Cilla was determined to be as careful as possible. She spotted a winged horse and gently rolled one of the enchanted lemons towards it. The creature gave the lemon a curious sniff. Cilla took this as a sign of making good progress so she gently rolled the other pieces of fruit towards the herd, making sure that the fruit stopped just in front of them. She didn't want to hurt them in any way.

Once the fruit had been rolled out, Cilla had her wand at the ready for when the Porlocks appeared.

So she had to taste it. Puck winced at the thought and took a tentative bite of the normally bitter rind and grinned. It was so sweet! Like a lemon drop! Awesome this was so delicious she grinned as she took another bite of her lemon OUCH! Seeds.

Glaring at the lemon she sighed and took another bite as she thought about how to get the fruit to the Porlock without disturbing it and with out hurting any of the winged horses at all! Yes. This was important. No horses were injured in the making of this Porlock friend.

He smiled at his girlfriend and laughed. It was only natural you wouldn't get it on your first try. He wasn't mad at her at all. I mean he just had to do the spell again with the lemon. "Alright round twoo.." he grinned and walked back to get get some more lemons. He got three more just incase Emmy wanted to feed more to the horses or that you know if she messed up again he would have some back up lemons. He got his wand out of his robes and began to conjure the spell again. He took a deep breath and said, "Magimus!" and did a circle alone and then on the fruit and he saw more sparks again. More than last time. It seemed to be the spell was stronger the more he practiced.

He grinned and handed the lemon to Emmy. "Ready to try it again?" he asked. "If this doesn't work, can I try feeding the horses next time around?" He really wanted to feed the horses too. To cover himself up, "But I believe this spell will work though. You got this Emms." he encouraged his girlfriend. Nice save right? He thought so.

Cilla watched as four Porlocks began making their presence known thanks to the winged horses who were about to try the fruit. The Porlocks were looking warily between the fruit and Cilla so she gently flicked her wand at each of the Porlocks as she said, "Animalis Fidelis." Cilla hoped that her spell casting had been successful.

It took a lot of self control not to squeal with delight when the Granian approached and the porlock appeared, but she put both hands over her mouth and managed to keep all her excitement internalized. She did bounce, though, and her eyes excitedly glanced around for ANYONE to share this with. WHERE WERE HER PEOPLE?

As soon as they were released, Dot flat out ran to gather fruit - all apples this time. They were already sweet, and she wanted to have the sweetest fruit to bring in the most porlocks and maybe have a cuddle party with them! Still bouncing in place, Dot set up her apples in a tidy line on the ground and drew circles over them with her wand.

"M-magimus." No good. She'd stuttered over the words in her enthusiasm, and the spell had barely sparked. Again again! "Magimus."

Now for the main task. Listening carefully, Beverly's gaze wandered from the professor to the winged horses. Too bad they weren't working with them today. Maybe she could come by later and pet them.

After the instructions were handed out, the Prefect proceeded to collect three apples from the basket. She decided to step a bit away from the crowd of students. A space to work was needed for concentration purposes and setting her apples.

"Magimus!" she cast at the first one, tracing the shape of the apple. Sparkles blitz out as she did, assuring the Snake she'd done a well job.

She was ready to do this! Now that she had finished her lemon she immediately grabbed another lemon, a tomato, and an apple. Yes, she was going to do one of each today. Because she had no idea what the Porlock would like more. And each would be so sweet! Like candy…funny how her brother always said that to her when she was a kid.

Carrots were not candy…unless they were Magimus’d.

Making a circular motion around the lemon she carefully cast the “Magimus” and hoped that it had worked the second time. She repeated the circular motion and cast another “Magimus” around the apple this time. And now, the tomato. Circular wand motion, imagining it as sweet as sunshine “Magimus” she cast again and hoped that it had worked as well.

So. This was going to happen.

Norah watched with her mouth making a big 'O' as the ickle porlock began loping in her direction. Closing it quickly, because apparently that was rude, and she reeeally wanted a horsie friend, the third year got to her knees and held out a hand. "Hi little porlock, hiii," she whispered as it approached suppressing the urge to giggle just in case she scared it away. "Look at how cute you are! Don't worry, I won't hurt you." she cooed. She wiggled her fingers in its direction and began to hold her breath when it was only a few inches away.

