Griffins weren't proper winged-horses, but they were mighty creatures that had wings and definitely could take someone on their backs as they flew, so that was good enough.

Agatha was determined to befriend one of those baby ones and maybe even keep it as a pet. If professor Thompson didn't let them keep the griffins later, she would have to use the fact she had been able to handle one when convincing her mother and uncle to get her one.

Anyhow, the Slytherin was willing to wait for not very long, though until one of the baby griffins came her way and 'chose' her. Whatever that actually meant. Did those tiny creatures even know anything? Weren't they supposed to be mother/father figures to them? That meant they all knew better than these baby griffins.

Cutty himself had chosen his own baby griffin, see? Maybe that was the way to go.

Norah made kissy noises and held a hand out from on the floor of barnyard. Heeeere little griffin. The noises worked on cats so it'd probably work on these too, right? They were half cat. Or half lion. Same thing. Wiggling her fingers, she increased the volume of her kissy noises until her lips were probably about to fall off or something. If lips could do that. She wasn't really an expert, okay? That'd be a weird thing to be an expert on anyways.

She saw a griffin that seemed to be headed in her direction, or in a direction she hoped was her direction, and inched even closer to it. "Hi little guy," she whispered. The griffin got even closer and nipped the fingers was holding out. Heheheh that TICKLED. Reaching both hands forward, Norah gave the baby animal some pats on the head and then on the little lion body 'cause look at that fur! It was so fluffy she was gonna DIE. Could she keep it?

No way.

Marigold felt tears coming on. This was just too good to be true. But there they were, the most ADORABLE little animals ever. her jaw had dropped when she first saw them, so she closed her mouth and tried to look comforting and motherly. She wanted a griffin to CHOOSE her.

She held her arms out wide. Come to mama, little adorable cutesy itty bitty AWESOMESAUCE CREATURES.

Both Henric and Adi had griffins come up to them, and she had nothing. Didn't they know how much of a fun girl she was? She was even sitting down like a good girl. How much longer she could keep her cool was anybody's guess. These griffins had about .5 seconds to name her their mama before she went and picked one up and made the decision for them. AJ was not a patient person to say the least. She wanted her own baby griffin.

"Why aren't they choosing me?" He soft leg jangling was now rough. Adi and Henric were getting griffin nibbles and she was left out in the cold. She sighed deeply and looked around at the other students with their griffins. Her eyes spotted Benny and a pang shot straight to her heart. "When are you guys going to get over yourselves?" she asked rather blantaly.

Luckily for Adi she didn't have time to stare him down long because she felt a nibble on her leg. EEEEEPPPPPP. She had a griffin. Play it cool, Valentine. The griffin was the lucky one here. Her robes were in his mouth and all AJ could do was look at him lovingly. "Aren't you just the cutest little thing ever?" She was beamy. As slow as she could, she reached her arm out to him and gave him a pat on the head. "I shall call you Brutus and you shall be my Brutus." It was a boy right? Bruta if it just so happened to be a girl. It was settled.

Still trying her best to suppress her laughter, Sophie buried her face against Tobes' shoulder after he nudged her until she composed herself and stood tall once more, her lips pressed firmly in a straight line to keep from smiling again. Yeah, she was fine. Totally fine. No laughing, no smiling, everything was good.

...Hehhehehehee.

Soft giggles still bubbled in her throat as Javy went on to explain what they were doing, and they finally died down when he mentioned BABY GRIFFINS. No waaaay! That was way cute, and Soph stood on her tippy-toes and leaned forward a bit to get a better look at them. They were adorableeeee and she WANTED ONE.

When Thompson led them in and sat down, Sophie did, too, right near Tobes, and eyed all the Griffins excitedly. WHICH ONE WOULD CHOOSE HER? She made grabby hands in their general direction, encouraging the little baby griffins to come see her.

It didn't take long for Beverly to be jumped on by the baby Griffins. She pegged it to her natural ability to interact with animals.

