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Nine o'clock in the morning the door to the fourth greenhouse is wide open. You enter to find that most of the plants are rearranged to make room for the newly placed medium-sized tables. On the tables you will find empty pots and name tags. There is room for up to four people to stand behind each table, all the tables face bigger table; the Professor's, where he's currently standing next to it with his arms crossed over his chest.
All you have to do is choose a table, stand behind it and you will find a small sign telling you to write your name on one of the name tags and stick it on your robes.
~ Mrs. Steve Harrington ~ It be like that sometimes.
Adi could tell the new Professor was not that impressed with his answer. Nor with the others who had said the same thing as him. But Herbology wasn't one of those subjects that he was very bright at. Not that he hadn't tried to change that. He did read his Herbology text book. Okay, fine...so he fell asleep after a couple of paragraphs but he tried. And that counted as something, right?
And then there was mention of the fire. Adi hadn't noticed who wanted to incinerate poor Grayson but he was very much interested.
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What an interesting lesson this was turning out to be. Lux didn't know much about Bouncing Bulbs, but she did know that the person who set Grayson's robes on fire would be in more trouble if they didn't speak up. This new Professor didn't seem to be too pleased with the whole situation.
Staring at the Fifth Year, she wondered who had set him on fire. Surely it had been an accident; who would purposely do that to someone? In front of a whole class and Professor? Staying quiet, she had to admit she was interested to know what had happened. The culprit would be smart to confess.
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Grayson's robes catching fire was definitely the highlight of the lesson. He wasn't even shocked when it happened because he knew other students would react to it and sure enough the aguamenti charm was casted but he did grin however when he realised that it was his only friend , Zander who had "saved" Grayson. See dude, you're slowly starting to show your Gryffindor side.
He turned back to the Professor when he asked who had done and although he hadn't done anything expect silently sitting and listening, he wondered if he was a suspect already. Anyways, the Gryffindor had no idea what Bouncing Bulbs were although it was a funny name for a plant. Were they gonna work with them today or was this just a theory class? mweeh he needed to do something NOW.
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Dante did not forget about the older slytherin Grayson laughing at him in potions.
Nope, did not forget for a single moment. So since he was here in this class with Dante also. Dante thought it would be the perfect time for some payback. Plus he was little and somewhat innocent. It seems like it gets harder to get away with things as you grow up. So Dante sneakily took his wand out under the table and pointed it at Grayson's robes. Good thing he picked the table next to his. And as the Professor turned to walk back to his desk table whatever. Dante muttered
"Incendio"
Under his breath. Look at that. The only spell he really knew how to do. The back of Grayson's robes where on fire now. It was beautiful to look at and oh a question. "They bounce?" Dante answered with a stone face on.
Still someone had to say that answer.
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Samantha raised her hand. "In order to wither a mature Bouncing Bulb the spell "Incendio" needs to be cast."
She then could smell smoke. Why was she smelling smoke? She looked around and saw a Slytherin Fifth Year's (Grayson) robes on fire. She placed her hand on her mouth for a moment as her eyes widened. She then quickly shot her hand up. "Professor! Someone's robes are on fire!" Sam said as she pointed at the Slytherin.
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Josie scribbled away on her parchment as everyone was giving their answers towards the Professor's question. She was trying to think of something she might add, but nothing had come to mind. In the midst of scribbling away, she heard someone sniffing something & when she lifted her head she noticed that it was actually Ethan sniffing the air for some reason. Was he alright? What was he smelling?
....She didn't smell did she? OH Merlin, that would be terrible.
All thoughts of Herbology & her personal hygiene went out of the window when she'd heard a girl suddenly screaming about....someone's robes being on fire?! Josie's eyes first looked over herself for safety precautions, feeling slightly relieved that it wasn't her, but then she whipped her head around to see that it was actually Grayson's robes that had actually caught on fire. She gasped covering her mouth looking at him in fear. "G-Grayson, y-your robes!"
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Zander noticed the eyebrows from Grayson, but Professor Meanie-face had already started talking again. And he didn't want to give the man the satisfaction of actually having something to yell about. Because last time it was UNCALLED FOR because Zander did absolutely nothing wrong. And then he was called a disgrace. And then a door was shut on his face. HMPH.
And he didn't answer the question about the funny plants either. Because he had nothing to say. Especially with the way Professor Stranger had shut down his last answer. So NOPE. Nothing to say. Just staring at the table all sad like.
And as for the next question, he didn't answer that either. Of course he knew that the bouncing bulbs jump around a lot. That they were all purple like. That they could grow really really BIG. But nope. Saying nothing. Saying nothing because he was still angry AND still upset. Nope. Just sad eyes at the table. Then something smelled. Something smelled like smoke.
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FIRE ON GRAYSON!! Uuuuhhhhhhh?? What was it with setting people's robes on fire! hadn't that happened last term too? Without thinking any longer the Gryffindor raised his wand and looked at Grayson, "Your robes!" Why wasn't anyone doing anything??? "Aguamenti!" There. Water right at the fire because he couldn't have his ahem, rolemodel die!!!
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huh? What fire? There wasn't a fire in Andrew's Greenhouse. Nope. Can't happen. sniff.. sniff. What was that smell, oh and smoke?