The Hufflepuff let out a soft "Oh!" when she felt moisture on her fingertips as the Porlock reached her and began snuffling its ickle nosey on her hand. ASDFGHJKL; IT WAS SO CUTE. Could she keep it PUH-LEEZ? Sitting higher on her knees, Norah moved her hand to its head and began to stroke it between the ears.

One apple down, two more to go.

"Magimus!" Beverly was more confident this time around, having practiced the spell and tasting the fruit. You could be ten Galleons she finished that first apple. It was good for energy, too.

Setting the second charmed apple next to the first, she picked up the third and held it in her palm. Ah crud. This one had a bruise. She wondered if the spell would still work on it like it had on the previous ones. But if it changed the sweetness of it, it wouldn't matter, then. She was going with that, and if the Porlock refused her friendship then she'd know why.

"Magimus!" Watching this one closely after tracing the circumference with her wand, Beverly was pleased to see that it sparkled after she was done. Taking that as a good sign, she started devising plans on how to go on to the next step.

Cilla patiently waited for the Porlocks to approach her. As she watched each creature pick up a piece of fruit, Cilla sat down on the grass with an encouraging smile on her face non-verbally telling them that she meant no harm. One of the Porlocks who had a lemon in its hand had made its way to Cilla. She gently petted the top of its head as it ate the lemon. The creature was softly cooing.

The other three Porlocks slowly made their way to the first Porlock, still looking unsure. They seemed younger so Cilla quietly smiled and held her hand out with the palm facing downwards. It seemed to make the creatures feel more at ease. They were enjoying their fruit as Cilla gently petted the tops of their heads.

Now Cilla was surrounded with the sound of cooing.

Kate headed back to the basket and selected three pieces of fruit. This time, she decided to try one of each, that way, she at least experienced all of them and not just one. She chose an apple, a tomato, and a lemon. Fruit in hand, she stepped away from the baskets and moved to a place she could cast. Placing the apple out first, she pointed her wand toward, moved it in a circle formation around the fruit, and said, "Magimus!"

She did the same with both the tomato and the lemon. "Magimus!" she said, moving her around the tomato. "Magimus!" she said again, but this time her wand moved around the lemon. Her fruit was sparkling now, so Kate decided to try and luck with the next step. She was glad this first one didn't take too long. Some students were almost finished with the activity, and Kate only had three pieces of sparkling fruit.

While Professor Thompson was observing the students around the grassy grounds area, he occasionally fed the little Porlock another sweet fruit. This time a lemon as he happily enjoyed it. "Good isn't it?" He scratched around the top of its head through its hair. Despite its untamed look, it felt quite soft as it cooed relaxingly.

His head then turned as he heard a question from one of the younger students. Ah.. Of course. He was expecting this question from the younger ones since they weren't around during the vocal concerns about it. No matter. "Not at all. As long as the caster's intentions are true and golden in merely befriending them, the spell will be more likely to work. If I were to suddenly want to send the Porlock over into the Forbidden forest into potential danger for example, the spell would cease immediately." Now was it necessary to do it instead of build it up? Sure, he had already mentioned this but it was pretty important to illiterate as he calmly went on."Unlike the dark Impervius curse, which is strictly on command, this charm is more mutual. Porlock's trust on us is conflicted with fear and as with any other phobia it can take ages to overcome that. Hence us using this spell today so we can show them how friendly we are without their hesitation." Did that seem to cover it? He only paused to see if she had any other questions regarding it, which he had no issue with answering.

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Angel smiled at Benny. "Sure! I'd love that." Angel had been trying to figure out if she wanted to work alone or not... her sister and Adi seemed to be enjoying themselves so she thought it might be good to work with Benny instead of on her own.

Angel went and got a couple of lemons and an apple. "I aren't keen on Tomato's and I'm not going to give the creature anything I don't like because it's just not fair on them." Angel said truthfully, she seriously wasn't sure if it was just her or not but if she didn't like them then surely the creature wouldn't right.

