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Old 01-11-2020, 12:08 AM
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CARE OF MAGICAL CREATURES LESSON


The Care of Magical Creatures are was still a renovation in progress. The grass was overgrown and patchy like a checkered quilt knitted by someone who had no business owning a pair of knitting needles. While the creatures had, by this point in time, mostly reaccumulated to their Hogwarts home, Mathys found himself convinced that the very vegetation of the grounds had turned wild in the absence of wizarding kind.

Though such sentiments were wasted on the next hour and a half ahead. There was important lessons to be learned and a very special creature for students to engage with.

A hodgepodge assortment of wooden crates and hale bales lay in a circular formation around a central table where a decorative bronze birdcage sat and dotted within the cage a few small birds with elegant blue speckled feathers that caught the afternoon sun just so. Though something seemed amiss with them. One in particular who was not hopping from branch like the others, but rather had nestled itself to the floor of the cage.

Mathys himself stands beside the cage wearing bold robin’s egg blue robes that helped highlight his frosty, yet some how soft, stare.

Come on in and take a seat on any of the bails of hay or crates. The lesson will begin shortly.
❧ index de leçon
Class setup & arrivals | this post
question one | describe some signs of aging among creatures
"reaction question" | the jobberknoll's scream
pre-activity task | hello phoenixes & group up
activity | first tasks & grouping updates
activity | final tasks
class dismissed
OOC: Salutations and welcome to our first Care of Magical Creatures lesson together this term. Please keep in mind that while this is your (the RPers of SS) first lesson OOC of the term, IC your characters have had numerous lessons with Professor de Nostredame. See the class notice for further details.

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Class will officially begin in approximately 36 hours from the time of this post.
Old 01-18-2020, 02:32 PM   #101 (permalink)


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Jillian was still looking at the jobberknoll as she was slowly lowering her hands when the professor started talking again. She tried to remember if she has seen a phoenix back when she was doing her checkup rounds in DMC. She's not too sure but she's always wanted to see one. This is amazing. This is actually hyping Jillian up for the activity.

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And then came the phoenixes!!! Nora kept a neutral expression at just the thought of them coming to their burning day, though they'd be coming back from the ashes soon after. Once the professor asked to make groups to pamper the creatures, Nora immediately turned to Jillian, "Come on, let's find more people to team up with..." she motioned as she looked around.
She turned to her seatmate- it was bound to happen since the sixth year Hufflepuff is right next to her. She smiled when Nora suggested they find more people. Nodding at the idea and got her notes and pencil ready "Yes!" she pointed to Nora the third year Ravenclaw (Fireheart) who was also forming a group. "hey guys!" she smiled. "Do you want for all of us to team up for this activity?" Jillian was a tad bit shy but obviously she is eager to work with them on this activity.
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WAIT. They were starting to do things but Alexandre didn't have a group yet. He looked around. It seemed so chaotic with people choosing partners, and some people not moving, and one boy puking?? GROSS. Alexandre looked wildly for someone he knew before his gaze landed on Cece. He remembered working with the younger girl a few times before and thought she was quite nice. So he made his way over to her and her group. "Hi. Mind if I join you?" There weren't too many of them yet, right?
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So it seemed she would be in the group with one younger student and possibly three older ones. Claudine wasn’t exactly thrilled about being in a group with Kodee. From her observations during their lessons, he was difficult and didn’t seem very bright (It [The sun] is hot. Really?! As if everyone already didn’t know that). Kaiser she didn’t mind and Chloe she didn’t know well. Isla was okay.

She focused on de Nostredame who was circulating boxes. As the Snakette listened, she couldn’t help but be fascinated at just how brilliant phoenixes were. The whole regurgitation aspect was one she did not know prior to now.

Claudine collected the box when it was handed over to her group. Now came the exciting part: the door opening and for a phoenix to come over to the group. She moved closer to a bale of hay in anticipation, her eyes fixed on the door.
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Hearing Bernie, Cecelia realized she'd missed the part when they'd been asked to partner up. Whoops! "Sure, count me in!" She nodded eagerly and got up too, nudging Phoebe gently. "Think Flynn will be okay?"
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Moving away from the two young men and back towards the ornate cage, Mathys pulled several small rectangular wooden boxes with sliding covers from beneath a velvet sheet and began walking around to distribute them to the groups.

"As you all know, phoenixes are herbivores. In ze wild zey are content weeth eating little and zey naturally favor magical plants ovair mundane ones. Zey have ze innate abeelity to discern poisonous plants from ze edible ones as well. Howevair, if zey find zemselves unable to digest plants, zey will regurgitate small pellets which are excruciatingly rare and often possess magical traits similar to invoked runestones or may contain gemstones." Some of this was information they may not have stumbled upon in their readings but were true none the less. "Zese particular phoenixes have been raised on gold leaf since zeir previous Burning Day. You will find both ze gold leaf and tweezers used to feed ze phoenixes with in zese boxes. Zey can become rathair eagair when zey see ze gold leaf, so as an additional precaution please wear your dragonhide gloves. Each membair of your group may attempt to feed gold leaf to your phoenix, zough zey may not accept it if zeir stomach is full."

Once he had passed out all the boxes, Mathys swiftly returned to the cage and made a grand spectacle of turning so the tails of his robes billowed out as he did.

