Well clearly Izverg wasn't having this, cause his Highness finally rose from his slumber. At first Mason was relieved, because she believed that this would make her job MUCH easier. Let's just say that she was FAR from right.

"FINALLY, did you enjoy that nap, Jerkface?" Maybe it was because she was calling his allergy-inducing-self a jerk, but he looked about as pleased as she felt. "Izverg, this isn't time for you t get all moody, I need to brush you- ou- ooo- oo- HATJOOO-" Ewwwwww. "Teeth." She gave another gross-little sniffle before glaring at the Crup.

"This is all your fault, you know?" Mason told him as she squirted some toothpaste onto the toothbrush. Izverg looked warningly at the brush, before sniffing at it with his tail-thing between his legs. "Oh come on! It's just a little toothpaste, it's not gonna hurt you!" Why was it so scared of a little toothpaste? Was it a hobo or something? Whatever, that wasn't of her concern. All that mattered to her was getting this thing's teeth clean, even if that meant using force. . .

One last stroke down Sammie's back with the brush gently and she was finished. The little guy might not have looked like he had much fur or needed a brushing but the proof was there. She had collected a rather decent amount of fur from him which she had balled up and set into the tub so it didn't get blown away or anything like that. Setting the brush back into the tub Hady gave the cruppie a nice rub behind the ears earning herself some licks to her hand which made her laugh quietly.

"Alright bud, as much as I'd love to just sit here and play with you we need to get those little teeth of yours clean." Yeah, sharp little teeth. A lot of them. A bite to her fingers wouldn't be needed right now even if it wouldn't hurt all that much. Sammie tilted his head his ears flopping from side to side as if her words puzzled him, which they probably did. Still laughing she reached for one of the tooth brushes and special crup toothpaste. Taking out her wand she cast a quick 'aguamenti' on the toothbrush to wet it just a bit. Then came a little drop of the special toothpaste.

"Now we need to get your mouth open..." Hady showed Sammie the toothbrush to get him aware of it first. Only she had to pull it away quickly when the pup tried to lick it. "No, no it's not for eating," she laughed shaking her head. Such a cutie this guy was! How was she going to brush it's teeth though? Letting out a breath she used a finger to pet the side of it's muzzle effectively getting herself licked. While he was occupied with licking at her hand the brunette got the brush into Sammie's mouth gently cleaning his front teeth. Her laughter kept the crups attention on her and not the toothbrush. At least just then anyhow. When it was time for the back teeth she had to gently hold the top of his head and somewhat use her finger to get his mouth open. It took a little work but she soon enough managed the task. "Good job! Now you're teeth will be stronger then before." Not like he needed that but yeah. Using aguamenti again she cleaned the toothbrush making sure all the paste was off and she even let a small trickle run from her wand for a few moments allowing Sammie to get himself a small drink. He deserved it!

As she was giving her little buddy his drink she could hear Draper talking about giving them crups baths and what all would need to be done. Mhmm she had this. Giving a creature a bath was nothing new. If she could bath a Hippogriff then she could give this little baby a bath easy peasy. Holding Sammie on her lap and petting his head she removed the other supplies from the tub laying everything at her side.

Grabbing her wand again she used it to add some water into the now empty tub being careful not to add to much. Cancelling the charm Hady shifted onto her knees so it was easier to lean over the tub and not completely soak herself with water while doing it. Cradling Sammie in her arms for a moment she gave him a quick snuggle before slowly lowering the mostly now calm cruppie down into the tub. Nearly instantly he tried to wiggle himself free and get out causing her to set a hand on his back holding him semi in place. "Easy, it's just water. Like you were drinking..water...." This didn't help much as he stared up at her with a look of 'what are you doing to me?!'

"Sorry Sammie...," she whispered quietly looking down into the big eyes of the baby crup. Before she could even think about it or feel bad she had to get this done. It was just water and some soap. Nothing harmful to him and he'd get used to it. Picking up her wand again she cast a quiet 'Aguamenti' again this time to wet Sammie's fur a bit making sure not to get his face much, stopping the water when he was wet enough. Now that he was wet Hady opened up the shampoo pouring a bit on his fur and began to gently rub it in forming bubbles as she scrubbed.

Azura looked up at Professor Draper as he explained what they needed to do next! Bathe the poor little things? The near teen looked down somewhat doubtfully at her crup, which had thankfully snuggled into her lap now after the horrors of teeth brushing!

