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Shanners · 06-26-2020, 03:18 AM

SPOILER!!: Jina

Writing his own list on the whiteboard was weird. Gus felt like he was a child again before he was of-age. The squeak of a marker made his tummy do a little bit of a somersault. ”Excellent, Jina. LIGHT. Different forms of light. Some thrive in DARK, which obviously is a LACK of light! Thank you!”

SPOILER!!: Naya

”Wonderful, wonderful. Fertile plants are always what we-- no, that isn’t what I meant. Fertilised plants!! That’s what we need. We want to encourage the growth from the soil as that is where plants draw their nutrients from.” Not… that the soil made them fertile. Not in that..sense. Yikes. MOVING SWIFTLY ON.

SPOILER!!: Nem

Rainwater? ”Yes, Nemesis? What’s wrong?” Oh. Oh. ”Hah! You meant… rain. The water that falls when it rains!!!! Like my name!” Hah. Incredible. Honestly incredible. Nemesis was a COMEDIAN. AWARD WORTHY!!!!!!!!!

SPOILER!!: Claudine

Before Gus started to write down ‘remove EVIL PLANTS’ on the whiteboard he gave Claudine a thumbs up. ”ABSOLUTELY. Toxic! Remove the toxicity in the social circle of your plant! GOODBYE SOUL SUCKING PLANTS.” And people. Getting rid of those also worked. Heh.

SPOILER!!: Phoebe

Look… Gus would never say he was CONCERNED about a student… but then Phoebe James and her worm thing happened again and he was absolutely concerned. Why wouldn’t she let him igNORE the wiggly wormies? ”......yes. Some…….. Um……… ok.”

Ok. He’d mildly address it? Uh. ”I hope you’re not looking to… kill worms in my class, Miss James.”

SPOILER!!: Avalon

The word ‘SPACE’ was written on the whiteboard in capital letters and underlined three times. ”Yup. Much like the year of 20.. Uh… 20 something.. the art of socially distancing is a necessity for the health of plants.” 2030, m aybe?

SPOILER!!: Heath

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Originally Posted by MadMadamMalfoy

Heath blinked, slightly taken aback when Professor Rainwater welcomed him. That was nice of him, if not stating the obvious. Had the professor forgotten what subject he taught? Or maybe he thought Heath had forgotten which lesson it was? Then there was Claudine, of all people, making jokes and that sad-looking Gryffindor girl (Bernie), who Heath was almost positive would normally be loud and laughy. All this, plus the professor's reaction to that older Slytherin (Eiji), and this class was weird before it even started… and not the usual weirdness he'd come to expect from herbology! ~~The law is inside out, The world is upside down!~~

If Heath didn't know better, he'd think something had happened to make everyone change personalities! His own conflicted feelings only added fuel to that theory. He was prepared for loud, over-the-top dramatics as Rainwater began talking, but when none happened, he was even more caught off guard than if they did. Ironic… all he'd ever wanted was for the dramatics to stop, but this felt so wrong! Now he didn't just feel sorry for the professor; he was genuinely concerned for him!

It was only out of concern that Heath decided to speak up for the first question. Although his fear of a bad reaction (or an odd one) hadn't gone away, he thought it might make the professor happier. If only he could recall what the question was! Heath listened to his classmates, furiously jotting down notes in hopes that would give him some clue. So they were talking about things plants need, but what could he say that hadn't already been said? He thought for a minute? Did anyone mention soil yet? He didn't* think so!

Hoping he wasn't inadvertently repeating answers, Heath tentatively raised his hand and said, "Plants need healthy soil to provide an anchor for their roots, as well an important source of nutrients." He couldn't recall the names of those nutrients off the top of his head, but he was sure someone would piggyback off that. There, short, sweet, and to the point. Nothing wrong with that answer, was there?

Gus added the word ‘soil’ after the word fertilize from an earlier answer and nodded. ”Definitely. A seed isn’t going to grow if it isn’t in nutrient packed soil. Exactly. Seeds are like BABIES.” Did anyone else miss their baby from Muggle Studies last term? He did. He missed Orchid sO much.

SPOILER!!: Missa

Piggyback? PIGGYBACK! Missa always came through with the piggyback answers. Gus was always so happy for her to answer his questions and to shed extra light and information on something that one of her peers had said. ”Take a point, Miss Renaldi.” As always. ”Exactly! A LIGHT DIET. That’s what is needed. Individual light diets for plants.” A worthy cause. Always a worthy cause.

