No questions this time? Great. Everyone seemed to be doing a decent job, even the one with the puppy that ran rogue. And fortunately, the lesson was starting to come to an end at this point. "Once your crup is dried off, feel free to give him or her some water," in the small bowls that had been at each station. Self explanatory? "And then you can bring them back and drop them off in their pen," he pointed to the place where they had gotten the crups from. All made sense, yes? Good.

"The shelter is allowing us to house the crups in the barn for the remainder of the year, so feel free to drop by and take them out to play whenever you want, as long as you're careful." And as long as they had signed one of the permission slips. Mhm. See how nice he was being? "And if you're a fifth year or above and are interested in adoption... Stop by my office after class. The rest of you are free to go."


OOC: Thanks so much for coming, y'all! I hope you've had a good time!

This is the end of the lesson, but I'll be leaving the thread open for another 18+ hours so that you can wrap up.

As stated, the crups will be kept in the barn all year so feel free to have your charries say hello, take them out on the grounds, etc! Just don't do anything too crazy ;)

Now that Zero had nice clean teeth and a nice happy attitude because of the ear rubs, it was time for a bath. Which was probably going to be even more difficult than brushing the small cruppy's teeth, but it sounded sooooooo fun. The small second year scooped his little puppy up into his arms and dumped all of the stuff in the tub out before moving to set the furry creature into it. Zero immediately put his paws up on the side and peeked out, whining.

"It's okay. Don't worry, you'll like it!" Jaemin reassured, reaching to stroke his ears as he picked up his wand again. He was certainly getting a lot of use out of Aguamenti in this class, right? He gave his wand a flick and cast the spell again, slowly filling up the tub. But not all the way, and not enough for Zero to have any problems, because he didn't want the poor little guy to flounder about or anything. Once there was water in the tub, he shifted his aim and carefully poured water over the squirming little pup.

Zero didn't seem to be very happy about being wet. The small pup let out a bark at him, and Jaemin pouted at him a bit. Don't be maaaaaad. Don't be mad at us, pup. Pushing his sleeves up, he reached for the shampoo bottle and squeezed a bunch of it into his palm. SCRUBBY TIME, ZERO.

"Aigoo, aigoo... you're so cute... so cute..." Jaemin mumbled encouragingly, rubbing the shampoo on top of Zero's head and then down his back. Now that it was dispersed, he could suds it all up! The Slytherin gently rubbed at Zero's fur, making a bunch of nice bubbles as he slowly worked his hands down the tiny puppy's back and sides.

Gettin' clean, gettin' clean... he hummed happily as Zero squirmed and bounced in his hands, getting suds all around the tub.

Skylar had been busy coddling her crup, because he was quite adorable and cuddly. And honestly, she loved animals, so the fact that she got to play with a puppy - a magical one at that - was just too awesome! Her parents were going to be thrilled when they heard about this lesson. The first thing that the first year did was take in his name; Ace. Well okay, not a bad name.

Next thing, as she sat beside Ace, brushing his fur in nice even strokes, very methodically, the first year found it very relaxing. She could feel the crup's breath beneath her brush strokes, diaphragm moving in and out and it just felt so nice. The breath of a living thing beside her. A furry friend. Having lost track of time in her moments of breathing with the pup, Sky realized when everyone was already nearly done with bathing their dogs, that she hadn't done any of that! OH NO! Draper wasn't going to trust her in caring for the creatures again because of how easily she lost track of time!

Squirting a pea-sized amount of paste onto the toothbrush, Sky faced her crup. "Come now, this won't hurt too much," Sky cooed. "And I'll give you a treat if you cooperate. And love." Dogs loved to be loved. Just as people did. With one hand to pull open Ace's mouth, the first year swiftly stuck the toothbrush into his mouth and scrubbed. And barely did one half before she felt the jaw snap at her. "Hey! Not nice!" Fortunately her reflexes were young and she'd managed to get her hand out in time, but still. Toothbrush dangling from his mouth, Sky frowned. "Well at least let me rinse your mouth..." She tugged lightly on the brush to force his mouth open and cast "Aguamenti" to rinse the paste from his mouth. "Good boy!"

