Transfiguration was one of his favorite subjects, and Cadogan was always thankful that Professor Foxwood not only taught it, but was also his Head of House. It meant when he did things like this, Cadogan got to participate in them. He was one of the first to arrive, settling on the edge of a couch in case someone else wanted to sit next to him. His fingers strummed against the couch’s arm, more giving himself something to do than nerves.

Once Professor Foxwood posed the question, his eyes turned toward Black and then to Miss Gower. Cadogan didn’t know much about the Malkuth under Sandalphon, so he didn’t really have much to say about that. Instead he straightened, eyes flicking toward the front before he spoke. Despite being older than the other two, Cadogan was still a bit nervous to speak in front of others.

“I think it isn’t alive while it’s a button,” he said. “The spell restructures the matter down to its smallest parts: wings, shell, organs, all rewritten into thread holes and surface. There’s nothing left that can breathe or move, so by any biological measure, life stops.” He paused, then added a bit quieter, like he suddenly wasn't confident in what he was saying, “But it isn’t dead, either. The magic keeps the pattern of what it was, so when you reverse it, it remembers perfectly how to be a beetle again. It’s more like… a suspended state.”

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