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*Nordic Witch* · 09-09-2018, 07:08 AM

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Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie

Ducking under the vine that then made a grab for his hair, Derf readied his wand again to finish the job when he saw the result of his rogue spell.

GAH!

HELPLESS FIRST YEAR AT....er....SOMETHING O'CLOCK!

Leaping up from his seat - because Merlin help him if he Finite'd the vines he had been working on freezing in his haste - the sixth year scrambled over to the Ravenclaw and pointed his wand at the top of his head. "Finite!" Breathe, Derfael. "I'm sorry about that," he apologized with a firm ruffle of his hair. "I was aiming for the vine."

And....er...he slowly turned his head and glanced at the professor now that that dust had somewhat settled.

".........and...uuuuh...sorry for...the...uh...disruption....professor."

And in all the commotion and his own self induced chaos...Derf had entirely missed Callum arriving late.

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Originally Posted by DJ Moose

Having responded and felt confident with his answer Mark continued to keep a close eye on the Plant ahead of him. Not confident yet with his spell work to either sever or freeze the plant he continued to keep a safe distance away from it's ensnaring vines.

Unfortunately his position was in a direct path with an incoming spell. Which he had not seen. What he did see was his Venomous Tenticula had reach. When he heard the shout for 'Duck!' he assumed it was for the Vine reaching for him So he ducked. And the Vine missed him very grateful for the heads-up. As he begun stand the spell made direct contact with him and he was stuck in this odd semi-squatting position.

But Why?! Who? Where?

Derfael had one minute been shooting spells at his tentacula and shouting out to duck to his peers. When the dust settled and the badger prefect stopped with his spell casting however Professor Wishart observed how Derf realized what disruption his actions had caused to Mark of the eagles. He kept quiet until Derf had apologized to Mark and ruffled his hair before he spoke first looking to the first year ravenclaw with some worry in his eyes. "Are you all right Mark? You can sit up now, its okay again."

Turning his eyes to Derf now he said with a nod of his head. "I accept your apology Derfael. I suggest you keep a good distance from your plant until you’ve gotten started on the activity and also to not shoot spells at it unless it’s really nessecarry. A stressed and irritated plant is more likely to strike than a balanced and calm plant."

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Originally Posted by Devina Wellheart

He had a good and valid excuse as to his tardiness, but he wondered if this professor would also have a problem with the word crap... He decided he'd have to find out as he had asked him directly. " I was late to class , Sir, because I need to go to the lavatory.. It seems that breakfast has run right through me.. ", Cal answered.. The last part being added for dramatic effect of course. Surely, he wouldn't be punished and still have those ten points taken from his house..

Callum then chose that time to explain the reason for his late arrival to class. It felt like a little more information than Joshua needed since he got the image in his head of the boy sitting on the loo and you know throwing up...Shaking his head he said "All right Callum, I understand. You will not get a detention, but I will still subtract those points. I suggest that you try to eat things like yoghurt and toast to breakfast which will be kind to your stomach in the future." Or he’d have more lavatory visits and the next professor might not be as lenient as him for showing up in a tardy state.

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Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo

For now, she turned her attention once more on the Professor. “If the plants are weak enough that we can just lightly knock them out of the way, why are we placating them with chizpurfles? Seems to me if you’ve gone and removed everything that’s made them dangerous then we could just grab at the parts we need and squeeze without much opposition.” But this time, she did get up and moved over to the barrel. The Head Girl peered inside, reaching for three of the dead things before returning to her seat.

As the activity got started it seemed that the head girl wanted to get more involved and show more attentiveness. Turning his eyes to the ravenclaw Professor Wishart responded, his hands folded at his chest. "You bring up a valid question Jessa. We are placating our tentculas by feeding them chizpurfles because they are going through the very prickly end state of teething since they are still young plants maturing to adults and they are lot more grouchy and unpredictable when they get their last teeth and I don’t want anyone here to get bitten."

"I’ve devenomed them because if you were to get bitten you won’t get badly hurt but just because they’ve been devonomed doesn’t make them not dangerous. They still have sharp teeth, vines that can strangle you and spike spore balls that can hurt your skin. So I advice you to be very careful to not underestimate a plant just because it appears to not be dangerous anymore." Joshua finished before turning his attention to other students.

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Originally Posted by Felixir

There was only one thing for it. He was going to have to ask for clarification. Not such a crazy thing to do generally, sure, but already he had started imagining all sorts, like that he would be accused of not listening to instructions or something equally as dreadful. So, he had to steel himself a bit before raising a gloved hand. "Professor? Did you want us to do the trimming or watering or fertilising if our plant needs it? Or do we just write it down for now?"

