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Leaving the door to the classroom ajar to allow the warm September breeze to flow through the classroom from one of the open windows, Professor Marion Burbage has set up a table next to the door with rows of Muggle soda bottles of various flavors lined up along with empty plastic cups. The professor is currently seated and looking over two photographs that you cannot make out just what of in the front of the classroom.
Beside the display of two-liter pop bottles is a seating chart of the classroom and a note that reads:
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If you would be so kind as to write your name, year, and house in one of the squares, please. Once you have done so please select a bottle of your choice & cup and please take your seat. You may begin sipping on your drink if you'd like.
OOC: class will not officially begin until several hours from now. Your characters can chat amongst themselves but please try to keep conversation to a minimum.
Class has begun! Please DO NOT announce yourself arriving now and siiiiiiiiimply RP as though you have been here all along.
Kurumi jumped when Professor Burbage's pixie-like voice BOOMED through the classroom and her eyes darted towards the blackboard. Oh, THAT spell... Kurumi was pretty sure she had come across that while studying for her OWLs two terms ago. What had the wand movement been again? Tracing the area that needed to be attached?
Only she really didn't have time to concentrate because there was ANOTHER loud voice, this time belonging to Aidan as he cast the spell. Well, um, at least he had the intention bit down?
Taking the opportunity to slink off to the front of the room, Kurumi grabbed the rest of her supplies and returned to her seat just in time to see a gigantic frown on the boy's face. Oh...not good...
"At least you didn't melt the bottle," she said somewhat awkwardly. "I always do that when I am learning new spells. Give it another go." Can't get everything right on the first try after all. Not even the legendary Hermione Granger Weasley was capable of doing that.
Taking one of her bottles, Kurumi slashed downwards over it and severed the top half off of it as the instructions had said. Was this really going to fit over the bottom? Kurumi decided to give it a bit of a go and pushed the one half onto the other and gave it a slight tap to push the two parts together. Oh good, it seemed to fit perfectly!
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...........it was stuck.
She should have done this later, obviously.
Tugging on the end and not having much luck, Kurumi's head snapped to attention when she heard Professor Burbage say something about...adorable panties?
Snorting slightly and lunging forward suddenly to try not to laugh, Kurumi tried NOT to look at West and his 'adorable panties.' Just HOW had that happened?
Oh, right, back to tugging... TUG TUG TUG TUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUG...
.....POP!
Oops. Kurumi's arms flailed a bit as the one bottle flew through the air and towards the back of a student's head.
EEEK!
Aidan....didn't stop frowning. But instead of staring at his still-not-clean bottle, he stared at Kurumi. "You melt things?" How was that even possible? Unless you were doing a melting spell, of course, but she said 'spells' like in general.
What good was she if she couldn't properly cast spells?
"CAN SOMEBODY" capable "HELP ME?!" He just wanted to do magic.
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As much as Selina appreciated that Burbage agreed that this guy had a smashing mustache, she had to admit she was not so fond of the insinuation that Selina HAD to drink the soda. It was just so gross. Seriously, why couldn't it have been a bottle of pumpkin juice or something? She would have drank everyone's bloody bottle if it had been that delicious liquid. Soda was just a Muggle excuse, a cop out really, for a yummy drink. It was gross. And the fact that everyone else was drinking it without throwing up made her want to vomit.
But she could not fight this- the last thing she wanted to do was lose points. Especially because Burbage was sort of point happy at the moment. And her lions would crucify her if she even got them one point docked. She had learned that the hard way her first year. Never again except for when she was around Lafay... the woman just did not like her. So she picked up the drink and pinched her nose. With one HUGE chug, Selina downed the soda. Every second that she tasted it was like punishment for all of the bad things she had done in her life.
Once it was empty, she started to have a coughing fit. Ugh, so gross. Carbonated beverages should have been illegal YEARS ago. It was such an early twentieth century thing. She thought that they were more advanced than.... soda.
However, she did not have much time to dwell on this. By the time she finally downed her soda, the class had moved on to an activity. Something about building rockets. Part of Selina wanted to raise her hand and inform Burbage that allowing Puffers rockets was not a good idea, but something told her that it was not a good idea. Maybe it was the fact that Burbage did seem like a Puffer herself. Was she a Hufflepuff? These were important questions.
Instead, she just decided that she should address the directions. So, after her bathroom break to rid her system of the horrid soda, she drew out her wand and performed a scourgify spell on the bottle. Make it nice and clean. Eh, that looked good enough. There was no soda left in the bottle, so that was a good sign. And look at that, it was the next thing on the list. Check!
Then she used the severing charm to cut it the way that she supposed to! Ugh.... work.
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Aidan....didn't stop frowning. But instead of staring at his still-not-clean bottle, he stared at Kurumi. "You melt things?" How was that even possible? Unless you were doing a melting spell, of course, but she said 'spells' like in general.
What good was she if she couldn't properly cast spells?
"CAN SOMEBODY" capable "HELP ME?!" He just wanted to do magic.
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Okay, so...he was not the sort that liked hearing about failures to make him feel more comfortable and stuff. GOOD TO KNOW NOW!
"No, that's..." not what I meant. UG. It was mostly transfiguration spells anyway. "I meant when I was a first year I melted things all the time when I tried new spells...so you are one step ahead of me."
SEE! NO PANIC FACE KID! OKAY?!
"Just...um...take a deep breath and give it another go. Make sure your wand is pointing inside the bottle and everything."
At this rate she was never going to actually get to MAKING her own rocket!
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Okay, so...he was not the sort that liked hearing about failures to make him feel more comfortable and stuff. GOOD TO KNOW NOW!
"No, that's..." not what I meant. UG. It was mostly transfiguration spells anyway. "I meant when I was a first year I melted things all the time when I tried new spells...so you are one step ahead of me."
SEE! NO PANIC FACE KID! OKAY?!
"Just...um...take a deep breath and give it another go. Make sure your wand is pointing inside the bottle and everything."
At this rate she was never going to actually get to MAKING her own rocket!
He stared more. Just because he was better than her didn't mean he was any good. So...that wasn't precisely comforting, KU.RU.MI.
"Why should I trust you?" She melted things. And he already did what she said and failed. So why would doing what she said again be any different? Huh?
HUH?
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Waddling Walking around the classroom a bit with her heels clanking over the stone floor, Marion could now have been moooooooore pleased with the work students were doing so far. And some seemed to be making progress quickly too! LOVELY! That meant they could go outside sooner. Ho ho ho!
But frowned a bit when she heard one of the young Slytherins saying some spell she had never heard of. "Miss Somerlad, I'm afraid that is the wrong spell dear. You see..."
OH GOODNESS GRACIOUS
HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAVENS!
That simply would not do!
"Oh dear, DARLINGS!" she called out, clapping her hands together. "I'm afraid I have made an error in your instructions." She WAS 70-years-old darlings and quite foregetful at times. With that she gave a quick wave of her wand at the board and corrected the spell's incantation. "Carry on!"
Ira had just cut off the top part of one bottle when she jumped suddenly at Professor's loud voice. Turning around, to face her, wondering what had gone wrong, she then simply giggled at Professor's discovery that she was really old. Yep, and people do forget some things at that age. Yep.
Anyways, noting the changes, Ira continued with her work amidst all the chatter and flying bottles. Looking down the instructions written:
Text Cut: Making rocket!
