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Hogwarts RPG Name:
Jade Archer de Leon
Slytherin Seventh Year
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Aurora "Rory" Archer
Hufflepuff Third Year |  Little Fox | ½ of Lauralie | Ravenclaw...?? *overthinks* | #HouseNATARINA
SPOILER!!: Eden Quote:
Originally Posted by kayquilz  Clara was chatty today. Eden liked this, though. Because chatty Clara=happy Clara, and that made Eden the MOST happy of all. Weirdly. Hmm. She got her notebook all ready...erasing the date like 28374757585 times because she was trying to write NEATLY and it just wasn't coming out nice at ALL. Eden would just have to accept her horrible handwriting?
She played with Clara's hair a bit, admiring the red-SHINYness of it...kind of absentmindedly, before she glanced up. "Oh..yeah...we'll see about the...whole wand thing...I'm baaaad at magic--" she whispered, as the professor closed his comic. "He's reading Star Trek--I already think he's cool--" she nodded knowingly before leaning back in her chair. She had more to say but he said they had to be quiet. So..yeah. She didn't want to get YELLED at. Clara watched the Professor -- Professor Airey, yep -- and listened to his words and wrapped up her conversation with Eden. She's grinned at her friends, trying NOT to bounce in her seat. "Class is starting," she whispered excitedly, though unsure of why she was whispering. "And don't worry," she said, watching as Eden played with her hair, "I'll help you with the magic part as much as possible." Not that she really thought she'd need it. She was willing to bet that Eden was just unsure of her own abilities and was actually great.
NOW TO FOCUS ON THE PROFESSOR AND LESSON THINGS. SPOILER!!: Professor Airey Quote:
Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie "Good day," he greeted the Ravenclaw, eyes still a little wild with excitement from the first year's words. "I am glad that you find my classroom aesthetically pleasing." He also found the semi circle to make it easier for people to focus. Harder to hid this way.
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Checking his sundial watch one last time, he took a few dramatic steps away from his desk and held both of his arms up. "Alright, if you all could please wrap up your personal conversations in the next 3 seconds," he announced. "It's time to begin."
He gave his wand a firm flick towards the door to shut it and then turned his gaze towards the students seated in the semi-circle formation.
"Welcome to Astronomy. Terribly sorry about the delay. I will have a word with the house elves to make sure this mix up does not happen again," he began. "For those of you who do not know me, I am Professor Flamsteed, but you may call me Professor Airey if it suits you better, but never sir." Just to get all of that out of the way. "The first thing I would like you to do is to make your name appear on these name tags," he instructed with a flick of his wand to make some very special name tags appear on each student's desk. "All you need to do is give it a firm tap with your wand and speak your name loud and clearly. The name will appear in gold lettering exactly as you say it."
And there was NO way that the spell could go wrong - no blowing up the name tag or anything of that sort.
"Please place it on your robes when you are done. And while you do that, I want to think over the following - what does the term astronomy mean to you and why do we study it. Besides it being a required course for first through fifth years that is. When you have your answer please raise your hand and share it with the rest of the class."
Questions he had not used to start a lesson for in quite a while now, but fitting given the...theme of the term. Judging. He seemed nice enough, despite not picking up on her slight sarcasm about the seating arrangement. She couldn't imagine a worse classroom layout. To be fair to him, though, she hadn't really said it in a sarcastic tone as she'd first intended to. She gave him a warm smile and an indifferent"mhmmm," before waiting for him to get started with the lesson part of the lesson.
That was what she'd come for, after all.
Heh. Name tags.
That seemed fairly straight forward to her. She'd completed much more difficult magic than that while she'd attended Hogwarts, so this was a piece of cake. Grinning over at Eden, she took out her wand and picked up the empty name tag. She did exactly as Professor Airey had instructed, tapping the name tag firmly before saying, "Clara Wilde," loud and clear. It worked and her name appeared on the name tag in golden lettering. Thinking about it for a second, she was actually quite surprised that her surname had been spelt correctly, and curious about why that was. It sounded like 'wild,' so she was pleasantly surprised that it hadn't been spelt that way.
The redhead looked up when Eden nudged her, eyes shining with a pride for her friend that said 'See? I knew you could do it!' It wasn't particularly difficult magic, but every little bit counts where confidence is concerned. With one last little nudge, Clara once again focused her words on the teacher, ignoring the vast amount of other people in the room.
Astronomy. Hm. "Astronomy is a scientific subject. It looks at the physical universe as a whole and often focusses on celestial objects, like planets, stars and things like that," she said after raising her hand. Not exactly the text book answer, but near enough. That was what she understood Astronomy as; the study of things not of Earth. Before she could chime up to give the second part of her answer, she'd frozen ...
.... Suddenly all the people in the room seemed to get infinitely LOUDER ... and much closer to her than before ...
At least, that's what it felt like .....
.. Clara gripped the edge of the desk for support ... shooting a panicked look at Eden, before squeezing her eyes tight shut and trying to focus her breathing. Calm down, calm down, calm down.
....... butshecouldn't ... |