One of the babies hopped onto her lap and bounced back down, circling her, then bumping her on the back. "Oomph! What was that fooor?" she cooed, reaching behind to tickle the Griffin. It squawked cheerfully, tumbling back to her front and bouncing into her lap.

"Hi, want to be my partner?" The baby Griffin tilted its head, gazing up at her with it's big baby Griffin eyes. Her cold heart was melting. "I'll take this as a yes."

Oh. So they weren't dealing with actual babies here. Well, Zander had to admit that he was quite relieved about that. Babies weren't really his specialty. Actually, no he probably wasn't bad with babies... He just hadn't dealt with any before so he wasn't actually sure. Come to think of it, babies couldn't be any different than firsties, right? And he seemed to get along with them pretty well.

Anyways, baby Griffins. Yeah, Zander could handle that.

He watched as Thompson demonstrated, finding it kind of funny when he sat down and acted all gentle. It was quite a sight. 'Cause Javy was real big and terrifying looking, but the guy had a soft side apparently. Still weird to think that Zander had been over to his house before. They had a baby there too. Zander did remember that much.

Anyways, it was their turns now so the Gryffindor didn't waste another second. He inched his way towards the pens, looking around to see one that looked friendly enough. Actually, maybe it'd be better if it was the one who chose him, yeah? Loyalty and all.

Angel looked at the baby griffins and waited to see what would happen, she was just about to whisper to her best friend Leah that this was hopeless when suddenly things started to happen and she was totally happy about it.

Angel was looking at a couple of them when she suddenly noticed another one coming near her, she waited for a few moments to see what it would do when it suddenly starting doing what the Professor had told her they would do.

"You want to be partners?" Angel was sure the answer was yes, now all she had do was name it but what could she call it. "I think I'll call you Nibbles, just because I think that would be a cool name." Angel decided that the name sounded awesome.

Her arms still extended and her fingers wiggling in encouragement for a griffin to choose her, Sophie watched with eager eyes as the griffin babies chose one student after another - but not her. There were only a few left, ones that were aimlessly wandering, and Sophie waited, her arms still open and hoping that one would look her way and see how cute she was and how eager she was to tend to one of them...

...And then one's little eyes were upon her, and the little thing came scampering her way. SHE HAD BEEN CHOSEN. IT WAS COMING RIGHT TO HER.

Just at that moment, she heard Tobes name his griffin "Griffin," and she snorted lightly to herself. Griffin the griffin. Very clever, Tobias.

What a nerd.

When the griffin reached her arms, Sophie pet it softly, letting it softly nip at her free hand and not minding one bit - no, it didn't really hurt, and she followed suit of Tobes and gently picked up the griffin and pulled it into her lap. "Hi," she murmured and continued to stroke it lightly, still letting it nibble at her other hand - whatever would keep it happy, right? All that mattered was that one CHOSE her and she was ALL SET.

The Gryffindor inched his way even cloooooser before sitting down in an isolated patch. Come to Zaaaaander little Griffins. Man, they were all going the exact OPPOSITE way that he needed 'em to. Maybe it had something to do with the fact that Zander was staring with bright eyes and a huge smile? Was that creeping them out?

He'd tone it down. Sorry, Griffins.

Ahem.

Waiting.... Waiiiiiiting....... Waaaaaaaaiiiiiiiting.

And ooooh, spotted: Griffin at one o'clock! Zander wasn't going to creep this one out, nope! It was making it's way over pretty quickly actually. So close that it looked like it was going to go for a-- NIBBLE. Oh, that didn't hurt at all. Actually, it kind of just tickled? Heheheeheee. Ahem. He was so cool.

Hi baby Griffin. You're kinda cute actually. Zander was gonna name his Door. Like Gryffin Door. Geddit? 'Cause Gryffindor? Eh, yeah that was a dead joke. He wasn't gonna say that out loud. Ahem.

