Alyssa knew that Mr. Henry must be getting tired asking all their questions but she had to know something, so she raised her hand and asked the Giant and wise Squid, "Mr. Henry, you have lived in this lake a long time and I know that you must have explored every inch of it, could you tell me how deep this lake really is?"

Autumn blushed in embarassment, she wanted to gain points not loose them! the ginat squid was TOO distracting. She was too awstruck to even think of a question for the giant squid it had talked!!!

Minerva listened to everyones questions. She enjoyed hearing them all, but didn't feel like asking one herself. Mostly because everyone else was being called on and had asked the questions she wanted to ask. She wanted to go swimming with the squid. She thought it would be fun. She continued to watch the squid, nothing surprised her anymore at the school so it was completely normal to be chillin by the lake with a squid.. She smiled at what her muggle friends would think to see this. Minerva went back to writing all the question and answers in her notebook.

Harvey listened to all the questions and answers and noting down the answers that come up.. as and when they came up according to the various questions that the students were asking him... all the questions were very entertaining and enjoyable to write down.. but he had not questions to ask as all the ones he wanted to ask were already asked and answered.. so he waited to see if there were anymore questions and answers to write down

This whole conversation the class was having with the Giant Squid was blowing Auggie's mind. He had had no idea that this was even possible, even in the Magical World.

August listened and took notes as both Professor Scabior and Williamson shot information off to them about the creature/being status of each type of creature and the information about the many creatures in the Lake.

Now that he had all of his notes finished August wanted to ask Bartholomew the Squid a question. "Mr. Henry, um how old are you? I mean did you meet the Founders or anything?"

So they’re asking the giant squid questions? Umm…if the giant squid talks like that, then Victoria has lots of questions to ask the giant squiddey. A talking squid…hmm…this shall be a very interesting topic to share with her friends.

“Hey…er…Squiddey….err…Giant Squid Sir!” Victoria called out, unsure what to address this creature as. “Do you live alone? Or like…do you have a family, or a wife, or something like that?” Victoria pondered interestedly. It would be definitely sad if the squid did live in the Blake Lake all alone.

TAylor had stop jolting down the notes still in surpise that the giant squid can talk but soon she recovered after he answered many questions and was slapping one of the professors around. Taylor would so laugh if she didn't feel that there would be a point deduction. She raised her hand, "Mr. Henry, sir, do you like to talk or is it just an ok thing?"

From pretty much the second the giant squid opened his mouth, Tyler had been gaping and staring and gaping some more. A talking bloody squid! Now he had definitely seen everything, everything!!!!!

He wanted to touch him but he wouldn't yet, no he would wait until the squid wasn't looking, then he would try to poke his suction thingies.

"I have a question! Just how old are you? Are you immortal? I mean..how long can giant squid live for?"

Alex had NOT expected the lesson to move in this direction, but it was entertaining to say the least. Now that he'd seen the Giant Squid IN PERSON and knew he could...talk and stuff, and he didn't seem like the kind of squid who pulled people under just willy nilly like his family had always told him. Hmmm. Maybe the lake wasn't so bad after all if the Squid was nice. Maybe he'd actually try swimming in it soon!

He raised his hand and cleared his throat to address the squid. "Do you remember the Triwizard Tournament where Harry Potter was a contestant? I know they had a challenge in the lake...did it bother you that these humans were kind of...I dunno...invading, so to speak?" he asked.

Did Melanie have a question for the giant squid? Was she seriously asking herself that question? She pinched her left hand lightly with her right, half expecting to wake up from a feast-fueled dream.

"Actually, sir, I have a question," she said, surprised with the confidence in her voice as she spoke to a giant sea creature. "Do you ever come up and say 'Hi' to the first-years as they cross the lake the first night? Or do you stay hidden so you don't scare them? NOT THAT YOU'RE SCARY," she quickly corrected, not wanted to offend what seemed like a very nice squid, "but...you know, so you don't...startle them...or something." She held her breath, hoping she didn't get a tentacle to the head too.

Oh hold up.. the squid could TALK?! Thea raised an eyebrow. Leaning back on her hands, she smiled in his direction. 'Are there only one of you down there... sir?' As far as the Gryffindor knw, there was.. but that didn't seem right. 'Do you not feel lonely? I mean.. do you not have a family?' Thea squirmed a little, but she couldn't help it. It just seemed wrong that the squid was on his own down there with no other squids to play with.. or whatever squids do. 'If the answer to these questions are no... would you like another Giant Squid down there with you?' Thea sat up, and looked at him intently. Maybe.. they could get him a friend! It shouldn't be too haard..
Thea glanced at the CoMC professor as she asked this last question.

