Halloween…

Something that was taken seriously at a school like Hogwarts. So Cassie had tried to come up with some type of costume to wear in case it was needed like today’s Herbology lesson. Alright it was optional, but the Ravenclaw was playing along totally, her hair all pulled up in a high ponytail, wearing a teal waitress outfit. At least it was meant to hold up to getting dirty which often happened in the subject so it seemed quite fitting. And the skirt had been lengthened to just below her knees like her uniform so she had the freedom of movement.

“Happy Halloween, Professor Myers!” she said enthusiastically. The girl catching a piece of candy while dodging another as she made her way to an open spot at the table. Her gaze flittering around to take in the classroom as well as her fellow classmates either costumed or not.

Were those...blindfolds on the table?

fly on, eagle.

It was strange.

And useless.

The fact that overuse around the school was were these elaborate costumes trying to one up each other. Costumes that they would only be wearing for a single day and then most likely never wear again. That thought alone made his nails dig into his palms.

Tak walked up in front of the greenhouse wearing a faded green top that looked a tad too small and a ripped pair of jeans.

It wasn't a costume.

It was clothes that he had owned for far too long.

But if anyone asked, Takeru Asakura was simply dressing up like a Muggle.

nope

Today was a very important day. For Tim and her brother at least. Aside from Herbology happening, and Halloween, today was her seventeenth birthday. That reason topped everything else today. Even if it was anyone else's birthday; she was definitely more important. Walking into the class with her chin up, she gave the professor a small wave. "Hello, professor. Lovely costume," She smiles. This year, Tim decided to be Margaery Tyrell from the muggle books she had been reading recently. Her mum had made adjustments to the dress; making it shorter so it drag and adding sleeves. On her head, she wore a crown that said 'Birthday Queen'. Not too big; she didn't want to make a big show out of it. Tim scratched her head a bit and picked a spot to stand by. This wig was getting a bit too itchy for her own liking today.

Looking down at the table, she saw a blindfold. What was Myers planning for them today???

look again!

Katy Toussaint was into Halloween. Like, majorly into it. Her family celebrated all the holidays to the maximum, and Halloween was a big wizarding holiday. But she didn't know how to dress for both class and Halloween, and she didn't want to get any of her favorite dress up clothes dirty.

So she drew whispers on with eyeliner and plunked cat ears in her long blonde curls, and she was Katy Cat. The end.

"Hullo, professor. I like your costume."

there is nothing to be found here

The moment Alice saw her friend she instantly followed her over to whatever table Tim was headed to. "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" Sure she tried not to be disruptive but he friend was OF AGE and it was a big deal and she was basically Alice's favorite Gyrffindor ever!!!

But this was a class.. So she had to calm down. "Mind if i stick with you?" Alice knew Tim wouldn't mind but she had to ask anyway. Manners matter.

keep searching!

Cornelius Orion Baltazar was Harry Potter.

Best part of his costume was that he looked like the real deal. Dark, messy hair and green eyes. He strode proudly towards the Greenhouse, which probably wasn't so Harry Potter-esque. His Slytherin was showing a little too much.

But daaaaaaaang. Was he ever so blessed with Halloween. Not only because of the sweets--because those were blessings alone--but the costumes. Especially in his house. The ladies...well, they knew how to pick a costume. Talk about Nat and Maggie. When he had seen them in the common room the boy had lost footing and plummeted to the ground, face first.

Thank Merlin his face was still intact. And now that he was here, he was kind of amazed at all the costumes. Interesting wizards and witches.

"Natalia," he greeted as he passed her, giving her his sweetest smile. Hi. Still hate him? His smile turned into his more dazzling one was he passed Maggie. "Magdalena." They were all Hugo's friends, yeah?

Finally, coming to a stop, the boy gave a ridiculous grin at the Herbology Professor. "Goooood day! What do you think?" The boy did a 360, arms spread so the older man could check out his costume. GRIN.




hiss. hiss. nothing here.

Owen seriously contemplated wearing his Big Bird costume for this lesson, but then decided against it because even if they were dressing up, this was still a lesson after all. Even if Badger Daddy Professor Myers doesn't make it seem like one most of the time. So Owen decided to be a hamburger. NOM! Need he say more?

"Hello, Professor! You look rad." Wiiiiiide grin.

Candies in hand, he then plopped into a seat of the table nearest to him which he apparently shared with a cat...dressed up person.