Marigold was eyeing Sophie Brown's snorting and trying not to giggle herself when she heard a pitterpat of footsteps. She turned her head to see an ICKLE BABY GRIFFIN making its way over to her. Her motherly feelings were WORKING. She waited until it nudged at her feet before she pet its lil head gently.

"Hiya, lil one. We're gonna be partners, I guess. 'm gonna name you Godric, like Godric GRIFFIN/Gryffindor. How does that work for you, huh, Godric?"

Hady hadn't been expecting to get a point for her answer but it was gladly accepted and kept the young girl motivated to continue giving answers. However no answers were needed right now as it was time to see what they'd be working with. As Professor Thomson began talking and explaining what they were to do she shuffled from foot to foot a bit more then ready to get started.

Griffins! They were going to be caring for baby griffins!

When they were told to have a seat and allow the griffins a chance to choose them instead of them being the ones to pick a griffin she did as told. Sitting herself down on the ground she laid her hands down on her lap. Now all she needed to do was be quiet and wait.

A little baby griffin would choose her soon enough...or at least she hoped so.

So they were talking about babies. Well over the past two or three years Cinna had been around her share of the little things both human and animal. So this lesson should be a piece of cake right? espeically if they were working with babies, animal babies. Which in her opinion easier to deal with. No talking back, or climbing all over her or running into her room uninvited. Chase. Hmmm. Anyway.

From hearing the lesson so far she could gather that they were working with some sort of baby creature. But what animal. Craning her neck to try to see as the Professor slid open the door. She moved into the inside. She looked around and spotted griffins. Griffins?

Griffins.

The they were working with baby griffins. How cute, right? Orphaned. Poor babies. She wanted them all now. SO they were going to feed them, yeah? Fun. She gently flopped down on the woodchips with a little group of the wittle griffins. Any of them wanted to pick her because she would just take all of them. At least she wouldn't have to worry about them clawing her arms up. She could just snuggle them all.

Ilia had been silent, in the back, in the corner for this class. It was her favorite class and too much was on her mind. She didn't want to interact with the other students right now, even Henric she wasn't sure because all her emotions came spilling out around him. Baby humans.....she had no experience and nothing to say so she just listened. She was an only child and the youngest of her cousins so she was honestly nervous around baby humans because she really knew nothing about them.

Baby griffins now that was a baby of a different kind.....as soon as the professor mentioned baby creatures she had perked up. She sat quietly away from the rest and patiently waited for a baby to come to her. They were all little orphans, that was so desperately sad. She wanted to mother them all, sweet little things. This was why she wanted to be a vet and a creature rescuer.

As the puff was waiting for the Griffin to come near him, the little guy seemed to be scared of all the students. He seemed to be curious what was going on. The baby was twitching every few seconds. He wanted to comfort him but he wanted the Griffin to come on his own terms. He still held out his hand for the little guy to come. He grinned and encouraged him, "Come on little fella..." he said sweetly. The griffin looked at him and then proceeded to move forward. It was moving little by little and then it came closer to him. Kace kept his breathing nice and slow and calm. He didn't wanna seem tense or stressed. The baby griffin came close and then nipped his finger like Thompson said.

Well now he had a little critter to take care of. Thompson said he could name the guy. He grinned and thought of a name. "I think I will call you Freddie..." he said. He didn't know why but the name popped up.

Yeah...Hiccup it would be.

It wasn't like the real one was his anymore. So for now the griffin would be Hiccup to his Toothless. At least the creature seemed enamored with him and loyal...for now at least. Benny let the griffin playfully nibble at his hair as they sat together, the boy waiting for Professor Thompson to move them on. At the very least the interaction allowed a distraction from the trio currently all with their own set of griffins on the other side of the enclosure.

See Adi...

...you're not the only one who can replace a friend.

"Right, Hiccup?" he asked rhetorically as he gave the creature another friendly scratch. The griffin preening in approval.

