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Originally Posted by Daydreamer11

Then the cart approached her table and it was finally her turn. Jasmine tried to look calm and relaxed so as not to freak out the bulb. She'd had plenty of practice trying to look calm when she was not, so hopefully she could pull it off. She began to walk slowly toward the plant with her eyes on it and her expression neutral. So far so good. Jasmine wondered if it would help to talk to the plant. Deciding not to chance it she remained silent. She would have to ask Professor Walton about that later. Feeling confident when the bulb remained still, Jasmine walked closer and closer to it. When she got about a tall person's arm length away with no negative reaction, she decided to stop. No need to push her luck on the first try.

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Originally Posted by Mad Eye Touz

ANYWHO. Someone set Grayson on fire. And Professor Flower was all NO to like everything. Maybe... he'd say yes to S'MORES though? "Caaaaaaaan we make s'mores over Grayson's robe fire? THAT'D be cool, Professor, EVERYONE likes S'mores."
"SUP BOUNCING BULB." Zahra threw her bulb a peace sign as she approached it. That was cool, right?

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Originally Posted by Edward Penguin

When the professor, who must not take points, approached, Ian slowly shuffled over to the cart. He started whistling quietly, because NOTHING was happening. Did you hear that bulbous ones? NOTHING was happening Ian picked up his feet just a bit more, because shuffling indicated nerves and there were NO nerves going on with him. It was just a nice, gentle, plant-loving (kinda) fourth year hufflepuff walking calmly up to the cart. Ian was about 2 feet from the cart and looked over the edge to see if there were any that looked kind of slow that he could reach out and grab.

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Originally Posted by Meizzner

Meh, here he goes. "Come to me, little bulb. Come to your master"

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Originally Posted by Lottiepot

She took another non-nervous step forward. After all what damage could a plant really do. And she supposed it would get the Prof into a LOT of trouble if he let one of his students get injured. He’d probably get fired or something and she was sure that he didn’t want to lose his job. She managed to get within inches of the plant before she glanced back at the Professor.

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Originally Posted by Expecto-Penguin

Once the professor came over to his table, he was hesitant. He went up like about a quarter of the way and stopped near it. He didn't want to get too close. But he remained calm as possible. His anxiety was getting to him but he was controlling his fast breathing and was thinking of something else.

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Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19

Closer...closer...closer...So far so good. The bulbs remained still until he took that next step when they started to move about. Adi froze. The bulbs froze. Adi took a teeny, tiny step instantly causing the bulbs the become agitated again. "Er Professor? I think it's best I stay really still for a while.'' Yep. He was going to stay this good three feet away from that cart and rather still should the bulbs decided to attaaaaack.

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Originally Posted by Cassirin

Dot waited until the professor brought his little cart around, and then Dot tried to sneak up on him. It. The cart. And the professor. Super sneaky little Slytherin going on right up in here. She slid out of her chair and crept around the desk. What, hmm? Nothing going on here. Dot froze and tried to whistle like she was just checking out a very suspicious spot on this leaf here. Hmm. Rot? Disease? Oh, dirt.

And she was creeping again. Closer. Closer. AND FREEZE. HUMAN STATUE.

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Originally Posted by Hera

Zeke waited his turn to approach the cart of bouncing bulbs, and finally when the Professor came around to his side of the table, Zeke turned to face them proper and smiled. This would be EASY.

He CASUALLY closed the distance between himself and the cart, but slowed his pace and stopped a short distance away.

His eyes were trained on the cart of bulbs. Was that a wiggle? ... naaaahhhhhh... they were still enough.

Zeke took another confident couple of steps. All he wanted to do was pot one, and be done with it.

No outwardly noticeable movements, but... one of them, or two of them... seemed to be wiggling. He didn't want the wiggling to spread.

In the end, he DID continue walking toward it, and kept his pace and momentum and walked PASSED them, then around again to his table.

HE WASN'T ATTACKED.... but that was no huge achievement right? Cause like, he hadn't been nervous. Nope. BRAVE Lion he was.

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Originally Posted by Holmesian Feline

And no show of fear or agression. Just one fourth year Gryffindor trying to see if he could approach a cart filled with bouncing bulbs. He had let Adi take his turn and the Hufflepuff had stoppied. And now he was managing to move closer and closer to the cart. All cool...right? No aggressive feelings towards him?

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Originally Posted by kayquilz

She took a step closer--and tried to clear her mind, like she did with Divination--and as she took another step, it seemed to be working! Without thinking too hard(not a difficult thing for her) she got ALL the way to the plant on the cart--and she grinned up at the professor. WOW. She had done it. Now it was time to back away quickly before the bulby guys decided to attack her. She went back to her table, and waited to see if Archie or Connor would go.

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Originally Posted by hermionesclone

When he felt ready, Grayson casually made his way over towards the bouncing bulbs. He was SO casual, in fact, that he had his hands tucked into his pockets while he inched closer and closer towards the cart. He did want to whistle to add onto the casual look but something told him that he probably shouldn't do that. Probably the look on Walton's face if he did that.

