Ad chuckled. Had she startled the boy? "That's not why I come here..." she blushed a rather fierce shade of red that rivaled the crimson of her hair. She only came here because of past memories with Justin. "But it's nothing" she shrugged, the red in her face finally fading.

Alec. that was a pretty name. :3 "Alec. I like that" she grinned.

Alec smiled nervously at the girl and ruffled his hair. Maybe he had said something stupid. At least it made Adrianna laugh. But then she started speaking and... huh? Why was she blushing? Girls tended to do that a lot... but Adrianna didn't seem like the type, really. What would he know, he only just met her. "Erm, you sure?" he asked.

Alec grinned. No one usually said that they liked his name. Or... some people did. Not that he was keeping count. "Adrianna's a nice name as well," he said, "So... what house are you in?" This was something he was getting very used to asking.

Ad shrugged. "Yeah, I'm sure. I had a few memories with a...a friend here" Well duh. It was where she and Justin always seemed to meet up in previous years. And where she first admitted she loved him.

Ad smiled in return. "Thanks. Normally people call me Ad or Addy" she shrugged. She didn't like being called Addy though.

"I'm in Slytherin. My whole family was. And yourself?" she asked curiously.

Alyssa entered the Student Garden on a mission. She was here to get some flowers for the arrangements she needed to make as part of her Transfiguration Homework. She had brought a basket, a pair of clippers and her work gloves. She was glad that Professor Magnus had already gotten permission from Professor Bentley for them to take flowers from her garden.

As she came across the first flowering plant, she put on her working gloves and picked up the clippers. She clipped a few stalks of flowers from the plant and placed them in her basket before moving onto the next one. She examined the plant before cutting off some of the flowers that were partly blooming. She didn't want them fully bloomed because they would be faded and dying by the time the arrangements were placed around the castle. She added those flowers to her basket before she made her way to the rose bushes. She selected stalks from the various colored rose bushes there, taking great care to avoid their thorns, even though she was wearing her gloves. She added the roses to the other flowers already in her basket.

As Alyssa cut and moved on to the next flowering plants, she took note of what flowers she already had in her basket. She wanted to make sure that she didn't cut too many off, but at the same time, she wanted to ensure that all the house colors were represented in her arrangement.

Once she was sure that she had enough, Alyssa moved to the leafy plants and cut some long leaves off from them and added it to her basket. Then she went to a plant that had spiky leaves and cut off a few stalks from them. She added the leaves to her basket and looked at the contents in her basket. She was satisfied that she had enough flowers to make her 3 arrangements. Taking off her gloves, and placing her clippers in the basket, Alyssa picked up the basket and made her way out of the student garden and back to the castle.

After Amelia had gathered her flowers from the greenhouse, she made sure to clip them carefully and place them into the basket she had carried with her. Now with said basket of flowers in her hand, she made her way over to the student garden to gather more. She wanted to have plenty of flowers for her pretty arrangements that would make the school look even more amazing. It would be a shame when all the flowers died.

She adjusted the gloves on her hands, and picked her clippers up again. She found a plant that had flowers that she wanted to take, and then started cutting some off. She picked ones that looked nice and would last for a good little while. When she had a few, she looked around for another plant to take different flowers from.

She moved around the garden, clipping off flowers until she had a pretty substantial collection of them.

Alec grinned. It was where Adrianna had shared a few memories with a friend. "That must have been nice!" he said, secretly hoping that he'd make a lot of memories with Anya here. Or just anywhere in the castle. That was perfectly fine by him.

Ad or Addy... "So can i call you Ad then?" It would be easier than saying Adrianna. "Erm, not many people call me by a nickname so you can make up one?" If she wanted to. Alec didn't mind.

WOW! Not only was she a Slytherin, the same house as Asher, but he whole family had been in Slytherin! "So you're a pureblood?" Was that what they were called? "I'm in Hufflepuff!" He couldn't help but feel slightly proud about that little fact.

Ad smiled slightly. "Yeah..." she nodded. Except for that last one. Just as heartbreaking as the first. But nevermind that.

"Ad works for me. I'm called a multitude of nicknames, so you can call me anything" she shrugged. She grinned. "I think it'll stay at 'Alec'" she nodded.

