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The Greenhouses Banner by the lovely and amazing sweetpinkpixie. When not in use for classes, several of the greenhouses that are located on the school grounds are open for private and independent research and study. In fact, this is highly encouraged. |
Astro HW Post 1: Trying out my light ideas Tora stamped, frustrated from the turnstiles, into Greenhouse 4. She had only wanted to simply do her Astronomy homework and here she was handing over 8 sickles. But then again, this was her favorite class. It was worth it. One of her ideas was to use the sunlight to help finicky plants grow better when they were lacking sunlight. "Solis Focalis!" she said boldly, pointing at a wilting plant she vaguely remembered from Herbology that needed vast amounts of sunlight. It started to perk up a bit. Ha. So it did work! She smiled a bit and continued to point and light up random plants. If only she had a friend to do this with, it might be even more fun. |
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"Out of all the choices, you decide to visit the greenhouse with the carnivorous plants? What was wrong with the flowery one?" Adrienne asked teasingly, though there was a note of seriousness in her voice. She wasn't a huge fan of Herbology, though she didn't have any particular problems with it, and some of the more violent plants were actually kind of scary. It was almost the same problem Adrienne had with Care of Magical Creatures, although that was a class she was actually excited to take this year. She figured she'd better help Tora, so she headed towards a plant that was labelled "Bloodroot." She wasn't sure how she felt about the name, but the pretty little white flowers looked fairly harmless, so she hoped it wouldn't attack and strangle her or something. "Solis focalis," she said, trying to focus the magnifying glass bit of her wand on the plant. |
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Still, she kept an eye out for any of the more dangerous plants. After all, at meat, they were many of the plants' favorite food. Hopefully if they kept them fed with enough bugs the girls wouldn't be attacked. That being said, Tora hoped to get out of there as soon as possible. Just as soon as she finished her Astronomy Homework. |
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"Solis Focalis," she said tentatively, attracting a few flies to the light, but Adrienne was hesitant to go near any of the plants that looked like they'd actually eat them, so she just released the beam of light vaguely near-ish something with teeth poking out between its leafy lips. |
Astro HW Post 3: more plant food Was it mean of Tora to think that Adrienne jumping at the carnivorous plant's teeth a little bit funny? It was just that she was so used to seeing the other Ravenclaw so calm and collected that it was a bit of a shock to see her be afraid of something. Tora giggled a bit and pointed her wand at another dark corner. "Solis Focalis" she said bringing out more of the creepy crawlies and directing them into the maw of another plant. "You'll never feed the plants that way," she said over her shoulder to Adrienne. "You have to get at least a little bit close to them!" Suddenly she felt a leafy tentacle on the back of her neck. Her head whipped around and she stood eye to toothy grin with one of the plants she had yet to feed. "Uhhh... Adrienne" she whispered, afraid that if she moved the plant would strike. |
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Oh... oh dear. Was that a piece of plant? On Tora's neck? Adrienne was not responsible for this, and should totally be able to just leave, quickly. And she was tempted to, under the guise of getting a teacher or something. And then Tora would probably be eaten. Yikes. In a moment of unexpected bravery, she reached out for her friend's hands and jerked her slightly to the right, then pulled her to the left and towards Adrienne and out of range of the plant. |
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But she still had to finish her astronomy homework, and she was definitely not going back into the carnivorous greenhouse number 4. "How about the flower plant greenhouse?" she asked rhetorically, shakily walking toward Greenhouse 3. Once inside, she found the most peaceful plants she could find and "Solis Focalis" she gave them some light. Grow little plants, not ever become monsters like your neighbors in that other greenhouse. |
