Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo

The Professor was saying things to her that she'd never have imagined. They had fireplaces before floo networks?? And they never once thought up the idea? Jeez, she loved muggles and all but they could be so dense and unimaginative sometimes. Alexa clung to every word the woman was saying until finally she was grinning. Building campfires. You know what you did with campfires?? You made up with one of your best friends while sitting around them ROASTED MARSHMALLOWS on them!!

She could so see this, no matter what Professor Hadley might have wanted to tell her. This meant cooperating even if they'd be muggling their way through this class. Manually building a campfire. Good merlin! Muggles needed to start learning magic so they could have it in their lessons.



But enough about that! Campfire building. The first Gryffindor she spotted was Anya! Her marshmallow roasting buddy!! Lex gave a last look at Lottie, giving her a look that said they were sharing anything they got at the end of the class before walking over to the older lioness with a grin.

"Ready for campfire building duty! What should I do first? Get the rocks? I can do that." Because she could be helpful and there was a possibility that there was sugar on the line. One did not simply tempt fate when there was SUGAR on the line.

"You can take the wood back here. We'll make this spot ours. No trespassing from anyone not in red." NOD.

Originally Posted by Silence of the Lemons

"D'you think she'll notice if we cheat and just use an Incendio?" was the first sentence out of Alice's mouth as she approached her teammates. Of course she was an honorable Gryffindor and all but..... this was the dumbest assignment ever. Best way to become warm? Shutting the windows. Come onnnn, Hadley. She couldn't work when it was this cold. Really. She couldn't.

Whatever. She waited for Lex to fetch the rocks. And.. wait.. she was going to the bag.. Cambridge was gonna get wood stuff too, right?

... teeth chattering now. How long did these take to make?

Originally Posted by george is cool

When the Professor had finished speaking, Lilly sprung from her seat and made her way to where it looked like the Gryffindors were gathering. All of them were younger than her so she hoped they didn't expect her to have any idea what they were meant to be doing. She didn't know how to build a fire, even if she had grown up as a muggle. Her family didn't really do camping trips and outdoorsy fires and stuff and her and her sisters never particularly cared.

"Hi," Lilly said thickly when she got there. It was too cold to speak any more than that anyway. She saw the weird little kid had gone to get the stuff. Hopefully she'd be able to carry it all. Where was all the rest of the Gryffindors. They needed to hurry up because she was absolutely freezing and pretty sure the others felt the same way.

Originally Posted by Karina Wozniacki

Well, Karina could fix this problem. A little wand work and the others wouldn't be able to set their sticks straight, much less light them! She smirked and joined the Gryffindors. "So? Shall we get started then?" she asked the group, bringing over firewood as a contribution. If they wanted to win they had better begin.

She looked about the room to see if any of the other groups had started yet, hmmm none yet. They were to be the first.

Originally Posted by Sébastien Voclain

Originally Posted by Syd

Originally Posted by AlwaysSnapesGirl

Okay, time to try to stop thinking about snogging Ascanius. There was a competition going on now and she needed to focus. So after sending another glance and smirk over at him, she grabbed some firewood and headed over to where her housemates were gathering. And a Durmstrang and Beauxbatons person she supposed she was supposed to consider housemates or something for now. She could do that for now, she supposed.

"We're supposed to be doing it like Muggles though, aren't we?" she pointed out, setting her firewood down with the rest. It was Muggle Studies after all, so she was pretty sure the point was not to use magic for this. And even though she wasn't always one to simply follow the rules of a class like in Arithmancy ahem, she respected Muggles enough to abide by that sort of rule, at least for this class.

Glancing over the instructions, the rock part did sound a bit confusing, but it wouldn't hurt to make the circle anyway. Otherwise what was the point of having the rocks? And Schuyler seemed to be handling that, so she nodded with what she said next. "Yeah, that'd be a good idea." She could help with sorting the wood. So that was what she did, starting with putting the bigger ones in their own pile.

Originally Posted by Team ronmione

It was until now that Tag noticed just how many girls and that one forgein girl from the common room where in this Gryffindor group compared to just him and Jacob. They could both be easily outnumbered if some fight broke out. Just a random thought there.

Yes, they were supposed to be starting on this fire thing. We understood the directions from Professor, it seemed that most lions felt like repeating it. Although, Tag wasn't against Alice's plan. It would make things go faster. But then Penelope had a point to the whole muggle side of things so he just shrugged in agreement to her.

Wood and rocks were exactly what they needed. Yes, thank you people. Tag didn't feel like doing too much talking today but he went over to Penelope's side and began sorting out through the wood. Grabbing the real big ones and putting it in the pile that Penelope had already started.

"I say, though, once we put the wood in placement, we should go longest/biggest wood first and then go smaller and smaller?" Maybe an idea. Make things slightly easier. If other people had different ideas than he wouldn't be opposed to them.