^_____^ NOT HERE

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Originally Posted by Bazinga

They should just not have classes on Halloween, at least that's what Natalia felt. They could just dress up and hangout or have parties or something. Not classes, but she was happy that Professor Myers was letting them wear costumes to class. Cool move professor, cool move. Natalia walked in to the greenhouse and gave the professor a smile, "Nice costume Professor. This was a really cool idea."

Turning she noticed no chairs were present, but she did notices certain people she wasn't going anywhere near. She moved to a spot near Paige and stood. Her eyes went straight for the blindfold. "Anything but this..." She knew games during Halloween sometimes had blindfolds, but she couldn't do blindfolds. She would go into a panic attack and make an entire scene if that were to do this. She looked at Paige, "Please tell me we are using these to make Halloween costumes for the plants today?"

Natalia was now wishing she would have skipped the lesson.

Plopping herself on the ground in front of her table, Paige glanced over at Nat when she spoke. Blindfolds? Oh...the Hufflepuff hadn't even noticed them until just now. "Could be," she said with a small shrug. "I wouldn't put it past Professor Myers to have us show plants some tender, love, and care by dressing them up for the holidays as well." Or at least decorating pots. She could sense that the Slytherin was nervous, but didn't quite understand why. "You're already wearing a form mask though," she said, pointing to that part of her costume. If, you know, Nat had an aversion to things around her eyes and blocking her vision - she knew some people like that including daddy. "Daddy doesn't fancy them either, masks included. Make him feel clostrophobic with his periferal vision so limited." Although...Nat was in form fitting everything, really. Paige both admired and felt jealous of all those who were able to do that sort of thing...which seemed to be quite a few of her classmates.

She would just sit her in her usual robes though, thanks.

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Originally Posted by nicole black

Aslan Evans was the devil.

Or at least she was today.

Surprisingly the trickiest part of her costume had been transfiguring the horns and charming the dress just the right not-quite-maroon not-quite-ruby red shade, but after a night of wandering and idly practice she had managed both and... Frightened some first years, but that didn't matter. She had even taken pains to get her unruly chestnut hair under control. No messy curls, no, today Aslan's hair was sleek and straight. She felt oddly grown up in her devil's costume, she was even sitting with her back straight.

Perhaps clothes were more powerful than she'd realized. Or maybe it was all the red. Red was powerful, and arrogant. And she supposed she was right now, in this dress up.

She nodded to Myers, standing still as there were no seats to yet be seen, and then made herself busy watching the others and mentally commentating on their costumes. Brooklyn was near unrecgonizable with her blonde hair.. Genny seemed quite at ease in her armor and than there was Paige with that bubblegum pink hair. Aslan smiled slightly with some amusement. "Who are you supposed to be?" She paused, the hufflepuff robes and the pink hair making her think of another hufflepuff with famously colored hair. "Are you Nyphadora Tonks, today?" Aslan asked, head tilted thoughtfully.

Smiling up at Aslan, appreciative blush gracing her cheeks, Paige nodded her head. "I am," she smiled, somehow not at all surprised that Aslan was able to figure out the costume. "I...wanted something subtle..." But still showed participation. Wasn't the professor's fault she had negative attachments to Halloween still lingering. Paige gave the Gryffindor's costume a look up and down, blue eyes fixating on the massive headpiece. "Those are some really big horns," she blinked.

the quest has not ended. keep searching

It was subtle, as the hufflepuff had said and not as obnoxious or romantic as many of the other costumes their peers had chosen. Aslan found herself nodding in some appreciation. "Well choosen" - she paused, unable to stop a thought as it tumbled past her unpainted, but rosy lips. "A funny nose or strange pair of ears wouldn't hurt the costume." That was helpful, wasn't it? Friendly? Since her mild success with Marsha Hanover and Minnie Darling Aslan had been trying to continue this... Friendly streak as best she could, although this might have been a step in the wrong direction.

The Gryffindor reached up to touch her horns, the smallest hint of satisfaction on her features. "Yes, but they're not as uncomfortable as you'd think." If anything, they were a comfortable, settled weight like a thick gold headband.

Tak, didn't escape her notice and Aslan nodded briefly to the younger Slytherin as he waltzed in, his clothes ill-kept and of... Questionable merit. "Takeru, what are you today?" She asked, unabashedly calling to him from where she stood. Curiosity and the cat.

nopeeeeeeee

………...whoever was in the dinosaur costume had Paul’s UTMOST respect because daaaaaamn that costume was…..hilarious!

