Ira trudged up to go to her dormitory, when she figured it would be kind of better to sit at the study table to do her transfiguration homework. So she came to the Transfiguration table, yawning slightly and looked around. Nope, there weren't many others there. She kept her bag aside and took out her materials. She was going to use parchments now.

Now that she had practiced enough in the transfiguration practice room, it was time to make the actual gifts. She decided to make three frames, out of which she could choose any two later on. And no, now, she didn't want to make any flowery frames.

So she first formed an image in her mind as to the frame she wanted and then she traced a shape around her picture, and then muttered "Statua Habitum". She watched as the parchment straightened out a little and became a rectangle and finally there was a photo frame! It looked just like she had wanted it to be. And she would be giving this one to Professor Bentley. yeah, she had decided on giving it to Professor Hadley but then felt that Herbology teacher was better, and Professor Bentley was Head of Gryffindor house too!

Satisfied that the first frame had turned out right, she proceeded to do the next one. She again thought of a different kind of design and traced it with the tip of her wand on the parchment. And this time, she transfigured a frame which was silvery and shiny. Yes it too looked good. But she decided to not choose it. So she reversed the spell back. "Reverto!" And the frame turned back to the parchment it originally had been.

But by now, she decided that it was time to go to the dormitory. She could do her last frame there too. Thinking so, she collected her things and took her frame and went to her room.

"I take it you tried out for the team then?" she asked, turning her violet eyes on him. "I used to play, but not anymore. Quidditch just didn't turn out to be right for me." Sorry Selina, she had tried and had had fun, but she needed to stick to what she was really good at. Kurumi sort of blushed when he called her nurturing. It reminded her that she had to be the Mama Lion from now on. No pressure or anything. "Sometimes, I feel like everyone is nurtures me more than I nurture them, but I do what I can."

Setting her parchment down for now and pocketing her wand for the time being, Kurumi examined everything. All the lines seemed to be closed for now, so she could just transfigure it again up in the dorms. "Well...I bake," she laughed. "I probably smell like sugar most of the time because of it too."

As she reached back Gryffindor tower. She’s now really tired. She headed directly to the study tables for she was about to start her other home works plus she still have to submit her Transfiguration homework, reporting that she have done it. Sitting there and gazing at her bag which was laid on top of the table, she remembered that she still had to put inside a frame her photo last summer. She wanted this one to be the most perfect of them all. Even though she had already done it twice, this one is her picture and she’s gonna hand it to someone special.

She grabbed her bag, opened it and searched for some of her special parchments she had bought from Diagon alley. It's quite good that she always have these things around, she had a feeling they might come in handy. Hmmm, she scratched her chin with her left hand as her right hand pulled out her wand from her robe's pocket. She laid the parchment and her picture on the table, making sure the photo was on the center.

Then she readied herself, and said "Stat-UA HAB-itum!" As Tenn's wand traced the parchment in a rectangle shape. She had a gold frame in mind but not a plain one. Oooops, it seemed like it didn't work the first time. As she stared at the paper and nothing happened. SHe forgot that her wand should be in contact with the paper. She decided to try again. "Stat-UA HAB-itum," Tenn again said clearly with the tip of her wand in contact with the flat paper and shaped it into a rectangle. She concentrated on the look she wanted and there she watched the paper pop out. It was getting thicker until it reached about 5 centimeters thickness and turned into a gold ornate frame with uneven edges and carvings. Tenn stared at it and thought, "It looks common," she said. "Reverto," she said again at the frame and it went back to its old look, just a plain special parchment.

Since she already got it perfect, She brought out a picture of her last summer and placed it on top of the parchment. She just thought it would be a great keepsake photo for her friend daisy since she's a year older than her and Daisy would have something to remind her of Tenn when she leaves Hogwarts. Making sure that the photo was on the right place she said the incantation once more. "Stat-UA HAB-itum," with her wand in contact with the paper, Tenn traced a rectangle shape from the parchment. She concentrated with the design that she liked as the paper became embossed into a plain rectangle 5 centimetre gold ornate frame. The frame started having flower carvings on the first layer and then three more layers appeared as it curves started to embellish another layer. Tenn wanted hers to more customized so she thought of the colors to be maroon and gold and presto. Her photo was already inside it and covered in glass with the perfect frame that she had envisioned.

