Butterfly drew the drawing as insturced. It didn't look good she knew, but she tried her best anyways.

Oichi heard the professor ask them to draw the egg over the fire. Don't people realize that not everone is good at drawing, especially in the dark. Oh well, I'll try. Oichi took out some parchment and colored markers and made a quick sketch. It looked terrible but atleast it got done

WWW: Thanks for the effort! +5 points

Violet wasn't the best artist in the world and struggled with her sketch of the egg that was at the front of the room. Little by little, she tried some type of artistic feature to it, yet keeping the drawing realistic enough. By the time it was done, it looked almost messy to her. Violet raised her hand to show the professor when her arm knocked her water bottle that was on the floor and spilled it across her drawing.

"Oh no!" Violet cried as she tried to dab away at the mess that she had made. Some of the ink had darkened, while other places were smeared from the napkin she used to wipe it with. "Professor, I'm so sorry about the mess, but it's still pretty readable right? I made my best effort to clean it up." She slid it towards the professor with an embarrassed look on her face.



WWW: D'awww it still works. +9 points

Lily was sitting towards the back of the class, staring at the fire. It was just so.... She didn't really even know how to describe it. Then the professor got up and announced what they were going to do.... Draw... Now the second year didn't exactly like drawing but she would do her best. So she took out her drawing materials and set to work drawing on a piece of parchment. Every once in a while she would look up to look at the scene before looking back down at her paper. As she finished up, she started to giggle a bit. She had added something funny just because she wanted her picture to be different. Once she was done, she smirked and put down her drawing materials.



WWW: Nice feet. +9 points

Angelina watched the cauldron and the egg inside. She had to draw that? Oh man... Well she would do the best she could do. Looking at the cauldron and such she had to draw she took out her paper and pencil and started. From drawing what she saw wasn't the best thing. Once she was done it was some what expectable. After all it was the best she could do, she had to keep starting over to start out good. After she was done she looked at the photo and the actual thing she drew. It wasn't bad, it resembled what she saw pretty good.




WWW: Nice job! +8 points

Using his wand to show light to his parchment, Isaac gazed at the fire and what was in the cauldron. Drawing the picture on his parchment he wrinkled his nose at his poor drawing. He never did do well at actual drawings by hand!



WWW: Cool fire! +7 points

"You're welcome," Issy smiled at him, although whether he'd see it in the gloom was another matter. The light being given off by the fire and various wands wasn't all that bright.

Bright enough for her to notice the worry on the boy's face though. She frowned when he started his sentence, then changed his mind about what he was going to say. And why could he not look at her when he was speaking? "Okay. Although I'm sure Professor Williamson wouldn't mind helping, if you did have a problem with anything...." Right, William? Had he even come back yet?

A voice caught her attention as she arrived, and Isabelle looked across to see Vickers busy with his own drawing. Nodding, she gave him a smile and a "Good evening, Mister Vanderbilt," in reply.

Sketch what he sees?

All right, that's not a problem at all. Although it was a bit dark, he pulled out his wand from his sleeve and muttered "Lumos." He got himself a parchment, and his quill and made himself comfortable by sitting on the floor. "I wonder if it's going to hatch soon..." he thought as he eyed the cauldron and egg. "I sure hope it is what I think it is..."



Looking at his finished product, he gave a smirk and placed his quill and ink back in his bag and muttered "nox" to his wand and waited for the others to finish.

Now where did their professor go?

WWW: That. Is. AWESOME. +10 points

Silvia was by far not the best artist. But nevertheless she pulled out her parchment and drawing materials and decided to give it her best shot. She made herself comfortable on the ground and lit her wand for extra light and began to draw. She hoped Professor Williamson wouldn't mind if she took some artistic liberty, but ONLY just a tiny bit.




WWW: LOL THAT'S AMAZING AND I LOVE IT. +10 points

Sarassi waved around her now lit wand and studied her surrondings. This should be easy, she had been drawing since she was little and she was pretty good when she tried. So she had to draw treess because of course there were trees the fire the egg the cauldron and yeah...

