... And of course, Olivia was SO happy and excited to be doing this with Char. They'd not gotten a chance to do much together lately, given how busy school seemed to be this term. There was simply a lot to do and so much to be apart of... IN A GOOD WAY, of course!

Taking in her friend's performance, however, Liv wanted to clap her on the back and shout BRAVA! in a very obnoxious OLIVIA!way, but this was impossible as they were in the middle of class. AFTERWARDS! After the lesson, they would flail and talk about it.

Mmhmmm.

To be honest, Olivia had no idea about differences in pumpkins and how to tell one from the other, but she DID know that this particular pumpkin was big enough to make A TON of pumpkin pies. As well as whatever other type of pumpkin-based food one might be interested in... And that thought alone got her thinking about the less fortunate and people who were probably going hungry in other parts of the world...

Heh, she'd been forced to volunteer this summer at a food bank. So, the experience was still fresh in her mind. "Professor, is there some way we could donate all the extra to someone in need?" It might be a stretch to send this stuff internationally, but locally? Maybe Hogsmeade? Diagon Alley?

What about muggles? They had loads of poor people. "It just seems kinda irresponsible... and a waste for us to keep it all when we have so much." Oh, if her mum could hear her now...

Also... Someone had just mentioned a carriage. A PUMPKIN carriage.

Why hadn't her mind IMMEDIATELY flown to Disney related things?!

Could she have one of the rinds afterwards? To play with?

continue on your search! nothing here!

Paul nodded at Paige’s words. “Very good point--let me just add that--” he picked up a piece of chalk and began to write, manually, on the board. A second later, though, he dropped the chalk and patted his hands together. “Nah--nevermind--you know what….don’t worry about notes,” he grinned. This was supposed to be a CHILL lesson. Chill.

“But yes, you’re right. The shapes would be different!” he smiled. Clever clever!

And he would be asking her for her ideas after the lesson, yes.



Well, Owen didn’t answer his question, but he did have the baking idea Paul knew he would get. But surely this was TOO MUCH pumpkin to use on baking? They’d be living off of pumpkin pies for a few months!



He was unsurprised when the first year did not have an answer; they were typically quieter in lessons, it seemed. So he sent her an encouraging smile instead.



Paul smiled. “Yes, you’re on the right track! Similar to what Miss Skeeter was saying!” He smiled and nodded. “Well yes, but I need something to do with all the INNERDS of pumpkin I’ll have collected by the end of the lesson!”



Ha. A….orange insides fight. “That sounds...ridiculously charming, Leesha,” and gross.



Shape. They all wanted to focus on shape, but there was SO MUCH more!



He was also unsurprised to see that Charlotte Kettleburn had a lot to say about this; the girl always seemed to have a lot to say. Not that this was necessarily a bad thing. “Yes, everything you said was correct, Miss Kettleburn--” he smiled. “But I was more thinking of PHYSICAL things you can see. However, I hadn’t specified, so--” he waved his hand. She was right, after all.



HMMM. “WELLLLLL Mr. Winchester, you are CERTAINLY onto something, yes! Take a point!” he winked at the boy.



Cooking class sounded either like it’d be stupendous fun or a complete disaster, depending on which students attended.

“Ooohhh very good, Harvey, yes! Magnified vss multiplied.” He nodded. It was something he hadn’t actually thought about, but it was true, yes! “Take a point for your out the box thinking!”



Another stretch answer! “Yes, yes, very good, Tenacius! So what you’re saying is the DENSITY would be different, yes?” This was all getting very sciency and giving Paul the excited wiggles. “Take a point as well!”

Also…….a carriage? Was this a fairy tale reference? “I am afraid I know of no such spell, but I can certainly look into it.” Wouldn’t THAT be a sight.



Paul liked how people kept mentioning the INSIDES of pumpkins in their answers; it was so interesting! And he honestly hadn’t expected it! It was delightful! “Yes yes, very good, Nat! Take a point for creativity!”

“Yes, but what about the GOOPY insides?” He wasn’t as worried about the outsides of the pumpkin. He could chop those up for his compost.



