Aurora took a bruschetta and placed it on her bread dish. Yum yum yum Italian food!!! It always reminded her of her father... She raised her hand to answer the question. "Professor, the food is served from the right and the dishes are taken from the left." she said. At least, she hoped she was right... she sometimes struggled with her left and right...

Perhaps the idea of a seven course meal is interesting, but isn’t it a bit much?, Gwendolyn thought as the took a bruschetta. Then, while listening to the Professor talk, the Ravenclaw tried thinking of the answer. It has to be left or right… but which one is it…? ‘I think the food is served from the right side and it is taken from the left’ Seems legit.

So maybe this class isn't soooo bad, the third year tried convincing herself as she waited for the next question to be asked.

Taking a bite from her bruschetta, Thea listened to everyone's answers. Jiggling her feet slightly, she chewed carefully. Mm. This was brilliant! She would have to remember some of these things to recommend to her Mother.
As she swallowed her last piece, she grabbed her napkin and dabbed her mouth, just in case.

'It's served from the right?..' Her head was cocked to the right as she asked this. This was actually harder than Thea had thought it was..

Nathan really did not have a clue on this latest question. What did it mattter the side your food is served from. Nathan raised his hand and hand and responded, "I honestly do not know. I hear many people saying from the right and taken from the left but what does it really matter. Is there a functional purpose to which way your dish is served?".

Elise smiled, receiving the plate with her right hand and taking a bruschetta off it. Placing it on her bread plate, she passed the dish to the next person before tuning back towards Professor Cerulean.

Nodding, she took the notes mentally, processing the sounds into pictures. Got it. Raising her hand, Elise beamed. "The food is served on the right and cleared on the left. It's just going with the clockwise motion."

Smiling, she took a small bite of the brushetta. Nice. It was actually almost exactly the way Elise's mom used to make it. So, that almost made El cry, but she stopped herself. It wasn't good etiquette to cry anywhere. It was showing weakness, and weakness was something her father would not stand for.

Jez bit her lip, playing with the hem of her dress. She knew the answers to most of these questions - Merlin's beard, they'd been drilled into her since the moment she'd been old enough to sit at the table properly. Her parents would be turning in their graves if they knew she wasn't answering. But she'd kept quiet for most of the lesson. Let's stop that right here.
Jez raised her hand, not in her usual 'I know the answer!' quick way, but hesitantly. "The dishes are served from the right and taken from the left," she said clearly. "Basically a clockwise rotation." She took a piece of brushetta, carefully biting into it to try and avoid spilling everything. That would be undignified, and Jez was nervous as it was without adding humiliation to that.

Raven read the menu of today. Wow, all of them sounded delicious! And Thank Merlin they didn't served vegetable salad or otherwise she didn't want to eat them.

She took a bruschetta and placed it into her bread plate. Well, there was a tomato on the top and she was not a fan of tomato. Then she tried to eat it, took a bite of bruschetta carefully.

"Wow, it was great." she murmured. Oh, another question. Raven raised her hand and answer.

"The food is served on the right and cleaned it on the left." she said. Argh, she didn't feel comfortable without her glasses.

Vlimia was excited, to say the least. She had never had Muggle food except for at the Muggle Matinee Theatre! Vlim took a bruschetta and ate it carefully. She couldn't mess up the dinner when they were only on the appetizers! While chewing (with her mouth CLOSED), she thought about bruschetta. What a fun thing to say. Bruschetta! Bruschetta! It could almost be a name! Af course, all this immaturity took place in her head. When she finished the yummy appetizer, Vlim brushed her hands on the napkin that was on her lap. Just in case.

Glad that he and so many other students had gotten the last question right, he watched as the plate of brushetta appeared above their table and someone began to pass it his way. He took the plate with his right hand, removed a piece of the bread with his left hand, and then passed it to the person next to him.

He took a small bite of the brushetta, his teeth easily making it through the crunchy bread. "Yum! This is really good." he said in a hushed voice to the other kids at his table, for Professor Cerulean was starting again.

So now was the soup. August eyed the floating bowls of hot soup that floated over their heads nervously but as he did so he answered her question with a raise of his hand. "Professor, the waiter's or servers will always deliver your food on your right and then when you finish it will be removed from your left side."

Now please don't spill soup on me!

She smiled at the boy's answer, "Well, Eino, you are actually correct...They do serve from behind you..." she said with a little wink his way....she was always amused with the student's answers...o the things they said some days.

"Great point Kurumi!" she paused and walked a little bit closer to her table to answer her question, "Your waiter or waitress will be trained to avoid your water when they serve you from the right. Most of the time they have set up the table and have set it up with enough room for them to place the plates without causing a spill...however, it's always a good idea to lean just a little bit out of their way when they are serving or taking the plates away just to help them out...."





The young professor's face was excited about all of the right answers. "Yes the waiter would serve you from the right side and take your plate from the left side...so always try to lean away just a little bit so that it makes it easier for the waiter to reach your serving setting..." she flicked her wand and the cups of minestrone levitated down to their right shoulders and then levitated to the serving plate. "You need to use the soup spoon..." she held up the spoon from the right side of her plate and all of the soup spoons on the table rose up slightly. "to eat your soup."



She gave them a little bit of time to eat their soup, and for her to eat her soup, and when it seemed like a majority of them were done she flicked her wand and the next course, the salad, in little glasses, flew in from a side door and levitated on the side of the room.



"Okay let's go on to our next course, our fruit salad. It has strawberries, pineapple, melons, blueberries, peaches, and watermelons diced up very small." She flicked her wand and the soup cups were removed from the table on the students' left side and instantly the glasses of fruit salad levitated around the students' right side and landed. "Make sure you use your salad fork" she said holding up the little fork causing all of these forks to raise up a little bit, "for the salad course."

