Avalon couldn't help but smile when Professor Williamson offered her congratulations. The Ravenclaw tried to be a basically humble person, but she couldn't deny that it was nice to have her teachers commend her on her hard work. Plus, it was good to know that the embarrassing wampus kitten incident from last year didn't define her as a student. Avalon still had occasional nightmares about the wampus cat getting loose, running into the castle, and putting everyone it looked at in a daze. Needless to say that dream always ended up with Avalon in detention and losing 200 house points.

Raising her hand to answer the question, she said, "It's important to remember that XXXXX creatures are literally impossible to train, so you might as well not even try. You'd just end up getting yourself hurt." Unless you were a Parselmouth or something. According to her textbooks, parselmouths could technically train basilisks. "And some creatures are rated XXXX not because they're necessarily dangerous, but because they're endangered. Like the snidget. So you have to be extremely cautious not to harm them when you're working with them, and to always release them back into their natural habitat." As for the second part of Williamson's question - what to keep on hand - that was fairly self explanatory.