***Part Two: Intermediate Transfiguration Facts***

Chapter One: Knocking Down the Barriers on Inanimate Objects and Animate Objects
    We have mentioned before about the barriers, and know we will go over them. A reminder: There are two main categories in which you may transform an item, inanimate objects and animate objects. For example, how would you turn a candle (Xawloki) into a rabbit ( Ichba )? After all, both are not inanimate! There are certain suffixes you add after the first half of the word to allow the items to change in these situations. To go from inanimate to animate, the inbetween phase is strup ; while going from animate to inanimate, it is gaffeul . Now try to figure out what the spell is for turning a rabbit into a candle. How about for turning a candle into a rabbit? Just make sure you take the beginning item’s phrase, add either strup or gaffeul, and then the end product's phrase.


Chapter Two: The Third Barrier
    We just mentioned how strup and gaffuel are inserted into spells to allow animate objects to become inanimate. There are the normal animate objects like birds, elephants and ants, but humans are in their own category. Whether it was because you are casting the spell on yourself, or the Ministry of Magic didn’t want any oddly shaped humans (like when Ellie Farrow only got herself the legs and trunk of an elephant). At this level, learning human transfiguration will be difficult. All we will tell you is that the intersecting barrier phrase is Nuen.


Chapter Three: Magic in the ER
    Transfiguration has actually been used in the emergency room of hospitals before. Doctor Nathan Spitzil was chief of hospital staff in Berlin, Germany. He regularly had to check on patients and their conditions. During his shift back in 1924, Spitzil was called in to operate on an elderly chap with a mortal wound in his stomach. The man was still dressed in his street clothes, and while Nathan was checking where the bullet punctured, he found a 9-inch willow wand in his pocket. While inspecting the man, Nathan’s nurse told Nate that the patient had only two gallons of blood left. The only facts we have of the way Spitzil saved the man’s life had something to do with cracking the old fellow’s wand, saying something, and grabbing something out of his drawer. The last anyone ever saw of Spitzil was the next day when Milly Fillten, reporter for the Daily Prophet, stalked the doctor with questions. The only information she received was that Spitzil learned the spell at Durmsrangs when he was a child.
    The Ministry of Magic has been testing their theory on what happened, and they believe the spell was Visitornti. This is part transfiguration and potions. You mix together the blood of the injured, splinters from their wound, and one vial of ExoGrowth Potion. The mixture will quickly harden together, but it will be soft. You would then have to mold it into the shape of whatever organ you plan on replacing; then when it looks like the item (heart, intestine, bladder, any part of the body), you say Visitornti. The substance will transform into the victim's mortal wound, and all the injured would need now is some stitches to keep the gash together. This only works on wizards, unless you come across a muggle with a wand (which is really unusual).


Chapter Four: That Kitchen Pest
    Finally, there is a way to rid your house of pesky creatures! Actually, there has always been a way; you simply turn them into something. The only question is what? In this lesson, you’ll learn to transform bugs into useful items.
    Let’s say you have a beetle problem. Every day, you always find this big ugly beetle gnawing at your bread. Sure, you could exterminate it, but instead you're going to make use of this beast. Just transform it into one of those small little household items you need. For the beetle part you say rick (phrase for beetle), and for the change from animate to inanimate, say gaffeul.
    Let’s say you need a new egg timer so that you know when to take your dinner out of the oven (or potion off the burner, in a witch’s case). Have your wand poking the beetle, and while it’s touching the bug, chant Rickgaffeulaegcosmi!


Chapter Five: That Garden Pest
    There might be cockroaches eating in your kitchen, but the more serious problem is the gophers in your garden. Gophers have often been depicted as pesky beasts that eat away at your crops. This could partially be because there were once giant beasts, the hoglopins, which would eat away an entire cornfield in a few weeks. Standing ten feet tall, hoglopins were identical to gophers (exceptions were only the massive size and the saber-like teeth). A brave farmer named Anne Hoolig stepped outside her house, and turned the beast and all of its kin into miniature, foot tall rodents with teeth only long enough to gnaw away at a cabbage patch.
    Unfortunately for Anne, a nearby muggle saw her, and accused her of witchcraft. Despite saving many crops from death, Anne Hoolig was hung at the gallows. When the Ministry of Magic caught wind of this brave witch’s acts, they wanted to reward her. But they got there too late. Desperately looking for the death certificate, the Minister of Magic misread it as “Hoolig, Anne.” So, from Anne Hoolig we get the term “hooligan;” because she was an unwise witch who allowed muggles to know of her powers.