Paul was laughing as Juno revealed herself, and he waved at her. “The blindfolds, m’dear?” he asked, a twinkle in his eyes. “It’s merely for the very beginning of the lesson, just to make things for...HALLOWEENY.” He almost snorted because he had said the word “weeny” but decided he was much more mature than that. Hmph!



“Hello, Brooklyn! You look fabulous with blonde hair,” he winked, not knowing exactly who she was, but nonetheless, she looked great. And cheerful wasn’t the word, but she seemed in a better mood than was typical of her. “Who are you supposed to be, m’dear?” Medieval queen was his guess.



“And you, too, Miss Griffel!” he beamed. “A…...witch!” Muggle version. “Interesting, interesting..” and quite profound according to the former Ravenclaw. Dressing up as the...muggle opinion of what YOU are...indeed, dressing up as yourself but only as a muggle would perceive you, quite complex stuff here. He wondered if Leesha knew how brilliant she was!



He heard Genny Tate far before he could see her. He didn’t KNOW it was Genny until he saw, though, and he gave her a huge thumbs up. “Nice, Genny! Are you...a knight or something?” Paul was bad at guessing costumes. Really bad. “Is it heavy?”



“Thank you, Kimi!” he smiled at the boy. “It’s very warm, so I’m glad it’s a little chilly today!”



Paul had no clue what Mason was. No clue at all. “Ah, thank, Mason!” he nodded at the boy. “I have no idea what you are but you look great!” He gave him a thumbs up.



Another costume he didn’t know. He didn’t want to guess and be WRONG of course, so he just smiled and waved at Harvey. “Thank you, Mr. Jarvis...Er...nice….costume, too!” he said, gesturing at him.



“Oh my and WHO are you? I thought I knew EVERYONE in Hufflepuff! Oh dear, I am just the worst head of house in all the lands!” he put his hand to his forehead dramatically. “But thank you, m’dear,” he winked at her.



“Happy Halloween, Alyce!” he said cheerfully back. Paul thought he might know this costume. It was from a muggle film, the Disney one...but he was very confused on which character and thought she was the queen from Snow White and not Sleeping Beauty. “You look wonderful, evil queen!” Oops. He tipped his hat at her.



Another clinky costume! He smiled at young Jace and bowed back. “Good day to you, Jace. Happy Halloween!” he figured Jace was a samurai, actually, but didn’t say this aloud in case he was wrong. “You’re welcome!” And he rained more candy down on everyone in attendence. CANDY FOR ALL.



“Yes, good morning, Miss Lynch!” he smiled. “You look...puuuuurrrrrrrrr-fect!” he winked and chortled to himself.



A genuine smile came from Paul Myers extended to Junia, yes yes. After their brief discussion in the Greenhouses recently, he felt more akin to her, weirdly enough. He liked the girl. She reminded him of Dot, a bit, and he missed Dot so very much.

“I haaaaaave zero idea what you’re supposed to be, Miss Botros, but you look fantastic!” Obviously.



AHHH he knew this one! “Belle!” he smiled, reminded of Olivia. And then he wondered if Olivia would come as Belle. And if that happened, would there be drama? He certainly hoped not, and didn’t think any would result from the two of them wearing the same character’s outfit. Mostly because it was LIV who was a snowflake and AZURA who was equally as nice. So! “Hello to you, too!”



…………”You’re dressed as a …..muggle?” he asked Mr. Fletcher. “Very original,” he said, raising an eyebrow. Pffft. Using his lesson as an excuse to dress casually. PFFT.



At least Paige, who seemed to not be dressed up, had worn her uniform, MISTER FLETCHER. The hair was puzzling, though, and Paul couldn’t help but feel like he was missing something about her attire. Like...he should know who she was, but he couldn’t quite get it. “Good day to you, Paige!”




Paul spotted Miss Traulton from afar ONLY BECAUSE she was the QUEEEEEEEN OF HEARTS! He smiled as she got closer and waved very happily at her. “I see you’ve taken a leaf out of my book, Miss Traulton! You look amazing! Much better than I did..” then again, Maggie was a bit more fashionable than Paul, even if he thought his ponchos super cool.



He smiled over at the Slytherin girl. “Thank you, m’dear! You look….very nice!” Tight costume. Very mature looking. Slytherins. *looking at you, too, Maggie*



Aslan had arrived and seemed to be...a devil! Paul waved at her, and said, “You look great, Miss Evans!”



