"I learned it over summer. At Ilvermory." she says with a modest
shrug. "Maybe." she says, commenting on Suvansh's idea. "But that
would be slightly difficult, I don't know if it's even possible."
she says. "I'd have to do the spell set again, and this time add
another..." she ponders the possibility. Aurora's eyes wander
towards her décor. "I guess we can try." she amends.
His smile has a grip on me <3
Agent Fallows, signing out~
"Ooh" Suvansh exclaims, still startled at it all. He takes a closer
look at everything now, gaping at the hundreds of books. He looked
at the computer, which looked like it has the latest specs. The
casing was beautiful, and had tempered glass, so he could see all
the insides. He then smiles at Aurora again, asking "So what are we
to do now?"
Aurora shrugged and gestured to the xbox in the corner. "What ever
you want." she says. She yawns, still tired. She flops down on the
gray couch cushion on the floor in front of the TV. She stretches
her arms and flicks her wand at the TV. It turns on and she
repositions herself to be more comfortable.
His smile has a grip on me <3
Agent Fallows, signing out~
Suvansh thought for a moment, then recalled the first thing they
ever played together. In his dorm. "Minecraft?" He smirked. He
remembered how they had done a trap building competition. He had
built a redstone contraption, and Aurora built a beautiful
building. "On a pc though, not xbox" he giggled a bit.
Finally as class ended, Jules had a few quick words with his
professor just clarifying some more technical and conceptual ideas
that had been addressed in class. Thanking the professor for his
time, he quickly hurried out and headed towards the Transfiguration
room to help Alison find her next class as promised. A part of him
also wanted to greet Professor Ruby and ask her some questions as
well. In the previous years, he had worked with the professor to
help him create a new transfiguration spell to hopefully smooth
over the various scars littering his body as well as to settle his
own minor insecurities about his appearence and he had tested out
some of their theories over the break. He was eager to share his
own results.
Alison left the Transfiguration classroom, hoping that she didn't
look as discouraged as she felt. All in all, the class had not gone
very well. Hopefully, she could at least do better in other
subjects that day, since she didn't want to have a day that matched
her first class. Blowing a few hairs that had drifted in front of
her face out of the way, she noticed Jules walking down the hall
and waved to get his attention.
Returning the wave, Jules grinned brightly keeping a bright face
even when he noticed that Alison looked slightly bummed out. "Hey!
Ready to go to your next class?" He asked cheerily shelving his
meeting with Professor Ruby for another time. His first priority
right now would be taking care of the needs of others than his own
wants. Digging around in the pockets of his robes, he produced a
bar of milk chocolate and broke a piece off, offering it to Alison.
"A treat for surviving your first Hogwarts class. Only oh, a couple
thousand more to slog through."
Alison took the chocolate, biting into it carefully. "Thanks," she
said, "never had chocolate before." She'd heard of it, but never
got to try it. As soon as she bit into it, she smiled. Maybe it was
because she was tired, or maybe it was because she'd never tried it
before, but the chocolate made her quite happy. She didn't mind the
classes themselves, it was mostly her own discouragment at her
complete and utter inabiliy to grasp Transfiguration. She knew it
was her first time, but there were other first years in the class
who seemed to be doing quite well. After finishing the first bite,
she asked, "Have you ever knew that you'd never be able to do
something, even if you were doing it for the first time?"
Humming for a moment, Jules nodded. "I think everyone has, at some
point in their life." He finally spoke. "Some of us are just more
gifted in some areas than others. For example, I really suck at
divination even though I love astrology. Firenze is a great
teacher, but I never really got it, you know? It's a bloody
confusing subject, too wishy-washy for me to understand." That had
been the first time he had received a grade below Exceeds
Expectations and that had not only wanted a verbal lashing from his
family, but also his first panic attack. Fun times. "So if you
can't grasp a subject, it's not the end of the world. Ravenclaw has
always been the house of the inquisitive and the learned, but
Ravenclaw also prioritizes acceptance. We all have our limitations
and learning what those are and accepting our own flaws can help us
grow into better wizards and witches. Just because Transfiguration
doesn't come easy to you, doesn't mean that you're a failure of a
Witch. It's only your first years so you have plenty of time to
learn and to grow."
Alison nodded slowly, thinking about what he had said. It all made
sense from a logical standpoint, even if instead of turning a
pebble into a bread crumb, she'd transfigured it into a fish
somehow, maybe things would get easier if she kept practicing. When
she was younger, she'd often get scared and upset when her mother
wouldn't stop talking, or help her, but overtime, Alison had gotten
accoustumed to it and handled it much more easily then before. Now
that she was dealing with this new frustration, she would simply
have to do the same, keep working at it. "That makes sense," she
said camly. "If I could get past other things, I can learn to
master Transfiguration, even if I did turn a pebble into a frog."
