Olivia heal Flippert up beside squishy so they cound compaer tounges. Ya she does, and Flipperts is a bit shorter. Flippert made a lower squeek, They do like eachother
I think they eat pretty much anything she responded to Annabelle.
Time for the hidden reproductive organ check, she looked at her pygmes underbelly and did not see what she was expecting. Oh great, does this mean I have to mess arround and look for it! . Olivia seached arround in his fur and found the organ near the back.

"I think they eat anything they are in the mood for. I mean i haven't seen them eat anything out of the unsual. I didn't even realize Squishy was taller than Flippert till u mentioned it!"
Then Annabelle did what Olivia was doing. She checked Squishy's reprodcutive organs. She found the organ near the back. Squishy trsuted Annabelle and knew she would do no harm. "Yup i found it." as she put Squishy down. Then she started running round in circles squeaking. "Hahahah you are adorable." she said as she went down and pet her. Sqishy started eating some grass.

Ella looked around as many of the pygmy puffs started to squeak. That was weird, why were they squeaking? And why wasn't Barnabus joining in? Was he broken or something? Ella almost shook him before deciding that was a bad idea. She frowned at him and whispered softly, "What's wrong little guy? Don't want to join in?" She then raised her hand, curious. "Professor-uh are they squeaking cause they're like...I don't know attracted to another pygmy puff in the room or something?!" Was it mating season or were the pygmy puffs just starting a mutiny or something? She returned her gaze to Barnabus and whispered. "Don't try anything funny."

Selina rose her hand when their Professor asked what the little cutey puffs ate. Honestly, Selina knew what Owen ate, as to everyone else's puff...? Well, she could not be sure of that. Owen was sort of like his owner... he ate everything in sight. So Selina rose her hand and said, "My little guy kind of eats everything. I would have to say that the only thing I can be sure of is that puffs just sort of like food."

Sierra grew sort of wide-eyed when the Ravenclaw's Pygmy Puff began to jerk on the girl's hair. She might would laugh, but at the same time, she was too busy giving It (her own Pygmy Puff) a death glare. Honestly, if the creature pulled her hair, she'd probably pick it up and throw it across the room.

Oh, right. They hadn't given their names yet, which struck Sierra as being odd. She couldn't believe they'd been working together this whole time and hadn't even thought to address one another yet. Maybe this other girl, Elise she just heard, was pretty much like Sierra. Sierra didn't go out of her way to make friends. She wouldn't normally ask for a name. "Sierra," she said. "Fourth year Slytherin."

She watched as the girl tried to give her Pygmy Puff some lettuce. At least she'd also learned the girl was vegetarian. Now the lettuce and tomato in her bag made a little more sense. She edged away as Elise's Pygmy Puff started pulling on her hair again. "Maybe it's trying to tell you it's hungry?" she suggested. "I really hope it doesn't start eating snot soon..."

Oh so they werent asexual? Vickers glanced at the contented Hendrix that has now returned to rest on his arm. Well he supposed if the Weasleys had trouble breeding them then a lot of it has got to do with the fact that they needed a minimum of two Pygmy Puffs for anything to happen.

He was scribbling down notes from the board when he nearly fell off his low seat at the sudden shrieking squeak next to him. He stared at the Gryffindor Prefect-- no, she couldnt possibly be making that sound, but whatever it was came really close to her. He leaned to his side, angling his head until he could see the bouncy Pygmy Puff in her hands. It sure looked bright, but the sound good grief "I guess.... your Pygmy Puff is male?"

Then he felt something digging into the front of his robes. He glanced down in time to see Hendrix' shivering purple furball trying to push down his vest. Hurriedly he fished the puff out and tried cradling it in his hands. Hendrix was jittery, and made many attempts to return into the safe folds of the Ravenclaw's robes. "Uh... I could guess that my Pygmy Puff is female." he said, noting the darker shade on the Puff's fur compared to the other puffs in class. And although silent for now she seemed to have been frightened by the sudden squeaking coming from coral pink furball.

Oh wait... there was another question posed by the Professor wasnt there? "Uh Professor, since Pygmy Puffs are minature Puffskeins, would it be safe to assume that they would also share the same diet? Puffskeins are not picky eaters and would eat just about anything, including uh... nasal mucus." Yeah try not to disgust half the class with something so unhygienic.