"On ze count of trois I will open ze door and a phoenix will fly to each group. I recommend you clustair yourselves around one hay bale or crate for ze phoenix to perch itself upon." He paused a moment to allow for this to be executed. "Un ... deux ... trois!"

And with that he threw open the doors and the phoenixes took flight...
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Additional tasks will come in approximately 24 hours from the time of this post. As always, catch up is welcome at any point during the lesson.
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WAIT. They were starting to do things but Alexandre didn't have a group yet. He looked around. It seemed so chaotic with people choosing partners, and some people not moving, and one boy puking?? GROSS. Alexandre looked wildly for someone he knew before his gaze landed on Cece. He remembered working with the younger girl a few times before and thought she was quite nice. So he made his way over to her and her group. "Hi. Mind if I join you?" There weren't too many of them yet, right?


Ohmygosh! They were going to feed the phoenixes gold leaf! This was SO MAGICAL! She was OBSESSED! SO COOL! Bernie definitely didn't notice the boy throwing up over there. She was all glossy-eyed for the phoenix, eagerly awaiting it to land.

She accempted the box from Professor Nostredame with a soft, "thank you!" Oh! And they were getting another member to the group... Bernie watched the Ravenclaw boy coming over. Her instincts were to shoo him away, because this was a GRYFFINDOR party, but she shrugged instead. She had to be nice to him because Cece was the nice one of their group and she'd probably accempt him.

"Hi, okay, join us. We have to get ready for our phoenix." Bernie set the box down carefully, then put on her dragonhide gloves to await their phoenix's arrival. SO MAGICAL! much excite!!!!!
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Isla started to whisper to her group that she really, really didn't want to see a second creature die right in her face. She knew it was all a part of life, but at the same time, her emotions were already high because of the Jobberknoll. She decided not to say anything, though, because as the baby of the group, she didn't want to say something to make her look even more babyish. Besides, nobody ever said the phoenixes were actually going to meet their end today, so hopefully she was just overly worried about nothing.

She moved her focus to the wooden box Claudine had taken for their group. So they were going to feed their phoenix the golden leaf? Well, that sounded cool! The first year slipped on her dragonhide gloves, eager to do something with a creature other than watch it die. On the count of three, the birds were realized, causing Isla to watch with wonder as they made their way around. "That's amazing," she half-whispered. Sure, she was a pureblood, but even purebloods didn't get to see something like this all the time.

She followed Claudine over to a bale of hay, assuming the older students would follow suit. She was too busy watching the birds to notice. Taking her eyes off them for a minute, she looked at the wooden box, where all the supplies were. Even though she had her gloves on, she didn't want to go first. She'd let one of the older ones, Claudine even, show her how it was done.
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Catherine watched intently until the bird rested against their professor's hand and the man performed some kind of ritual over it. Amazing. All of it. The Ravenclaw couldn't take her eyes off the whole scene.

As soon as the man started giving them more information about jobberknolls, Catherine started writing on her parchment again. Her ears perked up even more when he said there was no other bird that did anything similar. She had heard of a mundane bird which was able to reproduce all sounds it had ever heard in a kind of mating singing, but that wasn't in reverse and it wasn't as dramatic and loud as the dying jobberknoll. She got annoyed at herself for not being able to remember the name of said bird at that moment, but she took a note of it in her parchment too, so she could look it up later.

When she looked back up from her notes, she saw professor de Nostredame perform the switching spell, and so she set her eyes on the new creatures as he spoke.

New was a figure of speech, of course, because those phoenixes were looking pretty old. And with that, Catherine decided on a title for that lesson as it was all to do with old age and death, and she wrote it at the top of the parchment. Of course, 'death', in the case of the phoenixes would also be a 'figure of speech' of sorts. That was so interesting, though, as she had never witnessed a Burning Day before and she was sure it was as fascinating as the death of a jobberknoll.

The first year pursed her lips ever so slightly at the mention of groups, and before she could do anything, Charlie was already asking if her and the other Ravenclaw girl would want to work together. Catherine quickly glanced at Cecelia, who seemed to be in a group of her own already. Holding her breath for a second or two, the young brunette exhaled and slowly nodded to Charlie.

As Avalon asked if anyone else needed a group Catherine's attention was caught by a very disgusting incident as a Hufflepuff boy threw up. Ew. What was that for? Because the bird had died? Why didn't people see that as a natural thing? Why get so worked up? Catherine didn't understand certain people's reaction to things, honestly.

After a moment of simply watching the professor and some students go to the boy's aid, Catherine turned her attention to her group again, judgemental disgusted expression still in place. The judgement disgust was blinked away when more people joined their group (Nora and Jillian). They were people she didn't know, so she didn't say anything for the time being. Surely they didn't need such a large group? 'Do you want for all of us to team up for this activity?' ...Catherine was certain the girl did not want to know her honest opinion.

The professor then moved on and started talking about phoenixes, so Catherine went back to taking notes. A very good excuse to distract her from the strangers joining their no-longer-small group. At the information about the rare, regurgitated pellet, Catherine's eyes went wide. Invoked runestones and gemstones??? Merlin! That piece of information she did not know. See, this is why school was so great.

As her groupmates were bound to start chatting with each other, Catherine tried to keep busy with her notes, that way she wouldn't have to join in the small talk. When professor de Nostredame walked past distributing the boxes, the first year took one for their group and thanked the man with a shy yet polite nod of her head.
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Because she DID have gloves. Her father insisted on it. Phoebe pulled on her gloves right as the phoenix alighted on their hay bale right in front of them. Amazing. The feathers practically lit from within, and the bird seemed to preen. Like it knew how beautiful it was.

