Witsy looked at her wand, oak? she thought. She wondered if she were to carve on her wand if it could act like a charm in itself.

SPOILER!!: Correct tree guesses!

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Frightening the first years? How about sixth years too? Kurumi was not the biggest fan of Acromantulas...or spiders in general. So, sorry Professor Disrespectful, Spike was frightening some sixth years too.

At the woman's next question, Kurumi glanced over at Vickers for a moment to smile. He really was brilliant and needed to break out of his shell and realize it. Kurumi then cocked her head to the side and looked down at her own wand before raising her hand. "Holly?" she asked. Her own wand was made from holly and she remembered some Celtic lore regarding the tree. Best guess she had at the moment anyway.

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Nodding weakly at what was said. It sure had some new information, but could she memorize them all. That was the question! Cassia was looking forward to skip the talking part and get to the doing part. Well, she knew they needed to talk before getting to work. But still...

Considering the question, Cassia didn't know what exactly the kinds of wood the Professor meant. But with the generous hint she raised her hand, "Is Ash wood one of them?" She suggested.

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Penelope was a first year, but she wasn't really frightened by the one guy mentioning Acromantulas. They were just big spiders, apparently? Eh. Not that scary sounding to her. But anyway.

So Ogham Staves were sticks? Like wands and stuff? Sort of? But with the Celtic alphabet - what was the difference between that alphabet and the normal one? - carved on them? Hm. But now they were naming off wood? And could use the one that their wands were made of? Well, that made answering this easier...

...if Penelope could remember what the shopkeeper had said hers was.

Hm.

Hmm.

Oh yeah!

"Oak?" she asked/answered, raising her hand.

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Gideon was chosing to ignore the talk of acromantulas, instead hoping the fact it was daylight rather then dusk or night would be a deterant for anything that they really needed to worry about. The prefect listening to what was being discussed and simply paying attention seeing as he wasn't sure of anything in regards to the topic at hand. However when the question was asked on woods that might be useful, the Gryffindor decided to give it a try, thinking back onto types of wand wood.

"Perhaps apple would be used..." he offered after raising his hand so he could answer. Hadn't there been something between fruit trees and divination in the books they had had access to to create their 'wands' a few terms before?

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A small smile tugged at the corner of his lips. He got it right! Better yet Professor Hotstuff Elwood was happy he got it right. As she moved to the rest of the student's answers his line of vision cleared to show Kurumi just across the way, smiling at him. He tried to muster a return smile, but he could feel his face heating up and shyly shifted his eyes away. Just in time too, there was another question....

Up goes the hand again "Professor, there's also Hazel wood." he remembered that one pretty distinctly, as it was the kind of wood he worked on in their Runes class from last term

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Hearing that she was very good on both accounts made Nerida grin. She had read the book while at the Hospital when her mother was with a muggle healer or were they called doctors in the muggle world. Big huge spiders, eep the Prefect was kinda scaring her! Sure she had made fun of Professor Elwood but now she took it all back now that the Prefect was making it more frightening.

At the mention of the Professor's newest question it made Nerida look down at her own wand. Her wand was made out of wood she was about to suggest oak when Penelope did it first. Hmm what were other woods looking around she saw a Blackthorn tree. There could be chance that it was the wood. Giving it a chance, "Is Blackthorn one? she suggested after raising her hand.

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Alyssa listened as the Professor explained what Ogham Staves were and how they were used. Then Professor Elwood asked the class what types of trees could be used in the Ogham Staves reading. Alyssa thought of the various tree wood that were used in Wands and waited as the others gave their answers before she raised her hand to give her answer.

"I remember reading that the wood of the Rowan tree is long known for aid and protection against enchantments. Could that be used as one of the Ogham Staves?"

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Taylor thought about what the teacher said and then about the different woods. She listen to a few of the students as well and raised her hand, "If I am not mistaken, Professor, couldn't the Elder tree be used?" She knew that was an important wood in her heritage so why not give it a shot and she might of heard it somewhere in some history book but then again history wasnt her strong suit.

