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Term 54: January - April 2020 Term fifty-four: A Lesson in History (Sept 2100 - June 2101)

 
 
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The weather in November guaranteed today to have a breeze as the students walked towards the greenhouses. Luckily, today’s Herbology lesson was just after lunch so they had had ample time to get a warm drink down them before the short walk. As always, the water station is set up outside Greenhouse Five for students to grab a quick drink before class starts, but they are not permitted to enter the greenhouse with those drinks. So drink up, and get inside! Because it’s definitely warmer in here than it is out there.

Upon entering Greenhouse Five, you’ll notice that it has been cleared of most workstations, leaving one at the front (which Professor Rainwater is leaning against) and another at the back with four boxes upon it. Behind Professor Rainwater is a whiteboard with the opening instructions on, as is with all of his classes. Professor Rainwater hates blackboards, the dust from the chalk makes him sneeze and he much prefers the squeak of a board marker than the drag of chalk. Deal with it. Xo

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PUT YOUR BELONGINGS INTO THE CUBBY HOLES.
YOU DO NOT NEED ANY WRITING UTENSILS, LEAVE THEM IN YOUR BAGS.
WANDS, GLOVES AND GOGGLES ONLY.

THREE OF THE FOUR BOXES CONTAIN POISONOUS PLANTS.
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READ YOUR CLUES, CHOOSE A BOX, STAND IN FRONT.
DO NOT TOUCH!!!!!!

The four boxes at the back are in the four Hogwarts house colours, each with a flag above. Professor Rainwater is watching (although, he is now currently with his tongue stuck out and trying desperately to pluck away whatever fuzzy had gotten onto it) for anyone to touch and there will be removal from the greenhouse should instructions not be followed. Each flag has a clue written on it in Gus’ uppercase handwriting, making it much easier for everyone to be able to read.

Above the green box: “SMELLS BAD!”
Above the yellow box: “YELLOW FLOWERS!”
Above the red box: “CLUSTERS OF LEAVES!”
Above the blue box: “THORNS!”

Make a choice, kids.


FOLLOW ALONG:
- 23rd January Arrivals and Question 1: Name one poisonous plant that you know
- 25th January Question 2: How could you spot a poisonous plant without magic?
- 26th January Mini-Activity: Introducing Venenum Hortus and practice casting
- 28th January Main Activity: Wheeled Pots and Non-Poisonous Hops
- 31st January Main Activity: Changing It Up!

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OOC: HI. Welcome to the first OOC Herbology thing this term (woooo how exciting is this?!) - obviously this isn’t the first IC time your character will have interacted with Professor Rainwater in a classroom situation, so they should be well aware of the rules and expectations that he has.

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Class will begin roughly 36 hours from this post <3 Class has began, please jump in and act like your character has been here all along!
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Professor Rainwater was one of the best looking professors, did he know?? Probably did?? That was probably why he used alllll those exclamation marks because it was an emphasis on words to take away the from the fact that his appearance was distracting for the fifteen year old. As far as which box she was standing by, it was obviously the RED one because no way was she going to stand by the one that had that putrid odor. And flowers were just a deadddd giveaway that there was something sinister there, because pretty to look at was the most obvious of facades. Which made her wonder, was Professor Rainwater simply pretty to look at? Did he have more to him then met the eye? Was he a Slytherin in his Hogwarts days??? Those were always such shifty folks. Those and Hufflepuffs, to be honest, except that Hufflepuffs had the honesty thing going for them.

Also thorns were a pretty much dead giveaway too. And though theoretically leaves could have been bad (poison ivy before the berries came into bloom), Carsyn was going to go with the fact that these leaves were cool. Hopefully. Maybe. No, don't doubt. It was obvious they were cool. Except the Professor was making her doubt her decision because of his mention of quick decisions, but her decision was logical. Wasn't it????? Although she had to admit the smelling bad one probably made sense for it to be the safe one, but no, she wasn't going to go near anything that smelled bad and sooooo no, she was sticking by her decision. CONFIDENCE, yoooooooo !!!

As far as naming a poisonous plant, well, weren't mandrakes poisonous??? Sort of ??? Isn't that why they had to wear ear protectors from the screams when replanting mandrakes? Yea, pretty sure. It wasn't a deathly poison, but one that made you pass out, soooo yea.

Gut instincts. Yup, she was a Gryffindor. She was going with the gut instinct and sticking by it. No changing for and she was more convinced that she made that right decision. How to tell if a plant was poisonous though without magic?? Naya was onto something by talking about the value of sight, which was definitely beneficial, but something the professor said already toooooo.... which was, "Going with your gut instinct. Common sense, perhaps. If it feels off, it probably is." Mmhm.
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Jump into a cluster of dried leaves? Lucas tried his hardest not to look as though Shivvy's answer was making him laugh which caused him to cover his mouth with a hand. But, then again, this seemed like something her and Cora would waste no time in doing if they had the opportunity.

Gryffindors, right?

At Shivvy's continuation of his answer about Yew, the fifth year stole a sideways glance over at her before looking back up to the front again. Rainwater was talking about the berries being delicious and beautiful but having the most consequences, which only really got him thinking about the Sun. The Sun was dangerous, sure, but there was something about sunshine on a cold day that was meant to brighten the day considerably.

Now. How can you spot a poisonous plant without using magic? Which of the five senses were they supposed to use? "Uh, touch?" Pause. "You could do a small skin test to see how your skin would react to the plant and if it's safe for you to touch them." At this, he slowly lowered his hand from the air and gave Rainwater a small shrug. It seemed like the most obvious, didn't it?
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Leaves being a defense mechanism and therefore a plant not needing extra poison? Well.. Gus hadn’t heard that answer before in any of his classes ever. He nodded slowly, almost having to come to terms with that answer. ”O….kay. Leaves. No need for poison. Okay.” Moving swiftly on from that assumption and leaving her at the box she was staying at. Goodness. Gryffindors.

”Take a point for adding onto another student’s answers. Excellent point.” And they were definitely moving on.
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He had clearly liked her answer. Which probably meant she was also standing in front of the correct box, right? Since he liked her now, approved of her enough to give her a point, he would have told her if she'd been standing in front of the poisonous box. Was it too early to high-five Lucas?


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Jump into a cluster of dried leaves? Lucas tried his hardest not to look as though Shivvy's answer was making him laugh which caused him to cover his mouth with a hand. But, then again, this seemed like something her and Cora would waste no time in doing if they had the opportunity.

Gryffindors, right?

At Shivvy's continuation of his answer about Yew, the fifth year stole a sideways glance over at her before looking back up to the front again. Rainwater was talking about the berries being delicious and beautiful but having the most consequences, which only really got him thinking about the Sun. The Sun was dangerous, sure, but there was something about sunshine on a cold day that was meant to brighten the day considerably.

Now. How can you spot a poisonous plant without using magic? Which of the five senses were they supposed to use? "Uh, touch?" Pause. "You could do a small skin test to see how your skin would react to the plant and if it's safe for you to touch them." At this, he slowly lowered his hand from the air and gave Rainwater a small shrug. It seemed like the most obvious, didn't it?
...maybe no high-fives just yet.

Lucas clearly didn't enjoy LIVING that much.

"No, you could DIE!" Shivvy said, perhaps a bit too loudly, when she heard Lucas' suggestion. "What if it's so poisonous?? And you don't have an antidote with you. You'd have to cut off your whole finger. Or hand!" Or FACE. Whichever part you performed the 'skin test' on. Yes that was how this worked, clearly. "I think you should watch other people..or like, animals or insects. If they can touch the plant." That was definitely a lot more safe than doing a skin test.
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Okay, but, did the man need to shout?

A lot of Professor Rainwater felt unnecessary and superfluous, so of course his little sister ate everything the man said up along with doodling little hearts in the margins of her parchment, and it took every ounce of the Slytherin's restraint to endure it for the greater good. He needed this subject. Required it.

Just...two more terms, tops.

But yes. What he had to say had been wonderful information and Eiji could take the ego stroking to help the irritation dissipate a little.

Though he was soon nearly rolling his eyes as the lecture continued. Yeah, he would just stay by the green box and not focus on that while second guessing based on word alone. There was literally no visual confirmation of the plant and, really, all boxes were like some twisted flora version of Schrödinger's cat. Almost.

Feeling disinclined to answer, as usual, Eiji listened to his peers for anything that he may feel inclined to elaborate on or shoot down.

...which meant he was going to ignore the Gryffindors and their limb chopping contributions to the discussion. Instead his eyes veered over to the boxes once more...and the clues. Which...brought up something moderately interesting.

Two for two, Eiji's hand went up to offer his on interpretation. "Three out of the four box clues are identifies based on sight," he pointed out. "So that would beg to reason that sight be the key sense for identification." Followed next by smell. At least as far as the professor was concerned since this was an activity of his design. "Besides the rule of three," he continued, giving the one sensible Gryffindor in the immediate area a small nod. "There is also the rule of alternates."
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Which one of the clues seemed least likely to poison her immediately? Uhhh... She had no idea. She had a sinking feeling, though, that if she ever encountered this situation outside of a class, she'd be poisoned in no time. She had already stood by the green box, which smelled bad, and she was now at the yellow box, which simply had yellow flowers. Hmm... "My gut instinct tells me the yellow is least likely to poison me first," she said. "That would deal with my sight, so if I'm paying enough attention, I can spot a yellow color and stay away from it. I stand a smaller chance of staying away from a smell or a thorn."

She was momentarily distracted by the awesome display of note-taking the professor's magic was doing for them. Too bad she hadn't had this done for her in muggle primary school! Anyway...a question had been asked, so after some think time, Isla raised her hand. "I'd think that touch and taste would be the two worst senses to use. That's too much direct contact," she began. Not that the other senses weren't dangerous all in themselves, though. Hearing wouldn't help them too much either, unless they were dealing with honking daisies, and those were just annoying. So that left her with sight and smell.

