Kurumi waved her gloves in the air to show that she had remembered them before the put them on her hands. She looked around at her classmates and to the plants in front of them. Were they going to bite them? Perhaps spew some sort of yucky liquid? "What is that smell? It is a defense mechanism for these plants?" she asked pointing to the weird looking things. She peered over a little closer. "Are those Bubotuber plants, Professor?"

Daisy looked at the plant. What could it be?? "It it a Venomous Tentacula Professor?" That would be a good reason to wear glothes around the thing.

As the professor asked about the plant and what it was, Simon looked at it again, trying to remember what he had read. Finally he raised his hadn to answer. "They're bubotubers aren't they," he answered half-questionly not fully certain since it wasn't his best class.

Cameron nodded doubtingly. "Riiiiiiigggggggggggggggght."

Oh NO!

Cameron knew exactly what THEY were.

"They're bubotuber's." STUPID EVIL SLIMY PLANTS.

Esme pulled on her gloves, rolling her eyes at the question of what might happen if a person were to not wear them. As though the Professor was asking them to wear gloves so that they could have some sort of fashion show, solely for their hands.

She was feeling short today, wearing her wellies as Merlin only knew she wouldn't be risking her shoes. She thought that she heard two of the Slytherin girls being a little rude, but that wasn't her concern, although she did make a mental note to stay away from them. Feeling short meant a short temper, after all.

She watched the Professor, waiting for the next instruction, thinking just how bad the smell really was.

Kita rummaged in her bag and took out her gloves. She slid her small hands into the gloves and smiled at the way it fit her. Almost perfectly but still. She turned to the plants and glared at it. No dangerous plant is going to ruin her day. Was this plant even dangerous? One thing she knew though was the way in which the professor had told them not to touch the plants at all without protection.


Kita looked up at the professor as he spoke and then down at the plants. She had an idea as to what they were but she didn't want to say. She sincerely hoped that she was wrong about this particular type of plant. She knew why she wouldn't want to touch them now.

Rubiey snapped on her dragonhide gloves. You know, incase those eviiiiiiiiiiiiiil plants in the planters decided to attack her.

What were they? Umm. "Aren't they Bubotuber plants, Professor?" She said enquiringly. They looked exactly as the book had discribed them, but she had never seen them before.

Now the excessive mentioning of the gloves made sense.

Joshua was, of course, distracted. How else would he possibly be? Surely not listening to the Professor, where was the fun in that?! If it hadn't been for the fact the Professor was right behind me as he repeated his warning not to touch the plant, Joshua would've done so. Yes, Sir.

Maybe he could touch it later. It looked almost ... alive.

Wicked.

Humming down a tune to himself, he slipped on his fantabulous gloves before quickly raising his arm to answer the question. "No, Sir!" No, he didn't know what the plant was. BUT his Mummy told him to never leave a question unanswered. "But I can tell you what it isn't! A ... ROSE!" Hehe.

Uh-huh.

Destiny didn't even realize she was standing in front of a plant until the stinky Professor mentioned them. With her gloves now on fully, she leaned up a little to get a good look at this 'plant'. And it really was the ugliest plant she had ever seen. Looking like a slug and all..and the smell! The smell was worse than Dodson's!

Which explained why they were learning about these particular plants today. He had brought them in so the students wouldn't notice his smell, and they would all just blame the smell on the plants. Tsk, tsk.

"They would be bubotubers." And just to state the obvious, because she was good at it, she added, "And they stink."

Did he just Say Hopefully anyway?. Yes Yes I think he did. Run for the hills Brittany Run!!!. She looked back to the door she had just came in back to the professor debating on her next move. Seeing how he had already spotted her she couldnt possibly leave now could she? she knew from her better judgement the best thing to do would be to just suck it up and enjoy the class... if that was possible. She gave him a weak smile and continued sitting in her seat.

Amy rolled her eyes at the Slytherin kid, though to be fair she'd been that bad last year, ah yes she thought looking at the evil mean plants, Bubotaurs professor she said after putting her hand up, nasty evil things they are too she murmered under her breath, she was still cleaning the slime from her satchel

Eben Wallace sauntered out to the Greenhouses, pulling on his gloves as he went, because he knew he had overslept just a little bit. Walking into the class, he looked to the professor and then around at the various students seeing if he recognized anyone.

He saw Trixie around and then the girl who looked EXACTLY like Callie but wasn't. He wished Callie was there. *siiiiigh*

But there was Esme. Oh joy of joys. Eben held back a laugh as he saw her pink wellies. Coming up behind her, he murmured, "Nice shoes you got there Es."

When she heard Eben's voice from behind her, she felt like elbowing him in the ribs for his sarcastic comment. Or making him fall face first into one of the blotubers.

Instead she smiled and said "Thanks." in a sickly sweet way, vowing not to let him get on her nerves.

If all else fails I can shove him off the tower next time we have Astronomy... Make it look like an accident...

Eben smirked in response and straightened up to look at what all the other students were announcing what the plant was. No point in calling out as well and just sounding like one of the crowd, it wasn't his style.

Looking out the window, he sighed, wishing that it was time for Care of Magical Creatures. He turned back to the professor, determined to pay attention.

His head tilted to one side. "Yes AND no," he answered, stroking his beard thoughtfully. "The smell itself isn't the defense mechanism.. see, there's more to this plant than just the outside." Did that even make sense? Ah, they'd soon find out.

