Good...good. The plan was agreed on and now it was just about the implementation. He was coming along on his chosen path, his gaze still focused on the movement he was seeing to keep track of the gnome they were both going after. Though he was now keeping half an eye out for others to avoid any further incidents. Just in case he had worse luck than just Angel running into him.

Benny quickened his pace as the gnome started to get further away from him and not towards his partner. After a few moments of debate, he decided that maybe this time they should try another approach. Or rather he should since he and Angel hadn't been working together the first time around. So he sent a stunning spell at the gnome once he had a better sight of the creature.

Okay, so this meant war. It was 'Gnome vs. Sophie', part three of course. She'd already successfully tossed out two gnomes, and she felt certain she could toss out a third. She had her eyes set on a particular gnome, too. This one thought he could get the best of her. This one was wrong, though.

"HEY, YOU!" Sophie called out.

Sophie had no idea if the gnome understood her, but he'd heard her. He'd jerked his heard toward her then took off running. Yeah, he wasn't going to get that far... Or, that was Sophie's plan, at least. She ran parallel to him then finally gained on him. Running in front of him now, she stuck out her foot and stopped him right in his tracks.

She could tell her foot had gotten him good, because he'd stopped and was acting very, very dizzy. Sophie took the opportunity to pick him up, dangle him by his feet, and start spinning. She knew her aim had been off last time, so this time, she stopped for a split second, eyed the grassy area, and then tossed the gnome.

Her aim was spot on. The gnome landed in the same area the first two had landed on. BWAH HAHA! Gnomes: 0. Sophie: 3.

Was she done now? Hayden thought back to the beginning of the lesson and mentally counted the gnomes she thrown. She knew it was at least two, even possibly three. Either way, she was free to go. Hayden brushed herself off, not that it helped, and walked toward the garden's exit. She took a coin as she left. "Thanks professor," she said, trying to sound as happy as possibly despite what he had just made her do. Whatever, it was over now. Shower time.

Caleb was skeptical about using the Confundus charm, he was afraid that would knock the gnome out TOOOOO much and then it wouldn't be a challenge for him! Still, he wasn't about to get bit again, so he waited until another one came running by him.

"Confundo!" he exclaimed, aiming right for the gnome. It was a bit harder than he intended, and the gnome flew off his little feet. Caleb pounced, grabbing the gnome by his ankles and preparing to fling him around.

BEAMMMMM. Just like that Marigold's mood DRASTICALLY improved. "Thanks, McFly!" she said, giving him a hug, as if he'd caught it for her and not STOLEN IT FROM HER SPHERE OF POWER. Humph. Anyway. She let go of him quickly and too the gnome. With one last beam, she skipped off to a reasonable distance away and wound up, holding the gnome. She flung it over the fence, which it actually went over this time, and she smiled. She went off to leave class, but she snuck a look back at her gnome. Heh.

"Thanks, professor!" And ooooh, coins.

Alright, Caleb had a passed out gnome in his hands. Well, sort of. It was just really groggy and out of it. So, Caleb took his chance - he grabbed him pudgy ankles and began to spin.

Spin, spin, spin...Caleb kept going until he was dizzy and afraid that he would go tumbling over the wall with him if he wasn't careful. So once he was sure he had gotten him good and dizzy, he let go and watched the gnome sail through the air...

All the way over the wall. Yes!! His first successful de-gnoming. In this class, at least. WOOOOT!

Zahra bent over the gnome she had ACCIDENTALLY smacked against the wall.

She prodded it with her foot.

...

WAS IT DEAD?

She rolled it over to see if it pooped it's gnome-self. Sniff sniff. ...no apparent gnome poop.... not dead then! Cool.

...

So.... to tell the Professor? He'd probably be mad, right? Yeah.... Zahra thought about just putting the CONCUSSED gnome over the fence thing but then what if a WILD ANIMAL came and ate him? As cool as that was, Zahra didn't want that to happen.

....this is how Zahra ended up stuffing an unconscious gnome in her sweater. NOTHING TO SEE HER. JUST GAINED A LITTLE WEIGHT OVER THE SUMMER.

