Lint free, well fed, and in a decent mood today, Eden McGee wandered into the Astronomy classroom feeling....in good spirits. Things were going well for the Ravenclaw(for NOW, as she had to keep reminding herself) and she just...felt like she was in such a good headspace for school and homework all that FUN stuff. Hehe.

She saluted Professor Flamsteed before taking a seat. She almost turned the paper over without reading the words..thank Merlin she decided to pass her gaze over them, though...Whew.

Because she didn't want to think about what sort of THING would happen to whomever overturned their papers...prematurely.

But it had Eden very....curious. Hmm.

With her bag slung over her shoulder and her telescope held securely under her arm, Sophie bypassed the lint roller today because she had been EXTRA prepared for class and made sure she was lint-free before she even made the trek to the astronomy tower. Super proactive of her and all. There was always something exciting about night classes that she couldn't quite put her finger on, but she gave Flamsteed a VERY enthusiastic salute as she entered the room and beamed. "Good evening, professor."

She was totally innocent and casual today, see?

"Hope you're doing well," she added as an afterthought when she made it over to take her usual seat, right beside where Tobes always sat. She worried about the guy, okay? After the whole Gryffindors-are-troublemakers debacle and the headmistress making them all use him as target practice, she worried about how he was faring.

And no, she wasn't touching that parchment on her desk, though it was tempting. To keep her hands busy and distracted from the temptation, she gently and safely tucked her telescope under her desk and out of the way as she got her materials out for class. But she was side-eyeing the parchment with curiosity. Pop quiz maybe? Hmm?

Penelope did not need to use Professor Flamsteed's lint roller because she had he own lint roller. Pulling her lint roller out of her pocket, she rolled it over her robes. There, now she was all lint free- wait, there was some cat fur on her arm. After removing the cat fur, she was sure that she was fur and lint free... except for that cat fur there... Okay, now she was fur and lint free.

Entering the classroom, she pocketed her lint roller. "Good evening, Professor Flamsteed." Finding a seat, she eyed the parchment on her desk. She wasn't going to touch it. You never knew what might happen if you touched things that said do not touch.

Lint roller was being used, mmhmm. Even though she was pretty sure that her uniform was lint free already. But it was still being used and put back on the table.

Once that was done, Heather entered the classroom and took a seat. Oooo, what was this? A piece of parchment? Reading the words on the back, she was tempted to turn over anyway. Since, you know, tell someone not to do something, it makes them want to do it. In situations where there's definitely no danger, of course. But then, prankster in the room. And she really didn't want to see what the professor had planned for those that turned the parchment over early. So, she opted for leaving the parchment alone and greeting the professor instead.

"Hello, professor."

Janelle arrived for Astronomy class, stopping to de-lint herself before entering the classroom. Once that was done, she went straight for the first empty seat and claimed it. "Hello Professor", she said. Not many students were there yet. As Janelle began to get settled, she greeted her friends. "Hi Eden, Hi Sophie". Seeing the parchment on the desk, Janelle wondered what they would be doing today.

As with most astronomy lessons, the latest was late in the day after dinner. It was something Benny didn't mind...as long as runes or transfiguration were the next day. Or that morning either. Each scenario meaning either next to no sleep between lessons or a long day and both meant a tired Gryffindor. As it was, the fifth year wasn't too bad off as he made his way up to the highest point in the school with his book bag slung casually over his shoulder.

"Good evening, Professor," he greeted as he spotted the man in his usual spot up front. Benny moving to take a seat behind a free desk in the semicircle. Setting his bag down, he spotted the parchment...and the note and raised a slight eyebrow. Interesting...very interesting.

He'd hold off his curiousity...for now.

It was late. If it were any other class besides Astronomy, Ophelia might have pouted and slunk off to the tower like a petulant little child. However, Flamsteed was a cool Professor, and his classes were always interesting to attend. Especially last year when they had a food fight in class. Besides, the subject wasn't incredibly hard for her, though the twelve year old really didn't know much about the sky and the celestial bodies. Maybe the blonde caught on easy? A lot easier than Transfiguration. That class was difficult.