Now, time for the bath. Casting "Aguamenti" again but this time the jet sprayed over the dog, effectively wetting dog and getting him acclimated to the wet conditions. She then filled the tub, and with care, guided Ace into the tub. So far, so good. Squirting the shampoo into her hands, she rubbed them together to get them to form nice suds. And then carefully again, she rubbed her hands through his fur, making sure to be extremely careful to get his fur clean. It was like washing her hair, only much shorter, but it was all over. Time to rinse through! Using her wand, with a carefully aimed aguamenti spell, Sky let the water run through his fur, washing the suds away, and carefully lifted up his foot pads and let the jet stream flow over them as well.

Now she had a soaking wet dog, but it was clean at least! Grabbing a towel, she began to pat him down carefully. Giving him a nice hug for being a cooperative pup throughout the whole process.

Now that teeth were brushed and the crup herself was all brushed, it was time for the bath. Scarlett knew from experience that this was likely going to be the hardest part of this whole ordeal...dogs generally did NOT like to remain cooperative for all this sudsy nonsense.

"Alright Clover, you're going to be good and cooperate with me, right?" she told her. The crup looked at her, panting with her tongue hanging out the side of her mouth. Hehe. How cute! She took that as a yes - she hoped.

"Aguamenti!" she exclaimed, pointing at a nearby empty tub and watching as it filled with water. She only filled it about half the way, so she would have room for all the runoff water. She then turned to Clover and scooped her up in her arms, and the crup happily obliged - but as soon as she saw that she was headed for the tub, she changed her tune and tried to crawl up her arm and over her shoulder.

"No, no, NO, Clover, bad cruppy! You have to do this!" she told her, although now that she was fighting the crup, it had turned into a game, and Clover was now trying to leap over her shoulder AND kept licking at her face and ear. It was cute and making Scarlett giggle, but she wanted to yell NOT FUNNY and have some willpower to get her in the tub. She could do this, SHE COULD DO THIS...

"Clover, STOP," she said firmly, taking the pup by the armpits, picking her up, and placing her in the tub. She kicked as she hit the water, sending it EVERYWHERE, but Scarlett held her until she calmed down a bit, and she was now safely in the tub. Thank goodness!

Azura looked up at the Professor as he said that the crups would be with them for the rest of the term! Yay!! She wanted to visit Piper as much as she could!

She gently put the crup down and after giving it some water in it's bowl and watching it drink, she tidied up her station and then picked the small crup up and gently walked back over to the pen and set it down in..

She felt tears come to her eyes as Piper kept wagging it's tail and looking up at her and she leaned down to pet it. "I'll come visit you.. I promise." She said as she stood up and then moved away..

"Thank you Professor Draper, that was an amazing lesson. Have a good rest of the day." She called to him as she waved and then headed back up to her dorm.

The ordeal finally over, it was time for Esme to dry Stacy off before giving her some water to drink.

After placing a clean towel against her chest, she carefully extracted the flailing Crup from the tub and proceeded to begin patting her dry. This was the same kind of thing that she did with Lucy so she knew not to scrub to get her dry. Instead she kept at what she was doing while saying words of encouragement. "Good girl. Soon you will be all dry and can have a nice drink." Wouldn't that be absolutely lovely? Stacy sure thought so because she licked Esme's face again, causing her to giggle. They were going to be best friends forever.

Once the towel was too damp to use anymore, she set Stacy down and picked up her wand. "Ventus," she said as she gave the wand a little wave. Esme had used this spell a number of times over the winters so she was rather good with it at this point. It didn't take much longer before she had a dry Crup. Stacy was all clean and felt like a little fluff ball! Everything was perfect. Hehe. Time to give some water and then put her back in her pen which was rather sad but class was ending soon.

Really sucked that she wasn't Fifth Year or older. Why couldn't she adopt her Crup just because she was a year younger? That didn't sound very fair to her. Pout.

With a small sigh, she filled the small bowl with some water, watching the Crup have her fill of it. Someone sure was thirsty. Esme gave some more pets until it was time to say goodbye. "I will come and visit you," she promised as she set her down in the pen. Meeeh. Sadly Esme collected all of her stuff. "Thank you for the lesson, Professor. It was amazing." If only she could keep her Crup...

Class was almost over and Niomi filled her crups bowl up with water. After that, CoMC class was over. Niomi was very sad she would have to give her cruppy up. Luckily she would be able to visit her. When Professor Draper said they could adopt them, Niomi's face lit up. She must go visit Professor Draper to adopt her cruppy.

