It had been salt. That had been one of his guesses, even though he had no idea why it helped the plant. Not that he really cared why, it only mattered that it did. So...what were they supposed to do? Olly didn't know a spell that produced salt. Was there even one? There was probably some sort of complicated transfiguration that would help. Or a summoning charm. But it looked like Professor Myers had already gone about aquiring the salt, and it was their job to simply help spread it around. That was fine, Olly could do that. He helped make sure the roses closest to him got a fair share of the salt as others did the same to other flowers.

Time for another riddle. If they were going to keep getting harder Olly was in for a bad time. That last one had been pretty difficult, though he had managed to guess the answer. Maybe this next one wouldn't be too bad? He listened carefully.

Used to be green but now brown? Well that shouldn't be too hard. All he had to do was look for the part of the flower that was brown. He could do that. And cut them off? He saw and understood that the answer was leaves. That made sense. But...he didn't know what to do now. He didn't know a spell for that. Olly stared blankly at Professor Myers for a moment before glancing around at the other students. What were they doing?

Uh.. oh. Azura looked up at the Rose that suddenly seem to tower thousands of feet over her. She seemed shorter and shorter every second! They.. had to prune the rose right? But.. Uhh..

How?

Did that mean they had to climb?

Azura's were no good at climbing, she had learned this last year during the first charms lesson.. She fell right off the wall after Austin had abandoned her!! *sigh*

But if that's what they had to do.. It's what they had to do.. She pushed her toe into the soil.. it felt soft enough should she tumble downwards.. so hopefully she wouldn't tumble to her doom!

Hopefully.. Death by soil was not how she wanted to go.. Though..

Azura's face spasmed for a moment before the pushed the thought to the back of her mind and focused solely on the task at hand.. Climbing the rose.

She walked over to the stalk and swallowed a bit as she put her hand on a handy thorn. "Fwoopers protect me." She whispered as she started to climb up the rose.

Oooh. The other answer had been salt. Oh. Okay. She'd been wrong. But that was okay. She was only little. She could learn. She also couldn't really do that spell. She hadn't learnt it yet. So really how was she supposed to do this bit? But it was okay. She'd kind of missed it when thinking of the answer. So that was okay.

Oh. New riddle. Yay. Hmm. She looked over at the roses, tilting her head to the side as she looked at it. Trying to work out the riddle. "oh. Oh. We have to cut the dead leaves off! Otherwise it will just die" And that would be no good at all. Well. Now they must cut the leaves off. She looked around, trying to see if an older student knew what to do. Because Hattie wasn't really sure to be honest.

She looked over at one particular one. And wondered over. "Levitating would get us up there right?" She murmured, looking up at Hadleigh. "Do you think you could levitate me up? And then I could like.... get them off. Some how anyway?"

She had been drugged!! What was this? Kye had been drawing a terrible picture to show the ‘anatomy’ or whatever of the rose, when the professor’s words caught her ear. She made note to never trust this maniac of a professor’s offerings EVER AGAIN! Was he allowed to just manipulate people willy nilly??

She was becoming an ant! She could be killed by literally anything at any moment! What if she was stuck this size and had only ever made it through the beginning of her First Year before being offed by a crazy cross-dressing Herbology professor??

Was there no such thing as sitting in a classroom and taking notes? Why did she have to become 'one with the bugs'? And did she just see a worm nearby? Still irked at the professor for what he had done to her, well to everyone, Kye tried to ignore the new trees around her… Rosebush trees. Kye sighed and gave a look of vague annoyance.

At least she had stories to tell later... Then again, who would she tell them to? Everyone was here! The professor started his riddle, and everyone seemed to get it pretty quickly. Well at least I’m not surrounded by complete idiots… That was always nice. Some were a little too hyper for all this, but Kye could understand a bit of excitement. As she looked around at those who had started their incantations, she noticed that a couple students had even been doing nonverbal spells... Did they teach that here??? One of them was a Slytherin, she could see, going by the name Ilia… maybe she could ask her about that later.

She decided all she could do right now was to practice the spell for what it was.
“Aguamenti… AguaMENti,” she tried again. THERE. Now she had helped, see?
As the second riddle came out of hiding, Kye’s eyebrows raised. WHAT DID HE MEAN STAY THIS SIZE??
Luckily, Kye knew this one due to the garden she had at home with her mother. She loved their garden, and she had learned a little here and there. This didn’t make Herbology her favorite by any means, but she had an appreciation for it.

