Figuring he did NOT want to be in this class at all or anywhere NEAR that stupid evil plant, Jake backed right away, headed for the huuuuuuge tub of wands. If he couldn't have his one back he was taking another and going to sit down.

Reaching into the tub, Jake pulled out his hand with nothing in it at all, having decided he would live up... or down... to anyone's expectations of him.

And he wasn't going near that plant.

So Jake went back... further back than any other students. And he just glared at everyone and everything.

Cela raised her hand.

"Except, professor? Devils snare can be bred to be more dangerous and if it is antagonised more, kind of like those dogs that are trained to fight and stuff? then it can kill you eventually, even if you don't move. Thats why its sometimes used to protect treasure and stuff, along with body bind curses and things like that." Celandine beamed brightly, not considering for a moment that some students might get panicky at the idea.

Was Josh CRAZY!!?? And the professor was letting him do that! AH! She was debating whether or not to just go over and drag him as far away from the plant as possible, but she didn't want to make him angry, or the professor wutshername either seeing as she practically hissed at her earlier before class started. 'Really need to learn her name.' Evelyn thought, staring worriedly at Josh.

Though she was startled out of thought when the Jake guy stuck his hand in the bin again. 'Don't...touch...my...wand...' she thought as if possessed. She could see his fingers almost touching the dark wood, but not quite. Thankfully, he left without even grazing the wood. 'No fingerprints on it but mine!'

So, yes, for some reason this particular plant reminded her of Erikson, which was clearly not a very nice memory, but seeing it now the plant didn't look as scary as she remembered. Perhaps because she was small and waaaayyy younger back then.

Oh, yes, it was still a bit scary, but she could deal with it.

Now...Melita's cookies...that was one SCARY thing for sure.

And she waited for the class to be over, yeah..she wasn't paying much attention...Kaika examined the plant, totally wishing she could see how her cross-breed was doing.

"Of course not, Professor Bunbury is a Hogwarts professor. She would never do anything to hurt a student." Abby smiles in Professor Bunbury's direction. Abby walks closer to the Devil's Snare. She studies the plant closely. Abby isn't in the mood to be a playfriend for this plant.

If only they had popcorn Tavelon thought, getting ready as if to watch a show. Devil's Snare... so cool... and they actually got to fight it! Well... technically if they did fight it'd kill them... but they got to touch it and stuff.

Being an inquisitive little 11 year old, it wasn't that hard for Tavelon to fire off another question. "What does it do in it's natural environment, Professor? I mean, when it's not killing people and stuff."

Emily looked positively confused. Didn't the girl just say..? Ah forget it! This lesson was giving the wee Slytherin a headache. She smoothed out her expression and moved closer to the plant, slipping in front of some of the taller students who were blocking her view so she could have a closer look.

He silently nodded at the professor and took a deep breath starting the act slowly approched with his right arm to the plant which seemed motionless. Was it cold or an illusion his mind playing to him, well, to his arm? Ignoring it anyway he stopped the 'do-it-slow' act since it was fatally boring, was not it? He was just going to show everyone that this plant was nothing to be scared of specifically to Rose who seemed to be so afraid of it as he had observed from where he stood.

Then, in a sudden he dived his arm into the vines which immediately started to cover it at so fast that he could not understand what was happening, what the cold, tight feeling on his arm was at first place. It was coiling up more and more and felt like it would never let him go. He tried to free his arm pulling but that was not working! ''Ehee! Stupid plant! Stupid plant!''

Go, go Josh -?

Umm, suure. Fyo watched, eyes full of a faraway sort of interest, as the boy rolled up his sleeves [metaphorically speaking, of course] to take on the not-so-pretty plant. He wasn't worried about Josh, not Fyo - Professor Bunbury, a little evil though she might be, was more than just a competent teacher: she was an excellent one - and, if given the chance, the fourth-year might himself have taken Josh's place.

Which did NOT mean he wanted to.

