Captain Keefer
 

Ella returned Keefer's smile rather nervously. She thought of him as quite the celebrity in their house, especially since he was the quidditch captain. "Hi, I'm Ella, nice to finally meet you." she said shyly. She looked at the little orange puff he put on his lap and giggled. It was quite cute. "Hello there, Sutherland!" she said, patting its head. Ella held out her little puffy yellow friend towards Keefer's with a small smile. "This is Barnabus. I just met him at the start of class as well...well I'm assuming its a him. Who knows for sure." she said, shrugging.

Ella nodded when Keefer suggested a subject to discuss. She didn't really know anything about pygmy puffs so she figured that was as good as any topic to start with. "I think that's a great idea." she said brightly. Happy that he decided to carry on the conversation, Ella listened with a smile. As he talked about the Puffskeins, Ella became quite curious. "What's a Puffskein?" She had never heard of it but was able to add some comment about the pygmy point. "Oh yeah, pygmys are those little people right? Well it makes sense then that these puffs are called pygmys because they are small as well. Probably they average much smaller than most magical creatures just like pygmys average smaller than other cultural groups." Ella finished her sentence with a sigh, having talked quite quickly because she was nervous. It wasn't easy being partners with an older boy, let alone the quidditch captain!

"Nice to officially met you then Oakey," he said with a nod accepting the offered hand and giving it a polite shake before letting it go. The 5th year thought for a moment on the aspect of a question to answer before shaking his head. He hadn't any better clue on that as he had of pygmy puffs in the first place. That and the question his partn--Oakey had brought up was as good as any.

"Sounds like a plan," Gideon answered. "I already thought on that when I named mine and hoping its not a girl for then Doyle surely doesn't fit." He guessed though that he'd have to simply modify it if he found out it was different.

"Hey, Barnabus! Or perhaps Baranabus-ina?" A poor attempt at feminizing the name. "Well, however you would make that a girl name if it's a girl," he said, laughing at himself.

In response to her Puffskein question, he pulled out his copy of Fantastic Beasts and began to read some sections. "A long-tongued custard-coloured little furball that makes a calming purring noise. These pleasant creatures are often kept as pets, particularly by Wizarding children. As scavengers that will eat anything from leftovers to spiders, they are very easy to care for." He let her see the picture. "They have super long tongues that snake around the house and even up your nose when you sleep!"

And... How does she know so much about pygmies? he wondered as she expounded quickly. "Yeah, that could definitely be it! I like that idea. Would you like to move onto a different question?"

maybe we could compare ours Oakey said lifting Batman off his shoulder and holding it next to Doyle. He looked back and forth at the two for some time to find any kind of difference. Maybe a male had shorter hair or a female had a longer tongue. The two Pygmy Puff's didn't look any different at all aside from their colors. His being dark purple and Gideon's being a deep red. I don't see anything different. Oakey spoke with disappointment in his voice.

Oh there she was! Good. That meant he wouldn't have to attempt to make any new friends... aha right, well they'd better get started then. "Sure," Tristan replied at something above a mumble. He did seem to be better at speaking up.

With Aristotle on his shoulder, Tristan once more took a seat to begin their thinking. "What do you think pygmy puffs eat?" he asked. They appeared to be somewhat vegetarian, though perhaps they were onnivores? They could always just attempt to feed the animals a bunch of stuff. It seemed likely that they shared eating habits with puffskeins.

Taylor took the list and read through each of them carefully. She wrinkled up her nose at number 8 on the list but resisted saying that they should take that one off. Tay thought about it for a while and finally said, "What about grass, or maybe leaves?" She looked around her, "Or hay....." A rat ran across the barn floor and Taylor held back a scream, "Or maybe.... as disgusting as it is........rats?"

Alyssa laughed. Taylor seemed to be more preoccupied with her Pygmy Puff than actually feeding it. "[b]Taylor, I already started the list but that's okay. Why don't you figure out what you want to feed your puff while I feed Netfball something off our list. Then we can either add what we fed our puffs and whether they liked it or scratch it off if they don't."Alyssa suggested to Taylor.

While she let Taylor decide what she wanted to test feed her Pygmy Puff with, Alyssa looked at the list and then checked her pockets to see what she had. She made a face of disgust when she felt something wet inside her pocket. She pulled it out and discovered that it was a quarter of her tuna sandwich. "Yuck what is this doing in my pocket? Oh well here goes."

Alyssa broke off a very small piece of the sandwich and fed it to Nerfball. It sniffed at it for a couple of seconds before its long tongue flew out, grabbed the piece and it swallowed it whole. "Okay. I guess that's a yes to leftover tuna sandwich"

You guys are doing awesome!!!1
 

plus Ro to the Ro....
 

Vickers nodded his head thoughtfully at Kurumi's reply "Good point. The Tournament could've been the primary reason for coming up with these exotic creatures, after all they had dragons specially brought in. I could imagine Headmaster Dumbledore having to get clearances for that. Imagine the paperwork that went through in the Ministry." he laughed then after a beat added "But I cant shake the feeling that Groundskeeper Hagrid was just incredibly fortunate that when he had a disastrous breeding incident the Tri-Wizard Tournament was there to.... not cover it up, but at least make best with an incident that could've been really bad for Hogwarts. Impecable timing as it were." he added smirking.

Boy would he wouldve wanted to be half as lucky as Hagrid.

Then Professor Williamson spoke and had them move towards the hay. He glanced at Kurumi and angled his head for them to find a spot there, then carried Hendrix towards their new seats.

"I guess we have to get back to report to the Professor, Taylor. We can work on this again later."Alyssa suggested to her.

Making her way back to where the Professor was standing, she waited for Taylor to join her.

Justin looked to Minerva. they had to go back to the hay where the professor was and show their findings....Although they had not gotten very far in their quest. " Come on, Min. we need to go back up to the Professor. " he said.

Gideon nodded at the suggestion, lifting Doyle gently up from his perch on the hay so he was closer to Oakey's own pygmy puff. He had to admit however as he glanced back and forth between the two that there really wasn't anything different among them other then the color variation. "Me neither," he answered with a slight frown as they separated them. "Maybe whichever ours are, they are certainly the same."

Kurumi nodded and couldn't help but giggle. Giving the bits she had read in Hogwarts, a History about the former Groundkeeeper...the Ravenclaw was probably closer to the truth. Still, Kurumi was going to give the man, erm, half-giant the benefit of the doubt for the time being. It also gave them some guidelines for the law in question.
Then Professor Williamson moved the lesson along and Kurumi followed Vickers to the hay and took a seat, patting Momotaro II before turning her attention to the Care of Magical Creature's professor. Share? Kurumi's gaze immediately went to Vickers, seeing as he had brought up what was probably their best argument about the breeding process, but his face was indicating to her that this one was on her. So, smiling at her partner, Kurumi raised her left hand, once again to avoid disturbing the pygmy puff on her right shoulder, and waited until it was her turn.