Stepping into the room, the second year de-linted and then pulled her blonde hair into a messy side braid. It would've looked better, but the curls and the fact that really didn't care what it looked like meant that this braid had free range. Man, she really needed to grow out her hair. It was only down to her chest! The short girl wanted some Rapunzel hair, the kind that seemed to flow and also do whatever the heck it wasted at the same time. Was there a spell for that? Because maybe Hogwarts should teach her THAT. Sorry, she was a bit cranky.

"Hello Professor." Giving a quick head nod towards the man, Ophelia found an empty seat in the semi-circle and got out her supplies for the class. However, her eyes kept traveling to the note on her desk. DO NOT TURN OVER. This was cruel, Flamsteed. She was taking back her nod! Because now all the Ravenclaw wanted to do was turn over the stinking note. Why did you do this to her? Why were you so cruel? Why was she so dramatic?

And while she was asking the important questions, why did they have to de-lint again? Yes, the uniforms clung onto every little piece of dust that ever existed in the known and unknown universes --yes, Ophelia could appreciate a good space quip-- it wasn't like the lint was going to get all over the place. It was lint man! And besides the short girl was ninety nine percent sure that she was lint free anyway. So why did they have to do it? Man, the kid needed a nap or something. She was ranting about everything today.

"Hiiii, good evening, Professor Flamsteed!'' After delinting himself, Adi had made his casual entrance to the classroom. He enthusiastically returned the suited man's salute before turning to go find himself a seat. The five Ravenclaw girls and sole Gryffindor girl there all got cheery grins from him but his bestie got a light slap on the back.

"Dragon. Nice to see you made it to class early,'' the Puffer teased as he took a seat next to him. Ohh, what was this? A parchment... with a warning printed on it. Adi raised one of the edge's of the parchment just a tiiiiiny bit. Don't worry, he saw nothing. Hehe. But man, was he CURIOUS! Letting the parchment flop back down, he focused on retrieving his books from his bag.

Bambi immensely enjoyed Professor Flamsteed's lessons, partly because she genuinely liked Astronomy but mostly because he was such a NICE professor. Almost as awesome as her Transfiguration teacher back at Salem, and that was the highest compliment she could pay any type of instructor, ever. WELL DONE FLAMSTEED.

Placing the lint roller back - and noting happily that she had had very little on her person in the first place - Bambi walked into the Astronomy classroom in high spirits. Another reason she enjoyed this subject was its mostly odd hours, which always added to the excitement factor. Spotting her friend and fellow 'claw, Bambi made a beeline for Eden's desk but not before passing right by the professor.

"Good evening professor!" she greeted him - a first, since she didn't greet professors, it was weird and a little too personal - and, in a moment of obvious insanity, held up her hand for a high five.

O_O Errrrrr.............. She was stuck. And she was blushing. Bambi almost NEVER blushed. Could she just gently take her hand back and go? But no it would be even more awkward, and she was at the front of the classroom so everyone could see and ugh, this was weird.

Please don't leave her hanging Professor?

Astro!

He was here. He was totally here. Wouldn't miss it for the WORLD. Nope.

Waltzing into the classroom, Zeke beamed at his Head of House and waved. "Hey Professor," he greeted. No hard feelings about the blowing up attempt thing, right? RIGHT? They were both Gryffindors, it was a thing that happened that didn't really happen... so all was well.

Ahem.

But.. oh, hey. Zeke paused behind his desk.

DO NOT TURN OVER.

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"Are we having a test?" he asked nobody in particular. Cause, if they were... he was so NOT ready for it. Whoops?

"Evenin', Professor Airey."

Toby had just entered the classroom after giving his robes the customary once-over with the lint roller outside. It was such an ingrained habit when it came to Astronomy lessons now, that he didn't even think of it any more. He saluted the professor back and headed across to his usual seat, next to which he found Soph already sat.

