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About 20 meters to the right of the breakfast bar on the still somewhat green grounds that hold the elegant golden leaved autumn trees in the background, the staff have put up 4 identical, enlarged, lush green bushes: one bush for each house.
Each house's students need to work together as a team with the help of their head of house and prefects to transform their assigned bush into their very own house mascot (e.g. an eagle for the Ravenclaws, a badger for the Hufflepuffs, a snake for the Slytherins and a lion for the Gryffindors). Every house needs a mascot for the topiary race that will commence in about an hour's time.
Every student, the staff have assumed, hopefully have brought their wands with them down to the event. To work on transforming the bush you can use the cutting charm 'Diffindo'. If you, by the off chance forgot your wand, (ahem, long stares at you if you did) then Professor Myers has provided a small box of muggle pruning shearers that you can use so you can still help with the mascot creation.
When an hour has passed and all houses have transformed their bushes into a giant bush mascot of their house’s animal, you all head over with the staff to the topiary race track (Don't forget to bring your house mascot!) The track is a big wide circle where the students in X house has to stand apart at intervals like in a relay race to cover the track. Student A in each of the 4 houses will then ride their mascot to student B who will ride it to student C etc until all the mascots have crossed the finish line.
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They were constructing topiary? Mascot topiary? OKAY.
Zeke liked competition, granted, he preferred them when he was riding things or flying things or just being better at things than others. Teamwork wasn't usually part of his competition, especially now that he'd withdrawn from gobstones.
BUT... this ought to be interesting at least.
He knew the charms that Zander spoke about, they were fairly basic to Herbology, but then WHAT was the topiary actually going to look like? A standing lion? Sitting lion? roaring lion? Did it have to have whiskers? So many questions, even Flamsteed's instruction of HEAD and TAIL weren't incredibly useful.
"Any particular part you want me to do?" he asked Zander and Flamsteed. He was ready and rearing to go! Wand in hand and everything.
They got to build a HUGE topiary??? Milo had read about topiaries in a lot of books and had seen painting and photographs of the ones at the Palace of Versailles in France. Hogwarts had some too then? He hadn't had a chance to see them on the Grounds because he had always gone down to sit by the lake but here soon it would be too late.
BUT, yes Topiary. The first year ran over to the one that Headmaster Botros had said belonged to Ravenclaw and looked around.
.........um.
He was the first one there. What should he do. Milo didn't know any charms to cut or trim branches yet. So instead he looked up and tried to imagine a giant eagle.
"Let's take out this...branch here." He said reaching up and beginning to prune away a bunch of stray branches that were sticking out in wild directions. Hopefully someone older, a professor, or someone with a proclivity for Herbology would show up soon! He'd been late and still had time to shovel pancakes into his mouth.
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SPOILER!!: Professor Headmaster SIR
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After everyone had had breakfast and... survived it, really, with not too much dirt on them, Botros took off his chef hat and respectfully put it on the breakfast bar as if it was the sorting hat's kin.
"Kids and staff," he called out, clapping his big two hands to gain their attention. "Let's play a game, shall we? We're all fueled now and have some sugar to burn." He beamed and gestured for them to follow him in the direction of the four bushes. "See those four bushes? They're all messy and untamed, our very groundskeeper and Charms professor set them up for you for this game." Botros clapped his hand again.
"Now! We're going to have a competition between all four houses. See that circular field just behind those bushes?" The empty area that had random items thrown on the ground? Yes, that. "We want to see which house has the best teamwork, and which house's mascot is the fastest. Before we do that, each house need to work together to make a topiary of their own house mascot with the help of their Head of House and prefects, of course. Then we'll start the race! Go!" He looked at professor Beatrice to bring him a chair and come sit with him while they watched the kids work on this first task...? Yes? Where was his young friend?
ooc: - This is the segue to the main activity in this camp.
- I distributed everyone who participated in the event to teams, work together and look for your leaders for help. If you didn't post in the other thread but want to play here, you can. Just join your house and I'll edit in your name.
- There is no set number of posts in order to finish this activity. However, the more people from your house participate the more realistic it is to finish your mascot quickly.
- The competition starts after you finish creating the topiary, that's in about 48+ hrs from this post.
- Have fun, and don't be afraid to go creative!
- Any questions/concerns can be directed to Deezerz or myself.
HOW EXCITING! Beatrice was jumping up and down inside, eager to see how each house worked with each other and their leaders to create their topiary mascot and race them. Which house would create their mascot first? Which team would work the BEST together? Which house would become Topiary Mascot CHAMPION? It was a matter of waiting to see!
Beatrice listened to Headmaster Ab speak about their task, and glanced over at him and realised that he had just been on his feet all morning, cooking up the most deLICious breakfast and being chased by a Niffler, perhaps he wouldn't fancy standing. With her wand she summoned a few chairs and positioned one behind him. "Fancy a seat?" she asked him and waited to see whether he would sit.
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A competition!
Adi loved those!
