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Satisfied? Zhenya was sad she didn't get the chance to say goodbye to Vaska. She hadn't known. Of course she was satisfied, her little griffin was in an environment that she could grow with her buddies and learn from the older griffins. She still felt a little sad though.

And yes, exams were approaching. Zhenya had stuck to her schedule and felt like she had deserved the breaks she had scheduled in. Her brain was often feeling sludgy but at least it was full of information.

Ooh food. Delicious sweet food. Zhenya got her juice and started to drink it. She wasn't sure what to do with the other stuff, so she waited to see what everyone else did before she touched it. The juice though; good. She got some biscuits and marshmallows and a stick. She knew what to do with the stick and the marshmallow, so she roasted a marshmallow and ate the delicious gooey blob.

Zhenya had a think about it and listened to everyone else's suggestions. They were all good, and Zhenya almost decided not to answer, but something came to her. She raised her hand, the juice box in it. "Well Dementors are XXXXX rated, and there's spells against them. Expecto Patronum. So, even though they're one of the most dangerous creatures, we have a skill to use against them. Are there things like that for all of them?" She wondered. They had learned about werewolves in the PAD lesson, learning the spell to bind the limbs together, and wolfsbane, but what about the other ones? Dragons? Besides run away and hide under something non flammable. And a basilisk? Cover your eyes and hide the best you can. Any spells for those other animals?

For the first time in Hogwarts history, a Professor ACTUALLY answered the 'what's in the mysterious box' question. MAN. Thompson literally just promoted himself to GREATEST PROFESSOR EVER LEVEL. Ahem. Even though it wasn't really a true answer. It was still more than a 'you'll see' answer. That's what Zander got most of the time. So this was EPIC. And making history too, he supposed. Merlin. This was GREAT. Especially because it was something related to what is never allowed on campus. 'Cause that meant they'd work with SPECIAL creatures today.

Zander was a very happy camper.

Except for when Noel mentioned the whole 'blondie' thing, the Prefect couldn't help but be UTTERLY embarrassed about the lint roller thing. 'Cause he was almost 78% sure that Noel was thinking it too. ASDF how embarrassing. Sigh. What can you do? He mussed his hair automatically, trying to cover the fact that the cut was uneven and that he definitely needed to get it fixed still. At least Maggie didn't let him go bald. That would've been worse. Though, he wasn't a big fan of this whole jagged style thing he had going on at the moment. Ahem.

Which is why he was glad that Professor Thompson decided to make now a great time to start the lesson. Because that meant Noel would be looking up at creature stuff and not at uneven haircuts. SNACKS?? S N A C K S? Did Professor Thompson just say SNACKS? That's it. Consider the promotion set in stone. This was happening. They were having SNACKS. And not that dumb vegitable kabob stuff that Domingo Professor gave them a few years back. ACTUAL SNACKS.

But unfortunately the snacks were main priority because Zander was so focused on snacks that he didn't answer the question right away. And by the time he realized he ought to... Well, most people covered it. So uh, he'd pass on this question. BUT THE NEXT ONE FOR SURE, SIR! We won't let you down.

SPOILER!!: Answers + Responses

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Originally Posted by Holmesian Feline (Post 11773454)

Oooo class was beginning and he could focus on it for the moment rather than any awkwardness that lingered among the group of four friends. Benny was glad for that, even more than news of the likeliness of them creating smores since Adi and Henric were to be passing out marshmellows and graham crackers. He couldn't help but make a small face at the fact that they were grabbed together. Adi he could see as prefect....by why did the other boy have to be the other one.

Sigh.

There was mixed feelings about the news on the griffins since they wouldn't be caring for them anymore, but Benny supposed it was all for the best. They were probably best with trained professionals. Soon...soon he hoped to be one of them. Or at least on the way to be one of them. As the first question was put for the class, the Gryffindor was back being distracted away from thoughts of food and he raised his hand to answer.

"They are highly dangerous , the XXXXX creatures having instances of killing witches and wizards." And muggles too he supposed.

"That is correct." Curtly nodding.

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Originally Posted by Daydreamer11 (Post 11773460)

This class was fun all by itself, but today they were getting snacks. That was an extra bonus. What more could Janelle ask for? Animals and snacks. Nothing better. Professor Thompson was still being mysterious though. They still didn't know what was in the box. The curiosity was killing her, but Janelle just had to wait for the answer like everyone else.

Then it was question time and Janelle was ready to share what she knew about magical creature classifications. Raising her hand. she began to speak. "XXXXX creatures can't be trained." They were the baddest of the bad. Those were the ones who should not be messed with.

"This is partially true, with the main exception of the Basilisk and a few others. However, for the most part they can't be trained in legalities."

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Originally Posted by Cassirin (Post 11773466)

Wait. Wait wait wait wait. What was this that the professor was saying? The griffins were gone, but it was somehow okay because he was giving them crackers? Merlin's long beard, did he really think that was a good trade? Her eyes welled up immediately and Dot put a hand in the air.

Then she put the other one in the air, because she had TWO questions.

"Professor, can we visit them? Our griffins? 'Cause mine thinks that I'm his best friend and momma, and I would hate for him to get abandonment issues. And also..." She waved her second arm. "Can you guarantee these snacks will not turn us into werepeople? Or any other animal? Or are entirely mundane and not magical?" You wouldn't lie to a teary fourth year, WOULD YOU?

He had been expecting these sort of questions. Well perhaps not the latter ones exactly. As he raised a hand up in a gesture for her to hang on, "Not to worry, Miss Wojack-Gusey. I have written to the Sanctuary and should be expecting a reply any moment on the possibilities of visitation and more." As in regards to the snacks.. Javier took a graham cracker and marshmellow, making it into a little sandwich before taking a bite. "Looks like you're in luck as they haven't been tampered with."

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Originally Posted by Deezerz (Post 11773467)

Food. Curiosity. Distractions.

Beverly's gaze kept flickering from the food, the box and the professor. Her priorities shifted. Good and creatures, it was like putting her between a wall and sword. As the food came around, she raised her hand. At least she didn't have to choose.