As he walked around the large table he was stopped by Abra wanting a clarification. "Thank you Abra for asking for a clarification." He said with a smile to the lion prefect. Raising his voice Prof Wishart said to all the assembled students. "I'm sorry if I was vague earlier. You are just going to note down what your plant needs. Watering, trimming, fertilizing if your plant needs it will come later when everyone has finished with feeding their plants and writing down notes."

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Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo

Jessa tilted her head to look over at her plant, it was still tugging at her bun but she had little motivation to make it stop. It wouldn’t kill her. She would need to feed it then care it but without any real use to the juices....she couldn’t understand why. It prompted—against her better judgement—another question. “Why have the plants had their venom removed, Professor? Seems shoddy to change their very nature, their defence mechanism and their means of feeding just so we don’t die.” It was different if the plant had been specifically bred without venom in the first place, but these had it and it was removed. “It’s like removing the fire, fangs and ferocity from a dragon so we can pet it at the zoo.”

Jessa spoke up again and this time Professor Wishart turned a sterner look at her then before. "Don't test my patience or professional judgement Jessa or you will lose house points! I have devenomed these plants for your students safety. The venom these plant’s had in them was very potent and strong and getting bitten by a plant with that in them would have knocked you unconcious within seconds and you’d have needed urgent healer attention. So I as your professor i took the decission knowing full well that yes I'd change these tentaculas natures but we are in a school and you are supposed to learn about plants, even dangerous ones in a safe learning environment." So there was that. He turned away from her to go look how some of the students were doing with their plant assessing.

OOC: I'm so sorry for causing so much confusion with the timeline.

It was really not my intention at all. If I missed or overlooked posts from some of you then it really wasn't intentional at all. I had a really bad and stressy week in RL with working overtime ontop of coming down with a bad cold so when i've posted because I've wanted to for all you lovely people playing the end result hasn't been the best since it just caused confusion.

I've learned my lesson and I will never ever make the same mistake of adding in individual responses after the fact again in the wrong posts. I hope you all can understand and forgive me and keep playing for the rest of the lesson. I will move the lesson on to the main activity tomorrow.

