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Calvin Fletcher
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Calvin Fletcher
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I’m right, you’re wrong. They don’t call me a Seer for nothing.

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SPOILER!!: Ms. Gladin
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She was going to greet him, but as soon as she had entered the room, the lesson started. Well, there went that idea. She had been counting on greeting him and breaking her first rule of the day. Well, technically second - the first had been broken when she had clasped the golden snitch necklace Royland had gotten her for Christmas around her neck this morning. She flipped her hair over her shoulder, trying to draw attention to it without being too obvious.

Here goes nothing. She raised her hand to make her EDUCATED guess, like he said. "Aeromancy?" she guessed. She wanted to break rules - but not do push ups.


Calvin may have told the girl it was a fair guess, being outside where atmospheric conditions could properly be observed and interpreted, but instead the man found himself looking at the shiny snitch hung about her neck. The hair flip was unnecessary, the man would’ve recognised it a mile away and he was less than amused by the gesture of open defiance as he saw it. Being told not to wear jewellery then wearing some to a lesson, well, few things got bolder than that right now so her response was entirely ignored in favour of the man wordlessly accio-ing the necklace.

Silently, he turned it over in his hands a few times, considering his course of action. There was no need to cause disruption during his class but there wouldn’t be a slap on the wrist for making a conscious effort to defy a rule that was so easily followed. The girl no doubt was hoping for this. “It’s a fine piece.” He conceded quietly. “You’ll present yourself at my office if you want it back, or wait til you arrive at detention, whichever is at your greatest convenience.” He continued, his tone deceptively calm and polite as he banished the piece of jewellery to his office. He, however, had no intention of giving it back.

Moving on.

SPOILER!!: Ms. Queen
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Skyler looked around the environment for some clues, although, the 'room' was actually empty, more or less. It was a stormy day outside so they coule not go outside and look at the sky. Maybe there was a water sourse in the room. Aha. Skyler came up with an a swer almost pretty quickly.
"Full moon water scrying professor? If there is a water sourse in here?" Skyler asked.


“Full moon water scrying would be an option, yes, if it wasn’t currently the afternoon and an actual full moon.” That topic was better taught at night, as he was sure she’d agree if she gave it more thought. Right now, the midday sun was up, amidst the clouds that rolled by. It would be il-advised to attempt as much under these conditions.

SPOILER!!: Mr. Hornfield
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Alastair thought about it, they were outside, but this wasn't astrology class.

"Are we trying pyromancy?" Alastair guessed. He didn't see a fire pit or any wood, but he couldn't think of anything else. Divination wasn't his strong suit.


Calvin had to take pause here and glance around the surrounding area for what could possibly have given the boy the impression they’d be having a repeat lesson. No prop gave insight to them burning anything today. “We’ve already covered pyromancy, Mr. Hornfield, and while a little revision wouldn’t hurt quite a few of you,” some of those essays he received were....questionable at best, “We do no have a fire pit out here, or anything to burn.”

Pyromancy had been the first lesson taught, back in September. Revision would come later as the exams drew closer. Not now when there were still other topics to be covered.

SPOILER!!: Mr. Carden
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Max had learned his lesson from previous classes and so his lips had remained very much closed up until this point. They did curl into a slight grimace, however, when Natalie was ordered to do pushups. Twenty-five of them. Yikes. Good luck, McKinley.

He gave his face a quick rub, trying to neutralise his expression before raising a hand in the air. "Geomancy?"


Soil. Rocks. Sand. They were all things that were outside, so.....

Maybe?



”A fair guess, Mr. Carden.” He told the Prefect. “The outdoors would be the optimal setting to read the patterns formed in the earth or while using a bit of earth to get clearer insight into future events.”

See how painless that was? Question asked, offer answer, no one does push ups, no one leaves disgruntled. Some students were finally starting to understand the pattern.

SPOILER!!: Ms. Blackwell
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"Good afternoon, professor." Bettie greeting back. Bettie thought about the question for a moment and silently asked herself what divination practice would you do in an open grass area. We did the fire one. When she thought the answer came to her she raised her hand. "Would it be reading of clouds or stars?"


He had to admit, on a larger scale he wasn’t filled with the urge to cringe at the response of the students. He’d asked for sensible guesses based on what they saw and they were giving just that.