"XXXXX creatures can't be domesticated...like dragons." Beautifully majestic and wild at heart. "Can't be domesticated."

Until one day...when Beverly Wayne conquered dragons.

"For the most part, yes, Miss Wayne."

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Originally Posted by Squishy (Post 11773488)

DID PROFESSOR THOMPSON JUST MENTION MARSHMALLOWS AND GRAHAM CRACKERS????

If s'mores were involved this lesson, she was going to DIE. Lux was going to die because she loved s'mores. Could they be a part of every lesson? Well, maybe not Potions...but still. They needed to be a part of lessons from now on.

She beamed at Cinna, because she knew that she loved food too. Food was amazing and everyone should love it. Bay loved it; too bad he couldn't enjoy it with her. Since she was an amazing girlfriend, she could eat another snack for him. Yeah, Professor Thompson should totally allow that because he was an awesome teacher.

Food in hand, Lux was sooo tempted to start eating, but figured that it would be a good idea to answer the question first. She raised her hand. "Only trained wizards and those with specialist knowledge can deal with creatures rated XXXX." Finished speaking, her eyes drifted to the box that occasionally shook. She wondered what was inside.

"Correct."

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Originally Posted by Symphora (Post 11773506)

SPOILER!!: Before Class

"Aights, Professor Thompson! No problem,"Henric nodded, grinning at the prospect of handing out the deliciousness to the class with Adi!! BRILLIANT! He took the bag of Graham Crackers from the professor and started giving out to the first row of students. Hopefully there were still more left for him to steal back. Narh, he was only joking. He would probably eat them along the way though. Hehe. "Here you go, mate...for you...and you.."he said while handing out the goodies. After he was done, he walked to Benny,"Hey, you wanna help handing these out too?"he asked as he pulled a bunch of graham crackers in his hands, it was totally fine if he didn't want to, he would recruit llia to help him. There were plenty of hungry and eager looking students left to give around them.

Henric still left a few more Graham packets in his bag and everyone else seemed to have a fair share....huhu...He went back to his seat beside llia and passed the leftovers to her."Here...llia,you can have the rest,"he smiled. And ohhh chocolates and strawberry jam!!Whuut!Weee~

Too distracted with the snack in hand....he opted to just listen to his classmates answers while popping a marshmallows into his mouth. He couldn't talk anyway with his mouth full.

Apparently, this student hadn't realise by "take one box and pass the bag around" the Professor literally meant "take one and pass it around" without getting up. Now he'll forgive this little action since it wasn't a big deal. The sight of the Prefect who was allowed to get up and do so would have rightly contributed to this being okay...

But as for the action of this student who thought it was perfectly okay to give all the remaining boxes of Graham Crackers to one other student of his choice without permission. Well.. that wasn't going to happen as the Professor then swiftly summoned the bag over with his wand out. "Thank you, Mr. Nicolei. Now that'll be three points from Hufflepuff for attempting to give away the rest of the snacks to one student of your choice without my permission."

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Originally Posted by PhoenixStar (Post 11773507)

Food. Sweet treats. This was happening. Throw in a mystery box that was currently housing a mystery creature and you had a party. Inner screaming was happening because outer screaming was frowned upon. It was a good way to get points taken away from you too. AJ was almost fifteen years old and she was totally mature now. Yeah... right.

Ohhh... Henric and Adi were going to be handing out the goodies to everybody. D-R-A-M-A. Either the professor had no idea about the issues with the three boys and it was a mere coincidence orrrr he liked stirring the pot. Either way AJ couldn't help but to look in the direction of Benny. Awkward.

She took the food given to her by the pair, and shoved a graham cracker down her throat before she could stop herself. Whoops. Slow down, AJ. Nobody was going to take it from you.

As far as the question was concerned, AJ knew those creatures were bad news. "I think they are just misunderstood..."

"Quite right you are, Miss Valentine. As many others would agree. This is also why many of those XXXXX creatures still exist for the possibility on fully understanding them."

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Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19 (Post 11773508)

Ohhh, Thompson had a job for him? Nooooo problemo! Mr Helpful was on the way! "Sure, I can do that, Professor.'' He gave the man a grin and padded off. Did Thompson do the right thing by giving him the marshmallows? Maybeee, maybe not, because even before Adi arrived at his first classmate, one of the treats was in his mouth. Woopsie. Hehe.

Adi moved about holding out the marshmallows so that the others could take how many they wanted. "None for you,'' he told AJ when he reached her and playfully pulled the sweets away. LOl! He kidded! The girlfriend was likely to beat him up if she didn't get any. After AJ had gotten hers, he moved on to the rest of the class before flopping down by his group, holding out what was left for Benny, Henric and Ilia.

His hand was up, ready to answer the question. "XXXX requires specialist knowledge, Professor.'' The sixth year snagged two crackers to sandwich a marshmallow between. Oh and yep. He was pleased for the baby Griffins but he would miss biter Henry. :/

Professor Thompson was expecting that bag to return to him after it was passed around. One of his eyebrow rose up at the Prefect. From Hufflepuff, so he taught as he witnessed the bag stay with his group of friends.

So Javier summoned the bag of marshmellows back to himself, before smiling genuinely. "Thank you for that assistance, Mr. Rehman. Another point from Hufflepuff should make up for the extra marshmallow you had consumed before everyone." Now he set the remaining boxes of Graham Crackers and marshmellows near the middle (but far enough from the campfire) so everyone else also had the chance to get extra if they wanted.

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Originally Posted by VRSCIKA (Post 11773512)

SPOILER!!: Before Class

She missed the baby griffin's and she worried about Sindri. Did anyone sing to her now? She knew that they would be well off, but she would always love her dearly. She accepted the food that Henric gave her with a small smile, but she didn't have any interest in eating it right now. After the joint P.A.D. lesson she was wary about anything given to them by a professor.....and she was too excited about creatures to want to eat. It was hands down the class she really loved and no food could take her attention, even if it was yummy.

