Prancing up once more, after all his lessons of the day had finished, Jude found Aubrey's cage right away. "'Eh der girl!! 'Ow ya been?" he asked, digging for some more insects he brought for her. She didn't move much but just stared at him.

"Aww dun be loike tha!" he said, and opened up her cage. He took her out of her cage and held her in his hands.

She was still just a small, small little gray fluff ball. She was adorable, but Jude still didn't know what she'd look like full grown. He had done research on her, however, and knew at least a little information about her. He decided to take her out for a little walk, not that a baby bird needs one of those really, around the nursery. He held her gently, and she peered her head as tall as possible to look into all the cages as he walked by, and finally he was outside.

She made a small little chirp, and Jude smiled, "Aye, ya loike tha' do ya?" he asked her gently, and took her curious blinking at him for a yes.

And so, that's how Jude spent his afternoon. Feeding and showing Aubrey things, with her sitting in his arms, and occasionally on his shoulder. Finally he had to go inside and start his homework, so back inside to the Nursery they went. "Oi'm sorreh, Aubreh, bu' Oi go' ta go again," he told her, reopening her cage.

Placing the little, but growing, bird inside her cage, he left her a little treat of some food with insects on top, which she began to happily gobble up as he walked away.

Entering the nursery, Evolette brushed her hair off of her shoulder, removing the scarf from around her neck, she draped it across her arm as she walked along the rows of caged animals; blue eyes searching out for her name.

Ah. There it was. Evolette McKenna. Her eyes took in the tiny baby Phoenix and she smiled, how adorable. Reaching out, she slid her fingers between the bars on the cage, brushing them lightly against the top of the Phoenix's head. He made a small noise of satisfaction as his head moved against her fingers, egging her on.

"You are a sweet little thing, aren't you?" she asked, smiling as she tried to remember something she'd learned about Phoenix's. Glancing around the room, she noticed a bucket full of leaves and grasses, ans suddenly remembered that Phoenix's were herbivorous. Aha!

"I will be right back." she cooed, flipping her hair off of her shoulder as she hurried back to the front of the room, gathering up some food and a pair of gloves. When she returned to the cage, she dropped her school bag onto the floor, draping her scarf over it as she slid her hands into the gloves. "Are you hungry?" she asked, pulling out a few good looking leaves and poking them through the cage.

Gideon, the beautiful Phoenix, looked down at the leaves, sniffing at them before he started to eat. Smiling to herself, Evolette watched Gideon eat. This was going to be fun afterall. She was already feeling attached to the cute thing.

"That's a good boy." she cooed, petting him again. She wondered if Professor Morgan knew Gideon's Burning Day, or if she was just going to have to wait for it. Hmm. Scooping up some more leaves and grass, Evolette dropped another handful into his cage, that should be enough to keep him until the next day.

Pressing onto her tip toes, she pressed a kiss on the Phoenix's head. Laughing as he shook once and then went back to eating. "Just like a man." she said, rolling her eyes. With her scarf firmly back in place, Evolette picked up her bag, and the bucket to drop off on her way out. She was now off to find some more leaves and grass, something more appetizing to a herbivorous creature. "See you later sweetie!" she called out to Gideon as she left.

Set walked over to his Imp, Katara. He had decided to finally let her out of her cage, so she could walk by Set. They went for a nice walk around the grounds and then returned to the nursery. Thye played for awhile, then Katara got tired, went back in her cage, and fell asleep!

Chris walked down to the Magical Creatures Nursery for the first time, to meet his new baby kneazle, Owen. He walked in and over to the little pin and looked in at the little cat like creature. Chris smiled as he carefully and slowly climber over the pin wall and sat down on the ground next to the little kitten. He slowly reaced out his hand and said, "Hello Owen how are you? Im Chris, i will be taking care of you for awhile, ok?" He watched as the little cat put its little black nose on his finger sniffing it. And then sensing it was ok, started to lick it with its tiny tongue. "Well that good, you like me Owen."

Chris started to pet the silky black fur with light brown spots, of his Kneazle. He spent an hour or so playing with Owen. Rubbing his head and tickling under his chin and he noticed that as Owen became more and more accepting of him, the little cat would lick his cheeck. After a while Chris got up and said goodbye to the little Owen and nuzzled his nose and then set him down and waved. He then put his scarf on and left. He would come see him again tomorrow.

Mackenzie was excited that the day was finally over. She really wanted to see Rosey again. She hurried into the nursery and over to Rosey's pen. She was excited when she saw that she was moving around. Mackenzie noticed that there was no grass left in her Streeler's pen. She knew this would happen because she had read as much as she could about Streeler's in her free time.

Mackenzie hurriedly went and got Rosey some food. She then watched as her little Streeler ate. She stayed at the pen cleaning and doing everything she could think of to take care of her Streeler. Before she knew it, it was getting late.