TAKE A POTTY BREAK!
Be sure there is NO soda left in your bottle.
Use the Severing Charm to cut ONE of your bottles about 2/3 of the way from the top so that you have removed the top. (be sure to cut the end with the lid)
Check to make sure that the cut bottle fits over the bottom of the other bottle. It should slide on and off easily.
Cut out 3-4 wings that are the same in size. If the size is off it will effect how high the rocket launches. You can make them whatever size you want and whatever shape you want.
Use Adhaero to stick the wings to the UNCUT bottle. Be sure that they are attached around the same height.
Take your plastic bag, dental floss, and a remaining cardboard and lay them out on your desk.
Tie some dental to the plastic bag's handles and attach this string to the bottom of your UNCUT bottle. This will become your rocket's parachute.
Place the bottom part of the bottle on top other bottle. Make sure the bottom part of your rocket has the parachute.
DECORATE!
Reading the third step, she lined her first whole bottle with the cut one above it, and tried it. Yes, could slide on and off easily enough. So no need for any more cutting.
That part done, she proceeded to the next step. She had to cut out wings for her bottle rocket. But she wasn't sure if she could cut rthe shape she wanted with a spell. So better to try and cut them with scissors. Yeah, easiest way. But where to find scissors? Ira heard Professor mentioning to a boy about there being some items behind her table. So there could be a scissor too. Going over to the front, Ira took a scissor and came back, and started cutting out wings. There. Done. 4 wings ready.
Now just to attach them to the bottle. Looking over at the instructions once again, she checked to make sure she had to attach the wings to the uncut bottle. Alright. Taking a wing, she held it and muttered "Adhaero!" Yep, and it stuck. Same way, she stuck the other three too.
Enough done! For now. So she updated her notes.
Text Cut: Making Rocket!
TAKE A POTTY BREAK!
Be sure there is NO soda left in your bottle.
Use the Severing Charm to cut ONE of your bottles about 2/3 of the way from the top so that you have removed the top. (be sure to cut the end with the lid)
Check to make sure that the cut bottle fits over the bottom of the other bottle. It should slide on and off easily.
Cut out 3-4 wings that are the same in size. If the size is off it will effect how high the rocket launches. You can make them whatever size you want and whatever shape you want.
Use Adhaero to stick the wings to the UNCUT bottle. Be sure that they are attached around the same height.
Take your plastic bag, dental floss, and a remaining cardboard and lay them out on your desk.
Tie some dental to the plastic bag's handles and attach this string to the bottom of your UNCUT bottle. This will become your rocket's parachute.
Place the bottom part of the bottle on top other bottle. Make sure the bottom part of your rocket has the parachute.
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Hmm. And Professor Burbage was suddenly beside her and the Slytherin Prefect, saying that her answer to Sierra's answer was correct. For a second, she eyed the woman. Professor! How could you make me a laughingstock? I feel deceived. But she didn't voiced out any of it. Instead, she returned Greingoth's grin. "Yeah, I didn't get it at first. You're welcome!" The brunette offered a small nod to the two and began to head back to her desk when she remembered something. She glanced back for a second before going for realz, "I'm Beezus by the way."And I really like your eyes. That was directed towards Sierra. Hehe.
Now to finish the rocket.
Laying down the cardboard, she began to cut wings, four of them because it was more proportional than three and it might be a factor to how high the rocket would go upon launching. Once she was done, Beezus took out her wand once more and began to glue the cardboard wings on the uncut bottle. She glanced at the board to make sure the spell she was to utter was the correct one for her memory was a little bit slow when it came to remembering spells. Adhaero, okay that was it.
"Adhaero!" The first wing was up, then ever so carefully she did the same with the remaining three, making sure they were all situated in the same height.
After doing so, she referred once again to the instructions on the board. Doing as instructed, she placed the materials on the desk. She grabbed the plastic bag, located its handles and tied dental floss into it. No approximate length was given so she estimated utmost a 2 inch allowance on the string. Then another sticking spell to attach the ends of the floss to the bottom of the uncut bottle which had the wings.
Pwew. Almost done.
Next, the Ravenclaw fourth-year slipped the cut bottle to the bottom of the uncut one, securing the parachute in place. And then to decorate right? Okay, she'll do that a bit later.
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SPOILER!!: Professor Burbage
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"Oh, it is just as I told Mr. Odessa earlier, dear. This design is just the most basic one. You may make any alterations you see fit. But doooooooo keep in mind that it will effect the flight of your rocket, good and bad," she replied with a sparkly wink.
Alyssa listened as Professor Burbage gave her opinion on Alyssa's suggestion about adding a cone top to the top end of her bottle rocket. 'Maybe less it better. I could make it aerodynamically sound, or I could add too much weight to the top that it ends up making an immediate 180 and crashing back on the ground one second after it got launched.' Alyssa thought to herself.
So she decided to leave her bottle rocket the way it was now. If it flew, it flew. If it didn't, then at least she had tried.
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He stared more. Just because he was better than her didn't mean he was any good. So...that wasn't precisely comforting, KU.RU.MI.
"Why should I trust you?" She melted things. And he already did what she said and failed. So why would doing what she said again be any different? Huh?
HUH?
That stare...WHY was that stare so familiar?! It was unnerving...really really REALLY unnerving. The sort of stare that she was pretty sure she had experienced time and time again at Hogwarts...only this was the first time she had ever met Aidan. So that just made no sense.
Why should he trust her? "I just performed the spell in front of you," she said flatly. CLEARLY nothing had melted then. Nothing had gone wrong sooooooooooooo...logically speaking...
But she also really needed to do SOME work on her own rocket, so Kurumi grabbed her cardboard and quickly traced three wing patterns on it with her quill and then pointed her want at it, giving a quick downwards slashing movement as she cast a silent Severing Charm to cut out all three wings.
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That stare...WHY was that stare so familiar?! It was unnerving...really really REALLY unnerving. The sort of stare that she was pretty sure she had experienced time and time again at Hogwarts...only this was the first time she had ever met Aidan. So that just made no sense.
Why should he trust her? "I just performed the spell in front of you," she said flatly. CLEARLY nothing had melted then. Nothing had gone wrong sooooooooooooo...logically speaking...
But she also really needed to do SOME work on her own rocket, so Kurumi grabbed her cardboard and quickly traced three wing patterns on it with her quill and then pointed her want at it, giving a quick downwards slashing movement as she cast a silent Severing Charm to cut out all three wings.
..................Yeah, okay. She had a point there. He couldn't deny that he had JUST seen her do the spell. Say the same thing. Point her wand same as he did. So Aidan finally broke his gaze to pout at his bottle more.
Only WHY didn't it work for him?!
"Show me again?" he asked, holding his bottle toward her.
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A whistle.
She was sure she heard someone whistling and when she flashed around she saw Vivi calling her over. Now she was going to get that idiot speech she should have gotten when she first went over for help. She dragged her feet across the room until she was back at her desk.
"Before you say anything, I was really trying but it's hard." And now she would probably think that she was whining but see, this was why she preferred using her wand as a physical weapon instead of a magical wand. The only thing she needed to depend on was the force she used when whacking with it. Nothing hard in that. Nope.
"And I'm not whining either." Just in case.