Paul smiled at her question. “Yes, the seeds would be engorged, Miss Delgado.” He had never heard of roasting pumpkin seeds….he wondered what the point of that was. Then again, he hadn’t much experience with pumpkins in the cooking field in general.



The dinosaur suit was too much for Paul to handle right now. He was chortling too much at her to really pay attention to her answer……..

Oops.



Ooohhh and it seemed Miss Toussaint was on the right track, too! All of his students were answering so brilliantly--”Take a point, Katherine!” Creativity and all that jazz.



Azura was quiet on this question? Paul plopped a piece of candy on her desk for encouragement! Maybe he mistook her silence for nervousness.



D’awww. Wasn’t this...just simply...adorable? Paul couldn’t help smiling...widely. “I...I can look into something, MIss Phillips, sure. That is just--the sweetest answer--Oh--I want to give you a point for being so KIND--” and he would, but he just sighed and pressed his hands over his heart.

“Oh you know what? A point for everyone who spoke up! You all were wonderful and brilliant and creative!” Sigh. Wasn’t he just the luckiest man in all the WORLD to have students such as these? He wished he could bottle this feeling right NOW and unbottle it possibly tomorrow when someone (a student) plagued him for whatever reason. That student was probably Kaycee.

Could they TELLLLLL he was in the HOLIDAY SPIRIT?

“Okay! So, a lot of you brought up good points. The shapes would be different, the INSIDES would be different...the textures, the nutritional stuff….all of it. VERY VERY keen observtions.” He grinned and bounced on the balls of his feet. “And two of you mentioned STREEEETCHING.” He patted the enormous pumpkin next to him. “This one here is one BRED To be large. As you can see--” he traced his thumb over one of the ridges on the pumpkin’s side. “It has a LOT of them….because it is a LARGE pumpkin by nature. Just as a few of you mentioned the seeds in the inside being more in a naturally bred pumpkin--same goes for the ridges. In one charmed to be big, the ridges wouldn’t be MORE--they’d just be larger, stretched out.” He nodded. “And to...more to be silly than anything, we’ll move on to our next small activity before the BIG one.”

He paused in case he was talking just too quickly, which was likely. “There are normal sized pumpkins located in bins behind you all--if you would all go grab one, I will be handing out MARKERS to you all.” He grinned and levitated about a dozen tins of colored markers. “To demonstrate what I mean about the lines and whatnot--I’d like you all to draw a face on your pumpkin and then engorgio them! Easy enough, right? And you can keep them...you know, when you’ve gotten them back to their normal size.”

Paul would working on one, too. “And I can answer any and all pumpkin questions while you all work!” Because that was his job. Yep. He got to levitating a tin of markers on each table for the students to share.


OOC: WOW that was a fun batch to reply to xD Thanks for being entertaining and awesome, dudes. I'm having a pretty busy week with school, so I've noticed all my replies are reaaaaally late, so I'm expecting to be moving on around the same time tomorrow. KETCHUP POSTS ALLOWED <3 Mwah!

Harvey picked up his marker, feeling good about himself for his point. He was doing well!

He drew a smiley face with fangs. Halloween spirit and all that. Then, picking up his wand and concentrating hard, he pointed it at the pumpkin.

"Engorgio!" he said, watching happily as his pumpkin grew.

Mission accomplished!

nothing!

Ooooh yay they got to draw a design on a pumpkin! And she'd not been wrong in her answers. She gave the professor a thumbs up and then remembered that she was the DARK swan and probably should try and be less.... cheery. Tough though! She STALKED OVER to get a pumpkin and then STALKED BACK to her seat, forgetting herself and skipping a little bit before getting there.

Nowwww what was she going to do for her design? Hmmm. A face, but what face?

DU DA DOO DOOOO! you have found the trinket!link the picture in your post!

Professor Myers had to be in a great mood. The man was just tossing about points to everyone that had answered the question along with handfuls of candy. Really it was pretty awesome even though Hady herself only snagged one piece of the thrown candy. A lollipop and only because it was green apple, her favorite. Opening the wrapper she popped the lollipop into her mouth with a content sound. Yummy.