He looked around at his House. His precious Puffers and honourary Puffer leaders. They could do this! No question about it! Plus, Topiary stuff was fuuuun! He still remembered making that Superman one for Alec so long ago. He reckoned he could pull up, from his brain, the process required to make one... hopefully. LOL. At that moment, his gaze shifted to Professors Cassie and Beatrice. "Are you guys allowed to join us?'' he wondered to them. They did belong to the House, right? Even if they were Sorted ages ago.
"You guys ready?'' the seventh year, now bouncing on his feet, asked his House but looking at Moxley and Culloden. They were the House leaders, after all. Nothing gets done without their approval. He did lead the way over to one of the bushes, however. He was THAT eager to get started.
Beatrice was looking around and saw Adi there. Were they allowed to join us? Beatrice smiled and shook her head, "I think I'll sit this one out and watch." And she was trying to be very unbiased towards the mascot racing, she WAS, promise to Merlin, but... the little Badger inside her was jumping up and down with pride!
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Well that Olympia girl seemed to be on top of things. He appreciated that. It would definitely make the coffee-less morning loads easier. So he smiled at her and watched as she went ahead and got rid of some of the more obvious out-of-place branches.
But his attention was momentarily taken away when Blaise spoke up, apparently unhappy about the use of wands? Uh… Hate to break it to you kid, but this is a magic school… Magic is sort of a requirement here? Didn’t he know? But um, he seemed to look highly discouraged. A look Zander was all too familiar with to be real honest here. And Zander would’ve gone to talk to him, but see Flamsteed was taking care of that so no need.
… Or not.
Yeah, yeah he could take a hint, Professor.
Before turning back to Blaise, however, he heard Zeke speak up. Oh. Yeah. Directions might be useful? Errr… ”You and Yoongi could help direct trimming on the head end of things?” Since they were older and all… ”Up to you guys on how you want the lion to look, just communicate with the rest of the team, yeah?” How come Gryffindor had the hardest task? Lions were WAY harder to shape than any snake or badger would be. Also that advice probably wasn’t helpful, and he was aware. Ahem. But if he was apparently helping Blaise with the tail end, then it’d probably be best to let the others decide how they wanted their own end to look.
Looking back at Professor Flamsteed, he gave the man a slight nod. Riiiiight then. He turned to Blaise, ”I'll help break off twigs and stuff for the tail… We can do it without magic, together,” This is not how Zander imagined his weekend would go by the way. But alas.
They’d shape the tail by hand… And Zander would just brush up the jagged edges with his wand afterwards. Not such a terrible plan, right?
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Adi nodded at Beatrice. He was a little disappointed but he supposed she would be cheering them on in her head, at least, if she was concerned of being biased. But who would blame her for that? Ahhh! They had their resident Herbologist here! Adi grinned at Paulina. As for Culloden... he looked about as ready to do this as a Hippogriff was to bend its scaly knees at a person it found suspicious. The man looked so much more focused on the other Houses. Haha.
Feeling the hand clapping down on his shoulder, the seventh year directed his attention to Moxley. "There's Trimming Spell, Flipnsnipwitit and Diffindo, the Severing Charm.'' He looked around at the others. Did they know of any other?
Henric would never missed a chance to join whenever there was a need to show his team house spirit! He wasn't going to sit around and let the other houses win! He stood in between his housemates and saluted his head of house Professor."Aye Professor Moxley! Nicolei reporting for duty!" Henric grinned, excited they were about to do this!
He only knew a few spells and that were the trimming and severing charms spells which Adi had just mentioned.
Does hair-cutting spells works on plants? Henric shook his head,"I know of the hair-cutting spell, Peshoi...that's about it."
They need to make a WHAT now? Their house mascot topiary? But they house mascot was a Lion. A LION!!!!! Didn't the Headmaster knew how hard its to make a Lion topiary compare to the other mascots? Snake was probably the easiest. Lucky Slytherin.
But she didn't had a chance to complain since she need to help her fellow Gryffindor to make an awesome topiary. Its a competition after all. Zander was talking about using the trimming charm. OH! She knew that charm. Thank Merlin she brought her wand with her if not she's going to be in branches and leaves duty with her bare hands. No thank you. She just did a manicure this morning so she's going to stick with her wand thank you very much.
"I can help them with the trimming." She said to Zander while pointing towards Zeke and Yoongi. "Or do you want me to do other things?" As long as it involve using her wand not her hands.
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Pulling her attention from the hedge and the younger snakes her hazel eyes landed on the addition of another fellow snake. Hello Maggie. Giving the only other girl there for their house a small nod in greeting Hady shifted from foot to foot.
"I say it's head should be somewhere near the top or close to it. Like it's posed to strike." That way it would look epic. Everyone else's opinions connected too though so Hady looked at each of them in turn. "What do you all think?" Come on guys and Maggie, what do you all think. Suggestions or something would be nice. So would be getting started on this.
Where was their Prefects and Head of House?