SPOILER!!: cecelia

He had ALREADY cried once this class and here were his students trying to make him cry more. TO THE POINT that he stopped writing and took a seat on his tree stump again, clutchingb a hand to his chest. ”That.. is.. BEAUTIFUL, Cecilia. Take.. TAKE FIVE POINTS.” And he was just going to move on before he actually spilled out tears again.

SPOILER!!: Viv

A quiet one? Gus smiled and continued onto the next student with a hand up.

SPOILER!!: Aboli

Gus was still a little in recovery emotionally from the answer that Cecelia had given and here came Aboli with it all over again and he was GOING TO LOSE IT! ”Yes.” He squeaked out, moving slowly back to the whiteboard and writing ‘love’ finally in really small writing even though it was probably one of the most important things in the world.

SPOILER!!: Isla

Gus took a glance at the list he had written to see if anyone had given an answer about temperature, saw that no one had and nodded. ”Great answer, Isla. Yes. And each plant has different optimal temperatures! They thrive best in one or another!”

SPOILER!!: Carsyn

”True, yes. But just because you can… doesn’t mean you should, right? Would you enjoy being saddled up close and personal right next to another person for the rest of your life? Unable to pick up your things and move of your own accord?”

SPOILER!!: Eiji

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Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie

Eiji never EVER wanted to be in the same thought process as Professor Rainwater and his underwear ever again. Thanks.

Could anyone else guess where else Eiji never wanted to be again? If you were to have guessed the arms of his Herbology professor then you would have been spot on and won nothing more than the self validation that you were correct in your assumptions about the seventh year snake. He was not opposed to touch or affection, he simple had a very VERY finite group of individuals he tolerated it from and an even more finite group that he sought it out from. Professor Rainwater was on neither of these lists. And that was NOT to say that he loathed the man, not that he particularly respected the man either - only Professor Noble truly had earned that from this Rasting - but Eiji could appreciate someone's talent and intellect without respecting them entirely.

Also...he saw how much the man looked out for his little sister and how reliant she had become on the man so...that counted for a fair bit.

But still. The hugging was entirely unnecessary. E N T I R E L Y.

His shoulders tensed on contact and his head nearly rolled back to groan and curse the red sky of Hogwarts for ensuring that this term was literally the worst term of his life - and he had been through an inferi invasion as a first year. And then came some additional salt in his irritated wound - the man was crying. He would rather squirt lemon juice in his eye or sit through a Divination lecture for an entire day than have his Herbology professor crying on him. Maybe he could just conveniently forget it happened.

Unfortunately there were entirely too many witnesses to the whole ordeal, among them his girlfriend who he could HEAR was amused by it all. He could pick out her laugh among a flock of singing fwoopers, honestly.

THANKFULLY Professor Rainwater was letting go of him and Eiji hoped that his pale features were still pale and not flushed from the whole experience - spoiler alert, they absolutely were bright pink. "Certainly...professor. I will stop by this afternoon once I'm done tutoring," he stammered before sitting as FAR away from the man as humanly possible. And maybe the fifth years he was tutoring Potions to could be particularly daft today so that he wouldn't have TOO much time left at the man's office before he had to be back inside the castle for curfew and dinner.

That had been worse than hugging grandpa at King's Cross Station at the start of term. Almost. Not really at all. Whatever.

As for the question being posed...Eiji had already showed the man that he had knowledge on the subject with his offering of minerals to put into the soil to help add potassium, calcium, magnesium and sulfur into the soil along with helping balance it's pH.

They were never going to speak of this moment ever again and if they did then Gus was going to run away from it and say he had no recollection of the event whatsoever. Because he did not. Nope. He was glad that their memory was affected right now and would it ever be normal? Probably not. So that was FINE. NONE OF THEM NEEDED TO REMEMBER THAT THIS HAD BEEN A THING. Gus was honestly just glad that the seventh year couldn’t write to his grandfather about this. Because surely he’d be losing his job, yeah?

THIS WAS AWFUL.

IT WAS A LAPSE OF JUDGEMENT.

HE WAS EMOTIONAL.

HE WAS DRAMATIC.

AND HE WAS CALLED GURGUSTIUS.