Ad nodded. "I am. And yet, unfortunately, some members of my family live up to the stereotypes..." Like her mum. She giggled slightly. "Hufflepuffs are awesome. I'm friends with more Hufflepuffs then Slytherins, I like to think" Like her Kita. She missed Kita.

Tayla felt good coming to the Student Garden. It was a beautiful place. Bucket of water in hand, she borrowed a pair of garden gloves and scissors. Then Tayla walked around the garden, wondering what flowers she could use for their Transfiguration assignment.

She thought of her first vase, the simple clear glass one. And at the same moment, spotted pretty white roses. "That'll do I think," she said to herself. She walked towards the roses and picked a few here and there, to make sure that she didn't get too much. She cut the stems in an angle as her father had once taught her and quickly put them into the bucket of water. Feeling that she had enough roses for her first vase, she moved on.

Tayla next thought of her blue vase. A few moments later, she spotted another batch of pretty white flowers. "White tiger lilies," Tayla thought, although not completely sure she was right. They were pretty anyway and she decided to pick some. She once more carefully chose a few, cut them, and put them quickly into the bucket. "Thank you," she said kindly to the plant when she was done.

"Now for the rainbow vase..." Tayla wondered what kind of flowers she could use. After several minutes of walking around and admiring different kinds of flowers, she decided to pick some yellow tulips. They would be simple enough, but still very pretty, for a colourful vase. She snipped a few with care and put them in the bucket just like she had with the other flowers.

Content with what she had collected, Tayla returned the gloves and scissors, then went back into the castle with her bucket of flowers, eager to start arranging them in each vase.

Alec smiled at Adrianna. She seemed to be kind of happy about this place. Or she could be one of those people who tended to smile lots. He liked those people. They were so happy and it made him happy! Maybe he should be around Adrianna more then.

She had a... what? Okay, he didn't understand that word. It was a big, big word! But she said Ad should be fine for her so Ad it was. "I'll stick with Ad. It's easier," he said, nodding, "Alec works perfectly fine for me."

Alec blinked. Stereowhat? "There's a... er.... stereotype about purebloods?" He hadn't known there to be. No one had told him about that at all. But what Ad had to say next made his chest fill with pride. "Now you have another Hufflepuff friend," he said, grinning up at her.

Ad grinned. [b]"Better than some of the others I've been called" she nodded. She ruffled Alec's hair, an instinct she had. She had an obsession with boy's hair. mellow:

Ad nodded. "That they think they're better than everyone. I have a family member or two that lives up to that" she sighed. She giggled at what Alec said next. "Yes I do!"

Kennedy made his way out to the student garden in need of some fresh air. He was beginning to feel a bit more relaxed and it was due to being around plants. Herbology wasn't only his best subject, but his favorite. The prefect spotted a lonely patch of grass and went to sit there. He opened his bag and took out three thimbles and sprawled them in front of him next to the flowers.

This was actually a cool activity. It was also good for a mother's day present or something like that. Hmm, that gave him an idea.

After taking out his wand, Kennedy took the first thimble. He had an idea of what he wanted this first one to look like. He pointed his wand downwards at the metal item, at the vertical right. One clockwise, two clockwise, three clockwise circles, and each time he moved his wand upwards, "Floreneo!"

His eyes widened as if this was the first time he was seeing this happen. It was just too cool that it amazed him every time. The thimble grew a round, green bottom and grew slender at the top.

Wah-lah! Green vase.

Kennedy took the second thimble and performed the same wand movement, saying, "Floreneo!" The second vase also started wide at the bottom, but wasn't so slender at the top, but this time, the prefect had another intent. He wanted it to grow handles like the vases in his grandmother's house in Mexico. When the vase's transformation was over, Kennedy grinned at himself. It had handles!

Taking the last thimble, Kennedy took a moment to think of how he wanted this was to be. Doing the wand movement as well as the incantation, the boy's eyes widened. The thimble grew taller than the other two and grew tiny handles at the sides. This was the one he had imagined. This one was like the one his grandmother had out by the entrance, although that one was three times bigger than this one. This vase was also green.

