Tavelon arched his eyebrows, quite surprised. He was hesitant to respond, as he had already seemed to have gotten off on the wrong foot with Bunz. But still- even small devil's snare size of a potted plant had killed people before. Raising his hand slowly, he answered "Well, it's sort of slimy... It likes darkness... and damp, too. And if you touch it and struggle it will try to strangle you." It was a pretty simple response, but then again those were it's prominent features. What more did one need to know about a heap of vines that strangles people?

"Erm... Professor, what does Devil's Snare do with it's victims? Once they're strangled, I mean.... what's the point? Is it just sadistic that way?"

Bunbury was clearly out of her mind, and this class was completely ridiculous.

She'd never need to deal with plants in the future -because Willow had no intention of having a garden when she got her own place-, therefore, this class was useless to her. Why had she decided to continue on it again? Oh, right - she hadn't; father had. Gotcha.

... And what was the question again? Oh, right. Those ... things. That strangled people if you overreacted and flailed your head off at it. Or something or the other. How the hell had she gotten an E at her Herbology OWL again? "I suppose that if you start to panic and move around like a mentally ill-person, the Devil's Snaer will feel threatened and will do anything on its power to protect itself by trying to strangle you." Drawled the girl with her hand in the air and an apathetic expression on her face, "So I'm guessing that it can indeed do that, they are probably physically soft, smooth, and perhaps more than a little flexible, too. It also looks a little bit ... slimmy." Gross. Keep that thing away from me.

She wrinkled her nose.

Jake, who had watched the spectacle in silence, an old shadow of him forcing its way out, raised his hand. "You don't know what it could be... not really. Could just be a potted plant one might keep in their office."

Teehee.

But, one more look at the plants, and the colour drained from Jake's face as he seemed to have an internal battle with not-Jake. "Sometime... yer hafta... You have to panic, because... 'cause, lllllike... yer can't cuh-cuh-control p-p-panic..." Jake shook his head. GAH! Weakling; Jake was disgusted... so scared. "It just can't be helped. Especially when you're cowering before someone who forces you to sit on it..."

Tsk, tsk.

This woman, WAS INSANE. As Tammy sat, silent in awe of the madness that Bunbury was committing infront of them, she sighed. Okay, so she should have known the answers to these questions, but her brain was having a blank. Simple. Blank brain, because there was no wand.

Quickly glancing over towards the pile of wands, she chuckled softly, that little pinkish tinge of wood in her wand. She could see it, somehow. Maybe not. Stupid 10 inch rosewood and unicorn hair wand. PINK? Pink tinge?

Chris watched as Professor Bunbury plunged her hands into the Devil's Snare and the supposed Flitterbloom. It turned out they were both Devil's snare. Trick question. He wasn't as worried as some of the other students in the class. She was the Herbology professor right, She knew what she was doing.

He smiled brightly when she calmly had the plants release her without any trouble and then raised his hand to answer her question. "Well like you said Devil's Snare attacks when it feels threatened. So a vital lesson to learn in Herbology is to not threaten or harm plants and to be intelligent enough to not do so. But it would also be good to learn the characteristics of said dangerous plants and avoid them if necessary."

"But... but..."

Samson wasn't even going to argue, but he was still reluctant about leaving his wand. What if she never gave them back? He LOVED his wand. Meh.

As he watched the lesson transpire, and the rather unconvincing Devil Snare stunt the professor pulled, he found that they were in more need of wands than the plants were in danger of them. Hmph. It was most certain and most obvious that these plants in Greenhouse Four were the potential harmfuls. And yet, Professor Bunbury treated them like her own children. Figures.

Still, he had to participate. He wasn't going to lose his wand over nothing. "Devil Snare has a bigger chance to try to wrap their greedy tentacles around you if you struggle while in them. And to panic would not be a wise idea since... Oh, I dunno. The plants might get hurt? They've... what? Got feelings, too?" He hadn't meant to be sarcastic, but they were the exact things he was thinking right now.

Perhaps he should have been a bit more discreet?

Blink.

BlinkBlink.

No.