"I'm ready for the next part if you are." Angel put two of them in her robe pocket so she knew where they were when she needed them, she might as well copy Benny but she kept one out because that would be the one she was going to use now right.

Okay, that might have caused a problem. Brooklyn, halfway to the basket to collect some fruit for the activity, had heard Professor Thompson answer the other student’s question. Of course, she’d had ulterior motives in wanting to get a porlock to trust her. Anyone would have. It wasn’t as if she could just go skipping around hand in hand with a porlock. Not that she’d ever have done anything like that with an actual friend, but the point was, wanting a porlock to trust her had its uses. If she’d had any horses for the porlock to take care of, anyway. Because she didn’t, at least not if her aunt didn’t have any at her house, she could at least convincingly pretend her intentions were true in wanting the porlock to trust her. Provided she could “catch” one in the first place.

In order for that to happen, she needed fruit, so she continued on her way to the basket to claim several. A couple apples, a tomato and a lemon, apparently. Sitting on the ground, the fruits in her lap, she systematically picked each one up and traced the same circle she’d done around the apple she’d tried. Four times saying “Magimus” and tracing the circles, and she’d had four shiny, nearly sparkly fruits in her lap. Ready for the porlocks, but first she had to get closer to the enclosure.

IT TOOK THE FRUIT! THERE WAS ACCEPTANCE!

Zeke watched as the Porlock took the sweet treat and fixed its gaze on him.

...

"Hello," he said in its direction, offering the creature a small wave. Could it understand him? Could it? "There's more fruit if you want it," he added, trying to be conversational with it. "There's two over here, and I have another if you come and say hi," he added, pointing first to the two fruits in the void between them, also holding out the sweet lemon he had in his hand. The shine of the fruits did look amazing, and he was tempted to take a bite himself, but since he was befriending the creature, he thought against it.

The shaggy creature took small steps toward the other two fruits he had rolled its way, paused to collect them and continued to walk toward him.

WEEEEEEEEE!

"You like them?" he asked, taking to sitting on his bottom with his legs crossed in front of him. He was closer to it at this level, and it was fascinating to see it move, and eat and... ZOMG COULD HE HAVE ONE AS A PET?!....

Was that even possible? Could he like, have a winged horse, and get a bonus porlock???

After watching the shag-pile consume the tomato and apples, Zeke held out the lemon for it to take, which it did... and while it slipped it through a part in its hair, Zeke reached out his hand to pet it.

Could he?

Would it let him?

Tentatively, he ran his hand through the locks of the porlock's hair. Naawwww, it was soft and shaggyyyyy! The creature made a soft rumbly-gurgle sound that he could only interpret as being a happy pleasurable sound.

Toby had been quite occupied with throwing the apple straight up and catching it, looking around at the other kids from time to time to see maybe see what they were all up to. But then the professor had spoken and led them off and Toby followed along with the rest of the class and did his very best to pay attention. And now here he was.

The sixth year retrieved one of each of the other fruits, so that now he had a lemon, a tomato, an apple, and that one already-sweet apple he'd been practicing on before. Having found a spot out of the way of other other kids, Toby sat himself down on the ground so he could work along and concentrate on casting the spell without having to worry about keeping hold of the fruits he wasn't working on.

So, the other apple first, as that was already the sweetest fruit. The Hufflepuff held it out in the palm of his hand and circled the tip of his wand around it.

"Magimus," Toby intoned as he did so, watching the sparks appear, the once Thompson had said were basically the flavour leaving the fruit. Hmmm... that was a thought. Before they disappeared, Toby leaned forwards slightly and attempted to catch the sparks in his mouth. 'Cause he wanted so see if you could TASTE the flavour that was being taken away, see? But he was too late, as the sparks disappeared before one could hit Toby's tongue. Sad.

After checking the apple to make sure it tasted sweet enough, Toby set it to one side with the other apple and picked up the tomato to repeat the process.

