Mason watched, with a bit of jealousy in his eyes as Ash took flight and went to a Gryffindor. The jealousy did not fade away when the bird flew back to the Professor after a quick whistle like it was the easiest thing to do. Tame a phoenix, not whistling, although whistling could be difficult to for some people... He wanted a phoenix and he wanted one now.
But like always, Mason never actually said his thoughts out loud, which was a smart move because he would have gotten in trouble a lot of he had and focused on the activity next. He was glad they could work alone for this part as well as he didn't like working in pairs or in groups and after he had gotten his six cards the Ravenclaw turned his back to the class and placed the cards in front of him on the ground.
As he checked them, it was obvious that card number six was the beginning of the phoenix life cycle. He grabbed his notebook and wrote down 6. He placed the number six card at the beginning and studied the next five cards. The next one was picture number two. The phoenix wasn't in full beauty yet which was picture number four so he grabbed the two cards and placed them next to each other. He wrote down the 2 and 4 next to the 6. He was pretty sure that even a magnificent bird like a phoenix would not become even more beautiful cause that would be really unfair wouldn't it? And he was right when he checked the next few cards. They were all looking like the bird got older and older. He held up two pictures again, one was number five and the other was number one. Judging by the tail on number one, it still had some feathers left whereas the tail on number five had none, poor creature seemed to be gagging as well and Mason's dark brown eyes went to Ash for a moment, feeling sorry that that creature had to suffer through this pain and loss everytime when it had to be reborn.
Taking his eyes away from the bird, Mason picked number two and placed it next to his other cards. It was then that he noticed that picture number three looked more healthier than picture number two and he realised that this card should have been in this place as the phoenix, although looking slightly dull, it hadn't lost his feathers yet. So he corrected his mistake and placed the number three card next to the four card and the Ravenclaw looked down at his cards and nodded his head. Got it.
done.