***Part Three: Advanced Spells***

Chapter One: Half Amigi, Half Revenge
    Today you met this rude man who just taunted you the whole time. A thousand rude remarks you could have said raced through your mind, and then you remembered that you were a witch. Then, you remember an old movie you watched where the witches turned a man into a frog; that was the perfect idea for what to do. However, that was a very fictional movie, because transforming another human is impossible to do.
    If you really wanted to deal with that harasser, Transfiguration classes won’t help you (try some charms). But still, just because you can’t transform him into anything doesn’t mean you can’t try. Many witches and wizards are still debating whether Runt is a Charm or a transformation spell. The Runt part is obviously a charm, because it’s the beginning to a spell to turn part of a person into an animal. Transfiguration comes into play with the second half of the phrase. If you were to give your victim cat ears, the spell would be Runt-Felin, for felin is the transfiguration word for cat.
    Either way, this spell gives your opponent a part of an animal's body. In the example Runt-felin, the old man got cat whiskers. If you don’t focus on what to give the old man, he might receive a cat's tail, or big pointy ears instead. You must always focus on what feature to give the person. To reverse the effect of a Runt… spell, you’ll need to mix a Rampaging Wrath Potion.


Chapter Two: The Elemental Creators
    This spell may be the most difficult spell you will ever learn. The spell type in general is called Elemental Creators. This kind of spell will turn one of the four elements (earth, wind, fire, water) into one of the others.
The phrases to these spells are as follows: earth is Rocka, water is Aquil, fire is Fortnik, and wind is Reknoar. Changing earth to water is the easiest of the spells to do, for they are both ‘solid’ matter (the spell would be RockaAquil). Fire is a bit tougher, for it is energy, and it dies and lives more quickly. If you were in the middle of Alaska and had only some melted snow, the spell would be AquilFortnik , because you are turning the water into a warm fire. Fire might be tough, but wind is the most complicated one of all. If you were in a battle and wished to hurl all of your opponents backward, you’d only need a fingernail sized rock to take out a hundred men. Just chant RockaRecknoar. Even though you would have to say it in proportion (RockaREKNOAR), wind doesn’t work that way; it will instantly increase or decrease in size. All of these spells are tough to perform, and even a slight mispronunciation could be fatal.


Chapter Three: Beginning of Human Transfiguration:
    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).
    The chant for human is different, depending on how you use it. When you are changing yourself, it’s Homi____(the blank would be your name), which is slightly different from transfiguring someone else. Instead of Homi____(your name), it would be Homu____(their name). Whether or not you are even changing them into something alive, there always has to be an intersecting phrase between the before and after. This intersecting phrase is nuen. Unfortunately, you can’t transfigure anything new into a human; you can only reverse the spell. If you transfigured yourself into a rabbit and you wanted to come back to your regular form, you’d say IchbanuenHomu . Instead of Homi or Homa (then the person’s name) at the end, it is just Homu, because the little rabbit already knew what kind of human it was.