"You're also not not whining. It isn't like I'll shun you for asking questions. You only shun people who don't bathe, steal from you, or refuse to share cake." Vivi glued the rest of her wings into place, albeit slower so Lex could watch.
Got that, Short Stuff? Hm?
Vivi sighed heavily and grabbed Lex's wings, although she did not say a word to the girl about what she should or should not know. The fail was the professor asking little kids to do hard spells, not on the little kids themselves. She applied the spell to the wings and laid them out on the desk so Lex could attach the wings herself.
"Don't touch the end the wand touched or you'll be cardboarded for life."
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"..........not yours."
SHOOOOOOOOOOOT! What was her name?! Kurumi still thought that her name was from the Arthurian tale, but she also knew that that wasn't entirely correct. Hey, both names DID start with a G and all Western names tended to sound the same to Kurumi's ears.
"Um....actually...I believe that is mine," Kurumi said, pointing to the bottle.
Confrontation...Kurumi was utter rubbish at it when it came to matters like this. The only proof of sorts playing in her favor was that the bottle was green as opposed to clear.
"Oh, are you sure?" Vivi didn't even look up at the girl, choosing instead to lay her bag, floss, and cardboard scraps across her desk. The cardboard got moved around and around so she wouldn't have to look up. This bit looked JUST like Ireland, and this other big looked like the head of a unicorn. Sans horn. So more like a horse, really.
"Here." She moved her full bottle of soda toward the Gryffindor girl, finally looking up and offering a huge smile. "Dunno how I got it. Weird, right?"
Was she really going to take back her lost bottle? After Vivi had rescued it and named it and fed it and taken it to the bottle doctor for shots? Vivi was a bottle-saving HERO, she was.
SPOILER!!: Instructions on the board
TAKE A POTTY BREAK!
Be sure there is NO soda left in your bottle.
Use the Severing Charm to cut ONE of your bottles about 2/3 of the way from the top so that you have removed the top. (be sure to cut the end with the lid)
Check to make sure that the cut bottle fits over the bottom of the other bottle. It should slide on and off easily.
Cut out 3-4 wings that are the same in size. If the size is off it will effect how high the rocket launches. You can make them whatever size you want and whatever shape you want.
Use Adhaero to stick the wings to the UNCUT bottle. Be sure that they are attached around the same height.
Take your plastic bag, dental floss, and a remaining cardboard and lay them out on your desk.
Tie some dental to the plastic bag's handles and attach this string to the bottom of your UNCUT bottle. This will become your rocket's parachute.
Place the bottom part of the bottle on top other bottle. Make sure the bottom part of your rocket has the parachute.
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Remaining cardboard? Was she talking about the scraps? "Oh, nothing dear. Once you have cut the wings out of your piece of cardboard you are done with it. Unless you want to use it for decoration of some sort." Not that she really recommended that. It was just added weight.
Orr nodded at Professor Burbage, "Alright."
She then placed the bottom half of the cut bottle on the top of the other bottle as instructed. She lifted the bottle up so she could see the plastic bag in the bottom half of it-- both the bottle and plastic bag together seemed to create a murky color purple interesting! Orr mumbled to herself.
Now time to decorate and she knew exactly what she was going to do--since it was Astronomy- she was going to paint on the sun and planets and some stars. Luckily she always kept in her bag a boxset of muggle paints. She got them out and settled down to painstakely paint on a few planets such as earth and the sun with a few stars.
When she was done her purple bottle was all decorated with different planets and the maroon murkiness of the plastic bag added an interesting shade to the planets she drew.
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For the next set of instructions, Kat looked again at the board. "Use Adhaero to stick the wings to the UNCUT bottle. Be sure that they are attached around the same height." Ok. Kat positioned her wand and said, "Adhaero," pointing at the small wings and they stuck to the bottle. Seriously? Kat smiled just to cover her laugh.
Next, Kat took our her plastic bag, dental floss (What the Firebolt?) and her remaining piece of cardboard. She tied the dental floss to the handles of the plastic bag and attached the string to the uncut (always emphasized) bottle. Then she placed the bottom part of the bottle on top of the other bottle. Now time for decorating!
Since the bottle's color was green, Kat thought of a Slytherin style. She drew a snake on the cover and decorated it with emerald green and silver stuff. Ooooohhh... great way to show Slytherin pride, eh?
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Okay, so, Elliot was having trouble sticking the stupid wings on. Until, at least, the professor told them to use ADHAERO! Aha! She grasped her wand and pointed them at the wings..."Adhaero!" she said softly, and they gently just stuck there. Whooh. Hooh. Such excitement. *Sigh*.
She squinted up at the directions again...all right...the Ravenclaw placed the bag,floss, and cardboard on her desk. The next set of directions sort of made Elliot raise an eyebrow in confusion, but she reread it and instantly felt foolish. Who couldn't understand simple directions?!
*Scoff.*
She stretched the dental floss a bit..she always thought this stuff was WEIRD. She carefully tied the floss onto the handles of the bag, and even made little bows. Some Elliot touch. Knots were just so...boring. So this would be the parachute part, eh? What exactly was a parachute? Elliot didn't know all of these things...especially if they dealt with muggles. She attached the floss to the bottom of her bottle, and sighed. This was somewhat dull. Maybe the decorating part would be fun. Or maybe just stupid.
And then all she needed was to put the other bottle over the bottle..which she did...so now...le decorating. Whooh.
Elliot didn't know how to decorate. She wasn't creative, and she definitely had never decorated anything before. She had people to do that for her...
She wondered if there were any lace or pearls around. Actually...WAIT! She always kept spare--
YES!
Elliot had dug through her backpack and pulled out a roll of lace. Yes, LACE. Because Elliot never knew when she would need to LACE-I-FY something! She grinned, for the first time this class, and wrapped the rocket in lace, cutting in certain places and sticking it to where it looked so PRETTY. Now she wanted pearls! Gah! She certainly didn't carry those around....gah.
Now what? She wanted to add something else to give it..pizzazz. the wings were missing something. OH! Elliot remembered the coloring spell, a little, from when her mother helped paint the kitchen. Elliot wanted a pale gold, though. She brushed her wand over the wings of her rocket, and they sprayed PALE GOLD!
Gah! She liked it. Simple, but elegant and classy. Sort of like Elliot...only Elliot wasn't simple. NOPE.
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..................Yeah, okay. She had a point there. He couldn't deny that he had JUST seen her do the spell. Say the same thing. Point her wand same as he did. So Aidan finally broke his gaze to pout at his bottle more.
Only WHY didn't it work for him?!
"Show me again?" he asked, holding his bottle toward her.
THAT look.....seriously...WHERE had she seen THAT look before?
"Sure." Breathing a sigh of relief when Aidan looked at his bottle instead of at her, Kurumi rolled her shoulders and pulled his bottle closer to her so she could tilt the top towards her and point her wand inside the small opening. "It, um, sometimes helps if you visualize what the object will look like once it is clean," Kurumi explained. At least that tended to work for her with spells. Visualizing the end product very vividly and then performing the spell. Rolling up her sleeves again, Kurumi repeated the incantation and cleaned his bottle before handing it back to him. "It's okay not to get a spell right the first time, you know. We are in school to learn after all."
Merlin knew Kurumi had done her fair share of damages with new spells...mainly melting...and she still wasn't able to produce a proper patronus either. She was working on that though.