What did she know about level xxxx and xxxxx creatures? She listened to her classmates , but on her turn answered. "Level XXXX creatures may be classified as such, not necessarily for their danger level, but also if they are endangered or hard to keep in captivity." Ah level xxxx creatures, phoenixes and thestrals were what came to mind for her and she loved them.

"Correct, as with the Phoenix for example."

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Originally Posted by lemon (Post 11773523)

Marshmallows and graham crackers?!? WOAH. How was Dima meant to focus now?

He tried to keep his attention on the professor and off the food, though. An attempt was what counted, right? And the Ravenclaw would try ANSWERING, too, just to prove he wasn't totally lost in daydreams of s'mores large enough to hug.

Hand up. "I know that Merpeople are one of the creatures rated XXXX, sir." Dima was sure because he had researched them this year, when he'd decided to take up learning Mermish. It was rather fun. "D'you think they could be one of the species that are endangered or hard to captivate rather than being too dangerous, like that other girl said?"

Er... he didn't know her name....... awkward.

'Other girl', how cute. "As Miss Valke had suggested, indeed. The Snidget is another example, who had been classified for their own safety."

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Originally Posted by griffin (Post 11773525)

Marshmallows and graham crackers. Penelope didn't like marshmallows very much, but she did like graham crackers. She would just have graham crackers. What would they be doing today? XXXXX creatures? Those were the really dangerous ones, right? "They're dangerous." She didn't really know much about XXXXX creatures other than that. This wasn't one of her best subjects. Maybe she should spend more time studying for this class.

Curtly nodding, "Most of them are indeed."

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Originally Posted by Sararara (Post 11773528)

Food? FOOOOD? Man, this was the best day EVER. Norah beamed at Professor Thompson as she sat down and reached for a marshmallow. She held it up to her nose and took a deep inhale. Perfect. She looked up from her potential feast as he started the lesson. That was a whole lot of X's. Were there any creatures that were XXXXXXXXXX? Or XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX? Who got to decide how many X's one of them got, anyways? The other students had already mentioned the dangerous bit and really that was the only thing she knew, so she put her hand up instead to ask, "How do they decide how many X's it gets?" Professor Thompson had to know, he was a professor.

Hmm.. how to put this simply. "Typically they consider the complexity of the creature. Majority are classified so highly due to the danger they can possess to the average witch or wizard who is unfamiliar with them. Some can be classified high not for their danger but the amount of skill needed to handle them or simply to emphasise the legalities of owning one not being recommended." Perhaps a little too wordy. "Basically it is decided among the Ministry of Magic's Creature department who look through the history of the creature and their behaviour around us before they are classified."

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Originally Posted by Harry174 (Post 11773529)

Angel was totally happy and she gave the Professor a nod when he asked if she was well, now though she had to try and figure out what xxxx or xxxxx meant. In clothing wasn't the x like an extra so that would be some big clothing there.

Angel was shocked when the Professor said they were going to have a snack, most Professor didn't like you snacking in class and she wondered what was going on first it was very dusty and now the Professors were letting you eat in class, okay who has kidnapped the real professor and replaced them with robots?

Angel was still trying to figure out everything else. She thought for awhile but couldn't figure out anything so she decided that she would just guess. "Professor it means they are the most dangerous creature around which means you can't have them as pets right."

"For the majority that is correct. There are some exceptions like the Phoenix, which are perfectly able to become pets but with far more skill required than a regular Puffskein."

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Originally Posted by Samia (Post 11773539)

Noel smiled when Zander joined him. "Hey Blondie" the boy greeted with a grin. The lint roller incident still fresh in his mind.

The grin only widened when snacks and a relaxing day was mentioned. Yes. They needed a break. Especially fifth years because OWLs. Yeah. Noel didn't wait around and got himself a juice box. Sipping on it, he waited his turn and then put his hand up to answer.

"the creatures in five Xs has to be much more dangerous than the ones classified in 4 Xs." It seemed like a 'duh' thing, yeah? "I think the 4 Xs mean there is hope to train these creatures and maybe not get killed but 5 Xs is like 'abandon all hope'"

"..That is one way of putting it." What a unique choice of wording, though.

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Originally Posted by Tiro MacMhuirich (Post 11773546)

Marsha looked up as someone sat next to her, her happy grin still plastered over her face. OH! It was Roo. Awesome. ”How are you, Roo?” She asked as he got comfortable. Actually, how comfortable were these blankets? Hehehe.

Ohh, food! She smiled at Adi and the other Hufflepuff who were handing out food and grinned at the Professor as he handed out MORE food. This was awesome - but what. Marsha’s heart sunk and her face fell as he mentioned that the Griffins - THEIR BABIES - had been sent to a proper Griffin reserve. She bit on her lip to keep from crying at the thought of never getting to see Cadfael again but tried to hold it together as he moved on to the subject of XXXX and XXXXX creatures.

Sniff. Distracting them with food and awesome creatures. Low move Thompson.

But really… Marsha couldn’t blame him. I mean the Griffin’s were going to be far too big for the housing here and they didn’t have NEARLY enough space… so she knew it was better, but she would have liked to have said goodbye. BUT - Dot asked an excellent question. COULD they see their Griffins again? Yes? Yes needed to be the answer.

As she settled down again, she picked at her smore and then nodded her head at the Professor and listened to the others in her class. Dangerous? Pfft, they said that like it was a bad thing. You just had to be careful and know what you were doing. ”Misunderstood creatures…” She muttered as everyone kept pointing out their worst character flaws. ~~Niave, creature loving girl over here.~~

”Sir, fiveX is the category assigned by the ministry to animals such as Dragons, Basilisks, Acromantula’s and Manticore’s. Generally, they are in that category for how hard they can be to calm down once they are shocked or scared and that can often lead to accidents and death… but it’s just a shame we can’t communicate with them properly… I’m sure they don’t really deserve that category listing.” Sighsigh.

"You'll find a good number of other witches and wizards who have the same viewpoint." Outside this actual classroom of course. "The amount of skill required to even consider being in their presence is correct."

