How to bathe a dragon...

Well that was a simple answer.... but also an answer that may land someone in trouble... But Lily answered it anyway. "Very carefully..." She replied with her hand in the air, answering the first question very bluntly. Now for the second part. Why to clean a dragon... This one was a bit trickier. With her hand still in the air, the second year took a guess. "Would you clean the dragon so that the skin doesn't dry out... and um... so that the dragon smells nice and clean." Maybe... possibly... Lily put her hand down and kinda stared/looked at the baby dragon with a smirk on her face.

Cute baby dragon is gonna get a bath...

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Ella was kind of like O___o Because out of nowhere this random boy had slimed all over her bestie, Sophie, with his weird boy flirting, trying to get her friend into trouble. The worst part was, Professor Williamson had noticed and then the boy asked him a question! This kid had some serious guts...and apparently thought very highly of himself too. And what if he lost house points for Hufflepuff? That wouldn't be good.

Luckily, Professor Williamson seemed to know exactly how to deal with this Don Juan guy...by ignoring his ridiculousness and moving on to what was really important...BABY RORO.

How did one bathe a baby dragon? Clearly water was involved but what else? "Professor, You'd need a lot of water to bathe a baby dragon...And I'd imagine you'd bathe a baby dragon quite carefully...so he doesn't go all crazy and like-drown you or something..." That wouldn't be good! "And you bath a baby dragon to keep it healthy and clean...and so it doesn't smell."

Right, let's all just keep ignoring the.... overheated child in Hufflepuff robes. Let's.

"Good, Ella, good guesses there. However, we're using baby oil here, so...." Guess again! Hehe.

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The Professor GOT it. He GOT him. He understood. He was even sympathising with him about how it was so hard being popular. Elijah had just KNOWN that the Professor was just like him.

Williamson = A bro.

That being said, Elijah's 'bro' didn't answer Sophie's question (how rude) and proceeded to ask the class one of his own. Being quite the academic (HAH!) as well as a stud muffin, Elijah raised his hand and provided an answer, "They need baths so they can get themselves lil' dragon wifeys or hubbys. Afterall, being smelly isn't hot."

Elijah was clean. And hot.


He saw out of the corner of his eyes that some other girl was staring at him. She probably couldn't get over how attractive he was. He sent a wink her way just to make her day. That is what Elijah did. His sheer existence MADE people's days.

Bro or no bro, William was also a professor, and he had to acknowledge the interrupter child at some point.

"This is... also true." Probably. "But not exactly what I was looking for..."

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Did the fact that he was older than her make things weird for Sophie right now? Would it be weird if she just told him to shut up and be quiet during the lesson??

Sophie looked from him to professor Williamson, fearing the dragon freak would hear the... freak that was now sitting next to her and was still blabbing on. She opened her mouth to answer his question when Elijah was suddenly talking to professor Williamson.

She was totally obsessed--- O___________O "I'm not! Are you crazy??" She protested. Merlin, these Hogwarts guys were acting SO WEIRD lately! That would totally sound weird, seeing that she was younger than him, but... "Sorry about him, professor. He's just... a bit... out of his mind." Or was he always like that?? She turned to face him and whispered. "Be quiet, you'll get us into trouble!"

OH GOOD! Professor Williamson had pretty much ignored crazy Elijah. Good! Sophie sighed in relief and listened to his question. She had no idea of what to reply. Probably because she was still in shock with what had just happened. Walking the dragon was terrifying and now this Elijah guy was a total freak! She decided it was better to not guess this one. But it was probably not with water, as dragons breathed fire and all? But Roro was drinking water just a few minutes ago! Hm... baby oil... that didn't sound right... not for a bath at least...

Poor Sophie, having to sit next to... that. Poor thing. William truly felt sorry for her; it must have been similar to sitting next to Oliver every lesson. Was this how Thea had felt at school?

"It's... not your fault, Sophie," he answered the girl with a frown. "However, one more outburst from him and I will have to take points...."

