Kurumi smiled at the older Hufflepuff who filled her vase and was about to say thank you when....she walked off to fill another student's. Oh well. Attention back on her purple vase, Kurumi slowly turned it around to see if there was any leaking. Noticing none, Kurumi's posture relaxed a bit and she folded her hands on her desk. It was interesting how the water looked through glass, especially colored glass. It was so delicate looking, like liquid crystal or something.

She noticed Vickers walking by to help Oakey and she smiled at the Ravenclaw before returning her attention to her vase. The thought of actually starting flower arranging NOW in class dampened the Gryffindor's mood a little.

Oh, somebody to help so soon! And by the look of his robes, he was a fellow Ravenclaw! "Hi! I'm Vlimia! Yes, thanks." Vlimia said, watching the colours on the vase become slightly more pronounced as it filled with water. "Okay." She agreed, looking for any imperfections on the smooth vase. There were definitely no cracks, and it didn't seem like there were any leaks. She lifted it up slightly to see if there was any leaks on the bottom of the vase. Nope, all seemed to be good. "I think it's fine." Vlim confirmed, smiling at the fellow Ravvie. "Thank you... " She trailed off, not quite knowing the boy's name.

As soon as he uttered his name the Hufflepuff looked at him funny. Why?... hasnt he heard the name Vickers before? Granted it wasnt that common...

"Good to meet you Oakey." Now there was a curious name. "I think you're all set for the next task... I believe we're gonna be arranging flowers. Good luck!" Really he wished him well. Because goodness knows Vickers will need all the luck he can get save for mixing something down at the Potions lab.


"Hello Vlimia, I'm Vickers..." he said returning her introduction. "Your vase looks really pretty." he added, seeing the water refract the light, spreading slivers of rainbow colors around the desk. And looks like its leak free too "Ok.... I guess you're ready for the next step, your vase will go real well with any flowers the Professor has up there. "

He turned just in time to make eye contact with Kurumi. He smiled and gave her a thumbs up. Looks like her pretty vase was ready to go too.

Alyssa waited as the older girl filled her vase with water. Then she peered closely at it hoping that she wouldn't see any water leaking out. After waiting a few minutes, and not seeing any, Alyssa smiled. "Guess my spell worked for this one. I hope that the others are the same too. I'll definitely have to test them out before I give them as gifts. Worse comes to worst, I can always revert them back to thimbles and transfigure them again. Thanks for helping to test out my vase for me."Alyssa thanked Amelia.

Now that her vase had been tested, Alyssa waited for the Professor to signal to them to come and collect the flowers, so that they could hand them out to the students.

Water please..
 

Minerva smiled when Professor Magnus said she could pass out flowers. Then Minerva looked down at her vase that she had made.
It didn't look like there were any places it would leak so she put her hand up for someone to fill it with water.

Amelia smiled as the vase held water in it. She was glad that it had worked, because it would be a real shame if Alyssa had to do it all over again. "Very good. I think they will work too. But yes, you never know." But Alyssa seemed to be a pretty good spell caster from what she had seen. "You're welcome!"

Amelia headed over to a young Hufflepuff girl now. "Wow, I like your vase!" It was simple, but it was a nice purple and purple was her favourite colour. "Hopefully it won't leak." She carefully used Aguamenti on it now.

xD Love the reference, Whit. (and hi Vickers :P)
 

Apparently Stella hadn't had to wait very long, as it only seemed like a few moments before Amelia had come over to her desk to fill her vase. She didn't know the Hufflepuff very well at all, but she still returned the smile as her vase got filled. "Thank you," she replied, before the other girl could get too far away. There was no reason not to stay polite, and besides, maybe they could actually meet later. She wasn't going to hurt any possible new friendships before they could really start. That just wasn't the way she was.

Speaking of that, as she leaned forward to inspect her vase for leaks, she sent a smile toward Vickers as he circled the room filling vases as well. He definitely seemed no worse for wear after they'd fought that snargaluff in Herbology, which she was happy to see. And her vase seemed solid enough, as well, so she sat back again to wait for the flowers. Those would add a lot more color to her arrangement, but at least the black of her vase would create a nice contrast. Nothing would clash, which she knew her mother would appreciate if she'd been able to see it.

Vlimia smiled at Vickers. That was quite a nice name. "Oh, thank you!" She said, admiring the little shafts of rainbow light that were reflected on her desk. "Yeah." Vlim laughed, thinking that maybe she could even get a bunch of flowers that had a few of each colour in it. That would go perfectly with her vase! Well, maybe not the green ones. Those flowers looked a little diseased. Or maybe it was just the fact that she had grown up hating green and Slytherin house.

in need of water, when any of you get a chance
 

Lily sat quietly as the volunteers made their way around the room. Out of the four, she only knew one because he happened to escort her back to the common room after her adventure quite a while back in an astronomy class. Lily took her very narrow, tall, navy vase and set it in the center of her desk, waiting patiently for it to be filled. After all she did want to find out whether or not it leaked anywhere.

