Alright time for feeding time for the baby griffin. It was too adorable and it finally trusted Kace enough to come over. I mean that's progress right? Now like Thompson said he needed a blanket. He got his wand over because he was the lazy wizard and he just wanted to use magic. He would walk over to get a blanket when he was home but until then...."ACCIO Blanket!" he called out and then the blanket zoomed over to him. Perfect.

Now to wrap the Griffin. This shouldn't be too hard right. Well Kace thought wrong. I mean he had a squirmer and he wouldn't hold still. He had to get up from his seat and chase him around. He didn't wanna scare the little guy. "Alright come on little fella.." he said laying the blanket down till the Griffin was sniffing and plopped down right on the blanket. Kace cautiously folded it and then wrapped it in it. It seemed to be sleepy and comfy because he saw it closing his eyes. Well I guess it had a lot of activity running away from him huh?

Now onto feeding time.

Okay, bottle time. She summoned a bottle ,"Accio." over to herself and placed it by her feet. "Scourgify", bacteria or debris in a baby bottle was a no go, even though she had never cared for a baby human before she knew about it with creatures. Alright, time to fill it, while doing her best to keep her baby calm and contained........which meant several pauses of rocking and shh and sweet talk / singing..."Sindri Sindri, feathered ball of joy.....Sindri Sindri nipping at my hand like its a toy...." ...also letting it nip at the hand of the arm around it. They couldn't do real damage, but she wouldn't be surprised if the baby griffin left baby bruises later. She felt bad for the creature, not having maternal affection and attention, all alone and having some strange creature (them) that didn't even speak the same language caring for you. She wondered if they could keep caring for them after this class.....maybe a bit every day for the school year. If the professor didn't mention it, she would be asking. She knew her best friend Henric would like the idea as well.

Jean was doing really good job eating. Cinna was very proud that she had gotten a very squirmy Jean settled down enough to eat something. But then again who wouldn't turn down food. The only thing was Jean seemed to be gobbling down to the way to fast. "Whoa, Jean. Slow down there." She moved the bottle away from Jean's beak for a moment. The griffin needed to slow down a bit.

"No one is going to take your bottle away I promise." She rocked the baby and contiuned feeding it. Jean ate the rest of her food slowly. Good, the griffin wasn't going to choke on his food. Cinna really didn't want to clean up griffin vomit. That would not be fun. But this, this was fun. It was justs like taking care of her little brother and sister. Jean finished her bottle finally after deciding to eat it slower.

Cinna started rocking Jean. Now she had to get Jean to go to sleep. This might be the hardest part of the whole assignment. The feeding turned out to be easy, easier than she thought. Which was great. But it looked like rocking the little griffin wasn't cutting it. So cinna started Humming a song that her nana used to sing to her. Cinna was NOT going to sing. Jean needed to go to sleep, not be scared for life from her singing.

Finally Jean was sleeping, or at least she had her eyes closed and not moving. Now she had two big problems, one she was sleeping herself and two how was she supposed to get up and move. She wasn't, so Cinna sat there with the sleeping Griffin in her arms.

Awww how cute.

With Dot’s help, Marsha easily managed to get her formula ready for Cadfael. Rubbing the nub of the bottle up against his beak, she managed to get him to realise that she was offering his yummy food… not that you woul catch her anywhere near it unless it saw a girdle first though… She much prefered her meat cooked, thank you very much.

However, as she sat quietly watching Cadfael “drink” his “food”, she smiled. Yeah, this reminded her of helping to feed Alis - though she couldn’t decide who was cuter and would certainly never mention it or bring it up at all to Alis in the future. Somehow she didn’t think she would like hearing that a baby Griffin was cuter than her…

However, by the time they were 9/10s of the way down the bottle, Cadfael was only lazily sucking on the bottle; not even really drinking the milk anymore. Wit ha small smile, she noted the action and figured he would be asleep soon.

Grayson wasn't sure how to feel about this. About any of this. Ever since the topic of what a baby needs popped up, the boy had been sitting there, as silent as ever. Don't worry, Thompson, he had still been paying attention. Kinda.

When was the end of the lesson?

Not yet, apparently, because they still had an activity to take part in. The boy glanced down at his baby griffin, a weird feeling settling in. Yeah. Whatever. The sooner he got this done, the sooner he could leave, right? Right. This was only being done for a class, anyways.

"Accio blanket!" A blanket came zooming over towards the seventh year who caught it up and............. hesitated. He kept his eyes on the griffin, who chose that opportunity to give him its own version of the puppy dog eyes. Swear to freaking Merlin, this was gonna be a loooooong activity.