She gently petted her Crups head as she reached over and pulled everything out of the tub! She then took her wand and pointed it at the tub and said "Scourgify!" There! Now everything was clean at least! She pointed her wand at the tub again and said "Aguamenti! " Water started to pour into the tub and Azura kept looking at it to make sure that she wasn't going to fill it too high.. "Finite!" She said as she got up on her knees to check the water level! Perfect! She put her wand on the ground next to her and then put Piper down as well.

She rolled up her sleeves and then quickly put her hair up! Last thing she wanted was a wet crup tangled up in her hair!! That would be bad! She then picked up Piper and started to coo at it..

"All right girl.. It's time to get into the bath.." she was slowly lowering it down into the tub.. Paws first..

She held her breath as the water touched the Crups paws.. But thankfully Poer didn't seem to mind, so she put her in all the way, with the water up halfway it's back! There! That worked!

Fiyero stared blankly at Professor Draper for a minute. They were supposed to bathe the crups now?! Was he joking? It was freezing out here! Somehow he didn't relish the idea of wrangling a wet cruppy in this weather; that seemed like a good way for him (or Glinda) to catch a cold.Sriously, Draper couldn't have picked a worse time of year for this, but he was the teacher so...

Fiyero sighed, turning to the cruppy who was snuggled contentedly in his lap. "Okay, Glinda," he said with a forced smile. "You heard the man: bath time." Glinda's eyes changed, growing wide at the sound of the "B" word. Before Fiyero could react, she jumped out of his lap and bolted across the barn. He inwardly groaned as he dashed after her. This was exactly how he was afraid she'd take the news!

"Glinda, come back!" he called. He almost caught her by the far wall, but she shot through his hands before he had enough time to grab her. She took off in the opposite direction, and Fiyero's heart dropped. Oh, no! She was headed straight for Professor Draper! He quickened his pace and finally was able to catch up to her only inches away from crashing into the teacher. "Sorry, Professor," he said, scooping Glinda up into his arms. Please don't take points away from Gryffindor, pleeeease don't take points away from Gryffindor! "I guess somebody-" he shot Glinda a sidelong glance. "-doesn't like the idea of getting a b-" he stopped himself from saying the "B" word again just in time. "-getting cleaned up." He couldn't exactly blame her... he wasn't too fond of bathtime himself.

"I hope you enjoyed your little jog," Fiyero said, holding Glinda a little tighter to him as he returned to his tub station. She replied by licking his hand, and he chuckled a little; he assumed that meant she had. From now on, he wasn't taking his hands off her for a second! He stared at the empty tub for a minute. Now, what would be the best way to do this? He decided to follow Professor Draper's suggestion of putting the crup in the tub before adding the water. That way, if Glinda decided to make a break for it again, at least she wouldn't knock over the tub and soak him.

He drew his wand with one hand, keeping the other placed firmly on Glinda's back. "Aguamenti." The cruppy whimpered a little as the water touched her, and Fiyero soon understood why. That water was cold! "Sorry, girl," he said, "I don't know how to make it warmer."

Bethany paled. Bathtime?! She knew from previous experience that bathing magical creatures was not the most exciting thing in the world. In fact, bathing any animal was a talent in itself, and Beth sure enough did not have that talent. She looked down at Taffy and silently hoped to Merlin that this wouldn't result in her covered in water and soap, she'd save that for the little crup in her arms.

"Alright Taffy, time to clean you up." She said hesitantly, emptying the tub and setting the rest of the materials in it to the side. She picked Taffy up and set him down into the tub, that way he wouldn't be able to dash away once the water touched him. She grabbed her wand from her robes and sent an "Aguamenti." into the tub. Taffy began to wriggle around once the water touched his paws and Beth did all she could do to prevent him from jumping up and running away. She already saw one poor boy's crup run around as soon as it heard the word 'bath' and nearly ran into Draper. That would've been a sight to see, she giggled to herself.

Once the water had filled the tub up to the level she wanted, she pointed her wand to Taffy's back and dampened the fur that was still dry. Once that was finished, she stopped the stream of water from her wand and picked up the shampoo bottle. "This is just shampoo Taffy, it won't hurt you." She said, and then proceeded to pour some onto the shivering crup's fur.

Rex probably needed a bath right about now, considering the amount of toothpaste he had in the fur around his mouth. Dot dropped the brush into the grass beside her and plopped the wiggling crup into the now empty tub. "I'm sorry about this, Sir Rex, and I'm sure you'd prefer we do this the proper way, but you're half Houdini and I just don't have a third arm to deal with it."

