Amelia nodded now as the girl asked if her name was Amelia. "Yes. And you are... Zhenya?" She was sure that it started with a Z because she had seen her in a few classes so far.

She looked at the vase and saw that there were no leaks in it. "Very nice vase." So many pretty vases! She loved looking at them.

Ella looked at Alyssa, eyes wide. She hadn't expected Alyssa to give up her own flowers and felt bad that she wouldn't have any of her own. She shook her head in refusal, not wanting to take what little Alyssa did have. "That's nice Alyssa but you don't have to! I mean, I have a lot of yellow already so maybe I can just take a couple of white? You keep your yellow and blue ones. Seriously!" She smiled, feeling grateful and a little bad for even accepting the white ones. "Thanks again Alyssa!"

Ella placed the white flowers she took and added them to the others on her desk. She picked up the small bunch and placed them into her rainbow vase, admiring the yellow and white flowers against the spectrum of other colors that circled them. She thought that it looked lovely and hoped the Professor would agree.

"Oh thank you so much, Professor. I did have some but I gave mine away to those who needed them. I'll pick some from here now. " Alyssa thanked the Professor.

Before looking to see who needed more flowers, Alyssa took some of each color, taking care to avoid the thorns even though she was wearing her gloves and carefully arranged them in her vase. Once she was done with her arrangement, she went around again calling out for anyone who needed flowers. "Anybody else needs flowers?"

"Here Minerva, the Professor has given me more. Please take some for yourself and thanks for sharing with me some from your basket earlier." Alyssa told her fellow house mate.

Violet smiled gratefully at the older girl who had poured water into her vase and set to arrange flowers in her pot. How is she going to arrange the flowers? Violet pondered momentarily for a moment. The professor had said that it is the anniversary this year so why not all the colours of the houses? She raised up her hand to call out on a volunteer and lend her some beautiful flowers "May I have some flowers please?" Violet hoped that she could finish her vase before the lesson ended today.

Minerva walked over to Violet "Here you go Violet pick what you want, we have plenty now." she smiled at the girl. " I really like your vase."

The Ravenclaw turned in his seat trying to watch the other students do their flower arrangement. He had seen his grandmother do it plenty of times, but it wasnt like he stood beside her just to watch it. More like he just ends up being there since he was being reprimanded.

With his gloved hands he took the red roses, blue orchids, green coneflowers and yellow sunflowers then started dropping them into the vase. He paused to examine his work. The flowers sat lazily in the vase, leaves covering nearly the entire jar....

Oh yeah work there mmhmm

He looked around at the flower girls, there were some that was running out of flowers so he thought it best not to ask for more. But he needed to get his flowers to stand up and look alive. Not to mention the vase he worked hard on was now barely seen. Creasing his lips to the side he decided to do something about all those leaves covering up his colorful vase. Rolling a few pieces up, tucking them in between clumps of flowers, the arrangement started to take form. After a few minutes to tucking and tugging the flowers now stood lovely in its colorful vase.

"Oh why thank you. I love your choice of flowers as well."Annabelle noticed she was also a hufflepuff. "Hey i realized you are a hufflepuff. It is nice to meet someone from my own house." she said with a nice smile. Then Belle was finishing rearranging her flowers in the vase "Wow this looks nice. I might give this to my mom for a present." Belle said to herself. Then she put flowers in the red vase and it looked amazing.

Anya smiled. She put on her work gloves and accepted flowers from both girls. "Thanks Alyssa and Minerva." she said happily. She settled on sunflowers and roses. She didn't know why, but she liked the idea of yellow and red together.

She fidgeted with the flowers for awhile.

Then she smiled at her flowers in her vase. She liked it. It looked nice.

"That looks very nice, Anya. Is there someone special you are going to give this too. Uh...maybe Alec, your best friend? I know that he's a boy, but I'm sure that he'll love them."Alyssa told Anya.

Right. Arranging flowers could not be that hard. After she had filled her vase, which was not the most attractive vase in the room, with water with a simple Aguamenti spell she set to work collecting the flowers from the people around the room who were handing them out. She had collected the flowers she had wanted over several minutes and then looked out the sprawl of flowers in front of her. It could not be that hard. It was, after all, just an arrangement of flowers. There was no magic involved so putting them in vase couldn't be that difficult.

Oh how wrong she was...

It seemed that everytime she could move to put two flowers together they would be different lengths and then the colors would not match when she put them in the vase. Then there was the issue of arrangement so when she cut the flower stems to be the same lengths some would need to be taller than others for aesthetic reasons, but she would have already have cut the flower at that point making it impossible.

Finally she seemed to have put together and arrangement she was somewhat proud of... sort of.

Oh good. They had understood what he wanted. Or Minerva had. Good thing he got the flowers from somebody who was actually NICE. And not glaring at him for no apparent reason. Unlike other people.

