Salamanders were pretty interesting. Hattie wrote the creatures name at the top of her parchment, and then began jotting down what her class mates were saying. She wanted to make sure that she had a nice set of notes to revise from when it got closer to her OWLS. She was tried to be as prepared as she could be. She really did not want to fail, especially this subject since it was her mother's favourite. She liked it too, though it wasn't really her favourite. Now she had to think of a answer to the question. She doodled on her parchment as she thought about her answer.

Eventually she put her hand up into the air, to say her answer. "If they are fed on pepper they can survive out of the fire for up to six hours. But we need to remember the pepper." Otherwise they'd have a dead salamander and that would be no fun.