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Cassirin 
BABY GRIFFINS? FOR REAL WHAT? Dot bopped along happily toward the door to the barn, taking in the herd of teeny tiny baby griffin things. SO CUTE. WHOA. She bounced. A lot.
Oh, but Professor? "Orphans, sir? How did all of them get orphaned? Is there a problem with griffin poaching here at Hogwarts?" Because that made her so furious. Legitimately livid. She was gonna go punching some griffin poachers in the face. Or you know... whatever.
She got to pick a baby griffin to be friendly with now, right? That was probably best, since if she left it up to the griffins to choose, probably no one would choose her. Like always.
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Thankfully that is not true Miss Wojack-Gusey." Adding on the reason, "
They're orphaned for mainly natural reasons ranging from sickness to passing on after giving birth." It was quite unfortunate.
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RandomRaven They're gonna work with babies.
Griffin babies to be exact.
He heard some of the students were squealing and admiring how cute they were. Yeah, those griffin babies were cute but he didn't need to say it out loud. Hehehe. As Professor Thompson said, he joined with the other students gathering around the baby griffins and chose one? Hmm... Okay. The Korean guy looked at them before he decided to choose one of them. His chocolate brown eyes looked at one baby griffin that wasn't far from him. "hey there, buddy." He petted the baby's head. "Professor, how could we know if it's a male or female baby griffin?" He asked curiously.
Professor Thompson may have been a little distracted with one particular baby griffin as one decided to crawl over attempting to nip at his suit. Cute little one, wasn't it? Looking back up as this spectacular timed question came towards him, "
Ah, it's very simple Mr. Hwang." Why not, everyone could do this as he spoke loud enough for anyone of interest. This part was optional. "
First you can gently caress their feathers," As he did so from the top of its head towards it back, as its own eyes closed seemingly at peace, "
Then leaving your hand at the end, you can hold them before tilting them to quickly check for a stub." Not that he needed to explain what said stub was, surely. He gave his own Griffin a check, nope, no stub here. So he let it back onto its claws and feets not bothered by the movement at all.
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Now for the real task at hand, "
Over in the pile in the corner are some blankets. You can summon one over easily with the spell 'Accio'," Now that was mainly for the younger students who hadn't come across that spell yet. Anyway, for demonstration and possible review for others he made the wand motion of a wide frown shape over "
Accio blanket," Letting one fly towards his other outreached hand.
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Wrap it carefully around the Griffin," Who proceeded to squawk a little from the sudden movement before settling into the soft texture of the blanket before standing up. "
Now that you'll be able to hold it safely in your arm, we can then feed them." Once everyone has managed to retrieve a blanket, an open box revealing half of meat carcass and the rest of empty baby bottles.
Now the instructions were coming whilst Professor Thompson went on ahead with the demonstrating while speaking. "
Keeping a hold of your Griffin, who might try to struggle out since they're anxious on testing out their legs. Take an empty bottle, make sure it's clean before opening the lid to scoop in some of the carcass. It will regenerate in the box on it's own so don't worry about the amount you take." Now then, "
The tricky part will come in now. The meat right now is much too tough for their beaks to take in. So-" With his arm still keeping ahold of a moving Griffin in the blanket, his other arm aimed inside the bottle with the almost stuff meat, "
Cast an 'Incendio' to melt it followed by 'Aguamenti' to keep it in liquid form." Which he then did so. "
You can of course let your Griffin free so you can take care of the bottle.. but you'll have to try to get it to come back to you before the drink gets too cold." Some things just had to have their challenge, didn't they?
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And then you can go on and feed them." Letting the bottle reach into the little squirming Griffin's beak stopped it in its tracks before it began drinking. "
Griffin's taste for raw animal meat has always been present for them. Typically the mother will regurgitate some of the meat leaving it heated and soft enough for them to eat." But luckily they didn't have to resort to any of it touching their mouths. "
Eventually they should be falling asleep not long after they finish."
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OOC: The following objectives you are to complete:
- Acquire a blanket to wrap around the Griffin keeping it comfortable.
- Clean the baby bottle before placing the raw meat in.
- Melt it with fire before quickly mixing it with some water.
- Feed it and watch over until it sleeps.
This should take about four labeled posts minimum. You have until June 17th, 11:59 pm EST to complete.