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Astronomy Lesson 2 :: create your own Solar System lab
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Ana was quite excited for today's lesson, the last one had been great, barring Professor Airey's injury of course. Because that hadn't been good. Had been quite bad in fact and he was still using a cane, poor man. Anyway, it had definitely made sure she stayed enthused about Astronomy classes and so Ana had a slight bounce in her step as she made her way to the Astrophysics lab for the lesson. Although it was less of a bounce than normal as her body seemingly no longer had what it took to be extra bouncy. Sad face. She hesitated briefly before stepping into the lab, wondering where the lint roller was. She'd thought it strange last lesson but she was kind of expecting it for this one. Maybe he didn't use it all the time? After that hesitation though she continued to bounce her way into the lesson, shooting her professor a large grin. "Hi Prof Airey, how are you feeling today?" Pleasantries out of the way Ana walked towards the closet and grabbed the lab coat with her name on and the pair of goggles before walking to a seat near the front of the lab. She put her coat on, it looked quite nifty and sat down before really paying attention to the materials in front of her. Helium, Hydrogen and Iron, along with a large glass box. Experimentation! "Professor, are we going to be doing an experiment on Stellar Nucleosynthesis?" Ana questioned, somewhat excitedly, and hoping he would say that they were. It was the only reason Ana could think of that they'd be using helium, hydrogen and iron all together in the astrophysics lab. Plus it was obvious they were doing an experiment of some sort and that would totally be the coolest one. As she waited for an answer Ana placed the goggles on her desk and her bag beside the stool she was sitting on. She could tell that this lesson was going to be so much fun. |
Caleb knew that he didn't look very good - his hair was totally white now and his beard was starting to come in totally white too, even though he had shaved it. But poor Flamsteed - he looked REALLY bad. If Caleb's aging kept up like this, he'd need a cane soon too! "Hiya Professor," he said softly, coughing from the LONGGGGGG walk up to the astrophysics lab from the dungeons. Right, lab material and coats and stuff. UGH. |
Delilah finally made it to the seventh floor. Phew, that was tiring. She entered the laboratory and.. Oh! She just stared at Airey for a moment. Oh gosh, what happened to him!? He looked so old and his hair was white... NO! His good looks were gone. Disappeared. How incredibly disappointing. But, the girl finally managed to give him a small smile. "Hello, professor." ... She dropped her bag near her seat before she walked to the closet, picked out her lab coat and a pair of goggles. Looked like this class was going to be super interesting, for sure. She put her coat on before walking back to her seat, placed her goggles on her seat and sat down. Okay. She was ready for class to begin. |
Another Astronomy lesson! This time it was in the lab and Adi was very much looking forward to it despite the terrible ache in his knees. He was not surprised to find the lint roller there. After using it on his clothes, Adi stepped into the lab. Using the lab meant also using goggles and lab coats. He got one of the coats and the yellow goggles with his name in it from the closet. Adi went over to greet Adi now turned his attention to the tables where each had a box and labelled jars. Hmmm. They'd be making something today? Eager to check out the jars more closely, Adi made himself comfortably on one of the stool. Of course, he won't touch anything just in case he wasn't supposed to. He'd examine by looking. |
Bay walked into class. "Good Morning Professor.. how is your back doing?" he asked while seeing that they needed goggles and a lab coat.. "cool" he spoke to himself. he went to the closet and looked through the gryffindor lab coats and spotted one with his name on it "Victor Bay" and he pulled it off the rack and slung it over his arm. "okay now i need the goggles" he grabbed a pair and the made his way to his seat.. "i wonder what were going to be doing today?" he thought. |
This classroom was really very far away, did Flamsteed know? It took a lot of huffing and puffing and the occasional breaks ... No lint rollers? BLINK. This was an Astronomy lesson he was heading off towards, right? Confused, the eighteen year old headed into the Laboratory and looked around, specifically somewhere near the door. No desk of lint rollers either? This was... weird. And what was weirder was the setup of the classroom. Not the usual desks and chairs aligned in a semi-circle. ... Alec had lots of questions about this. Yeah. Grabbing his lab coat -- hey, look, there was his name! -- and a pair of goggles, the boy put it on before slowly heading over towards a desk that had a box on it. He tilted his head and eyed the glass jars inside. ... More questions. The letters stood for the elements, right? Did they? Flamsteed would explain so he'd keep his questions at bay. And speaking of Flamsteed... "Hello Professor!" he called, giving the man a small smile and a wave, "Nice cane." Was he hiding something? Or holding onto his back? ... Lots. Of. Questions. And his back was saying no to the stools. They looked comfortable but... no. There was no back rest. |
Ugg...Ben definately was being to think the astronomy tower was a worse trip then the Gryffindor one. Those last steps of stairs were killer. Needless to say he ached when he finally reached the top and was able to step into the astrophysics lab ready for class. He might have considered missing the class for all it was worth but it was a required subject. He would likely need a note from the healer for that and he wasn't going to try her. He just had to deal with it like all the other things he had had to deal with since everything started to happen. The grey hair...the half beard he had been trying to control since shaving it all off just seemed to make it worse...the aches and pains and dislike for yelling. Putting on his lab coat and goggles, Ben looked around to see what was up. "Hello Professor," he greeted, noting the man certainly seemed worse than he. The chairs and desks were moved around but nothing too unnervy and spotting Adi already there, opted for the desk beside him, sinking into it with a groan. "Hey...up for some creating?" he mused, eying what was on the desk in front of him. |
Wait was this also a daydream because there was no lint roller. Plus the was no semi circle. Just some awesome cushioned stools. That will do wondered for Nigel's aching leg. But nothing for his back. Shame. "Hello, Professor Flamsteed" What was with the lab coats and goggles. This was not potions or anything like that. Not questioning it further. Nigel grabbed his embroidered coat. Pretty cool and his goggles. Now what were they going to be doing with Iron, Helium, and Hydrogen? |