She was bored so she began to draw her and her sister and then the barn and the Professor and then a couple of her fellow students and then after just being tired of waiting she started to label everything...everything!


WWW: Hahaha cuuuuuute! +8 points

Harvey started drawing what he saw in front of him.. he had always loved drawing but was never good at it.. but he still tried it.. he had lit up his wand and started drawing the picture that they had been told to draw. He tried a few drawings but they never did look right.. so on his 5th or 6th try.. he couldnt remember he started his final drawing.. he decided that whatever he did this time he would keep no matter how rubbish it was



Finally he was done and looked at it.. not his best work.. but it would do.. he would still get points for it right.. yeah .. he hoped he would.. so he sat there waiting for the class to move on.

WWW: N'awwww I like it!! +8 points

Having just spent the past hour or so with Professor Romanos in her office talking about the Castle and whatever else, Calista had just remembered about the lesson William had invited her and the majority of staff to. Of course the two women wanted to go so wrapping up their chat, they both donned their cloaks and headed off into the night in search of the barn.

When they arrived, Professor Elwood opened the door and entered, still chuckling about some joke Medea made, mostly because it just sounded funny coming from her, she froze. Whoops. The place was full of students already working.

They were late it seemed.

Putting a finger to her lips looking back at Medea, the Divination Professor walked further into the room and stopped by the back of the place, waving smally to Willy. Now she wondered what was going to happen here?

Was that an egg?

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Oliver managed to slip quietly into the barn just as William slipped out the other side which caused him to raise his eyebrows. So was the class still going? He'd received an invitation to come down to the barn and now his friend had left.

He lent up against the wall and crossed his arms over his chest. Well he was here now, rather reluctantly, he may as well stay and watch the event unfold.

Glancing down at the students seated in front of him, Oliver peeked at some of their drawings. Merlin! Some of these kids could do with some art lessons. Well there was one young girl's (Nerida) which looked pretty good. "I like your picture." he told her in a whisper. He didn't know if that smile on her face was still going to be there later though. But he didn't say that.

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"You're welcome," Issy smiled at him, although whether he'd see it in the gloom was another matter. The light being given off by the fire and various wands wasn't all that bright.

Bright enough for her to notice the worry on the boy's face though. She frowned when he started his sentence, then changed his mind about what he was going to say. And why could he not look at her when he was speaking? "Okay. Although I'm sure Professor Williamson wouldn't mind helping, if you did have a problem with anything...." Right, William? Had he even come back yet?


A voice caught her attention as she arrived, and Isabelle looked across to see Vickers busy with his own drawing. Nodding, she gave him a smile and a "Good evening, Mister Vanderbilt," in reply.

Looking around at all the students and their drawings was actually pretty neat. Some of them had done a very good job others....well their effort was apparent. But there wasn't just students in here, two other Professors were present besides the Care of Magical Creatures one. Callie waved politely at them both, wondering if she should go and say hi or if they should spread out and watch the kids.

But she wasn't in this lesson, she was just hear to observe and have fun hopefully.

Of course, she couldn't turn down an offer such as this when Calista mentioned it, so after wrapping up their talk and grabbing their cloaks, the two headed off across the grounds and to the barn. Wherever it may be. Certainly wouldn't be difficult to locate it.

Although, during their short journey, Medea started trying her hand at a few jokes she'd heard from her travels. The latest about something to do with a a ghost and cooking dessert. Apparently 'booberry pie' was funnier than she'd thought it'd be. Either that or Professor Elwood was just being nice. Speaking of Professor Elwood...

Medea had to stop before running into her. What? Was the area too crowded? Eyebrows raising a little, she took note of the silence gesture and slowly made her way inside after the divination professor. Oh. Students hard at work...drawing? Lots of silence, and lots of talent from what she could see. She gave a guilty smile to a few and stood to the side before looking around. Smiling to the two other professors who showed up, Oliver and Isabelle, she turned her attention where the magical creatures Professor was and smiled to him too.

SO, William. What was in the cauldron!?

Laura looked around well this wasn't fun she was being ignored by the Professor and worst still there were loads of Professor around, she couldn't remember doing anything so bad that would need this many Professors. "Professor I ain't very good at drawing do I need to do it?" Seriously the Professor would faint if he saw a drawing from her.

