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Fifth Year  x9
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Originally Posted by iceblossom22  Nodding at the door, Elise lifted up her skirt slightly as she into the room, trying hard not to trip over anything. Especially not her dress. One foot after the other. Merlin, heels were tiring.
Noticing the section all blue-ey, she found her housemates and sat down.
Imitating Professor Cerulean, Elise raised her hand, a little confused. Muggle studies was never quite her strong point. That was Herbology.
"Are the Babies and Ducks?" she asked, saying the first thing that came to mind. "We're not actually having babies for dinner, are we Professor?"
If they were, El would probably run out screaming. Not good. The professor smiled at the girl. " No the b stands for the bread dish and the d stands for drinks...and no we are noting having babies of any type for dinner..." Quote:
Originally Posted by GinevraWeasley Vlimia was quite perplexed as to why there was so much on the table. All you really needed was one glass, a plate, a spoon (possibly), a fork and a knife. Not all these different sizes and stuff. She did the 'B' and 'D' thing with her hands, but she was confused as to what they meant. Vlim raised her hand anyway. "Maybe it means Bring Dinner?" She said unconfidently once chosen. "Or possibly BreaD?" Vlim said just as confusedly. She had tried... The professor beamed at the student, " Well we'll be getting our first course shortly, but the b stands for bread dish and the d stands for drinks..." Quote:
Originally Posted by Starbreeze Eino listened and watched as Professor Cerulean introduced the class to her lesson. It was rather hard to keep his eyes in one place because there was so much going on. Eino was curious to know how muggles ate, or what was their etiquette. He couldn't quite imagine how different it would be from wizard's etiquette. As a pureblood wizard he had always experienced the wizard custom first, but he had eaten at muggle restaurants before and never stood out. They use plates and plates, too? So far, no differences. When prompted Eino attempted to do the B and D with his hands as Professor Cerulean demonstrated, but he was having a little trouble. When she asked what the two letters stood for, Eino raised his hand. "B is for, ummm, bubbles, because sparkling drinks make bubbles and they are on this side... D is for, uh, dishes, because you put your extra dishes here." Sounded reasonable. Gemma smiled at the boy's answer, " I like your thinking...and your words but actually the answer is opposite of yours...the b is for bread plate and the d is for drinks...." Quote:
Originally Posted by iBeJenn
Selena looked at her hands, confused. What did the B and D stand for? Selena's hand shot straight up into the air. "Bad Dinner." Because eating dinners in such an environment was always so confusing with all the different spoons and forks and things. It was too complicated. It was like they couldn't just settle down for one simple utensil to use throughout the whole meal. That definitely had to be what the B and D stood for. The young professor laughed a little bit at the girl's answer, " Well, I'm sure many people think the same way you do with all of the items on the table, but trust me the meal is going to be delicious!" she said with a little nod up and down. Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie Kurumi held her hands up and tried to copy the professor's movements. Kurumi had never seen this practice before, so this was entirely new to her. Sure, she had grown up nonmagical, but her country's customs were different...and there certainly was no talk of b's and d's when it came to dining etiquette. She looked at the table. What here looked like it belonged to a b category... b...dinner... "Does...b mean...baked goods?" Kurumi asked after raising her hand and then she glanced back at the table. D...d...d...what could d be? Design? Delicates? As in...their napkin? That sounded a fair enough guess. "And the d is...delicates? Such as our napkin?" Gemma was always happy to hear an answer from one of her favorite Gryffindors. " Kurumi, I like your answers...but actually the b stands for bread dish and the d stands for drinks...it helps you remember which of these is yours...but way to think outside of the box...." Quote:
Originally Posted by Green Ninja
Raising his hand he decided to give it a shot. "Would it mean if you lie them beside the utensils everything between is yer own?" Or perhaps it meant the specific utensils on either side of the plate? Well it was too late to change his answer now.