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Nigel was surprised by how much confidence that older hufflepuff, who was sitting with Sophie, had. He even asked if the Professor could relate with how popular he was. Nigel thought he would loss points for that but the Professor answered really fast and switched topics even faster.

But whatever back to the Professors question about bathing a dragon. "Professor, you need to bathe a baby dragon because nobody wants a smelly dragon"

"Yes, good guess...." But there were OTHER reasons too... obviously dragons didn't bathe themselves in nature, did they?

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Oh... so no brushes or shampoos or any of the sort, just plain water, which Vickers mentally noted until the younger Claw said something about the liquid in the pool being oil.

All of that was oil?

He was staring at the pool and wondering if this Johnsons person made a kind of oil that was fire-retardant when there was some noisy yelling coming from the back of the class. He turned to set his sights on a boy, wondering if he was complaining about the heat--which didnt make sense since practically all of Hogwarts was covered in snow-- when the Professor moved to the next step of the lesson and asked a question.

Right... why do they have to bathe a dragon? And actually what he really wants to know was why bathe a dragon in OIL? that may or may not set everybody on fire

Right Professor's question nfirst "We bathe the dragon to... keep his skin hydrated?" that didnt make any sense to him after having said that, but he was still stuck in baby dragon= giant iguana.

"Yes! We do! Good!" Remember that baby dragons didn't breathe fire yet though, so the oil's not flammable, he wanted to add...

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How? Why? Zhenya shrugged, wasn't it the same as any other creature? Careful not to use the word dog, Zhenya put her hand up and said "Professor do dragons like water? You could just lure them into the water with some treats and then let them splash around a bit. And you need to bathe them to keep them clean and healthy, just like any other creature."

She didn't want to help bathe the dragon. What if he was angry and snapped at them all for putting him in water? What if he was really happy he got a bit too active and ate someone... by accident. Or... learned how to blow fire? Or smoke? No, she just wanted to stand behind the crowd when it happened.

"This is closer to what I'm looking for!" Williamson practically cheered. "In nature, or in dragon reserves, dragon keepers have been known to lure dragons to large bodies of water so that they will bathe themselves; and from time to time, fully grown dragons DO take baths on their own IN large bodies of water; however, we have baby oil here......" so............

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Alyssa had seen the young Hufflepuff talking to Sophie. He reminded her of another friend of hers. Then what she overheard next made her gasp and then sputter."WHA.... I was not checking out his...Merlin! And now he's telling everyone that I did."Alyssa said to herself.

"Count to 10 Lyssie. Just ignore him. You don't want to end up serving detention for pushing him into the pool with dragon. That might cool down is so called Hawtness. In fact, his back looks kinda flat to be honest.' Alyssa giggled to herself as she looked at it.

Now back to business and bathing RoRo. Alyssa listened as Professor Williamson asked why dragons needed to be bathed.

Alyssa figured this was a common sense answer, so raised her hand and said,"Professor dragons need to be bathed firstly because they get dirty easily but mainly because their hide is thick and leathery and if it gets too dry, it will start to crack like leather does."

"Like leather that needs to be conditioned and oiled in order to look good, I'm guessing the same goes for a dragon's hide. The oil also helps to cool down the dragon's body temperature."

"As for the bathing part, you either get him to go in voluntarily or you just splash the water over him."

That would be what she would do, Alyssa thought to herself.

So, Alyssa was right.

"Excellent explanation, Potter!" Willy beamed at the girl. "Take five points. And that's exactly what we're going to be doing today. Keep in mind," he added on to her explanation, "baby oil should only be used for BABY dragons, as adult dragons can breathe fire and thus shouldn't be coated in anything flammable AND adult dragons can fly down to lakes and such to bathe on their own."

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"Crazy?" he threw her question back at her, completely taken aback by her response. What on EARTH was she on about? "I think the only one crazy here is you. You're totally crazy about how gorgeous I am, no? Don't worry about it. I don't blame you. No one else blames you. I am awesome. I am awesomely hot."