Reaching over, Grayson carefully wrapped the blanket around the baby griffin before proceeding to pick it up and holding it as if hr was holding a baby.

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He needed Ruby.

Time to fill the bottle. "Accio." She summoned some meat over and filled the bottle about two thirds of the way full with the carcass. Yummy.....It was not probably the best idea to do it one handed, but she didn't want to chase her baby around once she was done. So instead.....she tried mommy multi-tasking. Which meant, her legs were corralling Sindri and her left arm stayed around the little feathered ball of joy. Her hand on that arm was petting and distracting and being nipped at.....while her right hand held her wand and was used to prep the bottle.

"Incendio" She aimed the tip of her wand just inside the bottle, watching as the meat began to melt, the somewhat sweet smell churning her stomach a little. "Aguamenti." She shot the stream of water into the mess of melted flesh. "Finite." She stopped just before it was most of the way full, she needed some room to shake it all together properly. Ilia tucked her wand away and placed the top on the bottle securely. "Shh shh its coming baby. That little beaky is so active..." She cooed at the little griffin soothingly as she shook the hot mess together with her right hand.

Now onto getting the baby bottle. He still held his Griffin with one hand to keep him cuddled, he got the baby bottle with the other hand and placed it on the ground and got his wand from his robes and said the spell, "Scourgify!" and he pointed his wand at the inside of the bottle and it seemed clean to him. Ughh he needed to let it go since he needed to make the food. He set down his Griffin Freddie and he hoped he would come back. Come back pleassee? He needed to heat up the meat and liquify it. Well that made sense since it was baby food. He went to the box and scooped up some carcass. After that he casted, "Incendio!" and then it melted for him. Then he needed to cast the water charm and he casted, "Aquamenti!" and then it liquified. Then he poured it into the bottle and it seemed messy. Errrghhh.

Now to find the little guy. Where was he?

Sophie kept shaking up her bottle as she watched some of the others - Tobes and Zander were cute with their griffins, as were Mari and Norah. Cutty caring for something so small was weird, though, and... was Dot calling her griffin "sir"? Hahahaha. Hilarious, she was.

Her bottle seemed ready to go now, though, and Sophie readjusted the blanket around Genevieve. "I know you're excited, but let's take it easy, 'kay? Don't want y'throwing up on me 'cause y'devoured this too fast." Genevieve was squirming eagerly and biting at her hand holding the bottle, and Sophie went ahead to tip the top toward the griffin and let it devour its meal.

And so it did.

While the griffin enjoyed the liquefied meat from the bottle, Sophie watched Javy and Tobes interact with admiration. The mammal-bird question was a good one, and Javy's answer was insightful, too. Hybrid creatures were mega cool, and she wondered what other kind of hybrids people could safely make a reality these days. Seemed like a dangerous and almost terrible thing to do to a creature, though. But... the griffins seemed to be doing okay. Lion and eagle combined...

Hey, that was like Gryffindor and Ravenclaw coming together. A smile briefly graced Sophie's features, and she glanced over at Zander at the thought-- until Sophie realized the bottle in her hand was empty, and Genevieve was turning around in Sophie's lap, readjusting her position before settling back down under the blanket and seeming to be ready rest for awhile, all done with the food.

Full tummies would do that to you. Sophie knew all about that, and she gave the sleepy griffin happy cuddles.

Once it was a blended soft, warm meat smoothie, she checked the temperature to make certain that it was warm but not scalding. Sindri had been watching intently....perhaps she had already imprinted on the bottle. That would make things easier. She re-wrapped her excited ball of feathers up in the blanket and smiled down at her. "Its yummy yum time baby girl."

Taking the bottle she offered it to the little griffin in her lap. At first the baby just sniffed at it, but when she decided to nip at it Ilia lightly squeezed just a little into her tiny open beak. Excitement.....that was the only word to describe Sindri's reaction. She squawked and eagerly nipped at the bottle wanting more. Ilia couldn't help but laugh a little as the eager ball of feathers frantically nipped for more and more.

It took a little time, but she slowly fed her baby the entire bottle a bit at a time so she didn't take it down too fast. Once the bottle was consumed, the baby was very calm in her blanket nest on the fourteen year olds lap. She saw the baby slowly start to seem tired, droopy little eyes. Her little beak clicking as she settled against Ilia. Her heart was stolen, hook line and sinker. She was head over heels in maternal love and cradled the baby against her, smiling in awe as she caressed Sindri's feathers. She really hoped the professor would let them care for them more than just this class.

