Okaay. So his Ashwinder had finally died and gone into firey heaven. He was sure it was heaven, because anyone who died having having their babies deserved to go to heaven. Not that Clement really cared that much, because well, he didn't really care. Now it was down to business. He could collect his eggs. Which was going to be the fun bit to be honest. It wasn't as if he'd done much apart from sprinkle stuff o the fire. He figured that he would make the eggs immobile, before he put his gloves on. Because well he might not be able to do the wand movement correctly with his gloves on, and then he would just look really silly. So no silly movement, he would do the spell without his gloves on. Crouching down, so he could reach the remains of the ashwinder with more ease, he pulled his wand out, and muttered "Immobulus." as he performed the wand movement.

He frowned, looking down at the eggs. They seemed to be frozen. Which was good. Just incase though, he pulled his gloves on. He really didn't want to end up with burnt hands, because that would not be very good at all. They looked frozen and immobile though. So that was all good. He just needed to collect them, and then he was done. Perfecctt.

After poking the three eggs that were sitting in the pile of dust, and after poking them all once more to double check, Rhodes glanced down at her glove. There.. wasn't a hole in the finger, like she suspected there would be if the eggs were still hot, so she took that as a sign to move onto the last and final step. The easiest step of them all!

All she had to do was put the eggs into the jar. And then of course, write her name on the jar, but as long as she knew how to write and spell her name, which she did, than that would be easy, too.

Rhodes pocketed her wand and pulled her gloves tighter on her hands before slooowly reaching out to grab one of the eggs. And even though she checked and double checked, she was still a little surprised that they weren't even hot. She carefully placed the egg into the jar, before doing the same with the other two.

With all the eggs inside the jar, and the lid screwed tightly back on, she pushed herself from off the ground and made her way over to the table to get to work on filling out the label.

So the spell. Immobulus, right? Yeah, that was it, she was pretty sure. Not too hard, right? She just needed to cast that and then put her gloves on-

Gloves!

She'd left those by her fire! Crud!

Penelope raced back to her fire to snatch up the gloves and pulled them onto her hands as she ran back to the bush where the eggs were hidden. No time to waste! She needed to get this spell done right fast before the heated eggs started a fire in the forest. Cool as that might have been, she probably wouldn't get much credit for setting the forest on fire, and she'd made it this far so she wanted credit.

She drew out her wand and pointed it at the eggs. Up down up down left swipe- "Immobulus!" She had the image of the spell working perfectly in her mind and had focused on it...

...and the heat seemed to have died down...

Success? Yes!

Text Cut: instructions

1.Choose a fire and add a few sprinkles of floo powder to it. This will create a magical fire. You may watch your fire but don't tend to it (unless you absolutely have to).
2. Once the Ashwinder has risen from your fire, follow its ashy trail to the EDGE of the woods.
3. Wait for the Ashwinder to collapse to dust.
4. Cast the Freezing Charm on the eggs BEFORE touching or collecting them. You should wear protective gloves as an added precaution.
5. Collect your eggs and place them in a glass jar. Label the glass jar with your name, house, and year and place it back on the table.

This was really creepy. Like really. He had followed a snake-like creature all the way towards the edge of the forest and now he was here, waiting for it to lay its eggs so that he could collect them. And what was going to happen to the eggs?

...

But the Ashwinder. The snake like creature. He was meant to be paying attention to that. And so he bent down and waited for it to lay its eggs and collapse into dust. He narrowed his grey-blue eyes slightly, looking for any signs of bright red eggs. Except...

... It was starting to get hot in here. Like really really hot... as if someone had lit a whole other row of fires right near him.

Blinking, the boy scurried backwards a step or two and immediately put up his hands to shield his eyes, the gloves flapping around his face. ... Oh right, GLOVES! He placed the jar down next to him and put on the gloves, blinking away the stinging feeling in his eyes. He looked up at the spot where the Ashwinder had been before, only to see a pile of dust and some bright red eggs.

... Oh. Poor Ashwinder. Goodbye dude.

Text Cut: The tasks!