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Originally Posted by Felixir (Post 11773560)

Toby kinda did notice the blanket get a little easier to pull around him and therefore better suited as a sort of blanket burrito cave thing, but was not observant enough to realise how it had happened. Just one of those things. He sat huddled in the blanket and watched the fire for a little while until they got started.

And... ooooooooh... FOOD. Toby had absolutely not learnt his lesson about accepting food from professors, no questions asked, after that P.A.D. lesson, because 1. he'd not actually eaten the cookies that day, and 2. he'd pushed most of the memories from that class out of his brain. Also, he absolutely trusted that Thompson wouldn't trick them all with sneaky potions in food, for reasons.

Ohhh, but were those marshmallows vegetarian? Huh... that was the question. Toby had no idea, and even though he figured they probably WERE on account of Prof T always being prepared, he still only nibbled on one of the graham crackers (though he took both s'more components). Anyway, yeah. FOOD ASIDE FOR THE MOMENT (shock horror), he should probably give an answer to the question.

"Those're the ones that are less likely to let you cuddle them," Toby put in, his arm in the air and making the blanket draped around him look even bigger for a moment. Technically, he wasn't wrong, but most of the obvious answers had been said and Toby was thinking OUTSIDE THE BOX. Plus, Thompson knew that Toby knew his stuff when it came to creatures. The Hufflepuff dropped his hand again and picked up another cracker to nibble at. "I'd cuddle them though, if they wanted, or I'd at least try, and I'd ask first to see if they wanted a cuddle. Or I'd try to be their friend, 'cause it must be lonely at the top, everyone's probably scared of you with all those Xs, an-"

WAS THAT JUICE? Toby broke of suddenly, mid-sentence, and abandoned his answer and train of thought entirely to focus on leaning on over and grabbing himself a juice box.

... Could he maybe drink some chocolate syrup too? Maybe? Would anyone notice? No? Toby eyed the bottle, all shifty like.

A blank face remained as he listened, "...Yes.." and those Syrup bottles mysterious moved closer to the Professor. "Luckily with a number of those creatures, asking won't be necessarily as their actions will give away their clear thoughts on receiving that."

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Originally Posted by Anna Banana (Post 11773573)

Class started, and Kate was suddenly really happy about two things. Number one, their griffin friends were alright, and they'd been returned to their sanctuary. That was good. Kate would have been heartbroken to learn that something had happened to Chad. The second was that their was food, which was good, because Kate was hungry thinking about all those snacks.

Okay, so Ministry rating and what they mean...

Raising her hand, Kate said, "My mom is a Senior Dragon Researcher at the Ministry of Magic, and she sometimes works with dragons that have that classification," she said. "I know that she and the team she works with is sometimes called in to give their research on the dragons, so that people know how to handle them properly. So I'd say that creatures in this category need to handled by people with a lot of knowledge about them."

"Correct." Curtly nodding.

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Originally Posted by Lissy Longbottom (Post 11773595)

OOOOH were they gonna learn about dragons? PLEASE LET THEM LEARN ABOUT DRAGONS! Caleb already loved this class and he would SO love it more if they got a chance to learn about some awesome, deadly stuff. Just not lethifolds.

He raised his hand to contribute to the conversation. "Sometimes, like with merpeople and centaurs, they are rated XXXX because they have human like intelligence and therefore can be manipulative and dangerous, just like any other human," he explained. Personally, if he were a merperson he'd be very insulted at the term 'human like intelligence' but eh, what can you do, that's how it was...

"Very true, Mr. Newell."

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Originally Posted by Jessiqua (Post 11773683)

"There are, but they are merely temporarily means."d

Well, well.. didn't the air feel a little tense? Preposterous, it had to be from the heat. Now that everyone was settled with their snacks, Professor Thompson set the remaining snacks aside. "Good.." In regards to those who had contributed their thoughts and answers, despite how... unique some were.

Anyways, that box had been rocking long enough, " Now as you all have noticed the coverings over all the stalls. Not only is it for the protection of the fellow creature residers.. But the dark presents a soothing atmosphere to them." Now who was 'them', exactly? "Norwegian Ridgebacks." Did the Professor just say that? Well, to prevent some students from questioning their own hearing, he gave the moving box a simple tap opening it.

Revealing the poking head of a little brown dragon. A curious one as he peered around at everyone before making a 'hiccup' like noise. "Not just your average Norwegian Ridgebacks, special ones that had been sized accordingly for our own handling." As Javier then picked up one to set in his hand where it sat perfectly, before he handed it one to the student sitting nearest, gesturing them to send it down as he sent more one by one until everyone had one. "After enough letters and compromising, a Sanctuary was generous enough to allow us a chance to handle them. With the conditions as you see being their size temporarily being small to be able to be handled by any student in here."

Javier then finger petted over the black ridges to its little head, making it cough a spray of little fire, "Not adults quite yet, they have a number of years before being sent elsewhere." Before looking at the students again, "They'll need some names, don't you think? How about we get acquainted with them. You can pet and talk with them, maybe even help cook the marshmallows faster by rubbing under their neck." As he then did so with his index finger, making the little dragon spray some fire.

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OOC: As explained, feel free to get acquainted with the little dragons. Should take no more than three labelled posts. Lesson will continue in 24 hours from this post. =)

Oooooh, baaaaad boys. Both Adi and Henric got points taken away from them for being food hogs. Really, she didn't blame them at all. If she were in the same situation, she would had snarfed a few herself. That being said, she knew Thompson to be pretty strict. She gave the boys a sympathetic smile. What can you do? At least they hadn't lost five points like she had. An extra marshmallow was worth a point anyday.

AJ smiled at the professor as he agreed with her logic. See? Seriously misunderstood animals. Just because they were fierce didn't mean they were bad. You had to get to know them, and how to handle them. She couldn't wait to work with animals every day.

The box was being revealed. Oh gosh. Oh gosh. Oh gosh. The anticipation was killing her. Open it. Open it. She would start a chant going but she didn't wanna lose any more points this term, thank you very much.

DRAGONS!!! ICKLE BABY DRAGONS.