"I'm down to a tie between sight and smell, but if I had to go with one, I'd say sight," she answered. "Smell just helps you with one trait of the plant--it's smell. But with sight, you can look at leaves, thorns, petals, and all the different parts!" Too bad there wasn't one clear cut answer that would identify all the poisonous plants.
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Heath wasn't sure what to make of the professor's reaction to his answer. Part of him was relieved that he wasn't called out in front of everyone for being wrong, but… was it really a wonderful answer when it didn't earn extra points or a round of applause like some of the others had? Well, at least he probably had the right box this time… or not.

Heath frowned. So the professor actually meant to shake his confidence? What an emotionally manipulative way to prove a point! Not cool, sir. Not cool! See, that was the difference between acting and lying. Acting made people feel good because everyone involved knew it was an act; lying made people feel awful because there was always at least person who wasn't in on it. Ugh, for all he knew, he could've been right the first time! He just couldn't win today, could he?

Heath tried to block out his emotions long enough to focus on the question at hand. He agreed that using taste or touch to determine whether or not a plant was poison was a dumb idea, and hearing was essentially useless as most plants didn't make noise… unless it was a honking daffodil or something. Smell could go either way - some bad-smelling plants and some good-smelling plants were poisonous - so that left only one option.

Heath's hand didn't shake as it went up this time (though that was only because he was more annoyed than frightened at the moment), but he still stammered a little as he said, "I-I agree that sight is the safest way to identify a poisonous plant. Another characteristic you can look at is a plant's sap. If the sap appears milky, that usually means the plant is poison."
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See? There was Eiji with the follow up information. Teamwork, right? Right. Kaiser had heard that chuckle too, and managed a small smile in response. Yeah. YEAH. He knew.

Oh man. Gus Rainwater was right. 'Tis the season, almost. Kaiser grimaced slightly. Couldn't wait.

That stuff about gut instinct... Kaiser could relate. If there was one thing he always trusted, it was his gut. Sometimes you just knew something, you know? Certainly, he didn't believe he just knew he had the right plant (cue more overthinking: maybe there weren't actually any plants in the boxes? maybe it was a lesson about following your instinct?), but in other situations, his instinct had served him exremely well. It wasn't infallible, but it was the best thing he had.

When the question came, he raised his hand again, just half-dipping it into the air like usual. "Kind of like what O'Shea said. If you watch what someone else does, if they touch the plant or eat it, and they are fine, you will probably be fine, unless you have an allergy." But that was more like a personal poison thing, which was not what they were talking about. "You should watch a human rather than an animal, though, because poisons do not affect every species the same way. Also," he cleared his throat, and shifted slightly. "You could have find a tester, rather than wait around for someone else to show up. It is... potentially unethical, and not something I would have someone do. But it would work." Technically. And that was, after all, the question. Technically. Could, not would. Technically. "I suppose that comes under 'sight'."

Look at him, with all his words. What was it about Rainwater that somehow drew them out of him? Maybe Kaiser just couldn't bear to not engage with his lesson, after all.
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Tom raised his hand as he thought about his next answer. "Professor, if you don't know what the name of the plant is before you touch it, you could snap a photo of it and search it online or in a book." Tom would do that if he didn't know about magic, it would be so easy and surely a good way to tell if it is or isn't poisonous.
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The moment that she had given her answer, her gaze had moved to the marker. It was such a fascinating thing and not for the last time did Claudine wonder if Rainwater had any to spare… or rather, if he had any that he was willing to part with. But back to focusing on the actual lesson. Severing Charm, yes. That was indeed a handy spell to use so she nodded to Rainwater. Sour Sally here was paying keen attention. There was such a range of answers that she was pleased that it all had gotten transferred to parchment for them all. Rainwater made this so easy for them.

Instinctively, Claudine glanced down at the box she had stubbornly chosen to remain with. Sometimes, when she made a choice and stuck with it, it was because she had thought much on the topic. This had happened with this little activity. Anyway, she thought that sight might be most useful but the girl really wanted to speak about olfactory senses. “Smell. I don’t think there’s always a way of knowing which plant would be poisonous that way though,’’ she mused out loud, the fingers of her raised hand wiggling slightly before it was lowered. “After all, even a wonderful aroma from a plant could be poisonous. Like oleander, I think?’’ There was a small frown now creasing between her brows. Was oleander the right example? How did oleander even smell?


Now, if Gus could read minds, he would have told Claudine that she was getting none of his markers. They were his and his alone. But he would have been pleased about the appreciation for them. They were a lovely addition to his teaching career and definitely a staple for any classroom he ended up in. He noted the wiggle of her fingers as she was speaking and had to stifle a laugh, disguising it as a small cough. Small things amused him. It was one of his… flaws. As his ex would say. Laughing at inappropriate moments.

”Smell could be helpful, but only upon occasion of you having prior knowledge of different smells that plants have already. Oleander, yes. Smells like apricot, but is dangerous. But being able to smell it would not help if you had no idea of what the plant smelled like and it’s level of danger.”


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Naya was pleased that her answer had gotten a good response from the professor. Now the questioning was moving on. How could you tell a poisonous plant without using magic? The fifth year thought about that for a moment. She raised her hand to join the conversation.

“Well I think using taste would be the worst choice. After all, if the plant was poisonous and you tasted it, you would be subjecting yourself to the poison.” That kind of went without saying, right. “I think using your sight would be a good way to determine a poisonous plant. Some plants have certain characteristics that you can see that would let you know they are dangerous,” Sticking with her previous answer of poison ivy, she added more. “For example, poison ivy is known to grow in leaves of three. That would help you identify it if you happened to come across it.” Leaves of three let them be, the saying goes.


”Excellent, excellent. Taste is a terrible option. Ingest a poisonous plant and you’re looking at dire consequences that you may not even realise are happening. Much like smell, a nice taste does not guarantee a positive experience.”

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Professor Rainwater was one of the best looking professors, did he know?? Probably did?? That was probably why he used alllll those exclamation marks because it was an emphasis on words to take away the from the fact that his appearance was distracting for the fifteen year old. As far as which box she was standing by, it was obviously the RED one because no way was she going to stand by the one that had that putrid odor. And flowers were just a deadddd giveaway that there was something sinister there, because pretty to look at was the most obvious of facades. Which made her wonder, was Professor Rainwater simply pretty to look at? Did he have more to him then met the eye? Was he a Slytherin in his Hogwarts days??? Those were always such shifty folks. Those and Hufflepuffs, to be honest, except that Hufflepuffs had the honesty thing going for them.

Also thorns were a pretty much dead giveaway too. And though theoretically leaves could have been bad (poison ivy before the berries came into bloom), Carsyn was going to go with the fact that these leaves were cool. Hopefully. Maybe. No, don't doubt. It was obvious they were cool. Except the Professor was making her doubt her decision because of his mention of quick decisions, but her decision was logical. Wasn't it????? Although she had to admit the smelling bad one probably made sense for it to be the safe one, but no, she wasn't going to go near anything that smelled bad and sooooo no, she was sticking by her decision. CONFIDENCE, yoooooooo !!!

As far as naming a poisonous plant, well, weren't mandrakes poisonous??? Sort of ??? Isn't that why they had to wear ear protectors from the screams when replanting mandrakes? Yea, pretty sure. It wasn't a deathly poison, but one that made you pass out, soooo yea.

Gut instincts. Yup, she was a Gryffindor. She was going with the gut instinct and sticking by it. No changing for and she was more convinced that she made that right decision. How to tell if a plant was poisonous though without magic?? Naya was onto something by talking about the value of sight, which was definitely beneficial, but something the professor said already toooooo.... which was, "Going with your gut instinct. Common sense, perhaps. If it feels off, it probably is." Mmhm.


With a quick thumbs up, Gus smiled at the Gryffindor prefect. ”Exactly like I said, Miss Rose. However, I would personally consider gut instinct and common sense to be very different. Those without common sense can still have a gut instinct. It’s just that a lack of common sense usually means they ignore it.” Very much like what he heard about Gryffindors. Boy was he glad he hadn’t attended Hogwarts himself.

Slightly jealous of those his age that did, but also glad because it meant he avoided all sorts of those Gryffindor people. And wasn’t sorted as one.


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Jump into a cluster of dried leaves? Lucas tried his hardest not to look as though Shivvy's answer was making him laugh which caused him to cover his mouth with a hand. But, then again, this seemed like something her and Cora would waste no time in doing if they had the opportunity.

Gryffindors, right?

At Shivvy's continuation of his answer about Yew, the fifth year stole a sideways glance over at her before looking back up to the front again. Rainwater was talking about the berries being delicious and beautiful but having the most consequences, which only really got him thinking about the Sun. The Sun was dangerous, sure, but there was something about sunshine on a cold day that was meant to brighten the day considerably.

Now. How can you spot a poisonous plant without using magic? Which of the five senses were they supposed to use? "Uh, touch?" Pause. "You could do a small skin test to see how your skin would react to the plant and if it's safe for you to touch them." At this, he slowly lowered his hand from the air and gave Rainwater a small shrug. It seemed like the most obvious, didn't it?
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He had clearly liked her answer. Which probably meant she was also standing in front of the correct box, right? Since he liked her now, approved of her enough to give her a point, he would have told her if she'd been standing in front of the poisonous box. Was it too early to high-five Lucas?




...maybe no high-fives just yet.

Lucas clearly didn't enjoy LIVING that much.