So, casual cool walking had happened and he stopped suddenly as soon as he saw the bouncing bulbs moving uncomfortably. The distance between him and the cart? About half a metre or a little less.

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Originally Posted by PhoenixStar

When the professor finally made his way with the cart to her table, AJ was ready. Slowly, one foot was put in front of the other as she made her way closer to the bulb. AJ looked at the bulb straight on, and didn't show any fear. That part was important. They could probably sense fear like animals could.

The bouncing bulb started to shake a little bit, but AJ still wasn't scared. She made her way even closer. This bulb was going to like her or else.

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Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo

Maleficent's eyes flashed to the man as he approached with the bulbs. If he expected her to approach then he would be sorely disappointed because the Dark Queen simply folded her arms and stared from her spot behind her table. She had no interest in getting closer or getting to know them or whatever the case happened to do. They were none of her concern and besides all that, they were ugly.

Move along, Sir, she wasn't interested.

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Originally Posted by Mordred

Seeing that it was now his turn, Ethan placed his self-inking quill down, closed his notebook, and took a moment to compose himself before approaching the cart. It helps that it doesn’t have teeth or anything, so he’s got no reason to be afraid. Besides, if it decides to attack him, he can just knock it off with his knuckles, so yeah. The prefect got closer to the cart with utmost curiosity, wondering what else it can do besides being part of a potion. He did stop however, as soon as he saw the slightest wiggling movement. Eh…now what?

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Originally Posted by Kaos.Doodles

Hesitantly Kyroh took a step forward.

Nothing to see here. Carry on, carry on. Be a plant. A small bulb on the plant twitched and Kyroh froze.

Nothing to worry about bouncing bulb. Carry on with your Photosynthesis-ing.

He even began to whistle, but then stopped when he realized that whistling PROBABLY wouldn't make the plant feel any better. Standing up slightly straighter, Kyroh confidently closed the gap between him and the cart. The bulb twitched some more but no one ELSE had been attacked before so he was good right? Continuing on, he slowed his pace a tiny bit more, until he reached right up front. So close to the plant he could probably touch it. Not that he would. Because that was crazy. Once he was sure that he had stood there long enough he turned and made his way back to his table.

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Originally Posted by lazykitty

Anyway, the professor had decided to move along with the lesson. Calmly approach the cart. Okay. She took a few moments to take a few deep breaths before the man with the cart reached her. Once he did, Heather started taking very calm, purposeful steps towards the cart of plants, stopping when half of them started to move. After waiting for them to stop, she started stepping again, this time managing to get as close as an inch to the cart before having to stop.

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Originally Posted by Ginevra

She made sure that she had calmed down and was free of any nervousness and tension when the professor with the cart reached where she was. She walked slowly over to the cart full of bouncing bulbs with an air of serenity. She inched closer and closer until she was a mere inch from the bulbs which began to move. It was time was Sam to discontinue, which she did.

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Originally Posted by Felixir

And it paid off. Toby got more or less right up to the cart without anything untoward happening. He looked up at Walton again, somewhat surprised and smiling a little, and then back at the bulbs. Having something academic come so naturally to him was really quite... awesome.

At that moment, the bulbs started to quiver. Toby didn't know if they would attack or anything, but he was aware that they might have caught on to his slight change in demeanour, and courteously took half a step back, and waited. And wasn't attacked or anything. Nice.

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Originally Posted by Harry174

Angel continued to slowly move forwards looking straight at the bouncing bulb not showing one ounce of fear she didn't want to spook the Bouncing Bulb at all.

Angel saw the bouncing bulb shake a little bit but she wasn't scared in fact what she wanted to do was sing it a song like she had with a few of her other plants when they got nervous but well she didn't think the Professor would like that so she didn't.

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Originally Posted by Squishy

Shrugging the two points loss off, Lux watched as the cart approached. Not the prettiest plants, were they? Oh well. Prettiness wasn't everything because plants had more purposes than the be decorative. Besides, this exercise could be fuuuuun. So with a smile on her face she slowly and calmly made her way towards the cart. No sudden movements or talking and the most innocent look on her face that she could muster. Continuing her walk forward, she only stopped when one of them wiggled slightly.

The wiggling was bad, no?

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Originally Posted by ArianaBlack

... Maybe a bit too restless. Ok, OK this did not look good. Taking a few steps back, he slowly made his way back to the spot he was in before. Right. Well that wasn't bad.

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Originally Posted by SpiritWolfe Malfoy

The Professor had started walking from table to table with the cart. As he reached her table she watched as Dot and then Brooklyn gave it a try. Feeling confident with herself Hady slowly moved away from the table. One step. Two steps she took towards the cart before stopping. Some of the plants seemed to be bouncing in place a little. Watching them closely she waited until she thought they were settled enough and slowly took another few careful steps forward. Being small and a first year wasn't going to stop her from trying to do her best.