Turning her attention to her own bottle and cut out wings now, Kurumi picked up her quill and drew a line around the bottom of it that would serve as a guide to make sure that the pieces were placed at the same height in each location. "Adhaero," Kurumi said, attaching each of the three to her bottle and then grabbed her plastic bag and dental floss, tying the floss to the bag's handles and using Adhaero again to attach the ends of it to the top of the bottle on the sides a bit so that the parachute could open up easier...hopefully.
Now all that was left was to decorate and put the other bottle on top...
"Oh, are you sure?" Vivi didn't even look up at the girl, choosing instead to lay her bag, floss, and cardboard scraps across her desk. The cardboard got moved around and around so she wouldn't have to look up. This bit looked JUST like Ireland, and this other big looked like the head of a unicorn. Sans horn. So more like a horse, really.
"Here." She moved her full bottle of soda toward the Gryffindor girl, finally looking up and offering a huge smile. "Dunno how I got it. Weird, right?"
Was she really going to take back her lost bottle? After Vivi had rescued it and named it and fed it and taken it to the bottle doctor for shots? Vivi was a bottle-saving HERO, she was.
Kurumi sort of just stood there and nodded somewhat awkwardly. Yep, she was sure. She had seen it fly through the air, smack Penelope in the head, and then the Ravenclaw had said that it was hers and taken it.
"Thank......" Kurumi's eyes widened a bit when instead of HER half of the bottle she was presented with an entirely new bottle of soda. Unopened no doubt. "Um....actually, I was referring to the already cut bottle. The one you just took from Penelope..." The one that had flown across the room and was hers...
What was weird was how this girl was pretending to not know what Kurumi was really talking about. BOTTLE STEALER!!
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Oh, bless this little Ravenclaw as well. Only calling one of astronomy's great minds her husband a second time lost just a liiiiiiiiiiitle but of its charm. "If only my Henry were as blessed with knowledge," she laughed as she moved along.
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Professor Burbage returned, to the front of the classroom having finishing walking around as each student spoke, and beeeeeeeeeeeeamed at the class. "Very good all of you!" And she really did mean ALL of them. "This studmuffin here is Robert Hutchings Goddard who is an American physicist and inventor who is credited with creating and building the world's first liquid-fueled rocket. Just as Miss Branxton said, he was a fan of Sir Isaac Newton and was especially interested in his Laws of Motion which helped him to create and successfully build the first liquid-fueled rocket." See the connection darlings? "You see dears, to make a rocket work properly is veeeeeeeeery dependent on these three Laws. Without a proper understanding of them, your rocket would never truuuuuuuuuuuly blast off."
Which would be an AWFUL shame.
She, of course, could have gone in to some rather lengthy calculations right now involving thrust and acceleration, but a basic foundation was more than enough for right now.
"As soooooooome of you may have guessed, today we WIIIIIIIIIIILL be building and setting off..." she paused for a moment. "BOTTLE ROCKETS! It is something I aaaaaaaaaaaaaalways wanted to do in my youth but just was never able to. Rather unfortunately really, so I doooo hope you do not mind my working along side you." But of coooooourse they didn't!
She moved behind her desk and waved her wand to remove a Disillusionment Charm she had placed on a large box. "In this box are the rest of the materials you will need to build your bottle rocket. Beeeeeeeeefore you get to doing so, because I see several of you already beginning to do the Potty Dance, please dooooooo take the time to use the rest room. Be sure to clean the inside of your bottle with a Scourgify. First years and those who do not know how to use the charm may wash out their bottle in the restroom."
She paused just long enough to set the box's contents out on the table. "I would like each of you to take a plastic bag, a piece of cardboard, and some dental floss." Which was mint flavored for those wondering. You should use the Severing Charm to cut things. Again, first years and those unsure of themselves should ask help from older students or myself."
She then turned to the board and gave her wand a firm flick. "Instructions for how to construct your rocket are on the board. You may of course add color and decoration if you wish. Just keep in mind that tooooooooo much of a good thing can be bad, darlings." She was just about to step aside when she recalled what she had remembered earlier. "Oh! I almost forgot." She pulled an EMPTY soda bottle out from under her desk and duplicated it with a spell until there were enough for each student. "You will also need one more bottle."
Oops. Hehehehe. Better that they just had to drink one full bottle of soda and not two, yes?
She beeeeeeeamed at the class once more. "I will be walking around and making my own bottle rocket if you have any questions or trouble." OOOOOOOOOOOOOH wasn't this exciting?! "Alright dears, time to become little rocket scientists! Get to it! Of you go!"
OOC: construction of your rocket should take AT LEAST 2 posts to complete for full participation point credit. Quality over quantity dears. Two well thought out posts can be better than many posts if you are creative and having fun! Feel free to interact with each other, but no injuries please. Professor Burbage will not like that very much. You will have at least 48 hours from the time of this post to complete this portion of the activity before we truly blast off. You may include a graphic of your completed rocket if you wish for possible extra credit, but it cannot be an image taken from the internet and MUST be either hand drawn or done in a graphics program.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact Professor Burbage by VM or PM. HAVE FUN!
Henry? Who was Henry? Dustin ruminated on that until Professor OOOOOOOOOOOOOO resumed the lecture on who this guy was.
As the vowel-lover spoke, the young Ravenclaw scribbled some more notes.
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Robert Hutchings Goddard - American physicist (whatever that is)
- credited with inventing the world's first LIQUID-POWERED ROCKET WOW
- In order to fly, rockets need laws?
BUT THEY WERE GOING TO BE MAKING THEIR OWN? OH HAPPY DAY! Dustin could have squiggled in his chair like those muggle advertisement thingies that look like tube men dancing in the wind. In fact, he may or may not have wiggled a bit in his chair. But for the most part, he was able to contain his excitement within. He was so excited to start that he had almost forgotten that he needed to go potty. But Miss OOOOOOOOOOO reminded him, and BOY did he need to go. As soon as she excused them to get started, he RACED off to the restroom to do his business.
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After quite a lengthy trip to the bathroom (he'd gotten caught up on several moving staircases....he'd never get used to those), he finally found his way back to the Astronomy tower. First things first, clean the bottle.
He had NO clue how to do the...what was it? Screwdriverfy? The cleaning spell. Yes that. He had no idea how to do it, and he'd forgotten to bring his bottle with him to the loo (his mind was a bit occupied). Embarrassed, he raised his hand, hoping someone would eventually come to his rescue. While he waited, he attempted his best help-me-I-don't-know-how-to-magic face.
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She was decorating. And surprisingly, it was raising her mood. Not that she was the type who actually enjoyed that kind of task but considering how she was feeling unlucky today, that one endeavor that went by without fail just made her feel utterly pleasant.
Hence, the now-purple exterior of her rocket. The Ravenclaw managed to magic it with some spells Professor Vindictus had taught them back on her second year. Who would've thought those would come in handy?
She'd also added some glitter too. After all, Professor Burbage loved gliiiiiiiiiiiiiitter. The woman might give her some points. And their house badly need those right now.
Beezus eyed her work when she was done. Oh, it wasn't anywhere near perfect but it would suffice. Then she shifted her attention to her classmates and saw a little boy a few desks from her raising his hand, his materials for the rocket-making untouched. The brunette frowned for a second before she realizing he was a Ravenclaw. HE WAS A RAVENCLAW!! Of course that meant she had to help him or else he won't be able to finish that activity.
