Divination Lesson 3

[Bazinga]

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As you come through the trap door you will find a normal sight. Smaller tables set around the room with pillows for your chairs. A few tea pots set around the room and cups for your liking and a very happy Professor Cassie at the front sipping on her own tea waiting to greet you as you come in.

Though it is normal with the lavender scents and soft relaxing music, you will notice on one table in the front left corner the crystal balls sit waiting to be used, in the back of the room mirrors that might remind you of the awful last lesson stand, in the right front corner bowls are stacked on a table, and on Professor Cassie's desk sits crystals on a string.

Something you might not see is the usual snap cup, but fear not there is a note about that.


My snap cup is still missing, but please bring up your proud moments and set in this tea cup! Also remember to set your personal item in the basket before taking your seat. We will discuss these in a moment.

Next to the temporary snap cup you will find a basket. If you remember on Professor Cassie's notice she had asked you to bring one personal item this is where that item should be placed.

Class progress
First Question (http://www.snitchseeker.com/11687074-post27.html)
Second Question (http://www.snitchseeker.com/11687272-post42.html)
First Activity (http://www.snitchseeker.com/11687389-post56.html)
Third Question (http://www.snitchseeker.com/11688052-post156.html)
Second Activity (http://www.snitchseeker.com/11688219-post168.html)
Final Activity (http://www.snitchseeker.com/11688734-post199.html) (Due Friday November 28 at 11 p.m. EST)

[Ginevra]

Samantha entered the room, her schoolbag hanging over her shoulder. Around her neck was a cat necklace (http://i61.tinypic.com/t6yw7q.jpg) that had been given to her by her mother as a 13th birthday gift. "Hello, Professor!" she greeted with a smile. She undid the necklace and placed it into the basket whilst placing her proud moment into the tea cup.

I am proud of doing my best at lessons and realising I know more than first thought

Sam then found herself a seat and sat down, placing her bag next to her feet.

[Hera]

It was Divination timeeeeee! ... and he just hoped that he wouldn't be asked for Snow Whites head, cause, that wasn't happening.

Stepping through the trap door, Zeke wrinkled his nose at the lavender scent... that was something he wasn't going to get used to any time soon. Ugh. His nooooosseeee was itchiiinngggg!!!! Nevertheless, he proceeded forward so as not to block other peoples' way. He was curious to see what they'd be doing this lesson, especially since they had to bring a PERSONAL item. He ALWAYS had his personal item on his person, so that was easy enough to remember.

He was happy that the snap cup was missing, and disappointed all the same when Professor Cassie substituted it with a tea cup. Boooo... now he had to think of something.

On a scrap of parchment, Zeke quickly scrawled a modest message, and then went to submit it... along with his compass. He didn't want to give it up. He wanted to HOLD ON to it for dear life. He'd had it for ages, and never parted with it, only to shower and even then it was never at risk of being lost or stolen or... ANYTHING.

"Hi Professor Cassie!" he greeted, first dropping his parchment into the teacup, and then hesitating a moment before placing his compass (http://i1093.photobucket.com/albums/i435/Neetz33/compass_zps92a998f2.jpg) into the basket. He wanted that back. WITHOUT other peoples' grubby fingerprints on them!


I'm proud of being me, just as I am. And not failing all my subjects.

[DuckyLinJi]

Holding his personal belonging in his hands , which was a potions book he and his mother used when they made potions together back at home in her lab, Kevin entered the Divination Classroom. Of course, there was that proud cup again although it looked different today. He read the text and grinned when he read that it was missing. LOL, someone stole that cup thing? Good. Anyways, the Gryffindor took out his pen and wrote down his proud moment.

i'm proud because i'm the most awesome , handsome and greatest wizard of all time! No lie!

Then he placed his potions book in the basket and found an empty seat. He glanced towards the Professor and without saying anything , he moved his head in a 'sup?' movement and waited.

[WhittyBitty]

Time for another Divination lesson, and Lux was happy that it would be with a normal Professor Cassie.

Entering the room, she smiled at the woman. "Hello, Professor!" It was really nice to see her back to her cheery self again. Too bad about the missing snap cup though. Oh well. Quickly she jotted down her proud moment:

I am proud of myself for improving in Ancient Runes.

After placing the paper into the make-shift snap cup she headed over to the basket to place her personal item inside. On first thought, she had wanted to place either the charm Bay had made her, or the necklace he had given her but she hadn't wanted to take either off or risk anything happening to them; they meant too much to her. In the end she decided on her teddy bear (http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r133/hermy_weasley_01/21d8af104672aedd94d4dba61f90fce8_zpsd5571b8f.jpg). She wasn't ashamed to have a teddy bear. She loved her teddy bear.

Finding herself a seat, she sat down and waited for class to begin.

[Jessiqua]

It was time for Divination. Zhenya made her way to the Divination classroom and entered. The smell was almost overpowering, but it was pleasant enough. She had her things in her pocket, but she was a bit hesitant to give them up. She didn't want to.

There was the Professor, who Zhenya had not yet met. Mmm, she was sipping tea. Zhenya liked tea, and she hoped they would be drinking tea during the lesson.
"H-hello Professor. I'm Zhenya Burton, a fifth year Slytherin. I just wanted to introduce myself," she said to the Professor, hoping she was a nice one. She had a few awful Professors back in Russia, and the odd few here as well. At least she got to speak English here, though.

She walked to where she needed to deposit her items, and first pulled out her book (http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee415/TheScarletJ/m-TsmaSzIJBuWIn77thb7RA_zps7d4af63c.jpg). It was amongst the items her Grandpapi had left her in his will. It was a book about Herbology and Creatures, oddly enough, all in Russian. It was something he used almost every day to create his garden and his hobby farm. She placed it carefully into the basket, hoping no harm would come to it.

Now, her proudest moment. She took the piece of paper from her pocket and dropped it into the cup.
I came back to Hogwarts even though I was frozen for five years
Yes, she was proud of that. She didn't want to, but she did. She braved the fact she wouldn't know anyone, would be hugely behind in her school work, and had a permanently damaged hand.

[DaniDiNardo]

Oh mmyyyyy, today was SUCH a GOOD day wasn't it?? WASN'T IT?? It might not have been for anyone else but Alexa Cambridge had taken the potion Collarbin gave her, the one to mask all negative energy. Given the fact it was Divination, she might have taken more than the prescribed dose (because lol she'd need A LOT of that energy subdued) but who caaaaared? The world was alive and everything was sunshine and daisies.

The Gryffindor walked in with a grand 'ole pep in her step and a kneazle tucked in her arms. Given the fact she'd lost both her wand and her candy bag, this was all that was left of her things that held any value and were thus precious to her.

Had she been thinking before, she might have slipped him some of the potion too to make him happy happy happy. "Good morning Professor!" BEAM. Yes, good day it was, a very good one. Lex walked to the table with a piece of parchment and quickly scribbled her proud moment then tossed it in with the others.

I'm proud that I'm a smart cookie.

Lex eyed the basket where everyone was placing their precious items but opted to keep hers on her for the fact he was destruction and shouldn't have been allowed around other things. It was a favour really on account of how incredibly and unbelieeeevably light she felt. The Gryffindor plopped down in a seat then grinned at the people already there.

HIIIIIIIIIIII!!!

[FearlessLeader19]

Adi gazed around for a second or two after entering the classroom, noting the crystal balls and the mirrors. And there was the always happy Divination lady! She was sipping tea.

"Hello, Professor Cassie.'' She got a cheery smile before Adi turned his attention to the Snap- uh the regular cup. He dropped his written proud moment in then the Batman watch (http://s82.photobucket.com/user/GinHerm91912/media/div_zpsa10a6efc.jpg.html) he had gotten ages ago from his parents .


I am proud that Benny and I are improving on our spell work.

The Proud moment was a referral to their duel in the Arena.

Now to find a seat. Oh, heeey, Zeke, Lux and Kevin.

[hermionesclone]

No.

No.

NO NO NO!

Grayson had been under the impression that there wasn't going to be any snapping today. That today was the day when they didn't have to congratulate someone for something so ridiculous, it made him roll his eyes and fear for the human race. It was why he was kinda happy as he made his way up to the North Tower.

But nooooOOOOOOOOooooo! There was a freaking REPLACEMENT.

Deadpan.

Professor Cassie was lucky that he liked her as a teacher so much because if he didn't, he wouldn't bother coming here. There was also the matter of the OWLs and the fact that his mum would kill him if he so much as got a P for any subject. So, pulling out a small piece of parchment, Grayson scribbled down his proud moment.

I'm proud of myself for being recommended to the Most Extraordinary Society of Potioneers by Professor Culloden

There. Done. He was dead proud about this tiny little fact and so, with a smug little smile spread across his face, the fifth year dropped it into the teacup. And did he bring his personal item? Yes, he did. He was kinda reluctant about this at first but he had high hopes resting on the fact that Professor Cassie would keep this tiny little thing anonymous.

Reaching into his bag, Grayson pulled out a miniature Chinese Fireball dragon. The toy usually roared and blew out a tiny jet of fake flame but at the moment, it was sleeping blissfuly, small furls of smoke blowing out from its nostrils as it snored. He watched it for a couple of seconds before gently placing it down into the basket. They were gonna get these back, right?

Shrug.

Making his way further into the classroom, the Slytherin smiled a little over at the Divination Professor and said, "Hey, Professor. Glad to see you back." Because the other evil lady had been pretty freaking rude and he hadn't expected it from someone who looked like Professor Cassie. He then waaaaaaaved and smiled at Adi, Lux and Lex before making his way towards an empty seat and sitting down.

[Daydreamer11]

Jasmine arrived at Divination class and was happy to see Professor Cassie back to her old self. Of all the Professors that had gone temporarily crazy, Professor Cassie was the scariest. That was because she was more unlike herself than any of the others. Thankfully, the Evil Queen was no more. "Hello Professor", Jasmine said as she walked by.

Then she saw the note and when she did, Jasmine smiled. Of course the Professor wouldn't let a missing cup keep her from her snaps. This time she had to think for a second about what to write on her parchment. Finally coming up with a proud moment, Jasmine folded the parchment and dropped it into the cup.

I'm proud that I am strong"

Now came the hard part. They were asked to bring a personal item to class that was special to them. Jasmine had lots of things that were special to her for various reasons. The most special thing of all, well there was only one thing that fit that description. The question was, could she bear to part with it, even for a short time? Jasmine reached up and unfastened her necklace and took it from around her neck. She held it in her hand for a moment, deciding if she could go brought with it or not. Her special item was the ballerina necklace that Cris had given her for Valentine's Day.........right before he left. She had never taken it off since that day, but now she carefully closed the clasp and placed it in the basket. Then she found a seat and sat down.

[Edward Penguin]

Ian came up to divination class, grateful for the chance to spend time with Professor Cassie. (He may or may not have developed a little crush on her throughout the term).
He noticed the snap cup was missing and mirrors and crystal balls were out and there was a basket for the personal item. He looked up and smiling his BEST smile at the professor greeted her. Hello Professor Morgan. You look very nice today and I'm glad to be here in class with you. He looked around, slightly blushing hoping no one heard what he said.

He took the parchment and quill quickly and scribbled a proud moment.
I'm proud that I've found a class that I can be passionate about. He read what he wrote and decided passionate might make it sound like he loved the professor and scratched it out and replaced it with something a little less lovey. I'm proud I've found a class that I can be passionate excited about..

He quickly folded it up and looked in his satchel. Pulling out a fishing hook that he had added a label with his name to, he dropped it in the basket. It was the first hook from the first time his dad had let him bait and catch fish on his own. It made him feel more responsible and that his dad trusted him more.

He turned and waved to the class before finding a seat and taking out the things he needed to take notes with. He closed his eyes and tried to clear his mind of all the thoughts that raced through it.

[Felixir]

There were a few things that Toby owned that were special to him. His pogo stick and skateboard, for example, although he'd sort of had to talk himself out of bringing those with him. There was also certain gifts from his parents that he'd gotten on his birthday and Christmas, but Toby was unwilling to part with them for even a moment. In the end, it had actually been remarkably easy to choose what to bring along.

"Hi Professor," the Hufflepuff grinned at Professor Morgan, noting how happy she was and feeding off her positive energy at once. He found himself giving her a little salute that was usually reserved for professors like Airey.

Tobias now paused at the snap!teacup, getting out a scrap of parchment and a self-inking quill to write his proud thought down. After a few moments of writing, he threw in his contribution, the first unfiltered thought that came to mind:

I'm proud of myself for not having any more OWL related breakdowns and staying positive even though the exams are super stressful and possibly trying to kill me

Then, the Hufflepuff rifled through his schoolbag for his personal item, finally pulling out the pair of fairy wings he'd received from Wade from his thirteenth birthday. They were human-sized, of course, and the ones that Toby could occasionally be seen wearing around the castle, and also dropped glitter all over the place. They were incredibly special to Toby.

After carefully tucking the wings into the basket (and maybe probably sorta accidentally getting a little bit of residual glitter on the desk and basket and some of the things in the basket), Toby went off to sit down. He found himself drawn to a seat right by Grayson, his fellow fifth year, and flashed the Slytherin a smile in greeting.

Who else was here? Toby couldn't see Soph yet, but he figured it was possible that when she showed up she'd be taking a seat by him. The Hufflepuff got out his note-taking things and surveyed the room, absently brushing away the glitter that was still on his hands.

[SarcasticStrawberry]

Another divination lesson was here again. Hopefully less eventful than the last one. Sighhhhhhh. Cinna was excited as always for divinations. But today she just didn't want it do anything. Including classes. Just being lazy. Nothing wrong here. But here she was going to lessons.

She headed up the trapdoor and into to the divination classroom. She was moving so slow. She walked by professor Cassie. With a big smile "Helloooo Professor Cassie." Maybe the little walk from the Gryffindor common room to the divination tower helped out her laziness and general ehiness.

She stopped by the snap tea cup. Good impromptu on the snap cap, professor. She quickly wrote down her proudest moment and placed a sketchbook into the basket with the others personal items. Then she headed over to Lux to it sit with her.


I'm here, even if I feel eh-ish and bleh, I'm still here.

[feeheeheeny]

Sophie's personal item wasn't all that hard to pick out, as she had LOTS of personal items that meant a lot to her, so really, it was just a matter of picking the one closest to her on the way out of her dorm. Her choice ended up being the Mickey Mouse plush on her bed, the one she received from Caterina Moretti earlier in the term, and she was incredibly unashamed as she entered the Divination classroom with it tucked under her arm.

She made a beeline for where the other personal items already were since she thought she was cutting it close to class starting, dropping off hers with the rest of them in the basket, and offering the professor a smile and a little wave of her hand. "Hi, professor."

There was no proper snap cup, she saw, so she jotted down a little note and added it to the teacup with the others.

I'm proud of all of us for surviving to this day and being alive.
They WERE students of Hogwarts, so really, it WAS pretty impressive that each and every one of them in the room currently had their health and weren't already dead or something. She was super grateful for that. Heh.

Taking a seat next to Tobes, she gave him a big ol' grin and got out her class materials. READY TO GO.

[Expecto-Penguin]

As Kace made his way to divination, he saw students already made their way here. He smiled to all of them and nodded. As he made his way to sit with all of his friends he saw Professor Cassie and he nodded and greeted her. "Hello Professor Cassie, I am glad to see you are back to normal." I mean the Queen was quite a character but he prefered Professor Cassie better. He saw the SNAC cup being used and he chuckled and sat down in his seat and filled out his parchment...


I am proud I am doing well in all of my lessons so I can be prepared for my OWLS


As he smiled and liked what he said he put his parchment into the SNAC cup and then he placed his sketchbook into the basket as for one of his personal items.

[Mad Eye Touz]

Zahra decided to give this class ONE MORE SHOT. But if Professor Snaps-A-Lot hated her face again for touching balls in Divination, Z was out. She'd thought about putting a booger, a ONE OF A KIND, ZAHRA HOME BREWED booger, into the "special item" thingy do. You didn't get more "SPECIAL" than that.

But also Zahra was pretty proud of her house points so she threw in her helmet from Toby instead.


Man. All this work. Snap Tea cup thought too... uhm....


:werewolf:


Zahra threw herself down on a pillow IN THE BACK ...and hung out, cool like, like a Gryffindor.

[Casey O]

Mope.

Marigold drifted into the classroom wearily, blinking a whole lot because there was an eyelash in her eye.

Or was that lack of sleep? Hmm?

Either way, she dropped her proud thing into the teacup.

I'm proud of the fact that I will hopefully do well on my OWLs. It was getting closer, after all, and she really didn't want to be thinks about the present moment. She also dropped a note from Moo into the prized possessions pile. She didn't really have any material items, so she figured that would do. She plopped down next to Z and covered her mouth as she yawned.

[kayquilz]

Eden had skipped up to class holding her snake bracelet she had gotten for her birthday this past year. SURE. It was a RECENT present, but still. It meant a LOT to her. It was from Phoenix--so maybe she should have picked someone else--but still. She loved it and wore it almost every day.

Anyways.

Here she was, yet another Divination class. They were so relaxing to Eden-except for those few with the EVIL Morgan. She slipped into the classroom, waved at all of her friends------she had too many. She decided that she needed to start being meaner to people because picking who to sit by in class was too hard. But whatever--she chose to sit next to Cinna after to smile at Grayson, Jasmine...Toby...KEVIN even though she was pretty sure the lion HATED her...ehehehe. It amused her to no end.

"Heeeey--" she winked at Cinna and poked her playfully before thinking of what the heck to put in the makeshift snapcup.

Well well well.

Hmph.

]I'm proud of not being depressed today.

Was that too much? Was it too.......sad? Eden shrugged and just thought she'd submit it anyways--since it WAS true. She scooted up to the front of the room to place it in the teacup, unsnapped her bracelet and dropped it into the basket, and hurried back to Cinna, siiiighing as she sat down. "Hoooow's you?"

[Sararara]

Divination wooot! Norah hugged her stuffed lion (http://s327.photobucket.com/user/Sararara3/media/SFF76710-2_zps6620d19c.jpg.html) to her chest as she entered the classroom, calling "Hello, professor!" as she passed. Pausing at the replacement snap cup, she extracted a quill from her bag and scribbled a proud moment on the parchment...
I'm proud that I remembered to brush my hair this morning
That WAS an impressive feat, y'know. Reaching up to feel her TOTALLY smooth hair, the second year walked up to the basket of special things. Bye-bye Larry. She gave the lion a swift kiss on its furry head and patted him softly before placing him in the basket. Nobody had seen that, right? She was THIRTEEN whole years old now, and thirteen year olds did NOT kiss stuffies in public. But Larry was special, so he deserved it. Duh.

Skipping over to find a pillow, Norah plopped herself down next to Ian and whispered a quick "Hey!" before leaning over her bag to take out everything she needed. She turned to face the front again and began to bounce up and down on the cushion. WHEN could she get Larry back, hmmmm?

[Holmesian Feline]

So Divination was back to semi-normalcy since he knew Professor Morgan was thankfully back to her normal self. Yet Ben was still curious as to how the latest lesson would be, even without the missing snap cup damaged by the Evil Queen. Stepping up the last steps into the tower classroom, he noticed the professor herself present as well as several students including Adi already there. "Good day, Professor," he greeted making his way over to the table where a tea cup was stationed with a note.

Missing snap cup...wasn't it outright gone?

As in maybe it didn't make sense to hold out hope of it being found. But then maybe he was mistaken in all the drama of that crazy lesson. Whatever the case, he took up a piece of parchment and soon his quill was scratching out a thing he himself was proud of. His school work so far this year.

I've managed to do better in classes this term.

Placing it in the tea cup, he then added his personal item to the collection within the basket...the stuffed dragon from Angel. It was all he could think of to bring as a personal item when remembering the notice last minute. He then moved to take a seat besides Adi. "Hey..."

[griffin]

Penelope was here for divination! And this time Professor Cassie wasn't possessed! "Hello, Professor Cassie!" Penelope was disappointed to find that Professor Cassie hadn't found the snap cup. She stared at the sign on the tea cup in disbelief. No! The snap cup couldn't be missing! "No snap cup? Have you tried summoning it?"

She put her hand in her pocket and pulled out the smooth stone that she liked to rub when she was thinking. That should do for a personal item to put in the basket. After putting it in the basket, Penelope found a seat and sat down.

[lazykitty]

She was giving this class one more chance. Mostly because she was bored, tired and ready to go back home. But then, everyone was feeling like that right now, weren't they? Since it was close to the end of term and all.

Heather entered the classroom and quickly jotted down her thing for the snap cup, which she still found silly. But when she went to slip it in, she noticed that the cup was.....a tea cup instead. What? Oh, the snap cup was missing. Hmm...... interesting. And they were supposed to place their special item in the basket? No thanks! Not that she didn't trust Professor Cassie, she just didn't trust her classmates. She knew that there were some kleptos in the school and her item (http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/k555/lazykitty5/22992139_872667_ED_M.jpeg) was just too precious. The last birthday present she ever got from her mom. So, instead of taking it off and putting it in the basket, Heather took her seat with it on, fingering it as she did.

[ArianaBlack]

The Gryffindor was somewhat reluctant about this class today. It wasn't that he still had ill feelings with Professor Morgan, only he wasn't really sure what to expect. AND if they were still doing that scrying thing he didn't want anything to do with it. So of course, the whole going to the lesson thing was completely on a whim.

As he walked in, he smiled at his Professor and waved a quick hello before making it to the usual table with the snapcup thing. Except, didn't she break that while erm, under whatever influence that she said she was under? Yeah. Pity. Except... They still had to write something? Merlin. And he thought he'd gotten away. Quickly scribbling something onto the paper, he slipped his sheet on top of the others in the pile.

I'm proud that I forced myself to come here today.

It had taken a lot of will power, okay?

And then. Then he saw the other pile. The pile of things. OH merlin. In his rush to get to class, he had COMPLETELY forgotten all about the special item they were supposed to bring. He hadn't double checked the notice board before running out, okay!! So instead of a personal item per-say, the Gryffindor Quickly removed one of his shoes and pulled off a sock. Carefully slipping it into the pile he threw his shoe back onto the ground, slipped his foot back in and ran to go take a seat by Kevin.

A sock could be pretty personal too, right? For all Professor Morgan knew... It could've been a lucky one? Had he a lucky sock of course. Uhum. Right.

[DuckyLinJi]

And then. Then he saw the other pile. The pile of things. OH merlin. In his rush to get to class, he had COMPLETELY forgotten all about the special item they were supposed to bring. He hadn't double checked the notice board before running out, okay!! So instead of a personal item per-say, the Gryffindor Quickly removed one of his shoes and pulled off a sock. Carefully slipping it into the pile he threw his shoe back onto the ground, slipped his foot back in and ran to go take a seat by Kevin.

A sock could be pretty personal too, right? For all Professor Morgan knew... It could've been a lucky one? Had he a lucky sock of course. Uhum. Right. [/COLOR]

Giving Adi a nod as greeting as he walked passed, Kevin turned his attention to the trap door when it opened again and saw Zander. He kinda hoped the guy would sit with him but he didn't mind it either if he didn't. Watching his friend curiously, he snickered when he saw that he added his sock in the basket of personal belongings.

He shook his head when his friend sat at his table and looked at him. "If your stinking sock is touching my potions book..." he said in a jokingly threatening way.

[Weasley174]

Angel had a feeling the Professor didn't know she had broken the cup at a lesson when she had been the evil queen now though there was a replacement and she had to write something down.

I'm proud to have made up with my sisters

[Edward Penguin]

Skipping over to find a pillow, Norah plopped herself down next to Ian and whispered a quick "Hey!" before leaning over her bag to take out everything she needed. She turned to face the front again and began to bounce up and down on the cushion. WHEN could she get Larry back, hmmmm?

Ian was finishing up his quiet time when Norah sat beside him. Smiling, he answered her, Hey! How are you doing today? I'm excited to see what we do today.

[Bazinga]

Sipping on her tea Cassie beamed as the trap door opened. She loved her lessons, but felt this one was very important. She knew that the last lesson they had with her she wasn't herself and thankfully the queen hadn't held any other ones, but that also meant they were very behind for the term and students taking OWLs and NEWTs need information that should have been taught already. So she decided for this lesson to combine a few things and hope she could do it in a fun way.

Samantha entered the room, her schoolbag hanging over her shoulder. Around her neck was a cat necklace (http://i61.tinypic.com/t6yw7q.jpg) that had been given to her by her mother as a 13th birthday gift. "Hello, Professor!" she greeted with a smile. She undid the necklace and placed it into the basket whilst placing her proud moment into the tea cup.

I am proud of doing my best at lessons and realising I know more than first thought

Sam then found herself a seat and sat down, placing her bag next to her feet.

Smiling towards the Ravenclaw that had entered, "Hello Samantha, how are you doing today?" She hoped well and she grinned seeing her place an item in the basket. This was going to be so fun!

It was Divination timeeeeee! ... and he just hoped that he wouldn't be asked for Snow Whites head, cause, that wasn't happening.

Stepping through the trap door, Zeke wrinkled his nose at the lavender scent... that was something he wasn't going to get used to any time soon. Ugh. His nooooosseeee was itchiiinngggg!!!! Nevertheless, he proceeded forward so as not to block other peoples' way. He was curious to see what they'd be doing this lesson, especially since they had to bring a PERSONAL item. He ALWAYS had his personal item on his person, so that was easy enough to remember.

He was happy that the snap cup was missing, and disappointed all the same when Professor Cassie substituted it with a tea cup. Boooo... now he had to think of something.

On a scrap of parchment, Zeke quickly scrawled a modest message, and then went to submit it... along with his compass. He didn't want to give it up. He wanted to HOLD ON to it for dear life. He'd had it for ages, and never parted with it, only to shower and even then it was never at risk of being lost or stolen or... ANYTHING.

"Hi Professor Cassie!" he greeted, first dropping his parchment into the teacup, and then hesitating a moment before placing his compass (http://i1093.photobucket.com/albums/i435/Neetz33/compass_zps92a998f2.jpg) into the basket. He wanted that back. WITHOUT other peoples' grubby fingerprints on them!


I'm proud of being me, just as I am. And not failing all my subjects.

She watched this one carefully, knowing she didn't remember telling them to do the homework she found on her desk, she was a bit worried about the answer she got from Zeke. She knew he was just being creative and she loved creative, but she couldn't help but be a little worried at how detailed his creativity was. "Hello Zeke" She noticed the nervousness about his item. She wouldn't let anything bad happen to any of there things, so she just continued to smile and sip her tea.

Holding his personal belonging in his hands , which was a potions book he and his mother used when they made potions together back at home in her lab, Kevin entered the Divination Classroom. Of course, there was that proud cup again although it looked different today. He read the text and grinned when he read that it was missing. LOL, someone stole that cup thing? Good. Anyways, the Gryffindor took out his pen and wrote down his proud moment.

No lie!

Then he placed his potions book in the basket and found an empty seat. He glanced towards the Professor and without saying anything , he moved his head in a 'sup?' movement and waited.

She had come to know the sup nod well, it seemed many of the Gryffindors used it. Especially this one and that Bart fellow. So in exchange she gave him a kind smile and a little wave. "Good day Kevin."

Time for another Divination lesson, and Lux was happy that it would be with a normal Professor Cassie.

Entering the room, she smiled at the woman. "Hello, Professor!" It was really nice to see her back to her cheery self again. Too bad about the missing snap cup though. Oh well. Quickly she jotted down her proud moment:



After placing the paper into the make-shift snap cup she headed over to the basket to place her personal item inside. On first thought, she had wanted to place either the charm Bay had made her, or the necklace he had given her but she hadn't wanted to take either off or risk anything happening to them; they meant too much to her. In the end she decided on her teddy bear (http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r133/hermy_weasley_01/21d8af104672aedd94d4dba61f90fce8_zpsd5571b8f.jpg). She wasn't ashamed to have a teddy bear. She loved her teddy bear.

Finding herself a seat, she sat down and waited for class to begin.

Seeing a Hufflepuff come into the room, she grinned, "Hello Lux, feeling alright today?" Rumors moved around the old castle faster then the ghost so the word that Lux was a victim to whatever was causing people to act weirdly wasn't a surprise to Cassie. She was just glad the girl was there and seeming herself.

It was time for Divination. Zhenya made her way to the Divination classroom and entered. The smell was almost overpowering, but it was pleasant enough. She had her things in her pocket, but she was a bit hesitant to give them up. She didn't want to.

There was the Professor, who Zhenya had not yet met. Mmm, she was sipping tea. Zhenya liked tea, and she hoped they would be drinking tea during the lesson.
"H-hello Professor. I'm Zhenya Burton, a fifth year Slytherin. I just wanted to introduce myself," she said to the Professor, hoping she was a nice one. She had a few awful Professors back in Russia, and the odd few here as well. At least she got to speak English here, though.

She walked to where she needed to deposit her items, and first pulled out her book (http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee415/TheScarletJ/m-TsmaSzIJBuWIn77thb7RA_zps7d4af63c.jpg). It was amongst the items her Grandpapi had left her in his will. It was a book about Herbology and Creatures, oddly enough, all in Russian. It was something he used almost every day to create his garden and his hobby farm. She placed it carefully into the basket, hoping no harm would come to it.

Now, her proudest moment. She took the piece of paper from her pocket and dropped it into the cup.
I came back to Hogwarts even though I was frozen for five years
Yes, she was proud of that. She didn't want to, but she did. She braved the fact she wouldn't know anyone, would be hugely behind in her school work, and had a permanently damaged hand.

Oh a transfer? So late in the year, well that was exciting and scary for the girl. "Hello Zhenya, it's very nice to meet you. I hope you enjoy the lesson today." It was going to be a bit longer then usual, but fun at the same time.

Oh mmyyyyy, today was SUCH a GOOD day wasn't it?? WASN'T IT?? It might not have been for anyone else but Alexa Cambridge had taken the potion Collarbin gave her, the one to mask all negative energy. Given the fact it was Divination, she might have taken more than the prescribed dose (because lol she'd need A LOT of that energy subdued) but who caaaaared? The world was alive and everything was sunshine and daisies.

The Gryffindor walked in with a grand 'ole pep in her step and a kneazle tucked in her arms. Given the fact she'd lost both her wand and her candy bag, this was all that was left of her things that held any value and were thus precious to her.

Had she been thinking before, she might have slipped him some of the potion too to make him happy happy happy. "Good morning Professor!" BEAM. Yes, good day it was, a very good one. Lex walked to the table with a piece of parchment and quickly scribbled her proud moment then tossed it in with the others.



Lex eyed the basket where everyone was placing their precious items but opted to keep hers on her for the fact he was destruction and shouldn't have been allowed around other things. It was a favour really on account of how incredibly and unbelieeeevably light she felt. The Gryffindor plopped down in a seat then grinned at the people already there.

HIIIIIIIIIIII!!!

Seeing Alexa Cambridge come in, Cassie couldn't help but notice something was different about the seventh year. Though she just sipped her tea and watched. "Good Morning Alexa, you doing alright today?" She watched as she dropped her proud moment in the cup. She noticed she didn't place anything in the basket. "Alexa, please make sure you place your item with the others. It's very important for the lesson that you do. Just a necklace or something will do." If she didn't bring something, maybe she had a watch or necklace on her.

Adi gazed around for a second or two after entering the classroom, noting the crystal balls and the mirrors. And there was the always happy Divination lady! She was sipping tea.

"Hello, Professor Cassie.'' She got a cheery smile before Adi turned his attention to the Snap- uh the regular cup. He dropped his written proud moment in then the Batman watch (http://s82.photobucket.com/user/GinHerm91912/media/div_zpsa10a6efc.jpg.html) he had gotten ages ago from his parents .


I am proud that Benny and I are improving on our spell work.

The Proud moment was a referral to their duel in the Arena.

Now to find a seat. Oh, heeey, Zeke, Lux and Kevin.

"Hello Adi" she beamed at the prefect as he came into the room. Getting a refill on her tea she tried to start clearing her mind for the lesson. "I hope you are doing well today." It was very important all her students were doing well.

No.

No.

NO NO NO!

Grayson had been under the impression that there wasn't going to be any snapping today. That today was the day when they didn't have to congratulate someone for something so ridiculous, it made him roll his eyes and fear for the human race. It was why he was kinda happy as he made his way up to the North Tower.

But nooooOOOOOOOOooooo! There was a freaking REPLACEMENT.

Deadpan.

Professor Cassie was lucky that he liked her as a teacher so much because if he didn't, he wouldn't bother coming here. There was also the matter of the OWLs and the fact that his mum would kill him if he so much as got a P for any subject. So, pulling out a small piece of parchment, Grayson scribbled down his proud moment.



There. Done. He was dead proud about this tiny little fact and so, with a smug little smile spread across his face, the fifth year dropped it into the teacup. And did he bring his personal item? Yes, he did. He was kinda reluctant about this at first but he had high hopes resting on the fact that Professor Cassie would keep this tiny little thing anonymous.

Reaching into his bag, Grayson pulled out a miniature Chinese Fireball dragon. The toy usually roared and blew out a tiny jet of fake flame but at the moment, it was sleeping blissfuly, small furls of smoke blowing out from its nostrils as it snored. He watched it for a couple of seconds before gently placing it down into the basket. They were gonna get these back, right?

Shrug.

Making his way further into the classroom, the Slytherin smiled a little over at the Divination Professor and said, "Hey, Professor. Glad to see you back." Because the other evil lady had been pretty freaking rude and he hadn't expected it from someone who looked like Professor Cassie. He then waaaaaaaved and smiled at Adi, Lux and Lex before making his way towards an empty seat and sitting down.

"Ooooh Hello Greyson, yes I am glad to be back to my self too. Though I don't remember not being myself." She wasn't to unhappy that she couldn't remember though. It seemed too awful to remember. Though her liking for apples was still around and she did have a small basket near her seat. A snack later, possibly.

Jasmine arrived at Divination class and was happy to see Professor Cassie back to her old self. Of all the Professors that had gone temporarily crazy, Professor Cassie was the scariest. That was because she was more unlike herself than any of the others. Thankfully, the Evil Queen was no more. "Hello Professor", Jasmine said as she walked by.

Then she saw the note and when she did, Jasmine smiled. Of course the Professor wouldn't let a missing cup keep her from her snaps. This time she had to think for a second about what to write on her parchment. Finally coming up with a proud moment, Jasmine folded the parchment and dropped it into the cup.

I'm proud that I am strong"

Now came the hard part. They were asked to bring a personal item to class that was special to them. Jasmine had lots of things that were special to her for various reasons. The most special thing of all, well there was only one thing that fit that description. The question was, could she bear to part with it, even for a short time? Jasmine reached up and unfastened her necklace and took it from around her neck. She held it in her hand for a moment, deciding if she could go brought with it or not. Her special item was the ballerina necklace that Cris had given her for Valentine's Day.........right before he left. She had never taken it off since that day, but now she carefully closed the clasp and placed it in the basket. Then she found a seat and sat down.

Seeing another Ravenclaw come in she smiled, "Hello Jasmine, how are you dear?" She was a sweet student that Cassie was going to be sad to see leave at the end of term, but it was the way of the world and she was glad she had gotten to know her.

Ian came up to divination class, grateful for the chance to spend time with Professor Cassie. (He may or may not have developed a little crush on her throughout the term).
He noticed the snap cup was missing and mirrors and crystal balls were out and there was a basket for the personal item. He looked up and smiling his BEST smile at the professor greeted her. Hello Professor Morgan. You look very nice today and I'm glad to be here in class with you. He looked around, slightly blushing hoping no one heard what he said.

He took the parchment and quill quickly and scribbled a proud moment.
He read what he wrote and decided passionate might make it sound like he loved the professor and scratched it out and replaced it with something a little less lovey. .

He quickly folded it up and looked in his satchel. Pulling out a fishing hook that he had added a label with his name to, he dropped it in the basket. It was the first hook from the first time his dad had let him bait and catch fish on his own. It made him feel more responsible and that his dad trusted him more.

He turned and waved to the class before finding a seat and taking out the things he needed to take notes with. He closed his eyes and tried to clear his mind of all the thoughts that raced through it.

