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Issy's eyed strayed onto one of the Slytherin prefects when she spoke. And then widened when her words sunk in.
Something other than snot?
What on earth was this child feeding her pets? It was --- "Umm, not quite, no. But thank you for the...input, Selena."
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Ohhh, ding! ding! They had a winner.
Isabelle beamed as she looked at the child. "You are exactly right! Well done!"
Flipping the thimble over in her hand, Isabelle turned her grin to the rest of the class. "Those of you who said this is a thimble are quite correct. But we won't be using it for sewing today - we'll be transfiguring vases for these flowers to go in later on," she gestured to coloured blooms in the buckets.
"The spell itself is formed from two Latin words..." Picking up the chalk, Issy decided to write it on the board herself rather than use magic. "Flora, meaning flowers, or plants. And Teneo, meaning 'to hold'."
"To hold flowers. A vase. Any kind that your imagination can come up with. And the flowers themselves will be for later, so you can all have some fun arranging them. Now, before I show you the wand movements, could you all come up and collect a handful of thimbles - you'll need some more for homework, so feel free to store them in your bags." Isabelle used her foot to shift the box to the front of the room. It was a little heavy, as there were hundreds of the things in there.
Selena smiled brightly at the professor, expecting her answer to be completely correct.
"You're welcome Professor Magnus~" Selena chirped. Her answer was probably correct. It made the most sense. To her at least. But
obviously the professor had
other plans for this thing. Sighing, Selena slumped in her chair. There went feeding Kent something else. Kicking her legs back and forth in her seat she STARED at the metal thingy. Not really that pretty and apparently not a cup for a pygmy puff. Maybe it was a cup for a cru- nope. It was
thimble.... used for
sewing. Selena didn't sew. She didn't play with needles. Those things were dangerous.
Continuing to kick her legs back and forth, Selena wrote down the spell and it's use before standing up and skipping over to the box of metal
thimbles. Who knew, maybe they
could use it to feed a pygmy puff something other than snot. Selena picked up each metal thimble one by one, putting each one on her finger till she had a total of ten. Now she had fingers with metal HATS. Yup. She would be changing the metal finger hats into pretty vases now apparently so Selena waited for further instruction.