In two wide strides, Andrew was near Whitlock's table. This boy was on fire. Like literally. Before Andy could get there and act water sprouted from someone's wand and extinguished the fire. Lover boy. "Who did this?" The herbologist barked a deep scowl on his face.
"Good reflex, Mister Adair," he turned to the lion. "Three points to Gryffindor," Nod. The boy deserved them. Turning to Whitlock, "Do you have enemies? Who would do this to you?" The culprit needed to be found and punished. Duh. Not only for almost setting a classmate on fire but also for interrupting the lesson and disturbing everyone and most importantly Andrew. Mhm. "Whoever did this, come forth and you won't be punished severely. But when I check everyone's wands, it won't be pleasant," Wasn't that hard to find out what the last spell cast with a wand was. Ahem, he came prepared.
Bouncing Bulbs? He'd HEARD of them, sure, but did he know a lot about them? Nah. Not when his main interest in this subject was down to anything that could rip off the flesh of another living organism. Still. The fifth year flipped open his textbook to--
................................ Sniff.
Sniff sniff.
What......... what was THAT?! Was that something BURNING? Eyes sought out for one Dima Toussaint, who he vaguely remembered had cast a fire spell on someone else the previous year. Lulz. MAN. Just the memory of it was enough to make him want to snort. But this seemed a lot closer than that one had been. Almost as if it was happening right near him.
And jeez, was it getting HOT in here? Grayson reached up a hand and tugged at the collar of his shirt. Who'd turned up the heat--
Stare at Josie. Blink. He was on fire???? WHAT?!
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HE WAS ON FIYAAAAAAAAAH!
"AAAAAAAAAAAH! WHAT THE ACTUAL--" A tirade of mental curse words flew back and forth in his brain in an intense tennis match as Grayson tried to hastily take off the firey robes so that he could STOMP on them. Or cast Aguamenti on them properly. Maybe his fingers were fumbly and maybe it was taking a long time to undo certain buttons but before he could do so much as undo the one and only button of his robes..........
............. SPLASH!
Drenched. He was DRENCHED. And it was FREAKING FREEZING NOW. Shivering, the boy shakily pulled his robes off and set it down on the table before turning to look at Zander. His saviour. The knight in shining armour. It really helped to have Gryffindor friends, man. "Thanks for saving my life, man. Really." Pat pat on his shoulder and smiles too. What was his favourite food? Dude was gonna get a gift basket for this.
Oh man. Oh MAN. The Professor was getting involved? THIS WAS SO FREAKING EMBARRASSING. And even worse, he was asking if he had any enemies. Did he KNOW that he probably had more enemies than friends? "Dunno, sir, someone probably thinks I need to be hot in more than one way." Scowl and grumble and SCOWLS. Shrug. "Could be anybody apart from an elite, trusted few. Someone standing behind, I bet." And if the person was getting a severe detention for this, Walton was gonna become one of Grayson's favourite professors.
"Ventus!" he mumbled, pointing his wand at the wet robes in an attempt to dry them again. The water had seeped through to his jumper and shirt but that had to stay on for the time being. Besides, he had a funny feeling that the Herbo Professor wouldn't appreciate him taking off his shirt, no matter how much entertainment it would provide.
So. Freaking. EMBARRASSING. JEEZ. Someone was gonna pay dearly for this.
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Ian watched the goings on with the class. He had half expected they would continue the lesson as the professor answered, but the fiery trial was most likely about to occur. Why would someone light someone else on fire? In a greenhouse? All rather peculiar. Ian had been quiet and didn't have any desire to create ANY more ruckusses than he had done to this point in the term and so he sat there quietly.
He looked at the professor and shook his head disapprovingly. He didn't want to professor believing he was the firebug. He didn't know who the firebug was, but he wanted to be absolutely sure that the professor knew it was NOT Ian Tinker.
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Maddie couldn't POSSIBLY be expected to concentrate on questions and answers when the room smelled like burning fabric. She was familiar with said smell SEEING as her best f-word lit one Ascan-ius Slytherin-face on fire their first year. And it had been funny, even IF it had made the old runes man quite upset. But THIS time was even MORE funny because of WHO was on fire. SMIRK. SMIRK. SMIRK.
If she KNEW who lit Grayson on fire, she would've offered them a fistbump and possible ally status because she approved. And she knew it wasn't Dima 'cause the boy liked Grayson for reasons unknown to the brunette The guy clearly DREAMT about being the hottest boy in school and someone had simply helped him get one step closer to that dream, yeah? She'd argue they were doing him a service with the whole fire thing.
So no comments here or questions but lots of smirking. Professor could check HER wand if he wanted. She didn't mind.
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Detention....dungeons?
"EXCUSE you, I will not stand down in a dank and dark dunge--I'll be there." Maleficent clamped a hand over her mouth, alarmed by the words that didn't belong to her. How had the girl managed to speak? No matter. The Dark Queen took a moment to compose herself before shooting a look to the girl (Zahra) that had called her by THAT name. She grimaced. "I am not a Head Girl, I am the Mistress of All Evil." Thanks to these people, she was starting to sound more like a scratched record. Goodness!
And what was all this talk of bulbs...and setting children on fire? What? Hadn't she been told it wasn't allowed. Pfft. Clearly it was and good thing too because the Dark Queen had a habit of doing what she wanted regardless.
While the chaos happened, she stood perfectly still by her table and watched. It did not concern her and had not been her doing.
