CoMC Two: Pygmy Puffs
 

Professor Williamson finished putting the last little spell on the enclosure containing more than a dozen happy, humming pygmy puffs of every color before stalking over to the doors of the barn. He threw them open with a grin, shivered a bit as the nippy air started to filter in, and then moved back inside where it was warm.

The man took a seat on one of the bales of hay scattered in a semi-circle near the pygmy puff enclosure and nodded to the students who were filtering in. "If you have a pygmy puff, feel free to pick out your own hay bale and create a name card for you and your puff. If you don't have a pet puff already, grab one out of that corral over there and settle down. Feel free to name it, make a name card, pet it, get to to know it, all that."

He picked up his own pygmy puff for the day, a lime green one named Nerf, and started petting it til it purred. Hehehee. Hopefully the class would enjoy this low-key lesson a bit more than the ah, last eventful one.

Oh yes, and he named a name card for himself too! Williamson flicked his wand at the stack of scrap parchments in the corner and caused one to decorate itself for him and Nerf.

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Name: Professor Williamson Year: Graduated House: Slytherin Pygmy: Nerf

USEFUL LINKS:
Starting Class/What do you know about pygmy puffs?
Partner up/Answer a Question
Report on Partner Work
Answer: the Origin of the Name 'Pygmy' and Exemption to Ban on Breeding
Meet Arnold/Who Studied Genders?
Guesses on Genders
Answer: How to Tell the Genders Apart
Answer: What Pygmy Puffs Eat
Answer: Pygmy Puffs Have Magical Powers
Activity: Pygmy Puff Bowling!
Homework: The Pygmy Puff Project Diaries

Selena was so ready for this pygmy puff lesson. Selena hummed to herself, skipping around the grounds as she made her way down to her destination. "Pygmy puff, pygmy puff~ Does whatever a pygmy puff does!" Selena sang to herself as she balanced Kent on her head, walking towards the class. "Can he sing this song? No he can't~ He's a ball of fluff. Loooook oooouuuuuut, he's a pygmy puff~" Selena continued singing before she looked around.

Pygmy puffs.

They were EVERYWHERE. It was Selena's dream come true. Kent could now rightfully RULE OVER all of these puffs. It was her pygmy puff's job after all. "Heeeellllooooo professor!!!" Selena exclaimed, beaming at the professor as she pet Kent. Selena blinked at the green pygmy puff in the professor's hand. Selena wanted to POKE the green ball of fluff but she would restrain herself. "Does your pygmy puff eat snot too?" Because it was the COLOR of snot. And with that little statement, Selena plopped down on a seat close to the front and started to make a name card for Kent.

"Alright Kent, remember, you're the king of all Pygmy Puffs. In other words, you're more awesometastical," Selena said to her pygmy puff before squishing him slightly. She was definitely ready for this lesson.

Tristan entered the barn, checking his watch. Yup, this was the place. But it seemed empty. Well, except for the professor of course. Tristan was sure he was just a tad bit early. The boy gave a little wave in acknowledgement, ignoring the knots starting to bind in his stomach. Maybe they would go away if he didn't say anything?

Wandering over to the pen, the boy peered inside. Pygmy.... puffs? Is that what they were called? Some of the girls in his house had them. From what he could tell, they were some kind of a wizarding pet, though he thought they looked more like over-sized, long haired hamsters. He hoped he wasn't allergic to them. Tristan was already allergic to dogs and cats.

Following the lead of another girl that had entered, he scooped up a Pygmy Puff from the pen and sat down to create a name card. The little thing stared up at him with shining eyes and ruffled orange fluff. Heh. He liked this one. But it appeared that they were supposed to name them. ERM. Huh. He was going to have to think on that one.

Oakey made his way into the barnyard and heard the professor's instructions to claim a pigmy puff for this lesson. He walked over to the collection of pigmy puff's and eyed a dark purple one. It looked at him and he continued to look at it...There they were bonded now right? Oakey would never understand the affinity girls had to these things. To him they just looked like little cat toys.

Picking up the Dark Purple one he set it on his should and took one of the name cards and filled it out.

Oakey looked to the Cat toy who was sitting peacefully on his shoulder as he filled out the last part of the card. Yeah, you look like a Batman to me. You don't take nothin from nobody. You are the Vigilante of Pygmy Puffs, always stalking the other Pygmy's in the shadows. Pygmy Puff Crime is at a record low because of you. The Pygmy Puff looked back at Oakey with it's cute little eyes. Oakey tried to resist the charm of this little guy but he could not. A smile formed on his face as he continued looking at Batman.

Ella entered the barn with a smile. She was anxious to get to this lesson as her fascination with magical creatures had been growing for a while now. She smiled at the Professor, greeting him with a friendly "Hello professor! How are you?" She then grabbed a Pygmy puff as directed and brought the little yellow guy back to her seat. Hmmm what to name him...He looks like a Barnabus to me! Ella tickled the little pygmy puff with a smile. "Hello Barnabus, I'm Ella." She then got out her quill and filled out the name card.

(pygmy puff name="cloud" in French)
 

Kurumi felt a little nervous around Professor Williamson now after what had happened with a certainly little creature in the pond. She had never seen him EXPLODE like that and had taken him for the more free-spirited type. Still, she had learned one thing from the experience: never get on the man's bad side.

Entering the barn, Kurumi wished that she hadn't had to give up her pygmy puff...but Walnut was just TOO dangerous around the poor little pink ball of fluff, confusing him for cotton candy and what not. "Good day, Professor Williamson," Kurumi smiled as she approached all the pygmy puffs. "Is...he safe?" Obviously referring to the minnow eating creature.

Kurumi then selected the first pygmy puff that squeak!purred in her direction and held the coral pink creature in her hands.

Finding a seat, Kurumi first made up her nametag.

Momotaro II began to jump and squirm in her hands, clearly not pleased to be there, so Kurumi set him on her shoulder and he seemed to like that more, cooing softly and rubbing itself against her cheek.

