Awwww the baby griffins were so cute. He had experience working with baby animals back on his farm. He would have to learn to take care of them since his grandmother had no time since she was doing other stuff. He grinned and knew he wasn't going to go right to the cage. Oh no no that would scare them. He was going to let one of them come to him. He began like the others to observe them. He observed how the babies were behaving. They were behaving like creatures would. The griffins were playing around and tackling each other like siblings. He grinned at the cuteness.

As he was watching, one baby griffin caught his eye. It was staring at him and tilted his head in curiousity. Kace wondered if the griffin was going to come to him. He smiled warmly to let the griffin know he meant no harm. He waited patiently to see what the baby griffin would do.

OMG, they were going to be working with baby griffins!!

HER HEART WAS MELTING BECAUSE BABY ANIMALS.

It was hard to resist the temptation to squeal, but somehow Lux managed. They were just so cute. She loved babies!! Listening to Professor Thompson explain what they were supposed to do she couldn't wait to start. They could nip and claw at her all they wanted, she wouldn't care in the slightest.

Either she could choose a griffin, or she could let one choose her. Lux preferred the latter option. Getting comfy on the ground, she watched them to see if any would venture over.

They were sooooo adorable.

HOLY MACARONI WITH EXTRA CHEESE. If there was one thing in the entire universe that was better than human babies it was ANIMAL BABIES. Norah sat cross legged on the floor and inched herself closer to the opening of the pen Professor Thompson had just revealed. Look. How. ADORABLE. She pressed her hands to her cheeks as she watched the little griffin cutie pies moving around in their little cutie pie way. And their little TAILS too! Would it be okay if she fainted? She was gonna faint. No big deal, just KNOCKED OUT by all the CUTE. Okay, maybe not 'cause no griffin was going to like her if she was boring and knocked out and being liked by a baby griffin had quickly made it's way to the top if her 'Stuff That Needs to Happen Right Now Or Else' list.

The fourth year scooted a little closer to the griffins and held a hand out. "Heeeere babies." She let out a squeal as one of the animals gave a squawk. She needed one. And soon. Before she exploded would be preferable.

Oh...Benny didn't he hear him calling his name? Henric frowned...weird...maybe he really didn't hear him...they were standing quite far away from each other...so..he guessed he would be talking to him later.Hmm...well...Henric didn't want to ponder over the thought anymore, time to get back to the lesson at hand. Brilliant! Baby griffins! WOOTS! Oh Adi would love this one, alright! If only it they were baby dragons instead. But baby gryffins were extraordinary too! He loved both.

His smile widened as he watched the baby griffins came out from their pen,oh merlin...why were they so adorable! He wanted to pick them all up and hug them as much as he could. But he knew he shouldn't do that or it would scare them away. Before he could assess on how to actually come up with a plan to approach one, he was pulled down by Adi none too gently, his knees hitting the ground hard.

"Oww...man..give a warning next time mate,"he groaned,rubbing his knees. Wait a minute....the baby griffins were coming closer to them..oh my oh my...Henric quickly got up into a crawling position and hold out his hand.
"Steady...steady...we don't want to scare them off..."he whispered to them both.

GRIIIIIFFINS! That was SO cool that Eden bounced quite a bit at the prospect. She was pouring over all of the info in her head about griffins...it wasn't her forte but...she was still pretty knowledgable about them. Mhmm. The way to attract one..well, you didn't just WALTZ up to a griffin and expect a good response, but Eden thought baby ones might be easier to deal with.

Ugh,

BABY GRIFFINS.

Eden went into the pen and tried to poke around...figure out a good spot to sit to attract one...hmm. She picked a spot near the far end of the pen, against the surrounding fence, and plopped down, just quietly watching and waiting for one to come near.

A few of them squawked by, but Eden didn't move. She was waiting for one to come REALLY close--and finally, one did--and Eden smiled and geeeeently, very gently, raised her hand let the baby sniff her or something...but as soon as she did, it stepped back in alarm.

Oh.

Eden sighed and pulled her hand back in...COME HERE WITTLE BABY!!