Then she got all quiet and whispery and chastisey with him. It seemed she was scared he was going to get them into trouble. This only further proved her craziness because there was no way he was going to get them into trouble. Williamson understood, afterall. "I wouldn't worry small fry, Williamson is my bro. He gets me. He gets IT. This thing that me and him have, that we share. He GETS it."

She seemed to be getting restless around him. He found it really flattering that this little girl had a crush on him. It was hard to blame her though. He had to live with this curse where there was NO ONE who didn't have a crush on him. Even the giant squid had a crush on him.

The Butt Girl, which is what Elijah was going to refer to her as due to him not actually knowing her REAL name, seemed to be getting all prissy over the fact that he had made up stuff she said. Personally, he didn't see why it was such a big deal! She should totally feel honoured that a guy like him had even taken notice of her existence, right?

She gave a long (and boring) answer about the dragon and it's bath and Elijah saw this as the PERFECT opportunity to try and get back in her good books and make her feel better about herself and her butt remarks from earlier. "That was an extremely fascinating answer you gave. Seriously. Soooooo interesting." Girls LOVED being complimented on their smarts.

Ah.... moving on. Gosh. This kid couldn't take a hint, could he?

"Last warning, Mr...." Disillusioned. "One more outburst from you, or any more distracting of your classmates, and I'm taking points from Hufflepuff." And then he'd just give the kid detention and throw him out of class if it continued.





"All right then! Now that we know how/why we bathe baby dragons, let's get on with it! What I'm going to do is take Roro out of his harness and lure him into the pool; then you may, IF YOU WISH, come up to the baby's backside and dump some more oil on him there. Be warned: he will splash, you will get splattered, and he'll be noisy. But if you'd like to help with the bathing, you may."

So, now to lure the dragon...

A number of things occurred within a few minutes of each other and it went a bit like this:

First of all Williamson, his bro, told him how right he was with his answer. I mean, Elijah KNEW he was right in the first place, but there is nothing quite like a bro to confirm this fact for you, right? Williamson probably thought he was such a genius with all this knowledge trapped inside such a gorgeously, well-shaped head.

However, from this point on things went sour.

He began speaking to Soph, explaining to her that it wasn't her fault, which is true! It isn't her fault that she was falling madly in love with him. It was a hard thing not to do and clearly his bro was backing him up and letting her know that it was okay, BUT then he threatened to deduct house points! Elijah couldn't tell you the last time he saw the Hogwarts rule book (or if he EVER saw the Hogwarts rule book), but he was sure it didn't read as so:

Pfft!

Maybe it was jealousy? Maybe Williamson was so jealous of how attractive Elijah was and this was his way of getting back to him? Or maybe he was trying to show people that despite his looks he wasn't perfect and can have flaws, too. Girls loved flaws. It made you look vulnerable and stuff. Yeah, that was probably it AND it would fit in with the bro-code.

However, the second threat sounded a LOT more serious and this time it was directly at him. It somewhat frazzled Elijah and his usual confidence slipped somewhat as he wasn't entirely certain what to DO. He hadn't been anticipating a bro-trayal like this! It was un-bro-lievable!

He crossed his arms in a huff, making sure to give his sexiest pout to illustrate how dark and broody he was, and ensuring he was still as attractive as ever.

When the option to help bathe the dragon was offered he decided against it. "No way am I going near that thing with all that baby oil. I am WAY to good looking to be getting my hands dirty like that. The dragon can smell for all I care," he whispered to Soph. He watched on, though, excited to see what less-attractive students would offer to help. This was bound to be entertaining.

GOOD! Professor Williamson knew that guy was being crazy and didn't have anything to do with her! That was truly great! But he threatened the guy a few times there... Sophie looked up at Elijah and nodded. See, it's best to be quiet during the lesson, big weird kid!



It seemed like Elijah had calmed down and decided to be quiet. Finally! Sophie smiled up at him, happy to see that he chose to behave. He looked like there were many things going through his head now, though...

And now he was pouting?? Seriously?? Hahahahaha!