"Professor, Vickers and I discussed the issue of whether pygmy puffs are an exception to the Ban on Experimental Breeding. There are other cases of magical creatures being created and having no punishment, such as Blast-Ended Skrewts, so we tried to reason what may have happened." She paused to take a breath, there really was no point in going into the Blast-Ended Skrewts since the subject matter was pygmy puffs at the moment. "A few things that came to mind were the fact that pygmy puffs are not technically a new species, but are only miniature versions of an existing creature - Puffskeins - creating a new breed and not new species." A rather nice little loophole there. "Also, Puffskeins only have a Ministry rating of XX, which means that they are harmless and may be domesticated. The ban Scamander wrote seems to be written in such a way to prevent witches and wizards from crossbreeding species that could result in a creature thats unpredictable or impossible to control, but Puffskeins do not pose this threat."

Kurumi lowered her hand now and glanced at Vickers. Hopefully that had been an acceptable summary of their discussion, taking out the details that were not directly related to pygmy puffs.

"Assuming that these things are considered in the review process, it would seem that pygmy puffs fall under a different category and the ban does not apply to them."

Sierra looked up, a seemingly innocent expression on her face. It was an expression similar to a 'calmness before the storm'. She only appeared innocent now, but the workings of something slightly evil were likely brewing in her mind.

...and yes, It. Although..."Who's--..." She just trailed off, though. The next question was being asked, and besides she didn't know any Muggles with the names Addams anyway. Muggles and their weird names. Whoever heard of a parent naming their child It. Did the kid have three heads and nine arms or something when it was born? Ten fingers on each hand maybe? A body full of hair?! She was imagining the worst cast scenario for whoever this It Addams was. She was glad It didn't get an invitation to come to Hogwarts...

Sierra didn't do any partner work, so she just sat there, looking around the room, as she listened to her classmates' replies.

Oakey was glad the Gideon was just as much into this investigation as he was. Hmmmm, maybe if we compared them to....

Oakey would have finished his sentence but was cut off when Williamson spoke up once more and told the class to gather round and stick with their group.

When it came time for the Oakey/Gideon team to speak Oakey looked to the Gryffindor who stayed quiet. I guess it was my idea to figure out the genders of these things. Oakey thought to himself. Professor, Gideon and I thought we'd try and find out how to tell what genders they were. Now for the disappointment. But we couldn't figure it out between our two Pgymy Puffs. If we studied more than just the two little guys or girls, what ever they are. We might be able to figure out some gender difference.

Keefer looked over at Ella. He doubted that she would be brave enough to speak up, so he decided he would. He raised both hands. "Professor, I'm Keefer Marius and this is Ella.. I never caught her last name, actually!" He should've thought about that before he spoke up. Oh well. "We decided to talk about where the pygmy puff got that pygmy part of its name."

"We started from the fact that these creatures are bred from Puffskeins. Those are usually bigger than the pygmy puffs we see here, though that is not conclusive scientific evidence as you asked for." Although, they must have at least thirty different specimens here, so it was likely a valid conclusion.

"So we think the pygmy part is meant to refer to their small size. We support this hypothesis with the additional fact that the word 'pygmy' also refers to little people. It makes sense, then, that these puffs are called pygmies because they are small as well. Probably they average much smaller than most Puffskeins and other magical creatures, just like pygmies average smaller than other cultural groups."

Had they been scientific enough? Who knew. But at least he had tried to present their discussion as such.

Ella smirked at Keefer, enjoying his attempt at feminizing the name Barnabus. "Baranabus-ina huh? That sounds pretty girly to me." Okay, maybe it was a lame attempt but she wasn't going to argue with the captain...
even if she wasn't on the team.

She listened carefully as Keefer read from his book about Puffskeins, even taking some notes so she would have the information in case she ever needed it again. She thought that they sounded a lot like cats...well except for the whole long tongue thing...that was freakish! She made a disgusted face when he told her they might even go up their owners nose! "Ick! No they don't! Is that real life?" She asked, wide eyed.

Ella was about to talk about the next question she was curious about-food-when she head the Professor address the group.

Ella smiled at Keefer as he decided to speak up for their group, happy because she wasn't sure she was ready to address the group, especially when he knew more than she did about the subject.

"Hey, Kent," Kennedy said, attempting to pet the little guy. He didn't want to get bitten, or worse, get licked by it. It ate snot. "This is...um, Violet." he said. Although, he wasn't sure what gender it was.

He chuckled when the Pygmy puff tried hiding on his neck. "I'm not sure what gender it is, want to find out?" And NOT by finding its...yeah. Maybe comparing Kent and Violet. There had to be differences between male and female pygmy puffs, right?

He examined both puffs and came to a small conclusion. "Violet is smaller than Kent," he said, observing both creatures. "And violet has traces of eyelashes. Maybe a female trait?" he said, looking at Selena.

Kennedy turned his attention away from the puffs when professor Williamson began speaking...

Taylor shrugged, "Guess so." She twirled and went to the teacher, smiling.

Ira smiled as Zhenya agreed to be partners. Now what to do?

She said, "Um.. I'm really not sure as to what we are actually supposed to do? Find answers to the questions written on the board, perhaps?" But then for that, they would need to use the library, right? So what did they have to do exactly?

She recalled the instructions again and saw the list she had written down. "Fine, lets choose a question and try to answer it.. You choose!" Ira said to Zhenya, while petting her own pygmy puff Viola.

"See these are the list of questions.."

Amelia's eyes widened as Professor Williamson was already asking them to share what they had come up with. He was moving too fast. She hadn't even gotten to work properly with her partner yet because she had only managed to give him her question idea. She felt bad now but she stayed silent because she really had nothing to say.

you can keep working with your partners but I'm going to respond to those who answer.
 

"I'd like to, Professor, but I'm afraid I haven't found a partner yet..." Tayla blushed. She pet her little blue pygmy puff Teacup, and continued to look for anyone without a partner.


A moment later, she heard someone speak and turned to face the young girl. "Hello. I'm Tayla. Third year. Gryffindor," Tayla greeted with a smile. "You?"

Alyssa raised her hand and shared with the class what she and Taylor were doing. "Professor we decided to work on What the Pygmy Puffs ate? We came up with a list of what we thought the Pygmy Puffs would most likely eat and decided to feed it bits. If they rejected it then, we know that they didn't eat it. If they liked it, then we left it on the list.

