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Term 53: September - December 2019 Term Fifty-Three: When In France (Sept 2099 - June 2100)

 
 
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The Observatory is as it always is, despite the later hour. Scheduling conflicts were responsible for that, along with the fact that Simran did not want to hold her seminar lessons on a weekend. Students needed their days off, and more importantly, she had earned her days off and did not want to teach on a Saturday when she could be taking tea.

The November chill doesn't quite bite here, thanks to the charms Simran had carefully set around the place. All the same, she is not dressed in a saree today, but in something rather warmer, an old red-and-gold scarf wrapped around her mouth and nose as she waits for your arrival.

Have you brought your telescopes?

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Question 1: As we know, Astronomy deals with a great deal of Muggle science, but what are its applications within magic?
Question 2: How do most magicians keep track of celestial movements, and how do we avoid unwanted effects on the magic we perform?
Main Activity: Map the night sky, using your hands to measure distance!
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Simran smiled as she caught sight of Cole Vance coming through the corridor -- here was a student who generally seemed to be a night owl, which was always a good thing for astronomy. Not so great for... literally every other subject Hogwarts offered, though. Sadly, he didn't seem terribly jazzed today. Must be the weather.

"Good evening, Master Vance," she returned, gaze following him to his seat, where with the most horrifying of noises, she watched his telescope fall out of his bag and onto the ground.

"Is your telescope alright, dear? Any cracks in the lens? Why don't you bring it over here and I'll run a diagnostic." Was she breathing? Well, not really.



"Let's start," she said, flicking her hand absently at the chalkboard behind her, setting the piece of chalk that she'd enchanted before the lesson in motion. "As we know, Astronomy deals with a great deal of Muggle science, but what are its applications within magic?"

On the blackboard, was written in a loopy cursive: Applications of Astronomy within Magic before the chalk gave a little wiggle and went back to its box.
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Ducking low to the ground Cole stuffed his belongings back into his backpack and to avoid any stares from his peers. He had a feeling there we’re some. Professor Sandhu of course had heard the loud clank as his telescope hit the floor. He supposed it had been hard to miss hearing. With most of his stuff back in it’s right place, Cole lifted up his telescope to examine it as he heard Professor Sandhu’s concerned queries. Not exactly sure if anything was broken even if it looked okay, he went up front with it to the professor saying "I think my telescope survived the fall Professor Sandhu, but can you please still look it over?" Leaving it on her desk Cole went back to his seat.

Minutes later the lesson begun with a question on astronomy’s application within magic. Erm. Cole listened to his peers answers for a while before he raised his hand to answer "I don’t know if it’s right, but being born under certain star sign I’ve heard can make you more apt at certain magic spells. If your born under a water sign like pieces you could be pretty apt at water spells and so on." Cole was probably way off but at least he had answered.
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"Lycanthropy," Dalia replied with her hand raised. It was obvious, wasn't it? "When the moon is full, the affected person shifts into their werewolf form." It wasn't spellcasting, herbology, potions or even creatures, but it was still a part of magic. She was actually surprised at first that no one had thought of it, but on second thought, it was probably because of Professor de Nostradame's reaction to the mention. Even if it had all been in the way the kid had phrased it to the class.
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Alessandro politely nodded to the Professor as he entered the Observatory. An already severe young man, he was somehow more reserved than usual due to the late hour. Al tried not to look like he would rather be back in the dorms, in his bed, but, well, Astronomy was not quite his cup of tea.

Still, he was polite. Yet quiet.

As the lesson started and the first question was posed, he jotted down some of his classmates suggestions for practical applications of Astronomy to magic. The only idea he could conjure was in regards to brewing potions. So many potions worked in tandem with moon cycles. But other peers seemed to be on the same train of thought as Alessandro, so his hand remained down and his mouth stayed shut.
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Analiese untied her scarf as she greeted Professor Sandhu. "It's Anderson now, Professor.", she explained. She walked to her desk and hung her woollen scarf on the back of the chair. "My day's been alright, thanks. I'm just a bit tired. What about yours?", she answered in response to Avalon's question. She yawned and waited for the lesson to start.

Once the door shut, Analiese's eyes turned to Professor Sandhu. She thought carefully about the question before raising her hand. "The power of nature taken from astronomy can help to make new spells and potions.", she simply said. She couldn't be bothered to say more. She was too tired. She needed her bed.


Simran blinked. Of course it was Anderson now. She had known that since the beginning of the year, but it was difficult to kick oneself out of old habits. She had the same problem last year, with Drewett Gunther. “Of course, dear. My apologies. Won’t happen again.”

Analiese’s response to the question caused Simran’s eyes to narrow. This copout of an answer felt uncharacteristic, and while she understood that the lateness of the hour was something to take into account, she wondered why the girl had bothered to raise her hand at all. “A great many things can be used to make new spells and potions, dear. While it is true that Astronomy helps, I was looking for a more specific effect.”


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Lucas couldn't help but smile at her words. She seemed really proud of her house, didn't she? Or, both of their houses because it was one house. That. Yeah. She still seemed proud, which only made him smile even more.

The smile only stayed when Cole came and sat down near him. "Hey! How are-"

CLANK!

.............

Oh. Uh. That was..... awkward.

Instinctively, the boy tried to slide down his chair until he was under his desk, something that was a LOT harder to do now that he was...... well, still growing. Long legs, y'know? But that didn't matter right now. He started gathering up the items closest to the desk and trying to set them back on the desk again. A little awkwardly but, well, yeah.

Some items and a lot of shuffling on his hands and knees later, he looked up at Cole again. "Do you think that's everything?" Because, well, they were his items, after all. And how was his telescope? No cracks, right? He was hoping.

It was only when Sandhu started the class that Lucas shuffled back to his chair and sat down again. Astronomy. Astronomy and magical applications? He knew about the muggle science part but that was more obvious. This was..... less so, and that's what made him start thinking. Really thinking.

Some time later, he slowly raised his hand up in the air. "Well, see, Astronomy's helped with muggle medicines, right? So I guess the same could be said for Healing as well." Because logic, right? "Especially if there are some potions or pastes that need ingredients picked at the right time or according to the cycle of the moon." Or was this just potions in general?


It was always heartwarming to see students help one another. And especially so when they happened to be Gryffindors, because Simran adored every opportunity she got to give house points to her little babies. “Take five points to Gryffindor for your assistance, Master Dakest.”

Meanwhile, she’d just… attend to the telescope now, yes.


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Ducking low to the ground Cole stuffed his belongings back into his backpack and to avoid any stares from his peers. He had a feeling there we’re some. Professor Sandhu of course had heard the loud clank as his telescope hit the floor. He supposed it had been hard to miss hearing. With most of his stuff back in it’s right place, Cole lifted up his telescope to examine it as he heard Professor Sandhu’s concerned queries. Not exactly sure if anything was broken even if it looked okay, he went up front with it to the professor saying "I think my telescope survived the fall Professor Sandhu, but can you please still look it over?" Leaving it on her desk Cole went back to his seat.