Grabbing her things, Niomi started walking out of class. Before she left though she spoke to the Professor, "Thank you for a wonderful lesson, Professor!" After that, Niomi left the class.

The crups were going to be there for the rest of the year? Cool!That would give Fiyero plenty of time to visit Glinda in between classes. His face fell when Professor Draper said only fifth years and above cold adopt. That wasn't fair; he wanted to keep Glinda! Hmm, maybe if he wrote home and asked his mother... wait, what was he thinking? His dad would never agree to it. He'd almost had a heart attack when Fiyero brought an owl into the house; he couldn't even begin to imagine his reaction to another magical creature.

Glinda was still snoozing on the towel beside him. He doubted she'd want to wake up for a drink, but it couldn't hurt to offer. "Aguamenti," he said, pointing his wand at the empty bowl. The bowl made a clunk as he set it on the bench beside the sleeping cruppy, and Glinda blinked groggily. "Here, girl. Drink up!"

Once Glinda had her fill of water, Fiyero gathered her in his arms. He immediately began to whine as he set her back in the pen. "It's okay, Glinda," he said, "I'll be back soon, I promise." He gave her one last scratch behind the ears before turning away, and she gave him a goodbye kiss on the hand.

"Bye, Professor Draper," Fiyero called, turning back to wave as he reached the door. "Thanks for the lesson - and for keeping the crups around for the year!"

It seemed that the time that Janelle was dreading had come. She was going to have to give Mikey back. Now that they had bonded, that was the last thing that she wanted to do. As instructed, Janelle reached for the nearby bowl. But then........what? They didn't have to go back to the shelter right away? They could stay the whole year? Janelle was beyond happy. She could go visit Mikey whenever she wanted. This was wonderful news.

Then the news got even better. As a fifth year, Janelle had the possibility of adopting Mikey! Well hooray for being a fifth year. Turning to her new best friend, she said, "Did you hear that Mikey?" "We can stay together all year, annnnd..........if I'm lucky, we can be together forever." If Janelle didn't know better, she'd think that Mikey understood every word she said. He seemed exited and began to jump around. Giving her baby a big pat, she took out her wand. "Aguamenti", she said, and proceeded to fill the bowl with water. "Are you thirsty Mikey? I've got a nice drink for you." She set the bowl down in front of the crup and watched as lapped the water up eagerly.

When Mikey was properly hydrated, Janelle prepared to say her goodbye..........for now. "Alright buddy, it's time to go back with your other friends. But I'm going to come and visit you and we'll have lots of fun together, ok?" With that, Janelle picked Mikey up and walked over to the crup pen. She gently placed him inside and gave him one more pat. "I'll see you soon, don't you worry." Reluctantly Janelle left him and headed straight for the professor. "Thanks Professor. This was the best Care of Magical Creatures lesson ever. I'll be stopping by to see you soon." 'Cause Mikey had to be hers.

After giving and receiving some puppy hugs and kisses Hady looked around for the small water dish. There it was. A cute little red one with bones all over it. Grabbing it she pulled it over and used her wand to fill it about a quarter of the way with 'Aguamenti'. "Alright Sammie, there you go a nice cold drink for you." She set the little crup in front of his bowl of fresh water and watched him lap it up in no time at all. Poor thing must've been really thirsty!

Laughing softly she scooped him up into her arms giving him a few more cuddles and gentle pets. "It's time for me to let you get back to playing with all your little friends but don't you worry Sammie I'll be coming to visit you very soon and if all goes right you'll be coming home with me." No doubt about it this little guy had captured her heart. He would be hers and if things worked out as she was planning in her heard she would be owling her aunt later that night to see if her cousin wanted to keep Kyreo as his own. She knew the young boy really loved the cruppie he was taking care of for her.

Getting to her feet she slowly made her way over to the tubs and set Sammie down inside one with the others. "I'll see you soon." For a minute Hady just watched silently as her new little buddy ran off to play. Grabbing her bag she turned to Professor Draper with a small grin, "Great lesson Prefessor, I'll be stopping by your office really soon." As she was sure the man had already probably known she would be. With that she gave a wave and was on her way. She had a note to write and an owl to send off.

