Varius was just innocently playing with his monstrous wellie boot when an inconsiderate parchment got in the way of his nom'ing. Looking down to see what on earth had disrupted him, his eyes met a picture of Professor Bunbury and... Professor Lawson, was that?

Forgetting about his shoes, he stood up and looked over the puffapods at the Herbology Professor. Yep, it was definitely, her picture. What was the parchment saying about her? He looked down at the parchment once more to begin reading.

Dani was still close to dry land. She was actually contemplating just putting her shoes back on. Her shoes! They were gone. A Hufflepuff boy was playing with her favorite shoes. She saw him. Jumping back onto dry land she ran at him and tackled him as he stood up. "Gimme back my shoes!" She noticed he had one of those papers like she had seen earlier sitting on his lap, not good. The Professor wasn't going to like that...

We all have to do it?! I suppose my justafiable reason of not being able to swim wouldn't wash with the EVIL BunBunz? Dammit.
Slowly walking back round to the start line,shooting secret dagger looks at Bunbury,Sarah bent down and took her shoes off.Leaning over she went to place them with all the others...and discovered they weren't there....Strange.
Shrugging,she stood back up and flicked her hair over her shoulder and out of her eyes.Carefully she stuck a leg out to test the strength of the lily pad.Just as she was about to step on it a piece of paper flew in front of her and landed in the lap of another Huffie,one who seemed to be guarding all the shoes.
On the one hand she was desperate to know what was written on it,as she had noticed it had writing and pictures,on the other she didn't want to attract the evil attention of Bunbury.Sighing she stepped onto the lily pad and just stood there."Uhhh Professor? Am I just supposed to make my way over,or do I have to be blindfolded.....coz I'd prefer if I could see...so I don't fall and drown." Did she just admit a fault to one of the evil teachers,someone who would do exactly what you didn't want them to? Yes,yes she did.

He was still standing in the water, frowning as he felt the liquid soak his robes. He shuddered before looking up to the professor from the other side of the pond. "Uhh, do I have to start again? I mean, I don't mind actually, it's pretty fun you know? It's just, this water is cold and I don't feel like falling in again." He said shyly, glancing down at the water with a frown. "I'll do it blindfolded if you want." he suggested, berating himself silently for even saying it. Cool move Willie he thought.

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Jule took another step to the last Lilly. Once she was on year last one, she jumped onto the ground. "Whoo!" she said. She was happy she was finally on solid ground.

"Do I have to keep the blindfold on?"

"Good job, Ravenclaw," Bunbury called out from her bench as she batted a pesky piece of parchment away from her head. "Yes you can take the blindfold off." She wasn't being mean, making Herminny stay blindfolded, was she? But she had used magic. No matter. A Bunbunz never feels remorse.

Now another Ravenclaw needed blindfolding though....hmm....how about....Toussaint. Yep. Annie flicked her wand at the girl and now she too was without sight, stranded on a lily pad.

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Gosh, it's windy, isn't it? A small breeze moves its way across the greenhouses and through the student gardens. A couple of pieces of parchment find themselves floating along the breeze and end up at the Professor's bench and on the lap of a certain young Hufflepuff who is playing with shoes (posted with permission from RoRo.)


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"Stupid....trash....get off my bench," Bunbunz muttered darkly, turning back to her nail file and finding...wait, what was this?! Her picture, on, on there? With LAWSON THAT STUPID STUPID JUST....NOOO!!!!!1!1

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Varius was just innocently playing with his monstrous wellie boot when an inconsiderate parchment got in the way of his nom'ing. Looking down to see what on earth had disrupted him, his eyes met a picture of Professor Bunbury and... Professor Lawson, was that?

Forgetting about his shoes, he stood up and looked over the puffapods at the Herbology Professor. Yep, it was definitely, her picture. What was the parchment saying about her? He looked down at the parchment once more to begin reading.

Bunbury stood up abruptly and wadded the dumb gossip parchment into a ball, growling to herself. No one had seen it though til she was--- wait a minute, why is there a student in the puffapods? Anastasia started stomping in the direction of Varius Tipps and then she saw that he, too, had a similar scrap of paper.

"VARIUS TIPPS GET YOUR BUM OVER HERE RIGHT NOW!" the redhead bellowed, taking off at a run toward the kid. Merlin so help her she would tackle him to the ground to keep any rumors from spreading.

