"Oh, that's what he meant! Well then we have to take out the plant from it's first pot. Um so, you pull and I dig?" Rachel asked, as she dug into the soil, getting mud and dirt under her fingernails.

"You sure?" Via asked her, but she did pulled the plants. She grinned at RAchel, "We better get going then."

"Yep I'm sure! You'll have to do it next time, anyway!" Rachel countered, laughing. "Right. Now, the only thing I just about understood is that you have to be gentle. So please don't yank the poor plant, okays?" Rachel asked, grinning.

Lizzie sat quiet and listened to the professor telling them about how to continue. It was very confusing, but she didn't wanna ask stupid questions. Instead she turned to Shaylee and Reine. "Do you know what he meant?" she asked, looking at the plants in front of them. "You reckon we should just dig one up and put it in another pot?" It almost sounded too simple, but she guessed that was what they gonna do. "So.. Let's start then, shall we?" she asked and took a step towards the plants.

As Drago rounded the room, he observed everyone's hesitant first moves. "Remember, the key in this moment is observation and control. Make sure you know which plants you are taking, and know if they are hardy enough to survive transplant. Control your actions, be patient, and be gentle. Rushing will not make things go faster, they will only make things go wrong. And trying to fix any action will make things take longer. The more you rush, the longer it will take in the end, and the more effort it takes. Someone give me an example for two points."

"Well," Gwen began, "if you are hasty with trying to transplant one of the more middle-of-the-road plants, you can damage its leaves or roots, leaving it in a worse state than it was in when you began."

Freya raised her hand and answered thoughtfully, "Also, if you rush, there is a greater chance of you to become clumsy, possibly knocking over your supplies and even the plant. And you can cause damage to the plant if that were to happen. And you certainly would not want this to happen if you were working with potentially hazardous materials. This can all result in miscellaneous damages, wasted time, and personal injury."

Raising her hand. "If you disturb the plant to much, it will hurt the plant, and it may not survive the transplant."

"If you rush, you might hold on to the plant too tight and squish it. Or you might snap vital bits off, or just drop it will cause it to die, as well as creating a mess," Rachel said. She had thought this over before she had begun. "Also, you might knock over your pot and then by the time you refill it, the plant will have already been to long in the air, and it's roots will have been damaged."

"Good examples of how rushing things can cause problems, so one point to each of you. But describe an event in which it could actually cost you time and/or money, such as a deadline or business transaction. Remember, you are not always just growing plants for yourself."

Astrid raised her hand, "Well Professor, I guess it would depend on what you were growing, but destroying your plants isn't going to please any customers that you might have. Considering how lengthy the process of starting a plant from a seedling or a trimming, one mistake can set you back weeks or even months. And when time is money, you surely don't want to waste it by making a careless mistake."

Nia raised her hand. "I guess, sir, if you were a florist of sorts, and a customer had preordered a certain type of flower, if you rushed the transplantation the plant might not flourish as well as it could do, and possibly not bloom. That'd lose you money, since they wouldn't be satisfied. Or if you were a supplier of potion ingredients, and you had damaged the roots of a plant that were needed for particular recipes...it might delay a customer's order. And then they wouldn't be impressed and you might lose business." She shrugged, unsure if the examples she had given were totally related to the Professor's question.

Freya raised her hand again, "Well, let's say you own a business where you grow plants and other herbs for customers, take special orders I guess you could say. One day you receive a letter from a good friend and they want to meet you to have a fun outing, so you rush your evening care, wanting to complete as quickly as you can, and you give the plants more water than necessary. You end up drowing the plants and ruining a good reputation for yourself, and maybe even lose a customer."

"Well, I remember when we had the konkagami," Gwen said. "I...kinda killed it. I didn't watch over it carefully enough, plus I wasn't careful enough when I took it out of the pot. Ending up spending more time than I probably needed to on that one. Oh and Ghosty's tale. That's a beautiful plant, and very valuable, but because it's a ghost plant you have to be extra careful transplanting it, and it's worth dung if you damage it."

Camira raised her hand. "In journalism, you're working on a deadline. If you rush because you didn't prepare adequately, your writing will be of low quality and it will give the editor more work. If it's really bad, the editor may give it back and you'll have to do it over and probably miss your deadline. So that's more time, effort, and you could possibly lose your job."

While raising her hand Nancy said, "Or at school. If you don't take your time doing your homework it might not be good and you'll get a bad mark in that subject." Okay, very creativ. Not. But at least she had said something, right?

Camira gave her a smirk. "Oh. Right. Sorry, forgot about those."

She started gently tugging on the plant and rolling it slighly back and forth to help loosen it. It was taking a long time, but she'd rather do it right than do it fast. It was half-way free from its former pot. Finally she was getting somewhere.


Camira gave Nancy an approving nod. "Slytherin's definitely going to win the house cup this year. I can tell", she said quietly.

Allie wored silently, listenign to the teacher very carefully, to make sure she was doing everythign just right.

Anna raised her hand. "Well, professor, if you rush, you increase your chances of accidentally doing the wrong thing or making a mess of the right thing. When that happens, you've probably ruined the materials and/or resources that come from the plant. It can be quite costly - moneywise, timewise, and resource-wise - to replace these materials. You've lost time and valuable materials, in this case, by rushing. It would make it a lot easier on yourself and others involved to just do the job correctly in the first place," she said.

"Yeah sure." Chris said as he gave her the soil. And help Allie.

Raising her hand "You may be growing some plants to cut, and when you cut them you may do more damage or disturb the plant you cut or the mother plant, and either one or both dies. You would lose the money for the ones the mother plant can still produce, or even the one that you sold someone. Because it dies and they want their money back."

Allie raised her hand.
"Well, if you rush, the transplant could not be done right, and it could kil the plant. It could cost you lots of money to have to get new materials, and if your on a deadline, you might not make it bacuse you would have to restart."

Lizzie wasn't really the one to usually answer questions, but she gave it a try. She raised her hand and said "Well if you're working on a plant that can be used as medicine to save lives, making a delay could be the difference between life or death, couldn't it?" She blushed slightly, she hated to speak infront of the class. But it was worth trying, right? And though her answer wasn't half as detailed as the older students, she wouldn't lose any house points for trying. And hey, this was her first herbology lesson ever, no one could possible expect her to be perfectly right in everything..

"If you somehow damage the plant, it could cost you a lot of money, time and to buy all the resources and if you had a deadline, chances are you would miss it. And because of that, a whole new ripple of wasted effort, energy, time and money begins to form," Rachel said, as she shuddered to think of the consequences of missing a deadline.

Chris raised his hand and told him "if you rush with the planting you may tear the leaves or roots of the plant harming or killing it."