Minerva listened to the professor and then her mouth flew open when he asked to draw. It was her least favorite thing to do. Really draw something.. She huffed a bit and reached into her bag getting out her parchment and her colored quills. She began to try and draw what she was seeing, when she noticed professors walking in. What was with all the professors this term joining the students. Not that she minded it, but it was just weird to see. First book club now here. She found this very interesting. She tried to get back to her drawing, but she was being distracted by her nosiness curiosity.

Finally she forced herself back to her drawing. Okay look at the fire with the weird egg inside, wonder what's in the egg.. No that's not what your doing right now Min, back to drawing. Oh look Professor Magnus is here, no back to drawing Min. She was so distracted. Once she finished her drawing she laid it where hopefully only Professor Williamson would look. She knew she didn't do a great job and was a bit embarrassed of her work.



WWW: So many colors! +8 points

Narumi twirled a finger in one of her pigtails thinking of how she was going to draw her surrondings on her parchment. Being with a family of many they ofen played games, magical and muggle alike so drawing things wasnt very new to Narumi but being good at drawing was a diffrent story.

Narumi had been so into drawing her picture she hadnt saw how many professors had arrived what they were all doing here?? The first year was a curious one that was right...Like what in the heck was in the egg!!!

She looked down at her artwork and wrote her name in a pretty pink overall it was a pretty good drawing, if you didnt look at the ones that the other kids had made...


WWW: Beautiful! But where are my robes?! +9 points

Hydra took out her pencils and paper from her bag and began to draw the picture of the egg in the cauldron as Professor asked.


WWW: Nice job. +7 points

Oakey was so busy with his sketch that he hadn't noticed a ton of Professors walking into the class as well. Oakey finished his sketch and tried to hide it as quick as possible. He was embarrassed of this talent of his and didn't want anyone to see it.


WWW: Wish it wasn't so blurry! +8 points

Addie quickly pulled out some muggle markers from her bag and a piece of parchment. She looked around and began to draw the egg in the cauldron in the fireplace. What was that egg? Maybe it was a dragon egg. Who knew? She drew the fire around the cauldron. It was such a pretty site, as long as they didn't have to get to close. Addie added some finishing touches by drawing the fireplace that the cauldron was in. There was Addies perfectly horrible drawing.



WWW: That's not horrible at all! +8 points

There were better things that Scabior had to do this late. Like, for example, sleeping. The History of Magic professor was a bit curious by William's invite though.

So that was why he a was out on the grounds, in a long black cloak and scarf around his neck. Slipping behind most of the students, close to Oliver his eyes wandered over to the only real light, the fire from the fireplace....with a cauldron and....

...was that what he thought it was?

Really, Scabior just blinked. This was William Williamson he was talking about. What seemed to be inside the heated cauldron really shouldn't surprise him...though it did.

He wouldn't admit it.

Alyssa was surprised to see so many Professors arriving. 'Something unusual is about to happen or there wouldn't be so many Professors showing up. They are just as curious as we are.' Alyssa thought to herself.

'All of us could be witnessing history in the making...or at least in this life time.' Alyssa was glad that she had showed up for COMC class after all.

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Laura stared at the Professor, she was a second year, drawing was for children and saying that she wasn't very good at drawing and she didn't want to make a fool of herself maybe the Professor would let her off. "Professor I ain't good at drawing."

Being away from the barn as he was, William did not hear the second year complaining about drawing, and even if he had, she would not have received much sympathy from him.

Hem hem.

SPOILER!!: My Lovely Colleagues

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Oliver managed to slip quietly into the barn just as William slipped out the other side which caused him to raise his eyebrows. So was the class still going? He'd received an invitation to come down to the barn and now his friend had left.

He lent up against the wall and crossed his arms over his chest. Well he was here now, rather reluctantly, he may as well stay and watch the event unfold.

Glancing down at the students seated in front of him, Oliver peeked at some of their drawings. Merlin! Some of these kids could do with some art lessons. Well there was one young girl's (Nerida) which looked pretty good. "I like your picture." he told her in a whisper. He didn't know if that smile on her face was still going to be there later though. But he didn't say that.