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So their group seemed to be made. She glanced at the boy puking to make sure he was alright, but since the professor was tending to him Chloe focused back on her group. The Slytherin that just came up caught her attention, she knew the girl. Not really knew her but knew who she was. "You are a Blaze, aren't you?" Even saying the name made her look around for her mother knowing she wasn't there. It was such a tricky subject to bring up this side of her mother's family.

Not wanting to get behind or bring up family things in class she focused on the job. When Claudette went to get the box Chloe watched the others see what hay they went to. As soon as the two younger girls headed that way she took her stuff and followed.

"Now we have to cluster around or something like that and wait for it to fly over." Moving closer to the girls she made sure to leave an opening next to her so one of the boys was close to her. Looking at Kaiser the one without the girlfriend, at least she thought he didn't to see if he was coming over.
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Right.

So it seemed she would be in the group with one younger student and possibly three older ones. Claudine wasn’t exactly thrilled about being in a group with Kodee. From her observations during their lessons, he was difficult and didn’t seem very bright (It [The sun] is hot. Really?! As if everyone already didn’t know that). Kaiser she didn’t mind and Chloe she didn’t know well. Isla was okay.

She focused on de Nostredame who was circulating boxes. As the Snakette listened, she couldn’t help but be fascinated at just how brilliant phoenixes were. The whole regurgitation aspect was one she did not know prior to now.

Claudine collected the box when it was handed over to her group. Now came the exciting part: the door opening and for a phoenix to come over to the group. She moved closer to a bale of hay in anticipation, her eyes fixed on the door.
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Isla started to whisper to her group that she really, really didn't want to see a second creature die right in her face. She knew it was all a part of life, but at the same time, her emotions were already high because of the Jobberknoll. She decided not to say anything, though, because as the baby of the group, she didn't want to say something to make her look even more babyish. Besides, nobody ever said the phoenixes were actually going to meet their end today, so hopefully she was just overly worried about nothing.

She moved her focus to the wooden box Claudine had taken for their group. So they were going to feed their phoenix the golden leaf? Well, that sounded cool! The first year slipped on her dragonhide gloves, eager to do something with a creature other than watch it die. On the count of three, the birds were realized, causing Isla to watch with wonder as they made their way around. "That's amazing," she half-whispered. Sure, she was a pureblood, but even purebloods didn't get to see something like this all the time.

She followed Claudine over to a bale of hay, assuming the older students would follow suit. She was too busy watching the birds to notice. Taking her eyes off them for a minute, she looked at the wooden box, where all the supplies were. Even though she had her gloves on, she didn't want to go first. She'd let one of the older ones, Claudine even, show her how it was done.
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So their group seemed to be made. She glanced at the boy puking to make sure he was alright, but since the professor was tending to him Chloe focused back on her group. The Slytherin that just came up caught her attention, she knew the girl. Not really knew her but knew who she was. "You are a Blaze, aren't you?" Even saying the name made her look around for her mother knowing she wasn't there. It was such a tricky subject to bring up this side of her mother's family.

Not wanting to get behind or bring up family things in class she focused on the job. When Claudette went to get the box Chloe watched the others see what hay they went to. As soon as the two younger girls headed that way she took her stuff and followed.

"Now we have to cluster around or something like that and wait for it to fly over." Moving closer to the girls she made sure to leave an opening next to her so one of the boys was close to her. Looking at Kaiser the one without the girlfriend, at least she thought he didn't to see if he was coming over.


Okay. Phoenix. Gold leaf. Tweezers. Dragonhide gloves. Hay bale or crate. Kaiser may have been barely present, but he was somehow still listening and following, though admittedly a lot of the more precise details were kind of washing over him.

After pulling on his very well-worn and pre-owned gloves, as de Nostredame had directed, Kaiser the one who was indeed without a girlfriend, but nevertheless a terrible target of anyone's affections, in anyone were to ask him joined the girls at the hay bale, automatically filling the space beside Chloe. As he did, one of the swan-sized phoenixes - which were looking slightly worse for wear, though that made a lot of sense if they were approaching their Burning Days - glided through the air and landed softly on the hay bale. Even now, when it was a little past its peak, the creature had a majestic air about it. Kaiser averted his eyes.

"You all can go ahead," he said, addressing the three girls. De Nostredame had mentioned that the phoenixes might not take the gold leaf once they were full, and it didn't feel right that Kaiser should take one of those opportunities. He was perfectly fine waiting a while for his turn.
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The overwhelming feeling only grew as he continued to watch the bird and everything it was doing. While he couldn't register the sounds properly, the changes in movement didn't go unnoticed and is what caused the fifth year to break out of his thoughts. This was...... this was the moment?

It was weird to see the moment when someone - or, uh, a bird - die and was probably the reason why Lucas was staring so much. What else was he supposed to do? This wasn't anything like what he'd experienced before. Not when he was told that one of their pets had died, not when he came back to his dorm to see Dani the elephant wasn't moving. This time, he was watching it happen and somehow, that felt a little too real.

It took some time to focus back into the lesson and by then, Nostredame was talking about the Elixir of Life and Burning Day. He blinked a few times and rubbed his eyes - a little harder than was necessary, mind you. The Gryffindor would normally hate the idea of working in a group but, for once, he didn't care and didn't show any change in his facial expression.