"No, you could DIE!" Shivvy said, perhaps a bit too loudly, when she heard Lucas' suggestion. "What if it's so poisonous?? And you don't have an antidote with you. You'd have to cut off your whole finger. Or hand!" Or FACE. Whichever part you performed the 'skin test' on. Yes that was how this worked, clearly. "I think you should watch other people..or like, animals or insects. If they can touch the plant." That was definitely a lot more safe than doing a skin test.


Whilst he admired the answer about touch, Gus was confused as to how Lucas thought that was remotely a good idea. Luckily, before he had chance to say anything, Siobhán stepped in and said exactly what he had been thinking using her own words. Gus was grateful that someone had some sense in here. ”Thank you, Siobhán.” He gave her a gentle smile and continued what she had began.

”Much like taste, touch is a sense that only makes sense to use when you have more of a knowledge of the plants. It is not 100% safe. And, neither is watching others around the plant. Plants do not affect all species the same way.”


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Okay, but, did the man need to shout?

A lot of Professor Rainwater felt unnecessary and superfluous, so of course his little sister ate everything the man said up along with doodling little hearts in the margins of her parchment, and it took every ounce of the Slytherin's restraint to endure it for the greater good. He needed this subject. Required it.

Just...two more terms, tops.

But yes. What he had to say had been wonderful information and Eiji could take the ego stroking to help the irritation dissipate a little.

Though he was soon nearly rolling his eyes as the lecture continued. Yeah, he would just stay by the green box and not focus on that while second guessing based on word alone. There was literally no visual confirmation of the plant and, really, all boxes were like some twisted flora version of Schrödinger's cat. Almost.

Feeling disinclined to answer, as usual, Eiji listened to his peers for anything that he may feel inclined to elaborate on or shoot down.

...which meant he was going to ignore the Gryffindors and their limb chopping contributions to the discussion. Instead his eyes veered over to the boxes once more...and the clues. Which...brought up something moderately interesting.

Two for two, Eiji's hand went up to offer his on interpretation. "Three out of the four box clues are identifies based on sight," he pointed out. "So that would beg to reason that sight be the key sense for identification." Followed next by smell. At least as far as the professor was concerned since this was an activity of his design. "Besides the rule of three," he continued, giving the one sensible Gryffindor in the immediate area a small nod. "There is also the rule of alternates."


Finally, someone who was acknowledging that three of the four clues had been sight based. ”Perfect, Eiji. Sight is important, but is also still not 100% accurate or telling. It may be the safest of your senses, though. Not anything to solely rely on.” They were getting somewhere, though. No one had yet mentioned how only one sense would be silly to rely on and all five were probably used best in sync.

But Gus would get there if they didn’t.


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Which one of the clues seemed least likely to poison her immediately? Uhhh... She had no idea. She had a sinking feeling, though, that if she ever encountered this situation outside of a class, she'd be poisoned in no time. She had already stood by the green box, which smelled bad, and she was now at the yellow box, which simply had yellow flowers. Hmm... "My gut instinct tells me the yellow is least likely to poison me first," she said. "That would deal with my sight, so if I'm paying enough attention, I can spot a yellow color and stay away from it. I stand a smaller chance of staying away from a smell or a thorn."

She was momentarily distracted by the awesome display of note-taking the professor's magic was doing for them. Too bad she hadn't had this done for her in muggle primary school! Anyway...a question had been asked, so after some think time, Isla raised her hand. "I'd think that touch and taste would be the two worst senses to use. That's too much direct contact," she began. Not that the other senses weren't dangerous all in themselves, though. Hearing wouldn't help them too much either, unless they were dealing with honking daisies, and those were just annoying. So that left her with sight and smell.

"I'm down to a tie between sight and smell, but if I had to go with one, I'd say sight," she answered. "Smell just helps you with one trait of the plant--it's smell. But with sight, you can look at leaves, thorns, petals, and all the different parts!" Too bad there wasn't one clear cut answer that would identify all the poisonous plants.


Isla had such promise about her for a young witch, and Gus appreciated the thought and consideration that was going into her answers to his questions. Of course, there were flaws with what she was saying, but that was expected. They were all children, no matter if they were of age or not. ”Touch and taste are definitely too much direct contact, yes. With sight, like you said, you can take into account all aspects of the plant that you are able to see. All potential visible threats and opportunity for harm.”

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Heath wasn't sure what to make of the professor's reaction to his answer. Part of him was relieved that he wasn't called out in front of everyone for being wrong, but… was it really a wonderful answer when it didn't earn extra points or a round of applause like some of the others had? Well, at least he probably had the right box this time… or not.

Heath frowned. So the professor actually meant to shake his confidence? What an emotionally manipulative way to prove a point! Not cool, sir. Not cool! See, that was the difference between acting and lying. Acting made people feel good because everyone involved knew it was an act; lying made people feel awful because there was always at least person who wasn't in on it. Ugh, for all he knew, he could've been right the first time! He just couldn't win today, could he?

Heath tried to block out his emotions long enough to focus on the question at hand. He agreed that using taste or touch to determine whether or not a plant was poison was a dumb idea, and hearing was essentially useless as most plants didn't make noise… unless it was a honking daffodil or something. Smell could go either way - some bad-smelling plants and some good-smelling plants were poisonous - so that left only one option.

Heath's hand didn't shake as it went up this time (though that was only because he was more annoyed than frightened at the moment), but he still stammered a little as he said, "I-I agree that sight is the safest way to identify a poisonous plant. Another characteristic you can look at is a plant's sap. If the sap appears milky, that usually means the plant is poison."


Gus already knew that he wasn’t going to be everyone’s cup of tea, and honestly he wasn’t all that bothered whether his students liked him or not. If they learned his curriculum and developed new skills and knowledge, then his job was done. He wasn’t paid to make friends with teenagers. He didn’t care for having tea and biscuits to discuss their homework or their teenage woes. He was here to teach and they were here to learn. If they liked him, that was a bonus. But he wasn’t going to cry into his pumpkin juice if they didn’t.

”Correct. Plants with milky saps are usually toxic, poisonous or fatal.”


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See? There was Eiji with the follow up information. Teamwork, right? Right. Kaiser had heard that chuckle too, and managed a small smile in response. Yeah. YEAH. He knew.

Oh man. Gus Rainwater was right. 'Tis the season, almost. Kaiser grimaced slightly. Couldn't wait.

That stuff about gut instinct... Kaiser could relate. If there was one thing he always trusted, it was his gut. Sometimes you just knew something, you know? Certainly, he didn't believe he just knew he had the right plant (cue more overthinking: maybe there weren't actually any plants in the boxes? maybe it was a lesson about following your instinct?), but in other situations, his instinct had served him exremely well. It wasn't infallible, but it was the best thing he had.

When the question came, he raised his hand again, just half-dipping it into the air like usual. "Kind of like what O'Shea said. If you watch what someone else does, if they touch the plant or eat it, and they are fine, you will probably be fine, unless you have an allergy." But that was more like a personal poison thing, which was not what they were talking about. "You should watch a human rather than an animal, though, because poisons do not affect every species the same way. Also," he cleared his throat, and shifted slightly. "You could have find a tester, rather than wait around for someone else to show up. It is... potentially unethical, and not something I would have someone do. But it would work." Technically. And that was, after all, the question. Technically. Could, not would. Technically. "I suppose that comes under 'sight'."

Look at him, with all his words. What was it about Rainwater that somehow drew them out of him? Maybe Kaiser just couldn't bear to not engage with his lesson, after all.


............ oh wordy worderson.

Gus was already writing a letter to Lorelai in his head about this very moment. About the progress that seemingly had been made and about how completely and utterly proud he was on her behalf. He would have said it right there, but it was highly unprofessional to mix his jobs and to potentially embarrass the boy in front of his peers. Instead, he found himself gushing back with words over Kaiser’s answer. ”Yes! Yes, of course, my boy. Watching a bird interact with a plant is unhelpful and a waste of your time. Poison does not affect all species the same way. What is poisonous to a bird may be perfectly safe for a human. What may be poisonous to a human may be daily food for a bird or bug or whatever else.”

He tried to keep his face the same as Kaiser continued and shoved his hands back into his pockets as a way to distract himself from his jaw dropping or looking generally concerned. ”I… would… well, I’d advise against test subjects.”

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Tom raised his hand as he thought about his next answer. "Professor, if you don't know what the name of the plant is before you touch it, you could snap a photo of it and search it online or in a book." Tom would do that if he didn't know about magic, it would be so easy and surely a good way to tell if it is or isn't poisonous.


”That’s true, Mr Simpson. Only if you’ve access to online or a book with the plant on it. I’m sure this works for some individuals, though. Thank you.”

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The marker concluded writing the answers the students had provided, and the additions that Gus had verbally made as Gus paced towards the side of the greenhouse, leaning against the wall and looking over the students. ”Clever answers, all of you. What I was looking for is that it is impossible to rely on only one of your senses to identify a poisonous plant. And even by using all five of your senses, you still do not have access to 100% certainty on the safety of what is in front of you. We are not personally equipped with the skills and senses for that job.” With a smile, he lifted off the wall and walked back to the centre of the greenhouse just in time for another piece of parchment to fly into each cubby hole with all of the information from that question on. Again, they were welcome.

”Some common giveaways of poison or toxicity include leaf patterns, smells, colours and location of growth. More properties and information on them can be found in the pages assigned for your post-class reading. It would be wise to read them and come to me if you have any questions.” But now it was time for them to move on from sense-related properties and to the magic portion of the class. ”With access to magic, we have a chance for 100% reliability when determining poisonous plants.” Looking over his shoulder, he gestured to the board which now had the words ‘Venenum Hortus’ written on it. ”Venenum Hortus! A spell created purely for poisonous plant detection. And a fundamental spell to have in your figurative back pocket if you are out in the wilderness.”