Or did he?

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Cela raised her hand.

"Except, professor? Devils snare can be bred to be more dangerous and if it is antagonised more, kind of like those dogs that are trained to fight and stuff? then it can kill you eventually, even if you don't move. Thats why its sometimes used to protect treasure and stuff, along with body bind curses and things like that." Celandine beamed brightly, not considering for a moment that some students might get panicky at the idea.

............"Except for circumstances like that, yes Cela, thank you for pointing that out," Bunz acknowledged the girl quietly. Way to not scare the kiddos!

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If only they had popcorn Tavelon thought, getting ready as if to watch a show. Devil's Snare... so cool... and they actually got to fight it! Well... technically if they did fight it'd kill them... but they got to touch it and stuff.

Being an inquisitive little 11 year old, it wasn't that hard for Tavelon to fire off another question. "What does it do in it's natural environment, Professor? I mean, when it's not killing people and stuff."

And another question. Well. It was one way for Hufflepuffs to learn. "It behaves pretty much the exact same way in its natural environment," she shrugged at the boy. "I mean, what do all plants do? Planty things. They grow. They...well this one doesn't absorb sunlight, obviously...."

She cleared her throat. "It just wants to exist and be happy and not have to fight for its life all the time. The strangling thing isn't like a hobby for the plant," not that Annie could really know if that was true or not, "but it's a defensive mechanism."

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He silently nodded at the professor and took a deep breath starting the act slowly approched with his right arm to the plant which seemed motionless. Was it cold or an illusion his mind playing to him, well, to his arm? Ignoring it anyway he stopped the 'do-it-slow' act since it was fatally boring, was not it? He was just going to show everyone that this plant was nothing to be scared of specifically to Rose who seemed to be so afraid of it as he had observed from where he stood.

Then, in a sudden he dived his arm into the vines which immediately started to cover it at so fast that he could not understand what was happening, what the cold, tight feeling on his arm was at first place. It was coiling up more and more and felt like it would never let him go. He tried to free his arm pulling but that was not working! ''Ehee! Stupid plant! Stupid plant!''

She turned back to the Gryffindor yet again and smirked broadly as he proceeded to flail about exact as she had predicted. "Mr. Carter," the redhead tsktsked, twirling someone's wand in her hand, "What did I warn you about the plant? Think fast but don't think of panicking. How do you get it to let go?"

The Devil's Snare was most certainly not letting go if he tried pulling his arm out. It just wanted to give him a playful huggggg....or a playful dismemberment.... a few more thick and fat vines started reaching for Josh's toes. It would trip him before it let the boy insult all plantkind.

But Devil's Snare doesn't absorb sunlight! Tavelon thought. But what the professor said still made sense and Tavelon decided not to bring it back up.

But there was the matter of watching the encounter. Why's he panicking? Then again... it would be hard not to panic in that kind of situation. Tavelon absentmindedly brought his hand to his mouth, then remembered he didn't have any popcorn.

Evelyn ignored, or at least tried to ignore, what the Ravenclaw girl, who she knew as Celandine, said. If anyone thought Evelyn wasn't panicking, you could totally tell now! Even if she was no where near the devil plant...

'Oh no, he's panicking! He's panicking...I'm panicking.' she thought as she watched the devils snare grab onto Josh and him trying to yank his arm out. Without really knowing it, she scooted closer and held onto the bin of wands, ready to grab her own wand if anything REALLY serious happened. Like, if he didn't get out of this situation in the next five seconds!

'And the professor is...smirking? *scoff* EVIL! HELP HIM! He's gunna die!!' she yelled dramatically in her mind. 'We're all gunna die! Devils snare on the loose!'

Rafe watched as the plant took hold of Josh. Rafe didn't want to see his fellow Gryffindor in trouble. He went over to see what he could do. "Look at me Josh, you need to remain calm, stop pulling!" Rafe said putting his hands firmly on his friend's shoulders. "Relax and think happy thoughts...think about Quidditch and zooming through the air...take deep breaths... think about scoring the quaffle in the hoops..." Rafe was trying to get Josh's mind off the tugging constricting plant and to remain calm.