The professor shook her head up and down at his answer..." Well...um...kind of..." she said and then waited for another student to give the full answer. Quote:
Originally Posted by Jessiqua Zhenya raised her hand after hearing the question. It had reminded her of a dinner time song she and her grandparents used to sing... it was lame but she used to love it! "Professor it goes," she started tuning the song, "One, two better eat your bread - three four, don't forget to drink," she said, turning slightly red from embarrassment from singing in front of the class. Her face lit up when the young girl started singing/say singing a familiar song..." You are correct Zhenya! And I must say that I am impressed that you know that song that goes along with it. Someone has already taught yu some etiquette! Kudos to them and to you!" Quote:
Originally Posted by HOPEendures Oh, everyone looked so lovely. The door made one final announcement and in had walked their Professor. She had said to go ahead and sit. Jezzabelle sat down and sighed. Nope, she had to pull her chair out on her own. No guy to do that for her. as the Professor went on about dinner etiquette she payed the closest of attention. And then the first question was asked. She thought about it for a while and then raised her hand, "Does it mean before dinner and during dinner?" It kinda made sense. Maybe not complete sense. Gemma smiled at the girl, " Well kind of...." she said with a tilt of her head and then she went to the next answer...the professor would explain the correct answer shortly. Quote:
Originally Posted by fanficfanatict Selina was in a foul mood. That bloody door had taken away two points to Gryffindor because she knocked on the door. It was not her fault that she did not know that the door was enchanted. They didn't even have a sign or anything and she didn't know if class was being held in session. Because it makes SO much sense to announce yourself to a door... yeah right.
But she swallowed her pride and sat at the red table with all of her friends. When the first question was asked Selina looked around the room for some kind of indication. B and D? Nope no idea. Might as well give a guess. So she rose her hand and said, "B stands for beginning because that is what you start with and D stands for Dinner because that is what we are eating?" Eh, worth a shot. The professor smiled at the girl's answer..." Good thinking, but just wait for the answer..." SPOILER!!: Right Answers!!! WOOT! Quote:
Originally Posted by Anna Banana Sierra raised her eyebrows ever-so-slightly at the Professor Cerulean's excitement. Yeah, sure. Just what she always wanted to be--a princess. Psh. Yeah, right. Sierra grew up wanting to be just what her father was--a true, Slytherin SNAKE. Who cared about tiaras and and pretty dresses when you had a wand and a drive to succeed.
Nevertheless, Sierra sat there, all dressed up in her formal attire, listening to the professor. Why was Sierra here again, in a Muggle Studies class? Oh. Right. Because her father was the new Minister of Magic, and Professor Lafay thought it'd be a wonderful idea for his daughter to know the ways of all the people. Blahh. Well, at least there was food, and at least what they were learning was important in the Wizarding World, too.
She followed along, although things were moving along kind of quickly with screens popping up everywhere. She made the B and D formations with her hands, looked them over carefully to try and figure out what they might mean, and then hesitantly raised her hand. "Maybe it's for bread and drink?" she suggested. "Does it tell you that your bread is where your hand formed the B, and your drink is where your hand formed the D?" It was the only thing that made sense to her. What else on the table could the letters stand for? Quote:
Originally Posted by alchemist_18
"Bread and Drink?"
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Originally Posted by Lissy Longbottom
"OH! It means bread and drink, right? Cause your bread is here...and drink is here..." he said, motioning to the spots on the table as he spoke.
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Originally Posted by tomewitch
Beezus raised her hand, "Professor, the hand where b is formed which is basically your left hand stands for your bread plate and the d hand which is your right hand stands for your drinks. The utensils should be placed accordingly to this rule." Well? Not too bad eh? Muggle Studies. Maybe she'll survive this.
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Originally Posted by Squishy ♥ Amelia made the gestures like the Professor had indicated to, then raised her hand. "Because bread is kept on the left side and stands for b. Drinks are kept on the right and stand for d." Or that was the only thing she could suppose right now, because anything else would be totally weird and not relate to food in any way. Quote:
Originally Posted by hjhm
B and D. The professor raised the question. Jonathan raised his hand B is for bread, which is located on the left side while D is for drink, located on the right side" he explained. So it was somewhat the same as the one he learned from his mother as well. Victoria is very particular with these stuffs. He never thought it would've come handy in school.
