Meanwhile Hermione was going through her dilemma. Oliver was already in McGonagall's AP transfiguration class. This course was one that you usually took once you had reached collage, but this year Dumbledore had thought that there were enough students who not only had the ability to handle this type of magic. The student selected to take this class were bright and mature enough to grasp these concepts. The small class consisted of 10 students who were believed capable of the excepted. From Gryffindor were Percy Weasley, Oliver Wood, and Gwen Canozet. Then there were Ian Refluxings, Zelda Pashington, People Clearwater, and Zachary Burma all from Ravenclaw. One Slytherin John Quisling. The last two were from Hufflepuff. They were Curtis Frowzy and Cordelia Thatcher. The entire class was extremely bright for their age and both the Head Boy and Girl were in the class.

Today they would be going deeper into the study of Animagi (cow to change themselves into animals). To start they would cover the possible dangers of this. Then they would start the self evaluation to figure out what animal would best suite their personality. Oliver was the smartest in the class and by the end of the lesson he had ended up with two narrow categories. The first was the falcon family, and the second was the feline family. He wasn't sure of the exact animal maybe Hermione could help him choose when the met this evening.

Suddenly Oliver had an idea. "What if I taught her to become an Animagi also," this was an outrageous thought of his. "Then we could sneak of together and have some privacy."