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Noelle left Dwayne the rock on the sidelines as she made her way over to the little group of Gryffindors and their topiary. She listened to Zander bark orders about what to do.
"What can I do?? " Noelle asked loudly to get people's attention. She didn't want to just barge in blindly and ruin something. Even though she had a knack for doing that.
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Trimming and severing, right! Moxley nodded enthusiastically, her eyes on the younger students to see if those spells seemed to register with them. Surely the older badgers were willing to help out with a demonstration, if need be.
"I'm not sure the hair cutting spell would be of use here, though I am interested in that spell..." And in need of a haircut, to be honest. "But I think we could start with the trimming charm and try to work out the general shape of a badger on all fours, since it'll need to race!" Win the race, at that! "Those unfamiliar with the charm should partner with one of the older badgers! If you come across any particularly thick branches, that's when Diffindo will be most useful, if I'm remembering correctly." She beamed and then gestured for the kiddos to start. She'd help, of course, but she wanted them to do most of the work. Bonding experience for them and all, y'see.
Stepping back towards Culloden, Meredith whispered, "I'm not even sure I know the proper look of a badger. Their heads are a bit oddly shaped, aren't they?"
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After finishing her breakfast, the young lioness followed her fellows for.... Mascot topiary. Woot woot! Gryffindors were gonna win this, they had a great team and also the awesome Head Boy... Cough cough. Ava listened to Flamsteed and Zander carefully.
"So, we have two teams here, am I right?" She asked. The one who use trimming charm and the one who use hand and do it... In muggle way. So, how do you divide who's gonna do it with trimming charm and who's gonna use the hand? Because... I want to try the trimming charm." Could she? Or maybe the Head Boy was gonna put the younger students do it by hand. That's his decision.
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Henric and that spell.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Excuse Adi while he laughed heartily. "Yeah, we can give the badger's 'fur' a trim with that spell, Henny.'' LOL! Anyway, he DID think it was a good suggestion even though he had to agree with Moxley. It wouldn't be as efficient as the other two.
Soooo, time to get started! He moved closer to the bush, raising his wand to start trimming. "Should we split up working on different parts of the badger?'' he asked his group. It WOULD get things moving along faster. "If that's okay, I can work on the head.'' Already he was starting on that. Also, he could use a little help. If any of the younger badgers wanted to work with him...
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They got to build a HUGE topiary??? Milo had read about topiaries in a lot of books and had seen painting and photographs of the ones at the Palace of Versailles in France. Hogwarts had some too then? He hadn't had a chance to see them on the Grounds because he had always gone down to sit by the lake but here soon it would be too late.
BUT, yes Topiary. The first year ran over to the one that Headmaster Botros had said belonged to Ravenclaw and looked around.
.........um.
He was the first one there. What should he do. Milo didn't know any charms to cut or trim branches yet. So instead he looked up and tried to imagine a giant eagle.
"Let's take out this...branch here." He said reaching up and beginning to prune away a bunch of stray branches that were sticking out in wild directions. Hopefully someone older, a professor, or someone with a proclivity for Herbology would show up soon! He'd been late and still had time to shovel pancakes into his mouth.
Only one Ravenclaw here right now? Were the others still eating? Did they not know that this was an important contest? And two small Ravenclaws couldn't at all get this sorted by themselves. Falling into observation mode beside Milo, Rooney gave the first year a smile and went back to looking at the..mess before them. The mess that wasn't an eagle right now, which is what it was supposed to be.
"How big do you think this is right now, Milo?" Because he was just going to try map out where would need to be cut and everything. For reference, obviously.
Otherwise someone could hack into a cm of the eagles wings and it could all be over.
DanialRadFAN01;11800370]They got to build a HUGE topiary??? Milo had read about topiaries in a lot of books and had seen painting and photographs of the ones at the Palace of Versailles in France. Hogwarts had some too then? He hadn't had a chance to see them on the Grounds because he had always gone down to sit by the lake but here soon it would be too late.
BUT, yes Topiary. The first year ran over to the one that Headmaster Botros had said belonged to Ravenclaw and looked around.
.........um.
He was the first one there. What should he do. Milo didn't know any charms to cut or trim branches yet. So instead he looked up and tried to imagine a giant eagle.
"Let's take out this...branch here." He said reaching up and beginning to prune away a bunch of stray branches that were sticking out in wild directions. Hopefully someone older, a professor, or someone with a proclivity for Herbology would show up soon! He'd been late and still had time to shovel pancakes into his mouth.[/QUOTE]
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Originally Posted by Shanners
Only one Ravenclaw here right now? Were the others still eating? Did they not know that this was an important contest? And two small Ravenclaws couldn't at all get this sorted by themselves. Falling into observation mode beside Milo, Rooney gave the first year a smile and went back to looking at the..mess before them. The mess that wasn't an eagle right now, which is what it was supposed to be.
"How big do you think this is right now, Milo?" Because he was just going to try map out where would need to be cut and everything. For reference, obviously.
Otherwise someone could hack into a cm of the eagles wings and it could all be over.