Tobias dove to the ground as one particularly fast gnome dashed off in a different direction. He'd been tailing it for a few minutes now and was currently in marvelous spirits. Nothing like a good run around to lift your mood.

As he through himself down, he reached out to grasp the gnome with both hands. His dive had given him the extra distance he'd needed, and Toby had managed to grab the gnome around the middle, effectively pinning its arms to its sides as he did so.

The Hufflepuff pushed himself up to his feet and staggered slightly. The gnome was so strong and was fighting back, and it was difficult to not let go. Toby moved into a free space again and got ready to spin.

Dylan was just about to pick up the gnome he had knocked over when someone bumped into him, causing him to fall over. He glanced up at where the gnome had been laying to see it running away. "Damn," he said under his breath as he stood to his feet, brushing off the grass from his robes. He looked around to see Josette, looking a bit frightened. He waved a hand, patting her shoulder. "Hey, it's cool, no biggie." he told her with a shrug. He then turned to find a new gnome, which wasn't too hard. He knocked it over again with his foot and went to grab it as quickly as he could.

Toby figured that he'd make the gnome dizzier by holding its feet, just like with the last one. With that in mind, he quickly transferred his grip from waist to ankle and began spinning immediately, fully aware that the creature would try to bite him given half the chance. The students were wearing gloves, but the gnomes looked pretty determined. Gloves probably made minimal difference.

Because he'd already done this once, Tobias had a better measure of when the best time to let go of the gnome was. He span faster and for slightly longer this time, eventually letting go of the garden gnome just before facing the fence again. The gnome span wildly through the air and Toby staggered slightly, realising he'd span a little too much and made himself dizzy. He quickly regained his balanced by placing a hand on the fence and looked out to make sure the gnome was okay.

There, straight ahead of him, was a gnome that was staggering way worse than Toby had been. That could only be his gnome; there wasn't anyone else throwing in this direction.

Now that he was sure that gnome was, like, not dead, Toby was back on the prowl for another one. If you looked past the potential injuries for either you or the gnome, this was pretty fun.

Zahra was ALMOST back to the gate in. She was ABOUT to go.... with her KO'd gnome in tow. BUT..........

The gnome came to.

And it bit Zahra's belly WITH ALL OF ITS awful might.

OH OH OHOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!1111111


Zahra shed her sweater, but this gnome was LATCHED to her through her undershirt. Oh man oh man OH MAN.

She jumped up and down, flailed, punched the potato that was biting her belly (and effectively just punched herself because that aiming was hard). Zahra rotated from laughing and screaming, something like AHHHHH HAHAHAHAH AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HAHAHAHAHAHA

Because it was hilarious.

But it also HURT A LOT. "Im being EATEN ALIVE!" hahahah ahhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!

Dylan grabbed the gnome by its feet and lifted it up. This one was a bit more fiesty this time, and it swung at him like mad. "Oi!" Dylan cried, tightening his grip on the gnome's legs. "Be nice-" he began to say, but he then yelped loudly as the gnome swung at him with all its might and bit his wrist. The third year let go immidiately and bit his lip, pulling down his sleeve to see if it was bad at all. It was just a little scratch was all. He let out a frustrated sigh as he wiped off the little bit of blood. He then ran off to find a new gnome, which wasn't too hard. He found one right away and knocked it over, grabbing it as soon as he could. "Please be a nice gnome..." he thought to himself as he prepared himself to begin spinning.

Caleb could HEAR a commotion going on around him, but naturally he didn't care what craziness his classmates had gotten into. All he wanted to focus on was earning points and completing the task for himself and his house.

Thankfully, the commotion had caused a group of nearby gnomes to get distracted as they laughed and pointed at....something, Caleb thought he heard a girl had gotten bit or something, typical girl reaction. Seizing his chance, he ran forward and grabbed one of the little gnomes, not even bothering to try and charm him.

"Got ya!" he exclaimed, and he immediately grabbed the gnome's feet and began to twirl before he even started to comprehend what was happening. Caleb felt bad for the gnome - for like a second.