Candy wasn't the focus of the days lesson however. Pumpkins were. Rising to her feet Hady made her way to the bin and collected herself a pumpkin bringing it back to her table with her. Picking up the marker that had been set on her desk she wasted no time at all in drawing a kitty face on her pumpkin. She gave it ear towards the top of the pumpkin, eyes, a small nose and mouth as well as long whiskers.

Capping the marker and setting it aside the brunette stepped back to check out her work. Not to bad really. "Professor can we draw other things on our pumpkin?" Her hand was raised in question. Like maybe a kitty on the other side of her pumpkin.

While waiting for Paul's reply she placed her pumpkin onto the floor near her. Pulling out her wand she aimed it at the kitty faced pumpkin. "Engorgio," was cast firmly and she watched the small pumpkin swell in size.

nope!

Dude Colt, virtual fist bump for you brah! Great minds think alike and all that.

And Professor is feeling very generous today. Tenacius couldn’t help but grin his happiest grin. Adding more joy to the festive season cant be a bad thing innit? And he said he was gonna look for that spell that would turn pumpkin into carriages. He was so game for that yup.

Alright activity time, always the Curly Top's favorite part of a class. Pick any regular sized pumpkin and draw on it? Oh yeah he was totally on to this now, because this wont be any ordinary pumpkin carving oh no-- they wuz gonna ENGORGIO it! But first he had to pick the most perfect pumpkin shape, because shape MATTERS lots for what he has in mind. Oh and another thing--

"Professor? Can we draw something on our pumpkins other than a face?"


nothing here!

They got to draw on the pumpkins yay! That was kind of like pumpkin carving, and she loved doing that. To be honest Harriet liked anything to do with art. So she was really excited. The blonde jumped up, and went to collect herself a pumpkin. She picked carefully, making sure to get a really good pumpkin. Being an artist she knew that the material being used had to be good, so she was wanted to get the best pumpkin she could. Returning to her desk, she placed the pumpkin down.

And now what to do draw. She picked up her marker, and looked at the pumpkin. Obviously a face, but she wanted it to be pretty. Hattie began by drawing the eyes onto the pumpkin. She made them nice a big, with pretty eyelashes.

"Aww. So pretty..." She giggled, moving on to draw her pumpkin a nose. this was fun. She liked this!

it ain't here!

Paul was already started on his pumpkin himself, deciding to attempt a very creepy face on his pumpkin. He was no artist, so it probably looked like a lopsided vampire, but good enough, eh? He also wanted to use ALLLLLLL the colors that he could, so it was a matter of looking and searching about the tins for the right colors. He heard both Hadleigh and Tenacius' question and smiled.

"Well of course not! You can honestly draw whatever you want. Just make sure it's appropriate." Yeah, hardy-HARHAR no gross drawings or anything, kiddos.

It seemed Hadleigh had already enlarged her pumpkin, and he grinned. "Do you see how the features you draw are...stretched out? And kinda' faded slightly, sure--" he almost wanted to use the word pixelated.

Ridiculously charming... was that a compliment?
She wasn’t sure but she nodded anyway, thinking about his answer because he must be serious right? Because her idea's were good! No, they were fantastic!

Buuuut, she shook her head and made a few notes to remember the given answers about the stretching question, not that she thought that she ever needed it again but she was in a good mood today so she did what was expected of her. Yes, she could be a good student if she wanted to! And, she wanted more candy so she was willingly to do her best to get them! When would the professor throw more candy? She wanted really, really REALLY badly more candy today!

“I want a red marker!” She declared while looking at the flying markers and she fished one of them out of the air when they were close enough for her to catch. “Hmm, which one shall I take?” The first year mused while looking at the pumpkins behind her, now with her red marker in her hand. She wanted to make a scary face but to do so she needed a scaring pumpkin too! Finally taking one with a face shaped form she walked back to her table and started drawing with her red marker on the pumpkin, trying really hard to make a evil face what would scare everybody when she was done!

“Engorgio” She spoke while pointing with her wand at her pumpkin and she watched with a big grin the result of her work. Yes, she definitely liked what she saw!

nothing to see here!

Juno was struggling. This dino suit was really troublesome, especially with how short the arms were, BUT she was determined to get this part of the activity done. Waddling over towards the group of regular sized pumpkins, she found a lovely pumpkin that wasn't too big and wasn't too small. The hard part would be moving it...

