Lisnetening to the teacher Shaylee looked confused at Lizzie and said i really have no idea what were suppsoed to be doing. I guess we should just dig them up. Twisting her brown braid around her finger she gave Lizzie confuzed look.

Livvy nodded her head as she wrote down notes. She just listened to people answer the things she was going to answer. She got up to get a pot. Looking around, Livvy saw Chris and she got her pot and sat down next to him. "Hey Chris," she said, smiling. Livvy listened carefully to the teacher and started to do the first few steps.

"hey Livvy" CHrius saw her and noticed she was behinfd he had already transferred three plants. "So how have your first few days at Hogwarts been?"

Livvy smiled and nodded her head as she sniffed. "Good. Just had a small cold a few days ago and right now is all what's left of it," she said, annoyed. "How's it going for you?" Livvy asked.

"Pretty good im met some new people you know ."

Livvy smiled and nodded her head. "Yeah. Things are going pretty great then, huh? Anything new and exciting?" she asked, elbowing him. She smiled and then filled the pot with soil as she held the stem of the plant.

Lillianna raised her hand, "Are we going to have home work?"

Nicholai thought and raised his hand to answer,
"I agree that rushing can lead to missing deadlines, because of having to do things over and may cost more money in the long term but there is another consideration."

Nico paused, "In any business where a service is provided, sir; If you are careless about meeting the deadlines that you said you were able to deliver upon,"

He looked toward the professor, "Likewise a shoddy job from rushing; even if it meets the deadline should be avoided because with both situations it leaves the customer dissatisfied and by word of mouth will mar your reputation, meaning less people will seek you out and ultimately less money to be earned. In other words it is as much about integrity as common sense."

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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."

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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.

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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."

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"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."

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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."

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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?

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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.

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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."

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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."

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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..

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"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.

"Very good, two points to each of you. And an extra to Lizzie... Yes, when you are supplying for medicine, your actions could very well be a matter of life or death. And in such a case it is imperative not to panic and do things right the first time. Lose your plant, and someone could lose something much more precious."

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Lillianna raised her hand, "Are we going to have home work?"

"We will, but there is time yet. Patience, little one."

He looked everyone over. They seemed to be doing well enough with their plants. "Now, once you are done repotting it will be time to move on." His expression was a little more grim as he looked them over. "What you have left in your planters after repotting the healthiest ones are still healthy plants. Once the gaps are filled, they will survive, and likely thrive. However, you will notice we haven't even gotten around to the new arrivals. We've mostly done some weeding and culling. This is there it gets a little tougher."

"These plants are the Cardia Rose. They don't flower on their own. They are symbiotic. Can someone tell me what that means?"

ooc: Sorry guys, I had to go shopping real quick.

Camira raised her hand. "Sybiotic is defined as the living together of two dissimilar organisms, as in mutualism, commensalism, amensalism, or parasitism. In terms of plants, that plant would require help from another organism to thrive."

Cale raised his hand. "Well, doesn't that word mean having to deal with like two people or something?" he asked. "Perhaps that means something along the lines of--you need two plants to make them flower? They don't flower by themselves when there is only one of them?" he suggested. Gah. Herbology was SO his worst class.

Nico raised his hand, "Symbiosis is a close ecological relationship between the individuals of two or more different species. There are several types of this including commensalism; which describes living with, on, or in another, without injury to either, amensalism; in which the individuals of one species adversely affect those of the other and are unaffected themselves, and parasitism where the individual lives in or on the host from the body of which it obtains nutriment."

Camira raised he hand again. She'd forgotten something. "Symbiotic actually means living together. Oh, and to distinguish between the three types, Parasitism injures the other organism, commensalism leaves the other organism unaffected and with mutalism, both parties benefit. Some people restrict the term symbiosis to only these mutually beneficial interactions, but it is more commonly used to refer to any of the three types."

Anna raised her hand to answer. "Symbiotic refers to the plant's association with a different species. This means that the Cardia Rose depends upon another species to survive," she explained.

Rachel raised her hand. She knew this! "Symbiosis is the association between two living things (microbes, plants or animals). Normally the two living things have shared a long period of evolution close to one another. It doesn't necessarily benefit each member.
This means that the Cardia Rose is dependant on another species of plants to flower, and survive even," she said, happy to actually know something.

Maddox chuckled at her nervousness and said, "Yes i got all that." He smiled and watched her dump a handfull of soil in the pot. "Ok which plant do you think is the best one to transplant?" He asked her with a smirk on his face.




Maddox raised his hand and said, "Symbiosis is the association between two living things, microbes, plants or animals. Normally the two living things have shared a long period of evolution close to one another. It doesn't necessarily benefit each member.That means that the Cardia Rose is dependant on another species of plants."

Astrid raised her hand and said, " Symbiosis is a close ecological relationship between the individuals of two or more different species. Sometimes a symbiotic relationship benefits both species, sometimes one species benefits at the other's expense, and in other cases neither species benefits. Meaning that Cardia Rose is dependent on another species of plants to survive."

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Camira raised her hand. "Sybiotic is defined as the living together of two dissimilar organisms, as in mutualism, commensalism, amensalism, or parasitism. In terms of plants, that plant would require help from another organism to thrive."

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Nico raised his hand, "Symbiosis is a close ecological relationship between the individuals of two or more different species. There are several types of this including commensalism; which describes living with, on, or in another, without injury to either, amensalism; in which the individuals of one species adversely affect those of the other and are unaffected themselves, and parasitism where the individual lives in or on the host from the body of which it obtains nutriment."