Mackenzie said good night to Rosey and started to head back up to the castle.

Lima entered the nursery and started looking at all the baby animals that she passed. They were all adorable. She stopped and gazed at them all - especially the Phoenixes as they were her favorites. She was looking for her name on one of the cages.

Finally she spotted Whigalima Whiggmeister, male Niffler tagged to one of the cages. So she had a Niffler. Cute. And the animal in the cage was definitely adorable - or it was to her. It was so tiny and gentle looking.

She smiled and slowly went to open the cage door. Then she slowly extended her left hand and waited to see what the Niffler would do. She smiled wider as it cautiously started to sniff her hand. She giggled as it's snout tickled her skin.

She then carefully scooped him up and said, "I shall call you Jack Sparrow." She snorted. Only she would name a creature after a pirate. And he seemed to like the name as he made no sounds of protest and instead walked all over her, finally perching himself on told of her head. It was a bit weird having a baby on her head, but she didn't mind. Instead her heart started to soften towards him.

"Do you want some food?" she then asked, noticing the Niffler food nearby. Lima loved eating, so why wouldn't her baby animal? She grabbed some food and offered it to him - which was a bit awkward from where he was positioned - and smiled as he started to eat it.

Before she knew it, it started getting dark. She sighed and scooped him off of her and placed him gently back into his cage and shut it. "I'll see you later, Jack," she said smiling. She then turned and started heading back to the castle.

Picking up Bébé she walks over to her bag, and takes out the container with more apples. Liz starts looking atthe different animals in the cages, and stopping at a few.

But seeing that the more she stopped the more Bébé started burrying his head into her chest. These animals must really frighten him... maybe a few of the other niffler owners, might want to get the babies together, to play...

Sitting back down by Bébé's cage, Liz opens the container, and gives Bébé a piece of apple.

"La la la laaaa..hmmm..hmmm. Super trooper,beams are gonna blind me, hmm hmm blueee... like I always doooo... Hmmm hmm... in the crowd there's youuuu..hmmm," Jane hummed to herself while she made her way past Nifflers, Streelers, Jarveys and tons of other animals she has never seen before.

Jane was just visiting creatures in her free time cause they made her feel all warm and fuzzy. It was a cool spring day, but she found it a little too hot still for her liking, so she didnt wear her cloak out to the nursery.

As she made her way through the nursery, something fuzzy and soft brushed against her leg, right above her socks where it tickled.

CRRRASSSHHH!!!!

"ROTTEN SNNNAAPPPE!!!!WHAZZAAATTT??"


^ This was whazzaaattt.

Jane looked at the thing in disbelief. It made her crash into the other cages and the magical creatures weren't looking so friendly at the moment. Some were barring their teeth, some snarling, and one's jaw was snapping away.

"Fizzle mah Kneazle!!!A Kneazle!! OWWHHHH!!!!" Jane exclaimed. She immediately swooped it up in her arms and cuddled it. It's Sakura flower fell to the floor.

She chuckled. "Oh, heeeeeeeeeeeeee," she cooed like a little baby with the Kneazle in her arms.

"Montserrat??"

The Kneazle just looked at her.

"Mommah, Jummmah!!!Pidgin?!"

The Kneazle sort of mewed.

"PIDGIN!!!!"

It mewed again.

"PIDGIN it is!!Muhhahaha,"

Jane brought Pidgin to the racks of utensils and food. She took a can of what looked like cat food, snapped it open and poured some in am empty steel bowl, and then offered it to Pidgin.

She went to look for a brush and sat down next to Pidgin to comb his hair. Uh.. fur.

Ray stepped back into the nursey. As promised he had returned the next day to catch up with Kazza, but this time he had brought food to the little snail. Walking past the other students with their charges.
Ray quickly found his pet again. This time he had changed colors again. The last day brown color now was a flesh-tinned color.
"Hello Kazza, Hello buddy!" Ray said as he moved his hand inside the cage and peted the snail's shell. Kassa quickly turned to Ray and he tried to use his antennas again to ID the person who had just touched him. Ray gave him his hand before the antenna reached Ray's hand, the snail had turned around and moved towards his new owner.
"So your hungry?" Ray asked as he took out some lettuce and other vegetables from his bag and gave them to snail. Apparently, it was, as the snail started eating as much as he can.
Ray looked around and he noticed that other students where getting inside the cage of their respective pets. He took out his wand and charmed his shoes to resist the venom of the snail and opened the cage and got inside. He then moved towards the snail that was still consumming food and just sat next to him.
"One day you will be big you know!!" Ray said all of a sudden. "And they might take you away from here but I will always remember you" Ray added, for some reason he had felt a commitment for his charge. He had feelings for him.
An hour past and the snail changed his colors again. Now he was a perfect baby blue color, Ray had been caressing his shell all the time. The snail got into his shell and Ray knew that it needed sleep.
"Till tomorrow" he said and walked out of the cage and made his way back towards the exit.

