One of her favorite classes, though she wasn't sure after a certain barn issue if she was considered one of his favorites anymore not that she ever was. She still stood behind her actions. Head boy deserved it! Making her way down to the backyard she held coffee in her hands, which was helping keep her hands warm. This time of year was not her favorite and she was going into her usual mood, though she was trying super hard this term not to fall into it.

"Hello professor" her voice was quieter than usual when addressing him. Though she wasn't shying away either. Her eyes looked around, first one here? That was interesting. "What do you have planned for us?" Finding a seat on the mat, she hoped there was a warming charm on it, if not maybe she'd add one. The ground had to be cold.

Janelle enjoyed her stroll down to one of her favorite classes. She loved Care of Magical Creatures and was excited to find out what they would be learning today. When she finally arrived at the "classroom" area, she found that she was one of the first to arrive. "Hello Professor Hernandez", she said happily. Whatever they would be doing, she knew it would be fun.

Spotting her fellow seventh year, Janelle greeted her with a wave. "Hello Natalia", she said before finding a spot by an empty mat. She sat down, readied her things and began to look around for clues to the topic of the day. Waiting patiently was never her strong suit.

Care of Magical Creatures? Sounded like fun to her!

Olivia had always been fond of creatures (both muggle and magical) so this class naturally peaked her interest (or so she hoped it would). She made her way to the backyard where class was planned to be held and felt relieved when she saw a few students already here as well as the Professor. Great. She was in the right place! "Hello Professor Hernandez!" she said with an excited smile before nodding towards the other students. She wondered what they were going to be doing today!

Wiggling his bum, Matt walked into the CoMC area and looked around at the mats and whatnot.

He loved the fact there were no desks, and he half marched, half continued to wiggle his bum in a dance-like fashion as he made his way to one of the mats in the middle of the area. The Gryffindor gave both the older girls a nod and waved at the professor. "Hello, hello, everyone! Good daaaay."

Aaaaaaaaaaaand he sat down with a loud thump near the person who had the same nickname as his brother: Ollie. "Yo."

And like every famous Solo throughout the history of a galaxy that was far, far away, Matt Solo made his entrance. Always dancing, huh? Olivia shook her head a little. She fought back a chuckle and instead smiled as her friend entered the premises. Someone was happy. And then he plopped down with the loudest THUD ever next to her. Yo.

Did he just 'yo' her? What? Who? How? When? Why? WHAT?! Confused, she quirked an eyebrow for a fleeting second at his choice of word and then grinned. "Sup." Life was too short to over analyze everything. "How's it going? You seem to be in a good mood." She liked it when people were in good moods- it generally made it easier to get through the day with little to no drama!

Before coming to Hogwarts, Sinead had whole-heartedly planned to enjoy every lesson, not to mention come top of the class in all of them. And she'd tried- she really had. Unfortunately, she'd just never really been at one with nature.

The first part of class was usually fine; she'd read up well enough in the textbook, and she was always keen to answer questions. She just didn't really understand why they had to do the practical parts of the class as well. It wasn't like she was ever going to become a dragon wrangler, or breed Krups, or whatever other weird jobs these people would do- a theoretical knowledge was more than enough for potion-making or whatever she was interested in. Yet here she was, sat on a scratchy mat on the cold and rather damp ground, waiting to be harassed by some other horrible slobbery animal.

But because she was such a good student (really, the professors must love her) she still made her way to a mat as near the blackboard as possible and attached a fresh sheet of parchment to her clipboard, ready for note-taking. That much, she could manage.

Natalie didn't like animals. Not dogs, not birds, especially not bugs. So, she also didn't really like this class, especially when the teacher made them sit on the GROUND. At least there was a mat? But still, the bugs could crawl onto the mat and UP her skirt and, ugh. The thought made her cringe.

But her mum said she HAD to go to this class, no matter what. It was "mandatory" or whatever. So, Natalie went, even though she didn't want to. She came outside with her bookbag and went to find the class. When she arrived she spotted one of the girls she shared a dorm with.

"Hi, Sinead," she said to her fellow Slytherin before sitting down on the mat beside her. Hopefully she wouldn't mind the company.

For being october it was surprisingly warm. Well to Jonas it was. He walked out to the field and was glad he wasn't late like ib flying. Oh god that was embarrassing.
"Hey professor!" he grinned.

Creatures.

Now this was a class Zoryn could get behind.

But she hadn't made up her mind on the Professor yet. He was interesting. That was 'mom' for... weird. See Zoryn was picking up the lingo. She understood what things meant (sometimes).

With an extra skip in her step, the wild child made her way down to the barn. "Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Professor!" she sung as she gave the man an ENTHUSIASTIC WAVE."It's a GREAT day to learn about unicorns," she gave him an encouraging sort of nudge with her elbow. WINK WINK, NUDGE NUDGE. GET IT? let'slearnaboutunicornstodayPLEASE.