SURELY THAT LET HIM OFF THE HOOK?!!

- - -

Gus put a cap on the marker pen and turned the whiteboard into full view of the circle of students ahead of him so they could write their notes as he talked or finish up writing them because he was not spending the whole lesson waiting for teenagers to write notes. Not yet anyway. ”Thanks guys. Lots of GREAT and correct answers.” None of the annoying answers from students trying to be the class clown and be funny -- when they weren’t. Did they know that they weren’t? Maybe they’d forgotten. Hah! Get it…?

”Anyway, I’d like to return to the idea of fertilising the soil and enriching the soil with the perfect amount of nutrients needed for a plant to grow. Perhaps an area of soil you’re planting in is known for being low in nutrients, perhaps your plant needs EXTRA of something.” Gus returned to sit on his tree trunk, passing the marker back and forth between his hands - a nervous sort of habit he had picked up since having to hold it and use it more often and not being able to hide behind all sorts of gimmicks. ”ALRIGHT. SO. Here’s my pitch… COMPOST! We’ve used it in some lessons recently when trying to help our plants stay with us.” Obviously failed but that was no fault of his students.

”What resources and ingredients could we use in compost and what can they do for our plants and soil? Do you have any specific examples? I’ll give us the first one.” He cleared off the first list from his whiteboard (with his sleeve) and wrote ‘banana peel’ down. ”It turns to MUSH. It goes brown and breaks down. PERFECT for a compost heap. FRAGRANT. OKAY. Who is next? Come on up and write your answers yourself. I want you to write your answer simply and explain it to the class.” He was handing over his marker!

OOC: Oh hey it’s me more than 12 hours later than I said I’d be here. Look, right… we’re in the middle of a heatwave and Shan doesn’t cope well with heat and neither does her laptop as every time she’s tried to make this post her laptop has DIED a painful death and been hotter than something super hot lol. HERE IS QUESTION 2. See u guys in like actually 24 hours because it shouldn’t be too hot at that time of night and apparently I’M A NIGHT OWL AGAIN. HELLO 4AM.

Any questions, please feel free to contact me!