Abigail had to stop herself from rolling her eyes at the professor, and give her a sarcastic answer. ‘Of course it accepted the chocolate why would I mention it if it hadn’t? And its chocolate, what living thing didn’t like chocolate? Hufflepuff, Abigail, you’re a Hufflepuff...they’re not sarcastic, and they defiantly don’t role there eye’s at professors!’

Instead she smiled and nodded her head “Yes, it liked the chocolate.”

Abigail pressed her lips together to stop herself from laughing at the professor’s display with the small plants, she had a feeling it wasn’t meant to be funny. No one else seemed to see the funny side though; in fact some of them seemed to be taking it a bit too seriously. Really you just have to keep calm around devil’s snare and you’ll be fine.

“Devil’s snare is vine like isn’t it? And you have to be calm because if you’re calm the plants calm, and has no reason to be worried about you.”

Oh no, she needs to put them lids back on right now!
This woman was off her rocker, putting her hands so close to them.. now she is touching them, and now they are wrapping around her, and now she is screaming..

Destiny sat there with her hands over her mouth. She didn't know what to do. All she could do was watch as this crazy lady was being attacked by crazy plants. If only she had her wand! She thought of running up to the bin to grab hers and put these plants out of their misery, but then the professor was calm? And the plants are unwrapping themselves?
Destiny felt a rush of relief. No worries, no worries.

'Not panic around plants? How about we just stay away from all plants?'

"Yes these samples were both Devil's Snare and yes yes yes, it feeds off your panic. And then it feeds on you." Bunbury nodded finally at the class. Now they were getting it.

"As some of you have pointed out, the plant does indeed have something of a sense of touch, which is one way it differs from Flitterbloom. Devil's Snare is much more complex, and like we mentioned, it is immobile until provoked and flinches away from light and heat. To answer your quest--," she started to say, looking at Rafe...

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Evelyn's heart started to race when the professor took the coverings off each plant. 'No no no don't do that.' Preparing to stand up and run if necessary, she forgot all about the wands in the bin and kept her eyes glued to each plant. Slowly, she saw the professor lower her hands to each plant 'Keep breathing Ev.' and even lower until suddenly both plants started to tangle around her hands! AH!

Jumping up and backwards, slamming slightly into the table behind her, she tried to scoot away as much as she could without bringing attention to herself. "Both devil's snare. Both dangerous. Both there. Both in here. With me!" she rambled on quietly to herself, still scooting to the back of the room. What was even worse was that the professor started to yell too. Not good for Evelyn. Finally, without moving her eyes from the two plants, which were safely and NOT MOVING on the table, she sat down in the nearest seat, not even looking to see who she was sitting next to.

'Stupid devil's snare. Shouldn't even exist!' she thought, glaring at the plants and trying to calm herself down so she didn't look even more like an idiot. 'And the professor has my wand! ARGH! Can't even do anything about it.'

"Do you have a question?" Bunbury interrupted herself when she noticed that.... weirdly-attached-to-her-wand Slytherin reacting melodramatically and sitting back down for some reason. Hmmkay. Possessed child #4 or whatever number they were up to by now.

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Rafe laughed at Professor Bunbury's little act. He even clapped at the end of the performance.

"Well, if we're just calm around both plants, then we have nothing to worry about right?" Rafe said as he stepped closer. "When you get in a panic, that's when the Devil's Snare will kill you. So, basically, if you remain calm the plant will. Struggling will cause the plant to constrict more." Plants weren't exactly his strong suit, but the deadlier the more interesting. "So are we going to test are calming abilities? Let the tentacles wrap around us and we have to try and not panic?" That definitely sounded fun. This class was getting more and more interesting. "Is that why you have our wands? To test our skills without magic?"

"Anyway," she looked back at the class and picked up an 11 and 1/2'' willow wand with an aethonon hair core. Bunbury twirled it around her hand again and winked evilly at Rafe. "Perhaps we will be testing your skills without magic. Maybe someday you'll see that you won't always have your wand..." like she herself didn't at the moment, "and that there are better subjects to study than silly Charms and Transfiguration and things."

