Well... the minor sucking up had worked. Tibi was now liked by Borr, though he wasn't sure that was an improvement. Tibi picked up his chair, struggling with it as it was nearly as large as he was, and made his way to the front. Facing his classmates, he sat in horror as Borr tore into student after student for their answers. Feeling his face heat up out of embarrassment, Tibi was nearly brought to tears when Borr kicked out students who had expressed interest in the actual topic of the class. He sat, gripping the bottom of the chair as Borr continued to speak.

Leaping to his feet, Tibi sprinted to the window, not wanting to be accused of being too slow. Standing on his tiptoes, and scanning the view, Tibi raised his hand as others pressed against him trying to get a look.

"I see the grounds, sir, grass and sky; the lake; trees;"

Evelyn released the breathe she was holding, but still kept perfectly still. 'He didn't yell at me thank merlin.' she thought, somewhat relieved. 'How do you know that? Maybe he's waiting till later.' the other voice said in her head, making her somewhat nervous again, like she always feels at her home.

Hearing his orders to look outside, she moved quickly and silently to the window, peering out at the scenery. "Umm, it looks like a beautiful day sir. The sun is shining, a few birds and clouds in the sky, the forbidden forest..." she trailed off as she watched a familiar black bird fly out of the trees. "And my owl..." she muttered to herself. 'What was he doing in there?'

Jack was completely speechless.

His head was NOT in the clouds! And his dream to be an astronaut was definitely NOT worthless. Did Borr have any idea how much training and education was required for that field of work?!? Pssh, who was he kidding, OF COURSE NOT! Borr might think that he was helping him, but he was just setting him further and further behind in his course to become an astronaut. He was ruining his lifeeee!

And he just KEPT SCREAMING AT HIM! Was it even possible to scream that much without losing ones voice? Fighting back the tears (oh Merlin PLEASE don't let anyone notice his eyes were watering!) he stood up and said, "Yes, your Lordship."

Stupid Lord Borr. Making him CRY. There was no crying in Quidditch! True, he hadn't actually shed a tear BUT he was verrrrry close. He stood up and gathered his things, calming himself down enough so that the watery tears gathering up in his eyes vanished. Ahh, there we go, nice and collected--

RUMBLE.

Jack froze as he got to the door. Good Merlin, was that that man's STOMACH?

HE WAS GOING TO EAT HIMMMMM!

Of course, THAT was why he was being sent to the lounge! Borr probably didn't care about shaping his future ambitions--he just wanted a nice, quiet place to eat him and those other two boys he was sending there as well! It was the perfect crime!

He was done for. DONE FOR. Gulping, his emotion immediately changed from heartbroken to terrified and he exited the room, heading to Borr's lounge with shaking limbs.

Lucy's eyes widened as he proclaimed herself as a GOOD RAVENCLAW. What the hell?! A GOOD RAVENCLAW?! You have GOT to be kidding! Lucy was not going to be a good Ravenclaw, not--wait a second. What if...what if being a "good Ravenclaw" might help her cause trouble for Borr? what if...hmm.

The Good Ravenclaws.

Yes, well, she, along with four others walked up to the front of the class, bringing her chair with her. She set her chair down aggressively, and plopped herself down in it. Slouching as much as she could that within a few seconds, her bottom was literally hanging off the chair, and she was practically holding her way with her upper body. Her legs stretched outward in front of her, on the floor. Ah, how relaxing. SLOUCHING.

She thought about hawking a snot-ball onto Borr's back but resisted the temptation. She had to respect the status of the "good Ravenclaws"...though she was somewhat off to a iffy start. It's not like she wanted this spot. She'd prefer it if she were a bad kid, and got sent out with those other kids like Jack. She, too, was an Astronomy lover and did NOT appreciate the fact that Astronomy was looked at as a foolish subject by Booger Borr.

After the end of Booger Borr's long, tedious, boring, unintelligent, rude, saliva-ball-throwing speech, his voice thundered once more, demanding that each of them report to the windows and report what they saw. Lucy SNORTED as loudly as she could, and stood up, YAWNING OBNOXIOUSLY and moved her way towards the windows.