Cutty followed Thompson and the rest inside the stables and observed all of the orphaned bodies. How were they orphaned? Were they being hunted down for potions ingredients? Or was it a habitat thing? He needed to go and see the Professor about his owl anyway. She was acting funny.

Let one chose you.


Cutty knew how this would go, so he casually passed a little orphaned boy griffin and lifted him, tucking him into his body as the tiny thing nipped at him all the way to their seat.

They're gonna work with babies.

Griffin babies to be exact.

He heard some of the students were squealing and admiring how cute they were. Yeah, those griffin babies were cute but he didn't need to say it out loud. Hehehe. As Professor Thompson said, he joined with the other students gathering around the baby griffins and chose one? Hmm... Okay. The Korean guy looked at them before he decided to choose one of them. His chocolate brown eyes looked at one baby griffin that wasn't far from him. "hey there, buddy." He petted the baby's head. "Professor, how could we know if it's a male or female baby griffin?" He asked curiously.

Marsha’s had flew into the air. She had plenty of experience with children. Although she had been the only niece/grandchild for a long time in her family, her oldest aunts and uncles had started having children and she had helped to look after them… and now, now she had a gorgeous sibling. ”Professor, I have a baby sister called Alis, she turned one just before I came to Hogwarts.” Huge smiles. ”She needs sleep, somewhere warm and comfortable and where she knows she will be safe.” Because without sleep and rest, babies were loud and grumpy and meant that YOU didn’t get sleep due to them being over-tired. YES, sleep please.


Marsha was excited. She wanted to know what was behind the door. Surely, from this conversation it was a baby creature of some form - but … what that was? She had no idea. AND SHE DIDN’T CARE! ‘Cause it was an animal, something and somethings were always cute. Right? Right. Right. Wheeee. Come on Professor, let me seeeeeee.

With a grin, she bounced slightly on the balls of her feet, the anticipation was kiiiillllliiiiinnnnggggggg her! She just wanted to know who they would be helping today. Rusty, Adi, Cutty and more of her friends could verify her love for animals and that Care of Magical Creatures was one of her favourite things, ever.

And then he moved and opened the door.

Marsha gasped. And likely squeed a little, though as her hands cupped her face she couldn’t really hear anything other than her heart racing in her chest. THEY WERE SO CUTE. However, her heart broke as her hearing came back to Professor Thomson saying that they were orphans. No! No-one should ever be an orphan and left without someone to love them. Her Dad and his siblings were all orphans brought together by her Grandad and Grandpa, who to this day still fostered children even though they hadn’t adopted anyone since Uncle Connell. Her heart broke as she stood in the doorway. Nope, this wasn’t happening; her dad and her Grandpa had taught her to love. So that was going to happen.

Moving into the enclosure, she sat looking around them wondering if she would be told off for trying to hug them ALL… could she look after them all? IF they were orphans? Making a decision to talk to the Professor after class, she set that thought aside as she simply sat there waiting. She would give them a few minutes before she took action.

The little orphan boy was still nipping when Cutty set him down in front of him. And when he wasn't nipping, his beak was well and truly open in preparation for nipping.

"Suusss. Calm down, lad. Calm down." Cutty had his hands up and out before they came resting on the shoulders of the still tiny beast. Nip! Nipnip'nippy!

Gently, Cutty began to stroke the baby beast, letting his large hand glide over the back between the wings. The orphan boy looked straight on but held still as if growing used to the handling. When he felt it was smart to do so, Cutty used one of his fingers to scratch at the animals neck. His hand was full on scratching and massaging the underside of the neck when he decided to name the creature Phlegon.

Zhenya could see that a lot of the students were sitting down, too, and the baby griffins were sort of coming towards them. Aww, well she did have to admit they were cute. Actually, they were very cute. Aww. The one that Zhenya thought had looked at her started walking towards her. Well, not walking... Maybe walking... well, making its way slowly towards her. Zhenya smiled at it, and held out her hand. Once it had hobbled towards her enough, it started to sniff at her hand, then it opened its mouth and...


