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Alyssa's nose twitched and then scrunched up. 'Holy Merlin!! Who died up here?' she thought to herself as she took a whiff of the smell and almost gagged on entering the area that Professor Bentley had led them to.
"OH WOW!! It can't be....can it?" Alyssa asked no one in particular. She had heard about the infamous Weasley swamp but she had never really seen...or breathed...it in real life and up close. She held her breath as she took a step closer to the edge of the swamp and looked as it bubbled like a witch's brewing pot.
"COOL!!" Alyssa smiled. 'I wonder whether I can duplicate this back home?' she smiled to herself.
'I guess this is the ecosystem we're going to be working with.' Alyssa thought to herself. She couldn't wait for class to end so that she could run back to her dorm and write back to the family about what she had seen today. Another one for the family history books.
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Jessiqua Zhenya had followed Professor Bentley, half between a brisk walk, half between a run, and she stopped. She restrained herself from hunching forward whilst she got her breath back properly. But, she made it. She looked up to see what they could possibly be studying in relation to ecosystems in the castle. Surely they weren't looking at the Hogwarts Castle ecosystem. What, with the students and their predators, the Professors, and all the walls and food and elves.
But it all made sense! There was something on the floor. It was... what was it? A swamp? River? Lake? No, must be a swamp. It had a smell.
She looked at Professor Bentley and said "This is cool, Professor."
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Meizzner "Awesome" Nigel said nodding. He did not expect to be lead to the famous swamp. Even though it was a plant. But he wondered how it was still here. Maybe someone was taking care of it so it would not die.
He wondered what they could be doing with the swamp because Nigel did not want to touch it. Nope.
Seren was feeling rather giddy now. It really was amazing, and it pleased her that the students were so approving.
"It is rather nifty isn't it," she mused.
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Dylan followed everyone up and almost choked from a nasty smell that he could smell. "Urgh!!" slipped out of his mouth without meaning to, so he covered his mouth and nose, shaking his head at his Head of House to tell her it wasnt him that said it! Someone else said that.. honest! He then looked over at the swamp that they were looking at and lowering his hands for a second "Cool Professor!" not really meaning it.. but then again.. swamps were actually cool.. this was her surprise? He edged forward and he was now very interested in what they were going to do with this swamp, were they going to chuck someone in it.. or throw some plants into it? and see how the plants reacted with it.. what?.. what? "What are we going to do with the swamp professor? Are we going to take samples back to the greenhouse with us?" he asked cause then that would be cool, and then they could poke the swamp with plants or other stuff that came into their hands and see how the swamp reacted with all those items in its new environment. OK now he thought this lesson was cool! He couldnt wait to see what they were going to do with this swamp.
"If I told you that would ruin the surprise..." not that it was much of a surprise. It was school work after all.. not
supposed to be fun, but accidents happened.
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McFeisty Mika's nose immediately crinkled as she walked closer to the swamp. It smelled like an authentic stinktacular swamp. With a slight smirk she chirped out, "I dare someone to try and swim in that..." She was awesome.
Sure if they did they would probably spend an entire week trying to get the stench of rotten cabbage, Brussels sprouts, and maybe even that oddly fishlike scent of rotten potatoes. Yeah, they would truly be stanktacular.
Shooting the Ravenclaw a disapproving look, Seren then eyed the roping, if a student stepped over it... they'd find themselves in detention popping bubotuber blisters for hours.
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demented_death_eater Rawdon edged his way next to Mika and scrunched up his face at the smell. Eww. It smells like an old pair of socks worn for an entire month and soaked with sweat that were kept in a container in the hot sun for a few hours.
But his hand shot up in the air and a question was blurted from his lips in typical Vindictus style "Professor Bentley, has anyone accidentally fallen into this swamp and vanished without a trace?"
Turning her head to see Rawdon, Seren shhrugged.
"If it's happened... I haven't heard about it." Perhaps that was something to look into. The last thing they needed were parents and the Board hassling them over safety issues.