Text Cut: List of Food that Pygmy Puffs might eat

1. Cookies
2. Leftover tuna sandwich (check)
3. ants
4. lettuce
5. carrots
6. apples
7. chocolate frogs
8. nose boogers
9. spiders
10. hay
11. rats
12. leaves

We first started feeding my Nerfball bits of some leftover tuna sandwich, which he or she seemed to love eating and he or she is still alive, so I think that they are okay with eating that. We were going to start on the next food to feed it when you called us to report back to you."

Arya looked down at the student when he approached, who looked muuuuch smaller from her spot standing on the hay bale, and grinned, swatting away MO's tounge gently. "Hi Harvey and Doodle!" She gestured at the red pygmy on her shoulder. "This is MO and I'm Arya. We'd love to be your partner!" She hopped off the hay bale and took a seat, gesturing for him to join her. "Okay, so I already know that pygmy means small, and now you do too, so why don't we pick a different question. Like..." She checked out the lists, then looked back at the second year. "What do YOU want to figure out?"

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Well first..she had been absent minded since the start of that lesson because of the mere sight of the Pygmy puffs. It made her remember one of her most unwanted memories last term and she got distracted by reminiscing those days when she was still struggling with the Pygmy that hated her. Not to mention her little friend who was with her in her time of need whom is not in Hogwarts anymore. But of course, she picked her own puffball. A beige colored one which she named Mushi.



Anyway..when the Professor asked them some questions, she merely listened to her classmates answering since her brain wasn't working. When they were asked to jot down the notes, she followed immediately and one question from the list of the Stuff they wanted to know about those creatures caught her attention. Why are they so adorable? Hmmm...that seemed like a good one.

"Errrm..anyone wanna partner with me? And we can discuss why they are so adorable," she called out.

Laura still needed a partner but as of yet she hadn't found one which in a way was good because if she couldn't find one she wouldn't have to do the work.

Sowie its so late. >_<
 

Great, nobody wanted to be with her. Nessie watched as everyone else got into pairs and sighed. At the rate things were going she'd probably be the last one left to get a partner. Me? Nessie turned around to see who was saying that. She turned around and saw a familiar face.

The older boy seemed to be waving he's hands around like he was trying to get someone's attention, but who's?. Looking behind tried to see who's attention he might have been trying to get, when she realized that everyone behind her we're already in pairs. It must have been her then right?

She turned back to him again and gave him a small nod as she walked over to where he was. Her pygmy puff was still snoring away, and she didn't think it was necessary to wake Puffles up just yet. "So..um..I choose you..." Wait what was he's name, she didn't remember all she knew was that this boy had saved her from her very embarrassing paper expedition. Anyway, the name didn't matter so much now...it was the class work that did. "Should we get started?" She asked.

still having found no partner, Daichi startrd to wonder if anyone even liked him! He had sat there waiting for someone to answer his question After asking a hufflepuff who already seemed to have a partner...

He sighed loudly as he tickled the grey pygmy puff on his shoulder and thought he needed to go to the Professor with the most embarrassing question that he did not have a partner and that none liked him sniff sniff.

But just as he got up, a miracle! Atleast.to him.... Happened and he saw a familiar face.asking for a partner. Not waisting any second he ran towards her resulting in tripping over over one of the hay stacks and he lay over it with his one leg in the air. "can i be your partner? No one wanted to be mine!" he pouted from the ground and scratched his already messy hair look.

Elise smiled at her pygmy puff distractedly as she wrote down all the stuff on the board. She hadn't answered, which was strange for her. But the Pygmy Puff there, and it was bouncing around her hands. She'd picked a honey-gold Pygmy Puff and she'd named it Honey. Really original.



When she saw Beezus looking for a partner, she grinned. She'd found who she was working with. Walking over to her housemate, she tapped her on the shoulder lightly. "Wanna partner up?"

Oh goodie, he had gotten the girl's attention. Or not...? She was turning around to look behind her and around her and anywhere but him. Did she not want to work with him? Or did she just not know he was talking to her? There was only one way to make sure that the latter wasn't the case.

Lewis' waving started to get more frantic as he now added a lot of pointing into the girl's direction. Yes, YOU, I'm talking to youuuu!!! See, and that seemed to have worked. Or at least she was coming over now. Coming over and...she chose him?! What was he? A Pokémon? Blinking at her a couple of times, not sure if this was a good thing Lewis finally decided it was and even gave her a small smile. "Great." Yup.

In case she wanted to know his name, Lewis shifted his tag thing a little so she could read it even though he still didn't have a name for the cute little Pygmy Puff in front of him. He wasn't good at coming up with names.

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Originally Posted by Tag Name: Lewis D. Rasting Year: Fifth House: Hufflepuff Pygmy Puff: ...?

Now which question should they discuss? Glancing up to the front where the Professor had written down the questions open for discussion, Lewis bit his lip absently while trying to decide which sounded the most interesting. Finally moving his gaze back to the girl next to him, he asked her rather bluntly, "How do you think one discovers a Pygmy Puff's gender?" This WAS a pretty important question after all. He glanced down at the Pygmy Puff before him and poked its nose softly.

If it bit him it was definitely female.

Just as she turned her head around to look for a partner, something..fell...on the hay stacks? Beezus pivoted around and saw Daichi, next thing she knew he was asking them to be partners. She couldn't help but chuckle at how he looked so she pulled him up. "Goodness..you didn't have to fall. We'll be partners," the eaglette said.

..just as she was about to help the Slytherin boy clean up himself from all the hay that was on his hair, someone tapped her shoulder. Elise, a fellow Ravenclaw who was also asking her if she'd want to partner up. Beezus looked at Daichi then to Elise and back again and again. "Oh, my Godric! I..uhmm.." This was so hard! "I already said yes to him," she told the girl as she pointed him. "I'm sorry.." she added sympathetically.

Elise smiled, shaking her head. "It's okay," she said softly. "I'll just go look for another partner."

Shrugging, she bounded off in the general direction of everyone else.

Daichi saw from his lying position that another Ravenclaw girl had walked up to Beezus and him and asked if she wanted to be partners too. Daichi looked at them both and started to pout already. Surely she would pick her fellow student but.... his mouth dropped slightly as Beezus helped him up and picked him. YAY~

"So, what you wanted to know about Pygmy Puffs?" he asked as he picked up his grey one from the ground and placed it on his shoulder. Allowing the second year to clear the hay out of his messy hair.

