Another quiet lesson for West. Or at least a quiet West in a lesson. He picked up on the excitement and he was interested in the 'practical' aspect. Who wouldn't be?

Oh but still with questions. West considered this. Then he put his hand up. "They can both be bred."

... and his thoughts wandered again.

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Michael wished Barlow would make up her mind. First she tells them to follow her, then she's telling them to back up. And what was she and the Groundskeeper looking at already?

At her question though, Mikey raised his hand. "THEY BOTH NEED TO GO TO THE TOILET!"

Speaking of...he probably should have gone before the lesson.

.....HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. "He said toilet... he's SO dumb. ANIMALS DONT USE A TOILET, DUMMY!" Hahahahaha "THey poop in the WOODS, man!" Like really. Zahra poked her tongue out at Mikey, her BEST FRIEND, and laughed some more at him.

Can we get a BACK up here, eh Jake? She might have given him another hug. She missed big brother hugs. And her mum. And her dad. And hugs. HUUUUGS.

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Anya looked over. And narrowed her eyes. OhhaitherelittleGryffindor. Little lion cub realized that that back was totally taken right? Because. As the girlfriend, Anya had exclusive rights to everything Jake related.

What did magical and nonmagical creatures have in common? Funny you should ask Professor. Her hand went half up. "They can have strong protective instincts."

And possessive ones. Yup. She was eyeing you little Z.

OH HEY! LOOK! Zahra WAAAAAAAAAAAAVED and then MOTIONED to her PIGGY! Her PIGGY was that girl -- Anya -- that girl's BOYFRIEND. HAHA HEY! WAVING!!!!

Tobias stretched up onto his tiptoes. At some point during the class moving to a different area he'd been caught up and ended up near the back of the group and now couldn't see a single thing. He jumped up and see if that helped but all it did was put him at shoulder level with a few people.

The Hufflepuff frowned slightly and suddenly ducked down, disappeared from the sight of anyone who might be watching him. Using his small size to his advantage, Tobias crawled towards the front of the group and only now truly appreciated just how cumbersome robes could actually be.

A moment or two later Tobias suddenly sprung up right at the front of the group with a smile on his face. MUCH better. Now he could see the professor. And could answer her.

He raised his hand. "They're both alive," he said with a nod. "Until they're not."

Bent over to check something, Ali heard his name called from amongst the group of students. He recognized that voice. It belonged to a Ravenclaw. A cool one, at that.

"Eh? No, 'm good fer now. Better fer yeh ter stay back fer the time bein'." He appreciated the offer, but this type of thing was definitely not something he wanted to trust to a student. Ali had never done this before; Peyton was a professional at this. That's why she was willing to interrupt her lesson--to help him. "But thanks fer offerin'."

Suddenly Professor Barlow had appeared...Dylan was a little unsure about what was going on...but apparently this had something to do with the patronus? Something was going down? The woman seemed to be getting excited and flustered...and it was the Slytherin's experience that usually meant babies...or jewelry...

Shrugging, he got up and followed without question. All would be revealed soon...

...and there was the Groundskeeper.

Hmm.

What...was going on?

....

The Slytherin suspiciously eyed all the things. "They can reproduce...or somehow ensure their kind lives on?...." TOTALLY SUSPICIOUS ABOUT WHATEVER THE GROUNDSKEEPER WAS.....doing...Merlin, this was about babies...Dylan just knew it...He seemed to be having a lot of encounters with this lately...

So...where they about to watch a birth...or something?

The encouragement from Zahra was nice. Even if it didn't mean much, but it made Jake smile. The high five she gave herself in front of his face and the - was that a hug? - hug around his neck. A slightly hyperactive first year approved of his answer. Very nice.

That's when he heard his girlfriend. And her answer. Was he mistaken, or was that tone of hers slightly threatening?

The Prefect flashed Anya a smile, just as he saw out of his peripheral vision the first year waving in the same direction. He gave Anya look that he hoped was encouraging, because he couldn't really do anything else if he didn't set the girl on his back on the ground. And that would be rude, because she was counting on him to be able to see the practical lesson that was going to happen. Surely this was included in the Prefect description? Plus, his height might as well be useful for something, right?