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Stupid and annoying kids. Fire in his greenhouse. This was a huge crime. And during his first lesson. Teaching a group of hooligans sucked. And the Whitlock boy here seemed to have a long list of enemies and wasn't likely to guess who this was. Talk about useless. Ignoring his comment, Andrew shot a look at everyone at the nearby tables. "If you find out, tell me, even after a million years," Yup. He'd have to go around the world and search for Andrew Walton in order to tell him who was the one who almost set the entire greenhouse on fire. This was important. Although, not as important as the lesson. So, he'd better get back to that. But before that, he wasn't going to let it go. Not Walton. "Two points from everyone," Pause. "Unless the person who almost burned us all alive speaks up," Yeah? "I will wait till the end of the lesson." Which they needed to continue. Oh, and the Head Girl agreed, good, less headache.
"Back to the bouncing bulbs," The Herbologist said walking back to his table and standing behind it. "This is of course a young one. Because like some of you pointed out, the mature ones can reach a very huge size like a tree or a doorway" He said placing the plant on the table. "Now to sum up what you all said, this particular plant is important for potions making, more particularly the Pompion Potion." Which was also mentioned but he was sure that many haven't heard most of the answers thanks to one person who thought he was funny. " And in order to use it as an ingredient, we will have to pot it. Like the name suggests, this plant does bounce," Like the bright students pointed out," so putting it in a pot might not be that easy as one might think. To do so, you will need to achieve a couple of steps before reaching the potting part." Which they should have started doing already! Man, he needed a hot cup of freshly harvested mint tea to relax. Though, stopping the lesson for that wasn't really an answer.
Moving on. "If threatened, the bouncing bulb can and will attack the nearest person. This is why I want you all to practice approaching the plant casually and coolly without showing any nervous signs because that will make it nervous and unsettled as well, which we do not want. Compose yourselves." Which might be hard for some of them by the looks of it. " I will be approaching each one of you with a cart that contains bouncing bulbs but I will stay about ten inches away and I'd like to see you getting as much closer as you can without disturbing the plants. If you see them starting to move uncontrollably and preparing to jump or attack, stop approaching. I won't tell you when it's time to back off, though, you will have to figure it out by yourself. " GOOD LUCK WITH THAT! This was going to be fun. Not for them.
Turning around, Andrew went and fetched the cart which he spoke of earlier. "Okay. Remain quiet. I'll be stopping by each table." he said pushing the cart near the first table. This was probably going to take long. YAWN. He was bored already.
OOC: Of course you don't have to wait for anything, just say that Andrew has reached you with the cart then RP your charrie getting closer. How close they get is up to you! You may if you want also decide if the bulbs get disturbed or not if you don't I will decide judging by your charrie's moves. But please do not RP the plant attacking or bouncing out of the cart, Andrew is right there and he would have intervened before allowing that to happen. So be creative and have fun. This could be done in a single post, unless you feel like doing it in more than one. Quality over quantity, though. Next post will be in 20ish hours.
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Jasmine thought she smelled something burning, but how could that be possible? Then she heard the commotion and saw one of her classmate's robes on fire. Fortunately, quick thinking Zander saved the day. Thank Merlin that things hadn't ended up any worse. The victim was apparently unharmed. Jasmine had a hard time believing that any of the students could have done something so potentially dangerous. And yet it happened.
Now they had to concentrate on an activity? That was going to take some effort given the hijinks that had taken place so far. Jasmine tried to focus on what the Professor was saying and take notes about the bouncing bulb and their activity. When he finished speaking and began to move the cart around the room, she tried to get her mind in order.
Then the cart approached her table and it was finally her turn. Jasmine tried to look calm and relaxed so as not to freak out the bulb. She'd had plenty of practice trying to look calm when she was not, so hopefully she could pull it off. She began to walk slowly toward the plant with her eyes on it and her expression neutral. So far so good. Jasmine wondered if it would help to talk to the plant. Deciding not to chance it she remained silent. She would have to ask Professor Walton about that later. Feeling confident when the bulb remained still, Jasmine walked closer and closer to it. When she got about a tall person's arm length away with no negative reaction, she decided to stop. No need to push her luck on the first try.
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We DIDNT START THE FIRE. IT WAS ALWAYS BURNING, SINCE THE WORLDS BEEN TURNING
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..........................Why was Stinky talking to her?
Refusing to look at her, and pretending the smell wasn't there, Beverly jotted a few things down before replying. "My mum is dead."
Stare..........stare........stare.
Go away.
Zahra shrugged. Someone should have told the Snobby Prefart that scowling was ugly-face-making. Maybe she'd quit it now. Or take whatever cactus she had up her butt out.
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Detention....dungeons?
"EXCUSE you, I will not stand down in a dank and dark dunge--I'll be there." Maleficent clamped a hand over her mouth, alarmed by the words that didn't belong to her. How had the girl managed to speak? No matter. The Dark Queen took a moment to compose herself before shooting a look to the girl (Zahra) that had called her by THAT name. She grimaced. "I am not a Head Girl, I am the Mistress of All Evil." Thanks to these people, she was starting to sound more like a scratched record. Goodness!
And what was all this talk of bulbs...and setting children on fire? What? Hadn't she been told it wasn't allowed. Pfft. Clearly it was and good thing too because the Dark Queen had a habit of doing what she wanted regardless.