"Thanks." Jen said
"So far every spell that I did has been messed up. I know its ruff for first years but come on, there's a limmit to things

Sierra gave the professor a little grin, which was really more of a smirk, and then stood from her seat. Dear Merlin! The other three volunteers had each taken about three or four a piece. At that rate, there wouldn't be anybody left to give water to unless Sierra got a move on. She frowned just a little but otherwise just got her wand at the ready and moved around the room.

Passing by a Ravenclaw girl, Sierra pointed her wand into the vase and said, "Aguamenti!" The water from water shot into the vase and filled it up. When there was enough water inside, Sierra added, "Finite," which ended the spell. She grinned at the girl then moved on.

"Does anybody else need water?" she asked.

Sierraaaaaaaaaa!
 

Elise set her glass vase on the table, just noticing the faint blue swirls around it. Setting it to the front right corner of the table, she waited for one of the seniors to fill it with water.

Waving a little, she grinned at Sierra. If it wasn't obvious enough, her vase was empty.

Steelsheen please!!! ^_^
 

Yikes! Tayla hadn't thought about that. She changed her unsuccessful clay vase back into a thimble and decided to use her first metal one instead. She picked it up and look through the top hole with one eye. "I hope it holds water..." Tayla thought to herself.

She set her vase in the middle of her desk and waited for an older student to come up and fill it with water. She realized one of the volunteers was the Ravenclaw student she had been curious about since the beginning of term. Tayla hoped it would be him who would come up to her desk.

Tayla (plus Stella)
 

Vickers was looking around for other students whose vase were ready for testing when his eyes rested on a dark, slim vase. He shifted his eyes and realized that Stella made it. He had to smile, it was simple but he liked it-- nice, clean lines. Something he was kinda going for but ended up with anything but.


Just as he turned towards another row of tables he saw another student put their vases forward for testing. Wow this one was made of metal, looking very much like it was sourced from a thimble. But hers looked great. "Hello there, I'm Vickers." yeah he was getting the hang of this whole socializing thing, even if its just a classroom setting "Thats great transfiguration work. So lets test it for leaks, make sure it could retain water and its shape right?" He tipped his wand into the opening and uttered "Aguamenti" hearing the water fill the narrow container. When he could see the water rippling close to the vase's mouth he quickly uttered "Finite!"

Tayla was glad when it was Vickers who came up to her table to fill her vase. "I'm Tayla," she replied with a smile. "And thanks!"

Tayla nodded and bit her lip as she watched the vase fill with water. So far so good. "Well...I think it's..." Tayla began, when suddenly she spotted something reddish-brown forming on top of the vase. She looked closer and could smell something oddly familiar.

"Rust!" Tayla said in shock. She looked through her vase and realized the inside was covered in rust. She dipped one of her thimbles into the water inside the vase. Then she took it out and splashed some water on the outside of the vase. A patch of red formed where the water had met it. "It rusts instantly when touched by water. Great..." Tayla sighed sadly. That definitely wouldn't do. "I better try again..." she muttered, her cheeks reddening.

May I have water please?
 

Alex looked at her lopsided vase and she wasn't exactly sure that it would hold water. While she was waiting she decided to practice with another thimble. She placed another one on her desk, determined to do better this time. Alex concentrated on her pink and green vase (straight this time), circled her wand and said, "Floreneo". "Better, that looks much better", she said. "Now will it hold water?"

Keep filling them up for now, so everyone gets a chance to be part of that bit. :)
 

With the four chosen ones going around the classroom and filling the vases, Isabelle had been following them to keep an eye out for any leakages or other problems. There didn't seem to be many, but a couple did catch her eye.


A metal one. Yes, rust could be a problem with those. Making her way over to the girl, Issy placed a hand on her shoulder and smiled. "Don't worry, that can happen with metal pots or vases. Usually, in the muggle world anyway, they treat them with something before they're water proof. Maybe try a different material, then one of the guys will fill it again for you..."

With that potentially sorted, it was on to the next one. And this was a leak problem. Overhearing the boy's question to Alyssa, Isabelle stepped in to answer. "I'll vanish it for you, and you can try again with another thimble. Then get it filled with water again. All right?" Flicking her wand out, a quick swish and the leaking vase had gone.