“It’s Epsom salt,” she stated, still quietly. She shot looks at those who thought it was sand. Sand?? SAND?!
She didn’t want to say anything, since that was pretty much all she was going to know for the day, so she listened as the professor continued with his weird riddles.

“Leaves?.. Weeds?.. Thorns?..” she spoke quietly, hoping that one of these was right..

Hadleigh stated upwards at the roses and all of the tornado. Climbing would work but she wasn't taking that chance and pricking herself a million times on turns.

That's when she heard a small voice from beside her. She turned her head taking in the younger blonde girl. Hattie. Her boyfriends little sister. "I could, yes. Do you know the proper charm to remove the dead leaves and twigs?" It wasn't a hard charm at all to do and herself being older keeping her focus on Levitating the small child would be solid enough to not drop her.

At first she had been think of the severing charm but that was quick and not as delicate on plants. Something like a pruning charm possibly.

"You wouldn't drop me right?" Because she figured that that would not be good at all. But this girl was her brother's girlfriend so she figured that she would be safe. "Uh... It's that weird sounding one right?" She murmured tilting her head to the side. "Flipnsnipwitit?" She still thought that charm sounded really weird. But if it worked, then it would be great.

"I haven't done it before.... but I think if you show me the wand movement I should be able to get it" Because she had read about the charm, and it seemed pretty simple. She was sure practice would work. "Practice makes perfect right?" And she was sure that the professor would think that were super clever for getting the older student to levitate her up. And then if she couldn't do the charm she'd just pull the leaves off. That would work too right?

Oh. Well, that certainly explained it. Hehe. Esme made a mental note of what her classmate said. It was different than regular salt and helped the roses to grow prettier. Got it.

Watching the Professor spread the epsom salts across the soil, she quickly followed suit. She had originally missed the small buckets, but was glad that they had been shrunk as well. It would be super weird working with normal sized epsom salts because they were so small. As it was, Esme made sure to spread the stuff evenly around the area of soil with which she was working.

Now what?

The next riddle had her laughing. Snip, snip, snip? What a clue that was. Clearly they needed to sever the dead leaves from the rose bush but that was easier said than done when they had shrunk. Knowing better than to blast her wand upwards randomly and pray for good results, she looked up and tried to work out what was needed to be done.

Climbing was a possibility but not one that she wanted to entertain because thorns. Maybe levitating herself would be easier but how exactly was she going to do THAT by herself? She needed someone to work with her... Maybe it WAS best to climb?

SHE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO.

Hehehehe Plantman nearly choking on his tea. Just like all the adults in his life. Curly Top Choker that’s him!

Everything is so BIG and he's just having a BLAST. He grabbed the salt buckets and was just tossing salt everywhere, like blessings in a wedding. Salt for you, salt for them, EVERYBODY gets Epsom salt!

Oh oh next riddle....

... And he STILL didn’t really know the answer to that. Or if it requires an answer. Snip snip snip when when all these roses look like trees to him? Sounds more like he should yell--

"--TIMBER?!?!!"

Melbourne nodded at Colt when he brought up the water-bit. “Yeah that sounds like a good plan,” Mel grinned and raised her wand pointing it at the flowers in front of her. “Aguamenti” she watched as the water sprayed from her wand fully soaking every inch of her miniscule body.

Brilliant.

The roses seemed happier though as they seemed to stand taller, stronger, with their roots now being able to feel the water coursing through them. “And then…salt right?”

Hehehe. The professor was telling people to listen to him. That was so cool. It made Jaemin feel a little bit bigger, despite being so small. Helping his mom with her nursery and helping his dad with experiments and stuff was just plain fun for him, but it gave him lots and lots of good Herbology information too! The tiny Slytherin moved to help distribute some of the epsom salts that the professor had summoned forth, making sure to spread it nicely near the base of the plant especially.

He was still rather unhappy about being small though. That was not going to go away with a little bit of praise over his answers, Paul! Not. At. All. And there were still more riddles to be solved before he could grow again... it was a good thing they were all Herbology-based, and centered around things he knew. Because otherwise he would probably never be able to solve them.

