Rolling up her parchment, Thea sighed and stuffed it in her bag along with her quill. She had just completed her Herbology homework. Yes.. a bit early but it was easier for her to do homework early..

Tucking her dark hair behind her ears, Thea leant back on the bench and looked around the greenhouse. She liked coming in here, she liked the plants. Obviously they didn't chat to her.. but she could just sit with then and it was nice!

"Hey! I'm Chris. How are you?" Chris said. He knows that those are the things you say when you introduce yourself, thanks to a muggle class he took.

Thea jumped as she heard somebody talking to her. 'Oh, hello!' She greeted the boy, smiling. 'I'm Thea-Aurora, and I'm good thanks! Yourself?' Thea smiled at him, pushing her dark hair behind her.

" Im great! You have a really cool name! Should we head up to the castle and get something to eat?" Chris said trying to be polite. "We can go get some lunch or an early dinner. Those house elves really make great food!"Chris then said. Chris usually gets a bit hungry after lessons.

Oh wow.. this kid was.. um.. cheerful? Thea smiled. 'That's good, and thankyou!' She didn't often have people comment on her name.. 'Um.. sure if you like!' She pushed her parchment back into her bag. 'Yeah, they're dead cute too!' Thea laughed. She seemed to be almost the only person thast thought that...

"Yah, they look a little creepy at the same time though. But they are cute."Chris said. Chris put his things in his bag to get ready to go to the castle. "That was a good herbology lesson. The homework was a little hard though." said Chris. "Should we head up now?" Chris asked. Chris felt good. He was meeting so many new friends.

Thea hitched her bag further up her shoulder. 'Yeah, sure.' She smiled and nodded her head in agreement. 'Yeah I agree, it was fun!'

Chris finished putting his things in his bag and found that he forgot something." Hey, ummm let me meet you up there. I forgot something in the classroom." Chris said.

Thea blinked. 'Oh, okay..' She stood up. 'I'll meet you in the entrance hall, okay?' Smiling at him, she began to walk back up to the castle.

"Yep! See you there!" Chris said as he was running to get to the classroom to get his missing item that he forgot. He checked and noticed that was his gloves, just as he thought.

Belladonna, where are you?

The fourth year Slytherin entered the greenhouse, the creepy greenhouse with creepy plants that always wanted to touch her. She slapped one that tried to tangle itself on her arm and shushed one plant that continued to make the most bizarre noises. Magical plants. Why did they have to be so magical? They should have just learned from the Muggle and mundane plants and not be all weird and freaky.

Because walking through this jungle was creeping her out.

She was wearing her gloves because that plant was deadly and toxic. Which intrigued her. In a slow and careful manner, she extracted the belladonna from its spot, mesmerized by its oh-so toxic powers and put it in the jar. That was obviously the most interesting ingredient she'd found today.

Lola!Velma walked out of the greenhouse, and headed towards the Owlery.

Making her way towards the greenhouses with her potion vials tucked safely in her bag, Kurumi searched the area and felt both overwhelmed and at awe at how many different varieties of plants there were. Not that she didn't expect otherwise or anything.

Of course, there were the magical variety of plants, but Kurumi didn't really fancy trying to extract anything from them at the moment. She probably would end up causing more bad than good. Instead, Kurumi glanced around for what many called the 'mundane' plants, which really was just another way of saying that they were non-magical. Appraoching a tree of beautiful white angel's trumpets and simply admired them. "I wonder if it is alright if I pick some of these for the assignment," Kurumi wondered aloud. They really should get special permission from Professor Bentley before they took anything from here, right? Sure, the plant was poisonous, but many ingredients that were in potions started out being poisonous and were used in potions that had beneficial qualities.

After hearing that Lafay had asked the students to gather potions ingedients-- to make up for what had been lost during the fire, Seren was on high alert. The assognment the students were given was a brilliant idea... But she couldn't help but feel anxious as the though of all those students ripping out her plants! They were her family after all, at least while she was at Hogwarts. If any harm came to them then there would be hell to pay.

Deciding she should stay out in the open-- to spy on the little people... And to provide then with any assistance should they require it. After pacing through the greenhouse Seren turned a corner and found Miss Hollingberry admiring one of her trees.

