SPOILER!!: LOL Theo is blushing
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sweetpinkpixie 
"Very good, Mr. Kinsley!" Airey applauded. "Class, as you see in this example a star is being used as a metaphor for a girl, a girl that is so bright - or beautiful - that she is blinding. This is directly connected to the whole idea of wishing on a star. You see, in ancient times when people looked up at the night sky the planet Venus, named after the Roman goddess of love, was and is the brightest point in the sky and mistaken for an actual star by ancient peoples. The Romans built temples to Venus, and since it was the first "star" that could be seen in the sky for much of the year, and always the brightest whether seen in the morning or the evening, it was an easy way to remember it as a prayer point." He paused here to allow students to catch up with note taking. Mr. Kinsley didn't mind him going into all this detail, right? It was just a song after all. "You can probably all guess what the number one thing people prayed for was. That's right, love. The prayer evolved into a wish as people forgot completely about the Goddess of Love and her origins - as is something that humans tend to do with such things - and the wish expanded into realms well outside the cosmic sphere of love. 5 points to you as well, Mr. Kinsley. Excellent reference."
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Wow. Theodore's face went a little pink as the professor starting talking about
girls and
love, regarding his song choice. In front of the whole class. In front of ELLA. ELLA WAS IN THE ROOM, PROFESSOR. Get with the program. He ducked his head low and didn't look to anyone in particular.
He may have given Theo 5 points, but Professor Flamsteed just LOST 5 Theo!points.
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Thanks for that, sir."
SPOILER!!: Question 2!
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sweetpinkpixie "Very good all of you and thank you for being brave and singing." Most of them anyway and it hadn't been a requirement to sing. They had humored him though, which he appreciated. Awesome points to them all! "However, none of managed to mention the song that inspired this lesson." Shame really. There had been house points up as a reward for anyone that did."Are any of you familiar with the song Catch a Falling Star performed by Perry Como?" With a quick tap of his wand on the projector, lyrics written in bold white text appeared on the domed ceiling over the night sky for students to read. "As you may have been able to infer from all this, the theme of this term is stars and today we will be focusing on something rather special. A star that isn't really a star but has been mislabeled as one by humans. Often called shooting stars or falling stars like in the song, there is a proper name for this phenomena. Can anyone tell me what that is?"
Theo liked to think that his knowledge of stars was pretty good, but the question seemed to be a lot more complicated in his head than what it actually was. Falling stars kinda gave it away in the end. Phew, he knew this. Shooting his hand up,
like a shooting star, Theo said, "
That would be a meteoroid, I think." Or an Asteroid, or a comet. He didn't know this stuff, so he just ducked his head down low again.