She pointed her wand at his little furry paws, figuring the water would be less jarring if it wasn't pouring over his head and into his ears and nose. How awful! "Aguamenti!" The water was warm, but not TOO warm, and it filled the tub slowly. It took a moment, but Rex realized there was something amiss and the splashing began as he turned in circles to explore the wet stuff surrounding him. The barking at the water didn't really seem to be doing much.

Rather than using the spell to get Rex wet, Dot dropped her wand into her lap and used her cupped hands to pour water carefully over his back, legs, and head. It mustn't have bothered him too much, since Rex stopped barking and licked her fingers happily. Maybe it was just the attention he enjoyed? "Who's a good boy?"

Niomi was enjoying brushing her cruppy, Nicey. When Professor got there attention, she stopped in sadness from enjoy a lovely time with Nicey. She knew this wasn't the end of their time together though.

Brush their teeth? Niomi never had to make sure her pets teeth were always brushed. Okay, well first time for everything. Cruppys have toothpaste? That's fine by her. She was glad he was informing the class on this information. She wouldn't be able to figure out how to brush her cruppies teeth.

Niomi put a pea-sized toothpaste on the brush, just as the Professor instructed. Next, she calmly and carefully opened Nicey's mouth. At first, Nicey showed signs of being uncomfortable. After a while, Nicey got used to Niomi brushing her teeth. She continued to brush Nicey's teeth, using water as well, until they looked clean. Once she was done, Niomi stopped, and continued to pet Nicey until the next instructions.

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Once Professor Draper mentioned the tubs, Niomi looked inside them. She found all kinds of supplies to use for her cruppy. Now, it is time to give Nicey a bath. This will be interesting.

"Aqyamenti," said to till the tub. . Once it was filled, she grabbed Nicey and placed her in the tub. At first, Nicey was startled, with the sudden change on environment, but she got used to it. Next, Niomi go Nicey went and ready to wash. She was extra careful of her head as well! Now, time to move onto the next step.

The first spurt of shampoo that Dot squirted into her palm was immediately eaten by the cruppy. That was probably NOT good for his little belly, and she encouraged him to drink some water to dilute the soap. The second spurt was safe from consumption, but mostly only because Rex was enjoying drinking the water around his feet. Gross.

"You need manners, Your Highness." Dot worked the shampoo into Rex's coat at his head before moving quickly down his back and toward his haunches. The wiggly little crup wasn't interested in holding still, but he stayed in the bucket, at least.

One rinse with her wand, and then Dot worked the shampoo into Rex's coat again, this time dodging his curious tongue as he tried to give her kisses and taste the soap at the same time. She would have thought he'd learned his lesson from before, unless the shampoo tasted good....?

Another rinse, and the suds were gone from his coat. Giant bubbles rose from the water, perhaps a result of her vigorous rinsing, and Rex bit at them happily in the air. "Good boy, Your Highness."

Olly took his tub and dumped it out on the grass in front of him. He needed it to be empty so he could give Henry a bath. That sounded difficult, but necessary. He was determined to do it all correctly and learn well to give his own crup a bath. He hoped his dads had been taking proper care of him while Olly was away at Hogwarts. They probably were, they were good at taking care of things.

Olly pointed his wand at the tub. "Aguamenti." He filled it about three quarters of the way full. Maybe he should have gotten Henry in first, but it was too late for that now. He was sure it would be fine this way too. "Alright Henry, time to get in the bath." The crup just sat there and looked at him. Of course it couldn't be that easy. Olly grabbed Henry around the middle and pulled him into the tub. There was quite a bit of splashing and Olly could have done with getting less water on his robes, but in the end he accomplished his goal of getting Henry into the tub. He raised his wand again. "Aguamenti." This time, instead of spraying haphazardly, he was careful about where he sprayed the water. Henry needed it all over his body and on the top of his head, but Olly was careful not to get it in his eyes or ears. When he was done he stowed away his wand and reached for the shampoo.

And just look at them gooooo...

It was like watching a Charlie Chaplin chase sequence, with the little crup dodging and turning like the tramp and the Gryffindor being the cops chasing after it. Under and over benches, through the Professor's legs as he walked, around other tub stations, even plowing into another crup having a bath "Bowie come back here!!-- sorry Dot!" he called back to the Slytherin Prefect.