"Of course you may," repkied Seren after overhearing the girl. She offered her a smile... Kurumi wasn't the type to muder plants, and this was good news.

Kurumi almost jumped out of her robes when she heard a voice behind her. Turning around so quickly that she thought she was going to give herself whiplash. "P-P-PROFESSOR!" Kurumi managed to squeak as she nearly lost her balance, but managed to catch herself on the trunk of the small tree she had been admiring. Kurumi looked back at the hanging flowers and then into her bag where all her containers were. She would only take a few seeing as taking them all would only cause deforestation like they had discussed in class with the Stubby Purple Coral. "Thank you," she chirped looking back at Professor Bentley first and then back up at the flowers. "Um...is there a specific way to pick them?" Surely you didn't just stand on your tipy toes and tug...or did you?

Oh Merlin! thought Seren as she watched little Miss Hollingberry jump at the sound of her voice. Whoops.
"Sorry... I didn't mean to startle you", she said taking a few steps closer to the girl and the tree. She starred up at the white trumpet flowers, they brought a smile to her face. So delicate, and intricate... simply stunning.
"Hhmm.. oh, not really. I would suggest cutting them off, that way they will not only last longer and but they will also grow back easier."Seren smiled leaning up she cupped one of the flowers in her hand, using her other hand she took her wand and non-verbally severed the flower from its stem. She smelled its sweet scent... heavenly.
"I trust you have used the severing charm before?" she asked Kurumi, offering her the flower.

Kurumi was going to say that the professor hadn't really startled her, but the truth of the matter was that she had, so Kurumi just skipped over that comment entirely. "I-I-I guess I just got too carried away admiring the flowers," she blushed looking down at her shoes for a moment. That was another habit that she was going to need to break soon. Looking at people's shoes when she was nervous.

Oh, so it was that simple. Kurumi had almost expected that there was some complicated process that involved throwing sugar over your shoulder and using a silver blade to make a small vertical incision...Her imagination was running away with her again. "I have," she nodded. Just not on something as delicate as a flower. Nervously taking out her wand, Kurumi pointed it at the stalk of the flower and closed her eyes to compose her nerves. There was no need to repeat the disaster that had happen in the greenhouses last term during one of Professor Vindictus' Herbology lessons. Opening her eyes, she focused on the flower. "Diffindo," she chirped and the white flower popped off the stalk and right into her arms.

Seren certainly agreed with the Gryffindor on that. "Oh yes, I find myself distracted by them far too often, you'd think by now I'd be used to it... but they still catch me by surprise." She beamed at her flowers with affectionate eyes.

Watching as Kurumi nervously approached the tree to remove a flower specimen, Seren couldn't help but think that perhaps the girl needed some encouragement. She seemed very nervous and unsure of herself, but despite this she was a very good student with good grades. It didn't seem to make sense. But alas... she had done it.
"There you go, its as easy as that," said Seren brightly.

"So with this... potions assignment. How many ingredients do you need to gather?" aske Seren, partly out of curiosity and partly out of fear. She didn't wand a hundred students cleaning out her gardens after all.

Thea had spotted an older student earlier that day collecting Belladonna for the assignment, so the first year new exactly where to find it.

Walking about in the greenhouse, Thea sniffed so she could take in all the weird smells. Nom. Approaching the correct crowded table, Thea pulled on her dragon hide gloves. With some difficulty, she quickly managed to extract some of the toxic plant and put it into a container.

Woot! Three down, only two more to go!

Kurumi really wasn't that much of a plant person. In all honesty, she had hated flowers for a few years simply due to the extreme training her mother had forced her through for flower arranging. She shuddered a bit at the thought.

Placing the flower into one of the containers she had with her, Kurumi repeated the spell two more times and then closed the lid on the box. Certainly three was enough for now. The flowers were rather large after all.

"Professor Lafay said five items," Kurumi said nodding her head. "Whatever items we find will be what we will use during our next lesson to brew a potion." Kurumi wrinkled her nose a bit. She was afraid of what sort of madness would ensue from ingredients they found around Hogwarts. "Walnut, my cat, has even helped a bit. He let me have a few whiskers and some of his fur." She patted the container with the flowers. "So, I guess this means I have two more to go."