Carrying her bottle rocket, the fourth year scuttled towards the young man, gave him a smile before saying, "Are you okay? Is..is something wrong? How come you haven't started yet?"
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Well it appeared that the Professor did not like Doctor Who or Star Trek. He guesses he can forgive since she is really old and thinks these guys are studmuffins. What ever that is. He walks to the bathroom to take his "potty break". Why did she have to use that word. What was this a class of eight year old. Once he returns he sets to work making his awesome rocket.
But before he even checks his bottle he sees some quaffles out of the corner of his eye. He turns to look and sees that it is West's underpants. Well that is embarrassing. But at least he has good taste. He walks over to West and quietly says
" Hey West, I think there is a tear in your pants."
Nigel then stayed close to West and looked at his rocket he brought over to check and see if it is empty.Once he was sure he moved on to the next step.
Nigel used the severing charm to cut his bottle so that he removed the top.He then followed the instructions and checked to make sure that his awesomely cut bottle fit over the bottom of the other bottle he got. It should slide on and off easily just like the instructions said.
Huuuh? West looked up seeing Nigel, and then blinked. A tear? In his pants? West looked over his shoulder. Heyyy whaddaya know? There was a hole in his pants!
Not that he knew how to fix it.
"Ummmm thanks, Nigel."
Now what was more important, rockets or pants?
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This boy. Yes. Mr. Wilde Odessa. She was going to haaaaaaaaaave to have tea with him sometime. "You may make any alterations you see fit," she chirped. "This is just the most basic form to get you started." She siiiiiiiiiiiiimply loooooooooved the way he thought.
Perhaps she should encourage him to pursue a career in rocketry? Hmmm?
With her own supplies in hand now, Marion decided to take a seat beside her little rocket man to construct her own rocket and had got to placing the wings on it when she...noticed something.
"Oh goodness gracious hEAvens, darling," she exclaimed, covering her mouth with one hand to try to suppress an amused giggle. "Darling, I dooooooo believe that you managed to tear a hole in your pants and now your adoooooooooorable panties are showing." She was a bit surprised that they did not have rockets on them, however.
What he meant was HOW, since he didn't know any charms to smooth out the plastic. And then she giggled and pointed out the tear and called his underpants panties. West stared.
"I didn't tear them, professor, someone else did, I heard it but I didn't SEE."
Wasn't anyone going to help him?
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Still watching what other students were doing ,Cassia didn't notice anyone get to that spell yet. So she still had no idea how to do it but there was still time, she thought.
However, interesting things Cassia had heard. Actually weird things about panties and holes. And quaffles?! Cassia tried to understand what was going on. She noticed that people were referring to West. Cassia peered at her friend to notice that his pants were erm..holed. She felt bad seeing how people laughed though she had to admit that his panties were amusing but that was expectable from the quidditch player. But she wouldn't mock a fellow snake though it was so hard considering the situation. "Psssssstt..West" She whispered doubting that West could hear among the noise of the rocket-making. Then Cassia remembered that West's older sister was sitting near him. She could absolutely handle it. And West could too. And she'd be around if her help was needed. Ehh as if. XD
Yeah he knew. He knew.
West looked over to his sister. The pants situation needed fixing so he could get back to rocket making.
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Making a rocket out of bottles.... easy enough. Aspen idly worked through the instructions, half paying attention, half not. Mostly, she was watching GARY and figuring out ways to make him throw up.
That was, of course, until Nigel - a second year from her own House - to be a good citizen and help her brother out. She'd remember that and woe to whoever messed Nigel from henceforth. Aspen could fix his pants, no problem and didn't even expect foul play (because who WOULD mess with West with her sitting RIGHT there?) but....
That Professor. The senile one subbing in this class. She... She.... went and giggled.
Burbage giggled, called his boxers PANTIES, and basically pointed them out to the entire class. Most of the class, it seemed, were MUCH MORE POLITE and MATURE than the old woman and didn't make it a scene.
Except for, of course...
...The Head Girls eyes may have been on Aspen now. But who could say how long she'd keep those eyes? Aspen was likely to have her head. Soon. Then Aspen could permanently stick the Head Girls eyes to herself and carry them around with her always. Aspen might have shown her vampire teeth to the Head Girl a liiiiittle.
But back to the Professor. The one that basically POINTED AND GIGGLE at her little brother, instead of fixing the issue. "A hole in pants can be mended. There's no fixing a hole in someone's head." Shrug. And instead of making a fuss about, Aspen decided to be the ONLY ADULT in the room and at least not make it a big deal for West, "Do you need a mending spell, Rocket Man?"
Discretely, Aspen looked to GARY again. She had need of him. She tried to get his attention and call him over to her. GARY. COME OVER.
"Yes please, Aspen." West said with a big nod. At least he was wearing his COOL underpants. Quaffles were awesome.
He angled his rear towards his sister so she could fix his pants while he continued to make his rocket.
Multitasking sparkling vampires.
"And then can you help me stick on my wings?"
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Bliss drank the soda as quickly as possible. It certainly wasn't as nice as pumpkin juice or butter beer, but it still had a rather sweet taste to it, making it bearable to drink. She actually quite liked it. She then zoomed off to the nearest girl toilets and had the quickest toilet break in the history of toilet breaks. She was pretty excited about making a ROCKET! While she was there, she emptied out the soda bottle of any reminding liquid and cleaned it, before returning to the Astronomy classroom.
After she was sat back in her seat near the back of the classroom, she checked that she had everything that she needed laid out in front of her and so she begin, though she kept getting lost in her thoughts of rockets and how high they would fly! She shook her head and took out her wand from her pocket. Grabbing one of the bottles from her desk, she held it out in front of her and carefully whispered the Severing Charm and cut the bottle to the right amount. She smiled, looking pleased at her results and so after see placed lid end of the rocket at the far side of the table, out of the way, she picked up the other bottle.
Bliss slid the cut bottle on and off the other bottle repeatedly, and grinned as she saw success. So far, so good, she thought to herself, before looking at the next step on the board. She placed the uncut and the cut bottles to the side for now and took her piece of cardboard out. As carefully as possible, Bliss cut out three wings of approximately the same shape and placed them to the side to.
She smiled down at her work so far, proud. This was going to be AMAZING!
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SPOILER!!: Ariana
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Ariana had ran ff to the bathroom But not to use it, more to dump her soda out cause EWWWW it was soo gross. only taking 4 sips from it she was Done!
She rinsed her bottle out in the bathroom as well, using charms was so much work and well she was there so might as well. Ariana walked back to the classroom and reached in her bag for her parchment and "EWWWW!" she said a bit louder then expected. She pulled out her parchment which was soaked along with several other things "What the heck!" she looked around for the perp
Elijah noticed the girl, whose bag he poured soda into, return from, presumably, the bathroom. It took her all of a few seconds before she realised that her bag was drenched in soda and, understandably, she seemed angry. "Merlin! Who on Earth would DO something like that? There really are some horrible people about!" Elijah said, feigning sympathy, "I hope it all comes out."
He was such a nice, considerate guy.