As he continued to speak, the history of the spell was bullet pointed by the marker underneath the incantation. ”Initial castings of Venenum Hortus were made using a wand movement in a shape that resembles a cloud or a bush. However, results were only 75% reliable with this wand movement.” This spell was close to his heart, given his next point was about himself. ”A university student completed a research project into ways to improve the 75% success rate. It took years, but eventually he made a breakthrough. A small extension of the wand movement in the beginning and at the end perfected the spell to a 100% reliability rate when performed correctly.”

The next thing that the marker drew was the new wand movement, complete with arrows.



”A tree! The correct wand movement for this spell is a tree shape. With the correct wand movement, the spell is fairly easy to cast and there is little ability for a failed casting. When you cast this spell on a plant, the area around it will change colour. There are FOUR colours to note. BLUE means that the plant is completely safe to touch and to consume. RED is high level of danger and it would be best not to even approach. ORANGE means that the plant is poisonous upon consumption and YELLOW means that the plant is poisonous upon touch.” More things that were written on the board, before the notes were translated to parchment and into the cubbies for the students to take with them after class. A clap of his hands, and all four of the boxes at the back of the classroom disappeared, leaving in their place the plants that they had contained.

Inside the blue box was a small rose bush, the green a mimbulus mimbletonia, the red some poison ivy and in the yellow one, giant hogweed.

”For those of you that chose the blue box, you were correct. But it means very little. You did not have enough information to make an educated decision. There very well could have been a poisonous plant in each of those boxes. I’ll ask that you all move to the edges of the greenhouse and put on both your gloves and goggles before taking your wand out.” Once the last of the students was around the edge of the greenhouse, Gus pointed his palms to the floor before lifting them to the ceiling as the usual workstations that lived in this greenhouse seemingly appeared out of the floor with an assortment of different plants on. Some of his favourites, both poisonous and not. ”When you’re ready, I want you to practice this spell on as many plants as possible in here before you feel comfortable. I’m here to help. Your peers are also here to guide you if you come into a problem.”

”Cast safely. Do not get too close to the plants, for some of them are poisonous. None will sufficiently harm you, just a sting here almost like an electric shock. Magic comes in handy, you’re safe in my greenhouses. Come immediately to me if this happens, though. Of course, I have told you to not get too close, so any of these electric shocks during this portion of practicing and you’ll be leaving the greenhouse immediately for failure to follow instructions.”

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Poisonous Plant Detection Spell:
Incantation: Venenum Hortus
Wand Movement: Tree
Aura colours:
Blue- safe to touch and consume
Red- absolutely do not go near
Orange- poisonous upon consumption
Yellow- poisonous upon touch
Their task is to practice this spell on the plants that are now on the tables in the greenhouse until the feel comfortable. Gus’ instruction was to not get too close to the plants, because obviously some of them are poisonous. There are protection spells in place that mean the students will not suffer from any of the poisonous plants if they come into contact with them, but will receive a sting that feels sort of like an electric shock.

Any questions, please reach out to me!

We’ll move on in roughly 48 hours from this post.
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With a small snigger, Ewan just nodded and smiled at the Professor, appreciating the little anecdote about his University days. He honestly enjoyed the little stories, he himself still unsure if he wanted to actually go or not. As for the question about senses, everyone else in the class had done a pretty good job at covering that subject so he, still standing in front of the red box now, his eyes following the answers that were now being written on the board in front of them.


Honestly, he was a little bit annoyed that he’d decided to swap from the blue box to the red box now. How did this happen? He did the professor manage to make him swap from there to the red box with such ease? He’d managed to pick the right box, with an educated guess and logic, and then he’d swapped to another box which was wrong. "Come on now professor, how can you joke with us like that?" a small smile on his face as he shook his head at the professor, more annoyed with himself that he changed his mind. With a small sigh, he began to study the wand movement on the board, pulling his wand out and moving his own as instructed. Up, around and down went his wand as he stood there in a little bit of space off to one side, his mind still on the fact he’d swapped from the right box.

Okay, he he’d got the wand movement down so now it was the spell pronunciation. “Venenum Hortus… Venenum Hortus… Venenum Hortus” Okay, okay, okay, he was now officially ready to try it on one of the plants. Walking back to one of the tables, stopping so that he wasn’t too close to the plants, just as the professor advised. With his wand in his hand, he quickly moved it in the shape of the tree, his voice firm and concise “Venenum Hortus!”
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The laugh had been passed off as a cough quite convincingly for Claudine didn’t think twice about it. The marker still was partially on her mind. It was a good thing she was mainly focused on the lesson. You know, so that she was able to gain some more knowledge of her answer and others in general. The Snakette bobbed her head twice in understanding: smell was more efficient and safer if you had information first. Now that she thought of it, this applied to all the senses as well.

Dear Merlin. That marker was distracting and fascinating at the same time. For some reason, Claudine found it to be so even more today. She really hoped that Rainwater planned to remind them of the post-reading after class. Who needed to forget that? Anyway, there was a spell to detect poisons? This was great news.

Claudine was already trying to memorise what the colours meant without looking at the board; the wand movement was easy enough. But her attention quickly moved to the vanishing boxes and the plants revealed. A slow, pleased smirk crept up onto her face. See? She knew she had made the right choice even though Rainwater had tried to intimidate them into changing boxes. She wasn’t going to let him spoil this win for her, no matter what he said about them not having much information. Still pleased, the Snakette shuffled off as directed to slip on the gloves and goggles. Her wand was out. She was ready for whatever activity that would come next.
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Chloe McCarthy was not one to ever get in trouble with staff and she would never step out of line, but there was something about him that made her want to roll her eyes. Was it that she felt he either read her thoughts her he thought she made her decision based on her brother or was it the praise her brother got for his answer and she got the opposite. Gunnar's answer was right and a good one, but she was just as smart.

When he brought up her dad she just looked at him making a mental note to mirror her dad and ask him how much he knew about Rainwater. For now, she just kept her mouth shut and didn't even try to answer the following question. She went from listening to wishing she would have just followed Kaiser to a different box.

She stood forcing herself to pay attention and waiting to move on to something else and something else they did, so she turned and headed to a corner. Finding her place she took out goggles and gloves before pulling her wand. With confidence, she made the tree-like movement, [b] "Venenum Hortus"[b/]. Practicing was easy and she couldn't help but wonder how her mother would feel if she knew how close they were too poisonous plants, she never did get over that fear from her days at Hogwarts.

Moving to the table she picked the first plant to try. Stepping just close enough for the spell to work, but not close enough for the plant to harm her she lifted her wand and began the movement, "Venenum Hortus"
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"Well like with poison ivy you can tell what is by the leaves. So I guess you're using your site. That's what I didn't pick that box.. leaves of three let them be." Blake explained the best he could with his answer. Given the confidence boost the Professor had given him. He felt better now ... even if he didn't know the magical plants all that well.

And then they were on to the next task. Pr acting a charm .. not something Blake thought he would be doing in a Herbology class. But hey, he was always up for using magic. He loved learning all kinds of new spells.

Insuring that he wasn't too close to any of the plants, for he had no need to be zapped with anything. He drew his wand out and making what he was sure was a tree movement ... okay .. well he did he best he said "Venenum Hortus" He practiced it a few times and felt like maybe he could do the real deal .. well... maybe...
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"Professor!" Phoebe stomped her foot and crossed her arms crossly, giving him every inch of her very frustrated little second year fury. He tricked her! "Professor, that wasn't very nice. We did the thing you said and trusted our gut and you talked us out of it! I had it right!" She really was smart sometimes, and he was here making her feel dumb on purpose. That was deeply unkind.

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Ahhhh, so it was a trick question. The correct answer was D-none of the above or actually, all of the above. No one sense could determine whether or not the plants were poisonous. Just like most things in life, you needed to use all of your senses. Naya listened as the professor shared how magic could solve the problem. A spell that could be used with 100% accuracy? That sounded like a good deal to Naya.

Naya was happy to find out that she had guessed right when picking the non-poisonous plant. There were roses in the thorn box. But the professor made his point there just as well could have been poisonous plants in all of the boxes. They had to be prepared.

Now it was time to practice the new spell. Naya went and put on her protective gear. She would be sure not to get too close to the plants while she was trying the spell. You didn’t have to tell her twice. She had no desire to be shocked today. First though, she silently went over the wand movement. She slowly traced the shape of a tree with her wand. Then she practiced saying the incantation. “Venenum Hortus, Venenum Hortus, Venenum Hortus” Okay, she was ready to try it for real now.

Naya went up to the nearest plant, careful not to get too close to it. She raised her hand and directed the wand towards said plant. Carefully making the tree movement, she said, “Venenum Hortus”. Then Naya watched as an orange haze surrounded the plant.
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Now that she was into the spell and working with plants her irritations were slipping away and a relaxed feeling came over her. The plant she had done the spell on turned a nice color of yellow so Chloe made a mental note and moved to the next plant. Stopping for a moment she tried to remember if they were to do one per table or could go through the table.

Figuring it was staying at the same table she moved down and lifted her wand again. Doing the tree movement, "Venenum Hortus” the plant had a blue tint to it and Chloe looked to see if it should be darker or not. She didn't move closer but she leaned a little in to look better. Thinking it could be darker she tried again, "Venenum Hortus”

This time the color seemed correct, so she assumed she could move to the next.
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Jillian reciprocated Professor Rainwater's smile for sticking into the green line. That was her gut feeling and right now whatever the outcome of this she will not regret choosing this box. Fingers crossed.

Without magic, how do you think you could spot a poisonous plant?

