He didn't miss the other one coming, all right. And he was ready to tackle it because... "I'm on faaaiiiaaaah!!!" He did stop though and deadpanned when Agatha stopped him from attacking the gnome and saw her magically tickle the gnome.

He did use that spell the first time, and the laughter was contagious.

Ethan would have sat there and laughed with the gnome all day, but the she-snake was asking him to do the other half of the de-gnoming process.

"Nu-uh." he said as he wiggled a finger at Agatha's face. "Your catch, your throw." he added and gestured towards the tall grass. "Come on. Let me see what you got." BEAMS.

Ethan got distracted when a gnome ran behind them. "'scuse me!" he said as he ran off and chased the gnome. The Slytherin got hold of its legs and pulled the stubborn gnome towards him since the creature had a death grip on the fence. "Let. Go. Let. GO!" Ethan pulled with all his might and he ended up tumbling backwards with the gnome.

He didn't waste his time to stand up and spun around a couple of times and threw the gnome across the tall grass. "Farewell, my friend!....ANDDON'TCOMEBACK!" Did Agatha see that? She really should be taking down notes.

Lucy looked over the fence of the garden to see where the grass was high ..
She moved laterally clutching the gnome..Now it's the moment..
With a couple of arm rotation Lucy threw the gnome with all the strength she had .."Hurrah! Dad would be proud of me now!" she said!

"I didn't think so." she said shaking her head amused. "Well of course I did after all....err catch the blasted thing." She took the gnome into her hands by the ankles. She was going to make that thing fly. Yes she was! "Right...." she said eyeing him even more now. "Well I'll do better on the next try." Like uhhh stand her ground.

Right.

She held the gnome by the ankles and backed up a bit before starting to spin in circles.

Of course. She'd caught it. It hadn't caught her. Nope. Nodding as if to say he understood, Daniel stepped back once Zoe had the gnome and watched her spin. His eyes were drawn to another gnome that was hiding and watching Zoe. Sneaking up on it, Dan grabbed one of its ankles and yoinked it up into the air. HAH. He won!

Wait, it was squirming like the other one! Frowning, he started spinning the gnome and threw it, but he winced as it hit the fence instead. Okay, yeah, he wasn't doing that again. Poor gnome! He was peering at the fence through his fingers now.

She let go of the ankles and watched as the gnome flew into the distance. Hearing a thump she glanced towards Dan and then back out and sighed when the gnome didn't make it into the grass. Wait where...the thud... Her eyes widened as she saw the gnome that was against the fence "What did you do???" she asked staring at Dan with wide eyes. That poor gnome! "Is it even okay?" she asked moving closer to it slowly.

How RUDE. Agatha frowned at Ethan when he failed to obey her command and frowned at the stupid gnome as well. Hmph. "Fine." She said stubbornly, grabbing the creature's feet and not bothering to step away from Ethan before starting to spin around. If he got hit, it was his problem.

She didn't realise the other thrid year were off to deal with another gnome when she was spinnig around, her beautiful hair going everywhere again. She couldn't SEE a THING. Merlin, that was ANNOYING. But there she went spinning... and spinning... and spinning... she had the option of either doing the whole ballet technique of focusing on one specific point and dealing with her hair just fine or she would de-gnome properly, because that thing was HEAVY. So she had to go with not using her technique so the gnome would be spun around the right way. Urgh.

HAIR ALL OVER HER FACE. SHE COULDN'T SEE A THING. So. Annoying.

Agatha finally let go of the gnome's feet and stumbled around as she tried to get her hair out of her face. When she managed to stand up steadily, she looked around and had no idea where the gnome had gone. Hopefully that meant she had done it properly. "Did you see that?" She asked Ethan. If she had done well, he'd better praise her, if not... well, he'd let her know. Maybe it hadn't been a good idea to ask him...

"I don't know!" He answered, his voice higher pitched than he even thought was possible. "I just... threw it like I was told!" he backed away more, feeling really bad. "I shouldn't be here." Maybe he could run for the library? Dan's eyes went to Zoe, but he shook his head again. "Don't touch it! It'll bite!"

Ugh. There were just too many people around, and every time Mo spotted a gnome, someone got in the way or grabbed it first or distracted him. It made the seventh year grumpy, and he didn't like being grumpy. He finally made his way to the perimeter and started kicking bushes and trying to roust out a gnome that way.