Clouds. She saw clouds. She loved clouds. Her hands raised immediately. "Lord Borr, I see several clouds. One cloud in the shape of a bunny, another in the shape of your face, and a third in the shape of a kitty." she said. "Did you know that I like CLOUDS, sir? They're beautiful, yes." Lucy snickered quietly, and then muttered to herself, "Especially if they're in the shape of my mentors...and they're all screwy." For the cloud that supposedly looked like him was a bit skinnier, and somewhat messy. "Look, Lord Borr!! It's the skinnier version of you!! And his screwy face looks just like yours!! Eugh...it looks ugly."

Rayedem's heart had beaten more times, way more times in the past few minutes than he could remember ever feeling. He wasn't addressed as the good ones, nor the bad ones. He got to stay where he was until he was commanded to look outside the window. Wiping cold sweat from his forehead and trying to get his breath back to normal, he rose from his seat and walked towards the windows.

He waited patiently for the other students to back away from the windows as they were too crowded, then he looked through the nearest window. What's outside? The view was magnificent. Hesitating though he was, he finally said,

"I see the sky, sir. I see the clouds, white ones and darker ones, I can see the green grass on the grounds, and some black dots moving around--they must be the other students, and then," he paused, wondering if his answer was already sufficient for the evil Lord, then decided to continue, "I can also see the Quidditch pitch. It's quite far from here, but still visible. The goalposts are towering high. Oh, and the sun--it's sunny today, sir. The weather is wonderful."

Rayedem was smiling when he said the last sentence. The next second, he felt like he's made the biggest mistake, ever. What did I say? Did I just said a comment on the weather? Oh good lord, help me, he prayed in his heart that the evil Lord wouldn't make fun of him in front of the whole class.

Kaplinski ran to the window, "Professor I see the big beautiful sky and I see the Quidditch pitch off in the distance and I see all of the hills for they are so big and so great. I also see students walking around all over the place with the other Professors For it looks like an amazing and wonderful day out." K loved what she saw.

The nerve of this... this ...this MAN!! William shot a glare at the man that would deflate the best of them, his eyes dark and hate filled. Let him loose points, but he was on the verge of saying something that he knew he would regret later. Sitting there in his chair, he stuck out his chin and crossed his arms, as if daring that evil thing to say something to him.

Ok, so he had to go to the window, no problem. getting up fast, his chair clashing to the ground with a loud BANG he stalked over to the window, throwing another dangerous glare to "Lord" before looking out the window and growling. To be sarcastic or not to be sarcastic he mused, his heart beating steadily. What did he see? Well he saw the sky, himself, with his quivering lip and his fierce blue eyes glaring at the glass. Clouds, a bird and all of his respect for Borr flying out the window.

Ignoring the rather loud rumble coming from the professors stomach, he nodded, his mind made up. "Well professor, I see the clouds, the crystal clear blue sky, a bird flying towards a tree and my respect for you flying out this window." he replied, "For you to call other people's ambitions worthless is just improper." He said in a clear strong voice, loud enough for the man to hear him. He crossed his arms and turned around, his face set.

Theo frowned. His ambition wasn't worthless. He wasn't worthless. A little tear leaked out his eye. He wanted to be an astronaut. And he was going to be one! He nodded, "Yes Sir." He sniffed, and he left the room. Mean Borr!

Lyra gulped nervously when Lord Borr started addressing a few students. Lucky for her, she wasn't getting picked on so she breathed normally again....so far. The second year looked around at Evan and grinned at him before turning back to face the class again. Trying very hard not to laugh out loud when the Professor was trying to get up from his chair, Lyra watched with amused eyes as he started to roll it to the middle of the classroom, with him still on it.

'outside?' Lyra knew that this was Astronomy class but didn't they had to look outside for the stars and planets for Astronomy? It is Midday! for Merlin's sake. But still, Lyra stood up from her place and walked towards a window, making sure she moved far around the Professor. The Slytherin looked outside and saw the landscape which she started to sum up.
"I see the STAR-LESS! sky,
birds, possible Owls,
grass covering the ground,
some students walking around,
looooots of trees,"yes Lyra was amazed with so many trees around Hogwarts.
the sun,
clouds,
The Quidditch field
and mountains far away"

Yup that was it.

