AN: sorry for the long time between updates, I've had a butt load of homework, plus volleyball games, church, friends, family, and those lovely teachers that love to stuff even more homework down your throats then give you a butt load of tests, ah well, you got to love high school. God Bless!
Walking out the doors of Hogwarts the turned left, they realized then that they must be on the wrong side of the castle because they couldn't even see the greenhouses. They then turned right and sure enough after going a few paces, they saw a row of greenhouses. They ambled their way towards them and found of line of students waiting outside of one and joined them.
They were praying, or from what Camille could hear Leanne praying that they would not interrogate them anymore than they had already been. Much to her dismay, a girl came up to them and asked, "Why don't you wear robes?"
"Um, because we have to be able to blend in with muggles on almost a daily basis and that gets a little more complicated when you wear robes. Hence, we wear our uniforms that look like every other private schools uniform," Annalisa explained.
"Oh okay then, I have another question," she started to ask.
But at that moment Professor Longbottom showed up and said, "Okay you lot, hurry in we have a lot to cover today."
They all entered the greenhouse and stood by the tables. The girls took out their books, spirals, and pencil cases and looked up at Professor Longbottom.
"Okay, today we are going to be squeezing Bubotubers. Please collect the puss into these bottles over here. Don't be squeamish please Madame Pomfrey needs the entire puss possible. Off you go," Professor Longbottom said.
The girls shrugged and began working; they had done this last year in science of magic when they learned about different magical plants that could help cure physical ailments. They squeezed the Bubotubers dry until the end of the lesson when they had collected the most amount of puss. For homework, Professor Longbottom gave them a foot and half long essay on the properties of Bubotubers puss.
Afterwards, the girls headed off to their next class, transfiguration. This one took them a little longer to find, but they only managed to get lost six times on their way. When they arrived, they took seats in the back of the classroom to try to escape more questions and stares. They succeeded in part, no one came up to ask them anything, but they kept on staring at them and pointing, most likely spreading rumors about what they heard about them. Most didn't seem to care, Margret who she was sitting next to along with Tammy had taken out a mirror and was checking her make-up and Tammy had buried her nose and a book. Finally, Professor Jennings entered the room. "Alright, today we will be working on turning a teacup into a toad," she said.
After that, Camille zoned out, they had done that last year in their composition of spells class. She looked around her and saw that basically all of her friends had done the same thing too. "Now, everyone come up to the front and grab a teacup," Professor Jennings said. Once they had all made it back to their seats, they set to work. With lazy flicks of their wands, the girls all succeeded in turning their teacups into toads.
A boy with unruly hair turned around and asked them, "How did you do that?" after he heard the croaking of their toads.
"Very carefully," Margret said.
"I mean how did you do that without talking?" the boy asked again.
"Like I said, we did it very carefully, and we learned that spell last year," Margret said.
"You learned that in your second year, and how to do it without talking?" he asked again.
"Um, yeah, and we've been studying magic a lot longer than three years, we start in third grade, or when your eight. We have class then after muggle school three times a week, then in sixth grade, or your first year, we go off to school. By the way, what's your name?" Tammy explained.
"Oh, okay, my name is James. James Potter," he said.
"Hello James Potter, I'm Camille Richardson, and this is Margret Holmes and Tammy Gonzales," Camille said.
"Okay, well I better get back to work, I don't want to get a detention for not working because Professor Jennings would do that," James said and turned around to whisper to his friends.
"I really doubt that he's doing his work, I bet he's just spreading more rumors about us," Tammy said in a huff.
"Oh well, at least they're not spreading rumors that we're stupid or something. Anyway, I hope this year gets harder because we're going to be so far behind in not only this but all the muggle work at the end of this year!" Tammy said.
"Don't worry Tammy, you can just have someone email you the homework," Margret said. "I wish I could make these frogs shut-up!"
"I know what you mean, but we don't learn that for another year," Camille said.
"Rats, then I hope this class is over soon, what do we have next Camille?" Margret asked.
"Potions, this could get interesting. I heard some kids saying that the potions teacher is really hard," Camille said.
"Oh, maybe we'll actually have a challenge," Margret said.
"Margret, when you talk like that you sound stuck up, and that's unbecoming," Tammy said.
"Okay, please come up here and return your frogs or teacups, if you did not succeed with the spell your homework is to practice," Professor Jennings said. They got out of their seats and returned their frogs, after that they headed off towards the dungeons and potions.