 lives in a hobbit hole || Ern and Touz's Nuzzle || roflysst || looking at a seed packet
Given she'd greeted every professor every single time for every lesson she'd ever been to without being punished before, Bel was caught off guard by the double punishment - points and push ups, though, truth be told, she wasn't too upset with either. The push ups she welcomed, and quite simply dropped where she was and quickly hit twenty in quick succession. Which WAS a nice little way to warm up, and no struggle for her whatsoever. As for the points..... it didn't upset her exactly, though she'd never lost any before that she could recollect, it was more that.... she knew some people worked really hard to earn them, and she didn't want anyone to feel like their hard work wasn't worthwhile on her account.
She got back to her feet in time for the lesson to properly begin. A dark creature that might live in the forest? Bel didn't know all of what was there, given her background was Australian things rather than what could be found here in the UK, but she half wondered if it was a trick question. She could hear a few kids give answers that were.... well they were just creatures. Not dark creatures, necessarily. Would they get in trouble for saying creatures that lived there that weren't dark in nature?
Bel thought about it, and keeping in mind the whole.... be vigilant thing, she put her hand up, waited to be called on, and then spoke, "Professor, while I'm not familiar with what is specifically in the forest.... I reckon that last term's situation with there being Inferi under the lake proves that there could be absolutely any kind of dark creature hidden in the forest that we don't even know about, so we need to learn about all of them, just in case, and maybe even learn how to recognize any sign of them being around. I think... if we went into the forest just with some list of what we think is there for sure, it might make us less likely to be vigilant about something unexpected or dangerous that we aren't prepared for." And honestly? After the previous term? Bel never wanted to be unprepared like that ever again.
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