While the chaos happened, she stood perfectly still by her table and watched. It did not concern her and had not been her doing.
.... what?
.....? "Well, cool, you work that. You should give me your Head Girl badge then. I'll Head things up while you ... have your little mood or whatever."
ANYWHO. Someone set Grayson on fire. And Professor Flower was all NO to like everything. Maybe... he'd say yes to S'MORES though? "Caaaaaaaan we make s'mores over Grayson's robe fire? THAT'D be cool, Professor, EVERYONE likes S'mores."
As for WHO set the fire? Ruby,maybe? Since she thought Grayson was SOOoOOOo hot and junk? Teeheee naw... though Z COULD imagine Ruby trying to rub burn salve on Grayson for no reason at all. Hm.
"SUP BOUNCING BULB." Zahra threw her bulb a peace sign as she approached it. That was cool, right?
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The students were declaring their interesting facts about their favourite plants and Layla was just about to declare something entirely fascinating about the buttercup when the moved on. Which kind of annoyed the fifteen-year-old who couldn’t state her fact about the most innocent looking field and garden plant in the world, the Buttercup. Instead she wrote it down in her notes and decided to keep it a secret from everyone else.
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Plant Species – The Buttercup Unusual Trait – Gastrointestinal Toxicity
Buttercups are extremely poisonous if consumed by humans and despite their innocent appearances can cause organ and nervous system damage upon ingestion. [/b]
It was morbid she admitted but it was also really interesting. It was something they had learned in biology at school because the students had become entirely disinterested with what the teacher was going on about so she had decided to inform them of deadly plants. And buttercups had to be one of the most deadly but so well seen plants. THAT was how lessons should’ve been taught.
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Had she just fallen asleep or something because one minute they were discussing interesting facts about plants and the next minute there was some form of commotion going on in the classroom which the blonde had clearly missed. She blinked a few times at the professor’s threat of point loss to all the students. Well SHE hadn’t done anything, she didn’t even know what was going on. She sighed audibly and went back to writing notes about the question she had been unable to answer. The one about the bulb plant things. Who knew, some form of magical plant she had never heard of.
Text Cut: Layla’s Notes
Plant Species – Bouncing Bulbs Traits:
- Can reach to the size of a tree
- Useful in potions particularly the Pompion Potion (Note to Self: Read up on Pompion Potion) Care of Plant:
- Must be potted before usage.
- Must be approached casually and coolly. Any signs of nervousness will cause plant to attack.
Once she had finished with her notes, the blonde looked up and waited for the Professor to approach with the cart. She watched the other students first though, head tilted at a slight angle. See there was something about the Professor telling them not to be nervous that probably made a lot of them nervous. Heh.
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Ian was sitting there minding his OWN business and then the professor said points. But not just points. TWO points from EVERYONE....unless the firebug fessed up. What an unfair turn of events. Ian had done nothing wrong. He even made serious no no faces trying to show the angry, no good, not fair professor that HE wasn't the firebug. Still...TWO POINTS FROM EVERYONE! Wouldn't ANY of the people wearing badges do something about this gross miscarriage of justice? Wouldn't ANYONE with 'authority' show this new high and might professor that it was completely unfair to take two points from everyone in the class because ONE ne'er do well firestarter had put their mortal lives in danger?
Well...apparently not! The hurtful professor was going to take away 2 of Ian's hard earned points because someone else lit a set of inanimate robes on fire and they were expected to just take it. Well then, Ian would show this professor (just later after the class, because he couldn't afford to lose anymore points).
Ian watched sullenly as the professor explained that he would bring the bouncy balls around and they were expected to just non-chalantly head over there and try to get one. Ian wasn't sure about this activity....or this class. It had started out well, but then it had been all fiery and now it was just taking bounciness and passing it around. Ian would give it a go at least.
When the professor, who must not take points, approached, Ian slowly shuffled over to the cart. He started whistling quietly, because NOTHING was happening. Did you hear that bulbous ones? NOTHING was happening Ian picked up his feet just a bit more, because shuffling indicated nerves and there were NO nerves going on with him. It was just a nice, gentle, plant-loving (kinda) fourth year hufflepuff walking calmly up to the cart. Ian was about 2 feet from the cart and looked over the edge to see if there were any that looked kind of slow that he could reach out and grab.
Dante smirked gigantically in his head. This was just too good to be true. All he did was lose two stupid points. He did not even care about points. Perfect.
Plus he would not turn himself in.
No guilt from him. He was really only helping Grayson become hotter.
Back to the bulbs. So all he had to do was was approach the bulb. Sounded easy enough. But Dante did not think Walton would make it that easy.
Meh, here he goes. "Come to me, little bulb. Come to your master"
And should he be the bulb and all that.
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Once the cart and the pod things whatever they were called had finally reached Layla, the Blonde stared at them for a few minutes before glancing up at the Professor. His face was far to distracting. Sending Eden a quick knowing look because she was probably staring at his face too, the Blonde stepped forward to start the task.
The plants didn’t look at all intimidating and neither did Layla care much for plants anyway. They looked pretty she did agree but she wasn’t one of those ‘must plant shrubs everywhere’ type of people. Grass made a very good pitch and vegetables were extremely beneficial to the sporty and incredibly healthy eater.