"Oh.." was all she could say when her fellow eagle walked away. She did wanted them to be partners and it was the same with Daichi too. But sadly, the he-snake had asked her first so yeah..that ought to happen. Beezus just made it a mental note to talk with Elise later and maybe they could hang out for a while?

And now, she was helping him clean off the hay from his hair. What did she want to know about the Pygmy Puffs? Maybe she wanted to know why one had attempted to chew off her leg last term. Perhaps the question that had caught her attention earlier? "Err--actually, I want to know how they are so adorable." she told him as she took Mishu into her hands. "Or..you could chose which one you would like to know.." Beezus shrugged. After all, wanting to know why those creatures were so adorable wasn't going to be that productive.

Harvey smiled when she said hi and introduced herself and her pygmy. "Hi Arya and Mo.. nice to meet you both" he said to her.. now more relaxed than before.. meeting older students was not so bad afterall. He didnt know why he was so frightened to meet one.. but now that he had.. maybe meeting other older students would not be so bad afterall.. He then watched as she hopped off the bale and took a seat and gestured for him to sit as well.. so he carefully joined her on the bale and made a note that pygmy meant small as Arya had just told him..

Now what other question to answer.. he looked at the board.. hmm.. "Now thats a good question.. what do I want to figure out? umm..." he hesitated looking at his pygmy and Arya's pygmy.. they both looked the same except color.. exactly the same?!!! he looked at the board.. and then looked at Arya and her pygmy "Well I think looking at our pygmies.. gender comes to mind.. how do we know if they are male or female.." he said with a smile.. that is what he wanted to know about his pygmy and hers.. "What do you think Arya?" he asked.. he also wanted her opinion on this.. or if she had something else that SHE wanted to know.. if she did.. they can go for that..

Minerva listened to what Justin had said and turned her book to puffskein. "That's interesting Justin, let's see what powers they have and that might help us. You know your doing great." she smiled at him glad he knew more about these creatures. "This is where my muggle knowledge makes me weak." Minerva took out her parchment and wrote.

parchment
Professor and Justin:

As they were working the Professor gathered them together for a few seconds to see their process. She smiled and went over to the hay with Justin. She put her hand up "Professor Justin and I worked together. We are trying to figure out how to see if the Pygmy Puff has magic powers. We are trying to find ways to figure this out." she pulled out her parchment. "We have figured it could be a trial and error type of process and we have been writing ways to figure it out down." She showed the parchment to the class.

Parchment

"Using our text book and knowledge of other animals we have been trying to figure out if there is any similarities that would give us a clue on powers it might have. We wondered if it might be able to understand if we ask, but it doesn't seem to. We also thought about putting things near it to see if it would use any powers to either move the item away or something to that sort." She hoped she explained their process well enough.

Justin stood by with his list if of magiacal creatures in hand in case the professor wanted to see that as well as the other list Minerva had ready and in hand.

Kent looked up at Kennedy with his huge blue eyes. "HAI VIOLET!!!" Selena exclaimed, beaming at the violet colored pygmy puff sitting on Kennedy's shoulder. She looked at the thing... hiding. Silly pygmy puff, Selena didn't eat them! She just balanced them on her head!

How did Kennedy name his pygmy puff without knowing what gender it was? "Why don't we just ask the pygmy puff if it's a boy or girl?" Selena asked.

Because that was the obvious way. And she was sure Professor Long Name with a W didn't mind them going on about pygmy puffs. Because pygmy puffs were cool. "Maaayyyybeeeeeee... Kent is a guy becaaauuuusssseeeeee...." Selena stared at the pygmy puff on Kennedy then plucked Kent off of her head to observe him. "He's fluffier."

Yup. Fluffier. Totally the reason why he was a male and Violet wasn't.

I need a partner too ^_^
 

Lily was still looking for a partner when she saw another girl who looked like she didn't have a partner. After walking over to the girl, she asked. "Um... would you like to partner up with me? I still need a partner..." Lily petted Blueberry as she stood waiting for a response, hopefully one leading to a partner.

"You know, even if my hair is already ruffled" he pointed at his messed up hair. "You still want to touch it" he laughed, meaning her help with cleaning the hay out of his hair.

Sitting back down on the hay stack, Daichi crossed his feet as he stretched his legs. The grey coloured pygmy puff on his shoulder was turning around in circles. Odd thing. "Oh, this is Ducky duck!" he said excitedly as he tickled the little creature again.

Why they are so adorable? Well... atleast it is something. "Nah this one is fine, i don't really know any questions so...let's do this." Because adorable things are Daichi style~!

"I think it's because of their fluffyness" was that even a word? O___o "A pygmy puff is a miniature Puffskein right?" he asked Beezus.

She did? Beezus snorted then laughed with him. "Oh. Let's just say the messier, the cuter?" Well..because it was so. That's the very reason why she liked to ruffle his hair.

Ducky duck? 'Really, now?' she thought. Beezus heard all about that ducknapping which took place on the Duck Pond last year, and he was the one pointed out to have done it, saying that he wanted to bring it to their Common Room. Was he that obsessed with those animals? "Oh..hey ducky duck!" She then held her own pygmy puff in front of him. "And my puff's name is Mushi.."

After hearing his response, the young eaglette started to work up her thinking machine. The pygmy puffs were adorable because of their fluffiness? "Why not? I mean..their appearance are what really caughts attention. And also their playful nature, hopping and bouncing and all that," Beezus slumped on the hay stack next to Daichi. "uh-huh...an undersized puffskein."

"That's okay." He gave the older girl a small smile. Everybody thought that beside no harm done. Fiuh! He didn't get the girl name wrong. He's really bad with remembering people names and their faces >_<

Before the young badger could answer Amelia, the Professor already asked them to come forward to present what they have come so far. He listened while the other groups presenting their result. "Yeah. That sound good." Messer nodded his head. Okay onto the question. "Umm..Maybe they have same magical properties like the Puffskein? Since the pgymy puffs are the miniature of Puffskein." Well, that was he thought. Maybe Amelia has another opinion.

I need a partner! WWW, will you be my PARTNAH?!
 

Sierra. Still. Needed. A. Partner.

Partnering up was the most annoying thing ever. It always took forever to find someone who wasn't already claimed, and Sierra always felt awkward asking someone to be her partner. She felt like she was begging for a friend, and it made her feel so much like a Puffer.

She cleared her throat. "Does anybody still need a partner?!" she said.

Evelyn grinned. "It's nice to hear you speak." She picked up her pygmy puff and introduced the creature, "This is Samwise, by the way." She continued to scratch the top of his head.

Hm. What did they eat? Evelyn was a little clueless since she knew next to nothing about those creatures. "Well...I'm not sure but I've heard that it likes to stick it's tongue up people's noses.." Eww. Honestly, that was a little disgusting.