Minerva was sitting listening to the students when the puffs began to make noises. Why were they all making so much noise. She looked down at the one on her lap that seemed to be sleeping, because it wasn't making any noise. "Your a good little puff." she pet it and looked around. She looked down at her parchment getting ready for when they talked about the magic power part of the research.

Justin didn't have a puff and was glad of that. All the other little puff's were going berzek. Then he looked over at the quiet one sitting on Minerva's lap. Boy, did she luck out with the only quiet puff in the room he thought. Still he sat patiently waiting for further instruction.

In between short blasts of pain, she noticed the Slytherin glaring at her puff as if to tell it not to act up like Honey was. Trying to prise it away from her hair, she sighed loudly before trying to get it away from her hair. Painful task, getting pygmypuff hands off her hair.

Sierra, it was a nice name... And Elise couldn't believe that they've worked together the whole time and hadn't asked for each other's names. "Second year Ravenclaw," she smiled back. She wouldn't mind the two of them being friends, but she wasn't the type to force someone else into doing it.

Another yank on her hair was it. "Stop it," she snapped, finally at the end of her patience. "Or I'll actually strangle you." Looking at Sierra, she nodded, seeing as she had a point. Why hadn't El thought of that?

"I'll give you this tomato if you get off my head," she tried, holding up the redness. No luck. The puff just stuck its tongue out and grabbed the tomato out of her hand, remaining perched on her head. Turning her gaze to her partner, she sighed. "Help?" she asked, a little tiredly with a yelp as the puff pulled on her hair again.

Her hands would have probably choked the puff had the Professor not been walking around the class. She didn't need a detention.

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Annabelle felt sorry they didn't get a chance to discuss but she agreed what her partner said. "Hmmm i think i want to know, what is the rarest color a pygmy puff can be? and what is the most common color?"

"Also a good question," William mused. "I think there are white ones, but I have never seen a black one. So perhaps that is the answer to your question." He nodded back to the first girl.

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Laura looked at the Professor and smiled. "Do they eat cars, and busses and things made of metal?" She had seen a film where this small create ate things like that and so she decided to guess.

"No, no, and no," William just shook his head. "They do have weird diets though." But no, they definitely weren't carnivores who ate metal.

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Flippert seemed excited to meet a new friend, he made some squeeky chattering noises. And shook his fur, Olivia thought he looked like he was showing off again.They are so cute!
Olivia thought this was a good questions. Can there be black or white pygmy puffs? she asked, and she also brought out the notes she was taking earlier I think we half to go down this list and discuss it Olivia said holding it up.

She could tell just by looking at Flipert that he was male, his fur was brighter and longer then squishy's. Olivia picked up her pygmy and squeezed at the corners of it's mouth like a snap dragon, yup Flippert had a short tounge.What does squishy's toung look like?Olivia asked Annabelle.
In responce to the professer's question Olivia said over her sholder, They eat lots of things other then boogers, they eat dust and little bits of food off the floor. They might also eat flys Olivia guessed the last one, but it seemed like it might be right.[/QUOTE]

"I've never seen a black puff," William responded, "although yes, white ones are possible. They're like the albinos of pygmy puffs."

He nodded at her answers about boogers and dust. "Good guesses. I'm sure they'll eat a fly if they're hungry enough."

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"Professor Williamson, me and Ella didn't talk about this, but I think it makes sense that they would eat similar diets to Puffskeins. I mean, they were bred from Puffskeins and share many of their qualities, so it makes sense. Since Puffskeins are scavengers and aren't particularly picky about what they eat, I would assume pygmy puffs also have a wide variety of foods they will consume."

"I agree, good." Williamson flicked his wand at the wall of notes and ones about a pygmy puff's diet appeared instead. "You wouldn't BELIEVE some of the things these little guys will eat." Everything but the kitchen sink, apparently.

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"Professor, we tried feeding our Pygmy Puffs and wrote down what they ate and did not eat." She looked at Jory, indicating the parchment where he had been writing the list, then back at Professor Williamson. "We tried Chocolate Frogs, chicken, wheat bread and..." What was the other thing again? She looked down at Jory. "Oh yeah! An apple!" Which was the thing they ate ADORABLY!

"They didn't seem to like chicken and wheat bread, but they ate the chocolate frog and the apple!" Sophie nodded while she spoke. Then she looked curious. "Does that mean that these Pygmy Puffs don't like these things or that aaaall Pygmy Puffs don't eat chicken and wheat bread?" As in, do they have different gastronomic taste or something?