All of it.
Paul wandered over to where the topiary race was being held. Mhmm. He was full and happy and relaxed and thought this activity might be difficult for younger students--since they had to use magic--and thus, he decided that instead of just watching, he'd join the Ravenclaw team...you know, since he was one.
"I am here to help Ravenclaw!" Professor Myers shouted, looking for the eagles' team--AHA!
Two younger students! Paul found them both and smiled as he put a hand on both of their shoulders. "Okay. We need to trim this up to look like an eagle--do you both know the cutting spell? It's diffindo..." he even did the wand movement for them, which looked like a V, sort of, with an extra tail. "If you can't get it--and that's completely okay--you can just do it by hand." He nodded. "But I have faith in us! And hopefully more Ravenclaws show up!" He was wondering where they had all wandered off to...
"We should start..with..." Oh dear. Paul's trimming skills were top notch--but his...topiary trimming skills? HA. "With the....feet? And move upward?" His worst fear would be leading the team to....
DOOOOOM.
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SPOILER!!: professorrrr
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CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!
And the astronomer was not surprised at all that the Head Boy had remembered Seren's words. He ought to write her again just to check in and mention this little fact. The woman always had such kind words to say about her former students. Sometimes too kind, if the man was being honest.
"ALRIGHT GRYFFINDORS! YOU HEARD MR. ADAIR," the man boasted as he strut towards the bush they were to play around with. "Let's make this end here the head," he said, pointing towards the side to his right. "And this end the rear." Removing his wand from his enchanted breast pocket, the professor set to writing a H on the part meant to be the head and a T on the other. "Let's make this topiary scream Gryffindor from H to T, shall we?"
He paused to offer the Head Boy a quick wink before turning towards Miss Abraham and Mr. Bellaire. "You neglected to bring your wand with you?" he asked, eyebrow raised at the first year. Cardinal rule of wizarding, ALWAYS bring your wand! CONSTANT VILIGANCE! Sabel needed to drill that thought into students' heads more. "In that case..." he looked around quickly at the surrounding area. "If you don't mind getting your hands a bit dirty you can just snap some branches off and tear at leaves. You can start here with the tail." Since it was the most straight forward bit really. The astronomer or Head Boy could follow up with a bit of polishing.
Actually....perhaps it would be best for Mr. Adair to do that. He could just supervise and help keep the vision. He gave a nod towards the first year while looking at the seventh year. Hint hint nudge nudge.
"How about you, Miss Abraham, begin working on the mane?" Then an idea struck him. "How are you with conjuration spells?" Or color changing spells, but conjuring flowers for decoration had a bit more of an artistic edge to it and Gryffindors were an edgy bunch.
Chewing her bottom lip, Olympia ceased checking the bush and stepped back towards Blaise as the Professor began to try and organise the Gryffindors. She smiled at Blaise encouragingly after Zander said he would help him with the branches. "That sounds like a good job, Blaise! You're your very own pair of snippers." She inwardly prayed this would make the first year feel slightly better, especially with the help of the Head Boy.
She could hear more people approaching and asking for instructions. Olympia grinned when she realised some of them were yet more Gryffindors. Oh, yay!!" Jumping slightly as he addressed her, Olympia turned back towards him. Conjuration spells? Yeeah , she could do that! Olympia moved towards where the Professor had marked the head of the lion and began tracing with her wand where the mane would be. "I can do them okay! What were you thinking of putting on the mane, Professor?" She was guessing something fairly small to simply decorate their lion; it was a good idea!
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"It won't." Blaise said, his very most matter of fact tone in place. It wasn't that he didn't appreciate Olympia trying to encourage him but he'd had his wand for maybe two months and something and it didn't work nearly as well as anything he could do for himself with muggle means. "I won't bail on the race." He insisted but even as he spoke he didn't think they'd let him participate if he couldn't use magic.................which only got him more discouraged than he'd been when the Head Boy first mentioned the spells.
He wanted to race too...
Large, sad brown eyes looked to the Professor at his question of his wand and he shook his head slowly. "I never take it with me anymore." He informed him. "It doesn't work, there's no point." He'd even owled his mum about it but she didn't believe him and thought he was being difficult so he could get two wands. Clearly not the case. If he could just have one working one he'd be happy forever; honest.
Did it really mean he couldn't do the race? He could run back to get his wand! It wouldn't work and he'd probably end up throwing it in frustration but he really really REALLY wanted to rac--huh? He could use his hands? "Yes! I'll take it!" It was like all his lessons where he found muggle means of doing magic things. Good to know it worked here too. Phew! He could breathe. "See, Olympia? Told you I wasn't bailing." GRIN. She was right, he'd be his own pair of snippers and he'd been the best gosh darn snipper EVER.
The boy turned at the words of his former hero, Mr. Head Boy Zander. "Okay!" He said with a wide, dimpled smile. "I'm really good at breaking off twigs; used to help mum at home ALL the time." And just to demonstrate, he plucked one off the topiary. See? He was still useful. Let him race, okay?
