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The first Care of Magical Creatures lesson of the term is being held during the time of day that comes between afternoon and dinnertime. The skies are just beginning to darken, but only barely so. By definition, it's still daytime.
A makeshift classroom has been set up in the vicinity of the barn and sanctuary area. Benches are set in rows spread out before the new Care of Magical Creatures professor. Professor Barlow leans against her own makeshift desk, polishing off the last of an ice cream cone and awaiting the prompt arrival of her students.
OOC: The lesson will officially begin sometime this evening. The thread is open now for you to post your character arriving. It's up to you to decide whether or not your character should spend this time chatting, but just be aware that you never quite know how Barlow will react to that. Choose wisely and have fun!
"Excellent name," Peyton commented, "and I'm Professor Peyton Barlow." More ice cream? What did the students think she was, a house elf? "There is, but you'll have to get yourself in the Great Hall." She hadn't brought any to class.
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"If you haven't found a seat, find one now, please. Class is starting," she said. She didn't have a door to shut, but if she did, this would be shutting time. Anybody arriving after this point would be late. "Quieten down while you're at it. Class time isn't social hour, and I won't speak over you."
RAWR.
...and then she smiled. No, she wasn't a force to reckoned with, but she wasn't Little Miss Sunshine either. "My name is Professor Barlow. Thank you for welcoming me to the school, but I have to tell you that I, too, was once a student here. I'm a former Slytherin and of the class of 2068," she said. They could do the math. "Yes, you do get a chance to eat ice cream later, but no, I don't have any for you here." Again, she was no one's house elf. They could get their own ice cream. "There's more where my cone came from right in our very own Great Hall."
She propped herself up on the edge of her desk then looked out over the crowd. "I graduated from Wizarding University with a master's degree in magizoology. My specialization is ingredients harvesting." Yes, yes. The Care of Magical Creatures professor harvested ingredients, and she was pretty darn good at it, too. "Since university, I've worked at a harvesting center and reserve, where I took care of unicorns and mooncalves. I also harvested the hair from the unicorns to be used for wandmaking, and the dung from the mooncalves to be used by Herbologists and fertilizing companies."
"Now, which ingredients do you know of that can be harvested from a magical creature without doing any major harm to that creature?" she asked.
Of COURSE he name was excellent. Peyton was her father's middle name, so yeah, it was the greatest name in all of history. Wait...
No ice cream. WHAT. A. DISAPPOINTMENT. Peyton shrugged as if she was okay with that fact, but really, she wasn't. Though she was in a stellar mood, she wanted ice cream, and now that she's seen it she was CRAVING it. So the professor shared names, but not ice cream.
Was that even LEGAL?
Well, it should be, Peyton decided. Oh, boohoohoooo.
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Troy walked in he felt very excited yet a bit nervous. He spotted the Professor munching on that delicious ice cream cone:
I would do crazy things for that cone. MMMMMM ice cream... The young lion thought to himself as he waved at the Professor
"Good day, Professor." and marched to find a seat.
Locating a place to sit he didn't want to be alone so he placed his turtle backpack next to him to save a seat for his new found bff, Peyton.
Sitting next to Troy, Peyton watched as the professor began the lesson. She was still thinking about ice cream. But she'd get that right after the lesson was over. Eeeep!
Listening and nodding at what Professor Barlow said, Peyton beamed at her when she mentioned to have been a Slytherin. CoMC ruled by Slytherins, heck yeah! And then Barlow went ahead and mentioned ice cream, which got Peyton all excited. She would live off of ice cream if she could. Breakfast. Lunch. Dinner. Yep.
When the question was asked, Peyton's hand flew into the air, her bum perched at the edge of her seat, her fingers wiggling in the air. "Ashwinder eggs, there's those," she said, BEAMING at Professor Barlow.
Kace should of known it was vanilla ice cream but it was always polite to ask and seem interested.
He heard she wasn't sharing ice cream? Aww man he was really craving some. Maybe he would go to the great hall and get some after the lesson....
Then he heard the question the professor asked. He really had no idea. He was a first year after all. He heard all the other older students answering the question and they seemed legit so he went along with their answers.
Tora had to think about that one for a bit. Then she thought back to one of the first things about potions that she had learned. She raised her hand. "A Beozoar. Even if it has to be surgically removed, it can still be removed painlessly and unless it is something like a rock inside those birds and other animals that purposely eat them, it doesn't do anything for or against their digestive system." she said clearly. Even before she came to Hogwarts, Gram had taught her about beozoars. They were a basic ingredient in antidotes and it was just something one needed to know as a which or wizard.
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Jory thought. Eggs certainly would be one. All anyone had to do was to pick it up when it was ready. He raised his hand to give another answer, however. "Feathers, Professor. Like a Jobberknoll's. It would not hurt the animal too much.''
Sitting there in his cozy seat between Seeker Sir, and Miks Kaiden listened as the new Professor Lady introduced herself. Oh, she seemed interesting, and that seemed like a really cool job.
Something they could harvest without major damage? oh, well, that was tricky. You know, since he didn't know most of the creatures people were naming, or many ingredients. But skins, yeah, that would definitely harm a creature. Unless... HE raised his hand. "Ma'am? is there some sort of creature that sheds skin? because you could harvest that. Oh, and thought. Or you could harvest blood too. You know, like the doctors do, a syringe full, or if its a bigger creature it could be like donating blood. I mean, it would probably hurt a little, but no damage." Thought, he supposed that would depend on how much was needed.