What in the...? Where the...? Alexa was lost. She stood just outside the door to the Astrophysics Lab, twisting and turning in all directions, not really remembering where the place was. Further down the hall maybe...? Or no...no maybe it was on the Third Floor? Where was the Third Floor again? Dangit why couldn't she remember? The girl wasn't known for shoddy memory but it'd been in and out for the past few days and now she just wanted a nap. Why was the castle so confusing? If she could remember where the Common Room was she'd head back up there but just as she got that thought she saw that...er....that Ravenclaw person....the Starfish one....--Merlin what was his name again??--she saw him go through that suspicious door and it slowly jogged something. That's right. HERE was the lab. Thanks Marcus. The Gryffindor hobbled inside, taking her own time to make sure her back wasn't all kinds of sore by the time she got inside. Why was everyone in those snazzy coat thingies? She wanted one. Were they free? Alexa made her way over to the closest and fished one that...oh wow it had her name...at least...that looked like her name. Yup. Lex shrugged into the coat then grabbed a pair of goggles and headed to a table. Such a nice box. |
It was a good job that Terry had left half an hour early to the Astronomy lesson because it had taken him a long time to get up all those stairs. Merlin, why did the Astronomy tower and the Slytherin Common Room have to be so far apart? His body just couldn't take it. His legs were shaking like jelly as he made his way into the Astrophysics lab, squinting around as soon as he stepped through the premises. He glanced briefly over at the cupboard and then at a nearby student who had a lab coat and goggles on their desk. He shrugged, heading over and grabbing them both. His eyes were so blurry he couldn't tell who was sat where so he just made his way over to a desk at the very front of the classroom, purely because he wouldn't be able to see the board otherwise. Woah. Didn't Flamsteed look so old? Though he himself had been too scared to look into the mirror this morning. His hair had been getting greyer and greyer every day and he was sure by some point he wouldn't have any blonde left. Thankfully he had escaped the whole wrinkles and beard thing that a lot of male students had. But that didn't compensate for the fact that his eyesight was seriously failing him and oh the pain in his legs was getting worse. Was anyone going to do something about this any time soon? "Hello Professor" he smiled a little at the man. Was he going to hurt his back again this lesson? It had been awful how short the last lesson was cut. He was actually quite enjoying it. That and he quite liked the Professor. He was definitely one of his favourites. "Watch yourself this lesson, yeah? None of us want to see you injure yourself again." Though he had been alright in the dance lesson. But he was serious. Don't hurt yourself. |
Emma walked slowly into the classroom, taking special care not to run into anyone. Everyone was having so many old people problems lately that she didn't want to be responsible if someone were to break a hip. "Good evening, professor." She beamed up at the man. Sure, he had aged a lot since their last lesson, but he still was a pretty cool dude. She took note of the fact that the lint roller and semi-circle were gone, only to be replaced by embroidered goggles and cushioned stools. Weird, but Emma could roll with it. She placed the goggles on her head before sitting down at one of the nearest respective stools. Oye. Not as comfortable for her back as she would have liked. |
Caelen walked into the labratory, taking a seat on one of the stools and looking around. What were they going to DO here? Were they going to try to identify stars? She had enough of that doing her homework. Or where they going to look up close at something? Because that seemed like something astronomers did. "Hello, professor Flamsteed." What was he hiding? Did it have something to do with the lesson? What could you hide that had something to do with the universe and the heavenly bodies and all of that? Slumping down in her seat a little, Caelen thought of the answer. Couldn't be a book unless it was a pocket edition, possibly be a microscope depending on how big his hands were. But only one hand was behind his back. Maybe a small star chart? Though she had ENOUGH of looking at those from the homework too. She wasn't bitter or anything -maybe a little- but she was tired of looking at star-charts. Or maybe it was a piece of chalk and he was tricking them. Either way, if a lesson needed goggles, it had to be good. She put them on her head and resigned to wait for the rest of the class to shuffle -or hobble with many of the students becoming ollld- and for the lesson to begin. She was still guessing though, just letting her guesses get somewhat ridiculous. Maybe they were doing something to get rid of the oldness. They were already getting rid of wrinkles in potions so it was a good guess. |
As always, Alice was excited for another lesson in Astronomy. But her excitement was reaching new levels today, because their last lesson had been cut short after the professor had experienced his own 'Big Bang'. That just meant Airey was going to make this class extra fun to make up for it, right? And where was the lint roller? She idly wondered about its disappearance as she entered the lab, grabbing her lab coat and goggles from the closet before choosing a spot at which to set her things down. The seventh year was moving a bit slower than usual, because her knee issue had been worsening at a rather quick rate, and she was walking with a limp now. Her eyes had only just settled on the glass box and jars when that Ana girl's words reached her ears. Stellar Nucleosynthesis? Hmph. Know-it-all Constantinople. Alice was just going to tune her OUT. "Hi, professor. Whatcha got there?" Hiding something, or was he just holding his back to prevent another accident? |
Sophie had set out toward the Astronomy tower two hours in advance. Why two hours? Well, it usually took her a good bit of time to move from the dungeons to the to floor, and with the slow pace she'd been going lately, she knew she'd need the extra time. With her graying hair pulled up in a grandma-style bun, she entered the room. "Hi, Professor Flamsteed," she said. She moved past him and laid her book bag down at the seat she'd chosen to take. She then collected her white lab coat and goggles, put them on, and returned to her seat. |
Lux was happy as she walked into the classroom. Hopefully this lesson would not be as confusing as the last one was. "Hello, Professor Flamsteed! I hope your back is doing better now!" She did not want to see him hobbling around with a sore back forever. Walking over to the closet, she found her coat and goggles before taking a seat. She was excited to learn about space, because it was interesting even though it greatly confused her. |