Little Lancelot! And dressed as his namesake, a knight! He saw the child glance at Genny’s real armor and smiled. “Sir Lancelot! What an honor to be in your presence, good sir!” he bowed at him, and winked. “I do love that sweatshirt, m’boy. I must find one for my husband--” he had abandoned using the word partner for a year now. Might as well just call the man his husband, eh? “He’d LOVE IT.”



HOLA! Paul whipped around and nodded at Miss Lupin. “Hola, Alice!” He waved at the redhead. “Happy Halloween!”



“And to you, too, m’boy!” Oliver was always so happy in his classes and he loved that! He chuckled as he spotted him trying to stuff some of the candy in his pocket.

Paul didn’t mind. He had come VERY prepared to give out TONS of candy.



“Why, a BEE! Welcome, welcome, Miss Bee! I’ve been needing you around my Greenhouses!” he chortled at Kat.



“Oh MY--AWESOME CATCH!” he gave a thumbs up to Henry. “Hello! Happy Halloween, m’boy!” No clue who Henry was though. heh.



Oh look, it was Paul’s favorite student, Kaycee.

*SNORT*

“Your face paint looks very cool, Miss Richards.” He wondered where DANTE was and was quite glad the boy wasn’t here yet. Hmph. Maybe Kaycee would pay attention for once.



Awww, Cassie looked adorable! Paul smiled at her and bowed his head. “And to you, too, m’dear!”



Another LAZY costume! HMPH. Slytherins. Again.

“Happy Halloween, Mr. Asakura!” Did the boy want candy? He had just thrown another handful at him.



“THANK YOU, Timmy!” he beamed and squinted at her crown.

WAIT.

WAAAAIT.

A BIRTHDAY! Paul SHOWERED her in more candy. “Happy BIRTHDAY, m’dear!” Oh this was just LOVELY!



SO CUTE. The younger ones were all so cute in their costumes! Another kitty! “I like your costume, too, Miss Toussaint! MEOW you’re all ready for Halloween!” He chuckled at his corny joke. Funny funny FUNNY.



Paul watched the boy very obviously eye both Maggie AND Natalia, and Paul couldn’t help but snort in laughter. Teenagers were curious, funny little creatures. He was still chuckling when the boy approached him. “You look great, Mr. Potter! A thousand points to Gryffindor!” he teased.

Gryffindor was not really getting a thousand points, don’t get your hopes up, kiddos.



Laughter.

There was muuuuch laughter when Owen arrived, and Paul nearly lost his sombrero in the process. “OWEN--you look amazing! So funny! I love it!” he said as he checked his watch. It was...pretty much time to start!



“Happy Halloween, everyone, and welcome to our HALLOWS EVE themed Herbology lesson!” he announced suddenly, loudly, deciding that class should start NOW. “I hope you all weren’t expecting a real lesson--” he chuckled. “Because this lesson is going to be..absolutely SILLY.” He knew some would be disappointed, but eh. This was his class. Too bad, kiddos. Teachers didn’t feel like teaching much on Halloween either, all right? All right.

“Today’s topic will be introduced with a very old Halloween tradition-thing!” He paused for emphasis. “The blindfolds on your tables...well, I want to play a VERY quick guessing game. Just for fun, nothing serious. But if you will put them on--” he held up a blindfold in his hand. “Oh right--this is optional! I know some of you might not want to put a blindfold on and stick your hand in a bowl of unknown..substance, but I do promise that it isn’t terrible, and what is IN the bowl is what we will doing our lesson on. So you know it can’t be TOO bad, right?” He hoped that, even if a few of them didn’t participate, at least SOME would. “SOOOO if those of you who want to guess using your hands--go ahead and put the blindfolds on. Those of you who would like to merely LOOK at the stuff and guess...well, not NEARLY as fun, but it’s allowed! So! BLINDFOLDS ON!” he called out, loudly,

…..

He waited for those who wanted to to have their blindfolds snugly on before summoning a BUNCH of bowls (assumingly from the greenhouse? WHO KNEW). They clattered onto the tables, in front of students both blindfolded and not.

The substance in the black bowls were slimy, slightly orange in tiny, and felt like thin strands of some squishy substance. The smell was strong, pungent, and very familiar for those who were lovers of the Autumn season. Was it WORMS? Sure felt like WORMS IN THERE.

“Does aaaaanyone know?”