Anya wondered if it was possible to die from cute overdose. Why? Because the squeal that left her mouth seeing all those ickle puff balls nearly choked her.

They were just SOOOO cute!

She leaned over and grinned fondly at the happy little creatures. It was too bad she couldn't have more than one. She wanted all of them! All the puff balls!

Oh well. "Hello Professor." she greeted as she passed Mr. Crumpet Owner Man Guy.

She took a seat and got to work on her nametag thing.

Ira trudged towards the barn for the next CoMC class. But she was a little excited for this lesson, as it had something to do with the cute little pygmy puffs. They were so... beautiful!

She walked inside the barn and greeted the professor, "Good Morning Professor". Then she made her way towards the cupboard to choose a pygmy puff. But most of them were Pink! And no, Ira didn't like pink. But there were a few violet ones too. Ira took one of the dark pink colored ones. Yeah, it was cute!

She then took a parchment and went and took g=her seat and then made her nametag:
Yup, she had decided to name her pygmy puff as Viola. She settled it on her lap and cooed and petted it, rubbing her hands softly all over it, smiling as it too purred in response.

Selina held Owen tight in her hands as she walked into the barn. He had wriggling all morning and the little Pygmy puff that she had gotten when she was a first year. In fact, now that she thought about it, she had gotten Owen the summer before her first year. It seemed like yesterday, but the little odd Pygmy puff that was red and yellow had been with her for four years now. Wow time did fly.

Her hands stroked the small little yellow and red misfit pygmy puff and nodded at WWW, "Hello sir, good morning." She then took one of the little note cards and made her way to her station, while grabbed some hay on the way.

Lily trudged through the snow to get down to her CoMC class. When she entered the barn, She noticed that it was much warmer inside. Seeing that there was already a group of people, Lily came in quietly. She saw the professor and giving him a grin, she greeted him. "Hello Professor Williamson." She walked over to the pen of pygmy puffs, since she didn't own one. Reaching in, she picked up a light blue one. Petting it's little fluff-ness, she walked over to a haybale and sat down. She pulled out a quill so that she could write on her nametag.
After putting her quill away, She looked down at the little Pygmy just sitting on her lap. "You look kinda like a blueberry, so I'm gonna call you blueberry..." Lily wasn't feeling all that creative, so she just went with what came to mind first. She picked blueberry and looked at him/her. "You look kinda cute..." Lily grinned and went to work petting Blue until the little pygmy purred like a very content cat would.

Following the students in to the barn, Daichi shivered at the cold outside but felt relieved when he found out that it was nice and warm inside.the barn. It seemed that the Professor had not lied to him when he had told the.next lesson was going to be.in this place.

He wrapped the scarf around his neck and let it hang loosely over his shoulders. His hair was sticking out.in EVERY direction for he had been ruffling.his hair in front.of the mirror before he.came.here. He hated it that peole were always ruffling his hair and now they couldn't do it anymore for it already was a mess! He is such a genius!

"Hello Professor Wiliamson" he greeted the man with a warm yet shy smile and bowed politely. He listened to his words and since he did not have.a puff he started to look for one.

His dark brown eyes caught a grey looking pygmy puff in one of the corners and Daichi's heart melted. He smiled as he walked to the other side and picked the grey puff up before walking to somewhere to sit.

As he wrote down his information, the Pygmy puff that he had placed on his shoulder, was snuggling close to his neck and Daichi giggled at the tickling fur.

Sierra looked up at the professor as he instructed them to fetch a Pygmy Puff and, even worse, name the thing. It'd taken her years to name her own owl, and that was because she didn't consider it a pet but rather a service. She didn't even like animals, so why did she...

Oh, BLAH.

She headed up to the Puffs and grabbed one anyway, not even caring what color it was. She was actually pleasantly surprised as she looked down at it. She'd selected a pretty green one, which made her think a little more of the creature.

...and she had the perfect name for it.

Yes, It. That was all she really cared to name it.

Asher was very excited about this CoMC lesson. He loved his little Pygmy Puff Cosmo..... actually every pygmy puff was cute. He made his way down to where the lesson was being held, Cosmo riding on his shoulder.

As he walked into the barn his pygmy puff jumped down and ran over to a familiar girl and her Pygmy, Poof.

Asher greeted the Professor. "Good afternoon Professor." He said with a smile before heading over to where his puff had ran off too. He plooped down beside Anya and Poof.

He smirked a bit. "It looks like it was a good thing I got Poof for you over the summer." He patted the light red puff on the top of it's head as his own puff blueish purplely puff crawled up on his lap.

Asher pulled out a quill and jotted his info on a card.

Alyssa walked into the Barnyard and was glad that CoMC class hadn't officially started yet. She walked over to greet the Professor, "Hello Professor Williamson. I'm glad that we're having another Care of Magical Creatures lesson, because I really loved the last one we had." she smiled up at him. 'Hopefully this time we won't end up with dummies again.' Alyssa thought to herself.

Since she didn't have a Pygmy Puff of her own, she went over to to the corrall and picked up a bright reddish orange one up and returned back to everyone was sitting and wrote down her information on her name tag:

Yes she had decided to name her Pygmy Puff, Nerfball

Sorry I can't quote you all; welcome welcome to class!!
 

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Originally Posted by iBeJenn (Post 10909307) Selena was so ready for this pygmy puff lesson. Selena hummed to herself, skipping around the grounds as she made her way down to her destination. "Pygmy puff, pygmy puff~ Does whatever a pygmy puff does!" Selena sang to herself as she balanced Kent on her head, walking towards the class. "Can he sing this song? No he can't~ He's a ball of fluff. Loooook oooouuuuuut, he's a pygmy puff~" Selena continued singing before she looked around. Pygmy puffs. They were EVERYWHERE. It was Selena's dream come true. Kent could now rightfully RULE OVER all of these puffs. It was her pygmy puff's job after all. "Heeeellllooooo professor!!!" Selena exclaimed, beaming at the professor as she pet Kent. Selena blinked at the green pygmy puff in the professor's hand. Selena wanted to POKE the green ball of fluff but she would restrain herself. "Does your pygmy puff eat snot too?" Because it was the COLOR of snot. And with that little statement, Selena plopped down on a seat close to the front and started to make a name card for Kent. "Alright Kent, remember, you're the king of all Pygmy Puffs. In other words, you're more awesometastical," Selena said to her pygmy puff before squishing him slightly. She was definitely ready for this lesson.

