6th & 7th years : [Meadont]

[Timothy Linn]

It was afternoon, just when lunch had finished, when Timothy returned to his classroom in the greenhouse to prepare for his last lesson of the day. He hadn't taught Meadont in awhile, but luckily the students wouldn't have an entirely boring class. Timothy took out several potted meadonts that needed to be replanted and set them on the front table along with many of the supplies the students would need.

Then writing on the board the plant's name, he leaned to the side of his desk, facing the door with his roster in hand while waiting for his sixth and seventh years to arrive.

Meadont

[nathanielhaake]

Herbology is one subject that Nathaniel was confident in. He didn't mind the lectures on plants and the note-taking. It all interested him as much as pie. xD After a large lunch in the Great Hall, which for him it consisted mainly of finger sandwiches, chips, and lots of pastries, he left and went out the front door to head down to the Greenhouse.

Upon entering, he looked to the professor with a grin spread across his face. "Good afternoon Professor," he bid as he took a seat near the front table toward the right. He noticed the line of plants on the front table and then the board which they were going to learn about Meadont. Oh, maybe we're going to replant today! Well that's something he could look forward to. A hands-on lesson.

[kaelyn]

Kaelyn walked into the greenhouse wearing a scarf, hat, and gloves. She didn't understand how some people seemed to be resistant to the cold. Just walking out from the castle to the greenhouse, she was shivering violently. It was disappointing to think it was only fall, and she still had winter to endure.

Upon entering, however, the temperature warmed considerably. Such a good change from the cold stone walls of the castle. She just might live in here over the winter.

She saw only one other student in the room. A Slytherin she recognized, but had never talked to. Wasn't he the one that'd been in the gossip column? She furrowed her brows, until she realized she was staring, and turned to go sit in a seat towards the front of the room.

She glanced at the front board for the first time upon entering the classroom. Meadont. Hm. This should be interesting.

[Terra Kent]

There weren't many people in the class as Terra walked in. Of course, there was the ever-familiar "Timothy" Professor Linn, who'd taught her since she was an ickle firstie. There was a Slytherin boy remotely familiar, but not quite so much. And there was Kaelyn, a Mihael of her year who Terra didn't know very well either.

She took a seat, and got out a quill and parchment for notes. The plant on the board was unfamiliar, and she would have to write this stuff down if she wanted a chance of remembering it. She sat back after scratching the strange word down and stared at the front of the room. Boy, did she wish she'd made more friends. But no, she had to be caught up her shy ways...

[Selene Falicon]

Selene slowly entered the room, looking around for a familiar face while stifling a yawn. Seeing Terra she sat down next to the Hufflepuff, still trying not to yawn. She was trying to get over her tiredness, but it wasn't working very well. The Ravenclaw rubbed her eyes breifly before acknowledging Terra. "Hello, Miss Kurrenin. What's knew with you?" She didn't know what compelled her to call Terra 'Miss Kurrenin,' but it had sounded good in her head.

[Jasmine Taylor]

Looking at her watch Jas noticed that class would soon be starting. Throwing her bag on her back she grabbed some grapes and headed for the door. Popping the grapes in her mouth, one at a time, she made her way to Herbology. Finishing off the last one she walked into the room to see a few occupants including the professor.

Grinning a little she found a seat in the front and got her things out. She was expecting it to be another lecture. Looking around she noticed the supplies sitting out. Guess she was wrong.

[marshalll]

This morning Levi had been so tired that during the first classes he had troubles holding his eyes open. It was amazing what lunch could do to you. Suddenly he felt all exited for the next classes and he actually had some energy. He didn't wore a jacket as he walked towards the greenhouses but somehow his energy bulb seemed to keep him warm.

As he entered the room he noticed that he was pretty early, or the others just didn't care about coming all the way down here for one class. Levi walked further into the classroom and sat down next to Kaelyn. "Hey Kaelyn!" He said. "How are you these days?"

He wondered what today's lesson would be about. As he looked at the board the Mihael read 'Meadont' but this particular name didn't ring any bell. He'd just have to wait and see.

[Avery Moretti]

Herbology. Honestly, not one of Avery's most favourite classes, but she would still go, of course. She wanted to pass, after all. Walking across the lawns, she enjoyed the nice autumn air. It was getting a bit cold lately, with the bite of winter on the air. Her pink and white Mihael scarf was wrapped around her neck, dressed in her normal school blouse and skirt. High top pink converse were on her feet and she was smiling, because Avery was a happy girl.

Entering the greenhouse, she spotted the usual faces. Holden wasn't here yet. Maybe he was off sick. And Jackson had yet to arrive. Seeing Levi with Kaelyn, she sat down next to the boy and said, "Hey Levi, Kaelyn!" Sitting there, she took out a notepad and pen to make notes. Hopefully the others would arrive soon.