This one clearly meant that they were to do pruning stuff; while Jaemin preferred using pruning shears, because they were essentially big scissors and he couldn't do magic outside of school, he knew the spell for pruning stuff. His dad did it all the time, and he'd been working on mastering it since last year. It was good to know how to do stuff both ways, just in case.

Knowing the spell, however, was the easy part apparently. Because Jaemin, like everyone else, was extremely small at the moment, and the bits that needed pruning were much higher up than he could reach. SEE PAUL? SEE? This was why being itty bitty bug-sized was WRONG. The small boy stepped closer to the base of the plant and touched it lightly, looking straight up.

Some other students were working together, levitation and stuff like that... but Jaemin did not like the idea of another student levitating him in the air. He had to figure out a way to get up into the plant though... maybe he could catch one of the offshoots far up above his head, pull it down, and climb onto it? And then it could go back up to where it was supposed to be, and he could go with it, and then he could get some of the dying parts off around it!

Good plan team. Good plan.

Jaemin held his wand up, pointing it at one of the 'branches' way up above his head. The thing was like three times as thick as his entire body, which meant it would totally be able to hold him... right? Right. Frowning in concentration, the small boy gave his wand a rather violent whip and called out the best spell he could think of.

"Carpe Retractum!"

The goldish rope that shot out of his wand flew up, up, up... and looped around the thick 'branch'. SCOOOOOOORE. Grinning, Jaemin gripped his wand with both hands, and pulled as hard as he could... and the 'branch' did not bunch a single inch. Or a milli-inch. It didn't move at all, because Jaemin was ant sized and this thing was full grown tree sized. He was so used to plants being bendy that he hadn't considered how hard it would be to bend them when he was miniaturized. He wasn't going to give up this easily though. He gave another vicious tug, which resulted in... nothing.

Except, you know, the spell was designed for something to get pulled. Since the 'branch' was not going to get pulled, because it was much too big and heavy for the pint-sized (more like raindrop sized, if they were measuring) Slytherin to get enough force for, it was the unfortunate side-effect that the spell just... launched the small boy up into the air, straight into the plant. Jaemin let out a rather tremendous yelp at the sudden jerk of his wand; he didn't dare let it go, for fear that it would go flying and never come back, and a moment later his feet were MILES AND MILES (inches and inches) from the soil and he was clinging onto the 'branch' his spell had caught onto, fingers scrambling to get a good hold so he wouldn't plummet to his (cushioned) death.

A mistake. HE HAD MADE A MISTAKE.

Mel shrugged as she raised her wand again “accio Epsom salts” she cast and winced as a few of the gigantic Epsom salt crystals crashed into her knocking her into the soil.

She shifted them, rolled them, and dug into the soil with her hands pushing the salt into the open soft ground. It was hard work. And she was covered in dirt. Really, it was like how Finn’s dogs always looked. Dirty…covered in things…and she smelled like earth. The gryffindor hadn't seen Jaemin's mistake...if she had she'd probably have tried to help him...make a ladder out of rose-limb-bits...but she hadn't seen.

See, she’d been right. Brooklyn felt rather proud of herself for not going the stupid route and possibly crushing herself with salt crystals as Professor Myers had told them all that he had buckets hidden around for the salting purposes. Luckily enough, she happened to find one not far from where she’d been standing, and set about evenly laying salt down in her immediate area. It wasn’t like they were at a wedding and the salt was rice. She wasn’t about to just toss it up in the air. That was just a disaster in the making, therefore of course it was a Gryffindor doing it.

But then there was another riddle, and it took all her self-control not to roll her eyes. They weren’t terribly complicated, even if she’d more accurately just heard others answer for the last one. Just ridiculous, and she was over being tiny. Especially as it seemed obvious they needed to scale the rose branches to snip off the dead leaves, and presumably dead blossoms too if there were any. She couldn’t tell from where she was, and finally she resigned herself to having to climb. She couldn’t exactly bring the branches down to her, so she’d have to go to them.

At least she could nearly use the thorns as foot and hand holds. It was almost easier than climbing a tree. She hadn’t climbed a tree in years, but it wasn’t impossible. She’d just have to be careful when she began pruning. Using Flipsnipwitit, as Zeke had mentioned. Listening was proving to be the best idea she had ever had.

