Assignment One
a beginner's guide to transfiguration
Below are five tasks worth eighty points together.
Your goal is to attempt sixty points or less by choosing preferred tasks and following the instructions on how to do them.
After you have completed the selected tasks, please email them to
[email protected] with the subject line Transfiguration 1 - HOL Name.
If it were I who did the assignment, my subject line would look like so:
Transfiguration 1 - Dario Brighton
Please send this in before the 10th of January for the Autumn Term or before the 10th of June for the Spring Term. There are no extensions.
Your goal is to attempt sixty points or less by choosing preferred tasks and following the instructions on how to do them.
After you have completed the selected tasks, please email them to
[email protected] with the subject line Transfiguration 1 - HOL Name.
If it were I who did the assignment, my subject line would look like so:
Transfiguration 1 - Dario Brighton
Please send this in before the 10th of January for the Autumn Term or before the 10th of June for the Spring Term. There are no extensions.
multiple choice (20 points)
When submitting the work, please send the key only. For example; 1 - a, 2 - b, 3 - c and so on. Keep in mind that these do not represent the actual answers.
1. What kind of forces does Magic involve?
2. Eliminate the non-existing restriction.
3. Eliminate the non-existent category.
4. What can the object of Transfiguration NOT be?
5. Who sets the official Transfiguration regulations?
6. Food cannot be…
7. Love potions are able to create…
8. Life cannot be…
9. Information cannot be…
10. Using Magic, you can…
1. What kind of forces does Magic involve?
- Transfiguration forces.
- Supernatural forces.
- Unexplainable forces.
- Gamp's forces.
2. Eliminate the non-existing restriction.
- Love creation.
- Wealth creation.
- Food creation.
- Life creation.
3. Eliminate the non-existent category.
- Untransfiguration.
- Transformation.
- Conjugation.
- Vanishment.
4. What can the object of Transfiguration NOT be?
- An object.
- A living thing.
- An intelligent being.
- None of the above.
5. Who sets the official Transfiguration regulations?
- The Ministry of Magic.
- Gamp himself.
- There are no official regulations.
- None of the above.
6. Food cannot be…
- Made out of nothing.
- Cooked.
- Summoned.
- Multiplied.
7. Love potions are able to create…
- A feeling of true love on a temporary basis.
- A feeling of true love on a permanent basis.
- A feeling of strong obsession.
- A feeling of mutual obsession.
8. Life cannot be…
- Produced.
- Taken away.
- Given back once taken away.
- Transformed.
9. Information cannot be…
- Summoned or created.
- Transmitted.
- Multiplied.
- Spread.
10. Using Magic, you can…
- Charm yourself a fortune.
- Transfigure reputation.
- Turn metal into gold, without using a Philosopher’s Stone.
- Get in a lot of trouble.
Fill in the blanks (10 points)
When submitting the work, please send the list of words from the blanks in the respective order.
- Transfiguration is a branch of _____.
- It involves changing the _____ of an _____.
- The above includes changing the _____, _____ and _____.
- It also includes toggling the _____ of the object itself.
- It involves _____ forces.
- The object of Transfiguration itself can be _____, including living and _____-_____ things.
essay (20 points)
In no less than 200 words, which is about two scrolls of parchment, I would like you to make up an imaginary Sixth Law of Elemental Transfiguration. I would like you to do some research and explain your thesis with some facts. What would make that Law possible? Why should it be there? The sky is the limit, as long you as you keep it appropriate.
PUZZLE task (10 points)
Here is a word search for you to solve. Please only send the list of words you have found. There is a total of ten words, none of which has less than five letters. I will require at least eight words for full points.
All words are lesson-related, and none of the words I am looking for is trains, or something of the kind.
All words are lesson-related, and none of the words I am looking for is trains, or something of the kind.
Creative task (20 points)
Please illustrate a Gamp's Law any way you wish to. It can be a drawing, a comic strip, a Photoshop image, a graphical symbol, something like a logo... anything as long as it is yours and not stolen from the Internet. Make sure to show your merit - this is for 20 points, after all.