Hehe it was time for Lux to put on her mermaid costume.

Since she already had the red hair a la Ariel, a wig was not needed though a tail would need to be improvized. Since Professor Glandower did not have any as far as she could tell - and it would be a tripping hazard anyway - she opted for a green skirt that reached the floor. As good a tail as any. Shells would be nice too, but Glendower didn't have those either. Eh, the tail was good enough.

Now it was time for her to act her part and find someone to talk to her. "We will not be placed in the same category as Wizards! We will not follow their laws and let them categorize us!" Channelling mermaid!rage, Lux adopted a mean face and glared at anyone she deemed to be an evil human because they had wanted to list Merpeople as Beings.

Now that she’d settled on being Professor Glendower’s mini-me, at least for this activity, all that was left was for Brooklyn to get into character. The only problem was that she wasn’t entirely sure how to get her skin to be green-ish, and she wasn’t going to be skeletal either. She was a baby banshee, so maybe they were less dead-looking. She needed the hair, though. Unlike with playing Cliodne in the last lesson, she couldn’t get away with leaving her hair alone. She couldn’t charm it like she assumed the professor had done. She didn’t know the charm. She’d have to see if there was a wig or something she could use instead. Then all she’d have to do was act spooky and shriek. That was going to be the fun part.

Going over to the supply boxes, she dug around inside until she found a long black wig. It wasn’t floor length, but once again she was going with the baby banshee idea. So maybe her hair hadn’t grown out yet. Either way, she put the wig on, and found a long grey-white dress that she put on as well. She dug around for a few seconds more just in case, and found a little makeup kit near the bottom. Maybe she actually could make herself look greenish. Grabbing it, she started covering her face and arms with greenish-grey, before she dropped the kit back in the box and moved off to a corner of the room. Time to really get into character, and she took a breath and then shrieked as loud as she could. There. She’d banshee-talked.

Now to dress the part. Hady made her way to the boxes and began to dig around until she found a few things she could use. A red and black cape was first and by far one of the easiest things to wear when pretending to be a vampire. Wrapping the cape around herself with the red side showing she continued to look through the box.

Shifting through everything she found at the bottom a pair of vampire fangs which she cleaned with a quick 'scourgify' before putting them into her mouth. Cause seriously there was no one she was putting anything into her mouth after it had been sitting in a box and whatnot. That would just be down right gross.

With that done she ran a hand through her hair and looked around for anyone that might need a partner. It might be fun if it was someone that didn't get along with what she was pretending to be.

Once he was done with the transforming/rawrhowling, he figured he'd actually think about the proper stuff they were doing with this make believe game. He was generally all for games, but he had a mum to impress, and last he checked, she didn't think much of games.

....

But WEREWOLVES!..... what did he know about how to be one?

They were AGGRESSIVE, and... not in their right mind. Only howling, no English speak. They... attacked people.... and.... yeah. Could they THINK about things? How did their brains work? Go figure he didn't know how to be a Werewolf, an he didn't know how to be anything else that was listed on the board either, he only knew how to be what he was, HUMAN.

This was HARD.

"ARRHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!" he decided to howl again, more out of frustration... and... could he... hunt people/things? He stared around at the class and noticed that Lux was closest. He stopped RIGHT in front of her. "ARHHOOOOOOOO,... I'm assuming I'm a crazy werewolf that has no control over anything, can't think straight and I'm like attacking you or something," he whispered the last part. What was she anyway? She looked like a girl in a skirt to him, was she like... a.... pretty banshee? Secret vampire?

...

You know when you have that feeling that somebody is scrutinizing you? Well, AJ could feel Adi doing that to her now. Was he putting two and two together about who she was? Seemed as if he did when he announced her name. "I am not AJ, I am ghost." Or ghostie, she would answer to both.