Class will continue roughly 24 hours from this post <3

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Shanners DMAC & DMC Manticore Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: whoville Posts: 43,360 Hogwarts RPG Name: Mozart Bronwyn #ee6600 Gryffindor Sixth Year Hogwarts RPG Name: Maebry Grimaldi #ff8d6d First Year x7 x5	∞ 17 \| RP entrepreneur \| defies gravity \| Miss George is flawless \| blanket burrito lyfe SPOILER!!: Jina Quote: Originally Posted by Sunflower Note taking ... oh, she remembered the reason why she opened her bag in the first place. She took out her notebook and pencil and wrote the date on top of a blank page. Placing the writing materials down on her lap, she raised her hand to answer the question. "A plant needs light to survive. Specifically, wavelengths of light that correspond to the colours blue and red are the most effective for photosynthesis." She had more to say, but the professor said only one answer each, so she scribbled down everything she could remember in her notes instead. Writing his own list on the whiteboard was weird. Gus felt like he was a child again before he was of-age. The squeak of a marker made his tummy do a little bit of a somersault. ”Excellent, Jina. LIGHT. Different forms of light. Some thrive in DARK, which obviously is a LACK of light! Thank you!” SPOILER!!: Naya Quote: Originally Posted by Daydreamer11 Naya was glad to see the professor looking a little happier as class began. Ready to take some notes, she listened as the first question was posed. The Gryffindor raised her hand to give her answer. “Fertilizer can be added to the soil to help plants grow.” This reminded Naya of the little garden her mom had at home. She was always tending to her plants and flowers and the fertilizer helped a lot. Having said her piece, Naya prepared to jot down the answers that her classmates gave. At the same time, she was wondering what they would do to help the ailing plants. ”Wonderful, wonderful. Fertile plants are always what we-- no, that isn’t what I meant. Fertilised plants!! That’s what we need. We want to encourage the growth from the soil as that is where plants draw their nutrients from.” Not… that the soil made them fertile. Not in that..sense. Yikes. MOVING SWIFTLY ON. SPOILER!!: Nem Quote: Originally Posted by Felixir Scarf? Well, Nem certainly wasn't saying no. It was pretty cold out here, so why would they turn it down? "Cheers," Nem intoned, winding it around their neck and the lower half of their face, and burrowing their head down slightly so they were peering over the fabric. Decent scarf. Warm. Might keep it, add it to the gifts from professors. They already had a baby knarl in their keeping - exactly where was for them to know and nobody to find out - so why not winter wear too? Nem had been taking notes here and there in classes of late, now they could no longer rely on their short-term memory. Not today though. Today wasn't that kind of day. Didn't matter. Couple of years 'til OWLs, provided they all lasted that long. Any gaps in knowledge could be easily filled before then, no fear. They could answer just fine still though, so Nem raised a hand. "Rainwater," they said, and then left a long pause before adding, "Or whatever other kind of water you have, long as it's not full of stuff that will kill your plants." Rainwater? ”Yes, Nemesis? What’s wrong?” Oh. Oh. ”Hah! You meant… rain. The water that falls when it rains!!!! Like my name!” Hah. Incredible. Honestly incredible. Nemesis was a COMEDIAN. AWARD WORTHY!!!!!!!!! SPOILER!!: Claudine Quote: Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19 Claudine could tell that her little punny joke had worked which was all she wanted. Rainwater never deserved to be smiling in a forced manner. No, she wanted the happy, bouncy, extroverted professor back. At his own pun, the girl found herself chuckling quietly. She did get that one, all right. Seated now, she watched the others as she fidgeted with her bag that sat on her lap. Was it bad that she felt jealous of Eiji Raisin getting a hug? All Claudine knew was that she was glaring at the older Slytherin. And this young lady didn't even like physical contact… Since it was time for things to get started, a notebook and pen were retrieved from her bag. She never minded taking notes but still preferred Rainwater’s as he gave more details and sometimes, for whatever reason, Claudine would miss a bit of words in her note taking. But the first question was up and so was her hand a few moments later. “There’s maintenance like removing parasitic plants. There are vines that can grow or climb all over the original plant so that both are competing for water and sunlight. The bigger the parasitic vine gets, the more it suffocates the original plant, I guess.’’ Before Gus started to write down ‘remove EVIL PLANTS’ on the whiteboard he gave Claudine a thumbs up. ”ABSOLUTELY. Toxic! Remove the toxicity in the social circle of your plant! GOODBYE SOUL SUCKING PLANTS.” And people. Getting rid of those also worked. Heh. SPOILER!!: Phoebe Quote: Originally Posted by Cassirin Well, he hadn't answered her question at ALL, had he? Phoebe stuck her tongue out at the departing form of the professor and... hoped he hadn't seen. Whew. It would be terrible to lose points over something so dumb. But did he even KNOW about worms? Speaking of... y'know what the answer was to his question? The answer to what was needed to help the plants grow without magic? Y'see how this works, Professor? Y'see how you shouldn't ignore questions? "Worms, Professor. We need WORMSSSS." Look… Gus would never say he was CONCERNED about a student… but then Phoebe James and her worm thing happened again and he was absolutely concerned. Why wouldn’t she let him igNORE the wiggly wormies? ”......yes. Some…….. Um……… ok.” Ok. He’d mildly address it? Uh. *”I hope you’re not looking to… kill* worms in my class, Miss James.” SPOILER!!