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Camira raised he hand again. She'd forgotten something. "Symbiotic actually means living together. Oh, and to distinguish between the three types, Parasitism injures the other organism, commensalism leaves the other organism unaffected and with mutalism, both parties benefit. Some people restrict the term symbiosis to only these mutually beneficial interactions, but it is more commonly used to refer to any of the three types."

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Anna raised her hand to answer. "Symbiotic refers to the plant's association with a different species. This means that the Cardia Rose depends upon another species to survive," she explained.

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Rachel raised her hand. She knew this! "Symbiosis is the association between two living things (microbes, plants or animals). Normally the two living things have shared a long period of evolution close to one another. It doesn't necessarily benefit each member.
This means that the Cardia Rose is dependant on another species of plants to flower, and survive even," she said, happy to actually know something.

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Maddox raised his hand and said, "Symbiosis is the association between two living things, microbes, plants or animals. Normally the two living things have shared a long period of evolution close to one another. It doesn't necessarily benefit each member.That means that the Cardia Rose is dependant on another species of plants."

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Astrid raised her hand and said, " Symbiosis is a close ecological relationship between the individuals of two or more different species. Sometimes a symbiotic relationship benefits both species, sometimes one species benefits at the other's expense, and in other cases neither species benefits. Meaning that Cardia Rose is dependent on another species of plants to survive."

"Very good, all of you. Two points. And an extra to those who mentioned the different types of symbiosis."

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Cale raised his hand. "Well, doesn't that word mean having to deal with like two people or something?" he asked. "Perhaps that means something along the lines of--you need two plants to make them flower? They don't flower by themselves when there is only one of them?" he suggested. Gah. Herbology was SO his worst class.

"If you have not noticed, there is more than one plant in each of the planters. Or at least, there had better be in yours. Otherwise the culling would not necessary."

"Now, the plants that we are working with are mutual symbiotes. That is, they require one another. What you will be planting is a much larger plant which must be surrounded by these smaller ones." He pulled one over, and while it looked like it could easily fit in one of the planters on its own, the recently thinned planters were still a little too crowded for this plant. It had tendrils which seemed to reach out to the edges of its pot, and straight stems which came up into flower buds.

"This is the Cardia Mythos. It will bud, but without a certain chemical which is secreted by the Cardia Rose, the bud will never flower, and instead wilt and die as it is. The tendrils will seek out the Rose and wrap about the stems, absorbing the layer of secretion. Once it has matured, it will bloom and actually nearly spray its pollen. This pollen acts as a strange sort of fertilizer that stimulates the Cardia Rose to bloom."

"As you may have noticed, there is no room in your planters for this plant and those that are healthy within it. Which brings up a new dilemma, and one that must be considered carefully. This plant must be as close to the center of the roses... the heart of them. So you must make room there. You will probably need to remove two or three plants, and even up to five or more. The question becomes, do you attempt to replant them, as they are still healthy, or do you toss them?

"Both are viable option, and you should consider them carefully. Remember that the ones left are the least likely to survive, and may become nothing more than wasted time and energy trying to care for, and could be considered the same as those you plucked earlier. But, there is also the chance that they could survive, and you would be throwing out a perfectly healthy plant. In fact, you can be fairly sure that without being pulled, they would survive. And of course, some are more likely to survive than others, dependent on the health of those left. Today, this choice is yours to make. Just make sure that there is room for a root ball approximately 12 centimeters in diameter."

Rachel thought about the dilemma. In the end, she decided to replant only the five healthiest plants, and chuck the rest. She quickly scribbled what the professor had said and prepared her workspace. Taking a deep breath, she plunged her hands into the soil and began working.
While she planted and pulled and dug, she realised that she was starting to get the hang of this Herbology thing. She grinned in spite of herself. A Ravenclaw, or what? she thought as she dug into the soil.

Listening quietly, Helena suddenly rose her hand. Her bright blue eyes flashed as she didn't wait for the teacher to call on her. Excuse me, Professor Carracio, but what jobs in life actually require knowledge of how to care for plants? Common, well-paying, important jobs, that is. Surprised with herself from her vocabulary, Helena forced back a smile.

Camira groaned inwardly. What in hades had possessed her to ask such a rude question. And to professor Carracio. She glared at the girl. Great. Slytherin would probably lose points for sure.

"Call me arrogant, however I would like to believe that teaching the lot of you is a fairly important job. However, if you would like to hear the rest of what I have done as an herbologist... I have long been an experimental herbologist. I have created several plants which have made potions easier to brew, or more potent. Some have been used in potions, poisons, salves, and ointments. I have used them to discipline, protect, shelter, save, and kill." He eyed the grouping on that, letting it sink in a moment before continuing. "And most importantly, my research on the care of plants has been supplemented to the Department of Mysteries even before I worked there. If something came through or was created that they could not identify or care for, that became my job. I also supplemented their supply and the supply of a high-level potions master for several years, aiding in the discovery of new potions and other aids to the wizarding world. Further questions on that?"

Maddox listened to the Professors instructions. He turned to Astrid and said, "Well since im the strong one here, so i will grab the big planter." He stood up and walked over and grabbed the big planter. He walked back to the table and said "Alright...lets start shall we?" He smiled.

Livvy glanced at the Slytherin girl nervously and she bit her lip. What was with that girl? But at least the Professor didn't seem to have taken offense. Well... maybe he did. Livvy just shook her head and went back to what she had been doing. She thought of what Professor Carracio had said and then just decided to replant the top five healthiest. Livvy immediately went back to work.

Rachel's eyes widened considerably as she listened to the professor's answer to the girl's rather rude question. Wow...
She wiped her hands on her robes (she'd have to take a shower later) and wrote down a lot of what he had said.
Going back to her work, she contemplated on what he had said. Discipline, protect, shelter, save, kill...