Julia stared at the animal and glanced over at Professor Light. "We can call it whatever we want? Does it have to sound logical or can we just make up any random name?" A slight smirk formed on her face as she thought of a perfect made-up name for an animal like that.

"It can be logical or it can be any name you want to call it! Even if you know the real name, I know some of you are Muggleborn, I encourage you to be creative and pick another name for it. Think up some things it does and what you could compair it to..."

OOC: I have to sign off for the night, guys... feel free to RP creating your animal and I'll be back on tomorrow night to do the last 1-2 animals.

Kim wrote down the Elephant.It gray and has big floppy ears that could probaly hear far from.It seems young and probably eats tree for food.Then sat and waited for the next animal.

Phoebe drew a quick sketch of the elephant. Looking at it she didn't think she could reconise it. Oh well, she thought. Phoebe thought of a different name for the elephant. She tried to combine it's features. Snorfly, she thought or truflap. Phoebe raised her hand, "Proffesor, I have thought of two, Snorfly and Truflap. I tried to incorporate the trunk and flappy ears."

Touy laughed to herself when she was little she had alwas wanted an Elephant. I think it should be "Skin to Big". What were its special features? Well it has wrinkly skin, its grey, small eyes, a long trunk. I don't know why it would have wrinkly skin but the gray is probably to hide it agains the mud and small eye are to keep them from being vunriable. The long trunk must be to extend its reach. This was fun.

Alicia drew out her notebook and her pen. She looked at the animal, and knew immediately that it was an Elephant, her great auntie bred these- she was a muggle.
She thought in her mind what name? It had to be a pretty long one, because this animal was huge! So she quickly sketched the animal in a minute or so and then a thought popped up "How about Omnipyrus? No, no thats too long. Well, because of it's shiny grey colour and tiny eyes I reckon something starting with an "st" would be good". She choose the the word "Stabion" and wrote it down in her notebook.

Katie was looking at all its features and the name elephant. She wrote down a few ideas and then came up with a common muggle name elle she thought it was a cute name. Katie's idea was coz of the name.

Brittany was a bit taken back by Professor Light's activity. She looked around to see everyone else writing things down. Thinking for a moment, Brittany wondered what to rename the elephant. Finally after a few minutes had passed she scribbled something down and bit her bottom lip. Brittany hoped hers didn't sound too stupid.

Professor Light waited until it seemed like everyone had had a chance to brainstorm an good creature name.

"Alrighty, everyone! Now... I'd like you, if you want to, to come up to the front of the room and describe your animal... tell us what you called it and give some creatures you think it's similar to. And..."

Professor Light moved to behind her desk and popped up with a box of cookies. The box was labeled "Animal Crackers" and it was clearly some sort of Muggle treat.

"... if you come up and share your animal, I'll let you take a handful of these and 5 points for your house! I'll tell you right now that there will be no homework for this lesson, just to study for your final, so if you want house points, now is a good time to get them just from participating!"

Professor Light looked around the room and clapped her hands together happily. "Alright, someone just step up. O! and introduce yourself in case the class doesn't know you!"

ooc: my o-chem teacher is crazy and I have gigantic amounts of homework, plus it's homecoming weekend to boot... so instead of me calling on you, just step up as if I called on you and present your animal. I will give you 5 house points

Sara confidently walked up to the front of the room. "Hi, I don't know if any of you know me or not...I'm guessing not. For those of you that don't, I'm Sara Parkinson! I actually already knew what animal this was because my mum had me take classes very early on and I was already taught this and imagined I had no clue what it was. I said it's a Cocker Wrinkle. It reminds me a bit of that one picture of the Cocker Spaniel dog except it's much, much wrinklier," she giggled wondering to herself if wrinklier was even a word.

She looked to Professor Light then thinking that since she had compared the Elephant to the Cocker Spaniel and had said her name and reasons for calling it, and also introduced herself she finished with a "Annnd the end!" she walked over and took a small handful of Animal Crackers and took her seat once again, waiting for the next volunteer. She took a bite of the coincidentally enough, elephant-shaped cracker and smiled. It was really good!

Phoebe claped as Sara finished, Next she got up and stood up the front of the class a little nervous, "I am Phoebe Moult. I knew this animal before too as I am muggle-born. I decided to call it Snorfly or Truflap. I prefer Truflap, I chose it because it includes the elephants two main features. It's trunk and flappy ears. The snorfly is a mix of everything I guess" Phoebe said then taking a biscuit, "thankyou", and sitting back down as she ate it. I was very nice.

Tasha approached the front of the class apprehesively. She looked at the picture of the rabbit and started to tell her version. "Hi. I'm....uh... Natasha Lundren. I don't know about the elephant but dad always told me that this one (Pointing at the picture of the rabbit) was called a lopalite. I knew better, but dad always made me laugh with the funny names he called the animals he gave me." Tasha grinned a little at the memory of her rabbit. "My lopalite...I mean rabbits name was Greeby." Tasha took her cracker and took her seat quickly.

