Ian noted the professor's response to his answer. He was content to know that it wasn't completely wrong or dismissed outright.

When the professor instructed them to get their jars and gloves out for a bit of fairie hunting, Ian bounced a little bit. This would be kind of like fishing. And, that would explain the giggling when they came in. This probably wouldn't make the fairies terribly happy though. Probably why the gloves were needed. He reached into his satchel, pulled out his gloves and jar and followed the professor into the bush opening he'd created.

Fairies. That would be interesting for sure. Thankfully Cyprien hadn't forgotten his jar. Grabbing all of his notes, stuffing them inside his bag, he walked inside. This was turning out to be more fun than he had thought. Cyrien wondered if they were just capturing them or if they would actually be studying some of them as well.

Fairies?

They were in this awesome maze and were told to bring jars only so that they could capture FREAKING FAIRIES?! WHAT IN THE NAME OF MERLIN. Fairies were boring. What did they even do apart from flying around and being generally vain and annoying? Nothing. That's what. And unless they were gonna use their wings for potions, Grayson was not going to be very impressed with this.

Yeah yeah. Maybe this could be an interesting lesson. Maybe the fairies will end up whacking someone or whatever. Reaching into his bag, Grayson took out his gloves and set them own on the table before pulling out his wand "Scourgify! Scourgify!" For both his gloves and his jar. One cleaned, he strapped the gloves onto his hands, making sure to wiggle the fingers too.

Grabbing hold of his jar, the fifth year got up and headed over towards the opening in the bush that Thompson had made. Yeah, come on out fairies.

His shoes were SAFE. Thank Merlin, that was sooooooo close. Gavri'el needed to learn to LOCK that down, yo. Suede did not clean out well.

Oh no. Had he squealed out loud? Maybe no one had noticed. Especially since Gavri'el had thrown up everywhere. Good distracting technique, man.

He tried to become invisible and plucked a jar and some gloves. After a quick scourgify, he pranced off. Invisibly.

FAAAAAIRIE. WOW. She was ASTOUNDED. She had never seen a fairy up close! This one place near her house SOMETIMES had them, but whenever she got close enough to one, the little dears would just fly away! And Eden SOOOO wanted to see it. She hadn't brought a jar--oops--but she did smile and get up to grab one, glancing at Layla. She hoped SHE would at least enjoy this. The girl had probably never seen a fairy before! HOW EXCITING. She would ask Layla about this later.

Taking out her wand, she quickly cleaned it...and the gloves? and slipped them on...she raised an eyebrow at the professor, though, and had a question. "Professor? Fairies don't mind being caught?" she asked softly. Surely they must dislike it, unless they knew they wouldn't be hurt...somehow?



Kevin got a GLARE from Eden for his DUMB question. "Excuse you--that's an awful thing to say. " She said with a low growl. She had already GROWLED at him once before--"Would you like if it I ripped off YOUR wings--" You know, if he had any? SHe wasn't sure...since he probably had little HORNS growing out of his head....

Blasted Gryffindor.

Looking around at the others, Aladdin was in a state of shock and awe. They'd be collecting fairies!? How is that even possible! Aladdin knew nothing about capturing fairies, let alone about fairies in general. Hoping that the creepy old conman would know a thing or two, Aladdin decided to follow him. Putting on some gloves he picked up a random jar on the ground. Was this supposed to be clear like the other jars? Was this jar dirty or something, or was it supposed to be colored? (It was just dirty)

Wait a minute...

This jar seemed familiar to Aladdin. He's seen it somewhere before...IN THE NAME OF GENIE'S EVERYWHERE! Aladdin has found Genie's lamp! No wonder it seemed familiar to him! Rubbing it he awaited for Genie to come out. The jar wasn't as lamp-like as he remembered, but it probably just turned into some sort of more recent object. Also why did the Professor have his Genie jar? Hmmm... Something was off here.

Oh well. He would just ask Professor later. Noticing the man heading into the clearing, Aladdin quickly followed him rubbing the jar as he disappeared inside of the bushes.