Although. Zahra did have a loud voice and he was sort of worried that his ears would be ringing by the time this was all over.

"Really? If there was anything to interest Mickey, it was playing games. And Alex looked as though she were an expert. "What kind of games do you play with it? Would he get hurt, because that was the best part of it. He didn't worry about the lack of gnomes, not if they were going to play games with the Willow. He was going to have to tell Z about this.

Or maybe not.


Zahra was lucky that she was his best friend and they he knew that she was just playing because he had a good mind to knock her straight off that boy's back. He merely rolled his eyes at her. "I know that Kettleburn but I unlike you have decorum." Which he was sure that the Professor appreciated. Mikey stuck his tongue out his BFF and turned his attention back to Alexa.

At least she didn't pick on him.

So they were moving now because of the patronus. Interesting. Penelope followed the rest of the class quickly, making sure to stay at the front so she'd be sure to be able to see. Since she didn't have someone to piggyback on like that girl was doing to Jake. Heh. It was kinda funny to her, really...although it was a good idea. She'd make Ascanius carry her if he was around. But she couldn't find him in the class at the moment, and she was at the front of the group anyway, so she could see just fine, mhm.

And there was another question about what magical and non-magical creatures had in common...hmm...she raised her hand. "I think a lot of them travel or live in groups so they won't be alone if they get attacked or something." There was power in large numbers like groups after all. Another creature usually wasn't really hungry enough to try to take on an entire pack all by itself.

Minerva still was staying back a little bit away from the rest of the class. She glanced up to see Mr. Firth. What did he have she wondered. Something was with him, but she wasn't sure what. Maybe she shouldn't have come to class today. After that.. She didn't even want to say that D word anymore. She needed a mental break, why did she think class was going to help her.

Sighing she heard the question being asked, but had to really think about what the professor had said. Taking a deep breath she put her hand up. "Professor, the caring for them can be the same at times. Feeding, shelter, bathing that sort of stuff." Animals were animals so they all needed that magical or not, right?

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Zahra was lucky that she was his best friend and they he knew that she was just playing because he had a good mind to knock her straight off that boy's back. He merely rolled his eyes at her. "I know that Kettleburn but I unlike you have decorum." Which he was sure that the Professor appreciated. Mikey stuck his tongue out his BFF and turned his attention back to Alexa.

At least she didn't pick on him.

....what? Oh Merlin. "Jakey. Did you HEAR that? HAHAHAHA MIKEY TOUSSAINT, You wouldn't know DECORUM if you had a TEA COZY on your HEAD." Merlin, imagine him WITH a tea cozy on his head? Funny.... funny..... She ..... wanted him to come over and hang out with her though? A little. Jake got ANOTHER hug while they waited. "You see anything yet, man? Don't let me miss anything. I can't lose more points."

What did a tea cozy have to do with decorum? She had no idea what she was talking about. He so did have decorum...when he was at home...with his father. Mikey made a pig face at her before letting out a HUGE SNORT.

"You have to have points before you can lose them Zahra Kettleburn."

Who was the dumb one now?

Nerida heard the question being asked and that is what brought her back to the lesson at hand. "Professor don't some of them eat some of them same food...Like vegetables and meat?" She was pretty sure... Yeah after finishing she smiled..Happy that she actually answered the question...

Daichi's gaze went away from the Groundkeeper, still wondering what was in the shadows to the Care of Magical Creatures Professor. He listened as he stared at her pretty face and scratched his imaginary beard afterwards.

He did have some answers to say but a lot of students were already saying them. The Prefect thought for a few more seconds and decided he would let this question pass and think about ice cream...

Laura looked at the Professor and smiled as she raised her hand. "Professor, we they are all living and you also have to make sure you that you feed them otherwise you don't have them for long." Laura sighed, she really thought that would be bad not having an animal for long.