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Minerva sat quietly until the lesson had started and the new professor introduced herself. Oh she was a former students well that seemed exciting to have another alumni be part of the staff. As she spoke of her education Minerva was very impressed. All of that sounded so interesting.
As she asked the first question Min thought about that. There were many things they could get ingredients from, but things that were harmless. "Professor, what about Unicorn's tail." It would be harmless to get it, you could just brush their tail out and some would fall without even pulling at it, but you would have to get the unicorn to stand still and Min wasn't sure that was something that people could do or not.
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Another Slytherin professor? Well obviously because Slytherin's are the best. Period.
An ingredient that wouldn't harm an animal when you harvested it? Hadn't Professor Barlow just mentioned one? And no one had said it yet? "Mooncalf dung." For the same reasons it wouldn't harm a doxy.
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Then the class had started. Christina needed to remember this Professor's name since she wasn't good in memorizing people's names. Professor Peyton Barlow. Another Slytherin alumna, now she felt proud being a Slytherin. Not because her father was also one of them but the other alumni were awesome too.
Okay, back to the lesson! Things that they could harvest from the creature without doing any harm. Hmm.. "How about.. phoenix tears and hippogriff dung, Professor?" She spoke as she raised her hand. Because to get the dung and tears you didn't need to kill them, right?
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"Now, which ingredients do you know of that can be harvested from a magical creature without doing any major harm to that creature?" she asked.
That was a good question.
Theo's face went blank for a few seconds as other students started throwing answers all over the place. They went straight through him, though, and the Slytherin couldn't think of one example, so he went with a safe answer. He put up his hand lazily.
"Some creatures have poop that can be used." And that certainly didn't cause them any harm.
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Hearing that Professor Barlow was a former Slytherin, Kat was filled with house pride. It was awesome to have former Hogwarts students sorted into Slytherin teach a class. The prefect was sure to pay attention to this class attentively and participate a lot. House points you know, and to make Slytherin proud. Her first name was Peyton, as she heard when she was speaking to Kat's ickle, who was Peyton too.
Err... yeah.
Ingredients that don't cause major harm to the creatures. Hmm, that was interesting. While Kat was listening to the other students share their answer, she was thinking of one too. They were all taking away her answers and stuff. Kat raised her hand. "Doxy eggs." It doesn't harm. Mhm.
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"If you haven't found a seat, find one now, please. Class is starting," she said. She didn't have a door to shut, but if she did, this would be shutting time. Anybody arriving after this point would be late. "Quieten down while you're at it. Class time isn't social hour, and I won't speak over you."
RAWR.
...and then she smiled. No, she wasn't a force to reckoned with, but she wasn't Little Miss Sunshine either. "My name is Professor Barlow. Thank you for welcoming me to the school, but I have to tell you that I, too, was once a student here. I'm a former Slytherin and of the class of 2068," she said. They could do the math. "Yes, you do get a chance to eat ice cream later, but no, I don't have any for you here." Again, she was no one's house elf. They could get their own ice cream. "There's more where my cone came from right in our very own Great Hall."
She propped herself up on the edge of her desk then looked out over the crowd. "I graduated from Wizarding University with a master's degree in magizoology. My specialization is ingredients harvesting." Yes, yes. The Care of Magical Creatures professor harvested ingredients, and she was pretty darn good at it, too. "Since university, I've worked at a harvesting center and reserve, where I took care of unicorns and mooncalves. I also harvested the hair from the unicorns to be used for wandmaking, and the dung from the mooncalves to be used by Herbologists and fertilizing companies."
"Now, which ingredients do you know of that can be harvested from a magical creature without doing any major harm to that creature?" she asked.
Professor Barlow, a really really pretty professor with some awesome taste in ice cream-- that btw, Juliet will totally have after this class at the great hall. Juliet listened as the professor did her introduction. A smirk formed on her lips the moment she heard that the professor was a former Slytherin. YEAH! She's one of them. Juliet's already liking her at the moment.
And then it starts.... her first question. Juliet looked at the professor, still sort of speechless. She should have talked some more. Hmmm, harvesting without doing any too much damage from the creature. Juliet raised her hand, she's not quite sure with her answer but it's worth a try? She's not even sure if it is a real answer. "Anything excreted from a creature?" she said "like dragon dung "
Laura looked at the professor and smiled as she raised her hand. "Well the obvious choice would be Dragon dung because it doesn't hurt the animal and it is used as a fertiliser." Laura was sure that it would smell bad but well if they wanted to use it as a fertiliser she wouldn't stop them.
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Hot professor was hot! And she had been eating ice cream in class. How lovable was that? Very, in Richard Turner's opinion. Plus she was a Slytherin then he had no doubt that she was as smart as she was hot. As she spoke, Rich just stared at the woman ignoring everyone else in the class. They were not worth his attention right now anyway. And in a class a good student only paid attention to the professor, right? True thing. Rich wanted to be a good student now.
With a slight smirk on his face, he stared at the woman. Professor Barlow. Yeah...this Slytherin would be definitely up to eating an ice cream cone in the Great Hall if she wanted to join him as well. *grin*
Whatever...he decided to pay attention to the question she asked now.
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Completely missing the raised eyebrow from the Professor, The Slytherin went to sit at a bench and grabbed his notebook out together with his quill to write down notes. When class began, he looked up at the new Professor , cheeks still a little red.
She was a SLYTHERIN?! O_________o oh yeah! Pretty Professor was a Snake! The house of awesomeness! This meant that she was even more cooler despite that this is the first time he had actually ...met her but whatever.
