Welcome to Hogwart's Care of Magical Creatures Nursery.

Outside on the grounds and right beside the professor's hut, you'll find a large, stone building. Inside the building and lining the walls are a variety of cages in all sorts of various sizes. Peek inside the cages and you'll be delighted to find that they are filled with sweet, baby, magical creatures. Look beside the door and you'll find shelves stocked with dragon hide gloves, goggles, brushes, clean rags, and anything else you could ever need to care for these precious baby creatures.

Just outside the back door of the stone building is the designated closed-in play area for your baby to roam around in the warm sun. Just be sure to properly close all cages and pens when you're finished caring for your little darlings.

Come on in and let your creature get to know you. Make sure they are growing up nice and strong and report any problems to Professor Lawson.

OOC: If you have any questions, stop by the Notice Board for more information.

Woo! the nursery was open! Maddie went in and headed for her little imp baby, Smokey. She picked her up and tickled her a little bit, and then went outside to the pen. Setting Smokey down, she closed the little gate and watched the tiny imp wander around in the sun.

Keeley giggled as she skipped to he magical creatures nursery. Squee! She waved to the Ravenclaw firstie that she didn't know by name and searched around for her knarl. She hadn't had too much experience with it, so this little playdate should be fun. Eventually finding Passion, she picked the prickly animal up an put him in the playpin. Now to make friends with the little guy...

Alexandrie entered the Magical Creatures Nursery and quickly found her Knarl picking her up. "Aww hey sweetie." Alex told Adorabelle smiling, she didn't have much experience with Knarls..if any so she was going to try to make friends with the little girl first. She noticed two girls she only knew from classes. She put the Knarl down gently thinking on what to do with the prickly creature first.

Ohmygoodnesss. This was so exciting!

Once Ella had walked inside the Magical Creatures Nursery, she looked around everywhere for the baby Crups. Her baby Crup, hehe. Eeep, there they were! "Elvissss!" She beamed at the little creature and picked it up and stared at it for a moment. Creatures were all cute in general but the baby's were just. D'aww.

After a moment or two of adoration, Ella decided to go outside of the Nursery into the play area that was provided. She sat down on the ground and placed Elvis in front of her. Aww, babies.

Watching Smokey stumble around the pen, Maddie smiled. She went over to a corner of the nursery and picked up a few different bags of feed, deciding she'd see what she liked to eat. Shaking a few pellets of what looked a bit like dog food onto her hand, she offered it to the Imp. Nope, she didn't like that. Maddie made a note in the new diary she's got for this assignment. Shaking a few bits of hay stuff onto her hand instead, she gave that to Smokey. Ah. that she liked - the Imp had eaten it all in seconds. Smiling, Maddie filled a bowl with it and set in the corner of the pen for Smokey to eat.

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Maddie's Diary:
Imp's Appearance - Red. small horns at the back of head, and a fairly long tail. Forked tongue, hooves. Walks on two legs. Tiny claws on hands.
Food - Dislikes the dog food. Seems to like hay.

Keeley adjusted the light blue fedora on her head, positively beaming at the little knarl. Passion was such an adorable little baby, although she wasn't sure how she would feed it. He obviously wouldn't take some milk from her directly, so she just waited to see how the Slytherin firstie was going to feed hers. For now it was just nice to see the- no, her adorable baby wander around the pen cheerfully.

Alexandrie glanced around noticing the owner of the other Knarl was looking towards her clearly wanting to see how she would feed Adorabelle. She didn't know how to feed the milk to the baby either but Adorabelle didn't seem so shy to her and least she let her pick her up after all. Alex sighed kneeling in front of the cute creature, "You hungry Adorabelle?" Alex asked gently looking at her small baby with kind eyes.

Walking into the Magical Creatures nursery, Lysandra looked for her little baby imp. He wasn't that hard to find to be perfectly honest, but there was another red imp which made it difficult to depict whose was whose. When the Ravenclaw girl went to her imp, Lysandra saw another red imp close by, but she knew it was hers. She went to the imp, named Zuko, and picked him up. How are you doing today? she asked him with a smile on her face.

Brant walked into the nursery and took a look for his little baby Augurey. Once spotting him he opened his cage and donning on his Bird glove for the "Little Dude's" talons were still sharp. "Hows it going Little Dude?" he asked it for he knew that he wouldn't respond.

