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Marion Burbage 
"Oh goodness gracious hEAvens! Are you alright dear?" Marion exclaimed as she pat the Gryffindor prefect on the back FIRMLY. One must WHACK the hiccups out of others, yes? Whack whack whack.
This was sort of new, having a professor that walked around the classroom while students answered and all. Not that Kurumi really minded, she did enjoy the added attention it provided and made the classroom environment feel more personal.
A little TOO personal.
Kurumi's entire body heaved forward when the woman began whacking her back. What was that for?! She wasn't choking on the soda! "
I'm *hiccup* f-f-fine *hiccup* professor" she squeaked out again after another series of hiccups. Yeah...she wasn't going to be finishing the rest of her soda if she wanted to breath properly. "
Just *hiccup* have *hiccup* thehiccups."
HICCUP HICCUP HICCUP
SPOILER!!: zee professor
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Marion Burbage Professor Burbage returned, to the front of the classroom having finishing walking around as each student spoke, and beeeeeeeeeeeeamed at the class. "Very good all of you!" And she really did mean ALL of them. "This studmuffin here is Robert Hutchings Goddard who is an American physicist and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket. Just as Miss Branxton said, he was a fan of Sir Isaac Newton and was especially interested in his Laws of Motion which helped him to create and successfully build the first liquid-fueled rocket." See the connection darlings? "You see dears, to make a rocket work properly is veeeeeeeeery dependent on these three Laws. Without a proper understanding of them, your rocket would never truuuuuuuuuuuly blast off."
Which would be an AWFUL shame.
She, of course, could have gone in to some rather lengthy calculations right now involving thrust and acceleration, but a basic foundation was more than enough for right now.
"As soooooooome of you may have guessed, today we WIIIIIIIIIIILL be building and setting off..." she paused for a moment. "BOTTLE ROCKETS! It is something I aaaaaaaaaaaaaalways wanted to do in my youth but just was never able to. Rather unfortunately really, so I doooo hope you do not mind my working along side you." But of coooooourse they didn't!
She moved behind her desk and waved her wand to remove a Disillusionment Charm she had placed on a large box. "In this box are the rest of the materials you will need to build your bottle rocket. Beeeeeeeeefore you get to doing so, because I see several of you already beginning to do the Potty Dance, please dooooooo take the time to use the rest room. Be sure to clean the inside of your bottle with a Scourgify. First years and those who do not know how to use the charm may wash out their bottle in the restroom."
She paused just long enough to set the box's contents out on the table. "I would like each of you to take a plastic bag, a piece of cardboard, and some dental floss." Which was mint flavored for those wondering. You should use the Severing Charm to cut things. Again, first years and those unsure of themselves should ask help from older students or myself."
She then turned to the board and gave her wand a firm flick. "Instructions for how to construct your rocket are on the board. You may of course add color and decoration if you wish. Just keep in mind that tooooooooo much of a good thing can be bad, darlings." She was just about to step aside when she recalled what she had remembered earlier. "Oh! I almost forgot." She pulled an EMPTY soda bottle out from under her desk and duplicated it with a spell until there were enough for each student. "You will also need one more bottle."
Oops. Hehehehe. Better that they just had to drink one full bottle of soda and not two, yes?
She beeeeeeeamed at the class once more. "I will be walking around and making my own bottle rocket if you have any questions or trouble." OOOOOOOOOOOOOH wasn't this exciting?! "Alright dears, time to become little rocket scientists! Get to it! Of you go!"
OOC: construction of your rocket should take AT LEAST 2 posts to complete for full participation point credit. Quality over quantity dears. Two well thought out posts can be better than many posts if you are creative and having fun! Feel free to interact with each other, but no injuries please. Professor Burbage will not like that very much. You will have at least 48 hours from the time of this post to complete this portion of the activity before we truly blast off. You may include a graphic of your completed rocket if you wish for possible extra credit, but it cannot be an image taken from the internet and MUST be either hand drawn or done in a graphics program.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact Professor Burbage by VM or PM. HAVE FUN!
Still hiccuping away, Kurumi attempted to take down whatever notes she could on what was being said and left the instructions for rocket building for the time being. She REALLY needed to stop these hiccups before she got anything done.
Wand out, Kurumi ended up banishing the rest of her soda instead of drinking it - never said they HAD to drink it, right? Just that their bottles had to be empty. And cast a quick Scourgify on the bottle before getting up out of her seat to head towards the table and grab the rest of the supplies. WHY she couldn't have just given everyone one of these duplicated bottles from the start was beyond her. Would have saved everyone from the potty dance - whatever that was. Kurumi hadn't heard that expression before.
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grangerfan8 They were setting off ROCKETS? AWESOME!
Dora's hazel-green eyes perked up over the brim of her orange soda bottle, and she gave the professor her undivided attention. She kinda did really mind the woman working alongside her, she was OLD what if she messed up and forgot and took points from her or WORSE blew stuff up in their FACES. She didn't mind explosions so long as they didn't happen in her face.
She wasn't doing the potty dance.
She was TWELVE she didn't do that ever. But miiiight have been doing this tap tap tap taping thing with her left foot. Soooooda. She needed some help cleaning out her bottles as cleaning wasn't something she ever really learned how to do with her wand. Dora had interests that were in other areas of wandwork. Heh. Looking around the class, she let her eyes settle on the gryffindor prefect while she siiiiiiped the last of her orange soda and tapped tapped her foot.
Tap tap tap.
That girl was smart, right? And she had to know cleaning charms with all the cooking she did. Cutting too, but Dora was sure she could handle that one on her own.
"Hey.. Kurumi?" Pause. "Kurumi!"
...only to be stopped before she actually GOT to the table.
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Yes?" she asked, looking at the younger Ravenclaw who...wait, was that the potty dance? The whole tapping foot thing? Maybe she should ask? "
You need help with something?"
Which apparently another Ravenclaw did. "
Scourgify?" Kurumi asked, waving to the boy.