1. Choose a fire and add a few sprinkles of floo powder to it. This will create a magical fire. You may watch your fire but don't tend to it (unless you absolutely have to).
2. Once the Ashwinder has risen from your fire, follow its ashy trail to the EDGE of the woods.
3. Wait for the Ashwinder to collapse to dust.
4. Cast the Freezing Charm on the eggs BEFORE touching or collecting them. You should wear protective gloves as an added precaution.
5. Collect your eggs and place them in a glass jar. Label the glass jar with your name, house, and year and place it back on the table.

This freaky snake that came from the fire was like something out of Mannie's weird SciFi movies that he always had in the old DVD player. That thing had to be at least twenty years old. It was always skipping and had a faulty play button. Regardless, that was what this Ashwinder thing reminded Ascanius of. 'Cause it wasn't like he watched them too. He absolutely did.

And then some weirder things happened. The snake started to have a stilted wiggle or whatever it was that snakes did. It was like the Ashwinder was running out of steam and it was doing it swiftly so. Almost made him sad for like a second, but then he remembered the glorious fact that he didn't care. Whatever.

After a few moments of the thing struggling, it finally writhed and then collapsed into dust.

Woah... Was that SUPPOSED TO HAPPEN?!

The snake thing was just a pile if dust, but it was just there. It was all dead now. Ugh, that was unfortunate.

With the Ashwinder eggs frozen, Haruka put on her protective gloves and carefully picked them up. She placed them in the jar and screwed the lid on. She then walked back over to the table, picked up a label, and wrote down the information that the Professor had asked for.

Haruka placed the jar back down onto the table and waited for the other students to finish.

Dylan was listening to everything she was saying, of course...because it was all important. Every piece of evidence was in cases like this. And he WAS holding a grudge because of Selina reasons...but that was enough. He didn't like the way his best friend idolized that dude.

...Yea, blowing stuff up. That seemed rather convenient.

"Does he teach you a lot of stuff like that?" Casually asking, of course. It was ALL casual. "Dangerous spells, I mean...."

Oh, wait. They were stopping. FINALLY.

Keeping some distance between himself and where the Ashwinder had stopped, Dylan held a hand out to his companion. No need to get too close right now. He'd go check in a few minutes to see if the deed had been done...Or was it supposed to take an hour? Either way, they were most likely there for a while.

Watching, waiting, watching, waiting, watching, waiting, watching

WAIT!

MOVEMENTS OF THE SNAKEY KIND! Derry perked up and watched carefully as something in the embers of the green fire began to move...... YES. IT WAS THE ASHWINDER!!!! SUCCESS!!!!

Derry followed the thing slowly as it slithered out of the fire and towards the trees, leaving a windy ashy trail of ashness (ooooh, hence ashwinder) behind it. Right... follow follow follow follow, follow the windy ash road...

So he'd kind of given it a good 5 minutes to make sure that his eggs were really frozen. Clement was kind of paranoid about getting burnt or something. Which probably wasn't that likely really. Not with his gloves on. But after the 5 minutes, he figured that the eggs would be probably frozen now. Twisting the lid of his jar, he leant forward, and carefully picking up each egg in turn, and placed them carefully into the jar. He was being careful, because he didn't want to drop any of them. Someone had died to give these eggs, so he decided it would be rather disrespectful to drop them. After a few seconds, he'd placed all of the eggs into the jar, and twisted the lid back on. Wandering back over to his bag, after taking his gloves off, he grabbed a quill and wrote on the jar.

Feeling quite pleased with himself, he wandered back over to the table, and placed the jar onto the it, alongside all of the other jars. Ahh. That hadn't been to bad actually, once it had gotten started anyway.

Freezing Charm. Up, down, up, down and swipe to the left. Okay... this was it.

Alec took out his wand and held it up. One last practice couldn't hurt, yeah? He moved the wand up and down and up and down before swiping it over towards his left. Yeah... that seemed about right. Maybe. He... hoped so. He really didn't want the eggs to be cracked and end up with lots of Ashwinders running around the grounds. If something like that would end up happening if the eggs were left out for a long time.

...

"Immobulus!" Up, down, up, down and swipe to the left. Except... wasn't the heat meant to be dying down? Die down, heat, die dooooown! ... Focus... focus... "IMMOBULUS!" he said with a little bit more confidence, moving his wand in the similar movement from before. Just in case, you know. He didn't want to get burnt, even if he did have his gloves on.