Amelia nodded when he said it was alright, and really it was just as long as she made sure to call him by his last name instead. She looked around at other people who started to present her thoughts then looked back to Edvard.

She thought that of course Edvard was accurate in saying that Pygmy Puffs had the same properties as Puffskeins, because... well, that would be true if they were basically miniature versions of them. "I think so too, though I've never seen mine eat anything." She eyed hers. But then again she had only gotten her Pygmy Puff for Christmas. She wasjust musing now, not really contributing much.

"I really wonder what magical properties Puffskeins have though. I mean... they don't seem to do much besides be cute and fluffy."

im Olivia Wenesko she said while shook her partners hand. The other Slytherins who were here seemed to already have partners, but going with a Huffelpuff seemed to make sense when working with pygmypuffs! Olivia noticed her pygmy puff was on her sholder Did you bring your own? Olivia asked, stroking Flippert's fur.

"Hi Olivia nice to meet you." Annabelle said with a warm smile. "Yeah i brought my own, her name is Squishy. Isn't that right girlie?" she cooed at her pygymy puff as it cuddled her neck. "What is ur pygmy's name? she asked Olivia.

Zhenya had a look at the list of questions and thought what would be a good one to answer. But then she saw it again - with the snot, and she laughed. Hmm... "How about we think of how we can train them not to eat snot?"

Wasn't the Professor said something about they eating habit earlier? Messer looked down at his notebook. "It said that they eat..." Wait SNOT?! Yuck! "Apparently they like to eat snot." Did the pgymy puff seriously eat those disgusting thing?

"Yes. Maybe its their magical properties." Being cute and fluffy? No? "And I had had read that according to Luna Lovegood the pgymy puffs sing on Boxing Day. Maybe their voice have some magical power or something." He definitely had no idea about this creature.

I guess we can continue our hopeless efforts =)
 

What if we went over to the other Pygmy Puffs Oakey spoke up. There are way more than two over there


He placed Batman back on his shoulder and pointed to the collection of Pygmy Puffs Williamson had that the other students hadn't picked out. Poor guys.

We might have a better chance at finding a gender difference with all of them.

Tristan narrowed his eyes into an unamused expression before sticking his tongue out at the sixth year. Was it juvenile? Yes. Did it get his point across? Probably. In any case, Aristotle was making whiny, agitated noises that were beginning to become bothersome. "This is Aristotle," he introduced. Heh. He was SUCH an astronomy geek.

"Eeewww," he groaned. At the mention of such a thing, Tristan held his fluffy companion at an arm's length away so as to ensure his nose was not licked. The creature continued to whine. Hmm, maybe his tummy was upset. "I think puffskeins do that too, which would nake sense considering that they are miniature puffskeins," the boy answered, gently rocking Aristotle to calm his tummy. The whining subsided, but the creature still appeared to be in a state of discomfort. Tristan patted his pygmy lightly on the back, to which he let out a soft hiccup-like noise before returning to the delighted squealing noises. Aha, that was it.

Elise pivoted around sharply, turning to face the loooooud voice asking for a partner. Considering that she still needed one, she bounced over to the girl. Who was a Slytherin. Hopefully, she didn't eat Ravenclaws...

Facing her, she waved as she came to a stop in front of whoever that was. "Err... I still do, would you mind partnering up with me?"

Cause... if she already found a partner, this just wasn't Elise's day... At all.

Amelia shuddered now as he mentioned the snot. "I know, but still. I don't want to imagine it." She wanted to imagine Pixie being a nice Pygmy Puff and not eating that gross stuff like the Puffskeins did. ;____;

Amelia listened to him as he went on talking, biting her lip now. "But do you think Luna is a credible source? She seemed to believe in a lot of crazy theories." And she wasn't sure she wanted to use Luna Lovegood as proof. "Maybe their only magical property is the fact that they... ummm... don't belong to muggles?"

Suddenly there was a hand right in front of Sierra. She was being waved at, but...by who? She blinked then backed away a little, getting a good focus on the girl. "Oh, good. A Ravenclaw," she said, although, she hadn't really intended to say that out loud. The friendly waving had just thrown her off.

"Oh, yeah," she said. Who'd pass up the opportunity to partner up when someone from the house of knowledge?! "I was still looking for one, so...thanks." She looked around the room, realizing there were a lot of people talking at once. "This is It, by the way," she said, holding up her Pygmy Puff. "Everyone's already met together, so...we can always just discuss something really quickly then add it to the discussion?"

Elise smiled a little, she did get mistaken for a Hufflepuff a lot these days... The older girl probably thought she was a Huffie too. Shrugging, she fiddled with her notepad.

Smiling at the girl's pygmy puff, she attempted to pry hers off from her hair where it seemed to camoflague. "Nice name, for a puff," she smiled. It... It was original, and better than hers. "This," she said, indicating the honey-colored fluffball on her head. "Is Honey."

"I've done a bit of rough work in my notebook," she smiled. "But it feels like there's something or two that's not there..." On a blank page, Elise'd written in Turquoise color pencil a topic and scribbled a few notes under it.

Jory was relieved to hear someone wanted to be his partner. He really preferred to work by himself.

"Hi Sophie!'' he replied to a fellow 'Puff whom he'd seen around. "I'm Jory, thanks for wanting to partner up with me.'' He smiled at the girl.

"Shall we begin?'' he asked consulting the list of questions. "Which do you think we should work on?''

Aw, he thanked her for wanting to be his partner. How sweet! "Nice to meet you, Jory!" She smiled and then looked around to see the list of questions they should choose from. "Uh... we could think about what they eat! Or maybe... what magical properties they have." Sophie was curious about these two especific questions. "Which do you want?"

Sorry had to look for the list xD
 

Alyssa laughed when she heard that the Puffs also hay and chocolate frogs. "They sure like eating don't they."she laughed over at Taylor while checking off of the list that they had created.



"Okay check for hay and chocolate frogs. Why don't you try feeding Mercy something else from this list or if you have something else that you might have on you. I'm going to try feeding Nerfball some lettuce and carrots I have in my snack bag. Good luck."She smiled at Taylor.

Alyssa reached inside her bag for her snack bag and unzipped a plastic bag containing some lettuce and carrots. She tore off bits of the lettuce and gave it to her Pygmy Puff, who gulped it down without a second's hesitation. "Whoa! we definitely know you love lettuce,"Alyssa laughed feeding it a little bit more before breaking off bits of carrots and letting it sniff at it. Again without any hesitation whatsoever, Nerfball's tongue flew out, curled around the bits of carrots that she was holding in her hand and stuck it back into it's mouth. "Okay that's a yes for carrots too. Looks like it is a yes to carrots and lettuce, Taylor."she told her partner.