Griffins. WHY did it have to be baby griffins. It's like when she tried to focus on her studies and upcoming exams everything just seemed to point towards him. And even though he wasn't a half lion- half eagle creature, it was just the irony of him being lion and well the eagle part, that was negotiable but together it just seemed so right ... and ugh, couldn't she please play with ANY OTHER creature?

While her peers held their hands outstretched for one of the baby griffins to choose them, Tia just stood frozen, watching them all nibbling and flying about. Her eyes might have lingered over to him too, but not for too long. No, distract yourself Tia. Focus.

Even without holding out her hands for one to come to her, it seemed as if one sensed her distractedness and found her anyway as it tickled at her ankles. Glancing down, the fifth year smiled and knelt down beside it. "Hi there." She smiled.

BABY GRIFFINS? FOR REAL WHAT? Dot bopped along happily toward the door to the barn, taking in the herd of teeny tiny baby griffin things. SO CUTE. WHOA. She bounced. A lot.

Oh, but Professor? "Orphans, sir? How did all of them get orphaned? Is there a problem with griffin poaching here at Hogwarts?" Because that made her so furious. Legitimately livid. She was gonna go punching some griffin poachers in the face. Or you know... whatever.

She got to pick a baby griffin to be friendly with now, right? That was probably best, since if she left it up to the griffins to choose, probably no one would choose her. Like always.

Here little griffins, here little griffins she wasn't actaully calling or coaxing them over to her yet but she could and would if none of them was going to pick her. She would just snuggle them all until they all were hers. Okay maybe not. But one of them should pick her. She was pretty awesome so a pretty awesome griffin should pick her out of all of these losers here. Well not all of them were losers but most of them were. She wasn't. Ha that's what it was the griffins knew how awesome she was and couldn't decide who should come to her first.

Uh, She should try to coax one or a few over to her. Let them know she was avbible for feeding them. "Hey guys." She put her hand out toward a few of them standing together. "Hey, who's hungry? I know you all are." Poor babies.

Hey look! One was moving toward her slowly though. Don't get excited and scare it. "Come here." Yep she pretty much had the baby talk voice that she used on her brother and sister in full mode now. To her surprise the griffin hoped over to her basically bouncing her way. Eppp it was coming her way and bounced into her lap. "Hi." Patting the baby griffin on the top of the head. "Hey, there little... guy?" Maybe he was a guy. or maybe a girl. The griffin flairled its wings. She laughed. "Excited huh? You need a name, don't ya?" Hmmmm name, name, name.

Cinna was definetly thinking this griffin was a girl. She rubbed the griffins head as she thought about a name. The griffin flailed its wings again. "Flail?" The griffin folded her wings back under her in protest. "So I'll take that as a no then? Hoowww abouuut... Jean?" Since apparently the pair of jeans she was wearing seem appealing to the baby griffin. The griffin was nibbling on her jeans. Hehe yes, weather the griffin liked it or not HER name was going to be Jean.

Dot primly took a seat on the edge of the group, making eyes at the closest griffins hopefully. Any of them want to make friends with her today? Hmm? She held out her hands hopefully, but the closest griffins were fully distracted by her classmates.

"Babyyyyy griffins," she called softly, wiggling her fingers until one of the baby griffins wandered her way and bumped it's beak against her fingers. A little nippy and ouch! but Dot was so delighted that she'd been chosen that she was willing to put up with ouchy fingers.

'Baby griffin. Hi. You're so sweet, aren't you?" More headbutting, and Dot had to sort of force her cuddles in sideways. "I'm going to call you... Lorenzo." On account of how handsome he was.

"Thankfully that is not true Miss Wojack-Gusey." Adding on the reason, "They're orphaned for mainly natural reasons ranging from sickness to passing on after giving birth." It was quite unfortunate.