Taking a fly out of his pocket Brant held it up to its beak. "Here I brought you a nice tasty treat" he said while trying to get the little baby Augurey to eat it. Once it took it in its beak Brant started to pet its head. "Good Boy, Thats my Little Dude" Brant couldn't help but chuckle for he loved the name of this bird "Little Dude" ahahahah Its just awesome" he thought while watching it Nom on a fly.

Trixie walked into the animal nursery, after recieving her assignment to a baby creature. Well technically here's wasn't a baby as it grows to a full grown adult pretty quickly seeing as Phoenix's are immortal. But as she approached the beautiful majestic bird she couldn't help but have a smile on her face. At the moment, it was the size of a pigeon, after having only just risen from the ashes. It's didn't have it's full plumage and so instead the small bird sat there, in dull browns, the feathers soft and the creature fairly weak and new to the world

The bird was sat wearily perched on a stick, unsure of whether it could balance quite yet. Trixie felt privileged as Phoenix's were notoriously known to be hard to domesticate. But Trixie was going to give it a good go. She knew not to touch the not quite yet golden feathers on the majestic bird tail as they were hot to the touch, but instead she stroked it's back, making sure to not go near her beak just yet. But the Phoenix stayed calm. "Hello Topaz" she spoke softly to the gorgeous creature before feeding it with organic food as Trixie knew the creature to be a herbivore.

Hmm.... the Slytherin firstie seemed to be tring feeding her knarl directly. Keeley had worked with these before, and they completely spazzed out when you tried to give them food. Maybe earning his trust would work? That seemed to be a good idea, so she cuddled little Passion as best as she could without getting pricked. Eep, he was so adorable!

Lysandra put Zuko down and reached into her bag and pulled out a journal for this class. She wrote

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Lysandra 1st year Care for Magical Creatures
Creature: Imp
Name: Zuko
Description: red with stumpy black horns on the top of head. Medium length tail that ends with a point, human-like hands, has goat-like feet with black hooves, about 2 feet tall
Likable food:

She took out a tub of cut apples from her bag and opened it. Taking out a slice, she handed it to Zuko. The little imp hesitated for a moment, not knowing what to do but then he raised his little hands and took the slice from her. He took a bite but spit it out in an instant. She closed the tub and wrote

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Dislikes: apples

Lysandra then took out a little cup full of crickets and pulled one out for Zuko. She handed the food to him again and this time, he loved it. Smiling she wrote

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Likable food: Crickets

Maddie smiled and picked the Imp up, waving at the other girl who had an Imp as well. She stroked Smokey's head, and offered her more food. This time, she left the hay and tried some other things. She took a scoop (no way was she doing this with her hands) and offered the baby some (EEP) dead spiders from one of the bags. Thankfully, she didn't like thwm, so maddie just put them in the bin. Neext, carrots. Smokey nudged them with her nose, but didn't eat them until Maddie cut them into smaller pieces

Smokey pranced round the pen, nose in the air. Ah, sun. Warm. The tall human - Maggie? Maddie? Was offering food. She sniffed it, and recoiled in disgust. Spiders? Was this human mad? She came back again, this time with carrots. Smokey playfully pushed one with her nose, and gave the human a reproachful look. How was she supposed to teat it unless it was cut up? The person obliged, and Smokey devoured the yummy vegetable in seconds.

Alexandrie eyed the Knarl thinking of another way, "Not hungry then? How about this?" She asked her creature gently picking up the cute Knarl and cuddling it with ease considering it pricked people. "Your such a cute little Knarl." She told Adorabelle still cuddling the Knarl.

Rae walked from class to the nursery to see her new Clabbert, Amyntas. Hopefully this thing didn't eat things that she would have to kill before she came to feed it. If it did.... Maybe she would get Erebos her per Raven to kill a couple really small animals for Amyntas. She walked up to her new adopted.... pet thing, and stuck out her hand as to pet it like some kind of dog. She didn't like it when Rae did that, she snapped at Rae with her shiny teeth... Well at least Rae named her right. Amyntas meant "defender" in greek. Rae pulled back her hand and dat down on the floor. She should just give up now, this was useless. As soon as Rae was feeling how stupid it was for Rae to vote yes on this she felt hands and feet going up her arm and onto her shoulder. Rae turned her head to see Amyntas resting carelessly on her shoulder. Rae smirked and then pet her face. Not bad for a first visit eh? She wasn't going to do journal writing with her new found pet thing on her shoulder. It gave her an excuse to procrastinate. Awesome.

Alex remembered what she read about Knarls, they were excatly like their other pickly muggle versions. She looked around for anything they might eat, insects, snakes, watermelon things like that. She didn't have to eat it directly, just put food in front of it.