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"Birch wood?" put in Sarah. She meanwhile wrote down all what the professor had said about the Ogham type of divanition. This tree stuff did sound 'BARKING' mad...

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Nigel did not know that this many types of trees existed. But now he had to think of a type of tree. He did know a little about Wandlore to help him out. Plus he did not care if his answer was already said.

"Professor, is one type Yew?"

"Excellent examples!" Professor Elwood exclaimed as the majority of the class was able to name a wood type used in the Ogham style of Divination. Although the fact that a few were used in wandlore certainly helped. She ruffled in her bag and began to search for the sheets of parchment she would pass out after answering the other kids who had guessed woods that weren't on the list.

SPOILER!!: Woods not on the list

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So her suggestion hadn't been that far fetched? Wicked. Ella was usually rubbish with this Divination stuff so to be anywhere even close to correct was a major score.

The second year listened, trying not to become too preoccupied with the noises of the forest. She still had her wand in hand though, and was gripping it rather tightly. Had to be prepared for anything, yeah? ...though hopefully no blast-ended skrewts scary creatures would be joining them during this lesson...

Hmm...one type of tree...and one that would also be used in wandlore? Well Ella's wand was spruce so.."Professor, would spruce be one?"

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Jory listened to the Professor as she explained what the staves were used for and the students, who started listing a tree each.

He raised his hand after Alyssa. "Professor, can Cherry be one?'' he asked.

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So Ogham Staves not a person? Okay. He made a mental note about that. Thank Merlin he didn't humiliate himself by answering the previous question. And apparently it was used by the ancient Celtic diviners using sticks and bits of wood. Another ancient lesson. Sigh.

He tried to listened to Professor explanation about the Ogham thingy.

The same type of trees for wood that would be in some of your all's wands?

What type of wood his wand was again? Scymymore. Scacamore. Soramore. Sycamore. That's it. He raised his hand up in the air. "How about Sycamore wood, Professor?"

"Unforunately Spruce, Cherry, and Sycamore woods are not used in Ogham Stave readings despite their use in wandlore. Sorry guys. Good guesses though." Professor Elwood finally found the parchments for the next part of the lesson and was ready to move on.

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"Now you all named about half of the woods but there are still some others, a few you might not think would count but they do." She checked her parchment and then proceeded to tell them the rest. "Alder, Willow, Hawthorn, Fir, Gorse, Heather," she then pulled out three large tins from her bag filled with sticks like the one she had just showed them, "Vine, Reed, and Ivy." Callie said as she pointed to each of the three tins in response to the last three 'woods'. "These three I had to bring because they tend to be thinner in the wild and need to be dried before being used."

The blonde Professor flicked her wand and sent a parchment to each student with all the wood names, their signals and the characteristics for the reading.

SPOILER!!: Parchment

- Birch (B) Beithe [Beginning, Renewal, Youth]
- Rowan (L) Lewis [Connection, Expression, Protection]
- Alder (F) Fern [Endurance, Strength, Passion]
- Willow (S) Sail [Imagination, Intuition, Vision]
- Ash (N) Nion [Connection, Wisdom, Surrender]
- Hawthorn (H) Hauth [Contradiction, Consequence, Relationships)
- Oak (D) Duir [Strength, Nobility, Stability]
- Holly (T) Tinne [Action, Assertion, Objectivity]
- Hazel (C) Coll [Creativity, Purity, Honesty)
- Apple (Q) Quert [Beauty, Love, Generosity]
- Vine (M) Muin [Introspection, Relaxation, Depth]
- Ivy (G) Gort [Determination, Change, Patience]
- Reed (NG) Ngetal [Harmony, Health, Growth]
- Blackthorn (STR) Straif [Discipline, Control, Perspective]
- Elder (R) Ruis [Transition, Evolution, Continuation]
- Fir (A) Alim [Clarity, Achievement, Energy]
- Gorse (O) Onn [Transmutation, Resourcefulness, Exposure]
- Heather (U) Urr [Dream, Romance, Feelings]
– Poplar (E) Edad [Victory, Transformation, Vision]
– Yew (I) Idad [Transference, Passage, Illusion]

Once a parchment had landed in the hands of each kid, Professor Elwood stood up and waved her wand around the tree walls of the clearing and marked each tree with a sign that said what they were, also sending a tag to the three in the tins. “Alright everyone, let’s go ahead and begin to collect your twenty pieces of wood, one from each of the tree types, and then return to the center of the clearing where we will start to carve our symbols.” And with that she released them to start working.