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So hair-cutting spell didn't work, eh? Too bad, he was excellent at it though! He grinned broadly when Professor Moxley told him she was interested in that spell."Sure professor, no problem! Do you want your hair cut short and spiked up, I can do that!"he smiled mischievously. He was only joking but he must say, Professor Moxley would look pretty darn cool if she wore short hairstyles for a change, wouldn't it?
Henric frowned a little towards Adi,"Yeah yeah..laugh it up, you be thanking me later when our badger bush topiary would be the best-looking one out there!" Yup and that was what he aimed to do later. This badger needed a serious makeover once they done outlining its body shape."Yo Adi, make sure you leave the top of its head to me. I will make wonders with it,"he grinned.
He nodded and got ready with his wand,"I'll start with the body and the legs then." He started casting the trimming charm to form the outline of its back. Anyone cared to join him, please do...
They got to build a HUGE topiary??? Milo had read about topiaries in a lot of books and had seen painting and photographs of the ones at the Palace of Versailles in France. Hogwarts had some too then? He hadn't had a chance to see them on the Grounds because he had always gone down to sit by the lake but here soon it would be too late.
BUT, yes Topiary. The first year ran over to the one that Headmaster Botros had said belonged to Ravenclaw and looked around.
.........um.
He was the first one there. What should he do. Milo didn't know any charms to cut or trim branches yet. So instead he looked up and tried to imagine a giant eagle.
"Let's take out this...branch here." He said reaching up and beginning to prune away a bunch of stray branches that were sticking out in wild directions. Hopefully someone older, a professor, or someone with a proclivity for Herbology would show up soon! He'd been late and still had time to shovel pancakes into his mouth.
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Only one Ravenclaw here right now? Were the others still eating? Did they not know that this was an important contest? And two small Ravenclaws couldn't at all get this sorted by themselves. Falling into observation mode beside Milo, Rooney gave the first year a smile and went back to looking at the..mess before them. The mess that wasn't an eagle right now, which is what it was supposed to be.
"How big do you think this is right now, Milo?" Because he was just going to try map out where would need to be cut and everything. For reference, obviously.
Otherwise someone could hack into a cm of the eagles wings and it could all be over.
All of it.
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SPOILER!!: Milo and Roony
DanialRadFAN01;11800370]They got to build a HUGE topiary??? Milo had read about topiaries in a lot of books and had seen painting and photographs of the ones at the Palace of Versailles in France. Hogwarts had some too then? He hadn't had a chance to see them on the Grounds because he had always gone down to sit by the lake but here soon it would be too late.
BUT, yes Topiary. The first year ran over to the one that Headmaster Botros had said belonged to Ravenclaw and looked around.
.........um.
He was the first one there. What should he do. Milo didn't know any charms to cut or trim branches yet. So instead he looked up and tried to imagine a giant eagle.
"Let's take out this...branch here." He said reaching up and beginning to prune away a bunch of stray branches that were sticking out in wild directions. Hopefully someone older, a professor, or someone with a proclivity for Herbology would show up soon! He'd been late and still had time to shovel pancakes into his mouth.
SPOILER!!: Milo and Roony
Paul wandered over to where the topiary race was being held. Mhmm. He was full and happy and relaxed and thought this activity might be difficult for younger students--since they had to use magic--and thus, he decided that instead of just watching, he'd join the Ravenclaw team...you know, since he was one.
"I am here to help Ravenclaw!" Professor Myers shouted, looking for the eagles' team--AHA!
Two younger students! Paul found them both and smiled as he put a hand on both of their shoulders. "Okay. We need to trim this up to look like an eagle--do you both know the cutting spell? It's diffindo..." he even did the wand movement for them, which looked like a V, sort of, with an extra tail. "If you can't get it--and that's completely okay--you can just do it by hand." He nodded. "But I have faith in us! And hopefully more Ravenclaws show up!" He was wondering where they had all wandered off to...
"We should start..with..." Oh dear. Paul's trimming skills were top notch--but his...topiary trimming skills? HA. "With the....feet? And move upward?" His worst fear would be leading the team to....
DOOOOOM. [/QUOTE]
Sophie Brown HAD been over there still eating, actually, Rooney, as she'd gotten to the event late for patrolling reasons and still needed to scarf down her breakfast, but she was HERE NOW.
With two of her cute little Ravenclaw buddies and the HERBOLOGY professor helping them. HA. "Hi guys," she gave a nod of acknowledgement, grinning especially big at Myers, who was giving suggestions on how to start. "How much of the feet do we really have to do? The feet could probably just be like... the base, right? The wood trunk part?" Right? Maybe? "I think it'd be cool if we did like... the eagle with it's wings spread out, like upward like this," she demonstrated with her arms, "like it's about to take off?" Or, if they all wanted to work on different parts, SHE would start with something like that, yeah?