When it comes to muggles, jillian can't be too sure with how they work but she knows that their is this thing muggles like to call intuition. They basically listen to what their sixth sense tells them and that's what they go for. Ironically, this was something all of them used upon arrival for herbology. They all didn't know which of the boxes are safe- they were given clues, vague ones at best but all the students deduced from their basic knowledge and YES, intuition.

Raising her hand to give an answer "I suppose basic knowledge and mostly sight" Sight was indeed important in this matter especially for muggles.



And so the correct answer was the blue box. Okay. Jillian was not too upset granted that she chose not to move despite given a second chance by the Professor earlier. yes, she won't dwell that much into it. It was now time to move on to the activity. She moved towards the edges of the greenhouse and wore her goggles and her pair of gloves. She was trying to repeat the spell in her head for memorization because the wand movement earlier looked a tad bit complicated and she wants to get it right right away- hopefully.

Venenum Hortus! Venenum Hortus! Venenum Hortus!

The professor also had extra information regarding the colors- she needed to look into that a bit later but all she remembers is that blue is good. After a few more repetition of the spell, she took her wand out. Ready and good to go. She's still a bit bothered about the wand movement but that's why she needed to practice it first before casting the spell. She moved her arm for a bit and tried to practice eagerly, once she was finished she walked to the nearest plant she can find available and took a deep breath. She took a few steps back and made sure that she wasn't too near it...

Her eyes focusing on the plant and with the tree-like wand movement she uttered the spell "Venenum Hortus!"

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Magic never detoured her fascination. It was this fascination (and awe) that Claudine felt as she watched the familiar workstations appeared; it was simply a clever way to hide the stations so that there was enough space in the Greenhouses until they were needed. The activity was simple enough and all Claudine felt she really needed to do was not get shocked… or get shocked but let it not be known to Rainwater. She knew he would waste no time in throwing her out of the lesson. But what if she accidentally came too close? Would he even care that it had been a mistake, a mis- average? Probably not.

“Venenum Hortus. Venenum Hortus.” This was for practice. And so was the next minute she spent drawing out a tree with her wand. It was only then did the Snakette feel comfortable to begin the activity.

“Venenum Hortus.’’ Incantation? Check. Wand movement? Check. Any of the colours appearing? Negative.

Fortunately, Claudine was not detoured just yet and she proceeded to try again with greater focus and determination. “Venenum Hortus.’’ The appropriate want movement made left the area around the plant glowing yellow. Oh no. That meant poisonous to the touch. But on the flip side… she had done the spell. She was awfully pleased. Now the Snakette moved onto the plant beside it which was at the time free of other students. The appropriate combination of words and movement revealed this one to be very poisonous; the area surrounding it had turned red. Claudine retreated hastily to continue her spellwork on another.
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He had clearly liked her answer. Which probably meant she was also standing in front of the correct box, right? Since he liked her now, approved of her enough to give her a point, he would have told her if she'd been standing in front of the poisonous box. Was it too early to high-five Lucas?




...maybe no high-fives just yet.

Lucas clearly didn't enjoy LIVING that much.

"No, you could DIE!" Shivvy said, perhaps a bit too loudly, when she heard Lucas' suggestion. "What if it's so poisonous?? And you don't have an antidote with you. You'd have to cut off your whole finger. Or hand!" Or FACE. Whichever part you performed the 'skin test' on. Yes that was how this worked, clearly. "I think you should watch other people..or like, animals or insects. If they can touch the plant." That was definitely a lot more safe than doing a skin test.


............ Uhh??

Lucas jumped about a foot in the air at Shivvy’s suddenly loud response to his answer. He could understand why, of course, but if there was something he wasn’t expecting, it was the loudness of her answer. Testing a poisonous plant on your skin was a very dumb answer on his part - and something you wouldn’t see him trying to accomplish no matter what the situation - but he had NOT expected that reaction. He didn’t even expect her to say that he’d need to say goodbye to his entire fingers or hands.

Oh Merlin.

They weren’t going to have to do that, right? Please say no.

In fact, what he found most intriguing from Rainwater’s speech was everything about how the spell came about. It was enough to cause the Gryffindor to tilt his head and make a mental note to do some reading on that part of the lesson. It oddly reminded him of Astronomy and parts of science experiments he had grown up being fond of playing with and learning more about.

It wasn’t as fun but it was still interesting.

Right now, Lucas wasted no time in strapping on a pair of goggles and a pair of gloves as well. He did NOT want to lose any fingers today. No, thank you. Especially not since it turned out that the red box had contained POISON IVY, which, after finding out what was inside the box, he knew he didn’t want to go near it if he could help it. Even if this was for science.

Taking his wand out, the fifth year started practising the spell as best as he could on the first random plant he came across. The idea was to not get ~too~ close to the plants and avoid getting shocked in the process but still be able to cast the spell and take part in, well, science. This was just like an experiment, wasn’t it?

It was with that thought in mind that he started mumbling the incantation under his breath. "Venenum Hortus. Venenum Hortus!" Pause. "Venenum Hortus? Venenum Hortus."

And the wand movement? Easier. Drawing a tree-like figure in the air wasn’t difficult........... right?
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A smile had been sent her sister’s way as Carsyn had arrived in the greenhouse, although nothing else given the lesson had begun, and Carys wasn’t exactly happy with how Professor Rainwater had chosen to make them all doubt their choices. As if there hadn’t been any thought put into the selections, even if she was pretty sure at least some of the students had just randomly chosen a box. Probably the Gryffindors, since a lot of the Slytherins had chosen the blue box with her. No matter how much the professor wanted her to doubt herself, which she was adding to her mentalist of how he was different from Professor Beryl, she was going to stand by her decision. Even if it was the wrong one. Especially since it seemed ridiculous to, on the one hand, ask them to discuss how you could identify a poisonous plant without magic, but then make them doubt themselves by hypothetically doing just that.

She’d stayed quiet during the discussion for just that reason. Frustration and standing by her decisions. Even if the blue box hid a poisonous plant, she wasn’t going to be afraid of it. It was a plant, not the former headmaster. She was confident with plants, and besides, the professor had taken care of their need for taking notes. So maybe he wasn’t all that bad.

And then the contents of each box had been revealed…and she’d been right. Just the average rosebush, although she’d wondered what color roses it had before they’d all been instructed to clear the area. There had still been a slight bit of annoyance at being told they didn’t have enough information, as it sort of seemed to undermine any confidence he’d been trying to impart by the whole exercise, but she’d followed the directions anyhow, going over the spell in her head as she’d moved and then watched as the workbenches had all reappeared.

Magic. There wasn’t any other way to explain it, and the earlier discussion didn’t really seem to follow. They weren’t identifying poisonous plants without magic if they were using a spell. Even if auras weren’t necessarily magic. It was useful, anyhow, and she’d approached one of the tables after squashing down her frustration, tracing out the tree shape with her wand. “Venenum Hortus.”

Did anyone ever inform the professor that red almost always meant stop?
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This professor was tricky. Isla hadn't been in his class too long (almost half a school year), but she had figured out that he was impossible to figure out. At least for her. He kept looking for out-of-the-box answers that she hadn't trained her mind to come up with yet. She made a handful of mental notes about this before forgetting about it for now.

So wait...there had been a spell for this all along?! As a pureblood, why hadn't she known this? And the wand movement was the shape of a tree? That would seriously take a lot of practice! Did it matter what kind of tree it was? Did it have to look just like the one on the board? Then suddenly, when he started talking about colors, everything from the beginning of the class made perfect sense! Was it too late to slide on over to that blue box and join that group instead?

She stepped away from the giant hogweed she was now standing by. What exactly did it do?! At least it was time to move to another part of the greenhouse. Isla made her way over, slipping on her gloves and goggles as she did so. She still had so many questions, but she was ready to get started on the activity, too. She withdrew her wand. "Venenum Hortus!" she said. Well, that part was easy. It was that tree shape she was worried about.

She moved her wand up "from the ground" and made about ten of those hilly-looking shapes that made up the top of the tree, and then she traced her wand back "down to the ground." "Professor," she said, raising her hand, "does the tree need to look exactly like yours, or will the spell take any tree-shape?"
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So on her first try, Naya got the orange aura, poisonous upon consumption plant. Then she moved on to the next plant. It was time to practice again. Take two. Naya concentrated on what she wanted to do and raised her wand. She made the tree-like movement, careful to do it just right. “Venenum Hortus”, she said with enthusiasm. For a moment, she thought that she had made a mistake. After a few seconds of nothing happening, the air around plant turned faintly yellow.

Yellow, poisonous to touch. Did the fact that the aura was only faintly yellow mean that she had done the spell wrong or that the plant was slightly poisonous to touch? Naya figured that the former was probably the truth. Looks like she needed to keep practicing the spell. Time for Take three.
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Tom was looking at this Professor, he wasn't sure what this Professor was doing, though apparently the red box was very dangerous. Still he wouldn't have chose another box because he didn't have all the information he would have needed to make the decision.

Tom listened carefully as the Professor told them about the next activity, he moved towards the edge of the greenhouse and put on gloves and goggles and then he took out his wand, now to practice the spell.

"Venenum Hortus!" Tom whispered, trying to say it right in his head. "Venenum Hortus!" Tom was starting to get used to say this. "Venenum Hortus!" Tom repeated it a few more times before he started to practice the incantation, He copied what the Professor had done a few times making sure he had everything down before he started.

"Venenum Hortus!" Tom did the wand movement whilst saying the spell and was glad when he noticed that it was working, this was epic and the spell was amazing.
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Heath was past the point of being surprised when he learned the blue box (his first choice) was the correct one. He wasn't even mad anymore. He was just… disappointed, both that his lack of confidence had been used against him and that he was dumb enough to fall for the professor's Jedi mind tricks. Heath kept his eyes on the board, hoping not to attract attention, and every other emotion he felt melted into sheer terror as a spell appeared on it. Oh, no! This could only end badly...

