Evelyn had spotted Josh on the other side of the room, and she was just about to wave at him when Rafe started speaking. Turning her attention back to him, she became confused for a moment on what he was talking before she realized he was speaking poetry. Keeping as silent as she could, including trying to hold her breathe, she listened to the words he spoke, mesmerized. When he finished, she couldn't do anything but just sit there. "I-i...umm..." she tried to speak. Clearing her throat, she looked down at the rose in her hands, trying to hide her embarrassed blush. "You know poetry?" Well it was a stupid question with an obvious answer that he already said, but she couldn't think of anything else to say. She loved poetry, but was rarely able to read any at home. It wasn't 'serious' enough for their family, her father and mother used to say. Even now, Evelyn thought that was a lame excuse from her parents.

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Evelyn had spotted Josh on the other side of the room, and she was just about to wave at him when Rafe started speaking. Turning her attention back to him, she became confused for a moment on what he was talking before she realized he was speaking poetry. Keeping as silent as she could, including trying to hold her breathe, she listened to the words he spoke, mesmerized. When he finished, she couldn't do anything but just sit there. "I-i...umm..." she tried to speak. Clearing her throat, she looked down at the rose in her hands, trying to hide her embarrassed blush. "You know poetry?" Well it was a stupid question with an obvious answer that he already said, but she couldn't think of anything else to say. She loved poetry, but was rarely able to read any at home. It wasn't 'serious' enough for their family, her father and mother used to say. Even now, Evelyn thought that was a lame excuse from her parents.

"Yeah well, if I wanted to eat I had to recite it in a foreign language," Rafe said as he tilted his head to the side. "That Shakespeare bloke was pretty interesting." Rafe looked to the professor and waited patiently for the lesson to continue. He didn't want to say much, because he was afraid of getting points taken off for chatter.

Tori chose her three flowers. She picked an Arbor vitae, the dark pink rose and the Daffodil. The flowers she chose were carefully chosen as the professor said they spoke a language that must be deciphered relaying a message. She looked at them with engaging eyes as she waited for Carter to finish his tussie mussie.

Aha. Kaika watched as Jack made his way into flowerland, and took a parchment to write...er, whatever Professor Kapoor told them to...which was?

Oh, of course, if Jack got any flower right.

The yellow poppy. Success, yes but no. Wealth? "That's another meaning of the flower, but wealth is not why I chose it...success on the other hand, that's a yes" but not precisely in that context....she'll explain later.

Quidditch? "Aww, thank you...I don't think I'll follow that career path..but it's nice to know someone thinks I can" she said, with a nod. Being a Quidditch player just like her father was a major NO...for her.

She smiled and nodded. That one he got pretty right. And, yes, she'll make whatever is in her power to lead Hufflepuff into victory...because that would be awesome, right?

Kaika frowned, "It's an oxeye daisy...it ain't yellow...maybe the yellow poppy messed with your eyes, because this one is white, well, it does have a yellow blot..." was that even important? No, "...anyway...it means Patience" she nodded, now it was time to explain the selection...

"See, I chose the flowers, because when placed together they carry the meaning of a simple Quidditch formula..." she started, or at least the Hufflepuff Quidditch formula, anyway, "...patience plus devotion equals success" she smiled, "Easy" and true. Then she wrote 2 marks for the two flowers he got correct...or somewhat correct.

Now...oh, she had to do the same...er, okay.

For whatever the reason, Kaika took the daffodil first...eek! There was definitely a frown in her face, there were so many meanings for daffodils! "Er, so...I'll pass this one..." she'll try to make it out after the other two....Hollyhock's time now, "Ambition...so, there's something you want to achieve, right? And you'll go after it with everything you have" let's hope he's not talking Quidditch.

Another poppy, only this one was white, "Okay...I'm not too sure...but white is Peace...though, I don't think that's what you meant...the flower also means Consolation or Dreams...I'm gonna go with Dreams? Because, we all have dreams to be fulfilled, no?" undecided, as always. It was a good thing she wasn't like that in the Pitch.

"You are a Gryffindor" she stated, much-too-sure of herself, even if it was pretty obvious that he was a Gryffie, however, she was staring most intently at the daffodil, "Of all the meanings this flower has, I choose either Chivalry or Uncertainty" a nod came to the brunette's head, "Because...you may have doubts about the outcome of any situation...or you'll face it like a true Gryffindor" chivalrous, yes?

"Is it Chivalry? Because a Captain cannot be uncertain about anything" yeah, right, look who's talking.

Evelyn had many questions popping up in her mind, and she wanted to ask every single one of them, but for one, there was way too many and she didn't want to overwhelm Rafe, and two, he seemed like he was finished talking for the moment and he fell silent. Sitting still in her seat, she looked over at Josh again and gave him a small wave and smile, hoping he would see it, before examining the rose she picked up.