Caitlin walked confidently to the front of the classroom holding up a picture of a giraffe. "Well," she began. "My name is Caitlin, and this is a Spotted Long Neck, also known as the Slin. It's native home is in Guakamundee, Alaska, and it loves to eat pickles. The only bad thing is when the Slin gets a sore throat ... Imagine how that must feel!"

Caitlin smiled, but denied the animal crackers. "Sorry ... I don't eat bread or anything similar to it." She sat down at her desk, anxious to see then next person go.

Ooc: The computer I'm on won't show any images, so I hope we weren't supposed to describe a specific animal. If so, please tell me and I'll re-do it.

Ariana nodded nervously to the professor and stood up, walking to the front of the room.

"Hi everyone, my name's Ariana Castior, I'm not a muggle-born but I have lived with muggles all my life, though not exactly with them, just around them. I know all sorts of things about muggles, and I know this animal. I'm not going to say the real name, so I'll come up with one of my own. It's called an Eltrant, and it's characteristics are a large wrinkly trunk which it uses to eat and make noises, and I also heard that it uses its trunk to tap dance, but I've never seen it; large wrinkly skin and body which it can use for defensive purposes. And of course large flappy ears which it uses to defend itself against things called flies and other annoying pests. " She took a deep breath and continued,

"Um, since I lived with muggles al my life, I'm not really sure on what magical creature it compairs too since I haven't seen any that are that size. But it kind of reminds me of a Thestral, since it can be gentle and loving, until you get it angry, then it can become visious."

Ariana stopped and smiled, moving over to the animal crackers and took some before moving back to her seat and writing things down fer finals.

Marie stand up. Walk in front of the class & begun. "I Am Marie & this is a Longgray." And she show a drawin' of an elephant:



She continue" That creature is very big. The Longgray only eat plants. So it's why we said that his herbivore. It's not a dangerous creature, but it's afraid of almost everything. When his scared it's better not be in his way. Even if he don't move extremely fast. If he walk on you that must hurt."
She had finish. So she walked back to her place & waited for another student to give his answer

Sebastian slowly walked up to the front of the class and cleared his throat before starting. "Despite knowing the true identity of the animal shown to us, I came up with a name for it. I'll warn you, it's quite dumb, but still, it's a name."

He pointed at the picture of the elephant. "I've decided to call it a trufant."

Sara clapped her hands as she watched as her fellow classmates stood up one by one and presented.

ooc: sry for ooc but you were supposed to talk about an elephant for anyone who would like to edit their post

Hermy stood up and moved to the front of the class, holding her picture. It was a delicate sketch in grey pencil.

"Right," she said, "I'm Hermy and this is my Fluffoflump." She held the picture forward. "I think it probably relates to abraxans, due to its power and size. Mabe also Granians due to the colour, though my Fluffoflump has skin rather than fur." She pused before moving on.

"Its kind an gentle nature, and its herbivore diet could be linked to the Demiguise, howeverthe Fluffoflump cannot turn invisible. Finally, my animal hasskin like an Erumpent, quite dried and wrinkled." She smiled, before taking some animal cracker with a small "thank-you" and returning to her seat.

Tia stepped to the front of the classroom, slightly surprised by the activity taking place in the classroom, though she had to admit she was enjoying every moment of it. She held up her notebook for everyone to see. It was a neatly done sketch of an elephant, in black and grey.




“Hello everyone, I’m Tia Ray,” she said cheerfully, introducing herself before she really began to do what she was supposed to. “This is a Legrand,” she continued, glancing sideways at the sketch. “I named it so because of its huge size – The word Legrand is a French word, meaning The Biggest.”

“It has a thick, wrinkly hide that, in some ways, serves it as a protection, large, flabby ears, and a mighty built,” she said, plunging almost immediately into a lengthy description of the elephant. “Its trunk is long and very powerful, and its tusks serve various purposes – In some cases as a weapon.

“The trunk also acts as a hose, whether for drinking or a dust bath. To drink, an elephant sucks water into its trunk, pokes the open end in its mouth, and releases the water to let it drain down its gullet.” She paused and nodded, almost without realizing it, then went on.

“The Legrand reminds me of an Erumpent, which is a massive rhinoceros-like magical creature with a single large horn that can inject explosive liquid. Although the Elephant is not as dangerous as an Erumpent, it still somewhat resembles an Erumpent in appearance. Err .. I think.”

Pausing again, Tia shrugged slightly. “That’s all I guess,” she said, half-smiling. She walked over to the Professor’s desk and took half a handful of the Animal Crackers. She slipped them in her pocket as she made her way back to her seat, grinning, the mischievous twinkle ever-present in her eyes more prominent than ever.