She didn’t feel an inch of nervousness as she stepped forward towards the plants. The corner of her mouth had twitched up into a sort of half smile and her head was tilted at a slight angle. She stepped forward again only this time it was a much larger pace. She didn’t take her eyes off the bouncing plants even if the Prof’s pretty face was only inches higher than the cart. This was the task after all and Layla wasn’t one those girls who let guys get in the way. Pfft no. She had much bigger goals, larger ambitions and boy she could look after herself. She didn’t know how these boy attention seeking bimbos could live with themselves sometimes.
She took another non-nervous step forward. After all what damage could a plant really do. And she supposed it would get the Prof into a LOT of trouble if he let one of his students get injured. He’d probably get fired or something and she was sure that he didn’t want to lose his job. She managed to get within inches of the plant before she glanced back at the Professor.
Now what?
As for whoever had set that guys robes alight which was apparently what had happened it was A) Ever so slightly amusing and had certainly brightened up the lesson and B) Very attention seeking. She guessed it would be one of the mischievous attention seeking younger students or one of the girls prying for the Professors fuss. Pathetic and needy. Urgh some of these kids were incredibly annoying.
Alright so it was time for a little catch up time. The professor wanted to know what he knew about bouncing bulbs. Well of course they bounce but he didn't know anything else about the plant. He heard everyone else's answers and they seemed just as good as his. But now he was coming over with the bouncing bulb plants. Kace wondered if he should get close to it or not. He didn't want it attacking him that is for sure. But the professor seemed annoyed to Kace but then again their second round of answers was not encouraging.
He copied some notes down he got from the lesson,
SPOILER!!: Notes
Herbology Notes
Kace Lecium
5th Year
Plant Species – Bouncing Bulbs
Traits:
- Can reach to the size of a tree
- Useful in potion called the Pompion Potion
- Must be potted before usage.
- Must be approached casually and coolly.
- Any signs of nervousness will cause plant to attack.
Once the professor came over to his table, he was hesitant. He went up like about a quarter of the way and stopped near it. He didn't want to get too close. But he remained calm as possible. His anxiety was getting to him but he was controlling his fast breathing and was thinking of something else.
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New Herbology Professor say what? Two points? Well that was unfair to the innocent students. Yo, guilty person! Where you at? Own up and quit being a coward. Hmph. Casting a glance at Grayson, the Hufflepuff set to writing up some notes on Bouncing Bulbs.
And then there was the activity. Awesome! Adi waited patiently (and maybe a little excitedly) for Professor Andrew to approach his table. When he finally did, the fourth year cautiously moved forward. There, there, little bulbs. Stay nice and still.
Closer...closer...closer...So far so good. The bulbs remained still until he took that next step when they started to move about. Adi froze. The bulbs froze. Adi took a teeny, tiny step instantly causing the bulbs the become agitated again. "Er Professor? I think it's best I stay really still for a while.'' Yep. He was going to stay this good three feet away from that cart and rather still should the bulbs decided to attaaaaack.
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Dot hadn't been at the school for more than a few weeks, but she'd already learned what was going to happen next. Some Gryffindor was gonna raise their hand and take the blame to save the rest of them, and Dot was perfectly willing for that to happen. It wasn't like she knew who was setting her housemates on fire, anyway. All innocence here.
Dot waited until the professor brought his little cart around, and then Dot tried to sneak up on him. It. The cart. And the professor. Super sneaky little Slytherin going on right up in here. She slid out of her chair and crept around the desk. What, hmm? Nothing going on here. Dot froze and tried to whistle like she was just checking out a very suspicious spot on this leaf here. Hmm. Rot? Disease? Oh, dirt.
And she was creeping again. Closer. Closer. AND FREEZE. HUMAN STATUE.
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............................... Fire? There was a FIRE? Zeke turned his head in all directions to LOOK. WHO DID IT?! WHO WAS GOING TO COST THEM ALL POINTS!? ... Coward. COOOWAAARRRDDD... and idiot, really. Didn't these people know it was best to start fires when a Professor was NOT present? Duuuhhhhhhh.
Zeke just shook his head and remained standing at his table.
This all sounded a little ludicrous though, and on top of that, he had NO idea if they really were edible or not. But considering they were in a potion, that surely meant they were kinda fit for consumption, right? Right?
The whole APPROACHING the bulb thing though, was odd. Why would he be nervous about a bouncing bulb? So what, big deal, they bounced. And sure... bounce!attacked people too. But HE was not threatening the plant, HE was not nervous or scared or anything like that... not of a bulb anyway.. so... easy as cake right? Ooohhh, a bouncing bulb cake, what would that taste like?
Zeke waited his turn to approach the cart of bouncing bulbs, and finally when the Professor came around to his side of the table, Zeke turned to face them proper and smiled. This would be EASY.
He CASUALLY closed the distance between himself and the cart, but slowed his pace and stopped a short distance away.
His eyes were trained on the cart of bulbs. Was that a wiggle? ... naaaahhhhhh... they were still enough.
Zeke took another confident couple of steps. All he wanted to do was pot one, and be done with it.
No outwardly noticeable movements, but... one of them, or two of them... seemed to be wiggling. He didn't want the wiggling to spread.
In the end, he DID continue walking toward it, and kept his pace and momentum and walked PASSED them, then around again to his table.