OCC: Go ahead and START collecting the wood you don’t have to, or even finish in one post this is supposed to take a few posts I would like everyone to have at least 3 posts of collecting and then we will move on with carving once I say so. Also I know I didn't really label trees but lets pretend okay? Thanks!

Still disappointed about the lack of acromantulas, and the Professors reaction, Spike had his lips pursed firmly together for the last question. Even though he could name many types of wood. He spent enough of his summer living in the woods at home, afterall. Expert den maker, was Spike.

At the mention of the task though, Spike was forced to raise his hand. He was not at all up for risking damage to such a collection of trees. Lips still pursed, he raised his hand. "Could you care to, er, define 'collect' for us, Professor?" he asked. "I assume you don't mean 'hack chunks off?"

Heather...Kurumi was reminded of one of her best friends in Gryffindor house and not the tree when Professor Elwood mentioned the name. Kurumi hadn't seen the girl or her stuffed panda for such a long time now and she was suddenly reminded of just how much she missed her. The girl had been Kurumi's first friend in Gryffindor house and had had more than a few awkward adventures together - namely those including Canary Creams.

The smile that had appeared on Kurumi's face at all the memories that had come flooding back was gone the moment she received the parchment from Professor Elwood. They all...looked sort of the same. Merlin. These were going to be harder to remember than runes...and FAR worse than kanji.

Holding the parchment in her hands, Kurumi walked over to the nearest labeled tree, which just so happened to be Heather, when she just happened to pass by the professor. Might as well ask a question while she was thinking of it, right? "Professor, is the method for carving Ogham Staves similar to the methods used for runes?" Chants and/or the Intalgio spell she meant.

Laura knew she had to do this properly the Professor probably thought she was weird with the golf person guess but well she was just guessing and she didn't think she'd ever be any good at divination, she started collecting the sticks, the first few she got alright but then she went and picked one up and decided she didn't like it and went searching for another, she would make sure she got the best stuff.

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Still disappointed about the lack of acromantulas, and the Professors reaction, Spike had his lips pursed firmly together for the last question. Even though he could name many types of wood. He spent enough of his summer living in the woods at home, afterall. Expert den maker, was Spike.

At the mention of the task though, Spike was forced to raise his hand. He was not at all up for risking damage to such a collection of trees. Lips still pursed, he raised his hand. "Could you care to, er, define 'collect' for us, Professor?" he asked. "I assume you don't mean 'hack chunks off?"

Calista had set herself to walking around the clearing ready to answer questions or help students if they needed it when the spider-obsessed Prefect raised his hand for a question.

"Oh, yes. There will be no disrespectful hacking at the trees. The best thing to do is either snap off a thin branch or use your wand to cut a small piece." This one seemed to have an air for trouble, she would have to keep an eye on him.

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Heather...Kurumi was reminded of one of her best friends in Gryffindor house and not the tree when Professor Elwood mentioned the name. Kurumi hadn't seen the girl or her stuffed panda for such a long time now and she was suddenly reminded of just how much she missed her. The girl had been Kurumi's first friend in Gryffindor house and had had more than a few awkward adventures together - namely those including Canary Creams.

The smile that had appeared on Kurumi's face at all the memories that had come flooding back was gone the moment she received the parchment from Professor Elwood. They all...looked sort of the same. Merlin. These were going to be harder to remember than runes...and FAR worse than kanji.

Holding the parchment in her hands, Kurumi walked over to the nearest labeled tree, which just so happened to be Heather, when she just happened to pass by the professor. Might as well ask a question while she was thinking of it, right? "Professor, is the method for carving Ogham Staves similar to the methods used for runes?" Chants and/or the Intalgio spell she meant.