"Magimus." Again, Toby traced his wand around the circumference of the tomato, and again he attempted to catch the resulting sparks in his mouth, though with slightly more success this time. And the taste? WEIRD. And not tomato-y at all. So weird. But that meant success, right? Toby nibbled away a teeny tiny bit of the tomato, and when his mouth flooded with sweetness he knew that one was a success too.

Finally, Toby picked up the lemon, and repeated the spell again. "Magimus." After the sparks had died down (he decided NOT to try and eat them this time), Toby took a teeny bite into the peel as Thompson had done.

BLEH. NOT sweet, absolutely, definitely, REALLY NOT SWEET. Toby stuck his tongue out at the icky taste and had to really resist the urge to spit the nastiness away. But resist he did, because manners were a thing. Toby raised his wand again, and repeated the spell, being sure to concentrate properly this time. "Magimus."

Once the sparks were gone, Toby nibbled (this time much more cautiously) at the pointy nubbin at the end of the lemon, and was happy to find that this time it was good and sweet and ready for deployment.

Now then, step two.

Ahhh! Looooook there it was!

Hurrying towards her new marbled horsey friend was a shaggy fluffy thingy! That must be the Porlock. Watching it closely Hady pulled out her wand and flicked it at the Porlock with the intent of making her spell work and befriending him. "Animalis Fidelis" She replied clearly watching the Porlock still.

Nothing happened. She missed him... Frowning slightly she watched as the Porlock scooped up the lemon. "Animalis Fidelis!" Hady cast again flicking her wand at the creature as it was a bit closer this time. Hopefully she'd hit her intended target this time.

Chewing her bottom lip she kept her eyes on the Porlock. Did it work? Please say it worked!

Slowly it turned it's attention to her, lemon in it's stubby hand and walked well more like wobbled towards her. Grinning brightly she slowly reached out her hand and ran her fingers through it's crazy looking fur. Whoa! It was much softer then it looked.

"Hello there." The second year whispered softly so as not to frighten it. "You're really soft...I mean you no harm at all don't worry.." She continued to sooth him lightly petting him and offering up an apple this time after watching the Porlock cram the lemon into it's mouth.

SPOILER!!: Angel

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Angel smiled at Benny. "Sure! I'd love that." Angel had been trying to figure out if she wanted to work alone or not... her sister and Adi seemed to be enjoying themselves so she thought it might be good to work with Benny instead of on her own.

Angel went and got a couple of lemons and an apple. "I aren't keen on Tomato's and I'm not going to give the creature anything I don't like because it's just not fair on them." Angel said truthfully, she seriously wasn't sure if it was just her or not but if she didn't like them then surely the creature wouldn't right.

"I'm ready for the next part if you are." Angel put two of them in her robe pocket so she knew where they were when she needed them, she might as well copy Benny but she kept one out because that would be the one she was going to use now right.

Benny echoed her smile as Angel agreed to partner up with him. It was better then being seen as antisocial and working on his own. As she retrieved her own fruits, the fifth year took the lemon back out of his pocket to work with. “Magimus!" he cast, marking an invisible circle around the yellow fruit like the other times. Now knowing what to look for, he didn't have to take a bite to see it didn't work all to well this time.

His attention turned back to his partner as she returned beside him, listening to her comment on tomatoes. "Alright..." he mused figuring there was no harm not using them. "Even if it's not supposed to be a tomato taste-wise." Probably had the same texture though so maybe that was something to be weary of.

"I'm ready..." Benny said, seeing nothing to delay them. Time to make their fruits super sweet. The older GRyffindor turned his attention back to the lemon and focused on it for a few moments before trying the spell on it again. “Magimus!" This time there was the change to the outer rind and he relaxed and slipped it back into his pocket to take his apple out. Best to have a back-up when they attempted the next thing. “Magimus!"

Two sweet fruits to give to the porlocks.

Well, what he thought was better wasn't. Or maybe it was. AJ was too stubborn to admit anything. All she knew for sure was that she didn't want to fight with him ever again. "Maybe it was," she said with a shrug. Meaning she was dropping it. Put up with her? "I'm a delight to be around." And as far as the hair went. "Maybe not, but I'm sure I can ruffle their hair up and get it just the way I like it."