Well well. Look who was here first: it was the Puff-loving prefect Selena Zabini-Riddle and her pygmy puff. "Kent, the King of All Pygmy Puffs?" Williamson read aloud, tilting his head at the name plate with a smirk. "Are you sure about that, Selena? I have a feeling someone might just try to dethrone him today....."

Just sayin'! "And yes," Will chuckled and hosted his puff up to his shoulder, which caused the creature to start purring more loudly. "Nerf LOVES snot." In fact, his pink tongue was sneaking across his cheek toward his nose right now.... William swatted it away and grinned at the name of the pygmy puff of the next student.

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Originally Posted by MyPatronusIsaMoose (Post 10909324) ....Oakey made his way into the barnyard and heard the professor's instructions to claim a pigmy puff for this lesson. He walked over to the collection of pigmy puff's and eyed a dark purple one. It looked at him and he continued to look at it...There they were bonded now right? Oakey would never understand the affinity girls had to these things. To him they just looked like little cat toys. Picking up the Dark Purple one he set it on his should and took one of the name cards and filled it out. Oakey looked to the Cat toy who was sitting peacefully on his shoulder as he filled out the last part of the card. Yeah, you look like a Batman to me. You don't take nothin from nobody. You are the Vigilante of Pygmy Puffs, always stalking the other Pygmy's in the shadows. Pygmy Puff Crime is at a record low because of you. The Pygmy Puff looked back at Oakey with it's cute little eyes. Oakey tried to resist the charm of this little guy but he could not. A smile formed on his face as he continued looking at Batman.

"....Na na na na na naaaaah BATMAN!" William sang under his breath. "Nice name, Oakey."

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Originally Posted by TakemetotheBurrow (Post 10909325) Ella entered the barn with a smile. She was anxious to get to this lesson as her fascination with magical creatures had been growing for a while now. She smiled at the Professor, greeting him with a friendly "Hello professor! How are you?" She then grabbed a Pygmy puff as directed and brought the little yellow guy back to her seat. Hmmm what to name him...He looks like a Barnabus to me! Ella tickled the little pygmy puff with a smile. "Hello Barnabus, I'm Ella." She then got out her quill and filled out the name card.

"Hello hello!" William smiled at the energetic Puff. "I'm doing great, how are you?"

He liked her Puff's name too. In fact he just like ALL of them!

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Originally Posted by Cassandra (Post 10909331) TAylor entered the barn and nodded at the professor, "Good afternoon professor." Her lavendar pygmy puff was sitting on her head. She reached up and took down Mercy. Tay took a seat and put the puff on her lap. She made the name tag like the professor instructed. Taylor was happy that it seem that this lesson would be low-key.

"Good afternoon!" Williamson returned the greeting.

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Originally Posted by SilverTiger (Post 10909351) Care of Magical Creatures, down in the barnyard. Stella was definitely curious, even though she didn't have much connection to magical creatures in general. Not like the others who had them for pets. Lyra was just a cat, and she was pretty sure Oberon didn't count. Not when he was just a charmed tiny sculpture. The humming as she entered the barn was nice, though. "Good afternoon, Professor Williamson," she said with a smile, going over to the enclosure as instructed and looking at the pygmy puffs inside. She'd always thought about getting one. odds were the professor wouldn't let her keep the one she picked for this lesson, however, but at least maybe this would help her decide if she really did want one.

"Good afternoon to you too, Miss Gardner." Ooh so her puff was named after clouds? COOL.

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Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie (Post 10909359) Entering the barn, Kurumi wished that she hadn't had to give up her pygmy puff...but Walnut was just TOO dangerous around the poor little pink ball of fluff, confusing him for cotton candy and what not. "Good day, Professor Williamson," Kurumi smiled as she approached all the pygmy puffs. "Is...he safe?" Obviously referring to the minnow eating creature.

"Hi, Kurumi," Williamson stroked Nerf fondly and smiled at the Prefect. Hopefully she wouldn't think too oddly of him after the Lobalug Incident?

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Originally Posted by LilFox06 (Post 10909417) Oh well. "Hello Professor." she greeted as she passed Mr. Crumpet Owner Man Guy. She took a seat and got to work on her nametag thing.

"Hello Miss Phillips," Will nodded at the girl and raised a brow. Hopefully she (and her pygmy puff) wouldn't try climbing trees or swinging from rafters anything during this lesson....

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Originally Posted by nups21 (Post 10909430) She walked inside the barn and greeted the professor, "Good Morning Professor". Then she made her way towards the cupboard to choose a pygmy puff. But most of them were Pink! And no, Ira didn't like pink. But there were a few violet ones too. Ira took one of the dark pink colored ones. Yeah, it was cute!

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Originally Posted by fanficfanatict (Post 10909437) Her hands stroked the small little yellow and red misfit pygmy puff and nodded at WWW, "Hello sir, good morning." She then took one of the little note cards and made her way to her station, while grabbed some hay on the way.

"Good afternoon to you too!" he subtly corrected the Ravenclaw and Gryffindor with a wink.

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Originally Posted by Hermione Lily Potter (Post 10909448) Lily trudged through the snow to get down to her CoMC class. When she entered the barn, She noticed that it was much warmer inside. Seeing that there was already a group of people, Lily came in quietly. She saw the professor and giving him a grin, she greeted him. "Hello Professor Williamson." She walked over to the pen of pygmy puffs, since she didn't own one. Reaching in, she picked up a light blue one. Petting it's little fluff-ness, she walked over to a haybale and sat down. She pulled out a quill so that she could write on her nametag.