Alyssa quickly checked off the food on her list.

Taylor nodded and looked at the list again.... She got out an apple from her bag and diced it up. Tay laid the pieces down in front of Mercy and watched her snatch it iup as quickly as the puff could. She laughed and told Alyssa, "That is a yes to apples. I guess they love vegetables and fruit." Taylor smiled over at her partner and then down at the list again. She didnt have a cookie... she might be able to find an ant or two around here... she refused to do the snot one.... she might be able to find a spider..... but refuse to do the rat one also.... leaves should be easy to find. Taylor went with the leaves and left to go look for one. Tay found one and came back. She laid it down in front of Mercy whom sniffed it and then engulfed it.

"Nice to meet you too, Sophie,'' Jory replied. "I've seen you around a lot.''

"Hmm,'' he said thinking. "How about what they eat? That sounds fascinating and would be cool to do.'' He petted Furball which was on his shoulder humming softly.

"Okay I'll check it off the list. I'll go look for some ants." Alyssa told Taylor checking off what Taylor had fed Mercy on her list.



Alyssa then went looking for ants. She looked in all the nooks and crannies of the barnyard. The Professor sure kept a clean barnyard, but Alyssa was determined to find some ants. If they weren't already here, she would make them come. So she pulled out a bar of chocolate from her pocket and broke off a square, and lay it down on the ground and waited. She sat and watched patiently and was glad to see one tiny ant come crawling towards her chocolate bit. She sat very still and didn't do anything as she knew that this was a scout ant and hopefully it would bring others, when it went back to it's home. Sure enough it crawled back to where it came from and a couple of minutes later, it, or something that looked like it, for they all looked alike, came back with others following closely behind it. They swarmed over the chocolate.

Alyssa quickly picked it up and ran towards Nerfball, blowing off any ants that were trying to crawl up her arm. She fed the chocolate covered with ants to Nerfball. It sniffed the chocolate and looked at the ants. It was definitely taking it's time to decide whether it wanted to eat the chocolate or not. Alyssa was about to throw the cholocate away when Nerfball's tongue flew out and grabbed hold of the chocolate, ants and all, and pullled it into its mouth, slowly chewing on it.

"It looks like it not only loves chocolate, it also eats ants, Taylor. We can definitely check that off. How are you doing with Mercy?" Alyssa asked her.

Taylor realized that she forgot to tell Alyssa that they ate leaves too and so she tried to remember when Alyssa got back to tell her. While Alyssa was gone looking for ants, Taylor decided to try out the spiders. She went over to one of the coroers and plucked off a spider from its web. She came skipping back to where Mercy was and placed it in front of her. Mercy sniffed at it for a few moments then hesitanted. Mercy's tongue came out slowly and carefully. UIt wrapped around the spider and took it after a while. Taylor was amazed at what the two puffs were eatiing, some of it was a little disgusting. When Alyssa came back and asjed Taylor a question, she replied, "Doing good, i learnt that they do inded eat spiders and i forgot to tell you, they do eat leaves." She smiled at Alyssa, "What about you and Nerfball?"

"Oh, really?" That was weird... Sophie didn't remeber seeing him around at all, even though his face did look a little bit familiar to her. That was even weirder! "That's nice!" She smiled again.

"Alright!" She finally said, clapping her hands together, her own Pygmy Puff - which didn't have a name yet - on her shoulder. "So people are saying they eat snot..." Sophie made a disgusted face. "They sure like weird and nasty things then! Maybe... ear wax?" YUCK! "Or... our nails, when we cut them!" Crazy enough, no? "Or even... well, regular food." They couldn't just eat gross stuff, right?

Tayla was grateful this girl seemed friendly than most other Slytherins she had met. She returned the smile. "Let's start then. We need to choose a question...I like the third one. But which would you like to work on?"

Tayla showed Butterfly the list and waited for the young Slytherin to pick one.

Tayla looked around for the professor. She realized they needed to work fast before it was their turn to recite.

Sitting quietly beside the Gryffindor Prefect, the Ravenclaw listened to her summarize about their discussion with the COMC Professor. Public speaking, he was amazed at how easy it was for Kurumi, a kind of grace and confidence he knew he didnt have. Heck if he wasnt so focused on the answer during class discussions it'd be doubtful he'd get two words out before stuttering and getting lost in what he had to say.

He turned his attention back to the Professor when he spoke, so at least he supported the idea that the puffskeins were harmless enough to begin with, the ban having little impact on pygmy puffs as a whole. Which the Ravenclaw thought was a great thing, he didnt want the harmless, furry creatures rounded up in case there was some retroactive effort to enforce the law on them.

Laura was glad about this, seriously she couldn't do the work without a partner and she couldn't find one, everyone seemed to be taken so that probably meant she didn't have to do the work, because it was a two person job and well she was on her own and the Professor seemed to be busy so she decided against asking the Professor what she was suppose to do since she was on her own.

"Yeah me too." That was just disgusting. Why they made them to eat snot? Even puffskeins eat almost anything. Poor little guy. He petted his pgymy puff. Was his pgymy puff even a guy?

Amelia had a good point. Luna always believe in a lot crazy thing. "Yeah you're right." Messer nodded his head. "What magical property do you have little pgymy?" he poked Pooh. Then his eyes went back to his partner. Don't belong to muggle? How come he didn't think of that. "Yes. That could be it. It was the reason that make them magical." If the muggle have them, they can't call pgymy puffs magical creature. Yup!

Jezzabelle still hadn't gotten a partner and she wasn't about to ask again. She looked at the Pygmy Puff on her shoulder and sighed. She didn't know what to name...her....him....it? She took a seat on a hay bale by herself and pulled out her book. There had to be something on their magical capabilities in this book. If she couldn't find anything she'd just let everyone else supply answers for her.

*makes him Nessie's Pokemon* *giggles* xD
 

He was okay with this partner thing then? Ness gave him a small grin and then her face turned confused. What was he doing with he's tag. She raised a brow and then looked at he's tag that he seemed to have pushed a little closer to her. Whatever this boy was doing..she could now at least see he's name without having to ask. So Lewis it was right? She bit her lip and just to make sure he knew her name to she did the same.

All good..or maybe not, as Ness looked at Lewis' name tag again she noticed that there was a question mark by where the pygmy puffs name was supposed to be written. Her lips formed a pout as she wondered whether to question him about the name or not. She'd leave it...for now at least.

