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It was the start of a new term, with new students, returning students and best of all... a new look to greenhouse six! Seren had been rather impressed with the way it all turned out. The refurbishment had gone better than anticipated. In the place of the old buckets and ponds which catered to the needs of numerous aquatic life, there were sparkling clean tanks of all shapes and sizes surrounding the skirts of the greenhouse and forming row upon row throughout...
Standing eye to eye with a tank that glowed greenish blue light upon her face, Seren admired the corals in its depth and inspected their convolutions, prongs and stubs.
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"Hello Oakey," she greeted, trying not to laugh at the Hufflepuff's ridiculousness. "It's ok... you won't be bitten, eaten, stung or burned in here," she reassured him. "I promise."
Checking off a few more names from her list, Seren then paused to check the time. Mmm... still a bit early. They could wait a few more minutes to start the lesson.
"Please, do wonder around and observe! The lesson will begin shortly."
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He looked at Professor Bentley suspiciously,but her words seemed genuine and honest so he came all the way into the class.
"So long as I'm not eaten I'm fine." He said as he approached the others. His eyes wandered the greenhouse from where he was now and they landed on the tank that was glowing a greenish-blue.
Although she had a great summer holiday, Gwen was actually happy to be back. There was something about Hogwarts that made her feel good whenever she returned here. Hmm.
With hasty steps, the sixth year made her way out of the castle and walked to the greenhouses. After a while, the girl found herself standing in front of the greenhouse six.
Time for Herbology.
Gwendolyn entered the greenhouse and approached the group of students who was already waiting. While making her way to the part of the greenhouse where everyone was standing, the sixth year looked around. Examining the tanks, a smirk appeared on her face. This place looked great. Now she really was in the mood for Herbology. ‘Hello, Professor Bentley’, she said with a small smile.
Ethan couldn't be more pleased that Herbology was the first class of the day. He still needed to speak to Professor Bentley about.. things, but that could wait till after class. He was looking forward to today's lesson.
The sixth year walked briskly through the grounds and slowed as he approached Greenhouse Six. Pausing in the doorway, green eyes took in the newly renovated greenhouse. Impressive. Throwing a smile to Bentley as he walked past her, he said, "Good morning, Professor.. the greenhouse looks great."
And now for a seat? As the boy walked through, he spotted Minerva not too far away. Sliding in to the spot next to her, Ethan had a smile for her as well. "Hey, Min.. ready for class?" Good, she didn't look too anxious.. He hoped she would have fun today, since they were obviously working with water plants. Those were all sorts of interesting.
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It took Melanie a while to get out of the castle. A whole summer away from the school had made her mind a little fuzzy. She had wandered around for a while, running around, trying to find her way out before finally reaching the outdoors. Ah... that was definitely nice.
Smiling and a bit relieved, she let out a deep breath. Was she late though? That thought made the Gryffindor run straight towards the greenhouse, attempting to tie her hair up in the process. She couldn't be late for her first herbology class of the term! That would be ridiculous! She stumbled inside and looked around. The lesson hadn't started yet, right?
"Good... morning... Professor Bentley," Melanie panted. Ah... tired... "I'm not late right?" she asked, eyes wide.
Because she didn't want to be.
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Returning students were amazing. Each one a lovely surprise, each in their own right. "Lily, you're backk," she greeted, stating the obvious. "Mine was swell, how've you been?"[/U][/I]
"Yeah," she said with a weak smile. Violet wasn't. "That's great, Professor. Mine wasn't all that great, I was in bed most of it." No joke there. As was Violet. Dying. As she still was.
Rowan was slightly taken aback as she entered the greenhouse. It looked fabulous! "Hello Professor," she said with a smile. She walked further into the greenhouse, taking everything in. "Fantastic, just fantastic," she said, speaking a bit too loudly to herself.
Dylan walked down to the greenhouse wondering what the state of the greenhouse must be after he heard that there had been a big bang in an exploding plant. Man he had been really bummed to miss that and he hoped they could do a similar explosion type thing this term too, cause that would be really cool to see. He walked down to the greenhouses to see that it was all new and shiney and stuff, so the professor spent her summer doing that? Well whatever she thought was fun was cool with him, he entered the greenhouse to be met with tanks! What would they be doing with those?