"I kicked your butt in the taco competition." There was no doubt about that. Really, nobody should come against her when it involves food, and especially when it was her favorite food. She was going to kick his butt in this competition too.

Oh no. She was already down because the first time she tried out the spell, it didn't work. There wasn't any time for this. AJ grabbed her lemon. "Magimus." The circle she drew was beautiful. It worked. There were sparks and everything. Adi was on his last fruit now. She picked up her tomato, but before she could even cast he was done. Ugh, did she mention that she really hated losing? "I bet I can get more porlocks to come out than you can." This wasn't over Adi. "Magimus." Her tomato was all shiny and perfect looking. Man, she really couldn't help but wonder what a sweet tomato tasted like. The lion took a tiny bite out of it. "Weird." She wasn't sure how she felt about it.

Without waiting for Adi, AJ rolled her fruit out making sure not to go all baseball arm so that the fruit wouldn't smack one of the creatures or anything. That would be a good way to not get to pet anything this lesson. C'mon. She wanted more porlocks than Adi.

A delight to be around? She was! AJ could turn anything dull into something fun but what was life without teasing her? "You sure? People are just too polite to tell you that you're boring.'' Adi pretended to sulk. "I'll go back to wearing my hair less messy then. And yeah you did kick my butt then and I've had enough.'' He winked. He never minded loosing to her.

Oh, she was going to befriend more porlocks than him? "We'll just see about that.'' Adi knew there was no need for him to taste the fruits. He had done both the incantation and wand movement right. Just look at the lemon, apple and tomato all sparkly and shiny. Now they just needed to befriend the porlocks. It was safe to say the Hufflepuff was SUPER EXCITED about that.

“Ready?” he asked AJ but she didn't seem too bothered with him as she had already gotten started. The Puffer hurried to catch up. He decided to roll all three his fruits at once. So he swung his hand back and releasing the tomato, apple and lemon so that they rolled towards the awesome winged horses. It was just like bowling in cricket. Yep. Mercifully, none hit them. Since a few of the students had rolled fruits before, just as Thompson said, it wasn’t long before his tomato was noticed by one of the horses. Adi squinted, looking for the porlock. Ah! There it was! Right by the legs of the horse just as the other had been when Thompson demonstrated.

Ahhh! ANOTHER winged horse noticed the apple and this time Adi had no trouble spotting the porlock. He was still standing quite still but he said to his girlfriend. "Two porlocks.'' OH YEAH!

AJ actually laughed out loud at the boring comment that Adi made about her. She may be a lot of things, but boring wasn't one of them. "I'm the life of the party and you know it." Like, if she wasn't herself, she would want to be her friend. That was how fun she was. Adi knew it. He just loved to tease her, and truthfully AJ enjoyed being teased. "Suit yourself." Yeah, AJ was not going to let his hair get to neat. That was a no. "I understand. It must get really old losing to a girl all the time." HAHA.

"Yes, we will. I have super sweet fruits, and I am super sweet so it's like a bonus for them." He was going down this time. He had beaten her at the spell work, but she was going to get more porlocks than her was. She was determined.

"Gotta keep you on your toes, Rehman." They didn't need to count down to three for this. How many porlocks showed up wouldn't be decided based on who rolled the fruit down the quickest. It was still even and fair. AJ didn't want to hear about her cheating.

They were coming. She definitely saw one getting closer. "Look at them, Adi." AJ was trying to be still. So far she had one, and Adi had two. C'mon. Don't let her down. "It looks like I have two as well." So far they were even. AJ hoped another one would show up so she could win. "Animalis Fidelis," she cried while flicking her wand at the porlocks, one by one.

Okay, she had waited long enough. She was ready to greet them. As if the creature could read her mind, it bent down and nibbled on her lemon. "Good choice," she said as she slowly made her way over to the closest porlock. "I snarfed down a lemon earlier, and it was super tasty." AJ raised her right hand and gently pet the porlock. She looked back at Adi with a huge smile, and waved him on.