"No," Zhenya said to it firmly, pulling her hand away. The gryffin looked up at her, its head tilting to the side. What? She didn't want it to eat her finger off, no matter what Professor Thompson said. But Zhenya couldn't be mad at the little thing. It must have sensed everything was okay, because it reached a hand out towards her and started to swat her. This made Zhenya laugh, and she reached towards it with her hand, gently gently stroking its outstretched paw/hand. It ran its hand down her arm, enough so that she felt its claws, but not enough to leave a mark. She saw its claws but they didn't appear very long. In fact, there were only faint pink lines down her arm, but no skin had been broken, so it was all playful, and not painful. "What are we going to call you?" she asked, moving her hand around so that the griffin could follow it with its eyes and practice its swatting.

What would she name it? She assumed it didn't have a name. But was it a male or female? Zhenya didn't know. What was a good unisex name she could use? Zhenya had a thought whilst watching the griffin clawing at her arm playfully. She smiled and decided to go with "Vaska, that will be your name," she said to the griffin, to Vaska. Vaska paused a moment to look up at her, then continued to claw at her arm.

Griffins! They would be working with baby griffin orphans! Janelle could barely contain her excitement. She would have to tone it down or the creatures would be afraid to approach her. She took a few deep breaths to calm herself down. When the Professor opened the pen, Janelle's face lit up with a smile. She would never get used to seeing magical animals. They were so.........unusual, but unbelievably cool.

Janelle followed Professor Thompson inside of the pen and looked around. There were baby griffins everywhere. She was going to make a new friend today, it seemed. Walking over to an area that wasn't crowded with students, she sat down. Janelle tried to make herself look as relaxed and friendly as possible. "Come on little griffin babies. Come to your temporary mama.", she thought to herself.

As usual, patience was important. Janelle was still working on the patience thing. It was always a challenge for her because she was ready to jump right into the task. This time she sat perfectly still (well, as still as she could manage) with a smile plastered on her face. Any time now, one would come.........she hoped.

Woopsie In his enthusiasm he had yanked Henric a little too hard down to the ground. "Sorry, buddy,'' he whispered, positive Benny was seeing all of this. Good! Let him! He thought he was being replaced, wasn't he? Well, he really was doing so right now! Anyway, back to the task at hand. He grinned as his Puff mate got into a crawling position. "Watch out that none of them take a nip out of your butt.'' LOL!

OOOOOH!

Look, look, LOOK! A baby Griffie was coming to him! Time to stay still as possible! With his bespectacled, excited eyes, the Huffie watched as the Griffin stood before him, surveying him back. Adi just smiled. "Come on, baby griff.'' The baby continued to stare at him for about a minute or so then it came closer. Adi let it, never once breaking the eye contact until the baby Griff was totally behind him. Uh oh... it was going to bite Henric's butt!

Adi turned his head slightly, catching sight of the Griff but not before it bit on his shoulder. "Owowowow!'' he muttered wincing, in pain. GOSH! Did babies like biting his shoulder?! But hey! The main thing was he had a griff! The Puffer reached around to pat the baby's head. "Heya!'' Pat!Pat!Pat! "Thanks for the shoulder bite. I'm sure I'll have a lovely little mark there later on.'' Hehe. "I think I shall call you Henry.'' Fitting, yes? A biter's name for a biter. Mhmm.

Thankfully they were moving on from human babies to talk of creature ones. Those were more Ben's interest...especially when Thompson revealed that they would be he=ping take care of baby Griffins. That got his attention. With a move of yhe older man and creature love, he could see them all behind them in pen he had been guarding and hiding. Griffins might be one of his other fav creatures besides dragons, given he always associated them with his house alongside their lion cousins.

Ben moved to obey the professor following him inside albeit maybe a little slower than normal excided Benny. He still didn't have anyone to work with if needed. Listing to what they would be doing and how to begin, the Gryffindor opted for the second option letting one of the creatures choose him. Which seemed the way Adi. Henric and AJ were going to handle things too as absently noticed them when they all moved.

Sigh.

Separating from the group a bit once they were told to get their Griff, he plopped down on the ground. "Here Griffin..." Ben said quietly, loosing some of the excitement within himself, his shoulders falling in defeat. It just didn't seem like the same class without him.

Not that it seemed to bother Adi much...if at all.

