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Fifth Years: Lesson 3; *Archived* All Houses
Topic Started: Nov 23 2011, 09:10 PM (113 Views)
Professor Harry Thornton
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Care of Magical Creatures Professor (Years 5-7)

Harry finished going over his lesson plan for the day. He was starting to get used to this whole teaching malarkey so it was starting to get easier for him to prepare for the lessons. The lesson itself was easy for him to teach as he knew his subject matter like the back of his hand. Harry was excited about this lesson as he was giving the students the chance to move away from the familiar surroundings of the school grounds to the Forbidden Forest – although if the students were like himself a few may already be familiar with the place. Of course those days were long behind him and he only really entered the forest now when he was on duty and went to check up on the animals, as Care of Magical Creatures Professor it was all part of his job so he didn’t mind it so much. As he waited for the class to arrive he hoped that everyone would corporate with him as some may not be willing to enter the forest having heard about a young boys death in there some years ago. As the class approached him he smiled at them and waved for them to gather round so he could take roll. Once everyone had arrived he looked over his students faces. “Morning guys. So in the spirit of Halloween this month I’ve made this class a bit more spooky than usual.” he said with a goofy grin as he tried to make the lesson sound as interesting as possible.

To see just how well his students knew the subject and the creatures they would be studying this year he decided to give them a few hints about the creature they would be studying today to see if anyone knew what it was. “Some call me an Omen, but I say differently. I bite if provoked but I do nothing more. Not many can see me but if you do you’ve seen a death in your life. What am I?” he asked, knowing the last hint would probably be the most obvious one that he told them. Harry saw a puzzled look on a few of his students, which he admitted may not be nothing new, but when he saw someone raise their hand he called on them to see if they would get it right.
“You’re a Thestral?” The young student asked. Harry beamed at them and nodded his head. “Correct! We will be studying Thestral’s today.” he told them, taking note of the student so he could awarded some extra points to their house. “Before we went the forest, I understand that not everyone will be able to see them but I will try my best to describe them to you.” he told them, having seen a few deaths in his years, nothing too serious and he had long gotten over the loss of those close to him.

Inclining his head for the students to follow him, Harry made his way into the forest. They wouldn’t be going in too far today but these creatures didn’t live too far in. Once they had arrived at a clearing in the forest, to some it would seem empty but there were a few Thetral’s roaming around the clearing, they were very gentle creatures and kept themselves to themselves mostly. Harry walked up to one of the closer ones and patted him, to some it would look like he was patting thin air. Reaching around for his satchel which contained some food for the creatures, taking out a piece of raw meat he held it as he talked. “Thestral’s are carnivorous creatures. They have a great sense of direction.” Setting the piece of raw meat on the ground he said, “This Thestral will take this back to his family.” he said as the Thestral picked it up. Again, to anyone who couldn’t see the creatures it would appear that the meat with floating in mid air and as the Thestral walked back into the forest it continued to look like it was floating until the Thestral had disappeared into the forest.

Turning back to the students he was happy to see that a few seemed to look interested. “Thestrals are skeletal horse like creatures with reptilian features. Fascinating once you can see them." he said with a smile as he moved over to one of the other clearings near them, inclining for the students to follow. “Onto the next creature." Harry told them as they went over to the other clearing. Sunlight lit the large eagle head and forelegs before rippling over the large furry lion body and hind legs. Its lion’s tail whipped with a crack as it regarded them with its golden eagle eyes. "Ah! Behold the mighty Griffin." Professor Thornton approached the creature slowly before giving him a small bow. The Griffin inclined his head and came forward to butt its head against Harry’s chest. He chuckled and stroked the feathers.

“It always amazes me how enchanting these creatures can be.” he said, more to himself than anyone else, a fondness in his voice as he turned to face the students as he continued to stroke the Griffin. “Now the Ministry class these as 4 star creature, it takes a skilful wizard to befriend one, if I do say so myself. Now for safety reasons, I have cast a shield charm over you lot, just in case.” he said with a small wink, and while this Griffin was very friendly with Harry he knew it was a standard procedure for when he was confronted with people he didn’t know. “Now this handsome creature here is named Zeus. Griffins, originated in Greece, but now can be found almost anywhere. They have the head of an eagle, and back parts of a lion. They are strong creatures, feed off raw meat, dangerous when provoked.” he rhymed off a number of facts about the creatures that were the most important for the students to know. “For safety reasons, I can’t let you pet it, but I thought that you should at least see it, they’re beautiful creatures, some people go their whole life without ever seeing them, it’s a shame." he said, shaking his head, how people could go their whole life without seeing these magnificent creatures was a mystery to him. He bowed once more before moving away from the Griffin.

“Now since last lesson was a bore, I will let each and every one of you ride the Thestral. If you can’t see it then I will help you to get up on it, just focus on where you want to go, but don’t go too far. Have fun.” Harry said cheerily when he reached back to the first clearing where there was still a few Thestrals around. He let the students that were able to see the Thestral’s go to one side of the clearing and go about it themselves and he helped out the ones that couldn’t see them. When class was over he let the class go, no homework.

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For full marks: RP the lesson and riding the Thestral. Please be creative.
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