Another question requiring information about creatures. Beverly fiddled with her bracelet. Her hands were already growing cold, and not because of the weather. She was fairly warm at the moment, just not her hands.

What the heck? Might as well spew all the information currently locked up in her head. Too much, too much. She raised her hand.

"There isn't a set classification for winged horses. They range between XX to XXXX," she said. "Um, take an Abraxan for example. They're huge palominos, the size of elephants." Which was awesome and she was still to see one in person. "They could probably fall closer to XXXX because of their size and strength, not just anyone could handle them. Compared to an Aethonan, which are the size of regular horses.

"I think winged horses earn their classification on how big or small they are, and their chances of exposure to muggles."

Note: Learn Disillusionment Charm in order to get a winged horse.

Oh, oh, oh! Mo's hand shot up and he waved it wildly. "The yeti, Professor! The yeti is XXXX. They're big and hairy and live in Nepal. And I think they're terribly misunderstood."

So basically Mo was a big fan of hairy humanoids with big smelly feet. It really explained why he got along with Nigel so well, didn't it?

Notes were being taken in his usual messy scrawl. Yeah. Small glances were being made at the bird too, and then at the sky. No hint of rain yet? Awesome. He smiled over at Eddy before looking down at his piece of parchment again. Maybe he should make big brainstorms on each of the animals. Or re-write these notes because... SQUINT. What had he been trying to write THERE? Point.

... Moving on...

Creatures? Okay... think. There were a lot of creatures mentioned in that Fantastic Beasts book that was safely tucked away in his bag. Lots. Remembering each of their ratings was hard, which the boy soon found out. Justifying that rating wasn't going to be difficult if he knew his creatures. The key word being 'if'.

... Oh! Alec raised his had in the air, his eyes on the Professor. "There's the Streeler, a giant snail that... has a rating of XXX," Right? "And I think it has that rating because... because it leaves a trail of venom that burns vegetation and kills Horklumps. Its shell is toxic but... if you wear protective gloves, you can touch it without getting stung." ... Was he meant to have a conclusion? "So I guess... it can sting you and kill vegetables and Horklumps but it's not deadly and you can protect yourself easily so... I guess that's why it got that rating of XXX."

Stop talking? Awesome idea.

Well, auguarys are certainly fascinating but now there's a new question at hand that's quite interesting. Oichi raised her hand and responded, "Hippogriffs have three Xs because they are a bit dangerous to those who don't respect them. Hippogriffs are very proud creatures who expect you to bow to them when you approach them. If you don't you may be malled by them and thus a triple X is the rating for a hippogriff.

Kace zoned out on the previous question but he did learn a lot about the Augrey Phoenix. He smiled and noted the special information. This professor knew his stuff and he was impressed. He might learn a lot this year. Now onto the next question.

He tried to pick out his favorite magical creature and he raised his hand. "Professor uhh...the Basilisk is classified as XXXXX due to its reputation of killing people with just a look into its eyes and plus it can poison you with its venom from the fangs." He heard about the from previous years at Hogwarts and was glad he wasn't the one petrified.

See him after class?? Was he talking to her? Brynn's horrified eyes snapped up to look at the professor, though they were still mostly shielded by the hood over her head. That was exactly what she was trying to avoid - drawing attention to herself - and now she was in trouble and would have stay after to speak directly to the man, just great. Well, at least she didn't have to talk now, but her cheeks burned as red as her hair under that hood as she was sure everyone was staring at her. So much for being invisible.

And then she grew aware of Bart's retort to some weird kid bringing up his name about life experiences.. whatever, she didn't quite understand what was going on there, but didn't think much of it till she heard the professor's stern words. Ten points? Brynn's eyes grew wide again as she peeked up at who she now thought was a very strict professor. First she gets in trouble for not speaking and then Bart gets in trouble for speaking too much. She glanced over at Bart furtively just in time to catch his eye and she quickly turned away again, blushing, as she tightly huddled her arms against herself as she sat on the blanket.

Thoroughly distracted now, the first year hardly heard much more than Augurey and earmuffs for those with phonophobia. She wasn't so sure she had that, but the girl had a sneaking suspicion that she did suffer from misophonia feeling distressed by the noisy eaters at Ravenclaw table. Once the bucket neared her, she quickly grabbed a pair of earmuffs and held them in her lap with one hand and kept her other arm pulled tightly against herself.