....... Zoryn was allowed to do that....... right?

Ahem.

"Also, how come we never have desks?" It was a reoccurring theme at this school. "Are they illegal at Hogwarts?" Just saying.

Also WHERE TO SIT??????????

There were too many choices. It was doing her head in.

Jonas sighed and pintched his nose at the cringy enthusiasm the first year had. Didn't she realize some of them care not to hear that?
"Maybe because desks aren't needed during this lesson??" he deadpanned.

SPOILER!!: Janelle

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Originally Posted by Daydreamer11

Janelle enjoyed her stroll down to one of her favorite classes. She loved Care of Magical Creatures and was excited to find out what they would be learning today. When she finally arrived at the "classroom" area, she found that she was one of the first to arrive. "Hello Professor Hernandez", she said happily. Whatever they would be doing, she knew it would be fun.

Spotting her fellow seventh year, Janelle greeted her with a wave. "Hello Natalia", she said before finding a spot by an empty mat. She sat down, readied her things and began to look around for clues to the topic of the day. Waiting patiently was never her strong suit.

Cassie had to admit, she quite had enjoyed Care of Magical Creatures for the past three years and so far this term hadn’t been a detriment to her feelings on the subject. Cool animals, fun lessons and time in the out of doors were all great. She might be a Ravenclaw but that didn’t mean she liked all her classes to be boring lectures and the like.

All ready for today’s lesson, the fourth year made her way down the grounds to where they usually met up in the backyard. Sure enough, the professor and a double handful of students were already gathered there. “Hello Professor,” she greeted Hernandez with a polite smile as she came close to the group. The Ravenclaw taking in those already gathered as she debated where to set up. Janelle seemed to be the only fellow housemate surrounded by Gryffindors and Slytherins including the girl from DADA so she made her way over towards the older girl.

“Hey,” she greeted with a friendly smile as she lowered herself down on the mat. The younger girl then taking out some parchment and locking it in the clipboard near her to be ready for the class to begin.

Ahh Care of Magical Creatures, Leon enjoyed this class immensely, though the older boy found himself missing Professor Draper at times. He had loved their blindfolded hunt through the maze a few years ago, though the Winged Horse lesson last year had been pretty fun as well.

"Hello Professor, How are you today? " The 7th year asked as he walked into class and sat down on a mat and looked down at the clipboard..

Hmm, he wondered what they would be studying this class..

Care of Magical Creatures wasn't his strongest subject. But it was still a class and any class was exciting as far as Maxton was concerned.

Yay learning!

The first year made his way to class excitedly. Mats and clipboads, okay that was different.

Maxton found a mat by himself, sat down cross-legged and waited patiently.

FINALLY a lesson she knew she liked! No useless lessons about predicting the future in any way or a lesson in which she didn’t needed to pretend to actually work! No, this was a lesson she liked to do because it was, for starters, fun and useful!

With Vlam safely hidden in her pocket she walked toward the professor who was standing before the blackboard and she smiled while nodding at the teacher. “Hello” she greeted, still smiling. What were they going to do today? Looking around her to spot some animals she was disappointed to see that there were no magical creatures around… Hmm, so she needed to wait and… Let’s say that waiting wasn’t exactly something she was good at, waiting and, of course, being patient…

Humming a merry tune under her breath, Kitty made her way down to the Care of Magical Creatures class. It was a nice day and a gentle breeze was blowing through the air. As she approached the class she stopped humming and gazed curiously around to see if there were any signs on what creature they would be studying today.

"Hello Professor Hernandez," she greeted the professor cheerfully. "How are you? I can't wait to see what we're studying today."

She moved to sit down on one of the mats, going into a yoga pose as she did so.

"Hi, Natalie." Sinead flashed a brief smile to her dorm-mate, shifting her bag over to make more room for the other girl to sit. She kind of had the impression that this wasn't Natalie's favourite class, either- which made two of them. Something to bond over, at least. Maybe this was the level she would have to make friends on; just touring the castle at random didn't really seem to have yielded her a lifelong bestie, yet.

... Although come to think of it, that had probably been what she was doing the first time she had a proper conversation with Natalie. Hm. Maybe it wasn't such a bad strategy.

She'd had a few lessons with Zoryn and despite never having talked to her, she knew enough to realise that the girl was seriously annoying. However, she did have a point there- they could really use a few more tables in this school. All the teachers were just too progressive for their own goods. Though... to be fair, maybe they had an excuse in Care of Magical Creatures.

With a quick glance around to see if the lesson seemed to be getting underway yet, Sinead leaned towards Natalie again.
"Do you know what we're studying today? I hope it's not too... messy." She could do without that right now, really.