Amazing! His techniques in making people FEAR him was just so darned amazing. Willie aspired to be something like that. He watched as the pig like man (He'd be such a cool pig if he had his snout) yelled through out the class, his voice echoing through the walls. Willie was amazed. HE EVEN MADE A BOY CRY.

Oh man, this guy... This guy was full of epicness. HE WAS JUST SO AMAZING.

This man because his new Kazi.

Green eyes twinkled in admiration, growing into the size of eggplants. He clasped his hands together, his eyebrows now shooting up. At that moment, he looked like one of those anime characters in love. Only difference was that his eye didn't turn into a heart.

BORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!! His heart squeaked.

At his words, Willie obeyed and ran towards the windows, PUSHING and SHOVING everyone out of his way JUST FOR BORR. He WOULD NOT DISAPPOINT THE MAN! NEVERRRR!!!!!!

Pointing up at the sky, Willie hopped. "I THEEEE A BIRRRRDDD!!!! No, no NO WAIT! I THEEEEE I THEEEEE A BROOOOM!!!! NO NO NO WAIT!!!! I THEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE A BIRDIEEE AGAAAAAIN!!! I THEE IT PROFESSOORRR!!! I THEEE ITT!!!!!""

Excited much, Crocker?

It was unhealty for this man to talk to loud to their ears! Evan literally jumped when he yelled at the poor boys who wanted to be astronauts and stuff. His heart sank when Blake was yelled at too. He tried to smile or do anything at him, but he couldn't. He was too young to be eaten alive! It was a relief when he was neither bad nor good. He was unnoticible to his eyes. Good.

He could smile at Rayedem though, while he was backing off from the window. He wasn't sure if he saw it, but he did his best to show. He moved to the window and looked outside. There were clouds and no starts. He said what he saw. "There are NO stars as it is MIDDAY." Yes, he needed to stress that. "There are sun and clouds. And the castle grounds. Sir." Hehe, that was rhyming. He got back to his seat, biting his lips not to smile.

Oh. Merlin.

This guy was absolutely bloody mental.

Did he really expect to boss the students around like this? Who did he think he was? Lord Borr. It was probably a self-given title, anyway. He was gross, rude, arrogant, and just plain evil! Who put this guy in charge? Arabelle wanted to have a word with whoever it was. They were soooo going to be in trouble.

Arabelle took her time getting out of her seat. He may be a Professor, but she wasn't just going to jump every time he told her to. Taking steps as slow as she possibly could, Arabelle was one of the last to reach the windows. She didn't even bother to look out, just kept her eyes on the impossibly large man who didn't have an inside voice.

She examined her nails. Huh. There was dirt under all of them. She really needed to spend less time outside. Focusing all her concentration on her right hand, she started to clean them. It was times like these when she could really use a file. When her nails looked presentable, Arabelle finally turned towards the windows.

"I see the sky. There are clouds in it. And it's all so fascinating." She sighed. Could she sit down now?

Well, I see where I would LIKE to be, for one thing...

Oooooh Ema had had it. She had half the mind to storm out of the classroom right then, or accio her broom and go out the window itself. The outrageousness of this man! Emalyn kept her fists clenched at her sides as she went to the window along with the other students. "I see..." no stars, no moon, no Orion, no dippers large or small, no W for that princess lady, no Sirius, no NOTHING! It was DAY time. "life." she said, shrugging. "Trees, grass, blue sky, kids outside, the lake, the sun, the clouds, the forest..."

But one of those clouds did look an awful lot like herself, punching a very round man. Hmm...