"Now it was time to "cook" Buddy's meal. "Incendio", Janelle said, as she moved her wand. Peeking into the bottle, she saw that the meat had indeed melted. Somehow that did not make it look any less nasty. Trying to ignore that, Janelle followed up with with the next spell in the process. "Aguamenti" "That should do it", Janelle thought to herself. The liquified meat seemed to stay in its liquid form so she must have done the spell correctly.

Janelle turned back to Buddy, ready to give him his food. The little griffin had wandered off a bit, but he was close enough to be easily caught. Janelle walked over to him slowly. She certainly did not want to scare him off, but his meat-shake was cooling she couldn't waste too much time.

Fortunately, Buddy let Janelle approach him without difficulty. She had almost expected him to run away, but he did not. Maybe holding the bottle of meat out in front of her wasn't such a bad idea. "Buddy, time for din-din. The griffin must have been hungry because catching him was easier than Janelle expected. Once she was close enough, Janelle was able to hold Buddy once again. She directed the bottle toward his mouth and he went for it. The griffin was hungry because he drank the meat like it was going out of style. "Whoa there boy. Take your time. There's plenty." Janelle felt like the pround mama watching her baby eat.

Kace had his bottle all warmed up for the little guy and now he had ran off. Well this was just perfect. Man this Griffin didn't like him at all did he? Come on Freddie just come for your food. As he was turning his head around he caught a glimpse of him. He was out of his blanket and looking at him. He held out his bottle and got the blanket and baited the guy. This was what he did on the farm, he baited his animals so they could get into the cages. "Come on..." he muttered quietly. It was walking slowly stretching its legs and the lure of the food was too strong and it smelled the bottle and began to sip it. Kace sighed in relief and was pleased Freddie trusted him enough to let him feed him.

He looked around while feeding Griffin and saw some were having success. He needed to cuddle his Griffin in the blanket he felt him shivering. He folded the blanket and he seemed to be warm and toasty feeding on the bottle. You know this was kind of nice.

Almost done, really. Just this step and then it was feeding time, and that surely wouldn't be very hard. So Jenna just needed to focus.

Lightning had other plans though. She'd paused in her movement for a moment, her eyes turned toward the bottle...and apparently she must've smelled it and realized how hungry she was. So now she was trying to nip at the bottle, wiggling around again to get closer to it.

"Merlin's beard, Lightning, patience, please." Why did she need to make this any more difficult??

Jenna set the bottle down in front of her again, readjusted her grip on the baby griffin, then used her wand to cast a quick Incendio...and then Aguamenti a few seconds later.

There....that looked liquidy and soft enough, right?

As Kace was feeding the little guy, he saw Freddie's big eyes look at him. I guess he could take it as a thank you. It seemed to be loving the food and it was finally relaxing and was drinking the food rather fast. "There you go little guy.." he smiled at him. As Freddie finished the food, it seemed to be sleepy because he saw him yawn. Awww that was too cute. He grinned and pet the top of his head. It seemed to like the gesture because Freddie closed his eyes and seem to the fall asleep faster. Kace repeated the head petting and Freddie was now into a deep sleep. Well at least he did the assignment and made a bond with a new creature. He wondered if this guy was gonna remember him. Probably not but at least he did a good deed.

He began to rock his Griffin back and forth since his hand was cramping from petting his head. It seemed to work because he wasn't waking up. Kace wished he could take a nap right now but class was almost over. He could push through.

The boy took a couple of minutes to just look down at the baby griffin in his arms, tucked away in a blanket. It was wriggling, as was expected, and while Grayson would have gotten slightly annoyed at all the wriggling, now he........ wasn't. No annoyance, no looks and no mental swearing. He simply just tightened his hold around the baby griffin, trying to hold onto it as firmly and gently as possible.

The next step sounded simple enough. Keeping hold of his wand, the boy brought a baby bottle closer towards him. Jeez, this was just gonna get worse and worse, man. He pointed his wand into the bottle and said, "Scourgify!" Cleaaaaaaan! And inspect, just to make sure. Like he would before using a cauldron.

When that was done, he went ahead to scoop some of the carcass into the bottle. "Shhhhhh!" Jeez, man, did this baby ever stop wriggling or what? Because completing this task was gonna be a lot more difficult if the baby griffin was gonna be a little rebel.

Buddy was doing quite well with his bottle. Janelle wondered if they would be allowed to come and feed their griffins on a regular basis. Since they had bonded and all, Janelle certainly wanted to come back and see her Buddy.