Hmmmm. Still quite interesting...or more curious tickling as to what they would be learning about today. She couldn't see though. Nope. Firth was quite well in the way doing whatever he was doing with whatever they were to see soon. Why couldn't they just see already? What was the hold on everything? Mmm?

BUT question. Ness averted her eyes off Mr Firth and looked back at the Professor.

What non-magical and magical creatures had in common? Pretty simple, no. They were both creatures. Duuuuuuh. But she wouldn't say that aloud, nope maybe something a little more intelligent was a better choice. "They all communicate in some way that is usually different to humans."That was more acceptable, was it not? She could think of anything else that hadn't been said so hopefully it was fine.

Sarah raised her hand," they both have the seven life processes of living organisms.. respiration for example is one of them" she knew more, she had to memorise them once, yet she thought it was polite got give others a chance.

With her hands deep inside her pockets she stood a little away from the other students, she didn’t wanted to be here, not that she didn’t liked the lesson, but she was in a bad mood and she didn’t wanted to work or to pay attention to any class today. She had received a letter from her mother, and that was a strange thing, her mother never contacted her while she was at Hogwarts, so now that she had done it, she had KNEW, before she had opened the letter, that there was something wrong. And yes, she had been right. Her mother had announced her that she didn’t needed to come back home, to her father. Her mother and father were now officially divorced and she now needed to live with her mother in a small mansion and… She HATED it, she didn’t liked it to not return to her old home and to live somewhere else! So, she had now at the moment TOTALLY NO interest in the lesson and stared ahead of her, half listening and to what the professor was doing. She even didn’t answered the question.

Oh right, answers and stuff. He had to do that and Ascanius had been ignoring that part of the lesson for all of the lesson. Pfft, not that he was missing much. LOADS of people here were answering, but he supposed he should answer to.

With a bored look, he threw out there, "Both have the word creature in it." What? An answer.

She was still trying to peek. Were piggyback rides allowed now? That one loud first year from Transfiguration was riding a Jake. Where were the tall people when you needed to climb on them for a view? Alice jumped a little, still trying to see over heads and things and.. similarities?

"They all bite, professor. Unless they don't have teeth." In which case.. it was a gummy bite. Toothless, but a bite nevertheless.

Would Ascanius mind if she climbed on him?

Okay, so it didn't seem like there was anything particularly scary going on. In fact, Sky had sneaking suspicion that they were about to see the so called 'miracle of life". Between her aunt, her mom and Professor Bentley, she was pretty much over it. Sorry, which ever creature you were. Actually, the poor animal probably didn't even want the audience. But anyway. "Both reproduce." That was her contribution to this lesson.

Yes, Peyton was somewhat nervous, but not because she didn't know what she was doing or anything like that. She'd been through this loads of times, it was just...in the moment type of excitement. Yup.

She just needed the students to cooperate. She hadn't exactly planned for THIS to happen in the middle of her class...

...but then there were GRYFFINDORS, and they were DISRUPTING the progress, and they were...completely out of line.

Not to mention that the Gryffindor's pushover of a prefect didn't seem to mind that someone was piggy backing off him for their own personal gain. Too bad Kettleburn hadn't been made a Slytherin. She'd have been great there...

OOC: Nothing personal OOC, Syd.



"KETTLEBURN," she said, in that tone of voice that indicated she'd had enough. She raised her wand and flicked it in the direction of the first year and her loyal piggy back prefect. A storm cloud of dirt rose from the ground and erupted in a POOF just before the two Lions, giving an all new meaning to the term 'eat dust'. "Settle down, close your mouths, and you," she said, eyeing the prefect, "pay attention to the lesson and stop offering yourself up for someone else's personal gain."



OH, ...BURN!

Peyton inwardly clapped. Disruption or not, that was the perfect finale to the little show the Gryffindors had decided to put on today.

"Too bad she just took one for the team," Peyton replied. "Literally. Ten points from Gryffindor. Now act right and pay attention. All of you."

