Olly was so proud of herself that she just stared at the gnome for a moment. Though it seemed that the creatures weren't THAT stupid after all, seeing as hers suddenly started moving again, trying to get around her shoe. In turn causing Olly to move her foot again and hitting the gnome in the face slightly. Ahem. Yes. At least there hadn't been an audible crack or anything. So nothing seemed to be broken.

A spell though. She needed a spell.

Pulling out her wand she pointed it at the creature...and cast the first spell that came to her mind. "Aguamenti." The force of the water in its face made the gnome fall over. Which was...hey, they were supposed to do that, yeah? Yeah. That looked about right.

Quickly holstering her wand again, Olly approached the gnome. Seemed it had got some of the water in its mouth too. Eh. It wouldn't choke on it. Besides, she was going to hold it upside down now anyway. That was bound to get rid of all the water. And that was what she did. Reach for the gnome's feet and holding it up.

Where was Schuyler? Look, she was holding an ugly wet gnome.

Its De-gnoming time...!!!!

Candice saw how Professor Thomspon handled that ugly thing. The Professor did it like its easy but she was pretty sure Professor Thomspon already did this like hundred times. Two gnomes? They need to throw two gnomes? She's not even sure that she could catch one let alone throw it over the fence. However she's kinda looking forward to try it.

Now, first she need to find a gnomes. That's easy enough, she spotted one gnome not far from where she's standing. The Gryfindor slowly walked toward the creature hoping that it didn't feel her presence but unfortunately for her when she was about to grab that gnome, it ran away. "Oh no, you didn't." She's not going to let that gnome go that easy.

Okay. Okay. Marigold was gonna catch herself some GNOMES, as soon as she stopped laughing at Zahra. She was adorable, in the most intimidating and somewhat terrifying way, of course. But focusing. Yes. She scanned the ground for gnomes. Oh look! A gnome! That was running her way!

"Hi, gnome!" she said, beaming at the gnome as it ran past her. Waaaaaait a second. Her grin turned to confusion, then a scowl. Come baaaaaaack! She sprinted after the gnome, dodging people as to knock knock them over. Then, the gnome turned around and started sprinting towards HER. Oh no. She started running away from it.

... What was she doing? She stopped and whirled around, hands on her hips, and stuck out a foot, changing its position so the gnome ran nearly into it. Heh. Success.

Sophie made it to the other side and carefully approached the gnome she'd spotted. Then she had a different idea besides just charging at the gnome. "HEY, YOU!" she called out. "Bet'cha can't catch me!" Not like the gnome really understood that, but yeah... She dangled her leg so the gnome could get a good look at what he might want to sink her teeth into. Then she turned around and jogged off.

A few seconds later, she turned around and sure enough, the gnome was chasing after her. She grinned and just stood in place while she waited for the gnome to get closer and closer. You know, make him REALLLLLY want to catch her. When it looked like the gnome was just about to reach her, Sophie turned and ran off again. Hahahaha, little gnome!

Finally, she turned around and decided it was now time for foot to meet gnome. She stood in place again and waited until the gnome got within a good distance. When it did, she stuck her foot out. ... BAM! Foot met gnome. HAHA! She imagined that was a very startling experience for the gnome.

Oh boy. Hayden already knew this lesson was not going to go well. After the professor had finished giving the instructions she stood there for a moment, just staring out at the garden and contemplating the task in front of her. Ew, gnomes.

Eventually she started forward. She tried to stay confident. She could do this. All she had to do at the moment was find a gnome. The rest of her task was what scared her so she wasn't going to think about that until she came to it. Hayden wandered through the garden, occasionally stopping to watch the other students throw their gnomes over the fence. There certainly wasn't a shortage of gnomes. Hayden saw a couple before they darted out of her sight. She could have went after them, but did she really want to do that. Sure enough, just seconds later a much easier gnome to catch came running toward her. Hayden hoped he wouldn't be too hard to catch, or try to bite her.

The gnome was running faster than she expected, so she wasn't quite ready. He ran right into her legs just as she'd recognized what was going to happen. So she couldn't stop herself from falling hard onto her back on the dirt. She had the wind knocked out of her so she couldn't say anything or even hear much for a few seconds. But as her senses came back to here she heard evil laughter coming from the gnome running in the opposite direction. Hayden pushed herself into a sitting position and glared after the gnome. Now she was determined.

There was something Olly had forgotten.

