Originally Posted by kayquilz

OOoOOooooh designing a zooooooo. Aboli was already scribbling ideas before Recard had even finished explaining. She was DEFINITELY taking the two mundane-one magical route. She just had to figure out the layout and the reasons for why each creature appeared.

Hmm.

Number 1...his early life. He was expelled, then he...what had he done next - she glanced back up at her notes. Then, he was commissioned to write Fantastic Beasts. What's an animal that could represent that part of his life? What's an animal that seemed to be an outcast, but was really quite sweet, perhaps misunderstood? And THEN, Aboli had it. She wrote the FIRST animal her zoo would entertain - sharks. To represent what society might have seen him as - dangerous, outcast, in the deep end - but really, he was smart and just trying to do his best! It was SIMPLY PERFECT. Also, who didn't love visiting sharks? Aboli thought they were cool.

Animal #2. Aboli tapped her quill end against her cheek as she thought. The next part of his life. The COOL part. He met the love of his life AND did the thing for werewolves...what if I did wolves. A pack of 'em! Wolves are really lovey dovey to each other and stick together. It could represent THAT part of his life. And so, she jotted down WHITE WOLVES as the second animal. She figured people would enjoy the regalia of white wolves.

Last animal, and it has to be magical. It should encompass his accomplishments as a WHOLE and everything he did not just for wizards, but for humanity. He banned experimental breeding... Honestly, Aboli just kept thinking about Thunderbirds. So, she added a Thunderbird to her zoo. "A poor zoo with only three animals..." she muttered to herself, but for the sake of the assignment, she was done deciding which creatures she'd include. Sharks. Wolves. Thunderbird. She even had different KINDS of animals - fish, bird, mammal. That was cool, too. She was missing a reptile, her favorite, but eh. She would live!

Now, to cut out pictures of them! She went to go peruse the magazines Recard had told them about.

Originally Posted by TakemetotheBurrow

Originally Posted by Chelliephone

K had spaced momentarily after the second question was posed, primarily because she didn't really know anything about Newt Scamander other than a couple of the creatures he had studied. So when Professor Recard what else he had down for the community? Well, K was at a loss. She was surprised she did as well as she had on the activity by only messing up on 2 placements for the order of events of Scamander's life.

Bringing herself to attention though, she tried to catch herself up by taking notes on what the other students were offering for his accomplishments, just in case she needed this information later. Her quill posed for a moment hearing Islay's question regarding the discrimination of werewolves, but Professor Recard did not go into too much detail into her response because they were needing to focus on other things, so she went back to scribbling everything else down on her parchment in front of her.

But then, sounded like the note portion was over and they had an in class assignment they needed to do. And K was pleasantly surprised to hear that it actually sounded fun. She would do all magical creatures, and one's that she knew had been in The Care of Magical Creatures, because that seemed like a very straightforward response for how her zoo honored Scamander. But also, she wanted to honor her previous school so she decided to do the Wampus cat, the Horned Serpent and the Thunderbird. All the representations of her siblings previous houses.

Pulling out another clean sheet of parchment, K began her zoo, writing down her animals and their names:

Not very creative, but she'd take it. She thought about filling the rest of her time in class by creating lavish back stories, because sometimes imagination was fun, but she decided she should probably focus on finding photos of her animals first. She stood up and made her way to the piles of magazines after her other class mates, selecting a couple of magical magazines and heading back to her desk as she plopped down and flipped through them.