That is, until he heard the sound of vomiting.

.......... Uh??

Lucas immediately glanced over to see one of the younger kids (Flynn) leaning over and vomiting to one side. He instinctively recoiled, even scrunching up his nose at the sight of the vomit. Poor kid. That was embarrassing. Was this the after effect of seeing the ~thing~ they had just seen, or did he just have something funny to eat?

Whatever the reason, the Prefect found himself gathering up his things and getting up to move over to him. Again, instinct. He didn't say anything as he sat down next to him, and didn't even bother with the, uh, very clear sign of vomit on the ground. But he did reach into his bag and pull out a half-empty bottle of water that he held out to him.

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Yes...perhaps the lesson had been a bit too much of a series of emotional whiplashes for the students, but he was steadfast and unapologetic in his methods. Carefully circling the cage as students moved about, Mathys took particularly interest in checking the state of the tail feathers of each phoenix. None had lost their luster just yet, it still being far too early in the process for that, and it was possible that should students perform to a reasonable standard that this flock would be willing to indulge each in a flight around the castle. Or at the very least the grounds and back.

He would wait and see.

Deciding that waiting in stoic silence was no way to conduct a class while students shuffled about finding appropriate partners, the French man opened his mouth to provide a light lecture when the words were robbed of him.

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Mathys vanished the vomitus from the ground with a swift wave of his hand before producing from the pocket of his luxurious robes' pocket a small vial which he uncorked and offered the young Hufflepuff. Pleased to see that Monsieur Lucas was already close at hand and with a bottle of water at the ready, Mathys offered the Gryffindor prefect a soft look of appreciation and praise. "Have a few seeps of watair and zen drink ziss. It will help settle your stomach furthair," he instructed Monsieur Whitlock before turning his attention to Monsieur Dakest. "Prefect Dakest, I would like you to form a group with Monsieur Whitlock..."

"...as well as Monsieur Ryan and Mademoiselle Castillo," he concluded, raising his voice a bit to ensure that both students could hear him and approach thanks to his beckoning.

His attention turned back to the prefect and Hufflepuff. "Ziss activity can be done sitting down. Take your time, Monsieur Whitlock." He then gave the boy an gently squeeze on the shoulder before providing Monsieur Dakest with a few sturdy pats on his own.


Nobody warned him that in his life there would be the potential for this kind of embarrassment. Flynn wasn't typically the sort to be embarrassed by anything so he was ill-prepared to be vomiting in front of Lucas Dakest. It made his tummy churn even more, and he didn't notice the sympathetic and/or horrified looks from his other classmates.

Shaking a bit, he took the offered water and was about to say something (or, try to), when the professor stepped in too. He gave the man a thankful look when he vanished the evidence and took the uncorked vial, simply trusting it was what the man said.

"Thank you professor." Flynn managed. "Sorry for disrupting the lesson." This he followed with sips of water and then he looked toward the other people mentioned to be in their group, a pair of Slytherins.

Wait.

Wait. He was in LUCAS'S group. Also he was driving from a waterbottle that LUCAS'S lips had touched.

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He looked at the older boy and he very hard to keep from blushing. Embarassing. "Thanks for the water, it helps." He appreciated the reassurance from the professor too, and he was glad they didn't have to rush about too much. He still needed a minute though.... for a few reasons.


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Moving away from the two young men and back towards the ornate cage, Mathys pulled several small rectangular wooden boxes with sliding covers from beneath a velvet sheet and began walking around to distribute them to the groups.

"As you all know, phoenixes are herbivores. In ze wild zey are content weeth eating little and zey naturally favor magical plants ovair mundane ones. Zey have ze innate abeelity to discern poisonous plants from ze edible ones as well. Howevair, if zey find zemselves unable to digest plants, zey will regurgitate small pellets which are excruciatingly rare and often possess magical traits similar to invoked runestones or may contain gemstones." Some of this was information they may not have stumbled upon in their readings but were true none the less. "Zese particular phoenixes have been raised on gold leaf since zeir previous Burning Day. You will find both ze gold leaf and tweezers used to feed ze phoenixes with in zese boxes. Zey can become rathair eagair when zey see ze gold leaf, so as an additional precaution please wear your dragonhide gloves. Each membair of your group may attempt to feed gold leaf to your phoenix, zough zey may not accept it if zeir stomach is full."

Once he had passed out all the boxes, Mathys swiftly returned to the cage and made a grand spectacle of turning so the tails of his robes billowed out as he did.

"On ze count of trois I will open ze door and a phoenix will fly to each group. I recommend you clustair yourselves around one hay bale or crate for ze phoenix to perch itself upon." He paused a moment to allow for this to be executed. "Un ... deux ... trois!"

And with that he threw open the doors and the phoenixes took flight...
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Hearing his name Blake turned toward the Professor. Looks like this won't be a solo mission after all. He nodded to the Professor that he understood he was grouped... although he didn't really know any of these students personally, of course he had seen them around the castle before, and maybe they had talked ... but he didn't really know them. Maybe this was away to make more friends...

Seeing as he was the closest to the Professor. Blake grabbed the box from Professor de Norstredame and turned toward the rest of his group to see which hale bale they had grouped themselves around.