Oohhh so they were catching fairies? That seemed pretty cool and he didn't have a jar so he was glad the professor had them. He breathed a sigh of relief and went over and grabbed one. He got his wand out of his robes and and said, "Scourgify!" and then the jar looked cleaned. He went through the bushes with the rest of his classmates and wondered how hard it was gonna be to catch a fairy.

Gabriel........honestly didn't think he could walk. His inners felt like liquid and...gross. He felt gross.

Vomiting was the WORST. FEELING. ON. THE. PLANET.

Of course, being that it was the worst feeling on the planet, it still seemed lackluster compared to the EMBARRASSMENT he currently felt....Especially since.....he didn't think he could get back up to the castle on his own.

.............and Gabe kinda wanted to cry. There was that, too.

Face flushed and pale, he rolled over onto his stomach, shakily getting up on his knees. He limbs were trembling so bad, there was no way he'd be able to stand. Let alone walk.

No, he was done for the day. He needed to...go...but he couldn't physically go.

Frustration. There was so much frustration...

Now that they were making their way past the bushes, they could now hear the high pitch buzzing taking place more clear. The giggles were happening louder too, but sounded less creepy when considering the owners of them. There were many fairies flying around radiating a soft glow around as if dancing throughout the grove. One could say the sight was pretty, others well.. everyone had their own taste in scenery.

"Now then.. We're going to be capturing at least one fairy in the jar. Two would be preferred so they won't be lonely." But that was their choice really on that. Now for the rules, "There are a number of ways. Like pixies you can send a cooling charm to freeze them or like butterflies remain stealthy with just the jar and lid alone." A few fairies were floating on by the group curiously, perhaps the flashy glitter off some of the borrowed gloves captured their attention?

The Professor's eyes were still on the students while he casually removed the lid off his own jar. "You can partner up with another if you so wish." Two of the fairies flew on away at the sight of the jar in his hands, "Given their speed, it wouldn't hurt having some extra help." Then with a soft *plop*, the Professor raised his arms capturing one unsuspecting fairy over his head. "Nothing to it." Though they were welcome to do the chasing route for one. "Whenever you're ready get to it." Cause now the Professor was off to get another one while watching them.

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OOC: As demonstrated, you are to complete the activity by capturing up to two fairies in the jar.

- You may Freeze/Stun them without injuring them.
- Chase them with only the lid and jar.
- Have one student do the distracting/chasing and the other help capture.
- Be careful not letting one escape for the second capture.

This should take at least four posts for full credit, and remember to label them. You will have until October 4th, 11pm EST to complete this.

Freezing Charm it was. Stunning the poor little fairies didn't right. Adi was quite impressed with Professor Thompson's skill at capturing the fairies. He was sure it was as easy as it looked, catching fairies just like that. Oh well. Time to get to work. Adi tapped Benny on the shoulder.

"Do you want to do the capturing first?'' Meaning that Adi would be the one casting the spell first. And yes. He realised he didn't ask Benny to be his partner. He didn't need to since the always were partners in this class.

Alrighty then.

The capture of one or two pixies was what the professor wanted them to do. Hopefully there would be enough for the whole class but that wasn't an issue as of yet. Ben just hoped he could do it as humanly as possible. No sense hurting them too much if they could help it. No ripping off the creature's wings here. Turning as he felt a tap on his shoulder, he spotted Adi resuming his place beside him.

"Sure," he said in agreement to the plan, glad to see they would be working together again. Taking a hold of the top of his jar he proceeded to unscrew it to be ready. Bengave a look around for nearby fairies to target, finally spotting one or two off to their left to focus on. "Go for it..." he mused ready on his end.

It was up to his bestie to try the first shot.

Awesome! Benny agreed to his suggestion. Now to actually capture the fairies. Adi followed Benny's gaze an spotted one lingering while others zoomed about. Man, were those creatures FAST!