But SLYTHERIN! thats sooooo awesome and...wait...what?
Daichi shook his head when he realized he had totally MISSED the question. Scratching the back of his neck, he looked at his classmates when they answered one by one. "Huh?" he said out loud though of course to himself. ARGH! he needed to pay attention now!
"If you haven't found a seat, find one now, please. Class is starting," she said. She didn't have a door to shut, but if she did, this would be shutting time. Anybody arriving after this point would be late. "Quieten down while you're at it. Class time isn't social hour, and I won't speak over you."
RAWR.
...and then she smiled. No, she wasn't a force to reckoned with, but she wasn't Little Miss Sunshine either. "My name is Professor Barlow. Thank you for welcoming me to the school, but I have to tell you that I, too, was once a student here. I'm a former Slytherin and of the class of 2068," she said. They could do the math. "Yes, you do get a chance to eat ice cream later, but no, I don't have any for you here." Again, she was no one's house elf. They could get their own ice cream. "There's more where my cone came from right in our very own Great Hall."
She propped herself up on the edge of her desk then looked out over the crowd. "I graduated from Wizarding University with a master's degree in magizoology. My specialization is ingredients harvesting." Yes, yes. The Care of Magical Creatures professor harvested ingredients, and she was pretty darn good at it, too. "Since university, I've worked at a harvesting center and reserve, where I took care of unicorns and mooncalves. I also harvested the hair from the unicorns to be used for wandmaking, and the dung from the mooncalves to be used by Herbologists and fertilizing companies."
"Now, which ingredients do you know of that can be harvested from a magical creature without doing any major harm to that creature?" she asked.
Nodding to the professor the young girl wondered what she would do now, the professor was new to this school and she was sure that the professor would teach in a different way than her former teacher, she now was curious if this was a good thing or not.
Sonea learned that her name was professor Barlow and… Sonea sat immediately upright now that she knew that her teacher was a old Slytherin! This was good, she now hoped that professor Barlow would favor the Slytherin students, but Sonea was not sure if that was going to happen… Sonea tried to listen to all the things what the professor was telling the class but she couldn’t keep her attention to the class, if she was honest she wasn’t really interested in professor Barlow’s story and what she had learned or not, but she kept silent and pretended to be listening.
But… she was too late to realize that it was not a good idea to not listen to the professor because she had asked a question to the class and she hasn’t heard it! Sonea shifted uneasy in her seat and kept silent, she hoped that somebody else would answer the question correct so that she could make her notes.
what can they take from what without harming huh!? yeah Ariana was NO genius when it came to CoMC.. clearly.. it was possibly her Worst subject. not that she didn't care about magical creatures but she just didn't understand half of it, and she didn't know why really. it was hard.. She looked around really confused and just really didn't know. but that's why she was here right? to learn about things she did not know. She hoped taking notes were okay as she began writing down what some people we're saying weather they were right or not. she would cross them out if they we're wrong and figure it out..
Susan listened to the professor as she started giving her background. She sounds really smart and knows what she is doing. Susan felt a little intimidated by the professor, she didn't want to sound stupid in front of the professor.
Susan thought about different things that could be harvested from magical creatures without harming them. Susan's favorite was the Phoenix and she knew you could use their feathers to make wands so it must not hurt them, well she hoped it wouldn't hurt them. Susan frowned at this thought. "Umm...what about Phoenix feathers professor?" Susan didn't think anybody said that yet.
Sarah thought it was strange that a COMC teacher would be an expert at harvesting things, as it was like apoacher working as a ranger. Maybe she and Lafy would get along well.
She had thought of lots of other answers to the question, yet as the other studnets answered they kept on taking her answer so she had to think of another one.
"how about Porcupine quills? porcupines are always regenerating them and all." Sarah said upon raising her hand. She was wondering if fingernails were ever used, that would be interesting.
Slytherin. That word right there made Ness not too happy, but then not all of them were bad right? Maybe this Professor was one of the better ones, one of the more relaxed ones? Nessie would give her try, like most people said it wasn't fair to judge a book by it's cover if that even made sense in this current situation.
Anyways, question. What to answer it with? Pout. Pout. Pout.
Ohh maybe a fairy, because people used their lights? Noo, but that wasn't really harvesting. Or maybe it would be counted? She pouted some more and tried to think of back up as she raised her hand. "Professor I would say we could harvest a fairies light? But that doesn't really make sense so I'm going to say maybe a pygmy puffs fur with scissors? Because Puffles was what came to her mind as back up and that made sense, yeah?
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Carsyn thought long and hard. At first, everything that came to mind involved the parts of dead animals, which didn't qualify as not hurting the original creature. But then she remembered one and offered it aloud (though admittedly not very loudly, as Carsyn had the quietest of voices),"The secretions of bundimuns, Professor? "
Way to raise your hand, kid. At least she was quiet about it. "Yes, that's right," Peyton offered.
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Well, now that was an introduction. Nigel still wanted some ice cream though. And some Pie but that could wait. He did hear that one hufflepuff made some awesome pies. He did not want to do the math. But he did get the summary of her introduction/speech.
"Well, the the horn and tail hair of a unicorn"
Nigel knew they were used in potions. It must be because they do no harm to the unicorn.
"Hmm. I'm on the fence with the unicorn horn," she said, meaning she wasn't exactly sure if she agreed that it wouldn't harm the unicorn, "but the tail hair is a good idea."