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"Sounds good to me," she said, opting not to point out that that's what she had jokingly suggested before instead of the carnivorous plants one. Adrienne trailed after Tora into the greenhouse and headed straight for a flutterby bush, which was waving slightly even though there was no breeze, its butterflylike flowers almost... well, almost fluttering. "Solis Focalis," she said, shedding some light on the petals and leaves. |
Having calmed down quite a bit now, Tora turned to more sunlight deprived plants and gave them light. "Solis Focalis." she said over and over until she felt the plants didn't need any more. Having no interest in staying any longer than she needed to in any of the greenhouses she turned to Adrienne. "I'm ready to head out... let's go" she said before hurrying out the door and far, far, far away from that place. |
For Izzy/Cutty ^_______^ (and task force wooot) Tobias' favourite greenhouse, by an absolute landslide, was Greenhouse Three. It was just so pretty in here, what with all the flowery plants, particularly things like the puffapods, you know? It was a really shallow reason to like the greenhouse, but it wasn't like he could stop it from being his favourite, right? Right. Greenhouse Eight sounded amazing, and Tobias was definitely going to ask to have a look inside there with Professor Bentley, maybe next year once he'd given himself a lot more practice in the greenhouses. Today, though, it was to Greenhouse Three to care for the beautiful plants and give them all the love and nurturing they would need. Tobias decided that he was going to focus on the Flutterby bushes, but still like... totally spread the love all around. Once his outer cloak and school bag were hung up and safely out of the way, Tobias wrenched his dragon-hide gloves out from where he'd packed them tightly into his school bag between all his books. He made sure his wand was free of his wrist holster before pulling the gloves on, picking up his wand again and strolling down the greenhouse. Just, you know, checking on the plants. Once he'd done one sort of circuit of the greenhouses, Tobias returned to the start of one row and aimed his wand at the wiggenbushes before him. "Aguamentispritz," he cast, before making his way down the row again, inching slower this time as he continued to aim his wand at the shrubs, making sure they all got water, particularly down at the roots, but being careful not to drench them. If he drenched them, they might get sick and DIE, and knowingly doing that wasn't a very going way of caring for the plants with LOVE, right? Right. "Aguamentispritz." Strollstroll. |
Sweet Tobias & Z/Task Force 1 - Post 1 Text Cut: Z's lovely poetry! Alright! Cutty appeared inside Greenhouse Three looking eager for some Dragon dung handling action. That was sort of the point behind Herbology, right? Handling Dragon poo, the insects, and the chance that you might get to witness one of the more aggressive plants do what it does best. He started down the little pathway inside the greenhouse stopping to look at the variety of plants. Professor Bentley must have had an inordinately large amount of time on her hands to have kept them all...or not! He suddenly realized that it wasn't the Professor herself, but the paid-in-points labour of the student body. Though, despite this more cynical view, he seemed to not feel exploited, but rather had a fondness for the system. The pathway eventually led to a shed, which Cutty figured might have some of that dragon dung stored away in it. The last few feet were ran and he flung open the door to find that the Skintstitution had struck again! Nothing. Not even so much as a hand shovel. What an utter disappointment. Cutty was scowling he he ran across the only other student in the greenhouses. "Eh-yew!" He had forgotten the boys name from classes they had together, but he was sure he'd seen his face before. "Do you know where I could find some dung?" Which was a quite horrible way to ask for help in feeding the plants. |
For Sarah :3 / Task Force Huh. Olly stood just inside one of the greenhouses, looking around at the rows of plants. She took a deep breath. Yes. Those six sickles had been worth it. Well, she hadn't happily paid them but they had been worth it at least. Pulling out her dragon hide gloves she slipped them on, her brown eyes falling on what looked to be a supplies cupboard. Now, let's see what we have here. Swiftly moving over to the cupboard, Olly opened it and...found nothing. Well, almost nothing. Hardly anything. She frowned at the empty shelves, her eyes narrowing into an almost-glare. Seriously just how broke was this school? She hadn't expected that she had to bring everything herself. And she couldn't leave and come back to get her private supplies because then she'd have to pay again. Ugh. |
