Celandine giggled silently at the sentence that Cedric had.She raised her hand. "I think that childishness is Freesia.... disappointing is... carnation? And... unfavourable is harder..." Celandine bit her lip and lowered her hand while she thought.

Evelyn smiled slightly at Destiny when she mentioned cherry blossoms because she was thinking the same thing. It was the only word that she was pretty sure on, but she wanted to wait for the other team member's opinions before she started sticking any flowers on the board.

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As Professor Kapoor had allowed them to open the strip of parchment and read the strip of paper, he gently opened it as he perused the short sentence. Their Professor has carefully explained of what they need to do and he has now nothing to worry about that he may not understand the activity. The activity would be great and err..they would use a lot of flowers and sticking charms to do it correctly. He needs to be careful and do the activity warily so he'll not going to be blame at the end. "Okay, Professor." muttered Cedric as he listen to Professor Kapoor's instructions.

Rafe looked over Cedric's shoulder. He was on his team after all. He wrote down what he thought the answer was an slipped it to Cedric:

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Childishness: Buttercup
Unfavourable: Sunflower?
Disappointment: Yellow Carnation

"I'm not quite sure about which flower would be considered unfavorable?" Rafe said rather confused. The other ones were quite east to find. "There are actually a lot of flowers that are considered unfavorable, but then they're separated into other meanings..."

Rafe slipped Cedric another list:

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Christmas Rose: Scandal
Fig: Idleness
Foxglove: Insincerity
Larkspur: Infidelity
Lavender: Distrust
Marigold: Grief
Mulberry: I shall not survive you
Raspberry: Remorse
Red Carnation: Alas for my poor heart
Red Poppy: Consolation
Rhododendron: Danger
Striped Carnation: Refusal
White Poppy: Sleep
Yellow Carnation: Disdain
Yellow Chrysanthemum: Slighted Love
Yellow Lily: Falsehood
Yellow Rose: Jealousy

"If its Hana Kotoba..." Celandine looked at her textbook and frowned. She was 100% certain that 'childishness' was Freesia and Carnation was 'disappointing'.

"Unfavourable basically means no, or negative or unlikely or opposed... and the only flowers on the list with a negative meaning that could fit at all are Red Spider Lily, Sweet Pea, Primrose, a Yellow Tulip..." Cela trailed off and chewed her lip some. "Or, if its unfavourable as in odds, like luck-wise, couldn't we just use a four leaf clover and take a leaf off or crush it or do something to change the luck it represents to bad?"

Looking back down at her text, she frowned in confusion. Being that no one seemed to notice her question, she went back to trying to decipher what exactly they were looking for.

'childishness, unfavourable, disappointing' she kept thinking to herself. 'If it was just one flower, wouldn't the freesia encompass what the sentence was trying to say?' Looking back up, she jotted it down on a piece of parchment and waited patiently to see if anyone else had any ideas.

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Celandine giggled silently at the sentence that Cedric had.She raised her hand. "I think that childishness is Freesia.... disappointing is... carnation? And... unfavourable is harder..." Celandine bit her lip and lowered her hand while she thought.

"Unfavourable basically means no, or negative or unlikely or opposed... and the only flowers on the list with a negative meaning that could fit at all are Red Spider Lily, Sweet Pea, Primrose, a Yellow Tulip..." Cela trailed off and chewed her lip some. "Or, if its unfavourable as in odds, like luck-wise, couldn't we just use a four leaf clover and take a leaf off or crush it or do something to change the luck it represents to bad?"

"I'm pretty sure Buttercup represents childishness more," Rafe argued. "Freesia is more innocence and thoughtfulness. And you're right about carnation, but specifically it's the yellow carnation that specifically represents disappointment..."

"Maybe there's various answers to one that can be considered unfavorable?"

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"Your silly childishness is unfavourable and disappointing in my eyes. "

"I'm gonna have to agree with Cela there," Samson said as he nodded to his fellow Ravenclaw. "Childishness is definitely a Freesia, Disappointment is a Carnation, and... I dunno, but I'm gonna say unfavourable is an Orange Lily, but so much revenge, but more on hatred. I mean, unfavourability is sort of like hating something. And I know hate must be a strong word but that's the closest we've got, I reckon."

He looked over his shoulder to the other group and wondered how their tussie mussie was going. Ah well. It couldn't have been that the others were having an easier time deciphering theirs, right? Cos, bias aside, they were Ravenclaws.

Mwahahaha.

'Well, if we are allowed to use a different page of the book besides 221, then for never forget we could use rosemary. It means remembrance.' If only other Slytherins or even Hufflepuffs could help it would be easier...

Marie thought for a moment before she said anything. She didn't want to disagree with her team mates but she also wanted to point out that there could be another choice. "I agree with Destiny about the cherry blossom, but we could also use a pansy since it means thoughtful and caring."

