The Slytherin pushed (pulled and tugged) her curly hair back into a ponytail - which definitely wasn’t sleek and well done, but it would keep her hair out of her face each time she leant forward to deal with the plants in their class today. Still smiling, Holly looked around the class as everyone else came in and couldn’t help the slight head-tilt at the sight of a younger kid licking a plant. … She hoped the girl knew that that plant wasn’t poisonous before she did it; though, at least the Healer was right there?? She still wasn’t sure that was the best way to start the term though.

Leaning back in her chair slightly as she waited, it didn’t take long for the Professor to call their attention to her. Sitting up straighter, quill in hand, the fourteen year-old listened to the beginning of the lesson. Holly nodded where needed and jotted down a few notes just to make sure she would remember them.

…. The garden?

Huh. That wasn’t … where she was thinking this would go, but she could get behind it. Or at least as she listened to her class mates, she was pretty sure she could. If she could come up with something else to say. Each time she thought of something new, it was the next answer given. Huh. Hmmmmm.

Putting her hand in the hair, she kept trying to think of something and she had been going to say that they needed to look out for gnome’s and other creatures that could ruin or disturb the garden - but Lucas said that just before her. So instead, she added; “At home, we’re close to the Bay and Lochs… so perhaps a water feature for birds?” She loved water, yes. Waterfalls or features, please?