Care of Magical Creatures: Lesson One (All Years)

Zoey was eager to get to Care of Magical Creatures, it fascinated her, how all these creatures existed and muggles had no idea. It was harder to tame creatures than people, you couldnt always stop creatures from flying off over the heads of a muggle town. She walked down the hill toward the assigned area for the class to meet and was a bit shocked that she was the first to arrive. But she didnt mind, it showed her thirst for knowledge and eagerness to learn. She smiled at the young professor "Hello Professor Jameson." She said before pushing a strand of loose hair out of her face. She looked into the clearing and smiled when she saw the creatures "What are we learning about today sir?" Her need for information evident in the way her eyes sparkled as she spoke. SHe looked closer at the creature and smiled "Is that- Is that a hippogriff sir?" She asked

Another year was starting and Elyah felt... optimistic. She was growing into a lady now. She was no longer a kid. And people were slowly noticing that. First of all, her father, who was now treating her like a mature woman. Not that he was ever seeing her as a child, but he was treating her kind of differently. Good differently though, and that was acceptable. She didn't want things to change too much. Elyah had been having a lovely life with her father, and she just didn't want to lose all that just because she was growing up.

The summer was perfect. Nero -her father- had taken her to the middle East, cause Elyah being Elyah wanted adventure. They saw the pyramids and heard all about the history there and just to add more to that, Elyah forced Nero to take pictures with her, where she always made him have a funny face. Nero despised it, Elyah loved it.
And there was also Max.... and his little blonde girlfriend.
Prim was a nice girl, yes, but Elyah didn't like her. She was... too good. Which was translated into 'i'm just jealous' .
She had exchanged some letters with Max, but that was pretty much it.

And now she was making her way to Care of Magical Creatures, knowing that her best friend, was going to be there hand in hand with his girlfriend.
And it was annoying. Really, really, annoying.
Upon arrival, Elyah let out a breath when she saw that Max was not there and neither was Prim. Of course they would come in a short while since Max never skipped CoMC, but at least she had some time before the storm hit.

Rebekah really did not feel like going to class, but she had no choice. It was either go to class or deal with a lecture from Zoey later on in the evening about the importance of going to class and learning. She did not feel like dealing with her mini mother, so off to class she went.

She walked into the clearing and raised an eyebrow at the creatures standing there, "Why are we learning about giant chickens?" She asked unsure as to what exactly the creatures were. She then heard a few students mumble about what the creatures were. Hippogriffs. Ok, so thats what they were called, good to know.

She heard one of her housemates make a snarky comment and she smirked as she walked over to him "Now now, some people have egos and are still pretty awesome." She said referring to herself more than anyone else.

Today was going to be the first day of his first elective. Last year when he'd been told he'd have to select other classes to attend, Shaun had asked some of his housemates for advice, as well as his father. They both had gone over the options and asked a few of the adults about the wizard jobs. While he still had no idea what he wanted to do, he had decided to take the Care of Magical Creatures. During the past two summers he'd helped out at his father's veterinary clinic, and while he didn't dislike animals, they weren't something he was overjoyed with. It hadn't crossed his mind until after he'd signed up for this class and bought his book that Shaun thought he might not like this class at all. In his head he was saying, 'Please not, spiders, please not spiders.' If the book was to be believed they had spiders as big as houses here!

Having walked across the grounds, he spotted where they were supposed to go and was curious about what they were going to be taught as well as slightly dreading it. Loitering at the edges, he peered at the things they were studying and felt his mouth drop open. Before he could form a thought or remark on the creatures an older Hufflepuff student summed up what he'd first thought they were: eagles horses. And the Hufflepuff girl tacked on about the chickens which in all honesty is also what they reminded him of. A giant mutant love child of a chicken, horse, and eagle. Shaun felt himself relax a little bit glad that they weren't studying spiders.