He went straight to the professors tank to see what she was looking at "Hey Professor Bentley" he looked in it but it was empty, no creatures or anything.. were they doing plants and stuff? well this was herbology! so plants it was "What you looking at professor? Is it one of the surprises you told me about before summer?" he asked though he couldnt see what the surprise was in a bunch of water plants, a surprise would be more like a plant that had teeth or something and was a bit dangerous. He hoped there would be something like that this term, ok so they start slow with some water stuff but he wanted some really amazing stuff like that man eating plant from last term!
As Belle walked down to her first lesson of the day, Belle saw so many people. Belle was also interested in seeing Professor Bentley again. As she entered the classroom, Belle smiled and said, "Good morning Professor, how was your summer?"
Then she took her seat and opened her notebook ready to take some notes.
Spike loved his new timetable: for once, the first lesson back was his favourite. And the grin on his face somehow became even wider when he saw the makeover to Greenhouse Six. "Niiiiice," he said, as he paused in the doorway to take it all in.
Finally moving in towards the glowing tank (oooooo!), Spike gave Professor Bentley a satisfied nod. "Good morning, Professor," he greeted, his eyes still twinkling with excitement. "Will this be open for extra-curricular studies at all?" he asked. He really hoped it would. Spike had never got the chance to do much work on aquatic plants.
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Wade wasn't much of a gardener, so the subject of Herbology didn't enthuse him.. but the mention of there being man-eating plants at Hogwarts last term peaked his interest.
His interest peaked further at the glowing tanks in the greenhouse. It was cool to Wade, who walked in "Good day, Professor!" Somewhat beaming, as he looked around.
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Zhenya's eyes widened slightly. It was so good being welcomed back, not made to feel guilty for leaving. Not that she blamed her friends. "I... Well, not... not particularly good," she admitted. "But I'm just glad to be back," she added trying not to sound too melancholy.
She wasn't lying, it was good to be back - amazing. And as she wandered through the new greenhouse, she realised she was there to enjoy the new scenery at the same time as everyone else. It wasn't just one more thing she had missed. And it was incredible looking.
Seren's smile dropped slightly. "Aaaww, that's not good... I just hope things improve for you then." And perhaps she'll enjoy the next holidays.
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Oh no! He was going to be late at one of the first classes of the year! That was never acceptable and ESPECIALLY not when you were a Prefect!
With a flushed face, Daichi Katharos raced to the Greenhouses. He was lucky that he had long legs so that he could make bigger steps but even he was out of breath when he reached the classroom. He could just hear the Professor say that they were going to begin shortly and the Slytherin quickly adjusted his robe and tie to look more presentable.
The first thing that Daichi noticed that he was, thank Merlin, not late. He walked over to the Professor and tried to look as if had not just ran over from the castle. Although his sweaty face and flushed cheeks showed it all.
"Hello Professor Bentley, hope i'm not late" he said with a worried expression on his face as his bit his lower lip.
Seren smiled, "Nope, just in time," she mused. "And congratulations on your prefectship."
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When Kat went in the Greenhouses, there were students in there ALREADY. But it seemed like she wasn't late or anything. Professor Bentley was still waiting and Kat had caught her "begin shortly" so that meant the fifth year was safe. First, Kat smiled at the Herbology Professor. "Hello Professor Bentley," she greeted. And then her eyes fell on the tank that glowed light.
Interesting lesson, this was going to be.
After greeting and looking at the tank for a while, Kat took a seat. And she liked Bentley so maybe this class wouldn't be bad right?
"Hello dear," she greeted warmly, placing a tick next to the Slytherin's name on her list.
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Like? She LOVED it! "It's amazing, professor..." she said, still looking around in wonder. It was all so PRETTY! "Did you do all this by yourself?" Surely not..? But then Aurora really believed she could...
Productive? Obviously! Just look at all this! Had she even had time for anything else..? But then she was being invited to wander around... and she certainly wasn't going to pass up that offer. Aurora grinned at Professor Bentley before moving off to inspect all the pretty plants and things... TOTALLY NOT RUNNING BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE IRRESPONSIBLE... okay she was restraining herself...
Oohhh yay! Seren clapped her hands together happily. "Not quite, I did get a fair bit of help..." namely, she couldn't have done it without her dashing husband.
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Nigel entered the Greenhouse, wondering what they would study this year in Herbology.
