Dani nervously made her way towards where the Care of Magical Creatures lesson would be held. She went over to the other students and saw the instructions. Quickly getting out some parchment and a quill to write out what was asked of her:
She nodded politely at the Professor and smiled- "Hello, Professor" she said softly, she spotted the girl she'd met and waved at Kita before going over to her and waiting with her for the class to begin.

BEAM.

"It's VERY, very, VERY nice to meet you," Mr. Saylen replacer. He had no idea. Treyen must be thrilled, yeah? Did the boy even know yet?

Actually, he probably did, it always seemed like Ellie was the last to find out about staff changes. She should probably pay more attention to the Staff table at the opening feast.

She beamed at the Professor some more. "Oh and 'm Ellie." Not 'Miss'. Not 'Miss Stone'. And NOT 'Eliana'. Ellie'll do.

Turning her attention back to the Sphinx...that SPOKE to her (a cause for more goggling), she said, "I am..." The motto, she wasn't too sure about. "Do you think so?"

Ellie valued many things other than 'wit'. What exactly did 'wit' imply, anyway?

Selina sat at her desk and took all of her supplies out of her bag. She set up her desk to be ready for CoMC. That meant gloves, a man eating book, and a quill and notebook. Not the usual supply list for a classroom setting.

Once she was ready she looked at the new Professor who had quirky manner of speaking. When would class begin?

After feeding his cat back in the boys' dormitory, Theodore had made the long journey from Ravenclaw Tower all of the way to Care of Magical Creatures. He hadn't trekked this far in a long time and by the time he arrived, he was slightly flushed, his breathing a bit heavy. Wiping his forehead with the right sleeve of his robes, Theodore's heart rate only increased at the sight of that... that thing. Blinking a few times, he saw that it was a sphinx. A SPHINX. DURING THE FIRST LESSON OF THE YEAR. His instincts told him to run and hide under his covers, snug with his tabby cat, but his ever-inquisitive mind froze his feet to the ground. Theodore Dumble was here to learn, gosh darn it, and not to be a coward!

His eyes skimming the instructions, he took out his new Care of Magical Creatures notebook and inked in what he needed to.

Kita could see someone waving... at her? No one ever waved at her. Apart from crazy people who probably wanted something from her. She turned round and waved back at the blonde girl who was now making her way over towards her. "Hey Dani," she said, knowing fully well that this girl wasn't crazy or needed anything. Cool.

"OHMIGOSH SO PRETTY!"

Knox positively BEAMED as he hurried up to the class and laid eyes on the sphinx. YES, a sphinx!!! It was only then, the fifth year spotted the note about yelling.. and he quickly covered his mouth with a hand. Oopsy daisy.

When he'd calmed a little, Knox removed his hand and instead wriggled his fingers in the direction of the creature. He wanted to touch the pretty. EEEEEE!

Feeling impatient and restless and AAAAAAAAAH EXCITED, the Slytherin found a seat and hurriedly wrote his name on some parchment. When were they going to get to the petting part!?

Xandi made her way towards the padock and took out her parchment.
She scribled the details down before looking up and spotting a creature. A Sphinx to be exact. Xandi smiled, she'd never seen a Sphinx before, except for a picture in a book from the library once.

Chocolate staining the corners of her lips, Ophelia wiped the evidence quickly with the back of her hand. She was determined to not make herself look ridiculously porcine and childish in front of the professor. After all, first day impressions were EVERYTHING.

It took her a while, but she'd managed to get to class alright--no scratches or ghosts trying to trick her today. Tugging on her pigtails, the girl's dimpled smile grew as her steel blue eyes widened at the sight of the sphinx. Hands on her cheeks, she tried to keep her voice composed. "She is absolutely stunning," she cooed, eyes still on the sphinx. The creature was simply amazing. How did she know? Puh. PUH. Ophelia always knew the amazingness that things exuded. For example, she knew this lesson would be amazing and that she'd write an amazing letter home telling her parents about how absurdly cool her day had been.