SPOILER!!: Beezus
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Yeah, mm'kay. The studmuffin, whatever it meant (clearly she haven't been listening), was Robert Hucthings Goddard. The Ravenclaw was too engrossed with drinking ALL the soda in her bottle that she wasn't paying much attention. Her ears only perked up upon the sound of the word BOTTLE ROCKETS.
Hmm. So that's why. Incorporating the bottles with whatever Goddard had discovered huh?
...her soda bottle was empty now and the brunette burped rather loudly after closing its lid. She was ready for their activity now! Massaging her overlarge belly, Beezus eyed the box that Professor Burbage said contained the remaining needed materials for their rockets.
Oh, yes. She needed to go use the Potty. Potty, potty. She was definitely going. But before exiting, she sat listening to more instructions. Right..dental floss, cardboard, plastic bag. And the extra bottle too. She'll grab those when her potty dance has subsided. Beezus took a quick scan of the steps on the board before finally standing up and dashed out of the room. Time to open the dam! Yep....run like the river! Feeling undeniably more comfortable, she went out of the restroom cubicle, about to return to the classroom when...Hold on, FREEZE! Why were some of her classmates bringing their bottles that still had soda in it to the restroom?
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MERLIN'SOVERGROWNPANTS! "No.Way." she uttered, emphasizing each word. How could this be happening to her?! She felt betrayed! She had to finish ALL of the contents of her soda bottle because Professor Burbage said they were to use it. But the woman didn't say they can pour it down the sink if they weren't drinking it. And she...she had been misleaded. Poor her. Her bladder has suffered so much. And her classmates just got rid of their sodas that easily?! What has she done to deserve such faaaaaaaaaaaaaaate?
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Distraught, she returned to the classroom and without a word to anyone began to take the materials that she needed then scourgified the bottle that she exerted the oh-so-much effort to empty. Sniffing as she went, the brunette then returned to her desk and used the Severing Charm on one of the bottles. Beezus pulled out her wand and with a downward slash wand movement, "Diffindo." Cut. She then slipped it under the the other bottle. It fitted and when she pulled it out, it didn't get stuck. Good.
Next step was to make wings when she realized she forgot to bring a piece of cardboard with her. Rather speedily, she left her work and sauntered to the Professor's table, grabbed the cardboard and zigzagged back to her desk, sending excuses to her busy buzz fellows. HOWEVER. Before she had reached her desk, she slipped a bit and had accidentally nudged someone. "I'm sor--" Beezus started but her apology was cut short when she saw the spell from the person she had unintentionally bump's wand dart to the younger Odessa's direction.
And...KABOOZ.
Beezus eyes widened in horror when the Slytherin's trousers were ripped and his underwear came into view. UH-OH. Meep! It was totally not her fault. Her head turned to the real culprit who was pretending to be interested in the floss then she gave him a 'What did you do?!' look.
Yeah, Elijah SAW that look and it was ALL this girl's fault for nudging him in the first place. Deciding not to explain to her exactly what happened since it would probably arouse suspicion, he simply raised a finger to his lips as if to tell her to keep silent and just act as if nothing happened. NOPE. NOOOOOOTTTHHHINNNNGGGG heeerrreee.
SPOILER!!: Burbz
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Professor Burbage gave the girl a quick wink, but did not walk away just yet as she stood and waited for the young lady to attempt the charm, her hands tapping her own side idly in anticipation for being able to put together her OOOOOWN rocket.
"Well done dear," she nodded approvingly at her charm work. "Do be mindful of your fingers, just in case." Horrible thing had happened to one of her children when they were not paying attention once when performing it.
Making her way around the classroom a bit to check on students before she got down to work, Marion couldn't help but notice that a certain Ravenclaw seemed a bit...lost? Oh dear, was this what happened when students came down off of their sugar rush? "Something wrong, dear?"
This boy. Yes. Mr. Wilde Odessa. She was going to haaaaaaaaaave to have tea with him sometime. "You may make any alterations you see fit," she chirped. "This is just the most basic form to get you started." She siiiiiiiiiiiiimply loooooooooved the way he thought.
Perhaps she should encourage him to pursue a career in rocketry? Hmmm?
"Oh I seeeeee," she mused, tapping her lip with her index finger a few times deep in thought. Of course, Marion had her own ways of finding sources and publications of this sort. "Well, it's like I alwaaaaaaaaays say: the more difficult to find the more thriiiiiiiiilling the chase for knowledge becomes." Surely this young studmuffin in the making knew about the thrill of a chase, yes?
Ho ho ho ho.
Hmmm? "If that happens, dear, it may mean you cut a little tooooooooooooooooo close to the top of the bottle," Marion nodded with a smile. "You shouldn't have too much trouble with getting them to fit."
Remaining cardboard? Was she talking about the scraps? "Oh, nothing dear. Once you have cut the wings out of your piece of cardboard you are done with it. Unless you want to use it for decoration of some sort." Not that she really recommended that. It was just added weight.
With her own supplies in hand now, Marion decided to take a seat beside her little rocket man to construct her own rocket and had got to placing the wings on it when she...noticed something.
"Oh goodness gracious hEAvens, darling," she exclaimed, covering her mouth with one hand to try to suppress an amused giggle. "Darling, I dooooooo believe that you managed to tear a hole in your pants and now your adoooooooooorable panties are showing." She was a bit surprised that they did not have rockets on them, however.
If anyone hadn't noticed West in his underpants, they now did as Professor Burbage made a big scene about it all. Her suppressed giggling actually made Elijah snort out loud, unable to contain his amusement. Not only that, she referred to his underwear as panties, which was just a whole lot MORE amusing.
Must. Contain. Laughter.
SPOILER!!: Aspen
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Originally Posted by Mad Eye Touz
Making a rocket out of bottles.... easy enough. Aspen idly worked through the instructions, half paying attention, half not. Mostly, she was watching GARY and figuring out ways to make him throw up.
That was, of course, until Nigel - a second year from her own House - to be a good citizen and help her brother out. She'd remember that and woe to whoever messed Nigel from henceforth. Aspen could fix his pants, no problem and didn't even expect foul play (because who WOULD mess with West with her sitting RIGHT there?) but....
That Professor. The senile one subbing in this class. She... She.... went and giggled.
Burbage giggled, called his boxers PANTIES, and basically pointed them out to the entire class. Most of the class, it seemed, were MUCH MORE POLITE and MATURE than the old woman and didn't make it a scene.
Except for, of course...
...The Head Girls eyes may have been on Aspen now. But who could say how long she'd keep those eyes? Aspen was likely to have her head. Soon. Then Aspen could permanently stick the Head Girls eyes to herself and carry them around with her always. Aspen might have shown her vampire teeth to the Head Girl a liiiiittle.
But back to the Professor. The one that basically POINTED AND GIGGLE at her little brother, instead of fixing the issue. "A hole in pants can be mended. There's no fixing a hole in someone's head." Shrug. And instead of making a fuss about, Aspen decided to be the ONLY ADULT in the room and at least not make it a big deal for West, "Do you need a mending spell, Rocket Man?"
Discretely, Aspen looked to GARY again. She had need of him. She tried to get his attention and call him over to her. GARY. COME OVER.
The best thing to come out of all this, though, was Aspen Odessa's unamused face. He had to admire how well she passed the whole thing off as nothing and how sweet she was trying to protect her wee brother... even if she was a vampire...