Whilst pulling out his parchment, quill, and ink, Toby eyed the parchment that was already there on the desk, but he wasn't tempted to take a look or anything, especially with that little note on it. They'd find out soon enough, no doubt.

All that was left to do was wait, which Toby did, absently twirling his quill between his fingers as he watched other kids enter the room and settle down.

Angel was totally wondering who on earth in the right mind would have a lesson at this time, she wanted to go to bed, seriously hadn't the Professor heard of diva's needing their beauty sleep?

"Evening Professor." Angel smiled as she walked into the room. "How are you?" Angel hoped that the Professor was okay especially after everything that had happened, she had wanted to hug him at first but then thought everyone would find it weird.

Angel then went off and found her usual seat and got everything ready, she was sure this was going to be amazing.

Astronomy. She was ready. Stopping outside the door she used the lint roller on her already clean robes but yeah no worries there. Moving right on along then...

Stepping into the room she glanced around nodding slightly towards her friends. "Evening Professor," Hady greeted warmly stopping before him to give a proper salute in return to his. Grinning she then made her way to her desk sitting herself down as her eyes landed on the parchment there.

Do Not Turn Over Until Instructed To. Hmm alright...

Her curiousness was slightly peeked now but the Slytherin kept relaxed and swept her gaze around the room instead rather then focus on the parchment. What now?

Finally a class in the evening hours! This is the way Kace liked it! He was much more of a night person. He grinned and entered the classroom being more awake and alert. As he made his way into the classroom he noticed others beat him to it. He smiled to all of them and he saw Airey was in the front of the room. He saw the lint brush and he laughed when it said it wasn't supposed to be used as a hairbrush. Clever Airey clever indeed.

"Good evening Professor!" Kace greeted him and he gave him a polite wave and went to his desk and sat down. He took out his sketchbook and began to sketch doodles to pass the time.

It was about time that there was a night class. It was a lovely change for once. The fifth year lioness walked into the classroom with a big smile on her face. Astronomy was her second favorite class and not just because it was held at night. It wasn't always held at night but when it was it made her really happy because she would be focused more because she hadn't just woken up. Maybe a little tired from all her other classes but drinking some water or eating some candy would do the trick to wake her up.

"Good evening Professor." She waved to him and smiled. She looked around for a seat and found a free one near Kace. "You don't mind if I sit here, do you?" The blonde winked at him.

Norah rolled the lint roller over her robes with a little less enthusiasm than usual, just 'cause sometimes the night classes were kind tiring, y'know? She didn't even have any meals to look forward to. And that was bad news. There should be another dinner AFTER Astronomy class, so she could have a better reason to stay awake than homework homework homework. Good plan. She should be in charge.

The third year grinned at Professor Flamsteed anyways as she entered, and saluted right back 'cause he was a cool dude, before taking a seat right smack in the middle of the semi-circle. And there it was. The parchment. Norah's eyes widened as she read it, and she felt her fingers immediately start to get fidgety. No no no why did they DO this to her? Instead of pulling all her materials from her bag, she sat down on her hands. Don't think about the parchment, nope. Chocolate! Giraffes! Sparkles! Um ummmm Cartwheels! Manatees! Roast beef sandwiches! ANYTHING but the parchment. Wait. Now she was thinking about it again. DANGIT.

Marigold smiled at the professor as she entered the room. She had taken a nap instead of eating dinner, but then managed enough time to eat a quick snack (her common room was near the kitchens, which made it easy), so not only was she full, but also well-rested. "Good evening, Professor!" she said after rolling the lint roller over her clothing. She scanned the classroom and saw Norah, so she joined the lil one at an adjacent desk.

Dropping her bag and sitting down, she smiled and gave Norah a quick hand squeeze. "Whaddya think the paper is?"

Astronomy was always a treat, so of course Lux never minded the laaaate lessons. This had to be her second favourite subject because there were always really interesting activities and Professor Flammy was tons of fun.