Smiling as another Hufflepuff came in, "Hello Ian, that's very sweet of you." He was always so full of compliments. Such a sweet boy. She watched as he placed his proud moment in the cup.

There were a few things that Toby owned that were special to him. His pogo stick and skateboard, for example, although he'd sort of had to talk himself out of bringing those with him. There was also certain gifts from his parents that he'd gotten on his birthday and Christmas, but Toby was unwilling to part with them for even a moment. In the end, it had actually been remarkably easy to choose what to bring along.

"Hi Professor," the Hufflepuff grinned at Professor Morgan, noting how happy she was and feeding off her positive energy at once. He found himself giving her a little salute that was usually reserved for professors like Airey.

Tobias now paused at the snap!teacup, getting out a scrap of parchment and a self-inking quill to write his proud thought down. After a few moments of writing, he threw in his contribution, the first unfiltered thought that came to mind:



Then, the Hufflepuff rifled through his schoolbag for his personal item, finally pulling out the pair of fairy wings he'd received from Wade from his thirteenth birthday. They were human-sized, of course, and the ones that Toby could occasionally be seen wearing around the castle, and also dropped glitter all over the place. They were incredibly special to Toby.

After carefully tucking the wings into the basket (and maybe probably sorta accidentally getting a little bit of residual glitter on the desk and basket and some of the things in the basket), Toby went off to sit down. He found himself drawn to a seat right by Grayson, his fellow fifth year, and flashed the Slytherin a smile in greeting.

Who else was here? Toby couldn't see Soph yet, but he figured it was possible that when she showed up she'd be taking a seat by him. The Hufflepuff got out his note-taking things and surveyed the room, absently brushing away the glitter that was still on his hands.

Seeing Toby come into the room, she was glad hew as there. He had helped her recently to figure out some of the confusion of the last month. "Hello Toby, it's so good to see you today." She beamed as he placed his proud moment in the tea cup knowing how he liked the snap cup.

Another divination lesson was here again. Hopefully less eventful than the last one. Sighhhhhhh. Cinna was excited as always for divinations. But today she just didn't want it do anything. Including classes. Just being lazy. Nothing wrong here. But here she was going to lessons.

She headed up the trapdoor and into to the divination classroom. She was moving so slow. She walked by professor Cassie. With a big smile "Helloooo Professor Cassie." Maybe the little walk from the Gryffindor common room to the divination tower helped out her laziness and general ehiness.

She stopped by the snap tea cup. Good impromptu on the snap cap, professor. She quickly wrote down her proudest moment and placed a sketchbook into the basket with the others personal items. Then she headed over to Lux to it sit with her.

"Cinna.. Hello" She couldn't help but feel something was off about the girl. "Are you feeling alright?" Not seeing the boy that usually was with her, Cassie hoped it was nothing to do with him, but maybe he was just running late today.

Sophie's personal item wasn't all that hard to pick out, as she had LOTS of personal items that meant a lot to her, so really, it was just a matter of picking the one closest to her on the way out of her dorm. Her choice ended up being the Mickey Mouse plush on her bed, the one she received from Caterina Moretti earlier in the term, and she was incredibly unashamed as she entered the Divination classroom with it tucked under her arm.

She made a beeline for where the other personal items already were since she thought she was cutting it close to class starting, dropping off hers with the rest of them in the basket, and offering the professor a smile and a little wave of her hand. "Hi, professor."

There was no proper snap cup, she saw, so she jotted down a little note and added it to the teacup with the others.


They WERE students of Hogwarts, so really, it WAS pretty impressive that each and every one of them in the room currently had their health and weren't already dead or something. She was super grateful for that. Heh.

Taking a seat next to Tobes, she gave him a big ol' grin and got out her class materials. READY TO GO.

Seeing Sophie walk in with the cute little plush Cassie smiled, "I have a goofy one just like that I got a few years ago on a trip." It had been a fun trip they even rode a muggle plan that her brother was driving, or at least that's what she thought you called those people that did that. Anyway, "It's good to see you today Sophie." Yes she was always happy to see her students.

As Kace made his way to divination, he saw students already made their way here. He smiled to all of them and nodded. As he made his way to sit with all of his friends he saw Professor Cassie and he nodded and greeted her. "Hello Professor Cassie, I am glad to see you are back to normal." I mean the Queen was quite a character but he prefered Professor Cassie better. He saw the SNAC cup being used and he chuckled and sat down in his seat and filled out his parchment...



As he smiled and liked what he said he put his parchment into the SNAC cup and then he placed his sketchbook into the basket as for one of his personal items.

Yes, yes another saying about her being back to normal, "So am I Kace, so am I. It's good to see you in class today. I hope you are ready for some fun." Well she thought it would be fun at least. Maybe they would think differently.

Zahra decided to give this class ONE MORE SHOT. But if Professor Snaps-A-Lot hated her face again for touching balls in Divination, Z was out. She'd thought about putting a booger, a ONE OF A KIND, ZAHRA HOME BREWED booger, into the "special item" thingy do. You didn't get more "SPECIAL" than that.

But also Zahra was pretty proud of her house points so she threw in her helmet from Toby instead.


Man. All this work. Snap Tea cup thought too... uhm....




Zahra threw herself down on a pillow IN THE BACK ...and hung out, cool like, like a Gryffindor.

See another Gryffindor walk into the room she smiled, "Hello Zahra, it's so good to see you today." Without any memory of the last class she didn't have a clue Zahra wasn't there and just felt bad for all of them for being with that queen that she thought she was.

Mope.

Marigold drifted into the classroom wearily, blinking a whole lot because there was an eyelash in her eye.

Or was that lack of sleep? Hmm?

Either way, she dropped her proud thing into the teacup.

It was getting closer, after all, and she really didn't want to be thinks about the present moment. She also dropped a note from Moo into the prized possessions pile. She didn't really have any material items, so she figured that would do. She plopped down next to Z and covered her mouth as she yawned.

Smiling as another prefect walked through the trap door she couldn't help but notice many of them seemed a bit more sluggish then normal. "Hello Marigold, you feeling alright?" Were they all getting sick? She hoped not being the end of term. So much fun during the end of the term, the excitement of almost being done, the end of the year feast, the cup. No not a good time at all to be sick.

Eden had skipped up to class holding her snake bracelet she had gotten for her birthday this past year. SURE. It was a RECENT present, but still. It meant a LOT to her. It was from Phoenix--so maybe she should have picked someone else--but still. She loved it and wore it almost every day.

Anyways.

Here she was, yet another Divination class. They were so relaxing to Eden-except for those few with the EVIL Morgan. She slipped into the classroom, waved at all of her friends------she had too many. She decided that she needed to start being meaner to people because picking who to sit by in class was too hard. But whatever--she chose to sit next to Cinna after to smile at Grayson, Jasmine...Toby...KEVIN even though she was pretty sure the lion HATED her...ehehehe. It amused her to no end.

"Heeeey--" she winked at Cinna and poked her playfully before thinking of what the heck to put in the makeshift snapcup.

Well well well.

Hmph.

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Was that too much? Was it too.......sad? Eden shrugged and just thought she'd submit it anyways--since it WAS true. She scooted up to the front of the room to place it in the teacup, unsnapped her bracelet and dropped it into the basket, and hurried back to Cinna, siiiighing as she sat down. "Hoooow's you?"

Seeing Eden walk in next she gave the girl an encouraging smile. She assumed everything was alright between them now, but Merlin she had told the girl to go to the dungeons, like a detention. That was the worst for Cassie. "Hello Eden, how are you today?" Looking at her watch, it was almost time to start.

Divination wooot! Norah hugged her stuffed lion (http://s327.photobucket.com/user/Sararara3/media/SFF76710-2_zps6620d19c.jpg.html) to her chest as she entered the classroom, calling "Hello, professor!" as she passed. Pausing at the replacement snap cup, she extracted a quill from her bag and scribbled a proud moment on the parchment...

That WAS an impressive feat, y'know. Reaching up to feel her TOTALLY smooth hair, the second year walked up to the basket of special things. Bye-bye Larry. She gave the lion a swift kiss on its furry head and patted him softly before placing him in the basket. Nobody had seen that, right? She was THIRTEEN whole years old now, and thirteen year olds did NOT kiss stuffies in public. But Larry was special, so he deserved it. Duh.

Skipping over to find a pillow, Norah plopped herself down next to Ian and whispered a quick "Hey!" before leaning over her bag to take out everything she needed. She turned to face the front again and began to bounce up and down on the cushion. WHEN could she get Larry back, hmmmm?

"Hello Norah, how are you today?" She seemed to be doing well at least. Watching as she put her proud moment in and made her way to her seat. Cassie got up from her own seat and set down her tea cup. It was close to time to start.

So Divination was back to semi-normalcy since he knew Professor Morgan was thankfully back to her normal self. Yet Ben was still curious as to how the latest lesson would be, even without the missing snap cup damaged by the Evil Queen. Stepping up the last steps into the tower classroom, he noticed the professor herself present as well as several students including Adi already there. "Good day, Professor," he greeted making his way over to the table where a tea cup was stationed with a note.

Missing snap cup...wasn't it outright gone?

As in maybe it didn't make sense to hold out hope of it being found. But then maybe he was mistaken in all the drama of that crazy lesson. Whatever the case, he took up a piece of parchment and soon his quill was scratching out a thing he himself was proud of. His school work so far this year.



Placing it in the tea cup, he then added his personal item to the collection within the basket...the stuffed dragon from Angel. It was all he could think of to bring as a personal item when remembering the notice last minute. He then moved to take a seat besides Adi. "Hey..."

"Hello Benny, how are you today?" She watched as the boy came into the room setting his proud moment in the cup and his item in the basket. It was going to be such a lovely day for a lesson. A nice warm day outside, this was lucky for them.

Penelope was here for divination! And this time Professor Cassie wasn't possessed! "Hello, Professor Cassie!" Penelope was disappointed to find that Professor Cassie hadn't found the snap cup. She stared at the sign on the tea cup in disbelief. No! The snap cup couldn't be missing! "No snap cup? Have you tried summoning it?"





Seeing Penelope come in she gave a smile, "Hello Penelope, how are you today?" When she asked about the cup, Cassie lost her bright smile just a little. "Yes, I have, but just no luck. It has to be around here somewhere. Don't worry I'll find it." It just had to be placed somewhere that she couldn't think of at the moment.

She was giving this class one more chance. Mostly because she was bored, tired and ready to go back home. But then, everyone was feeling like that right now, weren't they? Since it was close to the end of term and all.

Heather entered the classroom and quickly jotted down her thing for the snap cup, which she still found silly. But when she went to slip it in, she noticed that the cup was.....a tea cup instead. What? Oh, the snap cup was missing. Hmm...... interesting. And they were supposed to place their special item in the basket? No thanks! Not that she didn't trust Professor Cassie, she just didn't trust her classmates. She knew that there were some kleptos in the school and her item (http://i1115.photobucket.com/albums/k555/lazykitty5/22992139_872667_ED_M.jpeg) was just too precious. The last birthday present she ever got from her mom. So, instead of taking it off and putting it in the basket, Heather took her seat with it on, fingering it as she did.

Seeing a quiet Gryffindor walk in, Cassie just gave Heather a smile and a wave. If she didn't want to talk she didn't have to and she watched as she did her proud moment. "Dear don't forget your item in the basket. It is very important that everyone places something in this basket or today's lesson will not work. I can promise you nothing will happen to any of them." No need to worry.

The Gryffindor was somewhat reluctant about this class today. It wasn't that he still had ill feelings with Professor Morgan, only he wasn't really sure what to expect. AND if they were still doing that scrying thing he didn't want anything to do with it. So of course, the whole going to the lesson thing was completely on a whim.

As he walked in, he smiled at his Professor and waved a quick hello before making it to the usual table with the snapcup thing. Except, didn't she break that while erm, under whatever influence that she said she was under? Yeah. Pity. Except... They still had to write something? Merlin. And he thought he'd gotten away. Quickly scribbling something onto the paper, he slipped his sheet on top of the others in the pile.



It had taken a lot of will power, okay?

And then. Then he saw the other pile. The pile of things. OH merlin. In his rush to get to class, he had COMPLETELY forgotten all about the special item they were supposed to bring. He hadn't double checked the notice board before running out, okay!! So instead of a personal item per-say, the Gryffindor Quickly removed one of his shoes and pulled off a sock. Carefully slipping it into the pile he threw his shoe back onto the ground, slipped his foot back in and ran to go take a seat by Kevin.

A sock could be pretty personal too, right? For all Professor Morgan knew... It could've been a lucky one? Had he a lucky sock of course. Uhum. Right.


Seeing Zander come in she knew the boy had been having a hard time this term, the potion, then seeing Professor Culloden acting funny. So she gave him and encouraging smile as he placed his proud moment in the cup. "Hello Zander, doing well I hope."


Now that it seemed like everyone was there she was going to start. "Well the first thing I want to do is apologize for what happened last lesson and the lack of lessons since. I do not remember anything about being the queen as some of you have told me, so what all went on in this room, lets just pull it out of our minds and start fresh today." She tried to give an encouraging smile, "Now as you can see this is not the usual snap cup, from my understanding it had been broken, then fixed, and is now missing. Don't worry it will be found." If not she would make a new one this summer, no worries at all. "Thanks to Penelope I do have last class snaps in the cup as well. So we will be hearing all of them as well." She didn't want their proud moments being left unsnapped.

Pulling out each parchment one at a time she began to read, "I am proud that Ravenclaw is in second place in the House points race." Snapping after each one was read. "I'm proud that I remembered to brush my hair this morning. I'm proud of representing Gryffindor in Gobstones and winning. I'm proud that I'm a smart cookie." After the last one was read and her snapping was done she set the cup aside.

"Now in the first few lesson we did scrying with the crystal ball, we were suppose to move on to scrying with mirrors and then bowls of water, but unfortunately that didn't go as planned. So we are going to take a moment to review and go over the other forms right now." She moved back towards the mirrors. "Now just as the crystal ball the mirror shows a reflective glass, but with just our reflections can anyone tell me how you would scry in a mirror?" She glanced int he mirror adjusting her Libra necklace as she waited for the answer.

ooc: I always go by the thought that there are lessons all through the term. Just in RP world we don't have time to do weekly or daily so when she see her say previous lessons that's why it seems more then just the two!! :)

[Edward Penguin]

Ian smiled at the professor's response to him.

When the class began, Ian listened to Cassie with affection in his heart and mostly likely a goofy smile on his face. She reviewed the recent misfortunes and then began the review of the previous classes. At her question, Ian raised his hand. Professor, glass helps us to see through that vessel. Mirrors are different because they are reflective. Perhaps we scry to focus more on what we can divine about ourselves. He had tried to do a 'little' research on his own as he looked to divination as a vocation.

[FearlessLeader19]

Adi watched Benny enter the room then drop his proud moment and stuffed dragon off. He wondered if the proud moment involved anything with Angel and was about to make a joke about that the moment the Lion sat down beside him. But then he remembered. No joking. Instead, Adi bit his tongue then said, "Hey, back at you.'' Gosh. Holding back jokes were DIFFICULT!
............................

Fortunately, Professor Cassie was getting started. Adi was sorry to hear about the missing snap cup. He wanted it back. This one currently being used just did not cut it. Anyway...the proud moments were being read. He smiled a bit as he watched the Divination lady. Maybe he was imagining stuff but she didn't seem to have returned to her usual bouncy self.

Hmmm...this question. Adi thought about it for a bit before raising his hand. "We look for anything out of the ordinary about our reflection,'' he suggested. Like if you were actually standing still but your reflection was suddenly waving at you. LOL.

[feeheeheeny]

A Goofy one, huh? Yeah... the professor seemed like the type to prefer Goofy over Mickey Mouse. A bit of a silly one, she was, and Sophie just smiled politely at the professor's words.

The woman was silly, yes, but nice. Very nice.

As class got started properly, Sophie made herself comfortable, setting her notebook out in front of her to take notes and looking attentive. Until... the woman talked about scrying with mirrors. What? That was an ACTUAL thing? It was a REAL form of divination? The queen hadn't been entirely clueless?

Merlin. Soph just thought the woman made it up. Just went to show up how much SHE paid attention and read her textbook outside of class. Heh.

[WhittyBitty]

Awwww, Professor Cassie was so sweet. Lux thought she was wonderful. "I am much better, Professor." Giving the woman a smile, she would have asked the same thing herself but then moving forward was mentioned. Well, Lux could definitely understand that, because she herself wanted forget about being possessed by Ariel and breaking down in Arithmancy.

The snap cup moments continued without the usual enthusiasm. Hopefully the real one would be found soon because the make-shift one was not cutting it. Real shame because like Professor Cassie, she really enjoyed hearing those moments. It was a chance for everyone to share something they were proud about and there was nothing wrong with that in her eyes.

When scrying with mirrors was mentioned, Lux wasn't too surprised. Honestly she had a feeling that it was a real thing though she had no clue how it worked since the Queen was such a lousy teacher. Not having an answer, she decided to remain quiet and. Let others give it a shot. Maybe some actually knew.

[Sararara]

HER PROUD MOMENT, IT HAD BEEN READ! Norah grinned at Professor Cassie and bounced a little on her pillow. Woooot.

So mirror scrying was a real thing? The second year had tried to block that entire class from her memory, and no information about mirror scrying was coming back to her. Sigh. She watched Ian as he answered the question, raising an eyebrow at his silly grin. What was up with him? Turning back to face the front, Norah put her hand in the air and said "I think you have to relax and do that whole breathing thing to clear your emotions just like in the crystal ball type of scrying." That made sense, right? Trying to calm down had pretty much been the only thing she had done in the last class, anyway.

[DaniDiNardo]

Wasn't that reeeeally nice of her to ask how she was doing?? Wasn't it? Wassssn't it?? Lex grinned, giving a few firm nods of her head. "I'm splendid Professor, absolutely wonderful and I hope you are toooo!" Because everyone deserved to be happy, especially on such a nice day. Gosh it was almost like the furniture was singing. If you were mad quiet enough, chances were you could hear them too.

Oh but it was important Felix be IN the basket for class reasons. Well far be it for her to go getting in the way of this steady flow thingy that they would be having. The Gryffindor wiggled a bit in her seat to displace her kneazle then snapped in the direction of the basket. "Basket Felix, sit there." Lex watched with a wiiiide smile as Felix lazily sauntered over to the table, hopped up and curled up in the basket. Didn't seem like he'd be going to sleep but he was comfy enough for the moment. Good good.

"I don't have a necklace with me Professor, but no worries,I value my kneazle more anyway." So, see? Nothing to worry about. Precious item present.

BEAM.

As for mirror scrying, hahahaha she had NO idea. Hadn't she and Grayson made something up last class? That was hardly the answer, she was sure.

[Felixir]

Toby couldn't help but notice the item Zahra placed into the basket, and it made him grin super big, though Z herself wasn't looking too enthusiastic today. He'd tried to catch her eye and spread the smiling to her, bit wasn't certain if she'd noticed him.

Smiles for the professor too, 'cause she was always so happy and nice. Except when she was that queen type person, of course, but shhhhhh not thinking about that, shhhhh.

After the snapping and the start of the lesson, Toby started working on his notes at once. Even though he was putting himself under a lot less pressure these days with his OWLs, there was still that niggling thought at the back of his mind that went on about wanting as many O grades as possible. So, of course, he wanted to get as much into these notes as possible.

Toby didn't know the answer here, but figured he could give it a good guess, and so raised his hand.

"Is it more or less the same process as with the crystal balls? Getting super relaxed and not thinking about anything and then focusing on the mirror. When we used the crystal balls they all clouded over when we got into the zone and started scrying, 'cause we had to look for things in the fog. I dunno if it's the same with mirrors." A pause, and then he added, as though in afterthought. "Is it something to do with the items we put in the basket?"

[Expecto-Penguin]

Kace smiled and was glad the Professor liked being back to normal. He nodded and beamed and thought he would have fun with this lesson today. As he heard the SNAC moments being read out loud he snapped with the rest of the class. He thought this idea was cute. It helped show off the pride whether you are a firstie or a seventh year. But now onto last lesson. He heard the professor mention about mirror scrying and how you would do it? He remembered from last lesson all too well.

Kace raised his hand and offered what he learned, "Professor I learned that you need to clear your mind of all distractions and focus on what you want to see in the mirror. It is just all about control and I think it is easier to see in the mirror than looking through the fog in the crystal ball.." he shrugged offering his own opinion.

[Weasley174]

Angel raised her hand. "Professor... don't you have to clear your mind and then just stare into the mirror and wait until something happens." Angel had no idea if she was right or not. "We also have to make sure that everything is working great and that no one is distracting you."

[MudInMyBlood]

The snap cup apparently had been through a lot. AJ wondered if maybe somebody had stole it, although she couldn't see WHY anybody would want it. The lion listened as the professor went over everyone's proud moments. A few even received a chuckle from her. People say the darndest things.

Ah, well AJ didn't know the answer to her question, but she did have a question of her own. The second year waved her hand around in the air. "How do you concentrate when you have to stare at yourself?" It was very distracting to her the last time AJ had tried it. All she could do was concentrate on how brown her eyes were and how bad her hair needed to be brushed.

[Jessiqua]

She smiled at Professor Cassie, who sounded lovely, then went to find her seat.

Professor Cassie began talking about something… being a queen? Zhenya was confused, but then remembered something about a fairy tail book possessing people. Right. Well forgetting it wouldn't be a problem for Zhenya, she wasn't even there in the first place. Professor Cassie wanted to start fresh, and fresh was all Zhenya knew.

Snap cup? What in Merlin's beard was a snap cup? She had overheard a few students speaking about it, but she didn't know. Maybe she would ask the Professor after class. If it was missing, maybe she could help try and find it for her.

She sat there quietly, enjoying the ambiance, listening to all of the proud moments, then listened to what Professor Cassie was saying about the previous lessons. She wasn't there, so she took notes on what had been happening so that she could study them later. For her exams. Gulp.

Scrying, she wrote, and underlined it. She had a vague understanding of scrying. But scrying with a mirror? Wouldn't it be similar to other ways, except of course that there would be more things to be distracted by? She raised her hand and said, unsure about her answer, "Well scrying in a mirror might be quite hard because the person doing it might be distracted by everything reflected in the mirror," because, you know, there was less to focus on in a crystal ball or water… "The person scrying might have to put themselves into a deeper trance, to block out from noticing the reflections, and look deeper into what messages they could see." Well, even if she was totally wrong, a guess was still better than nothing.

[kayquilz]

Sipping on her tea Cassie beamed as the trap door opened. She loved her lessons, but felt this one was very important. She knew that the last lesson they had with her she wasn't herself and thankfully the queen hadn't held any other ones, but that also meant they were very behind for the term and students taking OWLs and NEWTs need information that should have been taught already. So she decided for this lesson to combine a few things and hope she could do it in a fun way.



Smiling towards the Ravenclaw that had entered, "Hello Samantha, how are you doing today?" She hoped well and she grinned seeing her place an item in the basket. This was going to be so fun!



She watched this one carefully, knowing she didn't remember telling them to do the homework she found on her desk, she was a bit worried about the answer she got from Zeke. She knew he was just being creative and she loved creative, but she couldn't help but be a little worried at how detailed his creativity was. "Hello Zeke" She noticed the nervousness about his item. She wouldn't let anything bad happen to any of there things, so she just continued to smile and sip her tea.



She had come to know the sup nod well, it seemed many of the Gryffindors used it. Especially this one and that Bart fellow. So in exchange she gave him a kind smile and a little wave. "Good day Kevin."



Seeing a Hufflepuff come into the room, she grinned, "Hello Lux, feeling alright today?" Rumors moved around the old castle faster then the ghost so the word that Lux was a victim to whatever was causing people to act weirdly wasn't a surprise to Cassie. She was just glad the girl was there and seeming herself.



Oh a transfer? So late in the year, well that was exciting and scary for the girl. "Hello Zhenya, it's very nice to meet you. I hope you enjoy the lesson today." It was going to be a bit longer then usual, but fun at the same time.



Seeing Alexa Cambridge come in, Cassie couldn't help but notice something was different about the seventh year. Though she just sipped her tea and watched. "Good Morning Alexa, you doing alright today?" She watched as she dropped her proud moment in the cup. She noticed she didn't place anything in the basket. "Alexa, please make sure you place your item with the others. It's very important for the lesson that you do. Just a necklace or something will do." If she didn't bring something, maybe she had a watch or necklace on her.



"Hello Adi" she beamed at the prefect as he came into the room. Getting a refill on her tea she tried to start clearing her mind for the lesson. "I hope you are doing well today." It was very important all her students were doing well.



"Ooooh Hello Greyson, yes I am glad to be back to my self too. Though I don't remember not being myself." She wasn't to unhappy that she couldn't remember though. It seemed too awful to remember. Though her liking for apples was still around and she did have a small basket near her seat. A snack later, possibly.



Seeing another Ravenclaw come in she smiled, "Hello Jasmine, how are you dear?" She was a sweet student that Cassie was going to be sad to see leave at the end of term, but it was the way of the world and she was glad she had gotten to know her.



Smiling as another Hufflepuff came in, "Hello Ian, that's very sweet of you." He was always so full of compliments. Such a sweet boy. She watched as he placed his proud moment in the cup.



Seeing Toby come into the room, she was glad hew as there. He had helped her recently to figure out some of the confusion of the last month. "Hello Toby, it's so good to see you today." She beamed as he placed his proud moment in the tea cup knowing how he liked the snap cup.



"Cinna.. Hello" She couldn't help but feel something was off about the girl. "Are you feeling alright?" Not seeing the boy that usually was with her, Cassie hoped it was nothing to do with him, but maybe he was just running late today.



Seeing Sophie walk in with the cute little plush Cassie smiled, "I have a goofy one just like that I got a few years ago on a trip." It had been a fun trip they even rode a muggle plan that her brother was driving, or at least that's what she thought you called those people that did that. Anyway, "It's good to see you today Sophie." Yes she was always happy to see her students.



Yes, yes another saying about her being back to normal, "So am I Kace, so am I. It's good to see you in class today. I hope you are ready for some fun." Well she thought it would be fun at least. Maybe they would think differently.



See another Gryffindor walk into the room she smiled, "Hello Zahra, it's so good to see you today." Without any memory of the last class she didn't have a clue Zahra wasn't there and just felt bad for all of them for being with that queen that she thought she was.



Smiling as another prefect walked through the trap door she couldn't help but notice many of them seemed a bit more sluggish then normal. "Hello Marigold, you feeling alright?" Were they all getting sick? She hoped not being the end of term. So much fun during the end of the term, the excitement of almost being done, the end of the year feast, the cup. No not a good time at all to be sick.



Seeing Eden walk in next she gave the girl an encouraging smile. She assumed everything was alright between them now, but Merlin she had told the girl to go to the dungeons, like a detention. That was the worst for Cassie. "Hello Eden, how are you today?" Looking at her watch, it was almost time to start.



"Hello Norah, how are you today?" She seemed to be doing well at least. Watching as she put her proud moment in and made her way to her seat. Cassie got up from her own seat and set down her tea cup. It was close to time to start.



"Hello Benny, how are you today?" She watched as the boy came into the room setting his proud moment in the cup and his item in the basket. It was going to be such a lovely day for a lesson. A nice warm day outside, this was lucky for them.



Seeing Penelope come in she gave a smile, "Hello Penelope, how are you today?" When she asked about the cup, Cassie lost her bright smile just a little. "Yes, I have, but just no luck. It has to be around here somewhere. Don't worry I'll find it." It just had to be placed somewhere that she couldn't think of at the moment.



Seeing a quiet Gryffindor walk in, Cassie just gave Heather a smile and a wave. If she didn't want to talk she didn't have to and she watched as she did her proud moment. "Dear don't forget your item in the basket. It is very important that everyone places something in this basket or today's lesson will not work. I can promise you nothing will happen to any of them." No need to worry.




Seeing Zander come in she knew the boy had been having a hard time this term, the potion, then seeing Professor Culloden acting funny. So she gave him and encouraging smile as he placed his proud moment in the cup. "Hello Zander, doing well I hope."


Now that it seemed like everyone was there she was going to start. "Well the first thing I want to do is apologize for what happened last lesson and the lack of lessons since. I do not remember anything about being the queen as some of you have told me, so what all went on in this room, lets just pull it out of our minds and start fresh today." She tried to give an encouraging smile, "Now as you can see this is not the usual snap cup, from my understanding it had been broken, then fixed, and is now missing. Don't worry it will be found." If not she would make a new one this summer, no worries at all. "Thanks to Penelope I do have last class snaps in the cup as well. So we will be hearing all of them as well." She didn't want their proud moments being left unsnapped.

Pulling out each parchment one at a time she began to read, "I am proud that Ravenclaw is in second place in the House points race." Snapping after each one was read. "I'm proud that I remembered to brush my hair this morning. I'm proud of representing Gryffindor in Gobstones and winning. I'm proud that I'm a smart cookie." After the last one was read and her snapping was done she set the cup aside.

"Now in the first few lesson we did scrying with the crystal ball, we were suppose to move on to scrying with mirrors and then bowls of water, but unfortunately that didn't go as planned. So we are going to take a moment to review and go over the other forms right now." She moved back towards the mirrors. "Now just as the crystal ball the mirror shows a reflective glass, but with just our reflections can anyone tell me how you would scry in a mirror?" She glanced int he mirror adjusting her Libra necklace as she waited for the answer.

ooc: I always go by the thought that there are lessons all through the term. Just in RP world we don't have time to do weekly or daily so when she see her say previous lessons that's why it seems more then just the two!! :)


Eden looked up and smiled at Professor Morgan. "I'm all right today, thanks, Professor." She said with a nod her way. So the nice lady was back to normal and BACK to being Eden's favorite professor--besides Professor Walton, of course. Morgan was just a lot nicer. Heh.

She listened....pulled out her notebook, and scribbled the date before putting down her qulll. She had NO idea how to scry. Last class hadn't been too helpful and Eden thought it was by sheer LUCK she had even seen something in the mirror. Hmph. But she raised her hand regardless. "Um...like with crystal balls, you REALLY have to clear your head, don't you?" And that was all Eden had. "Oh--don't you have to think really hard about what you want to see in the mirror?" She thought she...recollected that. Or something.

[hermionesclone]

Oh look! He was joined by Tobias Tempus! Good company? He certainly hoped so. Dude was smart and cool too, so that was a bonus. Nonetheless, Grayson smiled and nodded over at the Hufflepuff when he came to sit down beside him. Eden received a smile as well because she was cool as well.

Was it incredibly awful of him to wish that the Snap Cup didn't make a return? Good. Then he was incredibly awful. It didn't stop them from having to snap people for their proud moments, though, which caused Grayson to scowl and reluctantly clap for each moment mentioned. Some were alright. He didn't MIND, it was simply a ridiculous notion.

Again, Professor Cassie was lucky that he liked her as a teacher cause otherwise, it would be harder for him to overlook what had happened during that other lesson. So, shrugging, he was gonna forget all about it and, instead, concentrate on the question. Scrying, eh? Using a mirror?

"Do you have to think of it as looking into a very still stretch of water? And concentrate hard on your question?" And wasn't this the same as looking into a crystal ball since, essentially, it was all glass anyways.

[SarcasticStrawberry]

Yeah. Since that potions lesson that she was a little too happy in. She had been really really bleh. She really didn't know what she felt like this. Anyway she just made the best out of her mood or whatever it was. She noted Cassie's concerned voice in her tone when she asked if she was alright. The lioness nodded. "Yeah, I'm fine, just tired." To be completely Honest lately she had really buckled down with the lessons and homework. Which have been exhausting her out so much.

Class time! Whoop whoop. Question time. Mmmm. Everyone was saying the things that she was thinking. She raised her hand. "A clear mind. Clear your mind and lots positive vibes." Which was something that she really needed to work on given her current mood or whatever it was. Also. "I believe Toby is on to something about the personal items you asked us to bring." Nod. Nod.

Or maybe her mood was that she just needed to wake up more. Or something. Who knew she was starting to feel a bit better now. Only a bit.

[Bazinga]

Cassie was very eager to hear everyone's answers, she really hoped that even though her last lesson was a fail.

Ian smiled at the professor's response to him.

When the class began, Ian listened to Cassie with affection in his heart and mostly likely a goofy smile on his face. She reviewed the recent misfortunes and then began the review of the previous classes. At her question, Ian raised his hand. Professor, glass helps us to see through that vessel. Mirrors are different because they are reflective. Perhaps we scry to focus more on what we can divine about ourselves. He had tried to do a 'little' research on his own as he looked to divination as a vocation.

She listened to Ian and nodded encouragingly. "That is an interesting thought Ian. Mirros are different because they are reflective, but just like the crystal ball your inner eye opens up to see the images you are destine to see." She would try to show an example soon enough. Ian certainly got snaps for her thoughts.

Adi watched Benny enter the room then drop his proud moment and stuffed dragon off. He wondered if the proud moment involved anything with Angel and was about to make a joke about that the moment the Lion sat down beside him. But then he remembered. No joking. Instead, Adi bit his tongue then said, "Hey, back at you.'' Gosh. Holding back jokes were DIFFICULT!
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Fortunately, Professor Cassie was getting started. Adi was sorry to hear about the missing snap cup. He wanted it back. This one currently being used just did not cut it. Anyway...the proud moments were being read. He smiled a bit as he watched the Divination lady. Maybe he was imagining stuff but she didn't seem to have returned to her usual bouncy self.

Hmmm...this question. Adi thought about it for a bit before raising his hand. "We look for anything out of the ordinary about our reflection,'' he suggested. Like if you were actually standing still but your reflection was suddenly waving at you. LOL.

"Not exactly Adi, but good thoughts." She loved to hear everyone's thoughts and guesses even if that weren't correct so Snaps to him.

HER PROUD MOMENT, IT HAD BEEN READ! Norah grinned at Professor Cassie and bounced a little on her pillow. Woooot.

So mirror scrying was a real thing? The second year had tried to block that entire class from her memory, and no information about mirror scrying was coming back to her. Sigh. She watched Ian as he answered the question, raising an eyebrow at his silly grin. What was up with him? Turning back to face the front, Norah put her hand in the air and said "I think you have to relax and do that whole breathing thing to clear your emotions just like in the crystal ball type of scrying." That made sense, right? Trying to calm down had pretty much been the only thing she had done in the last class, anyway.

"Exactly!! Very good!" She got snaps for such an awesome answer!

Wasn't that reeeeally nice of her to ask how she was doing?? Wasn't it? Wassssn't it?? Lex grinned, giving a few firm nods of her head. "I'm splendid Professor, absolutely wonderful and I hope you are toooo!" Because everyone deserved to be happy, especially on such a nice day. Gosh it was almost like the furniture was singing. If you were mad quiet enough, chances were you could hear them too.

Oh but it was important Felix be IN the basket for class reasons. Well far be it for her to go getting in the way of this steady flow thingy that they would be having. The Gryffindor wiggled a bit in her seat to displace her kneazle then snapped in the direction of the basket. "Basket Felix, sit there." Lex watched with a wiiiide smile as Felix lazily sauntered over to the table, hopped up and curled up in the basket. Didn't seem like he'd be going to sleep but he was comfy enough for the moment. Good good.

"I don't have a necklace with me Professor, but no worries,I value my kneazle more anyway." So, see? Nothing to worry about. Precious item present.

BEAM.

As for mirror scrying, hahahaha she had NO idea. Hadn't she and Grayson made something up last class? That was hardly the answer, she was sure.

Seeing her send a kneazle over to the basket Cassie should have know, she had felt the presence but was distracted. Slipping her wand out she put a protection on the other items, not that she thought the kneazle would break them or use the Micky plush as a scratch toy, but to keep the fur and allergies away, just in case. "Very good Alexa, thank you. "

Toby couldn't help but notice the item Zahra placed into the basket, and it made him grin super big, though Z herself wasn't looking too enthusiastic today. He'd tried to catch her eye and spread the smiling to her, bit wasn't certain if she'd noticed him.