She really wasn't all that surprised that she hadn't got it on the first try because she wasn't very good at this kind of stuff, mostly because she felt like she was under pressure. The fifth year didn't like the feeling of being under pressure from having to do something that she really didn't know how to do in a certain amount of time for a class. Normally she would have froze up but not this time. That was always a good sign.

Emmylou watched as Kace did the spell again. Not too long later it was her turn again. Well she was happy that he got more lemons because she felt like she would screw up again but then again Kace might want to feed the Porlock too.

She took the lemon and walked over towards the Porlock, she slowly rolled the lemon towards the cute little animal. As she watched the Porlock sniff and take a bite out of the lemon she smiled. "Animalis Fidelis." She said smoothly. Emmylou jumped up and down when it worked!

"I know nothing,'' Adi replied with a laugh. If she could be that stubborn then so could he. "Fine.'' Grinning, Adi raised a hand to his head and flattened his black hair just a bit. Not too much because he had gotten used to it being messy. "Well, you're not actually a girl, are you? Not with that tomboy attitude of yours.'' Hehe.

"I'm sure you being sweet has nothing to do with the porlocks. And you went before me so that doesn't count.'' Cue the wink. "I see them.'' Adi wanted to move right over and interact with them but he knew he had something else to so. Soooo, it looked like him and AJ were tied. Cool!

The first porlock had already reached down to collect the tomato but the second one seemed to just be standing there... as if surveying the apple. Perfect! It would give Adi time to cast the spell. He slowly reached for his wand and aimed it for the first porlock. "Animalis Fidelis!'' He flicked the wand before repeating the action on the second porlock.

The second hairy creature took a few steps towards Adi but he didn't mind. He would make up the rest of the distance. So he proceeded towards it. The first porlock, seeing these actions, came over to the Hufflepuff and its fellow porlock. Both were slightly bigger than the one Thomson had demonstrated on and were clutching their respective fruits.

"Hey, guys!'' Um, should he name them? Heh. Maybe later. Adi plopped right down before the porlocks as though they were all old friends and were merely catching up. "Eat up. Fruits are great for you.'' He reached out to pat one of the creatures, grinning in AJ's direction. "Isn't this awesome?" he said to her as he reached to pat the second porlock as they somehow found their mouths through all that hair and proceeded to bite into the fruits.

Angel smiled at Benny and then blushed when he said about the tomato. "I never thought about that, it's going to taste different isn't it." Angel could feel her face getting red. She tried to hide it but she was totally embarrassed with herself for not thinking about that.

Angel watched as Benny did the spell and she looked at one of her lemons. "Magic!!" Angel said totally still thinking about the silly mistake she had made. "Magnut?" Angel was totally unsure on what was going wrong here. "Benny? What am I doing wrong?" Angel was still too annoyed with herself she couldn't think of why the spell wasn't working. "I'm confused, thanks Benny." Angel giggled, yeah she was totally going to blame him for her mistakes.

Holy bananas this was even BETTER than kittens! Norah beamed at the porlock as she continued to pet its head, then moving down to stroke its neck. "I'm going to call you Pat," she murmured, "D'you like that name?" Short for Cutie Patootie, obviously. 'Cause this porlock was ADORABLE, okay. And they were gonna be bestest friends. Giving Pat one last stroke, the third year stood reluctantly to go get some more fruit. "Stay riiiight there, I'll be back."

She speed skipped to the fruit basket and picked out one of each type of fruit, going back to sit cross legged in front of Pat. "Didja miss me? she asked, smiling at the porlock as she held a tomato out in front of her. "Magimus!" Norah traced a circle around the tomato, nodding to herself as it began to glisten. WOOH. She placed the tomato in front of Pat and gave him a quick pet on the head before turning to her other two fruit and performing the spell again. "Magimus!" Sparkly lemon. "Magimus!" Sparkly apple. Taking one fruit in each hand, she rolled them in the direction of another porlock that didn't seem to have a friend yet. "You can come play with us!" she called as it began to sniff at the fruit she had sent over. Heheheh. ALL THE PORLOCK FRIENDS.