"Hello Professor," she beamed, all smiles as she took a seat. Her heart felt like bursting, but Ophelia could not let her head go to la-la land just yet. She had a task to do. Taking out a bit of parchment, she wrote her name in chunky and round letters.

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Ophelia Henry
Third year

There. She smoothed the piece of parchment over her lap. She feared the wrinkles would upset the professor. She felt her stomach growl and her cheeks flushed lightly. She should have eaten the second chocolate bar before coming to class.

Isobel showed up and her gaze was first drawn to the sphinx. "Hello Professor," she said. She knew this professor was not from the ministry and therefore was not weird and liked being called professor. "Hello pretty sphinx," she smiled at it. Then she sat down on the ground and wrote on a piece of parchment before setting it on her lap.

Dani smiled and nudged Kita slightly- "It's good to see you again!" she said with a little nod as she held onto her notebook for the lesson. She didn't know if she'd need it though, she knew this lesson was quite practical. "Looking forward to the lesson?" she asked quietly as she looked around, it was so different to Beauxbatons.

Each and everyone of the students who arrived received nods and small smiles from Professor MacFusty as he pinned the parchments with their names to their robes, while Rosamund spent her time ignoring the newly arrived students. It was better that way for now, MacFusty thought; Rosamund was very close to throwing a fit just like the one she'd thrown earlier when he announced the reason why she'd come from so far away, and it had taken him almost two hours to calm her down.

It had almost cost him a finger, too, but that was neither here nor there. "For those who asked, I am perfectly well, thank you." And he could seen that most of them were, too, if not a tad shaken by Rosie's presence. "Now, I'd like to---" But the rest of his sentence was lost by a loud yell that quickly reminded him of France, and as a result, Beauxbatons.

"Knox Macnair." Lachlan said, his tone very nearly flat. He did manage to sound somewhat polite, though, as he regarded his old student with a stern look.

Never following instructions. Always the excitable one.

How had he gotten sorted into Slytherin? "Control yourself, Mister MacNair, please." That wasn't really a suggestion. MacFusty opened his mouth to continue, but was, once again, interrupted. This time by Rosie.

Rosamund, who'd quit ignoring the humans and gone back to cooly regarded each and every one of them, raised one of her eyebrows at the little red-head. "I do, but I can see that you do not." She wagged her tail, and her mouth twitched at the corners at the boy MacFurry had referred to... as.... what was it again?

Unimportant. "Should we agree to disagree, perhaps? Or shall we continue to talk until we find a point in which we agree, at last?"

Lady Rosie tried to hide her own pleasure of having made that comment rhyme. She tried. She really did.

She failed at it, too.

"No, you will not," Lachlan said firmly, but with a small smile for both Rosie and Ellie. He had, after all, a class to continue and did not need for Rosamund to go on tangents, in which everything rhymed, but nothing made much sense.

It'd already happened, before the students arrived. "As I was saying." He cleared his throat. "I'm Lachlan MacFusty, your new Care of Magical Creatures Professor." Obviously. "And I want you all to tell me what you expect from this subject this year, and what are your thoughts about the word Respect."

Alex looked at the spinx with big eyes before listening in to the professor. What did he expect? Well he expected the sphinx not to attack him that was one thing. He glanced down at his parchment for a second thinking over the professor's words.



He slowly raised his hand. "Alex Reed, Slytherin." he started, better introduce himself to the newbie professor. "I expect to see loads of cool animals." he nodded. Yeah, so he better bring them out. *firm nod* What he thought about the word respect was a thinker. He stayed quiet instead of answering that one. Besides, he was far too busy to stare at the sphinx-thingy.

Hannah raise her hand,Respect means to me.If you show Respect and the other person shows it mean a great deal of Respect.In other word if the person dose no show respect its act of being a mean person or coward.

As Helena took a seat, she had the chance to actually read the instructions that were written on the blackboard, so she took a piece of parchment and wrote her name on it. And... placed it on her lap. But she couldn't stop admiring the beautiful creature!

