Care of Magical Creatures Class

Cecilia glanced over at Dani as she greated everyone but her but quickly brushed that off and staired daydreamily at Jake Collins waiting for him to speak."The Phinox a creature that once it gets to old it will die by burning and then be reborn from the ashes of its previous body," Cecilia said smileing up at Jake as she resited everything she knew about the animal he had spoken about. Her eyes sparkled as she looked up at him waited for him to say that her andswer was correct, and with out noticeing she held her breath in antisipation of his approvle.

'Gawd,' Was about all Sam could think as the new Durmstrang chick quickly blurted out an answer, shooting it off like a bullet out of a gun - clearly she was the studious type... he'd have to keep his eyes on her when trying to get points.

"They're difficult to tame, and immortal, but they're also highly magical creatures," Sam added as his first two facts were used by others. "Their tears can heal almost any wound, even to the point of saving someone from the brink of death. Also, their feathers contain high levels of magic, and are often used as wand cores," he smiiled as he told the teacher - it wasn't often in this subject that he knew the answer to questions

Sapphire ran down to the CoMC paddock, almost falling a couple of times along the way. She day had just started and she was already late to her class. She wanted to just slap herself, why was she so irresponsible?! The red haired girl knew that since the class had just started she probably wouldn't get in a lot of trouble. Besides, the Professor would understand, she hoped.

The girl skidded to a halt as she reached the paddock and she walked in quickly. She heard that they were talking about Phoenixes and her eyes brightened. She loved those creatures. But before anything she had to tell the Professor why she was late. "Sorry I'm late Professor Collins. I got held up in the castle." it wasn't the best excuse she could come up with, but it would have to do.

"Very good Ms. Avery." Jake said to her answer. "Ten points to Ravenclaw." he added. His attention turned momentarily to Cecilia as she answered. "That is correct Ms. Krum. Ten points to Ravenclaw." he said with an approving nod. "Right, very good Mr. Grigori." he said. "Ten points to Gryffindor." he added. They knew a lot about Phoenixes, that was good. It would help get along with the lesson.

"Because these creatures are difficult to tame, we will not be able to see one today." he told them all. He'd been hoping to be able to show them one, but oh well. As he was about to say something else, another student came running into the paddock. She immedately have him an excuse he'd heard(and used) many times. He simply smiled at the young girl. "It's alright Ms. Ivanova. Just don't let it happen again." he said.

"Now, can anyone tell me where a phoenix usually dwells?" he asked.

Answering questions posed to the students by the Professors was the only thing that truly amused Cerelia. The schooling process at Hogwarts was tedious at best and so she didn’t particularly take much joy out of it. Relaying bits of information was the easiest way to get through the excruciating hours. Besides, the points were helping towards winning the House Cup and that was something Cerelia felt Ravenclaw deserved to win and she wanted to be the most active in aiding that. That was why when the doe-eyed girl in the year above cooed her answer to the Professor, Cerelia couldn’t help but roll her eyes. Not a moment later the praise she’d been after arrived and she perked up slightly, buoyed by the fact that her answer was - in her opinion - far superior to the other girl’s as she couldn’t even pronounce Phoenix properly. Cerelia unclasped her hands and returned her left one into the air once more when the question posed his question to the class. Cerelia did have a glance around but upon finding no one else really trying to answer, she decided she would. Besides, she wanted to be impressive -- and she was.

“A Phoenix’s native range can be either in Egypt, India or China, Professor.” Cerelia answered the question easily.

Jake nodded at Cerelia's answer. "Right. Good job." he told her. It wasn't surprising to him that she would be the one answering most questions. She was a Ravenclaw after all and they were supposed to be the smartest bunch in the school. Of course that didn't mean that everyone else was dumb, or incapable of answering hints, it just meant that Ravenclaws sometimes answered faster and more accurately. "Ten more points to Ravenclaw." he said. This was the most points he'd ever seen given out in a class, and it was weird to him that he was the one giving them out.

"Okay, now this might not be that important but I figured it was worth asking." he said. "There are only two known, domesticated Phoenixes. Does anyone know their names?" he asked the class. This was only for a bit of fun for them.

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(I needa keep track ...)

Ravenclaw: 30
Gryffindor: 10
Hufflepuff: 0
Slytherin: 0

Juliet Ran to the CoMC paddock, Coughing slightly and sweating slightly also if she ran. She had woken up late, and wondered why Dani had forgotten to wake her up, she looked around her and saw the entrance and sighed happily. She knew the class had already started and she hated being late for class. And she was late more than usual lately. She raced into the room and walked to where Dani was. "Dani..."She whispered, "You okay? You look like you're going to faint." Juliet mumbled looking at her friend concerned. "I'll take you to the hospital wing if you'd like after class?" She slowly let her eyes drift from her friend to the faces around her. She disliked everybody in that room. And she had a feeling everyone except for Dani hated her back. Her eyes slowly drifted their way to her friend the teacher. She wondered if he had seen her sneak in. She was pretty much sure he had seen her. And she knew...or thought he hated her like everybody else. Which didn't really surprise her.

Kasumi ran to class as fast as she could without throwing up on the floor. She could feel the blood filling up in her throat. She tripped over her own foot. "For the love of dog food.." she muttered quietly. Kasumi got up and dusted herself off and continued on her way to class. While Kasumi was walking, she started to cough a bit. She tried to ignore it while she was trying to figure out what she was going to tell the professor. She knew the professor has had enough with her for a day and probably doesn't want any excuses. She looked at the time on her phone and noticed she was really late. "oh man..oh man this is bad...he is going to kill me.." She was starting to panic considering she has never been late before.

When she got there she walked in trying not to make a fuss. She slowly walked in trying not to get sick and quietly talked to the professor trying not to cry. "I'm really sorry that I am late Professor, I didn't mean to be late and it will never happen again. I can understand if you are discusted with me..I would be too. Again, I am sorry.." She slowly walked away with tears in her eyes. She noticed in the corner of her eye to see Juliet and Dani standing next to eachother. "No surprise...the devil twins are standing next to eachother," she mumbled under her breath. She heard the professor ask a question and decided this was an oppertunity to redeem herself. "Professor!" Kasumi raised her hand. "The two most known domesticated phoenixes are Fawkes and the other is Sparky!" she lowered her hand hoping that was the answer. She slowly looked around hoping Dani and Juliet didn't see her. that was the last thing she needed on her stress factor for the month.