Petra listened to his questions and she tugged a streak of her hair behind her ear before she sat down next to him with a smile and put down her book as well as her essay in front of her. “Alright”, she said and looked at him. “I’ll help you.”
Petra looked at the feather for a moment and transfigured it into the fountain pen again, this time with slower wand movements, hoping that he would catch a glimpse of how he had to do it. Afterwards she transfigured it back and looked at the male again. “I’m Petra, by the way. You’re Levi, aren’t you? Beater of the Hufflepuff Quidditch team, right? I’m a chaser of Gryffindor’s, but that’s unimportant right now, isn’t it?”, she said and gave the male a warm-hearted smile.
“You hold your wand the wrong way”, Petra stated and she took the male’s hand in her own’s and readjusted his grip on his wand. The wand seemed pretty stiff, Petra wondered whether it chose him or if it was second-hand. Doing magic with a second-hand wand was hard because the wand didn’t chose one and belonged to someone else. Someone’s magic was never as powerful as with their own wand. However, she shouldn’t ask the Hufflepuff questions about his wand, after all he had to use it not her and if he made it so far with this wand then there was a high chance that the wand did choose him indeed.
After adjusting the male’s grip on his wand, she didn’t withdraw her hand from his but instead pointed it to the feather. She led his hand, showing him the movements with her own hand on his, not letting go for a second. It was not necessarily the best methode to show someone what she meant but it was the easiest.
Petra showed the male a few times how he had to move his wand, before she withdrew her hand and looked at him with a smile. “Now try the movements without the spell. Just move your wand and show me how to do it. One step after the other. The hardest part of Transfiguration is not the spells but the wand movements. If you know how to them everything else is easy. Then the only thing which prevents you from transfiguring everything is the law”, she said and looked at the male confidently. Petra was sure that with a bit training the Hufflepuff wouldn’t be that bad at Transfiguration.
Levi nodded, looking at her again while memorizing how she moved the wand and changed the quill like she did before. In a sense, he noticed that he just moved the wand so wrong all this time. True, that he had the movements he needed to make spells at Charm class, but no at all at Transfiguration. Observing the young girl seemed to open his mind a little.
She said her name was Petra, the Chaser from Gryffindor Team. Oh. Oh, well, no wonder he felt like he had seen this girl before. Noted to himself that he should pay more attention to his surrounding, not only to his fellow badgers, perhaps.
“Yeah, that’s my name.” He answered, moved his position a bit to give her more space to sit--though the hall was currently so empty right now so they could sit anywhere they liked, literally. “A pleasure to meet you, Petra--can I all you that?” In hope that the young lady wouldn’t mind.
The boy blinked when she adjusted his hand and showed how to grip the wand properly. And he blinked again when she led Levi’s wand movement while doing do, doing some movements he needed in order to make the transfiguration worked. Levi always thought that students from Gryffindor house were often...too rough. But he was wrong, apparently, Petra wasn’t being rough. She was gentle enough and had more patience than Levi. He shouldn’t really judge a book by its cover.
After being showed a few times, now it should be Levi who finally tried it himself. He took a deep breathe and released it slowly. “...okay, here goes.” he muttered, not sure if it would work but he should try it anyway. Slowly, he moved the wand as she told him before, focusing and pointing the wand to the quill. And it did change....okay, maybe not really. Only a half of the pen was changed, the rest was still the same.
“This is embarrassing...” he sighed while scratching the back of his ear, not satisfied with his work but at least he got the basic of transforming the thing better than before.