Miranda huffed, this man was sooooooooo STrAAAangE!
And the way he talked to the students, it was unbelivable, like he was stepping on kittens!
She was starting to get furious and with that, Miranda's hand snapped up wanting to ask the oh lordy Mr. Stuck Buttom.
"Sir," she began, hoping he'd answer, "What was your high ambition?" Seriously, she wanted to know, "I mean," she paused looking around the classroom, "something must have gone wrong you must have wanted to become something?"

And with that, she got up, walked towards the window...
What did she see? "I see the sky, a limitless sky full of possibilities..." she smiled and took a deep breath of the fresh air. She saw a wide space to fly on her broom, like a free bird. "And a whole world to explore!"

....

Unable to control it, one of her perfectly groomed brows rose as her brown-green eyes swept sideways for a sign of...anyone with some brains in this classroom. Call it arrogance, disrespect, whatever you may want but Daphne Hopton didn't particularly care in impressing Professor Borr.

He was rude, grotesque, uncouth, uncivilized, and a pig.

Plus he got her name wrong. Off the list you go, Borr. For being a rather insolent adult who clearly didn't know any better. Clearly. Mother was going to read all about it. In a lengthy letter. Alongside with her complaints about her old trunk. Which had not been added extra space.

"Yes, sir," answered the blond finally, doing her best to seem apologetic. "I shall give my future considerable thought."

And hope desperately that she would never become someone like him. O_o

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"Well, well, well, well, well," Lord Borr began after many failed attempts to get up and out of his chair. Trust Ethan Truebridge to supply the room with CHEAP furniture. The fibers must have melded with Lord Borr's bottom. AS IF HE HAD TIME FOR THIS?!?!

"I SEE we have a FEW men with the HEAD IN THE CLOUDS! WITH YOUR HEAD IN THE CLOUDS!!! I want you three to get up, go to my lounge, and begin a list of how and why your ambitions are worthless. I want you to talk it over with each other and I want you to wait on me there. YOU WILL GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE CLOUDS BEFORE THE year is over, sons! I WILL HELP YOU. Now, go, before you taint the minds of my other students!! GO."

Lord Borr had spoken.

After one more failed attempt to stand, Lord Borr rolled his chair out to the middle of the room. "Everyone ELSE GET UP. Get up. Right now, DO NOT DALLY. I DON'T HAVE TIME FOR DALLYING. I want everyone to GET UP and GO TO THE WINDOW and tell me what YOU SEE! HURRY UP! MOVE MOVE MOVE. What is outside? WHAT DO YOU NOTICE?"

Lord Borr's tummy began to RUUMMMMBBLLLLEEE. He was quite hungry. Poor busy and important LORD Borr.

The man had been shouting ever since before Daphne had walked into the room. Rolling her eyes while his attention was elsewhere she smiled sympathetically in Willow Kovac's direction. At least--she hoped it seemed sympathetic and not a painful grimace because this entire class was being extremely painful to digest.

Jack Fritzera was--well, he was in a tough little position. She too smiled at him perhaps with less effort to seem sympathetic. Just a little less effort than she had put into Willow's smile.

Following the shouting man's instructions she walked towards the window and stared out with a rather bored expression. What kind of question was that? What do you see? What do you expect to see? It was the GROUNDS. There was grass and trees and wind and a sky. Nature. Everyone was giving...interesting answers.

A limitless sky full of possibilities. Hehe. Oh. Merlin.

"The horizon?" ventured Daphne and--didn't roll her eyes. Not this time.

Ali was furious. ABSOLUTELY FURIOUS! AAUUGGHH! NO. This man, no wait, this big fat man had IGNORED HER! Such rudeness. Ali scowled. This school was no place for any big fat sumo wrestler to be ignoring HER! NO! She would not stand for this! She stomped to the man.

"Hello, Lord Borr, But I bbeeellliiieeevveee you missed someone." Ali cleared her throat, pointing to herself. She honestly didn't care what everyone was looking at at the window for she wasn't. Hmph. "My ambition, sir" Ali said, planning to answer the question from before, hoping it would be cheeky to bring up right now. "Is to immediately solve every problem that presents itself in my life with utter efficiency."

Uh Oh.