Speaking of Flammy, he got a salute. "Good evening, Professor!" And there were waves for everyone else besides Emmy. Happily she took a seat by Kace. "Hello!" He got a BIIIIG smile though she was wondering what was up with the paper on her desk.

Curious Lux was curious.

Dante thought he got more exercise walking up here for classes or whatever than anything he would do on his own time. And he always smiled at the signature of his brother's friend signing the lint roller sign. It was genius. Well he used it even though he was pretty sure he had no lint on him.

"Hey Professor Airey, why did the sun go to school.....To get brighter!"

Don't know why he said that but he was in the mood and maybe it was just a day for stupid jokes. Only can have one day a week for that sort of thing.

So Astronomy then.

De-linted and as ready to learn as he'll ever be -- which wasn't very ready but whatever -- Grayson strutted headed into the classroom. Here's hoping that they were gonna have a fun lesson like the one with the pumpkin carving. That hadn't been bad at all. So he had high hopes for this--

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WHAT IN THE FREAKING NAME OF MERLIN? WERE THEY GONNA HAVE A TEST?!

If the answer was yes, then, LOL, guess who hadn't revised. Ha. Ha. He was doomed.

Mentally cursing himself, the Slytherin headed further into the classroom, his eyes finding the Astronomy Professor. "Evening, Professor," he said, giving the man a nod of his head as he made his way to an empty seat and sat down. Huh. They weren't allowed to take a peak of the paper? How in the name of Merlin was he meant to cheat, then?

Looks like he'll have to do this the honest way and most likely fail. Jeez.

You know what the professor could go for right now? A nice warm piping hot heaven sake's, is that a spot?! cup of tea. Or perhaps another cup of coffee. He had never really been a fan of the brew until recently - due to purely personal matters and work details that had kept up up at all hours of the night - and had had...hmmm...how many cups had it been exactly?

The astronomer looked down at his slightly jittery hands and chuckled. One too many it seemed.

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She saluted Professor Flamsteed before taking a seat. She almost turned the paper over without reading the words..thank Merlin she decided to pass her gaze over them, though...Whew.

Because she didn't want to think about what sort of THING would happen to whomever overturned their papers...prematurely.

But it had Eden very....curious. Hmm.

OH LOOK A STUDENT!

Miss McGee got an especially enthusiastic salute as she entered. "Good evening, Miss McGee. You are looking stellar this evening." A smile and general happy way about the face was a person's best feature, after all.

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There was always something exciting about night classes that she couldn't quite put her finger on, but she gave Flamsteed a VERY enthusiastic salute as she entered the room and beamed. "Good evening, professor."

She was totally innocent and casual today, see?

"Hope you're doing well," she added as an afterthought when she made it over to take her usual seat, right beside where Tobes always sat. She worried about the guy, okay? After the whole Gryffindors-are-troublemakers debacle and the headmistress making them all use him as target practice, she worried about how he was faring.
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"Same to you, Miss Brown!" the man chirped as he returned the salute as he buzzed about the front of his desk like a bee.

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Entering the classroom, she pocketed her lint roller. "Good evening, Professor Flamsteed." Finding a seat, she eyed the parchment on her desk. She wasn't going to touch it. You never knew what might happen if you touched things that said do not touch.

"Evening, Miss Wright," he grinned at the fragile Ravenclaw. He was feeling pretty optimistic about how she would fare this lesson.

Or maybe it was the caffeine talking? Hmmm...

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So, she opted for leaving the parchment alone and greeting the professor instead.

"Hello, professor."

"HelloMissXanthopoulos!" he half-waved, half-saluted the Gryffindor.

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Janelle arrived for Astronomy class, stopping to de-lint herself before entering the classroom. Once that was done, she went straight for the first empty seat and claimed it. "Hello Professor", she said.
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"Good evening, Miss Guidry," he greeted the Ravenclaw.

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"Good evening, Professor," he greeted as he spotted the man in his usual spot up front. Benny moving to take a seat behind a free desk in the semicircle. Setting his bag down, he spotted the parchment...and the note and raised a slight eyebrow. Interesting...very interesting.