Minutes later the lesson begun with a question on astronomy’s application within magic. Erm. Cole listened to his peers answers for a while before he raised his hand to answer "I don’t know if it’s right, but being born under certain star sign I’ve heard can make you more apt at certain magic spells. If your born under a water sign like pieces you could be pretty apt at water spells and so on." Cole was probably way off but at least he had answered.


The telescope now on her desk, she smiled gently at the boy as he retreated to his seat. She had been an astronomer long enough to have knocked over her fair share of telescopes, alongside more delicate and expensive equipment. She’d also been an astronomer in both magical and muggle spheres long enough to run diagnostics on both sorts of telescopes.
And because this one here was a magical telescope (was it one of those which recognised constellations? Simran had always found those cool, though they weren’t allowed during exams for obvious reasons), she ran her wand over it, and when nothing appeared to glow red after the charm’s completion, returned it to its owner.

“Everything seems to be in order. Quite a resilient telescope you have there."


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”Well done, Master Dakest!” she exclaimed, thrilled. Though, really, she shouldn’t be surprised, considering the boy frequently came to her for additional astronomy worksheets. “Moon phases do indeed affect the properties of some ingredients, both in potions and alchemy. Fluxweed, commonly used in the Polyjuice and other form-altering potions, is a good example of something to be picked under the full moon.”

And as for Master Vance, he too received a smile. “Indeed, that is a very prevalent theory, and has yet to be conclusively proven,” she said, nodding. “There has been a great deal of speculation as to the connection between the astrological sign one is born under and the wand that becomes one’s life partner, and the natural affinity for certain magics.”

“I’ve heard that water signs make the best healers, and that fire signs are excellent offensive duellers, but that’s all hypothesis at the moment.” Sadly, speculation was all it was. “Perhaps one of you will be able to indisputably prove it.”

She had full faith.


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Cecelia couldn't WAIT until she'd perfecting warming charms. She imagined her own scarf would be SUPER nice to have wrapped around her neck when it was all toasty warm and she smiled just thinking about it. ...Only she had to STOP thinking about it PRETTY quickly 'cause before she KNEW it, they were starting class!

Cool thing WAS, Cecelia was NEVER allowed to stay up this late at home. Well, not unless there was a special occasion, so THIS having class SO LATE thing made her feel VERY grown up. As for the question being asked, she wasn't too sure? She could take a guess, though! "It helps in relation to dealing with magical creatures. Like, well, knowing when a full moon is coming will help you know when mooncalves will be out." She nodded seriously...and then smiled a little, just glad she was able to come up with something she was happy with.


Simran could scarecely remember the thrill of perfecting warming charms – it had been so many years ago now, that she really didn’t think much of it when she performed it now. When she had been Cecelia’s age, though, she had done a whole happy dance in that charms lesson. Her charms professor had given her quite the look, and then took off three points for ‘excessive celebration’. Grouchy old grouch, her old professor was.

“Excellent, Miss Summers! And mooncalves are important, especially to herbologists. They’ve got some really special poop.”
Wait. Was she allowed to say poop? “Dung, I mean. Mooncalf dung is a highly valued fertilising substance, due to its high nitrogen content.”

She was totally an adult.


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Ooooh, enchanted chalk! Enraptured, Bernadette watched the fancy piece of chalk squiggle across the board, then she attempted to do the same thing the chalk was doing on her paper.

Applications of Astronomy within Magic

Now then, uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.... Bernadette's small mouth hung open a bit as she tried to think of an answer. Of course she'd thought of one that built off Cece's response, but she knew better than to mention l y c a n t h r o p e s in any lesson at any point for any reason whatsoever anymore.

Nope, she wasn't falling for that one, not even from professors who may appear to be nice and kind toward Gryffindors! Hmm, wait, Bernadette DID have a DIFFERENT creature-related guess though. Her hand shot up with the same eager first-year enthusiasm as always.

"We can um, work with centaurs to study the stars, and make good star charts, and write down when the planets and stars move, and when we on Earth move, and then we can predict stuff, and thus I think we would be using astronomy in a ... divinit--dividend-- divination application?"

Erm? Was she speaking wizardese yet?


Simran really wouldn’t refer to centaurs as creatures, although that may have been their official classification. She was firmly of the opinion that if wizards were to refer to other magical entities as beings, that they must also acknowledge that they themselves fell under the category. But, somehow, that was weirdly still controversial in the year 2099.

“Very good, Miss Grantham,”
she nodded. Very fluent wizardese for a beginner. “It is a very important part of Astronomy, and in Astrology, which is the intersection of the subject with Divination.”

Though she wouldn’t go into too much detail, because she still wanted to ask the rest of the class this, and that would be really counterintuitive.


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The shutting of the door meant that the lesson was going to get started. The lateness at which the lesson was being held did not bother Claudine, actually. She liked to be up later than students her age because it usually meant that less persons were around to disturb her.

Anyway…

Astronomy and its applications within magic?

Claudine listened to a few responses then raised her hand. “For Divination purposes such as recording birth charts.’’ Sure, Bernadette had mentioned Divination but Claudine just briefly expounded on a particular topic within the subject in which Astronomy would be most useful.


”Indeed,” Simran nodded. “Well done, Miss Blaze. The intersection of divination and astronomy is a whole subdiscipline called astrology, and while many astronomers sniff at it, it is a delicate subject, and can easily be misinterpreted.”

The smallest miscalculations could change fortune to disaster, you see. It was a great deal more than luck and guesswork.


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"Lovely to be here again, Professor." Honestly, it was. She was one of the good ones, Professor Sandhu. All the same, Kaiser wasn't really sure if her being a cool professor plus the night time classes would have been enough to make him want to take Astronomy (which he did not find easy) at NEWT level, even if he hadn't only achieved a Poor grade in his OWL.

Onto the lesson then and, true to form, they opened with a question that Kaiser could not easily answer. Of course, every time someone else provided a response, he realised he had already known what they'd said but just hadn't made the connection, which was... frustrating.

So he had to think for... a while. Long enough that Sandhu would have been forgiven for thinking that he was just sitting out this question, but then Kaiser raised his hand.

"The process of being an Animagus?" he tried. Not that this was anything he was remotely interested in, even before hearing what little he knew about the process. "They keep a leaf in their mouth from full moon to full moon. And then they have to spit out the leaf in the rays of the second full moon." There was more to it and all, but that was plenty of information. Moon. Astronomy. She got the idea.


Simran always knew she could rely on Kaiser for a response that was away from what the others were thinking, so while she did throw her gaze on him more than once after she asked the question, she was just about to call on the next student when she noticed him finally raise his hand.

And to think she had thought he no longer cared for her subject. What a truly touching moment.