"And right now, my problem is you..." Even worse. Ali had no doubt that she could take this big fat man on, but then again, she thought, what about the other teachers.....? So she added this on: "My problem is you ignoring me. This is VERY rude" She paused. "Sir"

Satine, yes Ms. Never do anything wrong, rolled her eyes. She was disappointed yet again that this so called high caliber man or it or whatever he was...had ignored her again and it was obvious already that he had picked out favorites. She just couldn't beleive the respect he had given some of the rude students.

She stood up, her usual smile gone from her face, and headed towards the window. She didn't even hurry as was her usual. She just blended into the crowd and became invisible among the other students. She had never been ignored again and she wasn't really sure how to handle it.

She hurried to the window and started admiring the outside sun and the beauty of the sky and the sun and remnants of the moon left in the pretty blue sky. Looking outside perked her up slightly, but not to her usual smiling self.

She was mentally squashed and defeated.

Finally, some words ccame out of her mouth, "Lord Borr, I see the sun, the most amazing part of the sky. The star that our Earth circles and couldn't live without. It gives us warmth and a reason to be here. " she finished her words running together since she knew that he wasn't going to pay attention to her anyways.

Funnehhh? There were lots of funny things going around in this classroom? Does this man even have a sense of humor??? Guh! This class was epicccc.

Blakey is not RIDICULOUS! He's just well...having a hyper day, that's it.
Grrr, he soo wanted to clap right in the man's face but he had a cane and he was a teacher and deserved respect, hmph.

Blake locked his lips, ermm he's can't help but laugh even though Berty Borr insulted him bwahaa, "Okay..sirreeee caaaalm doown, I'll try and not laugh...I'm a bit prone to laughing." He said in abnormally coy tone and with a quick salute, sat down.

He had this urge to drive the already insanneeee Professor metaaaal. So his plan was to not give a single straight answer, just make it sooounnd weird. Raising an eyebrow at the Professor's order to glance out the window, Blake sprung to his feet and walked coolly to the crowded windows yelling, "LET ME THROUGH PEOPLE! I'M IMPORTANT." Snicker.snicker

As he pushed and shoved a few firsties around, Blake's blue eyes scanned the gorgeous outdoors. Hmm, what should he say?? Just make it sound crazzzzzzy.

"Oh MERLIN!!! I can see myself Siirrr, eating the clouds like icecreeaaaam." Bwahaaa. Blake was giggling inside, the growling of Borr's stomach was making him hungrrrry.

Quite relived he had made Lord Borr's 'Good list', Tavelon was able to breath again. "Why, thank you, Sir. You are very gracious." he said. "I'm honored to represent your house, sir." He knew everyone probably thought him a sycophant, but all that mattered was getting through his encounter with Lord Borr unscathed.

Just when Tavelon thought he'd be all right, it happened.

Lord Borr asked him for a hug.

Tavelon had hoped he wasn't the hugging sort.

He shouldn't be that sort. One could likely not even wrap arms around the globe of a man in order to hug him.

Suppressing his fear, Tavelon hoped Lord Borr wasn't a Legilimens and walked to the front. Why wouldn't he be the sort who thought it more sophisticated to shake hands? Bowing to him again, Tavelon gave the man a tentative embrace.

Rather than doing something unbidden, Tavelon stood at the ready to await further orders from Lord Borr, which came as he was told to go to the window.

Very thankfully, Tavelon did so. Gulping in the fresh air, Tavelon took in the surroundings.

Being midday, there were no stars to see. Very strange for an Astronomy lesson. "I see the vast expanse of the Hogwarts grounds, and the skies." he said, with another quick bow to Lord Borr. His back would be very tired by the end of the lesson.

Well then.

She would be lucky if she still had her hearing by the end of the class. Melanie eyed the man in front of the class room with the utmost disdain, as she witnessed his behavior through out the past minutes of class. The guy sure knew how to make first impressions anyway. He'd successfully scared the living daylights out of over half the astronomy class.

She wasn't afraid though, not really anyway. At least with this guy she knew she'd probably get yelled at some time or another, unlike the other people that had scared her in the past (and...still in the present in some cases). He was predictable. She already knew it was coming some time or another, so why fear it?