He was… not the best at spell practice. He could do the spells when he practiced on his own, but in the classroom setting… There were too many people around, and it felt like hundreds of judging eyes on him. The usual anxious thoughts ran through his mind. What if I get it wrong in front of everybody? What if they all laugh at me? What if I stand there practicing for ages and can't do the spell at all? Or what if I get it so badly wrong that I accidentally set the whole place on fire? Then another even worse thought occurred to him. What if the professor thinks I'm messing up on purpose? What would he do to me? Take points? Give me detention? Kick me out for not following directions?

Whatever it was, Heath didn't want to find out! He was so scared, it felt like his legs had turned to lead as he trudged to the edge of the greenhouse with the others. He put on his safety equipment, but his hands trembled so badly that he was afraid to even try holding his wand… but he was equally afraid not to! The first few times he tried, he wound up dropping his wand before he could complete the movement. Eventually he managed a wonky sort of tree shape, but when he tried to practice the incantation, the words wouldn't come. Oh Merlin, how was he ever going to get through this?

The short answer was that he wasn't, not as Heathcliff Jones anyway. So Heath did the same thing he always did when his emotions became too much to handle: pretend to be someone else. Someone strong who never let anyone shake his confidence no matter how high up the chain of command they were, someone like… Poe Dameron! Channeling the Resistance pilot from his favorite movies, Heath's stance relaxed and his hand steadied as he attempted the tree shaped movement again. "Venenum Hortus," he said. Unfortunately acting could only take him so far, and his voice was barely audible, but at least he got the words out!


Did he dare try practicing on an actual plant now? Heath!Dameron (or was it Poe!Jones?) aimed his wand at the nearest plant. "Venenum Hortus," he said, making the tree movement, and..* absolutely nothing happened. "Venenum Hortus!" he tried again, a little more confidence in his voice. That time, a faint reddish tinge appeared around the plant - or was it orange? Heath couldn't tell, do he tried one more time. "Venenum Hortus!" Red… okay, that meant don't approach. Not that there was much chance of that happening anyway…

Hey, he finally did it! This spell was actually kind of cool once he got the hang of it!
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With a small snigger, Ewan just nodded and smiled at the Professor, appreciating the little anecdote about his University days. He honestly enjoyed the little stories, he himself still unsure if he wanted to actually go or not. As for the question about senses, everyone else in the class had done a pretty good job at covering that subject so he, still standing in front of the red box now, his eyes following the answers that were now being written on the board in front of them.

Honestly, he was a little bit annoyed that he’d decided to swap from the blue box to the red box now. How did this happen? He did the professor manage to make him swap from there to the red box with such ease? He’d managed to pick the right box, with an educated guess and logic, and then he’d swapped to another box which was wrong. "Come on now professor, how can you joke with us like that?" a small smile on his face as he shook his head at the professor, more annoyed with himself that he changed his mind. With a small sigh, he began to study the wand movement on the board, pulling his wand out and moving his own as instructed. Up, around and down went his wand as he stood there in a little bit of space off to one side, his mind still on the fact he’d swapped from the right box.

Okay, he he’d got the wand movement down so now it was the spell pronunciation. “Venenum Hortus… Venenum Hortus… Venenum Hortus” Okay, okay, okay, he was now officially ready to try it on one of the plants. Walking back to one of the tables, stopping so that he wasn’t too close to the plants, just as the professor advised. With his wand in his hand, he quickly moved it in the shape of the tree, his voice firm and concise “Venenum Hortus!”


With a smile of his own, Gus shrugged. ”I’m beginning to wonder if the joke was how easy it was to get some of you to change boxes.” He was teasing, of course. But he knew that his activity hadn’t gone over well with the class. Whilst there wasn’t too much verbal calling out, it only took one look at their faces to see that they still weren’t sold on him and his methods. Again, he wasn’t here to please them. Until Malachi came to him, then Gus would continue doing his thing. He hadn’t been hired for his ability to read to a class from a textbook.

”Strong incantation, Ewan. Excellent! Practice a couple more times and believe in yourself.”


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The laugh had been passed off as a cough quite convincingly for Claudine didn’t think twice about it. The marker still was partially on her mind. It was a good thing she was mainly focused on the lesson. You know, so that she was able to gain some more knowledge of her answer and others in general. The Snakette bobbed her head twice in understanding: smell was more efficient and safer if you had information first. Now that she thought of it, this applied to all the senses as well.

Dear Merlin. That marker was distracting and fascinating at the same time. For some reason, Claudine found it to be so even more today. She really hoped that Rainwater planned to remind them of the post-reading after class. Who needed to forget that? Anyway, there was a spell to detect poisons? This was great news.

Claudine was already trying to memorise what the colours meant without looking at the board; the wand movement was easy enough. But her attention quickly moved to the vanishing boxes and the plants revealed. A slow, pleased smirk crept up onto her face. See? She knew she had made the right choice even though Rainwater had tried to intimidate them into changing boxes. She wasn’t going to let him spoil this win for her, no matter what he said about them not having much information. Still pleased, the Snakette shuffled off as directed to slip on the gloves and goggles. Her wand was out. She was ready for whatever activity that would come next.
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Magic never detoured her fascination. It was this fascination (and awe) that Claudine felt as she watched the familiar workstations appeared; it was simply a clever way to hide the stations so that there was enough space in the Greenhouses until they were needed. The activity was simple enough and all Claudine felt she really needed to do was not get shocked… or get shocked but let it not be known to Rainwater. She knew he would waste no time in throwing her out of the lesson. But what if she accidentally came too close? Would he even care that it had been a mistake, a mis- average? Probably not.

“Venenum Hortus. Venenum Hortus.” This was for practice. And so was the next minute she spent drawing out a tree with her wand. It was only then did the Snakette feel comfortable to begin the activity.

“Venenum Hortus.’’ Incantation? Check. Wand movement? Check. Any of the colours appearing? Negative.

Fortunately, Claudine was not detoured just yet and she proceeded to try again with greater focus and determination. “Venenum Hortus.’’ The appropriate want movement made left the area around the plant glowing yellow. Oh no. That meant poisonous to the touch. But on the flip side… she had done the spell. She was awfully pleased. Now the Snakette moved onto the plant beside it which was at the time free of other students. The appropriate combination of words and movement revealed this one to be very poisonous; the area surrounding it had turned red. Claudine retreated hastily to continue her spellwork on another.


Gus was walking between the workstations, keeping an eye on the progress the students were making. ”You need to practice casting the spell, Claudine. Venenum Hortus, remember.” Luckily, the girl moved on quite quickly and began to cast. He gave her a pleased nod and pointed out a plant for her to try casting on that he knew was completely safe. One end of the spectrum to the other. Red to blue. Unsafe to safe. All that good stuff.

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Chloe McCarthy was not one to ever get in trouble with staff and she would never step out of line, but there was something about him that made her want to roll her eyes. Was it that she felt he either read her thoughts her he thought she made her decision based on her brother or was it the praise her brother got for his answer and she got the opposite. Gunnar's answer was right and a good one, but she was just as smart.

When he brought up her dad she just looked at him making a mental note to mirror her dad and ask him how much he knew about Rainwater. For now, she just kept her mouth shut and didn't even try to answer the following question. She went from listening to wishing she would have just followed Kaiser to a different box.

She stood forcing herself to pay attention and waiting to move on to something else and something else they did, so she turned and headed to a corner. Finding her place she took out goggles and gloves before pulling her wand. With confidence, she made the tree-like movement, [b] "Venenum Hortus"[b/]. Practicing was easy and she couldn't help but wonder how her mother would feel if she knew how close they were too poisonous plants, she never did get over that fear from her days at Hogwarts.

Moving to the table she picked the first plant to try. Stepping just close enough for the spell to work, but not close enough for the plant to harm her she lifted her wand and began the movement, "Venenum Hortus"
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Now that she was into the spell and working with plants her irritations were slipping away and a relaxed feeling came over her. The plant she had done the spell on turned a nice color of yellow so Chloe made a mental note and moved to the next plant. Stopping for a moment she tried to remember if they were to do one per table or could go through the table.

Figuring it was staying at the same table she moved down and lifted her wand again. Doing the tree movement, "Venenum Hortus” the plant had a blue tint to it and Chloe looked to see if it should be darker or not. She didn't move closer but she leaned a little in to look better. Thinking it could be darker she tried again, "Venenum Hortus”

This time the color seemed correct, so she assumed she could move to the next.


As he walked past Chloe, Gus pulled out his own wand to send a note to his office to remind him later to write to her father. Just a casual hello, how are the family and all of that stuff. Just a former school mate checking in on another. ”Excellent casting, Chloe. Well done.”

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"Well like with poison ivy you can tell what is by the leaves. So I guess you're using your site. That's what I didn't pick that box.. leaves of three let them be." Blake explained the best he could with his answer. Given the confidence boost the Professor had given him. He felt better now ... even if he didn't know the magical plants all that well.

And then they were on to the next task. Pr acting a charm .. not something Blake thought he would be doing in a Herbology class. But hey, he was always up for using magic. He loved learning all kinds of new spells.

Insuring that he wasn't too close to any of the plants, for he had no need to be zapped with anything. He drew his wand out and making what he was sure was a tree movement ... okay .. well he did he best he said "Venenum Hortus" He practiced it a few times and felt like maybe he could do the real deal .. well... maybe...


”Leaves of three, let them be. One of my favourite sayings as a kid, Blake. I’m sure this spell will ensure you never need to remember that again though.” He lingered around his workstation a little bit longer to see how his casting went before giving him a double thumbs up.