"Hello," he returned the greeting, noting the snow on the girl's robes. He'd give the stragglers a few more minutes and then go close the doors to the barn so that it would stay warm in here.

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Originally Posted by Macavity (Post 10909451) "Good day professor," Gideon greeted as he walked over to the enclosure as fellow students were also doing. The 5th year looking over his choice of creatures and having no clue which one to chose. Finally settling on a deep violet one, he gently picked it up and set it in the palm of his hand before making his way over to the hay bales to take a seat near Selina. "Hey," he said with a soft smile. He took up a card and began filling it out...pausing as they were to think of a name for their puff.

"Hello!" he acknowledged the Gryffindor with a smile, nodding at the other students as well. "Just a few more minutes, everyone, and then we will start."

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Originally Posted by CassiopeiaAKTF (Post 10909471) "Hello Professor Wiliamson" he greeted the man with a warm yet shy smile and bowed politely. He listened to his words and since he did not have.a puff he started to look for one.

Ahh, and here were the last few students now. Williamson spotted Daichi and wondered if he should just pretend to communicate with him via telekinesis or should actually greet the boy?

He went with the later. "Hello," he winked at him. "Nice hairdo."

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Originally Posted by Anna Banana (Post 10909475) ...and she had the perfect name for it. Yes, It. That was all she really cared to name it.

"It, Sierra, really, IT?" Williamson shook his head in obvious disapproval. "I sure hope that's inspired by the Muggle Aadams family member 'It' and not out of dislike for these awesome creatures...."

That girl. Tsk. She was more of an It than her Puff was.

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Originally Posted by ShadowButterfly (Post 10909501) She walked into the baryard,"Hello Professor Williamson." She picked up a puff from the corral since she didn't have her own. She picked up a green one and sat with the others.

"Hello!" Williamson returned the Slytherin's greeting. "Welcome to class."

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Originally Posted by FireboltAvis88 (Post 10909482) Alyssa walked into the Barnyard and was glad that CoMC class hadn't officially started yet. She walked over to greet the Professor, "Hello Professor Williamson. I'm glad that we're having another Care of Magical Creatures lesson, because I really loved the last one we had." she smiled up at him. 'Hopefully this time we won't end up with dummies again.' Alyssa thought to herself.

And Alyssa was here now, so apparently they could start. Heh. "Hello, Alyssa, you have to be the first person to tell me that." He rubbed at his chin but stood up from his bale of hay. Interesting how her pygmy puff had almost the same name as his... huh.


"Anyway, class, it looks like most of you are here so let's go ahead and start. How about each person tells me ONE thing they already know about pygmy puffs OR one thing they would LIKE to know about pygmy puffs. Raise your hands please!"

Williamson made his way over to the doors as he said this and slammed them both shut, keeping the cold out.


ooc: Class has now officially started. Do NOT announce your late arrival or your House WILL lose points. =)

Pygmy Puff?

Wow. Evelyn liked those creatures..they were quite adorable and she was glad that they were going to be working with Pygmy Puffs rather than some creepy looking creatures.

She hesitantly walked over to the corral and her face lit up as she picked up a really cute looking pink Pygmy Puff. Aw.

The girl picked up a name card before she sat down. She settled the creature down next to her before she wrote :

Tristan clasped his hands together and made a swing for his orange friend. Aristotle curiously climbed into the young boy's hands and squealed in delight as he was gently rocked back and forth.

Doing an awkward jerky motion to indicate that he was raising his hand to answer Professor Williamson's question, Tristan answered, "Well they're magical creatures. And girls seem to like them. And they sort of resemble overly fuzzy hamsters." The fact that he was participating in class through speaking was rare. However, the fact that Tristan was giving an honest "I-have-no-idea-what-I'm-talking-about-so-I'm-just-going-to-say-something" answer was even more unexpected. Well how's that for crazy?

Ella smiled at the Professor. "I'm doing well, thanks!" Then she listened as the he asked the class to tell one thing they knew or wanted to know about the pygmy puffs. Ella's hand shot in the air, curious about a few things. "Professor, I was wondering what the pygmy puffs eat-if the even eat? I really don't know much about them!" she said, shrugging her shoulders.

Momotaro II continued to coo on Kurumi's shoulder, distracting her considerably from hearing Professor Williamson begin the lesson. She ran her index finger over the top of his head and returned his cooing noises - which seemed to please him as he shut is big doey eyes. N'aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaw. Kurumi had to resist the urge to say that out loud actually, and bit her lip in doing so. The slightly sharp pain that shot through her lip woke her up enough to hear the tail end of Professor Williamson's question and she raised her left hand so as not to disturb the pygmy puff on her right shoulder.

"I am sort of curious as to why pygmy puffs seem to be an exception to the law regarding the Ban on Experimental Breeding law," she said as she rubbed her cheek against the cooing creature. "Is it because they are merely an undersize Puffskein? Or perhaps too adorable?" Because, just one look into those big eyes and you sort of wanted to do whatever the creature asked of you just like Puss n Boots.

Lily was glad once the doors to the barn were shut. It made it even warmer, which was good because it was cold out. Lily raised her hand to tell one thing about the puffs. "Well, they are like round balls of fluff." Lily piped up, stating the only real thing she knew about pygmy puffs, especially since she had never interacted with one before. She smirked as she looked down at Blueberry, who seemed to be asleep on Lily's lap.

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.

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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.

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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! :x3:

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!

last post for me for the night
 

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!


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*Taylor*
 

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?"

*waves to all you lovely 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?

Partner, anyone? C:
 

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.

you you you! *stomps foot*
 

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.

*hops up and down* MY FOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!! *wails*
 

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?

She claimed a bail of hay and a pygmy puff which was teal in color.In responce to the professers second question, she said They've been known to sing on boxing day, and eat boogers and dust. She wrote the required information on her papper, then coppied down notes.

