Leah was taking notes. Lots of notes. She was quite disappointed that they would not be acting this lesson, but this theoretical stuff about What is history? and Illuminated Manuscripts was more than interesting too. Definitely points that would appear on her O.W.L.s, yes.

After completing her last sentence, she jumped up to gather supplies. Parchment, decorative paper, book cover and inks. That was a LOT of things, so the Hufflepuff made multiple trips to the front of the room, possibly gaining attention from her peers. Ahem. And YAY they were making their own Manuscripts! This was AMAZING.

... Wait, they had to fold all TWENTY pieces of parchment? Why?? Leah considered stacking all of them together and squashing them into a quarter, but that would be unneat. She wanted her book to be perfect. So she began folding. And folding. And folding. Soon, her signature thing was finished. She decided to practice the spell Adhero in the short break she had. "Adhero," she murmured, causing her notebook to stick together. Oops, she would have to deal with that later on. "Adhero," she repeated, this time drawing her wand down the spine of her book cover.

Next, she folded the decorative papers into half. This was less time-consuming than the parchment. She glued half to the first page, half to the inside cover, another half to the back page and the last half to the back cover. This made the book secure and stable as a whole. A lot of Adhero-ing going on here. Now that she was done assembling the book, she could move on to the DRAWING part. WHEEE.

Leah picked up a colored pencil excitedly but as soon as it was in her hand she realized that she had no idea what she was going to draw. She peeked over her shoulder at her neighbor's drawing but did not get any inspiration whatsoever. To be honest, she could not even tell what he was trying to illustrate. So she continued looking around the classroom until oooh she knew what she was going to draw. The Hogwarts castle! It was going to be a beautiful scene, unless she screwed it up that is, but she was going to try her very best.

After the last bit of the drawing - the Grounds - was sketched out, the Fifth Year flipped a page, exhausted. She was only going to doodle little stuff from now on. In the second page, she drew a bird. In the third, she drew a fish. In the fourth she drew a frog and in the fifth a dragon. In the sixth page, she drew a badger in Hufflepuff colors. Proud of her own artwork, she decided to leave the remainder of the book for writings. Yeah, fourteen pages of words - it would be fun!

And since animation is important, Leah pulled out her wand and followed Professor Glendower's demonstration. "Animatae," she said clearly, jabbing her wand at her badger. Nothing happened. Oh, her wand movement was incorrect. Big shame. "Animatae," she said again, tracing the lines carefully. The Puff badger began doing a sort of dance routine and it was just SO CUTE. Leah laughed out loud and waited for further instructions.