"Hello. Professor Bentley". Nigel said then he looked around to see who had showed up before him.
Hmm.. He wondered if he should wander before class actually started
"Morning Nigel," Seren greeted with polite nod.
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He looked at Professor Bentley suspiciously,but her words seemed genuine and honest so he came all the way into the class.
"So long as I'm not eaten I'm fine." He said as he approached the others. His eyes wandered the greenhouse from where he was now and they landed on the tank that was glowing a greenish-blue.
"Well, I assure you, you won't be eaten.... by a plant." She couldn't exactly say the same for his peers. If they all converged on him, she wouldn't be able to defend him. Though that was an unlikely scenario. "Oh... and congratulations on the prefectship."
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Although she had a great summer holiday, Gwen was actually happy to be back. There was something about Hogwarts that made her feel good whenever she returned here. Hmm.
With hasty steps, the sixth year made her way out of the castle and walked to the greenhouses. After a while, the girl found herself standing in front of the greenhouse six.
Time for Herbology.
Gwendolyn entered the greenhouse and approached the group of students who was already waiting. While making her way to the part of the greenhouse where everyone was standing, the sixth year looked around. Examining the tanks, a smirk appeared on her face. This place looked great. Now she really was in the mood for Herbology. ‘Hello, Professor Bentley’, she said with a small smile.
"Good morning Gwen," she replied, giving the Ravenclaw a welcoming smile.
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Ethan couldn't be more pleased that Herbology was the first class of the day. He still needed to speak to Professor Bentley about.. things, but that could wait till after class. He was looking forward to today's lesson.
The sixth year walked briskly through the grounds and slowed as he approached Greenhouse Six. Pausing in the doorway, green eyes took in the newly renovated greenhouse. Impressive. Throwing a smile to Bentley as he walked past her, he said, "Good morning, Professor.. the greenhouse looks great."
And now for a seat? As the boy walked through, he spotted Minerva not too far away. Sliding in to the spot next to her, Ethan had a smile for her as well. "Hey, Min.. ready for class?" Good, she didn't look too anxious.. He hoped she would have fun today, since they were obviously working with water plants. Those were all sorts of interesting.
Seren returned Ethan's smile. "Oohh thank you," she replied brightly. She was exceptionally pleased that he approved.
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It took Melanie a while to get out of the castle. A whole summer away from the school had made her mind a little fuzzy. She had wandered around for a while, running around, trying to find her way out before finally reaching the outdoors. Ah... that was definitely nice.
Smiling and a bit relieved, she let out a deep breath. Was she late though? That thought made the Gryffindor run straight towards the greenhouse, attempting to tie her hair up in the process. She couldn't be late for her first herbology class of the term! That would be ridiculous! She stumbled inside and looked around. The lesson hadn't started yet, right?
"Good... morning... Professor Bentley," Melanie panted. Ah... tired... "I'm not late right?" she asked, eyes wide.
Because she didn't want to be.
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Did the girl run from the castle or something? "Nope, you're on time..." she replied, offering the girl a sympathetic smile. "Take a moment to catch your breath dear."
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"Yeah," she said with a weak smile. Violet wasn't. "That's great, Professor. Mine wasn't all that great, I was in bed most of it." No joke there. As was Violet. Dying. As she still was.
"Oh ... dear."
Well that wasn't the least bit awkward. "Well I hope the next one makes up for it."
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Rowan was slightly taken aback as she entered the greenhouse. It looked fabulous! "Hello Professor," she said with a smile. She walked further into the greenhouse, taking everything in. "Fantastic, just fantastic," she said, speaking a bit too loudly to herself.
"Good morning dear," she replied brightly, ticking off another name on her list.
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Dylan walked down to the greenhouse wondering what the state of the greenhouse must be after he heard that there had been a big bang in an exploding plant. Man he had been really bummed to miss that and he hoped they could do a similar explosion type thing this term too, cause that would be really cool to see. He walked down to the greenhouses to see that it was all new and shiney and stuff, so the professor spent her summer doing that? Well whatever she thought was fun was cool with him, he entered the greenhouse to be met with tanks! What would they be doing with those?