Oh she speaks!?

Professor Elwood turned to see that Prefect Hollingberry seemed to have lightened up even more since the beginning of the lesson and was now asking about the similarity in rune carving and that of the Ogham Staves. "Actually they are quite similar. Ancient Runes and Divination have many similarities and when you make what we are doing today you will have to use the Intaglio spell in order to carve the symbols into the sticks."

"The original celtic practitioners used many chants and spell but they have been mostly lost to us so we won't be doing that, the fact that we are taking them from the original set of trees should do us fine enough." A practice that would have taken a lot longer than their lesson would allow for, so it was amost good they were lost. They wouldn't be doing the super in-depth types of readings anyways.

Laura continued collecting the sticks, she was upto nine when she found a weird looking one and picked it up. "Professor does it matter if the stick looks funny?" Laura wanted to make sure everything was perfect. "And do they have to be the same size or doesn't it matter?"

Alyssa listened as Professor Elwood told them the types of wood most suitable for making the Ogham Staves. When the Professor handed out parchments to each them, she quickly took a look at it. 'Wow. There are so many types involved. I guess I'd better start looking for those trees.' Alyssa thought to herself.

She looked at the parchment before her.



She was really glad that the Professor had identified the trees for them because right now, every tree looked the same to her. Using the parchment as a guide, Alyssa walked among the trees. "Okay, this one is an Ash Tree and the other one over there a Rowan and the next one over a Holly. Guess I'll go get a twig from each of them."Alyssa said to herself.

Taking out her wand, she first went to the Ash Tree and looked for a low hanging branch. Reaching up to grab hold of it, Alyssa pointed her wand at it and said,"Diffindo". A beam shot out and neatly severed a small portion of the branch. Placing it safely in her back pack. She then repeated the same steps until she had a piece of twig from the Rowan and Holly tree as well. Alyssa placed them in her bag before looking for the other trees identified.

Nigel was a little confused about what to do. But he did know they had to take a piece off labeled trees and write it down on the parchment Professor Elwood gave them.

The answer to the question Kurumi asked made no sense to Nigel because he thought they were in divination or Ancient Runes. He still remembers have to give his own blood to make those ruins work. Even though it was cool, his figure hurt for the next couple days.

Okay he started to walk around and pick pieces off the trees an write them down. "Yew, Holly, Rowan".

He said as he checked them off as he went on to find more trees to identify,

Nerida felt pretty good so far this Divination class all of her answers had been correct, thanks to reading and stealing her parents' books. Oh yay! They would be able to make there own Ogham Staves. She took the paper the Professor had passed out and began to look over it. Oh look there was Oak her wand wood. She decided to began with the first couple woods. Looking down at her list once more she looked back up where was Birch. Seeing the label thing she skipped on over to the tree.

As she reached the Birch tree she tucked the parchment under her arm. It would be more easier when looking around for the thin branch just like the Professor had said to Spike. Seeing a perfect branch she stood on her tippy toes and grabbed onto the branch and snipped it off using Diffindo. Umm where did she put it at was she just supposed to carry all twenty branches. Hmm who knows. Looking down at the parchment once again the next tree was Rowan. Where was the Rowan tree? After making two entire circles, she found it. Walking over to the tree a branch caught her eye, but it was high up...She stood on her tipped toes and tried to reach the branch and than began to jump up to try and reach it. No use she just wasn't tall enough. Taking out her wand she pointed it at the branch and said "Diffindo.", the branch fell off the tree and into Nerida's waiting arms.

Onwards to the...taking a glance at her parchment....Onwards to the Alder tree...What was a Alder tree? She had never heard of such thing. Because of this it took Nerida a bit longer to find the Alder tree, but once she did she walked on over and began looking for a thin branch. After looking for a couple minutes she found a thin branch. Taking out her wand she did the spell she had done only a couple minutes ago, Diffindo.
Like before the branch fell into her hands.