Well well, looked like the Hufflepuffs were good at using the scientific method to discover things!

"Excellent, excellent!" Williamson clapped his hands at the results from the tiny Hufflepuff. "I would say that pygmy puffs are, for the most part, vegetarian. They also tend to have a sweet tooth, as far as I know, but food preferences can vary from individual to individual." Just like in humans!

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Alyssa waited while the others made their presentations and when nobody else answered, she raised her hand and presented what Taylor and her had come up with.

"Professor, Taylor and I, both came up with a list of food that we thought the Pygmy Puffs would most likely eat, and like Keefer said, we assumed that since they were related to the Puffskeins, that they might also have the same similar eating habits. This is the list that we've worked on so far.

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1. Cookies
2. Leftover tuna sandwich (check)
3. ants (check)
4. lettuce (check)
5. carrots
6. apples (check)
7. chocolate frogs (check)
8. nose boogers
9. spiders (check)
10. hay (check)
11. rats
12. leaves (check)
13. pencil
14. shoelaces
15. hair
16. paper
17. grass
18. jello
19. worms
20. pudding
21. pie

So far we've from what we've been feeding them, we have noticed that they tended to like to eat some of the stuff us humans, or the other creatures would eat. But there were some stuff that they wouldn't eat and it makes sense because we wouldn't like eating them either. We haven't gotten round to seeing whether they liked eating nose boogers, even though that's what Puffskeins are known to like, because neither of us had any nose boogers to spare right now. We also ran out of food to give them but we'll continue with our food taste once we replenish and get access to the dead rats in your creature food supply cabinet."

"Very, very good, Alyssa." Williamson nodded at their list, please with it of course. He found it funny how neither of them had any nose boogers on them at the moment. "You'll have a homework assignment that allows you to explore this further, but good job for now."

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"Hmm well professor i know my pygmy has a habit of eating a lot of dust and that is a huge help in my house for my mom with allergies. " Annabelled raised her hand to answer the question.

"Good!" William laughed. He had never thought of a pygmy puff as a help, but what a good idea!

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Taylor took down the notes. She listern as Alyssa told the professor their discoveries. Tay tried to resist (but fail horriblely) to not wrinkle up her nose in disgust at the rats and snot. She had made up her mind to not test those two things because 1.rats are gross and carry diseases.... especially dead ones and 2. the snot was also gross but also indecent. She wouldnt have any problems testing anything other than two things though. When Alyssa was finished talking, Taylor added, "They seem to plants a lot..... maybe that is because plants are natural? or maybe it helps soothe their upset stomaches kinda of like what grass does for dogs?" She wasn't sure if that was right or not so it came out a little bit like questions.

"This is a good question," Williamson made a hmm sound. "I think it could be both. Pygmy puffs generally do stick to eating non-meat-like things," he was sure there was a word for that, although he couldn't remember it just now, "so the plant angle makes a lot of sense! Good job."

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Zhenya hadn't thought of this question at all, but she was quite excited to test out what activities they liked. She had a quick thought and raised her hand, "Professor do they eat little insects, like ladybugs, flies, cockroaches and things? Or do they live on a more herbivore diet of things like grasses, and leaves, and vegetables and fruits?" she didn't know, so she thought she would ask whether they were omnivores or herbivores. Well, she didn't think they were carnivores.

Ah, no. "Not really," Williamson tilted his head, scratching at the green ball of fur that Nerf idly. "They tend to like sweeter things and more veggie-like, organic things, as you mentioned." Good guesses all around today.

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Then the class was talking about food and Ella became hungry. Why oh why did that always happen at the mention of food? Her and Keefer hadn't discussed that topic either but she was curious about something. "Professor, I was wondering if there is anything that pygmy puffs shouldn't eat. I mean are they allergic to any foods? My dog can't eat chocolate because it makes her really sick."

"Nothing that I can think of!" William answered cheerfully. Great question, Ella! "Other than things that humans can't eat, obviously, they really have no dietary restrictions."

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"I put my pygmy puff in a basket of bread once. Kent didn't eat a bite of it. He started to eat someone's snot."

Yup. True story. What a waste of bread. Now... back to eying the professor for COPYING her pygmy puff balancing ways.

He had to bite his lip to keep from laughing at that answer because, quite frankly, he could just PICTURE the pygmy puff loving prefect doing EXACTLY that.

