Tobias had been quite content watching everyone. He didn't want to make the mistake he'd made with his legopuff in Defence Against the Dark Arts where he got attached to it and made friends with it and then had to say goodbye. So yeah... staying back was a good idea. He could appreciate the baby cow from here.

But the lesson was over anyway. Tobias didn't need to take off any gloves because he'd never put any on, so instead he just waved goodbye to both the baby cow and the mother cow and blew them each a kiss to help them feel as strong as possible as soon as they could.

"Thanks for the lesson," he said to the professor and the groundskeeper, still keeping his voice quite soft because he was worried about startling the creatures. Then he went to grab his bag and left for his next lesson.

Minerva had finished with her turn with the baby cow and had disposed of the gloves. She made her way back to the front of Bonny and pet the cows head. "How are you doing? You did so well." Smiling at the exhausted mother she turned her attention to the professor. Time was up already? No that just didn't seem right, but they did have other classes to get to. She just didn't want to leave.

Giving Bonny one last pat on the head she turned and gathered her things. Stopping in front of the professor and Mr. Firth. "Thank you for the amazing experience today. This was truly very interesting." Turning towards Mr. Firth, "I'm going to try to stop by in a few days if that's still alright and if I can do anything to help out let me know please." She gave them both smiled before turning and heading back to the castle.

Marigold was happy happy happy because BABY COW!

"Hiya cutie cowie. I have to go now. Byebye!" she whispered. Then she stood up and walked to the Professor and Groundskeeper. "Good interesting lesson Professor! And I would love to help take care of the baby!cow sometime Mr. Firth!" With a last glance between the two adults, and a wink to Mr. Firth, she was off.

BABY!COW.

"Truebee sounds like an awesome name, Mr. Firth," Alice commented, tugging on her gloves and beginning to rub the baby cow with Mo. She wasn't doing that cooing stuff, though, not her thing. But she did offer a couple more whispers of encouragement about parents wanting little girls and things like that, just so that the calf knew. Because that was just something necessary to know. Fundamental for growth and growing up right and stuff.

But Truebee. Yeah. Good name.

Cactus' Ravenclawing about miracles went ignored for the time being because Alice was so busy with breath stimulating and such. Lesson over, though? Already? She disposed of the gloves and waved goodbye to baby Truebee-cow before following the others back out to the castle. "Thanks for the lesson, Professor, Mr. Firth." Live births were definitely.. interesting.

Beezus......only snorted at Mo. She approved much of Truebee but she didn't want to drag the conversation on, really. Branxtons were hard to argue with and she didn't want to indulge herself in a debate at that moment. There were more important events, such as moving in line to help rub the baby cow.....or put up a sad puppy face at her boyfriend.

The latter came first.

Dylan's NO had been pretty much emphasized and all Beezus did was give him a small pout and sad expression. Though she gave him an understanding nod and turned away when he headed out. She'd have to check up on him later.......or actually, now can do since Professor Barlow was announcing that it was time for their next class. She eyed her watch and blinked.....they've exceeded their schedule! Merlin....she hadn't realized it until now.

So she went ahead and satisfied her eyes with the baby calf's sight first - it probably took ten minutes or so - with an almost stupid grin on her face before she removed her gloves and disposed of it.

Can she stay....for a while more?

....Yeah?

No?

Okay....but she still wasn't happy that they were selling off the calf. It was a fruitful lesson....and she knew she was going to be back to see the baby girl later in the day yet for now, she had another class to attend and her Slytherin also needed to be tended to.

So....with longing eyes, she regretfully bade goodbye to Bonny and her baby. "Goodbye, Professor Barlow......Mr. Firth. Thank you for today's lesson."

Sarah continued on rubbing the newborn. Yet Mo's reply stopped the rubbing abruptly
[QUOTE=Cassirin;11391256]"
No, frankly. No to both of those girls, one of which was a Ravenclaw and knew better. Mo gave both Bee and Sarah a flat look before turning back to his turn at cow rubbing. "That's stupid, actually, and you should know better than to be so imprecise. If a miracle is by definition a highly improbable or extraordinary event, then you're wrong. So either I'm unclear on the word, which I'm not, or you're all using the word wrong. Which you are. It's easy to fix. Find a more precise word."[/QUOTE]
"well, the very fact that all our organs work is a miracle. It is just that we take it for granted. Childbirth is dangerous, as I said before, especially in the old days, not every birth was live. A lot of woman these days miscarry once in their lifetime. Imagine, the baby''s first breath, it is born with a heart that is pumping, hopefully there are no deformities.". In Sarah's world there was no chance, only miracles. If he was not a boy she would have gone further yet she stopped at that.
Sarah turned her attention back to the calf, boys these days. Thankfully the cow was a girl. She kept on rubbing the calf, then alook at her watch revealed that she was dallying and had to move on.
She was disposing her gloves when she heard the groundskeepers offer. "GOODIE!" she called. She packed up her things.
"thanks for the lesson!" she called over her shoulder as she walked off. Hopefully she was able to talk some sense into Mo, poor misguided fellow, counting her blessings kept Sarah happy

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With the last student finally gone, Firth breathed a sigh of relief. That went pretty well. He had been nervous and trying not to show it, especially in front of Peyton. Pointing his wand at Truebee the newborn, he said, "Tergeo." The various liquids clinging to the calf were siphoned off. "There yeh go, little girl. Now let's get yeh back ter momma."

Satisfied that the cattle would be alright for now, he surveyed himself and decided to go back to his hut. It was definitely time to get clean himself.