HE WASN'T ATTACKED.... but that was no huge achievement right? Cause like, he hadn't been nervous. Nope. BRAVE Lion he was.
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Benny certainly hadn't seen that coming, but Zander apparently had as the quicky guy helping out. Whew. But he also didn't see the professor holding the whole class responsible for the dubious action. 2 points?! He bit back a groan at the threat coming from the older man. That might seem like a little but they added up house-wise. And it hardly seemed fair to all the innocent bystanders who hadn't done anything but behave.
Would the one responsible come forward? One could only hope.
Pushing past the concern for possible lost points, Ben paid attention to the lesson on bouncing bulbs. They would be working with young bulbs and need to be careful not to shock, threaten or provoke them in anyway lest they attack. Yeah...like he wanted to be attacked by a plant...no matter how young and small they were. Soon enough the professor had brought the cart to their table.
No sudden movements.
And no show of fear or agression. Just one fourth year Gryffindor trying to see if he could approach a cart filled with bouncing bulbs. He had let Adi take his turn and the Hufflepuff had stoppied. And now he was managing to move closer and closer to the cart. All cool...right? No aggressive feelings towards him?
The laughing annoyed the grumpy man a lot. Like what were they so happy about? Life wasn't all that good. Eh. Teenagers. The answer was correct, though. "True. It is one of the ingredients in the Pompion potion," he nodded and was about to continue walking till the other girl spoke. " Let's make pumpkin heads instead of Bouncy Bulbs. Did she think they were going to make the bulbs. Hmm. "We won't be making anything today, miss Kettleburn." he said glancing to her nametag. Kettleburn? And they weren't really making anything, the bouncing bulbs were under his table. Well, a few.
"Something like that, yes," he said. Her answer wasn't accurate but better than most and the boy's was correct so he got a nod. And he'd be elaborating on the matter after the rest of the class stopped sharing their thoughts.
"Yes, that is correct," Good answers. "Mature bouncing bulbs are quite large and hard to handle," he repeated aloud. And he guessed that's what the girl with the French (?) accent said.
Hmm. Was the girl still thinking about an example for his previous answer? He appreciated the dedicated spirit of her and nodded at her answer. She should move on with them though to the next answer about the plant which he held up in his hand.
Andrew lowered the bouncing bulb and was about to tell the young Snake's that her answer was correct when another Slytherin completed it for her. "True, what Mister Mordaunt said," he nodded at the two of them.
He paused considering her answer, "That's true. Although they don't have much of a root system in the first place," He told the Ravenclaw. Someone was approaching it from a different angle which was good.
Huh? Andrew blinked at the boy who looked quite certain of his answer. "I don't think so," He arched an eyebrow at him.
"No, those would be Puffapods," He corrected the Slytherin. A for effort, though.
His eyes slid to the bulb in his hand. Did they look like turnips? He didn't think so but he wasn't going to argue with a kid about it. Sure, a turnip it was.
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You don't say. Those kids were bright. Andrew remained quiet for a bit then said, "Obviously," At least they tried.
Text Cut: silent ones
No answers? Were they gazing at the bouncing bulb in his hand admiringly or were their minds somewhere else completely? He hoped the later wasn't it. And at least they weren't giggling
Text Cut: Fire people
huh? What fire? There wasn't a fire in Andrew's Greenhouse. Nope. Can't happen. sniff.. sniff. What was that smell, oh and smoke?
In two wide strides, Andrew was near Whitlock's table. This boy was on fire. Like literally. Before Andy could get there and act water sprouted from someone's wand and extinguished the fire. Lover boy. "Who did this?" The herbologist barked a deep scowl on his face.
"Good reflex, Mister Adair," he turned to the lion. "Three points to Gryffindor," Nod. The boy deserved them. Turning to Whitlock, "Do you have enemies? Who would do this to you?" The culprit needed to be found and punished. Duh. Not only for almost setting a classmate on fire but also for interrupting the lesson and disturbing everyone and most importantly Andrew. Mhm. "Whoever did this, come forth and you won't be punished severely. But when I check everyone's wands, it won't be pleasant," Wasn't that hard to find out what the last spell cast with a wand was. Ahem, he came prepared.
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Stupid and annoying kids. Fire in his greenhouse. This was a huge crime. And during his first lesson. Teaching a group of hooligans sucked. And the Whitlock boy here seemed to have a long list of enemies and wasn't likely to guess who this was. Talk about useless. Ignoring his comment, Andrew shot a look at everyone at the nearby tables. "If you find out, tell me, even after a million years," Yup. He'd have to go around the world and search for Andrew Walton in order to tell him who was the one who almost set the entire greenhouse on fire. This was important. Although, not as important as the lesson. So, he'd better get back to that. But before that, he wasn't going to let it go. Not Walton. "Two points from everyone," Pause. "Unless the person who almost burned us all alive speaks up," Yeah? "I will wait till the end of the lesson." Which they needed to continue. Oh, and the Head Girl agreed, good, less headache.
"Back to the bouncing bulbs," The Herbologist said walking back to his table and standing behind it. "This is of course a young one. Because like some of you pointed out, the mature ones can reach a very huge size like a tree or a doorway" He said placing the plant on the table. "Now to sum up what you all said, this particular plant is important for potions making, more particularly the Pompion Potion." Which was also mentioned but he was sure that many haven't heard most of the answers thanks to one person who thought he was funny. " And in order to use it as an ingredient, we will have to pot it. Like the name suggests, this plant does bounce," Like the bright students pointed out," so putting it in a pot might not be that easy as one might think. To do so, you will need to achieve a couple of steps before reaching the potting part." Which they should have started doing already! Man, he needed a hot cup of freshly harvested mint tea to relax. Though, stopping the lesson for that wasn't really an answer.