It was time to look for a partner, sigh. Olivias favorite part of the lesson, as much as she liked to meet new people. New people diddnt seem to like meeting her...

Olivia was still looking for a partner, she noticed sanother girl was looking for one, she may not be Slytherin but Olivia was not picky about partners. The points she earned would go to Slytherin anyway! "I need one!" Olivia responded to the girls question. Olivia hoped she was not being awkward.

" Well..." said Justin, " I think the best way of going about this is to provocate a little. " he said as he put down the cookie and looked at it closely. " What do you suppose we do? I don't want to get it too upset. "

Minerva looked at the little puff sitting so cute and nicely. Maybe it didn't have any magic to it she wasn't sure. "Well I don't know. Can you tell me what type of magic other animals have? Muggle animals don't have magic and I haven't come across to many animals with magic powers." starting there might help figure this out. "Then I think we need to write down some steps we would use to get it to use the powers. Like talking to it, that is if it understand us."

"Hi Taylor. Thanks for partnering up with me. So which question do you want to work on? I looked at the questions and I think "What They Eat" would be interesting question to work on. Are you okay with that or do you have another preference?"Alyssa asked Taylor.

Anyone want to be my partner?
 

TAylor nodded and replied to the thanks, "Anytime Alyssa." She smiled and about the question, "That would be interesting to work on." Tay nodded and laughed. She held Mercy, her own pygmny puff in her arms but she wiggled out and climbed up onto Taylor's head. Taylor looked up at the puff and giggled, she raised her arms and took the puff off her head and held Mercy again in her arms.

" Good idea. " Justin said as he took out a piece of parchement and began a list of magical creatures that had powers.


" There take a look. That's as far as I got. What do you think? Can you add anything? " Justin asked as he showed Minerva his parchement.

Vickers flipped through his textbook until he found the page "Says here the ban started in 1965, put forward by Newt Scamander...." he started as his eyes travelled down the page "... it seems to me that its primary intention was to prevent the creation of new and untameable monsters within Britain. "

*snags you*
 

When the Professor jotted down the lists of knowns/want to knows about the Pygmy Puffs, Messer quickly copied it down to his notebook. Then he heard Professor Williamson asked them to find a partner to try to answer one of the question in the board. He looked around to find someone who still partnerless like him.

Then he saw an older Hufflepuff girl whom he met at the Diagon Alley before the school started. What's her name again? Errr..Amalia? Kimialia? No that's the SLytherin Quidditch Captain' name. Amelia? Oh yeah its Amelia. "ME!" he said raising his hand up in the air and slowly walking toward the girl with the Pgymy Puff resting in his shoulder. "I hope you don't mind working with a first year." he said because he know some of the students usually prefer looking for a partner in his/her year rather partner up with a younger students.

Someone grab him and drop me a VM ;)
 

Jory took down all the information on Pygmy Puffs and then provided his own:

Partner! Again... At that moment he heard someone asking for a partner. "Hi there!'' he said "Do you mind if I be your partner?'' he asked hopefully.
It took Jory a while to realise someone else had already asked the older girl. "Looks like you already got someone,'' he said..

Looking around, he asked "Anyone wanna partner up with me?''

Alyssa looked as Taylor's Pygmy Puff climbed all over her head before Taylor was able to grab it and hold it back in her arms. She wished that she had got her own Pygmy Puff when her mother had suggested that she get one. But she already had her Owl to take care of, and with classes and homework, Alyssa didnt think that she would be able to take care of another creature, let alone have time to play with it. But she decided that she would visit the Pygmy Puffs here in the corrall after class. But for now, they had to work on their assignment.

"Great. So we'll work on What they Eat. Why don't we write down a list of food that we'll feed it and eliminate the ones that they don't want to eat. Hopefully, we'll be able to come up with a complete possible list when Professor Williamson asks for it."Alyssa told Taylor. "If you want I can start off the list and you can add to it when you see something I've missed. And then we'll work off the list."

Amelia was looking around the class area looking like a dork when she spotted a boy walking towards her. He was adorable. :33 And she was sure that she had seen him somewhere before. His name was Edgar. Or no... Edward. Something like Edward. :/ Or was it Edvard? o_O Meh, she had no idea. Maybe he'd let her call him Ed? >_<

"Of course I don't mind working with you... Edvard." Please let that be his name.

He was glad that she didn't mind working with a younger student. But then he frowned when the older girl called him Edvard. "Umm..Its Messer." You don't want to mix up him with Professor Roslund since they share the same first name. "And umm..You're Amelia, right?" That's her name, right? He didn't say the wrong name didn't he?

"So which question do you want to work on?" He didn't really know much about Pgymy Puffs maybe she knows more about the creatures.

Kurumi leaned over a bit in her seat to see the page Vickers was looking at. "Hmmm...does that mean that perhaps pygmy puffs are considered tamable creatures?" she asked, cocking her head to the side a bit as she thought more, returning her gaze to her own textbook. "It seems like the creatures that the law seems to come down on are those with a Ministry rating of XXXXX..." she continued, looking at her own book and following a few lines with her finger. Kurumi flipped through the pages of her book again, looking up various creatures, when she stopped on Blast-Ended Skrewts. "Wait...Blast-Ended Skrewt aren't tamable either, are they? I don't believe that Rubeus Hagrid was ever punished for breeding them illegally either..."

So...what? Pygmy puffs had never killed someone so they were an exception?

"There must be a loop hole somewhere..."

Alyssa started working on the feeding list. As she wrote, she smiled thinking of the various possibilities that the Pygmy Puff could eat. She wrote down their options in her journal.



"Want to add or take anything off the list, Taylor?" Alyssa asked her partner.

Sophie was still staring at her ADORABLE Pygmy Puff when she noticed they should partner up. "Oh!" She got up and started looking for a partner.

She spotted a Hufflepuff boy she had never met before and walked up to him. "Hello there! I'm Sophie!" She smiled and waved at him. "Do you need a partner? Because I do!" Heh!

