One thing they would like to know about Pygmy Puffs? Evelyn picked up the creature and placed it on her lap. Aw. It was so cute! She scratched the top of his head before she asked,

"Erm..why are they so adorable?"

Okay, that was a really stupid question but..they really were adorable, weren't they? So tiny and fluffy. D'awww.

Selena beamed at the professor and nodded. "Absolutely positively one hundred and thirty nine percent sure, Professor." Because it was true. And no one, absolutely no one would dethrone her epictastical pygmy puff Kent. Because Kent had a noble cruppy and everything, she would bet her chocolate frogs that NONE of the other pygmy puffs had a noble cruppy stead.

Unless it was the professor's pygmy puff... Selena eyed the green puff with his tongue trying to eat more snot. Nerf was weird. Kent was learning how to- QUESTIONS.

Selena knew about pygmy puffs. Her hand shot right up into the air. "Pygmy puffs eat snot." And that was TRUE. Because it ate snot. There was proof of that right now. Selena placed Kent back on her head where he belonged. "It also takes a long time to teach them to sit and STAY on your head, it took me like... SIX months." Just random trivia, y'know. Or just random in general. "And they eat snot, can you teach them not to eat snot?" The snot part was important.

Because it was gross and she didn't like Kent sticking his tongue up people's noses. It was weird.

Taylor raised her hand, for a joke she said, "You can get them at the joke shop in Diagon Alley." She siled to let teh professor know that she was only joking and told the actual answer in a questioning form, "Didn't they get breeded by Fred and George Weasley in their shop?"

Alyssa raised her hand and was about to ask the Professor whether Pygmy Puff were the creatures that like to stick their tongues up sleeping people's nose to eat their boogies, but then someone had given an answer similar to her question and so she lowered her hand.

Keefer stared at his orange ball of puff. I don't know anything about this little guy except that he's a pygmy puff... if it's a he, that is. He suddenly wanted to ask how to tell the gender of your pygmy puff, but figured that may end up being an inappropriate question and held his tongue. So he had to settle for a much tamer question.

He set Sutherland on his shoulder and carefully raised his other hand so as to not send him/her/it flying. "Professor, I think the 'puff' part of the name is pretty obvious... but where does the 'pygmy' part come from?" And does anyone ever use them for Beater practice?

Oops! Ira's mistake! "Oh yeah, good afternoon professor!" she said smiling.

They all had to say something about the pygmy puff? What could she say? Ira knew next to nothing about them. Yeah, that was kinda surprising since she adored and loved the pygmy puffs!

Still, out of habit she raised her hand, and said, "Other than the fact they are such cuties, I don't know anything else.." she blurted out. Perhaps, it would have been better if she had just kept quiet.. Or she should have looked up for some information before coming to class. But then she asked a question, "Professor, what do they eat? And how to recognize if its a he or a she?"

Alyssa thought about something that they did and raised her hand again."Professor when they are contented they make a low humming sound, just like cats do, only cats purr."

Yeah, Jezz had gone and broken her own rules but she couldn't just cut class. She raised her hand slowly and said, "I'd like to know what magical properties, if any, they posses." She needed to get a Pygmy Puff though. They were just so adorable.

Justin knew nothing of pygmy puffs so he tried writing the answers that the older students were saying.

Minerva looked at the cute purple pygmy she had just picked up and then turned back to the professor. "I think they look like a puff ball." she didn't know to much about them. "Can they be mean professor or bite?" Many animals bit so she wasn't sure about the pygmy puffs. They looked to cute to be mean though.

Sophie was still smiling at her light purple Pygmy Puff while holding it in front of her face. It was just too adorable!

When Professor Williamson asked the question, Sophie glanced at him, lowered her Pygmy Puff and raised her hand. "The only thing I know about them is that they are... little Puffskeins." And they were ADORABLE! "Maybe they're exactly like Puffskeins, like, the act just like them, eat what they eat and... stuff. But maybe less, because of their size." Or whatever. They were adorable, that was all that mattered!

Right, the kids were coming up with some pretty good answers so far. Williamson pointed his wand at the wall just behind his bale of hay and the lists of knowns/want to knows suddenly appeared behind him as the students kept them coming.