Abigail had stood back and watched as some of the others approached the devils snare, happily ignoring Josh. She didn’t understand what all the fuss was about, if you staid calm the snare would stay calm.

Moving towards one of the potted devils snare’s she reached out her hand and stroked it. The vine that she touched quickly wrapped around her finger causing her hart to speed up in panic. ‘Oh maybe there is something to worry about...stop panicking it’s just a plant...BREATHE!’ Taking a big breath she began to calm down and was relieved when the snare loosed its grip on her finger. She stayed with the plant for a little while –staying calm the whole time- before gently removing her finger from the plant and moving away to allow others to have a go. ‘Ha that was easy! I didn’t panic at all...ok maybe I panicked a little bit, but I got it back. At least it didn’t go up my arm or try to strangle me.’

"Professor, shouldn't he stand perfectly still and try to relax his body? Then the Dragon Snare will know he means the plant no harm and let him go."

Fre was nit getting anywhere near the devils snare with the Herbology professor. Not after what she saw her do to Tino. He took a seat at the far back of the greenhouse just to be safe.

Herminny moved toward the potted devils snare in the front of the green house and calmly put her hand out to touch it and it wrapped around he hand a little but she remained calm and slowly the tentacles loosened there grip and she slowly but calmly pulled away from the plant. That was so cool Harminny thought now knowing from experience the true nature of devils snare.

''What a---'' Josh struggled more and more to get rid off it, tried to punch it, attemtped to loosen the thick vines but they were holding tight beyond his strenght. The feeling of it disgusted him cold and firm and reminded him of...what he did not want to remember anyway. He listened to Professor Bunbury as she said his name. 'She warned to have respect. What else? What else?' Respect? He looked down the green, disgusting thing. No way he could show any respect to that kind of thing. ''Actually i do want to kill it!'' he shouted at her ''I'll kill it, the filthy- smelly-...'' he struggled more between the words ''...scum - pond scum'' then stopped it when he heard Rafe's voice as well as felt his hadn on his shoulder and looked back, at him. ''Remain calm?'' he repeated and listened to his idea concerning Quidditch. It did not make sense, escaping from danger without any fight, without any act, without a move. However his fighting did not work either so maybe Rafe's idea was worth trying ''Okay'' he said and stopped trying to ignore the cold feeling plant caused on his skin, if that was possible of course. 'Fine. So i'm playing Quidditch in a cold day let's say. Fly, fly, pass the Quaffle...' he thought ''Ow, the stupid plant hurts!'' 'Just a Bludger. Flying again to the hoops, ha ha it'll be easy...'

LouAnn was a little absent-minded on most concepts involving plants, but she did happen to know that the flailing about Josh was doing was certainly not helping matters any. "Josh, please stop struggling. It's only making things worse. Just relax," she encouraged, feeling around for her wand just because it was second nature to do so in times like this. When it suddenly clicked that she no longer had it, she glanced up at Professor Bunbury with worried eyes.

"Shouldn't we...get our wands back and cast some sunlight to help him?" she asked. "I mean, I...I don't think he's going to stop struggling..." Her eyes moved from the professor back to Josh, who was currently still locked in battle with the plant.

"Or you know... we could knock him out," Copernicus joked. "If he's unconscious, he'll stop struggling. Hey, Carter! What do you think about that?" He winked at Louann to let her know he was kidding.

Abby looks at Copernicus. I mean serious to the point of being boring Copernicus Kettleburn is cracking jokes like.... his crazy step brother Plymouth. Of course Plymouth would be up there comforting the plant. Is it possible? I mean could Copericus have been hit with some kind of curse that changed his personality with Plymouths. I guess anything is possible.