Also. "We can use the trimming charm for the more detailed stuff, like with the head 'n beak 'n stuff. Flipnsnipwitit. Wand movement's a swish." Helpful Sophie Brown was helpful, thanks to Bentley.
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Did that kid just say he did not want to use ‘stupid magic’?! asdglklsfjlkgha WHAT?!
Why’d he think he was here ? this was a magical school, a school where they learned magic. Not muggle subject. M.A.G.I.C . Yoongi had a hard time to not roll his eyes. Seriously, magic was awesome and he disliked quitters. Besides, this was a teamwork project. TEAMWOOOORK! He couldn’t quit.
Yup the little Gryffindor (Blaise) was getting on his nerve but he held his cool. Because Olympia began to talk to him and then Zander and Flamsteed entered the scene as well. Anyone noticed how Yoongi stepped awaaay from his Head of House but close enough to still be with the bush. Yeah, he still did not trust the man.
The sixth year listened to Zander and then looked at Zeke before he nodded. “You take that side and I’ll take the other” he said. AKA you get the side where Flamsteed is standing cause there was NO WAY he would be close to him. Hearing Candice and Ava asking what to do, the Gryffindor did not wait a second and motioned for Candice. “Candice, can you help me trim this side?” he asked. “Then Ava can work with Zeke if that’s okay?” he said. Hey getting a pretty girl though not as pretty as him if he had to say so on his side or a mischievous first year who kept calling him weird nicknames? Yeah he’d take the fifth year girl.
And it seemed that the first year Blaise was finally motivated to work. Nice.
Thank Merlin Moxley knew what she was doing! A list of spells would be the most useful for sure. Cosgrach needed that as well, so he stopped looking at Gryffindor for a while (who seemed to be the fastest so far) and turned his attention to Hufflepuff students.
Beatrice wouldn't be joining them? Oh well... next time, eh? He smiled at the woman right before Adi started speaking.
Trimming, fliphslsşa and diffindo, right. Nah, those seemed to be the ones - and a hair cutting spell wasn't what they needed as these were branches. "Me too," he added after Moxley - he wanted to hear about that Peshoi too! Maybe he could cut his hair by himself from now on... yeah, definitely gonna speak to Henric about that.
Oh look, Moxley even told them the shape of it! COOL. Man, Cosgrach and she were the BEST team ever. They were SO going to win this. Yep. SO.
As soon as they had an image of how a badger looked.
"They have a long... snout," he whispered back so that their Hufflepuffs wouldn't hear, "as well as a long tail... and - they are like a small bear? With long snout?" He KNEW, because he'd tried to read about Hufflepuff history and ended up reading the uses of badgers in potions. "Don't worry, I got this." The look. And spying. He opened his mouth to address the students, but Adi had taken the matters in his hands too. COOL. Made his job MUCH easier.
"So yeah, split up,"because that was how Gryffindors did it"it's not that hard. We just need a bulk of a body and four short legs and a big round head with a long snout. Oh, and a long tail." It actually sounded easy when he put it like this. Much easier than an eagle or lion, though Slytherin was at a CLEAR advantage here. They only needed a slender figure. HMPF.
He glanced at Moxley to see if she had anything to add, then took out his wand to help Adi with trimming and giving it a general round shape.
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The astronomer threw Mr. Hyland two thumbs up - or one and a third since he was holding Pebbles in one hand - when he spoke. "Excellent delegation, Mr. Hyland," he nodded with a small smile. "We also are in need of some people to begin working on shaping the legs." So whoever wanted to do that was more than welcome to.
As for Mr. Bellaire...well...not was not exactly the place to have THAT discussion and he was not going to deny the boy the opportunity to work with his housemates towards a common goal. But there WOULD be another discussion. Soon. Once the astronomer mustered up the strength to have it.
Mustard...corndogs sounded rather charming right now. He would have to hit up that American pub in London sometime soon...
OH RIGHT TOPIARY WORK!
Blue eyes turned towards Miss Abraham. "My predecessor was always quite fond of red poppies, if I recall. Might be a charming little addition to have a mane of them on our topiary. A well placed Orchideous may be in order, don't you agree?" Once the mane was established, that is.
Setting Pebbles on the ground for a moment, Airey pretending to know what he was talking about artistically by making a little window with the index fingers and thumbs on both his hands. Turning it this way and that, he gave several approving grunts and 'mmhmm's before turning his attention towards Miss Burton.
"Not exactly, Miss Burton," he sighed while shaking his head. "What we have is a student who neglected to bring their wand and everyone else who did." His tone was an indication of which sort of student he favored at the moment. "You may perform the Trimming Charm if you so desire."
And now he was going to get back to his pseudo window viewing accompanied by approving noise making.
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SPOILER!!: Zander
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Well that Olympia girl seemed to be on top of things. He appreciated that. It would definitely make the coffee-less morning loads easier. So he smiled at her and watched as she went ahead and got rid of some of the more obvious out-of-place branches.