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"Professor!" Phoebe stomped her foot and crossed her arms crossly, giving him every inch of her very frustrated little second year fury. He tricked her! "Professor, that wasn't very nice. We did the thing you said and trusted our gut and you talked us out of it! I had it right!" She really was smart sometimes, and he was here making her feel dumb on purpose. That was deeply unkind.

She flipped her hair and pulled her goggles back over her eyes before picking up her wand. Watch this, Mister Mean Professor Man. "Venenum Hortus." Yeah, that one was just for practice.


Was it wrong to have favourites this early in the school year? Was it wrong to have favourites at all? Either way, Miss James was definitely one of his favourite personalities to have in class. The stomp of the foot almost made him laugh, but he managed to contain it to just a grin. ”You shouldn’t have let me talk you out of it. You should have believed in yourself a bit more, Phoebe. I’m glad you had the right box first. But you didn’t stay there.” And then they were back to the goggles and he couldn’t help but remember how earlier in the class she had been wearing them before she needed to.

”Couple more tries, Phoebe. Close.”


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Ahhhh, so it was a trick question. The correct answer was D-none of the above or actually, all of the above. No one sense could determine whether or not the plants were poisonous. Just like most things in life, you needed to use all of your senses. Naya listened as the professor shared how magic could solve the problem. A spell that could be used with 100% accuracy? That sounded like a good deal to Naya.

Naya was happy to find out that she had guessed right when picking the non-poisonous plant. There were roses in the thorn box. But the professor made his point there just as well could have been poisonous plants in all of the boxes. They had to be prepared.

Now it was time to practice the new spell. Naya went and put on her protective gear. She would be sure not to get too close to the plants while she was trying the spell. You didn’t have to tell her twice. She had no desire to be shocked today. First though, she silently went over the wand movement. She slowly traced the shape of a tree with her wand. Then she practiced saying the incantation. “Venenum Hortus, Venenum Hortus, Venenum Hortus” Okay, she was ready to try it for real now.

Naya went up to the nearest plant, careful not to get too close to it. She raised her hand and directed the wand towards said plant. Carefully making the tree movement, she said, “Venenum Hortus”. Then Naya watched as an orange haze surrounded the plant.
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So on her first try, Naya got the orange aura, poisonous upon consumption plant. Then she moved on to the next plant. It was time to practice again. Take two. Naya concentrated on what she wanted to do and raised her wand. She made the tree-like movement, careful to do it just right. “Venenum Hortus”, she said with enthusiasm. For a moment, she thought that she had made a mistake. After a few seconds of nothing happening, the air around plant turned faintly yellow.

Yellow, poisonous to touch. Did the fact that the aura was only faintly yellow mean that she had done the spell wrong or that the plant was slightly poisonous to touch? Naya figured that the former was probably the truth. Looks like she needed to keep practicing the spell. Time for Take three.


Naya was well into her incantation practice when Gus walked past the workstation she was at, so he waited around to see her cast the spell for the first time. With an impressed smile and a nod, he gave her a thumbs up. ”Try another plant for a different colour.” He continued to wait, just to see if she ran into any troubles when casting any further. Sometimes the first cast went well and the others didn’t. First time luck and all that.

”Hm.. Try again, Naya. A little bit more determination. You need a stronger colour.”


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Jillian reciprocated Professor Rainwater's smile for sticking into the green line. That was her gut feeling and right now whatever the outcome of this she will not regret choosing this box. Fingers crossed.

Without magic, how do you think you could spot a poisonous plant?

When it comes to muggles, jillian can't be too sure with how they work but she knows that their is this thing muggles like to call intuition. They basically listen to what their sixth sense tells them and that's what they go for. Ironically, this was something all of them used upon arrival for herbology. They all didn't know which of the boxes are safe- they were given clues, vague ones at best but all the students deduced from their basic knowledge and YES, intuition.

Raising her hand to give an answer "I suppose basic knowledge and mostly sight" Sight was indeed important in this matter especially for muggles.

And so the correct answer was the blue box. Okay. Jillian was not too upset granted that she chose not to move despite given a second chance by the Professor earlier. yes, she won't dwell that much into it. It was now time to move on to the activity. She moved towards the edges of the greenhouse and wore her goggles and her pair of gloves. She was trying to repeat the spell in her head for memorization because the wand movement earlier looked a tad bit complicated and she wants to get it right right away- hopefully.

Venenum Hortus! Venenum Hortus! Venenum Hortus!

The professor also had extra information regarding the colors- she needed to look into that a bit later but all she remembers is that blue is good. After a few more repetition of the spell, she took her wand out. Ready and good to go. She's still a bit bothered about the wand movement but that's why she needed to practice it first before casting the spell. She moved her arm for a bit and tried to practice eagerly, once she was finished she walked to the nearest plant she can find available and took a deep breath. She took a few steps back and made sure that she wasn't too near it...

Her eyes focusing on the plant and with the tree-like wand movement she uttered the spell "Venenum Hortus!"


Gus watched from a few workstations away as Jillian began to practice the wand movement. He figured that she just needed to believe in herself a little bit more, because he expected that she would have gotten the spell fairly easily and not needed so much practice without putting wand movement and incantation together.

Here was Professor Rainwater with his attempt at making her feel good about herself though!!!! ”You can do it, Jillian!!!!!”



SPOILER!!: Lucas
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............ Uhh??

Lucas jumped about a foot in the air at Shivvy’s suddenly loud response to his answer. He could understand why, of course, but if there was something he wasn’t expecting, it was the loudness of her answer. Testing a poisonous plant on your skin was a very dumb answer on his part - and something you wouldn’t see him trying to accomplish no matter what the situation - but he had NOT expected that reaction. He didn’t even expect her to say that he’d need to say goodbye to his entire fingers or hands.

Oh Merlin.

They weren’t going to have to do that, right? Please say no.

In fact, what he found most intriguing from Rainwater’s speech was everything about how the spell came about. It was enough to cause the Gryffindor to tilt his head and make a mental note to do some reading on that part of the lesson. It oddly reminded him of Astronomy and parts of science experiments he had grown up being fond of playing with and learning more about.

It wasn’t as fun but it was still interesting.

Right now, Lucas wasted no time in strapping on a pair of goggles and a pair of gloves as well. He did NOT want to lose any fingers today. No, thank you. Especially not since it turned out that the red box had contained POISON IVY, which, after finding out what was inside the box, he knew he didn’t want to go near it if he could help it. Even if this was for science.

Taking his wand out, the fifth year started practising the spell as best as he could on the first random plant he came across. The idea was to not get ~too~ close to the plants and avoid getting shocked in the process but still be able to cast the spell and take part in, well, science. This was just like an experiment, wasn’t it?

It was with that thought in mind that he started mumbling the incantation under his breath. "Venenum Hortus. Venenum Hortus!" Pause. "Venenum Hortus? Venenum Hortus."

And the wand movement? Easier. Drawing a tree-like figure in the air wasn’t difficult........... right?


Gus was sure that casting an entirely new spell to them was going to leave people a little flustered, but the class were taking to the spell… his spell, like ducks to water. And he was proud. Of both his students and his spell child. It had been a lot of work to perfect the spell, a lot of time and late night research. But it was all worth it to now be in a position where he could talk about the history of it and teach the art and safety of it to a new generation of herbologists.

”Believe in yourself, Lucas. Put it all together.”’


SPOILER!!: Carsyn
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A smile had been sent her sister’s way as Carsyn had arrived in the greenhouse, although nothing else given the lesson had begun, and Carys wasn’t exactly happy with how Professor Rainwater had chosen to make them all doubt their choices. As if there hadn’t been any thought put into the selections, even if she was pretty sure at least some of the students had just randomly chosen a box. Probably the Gryffindors, since a lot of the Slytherins had chosen the blue box with her. No matter how much the professor wanted her to doubt herself, which she was adding to her mentalist of how he was different from Professor Beryl, she was going to stand by her decision. Even if it was the wrong one. Especially since it seemed ridiculous to, on the one hand, ask them to discuss how you could identify a poisonous plant without magic, but then make them doubt themselves by hypothetically doing just that.

She’d stayed quiet during the discussion for just that reason. Frustration and standing by her decisions. Even if the blue box hid a poisonous plant, she wasn’t going to be afraid of it. It was a plant, not the former headmaster. She was confident with plants, and besides, the professor had taken care of their need for taking notes. So maybe he wasn’t all that bad.

And then the contents of each box had been revealed…and she’d been right. Just the average rosebush, although she’d wondered what color roses it had before they’d all been instructed to clear the area. There had still been a slight bit of annoyance at being told they didn’t have enough information, as it sort of seemed to undermine any confidence he’d been trying to impart by the whole exercise, but she’d followed the directions anyhow, going over the spell in her head as she’d moved and then watched as the workbenches had all reappeared.

Magic. There wasn’t any other way to explain it, and the earlier discussion didn’t really seem to follow. They weren’t identifying poisonous plants without magic if they were using a spell. Even if auras weren’t necessarily magic. It was useful, anyhow, and she’d approached one of the tables after squashing down her frustration, tracing out the tree shape with her wand. “Venenum Hortus.”

Did anyone ever inform the professor that red almost always meant stop?


Gus knew what not taking part in a discussion meant. It either meant you didn’t have an answer or you were in your feelings about something. He was certain that it was the latter with Carsyn and expected that it was something to do with his way of teaching. Gus wouldn’t question it in front of the class, but he did lean slightly across the workstation and spoke quietly to her. [size=1]”If you want to discuss how better I could teach this class, I can see you in my office afterwards. I’d rather you spoke now and I can make changes to help you best.” That was all he’d say on the matter, because he walked away from the workstation and left Carsyn to practice some more.