It was early in the morning.. well early enough, thought Nathaniel.It had been a few days since Nathaniel had been down to visit his creature. He'd been sick and felt bad for not going down to take care of him.
Nathaniel walked into the building and to the back to take Aimirgin out into the setting sun. He hoped that eventually he'd hear his cry when it was to rain.

He still hadn't gotten around to drawing the bird. Nathaniel walked into the building and to the back where Aimirgin's cage was. He peeked inside and the little guy looked like he was sulking in the corned. Aw poor thing. Nate opened the cage and put his hand in it "Hey buddy. Sorry I've not been here in a few days. I was sick. I'm here now though." he said as the bird went in his hand. He moved him out of the cage and looked at him in the sunbeams shining into the building. "Well, you've gotten bigger fast Aimirgin."he couldn't believe it. The bird wasn't so fluffy now.. you could tell her had feathers and wasn't a fluff ball.

Nathaniel walked out to the pen so Aimirgin could have some fresh air. He opened the pen and walked in and latched the gate behind him. Nathaniel set Aimirgin down and sat down on a clean spot of grass. Nathaniel pulled out a jar of insects he had collected on the way down to the nursery and also a snack bar for himself since he had skipped breakfast. He opened the jar and put the bugs out by Aimirgin to eat.

Freya yet again made her way down to the nursery, hoping that Noor had eaten some of the new food items Freya had left for her last time. Freya's boots had become wet from the damp grass, and the temperature was pleasant and cool.

She reached where, Noor's cage was and peeked inside. 'Yes! Progress!' Freya thought as she made a count of how many of each item had been eaten. She put on her pair of gloves and gently coaxed the knarl awake before picking the little baby up. "You're so cute. Good morning." Freya said gently and held the small animal close so that there was no way for her to be dropped or wriggle out. Noor stayed rather still the entire time, and sniffed Freya's gloved hands curiously.

Freya allowed, Noor to wander around and scratch up an old blanket that Freya had brought with her and had placed on the floor. She took the food dish out of the cage and cleared it of the leftover edibles, then wiped it out and placed a couple of soft berries and worm segments in the dish. 'Seems like she enjoyed those berries the most.' Freya added new shavings and a small rolling ball to the cage as well, hoping that Noor might like to have something to occupy her time...and the knarl had grown a little bit.

Freya kneeled down on the floor and picked Noor up again, who looked back at the girl with beady black eyes and wriggled her little nose. "Awwww...I wish I could take you with me after I leave school. Silas might want to play with you of course...and Anchor, and Tundra. But definitely not the snakes, I'm not risking you with them, they've gotten so big."
Noor gave a little tired yawn and attempted to wriggle out of Freya's hands, she was getting braver too. "Okay..." Freya placed the animal back in her pen, and the knarl immediately walked over to the berries in her dish. 'Good. Now I know what she likes to eat the most.' Freya wrote a few notes on a piece of parchment, having forgotten her notebook in the dormitory this morning. She took a couple more records as Noor nudged the ball with her nose and waddled around in her cage after it and continuing to chase it around the cage.

Elizabeth went down to the nursery in the morning, before classes began. She had made sure to smuggle some more of Bella's food into her bag, and had stopped off in the Great Hall to get an apple for herself to eat while she was checking on Macavity.

Slipping into the stone building, she wound her way over to the area where all the kneazles were being kept, to find Macavity sitting at the door to the cage watching her, with the door unlatched. "Who left the door open?," she asked the kneazle, who just looked at her innocently. She shrugged, and opened it more, picking the kneazle up. He had gotten bigger since tha last time she had visited, but he was still pretty small.

"You want to go run around outside for a little bit, and then I'll feed you?," she asked the creature, who meowed in approval. So she walked out to the pen, stepping inside and making sure it was secure before settin Macavity on the ground to run around while she wrote some stuff down in her notebook. Next thing she knew, the gate to the pen was unlatched, and Macavity was sitting next to her feet looking up at her like he had no idea how it had happened. Looking down at the kneazle with her eyes narrowed slightly, she then laughed a little, before slipping the notebook back into her bag and scooping the creature up. "Okay, time for you to go back inside," she said in a quiet voice, putting her head close to the kneazle's, before turning and walking back into the building. When she got to his cage, she set him inside, before taking the container of food out of her bag, and transferring some of it to the bowl inside the cage. Watching as the kneazle went over to the food, she stroked him a little before closing the cage door and latching it securely. "You try not to get into trouble," she whispered, before slipping back out into the grounds. She had to get back to the castle before class started.

Twilight McDonahue slowly entered the Nursery. It was just full of babies. O my this is so cool. She very slowly wandered down the one side looking at all the babies. Many f these animals she had no clue who they were Her grandfather had only introduced her to local Scottish Animals, magical and non-magical and other than that she had no training.