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"Welll professor, Flitterbloom sways around even when there isn't anything nearby, while the Devils Snare is dormant unless provoked." Celandine answered, having watched the demonstration with great interest.

Hand still up she added, "See the Devils Snare isn't a bad plant, it isn't even a predator really, it doesn't really hunt, it just takes advantage of prey that is stupid enough to go crazy around it and react instead of think. Also, the environment the two plants grow in is different, aside from the light and heat thing, the Devils Snare totally prefers a dark and damp environment, while the Flitterbloom is more like a mundane plant in the sense that it likes light and air and stuff."

See, again, Cela had it right. "Might I emphasize," she stated loudly, looking at Herminny, "that you will NOT DIE unless you completely and totally lose your head around this plant? Did I emphasize that enough yet?"

Bunbury cleared her throat and nodded at the Ravenclaw. "Thank you, Miss Toussaint. See, flitterbloom is commonly found in wizarding homes because like the flutterby bush, it likes to move around and wave like there is an invisible breeze."

And it was kind of cool to freak your uneducated guests out by letting them think that they had just sat down next to a potted Snare....hehehh...

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Tavelon arched his eyebrows, quite surprised. He was hesitant to respond, as he had already seemed to have gotten off on the wrong foot with Bunz. But still- even small devil's snare size of a potted plant had killed people before. Raising his hand slowly, he answered "Well, it's sort of slimy... It likes darkness... and damp, too. And if you touch it and struggle it will try to strangle you." It was a pretty simple response, but then again those were it's prominent features. What more did one need to know about a heap of vines that strangles people?

"Erm... Professor, what does Devil's Snare do with it's victims? Once they're strangled, I mean.... what's the point? Is it just sadistic that way?"

"Good question," she stalled, tapping her new wand in her hand as she thought of an answer for the Hufflepuff. "I've never actually seen anyone ah... be devoured completely by a bit of Devil's Snare because as I mentioned, it's easy to either escape from the plant or to kill it off entirely with a fire spell."

Bunz bit her lip and then shrugged. "But even if it did strangle people and then uh, digest them, that doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad plant. Perhaps, as the theory of Social Darwinism states," they could look that one up, "the world is better off without people who are stupid enough to be strangled by Devil's Snare."

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Jake, who had watched the spectacle in silence, an old shadow of him forcing its way out, raised his hand. "You don't know what it could be... not really. Could just be a potted plant one might keep in their office."

Teehee.

But, one more look at the plants, and the colour drained from Jake's face as he seemed to have an internal battle with not-Jake. "Sometime... yer hafta... You have to panic, because... 'cause, lllllike... yer can't cuh-cuh-control p-p-panic..." Jake shook his head. GAH! Weakling; Jake was disgusted... so scared. "It just can't be helped. Especially when you're cowering before someone who forces you to sit on it..."

Tsk, tsk.

And look, there was one half-strangled example right there. Bunz blinked owlishly at Jake's first answer but before she had a chance to puzzle it out all the way, he was back to his usual stuttering self.

"You can control panic, Jake," she tried to explain in a quiet tone, unless you happened to be afraid of ghosts, because that was the obvious exception to the rule, "but I don't think you will be able to learn that lesson from me."

She sighed and stared down at whoever's wand this was while a few more students ratttled off answers.


"Yes, yes, points to all who answered intelligently. Plants do have feelings. And they will get offended and defend themselves if you flail about and lose your cool."

Bunbury walked to the side of the desks where the usual jungle of plants began. "Now, I would like to offer you an opportunity to observe a larger quantity of Devil's Snare and test yourself against it if you think you have the nerve AND the composure."

She stuck her nose up slightly and stared around at them all. "As you might have noticed between the two samples from earlier, some varieties of Devil's Snare are more tame and smooth. The older, more archaic and powerful varieties may be rougher and a bit prickly. I happen to have a very rare, most ancient and noble specimen in the back should you care to observe the plant."

And thus the professor turned on her heel and led the way to the darkest, most shady and shifty corner of the greenhouse where the mass of vine rested, almost untouched since its last encounter with a student.