I claim, I claim! :3
 

Kennedy jotted down the list Professor Williamson had provided them. He was curious about all of them, but one thing he was curious of the most, was how people could tell the gender of a Pygmy Puff. Before Puff betrayed him he found out she was a girl because she bit him when he called her a him.

Yeah, he didn't want a repeat of this. The Pygmy Puff he had borrowed he had named it Violet because it was...violet. He had NO idea if it was a female or male.


When they were instructed to find a partner to do some scientific stuff Kennedy stood up and glanced around. He was excited about going about this the scientific way. The boy even pushed his glasses up so that they were perfectly balanced on the bridge of his nose.

He jumped when he heard a very excited voice. Selena.

"I do!" he said, his hand shooting up into the air as if he was answering a question. He waled to her along with Violet who was shyly perched on his shoulder.

Someone grab her quick! :)
 

Glenn took a Pygmy Puff from the corral and held it gently in her hands. It was a deep purple one and it's fur felt surprisingly soft in her hands. She shifted it to her shoulder and smiled at the small Pygmy Puff that had nestled into her curls that were out around her shoulders. She set about making a name tag.

Glenn looked around the other students and asked, "Um- anyone want to partner up with me?" Hmm.

I'll claim you ^_^
 

Zhenya listened to the questions and thoughts other students had. They ate SNOT? She snorted in disbelief.

Oh no, not more partners. Zhenya sat there and stroked her red Pygmy Puff. "Does anyone want to partner up?" she asked

GAAAAAAAAAASP!

He thought his hair was nice?! Daichi's eyes twinkled as he heard that comment. He ran a hand through his REALLY messy hair and grinned proudly. "Thanks sir~!" he shouted excitedly because someone liked his hair. "I worked reeeeaally hard on it" and it was true. Styling his hair was a task already but making it stick out in every direction... it was art! And the Slytherin couldn't believe he used to dislike it. Stupid friends for ruffling his hair all the time...it was their fault he looked so cool now! hehehe

As the first question came, Daichi decided to play with his grey pygmy puff, Ducky Duck instead of answering the question. He didn't know anything about puffs and the things he wanted to know where already ask sooo...why bother eh?

As it was time to partner up, the Slytherin got up from where he was sitting and placed Ducky Duck on his head just like he had seen Pygmy Girl do at the lake. Too bad that his puff didn't like being on top of his crazy hair so he settled it...her...him...back down. It was a him in Daichi's mind. yesh. "Anyone want to be my and ducky duck's partner?!" he asked.

Ira jotted down the points written on the blackboard. She had her pygmy puff Viola on her lap and was delicately petting it with her left hand. And then she saw what she was writing.. was it really written that 'girls seem to like them'? Boys didn't like them or what? Whatever!

She nodded at the task set out by the professor. Thank God, they didn't have to go swimming in dark waters or anything like last lesson. This time they just had to get to know the pygmy puffs. That was interesting.

Ira looked around for a partner, and saw Zhenya. Ira waved to her.


"Hey Zhenya! Can we be partners for this lesson?" Ira asked her.

Vickers looked up at Kurumi "But pygmy puffs are already tame.... " he uttered baffled. Then it was his turn to lean towards Kurumi as she read from her book "Yeah.... Groundskeeper Hagrid wasnt punished about those screwts.... then again maybe Headmaster Dumbledore protected him from the Ministry, made it appear like it was his idea." he shrugged slightly. That sounded like politicking that the Ravenclaw boy wasnt sure to pursue at this point.

He leaned back in his seat, playing with the corners of the page as he pondered "I think it was clear that Scamander didnt want cross-breeding between species that would result in a creature thats unpredictable or impossible to control. Things like the Blast-Ended Screwt. Maybe Hagrid got lucky that he wasnt penalized-- and besides he didnt continue breeding those things after the first generation did he?"

"But the Weasleys..... they made a business out of pygmy puffs-- they were breeding them continuously. I mean with that alone-- shouldnt they have gotten a permit?" he continued, flipping the book for something that covered the Weasley Duo "Or maybe Experimental Banning doesnt cover miniature versions of an existing creature-- like how some Muggles would breed miniature horses. They're not exactly creating a new specie, just another kind of breed. I guess the same goes with pygmy puffs? After all they are miniature versions of puffskeins."

Laura looked at the Professor and then listened so she needed to find a partner, this was something Laura wasn't good at but well she'd try and find one anyway. "Anyone want to be partners?"

Minerva looked at the list very interested. "Justin I don't know much about magical creatures so I'm not sure of anything to add." she felt kind of ashamed that she hadn't read more into this topic. Just her text book. "So looking at the list we have now, I would say that we have started looking for similarities with other animals.

She wrote on her parchment:
Process/steps to find out whether a pygmy puff has magical powers:

"So I'm going to say it doesn't have the power to kill by looking at a person, it hasn't changed into my fears (thank goodness she thought), nor can I see it just because I have seen someone die, because I haven't. So I think it would be easy to say it's not like these animals." This was becoming harder then she thought, but they were trying to find the process. "So if it is intelligent maybe that would be the key." she walked over to her cute purple puff. "Hello Mrs. Puff. Do you talk with humans? Can you tell or show me any magic?" The pygmy puff just looked at Minerva. She smiled at it's cuteness and turned to Justin. "Well I think we can put no on the asking it and the intelligence similarity..

Already tame? Kurumi looked at the creature now fast asleep on her shoulder. "I suppose you are right," Kurumi giggled, petting the pink ball of fluff with her index finger. So, no on the tame aspect of the law. Kurumi nodded as Vickers went on about how perhaps Dumbledore had pulled a few strings behind the scenes to take the blame off of Hagrid, therefore making him unpenalized. "You might be right, but not even Dumbledore was above the law...at least not back in those days, surely he would have had a firm talking to about those being in the school," she said as she scratched her chin a bit. "On the other hand, perhaps they were able to pass off Hagrid breeding those creatures because he used one in the Triwizard Tournament. So...Dumbledore could have passed that off as his intent to breed them was for that purpose."

