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Originally Posted by Holmesian Feline "Is it a Bloody-Red Rose?" he supplied tentatively. It was a flesh eating bush with thorns that seemed to fit the general appearance of the plant...if his memory was right. Archie smiled at the students that were all too happy to take a guess. "Not a Bloody-Red Rose, no." It was an interesting answer. Archie didn't elaborate for now. He would explain all in a moment. Quote:
Originally Posted by Lissy Longbottom What plant was that? Caleb knew of only one plant that had funky vines growing out of it in every which way. He raised his hand. "Is it a Venomous Tentacula?" he guessed. "I think that because of the, erm...Vines of Death coming out of it," he added. For that extra point and all. Ooooooh! "Fabulous answer! This isn't a Venemous Tentacula, but it is very similar. Those would be a bit too dangerous for us to be playing around with in class." Playing? That was the wrong word. Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry174 Angel looked at the Professor and smiled as she raised her hand. "Is it a dangerous plant?" Angel had no idea what else it could be. "I hope it is something amazing and something we all get to plant." Angel now had to wait and see what it is going to be because at the minute she couldn't guess. "Professor do the vines try and grab things?" "Indeed." A dangerous plant. Also something amazing. Archie thought so anyway. "They can grab things nearby. We'll have to be very careful during today's lesson." Nod. Again, he would elaborate more on that soon. SPOILER!!: More Venemous Tentacula answers! Quote:
Originally Posted by Squishy More people got waves as they arrives, and soon Professor Millard was here, levitating a viney looking plant. "Hello, Professor!" He seemed out of breath and she got bad vied about the plant; it looked to be dangerous and she remembered dangerous plants being mentioned in the previous lesson.
Lux would be staying away from that thing if she could help it.
Raising her hand, she offered a guess as to what the plant could be. "I'm with Caleb on this one. It has the active vines of the Venomous Tentacula and seems to be quite dangerous." Yep. Quote:
Originally Posted by Felixir "Hi!" That had been TOBY to DOT when the Slytherin had walked in. And so many others got grins and waves and double thumbs up as the sixth year bounced away in his place. Merlin, this was a good day. YEP. Now for some Herbology to make it a GREAT DAY.
Aaaaaaaaaand here's Millard! HERBOLOGY TIME.
OKAYOKAYOKAYBOUNCEBOUNCEBOUNCE.
Oh man. The plant. Toby knew this. He knew that he knew it. But he didn't know it. His brain wasn't cooperating today, it just wanted more fidgeting and stuff. Uh. OKAY. He raised his hand. "Venomous Tentacular? ... It'll getcha!" That was his extra fact, see? He could TELL by looking that it was the kind of plant to GETCHA. Quote:
Originally Posted by Expecto-Penguin As Kace was sitting next to Emmy, he saw the Professor walking in with a weird looking plant. He tilted his head and was quite confused. He remembered seeing that plant before. He snaked his hand and intertwined his with Emmy's. He smiled towards her and didn't care for a little PDA. As he was hearing the other student's answers and Kace agreed. He raised his hand to give his input. "Professor I agree with the others and it looks like a Venomous Tentacula!" I mean it had the thorns and the arms were flailing around. I mean if he was wrong so what. That is why he was here. Quote:
Originally Posted by Jessiqua Zhenya hadn't been there long when Professor Millard arrived, levitating a plant that looked vaguely familiar towards the front of the class, and lowering it onto a table.
A special plant… yes, probably but very scary too. Zhenya resisted the urge to take a few steps back, but she knew she was safe. Well, she was pretty sure she was. She thought deep and hard about it for a moment before remembering what it reminded her of. She was almost certain anyway, but perhaps wrong. She raised her hand and waited to be called upon, then said "Professor I think that's a venomous tentacular? And," a fact? "Their leaves are very valuable I hear." Quote:
Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19 Was Zhenya daydreaming? Adi had not failed to notice her slightly startled reaction. But she did make him laugh with her reply. "Funny.'' But yeah... they were up there. LOL. "I'm awesome as always.'' Except when he was sleepy. Being sleepy was NOT awesome, man. "We haven't hung out in a while.'' That might be Adi's fault with all the studying and such. He also did not best the guy bestie's arrival. Poor forlorn Dragon. Adi patted him on the shoulder. Don't let Bellair get cha down, Benny!
Of course the lesson HAD to begin at the moment when Adi was about to say something to Benny. The Hufflepuff shot the other boy an encouraging grin before turning his attention to Professor Groundskeeper and his plant on display. "Venomous Tentacula?'' Adi suggested and raising his hand. "Uh... if it is a Venomous Tentacula, it is usually found worldwide.'' Mhmm. Quote:
Originally Posted by ArianaBlack Zander wasn't feeling all too talkative and it had everything nothing to do with the fact that his RPer had to write this post four different times after it kept getting deleted. Ahem. So he just gave sleepyboy!Ethan a small smile in understanding. Been there, done that. Actually still there, still that. Luckily being in his favorite class helped him keep sort of awake, except under this false facade he was exhausted ahem.