No answers from her as she still tried her best to remain inconspicuous, the girl let the earmuffs drop to her lap so she could reach for her notebook to jot down a few things. If she wasn't going to contribute she could at least retain the information provided. And then another question. If Brynn were speaking aloud, she probably would have offered an answer about crups. She knew all about them and their XXX rating. In fact she knew about all dogs in general. She jotted that stuff down too even though it was readily accessible in her mind.

The teachers this year were really good! Marigold grinned. She was taking this class just because she wanted to learrn more about cute little animals, yes, but she found solace in this misunderstood, not that pretty bird. THEY UNDERSTOOD EACH OTHER. Marigold stopped making eyes and connections with the bird for long enough to raise her hand.

"The flobberworm is ranked X," she said. Why? "Because they are... umm... boring?" Well, they were.

This Professor seemed pretty cool. They were getting the chance to talk about all creatures which was good because Michael knew of some but not all the creatures and their Ministry rating.

But he definitely did know about one since he owned one. So he put his hand into the air. "A Jarvey has a rating of XXX. It's not dangerous in any way but it does have a tendency to incessant talking but none of it makes sense and it sometimes swears as well." Which Michael found extremely amusing at times. "You just gotta know how to handle it."

He usually shoved Napoleon in a hole when he got to boisterous and fed him rats.

Other creatures? Messer raised his hand up. "Golden Snidget, Professor." He said "They used this creature in the game of Quidditch before being replaced by the Golden Snitch." He's pretty sure most of his classmate already know that but oh well. "Its classified as XXXX not because they're dangerous but because they're endangered creature and there are severe penalties apply if it is captured or injured."

Other creatures and their ratings? Lots of good suggestions had been said, so Benjy tried to come up with something different. "Crups have a rating of XXX," he answered raising his hand. "Which I first thought was kinda weird, given their loyality to wizards...but I figure it's to with being able to control them when they go mad round Muggles. You have to have a license to owe them because of that, right?"

And he should probably be making notes. Yes, that. He twirled the quill against the stubble on his chin, before scribbling out what everyone else had been saying.

OOOH. CREATURES. Astrid always loved this part, because she would be able to recall the creatures she had studied about in the past. She raised her hand. "There's the Quintaped, Professor, also known as the Hairy Macboon and it is ranked XXXXX." She was going to let that sink in for a bit before moving on. Anyway... "It is ranked XXXXX because it's carnivorous and would attack any human who would come close to it. And it apparently has a liking for human flesh." Yes. Bucket list item # 1: NEVER go to wherever this Isle of Drear is. Okay? Okay.

And that was her share for the lesson. She was going to listen to the others speak now. Lots of interesting creatures and facts.

Delilah listened to the professor intently before she pulled out a parchment from her bag, placed it on her lap and started to take notes. It was always better to write down what was discussed in class, yeah? It definitely helped her when she studied.

Oh, yeah. She could answer this question. The Hufflepuff raised her hand, "The Doxy, professor. It's rated XXX because it's bites are extremely dangerous and if bitten, an antidote needs to be taken immediately."

Creatures and their ratings, ehh? Rhodes peeked her head out from underneath her umbrella so she could get a good listen to what everyone else was saying, because who wanted to be THAT person who repeated what someone else said, right?, and she could've sworn some people were just making up words. Really. Who came up with half those names for creatures!?

A Nundu? Whaaat?

She wasn't all that familiar with creatures, because she just didn't like them, but going by the name alone, a Nundu wouldn't seem so scary if she was told to run from one. Stupid creatures with misleading names. But, despite her lack of creature knowledge, there was one that she knew plenty about. For reasons. "There is the billywig!" Why hadn't anyone mentioned that one!? "Its Ministry rating is three X's. But they're not even dangerous! All they do is make the person really happy and levitate." Which aside from the happiness was cool, especially if you actually got to witness it firsthand. "I guess it gets that rating because, if you get stung too many times, you can wind up levitating for days. And if you're allergic to the sting, you could levitate permanently." Shrug. It wasn't that big of a deal. Nothing a string attached to the leg couldn't fix.

