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sweetpinkpixie · #1 (**permalink**) 12-15-2012, 03:26 PM

Located off to the right of the Observatory and behind a large wooden door lies a room made possible by means of a powerful Undetectable Extension Charm. Professor Flamsteed will hold the occasional lesson, present an educational and entertaining show about astronomy and the night sky, or a training session in celestial navigation here, but it is also available to students to use at their own leisure for research or entertainment purposes.
Professor Flamsteed just has a few guidelines for use of the planetarium:
ABSOLUTELY no food or drink

be respectful of the equipment

NO SNOGGING

TeafortheSoul · 04-03-2013, 12:44 PM

West, noting the rules on the door, waited outside and polished off a filled roll before finally going into the planetarium. He hadn't brought a Bliss, so no worries about breaking that other rule. He had intentions to go talk to the professor but when he'd walked by the door was closed and West would rather do something to entertain himself while waiting.

And he hadn't checked the planetarium out yet so here he was.

He started walking around, looking at everything, but not touching since he had no idea how the equipment worked.

... so how did it work?

sweetpinkpixie · 04-04-2013, 01:14 AM

Deciding to do his routine clean of the planetarium a bit early, Airey suited up and headed towards the room when he noticed a certain young Slytherin present.

"Mr. Odessa, hello," he greeted while removing a lint roller from his breast pocket. For the chairs you see. "You just need to push the on button there," he said, indicating the bright red button. "But it won't do you any good unless you use the dial on the side there to set the date and time you wish to see the stars of."

TeafortheSoul · 04-04-2013, 01:19 AM

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Deciding to do his routine clean of the planetarium a bit early, Airey suited up and headed towards the room when he noticed a certain young Slytherin present.

"Mr. Odessa, hello," he greeted while removing a lint roller from his breast pocket. For the chairs you see. "You just need to push the on button there," he said, indicating the bright red button. "But it won't do you any good unless you use the dial on the side there to set the date and time you wish to see the stars of."

Oh. Professor.

He looked up and then over to the 'on button' "I don't tend to go around pressing big red buttons 'less I know what they're for y'know?" Curiosity may have killed the cat, but self-preservation saved the snake.

But now he knew what to do..... He sort of looked at the professor for permission and then moseyed over to flip the dial. OKAYPROFESSORLETSPLAYAGAME. Jaaaanuary 7th.... 1610.

Grin.

Did Flammy know what date that was for?

sweetpinkpixie · 04-04-2013, 01:43 AM

"Of course," he chuckled before administering his lint roller to a nearby chair. Sweet solstice look at all the lint and dirt he was getting off already! Removing the first sticky sheet and banishing it with his wand, his attention was caught by the boy's movement.

Hmmm...interesting.

"Looking to do a bit of Galileo Galilei role play, or do you just have an interest in Jupiter, Mr. Odessa?" he asked nonchalantly before beginning to lint roll the same chair some more.

TeafortheSoul · 04-04-2013, 01:50 AM

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"Of course," he chuckled before administering his lint roller to a nearby chair. Sweet solstice look at all the lint and dirt he was getting off already! Removing the first sticky sheet and banishing it with his wand, his attention was caught by the boy's movement.

Hmmm...interesting.

"Looking to do a bit of Galileo Galilei role play, or do you just have an interest in Jupiter, Mr. Odessa?" he asked nonchalantly before beginning to lint roll the same chair some more.

Grin.

"I just wanted to see if you recognised stuff."

And West was loooooooooooooking. It was interesting stuff. Io....Europa...Ganymede...Callisto... he could name them. It was kind of nuts that they were discovered when people didn't even have all that good stuff for viewing space.

"How do you Galileo Galilei role play?" He asked, tipping his head back and watching the display. "The Cosmica Sidera are way cool."