The ears and the nose were one of the things she zoned into, but his outfit was throwing her off. "You mean your dress?" Because that was pretty much what he was wearing... just saying. As he continued talking about himself, a light bulb went off in her head. "Ohhh, I really want one of you." It was of the first things that AJ had talked to the creatures professor about. Of course he broke her little eleven year old heart. "You're a house elf." She watched him bow. "While you're down there my shoes could use a good polish." Just how deep into character did he want to go? He couldn't see it but she was grinning from ear to ear. "You're totally in the right category. If anything you might be more knowledgeable than most wizards because you serve them and get to know all of their secrets." Man, she really wanted a house elf too. "What do you think?"

AJ nodded her head in agreement as Adi spoke. "Yeah, I guess so. Plus, they are cool enough to have our own category. I still think they could be beneficial to the beings because they are humans and have even seen things that the living have not. That could make them have more insight." Spirits did make sense though.

Norah kept swinging her club around her head and stomping in circles, all the while grunting and growling. If this was what a troll got to do all day then she really wouldn't mind. Weaving through the other students, she shouted "I SMASH. GAAAAH!" A few times, just to get some attention. They were supposed to be guessing each other's creatures riiiiight? She opened up her mouth to shout again but found herself giggling instead. Hehehehehe, being a troll was the best. Standing on her tiptoes, Norah made sure she was away from anyone she'd accidentally hit and restarted her waving of her club. Hiiii people. Troll over here needs a friend.

"You're both,'' Adi said with a nod. "You're a ghostie named AJ.'' Did she reallllly think he would not recognise her voice? And her pretty eyes?

Dress? DRESS? "Does this look like a dress?'' he asked in mock outrage. Hey, he had draped this thing properly, right? He looked down at the toga. Well, yeaaah. He had. Just like they had done in Arithmancy. Ohh. AJ wanted a House Elf, did she? He tucked that bit of information in his brain where all the other AJ stuff were stored. "Yes, I'm a House Elf. And we don't wear dresses.'' Her shoes? "Your transparent shoes, you mean? Sorry, Missus, but nothing I can do about that. My little elf hands would go right through them.'' Hehe.

"I agree I'm in the right category, Ghostie. The amount of secrets I know would make your head explode! Can a ghost's head explode, anyway?'' Adi doubted that. "Agreed. Ghosts would make excellent Professors for History.''

Werewolf!Zeke howling right in front of her made Lux feel like she was about to have a heart attack. Once she had recovered, she started to laugh because it was rather funny having a werewolf attack a mermaid.

"Mr. Werewolf," she said while backing away a little in mock fear. "I am a Beast, not a Being. I do not want to be in the same category as them. As a mermaid, I won't be associated with humans. Besides, they are probably more fun to bite." Or maybe she'd become the only weremaid in existence which would be pretty awesome actually now that she thought about it.

Now it was time to dress up as a freaking Manticore. One of the world's most dangerous animals.

Did he feel important and epic? Yes, yes he did.

So, the fifteen year old strutted his way over towards the box of costumes. Strut strut struttin' for anyone to see. Now, a Manticore was a mix of a human, a lion and a scorpion sooooooo he needed to incorporate ALL of that into his costume. A couple of minutes were taken to rummage through the box where he pulled out various furry items: jumpers, mostly. But then he found it. IT. The GOLD MINE.

A LION ONESIE!

Pulling that out, he pulled it on and put the hood up. There. Now he had the body of the lion set. The scorpion tail was even HARDER to find because how many people wanted to dress up as a freaking scorpion? He did, however, manage to find himself a small scorpion. HMMMM. Could he diffindo this? Get the tail out and then stick it to his behind? Yeah?

He was gonna do it anyways.

"Diffindo!" he called, slicing the tail clean off. After making it bigger juuuuuust a little bit, the Slytherin stuck it to his behind. His bottom. And he wiggled it, just to make sure it was in place.