She smiled as she stared at it. "Awesome," she murmured as she picked it up. She looked around her and hoped that she can find Daisy around. But she changed her mind, maybe she could give it to Professor Magnus as a gift. She pulled her quill and scribbled something on an empty parchment.

She packed her things and carried the frame carefully as she went out the common room to find Professor Magnus.

Tayla went straight to the study tables after getting her things from the girls' dormitory. Maxwell was no longer in the common room, so he probably went to his room and got his things, too.

She put her rolls of parchment, quill, and bottle of ink on the desk, and checked the small to-do notebook. She realized she had already done her Herbology homework. It was Arithmancy she needed to work on. Now that subject, she had to work a little extra hard in.

She waited for Maxwell to arrive. She'd still help him with Herbology if he needed it. It wasn't her best subject either, but she did quite well because of Professor Bentley.

In the meantime, Tayla opened her Arithmancy notebook and reviewed what she had to do.

Maxwell came down from the Dorm room with an arm full of books. He took a seat next to Tayla. "I'm not really sure what i need to work on." He said with a laugh. Maxwell wasn't big on homework he rarely ever did it. "What are you working on?" He asked noticing the lack of Herbology books at the table.

Tayla looked up from her work and realized Maxwell had arrived. She motioned him to sit opposite her. "Arithmancy. The deadline's so near but I'm not finished yet. Are you?"

Tayla massaged her forehead, feeling a little headache coming.

"No, I'm not even sure i remember what we're supposed to do." Maxwell said with a smile as he sat across Tayla. "What should we get started on?"

Tayla closed her Arithmancy book and rubber her temples. "I'm getting a headache from all these numbers..." she said. "What books did you bring with you?" She scanned her small notebook again. "Hmm...we've got two Arithmancy assignments - but I think I want to rest from all the numbers first - and we've got Ancient Runes and Transfiguration. But they're more practical homework than written...have you started any of them yet?"

Tayla looked out the window and saw it was a beautiful day. She suddenly felt like visiting the Duck Pond.

"Well, let's do Transfiguration!" Maxwell said excitedly, he loved transfiguration. "I haven't started on that yet either."

Immediately following Care of Magical Creatures, Kurumi had headed back to the Gryffindor common room and collapsed on her bed. Momotaro II had exhausted her from the lesson with all his rolling and all she wanted to do was take a nap. But that never came. Walnut was very VERY displeased with the tiny creature's appearance in what the feline considered HIS world, so Kurumi had had to lure the tiny thing out from under the dresser with one of her tuna fish cookies while Walnut was shut up in her trunk.

Giving up on sleep, Kurumi arrived at the study tables with Momotaro II cooing on her right shoulder.

Hmm...he wasn't sure what to make of this room. It was so red and the noise from the fireplace was sort of scary. He would be staying on this girl's shoulder for a while, that was for sure.

*MEEP MEEP MEEP*

Assuming that the noise meant he wanted down, the Gryffindor gingerly scooped the little creature up off her shoulder and set him down on the table where he began to bounce and roll around like he was in a hurry.

"Woah woah, you need to calm down a little, Momotaro II," she cooed as she used her. "We...we aren't bowling right now we are just talking. You know, getting to know each other."

*MEEP SQUEAK MEEP*

The human person was talking, but it was really just sounding like a lot of jibberish to the little pygmy puff as he rolled left and right in his place on his back. He JUST wanted to be scratched on his tummy...if you could call it his tummy.

Not catching the implications of the little guy's movements, Kurumi reached into her pocket for a brush and picked him up in the palm of her hand. Gently, she began to stroke the pygmy puff's fur over his belly and smiled as he began to squeak!purr. "You like that?" she asked as she moved the brush to a slightly different location and Momotaro shifted his position a bit in her hand to allow her easier access. She always brushed Walnut for a solid five minutes to remove any fur he might be shedding, so she figured that the same should be done for pygmy puffs...and shed did he do.

In the span of those five minutes, Kurumi had a clump of fur on the table that was about the same size as Momotaro II himself.

*MEEEP MEEP MEEP MEEEEEEEEP*

Momotaro II wiggled his pygmy puff eyebrows at the ball of fluff, thinking it was another pygmy puff and bounced closer to it. A friend a friend a friend! He had a friend to play with!

