Thijs van der Tulpen | Herbology

Backdated to before the masquerade]

I was hoping that the accelerated growing lessons last year would have stuck with some of you, but they didn't.  The pumpkins are just pitiful.  

House points to anybody who comes in to help them grow before the masquerade.

Though, maybe if you don't come help you'll just fail. 

[Hmph.]

[Anybody who comes into the greenhouses will notice that all 4 of Thijs' rabbits have been dressed up for Halloween.]



[ooc:  Feel free to either reply to him or just have your character come into the greenhouses!]

[Hmph.]


This is a reminder to all students that Herbology is a required class for years 1-5.  Even if it's not your area of speciality, I expect to see you putting your all into homework and labs.


Those who are continuing in OWL and NEWT levels have a meeting with me the first morning of school.  You should have already received your specialized equipment lists, but if you somehow haven't please contact me immediately.

 [He's worried enough that Thijs isn't going to worry about being polite.  It's also pretty rare for him to write something during the summer holiday.]

It might not be my place to say, but I hope none of you are doing anything reckless.

The recent news is upsetting; try to watch out for yourselves.


[ooc:  Still technically on a hiatus/slowatus so replies might be delayed.]

[After working extremely hard managing all the student exams he's just plain tired and not a little skeptical about the field trip.]

 [Filtered to staff]  

Who else is being roped into the field trip . . . don't you think we should have a strategy this time?  It's not like we can give them detention when it's the end of the year.

[Fussy as usual.]

[Open]

Don't screw off on the field trip; you just end up looking like idiots.

This is, once again, a reminder that the greenhouses will not be providing any equipment that you should already own.  Each level has their own supplies.  Exceptions to this rule must have made arrangements with me before the exam itself.

[And now, a lecture.]

One of the keys to Herbology is beforehand preparation; if you don't come with all of your equipment, or if equipment isn't in good shape, you will lose points.

We've been doing this all year; you guys should know this.

Heya Mayfield kids.  This is just a heads up that I'm changing journals for this game. 


vertulpen  ====>> gezellighe 


I'll get on with re-adding people shortly.

This does NOT apply to sortinghat_rpg .

[Phone]

I don't know who you are, but Hilda told me there was somebody looking for Hilbert earlier. 

I'm sorry, he's been killed.

[No other way to say it, really.]

[Action]

[If there was anything to be glad about, it was that the night had been uneventful.  After Hilda had gone to bed late while he slept, Holland had been awake in the dark hours of the morning keeping watch.  He'd purposefully kept the lights off, only using a flashlight when it was absolutely necessary.  Over the windows that Nena had broken earlier, he'd tried to put some cardboard, pushing some bookshelves against them as well.  It wasn't very safe here; maybe they should go to another house in the morning.

Maybe people would assume they weren't home.

Right.

So he rested in the armchair in the dark, rifle, the handgun and the hammer next to him.  It was . . . he simply felt tired.  Finding Hilbert dead on the route to school was pretty jarring to them both, and even though the kid wasn't really his son, he felt responsible for him and besides that, he liked Hilbert and Hilda.  They were good kids and never gave him any kind of trouble.

He wouldn't let anything happen to Hilda; he wondered, too, where Japan and Spain were, where Lucas was, and Batgirl too, and hoped they were alright.  He might have even wondered where Charles was.   Maybe.

It was finally starting to get light, the faintest hints of sunrise spreading through the dark of the sky.  Netherlands sighed, then checked the handgun again.]