*: Avalon* Quote: Originally Posted by Fireheart Avalon felt bad for Professor Rainwater. He was probably extremely upset about everything going on, and she couldn't really blame him. Even though she didn't love plants as much as he did, she could relate to the feeling of losing stuff that you've worked really hard on. At least he seemed to perk up a little bit when more students arrived and class started. The Ravenclaw tied her scarf tighter around her neck, trying to warm up. It was pretty chilly outside. And she had to remove her gloves in order to take notes, which made her even more cold. Having classes outside in the middle of winter was definitely not opportune. But she didn't want Professor Rainwater to know how miserable she was, so she raised her hand anyway. "Plants need space to grow. That's why you can't plant things too close together, or else they'll have to compete for nutrients." She knew that much from her grandmother, who always spaced out the plots evenly for every vegetable in her garden. The word ‘SPACE’ was written on the whiteboard in capital letters and underlined three times. ”Yup. Much like the year of 20.. Uh… 20 something.. the art of socially distancing is a necessity for the health of plants.” 2030, m aybe? SPOILER!!: Heath Quote: Originally Posted by MadMadamMalfoy Heath blinked, slightly taken aback when Professor Rainwater welcomed him. That was nice of him, if not stating the obvious. Had the professor forgotten what subject he taught? Or maybe he thought Heath had forgotten which lesson it was? Then there was Claudine, of all people, making jokes and that sad-looking Gryffindor girl (Bernie), who Heath was almost positive would normally be loud and laughy. All this, plus the professor's reaction to that older Slytherin (Eiji), and this class was weird before it even started… and not the usual weirdness he'd come to expect from herbology! ~~The law is inside out, The world is upside down!~~ If Heath didn't know better, he'd think something had happened to make everyone change personalities! His own conflicted feelings only added fuel to that theory. He was prepared for loud, over-the-top dramatics as Rainwater began talking, but when none happened, he was even more caught off guard than if they did. Ironic… all he'd ever wanted was for the dramatics to stop, but this felt so wrong! Now he didn't just feel sorry for the professor; he was genuinely concerned for him! It was only out of concern that Heath decided to speak up for the first question. Although his fear of a bad reaction (or an odd one) hadn't gone away, he thought it might make the professor happier. If only he could recall what the question was! Heath listened to his classmates, furiously jotting down notes in hopes that would give him some clue. So they were talking about things plants need, but what could he say that hadn't already been said? He thought for a minute? Did anyone mention soil yet? He didn't* think so! Hoping he wasn't inadvertently repeating answers, Heath tentatively raised his hand and said, "Plants need healthy soil to provide an anchor for their roots, as well an important source of nutrients." He couldn't recall the names of those nutrients off the top of his head, but he was sure someone would piggyback off that. There, short, sweet, and to the point. Nothing wrong with that answer, was there? Gus added the word ‘soil’ after the word fertilize from an earlier answer and nodded. ”Definitely. A seed isn’t going to grow if it isn’t in nutrient packed soil. Exactly. Seeds are like BABIES.” Did anyone else miss their baby from Muggle Studies last term? He did. He missed Orchid sO much. SPOILER!!: Missa Quote: Originally Posted by Samia Missa couldn't believe her eyes. Was Professor Rainwater hugging Eiji Rasting? What in the world??? Did Professor Rainwater also realize Eiji was a secret sap???? It was truly a sight. Chuckling softly, she pulled out her notebook - not at all opposed to writing her own notes. It was a thing she actually enjoyed. As the class moved on, Missa waited her turn before speaking, "adding on to what Jina said - plants don't just need light, they need specific amounts of light too. We can hurt them if we expose them to too much light, each plant has it's own needs and they won't grow properly if we don't cater to what they require" Piggyback? PIGGYBACK! Missa always came through with the piggyback answers. Gus was always so happy for her to answer his questions and to shed extra light and information on something that one of her peers had said. ”Take a point, Miss Renaldi.” As always. ”Exactly! A LIGHT DIET. That’s what is needed. Individual light diets for plants.” A worthy cause. Always a worthy cause. SPOILER!!: cecelia Quote: Originally Posted by TakemetotheBurrow Taking notes wasn't her favorite, but Cecelia guessed it was the least she could do. She bet Professor R was real sad about not being able to help tend to the magical plants and her pouting about a little extra work wasn't going to help. She didn't want to make things any worse. Now she just needed to remember where she'd put her quill... There were lots of ways to take care of plants, apparently. The third year knew most of them, but those ways had already been shared and NOW she had to think REAL hard about her answer. Uh... "Love?" She paused, then added, "I think caring for anything with love helps it grow a lot better." He had ALREADY cried once this class and here were his students trying to make him cry more. TO THE POINT that he stopped writing and took a seat on his tree stump again, clutchingb a hand to his chest. *”That.. is.. BEAUTIFUL, Cecilia. Take.. TAKE FIVE POINTS.”