The whole time Professor Bentley was talking, Lux listened carefully and watched the plants. She was on guard and didn't trust them. There was also no way that she was going to put her hands near one of them, even wearing gloves.

Raising her hand, she figured at least this question wasn't too hard for her. "Well, all plants need to be watered, so I'd say that would be one of the care requirements."

Jasmine listened as her classmates made their comments and took notes. When the Professor finally revealed the correct answer, she wrote down the pertinent details about both of the plants.

Jasmine decided to take a guess regarding the care of the two bushes. She raised her hand and said, "Professor, would both of those bushes do well in direct sunlight?" She thought that her answer was correct, at least she hoped it was.

Norah looked up from her notes, a little shocked, to hear the pretty berry bushes could eat her. She perked up at the fact she could keep them in her own garden, though, that sounded cool! She pondered the professor's latest question, hoping she could contribute to this conversation after her failure to answer the last one. Hmm...All plants needed sunlight, she knew that, but her mum had told her they need sunlight to make food. Did the plant that ate people need to eat sunlight too? She raised a gloved hand and said, "Plants need sunlight for food. It's called photography or something, right? But does the mean bush need to eat sunlight if it eats flesh?" Well, she had kind of answered it, right?

THEY WERE LEARNING ABOUT FLESH EATING PLANTS.

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEES.

Frigging YES. THIS was what he was talking about. He didn't even care that they were mild mannered or whatever. The Professor said that they were useful but dangerous. DANGEROUS. That was enough to make the boy straighten up so that he could get a better look at the plants. He was VERY interested in THESE kind of plants.

Care requirements? Well, sunlight and water had been said because HELLO. Plants. It was basic primary school learning to know that those were two of the things they needed. "Okay, Professor?" he started, raising his hand in the air, "Since they're being kept in a greenhouse, do you have to feed them small creatures on a regular basis? Like insects?" You know, nutrients for the plant or whatever.

Bay had to think about it…. what kind of care requirements would these plants need. Raising his hand he slowly spat it out.

"Professor… like… would.. they ..need special…like soil?? because their dangerous?" he wondered if she knew what he meant. Like some plants needed blood or other things in its soil to help it survive, did this plant need the same?

Flesh-eaters were Benjy's sort of plants. Oh yes. Anything potentially life threatening, and he was TOTALLY there. Could they get closer? As in, within nibble range? He wanted to try.

...except, being in a lesson meant questions to answer before they could get to that bit. He raised his hand. "Fertiliser. That's what provides other nutrients to those provided by the flesh bits."

Marigold frowned as she managed to finally copy all of her notes down. She didn't know either plant, so she didn't offer a guess, but now there was a more general question that she could maybe answer. "Well, apart from water, air, and minerals, do those plants need... Meat or some extra source of food?" Eeeeek. Carnivorous plants are NOT her friend.

Lucy said:" I think they need damp and insects ...!"

Weigela and Chokeberry...right. Sophie had never heard of those. At least, not until now. She made a quick mental note of the names while trying to associate them with the plants. Then her bright, blue eyes flashed up to the professor as Bentley gave more information about the plants.

Care requirements? You mean, other than just staying away from them altogether? Heh.

Sophie raised her hand, though. She did have a few thoughts. "Maybe the plants need a certain amount of sunlight to ensure the berries grow," she said. "So maybe we have to keep them in certain areas to make sure they get that sunlight."

Words.....words were going right over the Gryffindors head. She could tell everyone was giving input to the lesson and she was quite aware of the discussion but at the same time...she wasn't? There was a plant across the Greenhouse...waving at her and making it extremely difficult for her to pay attention to anything else. Distracting this Greenhouse was distracting and Lex wasn't trying very hard to change this.

At some point the word 'Weigela' floated through her ears but that was all it did before being replaced by the word 'Chokeberry'.

Chokeberry? Had she missed something?

Lex blinked back to the present class, trying to decide what they might have all been on about. Vaguely she thought she'd heard something about care methods and plants being dangerous but not restricted and something about damp soil. Yeah....this was very unhelpful. She would hazard a guess at them discussing how to take care of these things though so the Gryffindor tried to look like she was paying attention by raising her hand. "You have to keep them away from idiots. Those things would be hazardous to the health of the plant in more ways than one and prove bothersome to the growth and development of said plant."

Professor Bentley had probably never seen Little Shop of Horrors, Gwen realized a little too late. Probably not many people in the greenhouse had. That in mind, she resisted the urge to say Feed me, Seymour! when asked about care requirements. They wouldn't laugh, they would probably all think she was insane. She couldn't help it. They were talking about plants that ate people. How much more Audrey 2 could it get?

She tried to shake the musical out of her head, but Suddenly Seymour was running through her head, distracting her from the question at hand. Finally she raised her hand. "You'd have to know what kind of climate they grow best in." Right?

So the bushes names were Weigela and Chokeberry... Kevin liked his Berry Bush name better. Much easier as well...as it had berries AND it was a bush...yup. He wasn't really listening to their descriptions though because he had eyes for himself and he could see what they look like anyways. Instead, he turned his head a bit as his gaze kept turning to the front of the Greenhouse. Could he have a Fanged Geranium? pleaaase? he promised to take good care of it!

Grinning widely at the thought of owning one of those plants, the Gryffindor suddenly snapped his head back to the front and even a small gasp came out of his mouth right after the Professor had said that they were going to work with a dangerous plant as well. "AWESOME!" Alright that might have been a bit TOO loud. BUT SO COOL!

And another question came. Mweh, couldn't they just start working with the plants right away? "Plants need to have water as well as sunlight...but it all depends on the plant itself...i guess..oh! also...do they EAT flesh?!" huhuhuh? did they huuuuh? And no, his eyes weren't twinkling right now...yeah ok they did.