One was sitting in the professor's hand. AJ was going to die of cuteness overload. Benny must be a cloud nine. She couldn't help but to give him a thumbs up. So cool.

They were all getting their own dragon. Must. Not. Scream. She was almost fourteen years old now, and was totes mature. Umm... yeah. She was. Mmhmm. Once she had her very own dragon, all she could do was beam at him.

No words. Just beaming.

Post 1 - Super Excited Benny

Say what?

Henric had gotten three points taken away from him and his house because of handing off the crackers to Ilia. Benny fought the urge to snort in amusement at the happening. However Adi also got a point taken away...boo...not that the older Hufflepuff couldn't afford it. And it was because of his sweet tooth. That got a slight amused chuckle for his best friend who was always at them.

But then all thoughts of Henric...and even Adi were lost as two words spoken by the professor caught his ears and full attention. Norwegian Ridgebacks...NORWEGIAN RIDGEBACKS!! Cue the inner child in the often-overly-mature 16 year old going off. There was definitely a smile on his face. He had been right and his hopes had been fulfilled in all its glory. Yeah...Professor Thompson, you were off the hook for picking Adi and Henric to help.

You just made one of your students very...VERY...happy.

And there was the cutest little brown head of one, poking out of the box. AWWWWWW. Dragons were lovely on their own but dragons that were made small and super cute were even more awesome. Benny sent a look to Adi. Maybe this was how he could have that dragon they were planning to have at their future home. He had to fight to keep his attention on what was being said by the professor, nearly bouncing as the small dragons were handed out down the line from student to student.

And then HE had a dragon on his lap.

Forget Hiccup in his arm...THIS...THIS was the best moment of his life!!

So Janelle's answer had been partially right. She listened as the Professor explained more about XXXXX and XXXX magical animals, making sure to take notes as he went along.

And then, Dragons! Cute little teeny dragons! That's what Professor Thompson had been hiding from them. Janelle couldn't possibly have been any more excited. She was practically bouncing with enthusiasm as the tiny creatures were being passed down. Janelle kept passing them forward until finally it was her turn. She got a little Norwegian Ridgeback of her own, well for now anyway. She missed her griffin, Buddy, but her new friend might help take her mind off him for the time being.

Janelle held the dragon in her hand and looked him over. "Well hi here little fellow. I bet you didn't like being in that box with all those other dragons did you? Well it's OK now," She gave his back a rub and made sure to position him so she'd avoid any potential flames. "My name is Janelle and I'm going to be your new friend. But you need a name don't you?" Janelle would have to think about that for a while. She needed a name that would suit her dragon, but she had to get to know him better first.

Sweet Merlin.

This puff was finally able to finally handle a little dragon. A Norwegian Ridgeback no less. He was smiling in glee. He had one dragon sitting on his lap and he was gonna take care of him. He was gonna give him the best day of his life. Kace looked down at his dragon and smiled. "Hey little guy.." He began to pet the top of his head and he/she seemed to like it. I mean it's eyes were closed in pleasure and its tail was wagging. He grinned and now he needed to name it. But wait he needed to check if it was a male or female first. This one seemed like the largest and usually females were larger to be more dominant so he assumed that.

"Well since I assume your a girl, I will need to think of some names for you.." he began to brainstorm some ideas. He didn't want to think of stereotypical names since obviously his parents didn't for him.

Post 1 - Question

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Adi and Henric lost points? Seriously? Lux found that surprising, and shook her head though she wasn't annoyed. It was more amusing than anything, because they had been food hogs. They both got a small smile from her out of sympathy because she could totally understand the temptation that snacks presented.

THAT WAS WHEN DRAGONS HAPPENED.

Little baby dragons. Oh gosh, this just made her day because she was going to be able to handle a baby dragon. Bay was so hearing about this later.

Dying a little on the inside because cuteness overload, Lux watched as Professor Thompson began passing the dragons around. When it was her turn, she gently held the little thing in the palm of her hand before petting it with her finger. "Hello," she cooed. Hmm, was it a boy or a girl? She wasn't sure. Curious, she raised her hand. "Professor Thompson, how do you tell which gender they are?" Because that could be important when naming the dragon.

WHOAAAA.

Kate couldn't wait to owl home and tell her mom all about this lesson! Her mom was a Dragonologist, and she worked with dragons on a daily basis. Kate felt somewhat special tending to something her mom worked so closely with. The two had never talked about dragons and how her mom handled them, but Kate was suddenly wishing they had at least once.

Instead, she was pretty much going into this blindfolded. She was hesitant about it, too. I mean, it wasn't often you just walked up to a dragon and pet it under its chin! Wasn't there school motto something like, 'Never Tickle a Sleeping Dragon'?

Kate inched closer to a nearby dragon, hoping it realized she meant no harm. They WERE harmless, right? Size surely didn't equal innocence. "Hey, little guy. ... Or girl." Who knew? "I'm Kate." Not that the dragon understood any of that...

Oh, a DRAGON? That was pretty cool, although Dot was concerned that her clothes would end up smelling like smoke and cooked ginger. She eyed the dragons from her seat by the fire, making big eyes at their little ridged heads and the eager flicker of tongues and flashing of teeth.

Weeeeeell. Okay. It wouldn't hurt just to hold one and feed it marshmallows and give it a name and be best friends and possibly sneak it out under her jumper. And she would definitely smell like smoke if she tried that.

SHE WOULD MISS LORENZO THE GRIFFIN FOREVER. But look. Now she had a dragon. Gimme dragon.

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Dying a little on the inside because cuteness overload, Lux watched as Professor Thompson began passing the dragons around. When it was her turn, she gently held the little thing in the palm of her hand before petting it with her finger. "Hello," she cooed. Hmm, was it a boy or a girl? She wasn't sure. Curious, she raised her hand. "Professor Thompson, how do you tell which gender they are?" Because that could be important when naming the dragon.