SPOILER!!: Isla
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This professor was tricky. Isla hadn't been in his class too long (almost half a school year), but she had figured out that he was impossible to figure out. At least for her. He kept looking for out-of-the-box answers that she hadn't trained her mind to come up with yet. She made a handful of mental notes about this before forgetting about it for now.

So wait...there had been a spell for this all along?! As a pureblood, why hadn't she known this? And the wand movement was the shape of a tree? That would seriously take a lot of practice! Did it matter what kind of tree it was? Did it have to look just like the one on the board? Then suddenly, when he started talking about colors, everything from the beginning of the class made perfect sense! Was it too late to slide on over to that blue box and join that group instead?

She stepped away from the giant hogweed she was now standing by. What exactly did it do?! At least it was time to move to another part of the greenhouse. Isla made her way over, slipping on her gloves and goggles as she did so. She still had so many questions, but she was ready to get started on the activity, too. She withdrew her wand. "Venenum Hortus!" she said. Well, that part was easy. It was that tree shape she was worried about.

She moved her wand up "from the ground" and made about ten of those hilly-looking shapes that made up the top of the tree, and then she traced her wand back "down to the ground." "Professor," she said, raising her hand, "does the tree need to look exactly like yours, or will the spell take any tree-shape?"


Questions!!! He looooooved questions!!!

Avoiding the plants on the worktop, Gus leaned against the surface with a smile. ”Great question, Isla. There’s a reason I gave you a diagram, and it’s because the spell works only with that wand movement. Direction and shape. Everything needs to be the same.” Truthfully, he’d tried as many tree variations as he possibly could and nothing worked right. Sometimes the colour was completely wrong. Others… well, there had been a few fires started during his research castings, let’s just say.


SPOILER!!: Tom
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Tom was looking at this Professor, he wasn't sure what this Professor was doing, though apparently the red box was very dangerous. Still he wouldn't have chose another box because he didn't have all the information he would have needed to make the decision.

Tom listened carefully as the Professor told them about the next activity, he moved towards the edge of the greenhouse and put on gloves and goggles and then he took out his wand, now to practice the spell.

"Venenum Hortus!" Tom whispered, trying to say it right in his head. "Venenum Hortus!" Tom was starting to get used to say this. "Venenum Hortus!" Tom repeated it a few more times before he started to practice the incantation, He copied what the Professor had done a few times making sure he had everything down before he started.

"Venenum Hortus!" Tom did the wand movement whilst saying the spell and was glad when he noticed that it was working, this was epic and the spell was amazing.


Still walking around the greenhouse, Gus nodded at Tom. ”Well done, Mr Simpson. Practice on a few more actual plants, though.” Just to be safe. He was a first year. And this spell relied on getting everything together correctly. He didn’t doubt the abilities of Tom, but he wanted to make sure he was confident before they moved on in the class.

SPOILER!!: Heath
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Heath was past the point of being surprised when he learned the blue box (his first choice) was the correct one. He wasn't even mad anymore. He was just… disappointed, both that his lack of confidence had been used against him and that he was dumb enough to fall for the professor's Jedi mind tricks. Heath kept his eyes on the board, hoping not to attract attention, and every other emotion he felt melted into sheer terror as a spell appeared on it. Oh, no! This could only end badly...

He was… not the best at spell practice. He could do the spells when he practiced on his own, but in the classroom setting… There were too many people around, and it felt like hundreds of judging eyes on him. The usual anxious thoughts ran through his mind. What if I get it wrong in front of everybody? What if they all laugh at me? What if I stand there practicing for ages and can't do the spell at all? Or what if I get it so badly wrong that I accidentally set the whole place on fire? Then another even worse thought occurred to him. What if the professor thinks I'm messing up on purpose? What would he do to me? Take points? Give me detention? Kick me out for not following directions?

Whatever it was, Heath didn't want to find out! He was so scared, it felt like his legs had turned to lead as he trudged to the edge of the greenhouse with the others. He put on his safety equipment, but his hands trembled so badly that he was afraid to even try holding his wand… but he was equally afraid not to! The first few times he tried, he wound up dropping his wand before he could complete the movement. Eventually he managed a wonky sort of tree shape, but when he tried to practice the incantation, the words wouldn't come. Oh Merlin, how was he ever going to get through this?

The short answer was that he wasn't, not as Heathcliff Jones anyway. So Heath did the same thing he always did when his emotions became too much to handle: pretend to be someone else. Someone strong who never let anyone shake his confidence no matter how high up the chain of command they were, someone like… Poe Dameron! Channeling the Resistance pilot from his favorite movies, Heath's stance relaxed and his hand steadied as he attempted the tree shaped movement again. "Venenum Hortus," he said. Unfortunately acting could only take him so far, and his voice was barely audible, but at least he got the words out!


Did he dare try practicing on an actual plant now? Heath!Dameron (or was it Poe!Jones?) aimed his wand at the nearest plant. "Venenum Hortus," he said, making the tree movement, and..* absolutely nothing happened. "Venenum Hortus!" he tried again, a little more confidence in his voice. That time, a faint reddish tinge appeared around the plant - or was it orange? Heath couldn't tell, do he tried one more time. "Venenum Hortus!" Red… okay, that meant don't approach. Not that there was much chance of that happening anyway…

Hey, he finally did it! This spell was actually kind of cool once he got the hang of it!


Heath was another student that Gus knew he needed to talk up and give some confidence to in his subject. When he cast the spell correctly and the red was bright around the plant, Gus grinned and gave him a thumbs up as he walked past. ”Great job, bud.” And there hadn’t been any trembling or stuttering!! SUCCESS!!!
- - -
Checking his watch, Gus figured that they had had enough time to practice and they should probably get started on the real practicing and the fun. Or...what he thought was going to be fun. It seemed that the kids here at Hogwarts were hard to please. How was it that they had such a history of being duped by people posing as professors or infestations? Whatever. They had fun ahead of them!!!! FUNOLOGY!!!!!!!! He clapped his hands three times loudly to get their attention, and headed back to stand at the front of the greenhouse. ”There’s been some excellent casting in here already - I’m extremely impressed. Safe and confident casting. The best kind, well done. Now, I think it’s time for you to properly put your work with this spell to the test.”

WITH A GAME!!!!

Were they as excited as he was?

Had they noticed that he was bouncing a little? That there was a spring in his stand?

”You may stay in here to practice a little more if you feel that you need to, but if you feel confident… then I invite you to head on through into extension behind me.” And right on cue, a set of double doors opened beside him to reveal another greenhouse full of plants on wheeled plant pots. The plant post were wheeling around the room rather quickly, but every so often one would stop in front of the doors for someone to hop on. ”Your task for the next twenty minutes is to find a path of non-poisonous plants and make it to the other side of the room. But you need to stay on a plant pot, because the floor may as well be lava. Metaphorically, of course. Fun game. Hope you’ve all played it! You’ll all get on a plant pot before it starts to move around the room. Only some of the plants in there are completely safe. Remember what the colours mean and cast before you jump!”

He wondered if any of them would think about what they were testing. They didn’t want to touch a plant that was poisonous, so… they only needed to avoid plants that were poisonous to touch.

”The plants that are poisonous to touch WILL give you a small electric shock if you touch them. It will feel exactly like when you’ve dragged your feet and touched another person. Don’t fret. Any dramatics and you’ll be out. You will NOT get hurt.” It was going to be more difficult to get injured outside of his class than it was to get injured inside today. There was a lot going on to protect these kids and all they were hung up on was that he’d talked some of them out of choosing the blue box. Honestly their priorities were skewed. ”If you stay on a plant longer than the electric shock, you’ll be dropped right back off at the entrance of the room and have to start again to get to the other side of the room!” And heeeeee was going to be watching and observing their ability to cast.

”Have fun, okay? This is supposed to be FUN!!!!! Enjoy it. I think we’ll have a quiz next class, so enjoy the fun!!!!” Because he was going to enjoy watching it.

”Who’s up first?!!”

OOC: MAIN ACTIVITY TIME YEY. Thought we’d throw a lil game in. Gus is rubbish at explaining and there are a few things that he hasn’t mentioned but you should know so you can have some more fun with your characters. I’m writing this with the beginnings of a migraine so if it makes little sense - shoot me a message and I’ll clear things up ASAP <3
Your characters need to:
-get on a plant pot
-perform Venenum Hortus to see which of the plants in the room are non-poisonous
-jump from a non-pois to another non-pois and get to the other end of the room (you can play this out as long as you want tbh. You have a few days left of class and I’ll post something each day that changes things up for you so keep a look out for those posts!)

Things that may happen:
-if your character gets on the plant pot of a poisonous plant, they’ll receive a small electric shock (ABsolutely will not get hurt!!! Gus has done everything possible to ensure their safety in this lesson!!!)
-the plant pots are wheeling fast so your character will have to hold onto the plant that they are with (which is why they want the plants that are safe for touchy touchy!)
-if your character stays on a plant pot longer than one electric shock, their plant pot will send them straight back to the entrance of the room and they’ll have to wait for a new pot to stop and collect them
-if two people end up on the same non-pois plant pot, the person that was there first will be thrown back to the entrance of the room so it’s best to keep moving moving moving
-if a student stays on their non-pois plant too long (ie. not practicing the spell, just trying to get to the other side of the room) Gus will call their pot back and they’ll have to start over! (you have my permission to say he did this and ONLY this!)

Things that will NOT happen:
-severe electric shocks
-students being thrown off pots and getting hurt
-anY sort of inJURY !!!!!!!!!
We’ll start finishing up in roughly 72 hours, but I’ll be stopping by to check in on you guys if you need me or Gus and also to throw some spanners into the works!

I hope this makes sense! Pls grab me if it doesn’t. Love you guys! Thanks for playing so far <3
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