As Vickers went on a bit more, Kurumi's eyes remained on the words Experimental Banning...more specifically on the word experimental in the textbook. But her thoughts were momentarily distracted when Vickers brought up a good point. "Hmm, that could very well be," she nodded. "Hybrid creatures certainly seemed to fall under that category, as is the case with Blast-Ended Skrewts. At least, if my theory about intent is true, that you can't breed without reason?[/b]" The magical world did seem to revolve entirely around the concept of intent after all. "Puffskeins only have a Ministry rating of XX, so breeding them would be about the same as breeding a kneazle. I would assume that is miniatures were allowed that Ministry ratings would still have a heavy hand in what could be breed and what couldn't... somehow I don't think claiming to be breeding a minature Ukrainian Ironbelly would go over well. Or a manticore for that matter." Still, there was something to be said about this point.

Now Kurumi's eyes were back on the word...Experimental. "What if...one could claim that they were actually experimenting?" Kurumi asked, sort of more voicing her thoughts more than actually asking Vickers his opinion - although he was more than willing to chime in. Because, if one wasn't really experimenting and actually KNEW what they were doing, wasn't that sort of a loophole? Perhaps being too picky?

Selena was looking around for someone who was going to be her partner, which was kinda hard when you were short but she managed. Only because she heard him first before she saw him. Then he walked over. It was Young Grasshopper! Selena could work with him! She was sure he was PLENTY smart and knew about the scientificalation process of figure thingys out.

"HAAAAAAAAIIII Kennedy!!!" Selena exclaimed, beaming at him. And his pygmy puff. "You know Kent!" Selena said, pointing to the ball of fluff on her head. "And who's thiiiiis?" Selena asked, poking the pygmy puff on his shoulder. Hehe... fluffy.

Then more importantly... though... maybe not more important... "What will we be working on?"

OHGOSH.

Partner work. The one thing Tristan absolutely hated that all teachers everywhere seemed to love... ack. Well Evelyn had walked in earlier, hadn't she? He wandered around looking for her. "Evelyyyynnn," he claimed. Aristotle continued to squeal and make his weird little humming noises as they searched.

Anyone? ^ ^
 

Fid a partner!? Great. Simply great.

Evelyn sighed as she looked around the barn. Everyone seemed to be teamed up in pairs already. Anyway, hoping that someone would be willing to work with her, she raised her hand. "Errrm..anyone want to partner up?"

Annddd..ooooh! Tristan! Evelyn spotted him standing nearby. She was glad to see him..even if he weirded her out a little. "Hey Tristan." She grinned. "Want to work together?"

Jezzabelle looked around and said louder than her usual self, "Can someone please tell me what magical properties a pygmy puff has?" She looked around at all the people near her. Someone had to know. She didn't really want to look through her book for an answer.

Anyone? Drop me a VM if you choose him!
 

Keefer looked around. Most of the other students had partners already. Great. He put his plea out for the general populace to hear. "I still need a partner. Anyone game?" No, it was not a mistake that the Quidditch Captain used that phrase.

Partners? Oh Merlin, that was always a disaster fun. Of course, there was the while issue of finding a partner, being that there was nothing she could do about the directions. So she waved her hand I'm the air and said, "Right... Anyone want to partner up?"

Ella copied down the notes and then looked around, searching for a partner. She saw a fellow puff who also needed one and waved at him. "Hey, I still need a partner!"

She's been very distracted ;)
 

Pygmy puffs, we're such adorable yet annoying creatures. Nessie knew quite a lot about them, which was why it didn't matter that she hadn't been paying much attention. She was too busy staring at Professor Williamson's good looks. She couldn't over how handsome he was, he was such a distraction.

After a few moments, Ness realised what she had been doing. She blinked her eyes twice and then looked at the name card that was in her hand, it was still blank which was why she filled it in almost immediately, while meantime her pygmy puff slept on her shoulder like he always did. She kinda hoped she wouldn't have to wake him up later, cause she knew how much it bothered him.

When the class started to speak about what pygmy puffs did, and how they behaved, Nessie started to raise her hand but lowered it when she changed her mind. She wanted to ask why Puffles seemed to enjoy running away from her, it was how he gained he's nickname..Snitch, he used to give Nessie heart attacks as he would run away and hide from her and then wait untill she found him. She thought the puffs games were pathetic. Anyway her question was silly, it was a little obvious as to why Puffles hid from her..he must have just disliked her..or something like that.

As the lesson moved on, Nessie couldn't help but start staring at the Professor again she was just awestruck. It was when she heard the word 'Partners' being mentioned that she got herself to stop staring again. Rigght now to find someone. She scanned the room and saw that most people already had partners, which was why she did what she always did in situations like these. "Partners anyone?" she called hoping someone, anyone would be with her.

Janice was looking for a partner, too, apparently. She approached the older girl. "Can I be with you?" she asked. People usually invite her because she's quite left out, but not this time.

"Great, we can go together, then. I'm Keefer, by the way. I don't think we've officially met." He flashed her a warm smile. The girl was a first year and thus bound to be intimidated by an older student of such status and handsomeness. He brought his little orange guy/gal/puff into his lap to meet his/her/its new friend. "This is Sutherland. I just met him at the beginning of class."

He wasn't sure what the girl would want to talk about, but he had brought up the question about the naming, so he figured they may as well start there. "Erm, d'you want to start with the whole naming thing? That's what I want to know. But there's other things that sound interesting as well."

Unsure if he should continue to carry the conversation, he just plowed ahead. "Apparently these little creatures are bred from Puffskeins? I think those are usually a bit bigger. So maybe the pygmy part is meant to refer to their small size. What do you think?" he asked politely, still smiling encouragingly at her.