'Many of the names are strange too. But babies are cute not matter what they looked like.' she thought. She reached the end and no cage with her name had been there, so she started walking up the other side looking carefully for her name, though it was so hard to do that when there were so many cute babies.

She almost missed it but there was the cage with her name on it. Inside was the cutest baby hedgehog. It was all curle up. Since her Grandfather had introduced her to hedgehogs when she lived with him, she knew what baby ones looked like. THen she looked at the tag n the cage:

"A Knarl?!" she said softly. "What was a knarl? For all she could see it was a hedgehog. She then remembered that she had her textbook in her bag. She pulled out her textbook and looked up Knarls.

(occ: thank you hpwiki for image)



She read the following (occ: thank you hpwiki)
'Okay, that means i have to put the food he/she eats so he/she thinks it is getting its own and not being poisoned. I wonder if imprinting makes a baby knarl less suspicious of it's substitute mama?'

"Hello little baby" she cooed, reaching in the cage and picking up the hedgehog knarl and putting it in her palm. Its quills were pretty soft still. It slowly uncurled itself in her hand. It looked at her with sleepy beady eyes and tried to go right back to sleep on her hand.



"You are just cute!." she saw a little bug on the outside of her bag and offered it to the baby knarl. Surprisingly enough it took it. "Y0u must be a real small baby. You are so sleepy I think I will name you Dusk."

Twilight sat there a long time cuddling the baby knarl, when she remembered she had homework and class to go to. With a sigh she got up and put the baby knarl back and added the name of Dusk to the tag.

She was going to have to ask if she was allowed to take her baby out of the nursery. She would love to keep it with her, so it would see her as the mommy.

Rachel made her way down to the nursery, quickly whipping up her hair into a messy ponytail so as to keep most of it away from the animals. Her bag dug into her shoulder and she walked awkwardly into the room, huffing and puffing as she finally dropped the bulging bag down by the door. Massaging her aching shoulder, she stared in wonderment at the amount of baby animals around her and smiled at the sheer cuteness of it all.
Well, best get to work. She walked around the various cages, admiring all the little creatures until she finally got to her baby. "Oh my gosh, you are simply adorable!" she cooed as she admired the tiny brownish creature. She opened the cage slowly and gingerly lifted the animal out. Holding it up at eye level, she saw that it was a male. "Well, we need a name for you now, right?" she asked him in a quiet loving voice. She frowned slightly as no idea came up.
She inspected him from every angle, trying to see what would fit when he looked into her eyes and blinked once. That's it! "I know! I'll call you Blinky! Hey there Blinky, how are you?" she asked him and he snuffled slightly, as if accepting his name. He has to be the cutest thing I've ever seen in my life!
Looking around for a seat, she spotted a bench not too far off and went there, the baby Knarl still in her hands. She sat down and played with him for a while, finding out his ticklish spots and his comfortable areas. Grinning, she summoned her sketchbook and writing utensils from her bag and put Blinky on her lap. Chuckling as it cuddled up next to her stomach, she lifted the pencil and began drawing it, naming the sketch "Blinky - Day One - Oct."
After finishing, she got up and put him back in his cage, which was still relatively clean, and filled up his drinking bottle with milk, adding another one and filling it with water, in case he got thirsty; since the milk was technically his food. She made sure that he knew the food was not poison, since that was the nature of the knarls. Checking her watch since she saw that it was getting very dark outside, she gasped in surprise at the late hour. "Sorry, Blinks, but I have to go. I promise I'll come visit you soon," she said and chuckled as it blinked at her, fulfilling his namesake. She made her way swiftly to her bag and hoisted it onto her shoulder, grabbed her coat and ran out towards the castle, wanting to shower and get her notes from the visit to Blinky in order before she ate.

After spending all day with Aimirgin, Nathaniel decided to put him back in his cage for the night and head up to the castle. Nathaniel gathered his things and picked up Aimirgin "Come dude, time for you to go back to your cage and me to go back to the castle and have some humaninteraction" not that Nathaniel didn't like hanging out with Aimirgin. He just wanted to talk to Mariel. Nathaniel pulled out some twigs and what not that he had read they make their nests out of and put them in Aimirgin's cage. He was sure there would be a nice nest in there soon enough. Nathaniel pulled out his sketch pad and drew the bird with a nest that was soon to be there.

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Nathaniel would color it in late when he had a chance. "See ya later Aimirgin." he said as he put some bugs in the cage and latched it.

The sun was setting when Nathaniel stepped out of the nursery and headed to the castle

Nuzzling her baby niffler, Liz places the rest of the apple, into the cage, where she sees a dish in the corner. Placing Bébé back in the cage, she says to him "I have to go to class, but I'll be back tomorrow!"

After closing the cage, she stands up and heads back to the door, placing the now empty container in her bag. Picking up her bag, she walks out the door.