“Very good, dear! Astronomy, specifically with the changes in moon phases, can and does have a strong effect on transformations, whether caused by potions or by transfiguration. As animagus transformations require both, and require them strongly, it only follows that the moon would have strong effect on it.”


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Phoebe was so so excited to be in class this late at night, and she had to keep from bouncing around and breaking something. Like a telescope. Those were probably terribly expensive, right? She was so busy admiring EVERYTHING - the moon, the stars, the other students, whatever - that she almost missed the question being asked.

Phoebe's hand shot into the air. "We do star charts and things, so it must be important where we are in the whole UNIVERSE. Like... does that mean that gravity and the laws of physics and all that make a difference in how magic is performed? That must be what it means." She tried not to make it seem like she was asking a question, since she was meant to be answering one, but she HAD just confused herself.


Simran would have been perfectly okay with her leaving the room to take a lap around the corridor and release some of that energy if she’d made clear that she needed it. She had a few students who did it on a regular enough basis that only a vague hand gesture and a nod had become all the necessary communication for permission to do so. Permission was important, though. She had to keep track of who was where, especially late at night.

“That is indeed what it means,” she nodded. “The forces and particles around us are a great part of what makes magic possible, especially since most spells are actually alterations made to the electromagnetic field of the earth, but I digress.”


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Chloe yawned as she tried to stay awake and listen. Her early morning was catching up to her now. Maybe on nights she had this class, she should try not to wake up super early to exercise. That was a note she as going to have to remember to make.

She wasn't fully sure of the answer, but others seemed to have something to say so she listened and wrote some notes as they spoke. If she was being honest she never really thought much of the magical side, she knew it was about stars and planets, but that was about it and she had enough trouble figuring all that out.

Looking up she drifted from the conversation going on and started thinking about where certain stars should be.


Simran’s gaze fell on the younger McCarthy – although, she was the middle McCarthy to her now, since there was a new one in her first year class. She’d have to stop referring to this child as the younger. Or perhaps she could continue, and refer to her brother as the youngest McCarthy. Superlatives were truly superb.

But this one seemed to be spacing out, so Simran headed to her desk and rapped it with her knuckles in a sound both soft and sharp. “If you do not intend to contribute to the discussion, Miss McCarthy, I would recommend paying attention to those who are doing so.”


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Applications of Astronomy in Magic. Her brain was a little taken back, as she had been here and there all day and in the library the last hour before this class. Her hand was ready to be raised, thinking of a brief way to say it to give others a chance to talk.

She definitely raised her hand now, after a final thought in her head landed last minute. "The closeness of the moon from the earth, or some other celestials can affect the way some creatures behave in certain times of the year...this includes plants too." Not a wild guess but hopefully a pleasing answer.


”Indeed, Miss Barrie,” Simran nodded, and then took a moment to think on how to delicately phrase her next sentence. “Creatures influenced by the lunar cycle can be emboldened during a supermoon, and distressed during a blood moon.”

The intersection of the two was a cause of great concern for many magizoologists, and also why they were largely kept apprised by Astronomers, so that they could be prepared for what may happen.


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Tina had just enough time to arrange her supplies neatly on the desk in front of her before Professor Sandhu began the lesson. She focused all her attention on the woman, hoping that listening would help her stave off the sleepiness. Well, that explained the late hour! Why was she not at all surprised that the Beauxbatons astronomy professor hadn’t found a better time slot for them? Desmaris treated the Hogwarts students like second class citizens, so of course her staff would follow suit. Mumbling matagots, she’d forgotten just how snobbish Beauxbatons could be! Was that how she sounded to everyone at Hogwarts?

Tina mentally shook herself to stop her wandering thoughts. Astronomy now, rage against injustice later. Back on track, she copied the words written on the blackboard at the top of her notes as she considered the question. Astronomy’s applications within magic… her first thoughts went to divination, but somebody beat her to it. Then she thought of potions, how some potions ingredients needed to be picked or added at certain times in accordance with the moon phases, but that was already said too. She was beginning to draw a blank when something that Hufflepuff girl (Nora) said jogged her memory.

Her mind went back to that herbology lesson about spiral gardens earlier in the term. Her hand shot up, and she said, “Astronomy can be useful in herbology. It’s important to know the position of the sun relative to your location so you know when to plant and what direction your plants should face to get the amount of light they need.” She also knew that the moon’s gravitational pull affected the amount of moisture in soil, but she kept that to herself, as it fell in line with the other girl’s answer and didn’t need repeating.


Simran nodded in approval. “Indeed, Miss Dantes,” she said, turning to the blackboard to make sure all this was being written down. “Not only sunlight, but moonlight, especially for night-blooming specimens such as Norandula.”

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Blake thought about it for a minuet. What has astronomy taught him about his other areas of magic. "Well certain plants have to pick at certain cycles in the moon for potions and stuff." that seemed like a good answer ... yup ... he'd just leave it at that.


”And stuff,” Simran chuckled, but nodded nonetheless. “But yes. Indeed. Moon phases are important for the harvesting of ingredients, and also sometimes for alchemical refinement, as the pull of the moon on the magical tide can affect how magical properties express themselves.”

But that might be too much jargon.


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"Lycanthropy," Dalia replied with her hand raised. It was obvious, wasn't it? "When the moon is full, the affected person shifts into their werewolf form." It wasn't spellcasting, herbology, potions or even creatures, but it was still a part of magic. She was actually surprised at first that no one had thought of it, but on second thought, it was probably because of Professor de Nostradame's reaction to the mention. Even if it had all been in the way the kid had phrased it to the class.


Obvious, yes. Polite, no, not really. Which was partly why Simran had been hoping nobody would bring it up, because it really was not a comfortable topic.

“Yes, indeed. The administration of the wolfbane potion is best done in the week preceeding the full moon, to give the victims of lycanthropy the ability to retain their presence of mind during transformation.”

And that was all she was going to say on the matter.


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Alessandro politely nodded to the Professor as he entered the Observatory. An already severe young man, he was somehow more reserved than usual due to the late hour. Al tried not to look like he would rather be back in the dorms, in his bed, but, well, Astronomy was not quite his cup of tea.

Still, he was polite. Yet quiet.

As the lesson started and the first question was posed, he jotted down some of his classmates suggestions for practical applications of Astronomy to magic. The only idea he could conjure was in regards to brewing potions. So many potions worked in tandem with moon cycles. But other peers seemed to be on the same train of thought as Alessandro, so his hand remained down and his mouth stayed shut.


”Two points from Hufflepuff for tardiness, Master Toussaint,” she said as he walked in. It was late enough that there really was no hurry from any other engagement. And while she did tolerate a great many things, she expected her students to be punctual. All of them. No matter. Two points was easily earned back.

However, as he did not offer a response when the question was posed, she simply sighed and with one last look at the room, resigned herself to moving on with the lesson.


Clapping to regain the attention of the room, she gestured at the blackboard, where the more detailed of the answers given had been copied by the enchanted chalk. "Are we quite done copying? No? Very well, then."