He'd hold off his curiousity...for now.

"Evening, Mr. Atreyu," he nodded eagerly...several times...to the Gryffindor. "Hope that things are settling down for you a bit now? Yes?"

Poor kid. Dorm assignments and everything putting him right into the thick of things.

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"Hello Professor." Giving a quick head nod towards the man, Ophelia found an empty seat in the semi-circle and got out her supplies for the class. However, her eyes kept traveling to the note on her desk. DO NOT TURN OVER. This was cruel, Flamsteed. She was taking back her nod! Because now all the Ravenclaw wanted to do was turn over the stinking note. Why did you do this to her? Why were you so cruel? Why was she so dramatic?
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"Hello hello!" he greeted, opting for another half-wave, half-salute for the Ravenclaw. "Fascinating little piece of paper, isn't it?"

Har har har. He was hilarious.

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"Hiiii, good evening, Professor Flamsteed!'' After delinting himself, Adi had made his casual entrance to the classroom. He enthusiastically returned the suited man's salute before turning to go find himself a seat.
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Ohh, what was this? A parchment... with a warning printed on it. Adi raised one of the edge's of the parchment just a tiiiiiny bit. Don't worry, he saw nothing. Hehe. But man, was he CURIOUS! Letting the parchment flop back down, he focused on retrieving his books from his bag.

"HellooooooooooooOOOOOOOOoooooo, Mr. Rehman!" Airey saluted a bit too eagerly - his hand smacking his large forehead.

Uh oh. Now you've done it. Simply couldn't resist just TRYING to take a peek could you, you eager Badger A jolt of red light shots out from seemingly under the parchment you just lifted up and hits you square between the eyes. In the next instance, your eyebrows begin to grow and turn the same shade of red as the light Don't they look very becoming on you! Even better that they will not be able to be removed until you leave the classroom! Enjoy!

Thankfully, at least for the time being, Professor Flamsteed was too busy greeting and scampering about the front of the room to notice Mr. Rehman's little mishap. Not that much more would have come from it. Save for some laughing.

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"Good evening professor!" she greeted him - a first, since she didn't greet professors, it was weird and a little too personal - and, in a moment of obvious insanity, held up her hand for a high five.

O_O Errrrrr.............. She was stuck. And she was blushing. Bambi almost NEVER blushed. Could she just gently take her hand back and go? But no it would be even more awkward, and she was at the front of the classroom so everyone could see and ugh, this was weird.

Please don't leave her hanging Professor?

"Hey oooooooooooh," he chirped, eagerly returning the girl's high five without question with a lively smack.

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Astro!

He was here. He was totally here. Wouldn't miss it for the WORLD. Nope.

Waltzing into the classroom, Zeke beamed at his Head of House and waved. "Hey Professor," he greeted. No hard feelings about the blowing up attempt thing, right? RIGHT? They were both Gryffindors, it was a thing that happened that didn't really happen... so all was well.

Ahem.

But.. oh, hey. Zeke paused behind his desk.

DO NOT TURN OVER.

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"Are we having a test?" he asked nobody in particular. Cause, if they were... he was so NOT ready for it. Whoops?

"Hay is for horses, Mr. Zeke," the astronomer laughed. Loudly. Perhaps a bit too loudly than was socially acceptable in a classroom setting, but oh well. "...and Professor Thompson." Ooooooh he was on a roll.

"Funny you should mention the word...test," he said with an eager gleam in his blue eyes. "You'll see in just a moment."

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"Evenin', Professor Airey."

Airey actually bounced in place a few times, you know, in honor of his pogo-ing partner. "Good evening to you as well, Mr. Tempus."

The astronomer still wanted another cup of coffee...by the way. He checked his sundial watch to check the time. Hmm...just a bit more then...

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"Evening Professor." Angel smiled as she walked into the room. "How are you?" Angel hoped that the Professor was okay especially after everything that had happened, she had wanted to hug him at first but then thought everyone would find it weird.