Now that those distractions were out of the way, Elijah needed to crack on and get his rocket done. He cast the slicing spell once more, this time on the bottle itself, and made a clear cut 2/3 up. Taking the cut piece of bottle, he placed it over the second bottle and discovered it to fit quite nicely. A bit tight, perhaps, but Elijah was no perfectionist.
Next step was to cut out some wings. Four to be exact. He took a piece of cardboard and folded it four times. Using the diffindo spell once more, he cut out the shape of an average looking wing (because he wasn't artistic in the slightest), and because he had folded it, he got four wings the exact same size. See? Not always a pretty face.
Now to stick 'em on! "Adhaero," he cast, holding one of the wings tightly against the bottle. He went to grab another wing when he realised he couldn't... In fact the previous wing he tried to stick on fell from the bottle and it was then that Elijah realised he'd stuck his bloomin' HAND onto the bottle.
"You've got to be kidding me," he grumbled...
"Proffffessssssoooorrrrr or anyone... preferably a good looking female? Does anyone know how to... for instance... DEstick, say, someone's hand from a plastic bottle...? Ya know, just in case. That. Kind. Of. Thing. Happened...?" he asked, hiding the bottle behind his back. He didn't want people to see he had actually been stupid enough to do that. He was obviously subtle enough so no one would suspect.
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They're going to make a rocket out of bottles??? Juliet didn't know what it looked like though... the rockets that is. She has heard them from a muggle friend but that's pretty much her it. It took her time to take whatever she needed in the box with all the materials. Her eyes did scout around first, some students went on and gathered their materials in an instant. The instructions were pretty simple and clear. With that, Juliet took the several items on the box, to start this activity.
First thing is first.... clean the bottle. There was little some left but she didn't want to have a potty break in the middle of the whole activity. So no. She took out her wand and gave it a flick "Scourgify" she uttered. Now the bottle is just perfectly clean. Next on the list of instructions is to cut the bottle with the use of the severing charm.
Making an imaginary line of about 2/3 of the way from the top. Juliet positioned her wand into the bottle and with another flick she uttered "Diffindo" watching it cut into half as easy like that. She's getting more and more excited with this activity. Then reading the next instruction, she quickly checked the cut bottle, making sure it also fits the bottom. Good enough since it can slide off and on easily and so did the instructions want it to happen. YAY!
Next is to use the cardboard. She folded one side equally and with the help of her wand "Diffindo. Diffindo. Diffindo. Diffindo" making 4 cuts into each. Proceeding with the next step is to use Adhaero Juliet doesn't even know if she had used such spell before, she's not sure but if ever she did it wouldn't have been so much considering she doesn't know about using it.
Placing the cardboard pieces onto the uncut bottle, Juliet held her wand again and with another flick "Adhaero" she said. It sticks!!!! She thought the pronunciation was a bit off but seeing it as it stuck to the bottle made her smile. She did the procedure another 3 times with the rest of the cardboard pieces.
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They were going to make a rocket huh? Great just great. She could totally count on the puffers to do something right and not kill her. She blew out air. She knew that she wasn't going to get out of it so the next best thing was to hurry up and get this over with. Yeah... that sounded like a plan.
Potty break? Ok sure, why not. Even though she didn't have to go it was a good excuse to get a break from the class. She came back and re-read the instructions. You could never be too careful when you are making bottle rockets right? She went up to the front of the room and got all of the supplies that were needed. She made sure that her bottle was completely empty. It was because she put whatever was left of it down the drain in the bathroom. She took out her wand and pointed it at the bottle. "Scourgify!" The bottle was instantly clean.
Ok what to do next? She needed to cut the bottle. Deciding that it would probably be a good idea to take a couple of practice shots first she said the word out loud and swished her wand several times... seperately of course. Then she went for the real thing. She made sure her wand was pointed perfectly at the bottle. "Diffindo!" She had a perfectly cut bottle excatly 2/3 of the way from the top. Naturally!!!
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"You're also not not whining. It isn't like I'll shun you for asking questions. You only shun people who don't bathe, steal from you, or refuse to share cake." Vivi glued the rest of her wings into place, albeit slower so Lex could watch.
Got that, Short Stuff? Hm?
Vivi sighed heavily and grabbed Lex's wings, although she did not say a word to the girl about what she should or should not know. The fail was the professor asking little kids to do hard spells, not on the little kids themselves. She applied the spell to the wings and laid them out on the desk so Lex could attach the wings herself.
"Don't touch the end the wand touched or you'll be cardboarded for life."
Hmmm, she had a point there...but technically she was leaning more over to the 'not whining' side because she wasn't walking back and forth, frowning and complaining that she wasn't getting anything right. See, this was called progress! If they had to attempt this a few months earlier then Vivi would have eventually had to hex her quiet...then Lex would have walked away sorely disappointed that she of all people would raise a wand at her.
She went through the list of people they shun in her head, checking off each one and finally giving a little sigh of relief when she didn't find herself in any of those categories. Now she could watch Vivi do something with ease that she had been struggling to do....This left her with mixed feelings...
Lex beamed when her friend applied the stuff to her wings. She didn't even have to ask this time!!!!!! The 11 year old nodded at the instruction to not touch a certain part and carefully picked them up. "Right, now wouldn't that be a disaster...but then wouldn't you be able to fix it...?" It was a question that didn't require an answer because she most certainly was not going to let anyone point a wand at her--not after Vivi had so kindly explained all the things that could go wrong while they were at the feast--even if they were talking about something completely different!
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Now to add the finishing touches then apply the decoration! The magic part was over and if the Professor didn't want Lex giving a wild protest or simply breaking down and throwing a six year old's tantrum (yes, she would) she would leave it out of the rest of the lesson...that or get whoever was sitting next to Vivi to move because at the rate she was going, she was going to hurt herself...or someone else....
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MERLIN! Did the woman have to sing everything she said? She grew WIDE-EYED when she was patted on the shoulder. Couldn't she have gotten points or some other glory instead? Oh. She was related to Charity Burbage. "Oh? What's your relation to her?" she asked. Besides the whole 'doing everything the Muggle way' thing...
She nodded as the directions were clarified. "Thanks, Professor," she said.
Now...to make those wings.
Oh, look at that. The loooooovely young Slytherin was going all wide eyed that she was related to Charity Burbage. Wasn't that just daaaaaaaaaarling. Clearly this young lady had a soft spot for such people. She was probably a fan of Muggle Studies as well. Oh how lovely!
"Oh, she is my great great great great.... something dear," she said with a smile and a twinkle into the eye. She had married into the Burbage family and things were aaaaaaaalways more confusing that way. "And you are quite welcome. Keep up the good work dear."
Because she was off to see if anyone else needed some help and, if there was no one, then she would return to working on her rocket.
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Originally Posted by Tegz
What he meant was HOW, since he didn't know any charms to smooth out the plastic. And then she giggled and pointed out the tear and called his underpants panties. West stared.
"I didn't tear them, professor, someone else did, I heard it but I didn't SEE."
Wasn't anyone going to help him?
Marion's eyes widened and she let out a sound that was a cross between a gasp and a kneazle being strangled.
"OH GOODNEES GRACIOUS HEEEEEEEAVENS!" she exclaimed. "Whoooooooo would do such a thing to such a loooooooovely young man like you?! We much find the culprit at once. I siiiiiiiiiiimply will NOT stand for such behavior in my classroom."