Patience wearing just a tad bit thin, Janelle tried to look what in her mind was appealing to the griffins. At last she was rewarded as a little baby griffin cautiously made its way toward her. Careful not to frighten him, she spoke in a soft voice as he approached her. "Hi little griffin. It's OK. I won't hurt you." The griffin took slow steps and got closer and closer to Janelle. She stupidly put out her hand and the animal began to peck at it. Fortunately, it did not hurt......too much.

Not sure if she was supposed to or not, Janelle gave the griffin's head a little pat. She thought that she could comfort him and avoid his nipping all at the same time. "You are a fine griffin. You need a name though. Let me think....." Janelle looked at her new friend for a moment waiting for some inspiration. "Hmmmm. What should I call you? I think you look like a.......Buddy. Yes, that's it. Buddy. Do you like that?" Buddy proceeded to peck Janelle on the leg. "I'll take that as a yes", she said to her Buddy. "You know, you don't have to bite me. I'm your friend now." He was probably hungry. That's what it was. "I'm going to get to feed you soon so you have to be patient." Janelle hoped that she could keep Buddy entertained until it was feeding time.

See? Babies didn't like to be startled! Professor Thompson had confirmed it. AJ mainly gave that answer because she knew that he would approve and think she was being all mature like when in came to animals. Truthfully, she wasn't sure if she would be able to contain herself in a unicorn came waltzing in right about now. AJ was only fourteen, okay? Jeeze.

Baby griffins!!! Be calm, AJ. But, as Thompson showcased them, AJ's eyes lit up and it was really hard to not flail about in excitement. Really hard, man. Like, trying to get advanced spells to work for her kind of hard. The fourth year was biting down so hard on her lip that she could taste metal. Must contain all of the emotions. "They are so cute," she managed to get out before Adi was pulling both her and Henric down.

Now seated beside the two of them, she leaned closer to the boys. "I want one of these too." Could they have one of everything? Henic was trying to keep them calm, but he obviously didn't know AJ very well. "I dunno if I can man... I just don't know..." It was an internal struggle and her legs were bouncing up and down in anticipation. Come on baby griffies.... come to mama!

His head had fallen at one point, leaving the older lion into an almost meditative position with his legs crossed as he sat on the ground. In truth it was Ben trying to keep control of his emotions...to attempt to push aside the feeling of being left out or maybe tossed out of his old position at Adi's side. Or something like that. Whatever the case, he was sitting alone, the world half-tuned out as he struggled to keep from looking weak, especially as a tear threatened from his one eye.

Ben didn't notice the first nudge sent his way from behind. Or the nip or two at the fabric at his robes. "Hey..." he let out as the second nudge actually moved him, the sixth year moving to turn around almost expecting his ex-bestie to be there causing trouble again like he had in History of Magic. But instead he came face to face with a baby Griffin who was clearly watching him. Its head tilted to the side in curiousity when it seemed to register that he had finally noticed his creature companion trying to get his attention.

"Um...hello" he made out once he found his voice. Ben tentatively reached out a hand to try and touch him. It took a few tries as the Griffin also seemed unsure of what he was doing, but eventually skin touched feather and the lion rubbed gently like he would a hippogriff. "Adi..." he said absently at the thought of hippogriffs, the boy shaking his head to free the thought but it did give him an idea.

Could he replace his friend?

"You need a name..." Benny mused as he rubbed. "How about Hiccup?" The creature seeming to ruffle his feathers in approval of his actions at least if not the name.

It hadn’t taken long, at all, in fact for one of the Griffins to come her. Marsha smiled down at it, wondering if it would venture close enough to nip and bite at her hands or knees (those were the closest to the ground after all). Waiting… Watching… Be still.

With a big grin on her face, she winced slightly as the baby Griffin nipped at her fingers. She kept her hand still so that the Griffin could get used to her and then slowly turned her hand over so that the back of her hand was resting on the ground. She watched the baby sniffing and renipping at the newly shown skin - and it was all worth at as the baby took a few more steps towards her hand and nudged the top of her hand, beside her wrist.

Smiling softly, she moved her hand softly to scoop it up, moving her hand even more slowly to rest in her lap. Her second hand then got introduced to the Griffin, letting it be nipped by the animal before she slowly ran her fingers over the Griffin’s head. The smile was SO wide on her face as she looked down at the little thing. ”Hello, Cadfael… Welcome home. We will look after you.” She said softly, giving the baby Griffin attention until the Professor spoke to them again.

