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Juno MacGuff [Juno] (sacredvessel) wrote in colligo_threads,
@ 2011-02-26 07:59:00

Entry tags:

james watson, juno weasley

WHO: Juno, Watson (& Watson?)
WHAT: Homework of the scientific variety
WHEN: Backdated to the first week of the marriage plot!
WHERE: The family digs
WARNINGS: tba

Juno had homework. Lots of it. Particularly math and science, because she'd done all the easy, fun stuff like literature first. Then she'd tackled history, and slogged through it, and now she was looking at science as possible escapism from the memorization of dates and events that were all swimming together in a sea of meaninglessness, considering she was biffles with a couple of wizard dudes from the seventies, and currently living with not one but two--count them--two of the greatest science nerds that ever lived.

"Ugh, this was all so much easier in elementary school, my dear Watsons," she groaned from her nest of couch cushions. "And I wish my biology teacher would stop looking at me like she's wondering how politically incorrect it would be to use me as an object lesson! I swear, if I get the stink-eye one more time, I'm popping the question, and playing hooky." The question being, 'why are we here?' and Juno's answer being 'now you see me, now you don't!'

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sacredvessel
2011-03-03 08:40 pm UTC (link)

Plants were cool. Juno was cool with plants. As long as the subject didn't turn to cactus. Valentine's day had just passed, after all, which was the time of year when her mother inexplicalbly mailed her the annual cactus.

This was be the first year since she was five that Juno didn't be getting one, and in spite of her purported resentment of her mother, she almost missed it. Everything had changed so much in the past few months, it was sometimes hard to find a constant. Odd that her pregnancy had become something of a focus for her, when before her arrival in Colligo, she had tried not to become too attached to the little one growing in her womb.

And she was getting distracted again. "Sorry. Sorry. I was just thinking about motherhood."

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holmesianmodel
2011-03-04 02:56 am UTC (link)

"Well sadly that really is one topic that I have no idea about. At all." No kids, and no one that ever wanted kids. It was just something he didn't know too much about. Once upon a time, he had thought about having them, but that never worked out. Then just like that, he'd been dead. One tended not to think about trivial things after dying.

"Quite all right though, let's see.. Here, let's go over the parts of a plant. Starting with the root, and what the function of the part of the plant is."

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sacredvessel
2011-03-04 05:14 am UTC (link)

Juno leaned over to look at the diagram, opening her notebook and laying it across her stomach, doodling as they read. Glancing down, she realized she was sketching out the root system she was looking at, and she was actually sitting still.

"So the carbon dioxide gets absorbed through the leaves, while the roots suck up water and minerals through capillary action in the roots and stem, and it's fueled by energy from sunlight that gets trapped in the chloroplasts--which are also in the leaves. Except for cacti, the photosynthesis happens mostly in the stems, doesn't it? To keep the water from evaporating the way it does out of normal leaves."

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holmesianmodel
2011-03-04 08:03 am UTC (link)

All of this reading and doodling seemed to be working. James smiled a bit and nodded. "That's right. You know once I ran into a eight foot tall man eating cactus? Nasty things, and the spines actually shot out at you. Those are the ones you want to watch out for. Kind of like a venus fly trap." Though the cactus never really talked, unlike in that musical about the singing venus fly trap.

Not that James had ever seen anything like that. Nope.

He rattled off a couple more questions that were for that chapter, making sure that she had all the right knowledge down for her test.

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