Carter thought hard before settling on his three flowers. "Alright, I've got mine." he said. "Celandine, Pear Blossom, and Cherry Blossom." he said. "What about yours?"

Tori looked at his three."Here they are." she remarked as she indicated to the Arbor vitae, the Dark Pink Rose and the Daffodil. "Do you wanna go first? I think you should. You're
usually better at this than me."

Kapoor felt a small rhythmic touching on his shoulder and looked to find Zoe there. With a question. "Of course, it's pronounced tŭs'ē mŭs'e. It almost sounds a bit like a character from The Little Red Hen story, doesn't it? And, yes, although some types of flowers may be more abundant than others, I did my best to make sure that the ones on the list were present for use in today's lesson."

"Excellent!" He exclaimed looked at that sweet, tiny bouquet. "Now hand it over to Miss Beaumont so that she may inter..." He didn't bother to finish as the girls seemed to have gotten the hang of it.

"Correct." He said, leaving the girls to try their hand at interpreting the little collection of flowers confident that they would do just fine.




"Alright. Now, have you all got your tussie mussies made and your interpretations recorded on parchment? For those of you who have completed it, feel free to turn it in. Place them on my desk please and don't worry if you haven't finished yet or didn't get a partner, you can still turn it in." He gave the official 'Last Call' to the class as he grabbed an empty table and began putting down more flowers, but different, more exotic varieties from the east.

‘An Auror...why am I not surprised and do I have pureblood written on my forehead or something.’ She nodded her head “I know what a police officer is, don’t worry about it.” She’d had enough dealings with them in the past, and it wasn’t in a good way. They weren’t the most helpful of people in the world, but then again that might just have been the ones she’d met. They can’t all be like that...right?

She stood up from her seat after the professor had finished speaking “So...aren’t any of your friends in this class that you ended up paired with me?” She asked as she picked up there tussie mussie’s and interpretations, and took them over to the professor as he instructed, before moving back to their table and sitting down.

Cedric sighed, looking relieved as he found a partner cause he can't do this activity alone, of course. "That's great.. I'm Cedric." he smirked as he offered her his hand before they proceeded to do their tussie mussie. Then the girl just handed him her tussie mussie. So he definately give the girl his tussie mussie too. "Here's mine." he smiled reluctantly as he handed her his tussie mussie composed of Hibiscus, Crysanthemum and Roses.

Michelle looked around the room frantically. So long, some groups had already finished their job. She was the only one without a partner. Great, now who was left? No one. A big NO ONE! How was she to work by herself? `Umm, does anyone still need a partner? I am without one, if you want a partner? Anyone?' she spoke desperately. She had to pair up with someone quickly.

Matheu worked hard, even though he didn't have a partner to work with. He managed to get his tussie mussie completed by the time they had to turn them in. He picked 3 flowers that intersted him the most:

1) Peach Blossom - long-life
2) Thyme - Thriftiness
3) Blue Violet - Faithfulness

He walked up to the professor's desk and laid his parchment (with his name, year, and house) on the pile and went back to his table.

Lyra sat down on her chair too after seeing Kiri pulling up a chair and stared with open mouth at her small bouquet. When had she done that? did they had to make one earlier in the lesson? 'Lyra next time pay attention'. She looked around and saw the flowers laying on a table. She stood up from her chair saying a "Be right back" and walked away, carefully avoiding to look at Evan.

Looking at the flowers in front of her, Lyra picked the once that she felt drawn too. How odd that may sound. After finishing her bouquet she walked back to Kiri again and sat down, smiling. Lyra placed her bouquet on the table and pointed at the flowers. "Right, so i picked the once that i liked..eh."

She showed the bouquet which contained a Yellow Rose - Rue - Daffodil - hollyhock - and she had found a rose that had no thorns on it which she had picked up too. "It's not the worlds greatest bouquet but i think it will do" she smiled.

Chelle watched as another boy walked over to Professor Kapoor's desk and turned in his tussie mussie. She walke dover to him and said,` Hey, I'm Chelle. I don't have a partner yet, but I need one. I saw you turn your tussie mussie in, but I didn't see your partner. I was just wondering if... maybe, you'd like to be my partner and do anther tussie mussie? Or you can back out... whatever's okay with you!' She was pretty nervous as the boy had already given his work.

Kiri watched Lyra pick out the flowers, idly playing with the bouquet in her hand and... Ouch! She hastily withdrew her finger. A tiny drop of blood was visible. Grumbling to herself - she'd pricked her finger on the rose in her arrangement, of course - Kiri sucked on the finger until the other girl returned.