"Goooooood evening, Miss Valentine," he saluted the Gryffindor with an especially wide grin. "I am doing juuuuust STELLAR! Thank you for asking."

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Stepping into the room she glanced around nodding slightly towards her friends. "Evening Professor," Hady greeted warmly stopping before him to give a proper salute in return to his. Grinning she then made her way to her desk sitting herself down as her eyes landed on the parchment there.
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"Good evening to you as well, Miss Lynch!" he saluted...and winked...and waved at the Slytherin.

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"Good evening Professor!" Kace greeted him and he gave him a polite wave and went to his desk and sat down. He took out his sketchbook and began to sketch doodles to pass the time.

"Sketch book away, Mr. Lecium," the astronomer clapped. "We will be beginning soon."

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"Good evening Professor." She waved to him and smiled. She looked around for a seat and found a free one near Kace. "You don't mind if I sit here, do you?" The blonde winked at him.

"Good evening, Miss Duchannes," Airey greeted with some seriously intense waving action. "Not at all, please do sit there." HAHA, so hilarious.

Of course, he knew she had not been asking him...but he had seen an opportunity and seized it. Huzzah!

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The third year grinned at Professor Flamsteed anyways as she entered, and saluted right back 'cause he was a cool dude, before taking a seat right smack in the middle of the semi-circle. And there it was. The parchment. Norah's eyes widened as she read it, and she felt her fingers immediately start to get fidgety. No no no why did they DO this to her? Instead of pulling all her materials from her bag, she sat down on her hands. Don't think about the parchment, nope. Chocolate! Giraffes! Sparkles! Um ummmm Cartwheels! Manatees! Roast beef sandwiches! ANYTHING but the parchment. Wait. Now she was thinking about it again. DANGIT.

Airey watched, eagerly, as the Hufflepuff slid into her seat and suffered briefly from twitchy-finger-itis. Would she be the....oh wait, would you have a look at that! Mr. Rehman had been the first victim. Huh, given their track record this term, Airey had expected it to be a Gryffindor to take a peek first.

"Ahem, Miss Kittredge," he said, clearing his throat and not-so-subtly pointing towards the Hufflepuff prefect while choking back laughter. You know, just in case she still had twitchy-finger-itis.

Mmmhmmmmmmmmmmm.

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Marigold smiled at the professor as she entered the room. She had taken a nap instead of eating dinner, but then managed enough time to eat a quick snack (her common room was near the kitchens, which made it easy), so not only was she full, but also well-rested. "Good evening, Professor!" she said after rolling the lint roller over her clothing. She scanned the classroom and saw Norah, so she joined the lil one at an adjacent desk.

Dropping her bag and sitting down, she smiled and gave Norah a quick hand squeeze. "Whaddya think the paper is?"

"GoodeveningMissMcAlister!" he replied, complete with more eager waves and head-smacking salutes.

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Speaking of Flammy, he got a salute. "Good evening, Professor!" And there were waves for everyone else besides Emmy. Happily she took a seat by Kace. "Hello!" He got a BIIIIG smile though she was wondering what was up with the paper on her desk.

Curious Lux was curious.

Airey managed to contain his jitters enough to greet Miss Carrington without smacking his forehead. "Good evening, Miss Carrington."

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"Hey Professor Airey, why did the sun go to school.....To get brighter!"

Don't know why he said that but he was in the mood and maybe it was just a day for stupid jokes. Only can have one day a week for that sort of thing.

After a short, and purposeful, pause of just staring at the Slytherin, the Astronomy professor suddenly erupted in a fit of knee-slapping laughter.

"BAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA!" he roared, placing a firm hand on the young man's shoulder before all humor from his face vanished. "Only the Sun is growing steadily brighter as time goes on and more helium accumulates in its core and, thanks to our knowledge of the Ideal Gas Law where PV=nRT .... we know that as the Sun fuses its hydrogen, n - representing number of moles, in this case hydrogen...and it takes 4 moles of hydrogen to get 1 mole of helium - goes down. Pressure, represented by P, must be enough to hold back the effects of gravity pulling it in...thus as the mass of the Sun remains more or less the same, P must also remain the same. Now PV=nRT, and P is the same but n is decreasing. Typically, V - representing volume - would decrease as well to keep them equal, but the Sun is not increasing its mass due to the effects of gravity being too strong. Therefore, since R - the universal gas constant - is a constant and n is going down, then T, meaning temperature, must go up to compensate for n going down. THUS! THUS THUS!" And there was a lot of dramatic pointing going on right now at Mr. Barrington right between the eyes. "...THE SUN'S TEMPERATURE INCREASES AS IT BURNS ITS FUEL AND THUS THUS THUS BECOMES BRIGHTER!"

Now where was his mic so he could drop it?!

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Mentally cursing himself, the Slytherin headed further into the classroom, his eyes finding the Astronomy Professor. "Evening, Professor," he said, giving the man a nod of his head as he made his way to an empty seat and sat down. Huh. They weren't allowed to take a peak of the paper? How in the name of Merlin was he meant to cheat, then?

Looks like he'll have to do this the honest way and most likely fail. Jeez.

Having no mic of which to drop, the astronomer settled for pretending to do so and then blew on his fingers. Oh yeah...ooooooooh yeah.

"Good evening, Mr. Whitlock," the astronomer said, bouncing in place with a Cheshire cat-like grin on his face.

Checking his sundial watch once last time, he nodded firmly towards it and then looked up at the class.

"Aaaaaaaaalright ladies and gentlemen, let's get this show on the road," he announced, clapping his hands together LOUDLY as he made his way back to the front of the room in front of his desk. Wand pointed at the door, he gave it a quick flick to slam it shut. Whoopies. That hadn't been on purpose there. Oh well.

"Welcome everyone to another Astronomy lesson," he BEAMED as he spread his arms out wide as if offering the entire room a hug. Which he wasn't, by the way. He just couldn't keep his arms still for more than 2 seconds. "To starts things off, and put you all at ease so that there are no more Rehman incidents...we are going to take a look at what is on those pieces of paper on your desk. There are 5 variations of pictures, so the one you have will not be the same as the ones your neighbors have." Most likely anyway. "When I say 'Engage' you are all to flip your piece of paper over and examine the image for 60 seconds. After 60 seconds has passed...each of you is to stand up and share what you see in the image. This can be either a part of the image or the entire thing. Just whatever it is you see. I have one as well to share. We'll begin at one end of the semi-circle and go all the way around to the other end."

All clear? He certainly hoped so.

"Alright, ENGAGE!"

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OOC: Thank you all for your patience as I clearly did not meet the schedule I had listed up there

You do NOT need to wait for Professor Flamsteed to IC call on you to speak and can just assume he did so and the 60 seconds have pass. Likewise, as there is no real seating chart to have a real "order" of where each student is sitting in the classroom, please do not worry about when you should post and who your character is sitting next to. Just go for it

You may pick which of the images your character has on their piece of paper. Here are your options:
ONE TWO THREE FOUR FIVE

If for whatever reason you cannot see the above images, please inform me via either VM or PM and I'll help you out <3 This goes for any general questions regarding this portion of the lesson as well

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Norah looked up and grinned brightly at Mari as she took the seat next to her. "I dunno, but I'm sure glad I didn't flip it over," she whispered back, taking one hand out from under her to gesture in Adi's direction, giggling. "I'd look funny with those eyebrows." She waggled her own, awburn-and-not-flashy-red ones, before Professor Flamsteed did his loud clap-y thing and her attention was drawn to the front of the room.

So that was it? No secret code or treasure map or anything? Lame. Norah was GLAD she hadn't flipped over, 'cause something awesomesauce--like instructions on how to get a real life pet UNICORN or something-- would be so worth those funny eyebrows, but a picture? Not worth it. She shot a grin at Adi before looking down at the parchment on her own desk, still wiggling because surprises were still COOL and everything. She waited for an eternity until she heard Professor Flamsteed's 'Engage!' and flipped her page over eagerly.