Awwww lookit dat ickle cruppeh snoozing so cute

The Curly Top was just petting and watching Bowie's even breathing when the professor advised the hydration step. Eh but his crup was sleeping now, did he have to wake him up to give him some water which he may not even drink anyway?

But oh wait... They could adopt?... Wait why are the older kids only allowed to adopt them? What about little ones like himself? He felt confident he can take care of Bowie. He’s had a headstart with the whole crup raising with Maple.

Anyways, it was time to return them to their pen and Tenacius figured that would be the best for the sleeping Bowie. He carried the crup back and tucked him to his own little corner of the pen and then placed his drinking bowl near him. "I'll be back for you boy I promise." he whispered as he gently petted the crup's head. And Bowie wagged a tail, as if he understood him.

He collected his things then walked alongside the Professor "Sir can I drop by your office too?" He too is interested in adopting.

It didn't take long to get the little cruppy all soaped up. Zero kept hopping up on the side of the tub, seeming intent to get out of the water, but it was easy enough to keep him from escaping and Jaemin used the opportunity to wash his little paws as well. Puppy paws were much different from Sniffler's tiny feet, but they were still very nice. The little paw pads were so squishy. The twelve year old kneaded them gently to make sure they were nice and clean, then went about rinsing his little cruppy down.

Head first. He very gently tilted Zero's chin up, so the puppy wouldn't get flowery cruppy shampoo suds in his eyes, and cast a very soft "Aguamenti" again to wash the bubbles away. Zero whined at him, and in a show of solidarity (or in a petulant moment of mocking? You'll never know) Jaemin whined right back at him, carefully brushing his hand along the crup's fur to clear away the soap.

He didn't do too thorough a job of rinsing him, however, because Draper had told them to wash the pups up a second time. So a little lingering soap wouldn't hurt, right? Jaemin rubbed between Zero's ears as he reached for the shampoo bottle, and went about bubbling up the tiny puppy all over again. At least the pup seemed to like it when the small Slytherin rubbed the soap on his belly, though he didn't appear to appreciate it when Jaemin played with his tail for a moment too long. Another little bark came out, and Jaemin wrinkled his nose at the puppy playfully.

"Shhhh. It's just so cute, how can I not play with it?!" he chided, wiping his hand on his pants to dry it before picking up his wand again. RINSE TIME FOR REAL, ZERO. "Stay still, I promise we're almost done!"

Aaaaaand more water. More whining. More squirming as Jaemin tried to make sure that all the bubbles were definitely cleared away this time. There was more water in the tub now, and that meant some splashing as the little guy bounced excitedly; the diminutive Slytherin was less concerned about his soon soaked pants and more concerned with how cold the little cruppy was going to be when he took him out of the tub all soaking wet.

Taking a chance and letting go of Zero with both hands, Jaemin reached for the towel that he'd left in a small pile with all the other things. As he unfolded it, Zero did the excited bouncing around in the tub thing, letting out excited little barks and hopping up on the edge. He very obviously wanted out now, so Jaemin spread the towel out over his lap and, after assuring that it would be in the right place, reached for the pup and scooped him up. He deposited the tiny creature right into his lap, then wrapped the towel carefully around him. His little legs were pinned in, but he didn't seem to mind all that much and indeed, went about biting at the towel happily.

Ahhh. So cute. Now he wanted a cruppy AND a niffler.

"I gotta get you all dry so you don't get a cold, okay?" he murmured, gently rubbing the towel over the pup's fur and between his ears. The towel was enough to catch all the excess water, but Zero was still very damp... which meant it was time for the hot air charm. Once more Jaemin picked up his wand and pointed it at the pup. "Ventus!"

Could have been warmer. It was supposed to be a hot air charm, but his usually ended up coming out lukewarm at best... at least it was something though, and he carefully unwrapped the puppy from the towel to dry all his little puppy parts. Zero seemed to be torn on this process, because for the most part he seemed content... but he also insisted on putting his face in the warm air and biting at it, which Jaemin found slightly alarming. Why was he doing that?

It took a bit, but soon the small second year had a nice, dry, floofy cruppy instead of a strange smelling wet furball. With all the biting at the warm air... he probably did need some water. So when Draper called that out as a step, Jaemin wasn't surprised. He reached for the small water dish, floundering a little because it was just slightly too far away for him to reach without moving, and then set it down next to him.