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Originally Posted by RoseMalfoy
She slowly raised her hand, "Professor, B could stand for beverages which are kept on the left side, and D could stand for dinner which is on the right side?" she answered questioning herself, it was the opposite of what everyone else had said, but that didn't make it wrong. But she had a feeling she was pretty off. Better saying something, than nothing at all, right?
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Originally Posted by McFeisty
Walking to a little table she sat down making sure to cross her legs at her ankles so as to not let there be any accidental views of anything inappropriate. "Would the B and D indicated bread and drinking glass or where your bread should go and where your drink should go?" She asked after raising her hand. "Or more so the B.M.W technique taught by Emily Post" what? Any girl should know of Emily Post's book of Etiquette. She did. She'd read it.
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Originally Posted by Eve. Staring blank in confusion at her lightly painted finger nail, Eva had absouloutley no idea what this Professor meant! As her confusion ran through her mind Eva tried to duplicate what this Professor was doing. Eva thought about what B and D meant. Hmmm Brutal Dinner, Bad Duck or Breakfast Dinner? Eva thought to herself. She came up with an alright answer to do with 'B and D' and put her hand up and responded to the question; "Is it Brutal Dinner?" Eva with only this time a little bit of confusion. She knew it wasn't right so she thought deeper and deeper. She came up with something that made a lot more sense this time. Still keeping her hand up she spoke for the second time and said; "Sorry I finally figured it out; B is to remember that your bread is on the left and D is to remember that your drink is on the right. It is a tip to remember which one is your so you don't get confused with the person next to you." Wow! Eva sounded a know-it-all then but she was sure she got it right. Quote:
Originally Posted by SilverTiger
Her attention had gone to Professor Cerulean as the woman had entered, after an exuberant introduction from the imaginary doorman, and she'd nodded at the explanations. The history lesson was unexpected, but at least it had given a basic idea as to why they were learning this. She made the hand gestures as requested as well, although she dropped one of them as she'd raised her hand to answer the question. "Insofar as we're focusing on the specific items, the B and D refer to the bread plate and water glass. Indicating that the bread plate should always be on our left, and our glass on the right," she replied, adding a bit to what had been said by others as she glanced over at Dia again. Apparently etiquette classes happened at other places as well, or at least the other Claw had interesting reading habits.
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Originally Posted by lazykitty
For the first time in her life, Sky was silently thanking her parents for dragging her to all those boring dinners with her father's business partners. She felt confident that she had this down! She followed the professor's instructions, making a b with her left hand and a d with her right. She so had this! Sky calmly (the lesson was about etiquette, after all) raised her hand before confidently answering, "We're making the b with our left hand because the bread plate will be on the top left of the place setting and the d with our right because our drink will be on the top right."
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Originally Posted by FireboltAvis88
Alyssa took a seat as instructed and then held up her hands trying to make the letter B with her left hand and the letter D with her right hand. She looked at the how the plates and glasses were arranged on the table, and realized what the letters stood for. Even though others had already answered the question, she still raised her hand to give hers. "Professor, the b stands for our bread plate which should always be placed on our left hand side and the d stand for our drink glass that should always be on our right. So if the table arrangement is very close together, we need to remember that we shouldn't reach over to the right to take the bread from that plate because that bread belongs to the person on our right and if we wanted to make sure that we didn't end up drinking someone else water, we should always reach for the glass on our right and not the one on our left."
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Originally Posted by AuroraQuinn Aurora smiled quietly to herself and raised her hands in a B and D shape as instructed, then Professor Cerulean asked what they meant... her hand shot into the air. "Bread and Drink, Professor." she said. Oh yes, her private tutoring had come in handy before but she'd never thought her mother's dinners would be useful until now... Quote:
Originally Posted by Katergirl Angelina raised her hand and said, "The B is for bread and D is for drinks." She wasn't to sure, just taking a guess, she knew nothing about muggle things or stuff like that.. Quote:
Originally Posted by Quick Quotes Quill
'Bread and Drink...', Gwen said simply. Or boring and dull, she thought, but didn't even think to say it out loud. I might lose even more points.