Anyway... time to bathe the scray dragon. Sophie heard Elijah saying he wouldn't go there, and she had decided to stay on her seat as well. "I'm not going either... that baby dragon is just... too... you know, it's a dragon!" She said without looking at him. She was too busy watching the actual dragon doing whatever it was doing now.

Alyssa rolled her eyes at the loud Puffer boy. "Thanks the Professor obviously thought so too." Alyssa said sarcastically at him. "And if you lose us house points, you will DEFINITELY be going into the pool with the baby dragon...and oh yeah the name is Alyssa." She told with a sweet smile before going up to volunteer to help bathe the baby dragon.

She was already wet and dirty, maybe a little bit of splashing might help clean her up.

"Professor I would like to help to bathe, RoRo." Alyssa told Professor Williamson before grabbing a bottle of baby oil, and waiting for the Professor to lure RoRo into the pool.

Still with his poker face on, Mordred caught Sierra’s warning glare. “What?” he said as he placed his hands in his pocket. “I just told the professor what happened.” He said as he eyed Kurumi. At this point, Mordred was biting the inside of his cheek trying his best not to laugh. Or maybe he should. He may end up farting in class too.

Mordred returned the grin and took his seat. “See? Professor Williamson finds it entertaining too.” He said as he turned his attention to Sierra. He was seriously in love with this class. If only he could fist bump the professor. He’s one cool dude too!

Now on to bathing Roro. Seems messy, but it looks like it’s going to be fun. Mordred remained in his seat and waited for the others to volunteer first.

Jory wanted to help with Roro's bath too. "Professor, I'll help too,'' he said grabbing a a bottle of baby oil. Now, all they had to do was wait until Roro was lured into the pool.

The boy was eager to to see a baby dragon having a bath and he didn't mind at all if he got soaked.

Kurumi had been mortified by what Mordred had said and simply STARED at him for a few moments before hurrying back to her seat and immediately plopping herself down in it. Kurumi almost didn't even hear what Professor Williamson said - actually, she DIDN'T hear him at all because she was literally frozen in her seat during this entire bit of the class. She came to when Professor Williamson said that those who wished to help bathe Roro may do so and her hand SHOT up into the air eagerly. "I would like to help as well," Kurumi chirped as she jumped to her feet.

She did not grab a bottle of baby oil, however. Hadn't Professor Williamson already filled the pool with baby oil? Did they need MORE of it? Instead, Kurumi simply stood up and walked over to the professor, standing off to the side, and waited further instructions.

OH MY STARS SHE WAS GOING TO GET TO BATHE A BABY DRAGON!! hopefully

Derrick wanted to help bath the Dragon.He didn't have to be anywhere else so why not?He looked around,There weren't a whole lot of people wanting to do it so he walked over to the Professor and where the Dragon was and said excited''Professor I'll help.''He smiled.Then frowned.He sounded like a Girl.

Ella was sure of one thing, if Romeo that new puffer kid lost points for Hufflepuff, she'd be pretty upset. She was working so hard to help the house get points and this boy just comes in and ruins it because he's trying to get girls? SIGH. Boys were SO weird. She decided that the best way to get away from this kid was to volunteer to help bathe Roro, even if it would get messy.

"I'll help too, Professor." The second year said, walking over to Professor Williamson and standing next to him, eyes on baby Roro.

Elijah knew that Soph wasn't going to bathe the dragon because HE wasn't. She just didn't want to leave his side. She had managed to get this far into a conversation with him and why give up her chance now to befriend greatness? Elijah thought she was a smart girl. Always stick with the good looking, popular people. They will get you places. What those places were was unclear to Elijah right now, but THEY WOULD.

See? She was thanking him for his praise on her answers. Girls ALWAYS cared about what he thought. Always. They got all gushy and embarrassed and started blushing. It was so sweet. He loved having that effect on people. But then she started threatening to throw him into the dragon's pool if he lost them points, "Heyyyyy small fry, don't sweat. Professor Williamson has totttallly put forward his warnings and I have totalllllly got the message loud and clear."