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STUFF WE KNOW

• magical creatures
• girls seem to like them
• resemble overly fuzzy hamsters
• round balls of fluff
• eat snot
• trainable
• found at WWW's in Diagon Alley
• first bred by Fred/George Weasley
• hum/purr
• miniature puffskeins

STUFF WE WANT TO KNOW

• exception to the Ban on Experimental Breeding???
• eat what???
• why are they so adorable???
• can be trained to NOT eat snot???
• what does pygmy mean???
• how does one discover a puff's gender???
• what magical properties do they possess??

"This is a really good looking list so far," Williamson nodded approvingly. "Feel free to jot this down, as it will likely be useful when it comes time to do your homework. Then I want you all to partner up and try to answer ONE of the questions on this list. If you can't answer it, GOOD! I want you to think scientifically about the question and come up with some sort of process or method of discovering the answer to your question."

It was like detective work! The stuff of REAL Magizoologists!


ooc: going offline for the night. Follow the directions above and I'll post again tomorrow afternoon (EST). =)

Alyssa quickly noted down the questions that needed answering in her journal before looking around for a partner. "Does anyone want to partner up with me?" she called out to the students in the barnyard.

Minerva looked at Justin. "Ok partner what do you think about trying to figure out what magical properties do they possess? I guess we could try to figure out the gender, but I'm not sure the little thing would like that. What do you think?" she looked at the puff and wondered how they would tell the gender, she wasn't about to feel around for anything so unless they could just look she thought it best to find a different question.

Justin chuckled at Minerva's comment about sexing the little purple puff she was holding. " Well, I don't know anything about these things. " he said as he opened up his book and scanned the table of contents.

"Well we are suppose to think scientifically" she got a little tongue tied saying that would and laughed a bit. "So I'm thinking we would maybe do trial and error with it seeing what type of magic it has. Maybe put things near it that it might want to move or get away from. I don't really know, what do you think?"

Annabelle took down the notes in her notebook. She was really keen to learn more about pygmy puffs. "Does anyone need a partner? Annabelle asked. She turned red because she didn't particuarly like meeting new people.

Deciding that she wanted to try and figure out a solution to her own question, Kurumi wrote it nice and big at the top of her parchment and then looked around the room. "Anyone interested in trying to pick apart the Ban on Experimental Breeding and its relation to pygmy puffs?" No sense in beating around the bush with what she wanted to do, right?

What did the professor mean exactly by thinking scientifically?! Selena scratched her pygmy puff's head as she thought about it. She supposed she'd just need a SMART partner then because Selena knew about pygmy puffs. Kinda. Right. Partner.

"HEEEEEY! Who wants to be partners with me and the KING of all pygmy puffs?"

Because it didn't matter what the professor said, Kent wasn't going to be dethroned. Psht. Silly professor.

Taylor saw the older hufflepuff girl that she met at the starting feast asking for a partner, "Alyssa if you want i can be your partener." TAy smiled and walked over to ALyssa.

Vickers was eying the board, interesting questions indeed, but the very first one was what took his attention. He turned his head when someone actually voiced it out loud. "I would Kurumi." the Ravenclaw replied, picking up his things and the lil pygmy puff then moved towards her.

Justin looked at the pygmy puff and nodded to Minerva. " Let's see if it likes cookies. " he said as he took out a cookie from his bag and put it in front of the little creature.

Oakey looked at batman again. I sure hope you're a guy. He/she would need a name change If he was indeed a she. Perhaps Batgirl or maybe Catwoman. Does anybody want to figure out genders? That was a strange way to ask for a partner.

Minerva was a little surprised at Justin's response they weren't trying to figure out what the puff ate they were trying to figure out what magic powers it might have, but then she realized he was trying to see if the puff might use some magic at the cookie. She took out her parchment and her quill. "Well the professor said to come up with a process. So if we are doing the magic question then we need to figure out ways to get it to use magic. What type of magic do others animals have?" she wasn't sure other then what she read in books at the library and come to think of it she didn't take out many animal books. She made a mental note to go check some out.

Kurumi's head spun around when she heard someone say they wanted to work with her and her face brightened just a bit. "It would be my pleasure," she said with a small bow of her the head as she scooted over a bit so they could work together more easily.

Now...where to even begin with this task? "I suppose...we should start with the actual wording of the ban?" she suggested as she began flipping through the pages of her textbook. That should be in here somewhere...right?