The little griffin seemed to be slowing down, as he was no longer chugging down the bottle. He had slowed his pace to an occasional sip. Janelle could see why because the bottle was just about empty. She let her baby finish the last bits of liquid meat and took the bottle away. After setting it down, Janelle held Buddy and gave his head a little stroke. "Good job Buddy. You're in the clean plate club.....or the clean bottle club. You'll be a big boy befor you know it." Janelle kept stroking the animal as she watched his eyes starting to close.

The second year was pretty pleased with herself. Buddy was on his way to sleep and his belly was full. Happy that she had a new friend to visit, Janelle made Buddy feel comfortable. She adjusted his blanket and made sure everything was alright. Yes, she would definitely have to ask Professor Thompson about her visiting privileges.

This. Griffin. Won't. Freaking. Stop. Wriggling!

He could feel his patience wearing thin -- about time, too -- as the Griffin almost threatened to wriggle out of the blanket and his arms completely. Grayson readjusted his hold on the baby griffin so that he was holding the creature with his left arm instead of his right. It was just gonna be easier and whatnot.

"Incendio!" Fire to the carcass to melt it. And.......... "Aguamenti!" There. Liquid form.

Griffin seemed to be kinda excited for the food, something he picked up when it started wriggling like mad again. He didn't know how or why but something inside of him could tell that it wanted the food, which only kinda amused the guy. "You know that you're gonna have to wait, don't you?"

More wriggling. This griffin was a freaking rebel.

With the baby griffins food prepared, Cutty stuck an rather uncautious finger out toward the bottle inside of which he'd just incendio'd the meat. The water had cooled it slightly, though and so it was not the scolding hot material that could've made him yelp and drop the baby. His wand still in hand, he cleaned the feeding end with a scourgifying spell.

Picking it up and nestling it into his armpit, he screwed the newly cleansed feeding cap back onto it and checked the baby griffin. Phlegon was still squirming and making noises. Oh yeah. He was hungry. In an almost numb fashion, Cutty turned the baby toward him and aimed the bottle for the creatures mouth. The forepaws drew up and padded around the cap as if trying to get more. And in moments Phlegon's eyes were closed.

This went on until high squeakish sounds of air came from the bottle and caused Cutty to adjust it so that the end of it was higher up than the cap. This only helped so much, though since the little orphan boy was so famished that Cutty thought for a moment there the glass might shatter under the sucking pressure. Eventually, Phlegiez slowed down as exhaustion took over. The creature nuzzled into Cutty not realizing that warmth shall be had from a reptile.

Carefully, but not caringly Cutty brought the bundled boy over to the floor and put it to rest by the others. Then, just as he would've done in potions class, he took apart the bottle and cleansed each end individually, "Scourgify. Scourgify." leaving them as clean or perhaps cleaner than when he'd found them.

"You're doing real good, though. Don't worry about it," Dot had finally figured out that she could pin the griffin in place by sitting on the ends of his blanket, and both she and Lorenzo were MUCH happier. Or she was, so... yeah.

"I'll do both of ours. Hold on a second." Dot pointed her wand at her own bottle and said clearly, "Aguamenti." Water filled around the heated meat, and she may have gagged a little. This was SUPER yucky. Baby griffin didn't think so, but what did he know? Now Marsha's bottle... also filled with water with a nifty jab of the wand.

"I think it draws water out of the air and makes it liquid. It can't really make something from nothing, y'know? But anyway... there you go. LORENZO. That's not food. That's my hair." She tightened the lid on the bottle and offered it to the very eager little griffin.

Sweet Merlin!

Another adjustment had to take place because surprise surprise, the baby griffin was trying to get out of the blanket again. C'mon, he wasn't THAT bad of a griffin parent. In actual fact, he thought he was doing quite well, considering. Some more shhhhhh'ing ensued once he had the grip on the griffin and he even bobbed it up and down a little. Again, as he would with a baby.

Yeah.............. he needed to find his girlfriend after this.

Taking hold of the bottle, the Slytherin started feeding the baby griffin, who had seemed much too excited at the sight of the bottle. Knew it. Of course it had been freaking hungry, the signs were all there. And he was glad that they had to do things this way because there was no way in Merlin that he was regurgitating anything for the baby griffin. No way.

It took a bit of drinking and some more shhhhh'ing and bopping of the bubble of blankets but, before long, the baby griffin slowly started drifting off............

........... drifting of............

................... and asleep. Heh! He was kinda proud of that, actually.

Now came the easy part. Hopefully.

Jenna didn't have to resist against Lightning's movements anymore and offered the bottle to her, which the little one took to almost instantly. And she seemed to be really enjoying that food, either because it tasted good or she was really hungry.