Josh watched professor looking quite uninterested just like he was watching a documentary about muggles.'They feeded on us?' Come and see the name : Devil's Snare and it did not even attemp to kill, just some little red spots. Was that the plant that everyone was fussing about? ''Ahh yess, so terrifying. I have just wet myself'' he whispered to the student sitting next to him and laughed.

One he was still again he stood up when Professor Bunbury has asked for someone with nerve ''I can try Professor'' he jumped on his feet quickly ''I'd love to make the Devil's Snare, Devil's Whine. What do you think?''

Fia turned around to watch the professor make her way towards the back of the greenhouse. She said the plant was ancient and noble and therefore Fia wondered if the professor grew it herself? Deciding that she'd already been mean enough, she watched momentarily not wanting to get any closer to the plant by any means.

Evelyn shook her head no, not being able to speak at the moment. She was still a little 'traumatized' with the little 'deadly' snare. It was way too close to her. 'Stupid snare.' Why was she so scared of it? Well, she didn't know...she just was. 'I'd rather have a million detentions, lose all the house points, actually be in the same room as my parents...than to touch that plant. Or come into five feet of it.' she thought, wringing her hands together slightly.

Did the professor say she had an even bigger snare? Where?! The color drained from Evelyn's face when the professor started walking towards the back of the room. Where she was. To the corner. Where she was. Walking towards a plant, that was right next to her! "That...that...that..." stuttering and pointing to the large plant she was practically almost sittING ON (though it was more like twenty feet away), Evelyn jumped up again and moved hurriedly towards the front of the room. 'I was that close. I could've been killed.' Breathing in deeply, and almost hyperventilating, 'Yea, way to be strong Ev.' she leaned back on a desk and tried to keep herself normal looking as possible. 'Pfft, like that was working.'

... That woman... was a maniac. A cannibalistic maniac. That's what she was. Shoving both her hands into Devil's Snare. Sure, Devil's Snare wasn't actually as dangerous as everyone thought it was. Ohhh... big and scawweh. It's gonna EATCHU! No. No. That was just stupid. But still... was that woman INSANE?! Yes. Yes. Yes she was.

Livvy was prepared to yank the Professor's arms from those creepy vines in case it was needed. But the Professor pulled out her arms, calmly, as if nothing had happened. Insane. Totally.

She raised her hand into her air, "Yeaahhh... plants are like animals and humans. They've got feelings all right. Flailing about around a plant is like telling someone they're fat. And that's not cool. If you flail around, of course the plant's going to feel threatened. How would you feel if some random person was running towards you, flailing your arms at you? Would you slap? Or give 'em a hug? Same with animals. If ya poke a lion... they'll bite. If you let 'em be and respect them, they're not going to eat you."

Livvy then listened to the Professor's next instructions. Test themselves? Like literally offer themselves to the Devil's Snare? Silly Livvy. They weren't going to eat her hands off. She watched as the Professor walked towards a dark corner and gestured towards where a pot of creepy and ancient vines laid. That sounded mean. CORRECTION. Where a pot of lovely Devil's Snare laid.

"No you can't. Look it up. You can't," Jake replied, as quietly as he could so that Bunz could still hear. "We'll see..." You just can't.

As the woman led the way to the back of the greenhouse, Jake froze, hovering somewhere between the odd Jake and the normalish Jake, before following on. He stopped by the tub of wands for a few seconds before plunging his hand in and grabbing hold of his own wand (because you just KNOW which one is yours) and shoving it back into his pocket, keeping one hand on it.

Pushing his way to the front, Jake stood quietly and stared at the plant, starting to shake a little. He made up his mind... if that thing came ANYWHERE near him, he'd blast it to Nuremburg.

Interesting, quite interesting. Eyes on Professor Bunbury [you could never what the woman might do!], Fyo was all attention. Suuuure, he felt pretty stuuupid right now [he couldn't even think of proper answers, UGGH], but it was good to hear her voice, all the same. She seemed to know what she was talking about and, she-devil though she might be, the "YUS! I know and you don't, you little THING!" tones comforted him.

