Lawrence Marsh

January 15, 2021 8:23 AM
Lawrence was exhausted. In the last four weeks he’d had to travel three times to his parents house. His mother had demanded his presence the first three times, and the last time was because of the lack of hearing from her prompted his travel. Thanks to flue networks, this was quick. Not for the first time he couldn’t imagine what muggles did, having to travel for hours at a time. The thought of having to ride the stage coach to his parents and back sent momentary shivers down his back.

Still, Lawrence could only stand his parents to a certain point and that point was reached in the summer. Due to their lack of communication abilities Lawrence was still trying to figure out what it was that was happening in the house. All he could tell was his mother was worried, definitely, his father was sick, maybe, and his father was being as loquacious as always, which was not much. Lawrence, wished he’d had a bit more people skills or at least could understand people better. Then maybe he could have figured out what was going on.

Sadly, he would be reminded of all of this due to the next section with the intermediates, parenting. Thankfully Lawrence didn’t teach the “how they become parents” section until later in the school year. Though the next one was on mating rituals and selection, the irony not lost on Lawrence that he was the one teaching it. This lesson though, coming at this time, was just as uncomfortable. Lawrence put his teacher's smile on as students began entering class.

“Hello dear students. In our lives, mine included, our parents typically care for us from birth to the age of 18. Can anyone tell me what parents usually provide?” This was always a tricky question, you could walk into a myriad of landmines with this one, but he took a deep breath and chose one of the students who raised their hand.

“Correct, parents provide us with food, shelter, love, and education. Parenting with magical creatures though depends somewhat on parentage, or the percentage of a species' social group that are offspring from caregivers. Some creatures parents care for their offspring for years like humans, while others simply release their little ones into the wild and hope for the best. Today, we're going to look at some examples, from the most complex creatures to some of the simplest. You will find in the front of classes three boxes. Each box is marked by year, this corresponds to your year in school.

I’d like you to team up with someone from your year and draw a card. The card will have an image of a creature, it’s name, and the average number of offspring per creature. I want you and your partner to look at the picture and number of offspring and hypothesize, remember that word?, hypothesize what parenting qualities you think the creature has. Then, once you are done writing out your hypothesis, I want you to go into your textbook and research the section on parenting. Some creatures have more information than others. For homework I’d like you to read from Magizoologies book I got you all as the secondary book for class and read pages 43-47, it will be on different Beasts and Beings and how their parenting styles differ. As always I’ll be walking around, let me know if you have any questions by raising your hand or hooting.”

Lawrence gave a smile and then a little hoot before nodding his head to let students separate themselves. He might have to talk to Killian to figure out what was happening in his parents house.


OOC: Third years can expect creatures categorized in XX and XXX
Fourth Years in XXX
Fifth Years in XXXX

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