Professor Thompson may have been a little distracted with one particular baby griffin as one decided to crawl over attempting to nip at his suit. Cute little one, wasn't it? Looking back up as this spectacular timed question came towards him, "Ah, it's very simple Mr. Hwang." Why not, everyone could do this as he spoke loud enough for anyone of interest. This part was optional. "First you can gently caress their feathers," As he did so from the top of its head towards it back, as its own eyes closed seemingly at peace, "Then leaving your hand at the end, you can hold them before tilting them to quickly check for a stub." Not that he needed to explain what said stub was, surely. He gave his own Griffin a check, nope, no stub here. So he let it back onto its claws and feets not bothered by the movement at all.

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Now for the real task at hand, "Over in the pile in the corner are some blankets. You can summon one over easily with the spell 'Accio'," Now that was mainly for the younger students who hadn't come across that spell yet. Anyway, for demonstration and possible review for others he made the wand motion of a wide frown shape over "Accio blanket," Letting one fly towards his other outreached hand.

"Wrap it carefully around the Griffin," Who proceeded to squawk a little from the sudden movement before settling into the soft texture of the blanket before standing up. "Now that you'll be able to hold it safely in your arm, we can then feed them." Once everyone has managed to retrieve a blanket, an open box revealing half of meat carcass and the rest of empty baby bottles.

Now the instructions were coming whilst Professor Thompson went on ahead with the demonstrating while speaking. "Keeping a hold of your Griffin, who might try to struggle out since they're anxious on testing out their legs. Take an empty bottle, make sure it's clean before opening the lid to scoop in some of the carcass. It will regenerate in the box on it's own so don't worry about the amount you take." Now then, "The tricky part will come in now. The meat right now is much too tough for their beaks to take in. So-" With his arm still keeping ahold of a moving Griffin in the blanket, his other arm aimed inside the bottle with the almost stuff meat, "Cast an 'Incendio' to melt it followed by 'Aguamenti' to keep it in liquid form." Which he then did so. "You can of course let your Griffin free so you can take care of the bottle.. but you'll have to try to get it to come back to you before the drink gets too cold." Some things just had to have their challenge, didn't they?

"And then you can go on and feed them." Letting the bottle reach into the little squirming Griffin's beak stopped it in its tracks before it began drinking. "Griffin's taste for raw animal meat has always been present for them. Typically the mother will regurgitate some of the meat leaving it heated and soft enough for them to eat." But luckily they didn't have to resort to any of it touching their mouths. "Eventually they should be falling asleep not long after they finish."

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OOC: The following objectives you are to complete:
- Acquire a blanket to wrap around the Griffin keeping it comfortable.
- Clean the baby bottle before placing the raw meat in.
- Melt it with fire before quickly mixing it with some water.
- Feed it and watch over until it sleeps.
This should take about four labeled posts minimum. You have until June 17th, 11:59 pm EST to complete.

Vaska and Zhenya were still playing when Professor Thompson called the class to attention. Good question Jackson. Zhenya watched the demonstration of how to see what gender the griffins were. Stub or no stub. Zhenya was quite impressed with the way the griffin just allowed them to flip them over, so she tried it. "Hey there Vaska," she said calmly, changing the activity to a pet. She ran her hand down Vaska's feathers, top to tail, and watched as Vaska went into a peace-like state. Cool. She flipped her over gently and looked. No stub. Vaska was a no stub. She gently put Vaska back on the ground, where her eyes opened and she continued to claw at Zhenya.

Now they were going to feed them, how fun. She pulled her wand out of her pocket, careful not to put it near Vaska's curious eyes. "Accio blanket," she said, arching her wrist for the wand movement. A blanket came towards her, and landed just next to her lap. "I'm going to wrap you up," Zhenya told Vaska in a calm voice, slowly bringing the blanket towards her and wrapping it around her. No noises, that was promising. Vaska looked quite comfortable in the blanket, so Zhenya picked her up and held her.