Fiyero knew he didn't have the last answer right, but at least Professor Myers had been nice about it... unlike some of the other students who looked at him like he was an idiot. He wanted to shoot a nasty look back, but he decided it was probably better to concentrate on the next riddle.

Hmmm... used to be green but now brown? Snip snip snip? "I guess that means we're supposed to remove the dead leaves," he said, more to himself than anyone else.

He looked up at the roses towering over him. This was going to be hard, given his tiny size, but he wasn't going to let that stop him! Using the thorns as hand and footholds, he climbed the stem of the nearest rose. He could sort of forgive Professor Myers for shrinking him without his knowledge because this was fun!

This place would make an awesome obstacle course, Fiyero thought as he climbed higher. They could use the thorns to climb and slide down the leaves... or maybe bounce on the tops of the flowers. Oh well, no time to think about it now...

Focusing once more on the task at hand, Fiyero spotted a dead leaf nearby. But how was he supposed to cut it? The riddle said something about using his wand and he'd heard one of the older students mention a trimming charm. Flipnsnipwitit?! That didn't sound like a real spell, but they probably knew better than he did. So he decided to give it a go. "Flipnsnipwitit!" he cried, pointing his wand at the dead leaf.

Fiyero looked at the leaf, but the spell didn't seem to have any effect on it, except maybe a cut that was too small for him to see. Apparently the spell a normal-sized person used to prune plants wouldn't work here; it seemed more drastic measures were called for. Now what should he try?

He thought for a minute. Then he remembered hearing about a severing charm. But what was the spell? Oh yeah! "Diffendo!" Once again, he pointed his wand at the leaf.

That worked better... well sort of. The spell had made a decisive cut through the leaf, but now it was dangling precariously from the stem. Fiyero panicked; it looked like it might fall on his calssmates! Without thinking twice, he grabbed the leaf, fighting with all his strength to pull it back. He lost his grip on the thorn he was holding onto in the process, and the leaf pulled him down with it. He landed on the soil with a .

Melbourne Johanson wasn’t really that focused on the class at the moment as she watched the water and soil move around her ant-sized body. It was a bit unnerving, being the size of an ant with the streams and rivers of water that everyone’s wands had caused…waiting for a moment for one of the flower limbs to fall she carefully used it as a bridge to walk over closer to the rose bush that she and Colt had been working on.

“I’m going to try and climb this” she called over, though it was impossible to tell if he had even heard her. Ant voices weren’t exactly the loudest of voices…still as she holstered her wand and pulled her dragon hide gloves further up her arms the second year glanced around trying to find what way she could do this. How could she easily get up to the top of her bush without causing any damage to herself or the flowers?

Reaching into her pocket she pulled out the space shoelace that she had there and pointed her wand at it. Drawing two loose circles with her wand she opened her mouth and uttered the spell “Cordage creatus” the shoelace grew longer, wider, thicker and began to shift and twirl as it transfigured into a thick rope. Wrapping the rope around her waist she tied it around herself and waited for a bit…now she’d need to tie it off somewhere right? Or…wait…pointing her wand at the rope she cast a quick lengthening jinx on it and watched as it grew longer and longer. Perfect. It wasn’t long before she had set everything up like a rock-climbing gig for safety that is before starting to climb the bush.

When she reached the top she severed the link at the bottom and tied herself loosely to the top so if anything went wrong she’d only have to fall a bit and dangle by the utterly unfriendly thorns. “lets do this” she squeaked out as she climbed out on one of the limbs and looped her rope around it before dropping down to the limb below. With her feet steadily resting on the ledge of a thorn she pointed her wand at the unhealthy looking limb nearest her. With a swish of her wand she cast “Flipnsnipwitit” and then pointed her wand at her own throat “sonorus” she cast, “TIMBER” she yelled down…now hopefully they heard that. Because yeah, she didn’t want to crush her ant-like classmates, she’d feel bad about it but really…wouldn’t it be their faults for standing there underneath the bushes?

There. It looked healthier. Still, she had more limbs to deal with and more bushes.

Ilia blushed a bit with a smile at the professor's over the top applause. To have a grown man applaud her impromptu, made her feel good and more sure about her songs. She bowed her head slightly for him. Like the others she did spread the Epsom salts around and then waited for the next riddle.