WE NEED A PARTNER!! *flails*
 

Arya had been distracted by her new fiery red pygmy. She had named the cute creature MO. Cause it was a cute name, right? But now she was soo sure the pygmy was a girl, not a boy. Opps. She needed a new name!! Or not. The prefect was creative and after a moment decided that MO would be short for something. Of course the something was still to be decided as she already missed the first question and most of the parternering. Sigh.

"Anyone still need a partner?" She stood on her haybale with Mo on her shoulder, attempting to reach her nose. Well, partner anyone?

Justin chuckled a bit as she started talking to the little purple ball of fur. " Hey , Min... I just realized that this little puff is just the miniature versoin of a Puffskien. Maybe we should see what powers , if any the puffskien has. " Justin said.

partner?
 

Silvia had been glad when the professor had closed the door, but still wished there was a way these classes could be held inside the castle so she didn't have to trudge through the cold outdoors. At least this class seemed like it would be a whole lot better than their first lesson of the term, which she had hated. She had never had a pygmy puff before and didn't know much about them. It had taken her awhile to decide on a name; she had a whole list of names that she thought she might like to name a pet with one day. The young Ravenclaw wanted to name her pygmy after Rowena Ravenclaw, but it didn't really look like a Rowena. So she finally settled for Seraphina.

After jotting down a few notes, she looked around. "Anyone still need a partner?" she asked.

Harvey watched as the list was written down. He wrote the list onto his parchment as well.. and then he heard they were supposed to partner up.. oh oh.. he was never good at this.. but he would have to overcome this somtime right.. well now was a good a time as ever.. so he put his Blue puff Doodle onto his shoulder and looked round to see if anyone was partnerless..



He then spotted a much older student.. woah.. he was feeling VERY nervous all of a sudden he had hardly ever worked with an older student before.. it was always first or second years and they were his friends.. but now it was time to overcome his nervousness and go up and ask her to be his partner.. so he went upto the older student who was also looking for a partner.. "H..h..hi er.. my name is Harvey .. second year Ravenclaw.. this is Doodle.. and er.. we were wondering if you would.. like to partner up." he asked nervousily.. well there it was out in the open.. he had asked and now to see how she would respond..

aefiefhsdfhdeola! :whaa:

Those Pygmy Puffs were so adorable. He had always wanted one but somehow had never gotten one. And well, they were only allowed to bring one pet to Hogwarts so he couldn't have taken it with him anyway. Because he COULDN'T have left Vanilla at home. Just couldn't.

Sitting in front of the Pygmy Puff he had chosen - a yellow one with HUGE eyes - Lewis prodded it softly with his finger, not even paying much attention to what was going on around him. It was only when the professor said something about finding a partner and jotting down stuff when he looked up again. Oh, huh, class had started already?!



Glancing around the room, hoping there would be SOMEBODY he knew his attention was caught by somebody shouting. Hey, wasn't that the girl from Transfiguration? The one who managed to turn her paper into a man-eating moster? He was pretty sure she was, yes. And she was a Hufflepuff too so that was nice.

Not wanting to leave his Pygmy Puff alone for one second, Lewis decided to just wave at her hoping to get her attention. "Me!" He didn't even know her name. Can you see meeeeee?!

Anybody?
 

Oh Me! Me! Me! I'll Be Your Partner, Me!
 

Nobody seemed to hear Oakey's plea for a partner. After a few minutes, he even considered pairing up with his Pygmy Puff, Batman. WWW would be fine with that right? Oakey would even nickname himself Robin to authenticate the pairing.

Oakey starred at Batman for a few more minutes contemplating if this would work out. Batman starred back with his/her big cuddly looking eyes. aww you're just so cute... wait what was he saying Batman isn't cute Batman strikes fear in the hearts of the Pygmy Puff Criminal Under Belly!

Then he heard another boy. Gideon a 5th year Gryffindor. Oakey remembered seeing him from time to time in some of the other classes he was in as well. Hey there..uhhh Gideon...I still need a partner too if you wanna work together? was it okay to call Gideon by his name? They hadn't formally met yet, but Oakey knew him by name so what was the harm.

Oh. :mellow: "I'm sorry. I thought you were called Edvard." She made a mental note to call him by his last name instead. "But yes, I am Amelia." She smiled at him before she looked down at her notes.

"Ummm... how about... the magical properties they posses?" But if he would rather do another question she was open to it as well.

Annabelle smiled. "Hi I am Annabelle Lecium! Nice to meet you!." she was relieved she found a partner. "I am also in hufflepuff btw." as she held out her hand to shake. She figured this class will be fun. She had her yellow pigmy on her shoulder cuddling next to her neck.

Taylor nodded, "Ok, sounds good." She smiled. MErcy was purring asleep in Tay's arms.

It seemed at first he was gonna fail in the whole partner attempt when a younger Hufflepuff boy approached him without a partner himself. "Aye...sure," he answered offering a small smile as he tried to think of the boy's name seeing as he apparently knew him by name but his mind came up blank. Gideon guess seeing him just in passing around the castle and in classes, he hadn't had too much dealing with his companion in question. He just hoped, the hufflepuff hadn't been one of the ones he had had a lot of trouble with in charms class.

"I'm sorry...ye have me at a disadvantage," Gideon remarked looking appologetic.

Oh? Gideon hadn't figured out his name. Oakey didn't have to much of a surprised look on his face when the older Gryffindor came up short on his name.

It's fine. Oakey said brushing aside the apology, If it wasn't today I'm sure we'd run into each other eventually right? Oakey stopped talking, he began thinking of which question the two of them could answer to solve the mystery of the Pgymy Puffs OH RIGHT! I'm Oakey He had almost forgotten to introduce himself. How foolish! He took his left hand from his side and stuck it out for Gideon to shake.

Do you have any specific question you want to figure out? He asked Gideon. I was thinking maybe how to figure out their genders.

Zhenya looked up and saw Ira, a girl she had seen a bit, around. "Hi Ira! Of course we can be partners, that would be great!" she said. Now what was the first thing to do?

"A list?" she asked, was that what they did? Finding answers...