Roust, gnome. ROUST.

Finally, Mo spotted one nobbly little ear poking out of some long grass, and he reached down and grabbed it, dragging the whole potato-head out of the weeds. While the gnome attempted valiantly to give vicious bites, Mo managed to dodge getting wounded. Narrowly, but he was bite-free. "Settle down, mister. No one's hurting you. Much."

She stopped and nodded "I....I hope it's okay." she said with wide eyes. He was going to run for the library wasn't he? "You can't just leave class!" she whispered back to him as she watched the gnome laying there. "Maybe it's just stunned." Right. Now to get another gnome and get one beyond the fence... She REALLY wanted to stop one with her foot too!

"I think I hurt it bad." he stepped away from them again. "Yes I can!" he hissed to her, eyeing the gnome. "No one needs me here anyway." He had hurt a gnome and hadn't meant to! "I'm going." If Zoe wanted to get a gnome, that was her choice. He swallowed and looked around before turning his back to leave the class.

Kate hesitated. She had to catch and fling two gnomes. She shuddered, then remembered she was wearing gloves. Thank goodness for gloves. Rolling up her sleeves a little bit, Kate looked around for a gnome. She needed to get started, and for that she needed a gnome. "Here, gnomey, gnomey…" Seriously, though, where were all of them?

Aha! A gnome!

Completely forgetting that she wasn't supposed to hurt it and that it would try to bite her, Kate pounced on the gnome. Pinning it down with two hands, she noticed it trying to bite her. Oh. She needed to keep her fingers away from its nasty gnome teeth. Kate wrinkled her nose. Gripping it carefully around its potato-y torso, Kate picked up the gnome and grinned at her accomplishment.

She had caught a gnome with her bare (well, gloved) hands!

"If you leave you'll get detention!" she hissed back to him. "And...I want you here." GAG, merlin had she seriously just said that??? "And anyway, it'll be okay, the professor will make sure it's not dead or anything!" She reached out to grab his arm "Please stay anyway. At least help me get them over the fence..." She might get tackled by another one! She really didn't want to be...

Ethan had the biggest smile on his face as he saw his gnome go over the pen and into the tall grass. Ethan=Winning, Gnome=Losing. He spun around to check on Agatha's progress, but as he did so, Agatha's gnome smacked the side of his head. "OUCH!" The Slytherin could swear that he was seeing double as he massaged his head. "Oh yeah, I did see that." Did she know she was failing at this?

Gosh. Girls.

"This. Is how you do it." Ethan picked up the gnome which was probably half-knocked out by its leg and shook it in front of Agatha. "This is your gnome. You hold it by the leg, spin around to make it dizzy, and throw it at an angle aiming for the tall grass over there." he said as he pointed the target with the gnome on his hand. "Watch."

Ethan performed the de-gnoming process away from Agatha and threw it across the tall grass. "And the gnome goes bye-bye." The Slytherin would have given her a grin, but the slight pain he felt on his head prevented him from doing it. "Where is Bart when you need him?"

"I don't care. I can read there." he answered, but when she said she wanted him there, he pulled a face. "That's disgusting." Blech. "Fine." he sighed when she grabbed his arm. "Lets find another." Maybe they could shake a bush or something? Dan's eyes scanned the area and he pointed to one that was stumbling back from the fence from another person's failed attempt.

Searching for a gnome happened. Marigold saw a couple that she was going to try and catch, but other students kept grabbing them. She noticed one a little ways away, so instead of trying to catch it with her foot, she took out her wand. "Petrificus Totalus!" she said, then pointed her wand at the gnome. She ran forward when she realized it had stopped moving. Go her, woot!

"Oh so that's what you call hiding?" she asked her eyes sparkling in amusement. "I know that even makes me gag." she said wrinkling her nose, "OHH!" she said nodding as he pointed. Hey it wasn't running...mayb...no it wouldn't work, it'd likely just trip over her foot. She moved quickly to catch hold of it, ending up making it topple over and bent to grab its ankles and start spinning as it shrieked 'geroff!'

"No." he frowned at Zoe. Nodding in agreement when she said it made her gag, Dan watched her try to get the gnome and just STARED at her spinning. She was going to be dizzy. "Aim high, throw hard." Why was he giving her advice?! He didn't know how to do it either!

Okay. He was just going to stand here and be quiet.