Snapping off a small branch from the Heather tree, Kurumi turned her attention back to the professor when she began to answer her question. Wait, was the woman giving her an odd look? Kurumi should be the one giving her odd looks for taking them into the Forbidden Forest without feeling confident in defensive spells. The thought was almost enough for Kurumi to raise an eyebrow, but she refrained for now.

Still, connecting what they were doing today to Ancient Runes subconsciously made Kurumi take this all a little more seriously. Ironic.

Nodding at Professor Elwood, Kurumi wished that her hands were not preoccupied right now with carrying sticks so that she could take some notes, but she would just have to rely on her memory for the time being. "Interesting," Kurumi nodded, showing some genuine interest again. "Thank you, professor."

Now...back to collecting wood.

Clutching the Heather twig in her left hand, Kurumi continued to walk around and snapped off a few branches with her right hand from various trees. First came a small but sturdy looking Birch branch, and then a rather short and stubby Hawthorn twig, and finally a thick branch from the Rowan tree that she had to use Diffindo to remove. She couldn't help but giggle as she glanced down at her handout to see 'Lewis' written beside the word Rowan. Hmm...it made her wonder what Lewis' wand was made from. She should ask some time.

Returning to her bag for the moment, Kurumi dropped off her four pieces of wood to free her hands before continuing.

Now that Alyssa had Rowan, Ash and Holly in her bag, she went looking for the other trees that she needed a twig from. She looked at her parchment again and lightly lined out the ones she had with a pencil.



She looked for the next tree nearest to her and found that it was the Yew tree. That would represent the Ogham Stave Idad. Alyssa reached up and snapped off a twig from that before moving on to the next tree which was a Birch. She pulled down the lowest hanging branch and broke off a twig from that. Adding both twigs into her bag, she moved on to the next tree which she immediately recognized. It was a Fir Tree. Alyssa reached over and pulled of a twig from the tree twirling it in front of her nose. Also loved the smell of Fir.

Next she came across the Apple Tree. The tree had apples growing from its branches and Alyssa so wanted to grab one and bite into it but didn't dare, just in case the Professor saw her do it. So resisting the urge to do so, Alyssa just concentrated on breaking off a twig from the Apple tree and placed that together with the twig from the Fir tree into her bag.

Next she came across a majestic tree and Alyssa looked at the tag. The Elder tree. 'So this is the tree that an Elder wand was made from. Well not this tree, but a relative of it.' Alyssa thought to herself. Alyssa reached up high on tiptoes and her fingertips managed to brush a branch and she pulled it down before breaking a twig off from it. When she let go, the branch sprang up and Alyssa and to quickly step back to avoid getting slapped by it.

It was then that she wondered where the Bowtruckles were hiding. So far she hadn't seen any of them lurking around in the branches of the trees. She hoped that there weren't any in this group of trees, as she walked over next to the Alder tree. Admiring its thick trunk and tall branches, Alyssa reached up and broke off a twig before adding that together with the Elder branch into her bag. Then she walked on until she came to the Willow Tree. She reached and picked up one of its branches and broke off a twig from that.

Next to the Willow Tree sat an old Oak Tree. Its branches were thick and strong, so Alyssa took out her wand, and holding a piece of the twig with the other, severed the twig from the rest of the branch by saying, "Diffindo". Once she had the twig in her hand added that together with the twig of the Willow Tree into her bag.

She now had a couple of branches and so opened up her parchment again to line out those that she had collected.



Once she was done crossing out the twigs she had collected, Alyssa made her way to the next group of trees.

Taylor smiled as her guess was confirmed. She looked at her parchment. Tay had heard of most of them so she started for a group of trees.