The task was interesting enough to somewhat distract him from his embarrassment, though Flynn was in no shape to add that interesting stuff about runelike stones and gemstones to his notes. He sipped the water again and caught Cece's concerned look, and gave her a weak little wave. He would be okay and they could all regroup later and he would let her and the other Stark kids fuss over him and make him feel a bit better about it all, they were good at that.

He spotted Blake getting the gold leaf and pulled his own gloves on, holding the water bottle between his knees so he could manage it. Since he and Lucas were already by a hay bale, it made sense that would be where they would work, so he feebly made the effort to wave Blake, and also that pretty older girl Nina, over to join them. No more vomit, see?
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Naya was still recovering from the very tragic death of the jobberknoll. Alas, it was time to move on, but could one ever really move on from such a dramatic death? The circle of life. Was that the topic for the day? Maybe so, because now they were about to focus on the phoenix and everyone knew how that story ended.

They were supposed to form groups and apparently Naya waited a minute too long to start looking for one. It seemed that groups had formed in a matter of seconds. She searched the classroom looking for a group in need of another member. Then she noticed Tom and another boy (Heath) who might be in need of a third. Naya walked over to the boys and made her pitch. “Hi. Do you mind if I join your group?” And to the boy that she did not know, “I’m Naya, by the way”.

Hoping that the answer was yes, Naya wanted to keep things moving along. “I’ll go and get the box from the professor, so we can get started.” Bossy much? Naya hoped not. She was just anxious to start feeding the bird, before it.......spontaneously combusted. Hopefully she didn’t come off as too pushy to the younger boys.

Naya walked over to the professor and retrieved the box of gold leaf. Then she returned to her group and deferred to them. “You guys ready to do this?”
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Claudine heard Isla’s comment even though it was uttered softly; probably because she was standing directly beside the first year. “It is,’’ was her reply in agreement for it wasn’t often one was able to feed a phoenix. Hearing her surname being mentioned, Claudine looked up at Chloe. “Yes,’’ the Snakette replied, not really puzzled at the question. Chloe was a McCarthy and Claudine knew she was distantly related to them.

Now there was a small bird among the group and Claudine smiled to herself at just how precious it was. Really, creatures (most of them) were better than humans, she thought as she pulled on her dragonhide gloves. “Okay, I’ll go first if you’re sure, Kaiser.” Isla seemed hesitant and as for Chloe? Who knows.

With a bit of difficulty (because of the dragonhide gloves) and after much fumbling where the tweezers escaped her grasp, the girl managed to have a firm grasp on the thing. It was a good thing she managed to keep her cool under the pressure. Yes, she felt immensely pressured since her group mates were standing there waiting for her to get this over with.

Claudine took a breath, reached out with the tweezers to grasp a leaf. That part was easier for the golden leave was plucked up with no trouble and this allowed her to easily transfer it over to the phoenix. “Here you are,’’ she whispered and with warmth in her voice, quite unlike the girl who always stared seriously at everyone, or spoke to them stiffly at times. The leaf dangled before the phoenix for a while as she waited with her breath held. Would the phoenix eat it?

The bird simply watched her with those intelligent eyes and seemed to hesitate. Did it not trust her? Claudine had just wondered that when the phoenix leaned in to snag the leaf in its beak.

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Heath was staring transfixed at the phoenixes when out of the corner of his eye, he saw the professor pull out a box or something. What's in there? he wondered, but he didn't have much time to think about it before the professor explained. Gold leaf for the phoenixes, okay then. That part made sense, but why did they need tweezers? Would their touch make the gold leaf smell or taste weird to a phoenix? Or would the phoenixes accidentally bite their hands if they didn't use tweezers? Based on the professor's instructions, he was more inclined to believe the latter.

Heath's eyes followed de Nostredame as he passed out the boxes. His posture stiffened slightly. He really did not want to be the one to take the box from the scary professor, but since there were only two people in his group, it was a 50/50 chance. He was about to ask Tom if he wanted to get the box when a girl (Naya) who looked to be about his sister's age appeared and asked to join them.

Heath shrugged, indicating that he didn't mind her joining. After a few moments of awkward silence. he finally found his voice and replied, "Hi. I'm Heath." His eyes darted from Naya to Tom. He was okay with Naya joining them, right? He hoped so, especially since she'd already gone to get the gold leaf!

While she did that, Heath picked up his bag and moved it aside to make more room for the phoenix. He'd never actually moved away from the hay bale he'd had at the start of class, so that saved them the trouble of having to claim one. For once in his life, his shyness came in handy! He stepped back to give the others space to cluster around the hay bale, and he'd just pulled on his gloves when Naya returned. He nodded, giving her a look of gratitude for getting the gold leaf. Okay, so they were doing this!

Heath's eyes widened in awe as a huge scarlet bird perched gracefully on the hay bale in front of him. "Whoa…" he gasped. Even in its deteriorating condition, it was still beautiful! The phoenix drew itself up tall and proud, and Heath smiled. "Hey, pretty bird. You want something to eat?"

Heath was so enamored by the bird that for a moment, he forgot about everything else. He started to reach for the tweezers, but then he remembered that there were other people in his group. Duh! Stupid Heath! "D-did you want to go first?" he asked Naya and Tom.
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Isla didn't know if it was because he was truly not interested, or because he was just really that thoughtful, but Kaiser surprised her by urging the rest of the group to go first. There were two boys Isla had a challenging first impression of, and Kaiser was one of them. However, both (Curtis being the other one) had surprised her.