Finally! Chokeberry. What a funny name. Meh. Adi listened as Professor Bentley went on about the two plants, all the while keeping an eye on them. They looked so innocent but were so dangerous. Which was actually kind of cool. What was life without a little danger, right?

Adi raised his hand. "Fertilizer, Professor. Maybe they need a specific kind or a specific mixture.''

Kace was jotting these notes in his mind. So he knew the names of the bushes and plants. They were interesting names. Chokeberry being one of them. The professor wondered what care requirements they needed. Kace thought about it and gave the logical answer, "Well professor, i think we need gloves incase the poison from the berries leak onto your hands or they don't like human oils?" He suggested. I mean he wasn't an expert on this subject but at least he tried.

How to grow flesh-eating plants 101. That seemed to be the topic of this class. Nervous about being in such close quarters with somewhat dangerous plants, Kate kept her hands safely in her pockets. Well, until the professor asked a question that she could guess an answer to, that is. One hand still in its pocket, Kate raised her left hand.

"You need to make sure they have enough space to grow and spread out both their roots and their leaves. If they don't have enough space or have to compete for space, plants don't grow as healthily," Kate said happily. It was much easier being in class if she could contribute and not just sit and listen.

Cris listened carefully as the others gave their answers. Soil, fertilizer, sunlight, food, even space had been mentioned. So Cris tried to think of another answer before raising his hand.

"Professor how about taking care of its teeth. Likes brushing or flossing it. I mean if it's flesh eating it would have to rely on its teeth to chew. If they aren't taken care of they could rot," Cris paused to think before continuing.

"If the plant is unable to chew and eat, it will eventually get sick and die."

Cris hoped his answer had not been previously mentioned.

ABSOLUTELY CORRECT.

Sophie was relieved, then, because it would've been embarrassing to be wrong twice. Now that she could visualize in her head where they were at in the textbook, she was much more at ease. Now she knew what they were dealing with. Maybe not hugely life-threatening plants right now, but cool all the same.

She let the others have a go at care requirements will she jogged her memory for other specific details about the Chokeberry Bush, since that's the only one of the two plants she could recall some details about. After some mentioned fertilising, Sophie raised a cautious hand. "Professor, since they're pretty much self-feeding, wouldn't they probably only need the added nutrients from fertilizer maybe only once or twice a year?"

Herbology was supposed to be the one class where you didn't have to put your life on the line. Then they haaaad to go enter the restricted greenhouse. And now they haaaave to look at flesh eating bushes. Great. Love herbology. Besides Zander's knowledge of magical plants was at an ultimate zero. So instead of trying to answer the question he kind of just stood quietly and let the other students take a stab.

But eh, every plant needs some basic requirements right? Like water, sunlight, food? So if he attempted a response with one of those he couldn't technically be wrong right? And he wouldn't want to disappoint his head of house. Especially after that whole flutterby guess. So he might as well attempt some sort of an answer? "Would they need a specific amount of water or sunlight?" Or not. But whatever, worth a try?

"You would probably need to keep the carnivorous bush inside a remote area of a greenhouse away from animals " , Bree responded with her hand raised high.

"You have to feed it with something..." because if those bushes get super hungry, then it just might uproot itself and go find its own prey rather than use its scent to lure them in. An image of him being chased by a bush came to mind. "I'd rather chase a blueberry cheesecake..." he thought.

What would carnivorous plants need besides the usual plant things? Caleb wasn't sure. He'd never dealt with these kinds of things before, not even those venus fly trap things. Still, he could probably hazard a guess. He raised his hand.

"Maybe you need to feed it some sort of meat or something to keep it satisfied? Otherwise it'll come after you," he pointed out. THAT would be terrible. Just terrible!

Mo gave Sophie's hair a tousle when she got the question right, although he was careful not to move her at all in the direction of the flesh-eating plants. He was trying to avoid losing his baby Claw to flora as much as possible.

As for requirements to help these plants grow, Mo assumed that it was generally similar to taking care of non-flesh eating plants. He raised a gloved hand. "Professor, because they aren't in their natural habitat, they probably need properly selected soil with good drainage."

The Weigela and the Chokeberry. Bushes that used their berries to lure things in. Which only gave Kyroh the conclusion that no plant could be trusted. After all if a PLANT was trying to act all nice just to eat you? Nope. No trust at all.

He wiggled around a bit, thinking about what you would need to care for these plants.

Kyroh wanted to say cookies.

Why?

Well if he was a carnivorous plant he would like cookies.

The first year refrained however and raised his hand. "I think you need to make sure they are in the right temperature and stuff. I mean if you give them sunlight but keep them in a room that's like -10 degrees that can't be too good."

Though he wouldn't mind.

That would mean he'd get to eat cookies without worrying about getting eaten himself.

Hazel wondered what you could possibly do to care for a carnivorous plant. She raised her hand anyway, though. "Erm, maybe you have to water it and give it sunlight and nutrients like normal plants, but then you feed it meat? Or maybe it's a certain kind of soil that has meat in it? And then you stay very far away from it for a long time, I hope," she answered. Looking at the suspicious berry bush, she took another step closer to safety. Please don't make us take care of them, she thought to herself. Maybe the professor could read minds.

What in Merlin's beard? Why would anyone want to keep a flesh eating plant in their homes? To eat their enemies? That had to be it, but Agatha still thought that was pretty weird. She would never have such a thing in her garden. If she had a garden, that was; which she didn't.

Anyway, there was already another quesiton. Merlin, so many questions she couldn't answer. That really, really annoyed her, but at least the questions weren't directed to anyone in particular, so she could choose to be quiet and no one would think she was stupid. And also it would be good to not call attention to herself at the moment in case one of the plants decided it wanted to eat someone.