What the heck? Norah squinted and squinted at the parchment, flipping it in every direction and squinting some more. That didn't look like much of ANYTHING. And suddenly the time was up? How has that been a whole entire MINUTE? Once it was her turn, the third year stood up and fidgeted slightly as she opened her mouth to try and describe the thing. "My picture was all...weird. It had that thing where both sides are the same--sympathy? No, symmetry. And in the middle it looked like there was a red bowtie, and around it there was, like, birds coming out of genie lamps, but with funny fish shapes under them, all in black. And also weird red blobby things on each side near the top..." She trailed off and gave Professor Flamsteed a hopeful smile before sitting down. That was weird. Really weird.

Strike getting his books and other necessary belongings out of his bag. Adi didn't have the time before something red filled his eye sight O__O What in the good name of Merlin?! The light seemed to have hit him right between the eyes and though he did not feel anything weird there, he felt something weird happening to his eyebrows

He quickly raised a hand to each of his brows. Gosh! They had gotten bushy! And some of the hairs felt longer Adi had already worked out what happened. Professor Suits had rigged the parchments for the curious students. Slowly the shock was wearing off and he was beginning to find it all somewhat funny. He turned to his bestie. "Do you like my new eyebrows?'' Adi wiggled them a bit. Of course he didn't know they were red... but if he did, he wouldn't mind. He had had two different colour eye brows during a Transfiguration lesson earlier in the year. They just weren't bushy and weird back then.

The Hufflepuff turned his attention to Flamsteed. "Well played, Professor.'' LOL. He did enjoy a good practical joke, you know. Anyway, another salute was in order for the man. Annnnd he did see Norah giggling at him. In return, Adi flashed her a grin.
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No more Rehman incidents? Adi was oky doky with that. He could be the one that stood out in this lesson today. Attention was a gooooood thing in his books. Hehe. Buuuut at least they had the go ahead to FINALLY turn over the parchment! The Hufflepuff flipped over his and eyed the image.

What the heck was THAT?

It was a good thing Flamsteed said to take a minute to study the image. Adi sure needed the time to to figure what it was. When it was his turn, he stood, wiggled his new eyebrows at the class then spoke. "The image for which I was too curious to see and got these awesome brows...'' He took a pause to wiggle the brows again. "...was also symmetrical like Norah's. It reminded me of a Jack-O-Lantern because it has this creepy looking smile smack in the middle. The difference here though, is that the image is in grey... or black... instead of orange.''

Done with that, the Hufflepuff flopped back down on his seat.

Zander was starting to get reaaaaaal curious about the paper, but before he could even attempt to act on it, something happened to Adi apparently because there was some laughing going on and-- Woah.

Holy eyebrows.

Merlin. They were MASSIVE. Being friends with the Prefect and all, Zander would've normally tried to stifle his laughter, but come on his eyebrows were HUGE and RED and yeah, he couldn't hold this one back. Nope. Maybe next time Adi, sorry. Did this mean his whole Uranus mishap could be left behind now that there was a new joke? 'Cause this was great news.

WAIT THEY WERE STARTING THE SIXTY SECOND LOOKING PERIOD??? Hold on one second this wasn't fair!! He hadn't turned his over yet, too busy looking at Adi's eyebrows-- which was a great comic relief from all the extra miserable stuff that had been looming over his head by the way-- but he was flipping his paper over now. Zander would've opted to stay quiet during this lesson like he had managed to get away with in the Divination and HoM combined lesson, but this was Professor Flamsteed. Kind of owed him one, you know? 'specially after all the trouble. Ahem. Sorry about that by the way, Sir.

When his turn approached he quietly stood up and gave the Professor a WHAAA kind of look. "Mine's either a really ill cat.... Or a giant violin.... Or uh, maybe a combination of both???" Would this picture stuff be on his OWLs because please no, Professor.