Next thing's next: he needed to find someone to interact with, yes? The question was: WHO? It was hard to tell who was who so he couldn't go to one of his friends even if he wanted to. MAN. How was he meant to know who was cool and who was--

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Norah kept swinging her club around her head and stomping in circles, all the while grunting and growling. If this was what a troll got to do all day then she really wouldn't mind. Weaving through the other students, she shouted "I SMASH. GAAAAH!" A few times, just to get some attention. They were supposed to be guessing each other's creatures riiiiight? She opened up her mouth to shout again but found herself giggling instead. Hehehehehe, being a troll was the best. Standing on her tiptoes, Norah made sure she was away from anyone she'd accidentally hit and restarted her waving of her club. Hiiii people. Troll over here needs a friend.

TROLLOLOLOLOL!

LOOK! A TROLL!

He was gonna go over to HER because she was smashing things and that seemed like his idea of fun. It was MUCH better than acting. And he wasn't even going to do a good job of the acting part, anyways, so he might as well have some fun while he was at it.

"Lookin' very trollerific there," he said once he approached her.

Now onto transforming in a werewolf and see how they acted like. Well Kace thought back to some movies they were in and knew they were quite aggressive. They usually hunted what they wanted and of course they did howl. He looked up at the sky and did his,

"ARHHHHHHOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!"

Then he heard another howl and knew it was one of his own. He went over and walked over to Zeke who he knew just howled. Usually a howl was a call to the pack or to let others know about danger. He tapped him on the shoulder. "I see I found a fellow werewolf.." he smiled. "I think we need to find others for our pack.." he suggested to Zeke. He also noticed Lux and growled at her. The werewolfs did not hunt Mermaids. "No Zeke we do not hunt mermaids...humans are way more fun.." he smirked and looked around for some prey.

SPOILER!!: Eden and Andrew

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Andrew felt pretty good about his costume, although he hadn't found a pair of wings that matched the deep crimson of his other set-pieces. He was about to dive in for a second look when the younger boy began marching in his direction, confirming for Andrew that his costume was a success... Or at least that this other boy had had managed to piece together what he was going for.

"Hey!" he replied enthusiastically when the Gryffindor lad approached. He'd seen him before, but they had never really talked. He nodded as the boy spoke and looked around the room at the other students. "Well, most of these creatures probably wouldn't be friendly towards us. Some of them are prey.." he gestured towards Eden, whom he had recognized as a kneazle, or at least some sort of feline.

"We should probably hunt her." he teased with a grin, speaking just loudly enough for Eden to hear.

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Eden suddenly got on all fours, looking at everyone...with CLEVER eyes. Because kneazles were CLEVEH. She smirked at a few people--and she tried to look all cunning and whatnot. She even made her tail do the...sneaky cat-moving thing...and then--

A younger lion approached her. He wasn't a baby lion. Just younger. She smiled as he approached..they were both crawling on the floor like big weirdos. "Um--sure--well-I can draw it if you want--" and she leaned forward and drew the little nose like a dog--and TADAAA. "It looks...just like a crup." She said, smiling all big. "I mean...MEEE-oooowww--" and she pawed him all sassy like. "Nice tail!"

Eden was such a good kneazle, yep. "So-meow--how do you feel--meow--about being--meow--not a being--meow--" she asked, licking the tops of her hands and bit..and trying to be a CUTE cat and not a MEAN cat. She tiled her head to the side and tried to look clever. but she felt like she was failing. She probably was. Though..she was also sure a kneazle might not get along with a cruppy.

Oh yeah...that was something.

Dragons were one of the bigger and possibly more threatening identities. At least from non-human witches and wizards which he hoped most had some understanding they weren't all bad. But then that might be something to consider for the assignment. How each and everyone one represented viewed the dragon individually as per their creature mindset.

Benny followed the older boy's gaze to spot an older girl...a kneazle he guessed since ordinary cat wasn't included and there weren't other magical felines either. Well other than Lex's Sphinx. Yep, definately prey for a dragon. "Uh huh...sounds like a plan," he responded, catching onto the teasing tone. Trying his best to get his wings to move, the Gryffindor changed moved towards their 'target' albeit a bit stealthily. Scared prey was gone prey...right?