'Knock him out? KNOCK HIM OUT!?!' Evelyn screamed in her head. She should have known that the guy wasn't serious, but she was in a weird mood right now in which she believed almost anything that anyone said. If someone said they were a pink vampire that transforms into a bunny rabbit every other Sunday...she probably would have believed it. Freaking out did that to her...

She was about to walk over there and give the guy a piece of her mind!!...when she heard someone else mention getting their wands to help Josh. YES! They should definitely get their wands! Nodding seriously, she picked up the bin and hugged it to her, staring at her wand that was being touched by all the other greasy, fingerprint-y, germ covered wands. 'Poor poor wand. Don't worry! You'll be safe and clean soon.'

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Rafe watched as the plant took hold of Josh. Rafe didn't want to see his fellow Gryffindor in trouble. He went over to see what he could do. "Look at me Josh, you need to remain calm, stop pulling!" Rafe said putting his hands firmly on his friend's shoulders. "Relax and think happy thoughts...think about Quidditch and zooming through the air...take deep breaths... think about scoring the quaffle in the hoops..." Rafe was trying to get Josh's mind off the tugging constricting plant and to remain calm.

"That's the ticket, Rafe," Bunbury nodded her approval of the boy trying to aide his housemate. "Shame he doesn't seem to be listening." She twirled her abducted wand yet again and took a step closer to the Devil's Snare although it made no moves to tackle the Herbology professor.

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"Professor, shouldn't he stand perfectly still and try to relax his body? Then the Dragon Snare will know he means the plant no harm and let him go."

"Um yes Abby, that's kind of the whole point of today's class," the redhead snorted in reply. "And it's Devil's Snare, not Dragon Snare, although I have no doubts that this plant could take on a full-grown dragon with ease."

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''What a---'' Josh struggled more and more to get rid off it, tried to punch it, attemtped to loosen the thick vines but they were holding tight beyond his strenght. The feeling of it disgusted him cold and firm and reminded him of...what he did not want to remember anyway. He listened to Professor Bunbury as she said his name. 'She warned to have respect. What else? What else?' Respect? He looked down the green, disgusting thing. No way he could show any respect to that kind of thing. ''Actually i do want to kill it!'' he shouted at her ''I'll kill it, the filthy- smelly-...'' he struggled more between the words ''...scum - pond scum'' then stopped it when he heard Rafe's voice as well as felt his hadn on his shoulder and looked back, at him. ''Remain calm?'' he repeated and listened to his idea concerning Quidditch. It did not make sense, escaping from danger without any fight, without any act, without a move. However his fighting did not work either so maybe Rafe's idea was worth trying ''Okay'' he said and stopped trying to ignore the cold feeling plant caused on his skin, if that was possible of course. 'Fine. So i'm playing Quidditch in a cold day let's say. Fly, fly, pass the Quaffle...' he thought ''Ow, the stupid plant hurts!'' 'Just a Bludger. Flying again to the hoops, ha ha it'll be easy...'

"And THIS, you see," she took another step closer to the plant and waved to get the class' attention, "THIS is precisely why I DISARMED YOU ALL before the lesson started."

She sighed melodramatically and placed a soothing hand on top of where the Snare had wrapped around Josh's arm. It stopped tightening and fighting the boy although it didn't let go of his arm just yet... it just kind of sat there and held him entangled as if it was waiting for something.

The snare wanted — and deserved — an apology, obviously.

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LouAnn was a little absent-minded on most concepts involving plants, but she did happen to know that the flailing about Josh was doing was certainly not helping matters any. "Josh, please stop struggling. It's only making things worse. Just relax," she encouraged, feeling around for her wand just because it was second nature to do so in times like this. When it suddenly clicked that she no longer had it, she glanced up at Professor Bunbury with worried eyes.

"Shouldn't we...get our wands back and cast some sunlight to help him?" she asked. "I mean, I...I don't think he's going to stop struggling..." Her eyes moved from the professor back to Josh, who was currently still locked in battle with the plant.