He went straight to the professors tank to see what she was looking at "Hey Professor Bentley" he looked in it but it was empty, no creatures or anything.. were they doing plants and stuff? well this was herbology! so plants it was "What you looking at professor? Is it one of the surprises you told me about before summer?" he asked though he couldnt see what the surprise was in a bunch of water plants, a surprise would be more like a plant that had teeth or something and was a bit dangerous. He hoped there would be something like that this term, ok so they start slow with some water stuff but he wanted some really amazing stuff like that man eating plant from last term!
She'd been observing what appeared to be nothing, but she knew better than that... and suddenly, she heard a familiar voice beside her. "Ahh Dylan... well, sort of... not quite, but you'll see," she said with a wink.
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As Belle walked down to her first lesson of the day, Belle saw so many people. Belle was also interested in seeing Professor Bentley again. As she entered the classroom, Belle smiled and said, "Good morning Professor, how was your summer?"
Then she took her seat and opened her notebook ready to take some notes.
"Morning Belle," she greeted, "Oh it was splendid, I hope yours went just as well."
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Spike loved his new timetable: for once, the first lesson back was his favourite. And the grin on his face somehow became even wider when he saw the makeover to Greenhouse Six. "Niiiiice," he said, as he paused in the doorway to take it all in.
Finally moving in towards the glowing tank (oooooo!), Spike gave Professor Bentley a satisfied nod. "Good morning, Professor," he greeted, his eyes still twinkling with excitement. "Will this be open for extra-curricular studies at all?" he asked. He really hoped it would. Spike had never got the chance to do much work on aquatic plants.
It was difficult to process that Spike was now a seventh year... when did he grow? Or did it happen over the summer break? "Morning Spike," she replied... amused and thrilled with his approval. "You like it?"
After ticking off a few more names from her student list, Seren checked the time. It was definitely time to get started now.
"Alright, gather round!" she called out, waiting for the students to assemble into a makeshift group of some sort.
"Welcome and welcome back! Please bear in mind all classroom rules, and please use your common sense. Gloves, are to be worn at all time... with the exception of today, as you won't be needed them."
Seren cast a glance around the group, she couldn't hide her excitement, nope. "Now as many of you can see, greenhouse six has undergone a transformation... and I felt this was the perfect location to start our topic for the term." She paused here to give students the opportunity to think about what that might mean.
"Does anybody want to hazard a guess as to what we'll be studying this term?"... "Feel free to take a look around, raise you're hand when you think you've worked it out."
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"Aquatic plant life, professor?" Aurora asked, turning away from the tank she'd been staring into and joining the class with a HUGE excited grin on her face. She LOVED plants. And aquatic plants seemed even COOLER!!
I wonder if any of them are carnivorous... she thought, glancing into another nearby tank. They HAD to be, right? Professor Bentley loved carnivorous plants, didn't she? AHHHH PLANTS!
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Jory drew his attention away from the tanks as Professor Bentley asked the class to gather around. "She looks really excited,'' he thought. "Maybe whatever today's topic is, it's one of her favourites.''
He cast another look around the Greenhouse before raising his hand. "Underwater plants, Professor,'' he said.With all the tanks around maybe they'd be cultivating them?
Lilly went to join the class, moving away from the massive tank she had been having a look at. All the stuff inside it was really amazing. She couldn't wait to hear what they'd be doing with it all.
Aquatic plant-y stuff. That was gonna be her answer until the older Slytherin girl said something along those lines. "Yeah, I agree with Aurora, Professor," Lilly said quietly. That sounded like a fun topic. Would've been even more fun with her twin, but oh well. She should really start looking on the bright side, like Violet would have if it was the opposite way round. Like it should've been.
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Alyssa thought to herself. The fact that they weren't going to be wearing their dragon hide gloves this time round meant that they wouldn't be working with anything that would be taking a bite out of them or hurt them in anyway. Then she looked at the tank filled with water in them and figured that maybe it had something to do with them.
So she raised her hand, "Professor will we be working with Magical Water Plants of the Mediterranean?"
Ariana who was there the wholllee time gathered around when instructed too and looked into the tank.. borriiingggggggggggg oh wait.. did the professor ask something.
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. "something to do with water plants or something.. maybe.." she said raising her hand or whatever aurora said.. ariana was so bad at this class, it was pathetic... she looked around the room.. Awkward turtleeee
That would be smart. The Gryffindor took deep breaths in and out, trying to bring her heart rate back down to normal. Or just something that wasn't pounding loudly, would do too.