Bay and Lux Sander slowly walked up the stairs to the Astrophysics Lab. Knowing Professor Flamsteed's quirks, he looked for the lint roller but realized that it was missing together with the small desk it lay on. Sander frowned wondering whether he had reported to the wrong place. Not having been in the lab before, Sander didn't realize that even the inside of the lab had changed. He just liked the furniture the Professor had picked out. Not knowing what to do, Sander noticed the other students walking to a row of closets and pulling out white lab coats and goggles out from them. So Sander did the same and noticed there was a closet with his name on it. He opened it and pulled out a pair of goggles and a white lab coat and put both on before walking over to where Professor Flamsteed was standing. The man did not look well at all. In fact he looked old. But who was he to comment on someone else's looks? Sander wasn't looking that good himself. His hair was almost entirely covered with grey now, he had lost his battle with his ever growing beard, and his entire body ached. Even his legs felt wobbly after climbing those stairs. Even that pesky gas problem was causing a lot of embarrassment for him! When Sander finally got within listening distance of the Professor, he smiled and greeted the man, "Hello Professor. I'm really looking forward to your lesson today. You have a great lab here." Sander informed the Professor before looking around. He noticed that Bay had already arrived and walked over to join him. "Hey Bay, mind if I join you. Have you seen Lux and Tessa yet? Sander asked as he sat down and placed his backpack on the ground, even as looked around for his other two friends. Just then he saw Lux and waved at her. Sander noticed there was a glass container on the desk in front of him together with jars that had the labels, H, He and Fe on each of them respectively. 'Hmmm...the letters are part of the elemental table. H for Hydrogen, He for Helium and Fe for Iron." Sander had read something about what the combination of these elements had in correlation to the stars but couldn't quite remember what it was. So as he waited for the Professor to start his lesson, he opened up his textbook and began flipping through the pages trying to find where he has read about. |
Theo wasn't excited about Astronomy as such, since it wasn't a subject that sparked a lot of interest to him, but he wasn't too bothered about coming today. It was probably because Flamsteed's dance class had been such a success. The guy had earned points in his book. He went straight to the closet and pulled out a lab coat with his name on, and some goggles. For starters, that was pretty darn cool. He took a seat on the stool, which was nice and comfy, in front of a big glass box. Ooooookay... "Hiii, Professor Flamsteed." He was looking rather ragged and old. Theo ran his hand through his hair and took a moment to appreciate his youthful appearance. Not everyone was so lucky. |
Walking was hard, y'know? Ella had made it a point to do more of it lately, hoping that if her body got used to the activity, she'd be able to fight the aches and pains easier. They were constant though and the blonde couldn't help but feel defeated as she made her way quite slowly to the Astronomy lab, stopping every now and then to catch her breath or grab her lower back. She was struggling and it was the worst. At least she had a semi-handle on the greying hair and wrinkles. She'd gotten used to coloring her locks so now only a few greys peeked through. It was a pain to keep up with but it was all she could do to feel normal. Gran's anti-wrinkle cream helped too...sort of. At least she was trying to believe it did. Yeah. Forcing a smile, the eighteen year old finally made her way through the doorway of the lab and didn't notice the lack of lint roller. Honestly, she'd forgotten that was a thing so it wasn't even on her mind as she wandered absently over to the closet and took out a lab coat with her name on it and very slowly tugged it on. Then it was on to her seat, focusing all of her energy on getting there so she could sit and rest her bones. Only when she was seated and comfy did Ella look over to Airey-face. "Hello, Professor. How's your back?" She hoped it was better. |
Tessa walked into the classroom and paused once she had entered. Things looked different... granted, that could be her memory playing tricks on her. It took her a moment to remember which class she was attending too... perhaps she should consider bringing notes with her wherever she went... "Hello Professor!" she said, giving him a smile as she walked in. "I hope your back is feeling better," she added. She walked in and gave a small wave when she saw Sander, Bay, and Lux all sitting together. "I'll be right back," she said, setting her stuff down with them before going over to the closet to get a lab coat and goggles. She slipped those on and went over to join her friends, getting her quill and parchment ready for class. |
RP Dream Team :) Hearing her name being said, Lux turned and saw Sander waving at her. Oh, she had not even seen him and Bay. Maybe it was because everyone else was looking so old now. It was hard to even remember how her friends were supposed to look! Getting up, she moved over to where the two boys were seated and took her space on the other side of Bay. "What do you guys think we will be learning today? And have you seen Tessa?" Maybe Sander would know where his girlfriend was. Then speak of the devil... she appeared. Wow, that was kind of freaky. Waving at her friend, she waited for her to join them. |
Lab coats. Goggles. Hydrogen, helium, and iron? Well, this looked like it'd be an interesting lesson. Schuyler walked into the room, her joints feeling extra creaky today. She had resigned herself to the fact that unfortunately there WAS something going on about this premature aging, that she wasn't just achy because it was about to rain or snow.. Gosh, Airey, though. "Professor, I'm afraid you look like the crypt keeper," she said with a sympathetic frown. He looked too old to walk on his own, let alone do the Viennese Waltz. Oh, look... the lab coats had their names embroidered onto them. |
All for one and one for all xD SPOILER!!: Tessa Sander looked up from his reading just in time to see Tessa walk in. Ahhh...finally his girlfriend was here. He smiled at her as she came to join them and nodded when she went off again to grab her lab coat and goggles. SPOILER!!: Lux Sander smiled up at Lux as she came over to join them. "I'm still trying to figure that out myself." he whispered to Lux. In response to Lux's question regarding Tessa whereabouts, he grinned and pointed at Tessa as she came back from the row of closets and sat down next to them. |
It had taken Alex an extra long time to get ready for class today. She kept misplacing things, forgetting where she had left her parchment and quill. She was relieved when she had finally retrieved everything and arrived on time for Astronomy class. Failing to see the Professor's trusty lint roller outside of the lab, she entered the room. Things were arranged a little differently today and it threw Alex off for a brief moment. Seeing her classmates wearing lab coats, she went to the cabinet and retrieved her coat and goggles. Alex put her lab coat on and spotted Professor Flamsteed standing near the blackboard. "Hello Professor, how are you today?", Alex inquired. Finding the nearest empty seat, she sat down. Alex noticed a glass box containing three small jars and wondered what the Professor had planned for them today. |
The Astronomy tower was sooooooo far awayyyyyyy from the Hufflepuff common room. By the time Tobias finally reached the room, panting and exhausted, he was in a world of pain in his knees and hips and back and even his fingers from where he'd made good use of the bannister and heaved his way up through the castle. Now he was in the class, Tobias didn't even do his usual cursory glance of the room. He just forced himself to walk the last few paces and to a chair right next to Ella. He collapsed into it and took a moment to Airey got a vague wave, but no words yet. Tobias didn't even properly look at him. What was the point? His eyes were still being funny. At LEAST Tobias had finally got his hands on some hair dye and done an amatuer, yet satisfactory, job at covering up his whitening hair so it was... sort of closer to his natural colour. But it still looked weird and old and his face was still creased. Mostly, he was worried about all this tiredness. Bouncing was replaced by napping these days, and if Toby had the energy for it, he'd be alarmed. But he tried to forget about all that. 'Cause Astronomy. |