And it was all in good fun.

Maddie was realizing something as she passed around the room, generally unnoticed by her peers. Ghosts were solitary creatures. WELL, minus the ones who'd joined the Headless Hunt and other ghost-led organizations she'd heard of. Made sense, given their limited amount of real-estate. And even the ones in the castle didn't seem to hang around in groups, did they? Perhaps death was even lonelier than she'd imagined.

And then there was howling. WELL. Maddie raised her eyebrows, wanting to point out that there was no full moon in sight so no werewolf transformations SHOULD be taking place in the classroom. JUST saying. Could they keep it down, or? Haunting in progress over here.

"I know NOTHING about this AJ that you speak of. BooOOOooo." Did ghosts even going around saying boo? The ones that she had run into arounf Hogwarts didn't. They spoke just like normal. More proof that they may just be better classified as a being.

AJ eyed the get up that Adi was in. She reached her ghostie hand towards the fabric. "It looks exactly like a dress." Okay, more like a toga, but in the second year's mind that was sort of the same thing. "Maybe REAL house elves don't wear dresses, but you my friend, are in a dress." Tsk, tsk. Was a house elf disobeying an order? "I didn't know house elves were allowed to come up with excuses." It was so much fun to tease Adi.

Head explosions painted a pretty little picture in AJ's head. "I'm afraid nothing can explode on me. I can't even eat... it's a shame really." Being a ghost was no fun. "For fun I walk through people and make them shiver." That's what AJ would be doing if she ever came back as a ghost.

The activity portion of the lesson was always Nessa's favorite part of the class and she had a feeling that the student's were very ready for it as well at this point. Wandering through the room in her banshee garb, she watched as the students made their decisions and began to get ready. She smiled at Eden's drawn on whiskers and nodded approvingly at some of the chosen costumes. Of course that wasn't a requirement, but she did think it helped with getting into the mindset. What interesting choices everyone was making!

She would have expected most of them to choose Beings or even Spirits or some of the controversially-placed Beasts, like the merpeople or centaurs, though they were all valid choices. She just hoped they remembered that they'd have to relate this to their homework and a Beast that could not speak might have difficulty conveying whether they think their rights or protections are fair. But that was all up to their creativity, she supposed, and she had complete faith in her class. They were all so smart!

It was starting to get loud in the classroom but that wasn't troublesome for Professor Glendower. She knew they were each embracing the persona they had chosen and if that was what it took for them all to understand and create an argument for or against whatever particular classification, then all the better. Nessa looked over as she heard a shriek and smiled a bit at Brooklyn's banshee appearance before giving her a shriek in response. Total banshee communication there.

Back near the costume boxes, she found Cassie. "Are you going to get into character too and play along?" she asked, giving her a smile. Homework was optional, hehe. But why not have a little fun.. Nessa herself was a banshee. And then she was distracted once more by the troll swinging her bat. That was some realistic chaos.

Of course, everyone was staying away from her. Brooklyn had expected that, and therefore she chose to ignore it. It wasn’t like anyone could understand banshee!speak anyhow, and she was staying in character. She wasn’t going to be like all the other people who were speaking English when their creature probably couldn’t. Actually, she was pretty sure real dragons couldn’t talk, or werewolves if they were transformed. That was probably why they were classified as beasts who had no say in their laws. Plus, there were merpeople in the class who weren’t speaking Mermish, and even she knew merpeople couldn’t speak English. She was going to stick with banshee talking, if anyone dared come over to her. Besides, then she could hurt them with her shrieks. It was the banshee thing to do after all, and even a baby banshee had to follow that.

She’d looked up as her initial shriek had been answered, though, holding back a grin as she saw it had been Professor Glendower. See? She knew she was a banshee. She’d answered back with another shriek, even though the professor had moved on to talk to the Divination professor, not in shrieks. She was going to stay in character, anyway. Shrieks galore, possibly to the point of hurting her throat. It was okay when it was in the service of being scary and powerful. She liked being scary. It made people respect her, and they should. They should respect witch!firstie!Brooklyn and they should really respect banshee!Brooklyn. It was in their best interests after all, when she could shriek them to death if they didn’t.