The professor pulled on his own pair of rather worn out gloves and gave one of the many squirming plants a pet. Like petting sluggy black slimey plants was the most natural thing in the world.

"It's not," Sage shook his head in Daisy's direction, "but well done for having a guess!" A guess was better than not trying at all in his opinion!

"To all of you that identified these as Bubotubers, you're correct!" The professor exclaimed, still petting the plant which only seemed to squirm more with the contact. Bubotubers were kind of cute in their own little freaky way..

He blinked though, at the next answer.

"Uhmm.. Well, you're right there it certainly isn't a rose!" Strange child. At least he'd answered something...? Hmmm.

"But back to the Bubotubers, do you now understand why I asked you all to put on your gloves? Anyone know anything about bubotubers? Notice the shiny protrusions on them?" Like giant spots waiting to be squeezed.. some people got sick satisfaction out of pimple popping. "Have a feel of them, they like to be petted."

Eben stepped towards the closest Bubotuber plant and carefully started to stroke the 'shiny protusion' as Professor Dodson called them. 'Please don't pop on me, please don't me.' he thought as he continued to stroke it like he would a domesticated cat. After all, he didn't want to smell like a load of petrol for the rest of the day. Or have boils on his skin, if there was a hole in his gloves which was possible since they were hand-me-downs.

The boy glanced around to see the reaction of other students as well as the professor.

With her gloes on Brittany sat and looked dumbstruck at the professor. Touch them?!?!.. That was not something Brittany wanted to do. Not at all. But she was in a lesson and she didnt want to get points taken away because she was not doing what the professor asked. So with one timid cautious index finger she slowly reached out and touched the disgusting plant. Yuck!!!. She quickly pulled her finger back.

"Bubotubers," Fletcher repeated to himself, securely putting on his gloves. His face wore a distinct impression of horror and disgust at the black, squirmy, slimy, stinky things. He didn't even want to be in this class. He'd had enough Herbology to last him a life time, thanks to the first task.

"Bubotubers" the Hufflepuff muttered again, "their pus can cause horrid boils on the skin. Unless you dilute it, cuz then it can cure acne???"

He ended his answer with a question because... yeah, Fletcher would have to see that to believe it. And no thanks, sir, he would NOT be petting those disgusting things.

Joshua's ever present grin seemed to grow even wider when the Professor talked to him. YAY! He was riiiiiight!! With a tiny bounce, he grabbed his quill and wrote 'NOT A ROSE' at the top of the parchment where he was meant to be taking notes but actually was using as a doodle book.

Ahem.

Eventually returning his attention to the class, he pondered on the man's words for a moment before raising his hand once more. "Professor?! What would happen if I were to burst one of these ... pro .... prot ... prothingies?" He asked, running one gloved finger on the shiny thing.

Rubiey raised her hand. Professor, the shiny protusions are full of the Bubotuber pus, which, when diluted, treats acne. When first squeezed, they yield a thick, yellowish-green pus that has an odour similar to petrol. Which explains the smell." She smiled at the Professor.

Hmm, why not? She stretched out her hand, making sure that her drangonhide gloves covered her up to her elbow, and touched one. It squirmed under her hand. She giggled.

Kurumi raised her right hand while plugging her nose with the other. The smell was starting to get to her a bit. "Professor, isn't Bubotubers pus acts as a treatment for severe acne? However, the undiluted pus has very strong acidic properties that can be very harmful to unprotected skin causing painful, large, yellow boils to form immediately."

She looked over at the plants and ew....did one of them just make a popping noise?

"A-a-are we going to be extracting puss today, Professor?" While that sounded exciting, she hoped the answer was no.

Ellie wrinkled her nose.

"I'm not going to PET a plant... an animal, sure. But a plant?!" Not to mention a repulsive smelling plant with a funny texture.

Em's Face almost fell, why was Brit so uneasy looking? oh, ok, she was nervous about the class. "I'm sure you would have been fine, but don't worry, We can do this together," she said, giving her friend a little hug. ohh, and class was getting ready to start, time to be quite and learn! *BEAM*



Emmaleigh nodded, yes, she had brought her gloves. They were one of the things that went with her everywhere. They were required for at least 3 classes, and they were super useful in exploring the school grounds." She brought her bag up, and rooted around for her gloves. She removed her book, parchment, and quill, they were needed for class anyways. Ah, yes, there they were, right beside her ever present first-aid kit. She placed them on her hands, and then carefully laid the bag back down, making sure not to smush her snacks.



Hmm. Emmaleigh studied the plant before her. It looked familiar, so she raised her hand. "Um P-professor, isn't this the plant that c-cures acne? The. um. b-bubotuber plant?" Dang, it. She was nervous and stuttering again.



yay, yay, yay, It was time to touch the plants! it kinda felt squwishy. kinda like a water balloon or something

Marie just stared at Dodson when he said the pimply looking things liked to be petted. There was NO way she was touching that thing, gloved hands or not. "You are a sick little man if you think it is fun to touch that thing." she said to the professor. She didn't care if he got mad at her or not. There were just some things that were not meant to be touched... and that plant was one of them.

Lila raised her hand. "The protrusions contain yellow-green puss that smells like gasoline. Diluted it can be used in the treatment of acne," she answer. She couldn't help but feel like she had left something important out though.