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.

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?''

While Alyssa was feeding Nerball a tuna sandwich, Taylor reached into her bag for a chocolate frog. She laid it front of Mercy. Tay watched as the puff ate the chocolate frog. Taylor smiled and made a note of it. She picked a piece of hay from one of the bales and placed it in front of the pygmy puff. Mercy hesitated before eating it. Taylor turned to Alyssa, "You can put a check beside hay and chocolate frogs." She smiled, "Mercy ate both so far." Taylor started thinking what else on the list, that she could feed Mercy. She refused to even consider snot or rats, shivering with the thought of it even.

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?"

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.

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.

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.