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Dani was still close to dry land. She was actually contemplating just putting her shoes back on. Her shoes! They were gone. A Hufflepuff boy was playing with her favorite shoes. She saw him. Jumping back onto dry land she ran at him and tackled him as he stood up. "Gimme back my shoes!" She noticed he had one of those papers like she had seen earlier sitting on his lap, not good. The Professor wasn't going to like that...

OH SNAP! Another student had him down already though - GOOD! Arriving at the wrestling pair, Bunbury encouraged the girl to distract Varius. "That's the ticket, you....you 'Claw you! Go for your shoes!"

She smirked and weaved with the fray, trying to just....get a little grasp...a corner of the parchment....AHA! There! She had a handhold on it...just....now...wiggle it to the left...out of Tipps' hand....

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We all have to do it?! I suppose my justafiable reason of not being able to swim wouldn't wash with the EVIL BunBunz? Dammit.
Slowly walking back round to the start line,shooting secret dagger looks at Bunbury,Sarah bent down and took her shoes off.Leaning over she went to place them with all the others...and discovered they weren't there....Strange.
Shrugging,she stood back up and flicked her hair over her shoulder and out of her eyes.Carefully she stuck a leg out to test the strength of the lily pad.Just as she was about to step on it a piece of paper flew in front of her and landed in the lap of another Huffie,one who seemed to be guarding all the shoes.
On the one hand she was desperate to know what was written on it,as she had noticed it had writing and pictures,on the other she didn't want to attract the evil attention of Bunbury.Sighing she stepped onto the lily pad and just stood there."Uhhh Professor? Am I just supposed to make my way over,or do I have to be blindfolded.....coz I'd prefer if I could see...so I don't fall and drown." Did she just admit a fault to one of the evil teachers,someone who would do exactly what you didn't want them to? Yes,yes she did.

BAAAAAH why did a student want her attention now?! Just when she almost had the parchment.

"Make...just get across the pond as you are! If I want to blindfold you I will!" Bunbury shouted, her tidy hairdo coming undone just a little bit as she tried to wedge that stupid gossip paper away from the students.

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He was still standing in the water, frowning as he felt the liquid soak his robes. He shuddered before looking up to the professor from the other side of the pond. "Uhh, do I have to start again? I mean, I don't mind actually, it's pretty fun you know? It's just, this water is cold and I don't feel like falling in again." He said shyly, glancing down at the water with a frown. "I'll do it blindfolded if you want." he suggested, berating himself silently for even saying it. Cool move Willie he thought.

"Same for you, Willy!" Bunbury tried to call out as politely as she could without ripping the parchment. "Whatever! Go! Just go!"

Could she ever make it through a class without a distraction? Hmm? No, probably not.

Dani was oblivious to the Professor. She just wanted her shoes. Grabbing one of the Wellingtons she started beating him over the head with it. "Gimme my shoes!" She yelled again. She would get them back or he would suffer.

No longer had he just read the first couple of lines of the parchment than some crazy Ravenclaw girl tackled him to the ground. What was she doing!? He was reading valuable information here. He tried to push her off, "You can have your shoes... they're there... behind youuu," he tried to point, but it was proving difficult.

At that moment, he then heard the Professor scream his name... she must have noticed the parchment in his hand. "Oh geez," he let out a small yelp, scared of what was going to happen. As Varius wrestled with his classmate over the shoes (which she should have been keeping a better look out for!), Bunbunz attempted to remove the parchment from his hand. Unfortunately, Varius mistook her hand for his classmates and bit down on it... HARD.

Finally, he managed to push the girl off. "Your shoes... are over... there," he panted. Then he remembered what he had been doing and began skimming the words on the parchment, his jaw dropping with each sentence he read. "OH MERLIN!"

Jack looked at the professor with a confused look upon his face. Having missed most of the commotion that had happened between her and some little Huffie boy, he shrugged and looked back down at his lily pad. Alright, they could all be distracted if they wanted--HE was going to take this open window of opportunity to cross, unharmed and without falling in again.

His next lily pad was to his right. He thanked Merlin that Bunbury was distracted--perhaps he could get along without a blindfold? That would be beyond marvelous. He stretched out his leg and stood on the right lily pad, so that he was essentially straddling in between the two. Now, just the other leg and he'd be another step closer...