Amelia was a little freaked out when the Giant Squid appeared and started to talk, but now she was starting to actually enjoy this. It was interesting to get a creature's take on things and learn about it's habitat. Though she wasn't sure she could think of a question to ask him that other people hadn't already. She tried to think of something she wanted to know.

Lily was shocked when the giant squid spoke to the class. Never before had she seen a squid of this size. It was amazing. Lily didn't know how to respond, though, and wasn't sure what question would be good to ask. Although it would be nice to know how the squid came to be in the lake. Lily just wasn't sure what to do so she took notes on what the squid had said, waiting to see the professors' responses after the squid had finished.

Ella was in total shock. Her mouth was open and her eyes were practically bulging out of her head. She would have felt foolish if it weren't for similar expressions on many of the faces of her fellow classmates. What on earth could she ask this squid? "Mr. Henry, you're quite, erm, large in size and I was just wondering if there is enough food for you in the lake?" Ella felt sure this was an idiotic question but she sure was curious about how much Mr. Henry could eat. Food...man am I hungry.

Scabior was paying attention. Somewhat. With any questions that were shot his way he simply nudged his head in the direction of William, because the Care of Magical Creatures professor was teaching the lesson at the moment and it would have been rude for him to just steal the show.

What he wasn't paying attention to was, what exactly Bartholomew Henry was doing. And because of that he had no time to react as the Squid's tentacle swiped through the air before coming in contact with his back end. Dash's head whipped around, as he gave the squid a long hard stare.

The back of his pants were now wet. Thank you squid.

"Of course Bartholomew Henry. My mistake. How could I ever expect you to tell your own story of how you ended up in the lake." His voice dripped with sarcasm. Stupid 100 year old beast.

He turned toward the class once again after getting an 'okay' nod from William. "Right, class so." He cleared his throat. "Back in the late 1960's almost 1970's even, rumours began surfacing in the Ministry that Giant Squids were beginning to die out. Nobby Leach, the Mister of Magic at the time, found this to be a big concern because he didn't want it to affect his chances of re-election. So he ordered a baby squid to be sent to Hogwarts lake, just to ensure it's survival. The headmaster at the time Albus Dumbledore agreed to this." He nodded. This was all information he had gathered from reading though. And the re-election part..common sense.

"A squid- that Squid being Bartholomew Henry of course-" He looked at the creature. "-was not chosen and put into the lake until 1977. However, soon after it was was discovered that the rumours of the species dying out was in fact false." Yeah, so the Ministry had messed up. But that was really how he got there. Scabior paused, wondering if he should add a little extra bit of info.

"The 1970's was also around the time when dark wizard Lord Voldemort began to gain power and the first Wizarding War began. And so it was decided that Bartholomew Henry would remain in the lake to protect the students in case of attacks on the castle by Voldemort." He gave a slight nod. It sounded like Bartholomew was a hero. But not quite. "Bartholomew proved to be quite lazy," Which was exactly why he wasn't explaining this himself. "When the Ministry tried to train him for attacks. And so they created the rumor about him being Godric Gryffindor in animagus form in order to intimidate Voldemort." It worked somewhat. Really, the squid could have said ALL of that. Scabior gave a brief nod before turning back to look at his now wet trousers.

Bartholomew could stop being lazy now and answer all the students questions.

Eino wasn't all that sure of how the conservation of giant squids, of all creatures, would be a deciding factor in a minister election. What was more difficult to understand was that only one squid was sufficient to prevent extinction. Eino thought they would have sent more if it was that serious. Maybe it was the minister himself who came up with that false fact, just so he could "fix" it, be glorified, and be re-elected. That was very clever. Still, all the fuzz over conserving the species wasn't clear to Eino, so he put his hand high in the air to ask a question. "Professor, are giant squids often used as Sir Bartholomew Henry was intended to, as a means of protection?" According to Bartholomew's docile nature, Eino would have never been able to guess that.

How is it that in six years at this school I am just now hearing this story? Even with all the times the squid had shown himself, it had never come up. But something just didn't make sense in Keefer's mind. What was it...?