He was out of breath. If Bowie was tired it didn’t matter much because it knows it can always outrun him. Oh idea!

The Curly Top removed his robes then crept up at the crup, who was now licking its fur off. Suddenly he flicked his robes over the crup and football-tackled it onto the ground. "I GOT YOU! I got you ahahahahahahah!!"

Bedraggled, he finally plopped back onto his station with a wriggly, whining bundle of robes under his arm. He started groping through his hair for that toothbrush-- where did it go? Lost to the wilderness ....or at least somewhere around here while he was chasing down his crup.

"Ok you got lucky on that one bub." he murmured as he lowered his wriggly bundle into the tub. Oh look he was gonna do laundry today. Self-fulfilling joke har har.

He cautiously removed the robe from over the crup-- and just when it was about to bolt again, caught the crup with his toothpasted hand. Eh looks like the crup isnt the only thing in need of a wash. "Bowie, I want you to behave." he commanded the crup. Yes that is the Captain Salander voice he's using on you little one so better be a good boy starting NOW.

Azura was glad that her Crup was actually behaving and sort of liking the water, she gently held it in there to make sure it got used to it before she took out her wand and said "Aquamenti." The clear water started to come out and she put her wand as close to the crups back as she could, making sure she stayed away from it's head and neck! She wet down it's back, all the while carefully holding it with one hand..

"Finite." She whispered as the water stopped, the crup was mostly wet now and she made sure to use her moist hand to gently dampen the fur along it's head and neck..

"There you go girl.. Now it's time for the shampoo." She whispered as she reached over and opened the bottle and poured some shampoo on her hands before gently working it into the crups fur!

"That smells better! Doesn't it!" Now she didn't smell like wet crup.. More like.. Flowery wet crup.. And That was.. a bit easier to handle..

A bit mind you!

She gently washed the little animal, starting at it's cute little head and slowly making her way down it's back, and to it's tail..and then it's tummy, legs and it's adorable little paw pads!! She carefully scrubbed at it, before getting her wand and saying "Aquamenti." She said as she once again put the wand tip close to the Crup as possible and ever so carefully rinsed it off! And then..she ran some more shampoo through her fur and rinsed it off again!!

"Piper.. I now pronounce you.. a clean crup.. and a bit of a drowned rat." She said with a soft giggle.

Scrubbing the soap through Taffy's fur was a seemingly never-ending task as the cruppy wriggled around and splashed water everywhere. Beth lathered the shampoo in her hands and then continued to softly run the soap through the fur on his back and down to his footpads, careful not to hurt the shivering little thing. Taking her wand out of her robes, damp ones might she add, she pointed it toward Taffy's head, and rinsed out the dirty suds. She noticed everyone else going in for a second wash and decided to do the same.

"Alright buddy, one more time." She said to the still shivering crup. Beth grabbed the nearly empty shampoo bottle, really it wasn't her fault Taffy wouldn't stay still, and lathered it on his fur again. She gently scrubbed through the hair again and sent an Aguamenti onto all the soap. "See Taffy, now you smell better!" She giggled, patting Taffy's cute little head. It was a surprise she hadn't gotten her hair wet throughout that whole ordeal, thank Merlin.

Glinda squirmed and splashed as the tub filled with water, but Fiyero managed to maintain his hold on her. When the tub was about half full, he decided that was enough water. Glinda shot him a disgruntled look as he raised his wand, but that didn't deter him. She was going to have a bath whether she liked it or not!

"Aguamenti," he said, pointing his wand at the top of the cruppy's head. He wished he had an extra hand to use to shield her eyes from the spray, but he had to make do with what he had. Hopefully, she'd figure out to close her eyes. Glinda snorted, trying unsuccessfully to wriggle away from the spray, and Fiyero laughed a little. Aww, this little diva didn't like getting her hair wet!

So far so good... He'd managed to get Glinda wet without her running away again. And he'd stayed mostly dry in the process, that was always nice! Now came the hard part: applying the shampoo one-handed. He awkwardly flipped the lid off with his thumb and squirted a small dollop onto Glinda's head, never once taking his other hand off her back. "It's okay, girl," he assured her as she started squirming again. "You're gonna look so pretty when we get you clean!"

Glinda stopped wiggling at the sound of Fiyero's voice. Talking soothed her, he'd have to remember that! There was just one problem... he couldn't think of anything else to say to her! The only thing that popped into his head was a song from some play his dad dragged him to a few years ago. Well, that seemed as good as anything; having a theater snob dad came in handy sometimes! He just hoped the other students (and Professor Draper) could tolerate his horrible singing until he got this finished...