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Er...that wasn't exactly what she meant when she'd ask. Hadn't the Professor thought to bring enough for everyone? It would have been a wonderful starting gift to get everyone enthused about the lesson--really she just wanted ice-cream. Dinner wasn't until after this lesson was over and she didn't think she was allowed to eat in this class.
Ah well.
She settled more comfortably into her seat and listened to the woman talk about herself. This was good. She could do this, no problem. It wasn't like she as still bouncing a little in her seat. What ever anyone that accurate idea. She just had a bit of extra energy that needed burning off.
Oh! Oh! Oh!
Question!!!--Question she didn't know the answer to. Yeah. She got those a lot. She did have a question of her own though. "Professor, seeing as you stressed the whole not harming the creatures bit it means there are ingredients that hurt when you take them too, right. Can I have an example of one of those?" She knew of one, maybe, thanks to the now graduated Slytherin perfect, Sierra. Kneazle whiskers, ugh.
Peyton turned her gaze to Cambridge but didn't offer any insight for a moment or two. She'd asked a question, not expected one in return. She answered anyway, though. "Your classmates seem to be on the thought process of a unicorn, so I'll offer that as an example. Unicorn blood. The creatures are slain for it, and as history teaches us, that comes with terrible consequences," she said.
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Anya thought for a few seconds. A potion ingredient that didn't do major harm? Why did the only things that come to mind involve... blood... or innards?
"Boomslang skin." she said after raising her hand. Snakes shed skin all on their own.
"That's right," Peyton agreed.
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Eliza blushed deeply at the comment Professor Barlow made about not talking in class as she was sure it had been meant for herself and her friends. She didn't think it was that distracting since they were outdoors and class hadn't started, and she'd tried to wrap up their pleasantries as quickly as possible, but now she saw it hadn't been quiet quickly enough. She felt her breath stick in her chest as she worried about losing points for it. Shoot...just...agh. She tried to move past it though and raised her hand to answer the question.
"Wouldn't removed phoenix feathers be harmless, since they molt some before they ignite?" She thought they did anyway. She gave an apologetic look to Beezus, still blushing about the chatting before class.
"I don't see an issue with that," Peyton said with a nod.
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"How about the horn of a Bicorn, since they shed those annually?" Alice's hand shot up as quickly as she could get it to, so no one could call out one of the answers that had popped into her mind already. She could think of a few more off the top of her head, but she stopped naming them and quieted down. And started paying more attention to Lex, because she was asking fantastic questions as well.
And she knew the answer to that one, too! Could Alice respond to it even though Professor Barlow wasn't the one who had asked? No? Okay. Well. Lady was an expert on magizoology or whatever. She'd have good examples for sure. The fifth year was waiting for them.
"Yes, that's a good idea," Peyton said.
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Professor Barlow...That was Edric's last name, wasn't it? Ella tilted her head and observed the professor carefully, trying to find some resemblance. After a minute or two the small blonde determined that the woman was not nearly ogre-ish enough to be related to her big best brother!friend. ...Even if she did sort of have the same snappy attitude it seemed.
The whole working with unicorns and mooncalves thing, that was interesting. Ella's curiosity was peaked instantly and she had questions, lots of them. She'd need to hold them for later though as she had one to answer now. Ingredients harvested without harming the creature? Hm.
"Jobberknoll, peacock, and owl feathers are known ingredients and one wouldn't necessarily cause major harm to those creatures when harvesting them."
"That's exactly right," Peyton said. At least they'd stopped suggesting unicorn horns for the time being. Peyton was rather partial to the creature and would rather their horns just be left right where they were.
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West absorbed all of this with interest. All of the interest.Things about the new professor... would they be tested on them? She was a Slytherin TOO? Cool.
Oh question. West had to think for a second before volunteering an answer, hand raised. "Flobberworm Mucus, because they excrete it naturally." Not a particularly exciting answer, but still a true one right?
"Ahh, flobberworm mucus, one of the simplest ingredients to obtain. Yet, oddly one of the most used," she said with a nod.
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Now this was a lesson Mo could get behind. Not only talking about animals, but talking about NOT HURTING animals. In fact, it was sort of thoughtful on behalf of trying to get what they needed for magical purposes without causing any harm to the creature in question. That was pretty responsible living, as far as Mo was concerned.
Plus the professor was pretty in an entirely different way than Professor Pretty was. Professor Other Pretty. He raised his hand. "Acromantula venom, Professor, only I wouldn't really recommend people harvesting that willy nilly. They have great huge teeth and a lot of excessive anger when it comes to their meals running away. And by meals, I mean the people trying to harvest their venom."
Peyton grinned at this one. "No, not every harvesting is as easy as obtaining flobberworm mucus," she said, nodding. "...but you're right--acromantula venom."
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STARE.
Dylan hadn't said hello...and there had been reasons.
The new Care of Magical Creatures Professor was massively hot. Like...perhaps even hotter than Professor Bentley...and the Slytherin was kinda just staring at her face. Also, she'd been a Slytherin. Beautiful and dangerous, obviously.
Rawr, indeed.
Clearing his throat, he offered a genuinely bright smile and raised his hand, all polite-like. "Dragon blood, ma'am? Surely you could just put them to sleep and take vials."
What was it with these children and their obnoxious stares? Peyton stared back for a moment then answered--"So as long as you don't take too much...or get yourself fatally injured in the process."
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There was ICE CREAM in the GREAT HALL?!