No gloves this lesson?
Why was that? She looked around the room, taking in the way it looked for the first time. The greenhouse had definitely gone through a transformation. Why was that though? Melanie had no idea whatsoever but supposed they'd find out anyways right. She rocked back and forth in her shoes, waiting for them to actually do something. Her mind wandered a bit, staring out into outer space before hearing the question.
"Seaweed?" Melanie asked, after raising her hand.
Because that grew in water right? And that was a plant... no?
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Laura was trying to think about what to say with this answer, she wanted to be all grown up and answer properly, she was now coming up-to fifteen and as such she had to be more grown up in class. "Professor will we be looking at plants that live in water?" Laura smiled, she would like to learn more about them.
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Violet was really loving how the Greenhouse had looked now. It looked rather exquisite! And Professor Bentley, judging by her happy demeanor, she was quite pleased with the result herself! Which made Violet giggle a little bit!
Before she knew it the lesson had begun and Professor asked them what they'd be learning about this lesson. Violet paused looking around and bit her lower lip in the process. Hmmm...OH! She gasped a little bit seeing the buckets of water and the tank by the Professor. Violet smiled raising her hand and asked,"Would this lesson today have to do with us learning about some of the aquatic plant life, Professor?" She then lowered her hand placing it behind her back, along with her other other one as she waited for the Professor to let her know if she was correct or not! I mean really though, there was water everywhere practically!
Seren smiled at the Badgers shocked expression. It amused her greatly. "Hello Edward."
Edward? Professor Bentley was talking to him, right? "Its Edvard, Professor." But yeah he could live with Edward since his name is a form of Edward.
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After ticking off a few more names from her student list, Seren checked the time. It was definitely time to get started now.
"Alright, gather round!" she called out, waiting for the students to assemble into a makeshift group of some sort.
"Welcome and welcome back! Please bear in mind all classroom rules, and please use your common sense. Gloves, are to be worn at all time... with the exception of today, as you won't be needed them."
Seren cast a glance around the group, she couldn't hide her excitement, nope. "Now as many of you can see, greenhouse six has undergone a transformation... and I felt this was the perfect location to start our topic for the term." She paused here to give students the opportunity to think about what that might mean.
"Does anybody want to hazard a guess as to what we'll be studying this term?"... "Feel free to take a look around, raise you're hand when you think you've worked it out."
After the last student entered the greenhouse, he heard Professor Bentley started the lesson. And did he hear it right? They don't need to wear gloves in this lesson? Erm. Okay.
What we'll be studying this term?
Well, there's tank in the greenhouse soooo "Alga, Professor." Messer answered after raising his hand.
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Sophie had to admit that it was a pretty sight to see. The glowing tank was very, very beautiful and put a smile on her face. Of course, Sophie would always like the classes where they learned new spells best, but that sounded like it was going to be a good one as well.
Since everyone else was guessing aquatic plants, the Hufflepuff chose not to say the repeat the same thing, and since she wouldn't guess anything else, she decided to just keep watching the beautiful glow.
It was very beautiful indeed.
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Zhenya gave the Professor a smile, "I'm sure they will, thanks Professor," she said. She felt things improving. There were just things she had to take care of first.
The lesson began, and she felt herself sinking into a familiar hush, eager to watch the lesson progress. She looked around, noting all the tanks. Although she couldn't really identify much that was in the guess, she was sure she could take a guess. She raised her hand and said "Professor, it looks as though we will be studying the water plants." That would be VERY interesting! She couldn't remember ever really doing much on water plants.
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Eliza was determined to be a better Herbology student this year. Her first attempts hadn't been all that admirable, because really, she wasn't very interested. But this year she was going to try harder. You don't know if you don't like something until you really give it a good try, Eliza, she told herself as she listened to Professor Bentley ask for guesses about the lesson.
She looked at the new tanks and arrangements in the greenhouse. Lots of water... She had noticed her professor gazing at something that glowed earlier. Maybe deep sea things? They glow sometimes, right?
She raised her hand to give her guess, even if it was similar to others'. "Professor, might we be studying saltwater plants?" She figured she was on track. But coral...isn't that considered more of a living...animal sort of, than a plant? I'm not sure... The second year decided to keep quiet and wait to learn more since she really wasn't well versed on the subject.