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Hogwarts RPG Name:
Flora B. Thiese
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Originally Posted by BanaBatGirl  Oh no, no no no. Nope. William wasn't going to toss them a treat, even though he kind of weirdly wanted to see the broken cat attempt to eat it. "Erm, nice to meet you, Flora. But do you know anything about caring for Catastrophe, or…?" Or would he have to start from scratch with this first year? Well, no.
Obviously Flora knew NOTHING about caring for Catastrophe, otherwise, she was SURE, her cat wouldn't look the way it looked. Or acted the way it acted. Or was the way it just WAS.
Why was she allowed to get a pet? She had no idea. What she did know, though, was that, the only way she could get herself cat a treat was to answer a question. All the obvious answers were already given. Food? Duh. Water. Double duh. Did someone say kittens? That was weird. "I make sure he doesn't eat plastic." SPOILER!!: www Quote:
Originally Posted by BanaBatGirl William looked around to see if he'd missed anyone and then pointed to the board with his wand again.
FOOD | BEHAVIOR | TRAITS "We've discussed cats and kneazles being motivated by food, and being particular about their water and grooming, amongst other characteristics...." He wasn't going to spell it all out for them; he'd done enough by organizing their responses, kinda. "But what I'm most interested in, today, is feline behavior, particularly around other felines. Some people say that mundane cats can't be trained, much less magical ones or even wild ones. So let's do a small experiment."
He took a few steps toward the cat run and again gestured with his wand, this time levitating a box of various cat toys, treats, brushes, leashes, harnesses, and the like, so that the box drifted toward where the class was sitting. It seemed to hesitate for a moment and then the box spilled out and scattered all along the ground in front of the kids. And the box itself tumbled to the ground to rest like a big empty temptation to all the animals.
William grinned. "Oops. Well anyway, now that you can see the tools available to you, let's see if you can get your pet, or one of Hogwarts' highly intelligent kneazles, to complete the Cat Obstacle Course, with NO MAGIC help from you, though I do recommend that you run alongside the course. We'll have you race one feline at a time, and I'll clock your times to see who wins." He held up an ordinary stopwatch so they could see. "Remember, use the tools at your disposal to keep your feline in line. If you're a scaredy cat," he added, thinking of the few kids who hadn't picked up a kneazle yet, "you can also work with ONE partner and their animal. Ready? GO!"
Whoever was first could step right on up and get going...
He, meanwhile, was going to hang out at the back with Carwyn. Er, the silver fox resting just behind him. He'd save the fastest one for last, heh. Which was a lot easier than what she had to do NOW.
An obstacle course. And obstacle course with her broken, derpy, bugged eye tongue sticker outer of a cat! This was going to be great! Flora was laughing. And crying because she was laughing so much. And if she hadn't already been sitting down, she would've needed to to catch her breath. Deep breath. Deeeeeep breath.
She'd have to at least try. You know. More human cat treats.
Flora wiped a few of her laughter!tears away before standing up and moving over to where the harnesses were. She didn't KNOW a cat could wear one of them, and she didn't KNOW how to even put it on, but she figured she did alright since all the cat's legs were all still attached when she was finished. Good enough. She placed the cat down onto the ground, and amazingly enough.. the cat was not even phased. Blep. Catastrophe's tongue escaped from his mouth once again. Bleeeeeep. Would she be allowed to just pull the cat all the way to the end? She gave the leash a small little tiny tug.
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