"Here goes nothing,'' the Hufflepuff muttered. "Immobulus!'' Unfortunately, the fairy spotted the blue light from a mile off and wasted no time in zooming away. "Just warming up,'' he said to his bestie. Riiiight. As if the Lion would fall for that.

Oh looky! One was directly over Benny's head! Well, it wasn't just hovering, it was zooming for side to side over his head. As if it were fascinated by the blond hair. LOL.

"Immobulus!'' A miss. "Immobulus!'' Annnnd a hit! Yes! First fairy down! "Gotcha. You're up, Dragon."

SPOILER!!: Adi

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Awesome! Benny agreed to his suggestion. Now to actually capture the fairies. Adi followed Benny's gaze an spotted one lingering while others zoomed about. Man, were those creatures FAST!

"Here goes nothing,'' the Hufflepuff muttered. "Immobulus!'' Unfortunately, the fairy spotted the blue light from a mile off and wasted no time in zooming away. "Just warming up,'' he said to his bestie. Riiiight. As if the Lion would fall for that.

Oh looky! One was directly over Benny's head! Well, it wasn't just hovering, it was zooming for side to side over his head. As if it were fascinated by the blond hair. LOL.

"Immobulus!'' A miss. "Immobulus!'' Annnnd a hit! Yes! First fairy down! "Gotcha. You're up, Dragon."

Benny paid close attention to what Adi was doing, wanting to react as soon as he might be needed so they didn't struggle to get the fairies. They already seemed wily enough on their own to not let human error get in the way of things. He shifted slightly as the Hufflepuff's first spell went out, frowning disappointed as the winged creature got away. "You can do it.." he encouraged his friend as the other boy teased about warming up.

Then he heard a sort of noise above his head. Was one nearby? The Gryffindor wished to investigate but didn't want to move lest he scare it off. Swallowing he waited for Adi's next move, eventually seeing two more spells cast and finally feeling the creature fall on his head. "Nice shot," Ben remarked as he gingerly picked up their quary and set it in his jar, covering it so it couldn't escape if it unfroze.

Now it was his turn.

The boy was already looking around, moving a bit too, in search of a fairy he could freeze for Adi. There was an occasional swift move past but too fast for him to react to their presence let alone get a spell off. Finally he spotted an area where a few fairies seemed to have escaped away from others. Maybe he'd have a chance at at least one.

"Immobulus!" he cast, taking aim and inwardly wishing he knew how to do it wordlessly since the incantation and the flash seemed to warn them. The one he had aimed for getting away. "Immobulus," he fourth year cast again, trying to catch one as they fled but to no avail.

Boo.

Okay, she liked Professor Thompson’s idea. Catching fairies seemed fun – but they were fairies and they were INNOCENT….so she wasn’t going to use them for potions, nope. She was going to break in and release them all later. That was the plan anyway.

Still she took her jar in hand and quickly began to clean it. ”Scourgify” she cast and watched as it seemed to now sparkle in her hand. Wait, he didn’t want them to be lonely? She realized and grinned....and Professor Thompson asked someone to help the puke-boy to the hospital wing? She'd help but...yeah, no.

"Anyone want to catch a fairy with me?" she asked kindly. "Or...I could help him" she glanced at Gabe.

Listening to Professor Thompson, this activity kind of reminded her of the butterfly catching activity from last term. Hopefully this time around things would be a lot easier. And it was a huge help that Bay was safe and healthy again.

Spotting Puck in need of a partner, Lux approached and tapped her on the shoulder. "I'll be your partner!" They had never worked together before, so this should be a lot of fun.

"Okay, that's good," Toby nodded. "Alive is good. I like alive." It was his favourite thing for anything to be, after all. Alive and happy.

Lalala, man, this jar was taking real effort to clean, but Toby was making real progress. THEN he heard the OTHER thing Thompson said and... oh. "Oh." Right. "Right." ... "Forgot about magic." Oops.

But hey, Prof T was a real stair, cleaning his shirt and tie back up for him. Toby SALUTED the man and got out his own wand, casting 'scourgify' on the inside AND outside of the jar and its lid, so that now it was all sparkly and clean.