"Maybe Kent was trying to watch his carbohydrate intake," he pointed out, somehow managing to keep a straight face.

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"Maybe the Pygmy Puff's eat types of plants," Sierra suggested, raising her hand. "Lettuce, maybe...or other plants." Anything with leaves, pretty much. "My partner has some tomatoes and lettuce in her bag." She gestured toward her partner. In other words, could they test the theory now?!

"Yes, very good," Williamson nodded. "Would you mind demonstrating for us all, Sierra? Show us if the pygmy puff will eat your partner's..... lunch." Because why else would her classmate have tomatoes and lettuce in her bag???!

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Jory examined his 'Puff. He was likely to think Furballl was male. He was very bright in colour and quite fluffy.

Jory raised his hand.
"Professor, they seemed more inclined towards a plant based diet, I think. Although Sophie and I didn't get to try a lot of food,the 'Puffs really seemed to like apples and to an extent, chocolates as apposed to wheat bread and chicken.''

"Very good!" It seemed a lot of the class was getting the same results, at least as far as bread and meat was concerned. Though William was still wondering where they had gotten all the food from... he sure didn't keep chicken out here. Only live chickens in the barnyard, child please.

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Suddenly, Momotaro II began to bounce in her hands, its big eyes locked on something near Kurumi.

SQUEEEEEEEEK! SQUEEK SQUEE SQUEEEEEEEEK!

Kurumi's eyes widened a bit. Looked like she didn't need to search for its...whatever...

SQUEEEEEEEEK! SQUEEEEEE SQUEEK SQUEEEEEE SQUEEK SQUEEK!*

*pygmy puff translation: Laaaaaaaaadies! How YOU doin'?

Whoa whoa whoaaaaa. What in Merlin's beard was going on here? "It's not mating season," Williamson announced loudly, giving Kurumi's pygmy puff a stern glance. Anyway, weren't they supposed to hum at a pitch too high for humans to detect? This one's squeaking was definitely detectable, the little playa.

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Tayla raised her hand. "I know they like eating bogies, Professor" - Ick! "I fed Teacup an owl pellet and she ate a little of it...but I don't think she liked it much. She does like my chocolate truffle though. She finished the whole piece I gave her." Tayla realized she had been referring to her pygmy puff as female, and though the squeak of her pygmy puff was high-pitched, Tayla wasn't completely sure about Teacup's gender yet.

Tayla turned her head towards the loud squeaking sound. It was coming from Kurumi's pygmy puff. A moment later, Teacup was squeaking, too. "SQUUEEEEK! SUEEEEEEEEEEK!" Not as loudly as Kurumi's but definitely higher in pitch. "Definitely female..." Tayla thought. She watched as Teacup gave one final squeak, it's eyes looking straight at Kurumi's pygmy puff. "Er...Professor? What's going on?"

Yeah. "I've noticed that too," William continued with class, ignoring the squeaky male puff. Sometimes if you just ignore the undesired behavior, it will go away on his own. That was the theory he was working with anyway. "Pymgy puffs obviously have well-developed taste pallets." Who would choose an owl pellet over chocolate, you know?

As for the squeaking.... "Just ignore that," the professor stated loudly, again with another glare at the squeakers. "It's just puffs getting excited about the other gender. No big deal." Nothing to see here. Move along, move along.

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Pulling a ziplock bag from her bag, she looked at the Professor for a moment before holding a brightred baby tomato in her left hand. "I'm vegetarian," she shrugged, as if it explained everything. At least she wasn't part bunny...

Looking at the WWW, she raised her hand. "They're vegetarian!" she giggled before groaning in pain as the fluffball grabbed her hair again. "Professor, why's it yanking -ouch!- on my hair?!" she moaned in frustration before covering her ears to shield them from the high pitched humming that seemed do come from Honey.

SPOILER!!: Y U STRETCH ME

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE EEEEEEEEEEEEK!

Oh, Merlin!

Well that did explain some --- or a lot --- about why the girl had vegetables in her purse. Still.....

"Yes, pymgy puffs are vegetarian in a way, good....." As for the hair thing.... Robbie tilted his head. "Is your pygmy female? The puffs tend to nest when mating --- ALTHOUGH IT IS NOT MATING SEASON RIGHT NOW," he had to keep repeating that for some reason, "so yours MIGHT be wanting to make a nest."

Again, now was NOT THE TIME for humming, folks and puffs. Why were all of his students searching for their.... organs now??! MERLIN THIS CLASS WAS GETTING WEIRD.