... there was something he wanted to talk to Flammy about, but it had slipped his mind....

sweetpinkpixie · 04-04-2013, 02:10 AM

Cue an eyebrow raise. Testing the professor? What an interesting idea. Frightening. But interesting. Airey thought that he very much would like to spend the day in Mr. Odessa's head just to see what all went on in there.

And did he test other professors in the same manner? Something he ought to ask everyone over tea in the staff room perhaps.

"Did I pass?" he asked with a small smirk while he continued to lint roll away. "I thought perhaps you were trying to spot the same three 'star' alignment that Galileo witnessed," he said - using air quotes around the term star for obvious reasons. He himself paused for a moment to look up at the star display, but didn't linger too long since he still had some lint rolling to attend to.

"Let me know if you need anything then, will you?" he said. Best not distrupt the boy while he was looking around, yes? Airey liked to be alone when he was looking at the stars. Made him feel at peace.

TeafortheSoul · 04-04-2013, 02:34 AM

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Cue an eyebrow raise. Testing the professor? What an interesting idea. Frightening. But interesting. Airey thought that he very much would like to spend the day in Mr. Odessa's head just to see what all went on in there.

And did he test other professors in the same manner? Something he ought to ask everyone over tea in the staff room perhaps.

"Did I pass?" he asked with a small smirk while he continued to lint roll away. "I thought perhaps you were trying to spot the same three 'star' alignment that Galileo witnessed," he said - using air quotes around the term star for obvious reasons. He himself paused for a moment to look up at the star display, but didn't linger too long since he still had some lint rolling to attend to.

"Let me know if you need anything then, will you?" he said. Best not distrupt the boy while he was looking around, yes? Airey liked to be alone when he was looking at the stars. Made him feel at peace.

"I guess so. Acceptable professor." West said and smiled. "And I'll bump that up to Exceeds Expectations on account of the rest." But really he was just mucking about and wanted distractions and to check things out and it was the first date that popped in his head.

"Oh, there was something actually. I had a thought when I read Hogwarts: A History." Nod. "There was some other Astronomy Professor what died too, what got murdered. And I thought it would be nice to add that one to the memorial in the Tower Patch."

sweetpinkpixie · 04-04-2013, 02:49 AM

Sheesh. Tough critic.

Chuckling a bit to himself as he continued his routine, he paused for a moment when Mr. Odessa spoke up again. "Really? MURDERED? I did not know that." Points to you Mr. Odessa for teaching us something new. Just awesome points for now, however. "Yes, I think that is a fine idea." A very fine idea indeed. "I assume you remember the name of this professor and the dates?" Or was this another test? Because Airey already knew he failed. He had never read Hogwarts, A History in its entirety. Not even as a student.

TeafortheSoul · 04-04-2013, 02:58 AM

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Sheesh. Tough critic.

Chuckling a bit to himself as he continued his routine, he paused for a moment when Mr. Odessa spoke up again. "Really? MURDERED? I did not know that." Points to you Mr. Odessa for teaching us something new. Just awesome points for now, however. "Yes, I think that is a fine idea." A very fine idea indeed. "I assume you remember the name of this professor and the dates?" Or was this another test? Because Airey already knew he failed. He had never read Hogwarts, A History in its entirety. Not even as a student.

Nod. Nod. Yeah. It was kind of interesting right? People died a LOT here huh?

"Edward Mark Forrester. It said summer 2069.There used to be one here, apparently, but I guess someone moved it or something." He didn't know a heap more than that aside from it being murder. "Wasn't Headmistress Truebridge working here back then as well?" Maybe she knew stuff what would be good on a memorial thing? "He was Slytherin's Head of House too it said." Which was another reason West thought it a good idea to remedy the situation.

sweetpinkpixie · 04-04-2013, 03:20 AM

2069. Hmmm. That was a year after he had finished his studies in Edinburgh, so it was no wonder he hadn't heard about this. He HAD sort of disconnected himself from the wizarding world after graduation since he attended muggle graduate school afterwards.