Glinda calmed down considerably as Fiyero worked the shampoo into her fur, though he wasn't sure if it was because of his singing or all the petting, or both. She even wagged her tail when he got to her tummy, splashing the front of his robes. Washing her foot pads proved to be a little more difficult, as she kept trying to nip his fingers every time he touched her. Note to self: crups like tummy rubs but hate having their feet touched.

After a thorough rinsing with his wand, Fiyero was done. Whew, he didn't think he was ever going to finish! But as he looked around the barn, he saw several of his classmates giving their cruppies a second shampooing. Wait, he had to go through that again?! Great... Well, maybe Glinda would let him wash her again if he kept singing to her (he hoped!)

"There, all done!" Fiyero said triumphantly after he'd rinsed Glinda off for the final time. He lifted her out of the tub, and she immediately shook, spraying Fiyero with flying water droplets before he had time to get out of the way. She shivered slightly as she hopped into his lap. Poor thing, she must be freezing! He wished he knew a spell that would dry her faster.

It was time to get the shampoo and wash Nicey, the cruppy. "It's time to clean you and make you smell good," she told Nicey. Grabbing the shampoo, she put some in her hand, lathered it up, and started to shampoo onto the crups fur. Starting at the head, Niomi soaped Nicey all the way to the tail. Then she moved onto soaping the crups belly and legs.

Once the cruppy was all shampooed she was ready for a rinse. "Okay, I'm going to rinse the soap off now Buddy," she informed the cruppy, again. Taking her wand, she held it by Nicey, "Aguamenti." Once the water became present, Niomi moved it all around the crup, washing all the soap off. After it looked like all the soap was gone, she looked over again for any extra soap that may be hiding. She found some behind the back leg. Using aguamenti again, Niomi washed it away.

"I'm going to wash you one more time," with that being said, Niomi lathered up the shampoo once more, washed the crump, from head to tail. OH! She almost forgot the belly and legs. Once the crup had soap all over it, she said, "Aguamenti." Niomi did a double check to see if the soap was allll gone, and it was. "All done little cruppy," she told Nicey, with a smile and a small pet. She loved this crump already. She was hoping she could have the crup for good and take it home.

Gingerly he aguamenti'd the crup, first starting at its rump, in an empty tub. Some crups don’t like being lowered in a tub of water-- maybe because it felt like its gonna drown? He didn’t know, but their family crup didn’t like it and after the obstacle course he went through with Bowie, he aint riskin it either.

After a while Bowie's wrigglefest has quieted down, and the crup miraculously just stood there, ankle deep in water, and was now cooperating as it was being shampooed. "Now that’s a good boy..." the Curly Top grinned as he formed a bubble wig on the crup's head. Laughed he did, and the crup, wagged its tails at the mirthful sound in front of him. Good boy indeed.

"Ok Bowie, angle your head up for me like this...." Tenacius said as he gingerly angled the crup's head upwards, then gave the initial rinse with clean water from the wand. Hew knew full well that crups really hate having water enter any part of their ears or their nose, and given that he didn’t really want to have an impromptu shower courtesy of a wet crup, the Gryffindor knew to wipe off the excess water off with his hands like stat.

Another shampoo round, and this time he turned this into a bit of a massage session for his crup, specially the fact that they had a pretty hectic runaround earlier. Bowie seemed to appreciate this, because now Tenacius wasn’t even holding him down at all, but the crup just stood there totally serene. One last thorough rinsing and DONE! "We’re done boy yay!!" Aaaand wipe down like a boss.

Bath time. "I knew it", Janelle said to herself. "I hope you like water Mikey because it's time for you to take a bath." This was definitely going to be interesting. Janelle hoped against hope that her crup had done this before. Otherwise, it might be a bit of a challenge.

Janelle took the remaining supplies out of the tub, as she listened to the professor explain the steps they would take. Their choice, water first or crup first? Janelle thought about it and decided that, given Mikey's tendency for friskiness, she'd put the water in first. That was her first mistake. Putting her new friend down, she took out her wand. "Aguamenti" , she said, holding the wand over the tub. She watched as the water flowed into the tub, filling it slowly. Janelle wondered how Mikey would like a bubble bath, but quickly dismissed that thought. When the tub had enough water, Janelle said, "Finite".