*waiting for water please...and pretending we totally made vases and all* ;)
 

Setting aside the first two vases which didn't look like they would hold the water very well, Lewis moved the two more successfully transfigured thimble!vases to the middle of his desk. Even though he could've performed the spell himself too, the professor had chosen four people to do it for all of them so there he was waiting for somebody to fill his two vases with water. Even though, they looked to be a little oddly shaped, he was quite proud of how they'd turned out. They were...creative.

To make sure nobody would see his first few tries, Lewis quickly pointed his wand at the two vases to his right and said, "Reverto!" There, the timbles definitely looked better than those two half-finished vases. Picking the two timbles up he put one of them on his middle finger and one on his thumb. He then brought these two fingers together, hence causing the two metal thimbles to collide, producing a DING! sort of noise. DingDingDingDingDingDing!

Jory set up his beaker shaped vase and waited for someone to fill it. He hoped it didn't have any cracks or anything. "I hate it when my work goes wrong,'' he thought.

Dear Merlin!

Sierra was starting to feel like a lowly house elf, which of course didn't sit well with her. She paused right in place and sort of closed her eyes, willing herself to think more about the points and less about the fact that she was literally serving people.

Catching the grin of the Ravenclaw she'd worked with in another class, Sierra passed by the girl's desk and pointed her wand into the vase. "Aguamenti," she said, and the water from her wand filled the vase. "Finite," she added, ending the spell.

Turning around, Sierra spotted a second Ravenclaw needing her vase filled. The girl had her down, which likely meant she wasn't feeling well, but seeing as Sierra wasn't a very compassionate person, she decided not to say a thing. Besides, she had vases to fill and points to earn!

She pointed her wand into the girl's vase. "Aguamenti!" Streams of water shot from her wand and into the vase. When it was filled, she ended the spell with "Finite!"

What was it with these Ravenclaws? Were there just more of them at the castle, or more that made the effort to come to class? Likely the second one...

She shrugged as she heard the girl's question. "Looks like it to me. Only one way to find out for sure," she said. Then she pointed her wand into the vase. "Aguamenti!" Water filled the vase, and Sierra kept her wand in place until she'd added enough of the water. "Finite," she finally said.

...

Really?! He was going to make sounds like the ringing of a bell?!

Just for that, Sierra should pass him up, and she really wanted to. When her back was turned to the professor, she gave the Puffer a death glare. It clearly said, 'I'm NOT your house elf!' Idiotic Puffer. She hesitated for a moment, considering passing him up, but then she finally approached his vases and began the spell.

"Aguamenti!" she said. She filled both vases then ended the spell with "Finite."

Well, just one more for now it seemed. Sierra turned on her heels, happy to leave the bell-ringing Puffer, and approached someone else with an empty vase. "Aguamenti!" she said. She watched as the water filled the vase. "Finite," she finally said.

Vickers or Sierra ;)
 

Tayla looked up to see it was Professor Magnus whose hand was on her shoulder. Seeing her professor smile made her feel better. She nodded. "Thank you, Professor." Tayla returned her smile. Feeling more encouraged, Tayla took another thimble and pointed her wand at it. She could have emptied her rusty metal vase and reverted it back to a thimble, but she didn't know how to perform the Vanishing Spell yet to remove the water.

Keeping her eyes on the thimble, Tayla thought of a sturdy clay flower vase and focused on the picture in her head. She performed the wand movements as before and said the incantation. "Floreneo!" She watched as the thimble grew and changed into a nice clay vase, just like she had hoped. "Finally," she said softly and grinned. The vase didn't look all too fancy, but she thought it was pretty enough.

She studied the vase for holes, cracks, or anything that might hinder it from holding water. Seeing nothing, Tayla put the vase carefully back in the middle of her desk and waited for an older student to fill it with water.

She saw the Slytherin girl she had worked with at Herbology and stopped herself from being irritated. She could still remember the cut that Snargaluff's vine had given her... She avoided looking at Sierra and hoped it would be Vickers again who would approach her.

DingDingDingDingDingDi-

Lewis stopped clicking the two thimbles together, staring up at the Slytherin girl. Who was glaring at him. Big time. Okay, seriously, this one was pretty scary. And he didn't even know what he had done to deserve such a look. He could feel his heartbeat going up while he bit his lip quite hard, looking anywhere but the girl. Could he leave? Would they lose points if he ran out of class? Would it be worth it?

Glancing up just a little so he could see the two vases and the girl's wand, Lewis waited for her to cast the spell. Once she was done he really really really wanted to say thank you but somehow he couldn't. Not a single tone came out of his mouth even when he opened it and tried really hard.

Brilliant. Now she would think he was rude too.

Laura sat in her chair watching everyone else, she wasn't going to do this nope, this Professor would just tell her off for making a mess of it.

"Just put your vase in the middle of your desk. One of the older students will come by to fill it"