Even giving the younger Hufflepuff a small smile, Lewis carefully picked out a lot few of the flowers she was holding out for him. "Thank you, Minerva. And no, yours are fine." His eyes flickered over towards Alyssa for a moment when she mentioned her. Yeah, no, that one had tried to hug him back after the Quidditch match. He wasn't sure he was comfortable taking flowers from her. Plus Minerva's were sufficient.

Alright. On to arranging those flowers. He had probably taken way too many but he really wanted to fit them all into his vase. So pushing them together as best as he could Lewis finally succeeded in fitting them all inside. Aw, yes, he really wasn't all that good at that whole flower-thing, was he?

SPOILER!!: Flower arrangement

Raising her hand, Elise grinned. She totally needed flowers, cause an empty vase was just ugly. "Over here!" she said, just in case they didn't see her hand.

Amelia smiled as she looked at the vase that she had managed to produce. It was really a lovely emerald green colour, and she thought maybe she would give it to Professor Magnus as a present for being a great teacher. Actually she was one of Amelia's favourite Professors. :3

"Oops I'm sorry I took so long to get to you. I didn't see your hand raised. Here you are. You have plenty to choose from but do be careful, some of them have thorns in them. I haven't met you before have I? Alyssa's the name. Nice to meet you."Alyssa smiled at the Ravenclaww.

Time was up for this lesson, unfortunately. Especially when they all seemed to be doing so well with the spell and the arranging. Taking a quick look at the vases that had already been placed on her desk, Isabelle turned back to face the children and waved her hand in the air.

"Okay everyone, I'm afraid we've run out of time! Could you all place your vases on my desk, as I'll be distributing them around various places in the school. Then you are free to go. Homework will be posted by the end of the day." Smiling at them all, she moved to the side to give them room to come to the front.

Grinning back, she shrugged. "It's alright," she smiled, selecting her flowrs carefully according to the plan she had in her head. Selecting a lot of purple and a few white roses, she set them on her table before turning back to the girl.

"I'm Elise," she smiled before getting back to WORK! Bringing her water-filled vase to the center of the table, she glanced at her diagram before adding the roses. As she added the lavenders, she cut some of the stems, so that they would be at different lengths.

Once she was done, she stepped back a little, comparing the final product to her calculations. It seemed alright, and she hadn't found any that needed replacing. Turning a sprig of lavender to the left a little, she nodded at the masterpiece. Ready.

Hearing Professor Magnus dismiss the class, she picked up her flower arrangement and carefully set it on Professor Magnus' desk. Grinning, she waved. "Thanks for the lesson, Professor Magnus!" she called as she exited the classroom.

Alyssa did as the Professor instructed and brought her vase with its floral arrangement and placed them on the Professor's desk. She then returned to her desk and looked at the other three vases that she had also transfigured. She was about to revert them back to thimbles before deciding to bring them up to the Professor to ask whether she would like to have them instead. So carrying vases, one, two and three up to the Professor, together with the basket of left over flowers, Alyssa asked her.

"Professor, I had transfigured four vases. Before I revert these three back to thimbles, I was wondering whether you could use them instead. I haven't tested to see whether they leak or not, but I'm confident that they won't. I could place the remaining flowers in them for you."

Oh, it was time to go already. Amelia pouted, but she supposed it was okay because she had still managed to submit her flower arrangement. Packing up everything, she smiled at Professor Magnus. "Thanks for the lesson! It was a lot of fun." With that, she left the room.

Ella scooped up her rainbow vase gently and headed towards the Professor's desk. She smiled as she placed it down, proud of herself for making a nice vase and a pretty great flower arrangement. She was actually quite surprised at how well it turned out. She smiled at Professor Magnus before heading for the door. "Bye Professor! Thanks for another great lesson." she said cheerfully. Transfiguration, though hard, was quickly becoming one of Ella's favorite subjects.

Lily looked up as the Professor spoke to end class. Lily packed her stuff up and got ready to leave before bringing her vase up to the desk. "Thank You so much Professor! And have a good rest of the day." Lily smiled at the professor before heading towards the door. It had been a good lesson, and now she had a break before the next class, so she headed off, back to the common room.

Vlimia smiled at the proffesor. She moved to the desk with her lovely vase that contained her flower arrangement. "Thanks for the wonderful lesson, Proffesor!" She said cheerily, gathering her books and walking out of the classroom.

Stood to the side, Isabelle folded her arms and waited for the class to clear. She gave a warm smile to whoever addressed her on their way out - and a "Thank you, goodbye!" as well.

But Alyssa wanted to tell her something. "Ohh, that would be nice thank you. I'll test them later and put the flowers in myself. Don't want you to miss your next class."

Giving everyone a wave, Issy walked over to the door ans hut it behind the last person to leave, locking it tight.