WHOA. No lint roller?? Had Marcus Branxton stolen the lint roller? That was so rude. Good thing she didn't need it, though, but still. O_O Airey? .....................................what? Lottie squinted at the man the moment she saw him and... "Hey, Professor," her voice had never held so much concern over someone. Someone belonging to the Hogwarts' staff, that is. And, okay, she took the goggles and the lab coat and went to join her bestie at the table. Were they gonna make stars again? She was more concerned about the Botros wannabe at the front, truth be told. |
There was no lint roller, and Mo was SURE that it was a statement for him. Just for him. Somehow. He was also sure that people blamed him for its disappearance, especially with those sly looks Lottie was giving him. "Stop flirting with me, Wisteria," Mo muttered as he passed her, giving her a cheeky grin. Now then... one fancy embroidered blue lab coat. With his name on it. Awesome! Mo slipped it on, grabbed goggles, and looked for a desk. Maybe... by Alice. Yes, Alice was safe. She wouldn't harass him about lint rollers. |
Merlin's beard! Actually the beard he was sporting at the moment could rival good ole Merlin himself. Michael entered the Astronomy classroom one hand stroking his long fluffy beard and the index finger of his other hand was shoved in his ear, wiggling around. He was still having trouble hearing and he was sure it had to do with all this hair that was growing in there. It was a good thing that the lint roller wasn't there because he probably would have forgotten to use it anyway. "Hello Professor." Michael grabbed his lab coat and goggles and went and found himself a seat. |
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Anyway..."I sure am. What about you?'' Adi looked back at the jars. The stuff printed on the label were from the periodic table; he knew that much. What did they stand for though? Hmmm... |
Sarah bounced in as usual. No lint roller.. yay! Finally, the professor had come to his senses that perfection was not a good thing, if a messy house is a sign of a party, than linted clothes is a sign of you doing bigger and better things, like saving the world, and not having time to delint your clothes. People who delinted their clothes had too much time on their hands and obviously did not dream big. Sarah took a double look look at the professor. Okay. This was going to be interesting. "HEllo Professor" she said, "I hope you are feeling better - did you like my card? In the end I had to settle with a simple drawing, my very busy time schedule does not allow for enough time for artistry.". She went to the cupboard and took out her coat and goggles. This personlised business was so cool. She looked around for a seat. Those jars... yay, chesmistry. The last time they made stars, what are they making now? |
Beverly paused as she entered the Astronomy classroom. Something tugged at the back of her mind. She was supposed to... to do something. What that something was, she couldn't remember. Wasn't there a table -- no, no. She must be mistaking it. With a shake of her head she moved deeper into the room, cursing her achy legs and feet. Professor Airey should really think about moving down to the dungeons. Sure it had no windows and part of it was under the Black Lake, but it'd make Beverly's life SO MUCH EASIER. She'd feed him cookies forever if he did. The third year made a face at the seating arrangements. Stools. They were an old back's enemy. How was she supposed to lean to support herself? Aiiiahh! This man needed to be more considerate. Didn't his parents teach him hospitality etiquette? WOAH. She just sounded like her great grandmother. Oh crud. This was bad. Like, really really bad and she wanted a happy potion. Rubbing her forehead, she went to grab a lab coat and goggles. Choosing a random table to sit in, her eyes flickered toward blackboard and... Professor Botros had a twin brother? What was he doing here, and where was Airey? With shocking realization, Beverly let out a startled squeak when she realized this WAS Airey and he was... he was... so OLD. Blinking his way a few times, she managed to wave at him with a nervous grin, all the while attempting to mask her shock. WHAT HAPPENED? |
He hated everything about this class down to the Professor and the old person smell he was giving off. Glitter Trousers needed to cool it or whatever was up with his face beyond the usual ugly. It was distracting and the sixth year wanted no part of it...or him. To be honest. Ugh, he hated Astronomy. Taking what he needed to...he ignored Flammy and sat down. Old geezer. |
Why had everyone made Airey Flamsteed sound like such a nightmare Cutty's first year? He'd been ditchin' out on Astronomy and almost gotten away with it, but the severe reprimands and threats of academic probation, not to mention the points scoreboard had brought him here today. He didn't hate the topic so much as dread the nightmare of an incompetent teacher. How he hated incompetent teachers! O____O Cutty entered the classroom slooooowly and for the first time ever. Seeing the other students, he mimicked their behaviour. It seemed Flamsteed was not the over-controlling type and let his students sit before class had officially begun. Yeah, he didn't seem that way at the dance either. He moved over to the enchanted closet and pulled out a lab coat in his house colours. Oh, dear no...no. This man not only knew he was coming, but also knew his name. And not the abbreviated version, but his actual full name that had been called at the sorting hat ceremony. That the initial owl from Hogwarts and official school notifications were sent under. How? Why? Cutty put on the labcoat which clearly read: Cuthbert. He reached for his goggles and then took a seat at one of the long hard wood tables and cushioned stools. A new found respect for Professor Flamsteed forming in his secretive little head as he tried to cover his name with his long white beard. Yeaaah, those students in Cutty's first year didn't know what they were talking about. |
Andrew paused as soon as he saw the set-up of the Astronomy Lab. Looks like they are going to have a super cool activity…maybe…do their own Big-Bang? The seventh year nodded and headed towards the cabinet to retrieve his lab coat and goggles. And…Flamsteed? Andrew stopped dead on his tracks with a slack jaw. How…why…? The Slytherin closed his mouth and regained his composure. “Good day…Professor.” He’s…still Flamsteed, right? Right. The seventh year took a few steps away from the professor and took a seat beside a fellow Slytherin whose name was Cuthbert. Nods for you too young man. |
Christmas entered the astronomy lab and smiled at the Professor and said "Good evening Professor Flamsteed" Christmas took a seat and waited for the lesson to begin |
If it hadn't been for the commotion in the common room just a few hours before, Rhodes would've, most likely, forgotten about the Astronomy lesson. Not that she cared, of course. Lately she had taken a hating to almost everything, and Astronomy was just one of those things. What did they need to learn about stars for anyway? If the people who ran the castle, whoever they were, couldn't figure out a quicker way for the students to get from the Slytherin common room up to the Astronomy Tower, she doubted they would ever find a way to get people to land on a star, so what was the point in knowing about them? It was all a bunch of useless information, in her opinion, but by the time she actually reached the room where the lesson was going to take place, she had forgotten all about that. "Hello.." What was the Professor's name again? "You." Rhodes jabbed her finger in the direction of the Professor man, so he knew she was talking to him before shuffling off to grab a lab coat and goggles and the seat next to Michael. Oh. Michael. "Speak up, I can't hear you." If he even said anything. |
