I am doing an HQL that is something like this with help of outer joins for eager fetching

FROM A as a
LEFT OUTER JOIN a.b as b
LEFT OUTER JOIN b.c as c

The problem is, the list that is returned by .createQuery().list is List<C> and not List<A>. What should i do to transform the result so that root entity is of type Class A and not C? and I also want the result in such a way that A should be populated with B and B should be populated with C.
Thanks.