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Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo

"I beg your pardon?" He wanted her going to this office of his after the gathering. "Don't you know how precious my time is? It can't be wasted on mundane talk of dying plants no matter how riveting. I may not be that silly white rabbit forever checking his pocket watch but I have an accute sense of time I'll have you know and it won't be wasted. What will you offer me for turning up?"
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A blank expression appeared on his face as the Head Girl talked. Was she for real? Did he have to motivate her and give her something in return so that she would obey? UMM. no? Andrew wasn't really pleased that he'd be having a conversation with her after the lesson. Not another one. His only gain was to not disturb the lesson with the arguing and foul attitude.

"Either head to the office or it's detention in the dungeons, your call," He shrugged. Giving a detention in the first lesson, heh, not the start he would have hoped for.

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Originally Posted by SpiritWolfe Malfoy

With her quill in hand Hady jotted down a few notes. When it came time for the next question Hady thought about it. She knew the names of some common plants and flowers but not many all that interesting. There was a really pretty flower she liked but it didn't actually do anything.

Chewing on her lower lip in thought she lightly tapped her quill on her knee. There was one from a book she'd looked at with her mother some time ago. What was its name again...

Tap...tap...tap...

Sundew! That's what it was called! The tapping of the quill stopped as her hand shot up into the air. "There's one called Sundew. It has a liquid on it that follows insects into thinking it's nectar and they get stuck to the plant. There's tendrils or something on the plant that close up on the insect and sting it so they can eat it." Lowering her hand to her lap she then listened to what everyone else had said.

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Originally Posted by Edward Penguin

Ian was pleased the professor also considered his information interesting. There were lots of great (and not so great) responses given by his classmates. As he lived near the sea, most of what he knew of plants came from that type of plant. He was particularly interested in phytoplankton. He raised his hand and offered this tidbit. Phytoplankton, when they bloom in large numbers can produce some of extremely toxic substances. He wondered if that would be something useful in potions. He began to get a little lost in that thought. He should ask Professor Culloden sometime. He bet sea hags knew how to do it.

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Originally Posted by Hera

Eerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr....

Way to make him feel dumb, Professsooorrrr! Zeke stared, eyes widening as the Professor dude elaborated on his what-he-thought-was-already-smart-answer. Apparently it wasn't. Booooo. He'd have taken notes, but there was just toooooo much for him to keep up with, so, he'd just stand here feeling silly. Yep.

The first year Gryffindor pulled his textbook out of his bag at his feet, and flipped it to a random page. He didn't know much of anything about plants, at all... so this was his best chance.

....

It took him a moment or two of FLIPPPPIIINNGGGG to find SOMETHING worth mentioning. Because frankly, HE was not going to be the one to point out that HONKING daffodils were weird.

Hand raised, Zeke responded. "Devils Snare, Professor." Dude asked for an example, didn't say a reason why.

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Originally Posted by PhoenixStar

Yup. Leave it to AJ to let everybody know what not to feed your plant. She was super helpful in that way. Now for the next question, AJ had a real answer for it. Her hand shot into the air. "There's the Amorphophallus titanum plant." Did she say that name right? Close enough to where the professor who dealt with plants would be able to figure it out. "Anyways it makes a really stinky flower. I mean like super stinky. It smells like death and rotting fish. It makes you throw up in your mouth a little."

The only reason that AJ knew about this particular plant was because she went to this museum type place with her family once. (Angel was a plant freak) They had this plant on display, and it was so cool. Stinky flowers. Heh.

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Originally Posted by SweetPeea

Josie listened & scribbled down some notes on her parchment as the Professor proceeded on with the lesson & was now asking his next question. Give an example of any plant with an uncommon kind of trait? Hm...the Ravenclaw paused as her brain went through the multiple pieces of information she'd stored up there as she tried to think of a certain odd plant she'd discovered among her readings.

And it had actually worked, because there was an odd plant she had read about, but she couldn't remember the name. Taking a moment to go back into her textbook, she quickly turned page after page, until she would eventually find what she was looking for & there was the name. She soon raised her hand again, "P-Professor, there's the Mimbulus mimbletonia..A p-plant that resembles a c-cactus...but i-instead of pointy spines..i-it has b-boils on it..that a-apparently spews a Stinksap as a d-defensive m-mechanism..D-Does this count as o-odd?" It probably didn't seem odd to most of the students & Professors here, but to her she'd never experienced or seen a plant as odd as this, so it was very odd to her.