He nodded at the "Hufflepuff Dude", but let Ethan take care of introductions. Nailed them, by the way. Couldn't have done it any better himself.
And now for claaaaaass. Well, thorns meant a bunch of things. Could always be the Snargaluff, like Ethan said. BUT there was the more fun option that everyone else had mentioned. Zander didn't want to just go with majority buuuuuut come on, the Tentacula would be AWESOME. "If it's the Tentacula, they're super poisonous and their thrones are pretty fatal." Just sayin'. Also, could they work with them up close? 'Cause he was curious. Quote:
Originally Posted by Sararara Norah eyed the plant with one eyebrow raised. It was pretty darn COOL, no doubt about it. She continued to watch the plant's vines moving as a small smile spread across her face 'cause didja see that? That was why Herbolgy was the coolest thing.
Oh. There was a question, wasn't there. A little late, the third year put a hand in the air. "It looks like venemous tentacula, which is, y'know, venemous. Like everybody else said, I guess." That had to be right...right? Wow, it was interesting that the majority of students had guessed on the Venemous Tentacula. Archie had to double take at the plant to make sure he hadn't made a mistake. "As I said to Mr Newell, this isn't a Venemous Tentacula, but it is very understandable that it is the biggest guess. The plants are very similar. I'll go into the actual plant details in a moment." Working with a Venemous Tentacula would probably be more exciting, actually. Quote:
Originally Posted by Cassirin Dot actually wasn't sure what that extremely deadly looking plant was, and really, she'd much rather keep waving at and being waved back by Toby. That Boy. Not that she would dream of disrupting Herbology, except she did dream of it a little, and waved back to Toby under her workstation.
Hiiii.
"I'm not sure what that is, sir, but it looks very dangerous and I'm exceedingly glad I wore my gloves today. Does it eat mostly first year boys? Because they're the smallest, you know?" Archie smiled. "I'm also very glad that you wore your gloves today, miss!" His eye squinted at the first year boys question. "Sorry, I'm out of first year boy-eating plants!" She was joking, yes? Yes. Good. Quote:
Originally Posted by Mordred Right. Dangerous plant. What are they supposed to do with it exactly this time? Extract its thorns? Probably for Potions? Likely. Ethan mulled over Millard’s question, as he too listened to his classmates’ answers…Venomous Tentacula? Probably. But thorny vines! That’s a clue! “Is it a provoked Snargaluff, professor? It’s supposed to look like a dead lump of wood when not disturbed.”
Merlin. If it was indeed a Snargaluff then…will they be retrieving its pods??? Ethan glanced at Zander quickly as the thought crossed his mind. Yep. It’s best to partner up with a Gryffindor just in case… YAAAAAAAAY.
At least one of the students had gotten it right! Archie bounced and beamed. "Correct! Well done, Mr Mordaunt, take an extra point for that answer!" He turned to the rest of the class, now feeling satisfied to move on...
__________ Archie clapped his hands together so that everyone would be paying attention. "In case anyone didn't hear Mr Mordaunt's superb answer, the plant we are working with today is called a Snargaluff. Obviously, very similar to the Venemous Tentacula, but a bit less dangerous." Some students would appreciate that, he hoped. And not bored..... "The Snargaluff is best handled with more than one person, so today we will be working in pairs for the first activity." More on that in a second. "Beneath the dangerous, thorn-covered vines, there are green pulsating pods about the size of a grapefruit."
"Today we will be extracting these pods. I have enough at the back of the greenhouse for you guys to use." He would levitate those towards them all very soon. Archie paused, suddenly realising how scary this activity was going to be. For him.
"Now, listen to how we will do this." He got behind the demonstrator Snargaluff and pulled up his gloves. "One person from the pair will handle the vines. Gloves on, obviously. You must tie the vines into a knot..." He did so, making sure his face wasn't getting too close as well. "... and then hold them securely so that they don't wriggle free." He did that, too. "This reveals a hole big enough for the second person of the pair to reach into and grab the pods." Archie didn't demonstrate that part, as it was just him up there. It was pretty self-explanatory, though.
Archie let go of the vines and allowed them to wriggle free. "Quite easy if you are focused. Place your pods into the bowls provided. I would like you all to produce TWO pods each. You may take it in turns with who holds the vines..." Etc...
"If there aren't any questions," Probably. These students liked those. "Find a partner and begin! I'll be here always to watch over." As it was dangerous. Archie went to the back of the classroom and levitated a Snargaluff plant towards each pair as they began finding each other. OOC: Oh golly, sorry this post is so long! I hope it isn't confusing. I'll summarize here want Archie wants.
♠ Find a partner
♠ One person ties and holds the vines, one person grabs the pod
♠ Do this TWICE
♠ Place pods into bowl and wait for next instruction
This requires at least 3 posts each. 6 in total for the pair. You will have just over 24 hours.
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