"For true friend we could use lavender since it's meaning is faithful." Marie looked around at the rest of their team wondering if anyone else had any ideas.

"Not according to HanaKotoba. Page 221." Celandine answered and pointed at the correct page.


"I thought about Orange Lily too." Celandine tipped a mischevious wink at the boy who she still mentally hailed as 'Watson boy'. "It might be a little too negative though. Sweet Pea has a more subtle sort of negativity..." Celandine frowned at the textbook, "But I guess if the flowers get their meanings influenced by those which surround it... mmm its a little difficult. I guess it shows the meanings aren't really foolproof either, especially if you can get different meanings from one flower just by looking at it."

She still preferred her crushed up clover idea though.

That was true, Evelyn did remember reading about rosemary at the beginning of the class, but then again, it wasn't on the page they were looking at. "Professor, are we aloud to use the other meanings of the flowers, like the ones we used on page 217? Or do we just stick to the ones on 221?" she asked the professor. "And is it possible that i look at the book too? Or do i just let everyone else work on deciphering the meanings..."


"Pansy?" she repeated the girl. "Kindness...thoughtful and caring...that could work too i guess." she said, mulling over the two possibilities in her head. "Isn't there one that means Loyalty as well? I think i saw that somewhere on the page...for 'true friend'." But she couldn't be sure. She was hoping she was aloud to go over and look at it, waiting for the professor's answer to her question.

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"Not according to HanaKotoba. Page 221." Celandine answered and pointed at the correct page.

"Oh how foolish of me," Rafe exclaimed as he realized he was completely off. "I am sorry." The scratched out what was on his parchment and rewrote what he thought the answers were:

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Childishness: Buttercup
Unfavourable: Sunflower?
Disappointment: Yellow Carnation

Childishness: Freesia
Unfavourable: Red Spider Lily? Orange Lily?
Disappointment: Carnation

"So what's wrong with the Red Spider Lily? It means 'never to meet again,' so that means unfavorable/undesirable?"

Samson snickered over at Cela as she winked. Meh. She was just one of the people he and Gavin had 'victimized'. Good times, good times.

He looked at the meaning for sweet pea, and shrugged. "It could be an option, too. And so would Red Spider Lily. But..." he looked over to their team captain. He had only realized that this was the boy who had tried to talk to him back in Diagon Alley, at Florean's, before Issy came. "What d'you say, team cap? Which flower do you choose? There's plenty of choices, we just need a solid one to put into our tussie mussie." The word was funny when said out loud. Heh.

"I say we vote for it," he suggested, although it was not likely that this would help them get good scores.

Looking back at the book Marie found the flower Evelyn was talking about, or at least she thinks it is the one she was talking about. "Are you thinking about the zinnia? The meaning for that flower is loyalty. I think this one could definitely stand for true friend"

''Hmmm...'' hand on his chin Josh looked from his book to the sentence and vice versa as he thought what flowers would fit best. At first the words seemed rather easy to him but as his teammates had been discussing that unfavourable was a little bit tricky, though, he was sure he could find the true meaning.

''Hey guys...!'' he called out to the whole team of Ravenclaws and Gryffindors ''I do agree with your ideas that disappointing is Carnation, childishness is Freesia and my idea about that hard-to-tell unfavourable is...'' he checked on the book more ''...well we dont have much flowers with negative meanings left here. Orange Lily, Red Spider Lily, Primrose, Yellow Rose, Sweet Pea,, we all know the meaning for those, dont we? Than let's imagine you say someone 'Your behaviour was very unfavourable', what do you feel when you are saying it? Do you feel any 'thing kinda never-to-meet' well, i dont. Do you feel jealous? No, Do you feel like good-bye which is nearly the same with the Red Spider just softer ? You may but you would say goodbye after the so called behaviour, we are describing the behaviour now. We have arrived the point that i find a little bit tricky.'' *cough-cough* '' Primrose and Orange Lily, desperate and hatred. On second thought desperate would be too exaggerated and i doubt anyone'd feel so desperated for a childish behaviour. Then my idea for unfavourable is the Orange Lily. When you say 'That's an unfavourable behaviour', you feel dislike, antipathy towards it.'' he gave them a questioning look ''I know the word hatret is stronger and that revenge near it makes it way stronger but i think that's the best'' smiling at all of them he wrote down his guesses on a parchment.

Childishness : Freesia
Unfavourable : Orange Lily
Dissapponting : Carnation

Abigail nodded her head “I agree with the ideas so far. Are we allowed to put up more than one flower, because true friendship has so many meanings?” She looked down at her notes and decided that ‘never forget’ was going to be the hardest. “Do you think Lotus would be good for ‘never forget’, it means ‘far from the one he loves’ and if your far from your loved ones...well you don’t want to forget them do you?” She looked towards there group leader “Sorry what’s your name?”