Pidgin walked to his sleeping pen and sat in front of it, leaving Jane.

"What's wrong, Pidgin?"she looked worried.

Mewww...Meeeeekk

Jane saw Pidgin staring at the fluffy towels and pillows and was looking quite sleepy. She carried him into the sleeping pen and nestled him in the fluffiness. Pidgin yawned and mewed.

Jane patted him to sleep and then wrapped a hankie over his lower body. She then 'Meeeek-ed' back went back to the Gryffindor Common Room to get her homework done.

The tiny boy of about 4’5” was slowly walking and carrying the book, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them, in his right hand while scratching his head with the other. He was more excited than ever about this nursery the professor did. What would his animal be? After about 3 hours of reading and re-reading the book that was in his hand last night, he really wanted the phoenix. They looked so fascinating and fun and everything and also had super magical properties. Cam didn’t know though since he forgot what the professor had assigned him. Now it would be like a surprise animal, he would just have to wait and see. Did Professah Morgan say he would have a phoenix? Hoped so. So with a deeeeeep, even deeper breath he took hold of the doorknob and opened the door to the nursery.

His eyes were wide open when he stared at his creature. Oh right he didn’t get a phoenix at all, or else he would have remembered. Cam got one of those unusual yet interesting creatures, the Niffler. Scurrying over to the little animal he tried to pet the poor thing. Its body had the looks of a baby mouse, a bit. No phoenix, and there he was looking at some of the people who had the creature he desired. So sad but oh well. Nifflers were probably as much as interesting than phoenixes, right? Oh right his book. Cam quickly turned to page 30 of the book and sighed. It was an older version so there wasn’t that much “interesting” info. Then he forgot naming the creature!

Yes the name was an extremely important part of taking care of this wittle creature of his or else it would just be plain and simple, Niffler. Carefully reading in the book he realized that they liked shiny things but he still didn’t know if it was a girl or a boy. “Oh hi wittle Nifflah, how you today?” he asked and then reached out for the adorable thing. OUCH! The thing wasn’t cute, it just bit his finger and now it was throbbing with pain. So small yet already had sharp teeth already, it was sad. But right in an instance he knew it was a girl all right. Since girls were like that, right? A perfect name came up to his head. They liked shiny things and it was a female. “Oh, Tinkerbell! Yes, that’s your name Tink.” He smirked at the realization that he made such the perfect names for animals and such. Such expertise, yes I am.

The light brown-colored mouse-looking creature was set on a small table and read in the book that they lived as much as 20 feet below the surface. That was a lot, wouldn’t they get tired? Tinkerbell was still a baby though so she couldn’t have been that professional in digging and all sorts of those things yet. Maybe she was, he had to find out. Right before he touched it again, it scurried to the ground, off the table. Such height could have caused death to an infant baby but it seemed as though Tink didn’t feel anything and only loved the dirt and dirt and even more dirt. Because of this he thought that they were going to be GREAT friends.

Not a friend of Professor BunBun though. Not at all.

While she was on the dirt, Tink was starting to dig and so he thought that she was making her own home. But he soon realized that there was possibly some jewelry under there and her claws weren’t even fully developed yet so he gently picked her up and put her back on the table. Geez, he almost killed or injured her! Shame, what a complete shame. And with all of the experiences he had with animals to actually do that, to Tink! With another deep breath he looked around and saw a lot useful things right beside the door. Even baby Niffler food-thingies. ”Stay here Tink, I’ll be right back!”

Cam hurried to the door and rummaged through the things beside it, looking for Niffler food. There was some other creature’s food he found interesting and it took him a few minutes to finally find it. Nutritious Baby Niffler Food. Sounded good enough. When he turned around though, he didn’t see where Tinkerbell was. What?! Where was she? And he looked down only to see her trying to dig more and more. ”Oi, no don’t!” He power-walked straight to where she was and picked her up again. Either that Niffler was really addicted to the ground or there was some really valuable jewelry under there. Taking a look at her claws he shook his head. “Tsk, tsk, tsk.” Nothing was really injured but he knew that if she continued to do that, then something bad would happen to her claws and… everything.

Soon he realized that baby Nifflers were just like regular human babies, always stubborn but it loved dirt, probably even more than him. Hmm, what if they smelled? He would have to wash it and guessed that it would have become angry if it was cleaned. Cam knew the exact feeling. They really were that alike. While thinking, he forgot about the baby food so he swiftly opened up the container and gave the food to her. She made a very strange noise when she started eating and so he wondered if the food was that good. So Cam looked at the container and put open his mouth. HOLY GUACAMOLE, it hit expiration date just 2 days agooooo! NUUUU. Worst baby-trainer ever.