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Addi entered the greenhouse to see someone already there. She recognized the girl from the party, but couldn't place her name. She actually thought she never knew her name in the first place. She gave her a smile and set her bag down, before turning to the plants. So they just had to take care of them yeah? She grabbed her gloves out of the bag and pulled them on. She eyed the empty cabinet. Well, that killed the fertilizing thing. She dug around in her bag, trying to decide what to do first. "Are you here to work on the Task Force stuff too?" Might as well make small talk with the girl. |
Task Force This sucked. Olly was still glaring at the pretty much empty cupboard, crossing her arms over her chest. This stupid stupid school. And no, she was definitely not to blame. Yes she did have all the necessary supplies in her dorm BUT...alright, she had simply forgotten to bring them. Which was very unlike her and made her glare at the cupboard even harder. Still not her fault. Completely oblivious to the other girl's entrance (or simply ignoring it) Olly continued to stare at the empty shelves as if they would magically (no pun intended) become filled with the necessary supplies. Which of course they didn't. Only another voice brought her back from the little trance like state shed been in and she finally turned to tell the girl exactly what she thought of small talk right now. Oh. It was the girl from the party. Her expression softened slightly as she considered the redhead for a moment. "I WAS but..." She trailed off with a pointed look towards the empty cupboard. And because this was relevant she added, "What's your name again?" Because they should probably know each others names yeah? |
task force post 2 wuuuuut SPOILER!!: If there was one thing Tobias was bad at, it was focusing on only one thing for any length of time. He supposed that that meant he was GOOD at being distracted, but really Herbology was something that required one's full attention. He was learning to give it his full focus, but... yeah... he hadn't managed it yet. So when someone else entered, the Hufflepuff couldn't help but look away from the plants to try and see who it was, thereby losing focus on the magic. He couldn't see anyone, so Tobias looked back to the plants again. "Aguamentispritz!" he said again, restarting the spell so he could finish the row of bushes. There weren't many left, so Tobias was finished quickly. He started back to the other end again, looking out for any shrubs that might need a bit of pruning. There was one bush right at the end which definitely looked like it could do with some of the love that Professor Bentley had mentioned. "Hi," Tobias spoke very quietly to the bush, moving down to his knees and ignoring the water from the floor seeping through his school trousers. "I'm just going to trim away some of th-" A voice. With words. Words directed at him. Tobias looked up from the wiggenbush he was knelt before and to the face of another young student. He promptly gave the boy a big friendly smile. "Hello!" he said brightly, as though this was how he was usually greeted (it wasn't). Ah. Dung. "We still don't have any, I think. Kind of have to make do I'm afraid. But you can still do loads without it!" LOADS and loads. Like talk to the plants. |
Post 2 Text Cut: Sweet Tobias Loads without dung?! Like what? Eat a big lunch and return within a timely manner? Best to clarify before any rash decisions were made. "Like what do they eat, then?" He began closing the gap between he and the boy. The bottles of live bugs and worms rattling in his bag as he drew nearer and he darting between the wiggenbush and Tobias. |
HTF Mission 1- Post 1 Adi had found a battered old rake after a bit of searching around the Greenhouses. It seemed the place lacked basic stuff like proper gloves and manure. He had found it strange. Until he remembered the financial crisis tat had happened not so long ago. Rake in hand, Adi marched over to some tall trees which seemed rather efficient at having their leaves fall. As if it were the tree's fault. He knew it wasn't. As the eleven year old started on his task, he hummed. Working was so much better when humming or singing and right now he was humming a rather old song called Crawling by Linkin Park. Rake, rake, rake...hum, hum, hum... Soon, Adi had a rather big pile of leaves neatly collected under one of the trees. But there was still more around so he got started on a second pile. Darn, this was a lot of dried up old leaves. |