Then she had a thought! She could use the levitation spell to move it to her table, which thank goodness, wasn't to far from the pile of pumpkins. Juno then unzipped her dino suit just enough to let her wand arm out. "Wingardium Leviosa!" She cast at her chosen pumpkin, it floated immediately. She grinned and sent the pumpkin ahead of her towards the table, as she waddled herself back as well. When she got back to her table she let the pumpkin gently down on the table with her wand. She then grabbed a marker and drew a smiley face with sunglasses on.

Grinning, she grabbed her wand again, "Engorgio!" She cast the spell with a little more vigor than expected and it made the pumpkin grow so large that it bumped into her, and the next thing she knew.....DINO DOWN!

She thought she would be able to get up, but boy was she wrong. She tossed and turned...it just wasn't working. "PROFESSOR! I've fallen and I CAN'T GET UP! My T-Rex arms are too short!" This was far funnier than she could manage. She was so overcome with laughter that she couldn't breath.

At least she could be the entertainment for everyone!

A POINT? Was that her first one? Katy did a little dance from her seat, a sort of victory cha-cha, that carried her away from her desk and toward the bin of pumpkins. She grabbed up a tiny, knobbly one and danced back to her seat again.

Grabbing up the marker, Katy drew a triangle nose with whiskers, a little mouth with a tiny tongue poking out, and bright, cheerful eyes. Kitty!pumpkin! Adorable. She almost didn't want to make it bigger and ruin the cute little perfection of it.

But, y'know, duty calls or whatever. "Engorgio." She giggled like a fool as her cute kitty pumpkin became a giant tiger pumpkin.

nothing here!

They were going to draw on the pumpkins. Well this was a fun class and not something she was expecting though she probably should have with Professor Myers. Getting up when they were allowed and got a pumpkin, though she was a bit picky picking it out. Most had markings or dents that she didn't like, but finally she found the right one.


Before heading back to her seat Nat went and grabbed a black marker. Standing at her table she looked at her pumpkin. What type of face should she make was the quesiton. Not that she was any good at drawing, but she wanted something fun. Opening the marker she started with the eyes. Triangles of course, trying to get them as even as possible. Then she made a nose and soon a big crooked teeth smile.

There that worked.


Pulling her wand Nat did the movement at the pumpkin, "Engorgio"

keep looking!

Pumpkins?!

That was the subject of discussion? Well that certainly fit the whole Halloween theme and the Herbology aspect of course. And Cassie agreed with the feel of the innards of that particular gourd when it was her turn to be blindfolded and check it out. Now giant pumpkins? Even better in her opinion, regardless of the fairy tale implications. Perfect for seasonal decorating especially, like the huge Christmas trees around during the winter holidays.

She glanced briefly over her shoulder at the mentioned bins as Professor Myers continued on, the Ravenclaw then turning back and paying further attention as the man described what he wanted them to do for now. Before the main part of the lesson. Easy peasy, Cassie thought to herself she picked out a deep blue colored marker from a tin as it came by. One marker to draw a face on the pumpkin…check! Now for the actual pumpkin, the third year returning her attention to the bin directly behind her, picking through a few before she found one she was satisfied with.

Settling the pumpkin tilted on the worktable, Cass uncapped the marker and went to work. One triangular eye. Another, slightly smaller one. Then a crooked nose and capped off with a smiling toothy grin. There…one decent looking jack-o-lantern…without the carving of course. Satisfied, she recapped the marker and exchanged it for her wand from her pocket before taking careful aim. “Engorgio!” she cast, doing her best to keep control of her magic as her pumpkin gradually enlarged.

Last thing they needed was exploding pumpkins.

nope

What was.... giggle.

Charlotte couldn't HELP but get the giggles when she looked over at Juno after hearing her hollering. Bahaha!

"I'll help youuuu!" Which wasn't very dark swan of her but oh well, hers and Juno's families went BACK so obviously it was the right thing to do to try and help the girl slash t-rex.

She went over and started tugging on the girl but... uh... giggle... not much luck. OH WAIT.