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Ella looked around as many of the pygmy puffs started to squeak. That was weird, why were they squeaking? And why wasn't Barnabus joining in? Was he broken or something? Ella almost shook him before deciding that was a bad idea. She frowned at him and whispered softly, "What's wrong little guy? Don't want to join in?" She then raised her hand, curious. "Professor-uh are they squeaking cause they're like...I don't know attracted to another pygmy puff in the room or something?!" Was it mating season or were the pygmy puffs just starting a mutiny or something? She returned her gaze to Barnabus and whispered. "Don't try anything funny."

"Yes, yes Ella, that would be why," Williamson sighed in exasperation. "Try to get them to quiet down, if you can?" Everyone????!

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Selina rose her hand when their Professor asked what the little cutey puffs ate. Honestly, Selina knew what Owen ate, as to everyone else's puff...? Well, she could not be sure of that. Owen was sort of like his owner... he ate everything in sight. So Selina rose her hand and said, "My little guy kind of eats everything. I would have to say that the only thing I can be sure of is that puffs just sort of like food."

At least this one was quiet. "Yes." He smiled a bit. "Well said, Ms. Skylar." Well said.

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Oh wait... there was another question posed by the Professor wasnt there? "Uh Professor, since Pygmy Puffs are minature Puffskeins, would it be safe to assume that they would also share the same diet? Puffskeins are not picky eaters and would eat just about anything, including uh... nasal mucus." Yeah try not to disgust half the class with something so unhygienic.

"Yes, very good, Vickers." William nodded. "They're scavengers, they sure are."





Now then, it was DEFINITELY beyond time to move on. "OKAY," William raised his voice again in a last ditch effort to gain the class' attention. "Let's have another group share their results. Anyone. About anything. And if your pygmy puff is squeaking, kindly take it outside, calm it down, and come back in please."

The situation was becoming quite humorous as the squeaking pygmy puffs were causing quite the ruckus and Professor Williamson was trying his best to get things back under control. Maybe Ella hadn't been too far fetched in thinking a mutiny was on the rise. She looked down at Barnabus, happy he had decided to suppress any urge to join in on the mating call or rally cry-whichever the others were doing at the moment. She patted the little guy gently, thinking he had made a good judgment call. "I'm proud of you Barny. No need to act all wild in class-save that stuff for pygmy puff social gatherings." Where did pygmy puffs go to socialize anyways?

Minerva put up her hand. "Professor Justin and I were doing research on if the pygmy puff has magical powers or not. We first looked into the animals that it might be similar to and figured out whether or not it had some powers the other creatures do. Once we determined that it did not, we talked about other ways we could try and figure it out. We thought about seeing about it's intelligence and communication skills with us, maybe placing things next to it to see if it might use some powers to get the objects away from it, and then we looked into the puffskeins to see if they have any magical powers. We noticed that they do not, so we are guessing that the Pygmy puff's probably have none as well, but did not get any further in figuring it out at this point in time."

Sierra looked over at her partner with wide eyes. "Wait--you want me to touch it?" she asked. Eww. She hated creatures. Why couldn't she just yell at it or throw a quill at it and scare the thing away? Oh. Right. A little thing called house points

"Oh, well...fine then," she said and began reaching for the Pygmy Puff. Just before she grabbed it, though...

...Professor WWW responded to her comment, asking her to demonstrate. "Demonstrate?" she asked, her face falling a little. She had to actually feed the thing?! Bahhh. "Right. Demonstrate." She turned back to her partner, who was still having a time with the Pygmy Puff. "Err, Elise?" she asked. "Wanna hand me a piece of lettuce? I'm meant to be demonstrating our theory, and maybe it'll lure the Pygmy Puff away from your hair..."

So as long as it didn't jump on Sierra's hair next.

Keefer had to admit, this was probably the strangest Care of Magical Creatures class he could remember being at in several terms. What with all the squeaking and gender identifying, he was starting to feel a bit awkward. So, when Williamson called for owners of rogue puffs to step outside, he was grateful. He breathed a sigh of relief and began scribbling down the notes on diet that had appeared.

Selena blinked at the professor blankly. What type of pygmy puff knew what his carbohydrate intake was? Selena didn't even know what her carbohydrate intake was. The professor was obviously making stuff up. And COPYING Selena by putting the pygmy puff on his head. Hmph. It was so Selena's thing and Kent being on her head right now was PROOF.