Astronomy. The positive thing about this lesson is that it is close by the common room. The negative was. Professor i-attack-first-years-but-don't-call-it-attacking teaches it. He was tiny bit surprised that the lesson was not being held in the classroom itself but in the lab. Perhaps they were going to make their own little big bang? Slowly shuffling in to the lab he looked around first because this was the first time to actually see the room. Mweh , nothing special...just a bit blurry. Stupid old age thing , he wanted his perfect Eyesight back! And his perfect hair. And perfect skin! ugh. He saw the students wearing lab coats and goggles and shuffled towards the closet, picking up his own. He did not say hello to the Professor however, because he was all the way to the front and it took a lot of energy to even get this far. So he put on the coat and waited. And no, he was not surprised nor did he care to see the old age of the man, because he had it as well and no one cared about him having it. |
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He didn't like these new chairs that Airey McFairy had put in the classroom. What was wrong with the old chairs? Not that he could remember what the old chairs were like. Michael spent at least two minutes trying to put his lab coat on. Why couldn't these young people make lab coats like they used to? Huh? Was that so hard? Oh look. Rhodes was sitting next to him. Where had she come from? "Whaaaaa?" He stuck his finger in his ear again and rotated it. This was starting to get annoying. "I didn't say anything you nit wit." If he could lift his arm he would have given her a poke. |
Another day, another lesson. As much as Bliss had missed Hogwarts and the people in it - even if they hadn't missed her - she certainly didn't miss the lessons. They took a lot of effort and motivation and right now, that is what she lacked. Especially now, as the shock of actually being back had worn off and she was just left with lessons and occasionally seeing the few friends she had. It was still much better than France, no doubt about that. Wandering into the Astronomy classroom after climbing the stairs, Bliss greeted the Professor with a semi-cheery, "Good day, Professor," and then proceeded to take her lab coat and goggles out of the cabinet and slipped them on. She then sat down near Ella. Tick tock goes the clock, waiting for this torture to stop. |
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He peeked outside the classroom for any stragglers and, seeing none, grunted as his upper body strength failed him while pulling the door shut. Giving it one more go, the door slowly swung closed and he turned to begin his hobble back towards the black board. "If all the chit chatting could please stop now, let us begin," he announced while he hobbled along. Hobble hobble hobble. "Today is going to be a bit more of a hands on lesson, hence why I am holding it in the Astrophysics Laboratory instead of the classroom. Please do not touch any of the material in front of you before I have instructed you to do so." Finally back in front of the blackboard Airey leaned half of his body weight against it and then looked at the blurry shapes that he knew to be students despite his poor eyesight. Should have brought his glasses. Oh well. “In your homework you were asked how long it took for the first stars to form after the Big Bang and your answers varied quite a bit from 400 million years to 200 million years to 155 million years to 30 million years,” he explained as he hobbled around and used his cane to support most of his body weight. “The truth of the matter is that the technology of today still limits us as humans in being able to both see and simulate these conditions. However, research at the National Space Centre in 2079 by muggle astronomer Royston Moore and his team indicates that perhaps the first stars formed as early as 27 billion years after the Big Bang.” OOC: studies relevant to us in 2014 lean towards the 30 million years. By the time our characters are studying this some 70 years later it is safe to assume that technology has advanced quite a bit and that there will be a more definite answer so pleeeeeeeease don’t take this answer as 100% real fact OOC. It is purely IC and just for us here on SS in good ol’ 2083! He paused for a moment to let all of this sink in before continuing. “Eventually, an estimated 4.6 billion years ago, a very special star was formed. One that holds 99.8 percent of our solar system's mass, is the gravitational epicenter, and without it life would be impossible. The Sun.” This was mostly review for those taking their OWLs and NEWTs, so the astronomer did not linger on this for too long. “We know today, with special thanks to Copernicus, that we live in a heliocentric universe, but ancient people did not know this and believed that everything revolved around the Earth. These ancient people would look up at the night sky and eventually noticed 7 ‘wandering stars’. Can anyone guess me what these 7 wandering stars are?” OOC: CLASS HAS OFFICIALLY STARTED! |
From his wink Ana was going to assume that she wasn't far off the mark with her guess. Which would be so cool. Any experiment would be cool though. They should get to do more experiments in Astronomy. She was also happy to note that he didn't call her Miss Constantinople, although she did have to wonder if he'd heard her greeting or not. With how old he was looking one could never tell. Ana listened intently to what Flamsteed was saying about the stars and their formations. It was mostly revision for her but interesting nonetheless. She didn't bother to write it down though as she already knew what was being said. She only really bothered to write down his question, putting her hand up as she did so. "The seven wandering stars are our Moon, the Sun and the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. These may also be referred to as the seven planets of the ancients," Ana recited, as if by rote, as she scribbled the answer onto her parchment and lowered her hand. Hopefully that was the answer that Professor Airey wanted. |
Taking five points from him? Er. No thanks. The one time he decided to joke with a Professor...Adi shook his head. "That sounds like a bad idea, Professor,'' he said solemnly and apologetically. He managed a tiny, innocent grin. He had never lost Hufflepuff a point didn't intend to start now. ooc: Sorry, Kath! My eyes were tricking me -_- .................................... Adi raised his eyes from the jars as Professor Airey began to address the class. Their answers varied? Truthfully, he couldn't even remember what answer he had put for that homework question. His memory seemed fuzzled of late. Anyway...these seven wandering stars. The second year didn't have an idea what they were but the name offered a base to make an educated guess. He raised a hand. ''They're a group of stars that people on Earth thought moved. What I mean is that they seem to change location to the people.'' Was that correct? Or did it came close? |