She eyed some of the Eagles, Badgers, and Snakes, too, just in case another ten or twenty needed to be slashed.

...but, NO ONE.

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So she relaxed her expression and even cracked a semi-smile as she said, "Right, right." All of you. Even Stark and his Captain Obvious of an answer. "There are many, many ways in which magical and non-magical creatures are alike. The one we'll be focusing on today, though, is how they both bring their young into the world."

She stepped to the side and gestured to the groundskeeper. "Mr. Firth's highland cow is about to give birth," she said. "I was meant to assist in the birth, but since it's going to happen right in the middle of our class, ...we're all going to assist." She looked from Firth to the students and back again. "Now, listen carefully as Mr. Firth tells you a little about the process. Pay attention, so you'll know what's going on later in the lesson."

Ten points from Gryffindor? GRIIIIIN It would have been even better if she also took away points from the Puffs cause they had way too many.

As the Professor continued the lesson, Daichi listened to her words, nodding every know and then to show he was a good listener and then stopped half way in another nod. C-c-cow birth?!

Well, that was something he had NOT expected. Unconciously, the Prefect began to shift the weight of his body on one foot to the other and touched his hair. A sign that he was nervous. Did he HAVE to see this? Cause he wasn't really fond of...births about anything...Not that he had seen it before, thank merlin not but just the IDEA.

Well...Ella was pretty sure that Anya-face was going to kill the crazy little Gryffindor who was riding on Jake's back like he was a pony or something. The blonde would doodle this scene if she was sitting and had some parchment but she just didn't have the right materials at the moment. SIGH.

Anyway....BABIES?!

N'awwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

The sixteen year old smiled a little until she realized what Professor Barlow had said. They'd be assisting? Like...all of them...in a birth?

BLINK.

Ella didn't know how to DO this. She just wanted to play with the baby later when it was all born and adorable and clean. Merlin!

She stepped back a little and kept her eyes on Mr. Firth, ready to listen to whatever it is he had to say. She could just...be an active listener instead of an active helper, right?

"Real fun games!" She answered in an excited whisper. "My favourite's the one where I hurl rocks at it and it swats them away. You have to be super careful with that one though...the thing has bloody good aim, got me in the forehead a couple times." The tree was a good sport too, never complaining no matter how many rocks she threw at it.

She wasn't sure it'd be something he was willing to play though. When the tree got you, it got you good. Lex didn't want him getting hurt. It would be her fault and she'd probably never hear the end of it.

Not thanks.

Uh-huh...there was the expected. She was wondering how long it would take for the Professor to take points with the way they were all acting. Pity considering their current position at the hourglasses but then...why not? If they were going to lose they might as well had done it in some kind of super epic way! No point in watching points when you didn't have many, they had nothing to lose.

Heh, a cool thought really.

Eehhhh....cow birth? That...that she had to admit didn't sound all that thrilling--not unless the thing suddenly went all vicious and went stomping around because of motherly nature protectiveness!!! THAT would be epic!!! She took a tiny step closer because now she WANTED to see.

Could they place bets on who'd pass out first?? Not everyone had the nerve or even the stomach for this kind of thing. Should be interesting. OKAY! Let the birth begin! Come on cow, she didn't have all day.

As Kace was standing on his tippy toes and trying to see, he did find a good place in the front. Then he heard the professor talking over the crowd and she was moving on and then she said they were going to see a....c-c-cow birth????? Did he hear that correctly? Nope he heard it loud and clear.

Uh.......gross..... He wasn't the one for watching this kind of thing.

Kace didn't want to be in the front anymore. He regretted it actually. He didn't want a full frontal view of the miracle of life. It just wasn't his thing. He was NOT expecting this at all. But then again he heard about cow births in his hometown. His grandma helped with a cow birth before he was even born. His sister experience one....maybe he could?? Then get some pointers for later on in life.

He debated it and decided he would brave it and watch it. Even though it could be gross and he hoped he wouldn't have to help with the delivery. He might throw up from all the gook and stuff on it.