“We won’t be seeing any stars in the middle of the day, Ms. Blackwell, but intrepting the clouds could be a possibility, yes. “

SPOILER!!: Ms. McKinley
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Truthfully, Natalie hadn't noticed the deafening silence in the classroom. Her mind was far too busy to recognize that she had broken the silence... and a rule. One rule out of a hundred. Speak. Don't speak. Don't speak unless spoken to. It was getting a bit tiring, wasn't it?

Now, Natalie, up until this point had been a very strict rule follower (for the most part) and would have normally apologized and proceeded with the push ups. In fact, her face turned red with embarrassment and her heart started pounding at the idea of public humiliation.

...

And then it went back to normal. The young Slytherin watched the Professor and his cold, unfriendly eyes. There was no point. They would never reward her for being a good student anyway. And if they did, it was because she would have given up her freedom to be a little minion of theirs. And she wasn't going to have it.

"Actually, sir, I think I'll just leave," she said calmly, and tiredly. She was really quite tired these days, so she would rather go take a nap and never see this dude's face again. So she picked up her bag and headed for the door. She didn't have the gift of seer-stuff anyway, so it was really quite pointless.


Calvin hadn’t been expecting words from this one until she’d gotten the task done and moved on to answering the question. For that reason—and the outrageous nature of the words—the man had taken an extra moment to process them. The man deadpanned at the Slytherin, his lips moving into a hard line about his face. The door slammed shut with a loud, echoing bang before the girl could get close to it, his indignation difficult to mask. “I don’t remember giving you that choice, Ms. McKinley. In the event you’ve forgotten, this is school. At school, you attend classes. In these classes you do not dismiss yourself or choose when youwant to leave.” The break had clearly been too long for her if she was now forgetting her station as a student.

Walking out? Leaving a lesson because she felt like it? “This isn’t a free for all. You will complete the push ups now and turn your attention once more to the lesson or you will have your laps woefully extended at tomorrow’s S.O.R.E.” Those were her options, her only options. “But you will not be leaving and you will be seeing me for detention.” You’d think she would have learned from Prichard attempting the same back in September. If the man hadn’t allowed the boy to leave on his whim, why would he allow her now?

Why a student felt that if she didn’t like what was happening she could simply be disrespectful by excusing herself from a lesson prematurely was beyond him, but she, like several students still, was sadly mistaken. He would set her straight presently.

SPOILER!!: Ms. Spinnet
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.... Yikes.

Zoryn was STILL very pleased with herself, but she did wince for Natalie. Just a bit. Not enough to be noticed (hopefully because she still had the leg up here ok), but enough to show empathy. Yes. Zoryn Spinnet also exemplified real, human emotions every now and then. It wasn't all too often, but the occasional experience was more than enough.

Her attention quickly turned to Derf, who had just joined her in standing silently. There was power in numbers 'n solidarity. And despite the fact that she had been highkey judging him about turning Kennedy in, Zoryn quickly found it in her heart to forgive Derf for his momentary lapse of all good judgement. So she gave him a smile as if they weren't in the most uncomfortable class with the most uncomfortable block of mozzarella cheese as their Professor.

As far as Zoryn was concerned, Fletcher had one a couple of battles but Z. Spinnet had won the war. And this class? It was irrelevant.

"Entomancy," she offered, bored. Zoryn didn't actually care what omancy they were learning today.


Hell may have indeed been ready to freeze over. McKinely taking leave of her senses while Spinnet behaved appropriately and answered the question with some amount of logic. It was almost a jarring reversal. Calvin had honestly been prepared for the opposite. Nevertheless, he nodded at the girl’s suggestion. “An interesting branch that would certainly be possible out here, yes.”

Were he a little more stunned, he may have even tacked on a “good job, Spinnet” but the man was not so far gone just yet.

SPOILER!!: Ms. Cambridge
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As expected, the man hadn’t been willing to let the little slip up go. They were barely back from the break, surely some forgetting of the million and one rules would be expected—especially with this double standard where only half the professors followed them and required them in the first place.

Fletcher had done no form of changing over the winter break. Unfortunately, that was expected too.

Jessa winced when Nat suggested she leave as counter to his instructions, but the man was (thankfully) handling it—thankfully only because of the anxiety of having to do it herself—so Jessa simply raised her hand and waited to be acknowledged.............what was that around Nettie’s neck???????????

Despite not being the one with this accessory, the Head Girl now wanted to fall through the floor to avoid whatever would happen next with this deliberate attempt at defiance.

Could she go back to the break now—no, skip ahead to summer?