The next riddle, hmm how to word this one for him....
"Death brings new life, there need be no strife, the end comes soon, for that which we prune." The blonde tied her long hair back and looked up at the plant. The best way was probably just distance spell work....unless she could summon and shrink her broom....She could climb but....maybe she could shoot a partner into the air....Henric? Zeke? ....it was kind of fun getting shot into the air really.

"Of course not. I would never harm anyone," she replied seriously giving Hattie a warm smile. Not on purpose and the one person she had hurt once on accident she still felt horrible about and that had been awhile ago. Levitating wasn't hard though and with her amount of concentration she was sure that everything would be just fine. "Just be careful of the torns once you're up there, okay?" Torns were tricky and she didn't want the kid getting herself hurt.

Hady laughed softly. "It is. That's the trimming charm and it's rather easy. All you have to do is this..." she explained showing her the proper wand movement a few times. "Give it a go real quick before send you up there." She watched Hattie give it a try a few times making sure the movements were as should be. "Ready now? It doesn't hurt at all and I won't drop you, when you're ready to come down just shout so and I'll lower you down." It was as simple as that. Holding her wand firmly she pointed it at Hattie waiting until she knew she was ready. "Wingardium Leviosa," Hadleigh spoke clearly preforming the movement as she spoke. Just so this worked correctly.

"BZZZZZZ---" Matt turned his head around when he heard the professor calling him. NOOOOOOOOOOOO, he didn't want to do WORK. He wanted to ride gigantic bugs. The boy let out a looong and loud SIIIIIIIIIIIIGH and got his wand to cast Aguamenti on the plants.

Boooriiiing. As he watered some of the giant plants, he looked at his classmates, boredom written all over his face. After a few seconds he was only watering the earth around his feet, making drawings on the soil as it got wet. That was a bit more entertaining, but it was nothing like riding a giant insect. Meeeeeeeeeeeh.

Matt did listen to the next riddle, but he didn't have a clue what the answer would be, so he remained quiet, doodling on the soil, only listened to what the other students had to say. Salt? SALT?? What kind of mutant plant needed SALT? The second year glanced suspiciously at the colour-changing roses, before doing what eeeeverybody else was doing. Eehh meh meh.

OH. The next part sounded a bit more fun. Cutting the GIGANTIC plants? Matt could do that! He held up his wand at the ready!!!! ...But he didn't know the spell to do it. He chuckled when Chewie aka Ace and Mel yelled timber and finally heard some student saying the spell he was looking for. "DIFFINDO!! HI-YAH!"

So it was salt. Janelle had guessed right on that one and the epsom salt had been hidden. While listening to the third riddle, she continued to hunt for the hidden salt. Janelle temporarily filed the riddle information away. She still had to complete task number two. After searching for a few minutes, she came upon one of the buckets of epsom salt. Janelle picked up as much as she could hold in her two hands and began to sprinkle the salt around the rose bush. She was careful to spread it around and not put it all together in one clump. She made several trips back to the bucket and continued to sprinkle the salt. Then she figured that it was time to move on before she forgot the next clue.

Replaying the words in her head, Janelle thought about the riddle. Something once green, now brown. Something that they would need to snip, snip, snip. The most obvious thing would be leaves. If they turned brown, they would definitely need to be cut off. Now the question was, what spell should she use? The even bigger question was, how in the world was she going to reach the leaves that were waaaay up high? Wouldn't it have been easier to care for the rose bush if they had remained their normal size? Would have been quicker too.

Janelle pondered her questions. She thought about trying to climb up the rose bush to get better access to the higher leaves. That seemed like the fun thing to do, but..........with her classmates firing spells all around, that might not be the best way to go. For now, Janelle decided to stick with the lower, more reachable leaves. As for the spell, she decided to go with the Trimming Charm. Hopefully it would work. Wand in hand, Janelle aimed for the first brown leaf that she saw. "Flipnsnipwitit", she said confidently. She was glad to see that the leaf was cut and fell slowly to the ground. Janelle had to suppress a giggle because that incantation always made her laugh. It was funny to hear and tricky to say. Regaining her composure, she repeated the incantation and trimmed several more leaves. Janelle wondered how high she could aim and still have the charm work. Only one way to find out.

Azura was the first one to start climbing, and honestly, Paul more wanted them to LEVITATE each other, which was safer....ish, depending on the levitator. So he waved his wand and held Azura up using the spell. "Go ahead and prune NOW, m'dear, I've got you!" he cried, smiling up at her.