Hm? Oh, it looks like Professor Thompson had missed out on mentioning a fairly important detail, "Well, the easiest way to tell right now is to feel along the ridges on their back or checking their teeth. The female dragons have sharper ridges and teeth than the male ones, signifying how more ferocious they are." Since the other obvious way to check was more difficult with their smaller size.

Post 1 - Oh my pradaa. DRAGONS!

WHa...whaat?! Henric nearly choked on his marshmallow when the professor took away points from his house. Seriously what was up with the professors whenever he and Adi were together. They weren't even causing trouble and did what they were supposed to do, handing out each one to their classmates like good boys..~~not~~. Henric thought of just leaving the leftover graham packets with llia for safekeeping(:evil:). She wasn't going to eat them anyway...probably because she was still wary of what happened in P.A.D joint class the last time they ate delicious snacks given by their professors. Professors and their ~~sneakiness~~...they were as bad as students themselves.

Anyhuu, whatever resentful thoughts vanished into thin air when the professor revealed what was hidden in the box. Henric's eyes widened at the sight of miniature dragon on his hand. He was trembling...literally shaking with great excitement! Oh merlin...oh great haven of dragons! Forget about the housepoint losing! They were going to hold dragons and they get to name them too?!

"Gimmeh...Gimmeh..."he thought impatiently, he couldn't contain it anymore.TOO excited. He held the little dragon on the palm of his hand, hoping it did not scare hi-...nope...her.Definitely a her. He could tell by stroking its back."Aren't you a beauty...I'm going to call you little 'Thumbelina' from now on,you remind me of that muggle story..yes you are..."he cooed.

Say what? A point for eat a marshmallow before anyone? Did he STILL have to eat it anyway? And he HAD allowed everyone to take extra, himself only taking two. A poor Henric. Always loosing more points than he was. Hey! Point loss! Adi found this funny! So far, he had lost a total of eight point since coming to Hogwarts, all eight from Flamsteed. Now he had one more to add to the list and Thompson's name to go along. He caught AJ's smile and smiled back at her. He was okay, AJ. At least he had had the honours of having the first treat.

Adi had just came back to his group, when he heard Benny's response to Henric. Was it just him or did he seem kind of rude? He nudged his best friend lightly in the side. "Be a nice Dragon.'' The Liondragon had nothing to worry about when it came to Henirc. Or any other Dragon loving folks.
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Speaking of Dragons...

Did Thompson say NORWEDIGIAN RIDGEBACKS?

Adi's head snapped in Benny's direction then in Henric's and Ilia. He knew all three of them were fond of the creatures, Benny probably being the biggest fan. He tilted his head at his Professor, listening to this talk about the Sanctuary. Benny needed a real dragon someday and Adi had made it his goal to get him one. Henric too. He had overheard Ethan singing something about Dragons and an uncle or cousin of his who worked with the creatures and the Hufflepuff had made up his mind to corner the Slytherin to find out more about this and to see if this uncle/cousin could help with his dragon mission.

EEEP! But it was time to meet ACTUAL dragons! Adi wondered if he should slip away and let Benny and Henric bond over the creatures. Yeah, that would be good. Leaving his belongings and hoping the two would take initiative, the sixth year jumped to his feet and cautiously approached one of the babies. Cautiously because he did not want to scare it. "Hiya, little fella! How's it going?" he held out his hand and allowed the dragon to hop onto it. Only thing was, the thing ran up his arm and took a seat snugly on his right shoulder.

Awh! It was SO trusting!

Right. She needed to check the ridges and teeth. Lux could do that.

After nodding to Professor Thompson in understanding, she continued to coo at the little dragon as she did a thorough look over. Right. It was a boy. "I'm going to call your Freddy." She didn't know why, but she thought the name suited him. Now that was out of the way, they could get to know each other better.

"You are so cute," Lux said as she began running her finger along the ridges of his back up to his head, so that he let out a small spray of fire like Professor's Thompson's had. "Cool." So long as her hair and/or eyebrows didn't get singed off she had no problem with a little bit of fire. Probably wouldn't do her marshmallow much good though if she held it out in front of him on a stick and he did that.

Smiling, she continued to pet Freedy as she cooed to him. "I think we are going to be the best of friends, don't you? You little cutie patootie."

Angel was looking very shocked when she saw what was under the cover, after all she was muggle and well her fairytale books and the films she had seen put them in a bad light.

"Dr.....dra....dra.....dragon!!" Angel stammered, she was scared, she was very scared. Angel had heard about the dragon that had kidnapped a princess and then there was the one that tried to damage a boat.

Angel looked around to see what Benny was thinking, of course he was totally excited since he loved dragons, she would have to speak to him about his choices later, they were scary were dragon.

Angel nervously walked over towards a dragon. "Ni....ni....nice dragon!" Angel said nervously as she continued to walk towards one.

Toby made a move to grab the chocolate syrup bottle at the exact moment that it scooted off out of his reached. The Hufflepuff blinked as his fingers closed around air, then squinted after the syrup when he saw who it moved closer to. WELL THEN. That was fine. Toby just sat back again, sipping at his juice box, narrowing his eyes, ~~plotting revenge~~. All in all a hilarious image with the padded blanket still wrapped around him.

... Wait...

GAAAASSSSSPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

DRAGONS.

BABIES.

SO SMOL.

TINY SMOL BABY DRAGONS.

Toby's eyes widened and his jaw dropped and he dropped the juice box he'd been drinking from. He continued staring for a few moments before even realising what he'd done, at which point he quickly picked it back up again and drained the remainder of the drink with a SLLUUURRRRP so that he was READY FOR A DRAGON.

"When do they turn back to normal size?" the Hufflepuff blurted out his question as he passed dragon after dragon along until there was nobody left to pass it to and he was left with his OWN Norwegian Ridgeback. Yes. His. "Soon? Is it automatic?" He was asking for a friend. A friend who might attempt to borrow one, y'know? Just for like ONLY A FEW MINUTES because obviously they needed to be sent BACK to the sanctuary, unless Thompson got to keep them for longer. Toby...'s friend had a dark space under his bed that was dragon-friendly, see? But if it was gonna RANDOMLY GET BIGGER then that could be an issue, see?