Smiles for the professor too, 'cause she was always so happy and nice. Except when she was that queen type person, of course, but shhhhhh not thinking about that, shhhhh.

After the snapping and the start of the lesson, Toby started working on his notes at once. Even though he was putting himself under a lot less pressure these days with his OWLs, there was still that niggling thought at the back of his mind that went on about wanting as many O grades as possible. So, of course, he wanted to get as much into these notes as possible.

Toby didn't know the answer here, but figured he could give it a good guess, and so raised his hand.

"Is it more or less the same process as with the crystal balls? Getting super relaxed and not thinking about anything and then focusing on the mirror. When we used the crystal balls they all clouded over when we got into the zone and started scrying, 'cause we had to look for things in the fog. I dunno if it's the same with mirrors." A pause, and then he added, as though in afterthought. "Is it something to do with the items we put in the basket?"

"Very good Toby, it is like the crytal balls and we do have to clear our minds." He got snaps and then a wider grin as he asked about the items. "It might, but you'll just have to wait to see that little part." Oh yes that was the fun part for later in class.

Kace smiled and was glad the Professor liked being back to normal. He nodded and beamed and thought he would have fun with this lesson today. As he heard the SNAC moments being read out loud he snapped with the rest of the class. He thought this idea was cute. It helped show off the pride whether you are a firstie or a seventh year. But now onto last lesson. He heard the professor mention about mirror scrying and how you would do it? He remembered from last lesson all too well.

Kace raised his hand and offered what he learned, "Professor I learned that you need to clear your mind of all distractions and focus on what you want to see in the mirror. It is just all about control and I think it is easier to see in the mirror than looking through the fog in the crystal ball.." he shrugged offering his own opinion.

"Yes, wonderful Kace. In any form of Scrying you must clear your mind." Giving him snaps she moved on to the next person.

Angel raised her hand. "Professor... don't you have to clear your mind and then just stare into the mirror and wait until something happens." Angel had no idea if she was right or not. "We also have to make sure that everything is working great and that no one is distracting you."

"Yes, exactly just as others have said, you will clear your mind just as the crystals ball scrying." Angel got some snaps too.

The snap cup apparently had been through a lot. AJ wondered if maybe somebody had stole it, although she couldn't see WHY anybody would want it. The lion listened as the professor went over everyone's proud moments. A few even received a chuckle from her. People say the darndest things.

Ah, well AJ didn't know the answer to her question, but she did have a question of her own. The second year waved her hand around in the air. "How do you concentrate when you have to stare at yourself?" It was very distracting to her the last time AJ had tried it. All she could do was concentrate on how brown her eyes were and how bad her hair needed to be brushed.

"Well it is something you have to train to do. The mirror scrying is one of the harder forms. I do not expect anyone to get it right away. You might not even get it this term, but it's something that I think is valuable to learn to do." Aj got snaps for a great question.

She smiled at Professor Cassie, who sounded lovely, then went to find her seat.

Professor Cassie began talking about something… being a queen? Zhenya was confused, but then remembered something about a fairy tail book possessing people. Right. Well forgetting it wouldn't be a problem for Zhenya, she wasn't even there in the first place. Professor Cassie wanted to start fresh, and fresh was all Zhenya knew.

Snap cup? What in Merlin's beard was a snap cup? She had overheard a few students speaking about it, but she didn't know. Maybe she would ask the Professor after class. If it was missing, maybe she could help try and find it for her.

She sat there quietly, enjoying the ambiance, listening to all of the proud moments, then listened to what Professor Cassie was saying about the previous lessons. She wasn't there, so she took notes on what had been happening so that she could study them later. For her exams. Gulp.

Scrying, she wrote, and underlined it. She had a vague understanding of scrying. But scrying with a mirror? Wouldn't it be similar to other ways, except of course that there would be more things to be distracted by? She raised her hand and said, unsure about her answer, "Well scrying in a mirror might be quite hard because the person doing it might be distracted by everything reflected in the mirror," because, you know, there was less to focus on in a crystal ball or water… "The person scrying might have to put themselves into a deeper trance, to block out from noticing the reflections, and look deeper into what messages they could see." Well, even if she was totally wrong, a guess was still better than nothing.

"Very good Zhenya, It is harder, but you do the same focusing things. Some will stand off to the side a bit to be less distracted and it's always good not to have so much behind you for the mirror to pick up." she was getting snaps for such a great answer.




Eden looked up and smiled at Professor Morgan. "I'm all right today, thanks, Professor." She said with a nod her way. So the nice lady was back to normal and BACK to being Eden's favorite professor--besides Professor Walton, of course. Morgan was just a lot nicer. Heh.

She listened....pulled out her notebook, and scribbled the date before putting down her qulll. She had NO idea how to scry. Last class hadn't been too helpful and Eden thought it was by sheer LUCK she had even seen something in the mirror. Hmph. But she raised her hand regardless. "Um...like with crystal balls, you REALLY have to clear your head, don't you?" And that was all Eden had. "Oh--don't you have to think really hard about what you want to see in the mirror?" She thought she...recollected that. Or something.

"Yes Eden clearing your mind is fantastic." She got snaps, but then a side note Cassie had to make sure she knew, "Really thinking about one think could possibly make your mind clouded and not open to see what is needed. Now if you are in search of something you might want to keep it in your thoughts, but not make it your main focus." She knew that was a bit confusing, but he would try to clear it up in a bit.

Oh look! He was joined by Tobias Tempus! Good company? He certainly hoped so. Dude was smart and cool too, so that was a bonus. Nonetheless, Grayson smiled and nodded over at the Hufflepuff when he came to sit down beside him. Eden received a smile as well because she was cool as well.

Was it incredibly awful of him to wish that the Snap Cup didn't make a return? Good. Then he was incredibly awful. It didn't stop them from having to snap people for their proud moments, though, which caused Grayson to scowl and reluctantly clap for each moment mentioned. Some were alright. He didn't MIND, it was simply a ridiculous notion.

Again, Professor Cassie was lucky that he liked her as a teacher cause otherwise, it would be harder for him to overlook what had happened during that other lesson. So, shrugging, he was gonna forget all about it and, instead, concentrate on the question. Scrying, eh? Using a mirror?

"Do you have to think of it as looking into a very still stretch of water? And concentrate hard on your question?" And wasn't this the same as looking into a crystal ball since, essentially, it was all glass anyways.

"That is a very good way of putting it Grayson, but just as the crystal balls you are just looking into the glass. Though if that helps clear your mind, then certainly thinking of it as a still strip of water would be perfect." Snaps for Grayson as well.

Yeah. Since that potions lesson that she was a little too happy in. She had been really really bleh. She really didn't know what she felt like this. Anyway she just made the best out of her mood or whatever it was. She noted Cassie's concerned voice in her tone when she asked if she was alright. The lioness nodded. "Yeah, I'm fine, just tired." To be completely Honest lately she had really buckled down with the lessons and homework. Which have been exhausting her out so much.

Class time! Whoop whoop. Question time. Mmmm. Everyone was saying the things that she was thinking. She raised her hand. "A clear mind. Clear your mind and lots positive vibes." Which was something that she really needed to work on given her current mood or whatever it was. Also. "I believe Toby is on to something about the personal items you asked us to bring." Nod. Nod.

Or maybe her mood was that she just needed to wake up more. Or something. Who knew she was starting to feel a bit better now. Only a bit.

"Toby could be on to something, but it doesn't have to do with scrying just yet. Good guess though." Cinna got smiles and snaps as well.


Walking in front of the mirror Cassie looked at it for a few moments before turning to the class. "Now with the crystal ball I said that you find a connection with it. There is a sense of owner ship with it, but with the mirrors it's a different style of connection. You want to clear your mind just like the crystal ball. Have nothing clouding her inner eye from awakening." She closed her eyes and took a few deep breaths.

"Now once you have your mind cleared and your inner eye open, my advice is to stand not directly in front of it, but just off to the side. You might want to turn the mirror so just the wall is showing. This will help you stay less distracted. Now as you look into the mirror you should start to see a foggy like transformation before the visions start to come." Looking back at the mirror she went silent for a bit. "Oh look I see Snow White and she's singing a cute little song." She chuckled not even able to get it all out, "I'm kidding I'm kidding. See I can have some fun with the awful situation. No, really I saw Grayson at the lake and Eden at the stables." Interesting, maybe it had some meaning to them or would in the future.

"Now over here I have some bowls. What do you think the bowls have to do with scrying?"

[Jessiqua]

Right. Well that made sense, and Zhenya was surprised she hadn't realised it. Just stand to the side… durrr!! She quickly scrawled that down into her notebook to remember. She was slightly fluberghasted with the Professor. She hadn't been in class when she was…the Queen, but who on earth was Snow White? She didn't want to be rude and point out to the professor that, yes indeed - snow WAS white. Obviously the Professor knew that.

And then she laughed.

Well of course she knew the snow was white. But just because snow was white, that didn't make it a female? Maybe she was talking about a person? Zhenya shrugged it off.. maybe she was seeing something. No? Hmm.. well, anyway.

Bowls and scrying? Well, bowls held things; food, keys, lollies, soup… she raised her hand, "Er, Professor, would the bowls be used to put water in and then to scry with the water?" she asked.

[pundantic]

Hugh was skeptical about Divination as a subject. Mostly because it was not logical and, therefore, studying for it was more throwing ideas at a wall and hoping it stuck. But TODAY he was feeling optimistic and a little dizzy from hanging upside down off his bed like a bat for a majority of the day before that he didn't think much about how illogical this all was.

He simply went with it.

"Yo, you put water in the bowl and then use it to scry. Or try to, of course." SKEPTISM was at an all time low today.

Did she see the smile? He was into it.

[lazykitty]

Heather had reluctantly put her necklace in the basket and sat back down, but she was too distracted by watching the basket to even hear the next question much less answer it. Especially once a KNEAZLE made it's way into it. That creature was half cat, and cats tended to like shiny things. Her necklace was a shiny thing. So major amounts of anxiety over here, even though Professor Cassie had put a protective spell over the objects. Eyeballs are on you, kneazle. "You put water in it and try to scry." Eyeballs still on the cat-like creature.

EYEBALLS ON KNEAZLE.

[Felixir]

Ah, here we are then. Since that other lesson, Toby HAD wondered how on earth scrying in mirrors worked, and here they were about to find out. He took down as many notes as possible as Professor Morgan went through it all. He froze for a moment as she mentioned seeing Snow White, and his eyes widened slightly, but it turned out that Professor Morgan was JUST KIDDING, and so Toby relaxed again. He did glance at Grayson and Eden as they were mentioned being seen in the mirror, and then looked back to the professor again.

Okay, so... bowls. Hmm. Up Toby's hand went.

"Maaaaybe it's so you fill them up with soap and water and then clean the thing you're scrying with," the Hufflepuff suggested, once again casually forgetting that magic was a thing, and then he was, oh, you know, a WIZARD. Just thinking outside the box, y'know, in case it wasn't the obvious answer.

[Sararara]

SHE HAD BEEN RIGHT?! Crazy. Norah gave Professor Cassie big smile at the praise. Scrunching up her nose, she contemplated the next question. Bowls? What the other students were saying about the water made sense, so she put her hand in the air to add to what they had said. "If you do but water in it, you probably have to look at the water until you see an image that isn't just a reflection? Like in the mirror?" Riiight? That was probably just a reiteration of everyone else, but she HAD tried. And anyway, she could never count on more than one right answer per class, she just didn't know that much. Darn young age. Hmph.

From the corner of her eye, she watched appreciatively as Professor Cassie cast a spell to protect Larry from that kneazle. She smiled at the professor again, pleased that SOMEBODY understood that stuffed lions were far too important to be scratched up by just anything.

[WhittyBitty]

Listening to Professor Cassie, everything made perfect sense. Duh. Why hasn't she figured that out on her own? Sometimes she could be so slow. Shaking her head at her silliness, Lux recorded notes on what she was being told. Even though she didn't hold much with Divination didn't mean that notes wouldn't be valuable.

The mention of Snow White got her attention.

REALLY?!

But of course it was a joke. LOL. Good one. Lux was pleased to see that Professor Cassie was able to joke about what had happened to her. Maybe she would get to that point too. That would be wonderful. The mention of using a bowl was interesting. Raising her hand, she gave a guess. "Maybe if you fill the bowl with water, it can be used for scrying too."

[Daydreamer11]

As usual, Jasmine listened and wrote notes. She had had lots of questions about scrying with mirrors during the last class.....like was it even possible? Apparantly it was. Then a question was asked about scrying and bowls. Jasmine raised her hand to provide an answer.

I think that you would fill the bowls with water. Then you could perform scrying by looking into the water. It would be the same concept as when you are scrying with a mirror. You look into it, but not directly into it and see images.....that is if it's working for you."

[Casey O]

Marigold's eyes were watering because blinking hurt with her eyelash wedged somewhere in the corner of her eye. Ouch. She snapped along during the readings, then settled comfortably to take notes. More scrying? Hm. Maybe that would be the practical on their OWLs. Welp. More notes.

"Water can be used as a reflective surface." Though it wasn't much of a surface, hm. Did that count? It wasn't solid, but it shared reflective properties.

[ArianaBlack]

He shook his head when his friend sat at his table and looked at him. "If your stinking sock is touching my potions book..." he said in a jokingly threatening way.
The Gryffindor settled into his seat next to his best friend, before looking over with a sheepish smile. "It was all I had on short notice?" he stuffed his hands into his pockets and shrugged just a bit. Heh, whoops? Hopefully no one would notice the pink tint rushing to his cheeks.


"Now over here I have some bowls. What do you think the bowls have to do with scrying?"
As for the scrying bowls. Well really the only guess Zander had included cereal. But not just any cereal, okay. Like the alphabet kind, no wait... That was soup, wasn't it? Maybe they could pour some alphabet soup into a bowl and watch the letters form words and BOOM divination. You can read the future in the convenience of a bowl, while still getting in your daily nutrients. It was actually pretty clever. Hm.

[feeheeheeny]

Sophie covered her mouth with her arm as she yawned big - the ambiance of the room and the comfy pillows and the scent of lavender and the soft music combined with the topic in general was making her awfully tired, and she wanted nothing more than to fully lay down, set her notebook aside, and just listen to everything while she rested with her eyes closed. She didn't need to SLEEP sleep, but she really wanted to rest more than she was currently allowed to.

Really, she wasn't sure that this was a subject for her. So... dull. Or maybe it was just the whole objective of calming down and clearing the mind that just didn't work for her.

The professor's "joke" about Snow White made her snap to attention, though, and woke her up a little - she forced some nervous laughter, but she was suddenly VERY aware of her surroundings and was keeping an eye out for anyone acting strangely.

She was further confused about the mention of bowls, then - scrying was so weird. Couldn't they just stick to crystal balls? At least THAT made some sort of sense to her.

[Hera]

Sipping on her tea Cassie beamed as the trap door opened. She loved her lessons, but felt this one was very important. She knew that the last lesson they had with her she wasn't herself and thankfully the queen hadn't held any other ones, but that also meant they were very behind for the term and students taking OWLs and NEWTs need information that should have been taught already. So she decided for this lesson to combine a few things and hope she could do it in a fun way.


She watched this one carefully, knowing she didn't remember telling them to do the homework she found on her desk, she was a bit worried about the answer she got from Zeke. She knew he was just being creative and she loved creative, but she couldn't help but be a little worried at how detailed his creativity was. "Hello Zeke" She noticed the nervousness about his item. She wouldn't let anything bad happen to any of there things, so she just continued to smile and sip her tea.


Now that it seemed like everyone was there she was going to start. "Well the first thing I want to do is apologize for what happened last lesson and the lack of lessons since. I do not remember anything about being the queen as some of you have told me, so what all went on in this room, lets just pull it out of our minds and start fresh today." She tried to give an encouraging smile, "Now as you can see this is not the usual snap cup, from my understanding it had been broken, then fixed, and is now missing. Don't worry it will be found." If not she would make a new one this summer, no worries at all. "Thanks to Penelope I do have last class snaps in the cup as well. So we will be hearing all of them as well." She didn't want their proud moments being left unsnapped.

Pulling out each parchment one at a time she began to read, "I am proud that Ravenclaw is in second place in the House points race." Snapping after each one was read. "I'm proud that I remembered to brush my hair this morning. I'm proud of representing Gryffindor in Gobstones and winning. I'm proud that I'm a smart cookie." After the last one was read and her snapping was done she set the cup aside.

"Now in the first few lesson we did scrying with the crystal ball, we were suppose to move on to scrying with mirrors and then bowls of water, but unfortunately that didn't go as planned. So we are going to take a moment to review and go over the other forms right now." She moved back towards the mirrors. "Now just as the crystal ball the mirror shows a reflective glass, but with just our reflections can anyone tell me how you would scry in a mirror?" She glanced int he mirror adjusting her Libra necklace as she waited for the answer.

ooc: I always go by the thought that there are lessons all through the term. Just in RP world we don't have time to do weekly or daily so when she see her say previous lessons that's why it seems more then just the two!! :)

Was it just him? Or was Professor Cassie looking at him oddly? Either way he BEAMED in her direction, casually showing her ALL THE TEETH he had in his big big mouth. Yeah. Hi.

He'd sat on an orange cushion and waited, waving and smiling every so often as some of his closer peers joined them. He realllyyy wanted his compass back. He felt WEIRD without it. Legit. Zeke tapped his hands in a rhythmic beat, that lacked proper rhythm, on his leg while he waited.

The introductions were standard, but he did beam as his old snapthing was read out. THAT WAS HIM! Hehehehehe.

Back to the scrying stuff though, and he was kind of not entirely with it yet. It wasn't that the subject was boring per se, but his head just wasn't working just yet. Wasn't it all just the same? STARING and LETTING GO so that you could SEE? At least, that's how he figured it'd work.


Walking in front of the mirror Cassie looked at it for a few moments before turning to the class. "Now with the crystal ball I said that you find a connection with it. There is a sense of owner ship with it, but with the mirrors it's a different style of connection. You want to clear your mind just like the crystal ball. Have nothing clouding her inner eye from awakening." She closed her eyes and took a few deep breaths.

"Now once you have your mind cleared and your inner eye open, my advice is to stand not directly in front of it, but just off to the side. You might want to turn the mirror so just the wall is showing. This will help you stay less distracted. Now as you look into the mirror you should start to see a foggy like transformation before the visions start to come." Looking back at the mirror she went silent for a bit. "Oh look I see Snow White and she's singing a cute little song." She chuckled not even able to get it all out, "I'm kidding I'm kidding. See I can have some fun with the awful situation. No, really I saw Grayson at the lake and Eden at the stables." Interesting, maybe it had some meaning to them or would in the future.

"Now over here I have some bowls. What do you think the bowls have to do with scrying?"

Uh huhhhhh........... yep, it sounded fairly straight forward. Zeke wrote that down. Dot points. Really quick.

...

And bowls? Ugh. He kind of disliked how the Professor's asked so many questions, why couldn't HE ask the questions and get the answers that way? Cause, how was he supposed to answer a question when he didn't know the answer??? Pooooop!!!!

Zeke wrinkled his nose a little, huffing to clear his nostrils of the noxious lavender fumes.

Everyone was talking about filling it with water, or using the reflections. Obviously there was an element of reflectiveness in all of them. Zeke did wonder though...

"Professor?" he started, with his hand straight up in the air. "Can it give you like.. different perspectives of visions? Like how when you look at a spoon - depending on which side you're looking at, your face might be the right way up or it might be upside down and distorted. Is it like that?" And go figure, he had a better question to ask. "Oh, and can you scry with a spoon too?"

[DaniDiNardo]

N'aawwww lookit Felix up there getting even more comfy. To think he'd wanted to stay on her bed this morning. Pfft. No. As his owner she needed to let him stretch his legs sometimes and in the absence of everything else she loved in this world, he was the natural substitute. Not saying she preferred any over the other but you got the idea.

The moment the Professor got to demonstrating on the mirror, Leeeeaned forward, hoping she'd be able to see something too but then she was talking about Snow White and and and that was weeeird. Like why was Snow White in the mirror--oh wait, she was only joking. Hah...hahaha, Lex got the joke, honestly she did.

And Grayson was gonna be by the lake? She'd have to ask him about that later for sure.

"I'm gonna guess that you put water in the bowl, disrupt it then wait for it to settle to see what you're meant to." But that was only a guess before her attention shifting to her kneazle once again. Such a cute baaaby.

[Weasley174]

Angel looked at the Professor and raised her hand. "Are we going to put some water in the bowl and then dump in on someone?" Angel thought that would be cool. "There's nothing like being cold to waken your mind." Angel wasn't sure that this would be happening but everyone else had guess over stuff and no one had guessed this so she decided she wanted to be different.

[Bazinga]

She wondered how her little joke would go over and by the looks of it not so well, okay moving on. Whoops.

Once she was standing in front of the bowls, she took one and moved it towards her. Pointing her wand and filling it with water she listened to the answers and all the wonderful ideas from her students.

Right. Well that made sense, and Zhenya was surprised she hadn't realised it. Just stand to the side… durrr!! She quickly scrawled that down into her notebook to remember. She was slightly fluberghasted with the Professor. She hadn't been in class when she was…the Queen, but who on earth was Snow White? She didn't want to be rude and point out to the professor that, yes indeed - snow WAS white. Obviously the Professor knew that.

And then she laughed.

Well of course she knew the snow was white. But just because snow was white, that didn't make it a female? Maybe she was talking about a person? Zhenya shrugged it off.. maybe she was seeing something. No? Hmm.. well, anyway.

Bowls and scrying? Well, bowls held things; food, keys, lollies, soup… she raised her hand, "Er, Professor, would the bowls be used to put water in and then to scry with the water?" she asked.

Looking to Zhenya first Cassie couldn't help but give a grin. This one was on her toes for her first lesson here. "Very good Zhenya, just as I did right now, we do fill the water into the bowl and the reflective water makes it able to scry with." Giving her snaps she moved to the next one with a hand up.

Hugh was skeptical about Divination as a subject. Mostly because it was not logical and, therefore, studying for it was more throwing ideas at a wall and hoping it stuck. But TODAY he was feeling optimistic and a little dizzy from hanging upside down off his bed like a bat for a majority of the day before that he didn't think much about how illogical this all was.

He simply went with it.

"Yo, you put water in the bowl and then use it to scry. Or try to, of course." SKEPTISM was at an all time low today.

Did she see the smile? He was into it.

Oh and another great answer here she gave Hugh snaps and nodded, "Very good, but let's keep positive about it. I am sure with a little practice even if you don't get it today you can scry with all these items we've talked about." Giving him a encouraging smile she had faith in all her students, even Alexa, that they could do it.

Heather had reluctantly put her necklace in the basket and sat back down, but she was too distracted by watching the basket to even hear the next question much less answer it. Especially once a KNEAZLE made it's way into it. That creature was half cat, and cats tended to like shiny things. Her necklace was a shiny thing. So major amounts of anxiety over here, even though Professor Cassie had put a protective spell over the objects. Eyeballs are on you, kneazle. "You put water in it and try to scry." Eyeballs still on the cat-like creature.

EYEBALLS ON KNEAZLE.

"Yes, yes exactly right." Heather got snaps, though Cassie watched her eyes to the basket. She could see where the Kneazle made people nervous, but no worries Cassie was on top of it.

Ah, here we are then. Since that other lesson, Toby HAD wondered how on earth scrying in mirrors worked, and here they were about to find out. He took down as many notes as possible as Professor Morgan went through it all. He froze for a moment as she mentioned seeing Snow White, and his eyes widened slightly, but it turned out that Professor Morgan was JUST KIDDING, and so Toby relaxed again. He did glance at Grayson and Eden as they were mentioned being seen in the mirror, and then looked back to the professor again.

Okay, so... bowls. Hmm. Up Toby's hand went.

"Maaaaybe it's so you fill them up with soap and water and then clean the thing you're scrying with," the Hufflepuff suggested, once again casually forgetting that magic was a thing, and then he was, oh, you know, a WIZARD. Just thinking outside the box, y'know, in case it wasn't the obvious answer.

Listening to Toby she couldn't help, but give him snaps. It was a great answer even if it was a little off. "Yes, we do use bowls to clean things, but typically there are special clothes for the crystal balls and the mirrors, well we could use the soap and water, but a quick cleaning spell does just as well. " Such a great guess though!

SHE HAD BEEN RIGHT?! Crazy. Norah gave Professor Cassie big smile at the praise. Scrunching up her nose, she contemplated the next question. Bowls? What the other students were saying about the water made sense, so she put her hand in the air to add to what they had said. "If you do but water in it, you probably have to look at the water until you see an image that isn't just a reflection? Like in the mirror?" Riiight? That was probably just a reiteration of everyone else, but she HAD tried. And anyway, she could never count on more than one right answer per class, she just didn't know that much. Darn young age. Hmph.

From the corner of her eye, she watched appreciatively as Professor Cassie cast a spell to protect Larry from that kneazle. She smiled at the professor again, pleased that SOMEBODY understood that stuffed lions were far too important to be scratched up by just anything.

Beaming at Norah she gave more snaps, "Yes, very good. That's exactly the concept of scrying with bowls." She had the brightest students in her class.

Listening to Professor Cassie, everything made perfect sense. Duh. Why hasn't she figured that out on her own? Sometimes she could be so slow. Shaking her head at her silliness, Lux recorded notes on what she was being told. Even though she didn't hold much with Divination didn't mean that notes wouldn't be valuable.

The mention of Snow White got her attention.

REALLY?!

But of course it was a joke. LOL. Good one. Lux was pleased to see that Professor Cassie was able to joke about what had happened to her. Maybe she would get to that point too. That would be wonderful. The mention of using a bowl was interesting. Raising her hand, she gave a guess. "Maybe if you fill the bowl with water, it can be used for scrying too."

"Yes very good Lux!" She got snaps as well. This was going better then she could have ever expected!


As usual, Jasmine listened and wrote notes. She had had lots of questions about scrying with mirrors during the last class.....like was it even possible? Apparantly it was. Then a question was asked about scrying and bowls. Jasmine raised her hand to provide an answer.

I think that you would fill the bowls with water. Then you could perform scrying by looking into the water. It would be the same concept as when you are scrying with a mirror. You look into it, but not directly into it and see images.....that is if it's working for you."

Another very bright student, it was wonderful to see! "Great job, you are right. You can scrying with bowls and water." Snaps for Jasmine!

Marigold's eyes were watering because blinking hurt with her eyelash wedged somewhere in the corner of her eye. Ouch. She snapped along during the readings, then settled comfortably to take notes. More scrying? Hm. Maybe that would be the practical on their OWLs. Welp. More notes.

"Water can be used as a reflective surface." Though it wasn't much of a surface, hm. Did that count? It wasn't solid, but it shared reflective properties.

"It can, bowls and water are actually used for a few different forms of Divination, but one is scrying." Did anyone else know the other forms? Hmmm maybe she'd ask later.



Was it just him? Or was Professor Cassie looking at him oddly? Either way he BEAMED in her direction, casually showing her ALL THE TEETH he had in his big big mouth. Yeah. Hi.

He'd sat on an orange cushion and waited, waving and smiling every so often as some of his closer peers joined them. He realllyyy wanted his compass back. He felt WEIRD without it. Legit. Zeke tapped his hands in a rhythmic beat, that lacked proper rhythm, on his leg while he waited.

The introductions were standard, but he did beam as his old snapthing was read out. THAT WAS HIM! Hehehehehe.

Back to the scrying stuff though, and he was kind of not entirely with it yet. It wasn't that the subject was boring per se, but his head just wasn't working just yet. Wasn't it all just the same? STARING and LETTING GO so that you could SEE? At least, that's how he figured it'd work.



Uh huhhhhh........... yep, it sounded fairly straight forward. Zeke wrote that down. Dot points. Really quick.

...

And bowls? Ugh. He kind of disliked how the Professor's asked so many questions, why couldn't HE ask the questions and get the answers that way? Cause, how was he supposed to answer a question when he didn't know the answer??? Pooooop!!!!

Zeke wrinkled his nose a little, huffing to clear his nostrils of the noxious lavender fumes.

Everyone was talking about filling it with water, or using the reflections. Obviously there was an element of reflectiveness in all of them. Zeke did wonder though...

"Professor?" he started, with his hand straight up in the air. "Can it give you like.. different perspectives of visions? Like how when you look at a spoon - depending on which side you're looking at, your face might be the right way up or it might be upside down and distorted. Is it like that?" And go figure, he had a better question to ask. "Oh, and can you scry with a spoon too?"


Zeke had a very creative mind, she already knew this, but his thoughts on things did amaze her. She beamed at him. "That is possible. Depending on the bowl you can get more visuals with larger then smaller ones. So you have a point there." He certainly got snaps for his creative questions. "The best seers can to scrying through any forms of reflective pieces, but it takes years of practice. So for now we will just focus on the basic and most well known ways."


N'aawwww lookit Felix up there getting even more comfy. To think he'd wanted to stay on her bed this morning. Pfft. No. As his owner she needed to let him stretch his legs sometimes and in the absence of everything else she loved in this world, he was the natural substitute. Not saying she preferred any over the other but you got the idea.

The moment the Professor got to demonstrating on the mirror, Leeeeaned forward, hoping she'd be able to see something too but then she was talking about Snow White and and and that was weeeird. Like why was Snow White in the mirror--oh wait, she was only joking. Hah...hahaha, Lex got the joke, honestly she did.

And Grayson was gonna be by the lake? She'd have to ask him about that later for sure.

"I'm gonna guess that you put water in the bowl, disrupt it then wait for it to settle to see what you're meant to." But that was only a guess before her attention shifting to her kneazle once again. Such a cute baaaby.

Was it wrong to be a little freaked out by Alexa being so.. happy? Well she couldn't help but watch her a moment before giving her snaps. "Very good you do put water in just as I did. Then clear you mind and start your scrying." Very spot on today Alexa, what was the change? Though Cassie was excited to see it!

ngel looked at the Professor and raised her hand. "Are we going to put some water in the bowl and then dump in on someone?" Angel thought that would be cool. "There's nothing like being cold to waken your mind." Angel wasn't sure that this would be happening but everyone else had guess over stuff and no one had guessed this so she decided she wanted to be different.

She just blinked at Angel's answer, "No, no we won't. That would not be nice at all. It would certainly not wake up the mind that we are trying to wake up. That would distract even the best seers." Goodness she hoped the girl was joking. Giving her a small encouraging smile, Cassie knew it was time to move on.

Moving the bowl to the front of the room Cassie looked down into it. "Now once you have your bowl, you will want to fill the water to almost the top. I wouldn't do the entire bowl just because it might splash out if you bump into it. That would cause concentration to certainly leave and your inner eye to close." They didn't want to do that now did they? "Just like the mirrors, scrying with other objects that aren't the crystal ball can be a bit more difficult. So if you haven't mastered the crystal ball do not get frustrated if you don't end up mastering either of these forms for a while either, but I know each and everyone of you have the talent so just keep practicing." Training and dedication were the key.

"Now unlike the mirror, water will move so the images can seem like they are flickering. You must try to find a place that a bowl will not be bumped or there is no vibration that could move the water while you are trying to do your scrying." Were they getting all of this? She knew she was giving them a lot of information, but it was needed. "Now we must not get this form of scrying confused with other forms of Divination that use bowls of water. If you are trying to use the water outside you must be especially careful not to fall into another form." No birds or rocks around the classroom though so no need to worry.

"Now I'd like to give you a chance to try out both these forms. I don't have enough bowls or enough mirrors for everyone to do it at once, so I want half the class to start on the mirrors and half the class will come get a bowl and start with the water. You can decide which you will do first. In about twenty minutes you'll hear a little timer go off that will indicate to switch. So go ahead and get started, if you have any questions feel free to ask." Vanishing the water from her own bowl she took it back to the table so someone else could use it.

OOC: Alright everyone this is the first activity. Have your charrie pick which they would like to do first and RP them doing it. Once done with the first item there will be no timer or anything just have them move to the second. This should be done in at least six posts, three for the mirror and three for the bowl of water. You will have until Friday evening 10 p.m. est to finish the first activity before we move on. Cassie and I will be here if needed!

[FearlessLeader19]

Bowls and scrying? Since scrying had to do with seeing images on clear surfaces, Adi had a fair idea. "We put something...most likely water in it, before using it to try and see images,'' he supplied, hand in the air.
........................

So...the bowl of water or the mirror first?

As Adi finished up on his notes, he decided that the mirror would be first. He hadn't much luck the last time with mirror scrying and he was feeling a bit confident about the whole thing today.

"You starting with mirrors, too?'' the Hufflepuff asked Benny as he stood up. Mirrors were at the back of the class, yeah? So that was where this Puffer was going. He hoped he was going to be seeing stuff in the mirror this time around. Divinationary stuff, of course.

[Expecto-Penguin]

Darn Kace spaced out again! He heard the question what does water have to with scrying. He really did have no idea so maybe the spacing out did him a favor. His ears perked up when he heard they were doing an activity now. It is interesting activity to do for the lesson. So now they will have to pick a partner to work with? But he wondered where he wanted to work with first. He decided he wanted to work with the mirrors first since they seemed to be easier and plus he did work with them before.

He began to face the mirror and decided to do it himself and just breathed in and out...in and out...he wanted to do this right. Last time circumstances were tense.

[WhittyBitty]

Oh, so she was right about water being used for scrying. Interesting. As Professor Cassie continued talking, Lux wrote down more notes and wondered what other forms of Divination involved water. Maybe it would be discussed in another lesson because before she could ask, it was activity time. Lux was never one to avoid activities so her curiosity would have to be addressed later.

Using two different mediums for scrying sounded both interesting and challenging. She had barely any success with the crystal ball and had done only a little better with the mirror since she still wasn't sure what she had seen with the Queen standing over her shoulder.

Not sure which she wanted to start with, Lux finally settled on the bowl of water because it was something new as well as a bit of a challenge. Heading over to the bowls, she grabbed one before heading back to her table. That was when she heard Kace asking if anyone needed a partner. Too bad she had already gotten her bowl, because he was standing by the mirrors. Oh well. With her wand she filled her bowl with what she figured to be enough water.

[Sararara]

Norah grinned at Professor Cassie's snaps. Two right answers?! Unheard of! Picking up her quill, she wrote down the new information on scrying as neatly as she could. Today was a good day, she could feel it. As she listened, she wondered about what other types of divination used water. Maybe when it rained the water spelled stuff out! Or there could be pictures in condensation! That would be awesome. Wiggling a little in her seat, she made a mental note to look for hidden messages next time it rained, which would probably be soon. So much rain around here. Sigh.

Ooh, activity time! Pushing herself up from her pillow, the second year skipped over to a mirror and plopped herself down in front of it. It was totally going to work this time. Totally. She took a deep breath and let her eyelids flutter shut. Time to relaaaxxxx.

[WhittyBitty]

Awesome, she was all set to start scrying with the bowl of water. First she wanted a cup of tea, so Lux poured herself some and had a nice sip. Tea always helped her feel relaxed; maybe because it was so warming and soothing. She definitely liked tea more than coffee though she didn't mind coffee. Hot chocolate was the best though.

After taking another sip. Lux put her cup down beside the bowl and closed her eyes. If she was correct in her guess, the technique was the same with the bowl of water as it was with the crystal ball and the mirror. She needed to get into a totally relaxed slate with her mind empty of all thought. Working to clear all the negative energy from her body, she started doing deep breathing

In and out.... In and out...

[kayquilz]

Cassie was very eager to hear everyone's answers, she really hoped that even though her last lesson was a fail.



She listened to Ian and nodded encouragingly. "That is an interesting thought Ian. Mirros are different because they are reflective, but just like the crystal ball your inner eye opens up to see the images you are destine to see." She would try to show an example soon enough. Ian certainly got snaps for her thoughts.



"Not exactly Adi, but good thoughts." She loved to hear everyone's thoughts and guesses even if that weren't correct so Snaps to him.



"Exactly!! Very good!" She got snaps for such an awesome answer!