Janelle was busy scanning the room when she heard a friendly voice. Turning around, she saw a familiar face. "Hey yourself Miss Cassie", she said, returning her housemate's smile. "Are you ready for a little creature fun?" Janelle knew that she was. The younger girl had her clipboard ready to go, as did Janelle. They were Ravenclaws after all.

Checking her watch, Janelle knew that class should be starting soon. It looked like they were only missing a few students. Any minute now, the mystery would be solved.

Roo had a NEW love for this class after his OWL exam and therefore he was SO EXCITED to take a seat on a mat and set up his notebook against the clipboard provided. As he sat cross-legged, Rooney GRINNED at the Professor and gave him a wave. "Hellllllllllooooo Professor. What are you drinking?" He gave the air a sniff and gave the man a smirk. So this was how Professors got through teaching their classes and coping with the students.

Sneaky coffee cups of firewhiskey...

It was a good plan, really it was. If the air didn't smell so much of...coffee. Ah. Coffee. Rooney wanted coffee.

SPOILER!!: Janelle

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Originally Posted by Daydreamer11

Janelle was busy scanning the room when she heard a friendly voice. Turning around, she saw a familiar face. "Hey yourself Miss Cassie", she said, returning her housemate's smile. "Are you ready for a little creature fun?" Janelle knew that she was. The younger girl had her clipboard ready to go, as did Janelle. They were Ravenclaws after all.

Checking her watch, Janelle knew that class should be starting soon. It looked like they were only missing a few students. Any minute now, the mystery would be solved.

Miss Cassie.

She found herself chuckling slightly at that. “Uh huh…I am ,” she remarked with a nod at the question. She was ready. As Janelle seemed to be as well, given how they both had their stuff ready for when Professor Hernandez eventually got them going. Birds of a feather?

“Any thoughts on what today’s creature of choice will be?” Cass asked, passing the curious question to the other girl. Could be almost anything for all she knew.

CREATURES! CREATURES! CREAAAAAAAAAAAAAATURES!

His legs never could move fast enough for the first year's taste when it came to this particular subject. Maybe he should speak to the Headmistress about receiving broom permissions so he could FLY down to each lesson. MUCH faster and more efficient than his legs - which really need to be LONGER so he could take longer strides.

Leg lengthening potion...THAT was what he needed!

He really needed to start writing down all his brilliant ideas...because he kept forgetting them. It was hard to fit so much in his still developing brain, okay?

"GOOD MORNING, PROFES-S-SSOR!" Derf greeted with his usual enthusiastic wave. "Don't suppos-s-se fere is-s any chance of us-s-s working with dragon eggs-s today...is-s fere?"

Curious minds needed to know these things....for reasons...

But given there was no indication of dragon eggs anywhere in sight - unless the professor was using a Disillusionment Charm to hide everything...which was a cheap trick in the first year's book - he was going to assume no. Still, never hurt to ask.

Care of magical creatures being one of her classes of course she would be there. Since Magizoology was now a possible career path for her. The blonde made her way down to the backyard where the Care of Magical Creatures lessons were always held.

She got there, she waved to the professor "Hello. Professor Hernandez." She was excited to find out what magical creatures they would be working with today. She headed on over to the mats and found one to sit on "Hey Nat. Mind if I sit with you here?" Since she didn't get to sit beside Nat in Arithmancy. She would sit with her in this class.

The blonde snorted at the young Gryffindor girl (Zoryn) and her silly questions. "Yes. desk were outlawed years ago." She replied with a chuckle. Clearly Kat was hanging out with too many Slytherins these days.

What was with all these classes outside and classes where there weren't proper chairs? Was that a magic thing? Once again Slate was really questioning, well, pretty much everything to do with this school.

He nonetheless nodded a greeting to the professor before plopping down... on a mat... like a small primary school child... about to take a nap.

His inner sarcastic voice was just screaming "funnnn" at him.

So maybe they didn't use desks at Hogwarts at all? Carlton was more and more convinced they didn't and he didn't mind one bit! He was a natural at CONMC - Care of Non-magical Creatures, but the magical ones? He wasn't sure about that. It was always exciting to attend the classes though. Unless the creatures were scary, then not so much.

"Hello Professor Hernandez!" Carlton gave him a wave as he plopped down on one of the mats. His eyes searched around them for any scary creatures lurking. When he found none, he relaxed slightly. "Exciting. Creatures."He murmured to himself as he got comfy on the mat.

Olivia didn't really know what to think about these mats, but at least it would be better on her bum than those usual hard seats provided in most lessons. Also, the fresh air was a nice addition to the day, as she stepped into the backyard area, head swimming slightly.

There'd been more nightmares the night before, but that was neither here or there. She were here and ready to participate. That's all that mattered...

Taking a seat, next to Carlton, she smiled towards the professor and his cup of coffee. Coffee.... Man, the Gryffindor could really go for some tea. "Hello." It was a general greeting.