Moving on. "If threatened, the bouncing bulb can and will attack the nearest person. This is why I want you all to practice approaching the plant casually and coolly without showing any nervous signs because that will make it nervous and unsettled as well, which we do not want. Compose yourselves." Which might be hard for some of them by the looks of it. " I will be approaching each one of you with a cart that contains bouncing bulbs but I will stay about ten inches away and I'd like to see you getting as much closer as you can without disturbing the plants. If you see them starting to move uncontrollably and preparing to jump or attack, stop approaching. I won't tell you when it's time to back off, though, you will have to figure it out by yourself. " GOOD LUCK WITH THAT! This was going to be fun. Not for them.
Turning around, Andrew went and fetched the cart which he spoke of earlier. "Okay. Remain quiet. I'll be stopping by each table." he said pushing the cart near the first table. This was probably going to take long. YAWN. He was bored already.
OOC: Of course you don't have to wait for anything, just say that Andrew has reached you with the cart then RP your charrie getting closer. How close they get is up to you! You may if you want also decide if the bulbs get disturbed or not if you don't I will decide judging by your charrie's moves. But please do not RP the plant attacking or bouncing out of the cart, Andrew is right there and he would have intervened before allowing that to happen. So be creative and have fun. This could be done in a single post, unless you feel like doing it in more than one. Quality over quantity, though. Next post will be in 20ish hours.
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Once the cart and the pod things whatever they were called had finally reached Layla, the Blonde stared at them for a few minutes before glancing up at the Professor. His face was far to distracting. Sending Eden a quick knowing look because she was probably staring at his face too, the Blonde stepped forward to start the task.
The plants didn’t look at all intimidating and neither did Layla care much for plants anyway. They looked pretty she did agree but she wasn’t one of those ‘must plant shrubs everywhere’ type of people. Grass made a very good pitch and vegetables were extremely beneficial to the sporty and incredibly healthy eater.
She didn’t feel an inch of nervousness as she stepped forward towards the plants. The corner of her mouth had twitched up into a sort of half smile and her head was tilted at a slight angle. She stepped forward again only this time it was a much larger pace. She didn’t take her eyes off the bouncing plants even if the Prof’s pretty face was only inches higher than the cart. This was the task after all and Layla wasn’t one those girls who let guys get in the way. Pfft no. She had much bigger goals, larger ambitions and boy she could look after herself. She didn’t know how these boy attention seeking bimbos could live with themselves sometimes.
She took another non-nervous step forward. After all what damage could a plant really do. And she supposed it would get the Prof into a LOT of trouble if he let one of his students get injured. He’d probably get fired or something and she was sure that he didn’t want to lose his job. She managed to get within inches of the plant before she glanced back at the Professor.
Now what?
As for whoever had set that guys robes alight which was apparently what had happened it was A) Ever so slightly amusing and had certainly brightened up the lesson and B) Very attention seeking. She guessed it would be one of the mischievous attention seeking younger students or one of the girls prying for the Professors fuss. Pathetic and needy. Urgh some of these kids were incredibly annoying.
Eden didn't even know what to say. About anything. Everyone had given such great info about the bulby things--and then--there was a fire apparently? Eden had thought the greenhouse just smelled like smoke occasionally. WHoops? Professor Walton was NOT happy...not one bit, either. She siiighed because him grumpy wasn't cool. She hoped whoever started the FIRE would come FORWARD okay?
AND he was taking two points off of everyone?! NOT FAIR. Eden hadn't lost ANY points yet, and she didn't want to START. UGH. It was probably some DUMB younger kid. She glanced at them ALL in turn--except Archie, he was a DEAR--and tried to determine WHO DONE IT.
Not that she would figure it out. Especially not since they had to do important things and whatnot. They had to PRACTICE with the bulbs. Eden stood up, after watching Layla go, and gave her a THUMBS up for being really good. She had done well! Eden...well, she feared she wouldn't be as good.
She was already nervous because...Professor Walton. So when she approached the plant--slowly--she wasn't surprised to see them poise for attack. Eden quickly hopped back, took a deep breath, and blushed. OKAY. Well. This was AWKWARD. She smiled nervously at the professor and took a few more deep breaths. She took ONE step--and the bulbs were rattling again. UGH. Eden was biting her lip in frustration. And trying not to cry out of...anger at herself. Stupid confidence. She had none. She wanted some--could she borrow some of Layla's confidence?
She took a step closer--and tried to clear her mind, like she did with Divination--and as she took another step, it seemed to be working! Without thinking too hard(not a difficult thing for her) she got ALL the way to the plant on the cart--and she grinned up at the professor. WOW. She had done it. Now it was time to back away quickly before the bulby guys decided to attack her. She went back to her table, and waited to see if Archie or Connor would go.
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Two points?! WHAT IN THE FREAKING NAME OF MERLIN?