Grabbing Tink with his hands in a cup form, he ran straight to the side of the door to find some Niffler food that wasn’t expired. Finally he did and he opened the container and fed the food to the digging creature. “Oiii, please be alive. I may lose tons of house points and reputation for killing a baby creature.” She was almost at the brink of either sleeping or dying when it closed its eyes. Luckily she wasn’t hurt or even dead or else she would look all different, right? Right. And she was alive because he BELIEVED. And BELIEVING made her come back to life. That was it. Good thing he believed or else… else bad things would have happen! But the animal was fallen asleep now so he quietly put Tinkerbell straight back into her cage.

Taking out his plain, colorless journal he started to write down notes and observations of what the very interesting creature did. He started to think that a Niffler was actually a better project than a phoenix but he didn’t know really. The look of disgust in his face was only because of the journal. Why didn’t he buy some purple or orange journal? Maybe he would take a visit to the Charms professor eventually and ask if he could decorate it. For now he took one last peek at his pet. “G’bye Tink. Hope we have a less destructive, fun-time next time… Yeah, kay bye!”

So he set out of the nursery with a smile. That was good. That was actually fun.

Karma strolled about the Care of Magical Creatures Nursery, trying to find her newfound baby creature. It was a Streeler, and reading up on it, Karma was very interested in what had to take place. A snail that changed colors? Fantastic!

She meandered along the pathways and the twists and turns, making her way along the twisted students with their new pets as well. Pets, or projects? She decided on both.

What would she name this new life? Hmm. She pondered a moment as she came across the little area that was secured off for him. Or her. Boy or girl - could you even tell with snails? Honestly.

Kammie. That would work. Snails that changed color reminded her of chamelions. But if she took him/her/it home, then the name would have to begin with a "K". So, Karma pulled out a piece of parchment, watching the tiny little thing move around.

"Hey Kammie," she said quietly in a sing song voice. "I'm Karma. And I'll be your Hogwarts mommy. I hope you don't mind. I'll be gentle."

These things were supposed to get huge. And then venom, that would mean fresh grass for him/her/it every week. But how big would they be? She giggled at the thought of her mutter freaking out about something like that.

She watched the snail move around, and touched its shell gently. It didn't recoil, like many other things, but simply moved closer to its new 'mother'. She smirked at that point in time, and was happy. Even if it was a creature, and not even really a dog or something like that.

Placing food inside the area, and some water, she watched the tiny streak of venom go along the grass, leaving behind dead blades. She giggled, as if it was part of her personality as well. That was a good one. She's deadly at times - so why shouldn't her pet be any different?

Ruby walked down to the Nurseries and carefully opened the gate and walked through she came to her baby imp and she smiled "Good Morning Emelda" Ruby chirpped she had managed to get her some lovely fresh meat and she smiled as she picked Emelda out of her cage and put her in a new one, "need you to be all clean don't we Emelda?" Ruby cleaned out her cage and gave her fresh water and then she picked up her imp and gave her a cuddle.

After a while Ruby decided that she needed to add some more things to her journal she looked at Emelda and said "are you going to go in your cage like a good girl?" she went to put her in her cage and Emelda put her hands and feet on each corner and looked at Ruby, after a few minites she managed to pry each hand and foot off and put her in her cage with some fresh meat and vegetables, she sat down and looked at Emelda and said "Lets learn some more about you eh?" she picked up another book she had gotten from the libary and opened it up and started to read she picked up a quill and some parchment and started to write some things down.

Ruby looked at what she had written and smiled she looked at Emelda and said "you are an interesting creatutre arn't you?" she put the piece of parchment in her bag and took out another and looked at Emelda and smiled she sat there for another hour drawing what she looked like and when she finished she looked at Emelda and said "what do you think?"



She smiled as the imp tried to grab the drawing she felt so close to Emelda and knew that when she was asked to give her back she would be upset, it made her feel close to her grandfather again, she looked at her watch and reaslised it was nearly lunch time she smiled once more at Emelda and said "i will come back soon" she put some more food in the bowl placed the drawing in her bag and then walked away she closed the gate and headed to the castle

After missing his little Augurey so much, Miles decided to take a stroll back down the Magical Creatures nursery for the second time. He'd already noted down how had first looked, but he wanted to see how Alan was doing. It was only yesterday since Miles last saw him, but being parted from his little feathered friend was difficult. He brought more instects for the Augurey and some parchement which he had written on yesterday.

It had only been a day, but Miles had already forgotten when the Augurey cages were. Watching all the students cuddle and feed their own creatures, he finally found the 'A' section, just like an isle in a supermarket. Quickening his pace, he went down to look for his Alan. "Oh my god!" He gasped, clasping his hand to his mouth before crouching down to little Alan's cage.

Alan had grown a lot in a day. It seemed the cage was now too small for him, Alan was trying to spread his wings but the four wooden walls were stopping him. So, before he did anything else, Miles flicked open the cage and let Alan climb into his hand, and sat him on top of the cage again. "Alan, it's been one day!" Miles grinned as he muttered a charm that made the cage grow a little bigger. He sniffed, and winced and moved back a little. Alan's cage was fiiiiilthy, and Miles was the one with the cleaning equipment. Bleh. Alan seemed a little restless, so he picked up again with both his hand this time, and lay him in the little pen, where the creatures were playing together. "Now be nice." He warned the creature while he walked back over to the cage.