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Nordic Witch Grindylow Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: [GMT + 1] Posts: 14,087 Hogwarts RPG Name: Rose Snakebark Gryffindor Fifth Year Hogwarts RPG Name: JT Forsfelle Slytherin Third Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Ariadne Rose Hufflepuff Third Year Ministry Department Head: Violet Fawley Ecological Protection x3	Swedishfish Girl! Madame Librarian! Jess's Soul Sister! Sweetest Swede! Quote: Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie Ducking under the vine that then made a grab for his hair, Derf readied his wand again to finish the job when he saw the result of his rogue spell. GAH! HELPLESS FIRST YEAR AT....er....SOMETHING O'CLOCK! Leaping up from his seat - because Merlin help him if he Finite'd the vines he had been working on freezing in his haste - the sixth year scrambled over to the Ravenclaw and pointed his wand at the top of his head. "Finite!" Breathe, Derfael. "I'm sorry about that," he apologized with a firm ruffle of his hair. "I was aiming for the vine." And....er...he slowly turned his head and glanced at the professor now that that dust had somewhat settled. ".........and...uuuuh...sorry for...the...uh...disruption....professor." And in all the commotion and his own self induced chaos...Derf had entirely missed Callum arriving late. Quote: Originally Posted by DJ Moose Having responded and felt confident with his answer Mark continued to keep a close eye on the Plant ahead of him. Not confident yet with his spell work to either sever or freeze the plant he continued to keep a safe distance away from it's ensnaring vines. Unfortunately his position was in a direct path with an incoming spell. Which he had not seen. What he did see was his Venomous Tenticula had reach. When he heard the shout for 'Duck!' he assumed it was for the Vine reaching for him So he ducked. And the Vine missed him very grateful for the heads-up. As he begun stand the spell made direct contact with him and he was stuck in this odd semi-squatting position. But Why?! Who? Where? Derfael had one minute been shooting spells at his tentacula and shouting out to duck to his peers. When the dust settled and the badger prefect stopped with his spell casting however Professor Wishart observed how Derf realized what disruption his actions had caused to Mark of the eagles. He kept quiet until Derf had apologized to Mark and ruffled his hair before he spoke first looking to the first year ravenclaw with some worry in his eyes. "Are you all right Mark? You can sit up now, its okay again." Turning his eyes to Derf now he said with a nod of his head. "I accept your apology Derfael. I suggest you keep a good distance from your plant until you’ve gotten started on the activity and also to not shoot spells at it unless it’s really nessecarry. A stressed and irritated plant is more likely to strike than a balanced and calm plant." Quote: Originally Posted by Devina Wellheart He had a good and valid excuse as to his tardiness, but he wondered if this professor would also have a problem with the word crap... He decided he'd have to find out as he had asked him directly. " I was late to class , Sir, because I need to go to the lavatory.. It seems that breakfast has run right through me.. ", Cal answered.. The last part being added for dramatic effect of course. Surely, he wouldn't be punished and still have those ten points taken from his house.. Callum then chose that time to explain the reason for his late arrival to class. It felt like a little more information than Joshua needed since he got the image in his head of the boy sitting on the loo and you know throwing up...Shaking his head he said "All right Callum, I understand. You will not get a detention, but I will still subtract those points. I suggest that you try to eat things like yoghurt and toast to breakfast which will be kind to your stomach in the future." Or he’d have more lavatory visits and the next professor might not be as lenient as him for showing up in a tardy state. Quote: Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo For now, she turned her attention once more on the Professor. “If the plants are weak enough that we can just lightly knock them out of the way, why are we placating them with chizpurfles? Seems to me if you’ve gone and removed everything that’s made them dangerous then we could just grab at the parts we need and squeeze without much opposition.” But this time, she did get up and moved over to the barrel. The Head Girl peered inside, reaching for three of the dead things before returning to her seat. As the activity got started it seemed that the head girl wanted to get more involved and show more attentiveness. Turning his eyes to the ravenclaw Professor Wishart responded, his hands folded at his chest. "You bring up a valid question Jessa. We are placating our tentculas by feeding them chizpurfles because they are going through the very prickly end state of teething since they are still young plants maturing to adults and they are lot more grouchy and unpredictable when they get their last teeth and I don’t want anyone here to get bitten." "I’ve devenomed them because if you were to get bitten you won’t get badly hurt but just because they’ve been devonomed doesn’t make them not dangerous. They still have sharp teeth, vines that can strangle you and spike spore balls that can hurt your skin. So I advice you to be very careful to not underestimate a plant just because it appears to not be dangerous anymore." Joshua finished before turning his attention to other students. Quote: Originally Posted by Felixir There was only one thing for it. He was going to have to ask for clarification. Not such a crazy thing to do generally, sure, but already he had started imagining all sorts, like that he would be accused of not listening to instructions or something equally as dreadful. So, he had to steel himself a bit before raising a gloved hand. "Professor? Did you want us to do the trimming or watering or fertilising if our plant needs it? Or do we just write it down for now?" As he walked around the large table he was stopped by Abra wanting a clarification. "Thank you Abra for asking for a clarification." He said with a smile to the lion prefect. Raising his voice Prof Wishart said to all the assembled students. "I'm sorry if I was vague earlier. You are just going to note down what your plant needs. Watering, trimming, fertilizing if your plant needs it will come later when everyone has finished with feeding their plants and writing down notes." Quote: Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo Jessa tilted her head to look over at her plant, it was still tugging at her bun but she had little motivation to make it stop. It wouldn’t kill her. She would need to feed it then care it but without any real use to the juices....she couldn’t understand why. It prompted—against her better judgement—another question. “Why have the plants had their venom removed, Professor? Seems shoddy to change their very nature, their defence mechanism and their means of feeding just so we don’t die.” It was different if the plant had been specifically bred without venom in the first place, but these had it and it was removed. “It’s like removing the fire, fangs and ferocity from a dragon so we can pet it at the zoo.” Jessa spoke up again and this time Professor Wishart turned a sterner look at her then before. "Don't test my patience or professional judgement Jessa or you will lose house points! I have devenomed these plants for your students safety. The venom these plant’s had in them was very potent and strong and getting bitten by a plant with that in them would have knocked you unconcious within seconds and you’d have needed urgent healer attention. So I as your professor i took the decission knowing full well that yes I'd change these tentaculas natures but we are in a school and you are supposed to learn about plants, even dangerous ones in a safe learning environment." So there was that. He turned away from her to go look how some of the students were doing with their plant assessing. OOC: I'm so sorry for causing so much confusion with the timeline. It was really not my intention at all. If I missed or overlooked posts from some of you then it really wasn't intentional at all. I had a really bad and stressy week in RL with working overtime ontop of coming down with a bad cold so when i've posted because I've wanted to for all you lovely people playing the end result hasn't been the best since it just caused confusion. I've learned my lesson and I will never ever make the same mistake of adding in individual responses after the fact again in the wrong posts. I hope you all can understand and forgive me and keep playing for the rest of the lesson. I will move the lesson on to the main activity tomorrow. __________________