"Head of Slytherin house too?" Well, that explained Mr. Odessa's interest a bit more then. "Nothing in your common room either I presume. Well then, if there once was something in this man's memory then we shall just have to remedy this and put something back in." Airey decided to pocket his lint roller for the time being. he could get back to his routine cleaning later. "Mr. Odessa, would you like to go ask the Headmistress for any words to put on this plaque? She gave me the ones for the late Professor Burbage."

TeafortheSoul · 04-04-2013, 03:28 AM

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2069. Hmmm. That was a year after he had finished his studies in Edinburgh, so it was no wonder he hadn't heard about this. He HAD sort of disconnected himself from the wizarding world after graduation since he attended muggle graduate school afterwards.

"Head of Slytherin house too?" Well, that explained Mr. Odessa's interest a bit more then. "Nothing in your common room either I presume. Well then, if there once was something in this man's memory then we shall just have to remedy this and put something back in." Airey decided to pocket his lint roller for the time being. he could get back to his routine cleaning later. "Mr. Odessa, would you like to go ask the Headmistress for any words to put on this plaque? She gave me the ones for the late Professor Burbage."

"Yeah." West nodded. He didn't really know anything about the man but he DID know Slytherin had the best Heads of Houses ever. So. It just made sense right? Yeah. Had to pay respects and all. "Yeah I never seen anything about him in the common room either." But he was an astronomy dude. "Hogwarts A History said he worked for NASA."

Well. He supposed he could do that....?

"Yeah okay. Do you think it would bother her, if I did? I mean she's super busy and its about a star guy." Which... just didn't seem like a huge priority for someone like the Headmistress as far as West's limited understanding went.

sweetpinkpixie · 04-04-2013, 08:33 AM

Airey simply nodded his head as Mr. Odessa gave a little more information - nothing that triggered his memory, but it did interest him a bit to hear that the gentleman had also worked for NASA. Not that their paths had ever crossed.

The professor shook his head. "I don't think she would mind at all. It is about a colleague after all." Not to mention it shouldn't take more than two shakes of a crup's tail. Assuming the crup still had it's tail that is. "I'll prepare a plaque in my office and meet you at the Tower Patch later today. Say around 1500 hours?"

That would also give him time to do some more lint rolling because that one chair over there was going to drive him nuts.

TeafortheSoul · 04-04-2013, 08:42 AM

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Airey simply nodded his head as Mr. Odessa gave a little more information - nothing that triggered his memory, but it did interest him a bit to hear that the gentleman had also worked for NASA. Not that their paths had ever crossed.

The professor shook his head. "I don't think she would mind at all. It is about a colleague after all." Not to mention it shouldn't take more than two shakes of a crup's tail. Assuming the crup still had it's tail that is. "I'll prepare a plaque in my office and meet you at the Tower Patch later today. Say around 1500 hours?"

That would also give him time to do some more lint rolling because that one chair over there was going to drive him nuts.

"Okay cool. I'll go talk to the Headmistress now then." Yeah. And... 1500 hours. Why didn't he just say 3pm like a normal person? Oh well. "1500 hours sounds good to me, sir."

He was eager to do this, it just sort of seemed right to him. Like deserving and everything.

"Should I turn off the thingy first?" He pointed at the big red button.

sweetpinkpixie · 04-04-2013, 08:45 AM

"If you would be so kind," he said as he gave a nod towards the red button. He ought to clean the machine as well before he made his way up to the Tower Patch and doing so with it on, well, let's just say he had tried that once and never again.

"Thank you, Mr. Odessa. I will see you soon."

TeafortheSoul · 04-04-2013, 08:57 AM

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"If you would be so kind," he said as he gave a nod towards the red button. He ought to clean the machine as well before he made his way up to the Tower Patch and doing so with it on, well, let's just say he had tried that once and never again.

"Thank you, Mr. Odessa. I will see you soon."

"No problem, professor."

He went ahead and pressed it and waited for it to turn off then grabbed his things and headed out towards the Headmistress's office.

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