With that she got up and offered to help bathe the horrifically dirty dragon. This put him in an awkward position. He couldn't be seen to be less brave than a GIRL! Did that mean he had to offer to wash the damn thing as well? Reallllly? But he didn't want to... Maybe people wouldn't notice his wussyness as they would be distracted too much by his good looks... And none of the other guys were really volunteering except for one Gryffindor kid who sounded like a girl anyway...

But, when had Elijah EVER did what OTHER guys were doing?

"I... um... I volunteer also, Professor Bro," this could only turn out disastrous, but at least it might put him back in the Professor's good books if he helped a bro out. He watched the Butt Girl grab a bottle of baby oil and he did the same. Elijah had only used baby oil in the past to moisturise himself. It helped make him to be as attractive as he was today. Hopefully by the end of this bath the dragon could say the same.

The Ravenclaw smiled. It was an educated guess on his part, but questions being something he cant resist answering which should come to no surprise by now he was happy that his guess was somewhere in the neighborhood of being right.

He glanced at Alyssa having the best answer of all. Of course, the upkeep of leather. Although Vickers hates to think of little Roro as walking dragon parts.

Oh but now it was time to actually bathe the good little dragon. He stood filed towards the baby pool, eyes darting about "Professor... what will we use to dump some more of the oil on Roro?" the buckets?

"I would like to help, professor", Sarah said eargerly. She loved cleaning things. The dragon was now by the pool. She couldn;t wait to start.

Alyssa almost let out a snort when the new guy called her a small fry. "Small fry? I guess you must come from a very tall family, because I'm actually 5ft 8 1/2" tall and from where I come from I'm considered definitely bigger than a small fry." Alyssa laughed over at him.

And now he was standing next to her holding a bottle of baby oil too. The fact that he was doing that made her wonder whether he was volunteering to help bathe the dragon because he REALLY wanted to or whether it was to impress the other girls. She suspected that it was more towards the latter. Unfortunately, his attempts were failing miserably...at least with her. It wasn't that Alyssa didn't find him funny, she did. She just knew that all his machismo was just for show and suspected that deep down inside, there was another side of him, that she might actually like, if only he would stop putting words in people's mouths!!.

Silvia stood up and walked to the front where several other students were gathering. "I'll help too," she said. Of course she'd help! How could she not when a dragon was involved? The small Ravenclaw stood quietly but eagerly, waiting for what would happen next. She didn't mind too much that she might get splashed with baby oil. Normally she would prefer not to, but this was a special case. And besides, a little baby oil wouldn't hurt her, unless Roro suddenly and unexpectedly learned to breath fire. But she didn't think that would happen, so they were safe.

As crazy Elijah got up and went to help with the scary baby dragon's bath, Sophie chuckled. She wondered what was wrong with him, really. Because someone can't just be born that way! He sounded and acted like... a cartoon character!

At least it was really amusing! And Sophie could really use some amusement in this stressful lesson. Bahaha!

She watched as some people remained seated while others went forward to help professor Williamson. Yeeeah... she would stay where she was. Roro was cute and all, but... the hay bales were quite comfortable now.

Nigel thought it would be more cool to sit down and watch everybody else get dirty giving Roro a bath.

Nigel has never seen a dragon take a bath before and wanted to see one first before he did anything else.

He got as comfortable as he could on his bale of hay he was sitting on and waited patiently for the Professor to get started.

SPOILER!!: I VOLUNTEER

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Alyssa rolled her eyes at the loud Puffer boy. "Thanks the Professor obviously thought so too." Alyssa said sarcastically at him. "And if you lose us house points, you will DEFINITELY be going into the pool with the baby dragon...and oh yeah the name is Alyssa." She told with a sweet smile before going up to volunteer to help bathe the baby dragon.

She was already wet and dirty, maybe a little bit of splashing might help clean her up.

"Professor I would like to help to bathe, RoRo." Alyssa told Professor Williamson before grabbing a bottle of baby oil, and waiting for the Professor to lure RoRo into the pool.

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Jory wanted to help with Roro's bath too. "Professor, I'll help too,'' he said grabbing a a bottle of baby oil. Now, all they had to do was wait until Roro was lured into the pool.