Except, the pad under his right leg started to wobble and move around in the water, much to Jack's dismay. He let out a yelp as his hands swung around in the air violently, attempting to keep his balance. He finally yanked his left foot away from his previous lily pad and put both feet firmly on the right one, regaining his balance after a minute or two. That had been a close one!

Yes Miss Shouty Woman,Ma'am!
Sarah did a mental salute to Bunbury,who seemed more interested in getting at the piece of parchment she'd seen fly in.What was on that that she so desperately didn't want anyone to see?

Trying hard to keep her balance,Sarah once more stretched her foot out in an effort to reach the next pad.Unfortunately it was just to far away,meaning she would have to grab it and move it nearer using her hand.Kneeling down on the now wobbly pad she put her hand out and managed to claw at the edge of the other one,bringing it closer to the one she was on.
Finally with her arms out to the sides to steady herself,Sarah stepped onto the next lily pad.The fact she'd made it without falling would naturally,in any other circumstances,be cause for a victory jig.Not today.She had another 2 pads to get across before she made dry land,and she was determind to do it.

Melanie looked away from the pond as Bunbury asked if they were going to cross to stare, a look of horror on her face. She was scared of water...surely she didn't have to-to go out there...

Gulp.

She didn't want Bunbury to be angry with her for asking, the teacher scare her a bit when she was angry, but she couldn't help it. "Professor." she began, raising her hand for good measure. "Could I please...just- just help everyone else? ...I don't like water." she pleaded, looking hopefully over at her professor. "It scares me..." Melanie admitted, blushing. She didn't like to admit her fears. In fact she downright hated it.

But Bunbury looked....rather busy. Varius and another girl were fighting over some... shoes? Or at least that's what it looked like. And Varius was reading some paper. Hmmm whatever, she just was waiting on Bunbury to give her an answer...hopefully 'Yes'.

Willie nodded, wading over to the edge of the pond and climbing out, shaking his hair out to dry somewhat, causing more droplets of water to drop on students who were around him. Ringing out his robes he wandered over to the other side of the pond, casting a curiously suspicious glance at the Huffie who was trying to read the parchment, the Raven who was trying to get her shoes from said Huffie and Bunbuns, who was trying to get the parchment. such activity he thought shaking his head before stepping onto the first pad, his hands in his pockets.

Oh no, where were his chocolate frogs? Feeling around in his pockets he frowned, standing on the pad, oblivious to the world now as his candy-side of the brain went into overdrive, panic swelling in his chest as he looked around. Oh no... they had probably fallen out when he fell into the pond. was chocolate good for plants? he didn't think so, but he wasn't about to let Bunbuns know he had dropped the unwrapped morsels of frogs into the pond. They were probably swimming around at the bottom by now, and there was no way he was going to hunt for them.

Sighing, he stepped onto the next pad, this one a tiny pad which nearly made him slip as it sloshed beneath his feet. Keeping his balance somehow he kept moving, bouncing from one pad to the next. Making it to the spot where he fell, he crouched down on the pad and peered into the water, reaching in as if to try and see if he could find them.

The whole giant lilypad thing seemed pretty cool.. and it was even cooler that they were using them as stepping leaves.. just like his idea! There was no way however, that he was getting on there. Nope, never ever gonna happen. The end.

Chancing a cautious glance at Professor Bunbury, Clifford was glad to see she looked kinda distracted. Good.

Shoving his hands deep in his pockets, the Head Boy took a few giant steps away from the water's edge and searched for Kevin. Poor kid.

"Eeep!" Vanessa hadn't be expecting that, and she had to cling onto Torin's arms to stop herself from falling over.
"Well done...but now it's my turn" Vannie smiled, as she glanced at Miles, hoping he was okay before she hoped onto a lily pad.

"ooooh." She squealed a little, as she waved her arms around to try and get her balance. She didn't really want to be falling into the water, it wouldnt do anything for her perfectly styled hair, and she didnt want to get her PINNNKKK clips are dirty. Bending her knees a little she regained her balance, before slowly moving onto the next pad.
After she did this she glanced back around, smiling at both Miles and Torin. But then she did notice.

"WHEREE have my Shhoees goneeee!!!"

After her first shouted direction to Juliette had gone without incident, Mariel was somewhat thankful that several other housemates began helping the young girl too. And for some unknown reason, the third year sorta just stood there and watched as the younger girl got closer and closer to the other side (yay for house unity!) - until she heard Bunbury frantically shout towards a couple other students to get going. Which probably meant Mariel should too.