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Originally Posted by kayquilz

Eden glared at Connor's very sarcastic answer. Since when was Connor even mean? Connor was like...so nice. SHe KICKED him under the table and growled lowly..."Pssst--be nice--" she whispered, quickly, before turning to hear the rest of the answers.

Connor. UGH. Being mean. UUUGH.

She heard Archie's cute little answer and gave him a high-five because he was just brilliant, wasn't he? Hehe. That actually WAS an interesting fact, yeah? He was just too cute. Eden didn't think she would ever stop thinking that, either. GOSH.



Eden BEAMED. Correct AND Essential?!!?! HEAR THAT CONNOR? SHe eyed him all smugly and shifted positions in her seat so she could better see the hot professor.

AND he said her name. Her surname, SURE, but that--oh, her cheeks were burning and she rested her chin in her hands just to make sure no one would really notice--ESPECIALLY not Layla. NOOO. Nope nope. She knew she was in for like...a WEEK of tormenting from Layla, now.

Now for the weird plants. All plants were weird in their own way. But it didn't mean she didn't have to think about it. Ummm. "That one that can SNAP on people--Ummm--Venus Fly Trap!" she cried, excitedly. She smiled and thought this was a VERY good answer. "It almost looks like a big mouth and teeth--" But it wasn't teeth. Eden knew that much. Wow, plants seemed so interesting. And she had thought they were boring. Before. HMPH.

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Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19

Adi could feel his grumpiness slowly slipping away. He supposed being concerned about Angel plus being in a class surrounded by so many people made him forget about it. He did notice AJ shuffle away from him though. He shout her a puzzled look but was further distracted by Benny's way of comforting Angel. He got a smirk from Adi.

The next question was up. This one required more thinking. So after taking some time to do just that as well as consulting his text book, the Puffer raised a hand. "The New Zealand Tree Nettle. It is very much toxic and can kill anyone who comes in contact with it.'' What a mean plant that was.

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Originally Posted by feeheeheeny

Pleased that the professor seemed to like her answer nearly as much as she had liked it herself, Sophie wiggled a little on the spot and wrote down some notes here and there when the professor confirmed some of the other students' facts to be true. She knew a lot of it already, but here and there a little bit of information that filled in the piece of the puzzle of the greater picture was spoken, so she jotted it down.

At his NEXT question, Sophie squinted - to her, most magical plants were bizarre in their own ways, and she figured most people would touch upon those, so... she tried to think about what was perhaps abnormal of the mundane plants. A curious, thoughtful expression crossed her face and Soph raised a hand, "Dodder, sir. It's a parasitic plant that looks kinda like really stringy yellow spaghetti along the ground and wound around its host plant." It was wicked cool, really.

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Originally Posted by TakemetotheBurrow

Maddie made LOTS of good points so Professor Walton would definitely get used to it. Also, the fact that he was going to be speaking to the Head Girl after class made the second year smirk. It seemed to the thirteen year old that the older Gryffindor was on something of a power trip. The badge went RIGHT to her head. Well THAT or maybe she was losing her mind. Acting like she was a few billywig stings short of a fizzing whizzbee, she was. Maddie might have even wanted to get to the bottom of it if the Head Girl hadn't made Kyroh uncomfortable before. NOW she had no interest in helping, she'd just enjoy the show.

As far as plants with uncommon traits, Maddie's mind immediately went to those under the flesh-eating category. She liked those best, y'see. "The Chokeberry Bush is unusual in that after luring small animals in with its scent, the bush CHOKES its prey with its branches. And then they get dragged into its mouth."

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Originally Posted by Meizzner

Dante smirked. This is why he should spell the name tags so they only can put your real name. Not sure if you could do that. But it sounded cool. Well it was cool that his answer was right.

Dante thought about other things to put on his name tag as Professor Walton talked about plants some more. Dante did hear the question though.

"There is the Rainbow Eucalyptus Tree in the Philippines. It has bark that is colored like an rainbow. And it is not a prank."

So Dante knew some weird things about plants It was fun and this was a pretty weird tree.

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Originally Posted by Felixir

Toby watched Professor Walton move about, listening avidly and attempting to take in EVERYTHING he was saying, which... was easier than it might have been in another class. As for the next question, he paused, thinking for a good example. Maybe one he'd already covered in his journal? Or what was considered a mundane plant, because those could be incredibly-... wait. WAIT. TOBY KNEW ONE.