"I'll use the seize and pull charm!" YEAH! "Carpe Retractum!" She cast and the rope of light snaked around the Hufflepuff prefect. Char began to tug. Hopefully it would work. Hopefully she wouldn't get a t-rex falling on her for her trouble.

there is nothing hereeeeeeee

Juno was laughing so hard she was crying. She was sure it looked hilarious from someone else's perspective but it was just as hilarious for her to imagine what she looked like.

She heard a voice, but couldn't see who it was that was trying to help her back up, which caused her to laugh even more.

Finally, the voice used the seize and pull charm on her, which made her laugh even more. It was a good thing Juno didn't embarrass easily. The next thing she knew she was back on her feet again, and saw her rescuer. "Haha, thanks Char! This suit is not the most stable." This put her into more fits of laughter, which caused her to wobble, but she caught herself this time.

She was definitely going to have to send her dad a letter about this one. He would get a good laugh out of it that is for sure! Giggling, she went got back over to her pumpkin and awaited further instructions.

IS IT HERE?

NOPE.

Giggle.

"Are you okay now?" She was mostly just glad it had worked instead of turning into a dinosaur domino or something. She put her wand away and took a good look at the Hufflepuff. First time she'd actually stopped to really LOOK at her costume.

.... which set Char off giggling even more. Maybe costumes weren't the most practical thing to wear in a class where carving pumpkins was a thing! She saluted the girl impishly and went back to her own station. Nowww where was she with the face drawing?

Well inspiration had hit so SHARP TEETH. T-REX INSPIRED PUMPKIN.

still nothing

Harriet was having a really good time actually. She was in her element. Could all classes have some arty aspect? Hattie would be amazing at all of her lessons if they did! But she knew it wouldn't happen so she just enjoyed her time being able to draw now. She leant forward, carefully drawing the mouth, and nose of her face. She wanted it to be pretty. She liked pretty things.

And then she heard a little commotion, and looked up. She giggled, just watching Char and Juno. She didn't really know what had happened, but it looked funny. It seemed that Juno had fallen over. She watched for a few moment, before she decided she needed to go back to her pumpkin.

She put the finishing touches onto her face, before deciding it was time to enlarge it now. She put her marker pen down, and picked up her wand. Pointing it at her pumpkin she said "Engorgio” And then the pumpkin was growing.

"Oh wow... Not so pretty any more...." The features were kind of stretched, and Hattie wasn't sure if she really liked it

nor here

Pumpkins! Paige was quickly reminded of a conversation between herself and Kaycee on the train ride over and was making a small effort to try and make eye contact with her when everyone went rushing about grabbing their cultivars, which meant the seventh year was up and out of her seat to grab one - and with confidence even thanks to the focus on charmswork. Surveying the seat of orange, Paige selected an especially small little pumpkin - because so cute! - and grabbed a simple black marker to doodle on her design.

But...what to draw...

She was in the middle of tapping the pen against her lower lip when her own house's prefect went into crisis mode with short flaily arms - the how exactly this had occurred being something she had not seen...slipped on some pumpkin pulp, perhaps? Thankfully Charlotte had quick reflexes and sorted all that out. And Paige really was trying not to laugh, honestly, it was just Juno's costume...and the fact that BOTH Juno and Charlotte were laughing and, well, laughter was quite infectious.........

.........what had she been doing? OH RIGHT! Something to draw. A part of her wanted to just draw a simple smiley face on the pumpkin seeing as this was purely a demonstration of something she already understood, but that felt just a taaaaaaad disrespectful. Especially considering how little effort she had put into her "costume" for the lesson...ahem.

Thus, the bubblegum pink haired Hufflepuff carefully crafted a bit of a cartoonish owl design with a pair of adjacent stars on her pumpkin. Since they were allowed to draw something other than a face and all.

Wand out, Paige cleared her throat and considered adding the extra challenge of trying the spell nonverbally - an art she really was only just recently dabbling in. But...considering the risks of her blowing UP her pumpkin...she settled for the standard method. "Engorgio," she said softly, effortlessly casting the charm upon her pumpkin and watching it grow double in size...triple...six times...


*looks around* nah not here

Hady might have already enlarged her pumpkin by the time she heard Paul's answer but that was okay. "Thanks professor...I was just considering added a kitten is all." Nothing gross or inappropriate at all.