Snapping out of her daze, the third year turned in the direction of the professor to see her wrestling a piece of parchment out of a boy's grasp. A boy playing with... a pile of shoes? A frown appeared on the girl's face as her green eyes did their best to scan the mound of footwear from where she stood. Merlin help him if he has my black patent mary janes!

But of course she was in the middle of the pond with no way to reach them just yet. So with a fiercely determined look on her face, Mariel's eyes swept the length of the pond looking for a suitable lily pad to step on. The one in front of her wasn't too far away, but she still had a long way to go to get to the other side of the pond. Crouching down somewhat to retain her balance, the 14 year old stretched out her right leg to step on the leaf and threw the rest of her weight forward, successfully landing on the lily pad. Now where?

Tino skipped over the last lilypad and joined his housemates on the bank. "Wahoo, good job Jule! Here- lemme help you take it off." Jule had asked Bunbury for permission to remove the cover, but the professor was currently mud-wresting a Hufflepuff over on the other side of the pond.

And who said Herbology was boring?

Tino chivalrously untied the handkerchief and handed it to Toussaint. There seemed to be no point to carrying on with the task while such entertainment was available, however. "Go Dani!," he cheered, having no clue what was going on. He didn't care. "Get 'er, Tipps! Don't let her have it! Guard it with your liiiife!" Whatever it was, if it was causing such a ruckus it HAD to be cool.

ooc: sorry for the excessive oocs but I'm still trying to run class even if my character has gone off the deep end. List of blindfolded people still needing help: Kevin (Saz Hale) and now, Celandine Toussaint (Celandine). If your House is done and your character has crossed and you still want to participate, I suppose you could be kind and help the Slytherclaws. Orrrr you could be evil and distract them with wrong directions. Just saying. Continue lily pad hopping! =D

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At that moment, he then heard the Professor scream his name... she must have noticed the parchment in his hand. "Oh geez," he let out a small yelp, scared of what was going to happen. As Varius wrestled with his classmate over the shoes (which she should have been keeping a better look out for!), Bunbunz attempted to remove the parchment from his hand. Unfortunately, Varius mistook her hand for his classmates and bit down on it... HARD.

Finally, he managed to push the girl off. "Your shoes... are over... there," he panted. Then he remembered what he had been doing and began skimming the words on the parchment, his jaw dropping with each sentence he read. "OH MERLIN!"

AHA! She had the parchment! She had the she had the parchment she had the the the TEETH! SHE HAD TEETH ON HER HAND!1!! BITE MARKS!

"Owwwww," Annie moaned, taking a giant step back from Varius and glaring at the boy with a mixture of horror and shock for his biting. "Five points from Hufflepuff for...for inhuman behavior!" The redhead stomped her foot and hid her bitten hand in her normal one, trying to hide how much it hurrrrrrt.

"Now, Mr. Tipps," she wasn't going to say this again, "Give. Me. That. Parchment." And if she had to she would obliviate him before the end of the lesson.

Dani looked at the Professor again. Why didn't the boy just listen? She had found her shoes, but she had also discovered her love for beating this boy with Wellingtons. She hit him upside the head with the boot again. Maybe that would help Professor Bunbury get the parchment.

He quickly let go of her when he saw that she was about to fall into the water. He was so happy that he beat this thing that he didn't think of the fact that she was on a lily pad.

"I dunno where your shoes are, but that's not important right now." Why do girls care so much about shoes? It's not like she can wear them right now anyway...

"Come on Vannie, just keep going across and you will get your shoes!"

"Yes. It is important." Vanessa nodded, as she glanced around, this wasn't the place to be worrying about her shoes. She didn't want to fall into the water.
"Torin...make sure nobody puts them in the pond." She nodded, smiling at him, before turning around, and nearly falling into the water! "Eeep." She waved her arms around, trying to gain her balance. Finally when she did, she sighed, and took one step forward, onto the next lily pad.

Varius ignored his Prefect and her search for her shoes. He didn't want to risk being tackled and attacked by ANOTHER classmate, let alone a Prefect! So he stared at the little pile of shoes he had stolen and stayed hush.