Sophie was absolutely excited about all this. She got in the Student Garden with the beiggest smile on her face, her Pygmy Pugg, Lavender, on her shoulder and three pretty vases on her arms. "I do hope you like this, Lavender, because I know I will!" She said happily, while looking around and spotting some absolutely beautiful flowers. That was her favorite thing about plants. FLOWERS! Colorful and pretty, pretty flowers! That's why she named the Pygmy Puff Lavender in the first place.

That sure looked like her mum's garden! She missed spending long mornings just looking at it. She was glad she had to work with flowers at school! She walked up to where some big and bright flowers were. "Aren't those lovely, Lavender?" She asked her Puff while placing the vases on the ground. She didn't even know where to start. "So many beautiful plants here!" Her eyes sparkled as she looked around. "You're helping me out, Lavender!" She exclaimed, holding the Pygmy Puff and making it face the whole garden. "Look! Let me know which ones you like best!" She had no idea of how Lavender would do that, but she was ready to try and understand the creature.

Lavender seemed to stare at the flowers really hard. Sophie hoped that it was a good sign. When she made the little Puff face the bug and colorful daisies, Lavender squeaked three times. Sophie's eyes widened and she held the Pygmy Puff closer so she could look at its face. "Was that you saying you like those??" Blinking, she went closer to the daisies with Lavender and made the Pygmy Puff look closely at them. "What do you think? Yes?" Surprisingly, Lavender squeaked a little louder this time. "Hm... I'll take that as a yes!" She said excitedly while placing Lavender on the ground beside the flowers and pulling out her wand. She had seen her mother using this spell many times and was glad she would finally be able to use it now! She pointed her wand at some branches. "Diffindo! The next thing she knew, there were around five daisy branches on the top of Lavender. "Oops! Sorry there, Lavender!" She giggled and grabbed the daisies. "Do you think that's enough?" Sophie stared at the Pygmy Puff for a couple of seconds but it didn't squeak this time. "I'll take that as a 'yes'!" She finally said.

Smiling and getting up and letting Lavender climb on her arm, Sophie rushed over to where she had left her bag and the vases. "I think these will look good in the red vase, don't you think?" She asked the Puff while kneeling down and putting the flowers in the vase. "These colors look really nice together!" She would leave the arrangment part to when she placed the vases around the castle. The flowers would get messed up while she carried the vases around anyway!

"There! Now, I think we need some white flowers for this colorful vase here..." Sophie said, holding up the striped vase. It was her favorite! "Help me out, will you, Lavender?" She got up and looked around to find some white flowers. "THERE!" She exclaimed and ran over to where some white lillies where. Oh so pretty! "Aren't these great, Lavender??? THERE'RE SO GREAT!" Her eyes sparkled as she pulled out her wand once more and pointed it towards some branches. "Diffindo!" Three branches on her hand. She was about to turned around and go back to her vases when Lavender squeaked. "What is it, Lavender? You want to cut one too? Okay then!" She put the flowers on the ground and held Lavender closer to a branch. She looked down to see if she wasn't stepping on the lillies she had just picked and when she looked back up... "WHAT? Lavender!" The Pygmy Puff had just EATEN a flower! O_____O Sophie quickly looked around to see if she was alone with her Puff. "Please, OH PLEASE don't let Professor Bentley know about this!" She thought to herself. "Well... that's something else to add to the list of things she eats..." Sophie grabbed the lillies on the ground and rushed back to her bag and vases.

She knelt down by her bag and pulled the striped vase closer to put the flowers in it. She would still look around to see if someone had seen Lavender eating the flower, but there wasn't anyone around her. Good. The lillies looked good on her striped vase! She smiled and stared at the two vases with flowers in them. Soooo pretty!

Okay, now we only need flower to this last vase and-- Wait... Where was Lavender now? Sophie jumped up and looked around again. "Lavender?? Lavender???" "OMGOSHPLEASEDON'TEATMOREPLANTS!!" Sophie left her bag and vases behind and ran around the garden. "Lavender?? Don't do anything wrong, Lavender! I can see you!" No, she couldn't! AAAHHHHH!!!! "Lavendeeeer!!!" "No, no, no, Professor Bentley's going to kill me! It's mum all over again!" "LAVENDEEEER?!?!?!?!"