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Originally Posted by SilverTiger

As the cart was wheeled to her table, she’d hung back as Dot had stepped forward first. Use the slightly older girl as the test, but as she seemed to come out relatively unhurt, any nerves Brooklyn had left. After a moment, she’d stepped forward confidently, staring the bulbs down as she slowly took one step and then another toward the cart. She almost dared any of them to act like she was nervous, almost dared them to try and bounce toward her. She wasn’t afraid at all. Princesses didn’t get scared of things. Lannisters didn’t get scared of things. Therefore, she wasn’t going to be scared of anything on the cart. They should be afraid of her, even if she was tiny. Once she knew all the spells she wanted to learn, she’d really be dangerous.

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Originally Posted by lemon

The bulbs twitched a bit, but upon receiving no further reaction, Dima moved closer... and closer...... and closer, until he had closed the gap between himself and the professor's cart. Surely, the man wouldn't let him get ASSAULTED by his PLANTS, right? The second year continued inching forward until he was so close to the plants that he could have extended his tongue and licked one (but he wasn't gonna do that 'cause gross).

... and another twitch from a bulb sent him turning and BOLTING back to his table. Yep. K. Done with that.

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Originally Posted by Mad Eye Touz

Zahra raised her hand. "Hey Professor Flowers man? I know you're new, but Lex must have fell down the stairs and hit her head on every step along the way. She needs medical attention or a hug or something." JUST FYI.

Meanwhile, since she was pretty cool with her bulb (??? probably?) Zahra spent a whole minute making funny faces at Dima. SHE could be mean to baby Toussaint, but NO ONE ELSE COULD.

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Originally Posted by TakemetotheBurrow

The second year stood when the Professor had neared her, waiting for Toby to take his turn before she gave it a go. And then she approached the cart, slowly and confidently, as if she was just going to pass it by without a second glance. She wasn't going to bother you, bulbs. She was merely going to bypass you so she could do more important things. Yup. So no need to get all bouncy and attack. No need at all. And it looked like this approach was working because they didn't SEEM threatened. She DID stop a bit shy of the man and his plants, though. JUST in case. Looking up at him, the small brunette raised her eyebrows. Was that good enough or?

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Originally Posted by Sararara

Norah took a deep breath and eyed the cart. She'd be fiiiine. She stuck her nose confidently in the air and took a slow step towards the cart, exhaling steadily. A peek at the cart informed her that she was doing well, so she proceeded with another two slow steps in its direction until she was standing just a few centimeters away. She looked at Professor Walton and then back down at the bulbs. They seemed to still be laying there limply as before. That was good, right?

Now, finally there were NO more students who hadn't approached the bouncing bulbs. Man, this took ages. He needed to nap. He also needed three cups of mint tea now. Teaching was hard. Too many kids. Anyway, time to move one. Andrew pushed the cart back to his table and stood there. "Now, there's one last step before we start potting the bouncing bulbs." They did know they were going to do so, right? " Like we said there is a huge chance that the bouncing will attack you and will jump. That's because you're not only going to approach it but you will be putting it in a pot so you will have to grab it. Something the plant won't like." Whereas Andrew would be so entertained watching. This was getting good. " And in order to do that you will be needing to use the knockback spell. Which I assume most of you are familiar with it." Or were they? "First, I would like it if you practiced it and made sure you could do it before casting it on the plants. I understand this is something you normally do in Charms lesson but I would feel better knowing you can handle the spell before presenting you with the plants." Well, he was exaggerating. He didn't care that much. But something told him that a bunch of students being sent to the hospital wing right after his lesson wasn't a nice thing. "To remind those who might have forgotten," He didn't want to bet but that might be half the class. " The incantation is Flipendo. Go ahead, give it a go." he said. But actually he didn't want to wait for ALL of them to be done.

"But aside from that. We have finally reached the last part of the lesson." The part which was fun to him and not to them. " I do trust that you are now ready for it and have the required knowledge of what you will be working with." Trust was such a huge word, though. " What you will be doing is grabbing a pot," Did they know what that was? " Fill it half way with soil then approach the bouncing bulbs like I told you how and manage to get the bulb into the pot." Mhmm. Good luck. " Do not try to handle two bouncing bulbs at the same time." Like really, they wouldn't be able to do it. "Once you have placed the plant in the pot you will have to half bury it in the soil by adding more soil. Any equipment you may need will be found either on the tables or in the cupboards. The plants are in the cart and I will bring another one. So do what I said and you will have finished." Easier said than done.

"Off you pop," He clapped his hands together. Showtime!


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OOC: You will need THREE posts to get full credit. The steps are simple;

- get a pot and fill it with soil.
- get the bouncing bulb into the pot using the knockback spell if necessary.
- half bury the plant by adding more soil.

How to split up those steps in the posts is entirely up to you! Students can work together but remember each one has to pot at least one plant, as in if you help a friend with their plant you still have to do yours. If you need Andrew's help, mention that in your post title. The Professor is wandering around the students' watching their work. Also, please keep in mind that the young bulbs aren't capable of much damage other than jumping on someone and hitting them on the face, shoulder, arm or messing their hair…etc. There will be no serious injury so play accordingly. Lastly, PLEASE have fun and be creative! =D And yes, you still can catch up with the mini activity. And it's up to you to have your charrie practice the knockback spell or not. If you have any other questions do not hesitate to poke me and ask me via PM.

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