[Holden J. Caulfield]

Holden walked into the Herbology room with a stuffy nose. He hadn't lose his voice, yet. The Hufflepuff was waiting for it. He had his Hufflepuff robes on and his hoodie. It was mega cold to him.

Holden soon found his friends and sat next to them. "Hey Av," he said with a kiss on her cheek. "Hey Levi and Kaeyln." He got out his books and read the board. Meadont? What was that? He'd soon find out.

"How is everyone?"

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[amandalarsen]

Oh noez! Amanda rushed from her dorm and down the stairs in a frenzy. She had been so caught up with something else that she forgot about lunch and her class right after it. "Stupid Amanda, stupid!" She muttered to herself as she descended off the last step, almost losing her balance when her shoe slipped on the floor's surface. Luckily a first year caught her.

She sprinted across the grounds to the green house and enters, huffing with a crooked smile across her face. "Hi Professor," she waves wearily as she takes a seat beside Nathaniel, nearly collasping in it. "Don't ask," Amanda whispered to Nathaniel as she takes her things out of her messenger bag onto the table and looks ahead to read the board for today's lesson.

Amanda snickered at the name of the plant. Meadont. Obviously she had something in her mind that she'd like to compare the name to. It sounded like Me-uh-don't. Yeah, something like that. Writing the plant's name, in cursive, on her piece of parchment, she looks forward and waits for the class to begin.

[wolfsong]

Selena had just finished her third class when she arrived here and noticed the small number of sixth and seventh years. The loner quietly walked to her little emo corner and sat down while pulling out her sketchbook. She quietly sketches the meadont plant with a midnight blue quill while everyone else has found a least one friend to talk to.

It was funny, Selena was already in her sixth year at Hogwarts but she doesn't know anyone in her year! And yet she didn't mind for some odd reason. Maybe it was just her nature of being a loner.

[Xiomara Lang]

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[Timothy Linn]

It was a good number of students who were present in class today. Perhaps it would be a good turn out. Closing the door so that he didn't let much of the heat from the classroom escape, he returns to the front of his desk and lays aside his roster. "Hello everyone and welcome to Herbology. Today's plant is Meadont. You probably won't find it in any ordinary book, so no need for your books today."

Wand in hand, he levitated each pot to the students present, and even his own on the front desk. "Meadont, as you can see here, resembles a muggle plant. Can anyone tell me what plant that is?"

[[This is what Meadont is suppose to look like.]]

[marshalll]

Levi, who hadn't even bothered to start unpacking shrugged as Professor Linn said they wouldn't be needing any books. After whispering "Hello"s back to Holden and Avery who had just joined him he answered the Professor's question. It was an easy one, his step-mother had been crazy about orchids. Levi would have known by the smell what it was, if he hadn't sat so far away from the plant. "The Meadont looks a lot like an orchid, professor." The looks however made Levi sure that he was right, he could even see the resemblance from this distance.

[Avery Moretti]

Avery smiled as Holden entered, giving him a return kiss on the cheek. "Hullo. I'm swell. How are you?" Unfortunately, class soon began and she shut her mouth. Listening to the question, she shrugged a bit, glancing at Levi as he gave an answer. Nodding her head a bit, she decided that was a pretty good response, and hoped he'd get points for Mihael for it. They were in last place! Boo. :[ Hopefully, they'd get up there on the list soon.

[Holden J. Caulfield]

As soon as he sat down class had started. Aww no talking time? Holden hugged his friend. "I'm doing good Avery. Bored but good. How's Jackson? I haven't seen him in ages."

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Levi answered the question. Ew Herbology. Yukky. He couldn't wait to get out of this class; and Charms. Holden liked his teachers, don't get him wrong, but it was the subject they taught. Boring. Holden put his arms on the desk and put his chin ontop of his arms.[/blockquote][/size][/font]

[Timothy Linn]

"Yes, an orchid. Five points to Mihael," Timothy smiled with hands clasped around the pot of his own Meadont on the front table. "It simply has many muggle plant characteristics. It's a green plant, almost like an orchid. It's flowers are bright vibrant colours, most popular is yellow, and attracts the nastiest and sweetest bugs. However, the actual nectar of this flower, is the deadliest of it's kind."

"Meadont it carnivorous, therefore, it uses lethal ways of digestions as a protection against predators which are attracted by it's beautiful colours. This plant has thorns, so one must be careful." Fingers touching the leaves, he picks on off, twirling the stem between his fore-finger and thumb. "The uses for meadont, in potions, is to cure headaches, joint weaknesses, or in my case if I had some italian food with robust sauce... heart burn."

"Just so you know, many creatures are attracted to this flowery plant. The list is never-ending from both magical and your typical bug in the muggle world. Think of any bug that is attracted to flowers to feed on it's nectar, and there's your bug. Basically bees, ants, butterflies, catepillars, and such. Any living organism would be attracted to this plant."

