With the professor's announcement, Maddy was decidedly distracted from the actual lesson, glancing around the room at the other OWL-level students. She couldn't imagine the likes of little Hesper Gamp even attempting something so complicated as an animagus transformation—heck, she could not even imagine her own friends pulling it if, except maybe Sisse if she really set her mind to it.

"Are you going to try for it?" she whispered quietly to her seatmate.