And bounce he did...right onto the pile of fur.

*FLOP*

"Oh, um, Momotaro II...that was just your own fur." Kurumi said as she tried to control her giggles. She noted the slightly hurt expression on the creatures face, well...in his eyes, and made a mental note to try to set up a play date with someone else and their pygmy puff. For now, she would just keep brushing him.

Tayla nodded. "Alright then." She looked for the part where she had written down what to do for Transfiguration. "It says here we have to transfigure three thimbles into vases, fill them with water, and arrange flowers in them. Then we can put them somewhere in the castle." Tayla looked up from her notebook and faced Maxwell. "Professor Bentley's allowed us to use flowers from Greenhouse Three and the Student Garden."

Tayla took out one thimble from a pocket inside her robes and put it on the table. "What was the wand movement again..." Tayla thought for a moment as she took out her wand. "Oh yes...directly downwards, vertically, near the thimble...three clockwise circles, moving farther away and upwards." She practiced the wand movement once more, then turned to Maxwell and smiled. "Promise not to laugh if my vase looks funny, okay?"

She then looked back on her thimble and focused on what kind of flower vase she wanted. Performing the wand movements they were taught in class, Tayla said, "Floreneo!" The thimble grew into a simple glass vase. She then pointed her wand inside the vase and said, "Aguamenti." Content with how much water her vase was filled with, she then said, "Finite."

Tayla felt relieved her first vase turned out quite well. She faced Maxwell again. "I think I'll make all my vases first, then get some flowers later. Your turn." She watched Maxwell eagerly, knowing he liked Transfiguration and interested to know how his vase would look like.

"I promise not to laugh at any of yours if you promise not to laugh at me doing the want movements!" Maxwell said laughing. He grabbed a thimble and placed it in front of him. "All right , wand movements; directly downwards, vertically, near the thimble...three clockwise circles, moving farther away and upwards." He said repeating what Tayla said whilst doing the motions.

"Floreneo!" He nearly shouted once he'd mastered the motions and his thimble grew into a Vase. It was rather tall with a bit of a swirl around it. With red flowers that seemed hand-painted. Maxwell then pointed his wand into the Vase and said "Aguamenti." very calmly, but then the water started coming from his wand much faster than he anticipated. "Finite!" He said laughing, there was a little more water in the vase than he intended but not so much that it would spill so all was well.

"I think doing all the Vases first it a good idea, You're turn." Maxwell said eager to see how Tayla's next vase would come out.

"That's a pretty vase," Tayla said to Maxwell.

She took another thimble out and wondered what she wanted her next vase to look like. Blue being her favourite colour, she decided she wanted a blue vase.

Focusing on that idea in her head, Tayla performed the wand movements again - directly downwards, vertically, near the thimble, three clockwise circles, moving farther away and upwards - and said "Floreneo!". The thimble was slowly transfigured into a blue vase.

"My thimble changed slowly, but it turned out prettier than I thought...so that's good I think," Tayla said mostly to herself. She filled the vase with water again and then turned to Maxwell. "So far so good. I hope I won't have problems with my third one either. Your turn then."

"Thank you!" Maxwell said to Tayla's compliment about his vase. "Yours is lovely." He said with a smile. And now it was his turn to transform another thimble.

He thought long and hard about what he wanted this time. 'Something different, Something original.' He thought to himself, and started the hand motions and said "Floreneo!" very sternly to the thimble. It started to grow clear and tall and then there was something wrapping itself around it, the Vase was covered in musical notes as if someone had tried to write a song around it.

"That turned out differently than i thought it would?" Maxwell said with a bit of a laugh. "Your turn." He said passing Tayla a thimble.

Tayla took the thimble from Maxwell and said, "That's a really cool vase! I hope my third one will have pretty designs, too."

She carefully set her first two vases aside and put her third thimble on the table in front of her. It took Tayla a little while to decide what she wanted this vase to look like. "Brighten up the dark old halls and rooms," she remembered from the assignment.

Performing the wand movement again, she thought of a rainbow and said "Floreneo!" The thimble turned into a colourful vase.

"Ooh!" Tayla smiled, feeling excited. The objects that appeared when she'd transfigure something were usually simple with only one or two colours. This one had the colours of the rainbow!