But back to the pygmy puff discussion. Selena liked pygmy puffs. Could she volunteer that?

Selena pet the pygmy puff on her head as she waited for COOL stuff to happen. Other than squeaky pygmy puffs. See. Kent didn't SQUEAK. He was very well behaved.

As Alyssa waited patiently for the other students to present their findings, she started feeling a sneeze coming on. She tried to hold it in. First she squeezed her nose, and that stopped the feeling for awhile, but then it came back again. Then she rubbed her nose trying to stop the tickling sensation and was glad when the sneezing sensation went away. She smiled her relief and turned back to listen to what the others had to say.

"AAAACCHHHHHOOOOO!!!"Alyssa let out a loose sneeze. She managed to cover her mouth before she sprayed everyone, but nose snot flew out of her nose and landed on her jacket sleeve. Before she could grab a tissue to wipe it off, Nerfball's tongue flew out and swallowed it whole. "Yech...Nerfball!! You're digusting!!"Alyssa told her Pygmy Puff. Alyssa raised her hand."Uh Professor, I can now safely say that without a doubt, Pygmy Puffs love to eat nose snot too." Alyssa told the Professor while checking that off on her list.

Okay, the way some of the other Pygmy Puffs were suddenly behaving was VERY STRANGE! What was wrong with them?! His own was still pointedly staring in the opposite direction of Kurumi's. And hang on, had it just rolled its eyes?! But no, they couldn't do that, could they?

When Professor Williamson quite loudly stated that it was in fact NOT mating season for Pygmy Puffs, Lewis glanced around the room for a moment. Somehow some of the Pygmy Puffs hadn't got the memo, apparently. "Uhm, Professor? When IS mating season then?" He asked with his hand raised. For the Pygmy Puffs obviously.

Nodding shyly, she shrugged. "Could you?" she asked, not waiting for a response before she ducked again. "Thanks," she grinned as she noticed Sierra reach for the pygmy puff and...

YANK!

It wasn't Sierra, she was listening to what Professor WWW had to say. HONEY... Right. Demonstrate, she nodded as the professor said something about demonstrating and lunch.

Turning to Sierra, she nodded, opening the zip lock and passing a leaf of lettuce. If this got the puffer out of her hair, she'd be beyond happy! Sheesh! Paying attention to WWW just in time to hear him start explaining why her annoying ball of fluff wouldn't leave her head, she groaned.

"I think so..." she shrugged. It had a really long tongue, and wasn't as brightly colored as the others... I think... "Haven't seen it since it hopped onto my hair..."

Trying to pry the claws off her hair, she managed to catch sight of the puff sticking its tongue out at her mockingly. Hurtful.

Belle smiled when she answered the professor's question correctly. Ananbelle took Squishy outside to calm her down. This was the first time she met new friends and it was exciting for her. "Come on Squishy time to calm down. Yes you a cute girlie i know." Belle said to her to get her energy out.

As she reached for the lettuce being passed to her, Sierra hesitated just a bit. What she really wanted to do was grab the Pygmy Puff and remove him from Elise's hair by force. Coaxing this creature out with a treat was just not her style. Sierra even thought about her own method for a moment, considering it greatly, but eventually grabbed a hold of the lettuce.

"If things bites me or starts eating snot, I give up," she said, making a slight face. A Pygmy Puff was so not worth this kind of trouble, and the way Sierra saw it, it wasn't her hair being pulled. She'd been asked to do a demonstration, though... Argh! "Okay, here goes..."

She edged the lettuce closer and closer to the creature's mouth. Or where she thought the mouth might be. All she could see was a puffball of fur. She got the lettuce close then pulled away, trying to give the creature the idea that it wasn't just going to be handed this treat. It had to come and get it!

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Minerva put up her hand. "Professor Justin and I were doing research on if the pygmy puff has magical powers or not. We first looked into the animals that it might be similar to and figured out whether or not it had some powers the other creatures do. Once we determined that it did not, we talked about other ways we could try and figure it out. We thought about seeing about it's intelligence and communication skills with us, maybe placing things next to it to see if it might use some powers to get the objects away from it, and then we looked into the puffskeins to see if they have any magical powers. We noticed that they do not, so we are guessing that the Pygmy puff's probably have none as well, but did not get any further in figuring it out at this point in time."