...

Alec blinked away the last of the stinging feeling in his eyes before GRINNING over at the eggs and the heat that had died down. AWESOME!

Text Cut: The tasks!

1. Choose a fire and add a few sprinkles of floo powder to it. This will create a magical fire. You may watch your fire but don't tend to it (unless you absolutely have to).
2. Once the Ashwinder has risen from your fire, follow its ashy trail to the EDGE of the woods.
3. Wait for the Ashwinder to collapse to dust.
4. Cast the Freezing Charm on the eggs BEFORE touching or collecting them. You should wear protective gloves as an added precaution.
5. Collect your eggs and place them in a glass jar. Label the glass jar with your name, house, and year and place it back on the table.

Lex still had her gaze on the thing as it slithered along it's way. When it finally did stop they stopped a bit further away. Good idea. Her's might not have done anything epic but Dylan's might have and it wouldn't have been good to stand there while it did.

Now they waited on this one to drop dead as well, yeah? This time she'd keep that phrase to herself. One Ashwinder was enough. She'd leave this one be.

Her gaze fell on the Slytherin Captain again. More questions. "No, I wouldn't say that." Her tone was one of disappointment. If only he did! "I haven't spoken to him a lot but the times I have he was really nice, giving me a chocolate frog and then that last time teaching me to blow stuff up. He showed me a spell to detect when people are around too but that was just about it."

And now she had a question. "Why? Were you hoping he'd teach you something dangerous? You could probably ask, I'm sure he wouldn't say no."

"Also..." She pointed toward the serpent. "Your snake's acting funny, think it might be his time. What do you think?"

Now that the snake was dead, which was weird...was he supposed to mourn because apparently he was a snake now, all that was Jeff were the cool looking eggs. Mhmm, he had expected this because it was on the directions and stuff, which he had nicked from someone else. Heh. Suckers.

Drawing out his wand, he skimmed through the directions and snapped his fingers. RIGHT! He knew he had missed something, so the fourteen year old went in his back pocket and grabbed the gloves that were hanging aimlessly there. He took a moment and threw them on before be pointed his wand at the eggs and said, "Immobulus!"

Did it work? It wasn't that he cared much if they did or not, it just would have been cool if it DID work. Prove that he could do this magic thing. Not that he wanted to, psh.

But it did work and the freezing charm took its hold on the eggs. Cool! Ahem. Whatever.

How long was the spell supposed to last? Forever? Had that been mentioned during a sorta brief moment when she hadn't been paying attention? Because she couldn't remember it being said. And she would ask but...she didn't feel like it right now.

So Penelope quickly put her wand away and then reached a gloved hand toward the eggs, picking them up one by one until they were all safely in the jar. Phew. Good. Now she just needed a label, right? Then she'd done everything in the activity, right? Right. Yes. Thank Merlin.

She got back to her feet, walked over to the table with her jar of Immobulus'd eggs in hand, and made a label with her name, house, and year.

Quote:

Name: Penelope Greenwell
House: Gryffindor
Year: 4th

All done!

Text Cut: instructions

1.Choose a fire and add a few sprinkles of floo powder to it. This will create a magical fire. You may watch your fire but don't tend to it (unless you absolutely have to).
2. Once the Ashwinder has risen from your fire, follow its ashy trail to the EDGE of the woods.
3. Wait for the Ashwinder to collapse to dust.
4. Cast the Freezing Charm on the eggs BEFORE touching or collecting them. You should wear protective gloves as an added precaution.
5. Collect your eggs and place them in a glass jar. Label the glass jar with your name, house, and year and place it back on the table.

Okay, so now she had to just wait for it to collapse, right? Derry leaned against a tree and eyed the ashwinder as it slowed down a pace or so away from her. She kept her distance, making sure her gloves were on, and watched closely.

Then everything got very warm suddenly, and she blinked, and then..... poof. That was it. The ashwinder had just.... poofed. And now all that was left was a pile of ash and some very red eggs. Derry fished in her pocket for the jar...........

Ascanius felt... Accomplished. Yeah, he did.

This was something he had done all on his own and even though he still thought magic was a cheap way out of doing things, he had done it. All by himself too. Psh, not that he didn't think he couldn't do it because, well, look at him. Did this face look like it could NOT do something? Smirk. No, he didn't think so.