OOC: Hello everyone, Herbology has officially started! Since the class is outside, Paul probably wouldn't technically know if anyone was late unless a whole HORDE of people show up late, so.....YOU CAN DECIDE HOW YOU WANT YOUR CHARACTER TO SHOW UP IF YOU HAVEN'T ARRIVED ALREADY. *isn't gonna' lie lmao*

Also, I know this might be super duper easy for some of your characters, but Paul, bless him, wanted to do this FOR THE SPIRIT OF HALLOWEEN...so...you all have like...17 or so hours to have your students guess? Depending on my schedule tomorrow. Happy posting! Interact with each other, chatter away, Paul says this is a mellow lesson.

OK.....Juno had to think about this one. This costume was awesome...but very impractical. She did have a zipper in the front....so she could just put the blindfold on that way and then keep her arm out to put into the bowl................................YEP. That's the plan, and she did just that. Hopefully her T-Rex suit wouldn't deflate too much while she did this. There was a fan in there to keep it going.

Once Juno had the blindfold on, and heard that the bowls were on the table, she unzipped her T-rex suit just enough to get her arm through. She patted the table in front of her until she found the base of the bowl, then plunged her hand into it. It was very squishy, and stringy and really, really slimy, which honestly kind of freaked her out a little bit. She really hoped there was a towel near by because she was not putting her arm back in her suit with out cleaning her hand off first. Juno raised her dirty hand in the air, and when she was called on answered in a muffled voice, (T-Rex suit, dude), "Sir, it is either spaghetti, spaghetti squash, or worms. If it's the latter, I may scream."

Juno would definitely be waiting until she knew what was in there and that there was a towel to clean her hand off before she put arm hand back in her suit.

keep looooooking

Azura smiled as she looked up at Professor Meyers, a silly lesson is exactly what she needed. She looked down at the blindfold and then smiled a bit. If she was going to put her hand in something unknown.. she would need to take off her gloves..

And so she did so, she slowly put the golden gloves down on the table before putting on the blindfold..

She felt something clatter down in front of her and her nose scrunched up at the smell.. she knew this smell..

She put her hands into the bowl and started to feel around the slimy mess..

Her feee hand went onto the air.

"Is it pumpkin seeds Professor? " She asked.

keep on your journey TO FIND THE HIDDEN ITEM

Well that would make Lance smile for days.

"Thank you, sir," he said, smile growing into a beam as he stood taller. Perhaps it wasn't all that bad he didn't have real armor? And if the professor DID find where the sweatshirt came from, he wouldn't mind wanting to know as well, it having been a gift and all.

Finding an empty spot at the tables to stand by, he pocketed the pieces of candy and fiddled with the black blindfold as the professor introduced the lesson. Sticking their hands into unknown substances while blindfolded? A lopsided grin appeared on his face as he glanced around. This... was his type of lesson. With his Halloween spirits back in action, he eagerly placed the blindfold on and rolled up his sleeves before sticking his hand into the--

Nope. Missed.

Second try...

Ooooh that was slimy and gross and utterly COOL. "It's totally BRAINS."

nothing but pumpkin guts here

Looking at the blindfold before her for a few seconds she decided to put it on because… It was Halloween and she wasn’t scary or afraid to get her hands dirty! Actually, it could be fun because when else did she have permission to make fun and to NOT study seriously during a lesson? “Stay on my shoulder” she spoke to her rat, knowing how curious her pet could be and she didn’t wanted Vlam to stuck his nose into something what might be bad for him to ingest.

Minutes passed and then a bucked appeared before her and without a second thought she rolled the sleeves from her muggle witch costume up to not make it dirty and stuck her hands inside the bucked, bracing herself for what she might feel and… It was slimy, slightly wet and cold! She pushed her hands deeper and she felt that there was a structure in the substance! Bringing her face closer toward the bucket she tried to smell what it was but although the substance smelled very common, she couldn’t exactly pinpoint what it was! Bleh, frustrating!

But then suddenly she felt something else, something leek a seed? Ah, she had been so stupid! She was in the herbology lesson so of course it was related to the lesson AND it was Halloween so she suddenly smiled, knowing what she was feeling with her hands! “Professor, unless it are brains from dead animals I think that it’s pumpkin dirt” she grinned while speaking out loud, hoping that the professor could hear her and that he was standing close because she couldn’t see where he was with her blindfold still covering her eyes.

noooooooope! try again!