Tobias would be getting in on that later tonight for sure.
After listening to the Professor introduce herself using a lot of long words that Tobias didn't understand, the young Hufflepuff leaned forwards eeeeeever so slightly as a way of somehow getting himself to pay attention better. At the question, he raised his hand. He didn't know a lot (read: anything) about magical ingredients, but he had one theory.
"Professor, for some ingredients, like... I dunno... feathers and stuff, is it possible with anything that you can somehow ask the animal's permission to take it? Like, you know how you can bow to a Hippogriff and they will allow you to get close to it and stuff? Something like that but harvesting stuff from them instead? And then maybe the stuff you harvest could have better properties?" Tobias lowered his hand. He may have been hyper and stuff and seemed like a bit of an annoyance to have in class, but he had been well educated in the past and this had led him to be as inquisitive as possible. And it kind of related to the question. At any rate, it would help him think of more answers.
What a Hufflepuff, Peyton mentally thought to herself.
Nevertheless, some good children came from that house. "I'll be honest with you and admit that I've never see it practiced, but that doesn't mean it can't start somewhere with someone. After all, someone had to invent all our charms and potions we use, didn't they?" she responded.
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Haruka thought for a moment. It was a bit tough to think of anything that didn't involved hurting the creature, and what she did think of was mentioned immediately. "How about Threstral hair, ma'am?" Haruka finally said. "It could be harvested just like the Unicorn hair you mentioned earlier."
"It would be sort of difficult," Peyton said. "After all, you can only see the creature if you've witnessed death, and even then, their bodies are extremely skeletal. However, harvesting hair is typically non-dangerous." That is to say, unless a creature needed to be put down in order for the hair to be obtained.
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The teacher mentioned unicorns several times. An Tag's mind began to wander when he heard the word. He started to wiggle around in his seat and smiled like an idiot just at the mention of the creature. It was his favorite creature.
"The horn of a uni-corn?" Tag spoke up quietly, slowly and uncertainly. He didn't like saying that cause it sounded as if he were suggesting for people to go after 'his kind' even though, hopefully, it would not hurt the unicorn.
Another answer leading to the harvesting of a unicorn horn. Peyton inwardly winced. "It wouldn't hurt the unicorn, no, but I'm sure the creature would miss the things it's able to do with that horn, don't you think?" she offered.
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Phew!
It seemed like she had made it to class right on time. Rhodes quickly shook her shoes from off her hands and threw them to the ground by her feet while the Professor began to talk about.. things she really didn't care about. She didn't think she was going to have to know when the woman graduated Hogwarts, or what she did after. Hearing all that information just made her want to ask a few questions, but then those answers would just want to make her ask more questions and the Professor didn't look like the type who would want to be bombarded with questions.
Besides, they were the ones being asked the questions, and Rhodes shot her hand straight into the air. Too bad she didn't leave the shoe there. She probably would have been noticed faster. "Harvesting a creature's eggs wouldn't harm it."
Having the creature lay the eggs, however, that was a whole other story.
"You're exactly on the right track," she said with a grin.
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Michael was sure that both his parents had told him about creatures and what their uses were but he could not remember what they were. Okay he could remember one but he had no idea if it had any use, he just liked saying the name. It made him laugh. He raised his hand in the air. "I think you can harvest something from a Glumbumble."
Haha! Yeah it still made him laugh when he said it.
Also, we see you Rhodes and your shoes. He would get her back later for that.
Peytn followed the gazes exchanged between the girl she'd just spoken to and this Gryffindor across the way. Young love. Psh.
"You're right," she said in reply.
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This class was one that she immediately liked. Really, a Professor with a side of spunk and someone who knew how to harvest things from creatures without hurting them. That was definitely a plus. Her mum would approve of her she knew this immediately.
However, listening to the other student's response's she felt her stomach knot in despair. Had someone really just said that harvesting a unicorn's horn wasn't going to harm the soon-to-be defenseless creature. Her idea of harmless was more a hair here, a toe nail clipping there - nothing that could cause a creature excruciating (or even dull) pain. Pain wasn't something she liked doling out.
Unless, well, unless it was justified. Raising her hand she just smiled, and raised her voice. "Professor I believe since Boomslangs are snakes and snakes shed their skins - a Boomslang wouldn't be harmed in the collection of its discarded skins." Really, discarding things like that did come in handy especially because it was a main ingredient in Polyjuice potion.
"Discarded skin certainly wouldn't cause harm to a creature," she said with a nod.
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"Nah, it's okay." She shrugged at Tora when the girl began apologizing. "And I'm not blaming any of you." She patted Eliza's back too because the girl looked as though she could really use it, having that kind of apologetic expression and all.
Really though. Hush now eaglettes...
The Professor was taking the floor.
....Introductions and all that.
And then the first question was thrown about. Beezus of course, raised her hand up and waited when it was her turn to speak. Ingredients that can be harvested that won't bring forth any harm to the creature. She knew one or two....aside from all those already said. "Doxy droppings, Professor. " Did it even need an explanation why it wasn't harmful to the doxies?
"That's right," she said with a nod.
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This was simple enough for Nate. He basically spent his entire summer studying for the OWLs that he would have to take this year. He could not fail! If he did his older brother would ring out his neck.....like a wet rag.....that's been used to dry everything in the great hall.....that was underwater in the Black Lake. He knew that the ingredient he was about to say is extremely hard to harvest, but it was a still an ingredient. The Professor never specified that it HADto be a COMMON ingredient. So he raised his hand like the others and simply stated "I know this is a very hard ingredient to harvest, or buy, but Phoenix Tears are an ingredient that doesn't affect the Phoenix." Tis true.