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"Well," he said, getting up from the floor so he stood at his full height of 4'6" and tilting his head at the other boy with a smile. "Plants in the wild aren't always fertilised. It just sort of... boosts them I guess. A lot of plants just live on being watered and getting sunlight and getting nutrients that are already in the soil." Which meeeeeeeant... uh... well, he didn't know. "You can help me if you like! Even just like... showing them love and care is a KIND of food." To prove this, Tobias turned ever so slightly back to the Wiggenbush and used his fingertips to stroke a few of the leaves. "See? Or you can read to them or talk to them or trim them, or even just help clean up the greenhouse! It's all super fun, 'cause it's all being helpful." See? SEEEEEEE? |
HTF Mission One- Post 2 Adi was now done with the raking and had even managed to take most of it to the compost bins. He was pleased with his efforts and was now in search of something else to do. He soon decided on watering because he found some funny looking flowering plants that were a little droopy. He thought they were baby honking daffodils. Thank goodness they were too small to make any of those weird honky sounds. Upon closer examination, he did find they were indeed honking daffodils. He recognised them from his text book. "Why so glum, chums?'' Adi asked. "You guys need a little perking up. Hmmm. I'm guessing water?'' Yep. Definitely water, most likely. He'd go with that. |
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"I'm Adelaide. And you are?" Cuz yes. They needed to know each other's names. Especially with what was about to come out of Addi's mouth next. "I have quite a bit of the things here," she said motioning to her bag. "Aside from dung and stuff like that. We can share if you want to get things done." |
HTF Mission One- Post 3 Adi held his wand over the roots of the Honking Daffodil seedlings. These were tiny plants so they needed a tiny amount of water. He was having a debate on whether to give them the water manually or to use magic. Didn't want to kill the plants, did he? He could just imagine a ballistic Professor Bentley when she found out wasting no time in putting him in detention. Not a pretty picture. But there was no bucket in the place. At least he could see none. The eleven year old sighed. He'd risk the wand. Better than doing noting and the seedlings died anyway. He'd just concentrate just enough to control the water flow or he'd pass his wand really quickly over the roots. How about both? Yeah. Both was good. So Adi set to work. "Aguamenti!'' Ah! Look at that! Not much water escaped from his wand tip. Good! He moved his wand over the roots, but making sure the seedlings got enough water. |
HTF Mission one post #1 Reaching the greenhouses she smiled now the first thing she would do was water. That way she wouldn't have to see the thirsty plants every time she turned around. Looking around for a plant that needed some water. Seeing some she walked over and took out her wand, "Don't worry you won't be droopy for so long!" "Aguamenti!'' she said as she moved her wand over the roots of the plants making sure they got just the right amount of water, wouldn't want to overwater these babies! That would just be horrid and she could imagine Professor Bentley's face when she had to tell her. Shaking her head, she moved on to another droopy plant and started to water it. |
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She smirked slowly, accompanied by a nod. "Adelaide." Yes, it was about time they knew each other's names somehow. "I'm Olly." Hi. After the girl's next words Olly considered the redhead for a moment, considering her options. Which weren't very promising. So... "Yeah. Maybe I could borrow some things." There, she even took a step closer, her eyes resting on the bag curiously. |
Task Force 1- Post 1 Hannah was ready to do anything, well almost anything, to get her education back on track. She knew that she was not looking so good lately and she needed to change that. The sixth year made her way down to the greenhouses and decided to give them some extra love and attention. She was sure that Bentley would love for her to do that. Maybe she would even some a good grade for it. That would always be nice. She wouldn't say no to some extra points either. She figured that she would start off small. She grabbed a watering tin and filled it with water. She looked around for plants that didn't seem all that dangerous. She knew that the greenhouse that she was in wouldn't have any dangerous plants in them, but that still didn't mean that she liked the looks of some of them. She walked over to the toadstools and started to water them. She wondered if there was such thing as giving them too much water? She was pretty sure that you could kill some plants doing just that so she gave them a fair amount and moved on the the next plant. |
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