Buuut she had to stop eventually, because professor MacFusty had spoken. What did she expect? That was a simple question, so she raised her hand. "Maybe hippogriffs?" The girl suggested, slightly shrugging. "But a sphinx is just... amazing." MORE than amazing. "As for the respect, do you mean respect for the magical creatures? Because everyone should show them that." Yup.

Charlie entered the paddock, rather nervous for the lesson. She was excited but scared that whatever they would be working with would attack her. She had gone off magical creatures when she got bitten by a wild Bowtruckle on a camping trip to a forest with her dad. She had came anyway to try and get over her fear.
"Hi Professor," she said quietly as she realised that a Sphinx was staring at her. It was beautiful and Charlie anted to touch it but she couldn't and sat down next to Luna and wrote on her parchment.

Charlie raised her hand, "I think respect means to treat someone like your...equal." she said, her eyes kept twitching over to the Sphinx. She didn't think it was her equal. More like her superior. Charlie gulped.

"EEP!" He was always getting told off, so not fair. Just because he was appreciating the pretty! Tearing his eyes away from the sphinx - he was so going to nuzzle it before the end of the lesson - Knox finally turned his attention to the Professor.

Lachlan MacFusty! He'd taught at Beauxbatons for a couple of his first terms.. well, now he was DEFINITELY get to nuzzle the sphinx. Y'know, with him and the Professor being old buddies and such.

A tad delusional? Perhaps.

"Respect?" The fifth year said, tilting his head to one side? What was that all about? He wanted to play fetch with the sphinx. And cuddle it. And and and... what did respect have to do with Care of Magical Creatures? HUH?

"There's a super duper old muggle song called Respect," Knox said, waving his hand in the air. "It's pretty good, Sir." Again, what did that have to do with Care of Magical Creatures?

"I expect will be seeing loads of animals" "Respect is kinda like a rule to show people respect"

Bleu was excited to see a sphinx. Of all things to have on the first day of class, that had to have been the coolest. She quickly pulled out a piece of parchment and wrote:

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Bleu Rawley
Fifth Year
Hufflepuff

Bleu quickly raised her hand, "I expect to learn more about magical creatures and how to take of them or protect ourselves from them. Also, respect is something we need to show not only to our professors and peers, but to animals as well." Smiling she put her hand back down.

Ellie was all for the option of continuing talking until common ground was found. Especially because it would be with a Sphinx. And she could tell her children and grandchildren about the educated conversation she once had with a real, live Sphinx.

But, alas, the teacher stopped them. The smile he gave made it okay, though.

All attention was on the professor, then. MacFusty. "..." Ellie was going to say something about the Hebridean Black dragons, but opted not to. Maybe he wasn't part of those MacFusty's. Maybe he had low self esteem of being overshadowed by the uber cool MacFusty's his whole life, and would rather not have someone bring up the awesomeness of his name when it was unrelated to him. Yet, MacFusty wasn't a very common name, was it?

Expect? Well, she'd like another trip. And Stryker hinted at one last term, but maybe that was before he knew Saylen had left, as well. Honestly, Care of Magical Creatures was one of the few classes she expected anything from. No snacks, like in History of Magic, no flying like in Flying, no headaches like in Arithmancy. Maybe, "To learn about amazing animals." Such as a Sphinx. Maybe even a dragon? If he did end up being one of those MacFusty's, that is.

As for respect, "That has to be earned." Saylen hadn't understood that. Nor did Bishop.

Ariella raised her hand. "I expect to learn more about magical creatures and how to care for them." She paused for a second. "Respect is something that we all need to show for our teachers, our classmates, our environment, and our animals." She crossed her fingers under her desk, hoping her answer was okay.

What they expect out of this subject? And....what they thought respect is? "I expect to learn about magical creatures." she said after lazily raising her hand. "How to take care of them, if they're dangerous, what to do if they feel threatened, where they come from...all of the good stuff." Obviously. That was what they're supposed to learn in this class correct? She knew a certain someone wouldn't be too pleased if all they were going to do was sit around read out of a textbook. But seeing as there was a sphinx sitting right there, that probably wouldn't be the case.