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Cloak wrapped around her to keep out the slight night chill, Isabelle shuffled slowly into the CoMC lesson, trying not to disturb the children, who looked hard at work already. William didn't seem to be around anywhere though, but she could just make out the shape of Oliver Jenkins talking to one of the students in the gloom. Maybe she could do that. With one that had finished their drawing.

Spotting Daichi nearby she walked over and crouched down next to him. "Mister Katharos," she whispered in greeting. "That's a very....fire filled drawing. Nice." Was the fire that big? It didn't seem so to her, but... Daichi seemed a little nervous. "Are you alright?"

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Having just spent the past hour or so with Professor Romanos in her office talking about the Castle and whatever else, Calista had just remembered about the lesson William had invited her and the majority of staff to. Of course the two women wanted to go so wrapping up their chat, they both donned their cloaks and headed off into the night in search of the barn.

When they arrived, Professor Elwood opened the door and entered, still chuckling about some joke Medea made, mostly because it just sounded funny coming from her, she froze. Whoops. The place was full of students already working.

They were late it seemed.

Putting a finger to her lips looking back at Medea, the Divination Professor walked further into the room and stopped by the back of the place, waving smally to Willy. Now she wondered what was going to happen here?

Was that an egg?


Looking around at all the students and their drawings was actually pretty neat. Some of them had done a very good job others....well their effort was apparent. But there wasn't just students in here, two other Professors were present besides the Care of Magical Creatures one. Callie waved politely at them both, wondering if she should go and say hi or if they should spread out and watch the kids.

But she wasn't in this lesson, she was just hear to observe and have fun hopefully.

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Of course, she couldn't turn down an offer such as this when Calista mentioned it, so after wrapping up their talk and grabbing their cloaks, the two headed off across the grounds and to the barn. Wherever it may be. Certainly wouldn't be difficult to locate it.

Although, during their short journey, Medea started trying her hand at a few jokes she'd heard from her travels. The latest about something to do with a a ghost and cooking dessert. Apparently 'booberry pie' was funnier than she'd thought it'd be. Either that or Professor Elwood was just being nice. Speaking of Professor Elwood...

Medea had to stop before running into her. What? Was the area too crowded? Eyebrows raising a little, she took note of the silence gesture and slowly made her way inside after the divination professor. Oh. Students hard at work...drawing? Lots of silence, and lots of talent from what she could see. She gave a guilty smile to a few and stood to the side before looking around. Smiling to the two other professors who showed up, Oliver and Isabelle, she turned her attention where the magical creatures Professor was and smiled to him too.

SO, William. What was in the cauldron!?

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There were better things that Scabior had to do this late. Like, for example, sleeping. The History of Magic professor was a bit curious by William's invite though.

So that was why he a was out on the grounds, in a long black cloak and scarf around his neck. Slipping behind most of the students, close to Oliver his eyes wandered over to the only real light, the fire from the fireplace....with a cauldron and....

...was that what he thought it was?

Really, Scabior just blinked. This was William Williamson he was talking about. What seemed to be inside the heated cauldron really shouldn't surprise him...though it did.

He wouldn't admit it.

When William DID return from....wherever he'd gone, he was carrying one pail with sand in it and one pail with some sort of thick, smelly, reddish liquid in it. The students in the front row would probably cover their noses at the smell but Willy, having made it hundreds of times, was immune to its stench.

Once he had set his materials down and had tossed the damp sand on the fire, he suited up in his long, dark, thick fireproof dragonhide gloves, quite proud that he'd remembered to put on fireproof EVERYTHING when he'd gotten dressed this morning.

Carefully, very, very carefully, the professor removed the cauldron from the heat source and set it down on the ground, still a ways away from his captive (?) audience. He then picked up a giant pair of tongs from behind the cauldron and took the egg out from it, carefully setting it down on the ground between the cauldron and the first row of students. That done, he removed his gloves and tucked them into the back pocket of his pants, then walked away again and came back with a simple cardboard box.