Mikey seemed to know what was coming because he jumped around, giving little barks every now and then. Janelle wasn't sure whether that was a good thing or a bad thing. This whole bath thing could go either way. "Mikey, I'm going to put you in the tub and make you nice and clean. You're going to look so handsome when we're done."

Putting her wand away, Janelle bent over and scooped Mikey up into her arms. "Alright buddy, we're going for a little swim.". That was a poor choice of words. As Janelle lowered the crup gently into the water, he began to flail. As he tried to dog paddle in the tub, water splashed around. Janelle tried to calm him down and began to hold and pat him. " No Mikey. I didn't really mean it was time to swim. I need you to be still now."

Ok, so Janelle didn't need to wet much of Mikey's body because he was already pretty wet.......and so was she. Holding the crup's head and patting him at the same time, she got out her wand again. Aguamenti", she said, once more. Janelle continued to hold Mikey with one hand. With her wand hand, she sprinkled the remaining dry patches on his body with water. Then came the tricky part. Janelle started to trickle water onto the crup's head, but thought better of it. Instead, she let go of him, poured some water in her hand and stroked it onto his head. "There now, you're all ready for the shampoo." Let the fun part begin.

Yay! This was Vivian's favourite part! Bathing the cruppy sure wouldn't be difficult or a hassle for her, since she'd done it quite a few times at home with Prancer. Minus the forked tail, at least. She was starting to miss Prancer as the cruppy in front of her kept bouncing in front of her.

"Okay, Pepito, I'm going to wash you! Are you ready? Excited?" Vivian asked him, and the cruppy wagged its forked tail around and bounced even more. What an adorable creature! It made her miss Prancer even more! Vivi took the remaining supplies from the tub and set them aside. "Aguamenti!" she said and a jet of water came pouring out of her wand. She filled one-fourth of the tub and stopped it with a "Finite!" before the water level rose. That was good enough, she thought.

The Slytherin looked back at the cruppy. I'm gonna place you inside the tub now, alright? Just lessen the tail wagging while I do this." Vivi stood up and sloooowly lifted Pepito. There was still a lot of wagging - the first year sighed - but she avoided and ignored it. She then placed the cruppy inside the tub. "Good boy, Pepito!" She grinned at him, and a thumbs up as well.

"Aguamenti!" Vivi said, and she pointed the wand at Pepito. The cruppy splashed and it looked like he was enjoying himself, which made the Slytherin smile as she wet the rest of his body. She paid extra care when she reached the head, as Professor Draper had said. She scratched the back of Pepito's ear when she was done. "You really are a good boy, aren't you?" she said with a smile. "Finite!" And the water stopped

Time for the shampooing part. Vivian placed a generous amount of the crup specialty shampoo on her palm, placed the rest aside, and applied it on Pepito. Lather lather lather. The lil cutie was having so much fun, creating splashes and wiggling. "Fun, right?" And more massaging on the cruppy's coat.

Now that Mikey was good and wet, Janelle talked soothingly to him while she opened the shampoo. She poured a little into her hand and rubbed them together to make a lather. Then Janelle began to rub the shampoo into the fur on Mikey's head. As long as she seemed to be "petting" him, all was well. He was a good little boy. Janelle was careful to get all around his head. She made sure not to get any soap in his eyes.

Adding a little more shampoo, Janelle lathered Mikey's neck and worked her way down his back. He seemed to be enjoy eying the attention so far. This was one crup who seemed to like physical contact. As long as you were touching him, he could be pretty still. Next, Janelle tackled his belly, rubbing in more shampoo and scrubbing him well. Mikey started to do his little cruppie laugh again and Janelle wondered if he was ticklish. "You are being such a good boy Mikey. We'll be done in no time." Janelle moved on to wash the crup's legs and took extra care in washing his feet. Once she had scrubbed every nook and cranny, it was time to move on.

Mistake number two. When Janelle had finished with the shampooing, she let go of Mikey to retrieve her wand. Mikey chose this moment to do what Janelle had often seen dogs do. She should have known better. He started to shake the water and soap off, resulting in cruppie wetness and shampoo going everywhere. Hit with the soapy mess, Janelle wrapped her arms around her buddy. "Mikey! You have to be still. I wasn't planning on taking a bath too." Steadying Mikey with one hand, Janelle rinsed the water off of his head. She made sure to get all of the shampoo off of his head before rinsing the rest of his body.