Oooh, research on the powers of pygmy puffs! Now this should be interesting. William's ears perked up and he leaned forward a bit, Nerf doing a careful balancing thing on his head as he listened to Minerva's and Justin's results.

"Hmm, you did a great job with that, so far, especially since it is a difficult question." He nodded and Nerf let out a squeak as he bounced on the tall man's head. "Good job though! I wonder, if you were to use magic to test a pygmy puff's abilities, would your results would be any different?" Not that he was recommending they do that....

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As Alyssa waited patiently for the other students to present their findings, she started feeling a sneeze coming on. She tried to hold it in. First she squeezed her nose, and that stopped the feeling for awhile, but then it came back again. Then she rubbed her nose trying to stop the tickling sensation and was glad when the sneezing sensation went away. She smiled her relief and turned back to listen to what the others had to say.

"AAAACCHHHHHOOOOO!!!"Alyssa let out a loose sneeze. She managed to cover her mouth before she sprayed everyone, but nose snot flew out of her nose and landed on her jacket sleeve. Before she could grab a tissue to wipe it off, Nerfball's tongue flew out and swallowed it whole. "Yech...Nerfball!! You're digusting!!"Alyssa told her Pygmy Puff. Alyssa raised her hand."Uh Professor, I can now safely say that without a doubt, Pygmy Puffs love to eat nose snot too." Alyssa told the Professor while checking that off on her list.

Text Cut: List of Food that Pygymy Puffs eat

1. Cookies
2. Leftover tuna sandwich (check)
3. ants (check)
4. lettuce (check)
5. carrots
6. apples (check)
7. chocolate frogs (check)
8. nose boogers (definitely check)
9. spiders (check)
10. hay (check)
11. rats
12. leaves (check)
13. pencil
14. shoelaces
15. hair
16. paper
17. grass
18. jello
19. worms
20. pudding
21. pie

William let out a loud chortle at how Alyssa had gone about crossing 'snot' off her list of puff foods. "Wow, Alyssa, that has to be the first useful sneeze I've ever seen!" He continued chuckling as he adjusted Nerf on his head, who apparently also wanted to go lick Alyssa's nostrils for any leftovers. "Nice job with that." Heh.

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Okay, the way some of the other Pygmy Puffs were suddenly behaving was VERY STRANGE! What was wrong with them?! His own was still pointedly staring in the opposite direction of Kurumi's. And hang on, had it just rolled its eyes?! But no, they couldn't do that, could they?

When Professor Williamson quite loudly stated that it was in fact NOT mating season for Pygmy Puffs, Lewis glanced around the room for a moment. Somehow some of the Pygmy Puffs hadn't got the memo, apparently. "Uhm, Professor? When IS mating season then?" He asked with his hand raised. For the Pygmy Puffs obviously.

"Why it's in the spring time, of course!" Will answered Lewis very quickly. Hear that, pygmy puffs? You still had MONTHS of winter left! "I would assume that right now they're just... warming up their vocal cords or something." Or whatever it was pygmy puffs used to make their noises.

SPOILER!!: Anna Banana and iceblossom22

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Sierra looked over at her partner with wide eyes. "Wait--you want me to touch it?" she asked. Eww. She hated creatures. Why couldn't she just yell at it or throw a quill at it and scare the thing away? Oh. Right. A little thing called house points

"Oh, well...fine then," she said and began reaching for the Pygmy Puff. Just before she grabbed it, though...

...Professor WWW responded to her comment, asking her to demonstrate. "Demonstrate?" she asked, her face falling a little. She had to actually feed the thing?! Bahhh. "Right. Demonstrate." She turned back to her partner, who was still having a time with the Pygmy Puff. "Err, Elise?" she asked. "Wanna hand me a piece of lettuce? I'm meant to be demonstrating our theory, and maybe it'll lure the Pygmy Puff away from your hair..."

So as long as it didn't jump on Sierra's hair next.

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Nodding shyly, she shrugged. "Could you?" she asked, not waiting for a response before she ducked again. "Thanks," she grinned as she noticed Sierra reach for the pygmy puff and...

YANK!

It wasn't Sierra, she was listening to what Professor WWW had to say. HONEY... Right. Demonstrate, she nodded as the professor said something about demonstrating and lunch.

Turning to Sierra, she nodded, opening the zip lock and passing a leaf of lettuce. If this got the puffer out of her hair, she'd be beyond happy! Sheesh! Paying attention to WWW just in time to hear him start explaining why her annoying ball of fluff wouldn't leave her head, she groaned.