"All righty then, those of you who are still finishing up your drawings, feel free to do so. Those of you who are finished, sit tight for a just a moment. We'll resume in a second."

Then he went over to Callie and Medea, who were both looking to be in a rather good humor, and both of whom would helpfully assist him with what he asked of them. After a hurried, whispered conversation, Willy then went over to the guys and Isabelle.

"Thanks for coming, Olly, Isabelle, and....." he was surprised to see this one, "Dash." William nodded at them all. "If you guys want to er, conjure up chairs or stools or something, that'd be cool. Please just keep your eyes and ears on the egg and your uh, wands at the ready. I'm just gonna..." he gestured toward the front of the room.

Finish class. Yeah. That.

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Laura looked around well this wasn't fun she was being ignored by the Professor and worst still there were loads of Professor around, she couldn't remember doing anything so bad that would need this many Professors. "Professor I ain't very good at drawing do I need to do it?" Seriously the Professor would faint if he saw a drawing from her.

On his way back to the cauldron and the egg, William stopped by the Hufflepuff who had apparently been trying to get his attention earlier.

"Uh, well, Laura, if you don't want to draw, then you don't have to." He shrugged. "Homework and participation is always optional, you know, it's just up to you whether or not you want to pass or fail."

He smirked a bit and then continued on to the front of the room. Why was this child even ASKING about drawing? Even from his vantage point at the front, he could see plenty of drawings that were hardly of professional quality. She shouldn't feel alone, honestly, all artists start somewhere!

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Now back by the cauldron and the quivering egg, which seemed to be quaking as if under great pressure. William started laying out a few other eggs from his box, lining them all up from biggest to smallest behind HIS egg. He laid out a big, but not BIGBIG, ostrich egg, then a regular chicken egg, then a tiny, foil-wrapped chocolate candy egg.

Taking a step back, the professor beamed around at the class and clasped his hands loosely behind his back. "Welcome to Care of Magical Creatures. Heh. I have to say, from the drawings I've seen, you ALL have a bright future as magizoologists one day." He smiled and took a step to the side so that everyone could clearly see the eggs.

"First things first: What in Merlin's beard did I just have you draw? Take a guess, based on the size comparisons of MY egg to these other eggs. Try to be as specific as possible with your educated guess."


OOC: don't tell me WHY you think the egg is whatever it is, just tell me WHAT you think it is. ;-)

Ella watched with great interest as Professor Williamson put what appeared to be sand on the fire and removed the cauldron. O__O Oh boy! Did that mean the egg was going to hatch soon? Wait, and if it was what Ella thought it was, were the students going to be in any danger? Looking around, she noted that Williamson had brought in some back up. Well that was good, just in case anything went wrong. Not that Ella thought it would or anything...it was just-this class tended to go in unexpected directions sometimes. Something Ella loved, by the way!

The second year looked at the eggs that Williamson had laid out at the front of the crowd, paying close attention to the chocolate one. Yup, that one had caught her attention right away. Chocolate, YUM! As for what the class had jut drawn...well Ella had a guess but she wasn't sure how realistic it was. "P-Professor, given the sheer size of your egg, and the fact that you let it sit in a really hot fireplace, I have to wonder whether that is a-a dragon egg." But it couldn't be, could it?

Selena stared at the eggs that the professor had laid out. Especially the chocolate egg wrapped with foil. Didn't the professor know that the chocolate would melt if he didn't let someone eat it?! What a waste of a good chocolate egg. Selena thought about the question, pushing all thoughts about the chocolate egg going to waste to the back of her mind... or as far back as they would go.

"You made us draw a mutant pygmy puff egg," Selena said raising her hand. Obviously. Or well... "It could also be like a dragon egg though."

Or an enlarged chicken egg. Were they going to be making an omelet in class today? Because Selena just wanted to eat them. Not make it.

Nerida looked at what Professor Williamson was doing, was he putting more eggs out there? She looked closely at the eggs after the professor moved clearly one was an ostrich egg and a normal egg and then a gross chocolate gross egg. She thought about his question for a couple seconds her eyes flickering at the egg and then the other eggs before she finally said Is it a dragon egg? It was the most logical explination.