As the students began to eat, she decided it was time to pose the next question, "Can anyone tell me what you do with your silverware after you have used it....not at the end of the meal but...for instance, after you butter a piece of bread, what do you do with your butter knife?

OOC: Remember to raise your hand before you answer. .And as always remember she is always watching you! But remember she doesn't handle rudeness towards Muggle ways very well, so you might want to keep those prejudices to yourself unless you want face the consequences! Try the soup and the salad...yummy...feel free to have LIGHT conversation at your table....but don't get carried away...

He was on a roll! It seemed to have payed off that his mother had wanted them to be as fancy as they could afford even at dinner with just his small family.

Auggie watched excitedly as the soup landed infront of him. This, by far was already his favorite lesson of the term. They got to eat like crazy! And there were still plenty of other courses to come. Auggie watched as the soup spoon rose up in its place to the right of his plate and he retrieved it and began to eat the soup. It was really good too. "Excuse me, Professor did you make this food or was it the House Elves? I only ask because it's really great."

After the soup course was finished, Auggie had left some of it in the bowl because he didn't want to fill up too much, he was ready for the fruit salad. He quickly picked up his salad fork and then listened to the Professor's question, he raised his hand again and answered. "Aren't you supposed to leave them with the plate, cup, or bowl so the waiters can take it with them? Besides you have all the other utensils you need still on the table." he said with a nod.

Raven saw the... She forgot the name, but it was a strange name for a soup. Well, it looked not to delightful, but she decided to try it.

Mmmmm.... Not too bad, but cream soup was still the best she tought. After she finished with the strange-name soup, she noticed to the salad.

A FRUIT SALAD!! She really loved fruit salad! With her salad fork, she ate it. YUMMY!!! She tought. The fruit salad was the best that she've ever had. Wow!!

And the question... She didn't have any idea about that and continue ate her salad.

Elise beamed, although she'd known she was correct all along. Leaning to her left just slightly, she allowed the soup to seat itself in front of her. Nodding at Professor Cerulean, she picked up her soup spoon.

Spooning the delicousness, she sipped from the side of the spoon as she was taught to do much earlier. She continued sipping her soup, tilting her bowl just slightly way from her until it was finished. She barely had the time to register that most of them were done already. Leaning towards her right, she smiled as the bowl flew away.

Leaning left again, she allowed the cups of Fruit Salad land in front of her and paid very close attention to what was in it. After she was sure that she wasn't allergic to any of the fruits in the cup, she took her salad fork and delicately speared a piece of melon.

Hearing the question, Elise swallowed before raising her hand. "I believe you put them on your plate, handle facing to the right with the knife above the fork. That would indicate that you are not yet finished with your meal. Putting them diagonally, with the handle on the bottom right would indicate that you are finished with the meal."

Lowering her hand, she proceeded to spear a piece of pineapple. Chewing delicately, she smiled at the slight sourness of the pineapple. It was the perfect balance between sour and sweet and was really amazing.

The fruit salad looked delicious, but Eino almost felt bad about eating it. It looked like it had been very craftily sculptured into the glass, and eating would destroy it. Nonetheless, Eino picked up the appropriate fork (after checking around to see which one that was) and dug in when they were allowed to eat. The fruit was fresh, cool, and sweet! It felt like he was eating ice-sugar cubes. After taking one last bite, Eino put his fork down, but he was not done yet! He turned his attention to Professor Cerulean and listened to her question. He raised his hand and spoke when he was allowed to. "I believe that after you've used the silverware you place it, very neatly, might I add, on top of your plate." At least, that was always what he did.

Minerva looked at the soup and salad it looks so good. She was about to try them when another question was asked. She put up her hand. "Well professor I think you put the silverware on your plate until you are completely finished." Then she went back to trying the next to items on the menu. They were so good. This was turning out to be a great lesson.

Whatever that delicious first thing was. Soup. Salad. It was already enough for Nora's stomach. How was she going to make it through all the other remaining courses? Uhm... maybe she could sneak a 'Scourgify' when no one was looking? Not really... she didn't want to get caught and get into trouble. Well, she'll only have to wait and see what was next.

"You place it neatly on the plate?" The girl said hesitantly, with a hand raised. Or maybe it should be placed back next to the plate? Hmm.

Ira wished she could just focus on eating the delicious meal, rather than answering questions about Dinner etiquette! She had not yet gotten over her fascination and awe at the grandeur of the room! She really didn't want to answer questions!

So she decided to keep quiet and let others do the answering part.. Well, for now, she had more important things to do.. like eating!

Melanie looked over at the utensils. She was pretty sure she knew the answer to this, so she restrained herself from eating for a moment and raised her hand.

"I believe you place the knife on your plate, handle facing the right, so the dirtied part is over the plate."

Melanie was thrilled that she could finally excel in something. She felt so out of place in this new, magic world, but Muggle Studies? She could do this!

Pam smiled as the salad came out. She loved fruit, especially pineapple. As she picked up the small fork, she began eating her salad. Each bite was like nothing she had ever tasted. She liked being able to have something extrodinary to eat. Even if it was just fruit salad.

As she was enjoying her salad, the professor asked a question. Thinking for a moment she raised her hand. "Professor, don't you place it on your plate? Off to the side, so you don't bump into anyone?" She wasn't 100% sure it was correct, but then again, not many people did.

The fruit salad looked delightfull, LuLu couldn't wait to get her hands on it, she put her fork into it and ate it and listened closely to the proffesers words, she was getting good at this fancy dinner junk! Once she was done her hand raised up into the air

''If you are finished your meal completely, you usually place your knife and fork, and any other utensil you are using neatly on the plate in the 12 o-clock position, It is considered quite rude if you don't do so,''