SCOOOOOOOOOOOOOORE! Toby grinned and fist-pumped the air in celebration of his successful riddle-answering, and then held still 'cause of being re-crowned and everything by Alexa the Sphinx.

"Thanks!" the Hufflepuff smiled, reaching up automatically to adjust it on his head. "Fairying is what I do best."

At that point, Toby glanced up at the board to check something. He was looking specifically for what the Sphinxes were classified as, and was kind of surprised to see them in the 'Beasts' section.

"I thought sphinxes would be listed as Beings," he said, looking back to Alexa again. Just wondering out loud, y'know. Or... uhh, staying in character, let's see... "I mean, I might think that if I was concerned with that stuff."

*hairflip*

*bats eyelashes*

*just a pretty fairy over here*

OOOH, A PERSON. Norah swung her club around as she turned to face the boy dressed as a lion with some kind of tail sticking out of his behind....whut. She squinted at the boy, unable to tell who he was. Okay then. "YES, I TROLL." She bellowed. So he was good at the whole guessing thing. The problem with interacting with other students was that she was so much shorter than absolutely EVERYBODY. HOW was she supposed to be a big scary troll when this lion guy was so much bigger than her? She went up on her tiptoes again and put her club in the air, trying to look menacing. But he had already guessed her, right? So it was her turn...right.

Assuming her un-scary non-troll height once again, Norah's eyes travelled over the boy's lion/reptile/tail thingy outfit. Ummmm. "You're a mix of things right? No wait, YOU MIX THINGS." There, way to keep in character. Points for her woot. OOH! Maybe he was a chimera! "CHIMERA YOU, YES?" Wait no. Chimeras were more reptile-ish...right? The second year eyed the tail. It was curly like a scorpion. YES. THAT'S IT! "You're a manticore!" she exclaimed, forgetting to be a troll in her excitement. Whoooops. Whatever. She was SO GOOD. YEEEAH!

She reached up to slap manticore dude a high five. "Who are you, anyway? I'm Norah, Hufflepuff. Second year." She batted her eyelashes. NOT a firstie, uh huh. EVEN if she was still shorter than most of the firsties. Details, details.

Andrew followed his his new friend's example and stealthily set off in the Kneazle's direction, a sly grin plastered all over his face. "You don't suppose the way we ferociously prey on innocents could have something to do with people being a little biased against us?" He looked over at Benny as they got closer and closer to Eden.

The question was meant in jest, but it presented a genuinely interesting look into a dragon's psyche. It was a fact that dragons, despite their beastly nature, had the capacity to function in a group, and therefore - to a certain extent - to reason. It was difficult to argue that dragons were not classfied correctly, but seeing things from a dragon's perspective made it all seem so... trivial. As a dragon, you are the lord of your domain. You answer to no one. Even if a dragon understood the concept of a ministry-sanctioned classification system, would it care? And if it did, would it accept a placement so insulting as 'Beast'? Doubtful.

"Naaaaah. A dragon's gotta do what a dragon's gotta do." He chuckled, turning his attention back towards sneaking up on Eden.

AND she was done.

Maddie quietly made her way back to her seat, all somber and mystical. She then leaned against it, arms crossed in front of her. If anyone ASKED what she was up to, she'd say she was occupying the space where she died. Grave, yes, but an excuse to relax while the rest of her classmates howled and did WHATEVER other crazy things they were doing.

What was GRAYSON supposed to BE, anyway? A giant furry bug? Made sense. Sometimes Maddie DID get the urge to squash him.

She was snapping for all the great actors around her. They were all so amazing. She just loved coming to this class and seeing everyone. She was so involved in listening to the others and watching them, she forgot she was going to be a ghost. Hearing a shriek she jumped and then laughed, snapping for both banshees.