Straying off enough from his topic, he refocused on the class and smiled once again. "Anyway, that is all the information about Meadont. Now I would like for you to do is to plant your own meadont. These ones were planted awhile ago and only for demonstration." Waving his wand at all the planted meadonts on the students' desks, they returned to the sun-lit windows.

With another wave of his wand, he conjured pots full of new soil infront of each student. Then with a small packet he took out from his pocket, he went around to each table, setting aside a seed for their pots. "Place the seed in the middle and gently push it through the top soil as far as the mid-section of your index finger." Returning to the front, he did as demonstrated and then covered the hole.

"And water it a little, but not too much to drown the seed or else you seed will disintegrate. After that, you'll place your Meadont plant by the window... of your own dorm," he grins as he watered his new planted Meadont. "This will be part of your final exam for class. Take care of it and keep a journal on your plant's progression. And I mean everything that your plant is going through. Once you're finished planting your seed, you may leave."

[[OOC: Sorry for the lack of posting and the rush of class. Been busy with school and my work.]]

[roxy]

Roxy quietly slipped into the Greenhouse,giving the professor a apologetic look. She tok a seat near the front. Roxy had just caught the teacher while he was informing the students on a muggle-looking plant known as the Orchid. Roxy's eyes shifted from him to the plant and she raised her eyebrows at its colors. Roxy took in all of the information,too lazy to actually take notes that day.

She watched as the teacher waved his wand and a pot appeared before all of the students. The professor explained about the objective of the lesson and gave them their intructions on how to grow their own Meadont. Roxy followed the teachers intstructions removing the seed from the packet and pushing it almost toward the middle of the pot,through the soil.

Roxy was only a bit behind,so she quickly added a little water,careful not too add too much to the soil.She looked at it for a moment and then peered up at the professor,listening to his final instruction.s It was a good thing that Roxy had a bed right in front of the window. Roxy bit her bottom lip and hoped that she could find a journal. If not, she would have to use peices of parchment tied together.



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[amandalarsen]

Amanda waits until the professor finally started class to pay attention. The first question asked was answered by Levi, which she shrugged. Boy does he know his flowers. =] She wrote that down as a reminder, just in case it was on the homework or on the test at the end of term. Never hurts to be safe rather than be sorry when it came to exam times. Amanda learned that last term and she was lucky to have passed most of her OWLs.

It was surprising to learn what Meadont really is. The plant looked so harmless, when compared to a muggle plant, but the part of attracting bugs and the nectar being the deadliest of it's kind was... disturbing? Well that is one plant Amanda would like to avoid in the future. However, with it's useful properties, she doesn't see any other reason to avoid it. Obviously it cures headaches, joint weaknesses, and heart burn. Everyone experiences those, especially the first two if you're a quidditch player.

So she sees a good reason to having Meadont nearby her window in the hufflepuff room, but would rather the school's nurse brew up whatever healing serum for her joints and headaches. It's must safer than with Amanda trying to attempt to brew her own healing potion. Hah, if she could only try and pass potions this year. That would be a hoot. Amanda listed the many bugs that are attracted to this plant. It was practically any bug that needed the nectar, bleh.

However, that could be the whole lesson right? It was just a lecture, a lot of lecture, and thats it. Wait no, she thought too soon. The professor wanted them to plant these plants! What? Take care of a Meadont that's dangerous.. to bugs. Okay, there's an upside to growing her own plant, especially if there are those pesky bugs that still flitter around your dorm. Darn the windows for being the open door to bees at one point. Amanda learned her lesson then.

Watching Timothy as he set out everything for them, Amanda watched intently as he demonstrated how to plant and water their Meadont. Right after, she did as instructed. Amanda took out her seed and set it in the middle of the top soil. Then with her index finger, she pushed on it gently until the soil was about mid-high. She covered up the hole with the soil that was pushed aside and then watered it little, but not a lot so that she didn't drown it. Completed, she grinned and began packing her things up.

This wasn't so bad. She just had to keep watch of her plant, leave it by her window, and jot down its growing progress and if anything changes. Hopefully she'd do well to maintain a good grade in this class. Especially if it's important for final exam. With her plant potted and Timothy's permission to leave, she grabbed her plant and left the greenhouse to go to her dorm to place her newly planted Meadont by the window.

[nathanielhaake]

The information Nathaniel received from the Levi's answer to the professor jotted down on his piece of parchment paper for notes. Once he finished up on the rest of his notes, Nathaniel put his things away while the professor conjured their items for planting and roamed around the class to give each student their seed. He watched up front as the professor then demonstrated the simple procedure of planting a seed, which Nathaniel followed.

Index finger gently poking the seed through the middle of his top soil in it's pot. Then covering the whole where he watered the top soil just about right. With that done and Professor Linn's dismissal, Nathaniel slipped his messenger bag over his shoulder and took his newly potted seed and went to the front. "Good day Professor." He bid before leaving the greenhouse.