SPOILER!!: Elijah's future... ahem... slave
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Originally Posted by
Steelsheen 
There was a relief in the Ravenclaw's face as the Hufflepuff referred him by his nickname, and could just give a self-effacing shrug when he was complimented for his smarts. Elijah was pretty generous with his compliments although at the back of his head he had wondered if the Hufflepuff was trying to.... loan money later?... get him to do his homework? But all that was chased from his mind when Elijah started to look as worried as Vickers was feeling. He had just heard the Hufflepuff's question when he heard this from the Slytherin Prefect....
AN INGREDIENT??? The color drained from the Ravenclaw's face as he shifted his eyes back at the slimy creature on their table. B-B-But its a creature that might still be aliiiiiivee. His hand shoots up in the air for the second time as he blurted out "Professor? Are we going to..." dissect? Nuuu he cant say it ".... learn how to GROW certain parts today, like the way we can grow bone?" starestarepleadingstare. He didnt want to slaughter a poor young living creature for parts like what almost happened to ickle!Roro
Elijah liked the wording of his Potion partners question. Hopefully the Professor took the hint and decided that instead they would help GROW the plimpies and make them big and strong. Surely plimpies could use a healthy diet of vitamins and other such things to help bulk them up and make them true survivors of the OCEAN!
Or not, because...
SPOILER!!: The Evil Lady
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Originally Posted by
Droo
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Yes, they are Plimpies." She said and continued her class.
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Not exactly, Miss Greingoth..." It was many ingredients. "
But that's a good answer. Only a potioneer would see a creature as such."
She smirked. A genuine smirk... was this boy a muggleborn? Didn't matter, but it was a pretty funny answer. "
No Master Kinsley, you find this creature in nature... though it is hard to detect by muggles."
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It's what it looks like... but it has a name." She said and nodded.
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Master Wilde, I assure you they are not still alive." She walked to his table and touched the creature with her wand. "
I made sure of that before class..."
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Uhmm... no." she said not understanding why the boy was asking that question.
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Plimpy." She corrected the boy...
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Way to go Captain Obvious!
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Very good Master Upstead." She said shaking her head. "
That it is."
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No... these particular specimen are fully grown." She said to the Slytherin.
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Every one of these creatures are from our own lake. Merpeople in general consider these creatures to be pests, like farmers may consider squirrels to be. They eat their crops and destroy their hard work. The way they get rid of the creatures is by tying their legs into a knot and letting them drift away. The younger Plimpies are able to untangle themselves, while the older, they float away and die. Our house elves have placed traps for the older ones to fall into... sometimes they are dead and sometimes still alive. When they catch a live one, they'll untangle it and throw it back in the water. The dead ones are..." brought to her... "
disposed of."
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The first step in harvesting ingredients from a dead plimpy is to untangle it's legs. Be very gentle, and you can damage them." She began showing the students how to take the knot out of the plimpy's legs by demonstrating on her own, very large plimpy. "
There. No bruising. The legs are intact. You may try." She said and began walking around the class but stopped. "
If you haven't understood what we are going to be doing, I'll be more clear. We're opening up this creature and taking it's parts to use as ingredients in potions. If you are squeamish, you are free to leave. If you wish to stay, and not participate but watch... you may chose to do so as well... though you will not receive full points on this lesson." She waited a moment, again rubbing her temples and then added. "
But you'll need to chose now..."
"Dead!?" Elijah's hand went straight to his mouth before he ended up barfing everywhere. He was staring at a DEAD thing. A corpse! He was staring at an actual real life, without the life part, CORPSE! He was too gorgeous to be a pathologist of any kind or a necromancer for that matter!
This woman's MIND was also
highly unattractive, it seemed. He watched her untie the knots binding the plimpy's legs and with each movement she made, Elijah was certain SOMETHING was kicking the insides of his stomach
willing him to vomit all over his very own plimpy...
And then the thought of him vomiting on a dead plimpy entered his mind and it all became WAY too much for his gorgeous lil' head to cope with. He turned to Vickers hoping for some moral bro support but...
SPOILER!!: Don't wimp out on the gorgeousness!
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Originally Posted by
Steelsheen It was DEAD!
Vickers watched the Professor poke POKE their Plimpy with her wand and it remained perfectly still. The Ravenclaw lowered his head to his chest so much that only the top of his head would've been seen unless you sat near him. He wanted to WIBBLE for the death of the old, disposable Plimpy. But awesome Elijah was sitting next to him and he cant be all wibbly and depressing too much.
He patted the creature's body with his gloved hands the way friends would give their final respects to someone who just passed away. So this is what they look like, the old Plimpies once they've been collected. He wanted to give some sort of last rites for the poor creature who would be sacrificing itself for the greater betterment of Hogwarts Wizards and Witches. Placing his hands over the Plimpy's body he paused for a moment of revered silence. When he finally straightened up in his seat he sighed mournfully before starting to untangle the Plimpy's legs with great care and respect, stretching them out gently on their work tray.
"Vickers!?" he seethed as he saw the boy practically UNDER the table. "You cannot not leave a bro up here by himself like this with two dead ickle fishes! It. Is.
Not. Cool." When the boy stood straight once more behind their workbench, Elijah couldn't deny that it helped relax him a little. There was something about Vickers that set him at ease about this whole task. Perhaps it was because the boy seemed to have similar thoughts as him in regards to this lessons task.
Elijah was in the process of putting on his own gloves and working out in his gorgeous mind how would be best to get Vickers to untie
his plimpy as well as his own. The train of thought was interrupted when he noticed Vickers PATTING the dead creature and the onset of nausea was back. "Vickers! Don't pat it! It's dead. What if it's guts start oozing out of it's eyeballs if you pat too hard, huh?"
This whole ordeal was proving way too traumatic. If things got much worse he had a feeling his hair would start to fall out and how could he POSSIBLY remain unbelievably good looking if he lost his enviable, luscious locks?
Vickers set to work on his own plimpy, untying the knot just like the Professor had showed them, whilst Elijah just STARED at his. It was such an
ugly creature. Elijah was all for getting rid of unattractiveness from the world, but he didn't want to be the one behind cutting it open. At least the untying part wouldn't be too bad. He could do that himself surely, right? Then when it got to the actually cutting open part he could try and get Elijah to do his work for him. He'd be sure to use Vickers previous wimping out to his advantage.
Reaching for the knot, Elijah began untying it. However, in the process he tugged maybe
slightly too hard which caused the creature itself to move slightly.
"MERLIN!!!! IT'S ALIVE! MY SPIMPY IS ALIVE! IT MOVED! IT BLOOMIN' MOVED! VICKERS! KILL IT!" and now it was time for
Elijah to be hiding under the table.