"You're right on both accounts," she said--stating that they were difficult to obtain and that they wouldn't harm the creature.
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Barlow? The young blond looked quizzically at the Professor before checking her schedule again... and then realized that she’s been staring at the Professor’s first name. “I—I’m sorry Professor Barlow.” She mumbled squeaked as she turned the shade of a strawberry and huddled down to take her seat... preferably somewhere off to the side and away from the woman’s line of sight, at least at first glance.
And goodness this one harvest creature parts... alas for this young one to think of that occupation as something that means dismembering the creature.
There was a question... well at least it that sounded a bit kinder. She raised her hand hesitantly mostly because she wanted to answer it but not be stared at as the student to screw up a name “Uhm... Streelers secrete venom when they move, that gets collected and is used to deal with Horklump infestation.”
"Very good," Peyton agreed.
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Kommoto listened to everyone shout out answers. He had no idea. He tried to hear what people were discussing, to see if he could pick up an answer that way. No luck. Well, there was only one thing to do. He sat down and let others answer this one for him. there would be other questions he could answer. He could wait.
First years... At least this one looked like he was paying attention.
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Of COURSE he name was excellent. Peyton was her father's middle name, so yeah, it was the greatest name in all of history. Wait...
No ice cream. WHAT. A. DISAPPOINTMENT. Peyton shrugged as if she was okay with that fact, but really, she wasn't. Though she was in a stellar mood, she wanted ice cream, and now that she's seen it she was CRAVING it. So the professor shared names, but not ice cream.
Was that even LEGAL?
Well, it should be, Peyton decided. Oh, boohoohoooo.
Sitting next to Troy, Peyton watched as the professor began the lesson. She was still thinking about ice cream. But she'd get that right after the lesson was over. Eeeep!
Listening and nodding at what Professor Barlow said, Peyton beamed at her when she mentioned to have been a Slytherin. CoMC ruled by Slytherins, heck yeah! And then Barlow went ahead and mentioned ice cream, which got Peyton all excited. She would live off of ice cream if she could. Breakfast. Lunch. Dinner. Yep.
When the question was asked, Peyton's hand flew into the air, her bum perched at the edge of her seat, her fingers wiggling in the air. "Ashwinder eggs, there's those," she said, BEAMING at Professor Barlow.
"Now you are definitely on the right track," Peyton said--to Peyton.
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Kace should of known it was vanilla ice cream but it was always polite to ask and seem interested.
He heard she wasn't sharing ice cream? Aww man he was really craving some. Maybe he would go to the great hall and get some after the lesson....
Then he heard the question the professor asked. He really had no idea. He was a first year after all. He heard all the other older students answering the question and they seemed legit so he went along with their answers.
Peyton's gaze traveled over the Hufflepuff, and she waited for an answer for a moment before realizing one would never come. Again, at least he was paying attention. Or...looked to be anyway.
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Tora had to think about that one for a bit. Then she thought back to one of the first things about potions that she had learned. She raised her hand. "A Beozoar. Even if it has to be surgically removed, it can still be removed painlessly and unless it is something like a rock inside those birds and other animals that purposely eat them, it doesn't do anything for or against their digestive system." she said clearly. Even before she came to Hogwarts, Gram had taught her about beozoars. They were a basic ingredient in antidotes and it was just something one needed to know as a which or wizard.
"Hmm, I suppose that could be true," Peyton thoughtfully said.
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Jory thought. Eggs certainly would be one. All anyone had to do was to pick it up when it was ready. He raised his hand to give another answer, however. "Feathers, Professor. Like a Jobberknoll's. It would not hurt the animal too much.''
"Yes," Peyton agreed with a nod.
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Sitting there in his cozy seat between Seeker Sir, and Miks Kaiden listened as the new Professor Lady introduced herself. Oh, she seemed interesting, and that seemed like a really cool job.
Something they could harvest without major damage? oh, well, that was tricky. You know, since he didn't know most of the creatures people were naming, or many ingredients. But skins, yeah, that would definitely harm a creature. Unless... HE raised his hand. "Ma'am? is there some sort of creature that sheds skin? because you could harvest that. Oh, and thought. Or you could harvest blood too. You know, like the doctors do, a syringe full, or if its a bigger creature it could be like donating blood. I mean, it would probably hurt a little, but no damage." Thought, he supposed that would depend on how much was needed.
"Snakes, and those of the snake family," Peyton answered. "...and you're right."
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Minerva sat quietly until the lesson had started and the new professor introduced herself. Oh she was a former students well that seemed exciting to have another alumni be part of the staff. As she spoke of her education Minerva was very impressed. All of that sounded so interesting.
As she asked the first question Min thought about that. There were many things they could get ingredients from, but things that were harmless. "Professor, what about Unicorn's tail." It would be harmless to get it, you could just brush their tail out and some would fall without even pulling at it, but you would have to get the unicorn to stand still and Min wasn't sure that was something that people could do or not.
"That's right," Peyton agreed.
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Another Slytherin professor? Well obviously because Slytherin's are the best. Period.
An ingredient that wouldn't harm an animal when you harvested it? Hadn't Professor Barlow just mentioned one? And no one had said it yet? "Mooncalf dung." For the same reasons it wouldn't harm a doxy.