"I do. It's sort of weird but really interesting as well." She had to admit that. It was much like enlarging a picture on a computer or something to try to color it in or see a certain part that wasn't that noticeable when it had been smaller. With a wave of her wand the seventh year shrunk her pumpkin back down to it's original size. Picking it back up and setting it onto her table she grabbed the black marker she had used before in making the large cat face. Turning the pumpkin around she began to draw a few black cats all in different poses and sizes, sleeping, sitting, pouncing, eating ect.

Oh lookitdat, even Head Girl had the same question. And they got the go signal from the Prof! Huzzah!

So there Ace goes picking the most rounded pumpkin of the lot, which alas was also not as large as he would've wanted. And on his way back, he saw the Hufflepuff Dino-Prefect flailing about and needing help getting up. Ok that sight was funneh, because T-rex with tiny arms are always funneh.

Back at his work area, it was time to work on the design. He only really needed one color for the marker, because the uniformity is part of its design. First he measured out the pumpkin and drew horizontal lines throughout the pumpkin, about an inch apart, then a large circle on the top half of the pumpkin.

Ok that was the easy part. He then started to draw rectangular-ish shapes between those lines, very often he changed them, lengthening, shortening, doing various polygonal shapes…. like a mechanized jigsaw puzzle assembled into a sphere.

And like that battle station it was inspired from, his DEATH STAR PUMPKIN is now fully operational!

Time to Engorgio? Time to Engorgio! Tenacius stepped back a bit before aiming his wand at the cutesy jigsaw-y pumpkin "Engorgio!" he uttered with the wandstroke. And the pumpkin grew… and grew…..and grew… and grew…..

….oh look it does look pixelated, specially with his design where the uniformity was kinda essential….

Wait….. is it still growing? Tenacius' blue green peepers grew large at every bit of expansion on the pumpkin's girth. Errrrr it could stop now. Stop now please?..."STOP!"

In a panic he aimed his Adler wood at the pumpkin and cast a spell to make it stop. But that’s the thing about panicking and the steady march of a spell going along at a pace. Nothing goes as you want it to go. And it wasn’t long before the overgrown pumpkin went--

S P L A T ! !

Bits of orangey gourd flew all over the place. And of course given that he was closest, he took the brunt of that explodey guts and goop. Good thing his sweater was red? Well good luck trying to get those guts out of those curls.

Blink blink "It turned into Alderaan…."

nope.

Junia fancied herself a fairly good artist, so decorating pumpkins sounded like fun. She gave Professor Myers a rather excited grin before collecting a pumpkin, choosing one of the smaller in the bunch. She wanted to see just how distorted the face she was planning on drawing would become when she made the pumpkin larger, or if the magic would keep it looking size appropriate.

Her pumpkin was going to be Prince Charlie inspired, she'd decided. Her cat was, after all, one of her best friends and he was quite handsome as far as felines went. First the piercing eyes, then the nose, then the mouth. She took care with the whiskers and the ears, though it was a bit harder to manage those. Pumpkins weren't the most ideal form of canvas, you know.

Then....pumpkin pulp.

She saw it out of the corner of her eye and let out a little squeak which was quickly stifled. Someone had exploded their pumpkin. "That's unfortunate," She said rather dramatically to the pumpkin that was Prince Charlie's twin. "Good we weren't close enough to be hit." That boy, however...well, he might need to take a bath to get rid of that smell. Pumpkin pulp wasn't all that pleasant of an aroma.

Professor Myers would handle the mess, yes? So she could move on.

Wand out, the second year eyed the pumpkin. Concentration, that was happening. She didn't want hers to explode. Her cat would never forgive her. "Engorgio."

... .... ....Wow. It had definitely worked. "Merlin."

nothing!

…………..Paul had been laughing at Juno’s debacle entirely too much to be of ANY help ot her, and it was lucky that Miss Kettleburn had come to the rescue. He was in stitches. Leaning over, hands on his knees, laughing with tears in his eyes. This was the best stomach workout he’d done in years! “Hooooo boy!” Paul wiped his eyes and sighed with the end of his laughter. Honestly, it was the damn funniest thing he’d seen in awhile. Kudos to Juno for having the most hilarious costume.