She would wait. But only a few minutes, because she had a lot of material to cover today.

"As many of you mentioned, the sun and moon have great impacts on the magic we produce, and the magic in the world around us," she said, gesturing to the expanse of sky revealed by the dome of the observatory. "However, they are not the only celestial objects that influence it. Western Alchemy is linked with the Babylonian and Greek systems of Astrology, but all magical cultures have their own interpretations, despite many of which being proven effective, do not feature in our syllabus."

If they wanted extra reading, though, she could recommend some books. Some of which were available in the Observatory they were sitting in this very second.

“All seven classical planets – the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn have gravitational effects on magic. In healing and alchemy, the most effective remedies for the heart are brewed during a solar eclipse, and during the lunar eclipse for illnesses of the mind. Mercury governs the lungs; Venus the kidneys; Mars the gall bladder, Jupiter the liver, and Saturn the spleen. Remedies for the vital organs governed by these modern planets are best brewed or prepared when the earth, moon and said planet align. A complete alignment of all the planets, while rare, is extremely valuable for the preparation of more potent longevity potions, and is part of why they are so expensive, despite having relatively simple ingredients.”

"In building and potion-work, the effects also extend to the known magical materials. The sun governing Silver, the Moon governing Mercury, and the naked-eye planets governing copper, gold, iron, tin and lead respectively. However, as Mercury has been proven toxic, we try to avoid experimentation on that front."

"The motion of the planets not only affects the magic that we produce, but also innate magic. Retrogade motion, for instance, invites decay, and it is important to be aware of these motions when building magical structures." Magical architecture was a delicate field, and a very small one.

Any questions? That was a lot of information, and even the board was straining to fit all of it.

"However, as we all know, it isn't always possible to have an astronomer on hand to tell us these things. How do most magicians keep track of these movements, and how do we avoid unwanted effects on the magic we perform?"


OOC: Sorry about the delay, guys! RL stuff got unexpectedly fun yesterday, and I didn’t manage to get a post in before bed. You’ll have about 24 hours from the time of this post to get your responses in.
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Lucas flushed. Did he expect those five points? Not really. Cole was his dormmate, it just seemed like the right thing to do. And if he was in his shoes, he would've been too embarrassed to think properly and would've liked some help as well.

But he wasn't going to complain so he smiled. Gratefully. Thanks, Sandhu!

The smile only stayed on his face when he heard her response to his answer. It was weird, wasn't it? That form-altering potions need an ingredient that's picked under the full moon. He had some more questions about that but this didn't really seem like the right time. Maybe he could pick Sandhu's brain later, when he went to collect more additional worksheets.

The part about fire signs being excellent offensive duellers? Yeaaaaaaah, that was....... wrong. For him. Trent might be able to back him up on that.

.............

Yeah. Moving on. Lucas took out his notebook and started making notes on what the Professor was saying. The part that fascinated him the most? Magical architecture. If anyone had told him that astronomy had an influence on magical architecture, he would've told them....... nothing. But he wouldn't have believed it in the slightest.

As for the question, that was easy. Kind of. His hand shot up in the air and he started, "You could always use an or...... orrerer....??" ......... uh????? "That 3D model that shows how the planets are moving and where they're positioned all relative to each other. They're..... pretty old but I've seen them in museums." And he was told he couldn't get one, much to his displeasure.

Pause. "But they're really expensive and not something everyone would have so I guess that's not......" He was going to stop speaking.
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Claudine nodded to the professor. Sandhu was pleased with her reply and Claudine? Well, she was too; her face just didn’t record this. It rarely showed her emotions because she only allowed everyone to see what she wanted them to. As the answers appeared on the chalkboard, she wrote them in her book in neat bulletin points.

Venus for kidneys? Mars for stomach? Was that right or had she gotten them mixed up? Somehow she thought it was the latter and was very sure that her face displayed a trace of confusion. That was all so much information at once from Sandhu. The first year found it easier, after a few minutes of remaining in confusion, if she listened to the woman and read along to what was appearing on the board.

“Lunascopes?’’ Claudine asked, only having an answer to the first question posed. "At least... I think they're only used for keeping track of the moon's phases?''
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OH SHE JUST ANSWERED THIS ONE. Phoebe's hand shot in the air again, and she smiled hugely at the professor. "Star charts!"
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Oh no. This lesson was going to revolve (lol, pun) around astrology and such, wasn't it? At least, the motions of the planets and their affects on people and things. She wasn't quite sure how sold she was on that stuff, but it was always interesting, and it WAS scary accurate sometimes.

That last bit the professor rattled off had been...a LOT. Nettie scribbled down her notes at lightning speed as Sandhu spoke. Planets had organs they were linked to as well? Goodness. This was a lot. The Astronomy OWL was going to be TOUGH, wasn't it?

She raised her hand hesitantly after a few minutes of thought. "It's very simple but...would a calendar be a sufficient way to track the planets? I mean, you can track the moon phases and constellations and such depending on what month it is...right?" she suggested. No, that was probably wrong. Ugh.
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So apparently planets were also linked to internal organs? That certainly was strange. But then again, Astronomy always seemed a bit odd to the second-year Ravenclaw. Avalon scribbled some notes furiously as Professor Sandhu listed more facts about the celestial bodies. It definitely seemed like a of stuff up in the sky could affect a witch or wizard's magical abilities. She thought of a few things that they used to track the stars. The first few things that came to mind were star charts and calendars, but those had already been mentioned. Then of course there were those confusing mathematical formulas. Nobody had brought that up yet, right?

Avalon raised her hand. "Sometimes we can use arithmetic and equations to track the planets and stars. Of course, a lot of the formulas are very complex for normal witches and wizards. But they can be helpful for understanding astronomical movements." Hopefully she didn't have to give an example. Memorizing bizarre formulas was never her strong suit.

As for the second part of the question, Avalon didn't have a clue. Other than using common sense and plainly being knowledgeable about the effects that the planets could have on magic, she wasn't sure how wizards could avoid unwanted effects. So she decided to stop her answer there. Professor Sandhu never specified that they had to answer both questions, right?
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With his quill in hand Cole did his best in writing down all the information about the planets and their effects on different parts of the human body. Was he supposed to know that the best remedies for different illnesses were brewed when the planets aligned? He sure hoped that the healers knew. When they moved on to magical materials and retrograde motions then Cole stopped listening to professor Sandhu and instead just copied down the notes from the blackboard. It seemed easier because all the information was a lot to process in a short time.