He hummed a bit noncommittally before stopping. "Er, you do know
that it is harder to transfigure an object into an animal than it
is it transfigure an animal to an object, right?" He asked slowly.
If what Alison said was true, then her grasp on Transfiguration was
more advanced than his own when he had been in her position. Alison
then wasn't someone who didn't have an aptitude for
Transfiguration, but someone who hadn't mastered her immense
magical ability.
"Wait, really? That wasn't what we were supposed to be doing, but
Proffessor Ruby looked really confused..."Alison mused over
this..Come to think of it, that was mostly how her mother had known
she was a witch, when things kept sporadically transforming around
the house. During that time, Alison had been secretly glad that her
father never came home, so he wouldn't have to come home to see the
slightly amusing mess.
"It's really impressive! I couldn't transfigure an object into a
living being until my second year and I was already considered
advanced!" He exclaimed, a bright smile on his face. While he was a
bit confused as to how someone could master the advanced aspects of
a discipline and not the basics, he was pleasantly surprised to see
that there was someone who had such impressive aptitude for
Transfiguration. "I think it's because you've been doing advanced
spells so easily it's almost natural for you but when it comes to
the basics it becomes a chore since you're used to doing spells
that require a greater focus." He theorized
"Ah," she said, not really understanding it herself. But she
supposed that it made her feel a lot happier to know that she had
done so well. That was the first time someone actually praised her
for something, though maybe not outright, and it made her
feel...good. She thought about his theory, wondering how it would
apply to her other subjects. Of course, there was no way she could
master evreything,as that was impossible, so that lead her to
wonder which subjects she would actually struggle in, and
apllying-Alison realized that she had drifted off into her own
world again, and snapped back to attending to not bumping into one
of the many students in the hall. "I guess I do tend to, uh,
over-focus? Is that even a word?" she wondered, once against lost
in her thoughts.
He wasn't exactly the best at psychology but he could understand
her plight. Regardless he nodded. "That's a strength in
transfiguration actually. It's more scientific than any form of
magic so it requires a lot of concentration and attention to
detail. I think you show amazing promise in this branch of magic,
Alison. Maybe you should talk to Professor Ruby about your
situation and you two can work together and come up with a solution
to help enrich your learning." He suggesting one hand coming up
before pausing slightly. "Is it okay if I pat your head? I don't
want to overstep boundaries but I think you did exceptionally well
for your first-ever class."
Alison was a little shocked by his request, and hesitated. Her
parents had never hugged her, or touched her at all, not even a pat
on the head, acting like she either had a disease or she wasn't
really there, so she was mostly shocked that someone would want to.
The logical part of her brain told her that she should say yes,
Jules was being much nicer to her then anyone had been. "It's
okay," she said, nodding.
Gently placing a warm hand over her head, Jules gently ruffled her
hair with a bright smile. "Good job. I think you'll make a great
witch." He praised. A part of him was a bit disgusted at himself as
it felt like he was using Alison somewhat to give himself the
praise and affection that he never had, using her as a projection
of himself. Banishing that thought firmly (he was doing a lot of
that recently, the corner where the poisoned whispers had been
pushed to growing larger day by day), Jules pulled the conversation
back to the reason why he was even here in the first place. "Now,
where's your next class? We don't want to be late for that one."
"Right." Alison reached for her bag, pulling out the schedule and
glancing down at it. "Looks like my next class is...Potions." That
didn't sound too bad, and even if it was bad, she was in an
unusually good mood so she didn't think that she would mind as
much. She certainly didn't want to be late, knowing that bad habits
formed easily and if there was one thing Alison didn't want, it was
to form a bad habit of being late.
Potions, huh. That was a notoriously difficult subject and the
teacher was strict even if he was quite fair. Jules told Alison
that much, warning her that it was generally a course that not many
students enjoyed. "It's also in the dungeons which get really cold
in the winter months. Make sure to bundle up whenever you go down
there, alright? You might be standing near heat sources when
brewing potions, but the stone walls of the classroom do precious
little to retain the heat." He advised, making his way down towards
the potion room.
Alison knew that there were some things in life that you had to
just go along with, and lessons that one wouldn't enjoy just
happened to be one of those things. She had shrugged her way
through enough, this would be no problem. She made a mental note
about bundiling up, as that would be important. Alison prioritized
the important things. "Even if most students don't enjoy it, I'm
sure it's a nesscesary class, so I'll have to do what I always do
and just go along with it," she said, finishing with a shrug.
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