Anyway, with his hands all gloved up, he reached down and grabbed the cooled off eggs and put them in the jar one by one. See? He had this under control. He was not some stupid spazz.

Closing off the jar, he went off to the table and labeled his jar the way he was supposed to. Name, year, etc.

Quote:

Name: Ascanius Stark
House: Slytherin
Year: 4th

Done and done.

Right. Freezing charm. Up down up down...... left right left right B A start... NO, Derry. Up. Down. Up. Down. Left. And Immobulus. Right...

Up... down... up... down... swipe left... "Immobulus." she watched the red eggs... but they still seemed so... hot and stuff. So...... try again. Right, THIS time we are going to get it right, Derryth.

Up. Down. Up. Down. Swipe right... NO. Derry let her wand drop to her side and paused a moment before lifting it again. Concentrate, Derry. Up. Down. Up. Down. Swipe left. "Immobulus."

YES! It worked!!!! Right... Derry eyed the jar in her left hand... Only one thing left to do...

Collection. Okay. Jar at the ready, JAR AT THE READY.

Alec bent down on his knees and shuffled forwards, his jar opened and clutched in his non-outstretched hand. He outstretched one gloved hand towards the bright red eggs, trying not to think about how much this was like Quidditch. He placed the jar down on the side and held up another hand, reaching towards the eggs. There. Now it was not like Quidditch at all. Nope.

...

Shaking his head, he looked back at the eggs and grasped one in each hand before placing them into the jar. Once all the eggs were collected up, he turned his attention towards the pile of dust and gave it a solemn nod. This was sad. Sort of. But the eggs... he reached for the lid of the jar and placed it on top of the jar before twisting it shut. There. Now the eggs were safe.

The sixteen year old got up and wandered over towards the table. He placed the jar down and gave it an affectionate pat before starting to scribble out on a label. Scribble scribble scribble... and there. Now his jar had a label.

Quote:

Name: Alec Summers
House: Hufflepuff
Year: Fifth

... So... he was done now, right? GRIN.

Text Cut: The tasks!

1. Choose a fire and add a few sprinkles of floo powder to it. This will create a magical fire. You may watch your fire but don't tend to it (unless you absolutely have to).
2. Once the Ashwinder has risen from your fire, follow its ashy trail to the EDGE of the woods.
3. Wait for the Ashwinder to collapse to dust.
4. Cast the Freezing Charm on the eggs BEFORE touching or collecting them. You should wear protective gloves as an added precaution.
5. Collect your eggs and place them in a glass jar. Label the glass jar with your name, house, and year and place it back on the table.

Approaching her now frozen eggs, Mack reaches out, one of the protective gloves falling down. Quickly she pulls it back up into place and picks up the eggs of her Ashwinder. Smiling she places them inside the jar and tightens the lid. Squealing she stands ready to place them on the table. Skipping back to where Professor Barlow had set up the table with the supplies and where other students were beginning to gather with their jars she realizes that she hasn't labeled her jar. Hurriedly she scribbles in information the professor required.

SPOILER!!: Label

Mackenzie Jones
Gryffindor
Second year

Mack sat her jar on the table with the others and smiled at the professor.

Tucker was super excited for the practical part of this lesson - this wasn't something he got to do with homeschooling! Eagerly, once they were ok to get started, he grabbed a small pinch of floo powder, selected one of the roaring fires, and sprinkling the powder over the flames. It took a few seconds, but then it started to turn green and he smiled at his success.

Alright, now what to do? He just had to sit and wait, apparently. He sat down cross legged in front of the fire, watching it and waiting for the serpent to rise from the fire.

Okay... now that the eggs were cool, Derry felt safe picking them up. She approached them carefully, her gloves still on, and bent down, taking the lid off the jar and delicately lifting up the first one.

Hey, how cool was this? She'd seen the entire life span of a single creature in a matter of like, an hour or something. She very very gently put all of the eggs into the jar, and secured the lid back on tight. TADA! All done!!

Right, now to label the jar. She walked back to the table and labeled the jar:



All done!

Yea, I bet he does. How original....Chocolate frogs to garner respect and admiration...