Laura looked around the room, she was normally quite alert and quite bouncy but lately all she wanted to do was nap and her hair well it was starting to turn grey which wasn't a good sign surely well anyway she had a question to answer. Laura listened to the question, stars okay well the Professor wanted to know what stars were in Hollywood right? That is what she heard anyway though what it had to do with Astronomy she didn't know. She raised her hand and smiled. "Professor in Hollywood they do films like Men in Black, that stars Will Smith, he also did loads others like After Earth and Wild Wild West." Laura beamed. "Then there are films like Freaky Friday and Parent trap with Lindsey Lohan in." Laura was really good at these sort of stars. "You also have Sammi Hanratty, Selena Gomez, Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, Dylan and Cole Sprouse plus many more that I could name if you want." Laura beamed, next question please. |
Wet mops? Had Professor Airey said something to her about wet mops? And what did he mean by infusing the Groundskeeper with a wet mop? He wanted her to soak him with mop water or something? O.o "I don't think he'd like that, Sir!" Just saying. As she fiddled with her goggles, the And they were starting. Stars. She liked this subject very much, did he know? And she was straining a bit to hear what was being said but for the most part, she got it. The Sun and it holding 99.8 of the Solar System's mass Wandering stars? Ella could identify with the wandering part. She'd been doing that a lot lately, making her way down one corridor only to forget where she was going and having to turn around. It was terribly annoying, just saying. As for what the ancients were referring to, Ella raised her hand. "If she," the Snake girl, "is right about the planets, it makes sense that Jupiter would have been mistaken for a star because you can find it with your eye if you're looking carefully." Nodnod. "But Professor? Aren't stars more um...twinkly and less round looking than the planets?" |
Ah....that homework. The one he did not do. Yeah that one. But he did just tell us the answer so no need to worry but it. Not that Nigel cared. To Nigel it did not really matter whether the earth was the middle of the solar system or is traveling around the sun. We would still go on about our lives regardless. Wandering Stars...like muggle movies star that do more than one different movie. Probably not. Couldn't they just do Space puns or jokes. Those were fun. Like, When does an astronaut have lunch? At Launch Time. Oh it is so bad it is funny. |
From the moment Oichi artived in class she was intrigued by the boxes on the desks but still went to yhe closet and put on her named astronomy jacket and took a seat. She then looked at the box and saw names names of elements that could be explosive if not treated with care which she knew they were. She wondered if a controlled explosion would be part of the lesson but as that train of thought entered her head the lesson began and soon the first question was asked and Oichi had an idea of an answer. She raised her hand, "Wandering stars, hmm, well most stars don't move but planets do and I've heard some planets are big enough to see with the naked eye at night so I'm guessing thats what they saw". |
Wandering stars? They were talking about wandering stars? Okay. Grace had no idea what they were. But like she kind of listened to the others. They were talking about planets. Now that kind of confused her. They were talking about planets, but planets weren't stars. She frowned, really having no clue what so ever. "But... planets aren't stars..." She mused, with a little frown, as she raised her hand. Ouchh. That her shoulder. "Like...we call them planets... so wouldn't the wandering stars be actual stars?" Maybe? She had no clue. |
The Professor was asking the class what those 7 ancients stars were. Sander tried to remember whether he had read something about them somewhere. Then he heard one of the other students share an answer and that's when everything became familiar. He raised his hand and gave his own answer, "Professor, unlike most stars that moved in a fixed formation, around the Earth, the seven wandering stars, or in this case, celestial bodies moved through the fixed stars in a wide band, called the zodiac. These bodies were actually the planets, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and of course the Sun and the Moon." Sander concluded his answer. |
As Delilah waited for class to begin, she couldn't help but stare at Airey some more. He looked older than Botros and that was saying something. She really did feel bad for him. ... Anyway. Note-taking had begun as Airey started to talk. Because as much as she liked the subject, it was rather confusing and notes always helped, yep. Wandering stars? Um. Delilah chewed on her lip for a moment. Yeah, she was pretty sure she'd read about this before.. The girl finally raised her hand and said, "... Aren't they supposed to be planets, professor? Not stars? And like Ella said, stars are more twinkly." |
Looking forward to the duel? This made Kevin grin but then laugh because the sight of two old looking people having a duel was just funny in his mind. When the man hobbled back to the front, the Gryffindor had to concentrate really hard in order to hear him. Maybe he should learn how to lip read? It would make things a lot easier. Homework...there had been homework eeeh? So the kid had not made it but thankfully the man wasn't saying anything about it so he wasn't going to mention it either. At the first question, he leaned forward to catch it and held his head to the side to hear with his slightly better than his other ear. Stars ...seven... and then students were saying answers like the moon... Completely puzzled, the young Gryffindor with gray hair listened around him and each time someone said something he got even more confused because not everyone was saying the right answer. They were all different...mweh guess he has to guess for himself. "PLANETS" he shouted "LIKE...MY CURRY...SERIOUSLY? WHAT KIND OF NAME IS THAT?" He glared towards the direction of a Hufflepuff who he had been listening to , trying to steal some answers you know because his answer sounded better than the others. "AND MARS...JUPITER....THINGIES YEAH" uhuh. "TWINKLY PLANETS!"get a grip Hirase! |
And now she had a...um....that Hufflepuff girl next to her-- Good. Sweet. MERLIN. Why couldn't she remember her best friend's name?? Um um um....Lo-something....er....Lex blinked over at her bestie, struggling hard to come up with a name that actually fit the face. Locust? No no, that wasn't the name of a person--loadstone.....that couldn't have been it either. Her brows knitted, giving away her internal frustration at the situation. Where was her memory these days? And who was the old man upfront? He looked familiar except not but then nothing looked familiar to her anymore, not really. It took a few extra seconds and a bunch of others calling him Professor before it clicked and her eyes bulged wide. She tapped the Hogwartian then gave a subtle point toward the graying man. "Remind me of your name again and....is that Professor....er......yeah...Astronomy? He looks different." When this class was over she was heading straight for the potions lab to brew herself a memory potion before it got worse. Forgetting the question completely, Lex raised her hand, having one of her own. "Professor Sir...are you alright?" |