He raised both hands, speaking tentatively. He didn't want a tentacle takedown. "Sir," he said, addressing Williamson, who, after all, had told the story. "How exactly was Mr. Henry meant to have protected Hogwarts? I mean, Voldemort was extremely strong. He likely would've just killed Mr. Henry from far off before he was in danger." Well he would, right?

And something else... "I'm not meaning to be rude, but why would Godric Gryffindor's Animagus form be a squid? Wouldn't you think it would be a lion?" He just couldn't see Voldemort falling for that.

"It sounds like an interesting idea that the lazy squid the resides in the lake could be godric gryffindor but it seems awfully far fetched. I doubt Voldemort would believe something that crazy. Who would honestly choose for their animagus form to be a giant squid", Nathan retorted raising his hand.

Notes notes notes so many notes!!! Aurora was beginning to wonder if she had brought enough parchment with her. What with all the answers to the questions and the noting down of all the historical events she hadn't the time or the brain power to think up a question of her own. Instead she just kept scribbling notes down frantically, hoping that she would be able to decipher them when she needed to revise - her handwriting wasn't exactly perfect when she was rushing...

She sat taking notes of everything she believed to be important.

Oh dear. Was it okay for Vlimia to run away now? No, probably not. But she backed away slowly from the gigantic sopping wet, pink, talking squid thing that had been flailing around. Did she mention it came from the lake? It was a sea monster.
Oddly enough, most of the other students seemed unphased by the gigantic thing. The proffesor even seemed to be on quite good terms with it. Then Vlimia remembered where she had seen the squid before. On a chocolate frog card! He's called Bartholomew Henry lives in the Black Lake. So that cleared some things up, and made her a little less terrified of... Bartholomew. But Vlim had absolutely no idea how to strike up conversation with a huge, talking squid, so she did what she always did when she was at a loss for words. She answered a question. "To defend oneself against a Grindylow, one must snap it's brittle fingers before it plunges you underwater and you lose consciousness." Vlim said, thinking about Lobalugs. Vlimia knew that thinking about learning made her focus on something and calm down.

Everyone else was asking basically the same questions that Sky was wondering about, so she settled for just trying to jot everything down. And trying not to laugh at the fact that both of the professors had gotten smacked by the giant squid. Didn't want to lose points, after all…

Zhenya listened to the story of the Giant Squid. It was quite amazing, and very interesting. She didn't really have any questions, but was fascinated to hear the answers of some of the other questions the students were asking.

Sierra had to fight the urge to laugh at the way the squid smacked Scabbers across his back end. SEE! She knew that squid liked the smack people around! He was far more useful than she'd originally thought. Maybe she should start coming out here more often for little chats with Barty...or Bart. Bartholomew? Whatever. THE SQUID.

...and then a loooooooong speech began, so Sierra turned her attention to Scabbers and listened to the story of the squid.

So the Minister of Magic...at the time, of course...was responsible for this squid? "Well, Mr. Bartholomew, my father's the current Minister of Magic, and I just know he'd have treated you better," she said, turning her attention to the squid. "Do you ever wish you were back with the other squids, or are you cool with being here?" He may be a little lazy-but hey! Maybe he was just a Slytherin. That would explain him living it up without thinking he had to do a thing.

Nope. That squid was no Godric Gryffindor.

The Ministry made up the rumor? Weren't rumors always based a little on truth? Kurumi assumed that they were anyway and, well, she thought that there was much more to thie squid than met the eye. She jotted down more notes as Professor Scabior lectured about history, but her eyes flicked over towards Professor Williamson when she had finished. He seemed to be more inclined to believe the rumor to be true, perhaps she could ask him to help her investigate the truth behind this? Become Hogwarts' Mythbusters or something to that effect?

Kurumi then smiled at . He wasn't lazy. Probably just didn't wish to fight. He was a lover, not a fighter. That sort of thing. Besides, were the happenings on land really of his concern? He did have an entire aquatic kingdom to rule over. Unless...he was Super Squid and had plans for world domination. Then, well, then he probably should have helped out.

Kurumi wasn't sure what to ask as too many thoughts were swimming through her head, so she decided that keeping a careful record of what was going on was a better idea. She did flinch when her housemate said some rather rude things about giant squids in general. "I actually think that it fits rather well, a squid animagus form," she said, raising her hand just to be safe. "Giant squids, I believe and please correct my if I am mistaken Mr. Bartholomew, have a very rich symbolism of being able to read the moods of others and represent intelligence and camouflage." She paused for a moment, nodding her head in their guest's direction. "Besides, you can't choose your animagus form."