SPOILER!!: parchment

- Birch (B) Beithe [Beginning, Renewal, Youth]
- Rowan (L) Lewis [Connection, Expression, Protection]
- Alder (F) Fern [Endurance, Strength, Passion]
- Willow (S) Sail [Imagination, Intuition, Vision]
- Ash (N) Nion [Connection, Wisdom, Surrender]
- Hawthorn (H) Hauth [Contradiction, Consequence, Relationships)
- Oak (D) Duir [Strength, Nobility, Stability]
- Holly (T) Tinne [Action, Assertion, Objectivity]
- Hazel (C) Coll [Creativity, Purity, Honesty)
- Apple (Q) Quert [Beauty, Love, Generosity]
- Vine (M) Muin [Introspection, Relaxation, Depth]
- Ivy (G) Gort [Determination, Change, Patience]
- Reed (NG) Ngetal [Harmony, Health, Growth]
- Blackthorn (STR) Straif [Discipline, Control, Perspective]
- Elder (R) Ruis [Transition, Evolution, Continuation]
- Fir (A) Alim [Clarity, Achievement, Energy]
- Gorse (O) Onn [Transmutation, Resourcefulness, Exposure]
- Heather (U) Urr [Dream, Romance, Feelings]
– Poplar (E) Edad [Victory, Transformation, Vision]
– Yew (I) Idad [Transference, Passage, Illusion]

She glanced around her and found a heather tree. Tay got a stick from there then went on to a Yew tree, getting a stick from there as well. Taylor smiled as she went to the fir tree and admired it as she took one from there as well. Tay frowned at all the dirt that was getting on her though despite loving nature, she was still a girly girl. She got some wood from an Elder tree then skipped to a Poplar tree. Taylor grimaced as it was hard to get a stick from that tree and smiled as she finally got one. Tay glided to a reed tree and snapped a twig off that. With each tree, she collected from, she say a small sorry despite feeling stupid since it was how she was raised, to respect nature.

Alyssa checked her parchment to see what were the remaining twigs she needed to collect



Alyssa next came across the Poplar tree, and reached up and broke off a twig from its branches. She then headed for the next tree that had been labelled Blackthorn. Reaching up, Alyssa pulled down a branch, snapped a twig off from it before letting the branch swing up. Holding the two twigs in her hand, she made her way to the next tree labelled nearby and saw that it had been labelled Gorse. She quickly but gently broke off a twig from its branches before putting that and the rest of the twigs she had collected into her backpack, adding them to those already in her bag.

Walking onwards, Alyssa arrived at the Hawthorn tree. She looked up and saw how far it stretched up in the sky. Reaching up on tiptoes, Alyssa managed to grab a branch with her fingertips and pull it down low enough for her to break off a twig from it. Release the branch, it sprang up to join its companions. Alyssa next walked over to the tree that was labelled, Heather and leaned over to pulled down a branch from which she broke off a twig.

Dropping the twigs she had collected into her bag, Alyssa looked at her list and realized that she only had to collect twigs from the Blackthorn and Hazel tree and then she would be done. So she looked around trying to find the last two trees.

Then she spotted them at the far end of the group of trees. She ran over to the Blackthorn and broke off a twig from it before walking over to the last tree on her list, the Hazel Tree. Alyssa looked around until she saw a branch that she could reach and got on her tiptoes and grabbed it with her fingers. Stretching as high as she could, she broke off a twig from the branch.

Now that she had the twigs of the Blackthorn and the Hazel Tree, Alyssa opened her bag and dropped them inside. Then she took her parchment and lined out what she had collected to make sure that she had not missed any out.



She noticed that she still had the Vine, Reed and Ivy to collect before she realized Professor Elwood had told them that she had some in the tins. Satisfied that she had collected all she could, Alyssa went back to where the Professor waited for them. She walked over to the tins where the Professor had placed them and reached in pulled out a twig from each of them. Vine, Reed and Ivy. Her list was now completed.

Wood lice....could there be any better lunch?!

This little Bowtruckle was having a nice little lunch when he had heard the scittering and scattering of the rest of his family about the tall things in the forest again, the soft-ones. The didn't have hard bark-like skin like the Bowtruckles, they were different and NOT supposed to be in these woods.

They had been known to come into the forest from time to time but there were a lot of them today and they were making lots of noise....

AND BREAKING THE TREES!!!

One Bowtruckle reached out and tried to scratch one girl (sweetpinkpixie) and his friend jumped out on the ground infront of another who was trying to attack his tree-home.

