Well. Nevertheless, he's their teacher.

Next they have Transfiguration with the Ravenclaws.

And what's that like?

At first, like nothing. The classroom is empty when they walk in, except for a tabby cat sitting on the Professor's table with strangely intelligent eyes.

...hm. He takes a seat near the front.

At 2:30 sharp the doors slam shut and the cat jumps from the table, turning into Professor McGonagall in a fluid motion that makes several students gasp in surprise.

"Transfiguration is some of the most complex and dangerous magic you will learn at Hogwarts," she says without preamble. "Anyone messing around in my class will leave and not come back. You have been warned."

Then she wordlessly waves her wand and changes her desk into a pig and back again.

...

Well.

She starts explaining a lot of complicated stuff on which they're supposed to take notes, and then she gives each of them a match and tasks them with trying to turn it into a needle.

Okay. Victor pays careful attention and takes excellent notes and does his best to transfigure the match.

By the end of the class he'll be the only one who managed to as much as turn his match silvery and somewhat pointy, which earns an actual smile from McGonagall.

Oh. That's probably good, at least for Victor.

He gets five points for that, and they're dismissed.

And they have a break now. If he doesn't have any more homework to do maybe he'll watch the other first-years play Exploding Snap again or something.

He has to read a chapter of the DADA book and keep practising turning a match into a needle but the result the Professor's expecting by next class is only slightly better than what he already got.

Well he will read a chapter of the book and spend five minutes trying to turn a match into a needle and by then the break is almost over.

And then: dinner! They almost get lost twice but Muninn is actually really good at what he does.

"I'm the prettiest!"

When they reach the Great Hall they see Dayo engrossed in conversation with Pansy Parkinson.

Well that's interesting.

She waves at them when she sees them arrive and Pansy makes a face and says something, to which Dayo replies something else that makes her pause and consider before saying something back.

That seems like a Dayo sort of thing.

It does! She keeps talking to Parkinson who after a bit looks at the Gryffindors again, more thoughtfully this time.

This Gryffindor is eating dinner!

Dayo says something and Parkinson looks at her again, and apparently they change subjects from Gryffindors. The rest of dinner passes uneventfully.

Victor feeds his raven. Meals at Hogwarts are such a good thing.