"Yes, relax and apologize for insulting and cursing at the Devil's Snare and I'm sure it will let you go," Bunbury nodded at LouAnn and petted the plant lovingly from beside Josh. "See boy, I told yo---"

She cut herself off with a sudden glare to LouAnn. "Don't even THINK about getting your wands. NO SUNLIGHT. NONE. I am enough of a deterrent. See, the Snare has already stopped trying to yank Josh's arm off."

It wasn't letting go, but at least it wasn't causing him as much pain now. And to be on the safe side, Bunz summoned the box of wands to her side and levitated them to sit by her feet. "Don't even think of coming closer, any of you, or making a move for your wands. I'm serious."

The Devil's Snare was also very serious. It suddenly seemed to get nervous and fidgety now that the wands were sitting thisclose to its base. The vines enclosing Josh's wrist started to move and quiver a little, just snaking around and shifting although it didn't tighten at all. It must have felt like some sort of jiggling bangle or bracelet to the boy.

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"Or you know... we could knock him out," Copernicus joked. "If he's unconscious, he'll stop struggling. Hey, Carter! What do you think about that?" He winked at Louann to let her know he was kidding.

"Ha ha haaaa," the redhead laughed dryly at Copernicus, not budging from her calming of the plant however. "That's the next course of action, actually."

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Abigail had stood back and watched as some of the others approached the devils snare, happily ignoring Josh. She didn’t understand what all the fuss was about, if you staid calm the snare would stay calm.

Moving towards one of the potted devils snare’s she reached out her hand and stroked it. The vine that she touched quickly wrapped around her finger causing her hart to speed up in panic. ‘Oh maybe there is something to worry about...stop panicking it’s just a plant...BREATHE!’ Taking a big breath she began to calm down and was relieved when the snare loosed its grip on her finger. She stayed with the plant for a little while –staying calm the whole time- before gently removing her finger from the plant and moving away to allow others to have a go. ‘Ha that was easy! I didn’t panic at all...ok maybe I panicked a little bit, but I got it back. At least it didn’t go up my arm or try to strangle me.’

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Herminny moved toward the potted devils snare in the front of the green house and calmly put her hand out to touch it and it wrapped around he hand a little but she remained calm and slowly the tentacles loosened there grip and she slowly but calmly pulled away from the plant. That was so cool Harminny thought now knowing from experience the true nature of devils snare.

"And you two," the professor had known some students wouldn't be able to keep themselves away from her sample plants from earlier. "STOP TOUCHING THOSE."

Hadn't the poor samples been through enough after Bunz's demonstration? She had to take her hands off the Devil's Snare around Josh's arm for a moment to flick her wand at the plants the girls were touching. The two glass covers snapped down on top of the Devil's Snare and sealed so no one else could get to it.

"If you wish to test yourself against this plant, I'd suggest coming over HERE to this much more individual specimen." Bunz didn't notice that the plant was starting to tug at Josh again now that she had taken her hands off it. "Honestly. Or if you can't pay attention, then I can assign you something to do until we move to the next part of the lesson."

Test themselves against the plant? THAT sounded like a good idea! Fyo's eyes twinkled - excitement, you know. Even though he hadn't been excited, not ONE bit, when the Devil's Snare had been trying to EAT Josh - he knew Professor Bunbury enough to be pretttyyyy sure she wouldn't let THE PLANT eat Joshiee. At least, not completely. Err - and then he blinked.

Next part? There was a next part?

Oh goodie!

Had she seriously blanked out again and did'nt realize the class had moved on. Great. She went over to where the rest of the class was and saw where people were and saw there were a few people caught in devils snare who were trying to relax to get it to let them go. She had done it so she knew it was possible so she watched hoping if things got too bad Professor Bunburry would do something cause she was wandless and therefore powerless which gave her a somewhat uneasy feeling.