He was just WORRIED.



This frightened Paul.

"TIMBER? No--DON'T---" he stopped, seeing that boy hadn't actually cut ANYTHING. Pfft. "Don't make ANYTHING GO TIMBER IN HERE--" meaning...the roses. Don't cut the stems!



Smol boy ricocheting into the air. REPEAT. SMOL BOY RICOCHETING INTO THE AIR. Paul GASPED, setting Azura onto the ground quickly before going to deal with THAT. "JAEMIN!" he yelled.

OH dear. OH DEAR OH DEAR. Paul SIGHED and looked at his watch. Maybe...he had TWO more riddles to do...but MAYBE he should just...big them up again and give them all a rose-to-go. Like takeaway plants or something.

"You all KEEP pruning--LEVITATING, YES--I am going to find Mr. Song and we will become BIG again!" he said.



Another one bit the dust.

"ARE YOU OKAY, M'boy?" he asked as he squinted into the thicket of roses, trying to assess WHERE Jaemin was. He might just summon the boy. BUT THORNS >.<



Normally, appreciated. But Paul merely smiled in her direction...ugh.

UGH.

JAEMIN.


He sighed and ruffled his wig!hair. "Everyone--I think we're going to get big------------HOLY SCREECHSNAP!" he YELLED, realizing...Blaise...BLAISE HAD WALKED OUT. BLAISE BELLAIRE HAD WALKED OUT, AND PAUL HAD LET HIM. And..BLAISE HAD DRUNK THE TEA. o;igherufgheiuwrhgirtehgirthgirthgiurthgiurhtgiurt hgiuhrtgiuhrtgiurthg

WAS HE OUT THERE SOMEWHERE ALL SMALL AND...oh GOSH! Paul would need--GOODNESS! Panic riled up in his heart, and HAD to fix it ALL. But he had to REMAIN CALM. "I am going to make us back to normal size as SOON as I procure Mr. Song! I had TWO MORE RIDDLES but--I think--" he checked his watch. Twenty minutes early. "It's the first day of class--I'll let you all out early!" LIES. He was just freaked out by...hIS MISTAKES. "Finish whatever pruning you've begun and gather around in the middle here."

AH! He spotted the boy. "Jaemin, I am going to levitate you DOWN so don't PANIC!" he called out. Granted, the ground was...softened. Cushioned. But that didn't mean the boy wasn't scared. He gave his wand a flourish and gently lifted the boy up slightly and...then...slooooooooowly brought him back towards him, and then...

A soft thud as he set Jaemin down. There.

"All right. BIG TIME?"

Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. NOOOOOOOPE. Jaemin held into the stem he'd landed on as tightly as he could, eyes squeezed closed. This was much too high. Much much too high. He didn't even like FLYING. This was so much worse than flying. Why had he thought this was a good idea?! This had been a terrible idea. The worst idea ever. HOW DARE YOU BETRAY US, BRAIN TEAM.

He could hear Professor Myers yelling for him, but he was absolutely not going to let go of the stem to wave or call out or anything. He wasn't gonna fall out of the plant, nooooope. He was going to live a good long life, even if it meant staying tiny and building a house on the stem he was attached to and having a tiny family all inside the rosebush. Live your tiny dreams, Song Jaemin.

"No thanks!" he yelled down when the professor finally spotted him. "I'm fine here!"

That did not stop the professor from casting though, and a moment later Jaemin's body was lifting up off the stem. In a panic, he opened his eyes; his fingertips scrambled at the stem to try and get ahold of it again, because NOOOOOOOOOPE, but... the professor was already lowering him toward the ground. It was such an odd, unsettling sensation. Like floating, but not. The small boy bit down hard on his lip and tried to keep his limbs from flailing about, because it would be bad to get caught on something, and did his best to stay calm.

Paul was a professor, after all. He wouldn't drop him. Jaemin curled up a bit as he got closer to the ground, and soon the diminutive Slytherin was sitting on the soil again, breathing noisily and clutching his wand. He looked up at the professor rather guiltily, but stayed where he was, because WOOOOO. Vertigo.

BIG TIME, PLEASE. YES.