Toby held his dragon up now, in cupped hands, so he could look at it eye to eye. Wooooooow. This was SO COOL. "Hi. I'm Toby, and I'm not a dragon. What's your name, and do you like cuddles?"

The dragon made that weird little hiccoughing noise. Toby nodded. "Got it."

Ilia smiled brightly when she was told that she was correct, it always made her pleased with herself. She couldn't help but get a slightly curious look on her face when the student after her said 'other girl'. Did he mean her? The little blonde scanned her blue eyes over at the boy and then looked back to the professor, who called her by her surname. Had she seen that boy before? ......She probably needed to acquaint herself with more of her classmates.

The professor held her attention completely until he said a magical word.......'Norwegian Ridgebacks'. Her favorite dragons of all time! One the lid of the box was aside and the beautiful little brown head popped out and 'hiccupped' she couldn't help herself. "Awww." She tried to stay as quiet as possible, but it was the cutest thing ever! She still paid mind to her professor, but as soon as it was evident that she could hold one, all bets on her attention being anywhere else were lost. Names!? They got to love and play with and name them!? Her concerns about Sindri were eased a little now that there was a little Ridgeback on her arm. As she gently stroked the creatures spine , it spit just a little bit of fire and she had to suppress a squeal of excitement.

With the little dragon perched contentedly on her as she petted it , she was the happiest that she had been since coming to Britain. Her pure elation was clear on her face as she looked to the friends beside her. She grinned broadly at Benny as she saw him and his dragon, then Adi and his little charge, and finally back at Henric. Her poor best friend, the fact of the crackers and the points didn't even register for her. She had no interest in any of the food and had only sat the things beside her , not caring about it. She had been too focused elsewhere to be bothered with it or the fact that he had lost points. Right now , she was just looking at him happy as could be that she had a little dragon.

Benny felt a nudge when Adi returned to their group after delivering the marshmallows to the class. Wha? Did his friend realize the inside joke of the point loss. Nope, he was lightly reprimanding him for Henric. He would have scowled at his best friend in response, hurt, had things not moved on when they did. The Gryffindor WAS being a nice dragon. Could you imagine the points loss if he did something he wasn't asked to?

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Right....gender would be a good thing to know...name-idea-wise. Thankfully Lux had thought of it because his brain was mush right now with the small dragon in his presence. Benny had taken to stroking the creature upon it's head and occasionally down the back. So let's read it in the ridges. It didn't seem so pronounced or at least really sharp so he was thinking a boy, especially in comparison to the sharper looking ones on Henric's charge that he had claimed female.

"You like that boy?" he asked, finally finding his voice as the little guy seemed quite content by his attention and touch. As for the name of his charge, the sixth year tried to get his brain to work enough to remember the list of names he had been gathering for appropriate names for dragons. You know, when he actually had a dragon of his own, like the one Adi promised him at one point. Cue look in friend's direction only to see Henric and Ilia. Huh? Oh, there he was a few feet away with his own dragon leaving Benny confused.

"How about Aiden?" the Gryffindor asked rhetorically. One of the 'fire' names he had looked up at one point. Benny had switched his touch to the chin, giving it a gentle rub as he debated the name. It was then he got a small spark of fire from his companion getting a chuckle out of the human as he seemed pleased with himself. "Okay...Aidan it is then."

Adi flopped down back on a blankie. His dragon really seemed to be enjoying itself up there on his shoulder. He didn't mind really as long as it did NOT sneeze in his hair. Smoke nor fire. Nooooo, thank you. He reached up and found the baby dragon's head.

"You'll need a good name, little fellow. Any suggestions?" Because Adi was totally all ears for opinions. Of course he could not get a reply from the creature. It started examining his right ear, its snout dangerously close to the organ. "Hey, no sneezing or breathing fire, okay?'' Though the burns may be minor. But still, prevention was better. Mhmm.

Still patting the creature, Adi kept on thinking of a name. He had already checked out the characteristics Thompson had told Lux and came to the realisation his dragon was a dude. Why was he blanking on names today? Think, think, think! Oohhh! He got it! "I'll name you Reptar!'' Yesh, it was a PERFECT name. The Hufflepuff liked it. "Hiiiiii, Reptar! Nice to meet you!'' Reptar poked its snout at his ear. It seemed like it liked its name too!

Benny was thankfully coming down from his original blinding high at the thought of working with a dragon, at least a little. Enough to notice what was going on around him as Aidan decided to paw around his lap as he sat indian style on the blanket he was on. The occasional pressure on various points of his leg at least gave him away to track his charge and not have to keep a strict eye on the creature. Not that he didn't like to anyway. The Gryffindor giving the dragon another rub on his head as it came near his hand where it rested again.

He still wasn't sure why Adi had moved away from them. Was it to give the dragons room so there wasn't too many together? Or was he a bit overwhelmed being surrounded by the two dragon lovers on either side if him? That was the one main thing he and Henric had in common after all. "Got your shoulder-dragon after all..." he mused aloud, commented towards Adi, whose dragon was seemingly playing with the Hufflepuff's ear.

As long as it didn't further encourage his bestie to want to try him smaller when he tried out the dragon form. The one tranfiguration was nerve-wracking enough...the other just added to it. Scratch...scratch...scratch...for you Aidan. Another rumble of fire was the response and Benny simple smiled.

Before Adi could utter another word, Reptar was scuttling up onto his head O__O What was it with creatures and his hair? His fairies, Ana and Boom, also loved his hair. AJ had competition. Hehe. Reptar pulled on some strands. “Ouch! Careful there, buddy boy. Don’t want to render me bald, do you?’’ The Ridgeback weighed not much so it didn’t bother him one bit the dragon was up there. If it did, Adi didn’t notice, anyway.

