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Originally Posted by hermione9495  Lucy smiled and raised her hand again to answer. "Well my mum told me that Gillyweed resembles a bundle of slimy, grey-green rat tails. And when it is consumed, one grows gills and webbing between the fingers and toes." She said. Quote:
Originally Posted by RaRaRachieee Vanessa thought for a moment before raising her hand. "Gillyweed looks like a bundle of slimey-grey rats tails, and when it's eaten it gives an individual gills, enabling them to swim underwater. It also gives webbed hands and feet to ease swimming. The duration this change happens is roughly about an hour." Quote:
Originally Posted by LMAO GFG Cy opened that Herbology book of his, sifting through the table of contents. AHAH! ANd there it was, Cy's brown eyes locked on to it, and read a small snippet about it under the picture (because he was NOT going to read the full chapter. He really did hate reading...). "It looks downright dodgy, Professah." He said, grinning wryly. "A ball of slimy reeds." He said, "I'd like to throw it at Katie." He said under his breath grinning, as he looked at the page.
"Gives you breath undah' water for some amount of time... blah blah blah." He didn't feel like reading the whole definition aloud. Quote:
Originally Posted by Deniiz The looks of a Gillyweed... Grace wasn't sure about that part. She raised her hand. "It's green and sticky and... murky?" No, she was almost sure this part was wrong. But she knew the properties. "It almost transforms a human into a fish. It gives gill and it webs the hands and feet like a fish. It also gives a good vision underwater." Quote:
Originally Posted by Monkey Princess William put up his hand, "Gillyweed is a plant which can make you breath under water by giving you fish gills. It lasts for only an hour I think and is green and slimy and resembles weird rat-tails." He replied remembering seeing one once when he was in Diagon Alley. Gillyweed was cool he thought and it would definitely be good to keep a stash around in case of weirdness. Quote:
Originally Posted by dingDong Cam thought for a minute and raised his hand to answer the question, "Well professah, the gillyweed looks like um..." He honestly didn't know how to describe the thing but gave it a try anyways, "it looks like a ball of mutated green alien worms and I think it turns you into some sort of an alienated fish." He nodded. Yupppp. Quote:
Originally Posted by Waterloo Siiiigh.
This wasn't going so well. Clifford couldn't swim.. he was downright AFRAID of water. He had enough of it with all these floods, he didn't need reminding of it in lesson too. Last lesson it had been those lilypads now gillyweed. Great.
He just hoped his fear of water didn't extend to waterplants.
One again, Clifford raised his hand. It was probably pointless. "Well, it looks ugly, ma'am. Sorta like worms. I don't think even I'd try eat that stuff.. and I eat like a pig," should he of admitted that? Eh. "anyway, so you eat it and you can breathe under the water, I think. Why anyone would do that..." voice trailing off, the seventh year wrinkled his nose. Quote:
Originally Posted by Crayola Gillyweed. Everybody knew stuff about gillyweed. It was massively popular, because people loved to grow stuff that weren't theirs to grown and go places that werent theirs to go. Bleh. Raising her hand, Evangeline replied rather halft-heartedly. "Gillyweed looks like ... rotten's tails. GREEN rats tails. And when eaten - though, really, who would want to eat that?.." Oh wait ... just answer, Evangeline. "Yeah, when eaten it makes the rather freaky phenomenon of people growing gills and webbing between the fingers and toes happen." Quote:
Originally Posted by Herminny Herminny remembered seeing a picture of gillyweed and reading about it in a book once and answered saying, "I think gillyweed looks like a bunch of green slimy worms and the duration of the effects which is to be a ble to grow gills and breathe gillyweed is about an hour.". Quote:
Originally Posted by Whitterz Torin raised his hand and said, "it sorta looks like worms. And It gives you gills and like webbed toes and fingers so that you can swim." Quote:
Originally Posted by moonyroxs Melanie raised her hand up nice and high, Ooooh she knew this one... "Like- like....Doesn't it look like seaweed? Or ...ahhh worms or somethin'?" she answered, her reply coming out as more of a question than an answer. "Ohh...and It makes you look like a fish sorta with gills and fins, cept' you still kept a human body...and helps you swim and breath underwater if you eat it." she added, nodding slightly as she finished, and looking hopefully up at the Professor. She couldn't help but look rather repulsed at the idea of consuming a plant though...especially one that looked like wormys. Icky. She really hoped they wouldn't be testing this one out...Water was SCARY. Even if she could swim...it was still scary. And the thought of growing gills and fins was almost even scarier. Quote:
Originally Posted by Anna Banana As the professor spoke, Anna watched the bag in the woman's hand. It was squirming, which caused Anna to make a sort of disgusted face at it. Eyes still on the bag, Anna raised her hand and said, " Gillyweed resembles slimy rat tails, which are grayish-green in color. When a person eats gillyweed, they gain gills which allow them to breathe underwater, as well as webbed hands and feets which assist them in swimming. These effects last for about an hour, too." Quote:
Originally Posted by Sneakeh Cat Reese raised her hand. "When Gillyweed is eaten, the person who ate it grows gills and webbed fingers and toes. Um, the Gillyweed is just a bundle of slim with long roots," she explained. She wasn't sure if Professor Bunbury wanted her to talk about the Freshwater versus Saltwater or not, but she thought she would mention it anyways. "There's also a theory that Gillyweed lasts longer in freshwater than it does in saltwater," she continued on with her answer. With all that said, she lowered her hand. "Excellent," Bunbunz nodded at the students who answered. "Gillyweed," she reached into the squirmy bag and held up a sample of the plant, "does in fact look like a bunch of tails packed together and thanks to its rather dense compaction, it usually manages to escape Muggle notice as it thrives on scrubby bushes found in the Mediterranean climate. Only after it is harvested does it start squirming.... but we'll go into that more in a minute."
She hopped off her stool again and moved toward the desks, pausing at each grouping to hand one student at the tables a ball of gillyweed. "Be careful with it now, it's expensive. Look at it, touch it, and then pass it on to the student sitting next to you so that everyone may observe the properties of gillyweed for themselves. DO NOT eat it, any one of you, just...observe. For now."
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Originally Posted by unicornkeeper07 "And Gillyweed was used by the legendary Harry Potter during the Triwizard Tournament, during the second task at the Lake," Aislynn added. She hoped a little history wouldn't offend anyone. It was a true and well-known fact after all. Everyone else spoke of the obvious features and purposes. Bunbury headed back up to her stool but paused at the Gryffindor's mention. Her blue eyes narrowed at the girl slightly but she slowly nodded. "That's...a very good point, girl." Whatever her name was, she must have been psychic because Bunbunz was about to mention that herself.
"Obviously gillyweed can have a variety of uses. Who can think of some interesting cases where it might come in handy - or some practical examples of times when gillyweed is helpful?"
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