Seeing her send a kneazle over to the basket Cassie should have know, she had felt the presence but was distracted. Slipping her wand out she put a protection on the other items, not that she thought the kneazle would break them or use the Micky plush as a scratch toy, but to keep the fur and allergies away, just in case. "Very good Alexa, thank you. "



"Very good Toby, it is like the crytal balls and we do have to clear our minds." He got snaps and then a wider grin as he asked about the items. "It might, but you'll just have to wait to see that little part." Oh yes that was the fun part for later in class.



"Yes, wonderful Kace. In any form of Scrying you must clear your mind." Giving him snaps she moved on to the next person.



"Yes, exactly just as others have said, you will clear your mind just as the crystals ball scrying." Angel got some snaps too.



"Well it is something you have to train to do. The mirror scrying is one of the harder forms. I do not expect anyone to get it right away. You might not even get it this term, but it's something that I think is valuable to learn to do." Aj got snaps for a great question.



"Very good Zhenya, It is harder, but you do the same focusing things. Some will stand off to the side a bit to be less distracted and it's always good not to have so much behind you for the mirror to pick up." she was getting snaps for such a great answer.



"Yes Eden clearing your mind is fantastic." She got snaps, but then a side note Cassie had to make sure she knew, "Really thinking about one think could possibly make your mind clouded and not open to see what is needed. Now if you are in search of something you might want to keep it in your thoughts, but not make it your main focus." She knew that was a bit confusing, but he would try to clear it up in a bit.



"That is a very good way of putting it Grayson, but just as the crystal balls you are just looking into the glass. Though if that helps clear your mind, then certainly thinking of it as a still strip of water would be perfect." Snaps for Grayson as well.



"Toby could be on to something, but it doesn't have to do with scrying just yet. Good guess though." Cinna got smiles and snaps as well.


Walking in front of the mirror Cassie looked at it for a few moments before turning to the class. "Now with the crystal ball I said that you find a connection with it. There is a sense of owner ship with it, but with the mirrors it's a different style of connection. You want to clear your mind just like the crystal ball. Have nothing clouding her inner eye from awakening." She closed her eyes and took a few deep breaths.

"Now once you have your mind cleared and your inner eye open, my advice is to stand not directly in front of it, but just off to the side. You might want to turn the mirror so just the wall is showing. This will help you stay less distracted. Now as you look into the mirror you should start to see a foggy like transformation before the visions start to come." Looking back at the mirror she went silent for a bit. "Oh look I see Snow White and she's singing a cute little song." She chuckled not even able to get it all out, "I'm kidding I'm kidding. See I can have some fun with the awful situation. No, really I saw Grayson at the lake and Eden at the stables." Interesting, maybe it had some meaning to them or would in the future.

"Now over here I have some bowls. What do you think the bowls have to do with scrying?"

She wondered how her little joke would go over and by the looks of it not so well, okay moving on. Whoops.

Once she was standing in front of the bowls, she took one and moved it towards her. Pointing her wand and filling it with water she listened to the answers and all the wonderful ideas from her students.



Looking to Zhenya first Cassie couldn't help but give a grin. This one was on her toes for her first lesson here. "Very good Zhenya, just as I did right now, we do fill the water into the bowl and the reflective water makes it able to scry with." Giving her snaps she moved to the next one with a hand up.



Oh and another great answer here she gave Hugh snaps and nodded, "Very good, but let's keep positive about it. I am sure with a little practice even if you don't get it today you can scry with all these items we've talked about." Giving him a encouraging smile she had faith in all her students, even Alexa, that they could do it.



"Yes, yes exactly right." Heather got snaps, though Cassie watched her eyes to the basket. She could see where the Kneazle made people nervous, but no worries Cassie was on top of it.



Listening to Toby she couldn't help, but give him snaps. It was a great answer even if it was a little off. "Yes, we do use bowls to clean things, but typically there are special clothes for the crystal balls and the mirrors, well we could use the soap and water, but a quick cleaning spell does just as well. " Such a great guess though!



Beaming at Norah she gave more snaps, "Yes, very good. That's exactly the concept of scrying with bowls." She had the brightest students in her class.



"Yes very good Lux!" She got snaps as well. This was going better then she could have ever expected!




Another very bright student, it was wonderful to see! "Great job, you are right. You can scrying with bowls and water." Snaps for Jasmine!



"It can, bowls and water are actually used for a few different forms of Divination, but one is scrying." Did anyone else know the other forms? Hmmm maybe she'd ask later.



Zeke had a very creative mind, she already knew this, but his thoughts on things did amaze her. She beamed at him. "That is possible. Depending on the bowl you can get more visuals with larger then smaller ones. So you have a point there." He certainly got snaps for his creative questions. "The best seers can to scrying through any forms of reflective pieces, but it takes years of practice. So for now we will just focus on the basic and most well known ways."



Was it wrong to be a little freaked out by Alexa being so.. happy? Well she couldn't help but watch her a moment before giving her snaps. "Very good you do put water in just as I did. Then clear you mind and start your scrying." Very spot on today Alexa, what was the change? Though Cassie was excited to see it!



She just blinked at Angel's answer, "No, no we won't. That would not be nice at all. It would certainly not wake up the mind that we are trying to wake up. That would distract even the best seers." Goodness she hoped the girl was joking. Giving her a small encouraging smile, Cassie knew it was time to move on.

Moving the bowl to the front of the room Cassie looked down into it. "Now once you have your bowl, you will want to fill the water to almost the top. I wouldn't do the entire bowl just because it might splash out if you bump into it. That would cause concentration to certainly leave and your inner eye to close." They didn't want to do that now did they? "Just like the mirrors, scrying with other objects that aren't the crystal ball can be a bit more difficult. So if you haven't mastered the crystal ball do not get frustrated if you don't end up mastering either of these forms for a while either, but I know each and everyone of you have the talent so just keep practicing." Training and dedication were the key.

"Now unlike the mirror, water will move so the images can seem like they are flickering. You must try to find a place that a bowl will not be bumped or there is no vibration that could move the water while you are trying to do your scrying." Were they getting all of this? She knew she was giving them a lot of information, but it was needed. "Now we must not get this form of scrying confused with other forms of Divination that use bowls of water. If you are trying to use the water outside you must be especially careful not to fall into another form." No birds or rocks around the classroom though so no need to worry.

"Now I'd like to give you a chance to try out both these forms. I don't have enough bowls or enough mirrors for everyone to do it at once, so I want half the class to start on the mirrors and half the class will come get a bowl and start with the water. You can decide which you will do first. In about twenty minutes you'll hear a little timer go off that will indicate to switch. So go ahead and get started, if you have any questions feel free to ask." Vanishing the water from her own bowl she took it back to the table so someone else could use it.

OOC: Alright everyone this is the first activity. Have your charrie pick which they would like to do first and RP them doing it. Once done with the first item there will be no timer or anything just have them move to the second. This should be done in at least six posts, three for the mirror and three for the bowl of water. You will have until Friday evening 10 p.m. est to finish the first activity before we move on. Cassie and I will be here if needed!

Awesome, she was all set to start scrying with the bowl of water. First she wanted a cup of tea, so Lux poured herself some and had a nice sip. Tea always helped her feel relaxed; maybe because it was so warming and soothing. She definitely liked tea more than coffee though she didn't mind coffee. Hot chocolate was the best though.

After taking another sip. Lux put her cup down beside the bowl and closed her eyes. If she was correct in her guess, the technique was the same with the bowl of water as it was with the crystal ball and the mirror. She needed to get into a totally relaxed slate with her mind empty of all thought. Working to clear all the negative energy from her body, she started doing deep breathing

In and out.... In and out...

Eden listened carefully when Morgan spoke. So they had to clear their minds...keep it clear...and merely keep what they were looking for in the background? Gee--that sounded hard! HARD. She merely scribbled it all down in her notes in her own words and smiled at Cinna. Because She liked Cinnamon Roolllllll. One of her favorite lions!

She was also FIERCELY scribbling down everything Professor Morgan said--looking at her parchment only--when Morgan mentioned Snow White Eden's head SNAPPED up--her eyes wide in TERROR--MERLIN'S PANTS--and then when she started laughing Eden clutched her chest. "don't TEASE us like that, Professor--" she said with a soft chuckle, shaking her head slightly at her silliness.

OH.

SHE SAW EDEN. AT THE STABLES. She wondered what in Merlin's name she was doing there--she DID frequent there sometimes--when she had more free time. Hmm. Intereeeesting.

Bowls of water. Eden figured it was the same as a mirror--the reflective thing--yeah. Most people have said that, so, Eden didn't feel the need to respond. Just takin' some notes over hereeee! But soon they were getting a chance to choose either a mirror or water--Eden wanted to try the mirror again! So she'd be doing that one, first, heh. She stood and slipped over to the mirrors, grabbed one, and felt SOOOO relaxed--much more so than last time they dealt with mirrors--and sat back down in her seat, wiggling her bum to get aaaallll comfy.

Okay. Time to START.

Clearing her throat, she stared down at the mirror and closed her eyes, clearing her thoughts completely. It would be hard work. She just had so much on her mind right now-but she had to try at least.

[Felixir]

Right then. This... was a lot of information to be getting down, but Toby was trying as hard as he could to write everything down, except the nib of his quill was broken or something and his notes it was getting more and more difficult to write. But he soldiered on, because there wasn't a chance that he might have time to locate a new quill and simultaneously remember all this information.

Once all the notes were written, Toby looked up again and around the room at the other kids, just to see what they were all planning to start the activity with. He'd already decided to go for the bowl of water first, for no real reason.

The Hufflepuff set down his defunct quill and headed up to the front of the room to retrieve one of the bowls. Professor Morgan had said to do this somewhere where the bowls wouldn't be jogged or anything, so Tobias headed way off to the side of the room, near where he'd been sitting, and set the bowl down on the floor. He also pulled over a few pillows, so he could scry in comfort, set them down in a row on the floor, and flopped onto them on his belly, propped up on his arms with his top end obviously up by the bowl.

"Aguamenti," Toby cast, pointing his wand into the bowl and watching as it filled up with water. He cancelled the spell before it got TOO full, and waited for the water to settle and lay still, casually glancing around the room again and then back to the bowl.

Time to get into the zone, Toby closed his eyes and tried to relaaaaaaaaaaaaax.

[WhittyBitty]

Continuing to focus on her deep breathing, Lux let her body relax and drove all negative thoughts and feelings from her mind. All the practice that she had with scrying made this easier to do each time. The tea and calming atmosphere of Professor Cassie's classroom also helped.

When she opened her eyes, Lux focused her gaze on a specific spot in the water. She was sure there was something there, but it was moving slightly in the water and when she tried to get a better look it poofed. No surprise there since the same thing happened with the crystal ball. She honestly wasn't sure why she kept trying to see the objects more clearly other than it was a force of habit. Oh well, not like it was expected they would have success on their first attempt. Time for her to move on with the activity and try with the mirror.

This should be easier since she had actually seen something the last lesson.

[lazykitty]

Sooooooo, they were scrying today. What was the point in bringing their things and putting them in the basket with the kneazle then? Unless this wasn't all they were doing this lesson. Which was possible, since it sounded like Professor Cassie had been affected by that accursed book last lesson. In which case, she had Heather's full sympathy because that stupid thing was NO JOKE.

Anyway, she took a bowl and filled it to a couple inches from the top. Staring into bowl full of water, she tried to clear her mind. Which was hard, because her mind and eyes kept wondering to the basket of precious things and the cat on top. 'Come on Xanthopoulos, focus!' She tried focusing on the water again and clearing her mind.....

[Jessiqua]

Zhenya was pleased that she was, so far, getting lots of snaps in Professor Cassie's class. That was always good. Perhaps she would do better at Divination than her previous terms and pass her exams. That would be GOOD!

She wasn't sure which to start with. She tried to keep an open mind as she decided, and concluded that the mirror might be best for her to try. Why not?

She got up and walked to the back of the room where the mirrors were and chose one, then took it back to her seat. She propped it up near her and fiddled with it a little bit until it was reflecting the wall and nothing else. Now she just had to pry open her inner eye...

[ArianaBlack]

Did they really have to start the scrying stuff so soon? Zander would have much rather spent the class pretending to know the answers to all of Professor Morgan's questions. 'Cause at least then he could pretend like he knew this stuff, but when it came to actually doing the activity... Well then he was kind of hopeless. Giving Kevin a look along the lines of 'ugh', Zander decided to try the mirror out first.

Even though he wouldn't be able to see anything in either object... The bowl sounded a lot harder to use. So mirror it was. Plus, he had already gotten a lot of practice staring at an empty mirror last time they did this. So it just seemed like the right fit.

Also, when would they get their things back? Because only having one sock on was starting to feel kind of weeeeeird.

[Jessiqua]

Zhenya crossed her legs and looked into the mirror, still only seeing the reflection from the wall. Good. Now, what was Professor Cassie doing? Right… connect with it? Clear the mind with nothing clouding the inner eye from awakening.
Oh, but she was hungry.

She told her stomach to shush, and she closed her eyes, taking a few deep breaths just like Professor Cassie did. So far so good right? Would she see things in the mirror if she opened her eyes? She slowly opened one eye and peeked at the mirror… nothin'. Okay… she closed her eyes again and took some more deep breaths, clearing her mind as best she could. She pictured an extra eye, inside, and it was closed. She worked around it mentally, trying to open it… would it open for her?

[WhittyBitty]

Picking up her cup, Lux finished off her tea in one sip before vanishing the water from her bowl. Placing it back with the other bowls, she then poured herself another cup of tea. Professor Cassie never said there was a limit and there was plenty for everyone. Happily she had another sip before putting the cup down on the table again.

Time for her to work some magic with a mirror. Fortunately there were enough available so she could easily select one that was near her table. Staring into the glass, she saw her reflection. Ooooh, she was looking really pretty. Bay sure was a lucky boy. Haha. Smiling to herself, she brushed a strand of hair behind her ear.

[Jessiqua]

It appeared as though her inner eye was, in fact, opening. She was now relaxed, her mind empty of thoughts, and her inner eye open. Her eyes gently opened, without her needing to open them herself. She looked down towards the mirror slowly and thought she could see some clouds. Were they clouds? No, it didn't look like clouds. Her inner eye opened some more, it appeared. It was… just… mirror.

Or was it?

Her head tilted ever so slightly towards the left as she continued staring, unblinkingly, into the mirror. She felt her legs lift her up slightly so she could get a better look of the mirror. What was it in there?

It was ice.

Zhenya felt a tear trickle down her face. There was a figure looming near the ice. She couldn't make it out, but it was darker than the ice. It wasn't a light grey blue. It was winter. Middle of winter. An iced over lake. And there was another figure on the ice. It was her, Zhenya. Was she on the ice or… in the ice…

GASP!. Zhenya's little body flung backwards and she landed on the pillows behind her. She was hyperventilating slightly. Did that ACTUALLY just happen? She clutched at her chest with her frostbitten gloved hand. Was it a memory? No, it couldn't have been. That wasn't her memory of it. That was the perspective of the bad event by… her inner eye?

[Hera]

Uh huh..................... they were doing BOTH. Mirror AND bowl. That was excessive was it not? Couldn't he just sit and focus on ONE? Cause he was bound to fail at it all. Seeing things was hard, partly because switching his mind off was difficult.

But ooohhh wellll........

Zeke rose from his spot on the cushion, and approached one of the mirrors. He'd work with this one first, seeing as he had a LITTLE experience doing so from before.

Trying his best to clear his head, Zeke positioned himself slightly to the side of the mirror so that all he could see in its reflection was the back wall.. and so the waiting to see began!

[DaniDiNardo]

Activity now!

She'd been wondering when she'd get to that as her feet were starting to cramp up on her cushion but she hadn't asked because she didn't want to interrupt. Nope. Perfect manners and a lot of smiling because compliments were happening and the Gryffindor had never been on to turn those down. Lex was acutely aware of the fact Felix wouldn't stop staring at her but she couldn't figure why. Had something happened that she wasn't aware of?

Dismissing the thought, she hopped up to get herself a bowl then drew Airey's wand and cast an "Aguamenti." to get it filled. Not too much so that none of it would spill then placed it on the ground by her own cushion. Unless an earthquake happened, this was the sturdiest surface she could think of.

Cleeearing her mind would be next on the agenda. What was it? Deep breathes? Closed eyes? Or was that something completely different??? Alex twisted slightly so she could have a better look at the rest of the class and what they were doing.

Breathing?

[Hera]

He focused for a bit on his breathing thing again, hoping that somehow it would help his brain disconnect from his eyes and let him actually SEEEE things in the mirror thing.

...

PLEASE?!

...

He really wanted to actually see something. Like ACTUALLY see something.

Inhaling... exhaling... inhaling... exhaling, Zeke's mind slowly, VERY slowly started to wander, only, he wasn't conscious of it. He was so lost in the action of breathing that his mind for a short while was a blank canvas. Blank enough for some fogging to be noticed in the mirror - by his inner eye of course. However, his mind was not clear for long enough before it returned to a more conscious and aware state, and any fog and image he might have seen was lost.

[FearlessLeader19]

Adi selected a mirror. What was it that Professor Cassie had said? Clear the mind, open the inner eye and stand off the side of the mirror? Okay, Adi could do that. His mind was clear for the most part. How does one open the inner eye, though?

Maybe it meant just go with an open mind? Anyway, was now adjusting the mirror trying to make the wall alone show. A little more...some more...annnnd perfect! The Hufflepuff fixed himself at the mirror's side.

His mind was still clear and calm. He took a few deep breaths as he had done so many times before before attempting at scrying. Adi tilted his head as he gazed into the mirror.

[Daydreamer11]

Jasmine had listened as Professor Cassie and her classmates spoke. She had taken very thorough notes during the discussion. Now it was time to get started with the activity. Which one would she try first? After thinking about her choices for a moment, Jasmine decided to start with the dreaded mirror. Best to get that one over with and then try something new.

Jasmine went over to a mirror and got to work. By now she knew the drill and was ready to try clearing her mind. Closing her eyes, she took a deep breath and let it out slowly. Then she continued to take a few more cleansing breaths. Jasmine concentrated on letting the many thoughts in her head leave with each exhalation. It seemed that she was getting a little better at this. While her mind wasn't completely empty, it was about as close as she thought she could get.

Remembering what Professor Cassie said, Jasmine tried to stand to the side of the mirror. Then she positioned the mirror so the wall was showing. Now it was time to give scrying a try.

[Hera]

His inner eye was blind... there was nothing more to it. He was a BLIND person in the inside, just not on the outside, and it was times like these where his patience was limited and pouting and frowning happened.

GAH!

..

Breathing. Breathing. BREATHING!...... wasn't working... and all of this was making him TIRED.

He'd stop trying. He was giving up. He'd just stand here, staring vaguely, and hopefully he looked like he was in a trance, maybe he could fudge this whole thing.

In the process of staring vaguely at nothing in particular that was the mirror, Zeke DID see things. His imagination was still sound, and so when he let his brain do its THING, things happened. He saw them. He saw something like a hawk, circling in the sky, outside Gryffindor Tower, with rain clouds... and there was... something else, he couldn't see...

and...

Wait. Was this his brain? Or his inner eye?.............

...

Snapping from whatever it was, he considered what it might have been. What any of this might have been. Was he just lost in thoughts of imaginary things? Or was his inner eye not so blind?

He didn't remember any fogginess..... so..... ???

[DaniDiNardo]

Right, so she didn't see anyone else going into that deep meditative state so she was...just...gonna assume she could skip that part. It was obviously perfectly okay and this new happy feeling left her eager to TRY NOW!! Also, why was that girl watching her kneazle? DID SHE WANT TO PET HIM?? Merlin he was awfully friendly--okay, no he wasn't, not by a long shot BUT he was a sucker for affection so she could tooooootally have a go if she wanted, then they could be bestest friends--except Felix would still love her most, always.

Ohh, but these were really distracting thoughts and they were getting her nowhere. Lex gave a firm shake of her head, trying to remove the cluttering thoughts before turning her attention to the bowl once more.

Any minute now, something would start moving across the surface to WOW her and it was be so totally and completely amazing then she'd be bragging about how she SAW because that's what you were meant to be doing in this class, you know? Kinda like how the Professor saw Grayson by the lake earlier? She wondered if she'd get to see herself by the lake too--but what would she be doing at the lake? Skipping rocks? Taking Felix for a walk? He liked walks, probably more than she did--

THAT'S IT! She would see Felix on a walk by the lake. It all made perfect sense. Also, Merlin was she easily distracted when she was happy. Focus Lex!

[Expecto-Penguin]

Kace continued to breathe in and out.....in and out and just let his mind be calm and not think about anything. He closed his eyes and began to imagine something that could get his mind off things. As he opened them he didn't see anything!

I guess his inner eye didn't wanna work today.....

He was gonna try again! He closed his eyes yet again and just breathed and relaxed. As he open his eyes again he was seeing an outline of something? Hmm...what was it? He concentrated because he was curious what his inner eye was telling him.

He could see the shore line and waves as the picture became clearer. It wasn't too fuzy. He could see someone with blonde hair? Was it Emmy or his cousins back in Australia? He had NO idea. He kept his concentration but then it vanished just that quick...

THAT was progress! He was gonna see this image that is for sure. He was going to keep gazing in the mirror.

[Sararara]

Norah let her eyelids flutter open, and she looked at the mirror from a slight angle. All she saw was herself sitting there. Awwww. Determined not to get frustrated, she steadied her breathing and continued to try and clear her mind.

In....out....in....out

As her eyes slid out of focus, she noticed something weird starting to happen in the mirror. There was some foggy...stuff floating around. WAIT. WAS IT WORKING?!? Focusing on the mirror, the second year grinned excitedly and looked for the fog again, but it was gone. Had she imagined or had it actually been there? Shrug. Time to try again.

Adjusting her position, she closed her eyes again and restarted her breathing exercise. In....out....in....out....

[SarcasticStrawberry]

Cinna decided to just take notes now. It would have been just as easy to take the notes. Whichever way she was still getting the info that she needed. Either way scrying with whatever medium you chose took the same amount of calm, clearing your mind and focus. Oh. It's activity time. scrying with both mirrors and a bow of water.

Since she has attempted some scrying in a mirror already. She decided to try out the bowl of water. She went over to where try bowls were and selected one. Then she back to seat with her. Once she got back to her seat, she used her wand to fill up the bowl with water.

Now it was time to get into the scrying mode. The Gryffindor went to go get her a cup tea. It always calmed her, tea was awesome like that. A great stress reliever. She was really going to have to stock up on tea for next term being her owl year. Ekkkkkk. She returned with her cup of tea. Sipping it. She started to clear her mind.

[ArianaBlack]

Okay so now what? This concentration thing was so haaaaard to do.

The Gryffindor just stared at the mirror, but you know what he saw? Absolute nothing. Absolute nothing was all he saw. That and his reflection that was just staring back at him all stupidly. Is that really what he looked like today? Hm. Interesting.

Anyways, how long would he have to do this for? It was pointless. He hadn't learned anything all year. Last year divination made a little sense and at least he was able to somewhat understand how to do the stuff. Especially when it came to finding the animal prints. However, this time around... All he found himself doing was just staring at shiny objects.

Like this mirror.

When would class be over?

[Daydreamer11]

Jasmine looked into the mirror and tried to maintain her focus. it was hard enough clear you mind in the first place, but to keep it that way..... She was glad that the Professor had suggested turning the mirror so they could only see the wall. That helped things somewhat.

So looking into the mirror was.....interesting. Not really, but Jasmine was giving it her best effort. She decided to have a positive outlook about the whole thing. Although Professor Cassie had said that this was harder than scrying with a crystal ball. Jasmine's results with the ball had been iffy at best and so far, the mirror was proving to be less than iffy. "Keep trying Jasmine", she thought to herself.

[Lissy Longbottom]

Caleb decided to start off his work with the water because - why not, right? It was all bologna anyways in his opinion and he was pretty sure he'd never seen anything of real significance, so he was just going to wing it and do the hard one first. At least, it seemed harder, because of moving water and whatnot.

He walked over and picked up a bowl of water, carefully bringing it to his desk so he could be sure he could concentrate and not have to worry about it dumping everywhere. He leaned in and started to stare into the water, but all he could see was his reflection, which was distracting.

Maybe this was harder than he thought...

[Weasley174]

Angel decided that she was going to start with water because well that would be amazing right and she totally loved water you could do a lot with it but of course today she was going to behave because this was a lesson. "Benny... you starting with a bowl as well?" Angel wondered what her sister would be doing.

Angel went and got herself a bowl... okay this was going to be hard because she wasn't very good at concentrating though she would try and concentrate as hard as she could. She suddenly had a thought. "Professor how are we supposed to get the water?" Angel totally forgot she had her wand on her and she couldn't see taps in the class to full the bowl up.

[Felixir]

Clearing his mind was definitely not as easy as it had been that day they'd tried scrying with the crystal balls, but it was bound to be easier than the day the evil queen had been in charge. Toby, still flopped across the pillows on his stomach, automatically tapped at the floor with his toes, and tried as hard as he could to clear his mind. Easier said than done, though, especially when there were things such as the impending OWLs that seemed to constantly draw his attention. In fact, Toby had had his eyes closed for many moments before realising he'd gotten completely distracted from the task of mind-clearing and had ended up mentally running through various facts he'd been attempting to memorise.

The Hufflepuff opened his eyes, now staring at the water which was still except from a few ripples where his breathing had momentarily disturbed the surface. This was as clear as his mind was going to get, so Toby just got on with it and stared.

And staaaaaaaaaared.

And cleared his mind and kept his mind open and stayed all relax and open up that inner eye...

And staaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaared.

[FearlessLeader19]

GAAAAAAAZEEEEEEEEEE!

Where was the smoke like thingy Professor Cassie had spoken about? All Adi could see was the reflection of the wall and a bit of his head. Hmph. Obviously he was not getting anyhere with mirror scrying. Again.

But it was early. He had only just started, so why be so negative? The Hufflepuff shook his head. Get out of there, negativity! Now, he peeked back into the mirror, letting his gaze come to rest on a particular spot on the mirror.

Still nothing.

Alrghtey then. We'll try this again.

[MudInMyBlood]

Cassie was super nice and AJ really liked her and her lessons. Truthfully one of the main reasons why she liked it so much was because you could always fake it and still get a good grade. Orrr... you could admit that you aren't getting anything at all, and also still get a good grade. So, you see why it was one of AJ's favorites. All she had to do was pretend to concentrate and she would be okay. This was the only class that she could do that in so she was totally going to take advantage.

The bowl full of water caught her attention so she decided to give that one a go first. AJ walked up and grabbed her one at random and headed back to her desk. Now all she needed was the water. "Aguamenti." Easy peasy.

Now came the easy or hard part depending on how you looked at it. AJ took a couple of deep breaths for good measure and closed her eyes. It was time to empty out of mind. THAT was always impossible to do. Her mind was forever wandering.

[Daydreamer11]

Jasmine concentrated on being positive and believing that scrying in the Murrow was possible for her. That wasn't exactly clearing the mind, but she was trying to help things along. She had to remember to blink periodically. If not, her eyes would get dry and start to glaze over.

As usual, Jasmine immediately second guessed herself when she started to see something in the mirror. She leaned closer and tried to see what was going on. The mirror was getting foggier and foggier. Unfortunately, Jasmine wasn't seeing anything but fog in the mirror. Had she gotten too close and breathed on it? She didn't think so.

More staring happened, but still there was only fog to be seen. Just as Jasmine thought she might be seeing something, the timer went off. Aww man. She needed just a minute or two more..... and the connection was broken. Dejectedly, she moved on to the next task.

[Bazinga]

Once all the students got started, Cassie decided to get another cup of tea. Once her peppermint tea was in hand she began walking around watching everyone. Staying as quiet as possible she knew she had to let them focus. They all seemed to be doing very well.

Some seeming more focused and others seeming more frustrated. "Don't get discouraged if it doesn't happen right away, you will get it, just keep practicing." As she turned to look at another group of students she noticed Zhenya fall backwards. "Dear are you alright?" That's when she noticed the glove on her hand. "Are you cold? I could warm up the room a bit more."


Noticing a hand raised she turned to Angel, but couldn't answer without blinking a few times first. "You do know the water spell don't you?" She wasn't a brand new first year so she assumed she did. "Just use your wand dear." Giving her an encouraging smile she moved to the next group.

[Holmesian Feline]

Benny was focusing his attention on listening and taking notes. The questions and answers were going quickly and while some sunk in and he could think of a reply, his classmates were far faster so he stayed quiet. Plenty of time for participation later in the class when he could move at relatively his own speed. Well until the so-called timer to switch was pulled and he had to move onto the next option.

Thinking on the two forms they would be working on, Benny considered what to do first. Technically he had already tried scrying to no avail in the earlier class when drama had taken place in the form of the Evil Queen. So when they were free to move onto the activity, the fourth year moved to retrieve a bowl, returning with it to his work area. The water was easy enough, the boy slipping his wand out from his pocket and casting a quiet "Aquamenti," within it, ending the stream of water with a "Finite."

Now for the hard part...clearing his mind.

[Weasley174]

Angel looked at the Professor, oh why didn't she think of doing that. Angel got her wand out and decided that she would use the spell it was a lot easier. "Aguamenti." Angel did the wand movement and watched the bowl full up... she stopped the spell before it was at the top of the bowl because she didn't want anything to go wrong and she hoped that it would mean she didn't spill it.

Angel went and put the bowl somewhere save and somewhere it wouldn't move because otherwise it meant that it looked like they were at sea with waves and things and she was sure that wouldn't help them at all because they couldn't see things through waves.

[MudInMyBlood]

Did her sister seriously just ask where she was supposed to get the water from? AJ snorted. And just how was she supposed to concentrate and see anything in her water bowl when things like that were happening around her? AJ blamed the atmosphere. Of course even if she was in a room by herself she seriously doubted that she would be getting any kind of "visions" anyways.

Back to concentrating... or pretending to concentrate. More deep breaths. Heeeey... what was up with the lack of tea and treats? Wasn't that a thing? AJ let it slide last time because the professor was possessed, but what was the excuse this time?

AJ decided to just continue to stare at her bowl. Nothing was happening, and she was not at all surprised. More staring and pretending to concentrate was happening. Her dog Rufus came to mind, and how much he would loooove this nice cold bowl of water. She wondering what he was doing right now...

[DaniDiNardo]

While she waited for something to happen, she found herself swaying to the happiest tune; one that couldn't actually be heard but it didn't mean she wasn't listening to it anyway. It was the mood. The smile on her face said as much but the swaying was soon put to rest when she discovered it brought forward even more thoughts and she was meant to be clearing her mind and opening her inner eye for this to happen.

So, sitting perfectly still again was the order of the day. Occasionally she glanced over at her kneazle to be sure he wasn't messing with things that didn't concern him but for the most part her attention was the water...at least unless that girl fell over yelling the way she did.

Had something happened? Gosh Lex was missing everything because she had to keep staring at this bowl that was yielding zero in the way of results.

Just then she looked up and realized someone had gotten done with the mirror. Well considering this wasn't working....Lex hopped up and headed over to it. Might as well try something else.

[Expecto-Penguin]

Alright after this he needed to work with the water bowl. He wanted to get this right or at least see SOMETHING! Instead of just staring at himself in them mirror. I mean he wasn't horrible to look at but he just wanted to see something else. He tried to clear his mind because he saw something before but then it vanished. Nothing was more irritating than that.

He closed his eyes and began to relax. He wanted to know what his inner eye was seeing. He keep doing his deep breaths and in through his nose and out through his mouth. Once he opened his eyes and tuned out the other noises he was beginning to see something. Something was forming in the mirror. He was still concentrating and was seeing a picture..

He could see something beige colored.....it was forming like it was some type of sand from the beach? He still kept at it. He was seeing some sand now and some water and waves. He actually knew where this was. He could see the outline of a white beach house. Wait a minute....it was Braedon's beach house. He was picturing his family. I guess his inner eye was telling him that he was missing his family get togethers.

He smiled and was happy he figured it out! Now onto trying with the water.

[Daydreamer11]

Jasmine went up and got a bowl then looked for a suitable spot to place it. When she found one she thought was acceptable, she set the bowl down and took out her wand. Pointing it at the bowl, Jasmine said "Aguamenti". The bowl began to fill with water and when she felt it was just enough, Jasmine said, "Finite".

Since Jasmine had been close to getting something with the mirror, she hoped that her inner eye would transfer to the bowl of water. Maybe she didn't lose it completely when the timer went off. Closing her eyes again, Jasmine tried to get her mojo back.

Focusing and breathing, Jasmine attempted to clear her mind. When she felt that she was close, she opened her eyes and looked into the water. She was careful not to jostle the bowl in any way. That would be counterproductive. Come baaaaack inner eye. Come baaaack.

[WhittyBitty]

After looking at her reflection in the mirror for a minute or two, Lux decided that it was time for her to get to work. Professor Cassie wanted them to scry and she wasn't a vain person. She just felt really pretty today which was quite unusual for her. But anyway...on to scrying now.

Needing some more tea first, Lux headed back to her table and took a sip from her cup before heading back to the mirror. First things first she situated herself in what she felt to be the best spot for seeing something. Since she was hardly an expert on the subject, this was only a guess but at least she was doing something. There was also no Queen standing over her shoulder giving demands which helped.

Closing her eyes, Lux focused again on deep breathing and pushing all negative energy from her body.

[FearlessLeader19]

Okay, so mirror scrying was NOT for him. No foggy/smoky stuff meant no images for him. Big surprise, that was. Anyway, the timer had just went off so mercifully he would be switching to the bowl of water now. Bye bye bye, Mirror.

Adi grabbed a bowl before returning to his seat. He set the bowl in front of him before filling it with water using the Charm. Almost to the top, just as Professor Cassie had said. Now to clear his mind yet again.

[kayquilz]

Eden took quite a bit to clear her mind completely. She just had a lot on her mind was all. Would she FAIL out of Hogwarts? She certainly hoped not--would Iwin be able to help her Mam start the things she wanted to--well--she certainly hoped SO in that instance.

Ugh.

She was trying not to think about things but in turn was THINKING about things. She opened her eyes and blinked...and siiiiighed and rubbed her head. Massaging her temples...ahh...felt nice...heheh. She closed her eyes once more and did the whole...'CLEAR YOUR MIND' thing. It did take a good while to get to think about nothing--but she siiiighed and stared down at the mirror. Her stupid reflection---

UGH UGH UGH.

She was THINKING again. OKAY. Eden shut her eyes once more and had to have a SERIOUS talk with herself about being mean to herself in the middle of CLASS all right? Maybe I should have started with the water first--well--ugh--no--just--don't be mean to your own FACE, Eden! and she felt crazy because YIKES SHE WAS TALKING TO HERSELF but at least she wasn't speaking aloud. Then other people would KNOW she was crazy. She tried to clear her mind again and rubbed her temples while doing so...okay...

[Weasley174]

Angel suddenly heard a snort and turned to face her sister... was her sister snorting at her... it wasn't like she hadn't forgotten things before... she was such a crazy sis and Angel couldn't take it so she stuck her tongue out at her sister... if her sister didn't stop soon a cat fight was going to happen soon.

Angel looked down at her bowl and tried to concentrate but her sister had made her mad. "Sis you have totally made me lose my concentration." Angel pouted as she looked at her sister and then back at her bowl... she tried too concentrate but her mind was on her sister and that snort how dare her sister snort at her... she never did that to her sister.

Angel looked at the water but still nothing was coming through and she was hating it... it just wasn't her day thanks to her sister... she wished that everything would get working but she doubted that it would work hopeful the mirror would work.

[WhittyBitty]

Continuing with her deep breathing, Lux let her body go loose before opening her eyes and focusing on a specific part of the mirror that was in her immediate field of vision.

Everything was foggy, but she was sure there was something in the depths of the mist. Something that was a lot clearer to her than whatever she had seen in the bowl of water before it had poofed on her. Trying her best to concentrate without moving, she struggled to work out what she was seeing but it was too hard. Other people were probably having way more success than her, but she told herself that at least she had improved a lot when it came to scrying.