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Originally Posted by Lady of Light
Evelyn raised her hand and said lazily, "B stands for Bread and D stands for Drink." She had no idea why though.
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Originally Posted by Orla
"Bread and Drink, Proffeser, It's Bread on the Left and Drink on the Right,'' R-right??
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Originally Posted by AnnabethJackson Leia raised her hand, she had been trying to remember what her parents friends had told her, "It's bread and drink isn't it professor? I'm not too sure where they go but I think bread goes on the left and drink goes on the right," she really hoped it was correct. Quote:
Originally Posted by affy7ann Tayla loved how everything looked like, and yes, she also loved the food! She smoothed the skirt of her scarlet dress and listened as the professor spoke.
It wasn't Tayla's first time to see a table setting like this. But she did find it confusing. She held up her hands making a 'b' and a 'd' as instructed, then she raised one hand to answer the professor's question.
"Bread and drink, Professor. Helps us remember which side each is." Quote:
Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19 Jory was admiring the settings the Professor had done for the lesson. It was like going to one of his Dad's formal dinner at his work.
He raised his hand to answer the question. "Bread and drink, Professor,'' he said sort of uncertainly. Then he formed a B with his left hand and a D with his right, just as instructed. Quote:
Originally Posted by Bazinga Minerva found an empty chair and sat down. The professors dress was so pretty and her shoes were fantastic Minnie thought. She began to speak about everything going on and Minerva raised her hand. "Professor does the D mean the drinking glass and the B mean bread." Quote:
Originally Posted by mellamaet Tearing her eyes away from the awesome decor around the room, and turned around when the door announced Professor Cerulean. She rather liked her...she was nice. and not to mention she really enjoyed that chicken dance last term. Hihi.
Then she, along with everyone else, turned back to face their table settings and and opened her hands and formed a 'b' and a 'd'. The technique seemed familiar...so oddly familiar...in fact, she could practically hear her mother instructing her as she did the same thing...
Taking a giant leap of faith, the Slytherin raised her hand to answer and said "It stands for bread and drink, right Professor? The side where the 'b' is where your bread is supposed to be and the 'd' stands for which drink is yours." Quote:
Originally Posted by Cassandra TAylor raidsed her hand. It was a simple question, "The b is for bread and the d is for dinner, ma'dam." She said sweetly. TAylor grew up on these manners.
Gemma shook her head excitedly up and down, " Yes you are correct. The B stands for the bread plate which is the little plate to the left of your plate..." she flicked her wand at the plate on the left side levitated for a few seconds and then placed back down softly. " And the D stands for drink because your drinking glasses can always be found at the top right of your plate..." she flicked her wand at the two clear stemmed glasses levitated as well...but they stayed up a little bit longer. " I almost forgot to get you all drinks..." she flicked her wand just a little bit and a pitcher full of tea and a pitcher full of water started working its way around the room filling up the glasses. " Tonite you'll be getting two different drinks. You'll get water and then you'll get tea. Feel free to add sugar to your tea if you prefer..." she said waiting for the glasses to become filled. " O and you can have drinks whenever you want...the only real etiquette with the drinks is that you don't gulp them down and you don't have to point your pinky out as you drink..." she said with a little giggle.
Once all of the glasses were filled, a picture showed on all of the screens.
The professor went over each item on the diagram holding up each one from her table and as she held hers up the matching items levitated shortly off of each round table. So when she held up the salad fork, all of the salad forks in the room levitated slightly off the table.
Then she continued, " Tonite we are going to have a seven course meal." she smiled as she said it knowing that her stomach was rumbling. "Can anyone name ONE of the seven courses of a meal?" she asked as she flicked her wand to clear the screens hanging from the roof. "And don't forget to raise your hand before answering please." OOC: Remember to raise your hand before you answer. You can have crazy answers if you would like...Gemma and I love creative answers....And as always remember she is always watching you! But remember she doesn't handle rudeness towards Muggle ways very well, so you might want to keep those prejudices to yourself unless you want face the consequences!
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