Miles had not been ready for this. He wasn't thourough, and quickly cleared out the cage and wiped it down. He wished Alan would be cleaner next time, but he had a funny feeling he'd be exactly the same. Poor little guy, such a depressing little bird who never smiled. Once Miles had finished, he wiped his forehead with his clean arm and began to write quickly on a piece of parchement. "Grown around .. 5 cm in height?" Miles estimated as he glanced over at Alan, who was stretching his wings from sitting in the little cage for too long. "Feathers greener .." He dropped his quill and walked back over to the pen with his bag of insects. Wincing just like he always did, Miles dropped a bug into Alan's mouth, and still a little grossed out, walked back over to the cage with Alan in one hand, and the bag in the other. Alan was trying to reach over to grab it, but Miles pulled away. "Noo. We don't want you getting fat now do we?" He shook his head ad showed him to the cage. "Whatcha think?"

Alan's face, still with a frown hopped into the new clean, larger cage. He didn't seem to approve, but didn't Augurey's always look a little sad? "It'll do for now dude. We'll get you a sofa and everything soon." He smiled, pretending that he saw Alan smile back, and packed his things. Miles wrinkled his nose from the smells that came from other creatures, but atleast he knew now that Alan was clean and looking awesome as ever.

Mackenzie went down to the nursery in the morning before classes. She hurried towards where Rosey was and was shocked to see how big her little Streeler had gotten. It had grown a foot in height after only one day!

"Wow Rosey. You sure grow fast!"

Mackenzie sat down with her journal and started to record everything she had done for the Streeler, seeing as she forgot to do it the day before. When she was finished she went and got her (not so) little Streeler some breakfast. She then hurriedly cleaned Rosey and headed on to breakfast. She only had a half hour before classes started and she couldn't miss a meal.

It was a fairly nice day for this time of the year and Meredith enjoyed the walk to the Nursery. Meredith entered the stone building with a sigh, she wasn't exactly looking forward to this assignment, but who knows-maybe it would be fun. She searched the cages until she found one with her name on it.

In the cage was a little soft, hairy ball. Well, she didn't know if the baby-creature was soft, but it sure looked like it was! The little ball was fairly small-about the size of a ping-pong ball. The fur was a very light yellowish colour. The creature was just plain cute! Meredith smiled at it. The tag on the cage said it was a Puffskein, but it was also very obvious. Meredith had read Fantastic Beasts & Where to Find Them from the beginning to the end; it was really interesting. The creature was just plain cute! Meredith smiled at it. Hm, this little Puffskein would maybe make a fun assignment after all. Ugh, she needed to stop thinking of it as "it", “Puffskein” and “baby creature”. It needed a name. She couldn’t think of anything, except Arkarian and her owl was already called that. Staring at her notebook in which she had written a description of the little thing, she found an unexpected source of inspiration. Ping-Pong. Yes, she was gonna call it Ping-Pong. Or was that too weird. It sounded nice..

“Hi Ping-Pong, I’m Meredith and I’m going to look after you for a while.” she said in a soft voice, not wanting to disturb any of the baby creatures. The Puffskein looked up, with curious eyes to see where the sound came from.

Meredith sat down, reading in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them what Puffskeins eat. It seemed they ate lots of things, so Meredith got up and got the little creature Ping-Pong some dead flies. She let them fall through the bars on the top of the cage. She was glad she didn’t have to touch the dead flies anymore, they felt weird, a little scary…

She stayed there for quite some time, watching her Puffskein. Ping-Pong didn’t see or smell the flies at first, then hopped closer curiously and suddenly a long and thin pink tongue came out of the puffskein, getting one of the flies. It startled Meredith, she hadn’t expected this. She jumped a little and then laughed at herself. Then, finally she looked at her watch. Wow, was it that late already? She needed to go back to the castle.. “Bye Ping-Pong, I’ll come back tomorrow!” she said and reluctantly got up. She was a little stiff from sitting in the same position for a long time. Despite this, she walkedback quickly to the castle, hurrying.

Okay. Maybe it had not been such a good idea to bring so many books with her to visit her baby streeler. Books were heavy, and now she had to carry them all the way down to the nursery and all the way BACK to the castle. If not for the fact that she stayed in shape for Quidditch, Juniper would have been exhausted before she had even met her streeler for the first time.

Juniper lugged her stack of books inside and began peering into cages -- from a distance, of course, so she did not startle any of the inhabitants. Oi! There was a streeler with her name on it! Figuratively, of course. The fourth year set her books down a safe distance from the cage and slowly approached the cage, her hands open in a gesture of peace.