He really didn't care about the idea of losing points sine it was only TWO and he could make up for it in another class. Or even THIS class. What he DID care about was the everyone part. Namely, the fact that everyone included HIM. Er, HELLO?! He was the one who got BURNT. The back of his robes were in tatters and he still felt cold and he was gonna lose points too?!
The person who did this was in SERIOUS trouble. Jeez.
ANYWAYS. Be casual and cool about approaching the plant and not show any signs of nervousness? EASY. He was a VERY cool person and he wasn't about to be intimidated by some plant that bounced around everywhere. Not gonna happen. He still took a couple of deep breaths, though, in an attempt to compose himself. Juuuuust because.
When he felt ready, Grayson casually made his way over towards the bouncing bulbs. He was SO casual, in fact, that he had his hands tucked into his pockets while he inched closer and closer towards the cart. He did want to whistle to add onto the casual look but something told him that he probably shouldn't do that. Probably the look on Walton's face if he did that.
So, casual cool walking had happened and he stopped suddenly as soon as he saw the bouncing bulbs moving uncomfortably. The distance between him and the cart? About half a metre or a little less.
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So far setting people on fire seemed to be a thing at Hogwarts. It had happened both years that AJ had been here so far. She had missed whoever actually set the fire. Even if she did know, she wouldn't be snitching. The professor was going to take two points from everybody? How unfair was that? What happened to checking everyone's wand? AJ would be cool with that. Don't take away her hard earned points.
The lesson was moving on regardless of a boy almost going up in flames. AJ was looking forward to working with the bouncing bulbs. She was going to try REALLY hard not to approach it too quickly because she did tend to get a bit excited.
When the professor finally made his way with the cart to her table, AJ was ready. Slowly, one foot was put in front of the other as she made her way closer to the bulb. AJ looked at the bulb straight on, and didn't show any fear. That part was important. They could probably sense fear like animals could.
The bouncing bulb started to shake a little bit, but AJ still wasn't scared. She made her way even closer. This bulb was going to like her or else.
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There was the talk of points again. Why did people think they mattered? What could one accomplish with points in the first place...? Did you become a ruler if you accumulated enough? It wasn't worth the discussion, she was already a ruler so the thought was dismissed. Have the points, she would give him more if he needed.
"I don't carry around that silly thing. It's in that dorm area if you're still interested after." On the matter of her badge. Might as well give it to someone else for all the good that would do.
Maleficent's eyes flashed to the man as he approached with the bulbs. If he expected her to approach then he would be sorely disappointed because the Dark Queen simply folded her arms and stared from her spot behind her table. She had no interest in getting closer or getting to know them or whatever the case happened to do. They were none of her concern and besides all that, they were ugly.
Move along, Sir, she wasn't interested.
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Okay. What? Ethan turned as soon as Josie spoke, and saw Grayson fumble for his robe’s buttons and, Merlin’s S’mores, he’s on fire! Like…literally on fire. The Slytherin gaped at the commotion, simply because he did not expect his fellow Slytherin to be set on fire. Like…how in the world can that happen? They were inside a greenhouse, plus—oh. Of course.
A prank, perhaps?
And what the—two points from all of them? Greeeeat. Just…great. Sighing, and rolling his eyes. Ethan resumed with his note-taking. He’d have to talk to Grayson about this. Yeah, was he enemies with anybody? The prefect looked at his direction again and memorized those who are closest to him. It’ll be fun to guess, yeah? He likes solving crimespuzzles.
That must be put on hold though, because now, they will be potting one small Bouncing Bulb. Merlin’s beard. Funny how the name can actually conceal its true properties no? Yeah, it bounces, but it can also be violent. Ethan’s GOT a question, but the professor told them to basically shut up now, so yeah, doing that now Walton because…woopwoop! The cart has arrived and…yeah. It’s not as exciting as those that got fangs, though it can knock him out if he got hit, yeah?
Seeing that it was now his turn, Ethan placed his self-inking quill down, closed his notebook, and took a moment to compose himself before approaching the cart. It helps that it doesn’t have teeth or anything, so he’s got no reason to be afraid. Besides, if it decides to attack him, he can just knock it off with his knuckles, so yeah. The prefect got closer to the cart with utmost curiosity, wondering what else it can do besides being part of a potion. He did stop however, as soon as he saw the slightest wiggling movement. Eh…now what?
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The plant was going to attack the. The Professor brought an attacking plant and he was worried about taking away two points from everyone? Someone had their priorities a little messed up. Maybe THAT'S why the fire had started.
He couldn't worry about the fire anymore. Slowly the cart got closer and closer till it was RIGHT THERE! The attacking plants! Kyroh's eyes flickered to Zeke. The Gryffindor wasn't going to use this time to get payback right?
Hesitantly Kyroh took a step forward.
Nothing to see here. Carry on, carry on. Be a plant. A small bulb on the plant twitched and Kyroh froze.
Nothing to worry about bouncing bulb. Carry on with your Photosynthesis-ing.
He even began to whistle, but then stopped when he realized that whistling PROBABLY wouldn't make the plant feel any better. Standing up slightly straighter, Kyroh confidently closed the gap between him and the cart. The bulb twitched some more but no one ELSE had been attacked before so he was good right? Continuing on, he slowed his pace a tiny bit more, until he reached right up front. So close to the plant he could probably touch it. Not that he would. Because that was crazy. Once he was sure that he had stood there long enough he turned and made his way back to his table.
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