By that time, a bird had joined their group, and Isla's excitement was starting to get the best of her. Thank Merlin Claudine decided to go first. Isla watched her, figuring she might get to go next and realizing she needed to know exactly what to do. She wasn't even sure if she blinked at all as she watched the creature eat. This was so much better than watching the Jobberknoll die.

Once the bird had eaten the leaf Claudine had offered, Isla decided she was ready to take a turn. She, just like Claudine, fumbled around with the tweezers and her dragonhide gloves. Pretty soon, though, she had the tweezers just in the right position to collect a golden leaf. She gently clamped one in the tweezers and carefully offered the leaf to the phoenix. It eyed the meal, studying it and deciding what it wanted to do. In another second, it was looking around the general area, completely uninterested in Isla's offering. The first year's face fell. "What did I do wrong?" she asked her group.
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Avalon greeted her two new group members (Nora and Jillian) with a friendly nod. Tugging her dragonhide gloves on, she glanced over at Catherine, who seemed slightly irritated at the situation and their expanding group. Perhaps she preferred working individually. Not that Avalon would blame her - sometimes she liked to work by herself, too. But the first year could at least pretend that she wasn't miserable. It seemed to Avalon that Catherine would rather eat a rotten stoat sandwich than participate in today's group work.

Her train of thought was broken as Nostredame opened the cage door. A blur of scarlet, and the bird was soaring toward the group's crate. Avalon instinctively stepped back to give it room to land. As it perched itself on the crate, looking curiously at the students surrounding it, the young Ravenclaw couldn't help but stare. She had never seen a phoenix this close before. It looked a bit disheveled, but that was to be expected as Burning Day approached. Nevertheless, the bird was still beautiful.

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Okay but the stuff about the phoenixes regurgitating plants and creating pellets with magical properties was...REAL gross. Also kinda cool, actually. The blonde eyed the group of phoenixes, wondering if theirs would be producing pellets. Truth was, now she kind of wanted to see one for herself.

"Hey Alexandre!" The second year offered the older boy a smile, glad Bernie had seemed okay with him joining them. Phoebe, too. Older meant wiser, at least SOMETIMES, so maybe he could be a big help! "Now that we've got the box of gold leaves, I guess we wait." And get gloved. She took her own dragonhide gloves and slipped them on, giving her fingers a wiggle. Yup, they felt good! She was ready to work.

Wow!" Wow! wow! wow! The phoenix that had joined them was truly beautiful and so proud looking and Cecelia wanted to hug it, but she knew that wouldn't be an appropriate way of greeting it. Instead she offered the bird a kind smile and a wave. "I'll feed him first. Or her. ...Do you think it has a name?" They could give it one, maybe. She hoped the others would be thinking on that while she took up the tweezers and plucked up a gold leaf for the phoenix to snack on.

"Hello there, I'm Cece. I hope you're hungry." She slowly extended the leaf, waiting and watching and HOPING that it would eat. The phoenix seemed unsure at first, poking at the leaf with its beak before finally grabbing it. The second year grinned, relieved and excited. "That's it, good job!"

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Tom was about to say something when Naya joined and went and got the pheonix... of course he didn't mind if anyone joined. The more the merrier and he was totally enjoying himself and he was watching Heath with interest. When Heath went for the tweezers. He sat back, this was going to be the easiest lesson ever. Well except for the poor bird the Professor had, well he wouldn't go into what he thought, but then Heath stopped and Tom looked a little bit confused.

"I'll have a go." Tom thought it would be great to feed the phoenix. At least this bird wasn't like the other one, why had the Professor made them listen to that. It was going to haunt him for life.

Tom used the tweezer to grab a sheet of gold leaf and handed it out for the Phoenix, he watched intently, not sure what to do as the Phoenix looked like it was going to reject it only to have it at the last minute. This was awesome, could he buy a phoenix anywhere?
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Fortunately for Naya, the boys were ok with her joining their group. For that she was grateful. Now that she had the box, the fifth year opened it showed the contents to her partners. In a matter of seconds, a beautiful phoenix landed on their hay bale. Naya was looking forward to giving him a treat. Tom was first step up and feed the phoenix. Naya watched and anxiously waited for her turn.

Once Tom was finished, Naya looked at Heath. Her eyes were asking if he wanted to go next. She got the sense that he was a little reluctant, so she stepped up to give it a go. Naya donned her gloves and reached out to Tom for the tweezers. “Okay little phoenix, do you want some more to eat?” She carefully picked up a piece of the gold leaf with the tweezers and offered it to the bird. He must have been hungry because he took a nibble and the next thing she knew, the gold leaf was gone.

Now it was Heath’s turn. Naya turned to him and offered him the tweezers. “You ready Heath? I think he’s got room for more snacks.”
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Her eyes grew wide as the bird had come over to them. "So beautiful, aren't you?" All she wanted to do was touch it, but she knew not to. Looking around the group Chloe realized she didn't have her gloves on. Where were her gloves even at? All the distractions certain people were giving had her forget to grab them.

"Be right back."

She hurried to her bag and grabbed her gloves. Putting them on as she came back to the group just to see that they had started. Moving next to Kaiser again she watched as the younger girls were working already. She watched as Claudine was able to feed the Pheonix and it was Isla that wanted to go next. She watched hopefully as the girl looked pretty confident, but the bird didn't take the leaf and now Chloe was frowning. She didn't want to see someone upset so she moved to stand right next to her. Placing a hand on her shoulder for support.