Now how to answer the question "Well..um..my pygmy puff, Puffles here is a boy, but I don't really know how to tell the difference." She was lucky the shop owner knew how to tell between male and female..otherwise her pygmy puff could have been a female for all she knew. "What I can tell you though, is that Puffles seems to be lazy at times, and then all of a sudden he has he's energetic, crazy moments. He's quite odd." Puffles was now in he's lazy phase, it was quite obvious, and it was a good thing he was sleeping too, because he tended to get offended easily and he bit people when that happened."He's also agressive at times too...sometimes I think he acts like a girl." Maybe Lewis had a better answer? "What would you say?" she asked raising her brow seriously.

This gender thing was just too confusing.

Professor..Laura...Justin...
 

Minerva looked at Justin. Have you found anything about the puffskeins in the book? I am beginning to think they don't have any magical powers, unless their power is way to cuteness." As Minerva looked up she noticed Laura alone. She looked at Justin it was there duty as second years to make sure the first years were learning the best they could, right? Well she remembered the conversation she had with Professor Hadley. "Justin do you mind if I ask Laura to work with us? I feel bad she doesn't have a partner." Then not wanting to get into any trouble for having three in a group she put up her hand. "Professor is it ok if we have three in our group?" Then she turned to Laura. "If it's ok to have three in a group would you want to work with us Laura?" She knew Laura had a shaky start at the beginning of term, but she was trying now and Minerva wanted to help her to her potential.

"Really mature, Tristan." Evelyn responded, when he poked his tongue out at her. She grinned when he introduced Aristotle. "That is an interesting name.." Evelyn picked up Samwise, who was starting to get a little restless.

Evelyn giggled at his reaction. "Yeah. That is pretty disgusting, isn't it?" She was going to make sure that Samwise didn't go anywhere near her face. Evelyn nodded. "Yes. So, what else do you think they eat? Maybe..fruits?" She asked, although she pretty sure that she was wrong. Pygmy Puffs didn't look like they ate fruits.

Gideon watched as Oakey stood up and gave a short little speech about what they had found or didn't find. However he wasn't sure the professor was up to them yet since they didn't get a response so he returned his attention to his partner. "Sounds like a plan," he said glancing over at the pen when it was mentioned. A larger group would allow for better results indeed.

Seeing the younger boy handle his pygmy puff, the 5th year tentatively raised Doyle up to his shoulder to see if he would take the perch as well. It certainly moved from his hand after a while, seeming to enjoy snuggling into his scarf that he had added when they would be out in the chilly weather.

That worked as well.

With his own borrowed creature securly on his person, Gideon bent down beside the small corral ready to look over the remaining unclaimed ones. Though as his gaze passed over them much as he had when chosing the pygmy puff on his shouler, he couldn't really tell any outward clue.

After still not finding a partner, Lily decided to try again. She put Blueberry on her shoulder and looked around for a partner before she spotted a girl sitting alone on a hay bale. Walking over, Lily tried smiling. "Um, did you want to be my partner? I still need one." Lily hoped that this time would be the charm since none of the others had worked out.

"I'm serious! It's right here in the book!" He looked back down and cleared his throat. "From time to time a very long, thin, pink tongue will emerge from the depths of the Puffskein and snake through the house searching for food. The Puffskein is a scavenger that will eat anything from leftovers to spiders, but it has a particular preference for sticking its tongue up the nose of sleeping wizards and eating their bogies," he finished, chuckling a bit. The horrified look on Ella's face was somehow gratifying.



He turned and winked at Ella as Williamson applauded their efforts. Oh good, I wasn't sure we were following that scientific method he was talking about. And as Williamson's gaze shifted upwards, so did Keefer's, almost expecting to see a ball of fur pop out of nowhere. "I think I would like to meet the Puffskein, if he wouldn't mind." Or was it a she? Maybe he should've just said 'it' instead.

Cardigan nervously chewed her nails Giovanni,her Pygmy Puff,sat on her shoulder. SHEWASPARTNERLESS!!!!!!!!!What was she gonna do???More importantly,who was she gonna partner with and when???She walked around,looking for someone that was partnerless.With a sigh,she told herself that everyone was already partnered up;she was gonna fail COMC because of it.Or would she?"Ummm...is there anyone who would like to partner up with me?"She asked after looking around once more.Nope.Nada.Maybe someone would come now...

Justin smiloed and said, " Of course she's welcome to join us. As long as the Professor doesn't mind. But I've been doing some reading and it looks like they haven't any magical powers. In fact they are just a miniature version of a Puffskein. That's it other than it purring when it's happy and being a good pet. " He said as he showed her in his book where he found the information.

PFFTT. He was twelve, what did she expect? And Samwise was a more 'interesting' name than Aristotle was. Whatever. He'd just leave it be. "Quite a bit disgusting," Tristan replied. He did not, nor would he ever, want the tongue of a miniature puffskein (or regular puffskein for that matter) up his nose. The mere thought was simply disgusting.

"Erm, maybe?" Tristan was no creature expert. He wasn't even sure what regular puffskeins ate. "We could always try to feed fruit to one of them," he suggested. It sounded like one of the other groups had already said that their's had eaten a tuna sandwich, further supporting his hypothesis that the pygmies were omnivores.

Amelia nodded as she petted her little ball of purple fluff. She had deemed Pixie a female and hoped that she really was one. It might not be nice living your life named Pixie if you were actually a guy.

The Luna Lovegood thing may have proven to be right, but they weren't gonna go with it because she usually believed in crackpot theories. "Yeah, exactly. Maybe they and Puffskeins are only magical in the sense that we keep them. I can't really see them doing magic. I can't even find anything about that in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them." But it would still not hurt to think of some more things.

Its name will be Quibbles. Yes. Quibbles would be its name. She held the newly named Pygmy Puff in her hand and smiled, "Do you like the name Quibbles?" Whether it liked the name or not it was going to be called by that name, but it couldn't hurt. The Pygmy Puff said nothing and did nothing. "Quibbles it is then."

Looking up she smiled at the girl, "Sure. I'll be your partner." She scooted over so that she could sit with her. "I'm Jezz."

Oh this was hard every time she would ask someone is they had a partner they would all say they did. Now she was begging for anyone! Looking around she didn't spot anyone tell she found her friend Cardigan. Walking over with a smile she said, "Hey do you have a partner because I don't." hopefully Cardigan didn't.

Lily sat down on the hay bale next to the girl. "Hi Jezz, I'm Lily. and this is Blueberry." Lily replied pointing to the pygmy puff on her shoulder. "So which question did you want to work on?" Lily asked taking Blueberry off her shoulder and petting the Pygmy.