"Aguamenti," he murmured, yet again, and the dish filled with nice, clean water. Zero hopped himself out of Jaemin's lap and immediately went at it, getting his nice dry face all wet again. The boy couldn't help but laugh at that, and he affectionately petted the drinking pup's back. "Careful! I just did all that work..."

Only fifth years and up could adopt their cruppies?! HOW UPSETTING. THAT WAS AGEISM, DRAPER. Jaemin looked at the man indignantly as he announced that they would be around, and that class was pretty much over, immediately moving to scoop the small creature up and hug it again. They had BONDED, DRAPER. BONDED. How could you separate a small boy and his smaller dog?!

"Can we write our parents about adopting them if we're younger than fifth year?" he asked quietly, carefully standing as the cruppy stuck its nose under his chin and licked his neck. It was cold, then warm, and Jaemin squirmed a bit because it was weird feeling. He moved closer to Draper, and the pen, but didn't put Zero down just yet. "I like this one. He's nice. And he only got me a little wet."

Well... a lot, but there was very little of Jaemin to get wet, so really, it was a little in comparison to everyone else. He looked up at Draper imploringly.

He nodded in acknowledgment of her thanks, but otherwise didn't say much else on the matter. Though, he was glad to see that the kids had seemed to enjoy this particular lesson. It would have to be one of his favorites as well. "Same to you, Ms. Kennedy," he said giving her another firm nod and watching as she walked back towards the castle.

James knew he'd get a bunch of unhappy students after announcing that only Fifth years and above could adopt... He had his reasons though, and they had to do with obtaining a license. Which is why he didn't feel bad seeing Esme's disappointed face. "They will be here all year, Ms. Darcy," he reminded her gently as she began collecting her things and making the move out. It wasn't the end of the world.

And while some faces had dropped, others' lit up like christmas trees. Especially this one in particular. Uh, hello? "Enjoy the rest of your day," he nodded. After all, the benefit of holding morning classes was having an entire day ahead to look forward to. There was a method to his madness practicality, see?

He nodded, grinning knowingly and watching as this one waved with such enthusiasm. "Don't be late to your next class." But in other words, 'glad that you enjoyed the lesson'. Of course he was only thinking that part because where would be the good in telling the class that he wanted them to enjoy themselves? James' job was to push them to work hard. Tough love, y'know? That's just the way he did things, and by this point the students should understand that.

"I'll be there," he nodded in response. It wasn't a surprise to see just how many students had managed to grow attached within just one lesson period. Crups had that kind of effect on people. It was inevitable, it seemed. Which made his job a little harder, but hey... At least he was trying. They ought to give him some credit for that.

"Ms. Lynch," he said nodding. He fully intending on seeing this one around whether or not she wanted to adopt one of the crups. She was among one of the regulars. "Enjoy your day," he nodded just before she turned to make her way up towards the castle.


And of course, James had fully been expecting the eager ones who didn't seem to understand the word 'no'. And he wasn't all that surprised to see Tenacius would be among them. Boy was a Gryffindor through and through, truly. "Of course," the real answer was more like 'I'd rather you not' because James knew what he wanted to meet about, given the way the boy was eyeing his cruppy. But alas, he couldn't turn any eager students away because he'd probably get fired for it. Let's be real.


And of course Tenacius wouldn't' be the only one. Again, fully expected. "It isn't so much about parental permission as it is about acquiring a ministry approved license," in other words crups couldn't just be given out to anyone. And if he said yes to one, then he'd have to say yes to them all. Did Jaemin see the problem? Probably not, this was the kid who had wanted to domesticate a wild niffler after all. "They'll be here all term," he nodded. "And if you still feel this strongly about him at the end of the year, we can talk about it some more... Yeah?" That was fair enough, yes? Because it was the most James would be willing to do at this point. Besides, if the family approved, Jaemin could get his parents to adopt from the shelter directly. James had zero liability there.

Man just needed to keep his job.



James waited for the rest of the class to walk their crups over to the pen. Once the last cruppy was inside, he turned to watch the last few stragglers make their way towards the castle. And finally, time to clean up. It had been a good lesson after all. Thank Merlin.

OOC: Thanks so much for coming and playing with us y'all! Truly appreciate each and every one of you <3 I had loads of fun and I hope y'all did too!!