Cassandra shudders. "Gnomes..."

Juniper raised her hand. "Leprechauns remind me of pixies," she said.

"They remind me of little fat people," Marco smiled, "And green fat people."

She sighed and could tell that her answer was probably incorrect. "Uh sure... why not? Gnomes are annoying.."

"House elves. Oh! or ...goblins... because of treasure!" Xana said.

"I guess since they're green, they could look like a house elf?" Hermy smiled, she had learnt to use her 'lateral thinking' skills in History of Magic. "Otherwise maybe a pixie or sort of fairy?"

"Honestly?" Ian asked, raising his hand. "Gold. Money. Rainbows if you're a girl ... but money, really."

He grinned and leaned back in his chair. Money should be the answer to everything.

"Well... gnomes... yes... but gnomes are rather stupid and do not talk... Leprechauns are vegetarians, and are green... HOUSE ELVES!" She said... "It makes sense... they have the ability to speak human language, they are classified as beasts, and have remained in that category as they have never requested re-classification, although they appear to have made no political statement by this, unlike centaurs and merpeople. Just like House Elves... She continued thinking "They serve humans... give them gold when they are captured... they must be freed house elves!"

"They remind me of my uncle Tibullus." Claudian said putting his hand in the air and waving it around like he just don't care. "For his interest in Muggle culture, he had joined the Royal Navy as a young man which launched him into a sea-sickness from which I'm afraid he never recovered and it thusly, left him with a bit of a greenish complexion. He was also prone to irritability, money-grubbing and an insatiable desire for spontaneous jigging.". Sadly, the boy was just being honest.

Xana started giggling silently at Claudian's pronouncements about his uncle. Oh, lawdie, she wanted to meet this particular relative!

Cassandra rolled her eyes. If she'd been talking to the beast, she'd have made a nasty comment... but she was ignoring him. And would continue to do so, until she had to stop.

"Oh yes! Yes. Fantastic!" Lainey had been taking down who was participating for points later on. Looked like the Slytherins were going to rack up again.


"In my opinion - house elf fits perfectly. Just perfectly."

"Well done, Trel! All fits perfectly doesn't? Just wait until we fit all the pieces together..."

Lainey cracked up. "You should have brought your uncle to this lesson. We could use a great visual!"


Lainey waved her wand and new chocolates appeared for everyone. "The questions are about to get harder, so everyone eat up and get those brains going good." She cleared her throat. "Now... remember what we know about Saint Patrick, remember the leprechauns.. there's one more part to this lesson, and then we'll see who can tie the three together."


"What do you all know about horcruxes?"

Rebecca looked shocked "A Horcrux is a piece of soul that is contained in an object, it could be anything, The piece of soul is broken off by killing others, and then a spell confines the soul to the object" Rebecca went red "My grandad told me" she mumbled

"Horcruxes are when you place a piece of your soul in an object, animate or inanimate, but only after killing something ... so er, what does this have to do with St Patrick," Amelia said curiously.

Cassandra looked at the professor... "Hor-Horcruxes?"

Her father told her that wasn't going to be taught at Hogwarts... he'd explained it to her... but that she shouldn't know the information...

Cassandra looked to her parchment and said "Nothing..."

Juniper raised her hand. "They're... super bad dark magic. Horcruxes are items that contain a bit of a wizard's soul, usually a dark wizard. I'm pretty sure murder is necessary to split the soul, though..." she said.

Dia's hand shot up. "Horcruxes are an object in which a wizard has encased a fragment of his or her soul in, so that if they are killed, a part of their soul stys bound to Earth. It is a very Dark magic, and can only be created through the process of murder, as that is the greatest evil." she grinned widely.

Ian suddenly sat up. Horocruxes? He didn't think they'd be allowed to discuss that in class, much less in the school. He raised his hand tentatively, wondering whether or not his ears were playing a trick on him. "I only know a little ... not many people are willing to go into detail on them ... They're the result of splitting your soul, right?" he asked slowly.

Evangeline was finding this very weird. All of sudden, gnomes were everywhere! How very very weird. She had no idea of what horcruxes had to do with gnomes or house-elves but she raised her hand anyway. "Aren't horcruxes normal ojects with bits of people's souls in them?" She had heard her Father talking about that. Unfortunately, he shut up once he realised she was listening.

"The purpose of a Horcrux is to protect the given bit of soul from anything that might happen to the body of the person to whom the soul belongs. While the Horcrux is kept safe, the person will continue to exist even if his or her body is damaged or destroyed...by definition the spell-caster must have split his or her soul into fragments, so that one fragment can be implanted within the Horcrux while the other is retained in the spell-caster's own body."

"A horcrux is when you split your soul into pieces,and is placed on an Object..Its quite painful ive heard..and its Dark Magic.."Kate shuddered at the thought

Claudian momentarily took on a worried expression when the Professor busted a gut at his reply, but any worry was soon soothed by the appearance of chocolate. Though worry can sometimes make a U-turn. 'GAH! Horcurxes!!...Don't panic.', he thought to himself. "Well, aren't they a sort of physical object which can play host to a non-physical spirit or soul?", he knew that was rather generic, but he gave it a try anyway.


Claudian smiled at the little Ravenclaw once more as the Professor replenished the supply of chocolate to the students. He wiggled his eyebrows at her as if to charm her out of her chocolate.

Was she force-feeding them chocolate? In the most normal situation Marco would've taken them. But Lainey was odd. They probably had some sort of potion in them. Maybe she was making the animal things Mia was talking about. "Horcruxes are bits of your soul that keeps you alive, were another part killed."

Cassandra hated chocolate... but she smiled at Lainey and put it in her bag.

But... Wow... a lot of students knew about Horcruxes... that was scary...

Ellie raised an eyebrow. "Horcruxes"?She had never heard that word before.