Nope. It was out they would go. Shoo shoo and off to see Annie.
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Originally Posted by Leeness
"Proffffessssssoooorrrrr or anyone... preferably a good looking female? Does anyone know how to... for instance... DEstick, say, someone's hand from a plastic bottle...? Ya know, just in case. That. Kind. Of. Thing. Happened...?" he asked, hiding the bottle behind his back. He didn't want people to see he had actually been stupid enough to do that. He was obviously subtle enough so no one would suspect.
Oh goodness gracious hEAvens! How did that happen?
"Oh oh oh oh! You poor darling. My Henry did the same thing once. Only he managed to stick his hand to the wheel of a muggle bicycle when we were teaching little Annie how to ride it. The poooooooor man had to chase after her for seeeeeeeveral blocks before he got around to unsticking himself."
And she moved on for a moment to check someone else's work.
"Oooooooh! You need to be unstick. Just a moment dear," she said as she ruffled her marigold robes in search of her wand. OH! There it was. She should really give the studmuffin in the making points for calling her a good looking female, but that would be a bit toooooooo much, would it not? Ho ho ho ho! "Come come now...let's have a look..." she said in a motherly tone as she took his arm and pulled it out from behind his back and pointed her wand at it. "Avexis!"
And the elderly woman gave the bottle a firm tug.
TUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUG!
And while she was tugging...
"DARLINGS! Just a feeeeeeeeeeeeew more minutes and then I need to ask you all to clean up your desks and sit down in your seats," she announced.
OOC: we shall be moving to the next part in approximately 16 hours from this post darlings.
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Originally Posted by Mad Eye Touz
Making a rocket out of bottles.... easy enough. Aspen idly worked through the instructions, half paying attention, half not. Mostly, she was watching GARY and figuring out ways to make him throw up.
That was, of course, until Nigel - a second year from her own House - to be a good citizen and help her brother out. She'd remember that and woe to whoever messed Nigel from henceforth. Aspen could fix his pants, no problem and didn't even expect foul play (because who WOULD mess with West with her sitting RIGHT there?) but....
That Professor. The senile one subbing in this class. She... She.... went and giggled.
Burbage giggled, called his boxers PANTIES, and basically pointed them out to the entire class. Most of the class, it seemed, were MUCH MORE POLITE and MATURE than the old woman and didn't make it a scene.
Except for, of course...
...The Head Girls eyes may have been on Aspen now. But who could say how long she'd keep those eyes? Aspen was likely to have her head. Soon. Then Aspen could permanently stick the Head Girls eyes to herself and carry them around with her always. Aspen might have shown her vampire teeth to the Head Girl a liiiiittle.
But back to the Professor. The one that basically POINTED AND GIGGLE at her little brother, instead of fixing the issue. "A hole in pants can be mended. There's no fixing a hole in someone's head." Shrug. And instead of making a fuss about, Aspen decided to be the ONLY ADULT in the room and at least not make it a big deal for West, "Do you need a mending spell, Rocket Man?"
Discretely, Aspen looked to GARY again. She had need of him. She tried to get his attention and call him over to her. GARY. COME OVER.
So, now they're going to make a muggle-style rocket?
That's why the old Professor served them the soda. Because they needed the bottles for this.. science project? Or craft? Well.. Whatever what did they say, he didn't care.
After he finished with his soda, Gary pulled up his sleeves because he knew that it's gonna bit a bit.. hard. He wasn't a person who did a good job in crafting. Seriously. Why they did need to make this just like the muggle primary school students? And why in astronomy class? Well, too many questions in his head just made him not feel too interested about this activity.
Okay. Stop complaining and start working!
The blonde guy took his bottle and made sure that there was no soda left. "Scourgify." Then he took another empty bottle and did the same instruction. To make sure that the bottle was clean and there's no soda left there. After he scourgified it, then... What's the next step?
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TAKE A POTTY BREAK!
Be sure there is NO soda left in your bottle.
Use the Severing Charm to cut ONE of your bottles about 2/3 of the way from the top so that you have removed the top. (be sure to cut the end with the lid)
Check to make sure that the cut bottle fits over the bottom of the other bottle. It should slide on and off easily.
Cut out 3-4 wings that are the same in size. If the size is off it will effect how high the rocket launches. You can make them whatever size you want and whatever shape you want.
Use Adhaero to stick the wings to the UNCUT bottle. Be sure that they are attached around the same height.
Take your plastic bag, dental floss, and a remaining cardboard and lay them out on your desk.
Tie some dental to the plastic bag's handles and attach this string to the bottom of your UNCUT bottle. This will become your rocket's parachute.
Place the bottom part of the bottle on top other bottle. Make sure the bottom part of your rocket has the parachute.
DECORATE!
So, he need to cut one of the bottle? Okay. Putting it in his desk and layed it horizontally, he cut the bottle. about 2/3 of the way from the top though he wasn't cure if it was REALLY 2/3, but who cares? "Diffindo." Gary tried to fit it to the uncut bottle. Okay, it was fit. While he was staring at the board and reading the next step, he felt that a Ravenclaw girl was watching him.
What?
Heh, he didn't care about that and moved to the next step, since the old lady said that they just had a few minutes more to finished it. Just ignore that stranger girl, Gerald!
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SPOILER!!: Cardigan's Parchment
1. TAKE A POTTY BREAK! 2. Be sure there is NO soda left in your bottle. 3. Use the Severing Charm to cut ONE of your bottles about 2/3 of the way from the top so that you have removed the top. (be sure to cut the end with the lid)
4. Check to make sure that the cut bottle fits over the bottom of the other bottle. It should slide on and off easily. 5. Cut out 3-4 wings that are the same in size. If the size is off it will effect how high the rocket launches. You can make them whatever size you want and whatever shape you want.
6. Use Adhero to stick the wings to the UNCUT bottle. Be sure that they are attached around the same height.
7. Take your plastic bag, dental floss, and a remaining cardboard and lay them out on your desk.
8. Tie some dental to the plastic bag's handles and attach this string to the bottom of your UNCUT bottle. This will become your rocket's parachute.
9. Place the bottom part of the bottle on top other bottle. Make sure the bottom part of your rocket has the parachute.
10. DECORATE!
EEEPP!!! They only had a few more minutes! Cardigan needed to HURRY UP. She took WAY too long on drinking her soda. After finishing up the drink, she went to go get all the supplies needed, not having to go for a "potty break". Extra bottle? Check! Plastic bag? Check! Cardboard? Check! Dental floss? Check! Great. Everything she needed was in her hands. Heading back to her area, she laid all her supplies out in front of her. Hmm.. The first bottle still had a little bit of soda left in it... "Scourgify," She said, pointing her wand at the undrained bottle. It was instantly wiped clean. She could check those steps off now!
What would she have to next? She would have to cut one of the bottles 2/3 of the way from the top, according to step number 3. Picking up one of the bottles, she pointed her wand and said "Diffindo," clearly. Setting the cut-off top to the side, she slid the other part over the uncut bottle, making sure it fit, and could slide on and off. Cardigan slid it on and off a few times, just to be sure it worked. Great! It did. Next, she cut out three long wings that were to go on her bottle. As for shape, she cut out bird wings, with feathers and all that. She would add more later.*hinthint*
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