The boy was eager to to see a baby dragon having a bath and he didn't mind at all if he got soaked.

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Kurumi had been mortified by what Mordred had said and simply STARED at him for a few moments before hurrying back to her seat and immediately plopping herself down in it. Kurumi almost didn't even hear what Professor Williamson said - actually, she DIDN'T hear him at all because she was literally frozen in her seat during this entire bit of the class. She came to when Professor Williamson said that those who wished to help bathe Roro may do so and her hand SHOT up into the air eagerly. "I would like to help as well," Kurumi chirped as she jumped to her feet.

She did not grab a bottle of baby oil, however. Hadn't Professor Williamson already filled the pool with baby oil? Did they need MORE of it? Instead, Kurumi simply stood up and walked over to the professor, standing off to the side, and waited further instructions.

OH MY STARS SHE WAS GOING TO GET TO BATHE A BABY DRAGON!! hopefully

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Derrick wanted to help bath the Dragon.He didn't have to be anywhere else so why not?He looked around,There weren't a whole lot of people wanting to do it so he walked over to the Professor and where the Dragon was and said excited''Professor I'll help.''He smiled.Then frowned.He sounded like a Girl.

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Ella was sure of one thing, if Romeo that new puffer kid lost points for Hufflepuff, she'd be pretty upset. She was working so hard to help the house get points and this boy just comes in and ruins it because he's trying to get girls? SIGH. Boys were SO weird. She decided that the best way to get away from this kid was to volunteer to help bathe Roro, even if it would get messy.

"I'll help too, Professor." The second year said, walking over to Professor Williamson and standing next to him, eyes on baby Roro.

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Elijah knew that Soph wasn't going to bathe the dragon because HE wasn't. She just didn't want to leave his side. She had managed to get this far into a conversation with him and why give up her chance now to befriend greatness? Elijah thought she was a smart girl. Always stick with the good looking, popular people. They will get you places. What those places were was unclear to Elijah right now, but THEY WOULD.



See? She was thanking him for his praise on her answers. Girls ALWAYS cared about what he thought. Always. They got all gushy and embarrassed and started blushing. It was so sweet. He loved having that effect on people. But then she started threatening to throw him into the dragon's pool if he lost them points, "Heyyyyy small fry, don't sweat. Professor Williamson has totttallly put forward his warnings and I have totalllllly got the message loud and clear."

With that she got up and offered to help bathe the horrifically dirty dragon. This put him in an awkward position. He couldn't be seen to be less brave than a GIRL! Did that mean he had to offer to wash the damn thing as well? Reallllly? But he didn't want to... Maybe people wouldn't notice his wussyness as they would be distracted too much by his good looks... And none of the other guys were really volunteering except for one Gryffindor kid who sounded like a girl anyway...

But, when had Elijah EVER did what OTHER guys were doing?

"I... um... I volunteer also, Professor Bro," this could only turn out disastrous, but at least it might put him back in the Professor's good books if he helped a bro out. He watched the Butt Girl grab a bottle of baby oil and he did the same. Elijah had only used baby oil in the past to moisturise himself. It helped make him to be as attractive as he was today. Hopefully by the end of this bath the dragon could say the same.

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The Ravenclaw smiled. It was an educated guess on his part, but questions being something he cant resist answering which should come to no surprise by now he was happy that his guess was somewhere in the neighborhood of being right.

He glanced at Alyssa having the best answer of all. Of course, the upkeep of leather. Although Vickers hates to think of little Roro as walking dragon parts.

Oh but now it was time to actually bathe the good little dragon. He stood filed towards the baby pool, eyes darting about "Professor... what will we use to dump some more of the oil on Roro?" the buckets?

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"I would like to help, professor", Sarah said eargerly. She loved cleaning things. The dragon was now by the pool. She couldn;t wait to start.

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Alyssa almost let out a snort when the new guy called her a small fry. "Small fry? I guess you must come from a very tall family, because I'm actually 5ft 8 1/2" tall and from where I come from I'm considered definitely bigger than a small fry." Alyssa laughed over at him.