Which was to hold the gnome in a way that it was facing AWAY from her. Now that she looked down she almost dropped it again. Man, that thing was ugly. Imagine, having to degnome your garden every day. She was glad that they didn't have those in their garden back home. Muggle neighborhoods did have their perks apparently.

Right but she'd already wasted too much time just wrinkling her nose at the thing. Time to throw it off into the sunset. Or you know, across the fence. First she had to turn it around though. Which involved then gnome merely dangling by one foot from her hand while she switched hands.

She almost dropped the thing about three times in the process. Only almost though.

Now it was time to twirl though. Or at least that was what the rest of the students seemed to be doing. So that was what Olly did too. Turn and turn and turn and turn and turn and turn and turn and was it normal for her to feel a little dizzy? Eh. Turn turn turn turn she should probably let go of the thing before-

Yes. And off flying it went because otherwise Olly was pretty sure she'd have thrown up on the spot. She still might actually. She blinked.

No. She was fine. No big deal. Yes. Hello.

Obviously, his spell had not worked as the Gnome ran in the opposite direction of him. Why hadn't it worked though? Kevin looked at the Phoenix Feather wand. Honestly, sometimes he felt like the thing had a will of its own.

The Gryffindor pushed himself off of the ground and wiped the dirt off of his jeans before looking around. A Gnome was beside him a few feet away and the second year pointed his wand at it. "STUPEFY!" He shouted. This time with more determination and watched as the red light hit the ugly creature. Woohoo! He ran towards it and immediately grabbed its legs. Now he just had to spin right?

With a grin, Kevin spun around. Once...twice...three times....four..five..six...okay he was getting dizzy now. And the stunning spell began to stop working as the Gnome started to struggle in his grasp now. He let go of the creature before it could harm him and watched it fly through the sky with a good speed.

The Gnome didn't land in the pen though but a few steps in front of it. No matter, he would just try again.

Okay, so Marigold had the gnome underneath her foot, but HOW on EARTH was she supposed to just pick it up? She bent at the waist, lowering her hand and her face closer to it. It's legs were flailing, but she still tried to grab them.

"Ugh! Stay still, ugh, OOMF - gotcha!" She stood up in victory, holding the gnome by its feet. Except it was facing her. She spun it around quickly. It looked like a potato from the back. With legs.

UGH.

Agatha stomped her way towards the gnome she tried to toss away. The little ugly thing seemed like a grumpy, defiant one, as it didn't run away from her."Time to go, gnome." She ignored its complaints - or whatever those sounds were - and tried to grab its feet again. Though when she leaned forward to do so, he almost bit her hands. "HEY!" No gnome bit Agatha's hands. "How rude!" She pointed her wand at the stupid thing as it marched her way. "Talantallegra." The dancing spell. It was one of Agatha's favourites.

....That hadn't been a very good idea because now the gnome was kicking in all directions as it danced away, making it almost impossible for her to get a hold of its feet. "Oh, great. Finite." Hm.

Oh. The gnome was definitely NOT happy with her. She finally did as the professor demonstrated and held out her foot, placing its sole on the gnome's potato head. "Rictusempra." Better use the one that had been working for the others, she supposed. When the gnome fell back laughing its head off, Agatha shook her head and got ready to spin it around again.

Zoe had watched the professor stop the gnome with his foot and thought it was pretty cute watching it running in place with its face planted into the bottom of the professors foot and definitely wanted to try that before even spinning around with them and tossing them into that tall grassy area. She'd done this loads of times in her grandmother's garden, but had never tried making a gnome run in place! She knew it was wrong to tease them, but it looked funny!

She looked around her as other students started catching up gnomes and saw one of them pop its head out gazing at her and she blew a raspberry at it and watched it climb out and run towards her. Heh, they really weren't all that bright were they? She stuck her foot out like she'd seen the professor do and thought she had her balance well enough but fell over as the gnome hit her foot.

Great. So he was going to be cleaning up after someone else's messes. It wasn't his job to deal with gnomes, y'know? They had someone here whose job that was very specifically to do just this thing.

Fiddling with his gloves, he looked 'round at every one else who was chasing the stupid potato heads around. That would not be him. He wouldn't stoop so low as to cha-

OWWW. One of those little stupid...gah. It bit him. Did the gnome know how valuable this skin was? He was Ascanius Stark and his skin could not be tampered with. He had a level of beauty to uphold.

That one. He was going to chase that one.

