfóno Métallo~, Metamorfóno Métallo~, Metamorfóno Métallo~' Rigel kept mumbling in his head as he focused on performing the wand movements of the spell, he could once again feel the colors of his wand, or rather more accurately the mana flowing through his wand shift as he went through the wand movements of the spell.
The way spells worked, at least from what his mana senses revealed to him, was that just by holding your wand in your hand a small amount of your mana weaves through it. The color of the mana depends on two things, the intent behind the spell and the wand movements.
As his wand moved through the air, the mana it contained changed from one color to another, the changing color also depended on the wand movements that happened before and the wand movements that followed.
Let's say he takes the first spell as an example.
The wand movements to the material changing spell that changes the material of the match to metal were a combination of two moves. The first motion was a circular spiral with the tip of his wand, and at the same time, he had to pull his wand backward. When he focuses on turning the match into a needle and thinks about the incantation of the spell, the mana, which was originally blue turns into a soft green.
Rigel was okay with this change, having learned all the charms from the charms textbook he knew what he was doing. If he did some other motion like flicking his wand upward then the mana color would change to red indicating that the function or intent of the spell had changed.
After practicing a few times he focused on the match and thought, 'Metamorfóno Métallo~'. He smoothly pulled back his wand in a circular motion before he pushed his wand through the imaginary spiral he had created and aimed at the match. A spell formed and the green-colored mana left his wand, it was invisible to the naked eye but when it came into contact with the match it stuck to it and started spreading all over it.
His first transfiguration attempt was not as successful as he had hoped as the spell failed to affect the entire match. The match did turn more shiny as it changed from a brown piece of wood to a mix-matched texture of iron and wood.
He stared at the match for a moment as he thought about what went wrong, he closed his eyes as he tried to imagine the difference between his and Prof. Minerva's attempt at casting the spell.
'The spell didn't cover the entire match, was it because I underpowered it, till now just 1 mana point had been enough for all the first-year charms, maybe Transfiguration is a lot more taxing.' Rigel thought.
He wanted to attempt the spell again but with a half-metal match, the results would not be comparable so he could only turn to Prof. McGonagall. "Professor, can you turn my match back to wood?" Rigel requested.
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Minerva was walking through the Gryffindor seats when Rigel's voice got her attention, she turned around to find a match that was half turned into iron. She waved her wand reversing the change.
"Thank you," Rigel spoke as he turned back to his match, he noticed that the Professor was looking at him so this time he went through the proper motions as he incanted the spell out loud, "Metamorfóno Métallo~"
He repeated the same motions and used the same amount of mana but in a rather surprising turn of events, the match slowly turned into iron. From his mana sense, he could see green mana sticking to it as it slowly changed the very nature of the whole match.
Rigel was pretty sure he didn't change the amount of mana he used so the change was surprising, although a welcome addition. He opened his status to make sure that nothing had changed and sure enough, his mana was at 344, exactly 2 points less.
"Good Job Mr.Black, that was a flawless attempt at the first part of the spell, why don't you try the second part out?" Minerva asked and Rigel nodded. He turned back and focused on the iron match in front of him.
He imagined a sharp pointy needle as he drew his wand in an inverse triangle and spoke, "Metamorfóno Aichmirós~" This time the metal match slowly changed shape as it sharpened, the light red spell slowly changing the shape of the match as it slowly resembled a needle.
'Huh it worked, but why didn't I get any notification for learning a spell though? Normally that process is quite quick.' Rigel thought as Prof. McGonagall walked over to his seat and picked up the shiny needle, she touched it against her finger testing its sharpness before she cancelled the transfiguration and picked up a match to examine it more carefully.
With a swift flick, the match lit up a soft blue, she turned to look at Rigel with a surprised expression.
"You have a very good affinity for the magical branch of Transfiguration it seems Mr. Black... 10 Points to Slytherin for learning the basics of the match to needle transfiguration. What I need you to do now is try and combine the effects of both of these spells into one." Minerva spoke as she pointed her wand at another match and instead of a circular spiral as he did for the material changing part of the spell, she used a triangular spiral and then pushed her wand through it like he did as she incanted, "Morfóno AichmMétallo~"
A pale blue light emerged from her wand as it swiftly transformed the match into a sharp needle, after making sure Rigel got it she reversed the transfiguration and placed the match in front of him.
"Do you know the finite charm?" Minerva asked and upon getting a confident nod she continued, "That should get rid of any partial transfigurations be careful though as it only works on inanimate to inanimate transfiguration." Professor McGonagall spoke before she gave him a small smile and then walked away.
Rigel closed his eyes again as he focused on the sensation of Prof. McGoanagall's last spell, the final spell was a little confusing it gave him a little insight as to how spell creation worked, at least some form of it.
'The final spell had traces of both the spells combined, but maybe the reason I didn't get a new spell was that it was not a spell recognized by canon or was it something else?' Rigel thought, the questions remained in his mind but he put them aside for now.
He opened his eyes and looked at the spells, before experimenting he needed to learn the spell. So he picked up his wand again and focused, the thought of turning the match into a needle was at the forefront of his mind as he repeated Prof. McGonagall's actions.
"Morfóno AichmMétallo~" This time a semi-translucent spell emerged from his wand, the thin layer of moving spell was visible as it impacted the match and slowly it transformed into a needle. The whole process took 5 seconds, it was slower than Professor's spell by 4 seconds but at least the spell worked. A popup window appeared in front of him informing him of the newly learned spell.
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[New Spell learned!]
[Spell: Basic Metal Generalized Transfiguration unlocked!]
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'Huh, that was a generalized spell, didn't Professor tell us that this wasn't a generalized spell?' Rigel thought but before he could ponder some more, Daphne nudged him slightly and asked, "How did you do that?"
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AN - Last chapter for Transfiguration Theory for now, it will come up later again but I don't want to overwhelm you guys this soon!
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