Looking around she saw some acting like Centaurs and just was amazing at how well they were doing. This was just so impressive. Seeing her friend come up to her she grinned, "This is so amazing. I'm so jealous at how well your class is going." She knew her own lessons were hard this term for many of the students, but they seemed to be doing so well here. Plus she noticed students she knew she didn't have in her room, though they were young still, so hopefully one term.

"I was thinking about a ghost, but everyone is doing so well I just like watching." So maybe she would sit this out and be the audience, every great activity needed an audience to snap for them! "You should put on a play with all this talent. It would be ah-mazing!"

That boy wasn't responding, but he was looking at her and gargling. GARGLING. Dot hopped off her perch and clipclopped across the where the boy was just looking at her, and she got riiiight up in his face and looked at him. Just looked.

"Not a centaur," she said very quietly. "But you have a very great soul in there, don't you? You can't let those wizards tell you what to do. Be strong, ok? Be ah-neeeeeigh-zing, like a centaur."

She stepped back and crossed her arms. What was he, anyway? Hmm? She poked out her chin. "What are you, Not A Centaur?"

Oh. OH. She was hopping down and STARING at him. Thornton's eyes went wide, and hit bit his lip.

"Blrrgll?" he muttered quietly as he flopped his legs together like he was splashing in water and pointed. Casting a quick glance over his shoulder to see where the Professor was, he looked back once he was sure he wouldn't be seen.

"I don't think my, uh, character can speak English," he whispered to her.

He flopped again and mimed swimming, since the gurgling wasn't really communication.

LOL! Who WAS this kid? She was tiny, sure, but MAN could she belt it as if her life depended on it. Grayson was kinda impressed, to say the least. A troll would be a cool creature to dress up as, just because of the off-chance that you can wave the club around and he was glad that he hadn't bumped into a bad one. Or so it seemed. "So you know a bit of English, eh? Think you're good enough to shape laws and whatnot with that bat of yours?"

A mix of things? WELL. "You can kinda say that," he said, nodding at her. Thank MERLIN he had picked an animal that had a human head. How difficult would this have been if he had to be a freaking flobberworm and whatnot? Hard. And he was just gonna stand here and look good while she checked him out tried to figure out exactly who--

YEEEEEEEEES!

"You got it! Manticore in the house!" What did Manticores even sound like?

High fives? YEAH! He high fived the tiny girl back since she didn't seem like a bad person and all. Hufflepuff? HMMMM. Was she constantly on the Elixir to Induce Euphoria or what? Could he ask her that or was it too soon? "Nice to meet you, Norah. I'm Grayson, Slytherin, fifth year." And he was COOL, if she didn't guess that already. Juuuuuust saying, you know.

And Maddie got nothing.

The assignment had been given. Now Jasmine had to decide who or what she was going to be. Looking at the list, she realized that this would be a difficult decision. Her first thought was to become a Veela, but she figured that even a costume couldn't help her out with that transformation.

Jasmine decided to walk over to the prop box and get some inspiration. Looking through the items, she had an idea. Picking up a long black wig and a flowing white dress, Jasmine put them on. Then she dug deeper in the box, looking for just the right make up. When Jasmine found what she was looking for Jasmine put it on her face. Now she was ready. Hoping that she looked like a proper ghost, Jasmine set out to mingle with the other spirits, beasts and beings.

Didn't speak... Dot squinted at the boy, and then at his arms and legs flailing around. Oh, y'know what? HE WAS A MERPERSON. Dot squealed and clapped her hands in delight. She'd been waiting for ages to see a real mermaid, and... okay, this kid wasn't a real mermaid, but she was still excited.

"Flurgenburgen?" That was definitely Mermish. Or Swedish. Whatever. "Okay, I'm going to speak on your behalf, because you can't speak for yourself to these dastardly wizards, and I speak English and Mermish and the language of the treeeeees and stars and beautiful world." She took his hand and climbed up on her chair again.

"THIS MERMAN HAS A VOICE." Fist-shaking.