Toby remained completely deadpan. Of course he knew Soph was next to him, snorting in laughter at the answer he'd given. He very pointedly did not look at her, because he KNEW that the second he did, it would be game over and he'd start cracking up too. Instead, he stood there, casually checking out his nails (which were attrociously chewed up and bitten down as far as they could go, by the way) like nothing had happened. At Thompson's response, he simply smiled ever so innocently at him, then gave Soph a gentle nudge with his elbow once he'd moved along. Just to acknowledge the hilarity with her.

Anyway, yes, moving on, and Toby was absolutely certain to completely ignore that part of what Thompson was saying about 'tend to not live very long'. As soon as the words reached his ears he very aggressively hummed to himself in order to drown that part out, hardly realising he was doing it.

Aside from that little hiccough, the excitement was starting to build a little bit because obviously they were gonna be able to work with some baby creatures. Baby GRIFFINS. Hey, that was COOL. The core of Toby's wand was actually Griffin claw, which sprang to mind at that very moment. He followed the professor with the rest of the class and craned his head to try and get a look at the babies, attempting all the while to keep listening to Professor Thompson. Though really, it was difficult, 'cause BABIES.

When the word 'orphaned' was mentioned, Toby subconsciously hummed to himself again, a small frown on his face. He didn't think it was necessary to talk about that stuff. Too negative. Too awful. Time to just focus on the happy stuff, which was baby Griffins. No sad things. Not allowed. Not today.

Luckily enough, they weren't dwelling on that. At the prompting from Thompson, Toby moved further inside and found himself a space on the floor to sit, eyeing the Griffins eagerly and wishing he could cuddle them ALL. Would that be allowed? ... Maybe he'd come back later to do so anyway.

Leah listened to other answers and Professor Thompson's responses, nodding along. Food, security, all those things were important for infants. She remembered when she first met her Kneazle Filomena. She wasn't exactly a newborn, but was tiny nonetheless. Filomena needed tons of love and care back then.

The mention of baby Griffins brought her back to Earth. Her dark brown eyes widened as she looked at the eagle-lion like creatures. They were BEAUTIFUL and OH SO CUTE. Why were they dealing with cute animals in every single lesson? Bob the box turtle was enough cuteness for Leah. She approached the pen, eager to get closer to the Griffins. Awww, they were orphaned. That was sad. Having proper parents must mean the world to babies.

Now, to partner up with a baby Griffin. Leah decided to let one choose her, because she liked every single one of them but only a couple would like her. LOGIC. So she plopped down on the ground and waited to be chosen.

... It would be really sad if she was ignored like this forever.

Toby already preferred this method already. Letting the baby Griffin come to him, making him feel chosen AND like he wasn't forcing the creature to be with him if it didn't want to.

He felt as though even sitting up made him tower the babies too much, even if it was just a little bit. Preferring to let the Griffins feel super comfortable and everything, Toby went the whole hog and lie down on the ground, right where he'd sat. Just chilling, just waiting.

It took a surprisingly short time before he saw it. A cute little Griffin face, though from Toby's angle it just looked like a little eagle, suddenly appeared over him, looking down and cocking its head curiously at him. Toby was just about to raise his hand to see if it wanted to nip at his fingers, when its itty bitter clawed foot also made an appearance, going straight for his face. Toby reflexively squeezed his eyes shut, but the Griffin clawing at his face didn't actually hurt at all, and it kept clear of his eyes anyway. He opened them again and smiled.

"Hi," Toby said, now actually bringing his hand up to the baby creature, who immediately nipped at his fingers. It didn't really hurt at all. "I'm Toby. And you're..." One name had immediately sprung to mind, and Toby always decided to go with the first name he thought of. "Griffin. Hi Griffin."

Griffin the Griffin. Sounded perfect to him.

Very carefully, so as not to worry the baby, Toby sat himself back up again. He needed have worried, because already Griffin was attempting to climb up over him, quite comfortable. Toby couldn't help but grin, and soon he was sat cross-legged again, with Griffin trying to climb all up over his legs, losing balance, and toppling over, right into his lap. It didn't seem to mind, and merely sat there with him, looking out at everyone else with Toby.