"A Nundu!" Sophie said with excitement. She was all about some Nundus. It was one of her life goals to track one down and defeat it single-handedly. In her excitement, she almost forgot to raise her hand, so she suddenly shot it into the air, although it was a bit after the fact. "It's earned FIVE X's." Which would be the reason she wanted to defeat one single-handedly. Nevermind the fact that it was considered the most dangerous creature alive.

So there was no note taking, Asher had this. Maybe he did. He was pretty good at care of magical creatures. maybe it was because of him having so many animals himself over the years.

He listened to the other students answers. He had an idea of what he wanted to say, but he wanted to make sure that no one was going to say it first. Realizing that he was in the clear. He raised his hand. "How about a Tebo. It resembles a warthog. There ranking is XXXX. I think its mostly since they can become invisible. Making them hard to detect." He nodded.

Caleb raised his hand. He knew a good answer to this one because he'd looked it up for Potions! "Merpeople have a classification of XXXX. This is a very interesting classification since merpeople technically are magical beings, but they themselves consider themselves creatures and don't want to be recognized with other humanoid magical beings," he explained. "They're given that rating because of their intellect - again, being close to human - and even though we don't know exactly how smart they are, they have to be pretty intelligent to have a whole language and stuff of their own. Plus, they can be nasty if they really want to be," he added. The nasty factor always bumped up that rating.

Sweet, her questions were right. Well... sort of. The comparisons were off by a bit, but the basic idea was there. Butterfly for X, house cat for XX, and freaky dragon things for XXX. Sounded good to her. And made perfect sense. Well, at least to people who could count X's. Which was her.

And for that matter, what would something like a Tiger fall into? Or like a jaguar? Or a hippo -those are surprisingly dangerous animals- for that matter? Okay she had another question.

And then she had to hide the surprised look on her face. She knew the next answer. She never really interacted with a magical creature before! So actually knowing the answer was awesome. She shot up her hand like a rocket.

"Well, a Flobberworm is an X classification, right? Because they're boring and harmless. And good for potions but not much else. And then a dragon would be like a XXX or higher because they are terrifying and dangerous. And I'd like to see someone try to use a dragon for a potion without some kind of spell involved." Sarcasm in the last sentence was high. Her questions were correct, and she was on a rolllll. Or at least she liked to think so.

"Also, what would be the Muggle equivalent of these classifications? Like what would a tiger fall into? Or like a Hippo? Those things can be really dangerous, actually. Or does this just work with magical creatures? WOULD you be able to classify a tiger on the list?"

And that's exactly where her mom wanted her to be. On an educational roll. So that at least ONE of her children was smart. Because her brother -while passionate and fun loving- wasn't getting a job with a chance at promotion soon.

"Excellent." Curtly nodding at each once again. "I'm pleased to see that you have at least opened your books during your free time." Well, Javy knew the older students would have, but anyways. "Seeing how comfortable you all are as of now, we're going to be working from our seats with today's activity." Lightly stroking Eddy's head, who still remained its sorrowful look on the stand. "It is nearing Eddy's brunch time, so we're going to be feeding him."

With a simple swish and flick, he moved the two remaining buckets out towards where the students sat. They were filled with abnormally larger than average-sized bugs. Cue the disgusted looks. "Do not worry, they aren't alive.." Well, he couldn't promise the ones that may or may not be lingering at the very bottom. Heh. "As mentioned beforehand, an Augurey's diet consists of mainly insects and fairies. Despite its size, they in fact are able to consume a very large amount. So without getting up, you're to use nothing more than a hovering charm to feed him these."

To demonstrate, Javy motioned his wand again to levitate a juicy-looking one from the bucketss. It remained motionless while being sent in the air to where Eddy stood resting until- *CLOMP* It began chewing and nomming on it right away. "Very simple.. Now it is your turn. Feel free to practice if you need it before attempting."

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OOC: Just as Javy said, your character is to feed Eddy a bug or two with one of the basic hover/levitating charms. You're free to ask another student for help if needed, but make sure it is you who feeds Eddy. Reacting to flying/dropping/live bugs is okay, but wasting them is not. The minimum amount of posts it should take is four. Other than that, have at it! You have about two days from now to complete. =)

Beings? What was the difference? Gwen shrugged. She was right at least in part. Goblins were dangerous. Ew ew ew. Those were the creepiest freaking things she'd ever seen in her life!