* And he was just going to move on before he actually spilled out tears again. SPOILER!!: Viv Quote: Originally Posted by Kayla Taaffe Notes were an important thing. Look and write. But oh boy sis she love herbology. She tried her best at everything and got good grades to boot. Now plants were completely different. And the brainstorming began. and continued. Love was a good answer and she had a point. A good bond made a plant grow better. Except for mandrakes and devil's snare. A quiet one? Gus smiled and continued onto the next student with a hand up. SPOILER!!: Aboli Quote: Originally Posted by kayquilz Aboli just smiled at Noah, hoping he'd come hang out by her during this lesson. "Yes...sure, studying," she said a bit unsurely. Sure, she'd been avoiding Noah, but he didn't need to know all that. After a recent chat with Kimmie, though, she felt a little better about...Noah. And then the following chat with Valencia had confused her, but she'd pretend otherwise. YIKES being almost sixteen was hard. Okay, the subject matter wasn't that hard! And she was less confused now that Rainwater had erased the ? and put a !. Cool. Okay. ...Had someone really mentioned love? Aboli shot the girl [Cecilia] a look. SNoooort. All right. But then she REALLY thought about it...and things she had shared with Christian? Or had it been Alexandre? In the past about plants and she wondered if love really DID do wonders for plants. Was that why hers was dying? ~~besides the lack of actual sunlight ahem~~. Her poor puffapod ;__; "I actually agree about love. I think plants can sense the positive energy...don't they say playing nice music can help them grow better?" Aboli tacked on to the girl's answer. What wasn't fixed with love? Poverty, violence...well...Aboli decided not to let her mind go down that route. HAPPY THOUGHTS, SONG. Gus was still a little in recovery emotionally from the answer that Cecelia had given and here came Aboli with it all over again and he was GOING TO LOSE IT! ”Yes.” He squeaked out, moving slowly back to the whiteboard and writing ‘love’ finally in really small writing even though it was probably one of the most important things in the world. SPOILER!!: Isla Quote: Originally Posted by Anna Banana Isla just blinked at the way the professor told her good morning. She honestly didn't know what to say to that. Maybe he'd had a little too much sugar in his coffee or something... He seemed completely unsure with what he was supposed to be teaching, but then again, that had become the norm around this place. Isla had taken to calling people 'that girl right there' or 'that professor right there'. Something like that. At least the subject was on the board in this class. She'd actually forgotten which class she was in a few times in the past. She gave an inward groan when they were reminded they had to take their own notes. Yes, she had grown used to having them done for her. Note-taking was the most boring part of any class. Anyway...by the time Isla decided to chime in with answer, almost everything she could think of had been said. She raised her hand anyway. "Has anybody said temperature yet?" she asked, because as usual, she couldn't remember. "If they haven't, well...then temperature. You don't want to get them too hot or too cold." Gus took a glance at the list he had written to see if anyone had given an answer about temperature, saw that no one had and nodded. ”Great answer, Isla. Yes. And each plant has different optimal temperatures! They thrive best in one or another!” SPOILER!!: Carsyn Quote: Originally Posted by PhoenixRising Herbology and well classes in general were strange ever since the no magic. But the lack of enthusiasm on the whiteboard was most disconcerting. Professor Rainwater was always animated - he actually gave Schmoe a run for the money on enthusiasm. Carsyn was busy thinking about this and she did crack a smile at Nem's answer. Really? Rainwater? Was he trying to be punny because it was definitely working on her and well, honestly they all needed humor especially now. Even if some of his ideas were on the darker side of things, this one was rather clever. She raised a brow at Phoebe suggesting worms. Um. Yea. No. But it was Avalon's answer that gave her inspiration to add something else to the discussion. "More on the space thing... it's not always true that plants need space to grow. Cause there's some plants, like sunflowers are one i think, where you can plant the seeds pretty much right on top of each other. Or next to each other." ”True, yes. But just because you can… doesn’t mean you should, right? Would you enjoy being saddled up close and personal right next to another person for the rest of your life? Unable to pick up your things and move of your own accord?” SPOILER!!: Eiji Quote: Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie Eiji never EVER wanted to be in the same thought process as Professor Rainwater and his underwear ever again. Thanks. Could anyone else guess where else Eiji never wanted to be again? If you were to have guessed the arms of his