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He scratched his head when the professor started his usual ramble of big words and space stuff, and then he rested his elbow on the desk, with his chin placed firmly into his palm. Theo picked up a pen and started doodling on the next clean page of his notebook. He was doodling a picture of Saturn, though. Totally class related, of course. |
Text Cut: Airey Trying his best not to stare too hard at the professor’s transformation, Andrew took out his journal and prepared to write down all the important information he’ll get from the afternoon’s discussion. And the first question was up. What are the seven wandering stars? He was to raise his hand when Anastasia beat him to it. Merlin, she’s fast. The seventh year looked at her direction and nodded in agreement. The seven wandering stars are the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Oh…and they actually assigned those stars to name the days of the week. Did they know? Andrew debated with himself if he should share the information or not. But seeing that Anastasia already nailed it—and most probably what Flamsteed wanted to hear, the seventh year remained quiet in his seat and took down notes. Additional information is a good thing after all. Text Cut: Andrew's Notes |
Oh my dear Merlin! Why had Sophie chosen a seat so far away from the professor?! He needed a charm or something to amplify his voice. He was just speaking soooo softly. "Come again!" Sophie said, cupping her hand by her ear and raising her hand. She removed her hand from her ear and looked around. Listening to her classmates, she pieced together what the question had been. "Oh, were they referring to the planets?" she asked, raising her hand again. "Can you hear me up there, Professor?" |
Alec gave the man a nod in return, as a way of saying 'anytime'. And... moon rock? He was impressed... and made a mental note to ask more about the cane. Or ask Botros since the man had a dragon one. ... Where did they get them from? That's what Alec wanted to know. For future references, you know. ... Later. Right now, he had to answer a question... ... that someone was SHOUTING an answer to. Alec JUMPED -- OW! -- and frowned over at the direction of the sound. Did people need to be so loud?! They could hear the man, right? Alec could. Very loudly, in fact. Maybe a little too loudly but he was going to brush it off. There was no way he could tell Flamsteed to pipe down -- manners, he had those -- and he wasn't going to tell the Sophie girl or the other kid to do the same either soo... Question. Right. Which was...? ... Mars? The loud kid had mentioned that planet. And twinkly planets? None of the planets twinkled, as far as he knew. Were they going to go on another scavenger hunt for them? He did enjoy the last, long term assignment they had had to do. Some of the planets were easy to spot, like Mars. Bright red and close to Earth. Yeah. ... They were talking about planets, right? ... Yeah... he was going to sit there. Paying attention, he was. |
Aaah, Astronomy was making Lux feel like her head was going to explode again. As she watched Professor Flamseed hobble around, she had a glassy look in her eyes. Okay, so he was talking about stars, but... what did she really know about stars? Not much other than they were balls of gas that were really really far away. Yep, she was sitting this one out. Fortunately he had said this was a more hands on lesson, so she hoped to sweet Circe that she would either be able to understand what to do for it, or be able to have someone help her. Figuring there was nothing else for her to do, she took out her notebook and pen so she could take notes. |
People were YELLING. Well it sounded like they were, some people didn't seem to know they were yelling. Caleb stuck his pinky in his ear and wiggled it to make sure he was hearing correctly - yup, he could hear them yelling pretty loudly. At least he knew HE wasn't losing his hearing just yet. YET being the key word. He raised his hand and grunted "Planets," in response to Flamsteed's question. Yup. That was all he really needed to know right? He wasn't in the mood for a lengthy explanation. |
Bay raised his hand "Professor.. aren't those like the planets in our solar system that they called the wondering stars…" or what ever the name was.. man his memory was starting to go… he shook his head to clear it out… Bay raised his hand again… wait.. didn't he already answer.. oh no.. Bay lowered his hand to let other people answer incase he already did. |
Homework, what about that? Oh er...yeah she didn't really do that. Well whoops, too bad cause fairies came first. Anyways she really did try to focus on all the theory things this time, starting with the whole first star that according to Professor Airey Fairy appeared 27 billion years after the big bang.Scribble. She began drawing a star with wind like tail and wrote twenty seven billion drawings which was why she was very pleased with her color changing quill. The seven wandering stars? And people were talking about planets? ...Or wait didn't he once say planets were stars or something? Eh. Too much to remember. "Professor is Stupider one of the stars? Eh em. I mean Jupiter." Totally not on purpose no, not even with the suppressed giggles. |
SPOILER!!: sweetpinkpixie;11542988 Had she said something wrong? Maybe her lack of time came across as that she felt the card the waste of time and she was too busy to make a card for the professor. That was not intended. "there is always time to cheer up one of my favourite professors" They were in limited supply these days, maybe Sarah's standards when it came to teachers was too high. The seven wondering stars.... wondering made her think of what she did when she was not on medicine... she would pace.... Seven... she liked that number. She had seven brothers and all. Oh wait, back to the question.. what had the number seven.. in the star.. ancient times... Planets maybe? Obviously they were not able to see all the planets in those days, not even all our Solar System. Sarah raised her hand "Perhaps our planets? They wonder around... and they can look like stars to people who cannot tell the difference" |
SPOILER!!: Professor Tessa smiled as Professor Flamsteed brought up her prize. "I have actually- not all of it, but I was able to sneak in listening to a few tracks while studying. It was a beautiful compilation- thank you so much," she told him with a warm smile. She didn't have to tell him that it made her sleepy- besides, a lot of things were making her sleepy nowadays. However, class started and she settled into her seat, glad to relieve her knees for at least a short while. At the Professor's question, she raised her hand. "Professor, could those stars make up a constellation? Perhaps named "The Nomad" for it's tendency to 'wander' across the sky?" she suggested. |