"Thank you Professor," Hady replied with another bright smile. See this was just her day costume. The simple one she had tossed together for lessons. Her real costume was going to be for later on in the evening when everyone got to see Taco'ween event.

Standing behind her selected table she watched as everyone began to arrive. Some of the costumes were rather fitting to those wearing them while others were a bit...excessive. No comments from here though. It was Halloween after all. Shifting from one foot to the other she listened as Paul explained the reason for the blindfolds. It sounded simple enough really.

Picking up the black blindfold from her table she secured it around her head covering her eyes. Now she couldn't see anything. All she heard was a strange noise and what sounded like something landing on the tables. Carefully moving her hand along the table she hit something smooth and from running her fingers over it carefully found it to be a bowl. The smell coming from it was rather familiar and she grinned pushing one of her sleeves up so as not to get it dirty before reaching her hand into the bowl.

Cold. Slimy. Gooey stuff. She picked up a bit of it squishing it in her hand. Tiny little bits clung to her fingers making her laugh. "Is it pumpkin guts professor?" It had to be. She had carved many pumpkins growing up.

nothing but pumpkin here!

He did not know what he was.....

Mason's expression changed for a second as he looked genuinely hurt. He hadn't woken up earlier than normal to work on his costume just to hear the words 'lol what are you even?' WASN'T IT OBVIOUS?! It was to him.

"It's ...i'm a cyborg! How can you NOT tell, professor?!"

Offended Ravenclaw was offended.

Still annoyed, Mason walked away to stand somewhere else but when the lesson begun he turned his attention to the boxes and the ...blindfolds? So they had to guess what was inside of the box? What did that have to do with halloween? He watched the others as some put on the blindfolds to guess with their hands and others refused and wanted to guess by looking at whatever was in the box.

Not feeling like the activity was THAT important for his education and because he had heard some of the other students similar answers, he knew what was inside of the box without bothering to look. So that was why he hung back and crossed his arms over each other and he wished he'd taken his Guide to Advanced Occlumency book with him.

lucky you! you found the item! link the picture in your post!

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Originally Posted by nicole black

It was subtle, as the hufflepuff had said and not as obnoxious or romantic as many of the other costumes their peers had chosen. Aslan found herself nodding in some appreciation. "Well choosen" - she paused, unable to stop a thought as it tumbled past her unpainted, but rosy lips. "A funny nose or strange pair of ears wouldn't hurt the costume." That was helpful, wasn't it? Friendly? Since her mild success with Marsha Hanover and Minnie Darling Aslan had been trying to continue this... Friendly streak as best she could, although this might have been a step in the wrong direction.

The Gryffindor reached up to touch her horns, the smallest hint of satisfaction on her features. "Yes, but they're not as uncomfortable as you'd think." If anything, they were a comfortable, settled weight like a thick gold headband.

Tak, didn't escape her notice and Aslan nodded briefly to the younger Slytherin as he waltzed in, his clothes ill-kept and of... Questionable merit. "Takeru, what are you today?" She asked, unabashedly calling to him from where she stood. Curiosity and the cat.

Color rising just a smidgen more in her cheeks, Paige ruffled the bubblegum pink hair on the back of her head and shyly chewed on the inside of her cheek. "Thank you," she replied, still feeling a bit terrible that she hadn't put all that much thought into a costume. Perhaps she could make a bit of a more conscious effort for the prefect event. "Actually....that is quite the brilliant idea," the seventh year nodded. Not that she would be able to perform the enchantments on herself - she could TRY but perhaps it would just be best to find a prosthetic somewhere. Perhaps the Room of Requirement could provide for all her costuming needs...especially since she did not have the time to brew a potion to accomplish a similiar result.

"That's good," she nodded, still blinking at the size of them. She hadn't even been thinking about comfort so much, thoughts stopping at 'big'.

SPOILER!!: Professor Myers

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Originally Posted by kayquilz

“Today’s topic will be introduced with a very old Halloween tradition-thing!” He paused for emphasis. “The blindfolds on your tables...well, I want to play a VERY quick guessing game. Just for fun, nothing serious. But if you will put them on--” he held up a blindfold in his hand. “Oh right--this is optional! I know some of you might not want to put a blindfold on and stick your hand in a bowl of unknown..substance, but I do promise that it isn’t terrible, and what is IN the bowl is what we will doing our lesson on. So you know it can’t be TOO bad, right?” He hoped that, even if a few of them didn’t participate, at least SOME would. “SOOOO if those of you who want to guess using your hands--go ahead and put the blindfolds on. Those of you who would like to merely LOOK at the stuff and guess...well, not NEARLY as fun, but it’s allowed! So! BLINDFOLDS ON!” he called out, loudly,

…..

