"Our transfiguration project...you probably don’t remember it, but I was complaining one day about how pointless I thought the assignment was. I couldn’t understand the real life application for transforming  anything  into a golden apple," Hermione tried to remember the instance, but she had too many memories of others complaining about school. "You said,  it isn’t about the apple, it’s about the act. We can transform the smallest things into something worthwhile if we desire it enough. It seems silly now how that stuck with me."