Gosh! Henric was so focused when it came to creatures! Adi couldn't blame him so he shut up and gave his friend the chance to focus as best as he could. Where as him and Henric had gotten Griffs, AJ had lucked out. The poor girlfriend. "They can sense you want to make them your minions to go looking for unicorns,'' he whispered jokingly. Huh? Get over- Adi's eyes followed AJ's to see Benny by himself with only a Griffin for company. He looked away. "I don't know what you're talking about.'' But he was starting to miss Benny.

Two things happened almost at one. First, Henric fell forward face first and two, AJ got her Griffin. "Henny! Are you okay?'' Adi rushed to help his Housemate. "Didn't damage the pretty boy face, did you?" LOL! Anyway, Henric seemed fine so the sixth year turned back to his girlfriend. "Nice name, AJ. That Griffin looks sooooo brutal.'' Haha. Sarcasm, of course.
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Sneaking a look at Benny from the corner of his eyes, Adi couldn't help but feel sorry for him. It was like looking back when they were about to start their second year when he had encountered the lone boy with his owl at King's Cross. Benny was obviously retreating back into his shell.

But! No more time to dwell on that because they were moving on. Adi watched carefully as Thompson did the demonstration. Gosh, the man made these creature things look so easy! Someday, Adi decided he was going to be like that. The Master of all creatures. Hehe. Right now, he had to master the baby Griffins! "Accio blanket!'' He caught the blanket in his outstretched hand.

"Come on, Henry.'' Adi coaxed the griffin gently to remain with him as he spread the snug blankie around it. Awh! It didn't even protest! The Puffer was having the time of his life here as he held Henry. It was squawking now as Thompson's had done. Maybe it liked the blankie a little too much. Hehe.

Patience seemed to pay off, because the little Griffin was venturing closer. Slowly Lux reached her hand out towards it, and no surprise that gesture was greeted by a tiny nip. No matter because that didn't hurt in the least.

"Hello, little guy." Cooing, she gently picked him up and placed him in her lap. "I think I am going to call you George." She had no idea why... That was just the first name that popped into her head. Petting George, she heard Professor Thompson explain how to check their gender. "...Better make that Georgina instead."

Snuggling little Georgina, Lux listened to the next instructions. So she needed to get a blanket for her Griffin. That was very easy and could be done without putting down her new friend. Pulling her wand out of her pocket, she pointed it at one of the blankets. "Accio blanket!" There. Now she had something to wrap Georgina in before starting the feeding. Putting the blanket around her, Lux couldn't help but think of her soon-to-be nephew; of course he wouldn't be a Griffin, but he would be a baby and she could help look after him. The thought was exciting.

"Now you're all snug as a bug in a rug." Lux was doing good so far.

Henric laughed, pretty boy face?! Quite insulting...really...Adi had forgotten smart and charmingly brilliant in there...hehe. Right...nevermind Adi, Henric was finally bonding with the magical creature!() Well almost... because it kept trying to peck on his head and it hurts. He got up a little too quickly,startling the little griffin. "Oh no...sorry little one,hey...its okay...come here,"Henric cooed.He glanced back towards his friends, oh.. they already naming their baby griffins?! Hmm...it was odd that Adi called his little griffin,"Henry"...a coincidence...nope.Anyway,AJ naming of the griffin fair much better though, she named it Brutus...not bad...not bad! He liked the name, he wanted to name his griffin strongly too!
"What should I name you...how about Casper...do you like the name Casper,buddy? Casper then.."he decided.

He looked around to see where his bestie at and wondered if she was successful in getting herself a baby griffin.Nice! She knew she could do it and and was fine interacting with the baby griffin...but she seemed lonely. He should go to her later, right after he kept his own baby griffin warm.

"Accio Blanket,"he summoned. He pulled the blanket over Casper's body. "Here you go buddy...hope you warm up enough,"he smiled, gently stroking the back of its head. He then tucked Casper into his arms as if he was cradling it."Good boy, Casper..."he whispered.