"You aren't doing anything wrong. He probably just needs to digest the first one a little. Why don't you try it again? I just know you'll get it this time. Maybe talk to him as you are doing it, make sure he knows you are a friend."

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She watched hopefully as the girl looked pretty confident, but the bird didn't take the leaf and now Chloe was frowning. She didn't want to see someone upset so she moved to stand right next to her. Placing a hand on her shoulder for support.

"You aren't doing anything wrong. He probably just needs to digest the first one a little. Why don't you try it again? I just know you'll get it this time. Maybe talk to him as you are doing it, make sure he knows you are a friend."

She stepped back so Isla could have some room.
With her face still a little fallen, Isla looked up at the older girl. What she was saying did make sense. Isla had offered the leaf to the bird only a few seconds after it had eaten the one Claudine gave it. "You're probably right," she said, looking back at the bird, who was now looking at the members of their group. "I'll try again."

The golden leaf was still clamped tightly in the tweezers Isla had in her hand. Chloe had said to try talking to the bird, so even thought it made Isla feel a little silly, she took the girl up on her suggestion. She didn't even know what to say to a phoenix, though. She looked up at the members of her group for nothing other moral support, and then she turned back to the bird, ready to talk.

"Uhh, hello, pretty bird. I have you a golden leaf. I think you'll like it," she said. Should she tell it she was sorry about its upcoming Burning Day, and that she hoped it went out with a blast? Nah. That sounded too upfront. The bird wouldn't take her offering for sure then. "Would you like to have another leaf?" With a very slightly shaky hand, she moved the golden leaf back up to the bird's beak. To her surprise, it began to nibble on it a bit, and then it ate the leaf.

"Yes!" she half-whispered, not wanting to startle the bird. "Thank you, Chloe!"
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Hands clasped behind his back, Mathys took his time strolling around the groups as they became acquainted with their phoenixes. "Very good," he applauded through soft gaze only. "If we are all so lucky, your efforts today may earn us ze privilege of hearing ze Phoenix's Exalt. As I trust you have read, the song of a phoenix is magical in itself. Zey can have a deep emotional impact and are able to provide support and comfort... increase ze courage of ze good and strike fear into the hearts of ze evil. The Phoenix Lament is one such soung zat can touch ze soul and is sung when a phoenix is in great emotional distress...very so oftain zis is when zey lose a master in death. Ze Phoenix's Exalt, howevair, is a different mattair. Not a song born from emotional instability and distress...but when a phoenix feels calm and safe. At peace with zeir surroundings and pampaired."

It was meant to be a bit of additional motivation to perform their tasks and to perform them well, but Mathys was quite doubtful that they would be hearing that song today. The very presence of humans could be unsettling to any creature, teenagers and their unpredictability among the more threatening of auras.

His attention then briefly turned back to Monsieur Whitlock, who had a bit more color to his face now. "Zere is no need to apologize," he assured the boy (who was now in very capable hands among his group). "Zese zings can happen when introduced to a new element of magic." He offered the young Hufflepuff a wink before moving back to the, now, empty cage and pulling another set of supplies out - this time in the form of black lacquered bowls filled with a golden liquid and ornate golden vanity brushes.

"I will now be coming around to deliver bowls of beeswax and vanity brushes to each group. Just as we have learned to harness beeswax's anti-inflammatory and antibacterial properties zat combat chapped skeen and bacterial infections ...ze same zoughts can be applied to ze feathers of a phoenix. Speceeficahlly zeir tail feathers. Ze beeswax will form a protective casing zat will seal een moisture and help zem maintain zeir lustair for a beet longair. You are to dip ze vanity brush into ze bowl, which has been charmed to heat ze beeswax to a temperature zat it will maintain its liquid form, and brush a thin layair upon zeir tail feathers. Zere should be enough for each of you to manage one feathair each, but be careful not to tug on zeir tail feathers. Zey will not take kindly to zat. Zere is a little undair half an hour left in zis lesson so stay on task."

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  2. accept the box of gold leaf from Professor de Nostredame (anyone in a group may do this)
  3. RP a phoenix landing on the bale of hay or crate the group is clustered around (anyone in the group may establish this).
  4. Feed a sheet of gold leaf to the phoenix using the tweezers provided in the box (up to you whether or not the phoenix accepts the offering)
  5. accept a wooden bowl of warm beeswax and brush from Professor de Nostredame (any one in the group may do this)
  6. take the brush and paint a thin layer of beeswax on the tail feathers of the phoenix

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Now that everyone has settled Jillian was busy minding her own business and making a mental checklist of the procedures just in case they missed any. She did notice some (or most of them, this includes her right now) are a tad bit too quiet- something that she can work with. As long as the group was cohesive, that was good enough. NOW! So far nothing was forgotten which is absolutely great.

She watched Catherine take the leaf box. Check.
The phoenix has now landed. Check.

Jillian was quite at awe with this bird. It is quite a beauty! This is probably her first time to see this bird near and she astonished at the color pattern of their feather. Yes, it is truly a magnificent creature. If only she would encounter the phoenix once again so she could paint it. How awesome would that be?

Okay... Jillian! FOCUS!