"And respect is something that one should...pretty much give to everyone, or everything, regardless of what you may think. It'd be rude not to." And...she was rude a lot of the time apparently, but that was beside the point.

*Nudge nudge* What?! Who was- Oh, it was just Dani. Kita smiled, keeping one eye on the Professor. "It's good to see you again as well," she whispered, "Yeah, it's one of my favourite lessons. What about you?"



Kita bit her lip. What did she want? Well, what she really wanted was some food but that's not exactly answering the Professor's question. Not really, anyways. Hm...

She raised her hand. "Um... I expect to learn about interesting creatures," That won't try to eat me alive! Not exactly a hard request now is it? But that is all she expected from Care of Magical Creatures. To learn about interesting creatures.

Um... Respect? Now that was an interesting question! What did Respect mean to her? "Respect is..." Overrated? No, no, no, you can't say that! "when you respect someone!" Good one Kita(!) "Like, when you acknowledge their abilities and... you're not rude basically." She shrugged. That had to be good enough right?

Lola gasped inside, but only showed a smile on the out.

See, she took this no gasping, no pointing, no shouting thing very seriously. It wasn't a joke. The temptation to break her silence and then have a spaz attack on the pretty human-lion creature and then try to befriend her was ... well it was definitely tempting. As a way to control herself, the girl just PICTURED her and this Rosie... BEST FRIENDS, and then they would run through the meadows hand by (paw?), with cheesy music playing in the background, and then they would both feast on lemon drops and marshmallows with a late night campfire, side by side.

What a scene indeed.

A tempting one too.

The professor pinned her parchment to her robes and she was quite confused of why he'd done that, but more interested to see what would happen. Would the lady-lion do a special trick on them? EEE!

Lola tried her best to avoid eye contact with the sphinx anymore because just ONE MORE LOOK AT ROOOSIE, and she would seriously replay that scene she'd just thought of, in reality.

Respect? Lola knew respect!

The girl raised her hand. "What I expect from this year, professor? I expect lots and LOTS of fluffiness, professor," she said that in a very serious and professional way, "Respect? Well I think respect is all about the looooooove that we ALL must share within one another, because you know--WITHOUT RE--" She was almost preaching it in a very loud tone, FORGETTING ABOUT ROSIE'S SENSITIVE EARS, "Without respect, we would all die. Because without respect--where would the love be? And without love--" dramatic pause, and she decided to quote off Shakespeare, "But you know... 'the course of true love never did run smooth...'"

Was she getting off topic? Because love always did intrigue the girl. But they were not talking about love--they were talking about respect.

"Respect is ... impoooortant."

But the fourteen-year old girl was dazed, suddenly very dramatic and thinking about loooove.

If that was all true, then MacFuzzy will be on his 'cool list' forever and ever. And lookit! It was true! He'd brought a Sphinx for them. Because it was for them, no?

As long as the creature eats no one, then it was all good, no?

The fifth year wrote what it needed to be written on his parchment, and then eyed it once more.

Yeah, he'd decided to strike-through one part he'd written.

Oh, but MacFuzzy was talking! That's why he let his eyes wander off from the parchment to the man in question and raised his hand, "No creatures to be harmed or appearing to be harmed, that's what I expect," eyes on YOU, MacFuzzy, and the awesome Sphinx next to him.

Also, "Respect goes both ways," so, respect me and I'll respect you. Right? He'd learned that with Saylen.

Millie was basically only looking forward to this lesson, well she was until she saw the sphinx. DIDN'T THEY EAT PEOPLE?! And everyone was acting so calm about it, and it was just sitting there. WHAT. She avoided eye contact with the little demon sphinx-y thing but she figured it was safe because you know if it wasn't, the professor would be in trouble. And Millie would scream.

ANYWAY. Respect? What she expected? Well she definitely hadn't been expecting a sphinx and she respected the teacher because he was a teacher, did that count? Who knows, so instead she sat there in silence and let the other people just answer it for her.