He had been chosen.

Eden stayed still, smiling a little as she watched the little griffin near her. He wasn't moving away, but he was still being cautious...and Eden wanted him to get closer so she could get acquainted.

He was adorable. Eden wanted to squish him. She wouldn't, but she REALLY wanted to.

The little guy hopped a little closer, nipping at her skirt's edges before stepping closer, looking at her SO curiously. Eden held out her hand, not petting him, and let him lick and nip at her as he saw fit. She didn't want to scared him away, so this was ALL on his own pace.

"...Do you like the name Hector?" she asked softly, and the griffin looked up at her with WIDE eyes. "Okay...Hector..."

HEHEHE. HIS NAME WAS OFFICIALLY HECTOR.

Lucky that the baby griffin that he had patted was quite friendly. Jackson continued patting its head and smiled. "What should I call ya?" The Korean boy asked. He was still not sure if this baby griffin was a male or female. For Merlin's sake, they all looked same!Earlier he was calling it buddy but well, it seemed like buddy wasn't really suited this griffin. So... buddy... friends... Chingu...

CHINGU!

"Ya, I'm gonna call you Chingu then." He said. It means friend in Korean and so... he hoped that they could be friends. Hehehe. Chingu the baby griffin. Not that bad. It didn't matter if his baby griffin was female or male because he called his baby griffin as friends. As he patting Chingu's head, it sniffed his hand and almost bit it but lucky that Jackson had a good reflex. "You hungry, right?" He asked. "We're gonna feed you with milk later, so be patient Chingu."

Henric rolled his eyes,"Thanks mate,I'm sure my behind will be grateful to your gracious warning...now shhh...they're coming to us,look..."he whispered back to Adi. AJ too seemed to look like she was trying her best to contain her excitement. He chuckled, these two were really something, no wonder they were voted one of the best couples in school. Why did he feel like a third wheeler in this? He hoped not.Henric felt a little jelly too, he wondered if he could have a relationship like them one day.But...now wasn't the time to think about that, back to the adorable GRIFFINS...yeah.

Henric reached out slowly but carefully towards the baby hippogriff, calling out softly,"Hey there little one...don't worry...you're safe...you're safe with me...we're not going to harm you...that's it..its okay..." He watched intently as the young griffin lifted its head to smell his outreached hand. He almost touched its head but he lost balance from reaching over too much and fell face flat on the ground. The young griffin came closer and pecked its beak on the back of his head several times, curious if the human boy was still alive."Ow..ow ow...hey...I'm finee,"I'm up..I'm up...Henric whined, shielding his head from further pecking. He looked up to see two beady eyes staring straight back at him.Wow...Henric had never been this close to a Hippogriff before. It was amazing!

"Hello....buddy!"he smiled, touching its feathers gently for the first time.Oh he was going to love this one...noway he was going to lose sight of him.

It was so cute how the baby Griffins were playing with each other. Lux wished that she could have one as a pet but knew that it wouldn't work out. Maybe she could ask Bay for a teacup pig instead because she really wanted one. They were so adorable.

Eventually one of the Griffins started making its way slowly towards her before stopping. It seemed a little hesitant to come over but Lux so wanted it to. She wasn't a threat and just wanted to snuggle the little creature. Patiently she remained as still as possible and waited to see if he would move even closer to her. "It's okay, I won't hurt you."

Her little boy Griffin needed a name! Was it even a boy? Erm, she had no idea.

Angel listened to the Professor and then she looked around this was going to be interesting and she just hoped that a baby Griffin would pick her because it would be weird if she was hanging around waiting for something that would never happen, actually if that happened she'd go and hide behind either her best friend or boyfriend depends on who was closest.

Angel decided to sit down and see what was going on with the baby griffins, she watched as they all seemed interested in other things at the minute, which was okay.

Angel sat there and waited, she wasn't going to scare the Griffins so they didn't come to here, she hoped not but she would have to wait and see, she watched them as they did other stuff. This was so interesting and she was enjoying herself for now.