Aaaaaaaaand... FAIRY CATCHING. Woah boy, this ought to be neat; Toby was already bouncing on the spot in anticipation, the glow from the fairies making his sparkly gloves seem even sparklier as they fell off his shoulder mid-bounce. He caught them before they could totally hit the floor and quickly put them on, noting that everyone else already seemed to have done so.

As soon as Thompson said they could go, Toby was OFF. He was... definitely not doing it the stealthy way, that was for sure, choosing instead to dart into the midst of the creatures with his jar held out. Technically, this shouldn't be too hard; Toby had proved himself capable of catching flying shiny objects before, in Quidditch. But... that was on a fast broom, and Tobias Tempus was also a lot more prone to clumsiness with two feet on the ground.

He'd spotted one to aim for, flying around right at his eye level. Not wanting to give it time to realise he was there and fly away, he quickly made for it, holding up his jar and attempting to trap it.

It seemed he'd had an attack of conscience, however, because just a few inches short of the fairy, he'd faltered a little and become much less sure of what he was doing. That was enough to give the fairy time to fly away.

Okay. Right. Personal pep talks were happening. Thompson wouldn't have them do an activity like this if it was wrong or mean, he was much too awesome for that. Toby supposed he was just hesitant about anything that involved trapping something, though once he caught an extra fairy, or maybe even TWO extra fairies, he knew it wouldn't be so bad. The fairy'd have friends to chill out with. Maybe if he tried to catch two or three at once? Hmmmmmmmmmmm. Definitely worth a shot.

Still thinking on it, Toby scanned the area for more fairies to target, eyeing the other students and their methods for this.

....they WHAT?!?!

WHAT!

CATCH FAIRIES IN JARS? Was he serious! ZAHRA WAS SO EXCITED! YES! She was going to catch more than ANYONE ELSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111

.... but then she caught sight of stupid Gabe, being stupid, and needing an escort. And no one else was jumping up to do it right away.

...

...

Want. To. Catch. Fairies. .... but can't because of .... Zahra being a decent human? Particularly to Gabe, who just continually made her feel so bad.

She marched over to him, JAR AND LID AND GLOVES all ready to go, plucked a hand on her hip and stared at him. "If no one else is going to volunteer, I guess I'll walk you to the castle. If you want."

The high-pitched laughter came from behind him, and then sounded as if it were in front on him. He turned his attention not toward the sounds they deliberately made, but toward the sounds of the leaves and bushes also their wings if fluttering in mass might be a better indicator of their whereabouts or whether or not they were moving away.

Counselour! "Coom out, coom out where ever you are." He sang almost cooingly toward a buzzing chiming bush. His book did mention that he could use coercion. Or that's how he was taking the fairy's susceptibility toward flattery. A group of fairies sensing the wizard boy drawing closer and closer eventually gave in to the want of fleeing and zipped past the befreckled ape-ish face.

"Oppugno!" He said casting upon his jar and sending it careening after the little bodies.

Okay. They weren’t going to be ripping wings off. Not if the professor was suggesting they catch more than one fairy so they had company in the jar. That would have been mean even to Brooklyn, to give them company only to turn around and maim them. Or maybe even kill them, since she didn’t know what would happen if a fairy lost its wings. She was pretty sure the storybooks weren’t right, and on that note, she gave the boy who thought he was Aladdin a weird look as he’d started rubbing his jar. That was just really stupid. The whole craziness was just stupid and made no sense. If she had felt like pretending she was someone else, she wouldn’t have picked fairy tale people.