It was something she would have to practice more with, and maybe some day she would be as good at it as Professor Cassie was. And if not that was okay too, because Divination was only an interest of hers. Potions was the class that she felt the strongest about; it was her strength and what she wanted to pursue when she graduated.

Patiently she waited to see what they would be asked to do next while wondering what the personal items had to do with scrying.

[DaniDiNardo]

This was a really clean mirror, no really, just look at it. You could see for miles through this thing thanks to whoever had cleaned it while she was busy staring at her bowl of water. This was real nice of them and just went to show how decent humanity still was if you looked hard enough. Lex beamed at her own reflection then beamed at the reflection of her kneazle who looked to be falling asleep. She really couldn't blame him, unless you were a student with an inner eye, there was nothing much for you to do.

Er...but concentration and staring needed to be happening so she tried to focus. All that was there to it was focusing on something without focusing too hard? Man oh man how cool would it be if she actually saw Snow White like she said she and Grayson had???

Shame the Professor was back to normal now, she could use another pretend class. It was actually kinda fun having it run through the class like that. Oh wait.

Wait.

Waaaaaiiitttt. She was getting distracted again.

Stare. Something had to give.

[Daydreamer11]

Jasmine continued to stare into the water, not having to remind herself to blink this time. She maintained her slow easy breaths and her concentration was good, at least she thought it was. After what seemed like an enternity of staring, the water seemed to become opaque. Was something about to happen? "Stay focused focused Jasmine, just let it happen", she thought to herself.

To Jasmine, it seemed that the water was becoming swirly. She waited, almost afraid to breathe. She did not want to break the connection again. Whatever was trying to form in the water was very hazy. Jasmine couldn't make out anything clearly. It was just too blurry and murky to be identified. This was soooo frustrating and Jasmine's patience was wearing thin......fast.

[DaniDiNardo]

...

.....

Contrary to the bowl of water just now, something was meant to be happening, yeah? Like if she stared long and hard enough images would start dancing across the reflective surface and she would be able to say she did a successful scrying? Then if that was the case, why wasn't it happening yet? Maaaybe she just needed a little more positive energy! Lucky for her she was chock full of it today! Legit, soooo many good feels and so little time to get them all out.

THEY COULD BE FOCUSED ON THIS MIRROR HERE!!

The Gryffindor stared even more intently at the mirror as if willing things to start happening. If this was all in your mind then after a while you could trick yourself into thinking something actually happened...yeah? So that was the game plan, just had to TELL herself there would be something in the mirror.

Alright, she was ready.

[kayquilz]

OKAY. Now that she was temporarily done with the self loathing--HA--she opened her eyes and stared down at the mirror, thinking of nothing, being...NOTHING. She hardly even blinked as she stared at the mirror. And it was...was it her imagination...or was she seeing...SMOKE in the mirror--it was clouding up--Eden blinked and it was gone.

GONE.

She was so IRRITATED that she growled kind of loudly------oops. Glancing around, she made sure no one thought she was crazy. Good. No one was looking. GOOD. She stared down at her mirror again, thinking of her Mam and her dad....in the background--or trying to--and just...the cloudiness was appearing again and Eden had to reign in her excitement before it disappeared again. She thought she saw the outline of two people--her parents? She wasn't sure--but she couldn't HELP her excitement with the mirror actually WORKING--MERLIN--

And then when she blinked--once again--the smoke was gone--but Eden could SEE her mother in their kitchen, cooking---WEHIFHIUFHIH Eden smiled and wanted to speak to her--she missed her SO much--and then in an instant, she was gone. And Eden frowned. She felt the overwhelming need to send her Mam a letter now..

[Jessiqua]

Once all the students got started, Cassie decided to get another cup of tea. Once her peppermint tea was in hand she began walking around watching everyone. Staying as quiet as possible she knew she had to let them focus. They all seemed to be doing very well.

Some seeming more focused and others seeming more frustrated. "Don't get discouraged if it doesn't happen right away, you will get it, just keep practicing." As she turned to look at another group of students she noticed Zhenya fall backwards. "Dear are you alright?" That's when she noticed the glove on her hand. "Are you cold? I could warm up the room a bit more."


Noticing a hand raised she turned to Angel, but couldn't answer without blinking a few times first. "You do know the water spell don't you?" She wasn't a brand new first year so she assumed she did. "Just use your wand dear." Giving her an encouraging smile she moved to the next group.

Zhenya was still trying to calm herself down when Professor Cassie started speaking to her. She looked up at her timidly, "I'm… I'm fine Professor," she said, then in a smaller voice, "I think I just saw something that happened in the past…" she was quite scared. She didn't like that memory. In fact, it still scared her to this day.

But oh no, Professor Cassie had noticed her hand! She shook her head, not wanting to her why she wore her glove inside. Not with other students around. It was horrid! "I'm not cold, Professor, but thanks anyway."

She didn't want to use the mirror anymore, so she stood up carefully, grabbed the mirror and put it back where she had got it from. Then she walked to where the bowls were all stacked, though the collection now more sparse than at the start of the lesson. She got one, walked it back to where she had been sitting, put it a textbook which was on the ground, and peered into it.

Oh right - water!

She grabbed her wand and pointed it at the bowl. "Aguamenti," she said, and allowed the bowl to be filled to a good level.

[Daydreamer11]

Just when Jasmine thought that nothing was going to happen, she had a breakthrough. Things started to clear up in the water and in a good way. She saw water. Not the water in the bowl, but like a lake. It wasn't the lake at Hogwarts, but for some reason it looked strangely familiar. Jasmine stared, trying to figure out what she was seeing and what it meant.

As hard as she tried, she couldn't figure out where the lake was or why she was seeing it. She tried not to think so much, rather she wanted to keep concentrating. She could analyze everything later. On the side of the lake, she saw what looked like a bookbag with a book laying next to it. Jasmine squinted, trying to see things more clearly. Then she saw the book more closely and her hand flew to her mouth. She had finally done it. She'd gotten a vision and it was a clue. Jasmine wasn't sure what it meant, but she was pretty sure it was meant to tell her something. She kept staring, waiting for more. Much to her dismay, the image dissolved. Jasmine moved back, stunned by what she had seen.

[Felixir]

... and staaaaaaaaaared.

But nothing. The most that really seemed to be occurring over here was that occasionally Toby would tune out enough that his imagination would run away with him and he'd end up daydreaming strange little scenarios that would play out before his eyes LIKE he could see them but NOT QUITE. And then Tobias would blink and the images would clear. But he wasn't Seeing them, like SEEing them, y'know? He didn't have that weird nauseous feeling, didn't feel like his mind was really clear enough, none of that.

Though he still tried. Not one to give up so easily, Tobias simply shut his eyes once more and let the background noise of the classroom sort of lull him into that more relaxed state.

Relaaaaaaax. Relaaaaaaaaaaaaaax.

When he felt more settled and his breathing had slowed and there was nothing in his mind other than how it was time to try again, Toby opened his eyes and stared back at the water, really zoning in on it and phasing out everything else as much as he could. Stare. Stare stare stare.

If anything was going to happen, now would be the time. And... there it was. The surface of the water seemed to cloud over. Toby went on staring and waiting and maintaining his focus.

[MudInMyBlood]

Since when was snorting the end of the world? Apparently Angel had her knickers in a right twist and AJ was not going to humor her. She saw her sticking her tongue out at her, and AJ just rolled her eyes. The comment also did not go unheard, but AJ was not in the mood to fight over a snort. Angel was being a drama llama, and AJ wasn't biting. Besides, who forgot about the water spell?

Angel was doing absolutely nothing for her concentration either, but you didn't hear her whining. now did ya? Hmph. Anyways... it was time to put her attention back of the water bowl.

Oh, water bowl, why can't you show me anything? Stare, stare, stare. Nothing was showing up. All she could see was the water and her reflection a tiny bit. AJ lowered her face down to the bowl and her nose was grazing the water. this was pointless. She might as well move on the the mirror.

[DaniDiNardo]

Poke. Pokepokepokepoke.

Something had to give. The girl that'd been shouting earlier was on about something she'd seen and Lex still wasn't at that point yet. That's why the mirror poking was happening but you know what? She was beginning to think that wasn't gonna work either.

Perhaps....

Alexa stepped even closer to the mirror, squinting at the reflections all around her as if at any minute, one of them would start contorting into something of a prophecy. Any minute now. Annyyyyy minute now. All it took was patience and concentration and and and a whole lot of things that just maybe Lex didn't have right now because the reflection she caught of her kneazle was the CUTEST thing ever right now with the way he was yawning and stretching all cute like.

Just lookit him! Could she go over and cuddle him while she waited for the mirror to activate its special magic. That was obviously it, you know. The mirror had special magic, all you had to do was wait and the Gryffindor could do that. Honestly she could.

[Jessiqua]

Zhenya was actually quite nervous to repeat the process. What if she saw more of what had happened to her on that awful day? She really didn't want to! Despite the occasional twinge in her left hand fingers, and the visual defect, she could almost pretend nothing had ever happened. But of course it had happened, and she was determined not to look into it. Her wounds were still a little raw, emotionally, and she didn't want them bursting open in the middle of a lesson.

She tried, anyway. She closed her eyes, the same as she did before, took a few deep and slow breaths, then tried to picture her inner eye again. It felt a bit cloudy, like something was blocking it. But she tried. She tried harder. She needed to pry open her inner eye… come on inner eye, OPEN!

After a while of sitting there, fully immersed in her effort to open her inner eye, she had progress. She saw her inner eye twitch, then slowly open and look around. IT was odd, picturing an eye inside her own mind that could open and close if she tried hard enough.

[Lissy Longbottom]

Stare. Stare. Stareeeeee. This was so boring and all Caleb could see was his handsome face! This was bogus. Was he supposed to just suddenly see something in the stagnant pool of water? It's not like magical things just started to APPEAR out of thin air...

But as soon as he had thought that, he noticed a small shadow in the upper part of his bowl start to take shape. Was it...a cat? Maybe it was a cat. He didn't know any cats - he was all about the dogs, yo - but maybe that was Sophie's cat. Did she still even have the kneazle? He couldn't remember if he'd seen it recently or not...maybe the poor thing had snuck off and died in a terrible accident! Was his spirit trying to reach him?! WHAT WAS HAPPENING?!

[Sararara]

Norah slowly opened one eye and then the other, still letting her breath flow in and out steadily. THE FOGGY STUFF. IT WAS BACK. She focused on her breath to make sure her excitement was in check. She was not going to freak out this time. She was notttt. Every couple seconds, her eyes flicked upwards towards the mirror just to check if the fog was still there. And it was. Eeeeep. She squinted at it, hoping some sort of image would reveal itself. As exciting as the fog had been, it was kiiiiinda starting to get a little boring. Maybe her inner eye needed glasses. That's what they told her little brother when his seeing was all foggy.

But wait. A thing. There was a thing. Norah stopped squinting and instead opened her hazel eyes as wide as they would go. Some shape was starting to be clear in the foggy stuff, but she had no idea what it was. Back to squinting, she stared at it, trying to make the steadiness in her breaths go and unfog her inner eye, 'cause she was looking at the mysterious thingy mabob for so long that her head was starting to feel funny. What WAS it? A bear? A dog? A potato with legs? ZOMG MAYBE IT WAS A CAT AND SHE WAS GETTING A KITTEN AND SHE COULD NAME IT CHARLIE AND THEY COULD BE BEST FRIENDS. And then she was excited and thinking about types of cat food and what color his collar would be and by the time she looked back to see her beloved, foggy cat/bear/potato with legs, it was gone. Just foggy fog left. Sighhhhh. Guess it was time to breathe again.

[kayquilz]

Siiiighing in annoyance, Eden scooted off her desk to return the mirror and grab a bowl. For the water portion. But she didn't imagine that going any smoother, honestly. She went back to her seat--and filled her bowl with water using her wand.

Right.

Now she felt THIRSTY and she wanted to drink some water but--that was neither here nor there.

SIGH. Eden lived such a HARD life, man. She dipped her finger in the water and twirled it around a bit...was this similar to the mirror stuff? She had to glance at her notes to make sure--

[hermionesclone]

Oh man.

Oh. Man!

They had to scry? Using a bowl and a mirror? Oh MAN! He was gonna fail at this, especially since he had seen a lot of fog and mist and even had time to examine the table but he certainly hadn't seen anything worthwhile in the crystal ball. And then Professor Cassie had to go ahead and say that this was gonna be harder than that, which caused him to internally groan. Don't get frustrated? That was gonna be hard, he could feel it. And if the OWLs included trying to see something in the crystal ball, he was gonna fail.

............... LOL, don't think about that, Whitty.

Getting up, Grayson headed over to get himself a bowl. It would be easier to pretend that he was looking into a crystal ball with this which might make this whole process easier. That's what he was going for: easier. And whatever freaking worked for him, even if it included making things up just to get by. The bought of that caused him to look around the room for the familiar face of a certain Slytherin who'd given him that brilliant advice. But he couldn't see Ruby anywhere so, after a couple of seconds, he busied himself with picking up the bowl and filling it up with water using magic. Of course, it had to be full but not brimming or likely to spill everywhere because that would be a disaster. Or funny if someone slipped on it and fell on their bum.

When that was done, he headed back to his desk and set the bowl down. This was a good place to work, right? He certainly hoped so.

[Lissy Longbottom]

As Caleb was getting a bit nervous about the fate of Sophie's kneazle, he noticed Grayson nearby, looking nervous. Hmmm. For some reason, the urge to take his bowl and dump it over his head just to give him a shock overran him...but he didn't because of many obvious reasons. Hehe. That'd be FUNNY though. He smirked to himself and then looked back at the water.

Ok, so Sophie's kneazle might be trying to contact him from beyond. But WHYYYY? He looked into the water and hoped to see something, anything, that was going to tell him why he was seeing cats. He wondered if maybe it just meant he was going to get a cat...which he wouldn't be sad about. Animals were awesome. He'd take another pet!

Instead, it looked like...a tree. Was the kneazle stuck in a tree? OH NOOOO!

[SarcasticStrawberry]

Cinna drank about half her tea, when she started to feel really relaxed. Enough to do this scrying anyway. She had only gotten a few flashes of things in the crystal ball over the past few lessons. And the mirror she wound have been better off scrying at a wall. She didn't see anything at all. She was going to do a few slow breathing excerises. She closed her eyes first. breathe in, ah. Breathe out, ahh.

Cinna took a few more sips of her tea. Clearing her mind of everthing and filling it with positive thoughts. And she opened up her eyes. Then set her teacup down beside the bowl.

Peering into the bowl, she focused on a spot of water in the bowl. Now let's see if she was going to get anything. Anything at all, well that would be a good start. Wait, was that the water flickering or was that something more?

[hermionesclone]

A sip of tea was taken before he glanced down at the bowl of water. Why? Because tea was meant to be relaxing or whatever but all it did was make him even more nervous. This was why he didn't drink the stuff unless he absolutely had to, like right now. Any means to stall this whole process was a means that he was happy to go along with. He was practically a Seer with the way he knew what was gonna happen but a part of him couldn't help but hope that he would actually see something in the water or the mirror. It would be better than saying that he saw mist again.

Deep breaths were being taken before he leant forwards a little. Concentrate on a question? Something he wanted to see within the water? What if he merely wanted to see anything? Anything interesting, mind you. Kinda like the way Professor Cassie had seen him sitting by the lake before. Why the LAKE? He liked going down there, sure, but what was he doing down there? Had she seen any more than that? He kinda wanted to know, especially if it was something that would either help him or harm him.

Seeing his own reflection was great. Look at his face. Wink.

Was he seeing anything else? No. No ripples either, which he was taking as a good sign because vibrations were distracting. A lot of concentration was taking place right here. Concentration and staring into the depths of the water.

[Expecto-Penguin]

Alright time to go to the water bowl. He got his own bowl from the front of the classroom and went back to his seat. He calmed himself and saw Cinna she got herself a hold of some tea. You know that is not a bad idea. He grinned and went over and poured himself some tea. He got an apple spiced cinnamon tea bag and put it into his hot tea cup. He let it sink and let the water get some flavor. He smelt it and thought it smelled delicious. After he blew on the cup and waited for it to cool down, he sipped it and felt relaxed. He closed his eyes and breathed in and out....in and out....

He realized he forgot to fill the bowl up with water and he smacked his forehead and said, "Aquamenti!" and then the fill was filled to a good level. He said "Finite!" so the bowl wouldn't be overfilled.

As he sipped his tea and got into his relaxed mind set, his eyelids felt very heavy and he managed to look at one part of the water bowl which was the center. He saw something forming but he couldn't be quite sure. He thought he was seeing things. He shook his head and the image was gone. Grr...he would try again.

[Bazinga]

Zhenya was still trying to calm herself down when Professor Cassie started speaking to her. She looked up at her timidly, "I'm… I'm fine Professor," she said, then in a smaller voice, "I think I just saw something that happened in the past…" she was quite scared. She didn't like that memory. In fact, it still scared her to this day.

But oh no, Professor Cassie had noticed her hand! She shook her head, not wanting to her why she wore her glove inside. Not with other students around. It was horrid! "I'm not cold, Professor, but thanks anyway."

She didn't want to use the mirror anymore, so she stood up carefully, grabbed the mirror and put it back where she had got it from. Then she walked to where the bowls were all stacked, though the collection now more sparse than at the start of the lesson. She got one, walked it back to where she had been sitting, put it a textbook which was on the ground, and peered into it.

Oh right - water!

She grabbed her wand and pointed it at the bowl. "Aguamenti," she said, and allowed the bowl to be filled to a good level.


She saw something in her past! EEEEEEEP!!!!! She gave Zhenya snaps, "That's wonderful that you saw something. Even if it wasn't pleasant, seeing something is great!" Plus it could mean she needed to look at this event closer, maybe there was something she had forgotten that needed to be remembered.

Still looking curiously at her hand she wasn't sure she believed the girl. "Are you sure? I can warm the room up or is there something else wrong?" She didn't seem like she wanted to talk about it, but it was Cassie's job as a professor to make sure the girl was alright. She seemed alright other then the hand. Was it a fashion statement? She'd much rather wear some great heels for a statement instead of a glove, but to each their own.

[Felixir]

The surface had clouded and Toby was totally in the zone but... still nothing. Perhaps he was just TOO in the ZONE and had ended up missing something, y'know? Or perhaps the bowl of water was just something he wasn't able to master. It happened, finding some things way more difficult than others. Maybe he'd have better luck with the mirrors.

Hearing Professor Morgan's voice, presumably talking to another student, Toby suddenly snapped out of whatever ZONE he was in and looked around the classroom. It seemed like there were some people waiting for the bowls, and he'd spent long enough hoarding this one. Plus, there was a free mirror that was up for grabs.

Vanishing the water from the bowl, so it didn't get spilled before the next person could take it, Toby returned it and headed straight for the mirror. What had Professor Morgan said? Tobias had left his notes where he'd been sitting but he was pretty sure he recalled her saying something about maybe sitting off slightly to the side so you wouldn't be distracted by your own reflection. That was exactly what he'd had trouble with LAST time, so that was some GOOD ADVICE. And... turning the mirror so he could just see the blank wall in the glass. Toby did just that, and then he was ready.

So, cleeeeear the mind. Cleeeeeeeeeeeear the miiiiiiiiiiind.

Eyes shut again, Tobias worked on that. He didn't try too hard this time, as he found that the more he TRIED to clear his mind, the more he ended up thinking about it. So he just stood there and relaxed and let himself zone out a bit so his inner eye could try and open.

After a good long while of this, Toby opened his eyes (his actual eyes, though hopefully the inner eye was doing the same) and looked right at the mirror. At first there was no change, and then the glass seemed to cloud over, as though showing him a foggy room. The fifth year waited to see if anything would show itself to him.

[hermionesclone]

So this was not working.

It wasn't that he wasn't trying because he WAS. This wasn't like a piece of home work that he was doing half-heartedly because he hated the lesson and didn't understand and generally had very little motivation for anything. No. He could feel himself trying hard to stare into the depths of the water to try and see something other than his own reflection but nothing was working. All it did was make him steadily more and more frustrated with both himself and this means of scrying.

Freaking bowl of water showing him NOTHING. Grayson prodded it with his wand, letting the ripples flow out. In the meantime, he could think of a NEW question. Try harder. Whatever it took. The fifth year closed his eyes and tried to clear his mind of all thoughts. Kinda hard but whatever. He could TRY and there was a chance that it could pay off well. There was a chance that he wouldn't have to make things up but that didn't mean that that option was off of the table. Oh no! He needed a backup.

His blue eyes snapped open and he glanced down at the bowl of water. Concentrate. CONCENTRATE. He wanted an answer to questions about his future because maybe, just maybe, that would make him less scared about it all. And the bowl of water had better not lie. All Grayson could see was his own face glaring back at him but he wasn't paying attention to that. Nope. See? Full level of concentration happening here.

And what was the water showing him? Nothing, that's what.

Grumble.

[Holmesian Feline]

Remembering what he had done in previous lessons, Benny closed his eyes to cut himself off from his surroundings. An attempt to help limit the outside stimulation to his mind and thoughts and perhaps give himself a better chance of focusing. He wasn't all to sure it really helped each time he did it but at least it was a place to start and so he did it, especially when the professor advised it as part of the practical steps.

Taking a few deep breathes, he finally opened his eye lids once more and let his gaze drift smoothly to the solid surface of the water in his bowl. From there the Gryffindor tried his best to keep his attention on one spot to focus in hopes of receiving something. Benny had only had some sort of luck with looking into a crystal ball but he still wasn't sure it hadn't been a complete fluke.

Focus...focus...focus.

[Jessiqua]

She saw something in her past! EEEEEEEP!!!!! She gave Zhenya snaps, "That's wonderful that you saw something. Even if it wasn't pleasant, seeing something is great!" Plus it could mean she needed to look at this event closer, maybe there was something she had forgotten that needed to be remembered.

Still looking curiously at her hand she wasn't sure she believed the girl. "Are you sure? I can warm the room up or is there something else wrong?" She didn't seem like she wanted to talk about it, but it was Cassie's job as a professor to make sure the girl was alright. She seemed alright other then the hand. Was it a fashion statement? She'd much rather wear some great heels for a statement instead of a glove, but to each their own.

Zhenya wasn't so sure it was great that she had seen something in her past, but she could see where Professor Cassie was coming from. She had seen something. She had managed to open her inner eye enough to see something in the mirror, and she should be pleased about it… shouldn't she?

No, she was, she was definitely pleased that her inner eye had opened enough to see something. It was just old memories opening up, making her quite sad.

"No, Professor, I don't want you to warm up the room" she said quietly, though touched that the Professor was willing to do that. It helped. She took a deep breath, telling her tears NOT to come! "I was frozen," she said, very very quietly so that only Professor Cassie could hear. "My body was frozen a few years ago and my hand is a bit… damaged. I saw what had happened in the mirror, and I… I didn't like the memories," she admitted, looking down.

[ArianaBlack]

So..... A lot of time had already passed by and he was still staring at the dumb mirror. And there still wasn't anything happening. How long did he just have to stand here and wait for something cool to happen? Because nothing was happening yet...

The Gryffindor shifted around on his feet, rather impatiently. Blank stares ahead. Letting out a small sigh, he decided to try and do the clearing the mind thing. He hadn't really given this whole thing a go actually... Rather than trying he was really just standing there hoping it would work.

So counting to three he slowly tried to clear his mind of all the weird thoughts buzzing around. Like the book he was reading about Neville Longbottom, the revenge plan against Professor walton, and the potions homework he still hadn't gotten to.

There was just so much to think about all of the time. Scrying was hopeless for this child.

[Hera]

And he was officially done with mirrors. Now he could move onto the next, cause, yeah... just, effort, and still so much to do.

Moving around the class, Zeke found himself a water bowl, took it to where he was sitting on his cushion earlier, and started by filling it with water. What use was a water bowl without water? Hmmm?

"Aguamenti," he recited, watching as the water came from his wand tip, once he had enough, he ended the spell. "Finite."

Now.... this scrying with water thing. What had Professor Cassie said before? Look where the water wasn't moving? ... well so long as nobody bumped his table, that'd be fine. In fact, nobody needed to be touching the table at all. Cue looks to those around him. Yeah! NO BUMPING TABLES!

...

And so he stared at his water bowl.

[Weasley174]

Angel couldn't believe it her sister had distracted her with the snort and then she hadn't done anything else... seriously did her sister have her knickers in a twist over this. She should have been apologising for snorting at her but alas she hadn't and Angel wasn't going to force her.

Angel had totally failed at seeing something in the water... her sister had made her fail but she would make sure that she did well with the mirror. "Sis you don't want to roll your eyes too much they might get stuck in a weird position." Angel wondered if there was a spell for that because it would just be so funny but she would never do anything bad to her sister.

Angel went over and looked at the Mirror... it was time she was going to have to try and do this or she would fail again and she wasn't in the mood for failing twice.

[Hera]

The water looked like water to him, and try as he might, there was nothing else making an appearance in his visions or whatever. Despite Professor Cassie telling him he was great at this stuff, he still didn't understand the craft and he wasn't making any progress now... so... this was a bummer.

Sighing, Zeke shook his head clear and refocused. He adjusted the way he was sitting, instead of kneeling he crossed his legs beneath him. Now..

Try again.

Again, he started breathing, his gaze focused on the water in the bowl which was perfectly still at this minute, so that shouldn't pose a problem.

[Weasley174]

Angel decided that she would clear her mind and so she did... she stopped thinking about other things like her sister and her boyfriend... they were very hard to stop but she managed it after awhile and then she looked straight at the mirror.

Angel suddenly saw something in the mirror and she hated it, her sister was shouting at her and being really mean to her calling her names and stuff... this is not what she wanted to see and she could feel the tears starting to come down her face... could she please stop now? pretty... pretty please?

[Hera]

.....

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..............

He was no Seer, that much was certain. But he was feeling as though his thoughts were leaving his head. In all honesty, he was becoming super tired from staring at the blank water. So tired in fact that with the HEAVY icky lavender in the room, and all of this breathing, he might even fall asleep.

His eyelids had drooped somewhat, so his vision was partly obscured, but his brain was well and truly numb and asleep. With everyone else doing much the same, the room was too quiet for him to even notice that other people existed right now. No, NOTHING existed, it just was what it was.

And that's when he DID start seeing things. Like, properly seeing things. None of this registered for him, but his eyes were seeing the fragmented messages from the future. (That's what they were right? RIGHT?)

There wasn't anything out of the ordinary. Not really. He was at home, at home home. Or was he even there at all? The house looked empty, but it wasn't... someone was there, he just couldn't see who.

And though it had taken him so long to get into a state where his inner eye could wake up, it only took a couple of seconds for him to break the connection. An itching on the back of his neck resulted in him scratching and coming into consciousness. BUT, there was no denying it, THIS time, it had worked.

"Professor Cassie!" he exclaimed, realising his feat. "I did it! I scryed in the water!"

He couldn't really claim the others, they seemed more like his imagination to him than much else, but THIS, was veryyyyyy real.

[FearlessLeader19]

Adi waited for the water to quit moving and stay still. While he waited, he took deep breaths and tried to clear his mind. No matter how many times one practiced clearing the mind, it never got easier times afterward.

So, a few more deep breaths before letting his eyes wander to the bowl of water. Everything was all still in the bowl. Excellent. And let the gazing commence! Maybe he would have better luck with this form of scrying.

[Holmesian Feline]

Benny was watching the water. Careful and focused...careful and focused. The still quiet surface of the filled bowl. Was there something to see? He tried to ignore the talking and movement going on around him, focusing solely on on the water but even still it was almost as if the water wasn't empty if one looked through and noticed any particular markings on the bowl. Or was it something else. His mind was as clear of anything else as he could get it.

He then thought he really did see something. The boy unconsciously squinting as if to see it better. Was it movement? Had he accidentally bumped the bowl or breathed on it too hard which caused a reaction? Water scrying certainly seemed as it would be more difficult since you have to worry about your method being disturbed by outside forces. Alas his on thought had developed into many and his concentration was broke.

Sigh.

[Weasley174]

Angel could feel the tears coming down her cheeks as she continued to watch this vision... seriously she wanted it to stop... pretty please? she would do anything? Angel was totally lost and seeing her vision wasn't good it was totally scary and she just hoped it wasn't true... why had the Professor made her do this stupid task... now she was sad and feeling really upset.

Angel continued to cry as the vision went... if it wasn't for the fact she was in the middle of the class she would just curl up and cuddle herself because everything was going wrong... maybe that was why Benny was mad with her... seriously things were going haywire. Angel had figured something out though Visions in the Mirror be bad.

[MudInMyBlood]

The water bowl was a complete bust. The only thing that she saw in there was her very own reflection when she put her nose in the water. AJ wasn't surprised, not surprised at all. It was time to switch out her bowl for a mirror, not that it really mattered, she was sure to get the same results.

AJ walked up, did the exchange and walked back to her desk. She was just about to close her mind, and try to see something in the mirror when some sobbing caught her attention. There was no crying in scrying. Only there was, and AJ started to laugh in spite of herself. Crying literally was in scrying.

Focus... somebody was crying. AJ looked around and found the source. It was her sister, of course it was. Sensitive, that one was. "What's going on, Angel?" What could of happened?

[FearlessLeader19]

Stare, stare, stare.

All Adi saw was the base of the bowl due to the transparency of the water. Maybe he could start over again? His mind had been wandering, anyway. He closed his eyes and tried not to think about ice cream. Uh huh. He felt like having the awesomely delicious frozen treat.

Opening his eyes again, the Hufflepuff let his eyes gaze into the bowl of water once more. A perfectly still spot if water. Come on out, images.

[Weasley174]

Angel suddenly heard her name being spoken by her sis... she could really use a hug right now but this was the middle of the lesson and she doubted that she could get away with giving her sister one. "Sis promise me... we'll never hate each other." Angel looked at her sister as she wiped her eyes... that mirror had shown something nasty and she didn't like it.

[kayquilz]

Eden swirled her finger around in the water, making it all wavy and not clear and stuff. Well that wasn't going to help...but Eden was doing it without realizing it, really. She took out her finger and siiiiiighed. "Water water in the bowl--show me if I'll fall in a hole--" she rattled off, more jokingly than anything, rolling her eyes at herself, gosh.

She let the water settle before shutting her eyes to clear her head properly. Funny feeling, though--the water would probably be more difficult than the mirror, if Ed had to GUESS.

SIGH.

She rubbed her temples again and did her best not to think of AAAANYTHING. Was she doing this RIGHT, though? She had already seen her Mam--so she tried to keep her dad in the back of her thoughts this time. She hadn't heard from him since that very yelly letter she had gotten from him last week. Hmph.

[Lissy Longbottom]

Alright, Caleb's time with the water was over, which he was kind of thankful for. That had been harder than he thought! Now to move onto the mirror...which would surely be distracting, as he wouldn't be able to concentrate looking at his adorable face.

Hehe. He was kidding. Kind of.

He swapped out his water for the mirror and settled back in his seat. Ok, so he had seen a cat in a tree in the last one...he doubted he'd see the same thing in the mirror. Everything was a lot CLEARER in the mirror, he wasn't sure he'd be able to pick out ANYTHING that wasn't supposed to be there from the reflection...but he'd give it a try. Why not, right?

[Expecto-Penguin]

Man this water bowl was getting really difficult because once he thought he saw something it was the reflection coming from the classroom. He was gonna do this! He began to focus and breathed in and out in and out. Once he did that he felt like he was going into a dream like state. He was beginning to feel very sleepy because of the tea and the warmness in the room. He was smiling and thought this was the perfect time to go and look in the water bowl.

He began to look at the center of the water bowl and was seeing something. He was starting to see what looked like an animal. Hmm....it was forming to something with four legs? Could it be a dog? A mythical creature? He had no idea it was just a dark outline of the creature. He kept his focus but then he had to sneeze!

AACHHOOO!!!!!

Then his image was gone! Gahhh! He was sooo close! He grumbled and would try again.

[MudInMyBlood]

What? Hate and promises? What had Angel seen in her vision? A smart remark came to her mind but considering that Angel had tears running down her face, AJ decided to keep it to herself. "I promise." Angel in turn needed to promise not to do anything stupid to make AJ want to hate her, but now was not the time to point that out. "What did you see?" A girl couldn't help but to be curious.

Good luck focusing now. AJ turned back to her mirror and shut her eyes for a few minutes. She tried to shut out a crying Angel and every other thing that seemed to want to pop into her mind now that she was trying to concentrate.

With her eyes opened again, she studied the mirror. All she saw was her own reflection. Surprise, surprise. AJ stared, and stared until her eyes started to cross. No luck here. Maybe the third time would be a charm?

[Expecto-Penguin]

Time to see if he could find anything in this water bowl. He check to see if he had to sneeze. Nope he was quite good. He closed his eyes and did the deep breathing exercising he was told to do. Even the tea quite helped and then as he opened his eyes and just concentrated on his bowl, he was beginning to see something. He thought he was seeing the creature again. But the shape was turning into a house. It was now forming into his house back home in Kansas and he could see the two story house and the front porch. He smiled and wished he could back home. He would be home soon enough and he knew what his inner eye was telling him.

He was either home sick which could be true or that he was missing his family because back in the mirror he was seeing his cousins and whole family. He was happy he could figure it out. Now what was gonna be the next activity?

[Felixir]

So far, so good. He'd reached the 'clouded surface' stage with the mirror miles earlier than had happened with the bowl of water, so did that perhaps mean that he was likely to See something now whereas earlier he had not? Time would tell.

It was amazing how this required very little effort. In classes like Transfiguration and Charms and Ancient Runes and all that, the most important part of anything was to focus. Here, they had to do the opposite, had to NOT focus on ANYTHING. Strange how those two things could be just as difficult as each other.

Toby looked into the mirror, trying not to look for anything in particular, but just to watch and keep an open mind and be ready to identify anything SHOULD something happen.

Smoke. Just smoke. Sometimes the smoke looked a little bit like something else, but nothing really distinguishable. But he'd only just started, and the important thing here was to keep an open mind and keep on keeping on. It was good, at least, that he was keeping up the whole clear mind thing

[SarcasticStrawberry]

Maybe it was just her imagination. She wasn't sure of what she seen anyway. So that didn't help much either. Maybe she just needed to work harder. Yep she was just going to go with she needed to work harder.

She looked back into the bowl. Throwing more positive energy around. Peering into the bowl she was finally seeing something. Maybe her inner eye wasn't broken. A treehouse, looked kinda like the treehouse on the grounds. Wait it was the tree house on the grounds. And someone was falling or jumping. She really couldn't tell who it was, though.

She tried to figure out who it was. She moved closer and closer until her face was almost close enough to touch the water. Which caused the water to ripple. And that made the scene disappear. Perfect timing to because the bell went off. Time to switch to the mirror now.

[hermionesclone]

You know what? This wasn't working.

No matter how hard he tried, the water simply wasn't showing anything interesting to him apart from his own face. Nothing on there was answering any of his questions and frankly, he was disappointed. Again. He had had high hopes to receive some sort of answer to the question about his future -- kinda to ease his tension a little -- but did the water want to show anything? No.

Freaking stupid.

Scowling at it, he vanished the contents of the bowl before getting up to set it back to the place he had picked it up from. Even if it had shown him that he was gonna fail his OWLs, he wouldn't have cared. He would have been kinda delighted to know that he'd seen something but, most importantly, he'd have been delighted to know that he didn't need to study since he was gonna fail anyways. Brilliant logic, wasn't it?

ANYWAYS. Putting the bowl down, Grayson grabbed the mirror and eyed it. THIS needed to show him something good. Something interesting, too. Maybe WHY he was at the lake in the first place was a good place to start. Unless he could ask Professor Cassie that. Since no other piece of maic needed to be applied to this object, the Slytherin simply headed back over towards his seat with it.

This was gonna be hard, wasn't it?

[Holmesian Feline]

Benny tried to get his focus back...another deep breathe, another few moments with his eyes closed. Was someone crying? It wasn't any easier or harder the second time around and when he opened his eyes once more it was all he could to hope that maybe this time would turn out better. However after several minutes of nothing staring back at him while he was doing his best to keep nearly everything else out of his mind the fourth year was ready to give up and move on.