"I think so..." she shrugged. It had a really long tongue, and wasn't as brightly colored as the others... I think... "Haven't seen it since it hopped onto my hair..."

Trying to pry the claws off her hair, she managed to catch sight of the puff sticking its tongue out at her mockingly. Hurtful.

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As she reached for the lettuce being passed to her, Sierra hesitated just a bit. What she really wanted to do was grab the Pygmy Puff and remove him from Elise's hair by force. Coaxing this creature out with a treat was just not her style. Sierra even thought about her own method for a moment, considering it greatly, but eventually grabbed a hold of the lettuce.

"If things bites me or starts eating snot, I give up," she said, making a slight face. A Pygmy Puff was so not worth this kind of trouble, and the way Sierra saw it, it wasn't her hair being pulled. She'd been asked to do a demonstration, though... Argh! "Okay, here goes..."

She edged the lettuce closer and closer to the creature's mouth. Or where she thought the mouth might be. All she could see was a puffball of fur. She got the lettuce close then pulled away, trying to give the creature the idea that it wasn't just going to be handed this treat. It had to come and get it!

He pulled Nerf down from his head and raised a brow at the two girls testing out the vegetables on their pygmy puffs. That one was awfully attached to the girl's hair for some reason... weird. Williamson had never seen one do that before.

"Let us know when---" oh, they were starting! William cleared his throat and adopted a tone similar to a National Geographic narrator. "Class, let's all quietly watch as Sierra Greingoth attempts to coax a nesting pygmy puff off the head of her classmate, Elise Fairfield. Watch as the young Slytherin waves a leaf of lettuce near the pygmy puff's suspected mouth, but not close enough that the creature could just snatch it out of her hand. Will it take the bait?"

He grinned at the class and added, "Last call for any other results! Pass in your parchments and then we'll re-arrange this barn a bit for the activities portion of class!"

He was really looking forward to that bit. Heh.

Alyssa quickly wiped her nose to make sure that no other Pygmy Puff would be pouncing on her, than with the agreement of Taylor, she handed in her parchment to the Professor before waiting for instructions from him on how he wanted them to rearrange the barn. 'Class is not over yet? There's going to be more activities? Cool,'Alyssa thought to herself.

Elise glanced at Sierra nervously before letting go of the lettuce. Could that one leaf actually persuade the puffball to leave her hair? What she really wanted to know was what made the stupid ball of fluff want to stay in her hair so badly that it wouldn't let go? It had months of winter left till its mating season, anyway!

Nodding stiffly, she winced in pain as it yanked on her head yet again. OUCH! Just as Sierra started inching the lettuce towards her hair, WWW decided to narrate her disaster to the whole class. Joy. Now this'd be a classwide dilemma. Shooting a deathly glare at him for just a second, she turned her gaze back to the lettuce. Inching closer and closer towards the pygmy puff and... She jerked it away. Then moved it close again. Sierra sure was smart.

Honey the Pygmy Puff was perfectly content to stay in its nest. Look, the next matched her fluff-fur perfectly. See, you other lame pygmies? I git the best nest here! Oooooh! Look, that human with the black nest on her head was giving her food too! Best day ever! Eyeing the food as it inched towards her, she narrowed her eyes slightly as it was jerked away. Oh, look. It's back. Super long tongue even for a female pygmy puff moving outwards, it wrapped itself around the top half of the leaf, snapped it and pulled it back in. Yummy. Do you perhaps have more, human girl?

SQUEAK!

Ella smiled as Professor Williamson began to talk in his serious scientific voice, calling attention to the erm-nesting that was happening. She watched, thankful that Barny wasn't trying to nest in her hair! Especially since Ella's hair was long and thick and once Barnabus was in there-well, he'd never get out! It also looked quite painful and Ella felt sorry for the girl who was being yanked. She looked at the little creature in her lap again and in a serious tone said, "Alright Barny, now I know I said no funny stuff but I should have been more specific. Funny stuff includes nesting in my hair! Okay? Sorted." She nodded athoratatively at the little guy and then patted his head for good measure. She was becoming quite fond of him after all.

She returned her attention to the Professor as he was telling the class to pass in their parchment. She assmebled her notes and passed them along, excited to get to do another activity before class ended.

Annabelle heard the professor's directions and handed in her parchement to the professor. She was excited to the activity part of the class! She waited for more directions.