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Originally Posted by Bazinga  Minerva thought for a moment harvesting.. This was their field trip then to harvest wand cores. That sounded interesting. So yes Mr. Unexcited could bring interesting to the seminar. So now she had to think about what they could be harvesting. Well she thought about what was in her own wand and then what was in others.
Putting up her hand she waited her turn. "Sir could it be Troll Whiskers and honestly I'm not really sure why we would be harvesting them except for the fact that it sound interesting and things at this school are never of things you can predict so Troll whiskers seemed like a good thought." Plus it was just a random thought that came to her mind that she felt like using. Did he at least like her honesty even if she really had no clue what she was talking about. "Do you really think that you'd be able to harvest whiskers from a troll?" Because he'd be impressed, just saying. Trolls though, not exactly willing to give up a whisker and all. It was a thing to consider though, really, cores that could actually be accessed by school children. Quote:
Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19 Adi nodded when Ira had finished answering his question. He wished a new core was being considered, for some reason. It would be cool to learn about a possible new core. And now Mr. Banner was rattling of information. Soooooo much! But thankfully, notes appeared on the board which he quickly wrote down.
Interesting these clues were! Adi racked his brains, mentally scanning through creatures. Hmmmm. Thestral, maybe? Grindylow? The last clue had him a little stumped. Didn't all animals grow? He raised a hand. "Hair from a Merperson, perhaps?''
Who knew? They did swim... "Because they fit one of your clues, Mr. Banner.'' "They fit... but no. Merpeople tend to be a little... reluctant to give over parts for wands." Which was why merpeople related cores weren't all that common see?
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Originally Posted by aaetha Oh wow. Wandy guy whose name Adrienne had forgotten was saying a lot of interesting stuff, and all very quickly, and she had to admit she was having quite a hard time copying it all down. In fact, by the time she'd managed to finally get down the bit about Mongolian Shamans, her handwriting had become quite unreadable due to her writing too fast. Ergh. Why did this always happen?
But at least now they were talking about their field trip, which was certainly interesting. Adrienne was excited for that part of this seminar, at least. Something that flies, something that swims, and something that grows... hm. She sat and thought for a moment, before putting up her hand with her mind swimming with ideas.
"Possibly Billywig stings? Because they can fly? Or Doxy wings? They can fly too." Well duh, they had wings. "Or maybe Diricawl feathers? They also fly," she added unnecessarily. Adrienne felt herself getting into the territory of things that couldn't actually be used as wand cores, so she backtracked quickly. "Er, never mind that Doxy one. Grindylow hair, perhaps, or tentacle, because they can swim, um, hippocampus tail hair? Same reason," she added quickly. And she was definitely going to have to wrap this up now. "As for the growing one, the only thing I can think of is... uh. Nothing." Well now she sounded pretty lame. Adrienne resolved to just shut her mouth now. "Billywigs are a good guess, but they're native to Australia, we won't find them in the Forest of Dean. Likewise with the Diricawl, being from Mauritius, and the Hippocampus having a native range in Greece" He said. And... okay, he wouldn't mind the doxy one. "Grindylow is a better guess." Quote:
Originally Posted by amadshade Growing, well the only growing thing she could think of right now were the carnivorous plants in Greenhouse 4. "Possibly could the growing core be a vine thingy from Venemous Tentacula? It would probably make for a strong, independent minded wand because they are well known to creep up behind unwary students and almost eat them." cough cough. Of course this had nothing to do with the plant incident in the Greenhouse the week before. Nothing. Nothing at all. "Good guess with the Venomous Tentacula: not all cores are Fauna." Not what he was looking for however. Quote:
Originally Posted by fanficfanatict Ascanius was rocking the whole I-don't-care vibe at the moment. S'like, now that he knew he wouldn't be going on this field trip thing, his attention span was teetering dangerously low. He just kept on tapping his fingers against the desk and jamming out to some Taylor Hawkins in his head.
Though, he did manage to catch the later half of his verbal throw up. Something about cores they'd all be harvesting wherever they were going or whatever. S'not like he cared. Pfft.
Lazily, he raised his hand and droned out, "Possibly dittany stalk, sir? Since its a plant and you'll all be in the woods." S'like the most logical thing he could think of, yeah? "You. Yes. Dittany Stalk is correct. It is indeed one of the core types. Congratulations, you win one of the kits." Okay see he hadn't expected anyone to get that one, especially not this kid without a slip and all. Quote:
Originally Posted by GrapehGrape Free stuff for guessing the right answer? Okay. Adelaide was warming up to grumpy a bit more. Just a bit. Enough not to consider having a general conversation with this man, but enough to start taking him seriously.
She thought over some options in her head. Something that flies. Well there were a lot of things that flew. Not something from a dragon. That was typical. So was a hippogriff right? There was only one other thing that came to mind. She raised her hand. "Pixie wings?" That sounded stupid once she said it out loud. Oh well. "Good guess but no." Nope. Not this time.
----- So the two easy ones weren't guessed? Even though someone had mentioned one of them earlier, hmmm.
Ira figured he'd give it one more go, and even be NICE and give a clue. Nice of him yes? Yeah.
"The one that flies has feathers. The one that swims... might eat you." Come on, those were pretty full on clues. Did they not pay attention in their Care of Magical Creatures lessons? Or read books? ooc: just giving it a little longer for the guessing mostly because its still super early for ESTers and all, so I'll post when they're like... alive and stuff. If you haven't joined in yet, you still can, just follow the instructions in the first post.
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