"Good" Hattie beamed at the older girl. She didn't want to get hurt in her very first month at Hogwaarts. She knew that she was bound to get hurt at some point, but she didn't want it to be falling out of a Rose when she was in little form. So that was good. Good at Haddie wouldn't get her hurt. "I'll be careful" the first year nodded smiling at her friend. "I don't want to get hurt" Hattie was going to try her best to not let any of the thorns hit her. Because that would be pretty tragic.

Hattie smiled, watching the older girl perform the wand work for the spell. "Okay. I think I got it...." The blonde nodded, as she quickly had a go at the spell, so that she could do it correct when she was up in the air. She smiled up at her friend. She was totally ready for this. "yes. I'm ready!" She nodded, holding her wand ready. She closed her eyes just as she began to rise, but then opened them so she could work her way through the thorns. Smiling, she performed the wand movement, and said "Flipnsnipwitit." Nothing happened then. "Oh...." she frowned, shaking her head.

Maybe she needed to concentrate more. Concentrating, she repeated herself, and yay a leaf fell off. "Perfect!" She giggled, continuing to do the charm, though she was still concentrating lots. She pulled the dead leaves away as they were snip snip snipped out of the Rose. And then she was done. "Okay Hadleigh. Im done. All leaves have been snipped away!" And she couldn't wait to get her feet back onto the ground. It was just in time too because she'd heard the Professor tell them to gather in the middle. Perfect timing then.

Azira had made it up exactly two thorns and was now slightly panicking.. She felt like she was thousands of feet above the ground, even through she was mere inches! Gah! Azura's did not climb! No they didn't!

She was looking up at the millions of tall feet rose when suddenly she looked back at professor Meyers as he spoke and suddenly..

She was in the air!! Ack!! Oh! She was being levitated.. That would have been easier! But.."Okay!" she called down to The professor as she attempted to cut a dead leaf down.. When suddenly..

Hello ground!

She was being set back on the soft soil as the professor went to deal with Jaemin!

She watched anxiously as he finally secured her friend and she nodded.. Big time.. Please?

His mum would be soooo proud of him. He knew things, herbology things. See, he did listen to her when they were out in the gardens having tea and crumpets.

Cornelius shifted again. This...was getting uncomfortable REAL soon. The next riddle wasn't even enough to distract him about his...predicament. He balanced himself from foot to foot as he thought. "It's that pruning charm!" he squeaked. Of course he knew the name but he had drank all of his tea, pumpkin juice and then water when he was chocking on gummy bears before class, that now his bladder was FULL.

OH MERLIN.

They had to prune. Awesome! Except...there was a small body flying upwards in front of him. Cornelius recognized the yelp first rather than the person. His jaw dropped open. "Jaemin!" He was going to die and epic death if he kept things up. First the boats and now this. Dang. And Cornelius thought HE had a death wish when he gave Rosie a wet-willy yesterday after dinner.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

He couldn't hold it anymore. Whatever Myers' was saying went in through one ear and out the other. As classmates started gathering around the professor, Cornelius squished his way through until he reached the man and TUGGED on his dress. He was bouncing, a look of desperation in his face. "IneedtheLOO!" he whispered loudly.

He couldn't...hold it...OMM HURRY UP!

It was a good thing that she hadn't started climbing yet because judging by the fact that Professor Myers had started levitating Azura, Esme came to the conclusion that it WAS the preferred method after all. Made sense as the thorns had been the main reason why she had hesitated in the first place.

"Professor Myers, can you give me a boost too?"

Or not? If the class was almost over... She REALLY wanted to finish this last part of the activity they had been giving before reverting to her normal size. OH WELL. She'd just do what the Professor asked of them.

Well.....this was taking a turn for the disastrous....she watched all of her classmates carefully.....some of them were doing dumb things. Granted she was a snake not a raven...but children flying and clinging to stems was not good....tiny wandering children was not good.....and crazy lion babies dropping giant leaves at their classmates was dumb and not good!!! Timber was not what she wanted to hear as a inky dinky speck sized person right now! Leaves falling should not be a life concerning threat! Being tiny in the first place was highly unamusing, even more so now. Ilia was not pruning anything or getting in the middle of anything nope. Ilia was standing with her back against the stem hiding from the dumb things and waiting to go back to being a real girl thank you very much......why did she keep coming back to this school!? Hot boyfriend.....last term....hot boyfriend....last term....