He waited for those who wanted to to have their blindfolds snugly on before summoning a BUNCH of bowls (assumingly from the greenhouse? WHO KNEW). They clattered onto the tables, in front of students both blindfolded and not.

The substance in the black bowls were slimy, slightly orange in tiny, and felt like thin strands of some squishy substance. The smell was strong, pungent, and very familiar for those who were lovers of the Autumn season. Was it WORMS? Sure felt like WORMS IN THERE.

“Does aaaaanyone know?”



OOC: Hello everyone, Herbology has officially started! Since the class is outside, Paul probably wouldn't technically know if anyone was late unless a whole HORDE of people show up late, so.....YOU CAN DECIDE HOW YOU WANT YOUR CHARACTER TO SHOW UP IF YOU HAVEN'T ARRIVED ALREADY. *isn't gonna' lie lmao*

Also, I know this might be super duper easy for some of your characters, but Paul, bless him, wanted to do this FOR THE SPIRIT OF HALLOWEEN...so...you all have like...17 or so hours to have your students guess? Depending on my schedule tomorrow. Happy posting! Interact with each other, chatter away, Paul says this is a mellow lesson.

Paige would be lying if she said she wasn't a little disappointed that today's lesson would have no real practical application that could help her on her NEWTs, but something light hearted to break through the tension of studies and making it through two months of school was also quite welcomed.

Having no qualms with blindfolds herself, Paige slipped hers on and then searched around the table for the bowl...hesitating for a moment when she overhead some of the guesses - like brains - which was now a visual that she could not get out of her head. Whatever it was she was about to put her hand in, it was going to be something Herbology related...and Professor Myers wasn't exactly being subtle about everything being Halloween themed...which meant pumpkins. At least that was what she was able to deduce prior to sticking her hand into the goop.

Yup...definately pumpkin pulp...

..............but could people please stop saying that it was brains?

"Do you have plans to use all of this, professor?" Paige asked while shaking her hand off. Because if there were bowls on each table...that was a LOT of pumpkin pulp to go around and Paige had a few ideas.

NOT HERE

"I'm a flower princess, Sir." Junia offered. Sometimes professors could be so very clueless about fashion choices but the brunette was happy to correct him seeing as they seemed to have an understanding now. Professor Myers was actually pretty cool.

She would not be putting on a blindfold because as much as she trusted said cool professor, she didn't entirely trust her classmates. She'd seen the way some of them behaved and she wouldn't put it past anyone to mess with her while her eyes were covered, especially when there was the option not to wear the blindfold. She'd be using her eyes for this, thank you very much.

The smell wasn't what she'd call pleasant but it was also strangely familiar. Pumpkin. Yes, definitely pumpkin related. Guts, though? There was a proper word for it. "It's called pulp, isn't it?"

trinket? here? nah

Paige some how knew what to say to calm Nat at times and really make her smile in these lessons. "I wouldn't mind doing that to be honest." It would be a fun idea to dress up some of the plant. She could so she Professor Myers doing that too. It could happen, really it could. She looked at Paige as she mentioned her own mask she was wearing today. "These have the eyes out though. I can see things. I... I can't do things over my face that I can't see. It's just not a good outcome." Panic attack central and Paige would get the blunt of it sitting next to her.


Turning her brown eyes on the Professor as he got started she could probably have been heard sighing with relief as he said it was optional, but she did lift her hand. "What if we can't do blindfolds, but would want to close our eyes to touch it. Could we do that?" She wouldn't mind touch the gross whatever, but the blindfold was certainly a no.

She watched the others carefully as they went up to do the activity. Really she felt like she was missing the fun by not being able to do the blindfold, but she had her reasons. She knew it was for the best of everyone to sit there. If she couldn't close her eyes to do it she'd just look at it to guess.

KEEP UP THE SEARCH

Paul looked up at Natalia's question, and he nodded. "Of course, m'dear! Go for it!" He smiled. It was pretty much the same thing, except blindfolds kept people from opening their eyes, and at this point, they were more for fun than for a serious game of guessing, here.