And now he was standing next to her holding a bottle of baby oil too. The fact that he was doing that made her wonder whether he was volunteering to help bathe the dragon because he REALLY wanted to or whether it was to impress the other girls. She suspected that it was more towards the latter. Unfortunately, his attempts were failing miserably...at least with her. It wasn't that Alyssa didn't find him funny, she did. She just knew that all his machismo was just for show and suspected that deep down inside, there was another side of him, that she might actually like, if only he would stop putting words in people's mouths!!.

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Silvia stood up and walked to the front where several other students were gathering. "I'll help too," she said. Of course she'd help! How could she not when a dragon was involved? The small Ravenclaw stood quietly but eagerly, waiting for what would happen next. She didn't mind too much that she might get splashed with baby oil. Normally she would prefer not to, but this was a special case. And besides, a little baby oil wouldn't hurt her, unless Roro suddenly and unexpectedly learned to breath fire. But she didn't think that would happen, so they were safe.

William picked up the dead ferrets he'd collected earlier and started dangling them in front of Roro's face. "Roooooooorororororororooooo," he cooed, tossing one toward the pool. "Roro! Go get your dead ferret, baby, go get it!"

He watched and waited for the dragon to take the bait, moving closer to the pool and dangling the others right over it. Willy nodded toward the volunteers but then got a somewhat confused expression on his face.

"Er, where did you guys get those bottles of baby oil? We're going to be using the buckets of oil I used to fill up the pool..." And he'd smartly only filled it up halfway so that when Roro got into the pool, oil wouldn't splash everywhere. Just somewhere.

"Anyway, once Roro gets in, we have to move fast. It will help if you hum as you dump the oil," he pointed to a few still-filled buckets, "slowly down Roro's back. I'll use my wand to massage the oil in but then once it's all in you guys should back up to your seats."

Snacky? Daddy had snacky? Roro opened his sweepy eyes and stifled a dwagon yawn, getting up from where he was sitting and blinking at the ferret in front of him. Yum! Ferrets were so yum!

"EOOOORK!" the dragon squawked, snapping at the ferret in front of him and devouring it in a few simple swallows. He wagged his big tail, noticing the hoomans gathering near him again, and sniffed the air. More ferrets! Ferrets over by da liquid stuff!!!

Roro quickly stomped over to the pool and, actually, right into it, stealing the ferrets out of his Daddy's hand. Omnomnomnomnomyum. He was so busy digesting his snack that he didn't even notice that he was standing in something cool and wet...

Ella wrinkled her nose as she watched Professor Williamson feed baby Roro a dead ferret. It was kind of gross, though at least it wasn't a dead pygmy puff or something! Now that would be sad. And then the ground appeared to be quaking again as Roro thundered over towards the pool, apparently ready for some more treats. It was working though, the dead ferrets thing...cause now Roro was actually in the pool. Right. So now it was time for the students to help, right?

The second year picked up a bucket like Williamson had instructed them to do and began pouring oil over the dragon, humming as she worked. Since Twinkle Twinkle Little Star had worked when they were walking the little guy, Ella went with that. Hopefully the humming kept the dragon calm so they all didn't end up oily messes.

Eiljah looked down at the bucket of baby oil he was holding (because it was a bucket he had been holding all along right? Because how on EARTH would he have gotten a bottle of the stuff, right?) and was already beginning to regret his decision of volunteering. A little bit of this stuff on your skin did wonders, but he couldn't imagine being splashed by a whole buttload of it would have the same effect.

He watched his Bro coerce the dragon slowly into the tub with the aid of some dead ferrets. Poor ferrets. He wondered if they knew their demise was for the sake of this UGLY creature getting a wash. Even if they did manage to successfully wash him, wasn't he just likely to get himself muddy again within seconds?!