Next would be the feeding of the phoenix. Jillian had her tweezers ready on hand and when the third year, Ravenclaw asked about who goes first she glanced at her. "Do you want to go first?" she said whilst handing her the tweezers. Jillian can go second.
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Bernie and Cece and Phoebe and... oh, hello new friend. Phoebe dropped down to kneel beside their hay bale and gave the boy a big smile. "Hi, I'm Phoebe. Do you have gloves?"

Because she DID have gloves. Her father insisted on it. Phoebe pulled on her gloves right as the phoenix alighted on their hay bale right in front of them. Amazing. The feathers practically lit from within, and the bird seemed to preen. Like it knew how beautiful it was.

"Hey, there, lovely. Are you hungry? Who wants to feed him first?"
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Okay but the stuff about the phoenixes regurgitating plants and creating pellets with magical properties was...REAL gross. Also kinda cool, actually. The blonde eyed the group of phoenixes, wondering if theirs would be producing pellets. Truth was, now she kind of wanted to see one for herself.

"Hey Alexandre!" The second year offered the older boy a smile, glad Bernie had seemed okay with him joining them. Phoebe, too. Older meant wiser, at least SOMETIMES, so maybe he could be a big help! "Now that we've got the box of gold leaves, I guess we wait." And get gloved. She took her own dragonhide gloves and slipped them on, giving her fingers a wiggle. Yup, they felt good! She was ready to work.

Wow!" Wow! wow! wow! The phoenix that had joined them was truly beautiful and so proud looking and Cecelia wanted to hug it, but she knew that wouldn't be an appropriate way of greeting it. Instead she offered the bird a kind smile and a wave. "I'll feed him first. Or her. ...Do you think it has a name?" They could give it one, maybe. She hoped the others would be thinking on that while she took up the tweezers and plucked up a gold leaf for the phoenix to snack on.

"Hello there, I'm Cece. I hope you're hungry." She slowly extended the leaf, waiting and watching and HOPING that it would eat. The phoenix seemed unsure at first, poking at the leaf with its beak before finally grabbing it. The second year grinned, relieved and excited. "That's it, good job!"

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OHMYGOSH OHMYGOSH OHMYGOSHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! Bernie could NOT contain her excitement. She was wiggling in her seat, wiggling as she kneeled down beside Phoebe, wiggling and squirming and bouncing on her knees as Cece fed the phoenix, and then squirming so much she almost dropped the tweezers after Cece.

"Hi, Mister/Missus Phoenix, I'm Bernie, and I'm going to give you a bit of gold leaf now." Someone else could get the beeswax from the professor, yeah? Carefully, hand shaking, Bernie offered a bit of gold leaf to the phoenix, and was absolutely DELIGHTED when the radiant bird acempted it and scarfed it down with happy eating sounds.

OHMYGOSHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! She squealed with joy and settled back on her knees. She wanted to pet it paint its tailfeathers next.
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Although normally timid (at least around people, anyway), Heath was anything but reluctant to feed the phoenix! He was just trying to be polite in letting Tom and Naya go first. He stood off to the side, his eyes never leaving the bird as he watched the others take turns feeding it. He hoped it wouldn’t be too full by the time he got his turn! That would be so disappointing if everybody but him got to feed the phoenix!

Heath’s dark head whipped around as he heard Naya talking to him. He nodded eagerly; he’d been ready for ages! He carefully took the tweezers - a task that was much harder while wearing - and used them to pick up a gold leaf from the box. Holding his free hand under the leaf, just in case he dropped it, he stepped forward. “Still hungry, pretty bird?” he asked the phoenix, smiling warmly. “Look, I’ve got a nice, tasty gold leaf for you.” The bird blinked, as if debating whether or not to take the leaf. Heath’s heart sank. It was too full for more; he should’ve guessed… Or maybe it was just shy like him. Not willing to give up just yet, he said, “It’s okay, don’t be shy, pretty bird. We’re all your friends.” The phoenix leaned its proud head down and took a small nibble of the leaf. In the blink of an eye, the leaf was gone, and the phoenix was munching contentedly. Heath grinned. “Good boy… girl… bird!” Yeah, let’s go with that, since he had no idea if the phoenix was male or female.

“I wonder if it has a name…” Heath mused, realizing too late that he’d spoken out loud. If it didn’t, they should give it one! They couldn’t just keep calling it “pretty bird”, could they?

Before he had much time to think on it, Professor de Nostredame gave the next set of instructions. For one wild moment, Heath’s thoughts went to a very dark place. Beeswax… wax burns, and… Heath bit his lip, staring at the ground. He didn’t even want to think about that! Fortunately, the professor’s next sentence confirmed that the wax was not going to be used to help the phoenixes in the actual burning process. When all the instructions were given, he looked questioningly at Tom and Naya. Who was going to get the wax?
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Claudine was glad she wasn’t the only one who had trouble with the tweezers because of the gloves. Anyway, she anticipated that the phoenix would accept Isla’s leaf and was just as bewildered as the younger Slytherin when it did not. She didn’t think that Isla did anything wrong and fortunately, Chloe had a few words of wisdom. Claudine nodded vigorously in encouragement and watched Isla try again. The first year clearly was nervous and or excited for her hand was shaking. But Claudine was pleased to see the bird eased into eating the leaf. “Well done, Isla.’’ Isla got a rare, small smile from her.

Now the others in the group would have their turn, right?

As before, Claudine served as the member of the group accepting what de Nostredame passed to them. She held the bowl out with the brush. “Who wants to go first?’’ Providing that everyone had offered the phoenix a leaf.
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