She watched at the professor levitated a bug over to the Augurey and waited for his to give them the spell. Nope. He didn't even say it out loud. She hadn't learned that spell yet. "Um, could someone teach me how to do that?" she asked. Because it looked like her only other option was to pick up the bug herself and there was no way that was ever going to happen.

Ian was sitting there and glibly enjoying the pleasant weather and the silence. He saw a couple of buckets hover about and noted that students seemed to be looking inside. It would appear, he'd missed something with the silence. He moved the earmuff from his right ear so he could try to catch what was going on, completely oblivious he'd cost his house 2 points.

He saw the bucket pass and peered in to see a bucket of insects that didn't appear to be moving. He wondered if he should reach in and grab one. He looked around, lest he make a mistake and saw the teacher use the other bucket to feed the sickly looking bird. Looked simple enough.

Sander quickly picked up his quill and jotted down notes in his book and then smiled when the Professor announced that it was time to feed Eddy?

'Really Eddy? He looked more like an Auggie...like short of Augerey.' Sander thought to himself stifling the laughter that he almost released when he heard what the Augurey's name was.

Walking up with the rest of the students, Sander took out his wand and with a swish and flick of his wand, said the incantation to the Levitating Spell, "Wingardium Leviosa" and concentrated on trying to lift up a bug from the bucket....only more than one bug got levitated at the same time! Could he feed Eddy more than one bug? Sander wanted to ask the Professor but decided that he would the next time if it happened again.

So he ended the spell with "Finite" and let the bugs drop back into the bucket before trying again. With another swish and flick of his wand, he said the spell again, and concentrated harder this time on picking up just one bug. He found one that was trying to squirm its way up the bucket and focused levitating that.

"Sorry man. You should have just stayed hidden under all your friends," Sander silently thought to himself as he levitated that one bug out of the bucket and then moved it towards Eddy.

Waving the bug in front of Eddy to get the Augurey's attention, Sander smiled when Eddy took one look at the bug and swallowed it up whole.

Ohhhh they got to feed him thats so awesome, Bay moved around to take his wand out while saying "Wingardium Leviosa" a dead ug rose out of the bucket and Bay moved the peice over to the large bird. "here you go buddy" he said while laughing. This class was great he didnt have to stand and got to sit down and magically give a bird some dead bugs, awesome. Bay kept his laughter quite as he fed him another one.

Sander turned around when he heard someone asking for help. It was a young Ravenclaw and so he walked up to her. "Hi there I'm Sander, and I can teach you the spell." he introduced himself.

"The words to the spell is Wingardium Leviosa and the wand movement is a simple swish and flick of wand." Sander demonstrated to the younger girl.

Then you concentrate on lifting out a bug, just like I am doing, and then you slowly move it over to Eddy over there. Remember you need to keep concentrating on the spell, because if you lose your concentration, the bug will drop," Sander reminded the girl.

"And see Eddy over here, he just likes bugs, so there it goes. Eddy has eaten it." Sander smiled at the Young Ravenclaw.

Now why don't you try and give it a go. Remember swish and flick and concentrate on keeping that bug levitated." Sander reminded the girl and stepped back to watch her.

Adi shot Ian a look. How many points had the boy lost them. However, Adi was distracted by Professor Thompson and his buckets full of bugs. They looked like ants to him. Adi didn't mind bug but ants he could not stand. Well, at least he won't have to touch them.

So all they had to do was levitate bugs to Eddy? Neat! Adi thought this was a brilliant activity. He pointed his wand to the bucket. "Wingardium Leviosa!'' Instantly, a bug emerged from the bucket and joined the few that were sailing through the air towards Eddy.

That kid knew what he was doing. He had done it twice now. Gwen tried to catch what he was saying. Something about wings and levitating? She stepped closer, trying to catch it, but it didn't look like he was saying it anymore. "Excuse me?" she asked him. "What's that spell you're using?" He was pretty successful in getting the bug to the bird.