"Alright, then," she said with a glance at the flowers. "I'll go first?" Kiri picked up her heavy Divination textbook. "I, er, I'm not very good at Divination and stuff like that, though," she told Lyra conversationally, flipping through the pages to find the chapter on Floriomancy. "To me stars are just big balls of burning plasma. Oh, here we are." She alternated between looking at the flowers in Lyra's bouquet and the list of possible meanings in the textbook.

After just a few seconds, Kiri almost wanted to throw the book down. Arithmancy still sort of made sense to her, but she was lost in Divination. She tried, anyway.
"Well, let's see..." she murmured. "Yellow rose means friendship, but it can also mean, er, jealousy?" She peeked at the young girl a little embarrassedly. "Rue means regret, hollyhock means ambition, and the daffodil stands for, er, uncertainty, respect or... unrequited love? How come it can mean so many different things at once?" she asked frustratedly.

"Say, you're not, um... interested in someone? Who's a friend? And it'd be your ambition to, er... make him your boyfriend?" Kiri blushed slightly as she randomly added the different flowers together.

"Magenta" she replied, returning Cedric's handshake. After glancing hesitantly towards the professor who'd just given his final tussie mussie call, she took the boys creation from his hand and examined it. "Uh..." she didn't even know the names of the flowers. She grabbed her text book and flicked to the page that contained the table of flowers and their meanings.

"Ok, This is a ah...Hibiscus and that means....'rare beauty'. This one here is and cry-zan-thum-um-um? no Crysanthemum which means 'I love'. Annnd this one here is a rose! That means...oh wait that has a number of meanings but I'm gonna guess this one symbolises eternal love?". Magenta stared at the tussie mussie in utter confusion. "You're in love with a rare beauty? Eternally in love with a rare beauty?" she asked, her tone full of doubt at the prospect of this prediction being even remotely correct

Lyra snickered slightly when Kiri said she wasn't good at the subject. "That makes two, i mean, how can flowers tell something about us?" Lyra answered back and grinned a little. She watched how Kiri grabbed her Divination book and started to flip through the pages.

Finally after some muttering and Lyra noticed that Kiri had wanted to slam the book shut, the girl finally found the chapter. Lyra listened to what she was saying and with each word her mouth dropped open more. She stared at Kiri in disbelieve and grabbed her own Divination book. Lyra flipped through its pages and found the flowers quickly and read through them. She looked up at Kiri again with huge eyes. "How does this book..i mean how do these flowers say anything...never mind" she muttered and looked at Evan sitting on the other side of the class.

She sighed heavily and nodded at Kiri's prediction. Deciding to tell Kiri what had happened so far, the second year Slytherin looked down at her hands which where suddenly very interesting. "Uhm, well yes" she began and looked up. "Y-you see that guy over there" she nodded slightly towards Evan , afraid that if she pointed at him he would see it. "Well, he's my friend...i think... eh, we met in Diagon Alley before school started , he knocked me on the ground is more like it" she giggled , remembering the scene. "we shopped together and bought a few icecreams. I really liked him and i had found some time ago that he liked me too but" there was a awkward pause. It was so weird talking about this "He also likes another girl named Fallon and ..well i have jealousy problems according to him" she sighed heavily and pouted her lip "I..i uhm, i attacked another Slytherin girl when i saw Evan together with her..i didn't know they were just friends because she had her head on his shoulder..It wasn't Fallon , it was another girl" she said carefully not saying Shana's name. What if Kiri knew Shana or worse what if she was a friend of her? "yes i do regret what i've done and i've said a apology to the girl but she wouldn't listen.."

Better not tell her that she had also slapped Evan a few times now, which, in Lyra's mind where is own fault. The slap on the train with the flyer was because he had walked away during her talking and the other slap was because he had used a Not Ministry approved spell on her in a corridor. And she had beaten him in a duel in the Dueling Arena.

Alright, so now that Lyra had opened up her (according to Shana) cold-heart to someone she had only met twice and she had to admit it felt good , she looked at Kiri and pointed at her bouquet. "Eh, shall i tell something about your flowers?" cue giggle, that sounded so stupid.

"Oh, thank you. It is a very funny term. Do you know what the term is derived from?" Zoe was always a curious child and having all of these new subjects to study hadn't seemed to quench her thirst for knowledge yet. "It certainly makes for a pleasant smelling lesson," she said smiling up.

'What was this question now?' Josh thought a little bit taken aback. The wall she built before her was sure hard to break through 'But not enough for me to break through, if i wanted to do so.' He smiled to himself. He did not know what the source for his confidence was but he really liked it. Except that hard wall of hers, Abigail seemed to be a nice person after all. Speaking with her did not feel fake like it felt when he did with that Evan boy.