Has hand flew up in the air as soon as it came to mind. They HAD one of these at his grandma's house, a part of Toby's section of the garden.

"There's this plant I love called... mimosa pudica? It's not a magical plant plant, and I think it's really interesting. Sometimes it's called things like touch-me-not, or sensitive plant, because when you touch it, the little leaflets close up super quickly and open back up a little later. That's what makes it so distinctive; it's one of those plants that responds to touch with rapid movement, a little like the Venus Fly Trap-" here, Toby nodded towards the Ravenclaw girl that had mentioned this, and smiled at her "-but more as a defence mechanism than trap and kill."

Okay. Cool. He was done speaking now.

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Originally Posted by Harry174

"Yeah I'm fine." Angel whispered to Adi as she wiped away her tears and felt Benny's hand on hers, she gave his a small squeeze of appreciation and then she saw AJ moving around. Well this was odd but she gave her sister a small smile hoping her sister wasn't cross with her she had just been caught up in the moment and she wasn't a drama queen.

Angel looked at the Professor and raised her had. "There's the Whomping Willow... that can kill you if you let it hit you over and over again, basically if you get too close it will go on the offensive." Angel wondered where such a plant came from she had meant to ask the Professor that and then she remember something that she has meant to ask him. "Sir is the Whomping Willow a boy or girl? I was trying to figure it out a few days back." Angel hoped the Professor didn't mind the question it just was confusing.

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Originally Posted by Daydreamer11

Jasmine was busy listening to all of the comments that her classmates presented. She kept her quill moving as she took lots of notes in her Herbology notebook.

When the next question came around, Jasmine thought of the first unique plant that came to her mind. Then she raised her hand to share her information with the class. "Gillyweed is a water plant and when it is eaten, it allows a witch or wizard to grow gills and breathe underwater." Jasmine found all of these unusual plant facts to be fascinating. Who would have ever thought that was possible?

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Originally Posted by Kaos.Doodles

The Professor Man had called him by his first name! It had worked. If he had known it was THAT easy to get the Professors to do that he would have done it last year! Looking over at Zeke, the second year took a page from his book and began to flip through the textbook.

Alright, couldn't pick Devil's Snare, couldn't pick... The Chokeberry Bush? That was a weird one. Turning his head he blinked over at Maddie. Yeah, if they weren't best friends he'd make a note not to MESS with her.

Looking through the book again he landed on one that sounded interesting and just as he raised his hand Jasmine's voice rang through the greenhouse, stating the exact plant he wanted to name. That was alright though. "Like Jasmine said Sir. Gillyweed. But not because of everything she said, but because it's slimy. Slimy plants are weird." Ew.

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Originally Posted by Sararara

Carbohydrates, sugars, same thing. Norah scribbled down all the information from the other students' answers, ignoring the head girl being a WEIRDO again and tuned in to the professor's next question. That was EASY, plants are CRAZY. She put ehr hand in the air and began to speak. "Flesh eating firs have cream colored leaves instead of green ones, and they feed on OTHER flesh eating trees." Seeee cannibalistic plants! If that wasn't awesome, Norah didn't know what was.

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Originally Posted by Squishy

Class was moving on, and Lex was still as nuts as ever. Did she think they were in a fairy tale world? The white rabbit with the pocket watch sounded like the one from Alice and Wonderland. But they weren't in Wonderland, they were at Hogwarts.

Shaking her head at the Head Girl, Lux raised her hand to answer the next question. "Mimbulus mimbletonia. It's similar to a cactus, but is grey and has boils on it which spew Stinksap on contact." Odd plant in her opinion, and didn't sound pretty either.

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Originally Posted by hermionesclone

What in the name of Merlin was up with Zandar Adair?

Not that Grayson could ask because they were in a class and were meant to be listening or whatever. But really? Dude looked like he could do with an Elixir to Induce Euphoria. A weird sensation swept through the fifth year. Something he couldn't quite place but he was SURE it was something along the lines of........ concern?

Oh jeez. Oh man. If he was going SOFT.

But really. What was going on? Who was messing with his peeps? Were they asking to be hexed into another century?

Before he could do more than furrow his eyebrows at the Gryffindor, the voice of Walton had reached his ears and so, reluctantly, Whitty turned his attention towards the man. Plants with an uncommon trait? He wasn't even going to TRY to think of one off the top of his head. Not when he wanted a GOOD one. Instead, he flipped open his textbook and began searching and scanning the various pieces of text.