Oh bubotuber pus spread in a mould of a Professor Kazimeriz bust whilst tap dancing to the likes of the sound of music soundtrack! He had bitten the Professor! He was, in fact, incredibly surprised and grateful he survived this ordeal and managed to get away with just a five point loss, however, there was still the deal with the parchment. Thinking quickly, he rolled it up into a ball and put it into his mouth. "IKnoooorooww whaaa eweeee deeed," he managed to grumble with his mouth full of paper... anddd, ew was that ink!?



"Rwill ewwwee qwit vat!" he moaned at the Ravenclaw girl who seemed persistent on brain damaging him for the rest of his life, and the Professor was allowing such violence!!!

The force of the wellie on his face forced him to spit out the parchment, which was now all slobbery and smudged, and he watched as it moved across the air and found itself at the feet of the Head Boy. He removed his wand, now extremely annoyed at the Ravie girl and poked it nice and hard in her side. Who needed magic?

Dani winced in pain as the boy jabbed her with his wand. "Oww." She was mad now. Grabbing the other Wellington, she started hitting him with both. "That." Smack. "Was." Smack. "Not." Smack. "Nice." She wasn't even just hitting his head anymore. Now it was war.

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Oh bubotuber pus spread in a mould of a Professor Kazimeriz bust whilst tap dancing to the likes of the sound of music soundtrack! He had bitten the Professor! He was, in fact, incredibly surprised and grateful he survived this ordeal and managed to get away with just a five point loss, however, there was still the deal with the parchment. Thinking quickly, he rolled it up into a ball and put it into his mouth. "IKnoooorooww whaaa eweeee deeed," he managed to grumble with his mouth full of paper... anddd, ew was that ink!?

"Rwill ewwwee qwit vat!" he moaned at the Ravenclaw girl who seemed persistent on brain damaging him for the rest of his life, and the Professor was allowing such violence!!!

The force of the wellie on his face forced him to spit out the parchment, which was now all slobbery and smudged, and he watched as it moved across the air and found itself at the feet of the Head Boy. He removed his wand, now extremely annoyed at the Ravie girl and poked it nice and hard in her side. Who needed magic?

WHAT? No, now the parchment....was...it was in his mouth, and then, airborne.....floating across the ground....

Anastasia's mouth slowly dropped as her eyes followed the movement of the parchment across the gardens. "TIPPS!" she barked again, becoming quite fond of shouting his name. "Stop poking that Ravenclaw. Girl, you stop...beating the boy's head with a boot. I really don't want to call the intern down here if you give him a concussion."

That nurse....girl...tart...arch-enemy... whatever Caroline Avalon was. "Now then," she cleared her throat and smoothed down her robes, slowly and neatly walking toward Clifford Carden. Good, he hadn't noticed the paper yet..not that it was readable now anyways.

STOMP! Aha, Bunbunz had the parchment under her boot now. It was nice and safe from stupid students' prying eyes. Goooood. Now...get them back on topic...hemhem....

"So!" the professor cleared her throat loudly. "For those of you who ah, crossed the lily pads....how was it? Did you enjoy it? What did they feel like beneath your toes?"

Still not sure what the big deal was, he shrugged. If she wanted him to guard her shoes, then he would guard her shoes. "Anything you ask of my, pretty lady," he said saluting her good naturedly.

He had no idea where they would be, but he had to look. Where could a pair of flats go off to?
He searched the area extensively.

That's when he spotted a pile of shoes lying around . He wasn't sure what they were doing there, when he saw a silver flat poking out of the top. "AH HA!" he exclaimed happily, digging it out. Then he retrieved the other one.

"Found them, Vannie!" he exclaimed holding them up for her to see.
Now he was standing there holding a girl's shoes. Great.

Dani dropped the boots when the professor told her to stop. She didn't want to lose any points. Walking away, she located her shoes and slipped them back on her feet. She walked back over to the boy. "Sorry for beating you with boots. I probably shouldn't have done that." She mumbled.

After his near fall into the pond a few moments ago, Jack was not going to make another move anytime soon. He was out in no mans land, stranded in the middle of the pond and now forced to continue his path. Whatever had been going on with Bunbury and the little Huffie dude, the moment seemed to have passed as she continued with the lesson. Was she addressing only Herminny and Torin? Or could Jack answer too? He cautiously raised his hand--he didn't want to fall!

"The feel, erm...unstable," he said. "You need to really balance on them or you'll falllll," he explained. As he spoke, he almost teetered over the edge of his lily pad.