“W-well, are you okay, Miss Darcy?” he asked breathily. HE WANTED TO LAUGH AGAIN JUST THINKING ABOUT IT.

He smiled at Hadleigh, and chuckled at Hattie’s comment that her pumpkin didn’t look pretty anymore. Well. A lot of them had drawn truly remarkable pumpkins, and hopefully their drawings would be nice once the pumpkins went back to normal size?

His attention was suddenly drawn to Tenacius, who had started to enlarge his pumpkin--but Paul could tell immediately that he was enlarging it too much! “TENACIUS, STOP------” He ran towards the boy, wand drawn.

SPLATTTTT!!!!!!!

Paul’s face….and a good bid of his body was covered in pumpkin pulp. COVERED. IN. PUMPKIN PULP. He stared at Tenacius for a minute and cleared his throat. Had anyone else gotten hit?! “WELL--my students, I guess I forgot to mention this--” Yes, very good, Myers, “But if you enlarge something TOO MUCH….it can explode. Like Tenacius’ PUMPKIN just did,” he glanced over at him. “Who else got hit with pumpkin? Let me get us clean--Merlin--” he couldn’t help but chuckle. Again. This was too funny. Why were the students being so damn funny today? Merlin’s pants, he couldn’t handle it today. He was already in such a giddy mood.

He gave his wand a little wave and cleared off the the pumpkin bits from anyone who had gotten hit with a simple scourgify. “IS everyone all clean? Because weeeeeee need to move on!” he had gotten a good look at his watch a second ago and they were running LATE and they were supposed to move on to the FUN PART now!

“For the next and MAIN activity in celebration of pumpkins, we will be doing some…..GIANT PUMPKIN BOWLING.” Cue clapping. Like, come on guys, wasn’t this the BEST thing you’ve ever HEARD? Paul certainly thought so. He waved his wand and on the board appeared the rules for pumpkin bowling, which Paul promptly read aloud:

1. There are 10 “pins” (giant bowling pins that look like GHOSTS
2. The object of this game, however, is not only to knock down all the pins, but you also must smash your pumpkin; inside each pumpkin are mysterious objects you must retrieve
3. Behind the giant pins are large wooden boards. Your pumpkin might take a few smashes against this wood to break.
4. The only way your pumpkin can smash against the wood is if ALL of the pins are knocked down.
5. This means...you might have to knock all ten pins down a few times in order for the pumpkins break apart
6. Once your pumpkin is broken up, go forth and FIND THE MYSTERIOUS ITEM.
7. The first team to find the mysterious item WINS
8. That team will get points (ahem)
9. I will maneuver the pumpkins back to your team after you’ve pushed it! So don’t worry about retrieving it!
10. In order to get the pumpkin to move, use flipendo.

Paul smiled and pointed at each number as he said it. “NOW. If you all are ready, we’ll be migrating to BEHIND the greenhouse, where I have all the bowling pins set up as well as the giant pumpkins. Your tears are your houses!” he should probably make that clear now. “Everyone, follow me and let’s get started!” he led the way around to the back of the greenhouse, where INDEED there were four sets of ten pins set up with FOUR enormous pumpkins waiting to be bowled.

“Well go ahead and get started! If you have any questions, let me know! I’m giving out points to the winner’s team!” He was giving out points to everyone, but they didn’t need to know that. Plus, he would give the winning team MORE points than the other teams.





OOC: Okay guys, you all have until Saturday to play! If...we for some reason don’t finish….well I guess I’ll figure it out xD Please please tell me if this doesn’t make sense (I did have people read my instructions before I posted them here so I know they aren’t COMPLETELY unreadable, but yeah). LET’S GO SMASH SOME PUMPKINS. smashing pumpkins reference ftw

She'd....gotten a point for that?

Olivia stared at the Herbology professor, not sure what to think when he started cooing over her answer. She hadn't meant to be sweet, to be honest. No, she was only being a decent human being. It was kinda like... Unless one was faced with those in need, one tended to approach the situation in an 'Out of sight, out of mind' fashion. Given that Liv had been up close and personal with the issue, it was hard not to immediately recall the experience.