Norah scanned the pandemonium for that pesky gnome that had escaped her. Another potato-headed creature threaded it's way through her legs and continued on it's path to her left. She couldn't tell if it was the same one, but with her adrenaline pumping like this it didn't really matter. She pranced in front of the gnome and stood firmly in it's path, arms shoulder width apart and hands on her hips. She was ready for action. The gnome stopped a few inches from her feet and gave her a squinty eyed scowl. She lifted a leg to stop it, but just then another gnome went whizzing over her head, and she lost her balance. She landed with a muffled thud on the hard packed earth and by the time she had brushed her scraggly curls from her face, the gnome was continuing on it's way. She swore she could hear it chuckling. Meanie.

She definitely snickered at his response but covered it by coughing into her shoulder. Right, she wasn't laughing. Just like he wasn't hiding in the library. "Woah..." she murmured as she stumbled a little, no more spinning, just throw. Right aim high, throw hard. Yep, stumble again first though and then, let the gnome go. She let go finally and watched as it flew hitting the top edge of the fence and....and...wobbling... Fall off!

FINALLY!

The gnome fell over the fence to the other side. Well at least she wouldn't know now if it were knocked out or not.

Poor gnome....she thought as she looked at Dan's again.

Bay wanted to drown his head in water from running around chasing after these things, he saw other students catching them.. "how on earth are they doing this?" he thought as he made a run for another one. Just before his hands could grab a hold it slipped through his sweaty fingers.

"ugggghhhhhh" he screamed at himself as he stopped to catch his breath. This was such a work out. Maybe if he stayed near a corner it would help him catch these fast buggers quicker. Running over to a cover of the patch he kept an eye open so he couldn't miss one.

If she fell over, could he laugh at her? Probably not. She'd make his life difficult. Biting his lip, Dan watched as the gnome flew away and went over the fence. "Well done." His gnome was still laid there. Was it hurt? Seriously. "Should I...?" he asked, taking an uncertain step toward the gnome. He'd probably get detention if it died.

Gwen cast her eyes around for a gnome, dreading having to throw one of the cute little cousins of her new pet, tucked safely in her pocket. He might even have gone to sleep. He wasn't moving. She checked quickly, yep, still breathing. The little guy was asleep. She would have to come up with a name for him, assuming she got to keep him.

She turned to the left, spotting a running gnome just as a different gnome, airborne by someone else's throw, hit her in her back. Gwen said a word her mom would have smacked her for if she'd heard, and turned around to see whose bad aim had caused that.

Not seeing anybody who it might have been, Gwen picked up the already dizzy gnome. "You okay little guy? I'm really sorry about this, but I have to get you over the fence." She couldn't throw him. He was already all dizzy and stumbling around. She took two steps over to the fence and set him down gently on the other side, facing away from the garden so he would toddle in that direction. One down, one to go.

"Thank you" she said beaming and finally looking a little steadier and not cross-eyed. "I ummm, I don't know. What if you get hit by flying gnomes?" Well tossed gnomes...they didn't actually fly. "And it's quite aways away too..." At least if he did and it was okay he could drop it on the other side of the fence and say it made it. Right?

Woops.

"You should get out of the way!" Agatha rolled her eyes at him as she walked over to where he was standing now. She watched him getting rid of the gnome and felt a mixture of anger for having failed and achievement for getting Ethan to the work for her. She chose to focus on the achievement this time, and fixed her beautiful hair once again to make sure it was alright after all that spinning around.

Ethan started to explain to her how to do it and Agatha huffed annoyed. "That's what I did! Rictusempra!" She casted the spell on yet another gnome that was shuffling past them. Oh no... was Ethan going to laugh with the gnome again? Agatha regreted using that spell as soon as she pronounced the incantation.

Ignoring whatever reaction that was coming from Ethan, she went to hold the gnome's feet and lifted it up as it laughed. She shook it a bit because she was still annoyed. "Is there any other way to make it dizzy?" She'd rather use another method, if there was one. The pirouette one was definitely not working. "Actually, show me how to do it again." Agatha held the upside-down gnome out so Ethan could take it from her. She couldn't do it so she wasn't going to make a fool of herself. Again.

"I... if anyone asks, I didn't throw it." he whispered to Zoe and looked around for another gnome to occupy himself with. Yep. Just move on. Eep. "Help me find one?" Maybe he should just lie down and wait for them to jump on him?