However when Professor Sandhu asked the next question then Cole raised his hand to answer feeling slightly confident, but not overly at all. "My grandfather who works as a healer use moon and star charts to keep track of the planets movements. He has said that it helps him in his job and also gives him an estimate of when certain magic spells are more potent in nature so he doesn't need to add so many potions or other remedies to cure an illness of a patient." Maybe Cole was out fishing in the sea but answers always counted for something.
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Tina nodded in reply to Professor Sandhu before turning her full attention to her notes. She jotted down her classmates' answers as well as her own, periodically looking at the blackboard to make sure she didn't miss anything. She only just finished copying when Sandhu started talking again. Ooh, this just got interesting! Tina had been on autopilot so far - she was going to chalk it up to lack of sleep - but the mention of alchemy and potions making perked her right up! She knew that the classical planets governed various parts of the body, but she'd never given much thought to the practical application of that knowledge until now. This could be useful to her in her chosen career path as a potions toxicologist.

Tina was hanging on to the professor's every word, furiously taking notes. She considered the next question, or questions, carefully. Like her classmates, her first thoughts turned to models and charts. Not only had those answers already been said, but Tina had a feeling that there was something they were leaving out. Sandhu had specifically asked for something magicians do to keep track of celestial movements, and charts and models were things non magiques also used. Her thoughts randomly turned to a model of the galaxy she saw in a shop over the summer. Was the answer as simple as using magic to enchant said models and charts? That way they track the movements on their own without having to be constantly updated…

That seemed a bit too on the nose, so Tina turned her attention to the other question. How to avoid unwanted effects in magic… Hadn't Sandhu sort of answered that already? The obvious answer was to perform the magic when the position of the planets aligned with the desired effect.*

Tina wasn't feeling particularly confident in either of the answers she came up with, but she felt she had to say something to show she was paying attention. She tentatively raised her hand and said, "Sorry if this answer is too obvious, Professor, but as far as avoiding unwanted effects in magic, wouldn't we ideally wait to perform it until the celestial bodies positions correspond with its desired effect? For example, you wouldn't want to brew a potion for the lungs when the earth and moon were aligned with Saturn, right?"

Was that an acceptable answer? Merlin, she hoped so!
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Cecelia was thinking along the same lines of some others, calendars and star charts being on the tip of her tongue. She didn't want to repeat answers, though, so she decided to focus on the second part of the question.

"You could avoid unwanted effects by keeping the charts and calendars up to date and accurate. If you kept up with them, you could be pretty confident that whatever you were doing would work out okay in relation to the planets and moon and stars."
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Aaaaaaaaand... she'd lost him.

It was a shame, really, because he'd been doing so well at keeping up. Or, well, he'd done well at answering the first question at least. But then all the jargon arrived - okay, maybe not jargon, but there were definitely words he didn't have a hope of knowing in that little speech there - and Kaiser was basically left in the dust.

All he really needed to understand was the question that Sandhu finally posed, though, and he did... but then Kaiser didn't know how to answer. He had honestly never really paid much attention to Astronomy outside of his lessons, and as such just couldn't tell you how anyone kept track of any of it. Sure, he'd seen weird little devices in magical equipment shops that were clearly made for tracking celestial bodies, but that was the limit of his knowledge; he couldn't even name them. The kids mentioning star charts were making sense but, well, repeating their answers was no good.

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Lucas flushed. Did he expect those five points? Not really. Cole was his dormmate, it just seemed like the right thing to do. And if he was in his shoes, he would've been too embarrassed to think properly and would've liked some help as well.

But he wasn't going to complain so he smiled. Gratefully. Thanks, Sandhu!

The smile only stayed on his face when he heard her response to his answer. It was weird, wasn't it? That form-altering potions need an ingredient that's picked under the full moon. He had some more questions about that but this didn't really seem like the right time. Maybe he could pick Sandhu's brain later, when he went to collect more additional worksheets.

The part about fire signs being excellent offensive duellers? Yeaaaaaaah, that was....... wrong. For him. Trent might be able to back him up on that.

.............

Yeah. Moving on. Lucas took out his notebook and started making notes on what the Professor was saying. The part that fascinated him the most? Magical architecture. If anyone had told him that astronomy had an influence on magical architecture, he would've told them....... nothing. But he wouldn't have believed it in the slightest.

As for the question, that was easy. Kind of. His hand shot up in the air and he started, "You could always use an or...... orrerer....??" ......... uh????? "That 3D model that shows how the planets are moving and where they're positioned all relative to each other. They're..... pretty old but I've seen them in museums." And he was told he couldn't get one, much to his displeasure.

Pause. "But they're really expensive and not something everyone would have so I guess that's not......" He was going to stop speaking.


Simran's face broke into a smile at the mention of orrerries, despite them not actually being mentioned, because it was really not the easiest word to pronounce in the first place. "Orreries are excellent for this purpose, you're very correct, Master Dakest."

Gesturing vaguely at the ceiling, she continued. "L'Acâdemie is also in possession of a rather nice orrery, which is calibrated every quarter by the resident Astronomy professor for maximal accuracy."

Perhaps Hogwarts could find it in their budget to sponsor an Orrery? It would be totally educational. And would have nothing to do with the fact that Simran thought it was very pretty. That would be just a bonus, of course.

"But you're right, while it is the most accurate way to keep apprised of the locations of celestial objects, can be inconvenient when calibration is necessary, and has a rather large upfront cost."


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Claudine nodded to the professor. Sandhu was pleased with her reply and Claudine? Well, she was too; her face just didn’t record this. It rarely showed her emotions because she only allowed everyone to see what she wanted them to. As the answers appeared on the chalkboard, she wrote them in her book in neat bulletin points.

Venus for kidneys? Mars for stomach? Was that right or had she gotten them mixed up? Somehow she thought it was the latter and was very sure that her face displayed a trace of confusion. That was all so much information at once from Sandhu. The first year found it easier, after a few minutes of remaining in confusion, if she listened to the woman and read along to what was appearing on the board.

“Lunascopes?’’ Claudine asked, only having an answer to the first question posed. "At least... I think they're only used for keeping track of the moon's phases?''


Simran nodded at the girl's answer, though she restrained the urge to wince. Personally, she had always found the lunascope a very unnecessary device. Moon charts were never difficult enough in her opinion to warrant a whole new device.

However, she did not find quills difficult either, but did appreciate the beauty and convenience of a fountain pen, so there was that.

"Correct, Miss Blaze. For those who find the reading of lunar charts too difficult, the use of a lunascope can be very helpful."


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That was SO MANY WORDS. Like seriously, Phoebe was trying to write them all down, and she kept running off the page onto her desktop. Did this professor just know everything in the entire world, plus everything in the universe? That made her brain so so so full. Like Ravenclaw full.

OH SHE JUST ANSWERED THIS ONE. Phoebe's hand shot in the air again, and she smiled hugely at the professor. "Star charts!"


Ah, but Simran Sandhu was not a Ravenclaw. Only a very curious Gryffindor, who found it very difficult to take no for an answer. Besides, when you have been alive as long as she has, you remember a thing or two.

"Well done, Miss James!" she said, nodding. Maybe she should start bringing gold stars to class.