Sophie stopped before a huuuuuuuuuuuge area she had not seen earlier. It was an area of beautiful and bright... "Lavenders...!" A big smile spread across Sophie's face when she saw the flowers AND her Pygmy Puff right in front of them. Awwwww, such an adorable sight! It was enough to completely calm Sophie down. "You have a really good taste for flowers, Lavender!" No pun intended, of course. "Those will be the ones for our last vase!" She walked over and got some pretty lavenders, alongside with Lavender.

Seeing as they had been given permission by Professor Bentley to use flowers from both the student garden and the one greenhouse for their transfiguration assignment, Gideon headed down to the grounds to look at his options. His newly made ceramic vase in hand, he briefly debated which direction to go at first before heading off to the gardens to start. It seemed as good a place as any to begin his search for blooms he wanted to work with. After a quick stop at the garden shed to borrow a pair of gloves having forgotten his own, the Gryffindor started to walk around the lush green landscape. His gaze passing over many different plants and flowers as he moved yet it was only on the second pass that he began to chose ideas for his first arrangement.

Gideon came back to a bundle of bushes he believed to be a hydrangea bushes, ones with multicolor blooms between them. They certainly seemed like they would do nicely in the vase he was working with. Taking hold of several select blooms one at a time, the 5th year used a few focused "diffindos" to cut them from their home. A couple of blue...a few purple and even a set of greenish flowers with tinted tips to round out the collection. Finding some small white flowers he couldn't identify and some assorted greens, he repeated the process until he had a nice bunch.

He then sat down by the bench where he had set his vase to free his hands and proceeded to work on his arrangement. "Aquamenti," Gideon cast first to fill the container until it was high enough. Then with his wand now away, the fifth year switched his attention back to the flowers he had collected. Starting first with the hydrangea blooms and then the rest, he eventually had a nice little display. "Looks good," he mused aloud though mostly to himself since he was along. Time to go place it somewhere, the Gryffindor picking up his work and returning the gloves to the shed before leaving the gardens to find someplace to put it.

Kennedy had to admit that he was impressed with his own work. He wasn't much in a good mood, but the avoidance of thinking about it helped him concentrate on other things like his homework. He lined up the vases in front of him and took his wand, that he had laid next to him, again.

Time to fill up the vases with water.

"Aguamenti," he said, pointing it over the first vase. He peered inside at the same time and stopped the water flow when it reached his desired amount. The prefect repeated this two more times on the left over vases.

When he was done, Kennedy took the first set of lilies (that he had parted evenly) and gently placed them inside the vase. He took the second bunch of lilies and placed them inside the second vase. Since, the daisies reminded him of his mom, Kennedy placed those in the taller vase. When he was done, he stood up...


...Hmm...

How was he going to carry all three vases? Hmm...

Duh, magic!

"Wingardium Leviosa!" he said. All three vases were levitated off the ground and boy made his way into the castle.

Now, where was he going to set them?

The task of levitating three vases at once wasn't exactly easy it turned out - and they didn't even have water in them yet. But he really didn't want to go all the way from the Library to the Student Garden three times. So instead he walked very slowly, doing his best to not knock the three vases in front of him into anything, making his way over to the Student Garden.

He'd decided that this was better than the Greenhouses to prevent himself from catching a glimpse of his plant from the first Herbology class. The one he was pretty sure he'd killed. He really didn't want to see that. It would only make him sad.

Once he was FINALLY safely inside the student garden, Lewis immediately set the three vases on a nearby bench, glad to have made it down here safely without breaking any of them. Alright. Now to pick out some flowers.

Slowly walking along the aisles of flowers he stopped once in a while to use Diffindo on a couple of them so he could take them into his hand. When he had finally decided that he had enough to make arrangements for three vases out of them, he returned to the bench where his vases were still waiting. Remembering how they'd done it in class, he had already pointed his wand into the first vase to fill it with water when he hesitated. They would be more difficult to levitate once they had water in them, right? And the flowers would survive a couple of minutes without water...right?

So deciding to do it differently, Lewis instead started putting the flowers he had in the meantime put in his lap into the vases. He tried to mix up the colors as much as possible, making them as colorful as possible. He liked colors. And they were supposed to BRIGHTEN the dark corridors and rooms of Hogwarts after all so yeah. Colorful it was.