Right. Now that she had her gnome in hand, Kate needed to be sure that it actually went all the way over the fence this time. She didn't need to run around catching gnomes anymore, she'd gotten her exercise for the day already. So. What had gone wrong last time?

Maybe Kate had released the gnome too early. She thought about that for a minute, moving the wriggling gnome along the trajectory she figured it had gone earlier. That maybe could account for it not flying high enough to clear the fence. That settled it, then. She would spin it an extra time and make sure she aimed high enough.

Gnome feet in hand, Kate checked that she wouldn't hit anybody in the face before spinning her gnome in circles. Six circles, to be precise. On the sixth and last rotation, she wrinkled her nose for extra concentration. She didn't want to miss again. As she released the gnome, she raised her arms a little to give the gnome some extra altitude as it went…

Waaay over the fence and into the target zone with all the other dizzy gnomes they had thrown. Kate grinned proudly as she watched her gnome land. As her pride wore off she realized there was a student screaming in the background.

Oh! Screaming!

Kate spun around to see what was happening. Oh! An older girl was being bit by a gnome! Kate instinctively took a step toward the girl to go help her, but then thought about it. She wouldn't really know what to do to help, after all. She didn't want to make things worse. Probably the professor could handle the situation, after all. Not her business! So instead of going to help, Kate just stood and watched the commotion from a safe distance.

Caleb spun and spun, until he almost felt sick, so he could be CERTAIN that the gnome was totally dizzy and he could send him flying over the wall. When he finally let go, he saw the gnome fall over the wall and then...

He fell over.

He toppled to the ground, trying to regain his balance and probably looking like a fool as he fell right on his bum. After blinking a few times and shaking his head to get his balance back, he stood up again, ready to go after another gnome.

They were all running around, so he decided to go the wand route again. "Confundo!" he cried, picking out one of the gnomes from the crowd and watching as it knocked him off his little legs.

Still not considering the idea of using magic, Toby continued around the garden. It was a lot more difficult to find a gnome to fling now, especially since so many people had already finished up. But he was determined to keep on keeping on. This was the perfect opportunity for some exercise.

Suddenly, Tobias was on the floor again, but not because he intended it. Nope, instead, he had been ACCOSTED by a gnome who had decided to munch on his ankles. Toby, taken by surprise, had fallen to the ground with an 'EEEEEP'. A minor tussle had then ensued, in which Toby attempted to subdue the garden gnome but without hurting it. All that had really happened was that he'd been properly duffed up by a tiny gnome, but after a good few minutes, he had hold of the little blighter.

As he stood up, Toby almost dropped the gnome when a suddenly SHRILL voice rang out from somewhere behind him. He corrected his grasp on the gnomes ankles and glanced around, though Toby knew exactly who was making the commotion already.

Zahra was, quite frankly, hilarious. Toby had to stop what he was doing for a few moments just to stare and try not to laugh. He wasn't sure if he wanted to approach the Gryffindor, seeing as she sounded as though she was possessed, so Toby merely stood by, amused and confused.

He'd fling the gnome in a minute; this was highly entertaining.

Beverly was careful this time as she spun around, the gnome's slightly frozen smiling face looking upward. Merlin, that was honestly the most hideous thing in existence, along with her cousin. It was probably her father's reason for not letting her get near them when she was younger. They'd spoil her beautiful eyes. He was right to keep them away.

Once again measuring her distance from the fence, Beverly TOSSED the gnome and grinned to herself as she saw it's wiggly skinny legs disappear behind it. Bye, bye, dweeb!

Now, to look for another victim.

Oh, it was probably a good idea to... uhhh... chuck this thing.

Toby realised he'd been staring at Zahra's predicament for some time when the gnome that he was holding began swinging to and fro in his hand, it's arms waving for his attention. It was probably fed up of dangling and wanted to get down, by any means possible. So Toby gave the gnome its wish.

He span and span and span, intending to reach the same speed as last spin, but perhaps not go for quite as long. He watched his surroundings carefully, waiting for the perfect time to let go of the garden gnome.

Grabbing her newly acquired gnome, Zander dangled him upside down by his feet. HA.