So no gnome was running into his feet this time. Shame. That meant he had to move and actually find one. Time for some Gnome hunting. Nigel walked around with his wand ready. HeHe. He was still really immature. Anyway, would you look at that one was a little to his right. The one question Nigel had is, are there any smart garden gnomes or are they all idiotic.

"Stupefy"

He only said no attacking spells.

Well now the gnome was stunned. So this should be easier now.

Ethan, satisfied with his last throw, dusted his shirt with his gloved hand with the biggest grin on his face. This was easy…and fun!

The Slytherin moved from his spot to another to take a breather. That’s when he spotted a familiar face. Where did she meet that girl? Yeah, the one spinning with her hair all over her face? “Think, Mordaunt. Think.”

…

Wait. She’s Bart’s loud friend. Yeah, yeah. The one who was disgusted with frogs! “Now…what’s her name again? Nagini? NO. Nagatha? Ehh…close. Agatha?” The name clicked and Ethan made his way towards the girl who just tossed the gnome…and failed. “Agathaaaa! Heeeello!” The Slytherin waved a gloved hand to her and was about to hug her but paused. “Err…Yeah. Hi.” Ethan retracted his arms and scratched his head. “Awwwkward.”

Gee. He needed to get out of there. But how?

A gnome to the rescue! Agatha’s gnome to be exact. The creature dashed towards them and was about to give its revenge. “I got this!” Ethan faced the gnome just in time to have his foot stuck out stopping the gnome. “Immobulus!” The gnome stopped moving and fell backwards. The Slytherin picked it up by its leg and pointed at it again. This time, it was the gnome’s bum facing him. “You--! That is one ugly…” Ugh. Disgusting, yeah? Ethan spun around a couple of times while holding the gnome and threw it across the fence.

“Adieu!”

De-gnoming the garden really DID sound as lame and boring as he made it out to be. Unless somebody got bitten. Could they possibly volunteer somebody to do that? It would make everything a much better experience, even for the people watching from a distance.

And, naturally, Grayson was late to getting started because he was watching what the others were doing. Naturally. It was a very fun activity, thank you. And he had paid plenty of attention to Thompson when he had been flinging that gnome around like a lasso but it didn't hurt to see how some of the others were getting on with the de-gnoming. Besides, he needed a gnome to come to him.

......................

Okay, seriously? This was getting boring. When were these gnomes going to come to him or had they all gone on holiday? Because he wasn't going to go chasing around after them. That wasn't how it worked. Grayson scowled. Some people were very far ahead with this activity, when was it going to be HIS turn?

Almost as if on cue, a tiny, ugly thing came darting out from behind a patch of grass, startling the boy. And was it showing its incredibly lame fangs at him? Oh no. "Oh MERLIN, NO!" Remembering what the professor had done with his foot, the Slytherin put out his foot and tried to stop the gnome from TOUCHING his PRECIOUS leg...............

.............. but............

.................... it darted away.

Deadpan. Seriously? ARE YOU BEING SERIOUS RIGHT NOW?!

He knew he hated gnomes.

So Marigold was holding the gnome at an arm's distance away. She was going to name it, because she liked naming things, but she didn't want to become attached to that ugly thing or anything. Looking around and trying to remember how the professor had spun the gnome, she gave it a little wiggle.

...eh? No? She kinda swung it a little too, almost letting go and lurching forward to make sure that didn't happen. Maybe if she swung it around with an arm rotation? But one was just not fun enough so she did two and three and five and nine and she was falling all over the place because wheeeeeee.

Lucy stuck her foot out like she had seen the professor do but the gnome stumbled and rolled toward her...What a luck!
Lucy is been fast and put her foot on the gnome...
Now she had the gnome underneath her foot, but how she could to pick it up?
Lucy reached down and grabbed him by the feet, but the gnome was floundering..
She decided not to look at it so it would be easier to throw it ..

She didn't have to do any spinning, though, because weirdo Ethan came and spoke to her. "Hi." She stared at him. What did he want? What was up with his arms stretching like that? What was wrong with him?? Awkward? "What?"

Never mind, though, because he was doing the job for her. Oh. Good. "Thanks." She said as she watched the awfully looking gnome fly off and... be gone.

....."There's another one." She pointed at anoter horrible looking little creature. BUT. It needed to seem like she was the one doing the work, though and not Ethan. Even though she sure was going to use him ask for him to throw the gnome across the fence for her. "But wait!" She said holding his arm so he wouldn't be able to do anything before she did.