Especially when there were also people your age involved. That was what had been really scary. Like, yes, she had issues with her parents at times (mostly her mum), but she'd never hoped to be... Well, you know.

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ANYWAY, DRAWING. SHE LOVED TO DRAW!

Once the markers were distributed, Olivia sorted through the array of colors, trying to figure out what type of face to draw. It wasn't going to be the most beautiful drawing to ever be witnessed, but all she could do was try her best. Let's seeeeeee.

Maybe a fashion face. WITH MAKEUP ON. And blonde hair, obviously, becaus she herself was blonde. Not that she was discriminating against other hair colors. They could all be beautiful in their own way. Liv just liked her own the best.

So, setting to work, she positioned each different marker in hand, trying to get a good likeness for... whatever she was drawing. But also trying to be mindful not to get any of the wild colors on the white of her costume. Olivia didn't want to stain herself... and she had been just working along, minding her own business, when there was a loud POP!... with a following sound of SOMETHING WET splattering the area... 'Something wet' because said wetness had just smacked right into her back, covering the open back of her costume, as well as her legs.

Blink.

... but the sensation was short lived as Professor Myers used a bit of magic to restore them all to perfect condition. BLESS! PUMPKIN INNERS STAINED. SHE KNEW FROM EXPERIENCE. To be clear, however, the blonde wasn't mad or upset. No, she was actually giggling, HAPPY to have learned this lesson at someone else's pumpkin's expense. Sorry, Ace.

Ahem. "Engorgio!"

sorry! nothing to be found here!

They got to do giant pumpkin bowling. That was so cool! This was the best lesson ever! This was even better than getting to do art in lessons. "This is the best lesson ever Professor!" She beamed. Well minus getting caught up in pumpkin guts. But that was okay. She was water proof, and could have a shower later. Right now she was going to be really excited about pumpkin bowling. She hoped that the hufflepuff team would win, because they were the best house ever. Hattie beamed, practically skipping as she followed the Professor out to behind the greenhouses.

Oh wow. That really was a giant pumpkin. "So big...." She murmured, beaming at her fellow hufflepuffs. Andd get started! "I'll go first" Because she wanted to be cool, and see how many she could get down at once. She hoped she got a few down, because not getting any would just not be good.

She stepped up, by the giant pumpkin and pulled her wand out. She quickly practiced the wand movement, so that she could do it. And then she had a go. She pointed her wand at the pumpkin and said "Flipendo!" And when the pumpkin began to move she gave it a big shove in the direction of the hufflepuff pins. The giant pumpkin went rolling off towards the giant pins....

"I got six!! I Got Sixxxxx!" The blonde second year murmured, bouncing on the floor a little, and beaming. She looked to the next hufflepuff. "Your turn"

NOPE

Azura smiled as Professor Meyers left a candy on the table in front of her and she reached out and took it. She had had a few ideas about everything, but she didn't want to repeat any answers.. She had leaned that from Professor Draper..

And while Professor Meyers wasn't one to scowl at her.. She wasn't going to chance it.

She hurried over to where the pumpkins were and found a nice round one. She took it back to her table and started to draw a red panda's face on it.. She only hoped it would look recognizable when she made it bigger..

As she was drawing she heard a pumpkin exploding and she ducked a bit to make sure that none of the pumpkin splatters got all over her dress.. cause.. she hadn't impervius'd the thing, which she probably should have done..

Once her pumpkin was done.. she aimed her wand at it and said "Engorgio!" She said as she watched her pumpkin get bigger and then.. thankfully stop at a proper larger size..

Eh-hem.. Sorry Ace.

And then Professor Meyers started to talk..

Wait.. WHAT?

They were going to bowl?

How in the Hans Christian Anderson was she supposed to bowl in this dress? Also.. bowling in general was not her thing. She had gotten a 13 last time she had gone.. No joke.. also she had fallen and hit herself in the face with the bowl ball..

Dear Sweet Fwoopers protect me and my dress. She thought to herself as she carefully moved towards the back of the greenhouses.. She wasn't going first. not unless they all WANTED a zero..

.....nope. keep looooooking ^___^