Time for the mirror.

Again.

He got up from his seat, careful not to knock his desk and the water-filled bowl while he moved. Exchanging the bowl for the mirror, the Gryffindor returned to his seat, spotting Angel as the possible source of the crying and frowning, questioning his movements. Should he go over? Let AJ, who was speaking with her try and handle it? Help AJ? For now Benny continued to his seat, taking it and setting the mirror on the desk while he prepared. Not that it all that possible thinking on Angel.

[hermionesclone]

Hard was an understatement. If possible, this was even WORSE than the bowl of water. At least with the bowl of water, there had been some flickering. All he had managed to see in this little bugger was his own freaking reflection.

Which wasn't a bad sight. He even took a couple of seconds to smirk at his own reflection and bop his collar in the oh-so-cool way that he did sometimes when he was particularly proud of a fact he had just stated. Reaching up, he ran a hand through his hair in the same way Phe sometimes did because of reasons that he was gonna keep to himself.

Sooooooooo mirror mirror on the wall, care to show him anything at all?

Except the mirror wasn't ON the wall but sitting on his desk but there was no way he could think of anything that would rhyme with the word desk. Not right away, at least.

And he was getting distracted by his own thoughts. What else was new?

FOCUS, Whitty!

[SarcasticStrawberry]

Cinna vanished the water and went to return the bowl back to the corner. Ugh that was way more stressful then it needed to be. She headed over to the corner where the mirrors were. She took one, headed back to the she seat. But this time she took to pillow chair and moved over to a nice quiet spot in the room.

Now let see if she could to some scrying in the mirror and see if she could figure out who was falling from the treehouse.

She wondered if scrying worked like that. Would or could you return back to something that you seen before could you continue to see it in another medium or was she going to get a totally different vision from the bowk of water?

Also could she get another cup of tea? She reallly needed to calm down and relax again. She went over and got another cup of tea. Went back to her pillow chair. She crossed her legs indian style and sipped on her tea. RELAX CINNA.

[ArianaBlack]

So erm... This mirror thing was getting kind of pointless... So he reckoned that it was time to move on now. Everyone else seemed to have switched anyways. Besides, it's not like standing in front of the mirror for any longer would actually do anything at all. He could really only see his reflection. And all that became clear to him was that he needed to get a hair cut, but that was as close to a vision as he could ever come to.

So, setting the mirror aside, Zander reached for the bowl instead. Looking into it he let out a small sigh. So umm...How was he supposed to see anything in the bowl? It was completely empty and he at least saw his reflection in the mirror.

But this time, he was just staring at the inside of a bowl.

And that was it.

How boring.

[kayquilz]

The water was definitely not..changing form at all. Eden even got REALLLY squinty and close to it, too, and still..nothing. She ran a hand through her hair. The mirror HAD been easier. COuld she go BACK to mirror--but NO. A part of her WANTED to do this so badly--to be good at this--unlike so many of her other classes--

But she was trying TOO hard now--she needed to relax. So she slumped her shoulders, closed her eyes once more, and took many DEEEEP breaths. In, out...no thinking..just...relaxing. And once she was done with that exercise, she opened her eyes and stared down into the water...swirling images...what--

So the water was clouding up--Eden had to control her excitement and JUST focus on the water--she brought the image of her dad to mind but didn't think TOO hard about it--she was trying SO hard not to mess this up this time--and as the clouds in the water dissipated, Eden could make out his figure--he was in a hotel room, somewhere, doing his work stuff most likely--and Eden smiled because she missed him a lot and seeing him was so NICE and REFRESHING. But as she smiled and blinked--the water was blank once more.

SIGH.

Eden wanted to hold the image so badly--was there a way to DO that?

[ArianaBlack]

Okay wait a minute. He was definitely missing something. Something vital. Something super duper important... But the question was-- What? It had been exactly five minutes since he first started staring into the empty bowl, just waiting for something to happen. In the mean time, he had tried his absolute hardest to clear his mind-- which was also really hard to do okay.

But how come nothing had happened yet?!

This was lame.

WAIT A MINUTE! Water. Duh. Heh. He totally knew that.

Zander carefully looked around the room while he took out his wand to make sure that no one saw him slip up. Then, pointing at the empty bowl, he cast a quick "Aguamenti", stopping the water right before it filled up too much.

Okay. Now what?

[hermionesclone]

This was exceptionally hard. No matter how many times he tried to focus on the question in his mind, he couldn't see anything in the mirror in the form of an answer. All he could see was his own glaring face staring back at him. Was there something in that corner there? Nope. In that space over there? Nope. Was there an image ANYWHERE?

N. O.

He was getting frustrated.

Taking deep breaths wasn't helping but he tried and he tried to keep his mind on the question itself. Grayson was a determined lad so why this wasn't showing him anything, he didn't know. After a long while, he glanced around at the others, trying to see if THEY had seen anything in their mirrors or water bowls. And if so, what was their secret? Were they simply gifted or something else? And if they WERE gifted, how was it that HE hadn't gotten the gift as well?

Deep breaths and whatnot.

Glancing back at his mirror he tried one last time to stare into its depths and keep the question in the forefront of his mind. The glare was back and in full force, a sense of determination spreading through him. If he DIDN'T see anything, he sure could make things up, which was what looked like the course of action right now. A fruitless attempt? Pretty much.

Could he give up NOW?!

[Holmesian Feline]

Must focus....must focus...must focus

He had to get this done to at least some extent. Even if it was to be a failure since he really had no ability in divination for the most part that he knew of. Actually maybe that would be good, seeing as it would finally set the records straight after the earlier lesson with the crystal ball that had confused him in more ways than one. Benny shook his head as he registered his mind wandering again, his eyes opening once more. A soft sigh escaping him as he did his best to recover. All he had done was switch from thoughts of Angel to thoughts of himself and not of anything that would serve to help him in his last endevour, aka classroom assignment.

Giving up on deeper preparation, he closed his eyes again, this time letting his hands raise to his table in front of him to left the mirror up to be visible to him straight on once he was ready. When I open my eyes I will be focused and alert and stare clearly at the mirrored glass within the frame and see what it might behold, he mused himself working on siking himself out.

Taking a deep breath he was going to try it all again, his eyelids lifting and his gaze shifting from blackened darkness to the actual light level of the room complete with the magnication off the glass in the room. There...there was one fourth year Gryffindor boy staring back at him and as the silent minutes ticked pass that was all he saw.

[Felixir]

Toby often had a tendency to let his imagination run away with him, ever since he was a little kid. Which was strange, because he wasn't creative like a lot of people he knew, and imagination usually came hand in hand with creativity. The likelihood was that it was all down to his mind constantly going at warp speed, thus, on a subconscious level, his imagination would stir up many images and thoughts.

And perhaps that was why he had seen things in the crystal ball all those weeks ago, and why he was seeing things in the mirror at this very moment; had he simply gotten lost in a distracted daydream? It was most unlikely that he really had the Sight, after all. Though of course, Toby wasn't thinking that right now, as that was close-minded and not in line with his positive mindset. He wasn't thinking about anything at all, was instead enjoying the view in the mirror.

His grandma, in her music room, playing the piano. That was all. Something inconsequential to many people but something that brought a fond smile to Toby's face. He always enjoyed watching her play, still did, in fact, and it was a scene that always filled him with great happiness. The Hufflepuff watched, completely and utterly zoned out and forgetting he was even in a classroom, and stared at the mirror

It was not any sort of vision. He hadn't Seen it, it was nothing to do with his inner eye. The images from the mirror were simply a result of his distractedness and runaway imagination, though he had no reason to believe it wasn't some sort of vision. Either way, it lifted his mood even higher than it already was, and when Toby was brought back to his surroundings with a proverbial thud, he was smiling ever so widely The Hufflepuff glanced about the room, still very obviously quite pleased, wondering if they might be moving on soon with the amount of time that had already passed.

[MudInMyBlood]

Was Angel going to be able to keep it together? AJ was keeping an eye on her. If need be, the two of them could get together after class, and she could find out what the problem really was. It had to be a vision, but a vision of what? Why were other people able to have these visions, and AJ got a big fat nothing? Maybe it was all in their heads. They were most likely just thinking too hard on it, and making themselves see things. The mind was a powerful thing, after all.

AJ sighed and looked back at her mirror. Her mind wasn't blank, but she really did try hard to empty it. She stared, and stared some more. Her eyes would gloss over, and she would blink them clear only to stare at her reflection some more.

She moved the mirror right up to her face and THOUGHT she caught a glimpse of something, but realized it was just somebody sitting behind her that had moved. Her breath was leaving traces on the mirror and she was getting nowhere fast. Her stomach was now starting to rumble, and that meant what little bit of concentration she had left was completely gone.

[SarcasticStrawberry]

Cinna took a few more sips before she closed her eyes. Relax. Relax. RELAX. Nope not happening she really needed to know what was up with the treehouse thing. What was that all about? Breath in. Breath out. Breath in. Breath out.

Man, she was really going to have to get in together. So she could do this. She sat her tea cup down and opened her eyes. She held the mirror up to her face. Hello beautiful! Ha ha. She slid it over slightly so she wouldn' t catch anything in the reflection. Now let's see if she can get this thing to work.

Stare. Stare. Stare. At nothing apparently. Sighhhhhh. This scrying with the mirror might just bring her to tears.

Maybe she needed to try harder again. It worked last time. So it was going to have to work now. Swirls, like in the crystal ball. She could at least seen that now. Whelp at least this was a start.

[ArianaBlack]

So first with the mirror and now with the bowl full of water. He still saw absolutely nothing. The Gryffindor brought his head even closer to the water, as if distance alone was blocking the way. However, he still saw absolutely nothing. Looking around the room, he tried to figure out if other people were having just as much trouble as he was, but he couldn't really decipher the other faces.

Zander wasn't really sure why he was still taking this class to be completely honest. But he was guessing that it had something to do with the fact that Professor Flamsteed said that Gryffindor's never gave up.

So here he was, not giving. More like giving in. Because he was definitely starting to get really tired.

Could they stop now?

[Bazinga]

Zhenya wasn't so sure it was great that she had seen something in her past, but she could see where Professor Cassie was coming from. She had seen something. She had managed to open her inner eye enough to see something in the mirror, and she should be pleased about it… shouldn't she?

No, she was, she was definitely pleased that her inner eye had opened enough to see something. It was just old memories opening up, making her quite sad.

"No, Professor, I don't want you to warm up the room" she said quietly, though touched that the Professor was willing to do that. It helped. She took a deep breath, telling her tears NOT to come! "I was frozen," she said, very very quietly so that only Professor Cassie could hear. "My body was frozen a few years ago and my hand is a bit… damaged. I saw what had happened in the mirror, and I… I didn't like the memories," she admitted, looking down.

OHMYGOSH.. She looked at the girl with wide eyes, "Frozen? Like someone cast a spell on you to freeze you? Why would they ever do that? You are alright though?" She looked to the hand that was in the glove. "Have you seen healers and they say there is nothing they can do?" There had to be something they could do? Maybe Cece or even Cosgrach would know something, anything to help this sweet girl.

Angel suddenly heard her name being spoken by her sis... she could really use a hug right now but this was the middle of the lesson and she doubted that she could get away with giving her sister one. "Sis promise me... we'll never hate each other." Angel looked at her sister as she wiped her eyes... that mirror had shown something nasty and she didn't like it.


Hearing a bit of talking come from the sisters, Cassie turned her attention on them. "Is everything alright?" Goodness another one crying. She was excited they were seeing things while scrying, but did it have to be negative things.

Man this water bowl was getting really difficult because once he thought he saw something it was the reflection coming from the classroom. He was gonna do this! He began to focus and breathed in and out in and out. Once he did that he felt like he was going into a dream like state. He was beginning to feel very sleepy because of the tea and the warmness in the room. He was smiling and thought this was the perfect time to go and look in the water bowl.

He began to look at the center of the water bowl and was seeing something. He was starting to see what looked like an animal. Hmm....it was forming to something with four legs? Could it be a dog? A mythical creature? He had no idea it was just a dark outline of the creature. He kept his focus but then he had to sneeze!

AACHHOOO!!!!!

Then his image was gone! Gahhh! He was sooo close! He grumbled and would try again.

Her green eyes went to another student hearing a sneeze. "Bless you Kace" He wasn't catching a cold was he? Maybe she should disinfect the air just in case? No, he probably just had some dust in his nose or something.

Moving back to her desk she turned to the class. "Alright, if you could head back to your seats we have more to go over." She grinned at them before snapping. "Wonderful job, all of you. This is very hard Divination that you are doing and I am so proud of everyone of you for trying." Even if they hadn't gotten to see anything they were still working extra hard.

"Now another form of scrying uses a crystal on a string." She held up the skinny long crystal that dangled in the air by a string. "This form of scrying is a bit different then the rest. Can anyone tell me why that is or how you use a crystal." Looking around the room she started to call on the students with their hands up.

[kayquilz]

Eden was settled in her seat when Professor Morgan started talking again----OOOOH. CRYSTAL SCRYING. Eden actually a BIT about that, too! She had seen it on TV once(a muggle show) and had wanted to learn more--

She raised her hand slowly. "Isn't crystal scrying VERY similar to the other two kinds--with the clearing of your mind and stuff? But I think I read somewhere that you have to have a question in mind, right? A specific question?" Maybe Eden was wrong. She might be. "And with the crystal--is there a certain way you have to hold it? 'Connect' with it and whatnot--your energy has to be very MELLOW for it to work--" She nodded some more. Like..any doubt or disbelief, and the scrying wouldn't work at all. Or work WRONGLy. Eden regretted saying all of this as she as she spoke, though, because she didn't know if it was right or not..but at LEAST she had given it shot.......ish.

[Felixir]

At the prompting from Professor Morgan, Toby headed right on back to his seat, flopping back down on the comfortable cushions and directing his attention to the professor.

Scrying with a crystal... slightly different... uhhhh... No, Toby didn't know, which was concerning... had he read about it but forgotten? That seemed highly likely; his brain was starting to feel saturated with information from his textbooks, and the Hufflepuff wondered if he'd reached a point where to get new information in, or information needed to be squeezed out. But rather than let himself dwell on that right now, he focused on the question and raised his hand to give it a good guess.

"Do you dangle it in front of your face or something while you try to see something in the crystal?" Toby offered, ready to take notes for when the right answer WAS provided. He did wonder what might be so different in this case as opposed to the others.

[Hera]

Uh oh........... crystals on strings... isn't that like the type of thing women did to find out if they were having a boy or girl? Or was it used on maps to find people? Both of these rang clear bells in his head.

...

....

His hand went up, hesitantly. So much uncertainty. SO MUCH.

"Professor, does it tell you if you're having a baby boy or girl? or how many babies? or if you use it on a map, can it guide to to someone?" Like... if you had something that belonged to them... like the personal belongings they'd surrendered. ????

[WhittyBitty]

Sitting at her table, Lux sipped more tea. Now they were moving on to crystals. She had no idea that people could scry with crystals; it seemed that almost anything could be used. Divination was pretty interesting, though she had to admit it wasn't a subject she read up a lot on in advance. Really she found it a lot easier than a lot of other classes.

Time to make a guess, so she raised her hand. Do we try to look at something through the surface of the crystal?" She really had no other ideas.

[ArianaBlack]

How was a crystal on a string different than the other forms? Well for starters, none of the other scrying methods involved a string? But... He knew that it probably wasn't an acceptable answer, so instead he chose to stay quiet, but looked around the room to see what others were gonna say anyways. 'Specially Sophie's 'Toberman' because he always had good answers.

And just then Eden began to answer and WOAH. No wonder she was a Ravenclaw. Yeah, Zander was going with hers. It sounded right. Yup.

"I'm gonna have to second what Eden said, Professor," BEAM at you Eden. BEAAAAM.

[Weasley174]

Hearing a bit of talking come from the sisters, Cassie turned her attention on them. "Is everything alright?" Goodness another one crying. She was excited they were seeing things while scrying, but did it have to be negative things.

Angel tried to stop the tears but nothing was working the vision was horrible. She didn't want to say much to the Professor about it but when she got out of here she was going to give her sister a massive hug and she was going to ask some questions.

"I saw myself.... well I don't want to say where and then you were going crazy and shouting at me." Angel was still crying. "And then... and then you..." Angel stopped she couldn't say it... no she wouldn't say it. "Professor it was horrible." Angel added that on as she turned to the Professor.

Angel was that upset but she still wanted to give the question ago. "You *sob* have to *sob* ask a *sob* question *sob* right *sob*" Angel cried.

[FearlessLeader19]

Wonderful job? Adi looked up miserably from his bowl of water. He had made so much attempts at scrying and not once did he succeed at seeing the faintest of images. Sitting back in his seat, he turned his attention to Professor Cassie.

Scrying by crystal? Adi didn't know about that. His attempt at the answer was one of total guess work. He raised a hand. "Uh...you swing it from side to side like a pendulum. Maybe..." Hehe. That was sort of a creative answer.

[Daydreamer11]

Jasmine was staring blankly, trying to digest what she had seen in the bowl of water. What did it mean? She had no idea, but she had to figure it out. Lost in thought, she was brought back to reality by Professor Cassie's voice. They were moving on, so Jasmine quickly went back to her seat.

There was a new topic to discuss, so Jasmine grabbed her quill and began to write. Crystal scrying? She was not familiar with that. Listening to her classmates' explanations, Jasmine tried to formulate her own. Raising her hand, she went out on a limb........way out. "Maybe you hold the string and let the crystal dangle. Then as the light hits it, it reflects what you want to see onto another surface, like shadows on a wall." It was a crazy idea, but you never know.

[Sararara]

Norah stood up reluctantly to the water bowl she had tried and failed to scry with after giving up on the mirror. Sigh.

The second year raised an eyebrow. A crystal on a string? All the other things they had looked at needed a reflection, but strings didn't reflect things, right? Maybe you had to clean the crystal really well so it reflects things. Yeah, that made sense kind....kind of....ish. Raising her hand before she could chicken out, she said "Maybe after you relax 'n stuff you clean the crystal so it gets really shiny and look at the reflection of in the face of it. But I dunno what the string is for..." Shrug. Dipping her quill in her ink pot, she scribbled down "Crystally stringy scrying" and prepared to write down whatever Professor Cassie said was the right answer.

[Expecto-Penguin]

Her green eyes went to another student hearing a sneeze. "Bless you Kace" He wasn't catching a cold was he? Maybe she should disinfect the air just in case? No, he probably just had some dust in his nose or something.

Moving back to her desk she turned to the class. "Alright, if you could head back to your seats we have more to go over." She grinned at them before snapping. "Wonderful job, all of you. This is very hard Divination that you are doing and I am so proud of everyone of you for trying." Even if they hadn't gotten to see anything they were still working extra hard.

"Now another form of scrying uses a crystal on a string." She held up the skinny long crystal that dangled in the air by a string. "This form of scrying is a bit different then the rest. Can anyone tell me why that is or how you use a crystal." Looking around the room she started to call on the students with their hands up.

Kace heard the Professor make the comment and he smiled and sniffled, "Thank you Professor.." I mean it might have been the dust in the room because he wasn't catching a cold. Not that he knew of. Oooh they were doing scrying using crystals? He never knew about that before. He saw it being dangled by a string and he followed it and he saw the flecks of light being reflected in the room. He saw the rainbow colors and thought it was impressive.

Now how do they use a crystal...he really had NO idea. Or why is crystal scrying different from the rest? He had one idea and he raised his hand, "Professor I think you need more concentration to do crystal scrying and I read somewhere that you should do crystal scrying at night...is that true?" he was quite curious about it actually.

[DaniDiNardo]

Awww, they had to go back to their seats and she still hadn't managed to see anything in either surface. Sigh. No matter, the Professor said there was still another activity which meant another chance to get it right. Positive thoughts were so lovely. They left her all warm and fuzzy inside. It must be how everyone else was feeling too.

Lex sat forward, trying her hardest to listen but no promise she was lost on the idea of scrying with a crystal on a string...

What was that even and how did you do it?? The look on intrigue that now sat on her face was sign enough that she was ready to learn all the things. How fascinating!

[Bazinga]

Eden was settled in her seat when Professor Morgan started talking again----OOOOH. CRYSTAL SCRYING. Eden actually a BIT about that, too! She had seen it on TV once(a muggle show) and had wanted to learn more--

She raised her hand slowly. "Isn't crystal scrying VERY similar to the other two kinds--with the clearing of your mind and stuff? But I think I read somewhere that you have to have a question in mind, right? A specific question?" Maybe Eden was wrong. She might be. "And with the crystal--is there a certain way you have to hold it? 'Connect' with it and whatnot--your energy has to be very MELLOW for it to work--" She nodded some more. Like..any doubt or disbelief, and the scrying wouldn't work at all. Or work WRONGLy. Eden regretted saying all of this as she as she spoke, though, because she didn't know if it was right or not..but at LEAST she had given it shot.......ish.

Giving the first person to answer a big smile and snaps, "Very good Eden, you do have to think of a specific thing you want to know unlike the other forms that you just clear your mind and see what is shown. Though the others forms can be done like that as well if you are trained well." That might be a bit advanced for most though.

At the prompting from Professor Morgan, Toby headed right on back to his seat, flopping back down on the comfortable cushions and directing his attention to the professor.

Scrying with a crystal... slightly different... uhhhh... No, Toby didn't know, which was concerning... had he read about it but forgotten? That seemed highly likely; his brain was starting to feel saturated with information from his textbooks, and the Hufflepuff wondered if he'd reached a point where to get new information in, or information needed to be squeezed out. But rather than let himself dwell on that right now, he focused on the question and raised his hand to give it a good guess.

"Do you dangle it in front of your face or something while you try to see something in the crystal?" Toby offered, ready to take notes for when the right answer WAS provided. He did wonder what might be so different in this case as opposed to the others.

She gave Toby an encouraging smile and snaps, "You would think, but this is a little more complex then just looking for an image. Nice thought process in figuring it out though." Brilliant connection.

Uh oh........... crystals on strings... isn't that like the type of thing women did to find out if they were having a boy or girl? Or was it used on maps to find people? Both of these rang clear bells in his head.

...

....

His hand went up, hesitantly. So much uncertainty. SO MUCH.

"Professor, does it tell you if you're having a baby boy or girl? or how many babies? or if you use it on a map, can it guide to to someone?" Like... if you had something that belonged to them... like the personal belongings they'd surrendered. ????

She couldn't help but chuckle, "Zeke have you been around muggles at all?" She knew this was a very fun event for muggles to do, if they only knew it really worked. "Yes, the crystal can answer that question for you, but most muggles seem to think it's just a little game or for fun. We use the scrying a little differently then just finding out what a person is having, but it certainly can be used that way." Of course he got snaps for such a great answer.

Sitting at her table, Lux sipped more tea. Now they were moving on to crystals. She had no idea that people could scry with crystals; it seemed that almost anything could be used. Divination was pretty interesting, though she had to admit it wasn't a subject she read up a lot on in advance. Really she found it a lot easier than a lot of other classes.

Time to make a guess, so she raised her hand. Do we try to look at something through the surface of the crystal?" She really had no other ideas.

Looking towards Lux, she got snaps for her answer as well. "Very good thoughts, we don't specifically look into the crystal for this type of scrying, but in some crystals you can look for an image."

How was a crystal on a string different than the other forms? Well for starters, none of the other scrying methods involved a string? But... He knew that it probably wasn't an acceptable answer, so instead he chose to stay quiet, but looked around the room to see what others were gonna say anyways. 'Specially Sophie's 'Toberman' because he always had good answers.

And just then Eden began to answer and WOAH. No wonder she was a Ravenclaw. Yeah, Zander was going with hers. It sounded right. Yup.

"I'm gonna have to second what Eden said, Professor," BEAM at you Eden. BEAAAAM.

She just smiled encouragingly at Zander, though she wished he would have answered for himself, but he still at least had an answer.

Angel tried to stop the tears but nothing was working the vision was horrible. She didn't want to say much to the Professor about it but when she got out of here she was going to give her sister a massive hug and she was going to ask some questions.

"I saw myself.... well I don't want to say where and then you were going crazy and shouting at me." Angel was still crying. "And then... and then you..." Angel stopped she couldn't say it... no she wouldn't say it. "Professor it was horrible." Angel added that on as she turned to the Professor.

Angel was that upset but she still wanted to give the question ago. "You *sob* have to *sob* ask a *sob* question *sob* right *sob*" Angel cried.

"Oh well I'm sorry it was a bad image, but there is many ways to change it if it's a future prediction." She never felt a future was set in stone, but if they didn't change the steps that lied ahead it would certainly be true. She gave Angel a comforting look, "Take a breath and try to calm. There is tea if you need it." She hoped the girl would be fine in just a moment and then she answered the question or maybe she did? "You don't have to ask a question, but think of something you wish to know." Giving her encouraging snaps.

Wonderful job? Adi looked up miserably from his bowl of water. He had made so much attempts at scrying and not once did he succeed at seeing the faintest of images. Sitting back in his seat, he turned his attention to Professor Cassie.

Scrying by crystal? Adi didn't know about that. His attempt at the answer was one of total guess work. He raised a hand. "Uh...you swing it from side to side like a pendulum. Maybe..." Hehe. That was sort of a creative answer.

Giving Adi snaps and a nod, "It does involve swinging of the crystal. Very good Adi." Great answers all of them.

Jasmine was staring blankly, trying to digest what she had seen in the bowl of water. What did it mean? She had no idea, but she had to figure it out. Lost in thought, she was brought back to reality by Professor Cassie's voice. They were moving on, so Jasmine quickly went back to her seat.

There was a new topic to discuss, so Jasmine grabbed her quill and began to write. Crystal scrying? She was not familiar with that. Listening to her classmates' explanations, Jasmine tried to formulate her own. Raising her hand, she went out on a limb........way out. "Maybe you hold the string and let the crystal dangle. Then as the light hits it, it reflects what you want to see onto another surface, like shadows on a wall." It was a crazy idea, but you never know.

That was a very interesting and well thought out answer. "Very good thoughts Jasmine. We do hold the string and dangle the crystal." It was going to be so fun to show them.

Norah stood up reluctantly to the water bowl she had tried and failed to scry with after giving up on the mirror. Sigh.

The second year raised an eyebrow. A crystal on a string? All the other things they had looked at needed a reflection, but strings didn't reflect things, right? Maybe you had to clean the crystal really well so it reflects things. Yeah, that made sense kind....kind of....ish. Raising her hand before she could chicken out, she said "Maybe after you relax 'n stuff you clean the crystal so it gets really shiny and look at the reflection of in the face of it. But I dunno what the string is for..." Shrug. Dipping her quill in her ink pot, she scribbled down "Crystally stringy scrying" and prepared to write down whatever Professor Cassie said was the right answer.

She grinned at the young Hufflepuff, sometimes the young minds are so wonderful to listen too. "I promise you they are very clean, but that is such a great thought. We won't need to look at it's reflections today." Nope no need to worry about the cleaning. She gave her snaps before moving to Kace.

Kace heard the Professor make the comment and he smiled and sniffled, "Thank you Professor.." I mean it might have been the dust in the room because he wasn't catching a cold. Not that he knew of. Oooh they were doing scrying using crystals? He never knew about that before. He saw it being dangled by a string and he followed it and he saw the flecks of light being reflected in the room. He saw the rainbow colors and thought it was impressive.

Now how do they use a crystal...he really had NO idea. Or why is crystal scrying different from the rest? He had one idea and he raised his hand, "Professor I think you need more concentration to do crystal scrying and I read somewhere that you should do crystal scrying at night...is that true?" he was quite curious about it actually.


She gave Kace snaps as well to his answer "Concentration is a key for every type of scrying, but sometimes you do need more with crystals. Especially if you need to know something more specific." such as locations of missing things. "It depends on the night and the tone of the energy, but sometimes many forms of Divination is more powerful at night. Though all can be done through the day as well." So no worries it would work.

Awww, they had to go back to their seats and she still hadn't managed to see anything in either surface. Sigh. No matter, the Professor said there was still another activity which meant another chance to get it right. Positive thoughts were so lovely. They left her all warm and fuzzy inside. It must be how everyone else was feeling too.

Lex sat forward, trying her hardest to listen but no promise she was lost on the idea of scrying with a crystal on a string...

What was that even and how did you do it?? The look on intrigue that now sat on her face was sign enough that she was ready to learn all the things. How fascinating!
___________

She could feel Lex staring and really listening. Giving her an encouraging grin, she didn't know what came over the seventh year, but it was amazing and Cassie surely thought she finally had gotten through to her! How fabtastic!


Grabbing what looked like a piece of folded parchment she laid it out on the desk. "Now this is a Hogwarts map. It shows all places inside and out of the castle." Holding it up she showed each of the students. "Now as some have said you can do a yes or not question and know the answer based on the drift of the crystal, but you can also locate a lost item." Setting down the map she held up the crystal.

"Now for a yes or no you must think clearly of what you want to know. If you see it move in a straight line back and forth the answer is no, if you see it start moving in a small circle the answer is yes." Looking down at her crystal she thought about a certain thing that had been n her mind most of term and whether t would go her way. The little crystal began to start moving in a small circle and she beamed at the class. "Now back to the map. Now my mischievous kittens are somewhere around the castle, let's find them." She held the crystal over the map and it sat still for a few minutes before slowly moving towards the stables. "Oh good, looks like they are visiting their friends." Though she didn't need a crystal to answer that question with her gift.

"Now I have enough crystals for each of you to take one. Please come up and practice with them using a yes or no question."


OOC: Have your charrie come up and get the crystals and practice. Do this in two posts. You have until Sunday at 7 p.m. EST to do these two posts. Then we will move to the main activity. This class will be worth more points, because we will not be having any homework. Hence why there are three activities. :)

[WhittyBitty]

Ooh, so she was partially right. Interesting. Writing down more notes, Lux listened as Professor Cassie explained scrying with crystals more. It kind of reminded her of the needle test thing muggles did or babies where if the needle moved one way it was a boy and if it moved another way the baby would be a girl. Or something like that.

Curious as to how the crystals could be used to locate something that had been lost, she watched Professor Cassie use one over a map to find her kittens. Whatever she did clearly worked because they were located only moments later. Maybe there was more to this Divination stuff than she had originally thought.

Jumping up from her seat she grabbed a crystal and hung it out in front of her looking at it. Ooooh, it looked so pretty shining in the light and she could watch it shimmer for ages but there was work to do. As she made her way back to her seat she thought about what question she wanted to ask.

[DaniDiNardo]

Oh so THAT was how this sort of thing worked! Wow who would have thought but it was so neat sounding and now she wanted to try because it didn't sound like it would have been any harder than the scrying from other methods. Those just didn't seem to work for her. Despite that, the Gryffindor would not be daunted. There would be something that worked for her.

Lex hopped up from her seat, ready to grab a crystal when she felt her head spin sharply. Whoa. What was that? She stood perfectly still, waiting for it--whatever it was to subside before putting on a smile and going to collect a crystal. They were SO shiny. She bet they'd do the trick and she didn't even have to pretend to see things in them!

There was a less a pep in her step as she walked back to her table but Lex herself didn't notice. The potion was finally wearing down.

Better get this done quick. Now what would she liked to ask Mr. Crystal on a String. Hmmmmmmmmmmm.

[FearlessLeader19]

What, what, what? He had been right? Partially, anyway. SUPER COOL! Adi's knowledge about Divination was clearly improving but he still lacked the inner eye. Mhmm. Could he learn how to develop one by reading his text book? Hehe.

Adi rose from his seat to collect one off the crystals. Once back at his seat, he studied the thing. What question to ask? He had a feeling that the crystal would refuse to budge anyway.

...

Hello? Brain, he needed a question here...

[WhittyBitty]

There were a few questions that Lux considered asking, like if she was going to be with Bay forever but she already knew that she would so there was no need to ask the crystal about it. Instead she decided to ask something related to her future career since there were a number of things that could - and probably would - affect that outcome.

Hoping that she would get the answer she wanted Lux posed the question, "will I be a successful Potioneer?" The crystal moved in a small circle instead of back and forth, so that was a huge relief. Even if it wasn't a test that scientifically proved what her future career held, a positive reply still made her feel better. Hopefully things would actually work out this way since she did want to open a store where she would sell potions that she made herself. Some of said potions would be her own creation once she mastered that. Maybe Professor Culloden could help since she wanted him to be her mentor.

[Hera]

He got snaps... so... he was right? What he didn't understand was why she asked if he had been around muggles at all. Of course he had, he was one... for nine and a bit years of his life. So???? WHAT DID SHE MEAN BY THAT?

Zeke was still pondering the comment/question, when the lesson moved on.

...

All he managed to hear and understand were the terms, simple questions, yes or no, Hogwarts, circle, up and down, and kittens. THEN came a direct command for action. Errr... what now?

Zeke rose from his spot on the floor and went to collect one of the crystals on the string thing and then returned to his seat.

He wasn't about to start anything just yet, he wanted to see what the others were doing first.

[FearlessLeader19]

His brain finally provided a question.

Adi held up the Crystal on a string as Professor Cassie had done. "Will I be successful at both OWLs and NEWTs?'' he thought, concentrating reallllllly hard on the question. It was not too early to think about those exams. Major examinations always made him nervous.

Still thinking about the question, he watched the crystal. Much to Adi's astonishment the crystal moved in a small circle once. :whaa: Something had FINALLY worked for him in this class. He was ecstatic! Actually, he was more excited about the crystal moving about than the 'yes' signal he had received from it.

[SarcasticStrawberry]

Again Cinna was more focused on taking her notes than answering professor Cassie's questions. She'd let every one else answer and write them out in her notes or the ones that sounded good. So many ways to scrying. And they were practicing on so many different things.

Cinna watched as Cassie as she used the crystal to locate her cats. Wow that was and neat. She didn't know that the crystal could be used as a locator. Now this seem a little more easier than using your inner eye to look into a crystal ball or a mirror or water.

The gryffindor bounced out of her seat to go get a crystal on a string. It was so pretty and shiny. Just like glitter. She plopped back down in her chair. Her eyes still glued to the crystal dangling from a string. She just didn't know what to ask the magic 8 ball crystal.

[hermionesclone]

Sweet Merlin, there was gonna be MORE scrying involved?!

He was doomed. He was freaking doomed.

Grayson had it in his head that after the previous activity, they would be done with this lesson and he could go and get himself a snack. Something unhealthy, obviously. But noooOOOoooo! There had to be MORE to this scrying thing and they had to try AGAIN using ANOTHER piece equipment. He was gonna fail this.

Letting out a small groan, the fifth year got up and headed over to the front to grab himself a crystal to work with. Asking the crystal a yes/no question seemed to be MUCH easier than trying to get a crystal ball, a bowl of water and a mirror to show him something interesting that wasn't his own reflection. THAT had definitely been hard, what with his numerous failed attempts, so he was kinda hoping that this wouldn't be.

With the crystal in hand, Grayson headed back to his seat and sat down. So....... a yes/no question, then? What could he ask? About his OWLs? Could he test it out first to see if it actually worked and wouldn't decide to do something funky like move in a triangular shape? Or a semi-circle? Because that was a mix of both and he kinda wanted a PROPER answer to this.

First, he needed a question. Or to see if the scrying thing had worked for anyone else.

[MudInMyBlood]

Whatever it was that Angel saw in the crystal ball, it had to be bad based off her reactions. She had still yet to hear what it was, but AJ could always find out after class. Apparently it had to do with them fighting, but sisters were going to fight from time to time. That was nothing to cry about. "It's okay, Angel. It was just a vision, it doesn't mean anything." So, she could stop crying any time now.

AJ was paying so much attention to her sister that she completely missed the question the professor asked. It looked like they were going to be working with crystals. That sounded like fun. Hopefully AJ would be able to get the crystal to move.

Once the professor gave the okay, AJ walked up and grabbed her a crystal. The second year made her way back to her seat and thought about what question she should ask.