WAIT A SECOND. A test? So they were up against the Devil's Snare now, or something like that? That was... pretty evil and cool! Fyo followed the she-devil, Professor Bunbury, rather cheerful.

Did Destiny hear correctly? She had a bigger plant over there? And now her eyes are playing tricks on her. She couldn't be on her way to fetch it, could she?

Cleaning her glasses and throwing them quickly on her face, Destiny realized this was no joke. 'Umm, professsssooooor? I don't wanna touch it!' There. She had told her.

Looking over to Evelyn, who seemed to be playing musical chairs, Destiny gave her a small smile. She looked more scared than herself.
See!? Destiny wasn't crazy. This plant was scary!

She wanted her wand back!

Herminny felt willing to have a go with the devils snare cause she knew that as long as she did'nt panic she would be fine. It would be a test of will and trust that she was pretty sure she could handle and raised her hand and said, " I'll have a go with the devils snare cause I trust if I treat the plant with respect and not panic scaring the plant to react violently I should be alright cause you'll be right here to save me.".

Tavelon definitely wanted to try that out. Somewhat dangerous... sorta... Almost like the time he tried rappelling. The key would probably be to forget the fact that you're falling backwards off a cliff, or in this case, being attacked by a plant. Stay calm and it'd be fun.

So Tavelon followed professor Bunbury. "Professor, erm, not to prolong the point, but Devil's Snare should be somewhat dangerous because of it's reputation. I read someone was found strangled while they were sleeping or something. Which would also mean that they don't eat people... Right?" Carnivorous plants... ehh.... "And even if it was for social darwinism, don't you think he plant should have some benefit provided to itself?" He paused, realizing how much talking he was doing. Yep, Tavelon was full of questions today. Too bad 'Philosopher' wasn't a paying job.

Jack looked around at all the people panicking about the challenge in front of them. Hadn't they JUST gone over how easy it was to get rid of a Devil's Snare? Just stay calm! It wasn't that hard. Plus, no matter how heartless Bunz SEEMED to be, did they REALLY think she would just let the plant strangle them to death? Of course not! She was a professor! It was part of her job description to protect her students.

"Come on guys, Bunbury won't let the thing kill us," he said to the people sitting around him before standing up and heading to the corner where she stood.

Once they were done with this lesson, Jack would be able to tell everyone that he had tackled and survived a Devil's Snare...he'd be SO COOL!

. . .

At least she had a reason to back up her absences from Herbology now. The sixth year had never felt more stupid in her WHOLE life - and that included the time when *censored - WAAAAY too stupid*. So yeah; she wasn't feeling very good about herself right at this moment. She had spent the whole lesson staring blankly at Bunbury's hair - it was the only shiny thing in the room - while trying unsuccessfully to listen and comprehend what they class was actually about.

Feelings? Plants? Devil's Snare... SUICIDAL HERBOLOGY PROFESSOR - ohwait, she was also insane too.

There was NO WAY Rachel was going anywhere near that creepy vine thing. Just the NAME made her want to flee the vicinity... Looking over at the captain of the Gryffindor Quidditch team as he made his announcement, she couldn't help but snort. Right. Like THAT was supposed to encourage her.

She stayed back. WAY back.

Emily frowned... just for a change. Why would anyone be stupid enough to keep Devil's Snare in a pot next to their bed? If you were to have a bad dream and start flailing you were just asking for trouble. She rolled her eyes and tutted, getting impatient with the lesson and to her horror, she seemed to be feeding off the vibes Bunbury was giving out. But.. she did agree with what the woman saying – if the human race were to evolve into something better then the world WAS better off without people who slept beside Devil's Snare. Idiots.

She stood and followed behind the Gryffindor Quidditch Captain fascinated to see the ancient plant. If it attacked the little Slytherin then she would get her dad to sue the designer boots off the professor. She got up on her tiptoes, being so small, it was hard to see over the heads of the the giants who insisted on standing in front of her.

