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Anna Banana 
Sierra sat in her seat, lounged back and eying the professor as she silently assessed the woman. She sounded pretty confident of herself, which Sierra really didn't mind too much, since they hadn't even had a Herbology class last school year. It was a welcome change to actually have a lesson. The second thing Sierra noticed is that the woman seemed so full of sunshine and happiness and hope for the future. It was almost nauseating, but again, Sierra was willing to overlook that.
What might they be looking at today? Hmm. Sheets covering a few tanks, from the looks of it, but she guessed that wasn't the right answer. Gillyweed was her first thought, but that seemed so overrated right now. "Algae?" she suggested, her hand in the air. It might make for a boring lesson, but maybe it was also used in some potions, which sort of sparked Sierra's interest. "...or gillyweed," she added as an afterthought.
"Yes we will be looking at Gillyweed today... unfortunately no algae."
After all she couldn't imagine the students being too thrilled with looking at algae, nope, though some of them had their uses... perhaps they'd cover that another time.
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Starbreeze Eino was at the edge of his seat by the time class began, and he was growing exceedingly excited to see the contents of the tank. When the professor asked the first question his hand shot up in the air. His initial reaction was to answer pirates, since they were in a ship, or maybe it was a treasure! He hesitated and quickly lowered his hand when he reminded himself that he was in Herbology class, not Muggle Studies or History of Magic. After thinking a brief moment his hand shot up in the air again. "Is it Panellus stipticus? Or perhaps Armillaria mellea? Omphalotus nidiformis? Omphalotus japonicus? Omphalotus olearius!?" He knew more about plants than he realized, and had to stop himself when even he couldn't understand what was coming out of his mouth. By the time he lowered his hand his heart was beating fast and in spite of the cool weather he was beginning to sweat.
Seren was slightly taken aback by the flood of ideas that was coming from the Ravenclaw's mouth. Very very enthusiastic mouth at that. She couldn't help but grin with anticipation.... but no...
"No, I'm sorry we wont be looking at any of those this lesson, but I'll certainly keep them in mind for future classes."
A budding herbologist perhaps?
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McFeisty "Is it possible that we will be working with Forget me nots" remembering the flower from the old tales her mom would read her as a child. Beautiful really. "Er the Myosotis sylvatica flowers?" she asked blinking and looking up to the front of the classroom. Boy she couldn't wait to see what they actually were doing today she was excited.
"Unfortunately not Miss Manning, interesting thoughts though", mmm and pretty thoughts- Seren loved Forget-Me-Nots.
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Quick Quotes Quill Gwen listened to the Proffestor asking what they would do today. Hmm...good one-you would expect me to notice that?, the girl thought. Really,obvious things didn't seem so obvious to her.
Think logically, she told herself. We are on a ship,the ship was underwater, herbology has to do with plantes, I think thet greenish thing that looks wierd in that corner of the ship is a plant, furthermore, plants live on this ship, the ship was underwater....so we shall talk today about plants that live underwater. Of course!
'We are going to study the plants that can live underwater?Like Hair Moss,Dwarf Spikerush or, eh...Algae?', she said.
"Yes, you're on the right track, unfortuantely we wont be looking at either of those plants this lesson", she said with an encouraging tone.
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Lady of the Lake Ariadne was taking Herbology only because she wanted to know a bit about everything and she was a perfectionist, but otherwise, she hated plants with all her heart. Even more now, while seating in the gloomy ship and feeling the chilly November air. Nevertheless, Professor Bentley had just asked a question, and Ari was the type of student who couldn't help answering. She raised her hand and replied grumpily:
'We are probably going to study about some magical seaweed or something like that.' Yuck.
Seren nodded in agreement once again,
"Yes, we will be looking at magical plants of the aquatic variety."
Seren peered around the classroom... The students had offered some really interesting ideas, and it appeared to interest them- she made a mental note to perhaps include them in another lesson.
"Today we're having an introductory lesson in magical water plants... I'm not sure how much you have been taught on this topic yet, so this is a bit of a feeler to see how much you know. Hopefully a lot of this material will be knew to you though."
But back to what she had for them today. She looked at the line of tanks, each a different shape to the next. Oh she had planned an interesting lesson for them- or at least she thought so. Then again it didn't take much to get her interested in herbology... she lived it. Uncovering one of the smaller tanks Seren peered down at the tangled knot of slimy greenish-grey seaweed.
"Gillyweed", she said gesturing to the plant.
"What can you tell me about gillyweed?" she asked in general, testing the students underdstanding of the plant- after all they had probably already studied it at some point.
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