It wasn't like she was about to stand up to him though, for that was simply a death wish. Melanie had already come to the conclusion that she was much to young to die. She'd just try not to get on his bad side.

So, following his SHOUTED instructions Melanie walked promptly up to the window, peering out over some of the younger students head's, craning her neck to see over the taller pupil's shoulders and ignoring the shovers of the group. The third year wasn't sure what she was expecting to see, but for some reason she felt disappointed as she saw the same old Hogwarts grounds and the same old sky, and the saaaame old Herbology Greenhouses. Which, of course, she loved.

Why were they having Herbology during daytime anyway? It was an astronomy lesson, was it not?

Despite her confusion, she answered the question, raising her hand. "My eyes see the same thing as everyone else's are seeing. It's the Hogwarts grounds and the sky separated by a horizon line with birds, and insects and people flying and crawling and walking around." she replied trying to be descriptive. Is there supposed to be something else?" she asked, squinting a little to see better. No blimps, no giant comets blazing up the ground, no world record breaking, mind-blowing AMAZING things.

So, why, Why, OH WHY, were they looking out the window?

Arrick didn't move backwards, as he was already at the back row, but he took the order as an invitation to shuffle his seat farther away from the balmy old codger and closer to the classroom door.

The old bully was from this house? He made a bit of a face. He'd much rather leave Hogwarts with half a brain than to end up like Borr. To Arrick's surprise, the Head Boy was in trouble, too.

He didn't envy Tavelon, though. Having to get closer to the old codger was the last thing Arrick wanted to do.

Arrick wondered if that included him and the shunned Head Boy, but decided to stay put. After all, he did say to stay out of sight.

"Balmy on boloney with extra mayonaise," he muttered to himself.

LouAnn simply had no idea what to think of this Borr man. Surely he must have some sort of knowledge in the field of Astronomy, or else he wouldn't have been appointed to his current position. So far, all LouAnn had managed to learn was that Borr loved respect, yelling, and himself more than anyone or anything else in this world. She sighed softly and rested her cheek in the palm of her hand. He was yelling again, this time to a group of Ravenclaws, Hufflepuffs, and students who supposedly had their head in the clouds.

It was then that LouAnn realized Astronomy was going to be a nightmare of the worst kind. Forget being afraid to take Ancient Runes and Divination. Both those subjects seemed like a cake walk compared to what was currently happening in Astronomy. LouAnn was so busy thinking about the situation that she almost missed the announcement for the students to go to the window, look outside, and tell what they saw. It was midday, though. Wouldn't it be better and easier to study Astronomy at nighttime?

Nevertheless, LouAnn hurried to the window and peeked outside. She saw...lots of things. There were birds, trees, clouds...all the usual daytime sights. The sky was present, of course---although, it was rather cloudy. "I see the Earth and the skies," she finally said. "The Earth and all that inhabits it..." She cringed a little as she answered, scared that even though she meant well, she'd still be incompetent in this man's eyes.

Chris walked over quickly tot he window and looked out. This Lord Borr really had him freaked out. He hadn't ever felt this scared before. Merpeople were nothing compared to Borr.

"Well I see the sun, a few clouds, and the sky. But Professor isn't it true that even though we can't see them during the day the stars are still all in the sky right there?" he asked him pointing to the sky out the window.

Flinching after the professor's instructions, Skye hurried to look out the window like everyone else. She peered outside, but nothing out of the ordinary (the word ordinary used loosely, of course) caught her eye. "I see the sky and grass," she recited monotonously. How was this Astronomy, exactly?

Okay okay... stop shouting and jacoby moved towards the window. Why were they looking out the window? "Ummm. Sir i see A green and brown ground Mixed majesticlly with the Blue and white sky above. Like a picure of the most perfect shades." Of course...everything he sees is in depth and Phylisophical... Why did he have to be so Abnormal in this way. why couldn't he be Like everyone else. And he moved a little uncomfortably has he said this. He was going to be yelled at like eveyone else...