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Oh no. This lesson was going to revolve (lol, pun) around astrology and such, wasn't it? At least, the motions of the planets and their affects on people and things. She wasn't quite sure how sold she was on that stuff, but it was always interesting, and it WAS scary accurate sometimes.

That last bit the professor rattled off had been...a LOT. Nettie scribbled down her notes at lightning speed as Sandhu spoke. Planets had organs they were linked to as well? Goodness. This was a lot. The Astronomy OWL was going to be TOUGH, wasn't it?

She raised her hand hesitantly after a few minutes of thought. "It's very simple but...would a calendar be a sufficient way to track the planets? I mean, you can track the moon phases and constellations and such depending on what month it is...right?" she suggested. No, that was probably wrong. Ugh.


Lucky for Miss Gladin, the alchemical associations of the classical planets were not at all on the OWL syllabus, but a vital part of the NEWT syllabus, and an especially vital component for her to teach when there was enough interest among the student body to warrant the NEWT Alchemy class.

"Not entirely wrong, Miss Gladin!" Simran said, in a tone she hoped was encouraging. "For magics involving the moon and the allignment of certain stars, or certain recurring astronomical events, a calendar is extremely helpful. However, not all movements are recorded in the average calendar."


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So apparently planets were also linked to internal organs? That certainly was strange. But then again, Astronomy always seemed a bit odd to the second-year Ravenclaw. Avalon scribbled some notes furiously as Professor Sandhu listed more facts about the celestial bodies. It definitely seemed like a of stuff up in the sky could affect a witch or wizard's magical abilities. She thought of a few things that they used to track the stars. The first few things that came to mind were star charts and calendars, but those had already been mentioned. Then of course there were those confusing mathematical formulas. Nobody had brought that up yet, right?

Avalon raised her hand. "Sometimes we can use arithmetic and equations to track the planets and stars. Of course, a lot of the formulas are very complex for normal witches and wizards. But they can be helpful for understanding astronomical movements." Hopefully she didn't have to give an example. Memorizing bizarre formulas was never her strong suit.

As for the second part of the question, Avalon didn't have a clue. Other than using common sense and plainly being knowledgeable about the effects that the planets could have on magic, she wasn't sure how wizards could avoid unwanted effects. So she decided to stop her answer there. Professor Sandhu never specified that they had to answer both questions, right?


Avalon was indeed not required to answer both parts of the question, and the part that she had answered was already, to Simran, rather impressive as it stood. "That's true," she nodded. "It is possible to extrapolate the locations of celestial objects based on known locations in the past with mathematics."

"However, it is extremely difficult to do so, and I am still not the best at doing them by hand, despite many years in the field. We use machines for that now."


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With his quill in hand Cole did his best in writing down all the information about the planets and their effects on different parts of the human body. Was he supposed to know that the best remedies for different illnesses were brewed when the planets aligned? He sure hoped that the healers knew. When they moved on to magical materials and retrograde motions then Cole stopped listening to professor Sandhu and instead just copied down the notes from the blackboard. It seemed easier because all the information was a lot to process in a short time.

However when Professor Sandhu asked the next question then Cole raised his hand to answer feeling slightly confident, but not overly at all. "My grandfather who works as a healer use moon and star charts to keep track of the planets movements. He has said that it helps him in his job and also gives him an estimate of when certain magic spells are more potent in nature so he doesn't need to add so many potions or other remedies to cure an illness of a patient." Maybe Cole was out fishing in the sea but answers always counted for something.


Simran had always found the age old adage of copy first, try to understand later very useful in her time as a student. Besides, her office was only down the hall, should he still have questions at a later time.

"Very good, Master Vance!" she said, nodding. "Star and moon charts are generally the trick, especially when potency comes into play."


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Tina nodded in reply to Professor Sandhu before turning her full attention to her notes. She jotted down her classmates' answers as well as her own, periodically looking at the blackboard to make sure she didn't miss anything. She only just finished copying when Sandhu started talking again. Ooh, this just got interesting! Tina had been on autopilot so far - she was going to chalk it up to lack of sleep - but the mention of alchemy and potions making perked her right up! She knew that the classical planets governed various parts of the body, but she'd never given much thought to the practical application of that knowledge until now. This could be useful to her in her chosen career path as a potions toxicologist.

Tina was hanging on to the professor's every word, furiously taking notes. She considered the next question, or questions, carefully. Like her classmates, her first thoughts turned to models and charts. Not only had those answers already been said, but Tina had a feeling that there was something they were leaving out. Sandhu had specifically asked for something magicians do to keep track of celestial movements, and charts and models were things non magiques also used. Her thoughts randomly turned to a model of the galaxy she saw in a shop over the summer. Was the answer as simple as using magic to enchant said models and charts? That way they track the movements on their own without having to be constantly updated…

That seemed a bit too on the nose, so Tina turned her attention to the other question. How to avoid unwanted effects in magic… Hadn't Sandhu sort of answered that already? The obvious answer was to perform the magic when the position of the planets aligned with the desired effect.*

Tina wasn't feeling particularly confident in either of the answers she came up with, but she felt she had to say something to show she was paying attention. She tentatively raised her hand and said, "Sorry if this answer is too obvious, Professor, but as far as avoiding unwanted effects in magic, wouldn't we ideally wait to perform it until the celestial bodies positions correspond with its desired effect? For example, you wouldn't want to brew a potion for the lungs when the earth and moon were aligned with Saturn, right?"

Was that an acceptable answer? Merlin, she hoped so!


"No need to apologise, dear," she said, tsking in disapproval. She had always been of the opinion that nothing was really too obvious to be said out loud. Well, sometimes, but not always in a lesson.

"Well, I would never recommend waiting for a celestial event, although sometimes it may be necessary, because the orbits of certain planets are far too long to reasonably wait for." Saturn, for example, took twenty-nine years to complete an orbit around the sun.

"However, yes. Timing your magic so that it's amplified by the allignment of these bodies is often the best course of action."


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Cecelia was thinking along the same lines of some others, calendars and star charts being on the tip of her tongue. She didn't want to repeat answers, though, so she decided to focus on the second part of the question.

"You could avoid unwanted effects by keeping the charts and calendars up to date and accurate. If you kept up with them, you could be pretty confident that whatever you were doing would work out okay in relation to the planets and moon and stars."


"Very good, Miss Summers!" A very bright star, this one was. An up-and-coming Astronomer with excellent intuition, and Simran was excited to watch her grow and learn more about the subject. "Keeping your charts up-to-date and having your orreries recalibrated every so often is a great way to avoid unwanted side-effects."

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Aaaaaaaaand... she'd lost him.

It was a shame, really, because he'd been doing so well at keeping up. Or, well, he'd done well at answering the first question at least. But then all the jargon arrived - okay, maybe not jargon, but there were definitely words he didn't have a hope of knowing in that little speech there - and Kaiser was basically left in the dust.