Herbology professor then you would have been spot on and won nothing more than the self validation that you were correct in your assumptions about the seventh year snake. He was not opposed to touch or affection, he simple had a very VERY finite group of individuals he tolerated it from and an even more finite group that he sought it out from. Professor Rainwater was on neither of these lists. And that was NOT to say that he loathed the man, not that he particularly respected the man either - only Professor Noble truly had earned that from this Rasting - but Eiji could appreciate someone's talent and intellect without respecting them entirely. Also...he saw how much the man looked out for his little sister and how reliant she had become on the man so...that counted for a fair bit. But still. The hugging was entirely unnecessary. E N T I R E L Y. His shoulders tensed on contact and his head nearly rolled back to groan and curse the red sky of Hogwarts for ensuring that this term was literally the worst term of his life - and he had been through an inferi invasion as a first year. And then came some additional salt in his irritated wound - the man was crying. He would rather squirt lemon juice in his eye or sit through a Divination lecture for an entire day than have his Herbology professor crying on him. Maybe he could just conveniently forget it happened. Unfortunately there were entirely too many witnesses to the whole ordeal, among them his girlfriend who he could HEAR was amused by it all. He could pick out her laugh among a flock of singing fwoopers, honestly. THANKFULLY Professor Rainwater was letting go of him and Eiji hoped that his pale features were still pale and not flushed from the whole experience - spoiler alert, they absolutely were bright pink. "Certainly...professor. I will stop by this afternoon once I'm done tutoring," he stammered before sitting as FAR away from the man as humanly possible. And maybe the fifth years he was tutoring Potions to could be particularly daft today so that he wouldn't have TOO much time left at the man's office before he had to be back inside the castle for curfew and dinner. That had been worse than hugging grandpa at King's Cross Station at the start of term. Almost. Not really at all. Whatever. As for the question being posed...Eiji had already showed the man that he had knowledge on the subject with his offering of minerals to put into the soil to help add potassium, calcium, magnesium and sulfur into the soil along with helping balance it's pH. They were never going to speak of this moment ever again and if they did then Gus was going to run away from it and say he had no recollection of the event whatsoever. Because he did not. Nope. He was glad that their memory was affected right now and would it ever be normal? Probably not. So that was FINE. NONE OF THEM NEEDED TO REMEMBER THAT THIS HAD BEEN A THING. Gus was honestly just glad that the seventh year couldn’t write to his grandfather about this. Because surely he’d be losing his job, yeah? THIS WAS AWFUL. IT WAS A LAPSE OF JUDGEMENT. HE WAS EMOTIONAL. HE WAS DRAMATIC. AND HE WAS CALLED GURGUSTIUS. SURELY THAT LET HIM OFF THE HOOK?!! - - - Gus put a cap on the marker pen and turned the whiteboard into full view of the circle of students ahead of him so they could write their notes as he talked or finish up writing them because he was not spending the whole lesson waiting for teenagers to write notes. Not yet anyway. ”Thanks guys. Lots of GREAT and correct answers.” None of the annoying answers from students trying to be the class clown and be funny -- when they weren’t. Did they know that they weren’t? Maybe they’d forgotten. Hah! Get it…? ”Anyway, I’d like to return to the idea of fertilising the soil and enriching the soil with the perfect amount of nutrients needed for a plant to grow. Perhaps an area of soil you’re planting in is known for being low in nutrients, perhaps your plant needs EXTRA of something.” Gus returned to sit on his tree trunk, passing the marker back and forth between his hands - a nervous sort of habit he had picked up since having to hold it and use it more often and not being able to hide behind all sorts of gimmicks. ”ALRIGHT. SO. Here’s my pitch… COMPOST! We’ve used it in some lessons recently when trying to help our plants stay with us.” Obviously failed but that was no fault of his students. ”What resources and ingredients could we use in compost and what can they do for our plants and soil? Do you have any specific examples? I’ll give us the first one.” He cleared off the first list from his whiteboard (with his sleeve) and wrote ‘banana peel’ down. ”It turns to MUSH. It goes brown and breaks down. PERFECT for a compost heap. FRAGRANT. OKAY. Who is next? Come on up and write your answers yourself. I want you to write your answer simply and explain it to the class.” He was handing over his marker! OOC: Oh hey it’s me more than 12 hours later than I said I’d be here. Look, right… we’re in the middle of a heatwave and Shan doesn’t cope well with heat and neither does her laptop as every time she’s tried to make this post her laptop has DIED a painful death and been hotter than something super hot lol. HERE IS QUESTION 2. See u guys in like actually 24 hours because it shouldn’t be too hot at that time of night and apparently I’M A NIGHT OWL AGAIN. HELLO 4AM. Any questions, please feel free to contact me! Class will continue roughly 24 hours from this post <3 __________________ [Grimoire]__________________________________________________ ____________