But his attention was momentarily taken away when Blaise spoke up, apparently unhappy about the use of wands? Uh… Hate to break it to you kid, but this is a magic school… Magic is sort of a requirement here? Didn’t he know? But um, he seemed to look highly discouraged. A look Zander was all too familiar with to be real honest here. And Zander would’ve gone to talk to him, but see Flamsteed was taking care of that so no need.
… Or not.
Yeah, yeah he could take a hint, Professor.
Before turning back to Blaise, however, he heard Zeke speak up. Oh. Yeah. Directions might be useful? Errr… ”You and Yoongi could help direct trimming on the head end of things?” Since they were older and all… ”Up to you guys on how you want the lion to look, just communicate with the rest of the team, yeah?” How come Gryffindor had the hardest task? Lions were WAY harder to shape than any snake or badger would be. Also that advice probably wasn’t helpful, and he was aware. Ahem. But if he was apparently helping Blaise with the tail end, then it’d probably be best to let the others decide how they wanted their own end to look.
Looking back at Professor Flamsteed, he gave the man a slight nod. Riiiiight then. He turned to Blaise, ”I'll help break off twigs and stuff for the tail… We can do it without magic, together,” This is not how Zander imagined his weekend would go by the way. But alas.
They’d shape the tail by hand… And Zander would just brush up the jagged edges with his wand afterwards. Not such a terrible plan, right?
It was no surprise really that Zander was Head Boy and all, he was doing super goodly with delegating tasks and all. Once given his own directions, Zeke nodded to confirm he'd heard and moved to join Yoongi. A head sounded awfully complex though, like, intricate.
SPOILER!!: Candice
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They need to make a WHAT now? Their house mascot topiary? But they house mascot was a Lion. A LION!!!!! Didn't the Headmaster knew how hard its to make a Lion topiary compare to the other mascots? Snake was probably the easiest. Lucky Slytherin.
But she didn't had a chance to complain since she need to help her fellow Gryffindor to make an awesome topiary. Its a competition after all. Zander was talking about using the trimming charm. OH! She knew that charm. Thank Merlin she brought her wand with her if not she's going to be in branches and leaves duty with her bare hands. No thank you. She just did a manicure this morning so she's going to stick with her wand thank you very much.
"I can help them with the trimming." She said to Zander while pointing towards Zeke and Yoongi. "Or do you want me to do other things?" As long as it involve using her wand not her hands.
And speaking of trimming, it sounded as if they were getting more help with the head, which personally he would appreciate. Zeke flashed Candice a quick smile before considering the bush and how to start.
SPOILER!!: Yoongi
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Did that kid just say he did not want to use ‘stupid magic’?! asdglklsfjlkgha WHAT?!
Why’d he think he was here ? this was a magical school, a school where they learned magic. Not muggle subject. M.A.G.I.C . Yoongi had a hard time to not roll his eyes. Seriously, magic was awesome and he disliked quitters. Besides, this was a teamwork project. TEAMWOOOORK! He couldn’t quit.
Yup the little Gryffindor (Blaise) was getting on his nerve but he held his cool. Because Olympia began to talk to him and then Zander and Flamsteed entered the scene as well. Anyone noticed how Yoongi stepped awaaay from his Head of House but close enough to still be with the bush. Yeah, he still did not trust the man.
The sixth year listened to Zander and then looked at Zeke before he nodded. “You take that side and I’ll take the other” he said. AKA you get the side where Flamsteed is standing cause there was NO WAY he would be close to him. Hearing Candice and Ava asking what to do, the Gryffindor did not wait a second and motioned for Candice. “Candice, can you help me trim this side?” he asked. “Then Ava can work with Zeke if that’s okay?” he said. Hey getting a pretty girl though not as pretty as him if he had to say so on his side or a mischievous first year who kept calling him weird nicknames? Yeah he’d take the fifth year girl.
And it seemed that the first year Blaise was finally motivated to work. Nice.
Yoongi too seemed to be on the same wavelength as him. The more the merrier, cause heads, sounded hard. "On it," he agreed as he took his post, ignoring his Head of House's presence. "OI! Little Burton, you're helping me!" he beamed, cause, HI.
"So how are we doing this? Its face I mean?... it'll have to be the same on both sides." Or else it would just look SO stupid and weird and yeah. Lions were supposed to be fierce, not comedic. Nevertheless, he started working on the mane part around its 'face' or non-face... it NEEDED a face. "Flipnsnipwitit," he cast, moving his wand over it, snipping leaves and little trigs in an effort to create SOMETHING the resembled a flowing mane.
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the young lioness just listened to the seniors talking about the strategy and blablablaaaaaaa....... Okay! So according to admiral Flamsteed, she could work with the trimming charm. And she didn't want to comment about the one(s) who didn't bring their wand. Well, she knew about Blaise and his dysfunctioned wand.
And Yoongi said that she had to work with Zeke. That's fine! Zeke was great. She kinda hoped to work together with Zander actually."Zeke!!" Ava waved at the fourth year, and glared at him when he called her little Burton again. She hated that nickname.
