Herbology, Lesson 1 - All years

[Jonathan Doom]

Jon stood at the front of the greenhouse, piece of chalk in hand, back to the desks that were lined up waiting for students to occupy them. They would not be dealing with any plants or herbs today. Jon never requested that his students did on the first day. He could recall when he himself had to when he was still a student at Hogwarts, and it had ended badly. It never hurt to go over information before actually dealing with things hands on. He wanted his students to know exactly what they were dealing with before they dealt with it. After all, some of the students were new to the class. (And well, the ones who weren't could get a refresher) It was certainly better than his own first year of Herbology - in which he'd lost a chunk of hair. He shuddered at the memory as he lifted the chalk to the board. Unlike many of the other professors, he preferred to do everything by hand. Jon had always believed that using a wand to do too much would lead to laziness.

He wrote his name across the board, each letter quick and only barely legible. (Professor J. Doom it read) And below that he wrote Herbology 1:1, Introduction to Herbology. He paused briefly after writing the words, before he added the instructions for the students to follow upon entering the room. Pull out your book and turn to chapter one. Today we will be going over basic herbs and their uses in every day magic. Have your quill and parchment ready to take down notes. As soon as he was done, he dropped the chalk back down in front of the board and turned to face the desks that he'd set up. He leaned against his own, waiting for the students to arrive.

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Azazel rarely liked dealing with plants but knew some of them, if not most but he wanted to take the course as a refresher to understand and to remember what each plant did and didn't do. He doubted that they would probably deal with plants that day since they would have to first understand the main points of each plant and how they could be bothersome to them in each possible way. He wasn't really at all scared of plants since how much damage could they do to him? Though he knew that some could be bothersome and have a toll but they couldn't really kill him since he was already considered dead as he was a vampire.

He looked at the door in front of him and he was surprised to find himself facing it. He was never out of it but he couldn't remember how he had gotten here so quickly but then again he was thinking a lot lately that it ended up to be bad. He put his hand on the door and entered the room and looked around and spotted the professor and stopped breathing instantly since human sent was slightly hard for him at the moment because he hadn't eaten but then again he was not totally afraid he would attack. After almost 400 years he doubted that he would but walked up to him and then looked at him before going to the back of the classroom and sat in a desk fallowing the directions on the board and waited patiently though not hardly making a sound and not really talkative. He was waiting to see if the professor would talk to him first.

[Jonathan Doom]

He glanced up as the first student entered the class. A Ravenclaw. That actually didn't surprise Jonathan much at all. In all his years teaching at Hogwarts, he had come to notice that many of the first arrivals were Ravenclaw. There had been only a few exceptions. This student was silent. That wasn't at all strange, either, from the house. Of course, there were exceptions. But even Jonathan had noticed certain trends among the different houses.

"Welcome to my class," he said with a smile as the student took a seat. He followed the directions on the board, a good sign. Jonathan tended to like students who could follow them, over those who couldn't, "The rest of the class should be arriving soon. You are?" Well, it wouldn't hurt to know who he is early. It would make his job easier when it came time to take roll.

OOC: I plume forgot to post here as I had decided to wait on another student. I'm so sorry. I will get this class running, though, so we can get to a second lesson soon.

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Kagirinai stretched his limbs as he slowly sat up from his seated position on the lawns. He had been resting amongst the snow enjoying the feel of the cold chill on his bones, it wasn't very often he got to simply relax like this in the snow, the last time he had seen snow he was trying to prevent himself from dying against another assassin from the Japanese Underground. The Ravenclaw slowly stood up stretching again arching his back like a cat as a loud crack was heard. He sighed in relief as he bent down to pick up his wooden cane. He gently took the handle in his right hand and lifted it dusting a bit of the snow from the wood.

The cane seemed to shiver from the moisture on its length. The Ravenclaw removed a white silk handkerchief from his pocket and used it to wipe the water away leaving the cane dry. The hidden blade purred at his touch. Kagirinai simply ignored the cane and headed off to his next class, Herbology the study of magical plants or something. Though he was curious about the plants of the Western Magical World and what they did. Was it possible for him to gene splice plants from Japan with plants of Magical Britain? What new combination of plants could he design? How would these magical plants react to being gene spliced with plants from the demon world? Only time through experimentation would he discover this. He would have to take a few seeds from numerous specimens for his experiments to work.

The Japanese male stalked towards the greenhouses where his class would be. He stuffed his left hand in his pocket while holding his cane in his right. It was quite odd to see one physically capable of walking using a cane, but he would never be separated from his sword, she was one of the few he held close to his heart.

As the greenhouse came into view he could see someone standing in front of one, desks lining before him. His eyes turned to another student who had arrived first, a Ravenclaw. He wasn't sure who he was but didn't really care. All that mattered to him was the knowledge this class would bring, and from the numerous specimens he could see within the green houses themselves it would be a truly interesting subject this Herbology.

He had heard the teacher speaking to his fellow house-mate and decided he might as well introduce himself, "Good day Sensei it's so good to be here, the names Kagirinai Ikazuchiarashi and I hope you will embark your knowledge upon me, I'm looking forward to this. No doubt the magical plants that are native here will be so very different to those of my home Japan" spoke Kagirinai introducing himself with a half bow.

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Azazel had become concerned with several things recently and it seemed like everything was unraveling in front of him. School wasn't the issue, just life in general that had become harder for him to take especially since he hadn't fed for so long that it seemed like it was going to kill him though, it wouldn't, he would just get out of control. He needed to find a place to hunt where it wouldn't be considered territory and if he thought about it he could probably find a place to go hunt, maybe in a forest that was not on school grounds.

"I am Azazel Pertro. I can wait patiently for the other students, it's not a big deal. Thanks, I look forward to your class, i have always liked learning about plants and it is one of the few subjects I enjoy." he said looking up and smiling gently then watched as another student, a ravenclaw, enter the room and he recognized him but not by name.