"Rictusempra." She exclaimed, poiting her want at the nasty gnome. She pulled Ethan along until they both reached the laughing creature and she let go of his arm to pretend to get the gnome's feet. Was the professor looking? Did he see her doing that? Yes? Okay. "Okay, you do it." She told Ethan as she stepped away from the gnome and watched her fellow Slytherin do all the rest of the work.

Dan had been hanging back and was watching everything in silence as usual, but when Zoe was pretty much tackled, he snickered. Okay. Don't laugh. She was going to get revenge if she saw him laughing. He turned away and looked up to try and calm down. Oh gosh.

After a moment, he gained his composure and went over to his girlfriend, offering a hand as he caught up the gnome with his other hand.

He made off on his merry chase of this stupid, ugly gnome. It wasn't his fault that the ugly thing was jealous that he was far better looking then it, yeah? Didn't mean the thing had to BITE him. Bitter, irrational Ascanius had been both of those things a lot lately.

The seventh year chased after the thing and just when he was close enough that he could reach out and take it...he jumped. And fell right on his beautiful face. WAS IT BROKEN?

He sat up and started to hysterically check if everything was untouched, unharmed. Nothing was bleeding, his nose was still in place, nothing felt bruised. He had survived.

SQUINT. That stupid, ugly thing. He drew out his wand and whispered, "Stupefy."

Adi watched in anticipation as his gnome took flight, its little arms and legs flailing while it sort of squeaked. Well, it sounded like squeaking to him. Was the gnome enjoying the flight or was it terrified? Adi couldn't tell which. But there it went... closer and closer towards the tall grass until...

It flew over the fence and crash landed among the tall grass! Awesome! One gnome down! Feeling pleased with his first attempt, the boy turned his attention around him, seeking out another unfortunate victim.

It took him just a few seconds to locate one. Its back was towards him and Adi realised he needed to sneak up on it. Quietly as he could, he began making his way over to the gnome. But it was his misfortune to step on some twigs which snapped rather loudly. Uh oh. There went his target...racing off into the other direction.

Declan had taken off at full speed after the creature, lunging at it once he was close enough.

GRAB!

He tackled it to the ground, wrestling it's face away from his body. Merlin! It was snarling like a rabid Rottweiler! Dec pinned its potato head against the ground and sat on it to keep it from moving. Pulling out and pointing his wand at the target of a head, he casted, "Immobulus!"
The gnome stopped wriggling from under him.

The puff took a second to catch his breath. Well, that wasn't as graceful as the professor had done, but it worked just as proficiently, right?

NO! She gasped as the gnome went tumbling over her foot and landed on her legs before looking startled and moving to tackle her and Zoe went to use her wand now to stun it. Merlin! Was that a snicker? She gazed up at Dan and stared as he caught the gnome in his hand and offered a hand to her "That was not a snicker. Right?" she asked lifting an eyebrow only slightly but got to her feet with his help.

"I just wanted to do what the professor did. It looked cool!"

Candice was chasing the running gnome. That ugly thing was fast. She really wanted to use magic but she didn't know which spell to use and beside what if she accidentally hurt the gnomes? The Professor wouldn't be so happy with her.

"Come here, gnome. I'm not going to hurt you." I'm just gonna throw you The Gryffindor finally managed to stop a gnome with her foot but now she was supposed to take it by it feet like Professor Thompson. But the question was HOW?

She quickly grabbed the gnome's feet and now its hanging upside down. This thing was ugly and those teeth.....Eeew. The gnome was trying so hard to free itself from her hands. She need to get rid of it quickly before it run away again. "Now, I'm going to take you for a spin."

Spin....Spin...Spin...Spin...And Throw...

Unfortunately for her, the gnome missed it landing spot.

"No?" he gazed at her and looked down at the squirming gnome. "Can you help me here?" he asked, helping her up. His wand hand was kind of full. "It was a noise of disbelief and shock." Yep. Of course. "Well, you did it well." he answered, managing to keep a straight face somehow.

WHEEEEE. Marigold whirled her arm around, giggling as the gnome flew around. She ran a little closer to the fence, then let go happily of her gnome. It flew and landed somewhat near where it was supposed to. HOORAY!!!!!!!!!! She beamed, then noticed that her shoulder hurt. Not fun. She looked around for her next gnome.