He glanced up so that his eyes went crossed slightly. “Enjoying the view?” He could feel Reptar padding about up there and suddenly Adi was looking a tiny tail as it swung down, almost hitting his glasses. WOAH! Best get those out of the way. He snagged the specs to stow them in his robes. He turned his head now to look at Benny and Henric. Had their mutual love for these creatures drawn them to be talking properly? Hmph. It didn’t seem so. Adi was starting to see that his best friend was getting stubborn. Or maybe he was still insecure? Yeah, that'll be it. Oh, hey! The bestie caught him looking apparently. He grinned. “I did. Doesn’t mean I still don’t want to turn you into a tiny shoulder dragon.’’ Hehe. Big Benny-Dragon and little Benny- Dragon. It was a must for the Hufflepuff. Adi tilted his head. “Why don’t you check to see how Henric is doing with his dragon. I’m surprised neither of you fainted out of excitement when you saw them. Still grinning, he began to coax Reptar down.

“Come on, Reptar. I know you like the view but let’s talk down here.’’ Unfortunately for him, he had a stubborn dragon. Hehe. Reptar refused to budge and its only response was a tug on Adi’s hair. “Fine, fine, fineeee,’’ he responded with a laugh. “You can stay up there as long as you don’t rip out my hair.’’ Or set it ablaze.

Post 1 (Jumping back in to play c:)

Hady hadn't said more then two words since she arrived at this lesson. She had greeted Professor Thompson and taken a seat that was all. The third year was so quiet it was like she might not have even been there or possibly she was in a world all of her own. That just wasn't the case though, at least not today. There just simply hadn't been anything she needed to say and therefore choose to keep silent taking everything in.

The unveiling of the box and the small brown creature head that peered out over it instantly captured the girls attention causing her to sit up a bit straighter.

Dragons. They were going to be working with DRAGONS!

Listening quietly to everything that was being said by the professor Hady calmly accepted her small dragon without an ounce of fear when it was passed to her. Holding it in the palm of her hand she lifted it up to her face checking her new friend out. She'd worked with dragons before, rode on them even but those were transfigured from rocks. This. THIS was a real one. Smaller yes but still very much real. Running a finger lightly down it's spine she was able to tell just how sharp those little ridges along it's back were.

This was a girl. A girl that needed a name.

"Hey little one..I'm Hady and we're going to be friends for a bit..." she told the dragon watching as it moved from her hand up her arm digging it's small talons into the material of her robes to keep it's grip. Barely flinching at the feeling she kept calm and relaxed as her new friends made it's way up onto her shoulder and then back around her neck through her hair. "Peek-a-boo" Hady whispered turning her head to look towards the dragon as she poked her head out through Hady's hair making the brunette laugh. "Boo...what do you think of that hmm? It might not be all big and powerful sounding but that doesn't matter. I bet you anything you're the mightyest of them all." Mhmm no doubt about it.

Boo the newly named dragon gave a small hiccup cough like sound a tiny puff of fire coming from her mouth which Hady took as a yes to the name. "Easy there Boo, no setting me a flame please." She laughed quietly reaching upwards to remove the dragon from her hair setting her down on her lap once more.

DRAGONS?

So THAT'S what Professor Thompson meant by something that would never be allowed at the school. This was WICKED COOL. Zander was super pumped, could Thompson tell? 'Cause he hadn't stopped grinning since the Ridgeback thing was even mentioned.

Ahem.

Food. Dragons. CoMC. What else could a person possibly want?

This was the liiiiife. As long as Zander was concerned at least. Ahem. So when he got his very own minidragon, he was absolutely elated. But the naming thing would be difficult. Zander wasn't good at this. His crup had been called 'noname' for the first two months. How was he supposed to name a dragon that was JUST put into his hands without any prior planning.

"So uh, you got any hobbies?" 'Cause that could help narrow things down....? Maybe. Except dragons couldn't talk, obviously. So instead the little guy just spat out a ball of fire into the air. Riiight.

Post 2 & we have a question :3

She had a dragon. She had a dragon. She had a dragon, hey, hey, hey, hey. Speaking of tiny dragons, AJ couldn't help but to wonder about a tiny unicorn. Yes, it was always going back to that creature. Thompson had just better get used to it because that was not going to change about her.

AJ raised her hand. "Is it possible to have a tiny anything? Like, it would be super cute to have a unicorn that I can carry around in my shirt pocket. It could hang its little unicorn head out, and we can take a nice bike ride together..." Get to the point, Valentine. "So, it is possible to have a tiny unicorn?" Because she wanted one of those too.

Oh, great question, Lux. AJ looked at her own dragon. "Let's see what you are." She ran a finger down the ridges on the dragon's back. That definitely felt pretty sharp. Teeth check. Yup, this was one fierce female dragon she had. Cool. It had been a long time since she had a female creature. She always seemed to attract the boy ones.

Her dragon needed a name, and it needed to be fierce. A name popped into her head immediately. "Regina!" Perfect dragon name. "You like that?" AJ couldn't be sure, but she thought she saw a smile. Regina it was then.

Janelle was continuing to bond with her dragon when Professor Thompson gave them some more information. Ahhhh, how to tell the boy dragons from the girl dragons. Janelle just felt that her dragon was a boy, but she figured it was best to check. She wouldn't want to give a girl dragon a boy's name. That would not be cool and she certainly did not want to confuse the little guy.

As she continued to stroke her dragon's back, she paid particular attention to the ridges. She was not feeling brave enough to try to check his teeth. That just didn't seem like a good idea, him being a fire breathing dragon and all. The dragon's ridges didn't feel particularly sharp to Janelle. Of course, she didn't have anything to compare them to. Based on her cursory check, she decided that he was indeed a boy.

Well now that we know you're a boy, you definitely need a name. Janelle set him down on her blanket to observe him. She continued to pet him and love him up as much as her dragon would allow. He seemed to like receiving her affection as much as she enjoyed giving it. That surprised Janelle because she never thought of dragons as particularly cuddly. Maybe his small size had something to do with it. Janelle thought and thought, but she was having a tough time coming up with a proper name for her dragon. "Hmmmmm......what should I call you? I know. How about Sparky? Do you like that?" 'Cause he didn't exactly make big flames, 'cause he was little and......they looked like.....well anyway. The dragon did not seem to protest so Sparky it was.