”Austromancy, maybe.” She offered up. There wasn’t really much to go on, but she supposed it was an option.


Awfully anxious this one. By now the man had taken the girl’s anxious outward appearance to be a part of herself as a person. He couldn’t recall a time when the Ravenclaw didn’t look like she was privy to information about the sky falling and waiting with nothing but dread for it to finally happen. Nothing to really be done about that.

Rather than try to decipher her latest source of worry, the man simply nodded at her guess. “The wind is another possibility while outside, yes.”

SPOILER!!: Ms. Primeaux
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What could they be studying had been on her mind since she walked in. She didn’t reply as she took a seat. Juni bit her lip when Natalie said that she would just leave rather than do the push up. The Sixth year watched apprehensively to see how things were going to play out, glancing between the professor and the Slytherin. Then Na left.

It took her a few seconds to get back in the groove of being in the lesson. Listening to the others answers. When Nettie answered, she spotted the something around her neck. What was she wearing. Jewelry? This made her pretty nervous, she eyed her for a bit. Really Nettie? Continuing to listen to the others answers. After a little while she raised her own hand. ”ceraunoscopy” Even Though it wasn’t storming looking at all but that could be changed with just a wave of a wand.


Calvin gave something of a nod to the next answer. “Indeed, it would be good for that but more appropriate should we have decided to go outside and observe the storm taking place out there.” In order to intercept the thunder and lightening. A fair guess all the same.

SPOILER!!: Mr. Ashbury-Hawthorne
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Derf was distracted - which was something already so easily done - but the exchange going on between Professor Fletcher and Natalie was VERY distracting and he had hoped her self preservation would have made her just accept the 25 and get them done...because now, well, now he was certain she was facing a detention for dismissing herself. And his stomach gave an uncomfortable lurch while his mouth ran a bit dry.

But he also knew that a dry mouth would not be an excuse not to say SOMETHING and really all Derf wanted to do was ask a question. The room had been charmed to look this way, it was not natural, and anything that happened within the confines of this "room" in terms of the outside conditions would be the intent of the professor, right? Just like one could not perform Meteromancy by looking at the ceiling in the Great Hall...they couldn't do anything with the magically created environment here either, right?

But no, he was not allowed to ask questions apparently. It had only earned him physical punishments in previous lessons.

So...something that required a decent amount of space for movement?

"Gyromancy," he offered up briefly as his prediction. The want and NEED to explain why and how he had come to this conclusion ever present in his eyes, but he was also taking some of Professor Noble's advice on less being more when it came to this follically challenged man.

Though he really liked Zoryn's answer LOADS better and the twinkle in his eyes he offered her when he ventured a glance after her answer said as much.


He could see the distraction in the Hufflepuff’s eyes and half expected him to throw himself into the thick of things. Suffice to say the man was pleased when he didn’t. Wasn’t life so much simpler this way? Of course, it could be all the more so if students weren’t actively trying to walk out and tempt the boy toward madness.

“This wide bit of space would be ideal for that branch, yes.” And good on him for staying focused despite his obvious distraction.


“It’s good to see you all putting some thought into your answers rather than offering up the first thing to come to mind.” As the man was now firmly convinced by now that some did whenever he gave homework.

“And that you could readily use prior knowledge of the subject to narrow down the choices.” No repeats either, it was refreshing and gave the man hope that maybe—just maybe—they weren’t entirely clueless despite some insisting to be.

Today, however, we will not be using nature to uncover the unseen, but something along more manmade lines.” At this point, he removed the disillusionment charms placed over the table by where he stood. Atop the table were several quivers filled with arrows, enough for everyone present. Next to them, bows. “Belomancy, the art of using arrows to divine, answers. I’d like one fact you know about this art, or your opinion on why it may or may not be an accurate means of deciphering answers.”

In a moment, they would even be using these things, but not until he went through safety regulations and a few well placed threats guidelines to ensure everyone’s safety. “I’d also like each of you to come up and collect a bow and a quiver—I see just one arrow zipping about or any form of folly or horsing around and the individuals will be swiftly dealt with. You are merely to strap the quivers about your shoulder and keep a firm hold on your bow until instructed otherwise where they are concerned.”

Was he clear with that?

OOC: The second question is now up! Have your students give one thing they know about belomancy or just their insight into why it can or can’t be considered an accurate form of divination. Also been instructed to grab a bow and quiver. I’ll be moving the lesson on in roughly 36 hours from the time of this post.
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