Fia looked back to the Gryffindor boy that she met in the staff lounge for the Quill stuffage. Was he seriously thinking that the Herbology snooty woman wasn't going to let the plant kill them? "Well, they let werewolves in the school and THIS professor did take all of your wands? Correct? And...now she wants us to play with a dangerous plant that you have to stay calm around? Nope! No thanks!"

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Josh watched professor looking quite uninterested just like he was watching a documentary about muggles.'They feeded on us?' Come and see the name : Devil's Snare and it did not even attemp to kill, just some little red spots. Was that the plant that everyone was fussing about? ''Ahh yess, so terrifying. I have just wet myself'' he whispered to the student sitting next to him and laughed.

One he was still again he stood up when Professor Bunbury has asked for someone with nerve ''I can try Professor'' he jumped on his feet quickly ''I'd love to make the Devil's Snare, Devil's Whine. What do you think?''

Bunbury tsk-tsked under her breath but calmly beckoned the Gryffindor closer to the giant plant. So he thought he could dance... er... fend off Devil's Snare, did he?

"You'll be first," she nodded at the boy. "But remember, with your class as your witness, I EDUCATED all of you on the potential pitfalls of what happens when you don't respect plants. I warned you, Mr. Carter."

She flicked an invisible speck of dust off her robes and gestured toward the springy plant with her stolen borrowed student wand. "Do not sit on it, do not bite it, do not fight it. You may stick your arm out and flail it about, just to see how the plant reacts, but only your arm. NOTHING FURTHER, do you understand?"

Bunz was not that confident in her students that a repeat of that demonic detention wouldn't occur. She was playing it safe. For now.

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Evelyn shook her head no, not being able to speak at the moment. She was still a little 'traumatized' with the little 'deadly' snare. It was way too close to her. 'Stupid snare.' Why was she so scared of it? Well, she didn't know...she just was. 'I'd rather have a million detentions, lose all the house points, actually be in the same room as my parents...than to touch that plant. Or come into five feet of it.' she thought, wringing her hands together slightly.

Did the professor say she had an even bigger snare? Where?! The color drained from Evelyn's face when the professor started walking towards the back of the room. Where she was. To the corner. Where she was. Walking towards a plant, that was right next to her! "That...that...that..." stuttering and pointing to the large plant she was practically almost sittING ON (though it was more like twenty feet away), Evelyn jumped up again and moved hurriedly towards the front of the room. 'I was that close. I could've been killed.' Breathing in deeply, and almost hyperventilating, 'Yea, way to be strong Ev.' she leaned back on a desk and tried to keep herself normal looking as possible. 'Pfft, like that was working.'

"That that that is called Devil's Snare," Bunz calmly glanced over her shoulder and blinked at the Slytherin. "Have you had a bad experience with this plant in the past, dear?"

Maybe she could swap stories with Jake.

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"No you can't. Look it up. You can't," Jake replied, as quietly as he could so that Bunz could still hear. "We'll see..." You just can't.

As the woman led the way to the back of the greenhouse, Jake froze, hovering somewhere between the odd Jake and the normalish Jake, before following on. He stopped by the tub of wands for a few seconds before plunging his hand in and grabbing hold of his own wand (because you just KNOW which one is yours) and shoving it back into his pocket, keeping one hand on it.

Pushing his way to the front, Jake stood quietly and stared at the plant, starting to shake a little. He made up his mind... if that thing came ANYWHERE near him, he'd blast it to Nuremburg.

And speak of the devil... out of the corner of her eye, Bunbury saw Jake make a movement toward the tub of wands.

"NO YEH DON'T!" she shouted, casting a nonverbal disarming spell at the Hufflepuff. The wand zoomed out of his hand and Anastasia caught it neatly with her left. Ha. TAKE THAT. She was so proud of herself for noticing.

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Did Destiny hear correctly? She had a bigger plant over there? And now her eyes are playing tricks on her. She couldn't be on her way to fetch it, could she?

Cleaning her glasses and throwing them quickly on her face, Destiny realized this was no joke. 'Umm, professsssooooor? I don't wanna touch it!' There. She had told her.