Thank the heavens!,Cardigan thought as her friend asked if she had a partner yet.Thankfully,she didn`t!!!Now she could stop chewing on her nails!"Nope!But I do now!"She said with a grin,refering to what Angelina asked her.Gosh.She had A TON of Pygmy Puff names.A TON.

Angelina smiled wide and clapped her hands jumping up and down a bit. "Yay!" she finaly had a partner, no more having to going looking around worried to find one.

Lewis watched her out of the corner of his eyes as her face turned from seemingly happy to confused. Erm. Had he done something wrong? Did she not get his hint with the tag thing? There, it said his name right there. Or did she actually want him to introduce himself. As in like use actual words? Hopefully that wasn't the case.

Oh she was a clever one, seeing as she too had now turned her tag in a way so that he could read it. Renesmee. Good, now that they knew each other's names, they could finally get started, right? Oh, no apparently not. Now she was...pouting? Lewis usually ignored things like that unless the reason was really really obvious to him and he thought that he could help in some way. In this case he didn't but seeing as they were partners now he figured he'd have to ask. "You okay?" There now at least she would think he cared.

Lewis glanced back at Renesmee's Pygmy Puff when she mentioned him before returning his gaze back to the piece of parchment in front of him. Nodding slowly at her words, he then proceeded to make a list of the characteristics she had mentioned like lazy, crazy, energetic, aggressive. At her last bit he stopped writing and looked up at her again, a rather weird look on his face. "He acts like a girl?!" Okay, this was very much not helping. He couldn't exactly put this down as a typical characterstic of male Pygmy Puffs.

And then she was asking him. "Well, I guess we could just put your Pygmy Puff somewhere with a couple of other Pygmy Puffs and wait for mating season." WAS there something like a mating season for them? "Then the ones he's trying to...err...reproduce with are the female ones." At least, assuming that the Pygmy Puffs themselves knew the difference. "I...guess they don't have any obvious, like, physical differences, right?" No, that would be too easy. Hang on. "Or, have you noticed anything with yours?" He asked the other Hufflepuff seriously with his eyebrows slightly raised.

"So what question do you wanna work on?"Cardigan asked,gently taking Giovanni from her shoulder and petting it as she waited for Angelina`s reply.She thought that finding out if they cold be trained to not eat snot would be fun.It sounded rather inviting as gross as it seems.Training something to not eat Snot...how fun...

"Oh okay. I'll check those off our list."Alyssa told Taylor. She pulled over their list and checked off leaves and spiders off their list



" Nerfball seems to love everything I feed him. I'm going try something different now. I'm going to feed a bit of my shoelace and my pencil."Alyssa told Taylor.

Alyssa took out a muggle pencil from her backpack and broke it in half and then in quarters. She fed the smallest bit of the pencil to Nerfball. It first sniffed at it as she held it in her hand. Then it sniffed some more before it's tongue slid out and grabbed it pulling it into it's mouth. Alyssa waited as it started to chew but within seconds, it stuck out it's tongue and spat out the pencil. "Scratch the pencil, Taylor. He didn't like it. Okay now for my shoelace."Alyssa informed Taylor.

Alyssa bent down and removed one of her shoelaces and dangled it in front of Nerball. He/she sniffed at it, then looked at Alyssa, like it was saying 'are you crazy?' before looking away. Alyssa laughed as she replaced her shoelace. "We can definitely scratch of shoelaces. Nerfball actually looked offended when I tried to feed him that." she continued to laugh as she reported back to Taylor.

Angelina thought abou what question, there were a lot though. "I don't mind you can pick."

As they waited for the professor to answer their question and Laura to come over Minerva looked at Justin. "Well then I guess that could be our answer, unless the Weasly brothers did some alterations making them have some powers. I know it's very unlikely and I agree with you I don't think they have any powers, but we are still suppose to come up with the process to figure out if they do. So I guess we could just still come up with ways to try and find out. What do you think?"

Kennedy felt the Pygmy puff that was now on his lap shrink toward him when Selena greeted it. "I...think it's shy," he said, supressing a chuckle. Apparently this little thing was a bit introverted compared to Selena's outgoing personality.

He raised an eyebrow. Pygmy puffs couldn't possibly talk so how would they know? He looked down at Violet and asked, "Are you a boy or girl?" They puff just stared at him like if he'd gone bonkers. Kennedy looked up at Selena and tilted his head to the side. What was that supposed to mean?

"Well...he does look bigger than Violet," he said. "Maybe their squeaks are different too? Make his squeak, Selena," he said. Maybe like with humans boys had deeper squeaks or something?

Jezz smiled and replaced Quibbles on her shoulder. "Lily and Blueberry," she said nodding. "This is Quibbles," She nodded in the Pygmy's direction. "Well I was really curious as to if they have any magical capabilities. If you want to figure that out?"

" Well, if you want to try a few things I suppose we could and Laura could always watch and come up with ideas as well." Jutin said with a smile.

" Come on over, Laura. No sense in you having to try and figure all this outt yourself." Justin said as he motioned her over to take a look at their notes and the page he had opened his book to.

Selena pouted as the pygmy puff that Kennedy had shrunk away. HEEEEY. Selena didn't even get a chance to pet the little girl yet. That wasn't fair. "I think she's offended you called her an it," Selena pointed out, reaching out a hand to pet the little ball of FLUFF. Whoever didn't love the creature was obviously insane.

"You can't ask them like that!" Selena said, shaking her head at the boy. She picked up Kent and stared him in his HUGE blue eyes. Kennedy obviously didn't know how to ask a pygmy puff a question. "Heeeeey Kent, you're a guy right? Just shiver if it's a yes," Selena said, beaming at the purple ball in her hand. Kent just blinked back at her with his blue eyes before giving Selena a slight tremor. HAH. "HE'S A DUDE."

Obviously. Because the pygmy puff SAID so... basically.

Bigger? No. "He's fluffier," Selena sighed. Not bigger. FLUFF.IE.ER. Squeaks are different? How did he expect Selena to replicate a pygmy puff squeak?! Oh wait. He wanted KENT to squeak. Right. "Alright, Kent, squeak, okay?" Selena said, waiting for her puff to squeak.

Any moment now...

"Hmmm....I think we should do the Snot one,"Cardigan replied giggling slightly.It was not everyday you said to do the 'snot one'.Really,you probably never said it!Snot.What a peculiar word.Snot snot snot snot snot.Your snot gonna eat your Peas?It's snot true!she thought with even more giggles.But, who would even want to eat Snot?

Angelina giggled a little with Cardigan. "Yeah let's just do that one," Angelina said with a smile. Snot was a funny word. Not heard very often.