He was about to reply her question opening his mouth when he spotted Rose waving at him. It was good to know that she realised him there though he knew it was nearly impossible for others not to realise him. She was holding a scarlet rose which made him grin. For sure she was good at this tussie mussie fussie dussie thing as well. And Rafe... he glanced at him for a second right before looking back at Rose as he waved back at her. ''Hey!'' he called out, picked up one of his flowers (Daffodil) showing her and turned back to Abigail.

''Hold on a moment'' he completed taking notes on his tussie mussie interpreting and quickly handed it to the professor, getting back. ''C'moon!'' he told Abigail and leaned on the desk ''Do you really think i chose you because there were no other choices? That's mean, so i hope you do not''

While Jack was waiting for his partner to read his bouquet, he made a few notes on his choices.

Nataly listened to Samson's guess. Pretty? She didn't think about that. He made her message to sound very complicated. Maybe it was difficult and she didn't notice? Or maybe it was because the cherry blossom had three meanings?
"My meaning was much simpler, though your guess is partly true-Hogwarts gives a good education, and I'm famous because my family are rich pureblood snobs." at this she frowned, remembering how her parents treated her, like a golden doll without her own will. Of course, she didn't mention about the 'pretty' part-what girl would have the brains to admit to someone she's pretty? But she still mentioned to herself it was a true guess, smirking. "I wanted to say that with the good education Hogwarts gives, you can welcome fame. I give you a point." she smiled at him, and written on her parchment:
Then she took Samson's group of flowers, examining it. Pink Carnation, dark pink Rose and Arbor Vitae. She searched the meanings of these flowers in her heavy divination book.
"Pink Carnation means a woman's love, dark pink rose means gratitude and everlasting friendship." That was a confusing meaning. Nataly started thinking fast.
"Er.. You have a female friend that loves you, she's your best friend and you're grateful for that?" Nataly asked. She hoped she would get at least one point, but probably she guessed it all wrong. She felt it was total nonsense.

Carter heard the professor's announcement. "Alright, I'll make this quick." he said. "Let's see, Arbor vitae, that means everlasting friendship. A dark pink rose, that's gratitude. And the daffodil is unrequited love." he said with a laugh. "Just kidding, chivalry. Aww, Tori, are you thanking me for being your friend and talking with you about, well, you know." he said with a happy smile.

Abigail watched as Josh had a silent conversation with a girl at another table and smile. ‘A daffodil...so this is the unrequited love then!’ she giggled then quickly stopped before looking around herself to make sure no one ells had heard. ‘Giggling! What am I 11...Oh yea.’ She always forgot that giggling was something that 11 year old girls usually did.

Looking over at the girl she realised she was quite pretty. “She’s pretty” she said quietly to Josh. “What makes you think your lo..crush is unrequited?” It couldn’t’ be love after all, he was only 11.

She shook her head at his own question “I didn’t mean it like that. I only wanted to know if any of your friend’s were in the class.” She tipped her head in the girls direction “Obviously they are. But let’s be honest you wouldn’t be sitting here if I hadn’t have announced too the whole class that I needed a partner.”

Sara looked around the room for a partner. She wondered if she should just sit back down and do her own tussie mussie. Figuring she'd just fly by the seat of her pants... she went to find three flowers for her tussie mussie...

Sara came back to her seat with a white lily, purple lilacs and apple blossoms... all of her favourites... now, for a partner...

Still seeing no one, Sara started to look up her flowers' meaning herself. White lily... purity, Purple lilacs... first emotions of love, and pink apple blossoms... preference!

"Merlin's Beard!" Sara thought to herself "this was not looking good!" Sara blushed, as she continued writing...

Sara looked up when the Professor called for their work to be handed in... Quickly she wrote her name, house and year on the piece of parchment, and then, she walked her work up to the profs desk and placed it on the growing pile.

Sara sat back down.

Josh coughed. Girls were amazing at taking the signs of emotions. He stared at the daffodil wondering if it was too obvious for the whole class or just for Abigail. He nodded as she mentioned that Rose was pretty. ''Yeah, i do agree'' he said since resisting or ignoring the truth was not something a person like him would do. ''Well... i said i was not sure about it but just look at her...'' he did a little indicate with his nose towards her ''...she's from one of that all pure and proud Slytherin families. Don't get the impression that i'm scared of them but you know she might not want to get in trouble with her parents just for a plain Gryffindor with a muggle dad and a blood traitor mom'' he replied '' I just dont want her to get...stressed and unhappy because of me'' he sighed than smiled at Abigail ''You dont have to keep it as secret and, yes, i might not be sitting here if you had not announced that you needed a partner since i have not learned how to read minds yet''