"So, this is supposed to be its face?" Because it didn't look like a face. She tried the trimming charm on that part. "Flipnsnipwitit" Did she do any good more than harm?
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Dot was carrying around a muffin she'd found that was too adorable and delicious looking to actually eat, but she also didn't want to lose it in the case that her sense of wonder at baked good perfection was overcome by hunger. So apparently, the carrying of said muffing made her walk slow, because her housemates were already gabbing and hacking when she approached the shrubbery.
"Hady's right, I think... making it look like it's ready to strike is clever. We're kinda lucky because we don't have to worry about supporting the weight of the plant on four legs, so we can be creative with the details. Like maybe it's coiled at the bottom for a stronger base, and then curves up and over with the head? And can we do something clever for a hissing tongue?" She swooped her muffin with one hand to demonstrate and then stuck her tongue out at Hady. Hiiiiissssss.
"D'you guys know the trimming spell? Flipnsnipwitit? It's good for detail work." She'd have to put down the muffin now, huh?
Only one Ravenclaw here right now? Were the others still eating? Did they not know that this was an important contest? And two small Ravenclaws couldn't at all get this sorted by themselves. Falling into observation mode beside Milo, Rooney gave the first year a smile and went back to looking at the..mess before them. The mess that wasn't an eagle right now, which is what it was supposed to be.
"How big do you think this is right now, Milo?" Because he was just going to try map out where would need to be cut and everything. For reference, obviously.
Otherwise someone could hack into a cm of the eagles wings and it could all be over.
All of it.
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SPOILER!!: Milo and Roony
DanialRadFAN01;11800370]They got to build a HUGE topiary??? Milo had read about topiaries in a lot of books and had seen painting and photographs of the ones at the Palace of Versailles in France. Hogwarts had some too then? He hadn't had a chance to see them on the Grounds because he had always gone down to sit by the lake but here soon it would be too late.
BUT, yes Topiary. The first year ran over to the one that Headmaster Botros had said belonged to Ravenclaw and looked around.
.........um.
He was the first one there. What should he do. Milo didn't know any charms to cut or trim branches yet. So instead he looked up and tried to imagine a giant eagle.
"Let's take out this...branch here." He said reaching up and beginning to prune away a bunch of stray branches that were sticking out in wild directions. Hopefully someone older, a professor, or someone with a proclivity for Herbology would show up soon! He'd been late and still had time to shovel pancakes into his mouth.
SPOILER!!: Milo and Roony
Paul wandered over to where the topiary race was being held. Mhmm. He was full and happy and relaxed and thought this activity might be difficult for younger students--since they had to use magic--and thus, he decided that instead of just watching, he'd join the Ravenclaw team...you know, since he was one.
"I am here to help Ravenclaw!" Professor Myers shouted, looking for the eagles' team--AHA!
Two younger students! Paul found them both and smiled as he put a hand on both of their shoulders. "Okay. We need to trim this up to look like an eagle--do you both know the cutting spell? It's diffindo..." he even did the wand movement for them, which looked like a V, sort of, with an extra tail. "If you can't get it--and that's completely okay--you can just do it by hand." He nodded. "But I have faith in us! And hopefully more Ravenclaws show up!" He was wondering where they had all wandered off to...
"We should start..with..." Oh dear. Paul's trimming skills were top notch--but his...topiary trimming skills? HA. "With the....feet? And move upward?" His worst fear would be leading the team to....
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Just as Milo had begun to snap off a few small twigs someone had joined him. It was Rooney! "I'm not sure how tall it is right now." He said aloud, not really helpful but he didn't. It was definitely much taller than them. "We will definitely need taller people to come soon and help. Unless you can levitate me." Because the first year definitely didn't know how to do that well enough to safely get his housemate up there.
Before they had much time to begin dangerously levitating each other, an adult showed up, perhaps the best adult they could wish for! "Professor Myers, thanks for coming to help us! We'll definitely have the best looking topiary now!" They guy had been hired at Hogwarts because of his work and knowledge of plants. How could they loose? Well numbers were a problem right now but surely the Herbology Professor counted as more than one person helping.
Milo had NOT known the spell so that was a good way to start. "Diffindo, right. Got it." He'd have to practice once or twice surely but he could get it down soon enough.
The feet would be a good start but before he could even get his wand out, Miss Sophie had arrived and started suggesting something else. The feet wouldn't be too important. "Maybe we can work on the rest and then decide on the feet when we are almost finished? See what looks right with the rest of it?" She also had another spell to help with. He would have to remember these for classes.
Deciding he might as well start practicing the spell and maybe get a few unruly branches out of the way in the process, Milo pulled his wand out and marched back to the topiary and what would be the 'body' of the eagle. "Diffindo!" The branches moved, a leaf fell off but it was probably the wind. "Dif-fin-do!" This time Milo said it much more forceful and with as much intent as he could muster. A quick cutting sound was made and a small section of branches fell from the rest of the plant. "Oh man! Look what I did!!"
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