Also, he heard Aslan say Paige was Nymphadora Tonks. Well. That made sense, actually. HMPH. And Junia was a flower....well, he could see a few issues with her costume biologically representing flower, but no matter. She looked adorable anyways. Also, poor Mason. Paul saw how disappointed he was that he didn't know WHO the boy was. "Well you look cool ANYWAYS!"

And he would wait for more people to guess before revealing....

Olly didn't have a problem with putting on a blindfold and sticking his hand into an unknown substance. Some people might, but it didn't bother him one bit. So he moved to a table and grabbed one of the blindfolds, tying it around his face. It was a little hard tying it without being able to see it, but eventually he did get it. It was a little loose but he was pretty sure it wouldn't fall off so he called that good enough. Then it was time to stick his hand in the bowl.

What was it? It felt...gross. And cool. It was pretty mushy, but there were a few larger bits in there too. Olly didn't really know what it was. He wasn't very good at guessing, so maybe he shouldn't have been too eager to try this. But he did kind of like sticking his hands in mush so he was content for the time being to just feel it between his fingers. He would find out what it was eventually.

nothing!

Given that Rooney was ALL OVER everything and anything that included any type of costume or any type of effort with his appearance, he was HERE. Herbology was his witch and all of that. Roo's adoration for Professor Myers was growing by the lesson and he had felt himself really wanting to get the best of grades in Herbology this year in his OWLs. But exams had nothing to do with the time he had spent getting ready for today. His hair was brown instead of blonde and he looked perfect. He even had the swagger of Aladdin going for him, so it was easy to slide in behind a couple of student when he was minutes late. Mere MINUTES, honest. He had lost his had in the running down the stairs and had had to stop and pin it back into place.

He'd apologise to Myers later, in person. Without an audience. Maybe even treat the man to a performance. What was a costume if you couldn't perform?

Throwing himself right in, Roo put on a blindfold and shoved his hands into a bowl. He ooooohed and he ahhhhhhed and he squeezed and he sloshed and boy oh boy did he enjoy making as much mess as he could. SLOSH SLOSH SLOSH. "Feels like intestines, Sir!" Oooooh were they looking at the insides of something now?? But he removed a hand and gave his gunky fingers a sniff. PUNGENT, YO. "IT'S A PUMPKIN INTESTINE!!!!"

no trinkets here

See Kat knew that the herbology professor would appreciate her costume, as a fellow flower enthusiast. She knew just how important bee's were to flowers. She beamed and headed on a table.

Once she was at her table Katerina curiously looked at the blindfold. She picked it up and looked, Mmmm. Wondering what they could be for. She soon found out what the blindfolds were for. Guessing games were fun. Listening to Professor Myers, the third year went ahead and tied the blindfold over her eyes.

Reluctantly, Kat moved her hands to the pull the bowl closer. Even more reluctantly, she put her hands into the the bowl.

Gross!

"PUMPKIN INSIDES." She giggled, Okay not so gross. This was silly very silly.

NAHHHHHH

Tenacius is never late. Nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to....

Which in this case was sometime between ingesting that aging potion, messing up his transfiguration suit spells and realizing that he'll never be able to assemble his Tacoween costume in time for Herbology. So he grabs his backup Halloween wear (aka his favorite sweater), hops on his cruiser and zoooooms for class--

-- which luckily was outside. That aging potion was also starting to have some effect because now his hair was starting to droop all over his face. Hastily he uses his scarf to keep his hair off his face, then smoothly slips in and plops his hand into that bowl like what everyone else is doing.

Ick. Memories of Halloween pumpkin carving sessions leaps to the forefront of his mind "Pumpkin guts mmm mmm mmm." kinda gross but he does know of a few culinary tips to make this awesome.


nada!

Rula had a costume for Halloween, but she didn't want to wear it to a Herbology lesson and get it dirty. Sure, she could probably charm it to keep most of the dirt off, but she didn't really want to have to do that. So she just put something together from the rest of the leftover old clothes she'd had her mum send her for her actual costume. With a plaid shirt, old pair of jeans, and her hair braided into pigtails, she was a farmer.

Seemed fitting for a Herbology lesson.

And starting off, apparently they were wearing a blindfold and putting their hands in a bowl. Which could be gross, but probably not too bad. Rula was going to go along with it.

She covered her eyes with the blindfold and stuck her hands into the bowl in front of her. Yuck. But not TOO yucky, at least. As long as it wasn't actually worms. Or brains like some were saying.

"Maybe it's pumpkin insides AND worms." Hopefully NOT though. Hopefully just pumpkin.

ain't nothing here