All he really needed to understand was the question that Sandhu finally posed, though, and he did... but then Kaiser didn't know how to answer. He had honestly never really paid much attention to Astronomy outside of his lessons, and as such just couldn't tell you how anyone kept track of any of it. Sure, he'd seen weird little devices in magical equipment shops that were clearly made for tracking celestial bodies, but that was the limit of his knowledge; he couldn't even name them. The kids mentioning star charts were making sense but, well, repeating their answers was no good.

So Kaiser just decided to keep quiet.


Sorry about that, Kaiser. Sometimes she got a little excited and jargony, and this was NEWT material to begin with, so she really couldn't blame you for being extremely confused.

Though after checking to make sure that his hand wasn't raised, she gave him a reassuring smile, and then moved right along.

The activity, at least, didn't require a lot of knowledge of the subject matter.


Now that all the people intending to respond had been addressed, Simran's gaze swept over the room once more for hands that were raised. Nothing? Nobody? Well, that was just as well, seeing as the answers she was looking for had already been supplied.

Anywho.

Clap clap. Did she have everyone's attention? Looking at you, people who don't like paying attention to your classmates' answers. "Of course, all of you are right, but sometimes the best answer is the simplest. The easiest way to keep yourself up to date on celestial movements is to keep an up-to-date star chart."

She could almost hear the collective sigh that they were probably holding back.

"And that brings us to our main activity for the day! However, we will not be using fancy measuring equipment, but just our hands and a sheet of paper or parchment. And your writing utensils, of course."

"The Earth is at the centre of an imaginary surface called the celestial sphere. Of course, there are different celestial spheres, for example, if you were making a star chart from Mars, Earth would feature in it, instead of Mars itself."
Because being able to see Mars in the sky from Mars would be extremely strange.

"When specifying a point on the surface of a sphere, we use what geometers call spherical coordinates. In the case of Earth, these are named latitude and longitude. In terms of the celestial sphere, they are called declination and right ascension."

"We covered this in your first years -- and first years, we covered this last week, if you recall!" If they did NOT recall, please ask her. But for now, it was probably best that she not repeat things about 99% of people knew. "To start us off, I'd like you all to please assemble your telescopes."

In the mean time, she would hand out blank star charts.

Once everyone had one, she cleared her throat once more to get their attention. "Right. I have polaris printed out for you, and at the bottom of your page is a scale, which should come in handy. Use your rulers, please. If you left yours behind, there are compasses and rulers on my desk."

"The measurement system we will use is simple. The width of your pinky finger when your arm is outstretched is approximately 1 degree," she said, holding her pinky out to demonstrate. "5 degrees the width of three fingers together, 10 degrees is the width of a fist, and 15 degrees the width of the hand forming a Y." These too, of course were demonstrated for all of them.

"Start with the Big Dipper, which is easy to find once you've located Polaris and the little dipper," she said, heading to the blackboard and picking up a piece of chalk to draw said asterisms with, with respect to Polaris. "These are the measurements you should be looking for."

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Gunnar had been fairly quiet up to this point in class, mostly due to how tired he currently was. An early riser, he was typically up with the sun for his early morning runs, and as a result he was usually in bed at this time of the night, unless he had a late patrol duty. Even with the cat nap he managed to squeeze in, he still found himself zoning off here and there during class, though he did his best to focus on note-taking. The nap seemed to make it worse and he could already see his sleep schedule getting thrown out of whack.

The clapping once again from his teacher startled him slightly and he snapped his eyes up towards her, trying to pay attention to what would come next, presumably some sort of activity. Making a map? Uhh, sure... sure, he remembered that from his first year. At any rate, he could probably do that again. Mentally willing himself to stay awake and focus, the newly turned 17 year old began to assemble his telescope while Sandhu started to hand out the star charts.
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Claudine nodded to Sandhu. She hadn’t been corrected which meant that the lunascope was indeed used on the moon. Still, she got the impression that Sandhu wasn’t much appreciative of her answer. Though… was ‘appreciative’ even the right word? It was all that Claudine could think of right now. Deciding to not think about it much further, she paid attention instead to the other answers being given. Some of them were very interesting.

An up to date star chart.

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Indeed sometimes the answers were very simple. A star chart was what they would be making and Claudine couldn’t help but feel a slight thrill of excitement. There had never been an opportunity for her to make one, not that she had been exactly sure how to do it, anyway.

The Snakette got to work on assembling her telescope. This was something she had mastered quickly and it took her no time at all to have it ready. Afterwards, she turned her attention to the blank star chart she had received. Sure enough, Polaris was labelled.

“It sounds a little complicated,’’ she muttered to herself, still staring at the chart. She had said that quietly but maybe Bernie heard her.
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Phoebe felt like the very smartest person in the room. Her brother and Tavie might be the Ravenclaws, but Phoebe had answered that question right. She danced around before grabbing up the paper from the professor and settling down with her own telescope, compass, and ruler.

It was easy to find Polaris, plus the Little Dipper, since it was attached and all that. From there, she found the Big Dipper. The harder part was measuring with her fingers to figure out the degrees. That was crazy.
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Star charts? Man, she hated those things! They only served to confuse. Even worse when you were making them. And they had to be painstakingly accurate too, or everything you used them for would be off. Using their hands for the measurements only made things worse, as it only served to confuse her further. In short, she was so going to fail this assignment.

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A star chart! is what Bernadette WOULD have answered, had she not been terribly busy trying to write everything down. A Ravenclaw she was not, but an avid notetaker and aspiring journalist (or at least writer) she was!

Bernie was still catching up on something about Mercury and retrograde motion when a blank star chart floated onto her desk. Oooooooooh, this could be fun! She quickly assembled her telescope and dug out her ruler and compass, and then FINALLY looked up to see where everyone else was? How were they meant to do this, then?

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A star chart! is what Bernadette WOULD have answered, had she not been terribly busy trying to write everything down. A Ravenclaw she was not, but an avid notetaker and aspiring journalist (or at least writer) she was!

Bernie was still catching up on something about Mercury and retrograde motion when a blank star chart floated onto her desk. Oooooooooh, this could be fun! She quickly assembled her telescope and dug out her ruler and compass, and then FINALLY looked up to see where everyone else was? How were they meant to do this, then?



"It is a little complicated," Bernie quietly agreed with her seatmate, flashing Claudine a fearless grin nonetheless. "We're going to draw the Big Dipper, aka Ursula Major, first, right?"

Ursula major? Yeah, all the stars were named after sea witches!


"Right,'' said the confused Claudine. "I mean, that's not too bad. I know where to start but not exactly sure how to.'' Did Bernie understand that? The Snakette was feeling completely lost. Astronomy wasn't exactly one of her strongest subjects so far, as she was discovering.