Mooncalf dung...that reminded Peyton of the Center she used to work at, and she smiled. "That's exactly right," she said.
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Then the class had started. Christina needed to remember this Professor's name since she wasn't good in memorizing people's names. Professor Peyton Barlow. Another Slytherin alumna, now she felt proud being a Slytherin. Not because her father was also one of them but the other alumni were awesome too.
Okay, back to the lesson! Things that they could harvest from the creature without doing any harm. Hmm.. "How about.. phoenix tears and hippogriff dung, Professor?" She spoke as she raised her hand. Because to get the dung and tears you didn't need to kill them, right?
"Both are correct," Peyton agreed.
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That was a good question.
Theo's face went blank for a few seconds as other students started throwing answers all over the place. They went straight through him, though, and the Slytherin couldn't think of one example, so he went with a safe answer. He put up his hand lazily.
"Some creatures have poop that can be used." And that certainly didn't cause them any harm.
Poop? Oh, wait--this was the kid studying his fingernails earlier... "Dung, yes," Peyton said.
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SLYTHERIN.
Hearing that Professor Barlow was a former Slytherin, Kat was filled with house pride. It was awesome to have former Hogwarts students sorted into Slytherin teach a class. The prefect was sure to pay attention to this class attentively and participate a lot. House points you know, and to make Slytherin proud. Her first name was Peyton, as she heard when she was speaking to Kat's ickle, who was Peyton too.
Err... yeah.
Ingredients that don't cause major harm to the creatures. Hmm, that was interesting. While Kat was listening to the other students share their answer, she was thinking of one too. They were all taking away her answers and stuff. Kat raised her hand. "Doxy eggs." It doesn't harm. Mhm.
"That's right," Peyton said, "and you're on the right track, too."
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Professor Barlow, a really really pretty professor with some awesome taste in ice cream-- that btw, Juliet will totally have after this class at the great hall. Juliet listened as the professor did her introduction. A smirk formed on her lips the moment she heard that the professor was a former Slytherin. YEAH! She's one of them. Juliet's already liking her at the moment.
And then it starts.... her first question. Juliet looked at the professor, still sort of speechless. She should have talked some more. Hmmm, harvesting without doing any too much damage from the creature. Juliet raised her hand, she's not quite sure with her answer but it's worth a try? She's not even sure if it is a real answer. "Anything excreted from a creature?" she said "like dragon dung "
"Yes," Peyton said, "that's right."
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Laura looked at the professor and smiled as she raised her hand. "Well the obvious choice would be Dragon dung because it doesn't hurt the animal and it is used as a fertiliser." Laura was sure that it would smell bad but well if they wanted to use it as a fertiliser she wouldn't stop them.
"You're exactly right," Peyton said with a nod.
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Good Merlin!
Hot professor was hot! And she had been eating ice cream in class. How lovable was that? Very, in Richard Turner's opinion. Plus she was a Slytherin then he had no doubt that she was as smart as she was hot. As she spoke, Rich just stared at the woman ignoring everyone else in the class. They were not worth his attention right now anyway. And in a class a good student only paid attention to the professor, right? True thing. Rich wanted to be a good student now.
With a slight smirk on his face, he stared at the woman. Professor Barlow. Yeah...this Slytherin would be definitely up to eating an ice cream cone in the Great Hall if she wanted to join him as well. *grin*
Whatever...he decided to pay attention to the question she asked now.
''Lobalug venom''
"Yes, that wouldn't harm the Lobalug," Peyton agreed. His little smirk didn't pass her by either. He was up to something, she was sure. She should know. She was a Slytherin, as well. There was always something behind the smirk of a Slytherin.
...and to show that she wasn't bothered by it at all, she smirked in return before looking away.
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Completely missing the raised eyebrow from the Professor, The Slytherin went to sit at a bench and grabbed his notebook out together with his quill to write down notes. When class began, he looked up at the new Professor , cheeks still a little red.
She was a SLYTHERIN?! O_________o oh yeah! Pretty Professor was a Snake! The house of awesomeness! This meant that she was even more cooler despite that this is the first time he had actually ...met her but whatever.
But SLYTHERIN! thats sooooo awesome and...wait...what?
Daichi shook his head when he realized he had totally MISSED the question. Scratching the back of his neck, he looked at his classmates when they answered one by one. "Huh?" he said out loud though of course to himself. ARGH! he needed to pay attention now!
"Pay attention," Peyton said, turning toward the boy. The Slytherin prefect, at that. She expected so much more.
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Nodding to the professor the young girl wondered what she would do now, the professor was new to this school and she was sure that the professor would teach in a different way than her former teacher, she now was curious if this was a good thing or not.
Sonea learned that her name was professor Barlow and… Sonea sat immediately upright now that she knew that her teacher was a old Slytherin! This was good, she now hoped that professor Barlow would favor the Slytherin students, but Sonea was not sure if that was going to happen… Sonea tried to listen to all the things what the professor was telling the class but she couldn’t keep her attention to the class, if she was honest she wasn’t really interested in professor Barlow’s story and what she had learned or not, but she kept silent and pretended to be listening.
But… she was too late to realize that it was not a good idea to not listen to the professor because she had asked a question to the class and she hasn’t heard it! Sonea shifted uneasy in her seat and kept silent, she hoped that somebody else would answer the question correct so that she could make her notes.
Peyton's expression dropped to one of unamusement. Two Slytherins in a row who'd completely blanked out. Who was their Head of House anyway?