Probably both. That was what Jenna was going to assume at least. She definitely wasn't gonna try it herself to test whether it actually tasted good.

It wasn't long before it was all gone too. Lightning ate as fast as lightning clearly. Ha.

...yeah, that wasn't actually funny. But anyway.

The wiggling from before had definitely stopped, the baby griffin settling down in the warmth of the blanket, her tummy full. Jenna petted her softly to help her relax even more....and soon....after a few minutes.....Lightning was snoozing away.

Awww! She was even cuter when she was asleep. So adorable. Merlin. Could Jenna just keep her forever?

"Okay, Chingu. Time for your meal." The Korean boy said to his baby griffin. After the bottle had been cleaned and filled by the raw meat, he moved onto the next step. Prepare the meal.

Make the raw meat became liquid? Well, it didn't sound... appetizing for him.

"Incendio!" First, he melted the carcass. It took a little bit long time to make the meat melted. Then, he added some water to the bottle. "Aguamenti." He shook the bottle to make the meat and water well mixed. Ugh, like he had said before, it didn't look appetizing for him. But hopefully his baby griffin would enjoy it.

Another question, well, multiple good ones. "Indeed, Griffins can lay up to three eggs, slightly larger in size than Hippogriff eggs, Miss McAlister." As for the other two, "The bone structure in their wings are as hollow as that of the eagle their top half represents so they can fly. They do indeed produce milk just below the area were the feathers morph to the other half resembling of a lion." It was very intriguing as Javier's blue eyes gazed around to see nearly everyone's Griffins getting into snoozeville, including the little one in his arms.. where he could see the time on his watch. A slight frown for the time.

"Right. That'll do for today everyone." Yep, unfortunately it was time, "Do not fret, this won't be the last you see the Griffins here. Keep a look out for the homework on the notice board later on. You may carefully set your sleeping bundled Griffin down, they will be here when you come back." So with that, "Class is dismissed."

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OOC: Thank you everyone for participating. Homework will be posted in the notice board soon. =)

It was time to go already?

AWWWWWW.

Lux didn't want to leave baby Georgina even if she was fast asleep. Pout. At least she would be seeing more of her soon. If she had her way she would be seeing the Griffin all term. That would be absolutely amazing.

Gently she set Georgina down. "Goodbye," Lux whispered so that her sleep wouldn't be disturbed. "Thanks for the awesome lesson, Professor. It was so much fun." Smiling, she made her way back to the castle.

Henric held Casper into his arms again. It kept squawking at him so he calmed it down by stroking the back of its head gently."Here you go,Casper...here's your food...bon appetit',"he mumbled and fed his baby griffin. He wondered what happened to Casper's parents. He knew most of the griffins here are either orphaned or injured but he was curious. Being left out alone to fend for yourself at such a young age, he knew that feeling all too well...he was glad Casper had survived and now been properly taken care of in Hogwarts."I will come and visit you more often now, Casper...I don't want you to feel that you are not loved because you have me now,your friends and of course the professor to take care of you..that's it,eat up...good boy...Casper,"he whispered softly to his griffin, lifting its bottle a little higher so it be easier for it to feed.He made sure Casper was bundled up nicely too and watched silently as it being fed.

Just as Genevieve fully drifted off into dreamworld - griffins dreamt, too, right? - Javy was dismissing them. But... couldn't they stay awhile longer? Just spend some time keeping their griffins warm and safe and cozy and content? She'd FINALLY gotten Genevieve to be cute and cuddly and they had to GO. Mega lame.

But... at least they got to come back to them later, right? This wasn't the end? Hopefully they'd get to do more with them for homework or something. Soph wanted to visit her new little buddy all the time.

Eyeing the leftover blankets in the corner, Sophie pointed her wand at them and cast "Accio blanket!" to summon another blanket, then she gently made a nest beside her. That way, Genevieve would be EXTRA comfortable, and Sophie gently lifted the griffin from her lap and set her aside on the little blanket nest, then readjusted the blanket that was wrapped around the griffin to make sure it was still nice and snug and safe and warm and content as could beeeee.

There. Now it felt okay to leave. Genevieve stirred slightly, but seemed comfortable enough that she went right back to sleep. Perfect.

Sophie uncapped her baby bottle and cast, "Tergeo! Scourgify!" inside it and at the lid, not wanting to leave Javy with unclean supplies in his possession. "I can collect the bottles for you, sir," Sophie offered, capping the now-clean bottle and putting it back in the box where they'd originally gotten them from, then making a move to offer to take them from others who were getting ready to leave, too. She'd collect them, clean them, put them back in the box - whatever needed to be done.