"Ra!! Raaa! Rit raaa!" The little guy jumped around and was poking his fingers in the air at the all the intruders.

Hoping that her wood wouldn't go rolling away, Kurumi passed by the three tins set out by Professor Elwood and made a mental note to herself not to panic that there were no trees labeled that way because, well, they had been provided with the materials. So that was, technically, three more down bringing her total up to seven.
Kurumi began to make her way towards another tree when she felt something suddenly scratch her leg softly. "Ouch..."

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Looking down Kurumi couldn't help but gasp at the Bowtruckle that was beginning to, or trying at least, to attack her leg. See, Professor Elwood, SHOULD have brought someone else with you. Kurumi somehow doubted that the woman knew how to deal with creatures too, seeing as she had insulted Theroes in front of students like that.

But not the point, there were Bowtruckles coming out of the woodwork - literally - which meant that one of their trees was nearby. Or all of them really seeing as they resided in trees used to make wands.

"Everyone, stop for a second," Kurumi called out. They were all going to upset the poor creatures if they just carried on like this. Ceasing all movement towards any trees, Kurumi instead knelt down so she wasn't towering over the creatures and glanced over at the professor. "Um...professor...did you happen to bring any wood lice or fairy eggs with you?"

Taylor paused in crossing out the trees that she had collected on her parchment when one of the prefects told everyone to stop. She looked about in confusion until she saw the bowtruckles. Tay's eyes grew and grimaced.

Jory checked the parchment and began his collection of the twigs. He decided to start with the yew tree. After locating it, broke a piece of the twig off the tree. Onto the next- Poplar.

The Badger went of in search of the tree ans soon located it. He stood on tiptoe and tugged at a particularly stubborn twig. He had no trouble finding the Heather tree, the labeling made it so much easier. He didn't have to reach so far to get a twig off this tree.

Jory was at the Gorse tree when he suddenly heard some weird noises. Looking around in alarm, he spotted some bowtruckles on the ground and one had just scratched Kurumi. "You okay?'' he called to her as he quickly snatched a gorse twig. But he paused after the Gryffindor prefect told them to stop what they were doing. He didn't mind since he did not fancy getting scratched.

Nerida had already began picking on a Willow branch and was on her tip toes when she heard Kurumi yell for everyone to stop moving. Eep she didnt want to move she might get "attacked" by one of the bowtruckles. Her legs began to wobble and she couldnt help it she moved and sure enough she felt a little scratch come on her leg. "Ouch, sorry Kurumi had to move..." She looked over at the Professor doubting she had any lice or fairy eggs, really the Professor should have brought a Professor that wasnt so afraid of creatures or knew how to deal with them, like Professor Williamson.

Sarah took the partchment she was given and listened to the Professor.

Sarah headed to the birch tree and snapped off a twig, she did the same at the Willow, Rowan and Ash trees. Snap, snap, she now had 4 twigs. She headed over to the Alder tree and began looking for a nice twig - SNAP! she got one, a fine branch/twig made of Alder wood. The next one was Hawthorn - she added that too to her collection.

He caught the parchment in his hand and poured over it. Yep Ravenclaw geeking out here mhmm. He spotted the woodtype he suggested plus the others types that was mentioned by the class, glancing up only when other students started standing up to move on to the next activity.

Oh right, wood collecting-- based on the guide. Awesome!

He took his parchment and neared the Professor again, smiling shyly as he hovered near the tins for the Ivy, Reed and Vine "Uh... I'll start collecting these Professor." he mumbled as he collected one of each, slipping them gently into his robes pocket.

He turned towards the closest set of trees and matched the label to the list on the parchment. Ok so there was Birch, and Rowan wasnt too far away. He neared the foot of the Birch tree and eyed the ground, bending over and eyeing the fallen twigs and branches until he found something still good enough for their use.