So what now? "Use the telescope now to find the Big Dipper?'' That was it? They needed to locate it out in the night sky, right? Claudine set her eye to the telescope and peered out. It was quite pretty up there. "Bernie. You've got to take a look at all the stars!'' Wow. Just wow. The night sky, she was also quickly learning, was something she was falling in love with. "I think I'd rather be sketching this than mapping it,'' she admitted. The pages of her sketchpad were not yet graced with an image of the night sky.

But she had a task to do at present unfortunately. Another night, perhaps tomorrow, she would come back to do her sketching. Now, she made her attempt to locate the Big Dipper.

If she was doing anything wrong, Professor Sandhu, please... HELP!
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"Right,'' said the confused Claudine. "I mean, that's not too bad. I know where to start but not exactly sure how to.'' Did Bernie understand that? The Snakette was feeling completely lost. Astronomy wasn't exactly one of her strongest subjects so far, as she was discovering.

So what now? "Use the telescope now to find the Big Dipper?'' That was it? They needed to locate it out in the night sky, right? Claudine set her eye to the telescope and peered out. It was quite pretty up there. "Bernie. You've got to take a look at all the stars!'' Wow. Just wow. The night sky, she was also quickly learning, was something she was falling in love with. "I think I'd rather be sketching this than mapping it,'' she admitted. The pages of her sketchpad were not yet graced with an image of the night sky.

But she had a task to do at present unfortunately. Another night, perhaps tomorrow, she would come back to do her sketching. Now, she made her attempt to locate the Big Dipper.

If she was doing anything wrong, Professor Sandhu, please... HELP!
"I think we have to use our fingers to measure the... angles? Between stars?" Bernie squinted at her star chart, then at Claudine, then into her telescope. Oh WOW... wowowowow. Claudine was RIGHT. "City of stars... are you shining just for me?" she hummed to herself. "You should draw it! Maybe it'll count for your star chart!"

She popped her eye out of the telescope peephole and glanced down at her star chart. Wellp, she was just going to guess which star matched with the one the professor had given them, and was going to start drawing from there.
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Professor Sandhu was REALLY smart and it made Cecelia REAL proud when she got answers that she asked correctly, 'specially with the way the older woman seemed so impressed with her. It was doing wonders for her confidence, honestly, even if she WAS a bit overwhelmed with the task they'd just been given. The assembling her telescope thing she could do with ease, at least.

After a few minutes, it was time to focus on her chart and the first year was glad the professor had polaris all printed for them, it DID make finding the big and little dipper quick and easy work. The making sure they were scaled and spaced correctly was a BIT harder, and Cecelia wondered how the whole using your fingers thing could be accurate since people's fingers were different lengths and widths and...yeah, she was just going with it anyway. It took a FEW tries to get each constellation to look how she wanted them too, but eventually she was happy with her work and gave herself a pat on the back for sticking with it, 'specially since she was getting a BIT sleepy now that she was working on her own. She just needed to stay focused, that's all...

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Cole’s confidence grew slightly as he got praise from Professor Sandhu for his answer. He copied down the instructions for the activity and eyed the demonstration on how to measure the stars with his fingers very closely. Ugh, that looked really hard and complicated. Don’t stress he told himself. He could do it he just had to do it slowly until he got the hang of it. Easy peasy!

After assembling his telescope Cole got started on the first star chart task; mapping the big dipper. He used his telescope to navigate the night sky, getting just a little distracted by all the pretty stars he saw in his telescope. Eventually though he refocused and found Polaris and in succession he then found the little and big dippers. With the aid of his ruler, compass and pinky finger to arm measuring Cole mapped the dig dipper. Connecting the dots he prided himself for doing it right probably since the big dipper constellation in his telescope looked like the dipper on his chart. Now what was next the little dipper?
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At the Professor's words, Lucas sat there, chin resting on the palms of his hands and a furrow in his eyebrows. Why didn't they have one of these models at Hogwarts? WAS it because it was too expensive and Beauxbatons was just, well, richer? It had nothing to do with the calibration, right? Because Sandhu was there so that wasn't a problem.

He almost - ALMOST - had the wild idea of trying to convince Trent himself but...... ha.

Haha.

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Oh, they were making a star chart? So the answer really was that simple? It almost made him feel a little...... dumb? Yeah. Because sometimes, the best answers were really the easiest ones and he was here, trying to pronounce something that was difficult to pronounce - and remember. Regardless, he set up his telescope as best as he could, something that required little brain power after all these years.

If he was being completely honest, he was a little glad that the measurements were at the bottom of the chart that Sandhu had handed out. Sure, he was probably going to be expected to remember all of this but...... well, first year had happened a LONG time ago. And didn't their Astronomy professor get fired for a short time only to be replaced by someone much ruder??

Merlin.

Lucas shook his head before focusing on his telescope and the stars he could see further beyond it. A wide smile instantly spread across his face. If he just forgot that everyone else was here, this was probably his happy place. There was something very calming about seeing the stars scattered across the sky. Something that stopped him from internally screaming every single time.

But as much as he could stare, this star chart wasn't going to fill itself out. Polaris had been printed out so that was easy enough, especially when it came to finding the big and little dippers. The mapping process was..... well, it was okay. It did cause his mind to ask a lot of the same questions he'd asked when he was a first year but never bothered to ask.

But, well, this wasn't the time.

Mapping the stars - starting with the big dipper - including a lot of arm stretching and unintentional winking that he hoped wasn't directed at anyone oh merlin. There was a lot of double - and even triple! - checking just to make sure he got it right which only seemed to slow him down further. Hmm. Then there was a lot of muttering under his breath, especially for measurements he'd just found and didn't want to forget just yet. Sorry, Cole.

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"I think we have to use our fingers to measure the... angles? Between stars?" Bernie squinted at her star chart, then at Claudine, then into her telescope. Oh WOW... wowowowow. Claudine was RIGHT. "City of stars... are you shining just for me?" she hummed to herself. "You should draw it! Maybe it'll count for your star chart!"

She popped her eye out of the telescope peephole and glanced down at her star chart. Wellp, she was just going to guess which star matched with the one the professor had given them, and was going to start drawing from there.


"Yes, that's what we do. Still... it's all confusing for me.'' Claudine sure wished that a sketch of the sky would count as her star chart. “I wish.’’ She was in awe of the brightly shining stars and was only distracted by Bernie’s humming. It was a tune she was not familiar with. It was oddly comforting to work to the humming and a few moments later, she thought she located the Big Dipper. Oh well, if it wasn’t, Professor Sandhu would simply scrap her work. Claudine proceeded to map it out on her chart but not before peering over at Bernie’s work.

“Erm. I think I’m just going to wing it. I’m rubbish at this subject.’’ Claudine used the measurements and her instruments to attempt to map the Big Dipper. Each time she went back to her telescope, she was distracted by the stars. This hadn’t happened during previous lessons as much and it was probably going to be a thing now.

With great deliberation, the young Snakette forced herself to focus. Her chart was slowly but surely being mapped out. It just happened that one or two constellations were plotted incorrectly.

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