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what can they take from what without harming huh!? yeah Ariana was NO genius when it came to CoMC.. clearly.. it was possibly her Worst subject. not that she didn't care about magical creatures but she just didn't understand half of it, and she didn't know why really. it was hard.. She looked around really confused and just really didn't know. but that's why she was here right? to learn about things she did not know. She hoped taking notes were okay as she began writing down what some people we're saying weather they were right or not. she would cross them out if they we're wrong and figure it out..
Learning.. that's what she was Clearly doing...
Scratch that. Make that three silent Slytherins in a row. Psh. At least this one was taking notes...
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Susan listened to the professor as she started giving her background. She sounds really smart and knows what she is doing. Susan felt a little intimidated by the professor, she didn't want to sound stupid in front of the professor.
Susan thought about different things that could be harvested from magical creatures without harming them. Susan's favorite was the Phoenix and she knew you could use their feathers to make wands so it must not hurt them, well she hoped it wouldn't hurt them. Susan frowned at this thought. "Umm...what about Phoenix feathers professor?" Susan didn't think anybody said that yet.
At least the Hufflepuffs knew how to speak up... "That's correct," Peyton responded.
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Sarah thought it was strange that a COMC teacher would be an expert at harvesting things, as it was like apoacher working as a ranger. Maybe she and Lafy would get along well.
She had thought of lots of other answers to the question, yet as the other studnets answered they kept on taking her answer so she had to think of another one.
"how about Porcupine quills? porcupines are always regenerating them and all." Sarah said upon raising her hand. She was wondering if fingernails were ever used, that would be interesting.
"If you can manage to collect them without harming yourself," Peyton said with a nod.
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Slytherin. That word right there made Ness not too happy, but then not all of them were bad right? Maybe this Professor was one of the better ones, one of the more relaxed ones? Nessie would give her try, like most people said it wasn't fair to judge a book by it's cover if that even made sense in this current situation.
Anyways, question. What to answer it with? Pout. Pout. Pout.
Ohh maybe a fairy, because people used their lights? Noo, but that wasn't really harvesting. Or maybe it would be counted? She pouted some more and tried to think of back up as she raised her hand. "Professor I would say we could harvest a fairies light? But that doesn't really make sense so I'm going to say maybe a pygmy puffs fur with scissors? Because Puffles was what came to her mind as back up and that made sense, yeah?
Scissors? What a Muggle...
"Yes, we could harvest the hair of a pygmy puff," she said. Although what she'd use it for was beyond Peyton.
"Good, good. I'm glad we're all on the same page, pretty much, with what we can harvest without harming the creature we are harvesting from," she said. She raised her hand, and in it was a small, frozen egg. "Eggs are the focus of our harvesting today, particularly the eggs harvested from an Ashwinder. In today's class, we're going to produce Ashwinders from fire and then collect their eggs."
...and there was a reason for that, but they'd get to that soon enough.
"So what can you tell me about Ashwinders and the eggs of Ashwinders?" she asked the class.
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Ella smiled at the new professor, her excitement growing. They'd be harvesting eggs today? That was quite cool and the sixteen year old was itching to get to the practical portion of the lesson. Facts first though, it seemed. Raising her hand, the blonde offered, "Professor, Ashwinders are born in magical fires when they are left burning unchecked. Their eggs, when frozen, can be used in a love potion." Or so she'd read...since the blonde had spent an extensive amount of time in the library since being back.
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Oh hey Professor, guess what? She knew the answer this time which meant she wouldn't be asking another question from the question just asked. Though, if she was being honest, she really did want to know the answer to that question and it was informative. Unicorn blood. She would have never thought about that. Hurting unicorns didn't seem like a real thing. Her cousin had something to do with that line of thinking but there it was.
Creeps hurt unicorns, real creeps.
Anyway, back to the question that she totally had a answer to because she knew it! "The eggs are really hot and flammable. Ella said their used for love potions when they're frozen but they're even neater when you live 'em because they can light other stuff in the area on fire as well." It was neat, it was. Just...probably not for the people nearby if they didn't master the aguamenti charm or something.
As for the Ashwinder. "The Ashwinder themselves are pityful though, they only live for about an hour. I don't imagine you can do very many epic things in only an hour." Quite pityful.
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"So what can you tell me about Ashwinders and the eggs of Ashwinders?" she asked the class.
Ashwinders. Theo didn't know much about them other than they were really, really weird creatures. He had read about them before, and the things about the love potion and the freezing charm did ring a bell when the other students mentioned it.
"Their eggs can cure... something." He'd totally forgotten. Lurgy, maybe. "If you eat them." Which would be disgusting. Theo would rather suffer with the lurgy.
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"So what can you tell me about Ashwinders and the eggs of Ashwinders?" she asked the class.
Laura looked at the Professor an smiled as she raised her hands "Ashwinders are born in fire and the eggs are apparently really hot and really flammable so I would say they probably are tasty though I've never tried one."
Awesome! His answer had been right. Michael gave himself a small punch in the arm for his good effort. He was thinking about sticking his tongue out at Rhodes but the Professor Lady was talking again and so he made sure to pay attention.
He was a little disappointed that they were not going to be talking about Glumbumbles. Hehe. But were actually going to talk about the other creature he had thought about mentioning. Michael raised his hand in the air. "Ashwinders come about when you leave a magic fire burning too long." Or something like that. "It's a snake with BIG glowing red eyes." There were other facts about them but he wouldn't be selfish. He'd let the other students have a go and besides he couldn't actually remember the other stuff.
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