Tayla filled her vase with water. "No leaks here either." But observing for leaks made her forget to end the charm and some water started spilling out of the vase. "Woops! Finite!"

Tayla's smile vanished when she observed what happened next. The colours of the vase melted away as the water flew out. "That's not good." She shook her head. "It's a little sad even..." She touched the vase with the tips of her fingers. "It must have been painted with something water-soluble..."

Tayla sighed. "I'll need to try again. I hope I make another pretty one... But you should have your turn first, Max."

Maxwell realized he'd forgotten to fill up his last vase with water. "Aguamenti!" He said watching the water rush past the music notes. "Finite!" He said once it reached a reasonable amount of water. "Oh, no. I'm sorry." Maxwell said as the paint came off of Tayla's vase.

He grabbed a new thimble and placed it in front of him. He though about what he wanted this time maybe some color? "Floreneo!" He said doing the hand movements, and watched the thimble grow. it turned a wonderful shade of green and changed into a wonderful Vase.

He then pointed his wand inside and said for the second time "Aguamenti!" and it started to fill with water although he said "Finite!" a little late and now his vase was threatening to overflow. "Woops!" Maxwell said and laughed then took a sip from the vase to get rid of some of the water.

"For some reason, that reminds me of the genie in Aladdin. It's an old animated Muggle film," Tayla added, realizing Maxwell might not know what Aladdin was.

"Anyway...here it goes!" She took another thimble out and put it on the table. Thinking once more of a rainbow, and hoping this time the colours would stay, Tayla performed the wand movements and said "Floreneo!"

As she moved her wand upwards in three clockwise circles, she watched the thimble transfigure into another rainbow vase, but it looked shinier than her first one and had a pretty odd shape. Tayla pointed her wand inside the vase and said "Aguamenti," to fill it with water. "Finite."

She dipped her fingers into the water then splashed a little on the outside of the vase. The colours didn't go away. "There don't seem to be any leaks either," Tayla said happily. "Well then, here's my third vase!"

Tayla opened her small notepad once more and checked what they next needed to do. "Arrange flowers...and place them in random locations throughout the castle to help brighten up the dark old halls and rooms."

Turning to Maxwell, she said, "We're done here then. Thanks for working with me, Max."

She put her things back in her bag. "I'm going to get flowers from The Student Garden now."

She carried her vases one by one to a safe corner of the study. "You don't have to, but you can come if you like." She smiled and left Maxwell to decide. Tayla left the room and headed to the Student Garden. She'd come back for the vases and put them around the castle a little later.

Maxwell watched as Tayla prepared to leave. "You're welcome! I'll probably catch up with you." He said preparing the next thimble.

Working the motions with his wand he uttered "Floreneo!" and the small thimble grew into a large Green Vase.

Maxwell once again pulled out his wand and pointing the tip into the vase said "Aguamenti!" And the vase filled with water until he decided it was enough then uttering "Finite!" He then proceeded to gather his things and leave to the student gardens.

Tayla hurried back to the Gryffindor study tables, wondering if Maxwell had indeed followed her. She must have missed him somehow, especially since she walked quickly.

She entered the study and found that Maxwell had left. "He probably went to get flowers, too," she thought.

She walked towards her vases and put her bucket of flowers next to them. Then, putting her own gloves, she started arranging the flowers in each.

The white roses she put into the glass vase. She trimmed excess leaves and cut the stem in an angle underwater. "That would keep the flowers living longer," she thought. Then she did the same for the white tiger lilies and the blue vase, and the yellow tulips and the rainbow vase. She added some leaves and small flowers here and there to make the arrangement prettier.

Tayla worked near the windows and wondered how Maxwell was doing with his Transfiguraton homework.

After finishing the flower arrangement he meant to give to Selina, Gideon had headed out from the gardens and back into the castle in search of the girl in question. He didn't have much luck though he might not have been looking very hard since it was ackward as he held the filled vase. So instead of continuing his search, he made his way up to Gryffindor tower and after giving the password to the Fat Lady's portrait, stepped inside. The fifth year looked around and still didn't see her so he walked over to the study tables and sat down at one right by a window, placing the vase on the table in front of him. The opalescence of the container caught the light and made pretty colors so he figured he could leave it here at least temporarily, the boy sitting back and enjoying the moment.