"Yea, that's probably the one I'm thinking of." she said, smiling and nodding at the same time.


"Umm, i don't know." she said truthfully, glancing over at the professor. "Far from the one he loves..." she repeated distractedly for a moment, the words not processing through her mind, before finally shaking out of it. "Sure. Sounds like it would fit...Are their any others?"

Why were the words so hard? The other teams words didn't seem as hard as theirs were. Evelyn looked at the board with the sentences on them for a split second before turning back to the Hufflepuff girl. "Evelyn. My name is Evelyn." she said softly, staring straight at her. Wasn't she the girl that was partnered with Josh?

Abigail gave the girl a small smile “I’m Abigail. Listen I’m really sorry about earlier, I wasn’t really thinking, he’d just really annoyed me. I hope I didn’t embarrass you too much.” She hoped that Evelyn would accept her apology; she really wanted to get to know people outside of Hufflepuff.

“What about a pink Rose for ‘true friendship’ it means trust, happiness, and confidence. All of which are part or should be part of a true friendship...at least I think so anyway.”

They were up to a bunch of firsties? No wai. Evan was here too. He quickly jotted down his thoughts while they were talking:
Once he was done, he put his paper in front of them and said "There are my ideas." Listening to the little Hufflepuff girl, he shook his head. "I don't think we have to go too deep into these words. Yes, true friendship includes a pink Rose but... not means directly, see what I mean?" Oh man, where was the traditional divination that just required some creativity and mud of coffee?

"Evelyn, we could also use Hibiscus for kindness. It mean gentle. We can also use Daffodil for True Friend it means respect." Kay answered. She saw that not to many of her house were answering. She hope that they would start soon. "So what do you think?" Kay asked.

Abigail shook her head at the slytherin boy “Just because your friendly doesn’t mean you’re in a true friendship. I’m friendly to allot of people, that doesn’t make them my true friends or me there’s. That’s what I think at least.” Looking at the boy she wondered if he was a first year as well, ‘he doesn’t look any older than the rest of us.’ She thought.

Fred decided to speak cause he had an idea of what the the sentence meant and the floower that reponded to it and said, "I think the sentence is representing jealousy cause think about it. As a child we always want what someone else has and as we get older we realize through our parents teaching us to just be thankful of what we have. Still being jealous of others past childhood is is just acting like a silly child who has'nt learned to appreciate what they have. This behavour could be considered unfavorable because being jealous means always wanting more and never being satisfied which means you'll always be complaining about wanting this and that and never be thankful for what you have which means everything will fall short in you're eyes cause you always want more because someone else has more w, why not me. It's considered disapointing because you're freinds and family love you and they want you to appreciate what you have and just be happy with that, be happy with all they give to you and not always want more cause you want to have what someone else does and it's a vicious cycle cause there is always someone out there who has something you might want but untill realize oyu're freinds and family are all you really need you'll still have that silly child within you. This is why I think the flower of this sentence is the yellow rose which represents jealousy.".

Wow. Celandine and Rafe were both on a roll, hmm? Figuring it'd be nice for her to speak up and lend a helping hand (or at least attempt something), LouAnn glanced down at the page they were meant to be referring to.

"Well, it says here that freesia represents childishness and immaturity," she said, pointing to that section in her textbook. "So I'll agree that one for the first word." After she spoke up, she sank down just a little in her seat. She wasn't, by any standards, what a person would call 'good' in divination. She was a little afraid she'd said something off the wall and completely wrong.

She nodded in the direction of a few Ravenclaws who were suggesting a carnation for disappointment. According to the textbook, that flower was definitely associated with the word 'disappoint'. She had no clue what to suggest for the second word, though. "I agree with the carnation representing 'disappoint', but I don't even know where to begin with that second word," she half-mumbled. "What did you guys just suggest?"

Sklark found this fairly easy. She had studied this in a book. She jotted down her answers:
Childishness:Buttercup
Dissapointment: Yellow carnation
Unfavorable: She was stuck on that one.
I guess- Crysanthemum? She scribbled it down and showed her classmates.

'Jasmine for true friend? Not even close.' Marie thought. "So are you saying that just because someone is friendly to someone else, like say one of their professors, that means they are true friends?" 'Yeah right, like I am going to be true friends with a professor.'
"I do agree about the Forget-Me-Not for never forget. Like Evan said, the name alone is a good reason, however, the meaning of the flower is true love. I have heard that you never forget your true love once you find them so for that reason forget-me-not could mean never forget." 'Who knew divination was going to turn into a debate class' Marie thought as she listened to everyone, including herself try to defend why their choices would be best.