Charlotte was disappointed by the mundanity of the task at hand, but, she supposed, it [i]was[/i] a punishment.  She had gotten her hopes up about it being some kind of fun adventure, but no such luck.  Life was not fair after all.  He held her wand like some of the others, and tried to summon a light by copying another boy's incantation.  She didn't get the silver light you were supposed to, but when she shook her wand she could make purple sparks rain gently out of it, and it at least shed some light onto the ground.  

The new Professor was the Transfiguration Professor, Richard Nothing his name was.  He was as yet an unknown quantity to the students, as most of them had not yet had his class.  And just now he wasn't giving much away.  He walked quietly along the far edge of the group, every once in a while ushering a student who was wandering away back toward the mass of students.