Looking over to Evelyn, who seemed to be playing musical chairs, Destiny gave her a small smile. She looked more scared than herself.
See!? Destiny wasn't crazy. This plant was scary!

She wanted her wand back!

"That's quite all right," Bunz breathed through her nose, resisting the urge to roll her eyes yet again. "I only want you all to observe, see."

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Herminny felt willing to have a go with the devils snare cause she knew that as long as she did'nt panic she would be fine. It would be a test of will and trust that she was pretty sure she could handle and raised her hand and said, " I'll have a go with the devils snare cause I trust if I treat the plant with respect and not panic scaring the plant to react violently I should be alright cause you'll be right here to save me.".

"Hmm...." Bunbury drawled, flicking her eyes to Herminny and then back to the plant. Wasn't it nice that the girl thought she would save her? Aww. A vote of confidence for Annie.

"We'll see, Herminny."

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Tavelon definitely wanted to try that out. Somewhat dangerous... sorta... Almost like the time he tried rappelling. The key would probably be to forget the fact that you're falling backwards off a cliff, or in this case, being attacked by a plant. Stay calm and it'd be fun.

So Tavelon followed professor Bunbury. "Professor, erm, not to prolong the point, but Devil's Snare should be somewhat dangerous because of it's reputation. I read someone was found strangled while they were sleeping or something. Which would also mean that they don't eat people... Right?" Carnivorous plants... ehh.... "And even if it was for social darwinism, don't you think he plant should have some benefit provided to itself?" He paused, realizing how much talking he was doing. Yep, Tavelon was full of questions today. Too bad 'Philosopher' wasn't a paying job.

Oh geeeee it was only a matter of time before someone brought up Broderick Bode. "Well that was a bit of a freak occurance and really, it was a murder caused by a human, not the plant," the professor explained as if she was discussing the weather. "The Snare had been disguised and charmed to fool the Healers at St. Mungo's into thinking it was harmless Flitterbloom." She shrugged. "Human error there, see, not the plant's fault."

And it still had such a bad reputation after all that.

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Jack looked around at all the people panicking about the challenge in front of them. Hadn't they JUST gone over how easy it was to get rid of a Devil's Snare? Just stay calm! It wasn't that hard. Plus, no matter how heartless Bunz SEEMED to be, did they REALLY think she would just let the plant strangle them to death? Of course not! She was a professor! It was part of her job description to protect her students.

"Come on guys, Bunbury won't let the thing kill us," he said to the people sitting around him before standing up and heading to the corner where she stood.

Once they were done with this lesson, Jack would be able to tell everyone that he had tackled and survived a Devil's Snare...he'd be SO COOL!

Erm... right she wouldn't. Bunz flashed the Gryffindor captain a rare grin and turned back to the plant.

"Precisely. Besides, it's not as if I trust you all to say, take a nap on the plant... no no... we won't be touching it thaaat much....."

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Fia looked back to the Gryffindor boy that she met in the staff lounge for the Quill stuffage. Was he seriously thinking that the Herbology snooty woman wasn't going to let the plant kill them? "Well, they let werewolves in the school and THIS professor did take all of your wands? Correct? And...now she wants us to play with a dangerous plant that you have to stay calm around? Nope! No thanks!"

Her grin qucikly faded into a scowl as that filthy Hufflepuff girl spoke up. "EXCUSE YOU, young lady. While you are entitled to an opinion regarding my teaching methods and my plants, I do NOT have to listen to it. If you don't want to participate in the lesson then return to your seat or leave."

And she didn't bother to comment on the werewolf thing because quite frankly, Bunz agreed.

What was it with this woman and stealing his wand.

Dude.

EVERYTIME!

Well, what Bunz didn't know about was the extra wands he had stashed about his person.

Bwaha.

Sparing Bunbury a glare, Jake decided to play it off like he didn't care. As long as he got that one back, because, quite frankly he was running low on spare wands... and those things cost MONEY! And alot of bribery. Chyeah.

"What an ingenius solution..." he muttered under his breath. "Stealing a child's only means of protection from old hags..." Okay, yes... THAT part was said under his breath. To himself. Too quiet for Bunz's ears.