[Jessiqua]

OHMYGOSH.. She looked at the girl with wide eyes, "Frozen? Like someone cast a spell on you to freeze you? Why would they ever do that? You are alright though?" She looked to the hand that was in the glove. "Have you seen healers and they say there is nothing they can do?" There had to be something they could do? Maybe Cece or even Cosgrach would know something, anything to help this sweet girl.

Zhenya really wasn't entirely sure of the events that happened by the lake those years ago. "Well it was one winter when I was in Russia, and my evil cousin put a spell on a frozen lake, and followed me. I fell through the lake, and the water underneath the ice was charmed to put the body into frozen animation." Yep. Evil cousin indeed. "Yes, I'm okay. I was in hospital for a few years defrosting, and I think they tried to save my hand but they couldn't…" she was a bit confused about everything that had happened whilst she had been frozen, all she had to go off was her parents and the healer's stories.

Zhenya had lost her inner eye and could no longer keep it open. Disheartened, but still glad she knew how to work her inner eye now, she emptied the water from her bowl and put it back where it belonged. Just in time too...

[QUOTE=Bazinga;11688052]Moving back to her desk she turned to the class. "Alright, if you could head back to your seats we have more to go over." She grinned at them before snapping. "Wonderful job, all of you. This is very hard Divination that you are doing and I am so proud of everyone of you for trying." Even if they hadn't gotten to see anything they were still working extra hard.

"Now another form of scrying uses a crystal on a string." She held up the skinny long crystal that dangled in the air by a string. "This form of scrying is a bit different then the rest. Can anyone tell me why that is or how you use a crystal." Looking around the room she started to call on the students with their hands up.

Zhenya had a bit of a think, her eyes slightly narrowed as she did so. She wasn't entirely sure how it worked, but she imagined how it would work, so she raised her hand. "I've seen it done before, Professor, where someone has gone missing or wants to see where something is, and they use a crystal on a string to hang over a map, and the string will move the crystal in a circle when it has located what it's looking for." She wasn't sure if the inner eye worked the same to work the crystal on the string, could she pry it open and it would work like that?


Grabbing what looked like a piece of folded parchment she laid it out on the desk. "Now this is a Hogwarts map. It shows all places inside and out of the castle." Holding it up she showed each of the students. "Now as some have said you can do a yes or not question and know the answer based on the drift of the crystal, but you can also locate a lost item." Setting down the map she held up the crystal.

"Now for a yes or no you must think clearly of what you want to know. If you see it move in a straight line back and forth the answer is no, if you see it start moving in a small circle the answer is yes." Looking down at her crystal she thought about a certain thing that had been n her mind most of term and whether t would go her way. The little crystal began to start moving in a small circle and she beamed at the class. "Now back to the map. Now my mischievous kittens are somewhere around the castle, let's find them." She held the crystal over the map and it sat still for a few minutes before slowly moving towards the stables. "Oh good, looks like they are visiting their friends." Though she didn't need a crystal to answer that question with her gift.

"Now I have enough crystals for each of you to take one. Please come up and practice with them using a yes or no question."


OOC: Have your charrie come up and get the crystals and practice. Do this in two posts. You have until Sunday at 7 p.m. EST to do these two posts. Then we will move to the main activity. This class will be worth more points, because we will not be having any homework. Hence why there are three activities. :)
Zhenya listened and watched as Professor Cassie spoke about how to use the crystal, and asked them all to collect a crystal. She stood up and wandered over, getting a crystal for herself. They were supposed to be locating kittens? Aww. Maybe if she found one she would be able to give it a cuddle. She waited her turn and held the crystal over the map, moving it around the map, and asked "Is a mischievous little kitten here?"

[Expecto-Penguin]

So they were going to be practicing crystal scrying? This is what he was waiting for! He got up from his seat and got himself a crystal and was holding it. He couldn't believe this little thing was used for Divination. I mean it was just a rock once you think about it. He shrugged and went back to his seat to determine his fate. As he sat down he was wondering what Yes or No questions he could ask it. He could ask vague ones or really personal ones. He thought about it and decided to do one of both. One personal and then he thought about it and decided instead of doing a vague one why not do one involving his future? He grinned and decided to do his future one.

He heard the professor explain that now for a yes or no you must think clearly of what you want to know. If you see it move in a straight line back and forth the answer is no, if you see it start moving in a small circle the answer is yes. He got that and now to ask his question when it popped into his head.

"Will I have a career involving sports?" he asked. It was not too vague but he was curious about it. He concentrated and waited for his answer.

[DaniDiNardo]

There was probably only one question on her mind right now, even with the sudden sluggish feeling. Figuring this would need a lot of concentration, she focused solely on the question and not on what she finally recognized as the tail end of the potion. That was it then? It was leaving? Class wasn't even done yet! Happy thoughts, think happy thoughts--or well thoughts on her question.

Lex watched the crystal even as she repeated the question over and over in her mind. At first the string was perfectly still. Not even an inch of movement but then the more she concentrated was the more she felt the tug until finally the string was giving a lazy swing in a circular motion.

It was a little hard to tell at first because of the lack of oomph but there was no mistaken it as the movement became more pronounced.

Circle. That meant yes...which meant a happy Gryffindor despite the effects of the potion now fast wearing off. Shame too, Lex hadn't been proper happy in months.

[Felixir]

Straight line back and forth for no, circle for yes, right... right... okay... Toby underlined THAT little nugget of information no less than three times, because that was the most important part and also the part he was most likely to forget. But there wasn't much time to try and re-read his notes, because it was time to give this crystal scrying a go.

Toby headed up to grab a crystal on his own, dangling it in front of his face to inspect it closely before he went ahead and tried scrying. So prettyyyyyyyy. Pretty enough that Toby was momentarily distracted from the task at hand.

Only momentarily though, because he very quickly remembered he was meant to be thinking up a question to asked this thing. Hm. HMMM. What did he want to know?

Maybe... something about his OWLs? Uhhh... or maybe not; that was sort of a big question. He'd be better off just starting off with asking about the weather or what was for dinner or something. HmmmmMMMMMMM.

[ArianaBlack]

Zander will still pretty weary of this whole scrying thing, so when Professor Morgan said that they were going to do some practice with the crystals... Zander was more than just a little disappointed. With another glance to Kevin, the Gryffindor walked up to the crystals and grabbed one for himself and one for his friend. Okay. Now what?

Circle for yes? The other thing for no. Or a location? Okay.

Zander didn't really have anything he wanted to find at the moment, so maybe a question would be the better bet. However, what would he even ask it?! There were so many question. And just what.

This was all assuming it would work actually. But still. What did he want to ask exactly? Hold up. This may take a moment. Or two. Or seven.

[Holmesian Feline]

They moved on in the class, casting aside the mirrors and bowls of water and further onto a new method of scrying, that of using crystals--on cording--and trying to get answers or find something by using said crystals. Benny wasn't so sure about it but he was doing his best to keep an open mind at least. Not shutting out the professor and what she was trying to teach them.

First things first...he needed a crystal to work with. Couldn't try anything without it of course. So getting up from his chair, the Gryffindor followed the actions of his classmates, coming up to the table and retrieving one from the collection there and returning to his seat. Step one done...now what to do with it?

[ArianaBlack]

So with crystal dangling from the string, Zander sat watching. Carefully trying to piece his question together. The Gryffindor was still unsure about this whole process in general. What would he even want to ask it anyways? There was one question that kept popping up over and over again. And the Gryffindor was just sure that it was the one he was meant to ask. Except, he wasn't sure if he wanted to ask it.

Could he bare to here the answer, if there even was one?

Maybe.

Looking up from the parchment he still had resting on the table, he thought for a moment longer. Okay, you know what? He was gonna ask. Concentrating really hard, the Gryffindor asked his question... But not out loud because it wasn't really something he wanted the others to hear. Especially not Kevin. The third year wouldn't let him live it down.

And then he waited.

At first, there wasn't any moment coming from the crystal, but right as he was about to give up, it started to budge. Was that a back and forth-- No. Wait, a CIRCLE?! YESSS!!! Zander could literally feel his spirit lifting, or was that just the corners of his mouth? Heh. If only this thing could answer non-yes-or-no questions too. Zander needed more background. Otherwise, this was actually kind of useless information, but not going to dwell on that now because things were gonna be okay after all. If divination really worked.

[Weasley174]

Angel was still trying to stop the sobbing. "Maybe your right sis." Angel wiped her eyes and then she heard what the Professor said... she decided that she would get some tea since it had worked last term when she was homesick and Professor Bentley had given her some.

Angel went and got a cup of tea and sipped it... she was still shaking a little bit but the tears were stopping. "I'm feeling much better Professor." Angel give her sister and the Professor a weak smile as she listened to what she had to do next.

Angel went and got a crystal and she whispered to it. "No bad news right... okay." Angel couldn't do with any more bad news it would be totally crazy and she would actually just stay in her seat crying.

[Hera]

Everyone else seemed to be right on into this activity, but frankly, while he LIKED having answers, he wasn't sure what he could ask that he'd want to know. Like, what if it was bad? Or not what he wanted to hear/see? What then?

..

SIGH.

Zeke held his crystal up by the string, his mind working to think of a question that wouldn't scar him for life. Figuring he couldn't go wrong with asking a subject specific question, Zeke focused his attention on the crystal, and then after a couple of deep breaths asked his question.

"Will I pass Divination?" he asked it.

It didn't move.
....

.....

That wasn't a yes, but it wasn't a no either. It as a not-working-right-now crystal.

Zeke took some more time to clear his thoughts, and focused on his crystal and his question.

"Will I pass Divination?" he repeated.

This time, there was movement. The crystal started moving, slowly at first and he couldn't safely make out the direction, but soon it moved around in circles. IN CIRCLES! That meant yes, right?

[Daydreamer11]

Jasmine watched as Professor Cassie used the crystal to answer a question and to find her kittens. Cool. Now they got to try asking a yes-no question using the crystal. Jasmine sat still for a moment. Would she finally get the answers that she wanted so desperately? Could they only ask one question? How about two, five, ten? She had a million questions, how could she narrow it down to one? If she could only ask one question, she would have to choose it wisely.

Trying to come up with the question she wanted answered most of all, Jasmine walked up to get her crystal. Returning to her seat, she made a decision. She would ask one question and try to quickly ask another one before they moved on to the next activity. Yes if she could get two answers, that would help a lot.

[Felixir]

Every other day, Tobias was constantly brimming with questions about everything. But today, could he think of a single thing he wanted to ask this crystal? Apparently not. Every possible question was immediately vetoed as one he didn't really want to know the answer to, until eventually Toby had come to the conclusion that being a Seer with enforced visions didn't really sound all that fun.

But yeah, task at hand and all. The Hufflepuff sat there, brow slightly furrowed in concentration as he stared around at the class in hopes of finding some inspiration.

"Uhh..." Toby looked back at the crystal, which was now hanging quite still. There was another moment of thought, and then... "Will I have fun this summer?"

Mmmmnothing yet. No movement at all. Toby squinted at the thing, but then... it started to move. Likely, it was something to do with his subconscious spurring the thing on and causing his hand to move and infinitesimal amount, but all Toby knew was that it was MOVING. He watched and waited and...

Circles, little circles. Niiiiiiiiiiiiice. Tobias grinned and was about to lower the crystal again when... it changed to just moving back and forth in a straight line? He stared. Stared for so long that soon enough it was back to swinging in circles again.

His crystal was trolling him.

:mellow:

[Daydreamer11]

Jasmine desperately wanted answers to her questions, but she was terribly afraid of what the answers would be. Nevertheless, she was determined to ask them because that was the only way she would ever find peace. Closing her eyes, Jasmine concentrated on her first question. That wasn't very hard to do because it was something she had been consumed with for a long time.

Jasmine held the crystal up by the string and let it dangle. Keeping her focus, she whispered her question. "Did Cris leave Hogwarts of his own free will?" Watching the crystal like a hawk, Jasmine waited for it to do something. Finally, when she could barely stand it anymore, it began to move. The crystal started to swing back and forth in a straight line. Jasmine exhaled, not realizing that she had been holding her breath the whole time. "I knew it", she thought to herself. At least that was what she had hoped.

Since Professor Cassie had yet to call time on the activity, Jasmine decided to go for one more question. This one was even more important than the previous one. She steadied the crystal so that it was still again. Then Jasmine began to concentrate once more, thinking about her next question. This one really made her afraid because yes or no, there was really nothing that she could do about the situation. She asked anyway. "Does Cris still love me?" This time it took a little longer for the crystal to move as if it was really pondering her question. Once it started to move, there was no question what it was telling her. The crystal began to move in a circle and it kept going round and round for a while before it slowed down. Well that answer gave Jasmine some satisfaction, but it was bittersweet. This activity raised more questions than it answered, but at least Jasmine knew something. Maybe she needed to revisit the crystal ball.

[Expecto-Penguin]

After Kace asked his question he waited patiently for his answer and he saw the crystal swinging back and forth and that meant a no. He shrugged and he still had time to change his future if he really wanted to or maybe he was gonna have a career involving Astronomy who knows? He wanted to ask a question and thought about Emmy. He grinned and said quietly so he only heard it, "Does Emmy love me?" Then he waited for what the crystal said and it was swinging in a circle and that meant a yes. He grinned widely, he didn't need a crystal to know that answer but it felt reassuring to know the answer.

After he did his two questions he wanted to know the answer to, he waited to know what the next activity was gonna be.

[Holmesian Feline]

Crystal in hand as he sat down at his seat once more, Benny tried to think what he could use the divination form to decipher. A question to ask to see if he could get the crystal to work and maybe find an answer to something in the long run. At first he was coming up with more questions that weren't so clear as to be answered in a yes or no format so he had to scrap them for other thoughts as he let his mind wander for a bit to try and thinking or others. Finally, the Gryffindor settled on one question in particular and Benny worked on gathering up his focus once more to set the crystal in motion, letting it dangle for a few moments in preparation.

"Will potions always be a struggle for me?" he asked aloud albeit quietly as if needing the energy in the room to hear it rather then simply thinking it in his mind. Not that he wasn't doing that as well to allow himself to focus on it rather than anything else that might remain there in his mind at the moment. Benny eyes were on the dangling crystal as it continued to move but nothing that seemed like either answer that Professor Glendower had mentioned as a clear sign.

Was he doing something wrong? Not focused enough?

[Lissy Longbottom]

Wait, what? Caleb was totally lost, because he'd been so focused on this stupid mirror, trying to see if Sophie's kneazle needed him or not. He missed the whole question bit, and now he was totally lost. Crystals? Kittens? HUH?

He looked at all of his classmates and deduced what he had to do for now, at least. Grab a crystal and ask it questions. Ok, he could do this. He put aside the mirror - a bit embarrassed that it had taken him this long to tune back into the lesson, but whatever - and then went to grab a crystal. He returned to his desk, and decided to go ahead and start asking questions.

"Is Sophie's kneazle alive?"

It didn't move. Was it supposed to do that? Or not? He really should have been paying attention....

[Weasley174]

Angel looked at the crystal and smiled. "Okay now it's time to get things going." Angel had no idea what was going to happen with her question but she had a personal one... well she had two but she would just ask one. "Oh Great and powerful Crystal.... does Benny love me?" Angel watched as the crystal started swinging in a circle movement.

"Awesome." Angel smiled as she knew that meant yes... she was totally happy about that and she couldn't wait until she got Benny to herself again so she could tell him exactly what was going on and what the crystal had just told her.

[kayquilz]

BEAM. Professor Morgan got a beam from big-mouthed McGee(a nickname she had for herself since she thought her mouth was just too big and bleghy). She bounced up to grab a crystal--BECAUSE SHE WAS SO READY TO GET HER CRYSTAL-SCRY ON. She was confident. Maybe a bit TOO confident--but Divination was somewhat easy for her. Well, not easy, but she definitely enjoyed and was having a little luck with it.

Unlike.....POTIONS.

Sigh.

She didn't want to think about Culloden's little pep talk to her the other day--it for some reason had made her more nervous for his class-but anyways. Ahem.

Grabbing a crystal, she sat back down and stared at it for a minute. Hmm. What could she ask it...hmmmm HMMM. OH. She smiled and held the crystal hanging in front of her. "Okay--so--Will my grandparents be satisfied with me this term?" She asked slooowly. Maybe it was too...specific? Or was she not specific enough? "You know--with my grades and stuff--" she added, since the crystal wasn't really doing anything.

And still...nothing.

Eden sighed and rubbed her face. "No seriously--I need to know if my hard work is in VAIN okay, Crystal? Will my grandparents be satisfied with my performance this term?" She asked, clearly, loud enough for the crystal to hear(did they have ears?!) and slowly.

[Jessiqua]

Zhenya had been holding her crystal over the map of Hogwarts, moving it up and down, all around, asking it the same thing over and over again, "Are there any mischievous little kittens here?" Waiting and waiting for a circle. There was lots of moving up and down, but not much circling happening… that was odd. She wondered how many kittens there were prowling through Hogwarts.

And then CIRCLE!

Zhenya beamed, she had figured out where a kitten was!! She just couldn't.. you know, work out exactly where it was. "Professor I think there's a kitten just down the stairs…" she looked harder at the map, "Yes it looks like there's a kitten somewhere on the seventh floor, near the class room."

[SarcasticStrawberry]

So many questions. Which one did she want to ask for this? Cinns had lots of questions, most of them were not yes or no anwsers. Hey she had a good question to ask the crystal.

She held out the crystal on a string in front of her and thought about the question. "Am I going to have fun this summer?" There the gryffindor kept her eye in the crystal. Waiting to see what the answer was going to be.

O_O WHAT???

No, that can't be right. It was moving in a straight line back and fourth. Was this thing broken? It was broke she just knew it. She had to have fun this summer. It was Cinna, she always had fun. Oh, she knew she needed to ask it a question that she knew the question to. "Am I almost fifteen years old?" Now she already knew the answer she would be fifteen a few days.

She watched the crystal move in a circle.What? WHAT??? Come on. This thing wasn't broken, was it? Head desk. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh.

[Lissy Longbottom]

Having absolutely zero success with this whole crystal thing, Caleb decided to ask a different question. Maybe the kneazle was too far out of the crystal's reading zone, or something like that. He didn't know. Or maybe he just wasn't focusing enough. That was always a possibility...

"Am I going to pass my OWLS next term?" he asked the crystal. THAT was an easy one, and something he was pretty sure he knew the answer to. After a few seconds, he noticed the crystal began to move slowly in a teeny tiny circle. So that was good, right? He looked at his notes to double check...yes, that was good. YAY!

[hermionesclone]

So........... he needed to ask the crystal a question. Just a test one to see if it would actually work or if it was gonna be as difficult as the other methods of scrying. Maybe that was something he should have done with the others, even if it would have been a little hard to do so.

"Am I awesome?" See? Easy question. One that wouldn't be hard to answer at all.

The crystal, though? Talk about taking its freaking time. Grayson was all set on seeing the thing moving around in a circle to answer his question -- maybe even moving around too quickly as if to say that it was a definite yes -- but the crystal was simply hanging there, not doing anything. What in the name of? THAT wasn't meant to happen. Other people had managed to get their crystals to move around so why couldn't he--

OH LOOK IT WAS MOVING!

And he was RIGHT! It was a circle. SMIRK. Of COURSE, he was awesome. Even the crystal knew--

.....................

.................................

What was with that LINE?! What he thought was turning out to be a circle ended up being a semi-circle when the crystal made an arc and then suddenly jerked over to the other side again. DEADPAN. Great. What was that answer? A maybe?????????? He wasn't okay with a MAYBE.

Scrying was stupid.

[Bazinga]

Zhenya had been holding her crystal over the map of Hogwarts, moving it up and down, all around, asking it the same thing over and over again, "Are there any mischievous little kittens here?" Waiting and waiting for a circle. There was lots of moving up and down, but not much circling happening… that was odd. She wondered how many kittens there were prowling through Hogwarts.

And then CIRCLE!

Zhenya beamed, she had figured out where a kitten was!! She just couldn't.. you know, work out exactly where it was. "Professor I think there's a kitten just down the stairs…" she looked harder at the map, "Yes it looks like there's a kitten somewhere on the seventh floor, near the class room."


Had anyone noticed what Professor Cassie was doing during their practice? No, well hehe, she was being quiet and getting ready for the main activity she had been planning. That and her little end of term treat. There was now cookies and brownies on a small table near the professors desk.

When someone caught her attention she turned to Zhenya. Her smile grew "Very good, yes it's Aries. I think he's headed for a little nap." She sensed him getting closer. Did the girl have her talents of sensing animals or had she been able to work the crystal? Either way it was impressive and shew as getting snaps.

"Alright everyone, are we ready for some fun?" She snapped excitedly then pointed to the now empty basket. "While you were practicing I sent your personal items away to find a new place on the grounds. It is now your job to go out and find your item." Wasn't that fun and exciting!! "You are welcome to use any form of the scrying you feel more comfortable with. The crystal ball, the bowl of water, these hand held mirrors, or the crystal with the maps." Pointing to the little pile of maps so that they knew there were one for each of them. Looking at her watch she smiled. "You have one hour to go and find your item and come back here. Once back you can celebrate the end of your little scavenger hunt and term with some cookies and brownies, punch, and a little gift. The gift is that the crystals you hold in your hand right now are yours to keep." She grinned at the all excited to be giving her students something.

"Alright you can begin." She turned to get a brownie, "Oh and if in an hour you haven't found your item, don't worry I will get it back to you. It's not lost forever and it is safe, I promise!"

OOC: Alright guys, this is going to be the last big activity. There will be no homework so this is kind of a final/replace of homework. In five posts have your charrie leave the classroom, go in search of their item, find or not find their item, and then come back to the room. Anywhere in the castle or on the grounds can be in your search. It is up to you whether they find it or not. Once you are finished post back in here as your charrie coming back with their item. Link all your posts that you have done to get full credit! You have until Friday, November, 28 at 11 p.m. Est. Have fun!

[Felixir]

Toby had been sitting there, just deadpanning at his crystal, when the question 'are we ready for some fun?' got his attention, and got it good. He looked up, still dangling the crystal in front of him, and saw- WERE THOSE BAKED GOODS? Toby loved baked goods.

He sort of sat there staring at them for a moment until he realised exactly what Professor Morgan was saying.

She... she'd sent away the items. His wings.

She.

What.

Wings.

Gone.

.................

And they had to FIND them, using scrying. WELL, at least it was good that Professor Morgan would get them back for them if they weren't successful; for a brief second Toby had had thoughts of his wings being lost forever. But no, of course the professor would pull through. And hey, they got to keep their crystals too!

SO THEN... what method would he use? Not the bowl of water, that method hadn't yielded any results for him at all. Toby also wasn't entirely sure if the crystal ball would help him here; last time he'd tried he'd seen only a lot of smoky figures and then darkness. The mirror was a good option, hadn't he been pretty successful with that already? But perhaps the crystal was the way to go, as you had to ask it a direct question, AND it used a MAP and could literally point him exactly where he needed to go. He ran the risk of Seeing something totally unrelated with the other methods, or perhaps a location that was difficult to pinpoint, if he Saw anything at all.

Toby just... had to hope that the crystal wasn't going to keep trolling him.

Seeing that the map was free, the Hufflepuff headed over it and held his crystal up above it. He waited a moment for the crystal to settle before he asked anything.

"Where are my fairy wings?"

As before, there was no movement at first. Or for a few moments. Or... a few minutes. Toby squinted between the crystal and the map.

"Where are my fairy wings? ... Please?"

........... Still nothing. Toby wondered if perhaps that meant the crystal was already pointed at their location, and was about to check to see exactly where that was when... MOVEMENT. Only... a very SLIGHT movement, maybe just a fraction of an inch, pointing towards the lower levels of the school. Entrance Hall? It was worth a shot.

Stepping back from the map, Toby wasted no time in heading out the door and hurrying down the steps, fully intending to stop and ask his crystal if he was on the right track throughout his quest.

[WhittyBitty]

Still excited about the answer to her question, Lux decided to ask the crystal something else. This one she knew the answer to already, but she still wanted to ask because it made her happy. "Does Bay love me?" No surprise when the crystal began moving in a circle; she had known that he did for ages.

Pleased with herself, Lux didn't notice the cookies and brownies until Professor Cassie began discussing the final activity with them. Oooh, that sounded like a lot of fun! And there would be punch on top of food! She really was one of the best Professors and the fact that they could keep her crystals was super cool. It kind of reminded her of a magic eight ball. Now she needed to decide what form of scrying to use.

Thankfully she had given in her teddy bear. Relieved she fingered the necklace Bay gave her as well as the charm he had made for her. What if something had happened to them despite what Professor Cassie said? Just the thought of it made her sad.

[Lissy Longbottom]

Ugh, Caleb should have known when they had to bring a personal item that it would be used against him. His watch was now GONE. If he couldn't find it...he was not going to be happy. His dad had given him that for his birthday!

He decided to go with the crystal...because he didn't really feel like doing the whole reflection thing. It was too distracting trying to look through the reflection and look for other symbols when all he could see was himself.

He laid out the map of the castle and held the crystal up, clearing his throat. "Where is my watch?" he asked. The crystal began to spin after a few minutes, which he figured was a good sign...then it started to hover over the dungeons. That would make sense - if Morgan had sent it away, it would make sense to send his to his common room, which he could actually ACCESS as opposed to the other ones.

Well, it was a start! He grabbed his crystal and his map and headed over.

[WhittyBitty]

After a few moments of thought, Lux decided to go with the crystal. Not only was it already in her hand, but there was no relaxation and opening of the inner eye required. It was simply less mentally taxing and would probably yield the better results since it involved pointing to a location on the map.

Taking a map for herself, she spread it out over the table. Time to see if this actually worked or not. Fortunately if she didn't end up finding her teddy bear Professor Cassie would give it back. Not as if she hadn't trusted in the woman to do just that, but it was always reassuring to hear anyway. Holding the crystal over her map,L ux focused on the question she wanted to ask. "Where is my teddy bear?"

At first there was no movement, but then she could see the crystal starting to swing around. This was awesome, and she waited eagerly to see where it would end up being. After a few moments, the crystal settled on the library. Okay, now she had an idea of where to look.

Crystal in hand, she made her way out of the classroom. When she got to the library she would use the crystal to judge if she was hot or cold.

[ArianaBlack]

Huh? She hid their personal items? And... Personal meaning his sock. Wait. But he needed that sock!! His others had holes and he was reeeeaaaaalllyyyy starting to feel weird without one of them on. How the heck was he going to find one white sock in the entirety of the huge cast--

Oh wait.

The crystals. They had some sort of GPS contraption in them right? That's what Professor Morgan was talking about earlier, wasn't it? Something about it revealing hidden objects or something... Kind of like the yes or no thing but with locations? Okay. That shouldn't be too bad.

"Uh, hey crystal... Do you know where my sock is?" he tried, watching as it refused to budge. GAH. Okay so this was probably going to be a lot harder that the yes or no. Hm. "Where is my sock?" he tried again. This time, there was a little bit of movement... And it was coming from.... Near the... Towers? Uh, okay.

It was worth a shot... So gathering the rest of his belongings, and his map, the Gryffindor got up and started walking out of the classroom. To the towers he goes!

[Holmesian Feline]

Benny continued to focus in his hanging crystal and his question hoping for some sort of answer to the latter. Some movement that gave a clue if he was going to have any luck in one of his harder subjects or not. Was that a circle? Nope...not really. Unless that was all he was going to get out of it. However as Professor Morgan called out and snapped to get their attention again, the fourth year gave it up.

Wait...what? Angel's dragon was missing...and he had to find it through Divination?

He was sunk, he really was. He had to find it...wherever it was. Maybe he should have used something a bit less special. But it was too late now. Ben wasn't even aware of the woman's assurances that their belongings would be returned no matter what, his mind already busy with trying to pick out his best option to find it.

Water bowl?...mirror?...crystal scrying with the map?

Well the first one didn't seem all that transportable so that was out for sure, leaving the mirror and crystal. Mirrors were involved in looking for 'Snow White.' Yet the inclusion of a map seemed it might be able to pinpoint a location better. In the end, Benny took the mirror he had been practicing with earlier in hand once more and took a map, placing it with the crystal in his pocket for now. The boy taking leave of the classroom as directed in search of his lost belonging.

[Jessiqua]

Zhenya was pleased she was getting so many snaps this lesson. That was something she had learned during this lesson - she wasn't rubbish at it! Well woo-hoo! But… now she had bigger fish to fry.

Her book was missing!!

She took a rather dry throated gulp, trying to keep the hysteria from bubbling up. No, Professor Cassie had assured the class their items would be kept safe AND if they couldn't find them, they would be safely returned. Yes, that was all. Zhenya would use one method to find her book. But which method?

She had succeeded in using the mirror, although she was ever so slightly nervous about using it again. What if she saw something else from the past, rather than where her book was? No, she thought that perhaps she should leave that one alone. What about the water? Well, she hand't really given herself a good chance with the water because she was disheartened and frightened. So… the crystal. Well, she thought that was a simpler way of scrying, so she decided to use that method.

She went to get a map, and still holding the crystal from before, she held it over the map, asking "Is my book here?"
She moved it all around the map, working her way from top to bottom. It started circling on the fourth floor… that was the library! She smiled, thinking DUH! And set off towards the library...

[Hera]

Was he ready for fun? Was that a trick question???? Zeke watched Professor Cassie with great suspicion. Fun wasn't something he attributed to Professor's and class work... unless it was Professor Airey, that man couldn't help but he FUN.

..

And then the bottom of his stomach dropped out. DROPPED OUT.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!

He had trusted her.

He had surrendered the only item that he always held close to him.

And SHE violated that trust, by hiding it!!!!

Temporary sure, but what if something happened to it in his and her absence? HUUUUHHHH? HUUUUUUUUH?! What if a student was playing hooky and found it, and took it, or broke it, or something. PEEVES! WHAT IF PEEVES GOT HIS HAND ON IT?!?!!?!

Zeke fell forward, thwacking his head on the edge of the table with a level of drama he thought he'd left at home. His life was over.

He didn't care about brownies or punch or stupid crystals... he wanted his pocket watch!!!!!

Ugh.

UUUGGHHH.

[FearlessLeader19]

His Batman watch...gone. And he was supposed to go find it using one of the scrying methods. AWESOME! This was going to be so much fun! But only so if he could repeat his performance with the crystal. Yep, it was the crystal he was going for. It was the only method that had worked for him.

Adi grabbed one of the maps and brought it back to his desk. He held up the crystal and focused on the question in his head. "Where is my Batman watch? Where is my Batman watch?'' Intense focusing going on here. Hehe.

The Hufflepuff wanted to find the watch as soon as possible. Brownies and cookies awaited. Oh look! Slight movement from the Crystal...towards the Grounds. Cool! Now that he had a sense of where to begin his search, Adi cheerfully left the class.

[MudInMyBlood]

How did she know that something like this would happen? Okay, so she didn't know that this exact thing would happen, but she figured something was up when you had to bring a personal item. It all just seemed fishy to her. Now her dad's pocket watch, that he had given her because she was totally his favorite, was missing.

Cookies, brownies, punch, AND a gift. Now this was more like it. Plus, the professor said that even if they didn't find it that their items wouldn't be lost forever. AJ would just hold her to that because if she lost her dad's pocket watch there would be a very unhappy lion of her hands. And you don't want to see her when she's angry.

What to choose? What to choose? Did it really matter when nothing worked for her? This was going to be a disappointing scavenger hunt, she could just feel it. The bowl of water was out of the question because the only thing THAT would accomplish would be here making a mess with the water. Crystal ball or the mirror was calling to her only because it made her giggle thinking about walking around with both trying to find something.

In the end she decided on the crystal ball for giggles alone. AJ went and grabbed her one. "Okay crystal ball, it's just you and me... where is my dad's pocket watch?" Did it work like that? AJ didn't feel any different, but she packed up her ball and headed out the class.

[kayquilz]

As soon as Eden asked her question, the crystal began to spin in an out of control kind of way--which, really, was a bit scary. The Ravenclaw didn't let go, though, and the crystal slowly began to get less crazy--and finally swung in a perfect circle.

Well.

What in Merlin's oversized baggy-tshirt did THAT mean? She had no clue. Was it a GOOD thing? Like answering her question in a GOOD way? She supposed she was taking it as such, and smirked as she let the crystal down on her desk. HMPH. She'd have to write to her Mam to tell her and ask what SHE thought. Because her muggle mother was SUUUUCH an expert on it and all. HEHE. Smiling, she went to replace her crystal as Professor Morgan began talking.

[Daydreamer11]

Oh Professor Cassie was too sneaky, hiding their things while they were distracted. Now they were charged with finding them. The thought that her necklace was missing filled Jasmine with panic. What if she couldn't find it? She would never forgive herself if it was lost. Then Professor Cassie assured them that they would get their belongings back one way or the other and that took the pressure off. First Jasmine had to devise a plan. How was she going to get her necklace back?

Jasmine thought about the situation for a moment. Were they meant to only use one method of scrying? She had been most successful with the bowl of water and the crystal, but which one should she choose? Finally she decided that she would use the crystal. She could get more specific information with that.

Jasmine went up and got a map and returned to her seat. Then she opened her map and held the crystal by the string, letting it dangle over the map. Concentrating hard, she asked the question. "Where is my necklace? Please tell me. It's very important." Waiting was the hardest part for Jasmine. She had absolutely no patience when it came to finding her necklace. Eventually, the crystal began to move. The crystal swung over a wide area so it wasn't exactly a precise answer. Jasmine did know that the answer was outside the castle so she packed up her things and left the classroom. She would hve to ask more questions once she got outside.

[Expecto-Penguin]

He heard what the professor said and apparently his sketchbook was somewhere in the castle. That shouldn't be too hard to find at all. I mean it could be anywhere. He shrugged and was gonna move through it. Now which method to use. Which one was he most comfortable with? He could use the mirror but that would probably be best because it can be portable. He wasn't gonna use the water because that would cause messes. He could use the crystal too because it was easy to carry. If he had to choose he would choose the crystal. He grinned and was happy with his decision.

He went to the front of the room and got his crystal. Once he had it and before he went on his wild goose chase for his sketchbook, he wanted to ask some questions. He wondered where it could be. He literally had NO idea. He began to think logically and asked, "Is my sketchbook on the Hogwarts grounds?" he asked being concentrated on that one question. He saw the crystal swinging back and forth indicating a no. Well that was good he didn't have to search the whole grounds. That was a plus. He began to ask it again and asked, "Is my sketchbook somewhere in the castle?" he asked and the crystal began to slowly circle around which meant a yes. He beamed and thought that was great.

He wondered where in the castle? He thought about possible locations. He wanted to go and see the library first. He got out of his seat and would meet back here once he found it.

[Sararara]

LARRY! Norah's eyes widened as she listened to the instructions for the activity. She took Larry somewhere? But her lion! She needed him! Looking down at the crystal in her hand, narrowed her eyes at it with a determined nod. Bring it on, Crystal Thing. She had a lion to find.

Holding the string up, she asked "Is Larry in this room?" The crystal began to swing back and forth, indicating that the answer was no. Poop. That would have been much easier than looking around the whole castle.

[Weasley174]

Angel had brought a personal item with her... she had been wondering why she had needed to... she had brought the Dragon Keychain that Benny had brought for her... she listened to the Professor. "Professor you do know that in the muggle world taking without permission is theft and you can go to jail if someone calls the police on you... and then they come and take you to have a quiet chat with them." Angel was just being truthful with the Professor.

[Bazinga]

Angel had brought a personal item with her... she had been wondering why she had needed to... she had brought the Dragon Keychain that Benny had brought for her... she listened to the Professor. "Professor you do know that in the muggle world taking without permission is theft and you can go to jail if someone calls the police on you... and then they come and take you to have a quiet chat with them." Angel was just being truthful with the Professor.


She grabbed a brownie and turned hearing someone speak. Chuckling she took a bite and chewed as she thought about what Angel has said. "Well good thing we aren't in the muggle world." She chuckled more, "Plus it's not stealing if it's a game and this is exactly what it is." She gave the girl an encouraging smile.