He did the same when he neared the Rowan tree, picking up and discarding the pieces on the forest floor until he was left with one. Then he heard someone-- Kurumi?-- calling out for everyone to stop



He turned towards the sound, those icy blues grew large in alarm as he realized the Forest creatures have made an appearance. They didnt like what they were doing did they? His eyes darted immediately to the Professor. What were they supposed to do now? does she need saving?

"Diffindo" Sarah heard someone say. Oh- that was the magical way of doing it - she headed over to the Oak tree that stood rather impressively "Diffindo" she said and twig broke off. She did the same at Holly and Hazel Tree. A big Apple tree faced her next. "Diffindo" she said and a twig came off. Blackthorn was next followed by Elder. She was about to head to the next tree when she heard Kurumi telling everyone to stop - so she did.

Eyes still on the bowtruckles that were clearly less than pleased with what was going on, Kurumi glanced over at Jory when he asked about her leg. "I'm fine," she smiled reassuringly. She had suffered far worse than the scratch from a bowtruckle in her six terms at Hogwarts. She threw Nerida a small smile as well, nothing wrong with moving it was more about physically removing things from the trees that Kurumi was concerned with.

....and apparently Sarah hadn't heard her ask people to hold for a moment and had continued to use the Severing Charm to remove branches from the trees. Oh Merlin...hopefully none of the bowtruckles decided to escalate their behavior and bite her fingers off. They could be vicious when they wanted to or when they felt threatened...and clearly they were at least feeling mildly threatened right now.

Vickers had the right idea, picking up sticks and fallen twigs off the ground...but Kurumi wasn't too sure that these forest dwelling creatures were going to take lightly to anything that they did now that they were out of their trees and making angry noises at them.

Which is why she looked towards Professor Elwood for the time being. So...about those wood lice or fairy eggs? "Or perhaps we should all pause gathering wood for the time being and collect wood lice ourselves? That way we could pair off or work on our own to distract them with the wood lice while we collect our remaining wood?"

So today they would be collecting branches? ...That's really the only reason they were in the forrest for? Wow! Less scary than Nessie thought it would be.

Now where to begin?

Renesmee eyed her parchment looking at all the different type of tree's they would need to collect from. She then looked up and looked at the labels on the tree. Birch was first up on her list and with that Nessie headed over to a tree and picked off a branch that looked big enough. She then went off to a tree labeled Rowan and did the same. This seemed pretty easy..or at least for now.

It was when Nessie had went over to the tree near Kurumi that everything started to go all chaotic. There were bowtruckles...bowtruckles that were beginning to attack this was not good.

The Hufflepuff froze in her place, she was too shocked to speak or move. She wanted to ask Kurumiu if she was alright, but the words just wouldn't come out of her mouth. She was in too much of a panic state and she could feel her head starting to feel heavy and dizzy. This was what usually happened before she fainted...which mean that it really wasn't good. Hopefully the dizziness would go away before something really bad happened.

The ground and everything became a little blurry around her and it took Nessie ever bit of concentration to stay standing.

Cassia nodded as the Professor explained about the kinds of wood. She held the parchment sent by Professor Elwood and read them fast. The first year got up and turned to the trees getting ready to collect as the Professor instructed. Cassia read the parchment again thoughtfully then headed to the first tree, "I guess this is Willow," She murmured as she snapped a tiny twig.

She walked to the nearest tree which is Ash according to the Parchment. Looking at her friends ,Cassia retrieved her wand from her pocket and pointed at a branch and said," Diffindo!" An average-sized twig fell to the ground. The Slytherin bent and pocketed it with the twig from the Willow tree.

Checking the list again, She headed towards another tree further to the left, "And that is Holy," She said to no one. Again she aimed her wand and, "Diffindo." And the twig fell into her out stretched hand.







As Cassia was heading to her fourth tree, she heard something other than her friends whispers and chats. She turned to find small creatures. And one of them tried to attack a student. The Gryffindor Prefect . Luckily the girl announced that she was fine. Wood lice?! Cassia heard once that some creatures in the forest nourish on it, "Does anyone knows what does it look like, the wood lice I mean?" The small first year asked as she stepped closer to her classmates. They probably should act or wait until Professor Elwood says something.