Didn't have to look far, it seemed. Not bothering to look further into the book, "The Alder Tree is a water loving wand tree BUT it can catch fire and burn easily too. Fire and water are opposites but they live in one tree, in a way. Unusual." The symbolism? Something that somebody had said about thinking outside the box -- probably Romanos or Culloden or someone else he listened to -- came back to him as he read that one sentence. Strength and determination to fight negative spirits?

............

Yeah, whatever. He had nothing else to add.

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Originally Posted by Mad Eye Touz

"Heeeeeeeeeeeeey Head Girl? Cool your jets, man?" Zahra suggested with a LOOK OF CONCERN. Like, did Lex need a hug? Zahra wasn't sure, but before the Head Girl got her HEAD taken off by Professor Flowers ....

Anywho.

Weird plants, weird plants....


"I like pumpkins. They aren't really all that weird, I guess, but I like them. I think you should grow one big enough for me to have a clubhouse in, or a snog hole, things like that."


Zahra tried to switch her stink nasty gloves with Beverly's. Because hehe.

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Originally Posted by Cassirin

Weird plants? Or plants that had unique characteristics or whatever? Dot's parents both used plants in their jobs as Healers, but those were just perfectly normal type of plants. Or as normal as you'd expect.

Dot stared blankly at the greenhouse glass as she wracked her brain for something interesting. Oh! "Bioluminescence! The type of plants that glow in the dark!"

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Originally Posted by Lissy Longbottom

Caleb knew EXACTLY which plant he thought was the weirdest plant out there. The puffapod, of course! What purpose did they serve other than to just drive people with allergies nuts?

He raised his hand. "I think the puffapod is quite a unique and odd plant. It explodes into a bunch of little flowers if you drop them and that seems to be all it does. Kind of pointless," he added with a shrug.

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Originally Posted by Tegz

Professor was hot but Ruby was getting bored now. Like of the class, not of eyeing him up. OMG ZAHRA. A SNOG HOLE IN A PUMPKIN?

Gigglesnort.

"What if you're allergic?" Teeeheeee.

But okay. Okay. She could answer this. Her hand went up. "Gravity resistant trees can float, so that's cool." Had anyone else said that because she honestly hadn't been listening. At all.

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Originally Posted by Expecto-Penguin

Ah so they could use their textbooks. Kace began to dig in and see if he could find anything that was sort of cool. Well plant like cool that is. As he was searching he came across an interesting plant. He raised his hand and said, "Professor there is the Flitterbloom and it has tentacles and it resembles the devil's snare as someone else mentioned." he nodded. He was gonna say Gillyweed before but it was mentioned before.

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Originally Posted by Deezerz

Beverly hadn't noticed the Gryffindor girl (Zahra). The loud one. The one that caused Beverly's nose to wrinkle every time she uttered a word. She DID notice when the girl -- the wannabe thief -- reached for HER gloves.

Scowling and snapping her hand over said gloves, she shot the Gryffindor an unimpressed look. No. Don't touch. Sliding them to her other side, the Prefect scoot her chair several inches away.

There we go. No distractions. Hand up.

"There is Dittany, it has healing powers." It came in handy.

Andrew nodded at all the examples. Some were more interesting than others but they all were good, in a way. It helped the Herbologist know what the students considered weird. Some traits were perfectly normal to him but it didn't seem to be the same case for some. Like pumpkins? Oh, well, opinions. As long as the lesson wasn't being interrupted or disturbed he'd roll with it. And what about the allergy, was the Banner girl asking him? Didn't seem like it. She probably was genuinely wondering? Moving on.

What surprised him, though, was not hearing anyone mention a certain plant. The one that they were actually going to work on today. So Walton decided it was enough examples, if someone was going to mention it, they would have already. So, he'd ask them about it.

Clearing his throat, the man walked back to his table and stood behind it this time. "Now, it's time to move on to what we're actually going to be working on in this lesson. I felt that that introduction was necessary because the plant we'll be working on today isn't what we call a regular kind of plant with leaves, stems, roots and twigs. I'm sure many of you are familiar with its name and appearance though." Or he hoped so, since no one mentioned it which he found odd. But he probably misjudged the popularity of this plant or the level of weirdness. Maybe.

"Does anyone know anything about the Bouncing Bulbs?" He asked reaching out UNDER his table and holding up a purple-ish bulb-like plant with green leaves sticking out at the top. He obviously knocked this one out beforehand. And , yup, he had things under his table.

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