Taking another bite of her brownie she looked around the room. Some had left already while others were still hanging around. Well it was there time so if they wanted to take more time in the room she didn't have an issue with that. Checking her watch she decided she could clean up the room a bit while she waited.

[DaniDiNardo]

The potion had properly evacuated the Gryffindor roughly around the time the Professor explained what had happened to everyone's possessions. Gone, somewhere on the grounds or in the castle but GONE. HOLY FRICKIN' KNEAZLE!!!!--Literally!!! You did NOT let Felix out by himself under any circumstances! It was just NOT a good idea and here it was being done.

She didn't care where the Professor banished the kneazle, she could already think of a few places he'd relocate himself to. This should have been said earlier, she'd have dug up something that DIDN'T move after you put it down to take to class.

Or for Merlin's sake!

Alexa threw all her belongings into her bag figuring when she got back there would be no more notes to be taken then tried to rationalize the whole thing having already forgotten about the crystal in her hand. What could would this do? She didn't have time to go talking to it when her kneazle was probably half way up to the Owlery by now!! Oh Merlin! Oh Merlin! Oh Merlin!

No time to waste, the Gryffindor grabbed a map and darted from the room.

[griffin]

They had to find their items? This looked like it would be fun. Maybe they could use the crystal and the map to find the snap cup after they found their items. "Professor Cassie, do you think we can find the snap cup with the crystals and maps?" She would have to try that later. It might actually work. Having the snap cup back would be good.

Penelope grabbed her crystal and map, ready to search for her item. Before attempting to look for her item using the crystal, she was going to investigate the fifth floor. She didn't know why, but she just had a good feeling about the fifth floor.

[Hera]

Zeke kept hold of his crystal and got himself a map to work with, it would surely be easier than trying to SEEEE things, or trying to search for them in general... and it was a shame he hadn't learned how to summon things yet. Cause, a summoning charm would still work, no?

...

Sigh.

Focusing all his attention on the map, crystal-on-string in hand, Zeke thought about his compass, and considered where it might be.

"Is my compass in the castle?" Zeke asked his crystal. Eyes on it intently. No response.

He needed to FOCUUUUSSSS!!!!

...

After a few deep breathes and visualising his compass, he tried again.

"Is my compass in the castle?"

This time the crystal started moving, in circles, smooth, very evident circles. Woooooot!

"Is my compass on or above level seven?" The crystal swayed from one direction to the next, but not in a circle. No. No it wasn't up this high.

"Is my compass on the sixth floor?" Nope, not there either.

"Is my compass on the fifth floor?" Nope.

"Is my compass on the fourth floor?" YES! The crystal was circling!!!!! YES!!!

Of course, he'd done all this without even using his map. Whooops?

Perhaps he should use his map, he still needed a precise location on the fourth floor...

With his crystal and map, Zeke waved to the Professor and decided to descent the tower to look about the fourth floor. He'd use the map once there. Who knows, it might give him a stronger connection to it if he used it at the approximate location.

[Ginevra]

Samantha grabbed a crystal and map as this form of scrying was something she had been interested in trying. She exited the classroom and headed for the Seventh Floor. She was determined to find her necklace.

[hermionesclone]

WHAT.

IN THE.

FREAKING.

NAME OF MERLIN?!?!?!!!!?!?!?!!!!

Grayson was livid. Positively LIVID. That was his FAVOURITE piece of ornament and something his father had given to him after things in his old school had gotten rough and now, it was freaking GONE?! Sure, Professor Cassie said that it was somewhere in the castle or grounds and they had to scry to find it but the likelihood of THAT happening was close to zero.

In short, he was screwed.

The boy could hardly think properly as he sat there and tried to make a decision as to which method of scrying would be best for him. At the moment, getting up and trying to search the entire castle and grounds sounded like a task that was much more likely to be successful than using the crystal or the bowl of water or the mirror OR the crystal ball. Though, in fairness, the crystal had given him SOMETHING while the others hadn't.

Getting up from his seat, the Slytherin headed over to grab himself a map before heading back to his seat. If he was gonna do this, he was gonna do it right. No messing about.

[SarcasticStrawberry]

Cinna was still a bit upset over the answer to her question. It only caused her to have more questions. Ugh. How was she not going to have a fun summer? Ah she knew what she was going to do. Pretend that the crystal said yes and moved in a circle. Yep that's what she was going to do. That way she wouldn't have to think about it or worry about it.

Turning her head and focusing on the lesson again. So they were doing one more activity. So that's why professor Cassie wanted them to bring a personal items. Oh scavenger hunt! She loves scavenger hunts and stuff like that. It was a good way to get her mind off of things. Her sketchbook though. She trusted Cassie with her precious sketchbook. It was one of her most important items to her. But still a scavenger hunt. This was going to me so much fun.

Now what was she going to use the crystal ball? Her eyes narrowed. Nooo, eh let's go back and think about this one other. The bowl? No. Absolutely NOT. The mirror? No she couldn't even get it to work. So that one she was going to pass on too. That left the crystal on the string. Liar. Upsitting her but it seem like the quickest and easiest way to find her sketchbook.

Only having an hour, the gryffindor grabbed a map and her crystal on a string and took off to find her precious.

[Ginevra]

Samantha re-entered the Divination Classroom with her cat necklace now fastened around her neck.



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"Found my necklace, Professor," Sam said to her Divination teacher with a smile as she tapped her fingers on her necklace. She looked around.

"Erm..what do I do now?" Sam enquired.

[WhittyBitty]

Cuddling Teddy, Lux made her way back into the classroom with a smile on her face. "I found my teddy bear," she told Professor Cassie before grabbing a cookie, a brownie, and some punch. Now this was what she called a final. It was awesome like her last class with Culloden and her last class with Flamsteed.

Thinking about classes ending made her think of Bay leaving and that made her sad; she didn't want to be at Hogwarts without her Lion. Pout. Taking her seat she sat Teddy on the table before starting to eat. Wanting to distract herself from sad thoughts, she wondered if her friends would have any luck finding their possessions.

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[Bazinga]

They had to find their items? This looked like it would be fun. Maybe they could use the crystal and the map to find the snap cup after they found their items. "Professor Cassie, do you think we can find the snap cup with the crystals and maps?" She would have to try that later. It might actually work. Having the snap cup back would be good.

Penelope grabbed her crystal and map, ready to search for her item. Before attempting to look for her item using the crystal, she was going to investigate the fifth floor. She didn't know why, but she just had a good feeling about the fifth floor.

She was just the sweetiest thing, wasn't she? "That is just sooooo sweeet to think about my snapcup!! It is a thought, but let's focus on your item for now. Maybe once the class is over we could give it a try." Why hadn't she thought about it before. Looking at the crystal ball she thought about possibly taking a look while waiting.

Samantha re-entered the Divination Classroom with her cat necklace now fastened around her neck.



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"Found my necklace, Professor," Sam said to her Divination teacher with a smile as she tapped her fingers on her necklace. She looked around.

"Erm..what do I do now?" Sam enquired.

Cuddling Teddy, Lux made her way back into the classroom with a smile on her face. "I found my teddy bear," she told Professor Cassie before grabbing a cookie, a brownie, and some punch. Now this was what she called a final. It was awesome like her last class with Culloden and her last class with Flamsteed.

Thinking about classes ending made her think of Bay leaving and that made her sad; she didn't want to be at Hogwarts without her Lion. Pout. Taking her seat she sat Teddy on the table before starting to eat. Wanting to distract herself from sad thoughts, she wondered if her friends would have any luck finding their possessions.

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As the hour moved on she glanced up seeing the first two back and she snapped to congratulate them! "Bravo... Bravo!! Wonderful job, both of you!" It was so exciting to see that they were getting scrying and could find their objects!!

Pulling out the cups she grinned, "Get some brownies or cookies and some punch! It's time to celebrate that you did it!! Great job!" This was so exciting!

[Daydreamer11]

Jasmine made it back to the classroom with a few minutes to spare. Clutching the ballerina around her neck, she went over to her seat and sat down. She was a little winded, but that was mostly because of the rushing and the stress of being separated from her most precious possession.

After a moment, Jasmine got up and went over to get some snacks. Taking her cookies and punch back to her seat, she could finally relax. She had learned that she could be successful in some forms of scrying and that made her smile. Now Jasmine had big plans for her little crystal and she still meant to give the crystal ball another try.

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[Jessiqua]

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Zhenya was almost running to get back upstairs to divination. She forgot what time it was and didn't want to be late and disqualified… if that was a possibility? When she got back upstairs to the Divination Classroom she beamed at Professor Cassie, "I found it in the library!" She was delighted that she had actually found it. Obviously she wasn't so bad at Divination! And that was actually fun, she decided that she liked Divination now, and was sad it was their last lesson of the term. Well, first and last for Zhenya. If only she had returned back to school at the beginning of term. She held the crystal in her hand, examining it. It was hers. "Thanks for the crystal, Professor, I really love it!" Yep, they were all very lucky to have been given the crystal as a gift!

[ArianaBlack]

The Gryffindor walked all the way back to the divination classroom, in a kind of nervous panic. He was about to lie about his find. Turning more and more like Kevin with each passing day. It was kind of... Scary.

As he walked into the room, however, he put on a triumphant smile-- did that look triumphant enough???-- and walked back towards his seat. Yup. The sock he was holding in his hand was definitely the one that he had put in the 'things' pile at the beginning of class. It totally wasn't the other sock that he was wearing on his other foot. Nope. It was the same one. Heh. Heh. Heh.

Raising the worn sock into the air, he looked at Professor Morgan with a smile. "I have my sock, Professor." Yup. His sock. Not going to draw any attention to the other 6 pairs he had sitting in his bag. Those of which, he er, had no idea who they belonged to. Yeah, never accio socks in a castle full of socks people. Especially when you're near a Gryffindor Common Room. For all he knew, he could have had the Headgirl's socks in his possession. She'd be furious.

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[WhittyBitty]

The snacks were yummy and Lux was happy to see more people come back with their personal items. Success was always a nice thing to see even if the items would be returned regardless. She did have a question, however.

Walking over to the Professor, she asked, "Just how accurate ARE these crystals?" She hoped Professor Cassie didn't find the question rude because she didn't mean for it to be. She was merely wondering because of the response she had gotten from the crystal about her career; she so wanted it to be true. The reply to her question about Bay was obviously correct, as were the replies to her questions about Teddy....but she still needed to know for sure. Otherwise she would have a part of her that felt it was all a coincidence and maybe she wouldn't be a successful Potioneer.

Having self-doubts really sucked.

[Jessiqua]

Once Zhenya had composed herself; no more gasping for breath, she remembered there were SNACKS! Of course she had to have some! She made her way back to her feet and wondered over to the snacks table, browsing it. Her crystal was safe inside her pocket, and she knew just what to do with it! It was going to go into her safe box which was safely in her trunk down in her dorm. She would keep it safe. She decided on some punch and a brownie, which were DELICIOUS!

[Felixir]

"Honey, I'm hoooooome!"

Into the classroom bounced a VERY happy Tobias Tempus. He now wore his fairy wings, the personal item that he'd had to go searching for through the castle, and had clearly been quite successful. The wings shook glitter everywhere, and Toby beamed around at those now left in the classroom.

"I found 'em," he added to Professor Morgan, just to be super clear on the matter. "Can I have a brownie now?"

SUPER SWEET SMILES.

SUGAR PLS.

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[Hera]

He was close behind a Puffer on his way back up through the trap door... and Zeke couldn't help but snicker a little. Hehehehehehe. Did the dude just say Honey? like... calling the TEACHER, HONEY? AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... funniest thing, EVER.

After his snide giggling fit, Zeke straightened up and beamed at those present. Hihi. Just a firstie here.

But it was time to steal some thunder, he wanted happy moments too.

"I did it professor!" he said, dangling his compass by its necklace. Weeeheeee. "Does that mean I pass?" He needed to know these things. Important parents to impress and all.

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[Weasley174]

Angel had been in so much shock that she hadn't even thought about looking for her item... the Professor was saying it wasn't theft, well she would love to see what the Professor thought if she took an item of hers and used it for a game though of course she couldn't do it now her Dragon Keychain was missing and she needed to find it.

Angel was rubbish at using the water bowl and the mirror would be hard but the crystal now that would be good because well she could use that anywhere. She quickly picked the Crystal up and asked it a question. "Is my keychain in here?" Angel waited to see what the Crystal said. The crystal swayed from one direction to the next, but not in a circle. So that meant that it wasn't in here... okay time to go and look on the grounds somewhere then.

Angel quickly left the room... she had to find this keychain it was her favourite one and she would hate it if it never came back, she wasn't sure if to trust the Professor about it not being lost forever, how did she know this was a game and not a test.

[kayquilz]

OH NO. Eden's BRacELET was LOST. SO they had to go fine their thiiiiings? Well this was like...AN EPIC GAME OF HIDE AND SEEK!!!! The Ravenclaw sighed and went to grab a map--eyeing those TREATS over there--SHE WANTED TREATS REALLY BAD. She wanted one NOW, too. Should she try to...sneak one? Glancing at Professor Morgan--and then the treats---well she felt BAD sneaking one, so she just siiiiiighed and went back to her seat. Merlin.

Damn her conscience!

She didn't even SIT. No need. She was about to get back up anyways.

"Okay, Mrs. Crystal-" She made her crystal into a woman because..WELL SHE DIDN'T KNOW BUT SHE JUST WAS OKAY? "Tell me--WHERE IS MY BRACELET? AND I WON'T HURT YOUR FAMILY--" Okay. Bad cop. Eden was playing BAAAAD cop. "Tell me RIGHT THIS INSTANCE-----" and luckily for Mrs. Crystal and her little crystal family--which, Eden was bluffing about, actually, she could NEVER harm even a CRYSTAL family, OKAY?--it started moving around above the map----AND BAAM.

BAM BAM BAM.

The crystal landed on a spot on the second floor------EDEN SWIPED THE MAP UP AND TOOK OFF----SECOND FLOOR HERE WE COME.

[Expecto-Penguin]

Kace made his way back to the Divination Tower and he had his sketchbook in his hand. He finally found it and smiled towards Professor Cassie. "Very clever Professor Cassie...hiding my sketchbook in my room. I was looking all over that I didn't think of the obvious.." he chuckled but the crystal did help though. He saw all the other students eating snacks and he wanted some. He was quite thirsty took looking at the library, (http://www.snitchseeker.com/hogwarts-library/library-bookshelves-98325/index5.html#post11689376) the hufflepuff table in the great hall, (http://www.snitchseeker.com/the-great-hall/hufflepuff-house-table-98436/index2.html#post11689605)the tree house (http://www.snitchseeker.com/hogwarts-grounds/tree-by-the-lake-98672/index9.html#post11689637) and his own room. (http://www.snitchseeker.com/hufflepuff-common-room/hufflepuff-boys-dormitory-98358/#post11689639)

He sat down and relaxed just for a minute. He was quite sweaty walking around the whole castle.

[Bazinga]

Jasmine made it back to the classroom with a few minutes to spare. Clutching the ballerina around her neck, she went over to her seat and sat down. She was a little winded, but that was mostly because of the rushing and the stress of being separated from her most precious possession.

After a moment, Jasmine got up and went over to get some snacks. Taking her cookies and punch back to her seat, she could finally relax. She had learned that she could be successful in some forms of scrying and that made her smile. Now Jasmine had big plans for her little crystal and she still meant to give the crystal ball another try.

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Seeing more people come in she grinned widely and snapped loudly! "Congrats Jasmine, I knew you could do it!" All this success was just ah-mazing and she just knew her students had it in them.

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Zhenya was almost running to get back upstairs to divination. She forgot what time it was and didn't want to be late and disqualified… if that was a possibility? When she got back upstairs to the Divination Classroom she beamed at Professor Cassie, "I found it in the library!" She was delighted that she had actually found it. Obviously she wasn't so bad at Divination! And that was actually fun, she decided that she liked Divination now, and was sad it was their last lesson of the term. Well, first and last for Zhenya. If only she had returned back to school at the beginning of term. She held the crystal in her hand, examining it. It was hers. "Thanks for the crystal, Professor, I really love it!" Yep, they were all very lucky to have been given the crystal as a gift!

Beaming at Zhenay as she gave her snaps she couldn't be more happy, "I'm just so glad you like them, I hope that it comes in handy for you." Crystals were great things to have.

The Gryffindor walked all the way back to the divination classroom, in a kind of nervous panic. He was about to lie about his find. Turning more and more like Kevin with each passing day. It was kind of... Scary.

As he walked into the room, however, he put on a triumphant smile-- did that look triumphant enough???-- and walked back towards his seat. Yup. The sock he was holding in his hand was definitely the one that he had put in the 'things' pile at the beginning of class. It totally wasn't the other sock that he was wearing on his other foot. Nope. It was the same one. Heh. Heh. Heh.

Raising the worn sock into the air, he looked at Professor Morgan with a smile. "I have my sock, Professor." Yup. His sock. Not going to draw any attention to the other 6 pairs he had sitting in his bag. Those of which, he er, had no idea who they belonged to. Yeah, never accio socks in a castle full of socks people. Especially when you're near a Gryffindor Common Room. For all he knew, he could have had the Headgirl's socks in his possession. She'd be furious.

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Seeing Zander she really gave him snaps, he had been so sure he couldn't scry and look he had his item!! "I just knew you could do it! Congrats!" She hoped they were all enjoying the refreshments.

The snacks were yummy and Lux was happy to see more people come back with their personal items. Success was always a nice thing to see even if the items would be returned regardless. She did have a question, however.

Walking over to the Professor, she asked, "Just how accurate ARE these crystals?" She hoped Professor Cassie didn't find the question rude because she didn't mean for it to be. She was merely wondering because of the response she had gotten from the crystal about her career; she so wanted it to be true. The reply to her question about Bay was obviously correct, as were the replies to her questions about Teddy....but she still needed to know for sure. Otherwise she would have a part of her that felt it was all a coincidence and maybe she wouldn't be a successful Potioneer.

Having self-doubts really sucked.

As she enjoyed some punch, Cassie was just happy and excited for everyone. Hearing a voice she turned and grinned toward Lux. "It's not the crystals that make them accurate, it's the person using them actually. If you are focused and determined, it will be very accurate. That's why I used personal items. If it was just a random thing, you wouldn't be as determined in finding it as you were with your own personal item." She was sure that gave the extra motivation.

"Honey, I'm hoooooome!"

Into the classroom bounced a VERY happy Tobias Tempus. He now wore his fairy wings, the personal item that he'd had to go searching for through the castle, and had clearly been quite successful. The wings shook glitter everywhere, and Toby beamed around at those now left in the classroom.

"I found 'em," he added to Professor Morgan, just to be super clear on the matter. "Can I have a brownie now?"

SUPER SWEET SMILES.

SUGAR PLS.

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Green eyes went to the door hearing a very interesting comment from a certain Hufflepuff. Laughing she gave him snaps, "Well I'm not sure about the greeting, but great job Toby! You did it!" She was excited that he was able to find his fairy wings. "You certainly did find them and I'm so glad you did, but I never had a worry." Nope her students were the best!

He was close behind a Puffer on his way back up through the trap door... and Zeke couldn't help but snicker a little. Hehehehehehe. Did the dude just say Honey? like... calling the TEACHER, HONEY? AHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... funniest thing, EVER.

After his snide giggling fit, Zeke straightened up and beamed at those present. Hihi. Just a firstie here.

But it was time to steal some thunder, he wanted happy moments too.

"I did it professor!" he said, dangling his compass by its necklace. Weeeheeee. "Does that mean I pass?" He needed to know these things. Important parents to impress and all.

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Seeing Zeke come in the room she gave more snaps, "Great job Zeke." Just about to sip on her punch again, she heard his words and almost chocked, swallowing she nodded. "Yes, of course you will be passing. I never had any doubt."

Kace made his way back to the Divination Tower and he had his sketchbook in his hand. He finally found it and smiled towards Professor Cassie. "Very clever Professor Cassie...hiding my sketchbook in my room. I was looking all over that I didn't think of the obvious.." he chuckled but the crystal did help though. He saw all the other students eating snacks and he wanted some. He was quite thirsty took looking at the library, (http://www.snitchseeker.com/hogwarts-library/library-bookshelves-98325/index5.html#post11689376) the hufflepuff table in the great hall, (http://www.snitchseeker.com/the-great-hall/hufflepuff-house-table-98436/index2.html#post11689605)the tree house (http://www.snitchseeker.com/hogwarts-grounds/tree-by-the-lake-98672/index9.html#post11689637) and his own room. (http://www.snitchseeker.com/hufflepuff-common-room/hufflepuff-boys-dormitory-98358/#post11689639)

He sat down and relaxed just for a minute. He was quite sweaty walking around the whole castle.

She laughed at Kace's comment and gave him snaps, "Congrats Kace, but you can't call me clever. I just sent them to the spot they wanted to be." There wasn't a rhyme or reason why an item when where it went. Though she was happy so many were being successful.

[ArianaBlack]

Seeing Zander she really gave him snaps, he had been so sure he couldn't scry and look he had his item!! "I just knew you could do it! Congrats!" She hoped they were all enjoying the refreshments.
Zander felt even more guilt when she started snapping. Hopefully Professor Morgan would never have to find out that he hadn't really found the real sock he was looking for. And instead of responding, Zander just gave her a weak smile and a small nod. Yup. He did it alright.

Uh yeah, gonna go stuff his mouth with some of the snacks so that he didn't feel as bad. Yup. Walking towards food things now. The Gryffindor grabbed a cookie and a brownie, before walking over and getting a cup of punch. Maybe he'd be too busy stuffing his face with the food to even think about the fact that there was still a missing sock somewhere around the castle.

[WhittyBitty]

Professor Cassie's reply to her question made a lot of sense, and Lux realized that intention was behind the success of a lot of things done in the magical world. Spells didn't work properly unless there was intention and focus behind them, and the same applied to scrying. As a form of scrying, she should have been able to put two and two together.

"That makes a lot of sense. Thank you for letting us keep our crystals. I really like mine and find it the easiest medium for scrying." Surely she would be able to come up with loads of uses for hers over the years. "And thank you for the snacks. They are really good." Professor Cassie was so nice always letting them have different things to eat or drink in her classes.

[Jessiqua]

Zhenya thought she would definitely find her crystal very helpful, and she nodded at Professor Cassie. She would have to draw maps of her house, and find another map of Hogwarts, especially in her dorm room, just in case she lost anything. How helpful was this? She could probably go home and show her mother how to use it too. She was forever losing things. It was much more time friendly than using all of her time frantically rushing around trying to find things. She nibbled on some more snacks and filled up her glass of punch again.

[FearlessLeader19]

Adi was back!

He had happily placed the watch on his right hand where it was now sitting next to the black one he usually wore. "Hey, Professor, I found my watch." He help up his hand, a grin on his face. "I actually got one of those methods to work.'' Which was so COOL, by the way, as he generally sucked at Divination. After leaving the class (http://www.snitchseeker.com/11688807-post208.html), his hunt had taken him to the Corridor to the Courtyard (http://www.snitchseeker.com/11689014-post67.html), The Courtyard (http://www.snitchseeker.com/11689236-post139.html) and finally The Wooden Bridge (http://www.snitchseeker.com/11689457-post197.html).

Now, where were those brownies and cookies? There was a hungry Puffer here. Hehe.

[Weasley174]

"I found my item Professor." Angel said as she walked into the room with the keychain in her hand. "Your not going to hide it again are you?" Angel didn't want to go and search for it again... she was hugging it at the minute because she was just so glad to see it.

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Angel smiled as she looked at the Professor. "So what do you want me to do now?" Angel was hoping that would be the end of everything because it was so hard searching for things and she hoped they could keep the crystal because that would be cool.

[Holmesian Feline]

The hardest point of the search had proved to be the return trek up all the staircases and ladders from the grounds and ground floor until he reached the divination classroom. While exilarated by his success, Benny was still a little weery when he returned. Thankfully after this he could return to the common room to relax and recoup some of the spent energy. They were done after this...right?

As he paused in place at the top to catch himself, the fourth year took notice to those who had arrived before him, spotting several housemates from Zeke to Zander and finally Angel. His bestie in the direction of the food that seemed more enticing now. "Success..." Benny absently said if heard any who cared as he came up beside Adi. The stuffed dragon safe and secure in one arm as he moved to take a glass of punch.


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Post 2 - Lachlan the Lanky - http://www.snitchseeker.com/11689044-post23.html
Post 3 - Entrance Hall - http://www.snitchseeker.com/11689591-post56.html
Post 4 - Pathways - http://www.snitchseeker.com/11690081-post129.html

[hermionesclone]

Asking it questions seemed to have worked last time -- kinda -- so that was what he was gonna do now. Just ask it a bunch of questions and hope against hope that it would give him the correct answer and not something kinda fishy like the one he asked last time. He wanted a solid answer, thank you very much. No weird semi-circles, please.

So, pulling himself up to his fullest height, Grayson took a deep breath and tried to clear his mind of all thought apart from the one dragon ornament he had. The one that was currently sitting somewhere, ready to be grabbed by someone's filthy hands who didn't deserve it. They would probably think that it was theirs now too. Stupid.

FOCUS, WHITTY.

"Is my dragon somewhere in the castle?" Grayson watched for a moment as the crystal hung there before............ moving side to side! FREAKING YES! Firstly, that took away seven floors, the towers, the dungeons and the basement and secondly, the crystal MOVED. ABOUT FREAKING TIME.

"Is my dragon in the grounds?" The crystal moved around in a circle. YES. Uh huh. And you know what this meant?

He was OFF to find the dragon ornament! GoodBYE class. Don't miss him too much, mkay?

[Expecto-Penguin]

She laughed at Kace's comment and gave him snaps, "Congrats Kace, but you can't call me clever. I just sent them to the spot they wanted to be." There wasn't a rhyme or reason why an item when where it went. Though she was happy so many were being successful.

Kace was gonna answer but shut his mouth and questioned. "Wait a minute....the place they wanted to be? You mean you didn't really hide them after all?" he was quite curious about this now. As he waited for his Professor's answer he went over and got some juice and cookies. The cookies tasted nice and even the juice was. He smiled and was finally done with the Divination task. It was bittersweet it was the last lesson of the term but he knew he may do well on the OWLS. How knows right?

[SarcasticStrawberry]

Artist and sketchbook reunited and it felt so good. It was a beautiful thing. She was never letting this percious out of her sight again. As soon as she gets out of class she was going to go sketch until her hand gets tired.

Mostly she was worried about not getting back to the classroom in the hour. But what do ya know she made it back. With plenty of time to spare. She made her way back to the classroom. Smiling with the sketchbook safety tucked in front of her. "I found my sketchbook." And boy was she happy.

Now could she get snacks? She had worked herself up a appatate.


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[hermionesclone]

HE WAS BACK!

And kinda huffing and puffing because MAN, that walk up from the lake was a long one. Why was this classroom so far away from th grounds again? And WHY couldn't she have hid his item somewhere that was closer to the seventh floor? There could have been a chance for him to get this job done earlier so that he could relax later and not have to worry about where the ornament was.

Speaking of ornament, it was currently clutched in his hand, almost as if the fifth year was scared of losing it again. He hoped that his usual confident stride didn't give away that idea, even if it was as true as the fact that he was a confident young lad.

Entering the classroom again, Grayson looked over towards the Divination Professor before saying, "Found my dragon, Professor Cassie," he said, holding out his palm to show the small model of a Chinese Fireball, which was currently sleeping and letting out small furls of fake!smoke through its nostrils. And he'd used scrying for it too. Uh huh!

Could he have some treats too, then?

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[DaniDiNardo]

Alexa strolled back into the Divination classroom with no sense of urgency whatsoever. The rush to leave had only been fueled by the worry brought on by her kneazle vanishing but that ordeal was over now and he was safely in her arms once more so........how long until they'd be able to leave? Stop eyeing the tea Felix, it was rigged. You think he'd know that by now but apparently not?

The Gryffindor walked back to her seat and flopped down on the cushion before allowing Felix to curl up in her lap. No doubt she'd interrupted his nap when she found him

While he made himself comfy she began dangling the crystal idly above his head. Swing swing swing. Lex watched her kneazle paw away at the shiny new possession of theirs, content to lay there and be fixated while they waited.

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[FearlessLeader19]

The hardest point of the search had proved to be the return trek up all the staircases and ladders from the grounds and ground floor until he reached the divination classroom. While exilarated by his success, Benny was still a little weery when he returned. Thankfully after this he could return to the common room to relax and recoup some of the spent energy. They were done after this...right?

As he paused in place at the top to catch himself, the fourth year took notice to those who had arrived before him, spotting several housemates from Zeke to Zander and finally Angel. His bestie in the direction of the food that seemed more enticing now. "Success..." Benny absently said if heard any who cared as he came up beside Adi. The stuffed dragon safe and secure in one arm as he moved to take a glass of punch.


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Post 3 - Entrance Hall - http://www.snitchseeker.com/11689591-post56.html
Post 4 - Pathways - http://www.snitchseeker.com/11690081-post129.html


Adi was flicking his wrist in this direction and that as he admired his watch. It had been forever since he had worn it but he always brought it with him to Hogwarts. It reminded him of his parents. Obviously. Yeah, yeah, fourth year prefect Adi missed his parents a lot sometimes. Who didn't get homesick?

Success? Adi turned. "Benny!'' Adi swallowed the cookie he was munching on. "Where did your dragon go hiding?" As always when the topic of Dragons came up, the Hufflepuff usually went off picturing himself turning his bestie into one of the awesome creatures. This time was no different.

[Bazinga]

Professor Cassie's reply to her question made a lot of sense, and Lux realized that intention was behind the success of a lot of things done in the magical world. Spells didn't work properly unless there was intention and focus behind them, and the same applied to scrying. As a form of scrying, she should have been able to put two and two together.

"That makes a lot of sense. Thank you for letting us keep our crystals. I really like mine and find it the easiest medium for scrying." Surely she would be able to come up with loads of uses for hers over the years. "And thank you for the snacks. They are really good." Professor Cassie was so nice always letting them have different things to eat or drink in her classes.

Giving Lux a smile as she seemed to understand the power of the crystals. "Make sure you thank a house elf for the ah-mazing treats. They do such a great job." She snapped for the elves even though they weren't there.

Adi was back!

He had happily placed the watch on his right hand where it was now sitting next to the black one he usually wore. "Hey, Professor, I found my watch." He help up his hand, a grin on his face. "I actually got one of those methods to work.'' Which was so COOL, by the way, as he generally sucked at Divination. After leaving the class (http://www.snitchseeker.com/11688807-post208.html), his hunt had taken him to the Corridor to the Courtyard (http://www.snitchseeker.com/11689014-post67.html), The Courtyard (http://www.snitchseeker.com/11689236-post139.html) and finally The Wooden Bridge (http://www.snitchseeker.com/11689457-post197.html).

Now, where were those brownies and cookies? There was a hungry Puffer here. Hehe.

Beaming at Adi as he came back in the room she gave snaps. "Well done! Well done! I just knew you could do it." Yes, all of her students were so bright. It was exciting to watch them succeed.

"I found my item Professor." Angel said as she walked into the room with the keychain in her hand. "Your not going to hide it again are you?" Angel didn't want to go and search for it again... she was hugging it at the minute because she was just so glad to see it.

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Angel smiled as she looked at the Professor. "So what do you want me to do now?" Angel was hoping that would be the end of everything because it was so hard searching for things and she hoped they could keep the crystal because that would be cool.

"Oh goodness no, this was a test and you have passed." Though even if they didn't find their item if they at least tried they would have passed too. "Go have some treats and punch before heading to your next lesson." Was it History of Magic? Maybe she'd make her way down there to visit Nessa if it was.

The hardest point of the search had proved to be the return trek up all the staircases and ladders from the grounds and ground floor until he reached the divination classroom. While exilarated by his success, Benny was still a little weery when he returned. Thankfully after this he could return to the common room to relax and recoup some of the spent energy. They were done after this...right?

As he paused in place at the top to catch himself, the fourth year took notice to those who had arrived before him, spotting several housemates from Zeke to Zander and finally Angel. His bestie in the direction of the food that seemed more enticing now. "Success..." Benny absently said if heard any who cared as he came up beside Adi. The stuffed dragon safe and secure in one arm as he moved to take a glass of punch.


Post 1 - Classroom - http://www.snitchseeker.com/11688754-post205.html
Post 2 - Lachlan the Lanky - http://www.snitchseeker.com/11689044-post23.html
Post 3 - Entrance Hall - http://www.snitchseeker.com/11689591-post56.html
Post 4 - Pathways - http://www.snitchseeker.com/11690081-post129.html


"Great Job Benjamin" She snapped for him as he entered with his lost item. This lesson had found it's self more successful then she could have imagined.

Kace was gonna answer but shut his mouth and questioned. "Wait a minute....the place they wanted to be? You mean you didn't really hide them after all?" he was quite curious about this now. As he waited for his Professor's answer he went over and got some juice and cookies. The cookies tasted nice and even the juice was. He smiled and was finally done with the Divination task. It was bittersweet it was the last lesson of the term but he knew he may do well on the OWLS. How knows right?

Chuckling at Kace's words she nodded, "I just vanished them to the placed they wanted to be. I wasn't even sure where they went." She didn't take them one at a time to their locations.

Artist and sketchbook reunited and it felt so good. It was a beautiful thing. She was never letting this percious out of her sight again. As soon as she gets out of class she was going to go sketch until her hand gets tired.

Mostly she was worried about not getting back to the classroom in the hour. But what do ya know she made it back. With plenty of time to spare. She made her way back to the classroom. Smiling with the sketchbook safety tucked in front of her. "I found my sketchbook." And boy was she happy.

Now could she get snacks? She had worked herself up a appatate.


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Smiling at Cinnamon she gave her snaps. "Great job!!" Yes, everyone was doing so well. "Help yourself to the snacks before you leave."

HE WAS BACK!

And kinda huffing and puffing because MAN, that walk up from the lake was a long one. Why was this classroom so far away from th grounds again? And WHY couldn't she have hid his item somewhere that was closer to the seventh floor? There could have been a chance for him to get this job done earlier so that he could relax later and not have to worry about where the ornament was.

Speaking of ornament, it was currently clutched in his hand, almost as if the fifth year was scared of losing it again. He hoped that his usual confident stride didn't give away that idea, even if it was as true as the fact that he was a confident young lad.

Entering the classroom again, Grayson looked over towards the Divination Professor before saying, "Found my dragon, Professor Cassie," he said, holding out his palm to show the small model of a Chinese Fireball, which was currently sleeping and letting out small furls of fake!smoke through its nostrils. And he'd used scrying for it too. Uh huh!

Could he have some treats too, then?

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Grayson was now back in the room and getting snaps. "Well done Grayson, well done."

Alexa strolled back into the Divination classroom with no sense of urgency whatsoever. The rush to leave had only been fueled by the worry brought on by her kneazle vanishing but that ordeal was over now and he was safely in her arms once more so........how long until they'd be able to leave? Stop eyeing the tea Felix, it was rigged. You think he'd know that by now but apparently not?

The Gryffindor walked back to her seat and flopped down on the cushion before allowing Felix to curl up in her lap. No doubt she'd interrupted his nap when she found him

While he made himself comfy she began dangling the crystal idly above his head. Swing swing swing. Lex watched her kneazle paw away at the shiny new possession of theirs, content to lay there and be fixated while they waited.

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Seeing Alexa come in with her Kneazle she beamed and snapped, "You did it!! Very good!" Did this help the seventh year be more familiar with the subject and maybe appreciate it more? Watching her sit down with the feline. "Be careful your pet doesn't scratch the crystal or it won't work as well for you." Still giving a big smile of excitement over how well they all have done.

Looking at the time she knew they needed to get going. "Alright, the hour is up. Great job everyone! If you do need me to summons your item back, please let me know. If you are finished and ready to leave you are dismissed, but please make sure you get some goodies on your way out. Seventh years it has been wonderful getting to know you. It has been ah-mazing getting to know you and watching you grow these past two years. I wish you all the best."