Zander: 1 Gnome: 0

"How do you like me now buddie?" Mhmmm maybe de-gnoming wasn't that bad after all. Now that he knew exactly what spell to use, things were going pretty darn swell. Now? The fun part. SWING YOUR PARTNER ROUND AND ROUND. HAHA Yeah gnome take that! AND WOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOO THERE YOU GO!

Fail. His throw could not have gone any worse.

Zander: -1 Gnome: 100 (noted)

The gnome Dylan was about to spin and throw over the fence suddenly swung at him trying to bite him. But Dylan was quick this time, and tightened his grip on its legs and moved it as far as he could away from him. Ugh! He was tired of all these gnomes trying to bite him. Sighing, he began spinning around as fast as he could. Gnomes were a bit annoying. He was ready to be done with these things.

Rubbing his hand where the previous gnome bit him, Jun walked around, hoping either one would pop out soon or he'd bumped into one. There must've been a lot of them in here to begin with, no? Whoever managed to throw more than two gnomes over the fence should get punched. How does one even manage that? Sure, if they'e done it for a real long time. But they were just students and not exactly how he wanted to spend his class time.

No one would really.

C'mon, little gnome. Where are you? Jun just wanted to toss one more over the fence and head inside. He even had gotten hungry out here. And thinking about food made him hungrier. Maybe he should've stuffed candy into his pocket. Sighing, the boy walked and suddenly saw another gnome running away. Sprinting again, he chased the mobile potato and quickly lunged at it.

HA! GOTCHA NOW, YOU IRRITATING POTATO!

Just at what he had calculated to be the right moment, Toby let go off his gnome and sent it careering through the air. He had been aiming for a particular patch of grass which was a little further away from where his other gnomes had landed. The garden gnome landed perfectly on target and Tobias had to stop himself from cheering in success. The creature seemed a little dazed for a moment or two, but had soon regained his feet and was staggering away, just like many of the others that had been thrown by everyone else.

Toby beamed, glad he'd managed to get this more or less right, and with THREE gnomes, no less. Definite success. He was about to consider himself completely finished and leave the lesson, but when the Hufflepuff turned, he clapped eyes on Zahra again. He didn't consciously make the decision to stand and stare at her, but Toby was soon transfixed at the Gryffindor's antics. Wow. Just wow.

What was she...? Wow.

Dylan spun around about three times very quickly before throwing the gnome as hard as he could over the fence. Once he regained his balance (and nearly falling over because he was so dizzy - woops), he blinked a few times and looked up just in time to see the gnome soar over the fence and hit the ground. Two down! Perfect. Dylan turned, making a quick brush of his hands. That had actually been quite fun, except for the part where he had gotten bit.

Cutty likewise took a few steps away from the other Mordaunt boy for much the same reason. Getting smacked in the face with a garden gnome would probably have not been fun. From the safety of his distance he watched as Ethan spun and sung each hand bearing a potato-like creature. It was like watching some demented and jacked up merry-go-round. It both sedated and excited Cutty Mordaunt. An ultimate moment of zen.

The other Slytherin's mouth hung open in a smile watching as the gnomes got airborne and gone from the combined efforts of the class. He wanted to try this. He saw a nearby patch of foliage wiggle momentarily, shortly before several of the ugly little creatures came at him. "Stupefy!" He shot at the one second to the closest to him.

Everyone looked around finished. But Zander had only managed to get one gnome into the pen, this whole time! GAH. Okay shaking off the last *ahem* failed attempt, Zander tried to look at this next one with a positive attitude. These gnomes are no match for Zander HA.

Eyeing the next victim, Zander made a move. MUAHAHA. Ready or not, here he comes! AHHHHHHHHH. "CONFUNDO" MUAHAHA. YES! Gnome down. At least his aim was improving? Okay. Must. Capture. That. Gnome.

Zander lifted it into the air holding on to one foot. With one swift motion he started to spin it around and HAZZAAAA! IT WENT IN IT WENT IN! YAY! This is beautiful. Magnificent. Fantastic. All good things. YES YES YES. He did it!

This would make such a beautiful story to tell them grankids one day.

Two gnomes successfully thrown into the pen. Awwwhyeaaaah.