Decidedly Slytherin of the Professor...

"Yea, that does sound pretty cool." Lies. It sounded lame...and WEAK. WEEEAK...but Dylan couldn't say that to Alexa. He was positive that wouldn't have went over well...and he needed her as an information source...and the Slytherin had wondered what Vinteren had been planning to do that day. Good on his part for booking it out of there. "That's even cooler still. I hope you'll remember those..." For her protection and no other reasons.

Suddenly there was a hissing noise from the treeline, causing the Captain to blink. Was that the sound of something poofing into a cloud of smoke and ash? Jerking his head towards the noise, he slowly removed his wand from his shirt sleeve. Raising it up some, he reached some low hanging branches and seen the ash...and brilliantly red eggs. Well...Alexa had been wrong. Nothing epic had really been accomplished by this poor creature.

"Okay, stand back some." Mimicking the wand motion from earlier, he cast "Immobulus!" on each egg in turn. There were SIX in total...A great deal, in his opinion. Having completed that, Dylan slid his wand back into his sleeve and pulled his gloves. Slipping them on, he started carefully picking up each egg, transporting them to the jar. It took several minutes as he was trying to be as careful as possible...but he wasn't in too much of a hurry. So, all was well.

After they'd all been moved, he'd twisted the lid back into place and went to remove his own jar. The ash from the ashwinder's demise was interesting stuff...and he was hoping he could...make an ingredient out of it. Possibly? Maybe? Naturally, he'd speak to Professor Lafay about it...because she was the Potions mistress...Securing that lid, too...the Slytherin stood and grinned at his companion.

As things continued to progress, Peyton circled the area, just as she promised she would. No one had been fatally injured yet, which was good, because she did hope to be in by dinnertime.

Oh, and it was good that no one got hurt for their own sake, too. Right. "Hurry along if you're not done yet," she called out.

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"Really cool!!! And he smiled at me and said I did good too!!! Even congratulated me!!" BEAM. Very few Professors did that, in fact she couldn't think of any others that would have taught her to blow things up.

...

Lex wouldn't question it. Nope.

"Don't worry, I won't forget! In fact I was practising the wand movement for one of them just this morning, still got it." Nodnodnod. She had a selective memory. Chances were, something like those spells would not be forgotten.

Oh oh oh! Staying back, she could do that too...sorta. Lex stayed close to Dylan, just in case there was some kind of fiery explosion. He would be able to whip up a shield charm much faster than her. She had to be realistic about things like this. It was the difference between heading to dinner and heading to the Healer. The latter didn't really appeal to her but thanks for asking. Her face fell just a little when it did virtually the same thing her's had. Huh. Pity. Nothing would go BOOM.

After he froze them she took a look at his jar.

"Neat, you got six! that's one more than I've got!" She said, raising her jar so he could see. BEAAAM.

Dylan knew the man was suave and manipulative...So, none of what Alexa was saying surprised him. He's heard stories, okay? He KNEW things. SECRET THINGS.......and he was just naturally paranoid. There was that, too.

"I'm glad he's been nice to you." The Slytherin offhandedly commented as he walked back towards his bag. The jar needed a label...and then he'd be DONE. So, grabbing one from the table of things, he quickly jotted his name, year, and house down...
...before peeling it off the wax paper. With some serious concentration, Dylan stuck it to the jar.

There. Done.

Looking over to Alexa, he grinned at her excitement. "I wonder what the max amount is that they can lay....Did the Professor say as much?" He hadn't heard her...if she had. He'd been too busy helping his fellow students with the spell.

Hm?

"Oh I don't think it's just me." If there was a tone that had come with that, she didn't notice it as she walked back with him to get his bag or something. "I bet he's nice to most everyone. Scary-Bat Girl liked him too so he must have been nice to her and well, lots of other people." He was such a nice man, such a really nice man.

Siiiiiiiigh.

And he was grinning at her! She GRINNED right back. "I dunno really. If she said it then I wasn't listening...too busy following my ashwinder...but now it's dead so I might as well had listened."

Ah well, no changing that now. She continued looking at his jar.

"But six is a lot...I think...really, I'm not that sure. We can say it is, then you'd have the most." And there was more BEAMing.