Five items... that wasn't too bad. Her gardens and greenhouses should survive. Thank Merlin.. otherwise someone would pay for it.

"Oh how lovely," smiled Seren as Kurumi told her about how Walnut has helped in her assignment. Cats could be useful like that... perhaps she ought to get one. Hhhmm maybe one day.

Two more, "Very good effort. Is there anything else you had in mind or are you just going to see what you come across?" Seren was very curious. After all there were at least eight items within a five metre radius of where they stood that she could use. Ruddy useful plants were. Seren smiled with pride as she observed her babiesplants.

The greenhouses. The best part of the greenhouses was that if you want any plant, magical or normal, you can find it here. She was now looking for the Victoria Amazonica, it was one of the only plants she was looking for that she knew how it looks like, thanks to the first hebology lesson. She walked around the greenhouse looking at the different plants with amaze. She never seen so many different spices of plants, growing together in one place.

She wasted at least five minutes just looking at some normal plants forgetting why she came here. While staring at random plants, she noticed one of the plants she came for, the Victoria Amazonica. She walked towards the water plant taking out of her bag a glass jar. There were a few plants in the the tank, and she was planning on taking the smallest one, because she doesn't have such big jars to fit a huge Victoria Amazonica. She spotted a small plant on the edge of the tank. Just before taking the plant out of the tank she hesitated, is she allowed to take a plant without she professors permission. She put the jar back into her bag, searching for the Professor Bentley.

Kurumi tapped her finger on her lips as she thought about the other items in the greenhouse. Really, couldn't everything and everything in here be used as a potions ingredient? Kurumi blinked a few times before turning her violet gaze back at Professor Bentley. "I am sure that others will be stopping by to pick various things, so I should probably find some ingredients elsewhere," she chirped. No need for everyone to come back with all the same ingredients and leave a gap in the plant life on campus. "Although, if you wouldn't mind, I would like to fill one of my vials up with some rose thorns," she continued pointing towards a rose bush. Rose thorns were used in love potions, but Kurumi was sure that they had to be used in other concoctions as well.

"Oh I'm sure they will," replied Seren with a smile, scanning her surroundings as if expecting studends to be popping up out of nowhere. They were all more then welcome... provided they took care with what they were doing. The last thing Seren wanted was a student in the hospital wing or her plants destroyed... or both... because the first could come after the second if they weren't careful. That or she would just give them detention which was more likely.

"Help yourself Miss Hollingberry, I'm sure the roses wont mind."

Seren wandered around the greenhouse a bit, giving Kurumi some space to do what she needed whithout her looking over her shoulder.
Stopping by an Abysian Shrivelfig tree, Seren examined its branches, leaves and fruit.. it looked healthy, and smelled appealing too.

Chloe was sure anything more on that crazy list could be found here, already labeled and easy for the picking, and that is why this was her last destination, she diid not want to start things out too easy. Upon arriving the first plant she spotted was the bubotuber with it's slimy green coat. With her protective gear on Chloe ectracted some puss and and put it into a baggie and labeled it. She then easilly found the dittany, scurvy-grass, hellbore, and nettles, asphodel, aconite, and sneezewort, all of wihich would be way more difficult to spot anywhere else. Chloe then sptteed some tuber worm on a plant and grabbed some of that. She then went ofor the bugs and and it was not long before she collected some beetles and cattipillers. Chloe then went to the section in the greenhouse labeled worms and found a flobberworm and extracted it's mucus. Once done with all this she labeled all her bags and put them in her bag and headed for the potions storage room.

Aurora walked into Greenhouse 2, donning her gloves and wielding her shears. She walked straight to the back and found the deep pool that Professor Bentley had mentioned, she spotted the Victoria Amazonica knelt down beside it. She looked at it for a second, it seemed a crime to prune it, nevertheless, she parted the leaves and took a few small cuttings from the top of the plant, making sure to give it room to grow back again, she took out her wand and a tissue, she swished her wand and flicked it at the tissue "Wingardium Leviosa." She levitated the tissue and dipped it into the water - didn't want to get too close - bringing it back and wrapping it around the ends of the cuttings, making sure she could leave them without them running out of water. She lay them in her little brown box and stood up, letting the plants fall back into place naturally. She left the greenhouse, putting the shears back where she had found them.