Earlier this morning, Janice had resized the vases so they will fit in her bag and will not be too heavy. Now that she's in the garden, she took the vases out and restored them into their original sizes.

Okay, she thought, testing time.

She took out her wand. "Aguamenti," she said while pointing the tip of the small piece of wood on top of the 4 vases. None of them leaked, so she went to them to tip them over and took out the water.

Bringing the vases nearer to the flowers, Janice quickly took note of the flowers present. [I]Daffodils, dandelions, daisies, lilies, and a bunch of other flowers she could not name. She filled the vases with water again ("Aguamenti!") and started to sort out which flower goes to which vase.

Obviously, the flowers with any shade of yellow goes to the yellow-painted ceramic vase. The purple-ish flowers go to the purple glass vase, the blue goes with blue, and the red clay vase was filled with every kind. And she became extra careful when the flowers are near a bush daisy; she is allergic to them.

Getting the vases out of the greenhoue was another problem. Janice decided to Wingardium Leviosa them out, since it was too heavy for her to carry.

Gideon had one last vase to make and arrange seeing as he hadn't counted his duplicity he had done in the greenhouses and placed in the Entrance Hall as two objects but one since they were so similar. Besides, he had wanted to try and make something for a special someone so a nice flower arrangement was as good an idea as any. Making his way down to the student gardens seeing as she had found a better selection of plants and flowers that he liked there then the greenhouse, he returned to the bench he had worked at before. The Gryffindor taking a seat and setting out his last remaining thimble, his gloves, wand and a slip of paper. A piece of parchment upon which he had written a few specific flowers he hoped to work with having looked up their meanings.

Quote:

Sunflowers for adoration and loyalty
Iris' for inspiration

The fifth year had decided to work backwards with this one, picking the flowers before creating the vase so glancing at the list first to double check things, Gideon then got up and went in search of the flowers in question. The sunflowers were the easiest to find with their big, vibrant yellow flowers. "Diffindo," he cast a few times after grabbing hold of each bloom to secure it for cutting. Stopping when he had several yellow heads in his possession, he returned to the bench and set them carefully down to await their future companions as he went off in search of irises. The Gryffindor boy almost thought he might have to head to the greenhouses anyway to retrieve them, having been having trouble but eventually he found a few in one corner of the garden.

Cutting them as well, Gideon returned once more to his chosen work area and sat down once more. Now that he had the flowers, he needed to make the vase and he tried to think of something that fit them, especially the larger sunflowers. Finally having a vague image in his mind he picked up his wand and focused on the thimble. "Floreneo!" he cast moving his wand circular and clockwise for the required movement until the spell was complete and he had a nice semi-clear vase larger then the previous three that he had made and probably the ones he made in class as well. It certainly seemed to be appropriate for this bouquet.

So using a quick "...aquamenti" to fill it before putting his wand away, he began to add flowers one by one. The Gryffindor decorately arranging them to the best of his ability. Once he was completely satisfied, he cleaned up his mess and got up and left, hoping to find its intended recipiant.

Vickers walked by the student garden and set the vase down behind the archway. The design blended well with the environs, a tribute to nature as it were. He sighed at the lonely flower that stood within. He should’ve known better than to leave the clump of flowers unguarded whenever Hendrix was around. As he peered into the vase he realized he has forgotten to fill it with water, having been distracted by the troublesome fur ball “Aguamenti” he uttered as water filled the vase. He stepped back to admire his work, wondering for a moment just how long that vase would stay looking as such before turning and heading back towards the castle.

Adrianna sighed and strolled around the Garden, looking around. It was late in the term. OWLs would be starting any day now. And she had been studying non-stop. Except to watch that Quidditch match.

Adrianna looked around, the warm air soothing her lungs. She had been having quite a few coughing fits.

After much convincing from her friends, Avery had decided to take a break from her studies. She looked around the garden, admiring the beauty of everything around her.

She took a deep breath and sighed, it was nice day.

Adrianna saw a girl walking alone, so she decided to go be friendly. She approached the girl with a smile. "Hi, I'm Adrianna" she introduced herself.

Avery looked up as a girl approached her and introduced herself, "Hey, I'm Avery." She replied.

Adrianna smiled. "What house are you in?" she asked curiously. Avery...Adrianna hadn't seen this girl around.