Checking her watch, Janelle determined that she should just have a chance for one more wash and rinse. "One more time", Janelle announced before repeating the process. This time she had no major mishaps because she had learned from her mistakes. When the last bit of shampoo had been rinsed from Mikey, Janelle breathed a sigh of relief. "Look at you. You're all clean and smelling sweet." Giving Mikey one more pat, she wondered something. Raising her hand, Janelle had a question for the professor. "Professor, are we allowed to give them a blow dry with the hot air charm?" Just wondering 'cause it would be nice.

Vivian made sure to reach all of the cruppy's body. She started with Pepito's head then his neck then body and waaaay down to his tail. She handled that forked part carefully because nope, nobody was gonna get injured today! The cruppy wiggled more when Vivi started massaging his belly, legs, and foot pads. "Not too much, Pepito! You're gonna get..." Speaking of the devil. The cruppy splashed water on Vivi's face. Meh. So bubbly and soapy. "Please calm down?" Prancer wasn't even this hyper sometimes! The struggle was real.

With that done, Vivi wiped her forehead with a portion of her forearm that wasn't wet or soaked with crup shampoo. Phew! She wiped her wet hands on the edge of her clothes. She'll have to dry that later with a charm or something. Besides, today was kinda windy so that might be some sort of natural blow dryer. She took her wand again. "Aguamenti!" She started rinsing Pepito again, beginning with the head as usual then making her way down.

Then a lil more shampoo, as Draper mentioned. She applied it on Pepito again and the same process as usual, then rinsed the suds away with another helpful Aguamenti. Alright! Finished!

"Don't YOU smell like a dozen of flowers?" Vivi smiled! Yep, she had totally and successfully bathed a cruppy! Aw right! Also, more cruppy licks to the face! So much love from such a tiny little animal.

Hadleigh worked the shampoo into Sammie's fur gently. She slowly worked her way down from his head where she cleaned his ears as well then all the way down his back and his tail. Reaching around and over him she made sure to get his sides all nice and soapy before lightly scrubbing his belly. Finally she lifted each little paw up one at a time making sure to be careful as she got between his little toes and all around his paw pads. He was one clean crup!

"There we go, all nice and soapy. Now for the rinse. Ready?" Rinsing her hand off in the water from the tub she grabbed her wand and cast a gentle 'aguamenti' spraying the water over Sammie to wash away the shampoo. It took a few moments but pretty soon he was cleaned off. Cancelling the charm she set her wand down and picked up the shampoo bottle again. "Alright one more good wash and you'll be all finished." Pouring the shampoo down the cruppies back she once more got to work rubbing him all over to make sure he was doubly clean. Not a spot did she miss.

For the second time she grabbed her wand. "Aguamenti," Hady cast once more this time taking a little longer with cleaning all the soap off. She even ran her hand down over his back and feet to help push the soap off. "Nearly done now just have to make sure all this soap is gone." A few moments later she laid her wand down at her side making sure though to keep a hand on Sammie so he wouldn't shake his wet fur all over her or run off.

A page of out Myer's book? Ah yes, he had heard of that incident. And now all the kids were distrustful of their Professors, yeah? Leave it to Poncho Paul to ruin everything. James wasn't surprised. He just gave Mason a shrug and went to pocket the vial, when she reached out to grab it. "Suit yourself," of course he had made sure to have some antiallergy potions on hand. It was probably a necessity for all Care of Magical Creatures all over. Kids these days were allergic to EVERYTHING. It was absolutely nightmare inducing. And James wouldn't end up being the Professor with an unconscious student on hand. That, he'd leave for Airhead Flamsteed.

"Never said it'd be easy, Winchester," James grinned. They were working with crups, there had to be at least a little challenge thrown in. Otherwise this lesson would be a complete breeze. Besides, James was sure the boy could figure it out. Or was he giving him too much credit?


Speaking of challenges, this one was having a field day. James had still been keeping an eye on the pair, choosing not to intervene for now. He'd step in if it went on for much longer, but again... What's the fun in a lesson without some adversity, eh? So he watched. Amused. And oh, in coming! Stepping so that there was about a foot of space between his two feet, he let the cruppy run underneath his legs.

And .... Ah, see James knew the boy could do it all along.

And luckily the boy hadn't lost too much time during that little chase. James still gave him a nod that meant something like 'let's get to it', before turning around to take a look at the progress of some others.