But back to the fairies. At least they actually were real, but she still knew storybook fairies weren’t. They weren’t going to find Tinkerbell out here in the bushes. At least, she hoped not. She would have felt like she was crazy if they did, but then there was always just the chance that one of the real crazies thought a fairy was Tinkerbell. Not that the fictional fairy actually was real. Jar in one hand, she took a moment to analyze the situation. There was the possibility of trying to just catch two fairies at once, but the professor would’ve mentioned that. Of course it had to be hard, but then they were allowed to use magic. She could hex them if they got really annoying. Or just freeze them. Other people had been yelling the incantation already, so that meant she knew it. She wasn’t stupid enough to just run around with an open jar hoping fairies would fly inside. Although that would save time.

Norah gasped audibly at the sight of all the giggling fairies. Her eyes widened and she reached out to touch one. It flitted quickly out of her reach, and she turned her attention to another one. Pointing her wand at one she cried "Immobulus" but the fairy had already flown out of reach when the incantation left her lips. Dang. She tried again, pointing her wand at another fairy and saying "Immobulus!" but it had already flitted away. How could she get it to stay still? Norah eyed the other students. Anyone willing to help?

Oh sweet, the 'please' wasn't needed afterall. Lex grinned widely at the Professor. "Thanks Sir!" As for checking in with the Headmistress..."I've been putting up missing posters, put up five by her office so I reckon she knows by now that I haven't got a wand. I'm just waiting for it to turn up." If it ever did. She could always get a new one, but it wouldn't be the same, you know? She and her baby had been through A LOT since she was 11 and she didn't think she'd be able to replace it.

Lex turned from him and entered with the others. First order of business would apparently be finding a partner. It was possible to go it without magic but snort ain't NOBODY got time for that so she'd partner up.

Her mind was running on blank til she saw a jar zip right by her after a bunch of fairies. Cutty! He would do perfectly. While he waited on the fruits of his jars labour, she slipped right in next to him. "You wouldn't mind us working together, eh Bud? Reckon we'd get twice as many...and I don't have a wand anymore." Ahem. That too.

Well?

Right, he...had forgotten to bring a jar. Whoops. But he didn't mind using one of the professor's spare ones. Seemed like the other guy was being taken care of anyway so - David's attention was directed back to Ruby when she spoke, the last name connection between her and the other bloke not even registering in his head.

"Yeah, sure," he grinned. "Just let me grab a jar first." Then he could clean everything at once, which made the most sense. He hopped up and grabbed two jars - he didn't see if she'd brought her own? - and Scourgify'd them on the way back to her.

"For you." He offered one of them to her with a grin. "Now just give me your gloves and I'll do them too. You wanna try freezing, distracting, or catching the fairies?" He was cool with doing any of those. Freezing particularly seemed like it would take the least amount of effort to him. Probably easier than just distracting.

NO. ANYONE but ZAHRA KETTLEBURN.

Gabriel was practically convinced she'd attempt to off him on the way up to the castle. She couldn't be trusted.

....and he was trembling even worse now........

If she laughed at him, Gabe was going to throw up on her FACE!

GLARES. GLARES FOR THE ARCH NEMESIS.

"Whatever."......He hid his face, eyes already welling up.

Zahra lifted her chin. She could hear her mother telling her to be nice, and she was going to be, but it didn't make his glares hurt her feelings any less.

"Here," Zahra used her gloved-and-ready-to-snatch-up-all-the-fairies-hands to offer Gabe both of her hands to help him. "And can we hurry? If we hurry, maybe I can still catch the end of class." THERE WERE FAIRIES TO BE CAUGHT! GOSH! MAN!

There was major internal conflict going on right here.

Was she going to regret this? Would she get extra points for this? Probably not. An answer that could be used for both questions, really.

With a heavy sigh, she gave Zander a sympathetic look 'cause she felt bad for what she was about to do. Y'know.. Abandon him. Temporarily, of course. But still. She patted his shoulder and stuffed her jar into her bag, slipping her gloves off as she marched toward a particular scene.

Gabe & Zahra.

Slipping her gloves off her hands, she shoved those into the bag as well and stopped just next to Z. "Hey..." Smiles for you, Zahra Kettleburn. "I can take him." She might have been a whopping five inches shorter than the boy but one should not underestimate a determined Ravenclaw.