"Hi, there, little fellow," Juniper said softly to the snail-like creature. "My name's Juniper. Would you like to help me pick a name for you?"

Juniper reached over to the stack of books she had brought with her and snatched one that was filled with African names and their meanings. Opening it to a random page near the end, Juniper began reading names to the streeler, keeping her eye on it so that if he decided he liked a name, she would notice.

"How do you like T-Temitope? Or... Olujimi?" Hazel eyes watched for a reaction from the streeler, but he gave none. "Lekan? Idowu? Bamidele?" Still no reaction. Juniper flipped through the pages, trying to find a name that she could pronounce and to which she thought the streeler might take a fancy. "Oooh, this one's pretty. Do you like Adisa?"

The fourth year's eyes widened as the streeler changed colour just as the name was fully out of her mouth. She had known that streelers changed colours hourly, so it was probably just a coincidence, but... he was also moving around more, too. Juniper grinned. "Adisa it is, then. Nice to meet you, sir."

Juniper watched the streeler glide around its cage, leaving a trail behind it. "You must be hungry," Juniper stated bluntly. She dug in her pocket for the few carrot sticks she had stuck in there for a snack. Muggle snails ate vegetables, so why should Adisa not eat carrot sticks? Carefully, Juniper put the carrot sticks in a pile in the center of Adisa's cage. She beamed as the streeler immediately took interest in them, but hesitated.

"Oh. You like to eat by yourself? All right, then, Adisa. I'll be back tomorrow with some more variety for you to eat." Juniper beamed and backed away from his cage. After she picked up her books, it was quite difficult to resist looking over her shoulder, but some people--and creatures--preferred to eat without company. Clearly, Adisa the Streeler was one of them.

It was so typical for the animal loving boy to come running back, mere DAYS after visiting his pet for the first time. Once again, for the second time in a week, Hugo Jermaine Woods pranced towards the Creature’s Nursery, a bag clutched in his grip. “How exciting!” He sighed, feistily, defiantly, happily. Despite his run in with a stormy faced Slytherin in the dormitory, his ego appeared unwounded and he still had his infamous grin plastered across the handsome surface of his face. Despite having the face of an angel, he didn’t stick out in the Magical Creature’s building; people were used to his presence there, due to the fact that he spent many hours helping around with any odd jobs that needed doing. It had become apparent in the recent weeks that Hugo was in fact, despite the stereotype that clung to the aura around him, an extremely helpful boy, who leapt at any chance to do his ‘good deed for the day.

In spite of his determined expression and desperate work ethic, Hugo still seemed to find it impossible to look bad. His chiselled black Diesel jeans complimented the clean cut Hugo Boss shirt nicely. To set off the whole ‘good-boy-looks-good’ look, he’d done his hair exactly how Evolette liked it, and sprayed a touch of Ralph Lauren Polo Black cologne. It was not the sort of outfit that you’d expect someone who was about to play with an animal to wear, but it was comfy and so he wore it with pride.

Hoisting the leather bag onto his shoulder, Hugo pushed open the door to the stone building, and stepped inside. He inhaled (with a slight cough – not even an animal lover could enjoy the intense smell) and hurried to find Georgie. It was still taking him a while to get used to the nursery layout and so he had to peer in every Clabbert’s cage, before finding his sleeping darling. “Georgieeee,” he whispered, emerald eyes squinting through the mesh bars. Oh, bless her heart! She was curled up on her straw mat, snoozing lightly.

An affectionate smile curling around his lips, Hugo slowly and silently opened the cage door. “Georgie baby, it’s feeding time!” Since his last visit, he’d done an extreme amount of research. Placing his bag on the floor, he pulled out a plastic tub and his book, which he flipped open on the appropriate page. Ah. Clabberts. Popping the lid off the container, he tipped the contents into a dish and placed it before his Georgie.

Beetles and milk. Not something he could particularly relate to, but perhaps it was a speciality, an acquired taste.

Perhaps.

“Eat up, Georgie!” Hugo urged, reaching in and picking up his pet. “Helloooo!” He cooed, as the little creature opened her eyes and blinked at him happily. “Yes, it’s me! I bought food!” He popped her down next to the dish, which she sniffed. He watched her as she devoured the meal, a grin stretching across his face. Woohoo! Success! He couldn’t leave her, he just couldn’t! He allowed her to crawl up his arm and perch on his shoulder, where she closed her eyes and nestled in his hair. So cute!

Thirty minutes later, Hugo found his eyelids drooping. EEK! He’d been so contented with his sleeping pet, that he’d almost dozed off himself. “C’mon now, baby,” he whispered, gently pulling her off his head and placing her back into her cage. “Bye bye, Georgie Porgie. See you soon.” He closed the door and picked up his bag, before dancing out of the nursery, glancing over his shoulder once more to beam at his darling angel of an animal.