Keeley was having a blast with her little baby knarl. Passion was adorable and friendly, even if his prickles got caught in her red hair, they were getting along quite well. She had talked to him and snuggled him, so he had to be ready for some food. But he musn't think she was out to get him.... she took a bowl of milk from the feeding table and set it on the other side of the playpen and let her knarl roam free. He'd get hungry eventually, and see the ungaurded milk.

Ella watched as her baby Cruppie, Elvis, was running around in the outdoor play area. She stroked it's fur then he rolled onto his back. Hehe. Ooh, Ella remembered that she had something to give Elvis. A tasty treat! She rummaged in her pockets for a moment then pulled out a biscuit. It wasn't a dog biscuit.. just a regular biscuit but Ella figured that Elvis would like it.

"Here you go Elvis." Ella said and held the treat in front of Elvis' mouth. He had a little sniff of the food but ate it within seconds. Well Crups do eat anything. The Crup looked up at Ella as if it was expecting more. Uhm.. "Sorry Elvis, that's all I have with me today." But there was something to look up. What is appropriate for a Crup to eat, and how much should they have? Right.

She wrote things down about Elvis' behaviour and antics, and everything that she had seen on this visit. After she had written enough, she figured that it would be getting late now and she should probably get going. She picked up Elvis and held it in the air giving it a kissy face. "See you tomorrow Elvis." She grinned, then took him back inside and back into his cage. N'aww, she couldn't wait to come back.

SPOILER!!: Ella's Journal

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Visit One

Elvis got very excited when I first arrived and was very clingy. As I could tell he was feeling very excitable, I took him outside to the provided play area to let him run around a bit. After he ran around a bit, I remembered that I had a biscuit in my pocket and I decided to give it to him. I knew that Crups eat anything, but it seemed that Elvis did enjoy it.

With a bit more running around, I felt that I got to bond with Elvis for our first visit.

Maddie smiled at Smokey and pulled out her copy of Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. Flicking through until she reached the definition of an Imp, she stopped. She pulled out her book and wrote some notes:

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Maddie's Diary
Imps are only found in Britain and ireland. Sometimes, they are confused with Pixies. Imps are usually brown or black (therefore, Smokey's red skin is highly unusual). A full grown Imp is six to eight inches, whilst a baby like Smokey is only one inch tall. They like marshy ground, and are usually found on river banks. It eats small insects

Maddie grimaced at the last sentence. Insects. she had to feed Smokey insects. She pulled out a scoop, and stuck on her gloves (no way was she touching insects with bare hands) she scooped a few criickets onto her hand, and held them out for Smokey. She smiled as she ate every single one. After that, Maddie decided to try and get Smokey to drink, and filled a bowl with milk and a bowl with water, setting them both near Smokey's feet. She laughed as Smokey ignored the water and tried to drink the milk, which resulted in her falling into the bowl. Maddie fished her out, driend her off and made another note in her book:


Smokey pranced around the ring, nose in the air. When the human offered her crickets, she smiled and leapt over. She'd finally gotten it right! Smokey ate all the crickets extremely quickly, and licked her lips with her long, forked tongue. Then the human brouht out water. She sniffed and turned away, until she was offered milk! In her eagerness to drink it all, she fell headfirst in the bowl. the human laughed, but obligingly pulled her out. Once set back on the floor, Smokey quickly drank all the milk, giving warning galnces to all the other babies, let they try to take her food and drink away.

Not being able to get down to the nursery until the next day, Evelyn finally made it though in the early morning, wearing a rather large jacket, and carrying a fluffy blanket, notebook, pencil, and napkin.

Peaking inside the nursery to see if anyone else was there, a small smirk appeared on her face when she saw it was empty. Good. She didn't need anyone interrupting her time with Orion, the best niffler ever! However, the place could have definitely smelled better. It was like the early morning air enhanced either her senses, or the actual smell, because she was finding it slightly hard to breathe. Who knew how the little niffler was holding out!

Moving towards the back side cages, she found the nameplate of Orion once more and peaked inside the cage. STILL sleeping?! Unless he... no he was sleeping. She could see his tummy moving. Smiling, she quickly moved outside to the play area and placed everything she was carrying down before fixing it all up again. Meaning, stretching out the fuzzy soft blanket, and placing her notebook, pencil, and napkin carrying two cut up cranberries. Something the Slytherin remembered the Professor giving the niffler, who she remembered was actually the groundskeeper, back in first year.