Once Roro was in the tub, Elijah slooooowwwwlllyyy edged forward, bucket of oil at the ready to pour over the baby dragon. As he made his way toward the tub, he listened to his Bro giving tips such as humming when they dumped the oil on him? Elijah knew he had the perfect lips to hum from, but he wasn't about to start doing that when he had to avoid getting splashed as much as possible.

They were also to dump the oil slowly onto the dragon giving the little snot PLENTY of opportunity to get splash happy. Perhaps he could just levitate the bucket over? That would save him from having to get anywhere near the beast and would ensure he didn't get splashed AT ALL.

Perfect. (But not as perfect as his face).

"Wingardium Leviosa," the bucket removed itself from the ground slowly, and Elijah gradually directed it closer and closer to the tub, his tongue sticking out of his mouth in concentration. As he got nearer the tub, he rotated his wand, taking his time so as not to drop ALL of the oil onto the little pest and end up drowning it or something. That was ALL he needed to get back in his Bro's good books.

However, the weight of the oil in his bucket must have unbalanced it and all of a sudden he wasn't in control of it any longer. The bucket fell from the air and, thankfully, fell on the grass OUTSIDE the tub. Oil splattered everywhere and some even went on the dragon. Well at least he had managed to somewhat complete the task...

He looked over at Williamson to see, on a scale of 1 to ogre, how angry he was at him. Elijah made sure to flash him his best smile to help soften the blow, mouthing sorry before hand.

After the dragon was back with the professor she decided to step back and watch everyone help bath the dragon. It seemed like a big job and so many others had offered that she didn't ant to cramp anyone by pushing in to help, plus she didn't want to scare the baby dragon. She wished she had a camera to get pictures of this though, it was an awesome site and one she would not forget in a long time.

Alyssa watched as RoRo distracted by the dead ferrets that Professor Williamson was feeding him, walked straight into the pool of water. 'Now that was easy. Professor Williamson definitely knows what he is doing.' Alyssa thought to herself.

Not wasting any time, Alyssa quickly walked over to the buckets of oil and carried one over. She lifted it up with both her hands and slowly poured the oil over RoRo's back while humming the song, "Puff the Magic Dragon" as she saw the oil drip slowly over the baby dragon's back. She walked slowly back and forth, as she poured making sure that RoRo's entire back was entirely covered by the oil she was pouring.

Nerida was a bit grossed out about the whole dead farret thing but smiled when she saw the lame trick actually worked and got Roro into the pool of oil! Move fast, she always ended up hurting someone or something when she went fast, she would just have to be slow and fast...How ever that was possible. So now it was time to give Roro a bath, sounded messy and fun! Picking up a bucket she began to hum Twinkle Twinkle Little Star and dump oil onto Roro and made sure she got it all of over-the best she could- his dragon scaled back!

Dead ferrets?

Kurumi was suddenly reminded of hippogriffs and it brought a small smile to her face. That had been another fun lesson, because it had been hands on. Sort of like this one. The more hands on experience Kurumi was able to get with creatures during a lesson the better really. Although, Kurumi was sort of curious as to why they had feed him a liquid mixture of chicken blood and whiskey and were now feeding him solids. Kurumi had assumed that the liquid food at the beginning of the lesson meant that Roro wasn't quite ready for solid food, but she had assumed wrong. Pleasant surprises all around!

"Professor," Kurumi asked as she picked up a bucket. See, she knew that there was no reason to have picked up a bottle, which is why she hadn't. "How old do dragons need to be before they can begin to ingest solid food?"
If there had been any doubts about solid foods and Roro before, those were gone now. Aaaaw, just look at the way he tore through that ferret! How endearing!

Bucket in hand, Kurumi collected enough baby oil into it and her arms shook a little at the weight of it as she began to slowly pour it over Roro's scaly body. Twinkle Twinkle Little Star had seemed to work during his hatching, so it was this tune that Kurumi began to hum as she proceeded to do the task she had volunteered for. Kurumi poured the baby oil over his right flank, starting at his hinds legs and slowly working her way up to his shoulder until her bucket was empty. "Professor, do we need to put some on his head?" she asked, singing the words softly in tune to Twinkle Twinkle Little Star as she did.