  DoM & ACPuffskein
Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: California, USA
Posts: 1,530
Hogwarts RPG Name:
Addison Ayers
First Year | 
OH… YES. The viiiines not the seeds. Hahaha……. Yea that made a little more sense? “I meant the vines...” Jackson replied, wondering how bad he was at lying. Yes, this was the part where he had to pull out his notes and quill. He observed the plants as they… uhm… interacted with his fellow classmates. He looked up from his scribbled notes in time to see Professor Wishart start getting entangled with a vine. As soon as it had started though, the professor had whacked the sneaky vine away. Man, Jackson wished he had those kind of instincts but usually not so much. He looked at his hands, appreciating his gloves so much. Hmmm how were they going to extract the juice? Jackson would first have assumed by squeezing the vines but that would have been more likely on a… not as alive… plant? Jackson was scribbling again, trying to catch the details. He smiled appreciatively at Hanna for her answers, wishing he could give her House points.
Raising his hand, Jackson responded. “To… juice… it,” he started a bit clumsily, “I would assume it’s a good idea to immobilize the plant to reduce the chance of hurting yourself. And, well I would assume we should always treat a plant as though it hasn’t been devenomized, you know just in case, but I would think you should be looking to protect yourself as best you can.” He listened as others mentioned milking snakes, and Jackson had to admit that he had never thought of milking a snake before. Nor did he have plans of thinking of that ever again, thanks. As more people answered, Jackson felt himself now waiting for more Ravenclaws to answer… buuut Jessa’s replies were not quite what he was hoping for. Expected? Yes. Helpful? Not particularly.
Oh good, it was time to work with the plants. As Jack looked at his assigned plant, he considered it. How weird to think of it as a young plant… As though it were a baby animal that had been declawed. Like, seriously that’s what this all sounded like to him. Were they going to take them home and care for them?? Okay, that was a little excessive maybe, but seeing as they had been devenomized, Jackson was kind of up for it. Energy having increased a bit, now that some of his breakfast had digested, Jackson fixed up his parchment and went to grab some of the dead chizpurfles. How many would he need though?? He took what he could carry back to his station and began getting the plant’s attention. Not that he needed help, what with his approaching with food and all. “Hey! Hey! Hungry, bud? Huh?” Once the plant had found the food, Jackson tossed it toward the plant. Ooh it was quick!
“WHOA. Control yourself, okay?” Jackson found himself saying to his plant. He would have to name it Audrey II if it kept trying to devour things like that. He tried tossing a few more until the plant calmed down. Well, maybe not so much calm down but it looked like it! Once the plant was at a steady and slow speed, Jackson got much closer to it. He stayed wary, but the plant didn’t seem to be trying to attack him yet. He was able to get a much better look at each part of the plant. Hooo man… One look at this distance and Jackson could tell that it had been summer merely days ago. His poor new friend seemed ready to shatter any second! Unless that’s how they always looked? Doubtful. He had almost started throwing water on the plant, but he remembered that he would probably want fertilizer. He saw absolutely no sense in making himself dig out the mud, so he replaced the dirt first. After a bit of Jackson decided to practice his nonverbal magic.
Aguamenti! Aaand… nothing. Hm. He tried it again. Aguamenti!
COOL. A dribble of water fell out of the end of his wand, as if to TEASE Audrey with hydration. ”Sorry… That was rude,” he said to it, trying to keep a straight face as he joked. These were the kind of jokes his mom would have rolled her eyes at. He closed his eyes and took a ‘focusing’ breath.
Aguamenti!
WHOOSH! There it was! Thumb covering part of the stream, Jackson created a shower for Audrey. It was kind of cool to watch to be honest.
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