Going back inside of the nursery, Evelyn silently opened the cage and gently took Orion out (who didn't even twitch) before holding him almost like holding an actual baby. Aww, he was too cute! Cutest in the world and universe! And perhaps regular air would do him some good. Which was why she brought the fuzzy blanket, so he could sleep comfortably outside for a moment or so. If he woke up, there would be a small treat for him of course, but if he slept more, then it would give her time to make up a small drawing of him.

More than likely though, it seemed that he would just keep sleeping.

Ellie walked in to visit her baby Crup. She was so excited! She easily found her. And she was being particularly cute. She was sleeeeping! Ellie didn't have the heart to wake her up, so she just sat on the ground next to Amata and placed the baby bottle of milk she brought to try out on her next to her. She took out a notebook and wrote:

She sighed and admired the baby. Maybe she'd wake up soon?


After a few minutes of watching the sleeping baby, Ellie got up and left. Next time should be more successful.

Alexandrie sighed filling a bowl half way with milk setting it in front of the Knarl she named Adorabelle before moving back a ways. Alex took out her Journal for this class and wrote down:

Alex smiled gently at the Knarl drinking from her bowl of milk, it was so cute she couldn't help but think. Adorabelle was living up to her name already.

Finally I can get into the nursery!

Kate entered silently into the stoned room and look forward her new friend's cage.

An Imp..No. A crup..NO...A kneazle!..oh... not mine....awwwwwww look at that phoenix! and the baby Knarl!! It's so cuttttttttttteeee!!!! And.. my kneazle!!!!!!
Hi precious! How are you doing today?

The kneazle stayed quiet for a fraction of a second and then started to jump from one place of the cage to the other in a very rare speed...

woa!! slow down sweety! you are going to hurt yourself!

Kate stared at him with watery eyes...she took her quill and her notebook and wrote:

Kate charmed the quill as to write itself in the parchment and took of a muggle camera from her pocket.

Stay quiet Rusty! I will take u a picture ...be quiet...

CLICK!

AH...beautiful! I will print this as soon as I can.

Rusty..look what I brought with me...food!

Kate showed Rusty a variety of aliments to see which was more tasty to him, but he was too busy moving inside the cage to look at them.

I will try to touch him...come here Rus...come...yes...that it is..good boy!!

Kate dictated to the quill:

She took her things and closed the cage.

Good bye Rus, that's all for today. See you tomorrow!! I'll miss you little cutie

Then she left.

Mina could hardly contain herself. The nursery was open and she was going to see her little baby. She just hoped that she could get some quality time with her baby in before she had to run off to do more homework.

Quietly, she entered and looked for her name. The previous day, she had only gotten a glance at the cage with her name on it, but now that the nursery appeared empty, she could get some time to see her baby. Tip-toeing over to the cage, she smiled. Oh, there was her little knarl. The little baby was curled up in a ball, which made her slightly sad. Mina meant her no harm, but then again knarls were highly suspicious and she couldn't really blame her baby for being so.

Standing over the cage, she opened it and placed some berries down. "Hi sweetie. I'm Mina and I'm not here to hurt you. I want to be friends." she smiled as she kneeled before the cage and watched. Slowly, the little knarl uncurled itself and sniffed at the berries. Giving it a moment of thought, she started to move toward it. Cautiously, sniffing at berries still, she reached her tiny paws at a berry and pulled it toward her. Mina smiled at that. She was so adorable, Mina wanted to keep her forever, but she knew she couldn't. Watching her nibble on the berry, Mina smiled. Yes, she needed to name her baby.....Chloé. She looked like a Chloé.

Grabbing her journal, she opened it and started to write.

SPOILER!!: Care of Magical Creatures Journal....Chloé the Knarl

Jasmina Bennett
Care of Magical Creatures Journal
Baby Knarl - Chloé

Entry One:

Chloé seems to be rather suspicious. Placed some berries in cage. She seems to like them. Good sign.

Setting her journal down, she smiled up at Chloé. She was now looking right at her and tilting her head. "Were those berry good, Chloé?" she asked as she moved to open the cage again. Maybe Chloé trusted her enough to let her pick her up now. Lowering her hand in to the cage, she moved it so Chloé could see she meant no harm. Chloé kind of blinked but didn't move away. That was a good sign for sure.

Slowly, she reached to pick Chloé and she almost appeared to hope right into her hand. Chloé seemed to like her. Pulling her completely out of the cage, Mina cradled her in her palm. Chloé looked like she trusted her and that was reassuring for Mina.