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Checking her watch, Janelle determined that she should just have a chance for one more wash and rinse. "One more time", Janelle announced before repeating the process. This time she had no major mishaps because she had learned from her mistakes. When the last bit of shampoo had been rinsed from Mikey, Janelle breathed a sigh of relief. "Look at you. You're all clean and smelling sweet." Giving Mikey one more pat, she wondered something. Raising her hand, Janelle had a question for the professor. "Professor, are we allowed to give them a blow dry with the hot air charm?" Just wondering 'cause it would be nice.

"You're one step ahead, Ms. Guidry," he nodded. In other words, he wanted to wait until most students started nearing the end of their crup baths before announcing this bit. But it looked like many of them were just about done.... So with that in mind....

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He raised his voice to address the whole class. "You still have some time to finish up with the baths, but for those of you who are done... You can go ahead and grab the towels that should have been at your station and give your crups a pat down," in other words, please don't try to scrub them dry. "And once you've done that, you can use the hot air charm to dry them even further."

He had to give them the incantation for that, yeah? Most of the older students ought to know it by now, but he had little faith in Professor Charms, no offense. "The incantation is 'ventus' and the movement is a little wave," he said demonstrating. "Call me over if you're having any trouble," or just don't have any trouble.


OOC: Hihi, y'all are doing fabulously <3 I'm having a ball reading all of y'alls posts!
There's still plenty of time to squeeze in your two posts for bathing the crups! And if you're just joining us feel free to catch up starting wherever you want!

I'll be moving us along in another 18+ hours with our final step!

Echo was happy that her Spike was already bundled in her towel but now was going to be the fun part, to hold the little guy and dry him off. "time for you to get dry little guy" she told him while unwrapping him from the towel.

Spike instantly started to shiver as she started to feel really bad for him. "awww you'll be warm soon" she pulled out her wand and said "ventus" and the hot air started to come out, Echo directed it towards him and he looked so cute, his little hair flopping in the wind. "your like a little super model" she laughed while making sure that she dried everything.

Now that he was fully dry she laughed. "you look like a little fluff ball" he was so poofy.

Echo placed Spike back in her lap and waited for further instructions.

Giving Sammie a nice little scratch behind the ears Hady nodded her head to show she had indeed heard with Draper was telling them. Reaching over with her free hand she grabbed up the towel beside her. "Now to get you all dried off, hmm?" she hummed unfolding the towel which left the cruppie wide open to shake himself off spraying her with water. Rather then get upset the Slytherin just laughed it off wiping the water from her face. "Welp at least you weren't all soapy!"

Lifting Sammie from the tub she wrapped the towel around him and gave him light pats all over to soak up the water. No rubbing of anything of the sort as the professor had instructed. It wasn't in the least bit hard. When she had finished she wrapped Sammie free of the towel and set it aside. Picking up her wand she gave it a small wave, "Ventus." A light stream of warm air blow from the tip of her wand which she directed at Sammie's back and legs keeping away from his face. "You'll be all dry in just a few moments and then we can play."

A few moments might not have been very correct as it was more of a few minutes but it didn't make a difference. When the little pup was dry she cancelled the charm and pocketed her wand. Scooping Sammie up into her arms she cradled him close lightly petting his head and ears. "All finished. You were such a good boy, yes you were," she laughed. Sammie giving his thanks in puppy kisses to hands and face.

Olly squirted out a bit of shampoo onto his palm and set to work. He started by massaging it into the top of Henry's head, then working his way down his neck and body. He needed to get a little bit more shampoo to be able to cover the crup. Henry kept wiggling and trying to spin around in his little tub, but Olly managed to cover ever side with shampoo. Now it was time to rinse.

"Aguamenti." He did what he had done before, carefully avoiding Henry's eyes or ears as he sprayed him down with the water. He watched the soapiness stream down Henry's legs into the water. Olly scrubbed a little bit in some places until he was satisfied that Henry was all rinsed off. Then he quickly put a bit more shampoo into his hand and did the whole thing again. Wash, rinse, and repeat. Olly never repeated because it did not seem necessary, but apparently it was good for the crups. Whatever. He rinsed again, then took a step back because he knew what was coming. Except he didn't quite get far enough back before Henry shook his body and water sprayed off of him and onto anyone in the general vicinity, especially Olly.

"I was just about to dry you," he grumbled to Henry. "Couldn't you have waited just a few seconds?"

Viv reached to the side and grabbed a towel. She patted them down gently so they wouldn't hurt her. Then she yelled "Ventus!!" and the Crup was dry.