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Fifth Years: Lesson 2; *Archived* All Houses
Topic Started: Nov 18 2011, 02:10 AM (113 Views)
Professor Harry Thornton
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Care of Magical Creatures Professor (Years 5-7)

Harry had his first week over him and he felt much more confident now and was less anxious about his lessons this week. Having checked and double checked his lesson plan for today Harry paced around the variety of creatures on the school grounds, attending to them and seeing if they needed feed – the usual tasks that he had to do throughout the day every day. He saw that the class had started to arrive and Harry waited for the rest of the class to arrive before he started his lesson. It was now springtime in New Zealand and the weather was much more pleasant that it had been at the start of the year so Harry was glad that they were outside for the lesson so they could enjoy the good weather. Also it was no secret that Harry much preferred being outside compared to being stuck in a classroom all day. Looking up he saw the rest of the class had gathered, taking the roll he confirmed that everyone had arrived. "Please gather round, we won’t be in here long.” he said over the mumbling voices of the students in front of him, a grin on his face as he was sure that they would be pleased to be here for a short time today.

"We'll be going over more harmless creatures today. They're herbivores and are quite well known in the wizarding circles. When you were young were ever blamed for something you didn’t do? Say for instance your mother’s garden was getting a bit wrecked?” he asked with a small smirk, knowing that things like that had happened to him many times in his youth and he got off with it most of the time by blaming various creatures when really, it was mostly his fault. “That could have been a Knarl.” he told them. “They resemble a young pig except it’s covered with quills. Muggles often mistake the Knarl for a Hedgehog. If it's offered food it becomes a right nasty beastie. Suspicious creatures they are. They always think that you’re going to poison them.” he said, chuckling softly as he shook his head.

“Right on to the next creature.” Harry said after a small pause for anyone who was taking notes to catch up for anyone to ask him a question. He then turned his attention to a large creature with soulful large black eyes and silky, long hair, behind him which he had brought out for this class. Looks like an Ape doesn’t it? The kind you’d see these at a muggle zoo. This though is called a Demiguise. It comes from the Far East and is a peaceful creature. It's highly magic though as it can turn itself invisible. Which is why its pelt is a highly sought after commodity.” he rhymed off, patting the Demiguise softly as he talked. “You see, it's woven into Invisibility Cloaks, which I'm sure you’ve heard of in your History of Magic class, or if not, maybe you’ve heard of the Deathly Hallows?” Harry said, knowing it was a rather famous and highly sought after piece of clothing so most of the class should have heard of it by now. “If not, then I may tell you of that tale another day, lets continue.” He told them with a small wink before continuing the last creature for the day.

Moving away from the Demiguise he retrieve a small round bird covered in golden feathers. It looked perfectly like a Golden Snitch. It had a long, thin beak and Professor Thornton told them of its fully rotational wings. "Nifty little bird it is too. See how its eyes are bright red? They move just like a Golden Snitch too. Poor thing nearly went extinct thanks to it being used in Quidditch before the Golden Snitch was invented. They're still around but not many of them remain." he told them, a hint of sadness in his voice. He was not fond of such wonderful creatures being used for things out of what they were meant to be used for and when they nearly go extinct due to the stupidity of some humans. “They are called snidgets.” he told them finally. "Now class is nearly over. Just over here,” he outstretched his arm a few meters from the side of the main class area, “In a magical containment, are all of these creature that I taught you about today. Go have fun. It’ll be like petting zoo” He told them with a short laugh, the students were old enough now to not be interesting in petting zoos but this was much different to what they were used too.

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