She had never eaten Animal Crackers before as, despite being a muggle-born, she had been raised in a magical environment, thanks to her uncle. And now, she wanted to test its effects, if slipped in a goblet filled with Babbling Beverage. Not on her own self, of course. She just had to find a victim.

And victims would come. She just had to wait for the right time.


OOC: Sketch snagged from Google.

Nik watched the others present their animals and facts and resisted the urge to yawn, there was only so much you can talk about an animal. But since nobody else was getting up, he decided to give it a try.

Walking up to the front of the class, he pointed his wand at the sketch and said in a serious voice, "This is an African Wizard Tusker. Why did I name it so? Simple." He flattened his palms on the desk and looked at each and every one of the students seriously, "My father is a wizard, we were in Africa...and the creature poked it's great white tusks in my father's leg."

He looked at the other students who had said that the animal was gentle and smirked slightly, "I believe what you said about it being gentle, but even the gentlest creatures would try to maim a wizard if he went by the name Andrei Vannacutt."

"The African Wizard Tusker is strong, and possesses a very thick grey, leathery hide that serves as it's protection. My father tried to hex it, but it just bounced off the creature and caused a small forest fire." He resisted the urge to burst out into laughter then and went on with his "serious" presentation.

"It is also quite a...well, lazy creature. The African Wizard Tusker merely cast a disdainful look at my father and went on chomping on the tree leaves as if nothing had happened and there was no fire behind it! But it's long Sniffer works wonders! You see...the Sniffer has very strong muscles and this was what made it possible for the Tusker to pull up some water from the lake and shoot it at the burning trees."

He decided to end the presentation shortly and thought of what Professor Light had said, "Of course...if I were to compare the African Wizard Tusker to a Magical Creature, it would be the Erumpent. But only in the way it looks - You see..they both have hornlike things, although the Erumpent only has one, while the African Wizard Tusker has two. And also because the Erumpent is also from Africa."

He smiled at the Professor, scooped up a handful of the animal crackers and ate them. He held up a cracker of a giraffe and said to the class, "This is an African Bat! But that is a story for another time." With that he headed back to his seat and proceeded to wait for the next person to speak.

Professor Light watched quietly as each student presented their animals.

"Wonderful job to everyone who went... you all got 4 or 5 out of 5 possible points! Now for the next animal... and don't forget to grab some of the animal crackers up here! Muggles really love them... it's part of the experience!" Professor Light laughed slightly and winked at the students.

"Alright, I know this is one of my less exciting lessons, but feel happy because you are getting your homework done in class! And getting fed for that matter..."

As she said this, she pulled out a picture of the next animal. She gave the students a few moments to figure out their ideas, and then she sat back on a far away desk to let the students start presenting again.

ooc:

Sara sat there thinking for a moment...hmm. Well, it had stripes and it had whiskers. She knew it was a Tiger. She hated how it took away the experience of not knowing. But...she was creative! She didn't need to not know...she could pretend!

Stripes and whiskers were the first thing that popped out at her when she noticed it so she supposed she would just put them together... Whipes...ew, no. Hmm. Striskers! Perfect!

She walked up to the front of the class, "Well, I decided to name the cute cat-like animal Striskers! I named it that because the first thing that really popped out at me were the black stripes on its coat and the long whiskers from near its mouth." She smiled at the class and at Professor Light then grabbed a few of the delicious Animal Crackers and sat back down waiting for the next presentation.

Nik eyed the animal and tried to think up a good name for it. Hmmm...Bangled Bongo? Heh...he snorted slightly at the name idea and wrote it down.

He stood up and went to the front of the class to start his presentation. "This animal is a Bangled Bongo. I named it so because of it's stripes, they resemble bangles and well, bongo...because the alliteration sounds cool."

He went on, using his imagination to it's full potential, "The Bangled Bongo is a fierce predator, it stalks it's prey silently, and the stripes allows it to stay camouflaged in the trees and long grass." He lowered his voice for dramatic effect, "When they spot their prey......WHAM!" He shouted, "They jump in for the kill and do it swiftly! Killing their victims with a single swipe of their sharp claws and bite of their even sharpers teeth!"

He finished up with a comparison, "The Bangled Bongo is most like the magical creature, I would liken it to the Lethifold because they are both hidden predators, but if judging by physical similarities, I'd say that the Bangled Bongo looks like a Nundu, except it has stripes instead of spots."

With that he took another handful of animal crackers and went back to his seat.

Once again, from Sebastian's small tenure at the circus he was acquainted with this animal as well. But, he would have to try and create another name. A few sprung to mind as he jotted down little notes.

"All good creatures... would anyone else like to present their made up animal before I move on to the last one and give you some really information on these animals?" Professor Light tapped her fingers on the desk and smiled happily, hoping a few more students would step up.