SPOILER!!: Adi What was up? "The sky..." Ben mused playing on their location. They were to be studying some part of the heavens in this lesson after all, so looking up would just what he had mentioned. The sky, especially if you added the fact that they were currently in the highest point of the castle. "I think so." If that was what they were doing of course. The Gryffindor only got an impression that might be one idea. -------------------------------- He winced as more and more students arrived in the classroom. Some being far more loud then others which was becoming more and more commonplace. And it was becoming more and more painful for Ben. The second year turned back to the professor when his greeting was returned, only to hear what came after. Carbon dating...he hadn't said anything about carbon dating. Had he? Ben exchanged confused glances with his best friend but chose to not correct the man however as he caught the response the older man had given Adi. No...the professor was clearly not happy and Ben didn't want to loose any points either. "Alright... " was all he said before listening as the professor finally began class. At the question about wandering stars, Ben tried to think of what they could be. He was stopped though as the answers coming from students seemed as good an answer as any. There were seven other planets in the solar system as visible in the sky. And the sun wouldn't necessarily be shown in the night. The moon was the only odd man out. "I think it would be the planets as well," he answered after raising his hand. "They would be seen as having no distinct path or wandering across the sky over time." |
Ian looked up to the sky as the professor talked, trying to see if he could remember the names of any of the stars he had read in his homework. Good gracious he couldn't remember hardly anything. He just continued to allow his eyes to wander at the star charts in his memory and wondered how men decided to make a telescope in the first place. |
"Thundering cars?" Tobias repeated to himself what he'd heard Airey say, looking incredibly confused. What on Earth was Airey asking them about cars for? Didn't he realise this was Astronomy, and not Muggle studies? Tobias blinked, and wondered if maybe he hadn't heard the professor right. He glanced around at everyone, squinted, and leeeeeeeeeeeaned right forward, as far as he could without standing up, and turned his good ear towards the front of the room (because of course he had a good ear now) all the better to hear the Starman. |
A mouse? Where?! Beverly scanned the ground furiously. Wait...why was she looking for a mouse? Oh, she didn't know. Were they supposed to bring one? Grinning a little more at Airey's greeting she decided to forget it. On a corner of her parchment she wrote herself a little reminder: Make a 'To Remember' list. As the professor walked back toward the blackboard Beverly had to squint her eyes. It helped her vision a smidgen, but not enough. So she took out the too-big-for-her glasses and put them on. It helped somewhat. Apparently she needed a better prescription than her brother had. Dammit, Kennedy! Listening to the question the third year quickly searched her brain for the answers. She was SURE she'd read about this. The only problem was remembering these '7 wandering stars.' There was logic, though. They were planets, not really stars, and they'd be the closest to Earth, yeah? Wriggling her nose - absolutely disliking the idea of not remembering things - Beverly raised her hand, though not as high. Her joints were stiff as a board. "They thought the sun and moon were stars, as well as-" PAUSE. What was next? "Oh, um, Venus...Mercury...um, Mars...and umm..." She didn't remember the rest. SAD FACE. "I don't remember the rest," she admitted miserably. Could she hide under the table now? >.< |
Marigold GRINNED at the professor, happy he was good enough to teach. YAYYYY. She took out her notes and scribbled a few down. ... traveling stars or whatever? "Umm... just planets in general, yeah?" She was a bit tired. |
SPOILER!!: professor flamsteed :) Yay! She had just been complimented on her writing! Maybe writing near a lake worked. It was in her Aunt's stupid book about being really, really creative. Though she always assumed the book was fodder. Maybe not. Her aunt actually taught her how to write short stories. And apparently, she was taught well. The little redhead beamed as she let the praise sink in, thinking of the answer he gave. About thirty Billion-or million?- years ago stars formed, and THEN the Big Bang happened. Hmm, how was that possible? Well that wasn't the question, but she was going to keep the answer in her head for later. Because firsties with cool answers were cool. Seven wandering stars? Hmm, well that was hard. Weren't stars really badly mapped at that time? Bad enough that before Copernicus people assumed that everything revolved around the earth,so maybe they guessed that the sun was one of the stars? And... maybe the moon? That made no sense. Time to wing it. And wing it well. "Well maybe they thought that the orbit was the 'wandering' part of wandering stars. So then things like the sun were in orbit and they were called wandering stars. Because they looked like they wandered." Hey, if she couldn't be correct, she was going to be creative. Because creative answers worked too. And sometimes they worked better than others. And now seemed to be a time when they worked. After she spoke, the redhead copied down his question and copied down her answer. She wanted to get all of the students words down in case someone was correct but not fully. She could fill it in later with the correct answer. |
This not hearing thing was starting to get very annoying so Michael rolledup a piece of parchment into a cone shape and placed the point end into his ear. He didn't know if it was working or whether the Professor was speaking loudly but he did manage to hear the question and he raised his hand slowly. "They are planets or to be more precise, the seven classical planets. The sun, moon, Mercury, Mars, Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. They are also the names for the seven days of the week." Could the Professor hear him? |
Airey, Mo, Lex *doesn't quote, cuz no* "Of course, Professor," why, yes, of course, Lottie nodded as soon as Airey offered himself to help her. There was literally no one who could be of any help, though she was wondering if he was fitted for the task now, all things considered. THANK YOU, MARCUS BRANXTON FOR SPEAKING OUT OF TURN. She heard that. But there was no time for a comeback, though that out of place grin that went with his words only made her smirk. Right. A smirk. Now, back to focusing on Airey and the lesson. You have got to stop mentioning the sun in that way, Airey Flamsteed. Really. Lottie was about to raise her hand to answer when... blink. Excuse me? Her eyebrows went up as her best friend asked for her name. What...? As Lex's expression worried her even more, because she knew the Gryffindor girl was entirely lost as to what Lottie's name was. Needless to say, the question was forgotten, as was the answer she was gonna give. So, eyes on Lex, she spoke in a low voice, "You're kidding me." Astronomy, what? |
Terry made no reaction to the unusual look that the professor was giving him, mainly because he couldn't actually see what he was doing anyway. So the sixth year, looked absent-mindedly towards the front of the classroom, not even noticing what was on his desk until he looked down at squinted at it. Huh? Oh. Liquid stuff. Interesting. And then the lesson started and he asked a question. The Slytherin would have responded if everyone else hadn't got there first. He was getting a little slow recently, took a while for his brain to process a question before answering it. That was his new excuse anyway. Instead he wrote down notes in large letters on his parchment so he could read them back later. At least he was doing something. He frowned a little as he heard people shouting but didn't make anything of it. A lot of people were glaring anyway. They probably got the message. His poor ears were sensitive. |
All that felt like a lot to take in all of a sudden. Penelope really couldn't be bothered to try to write any notes on any of this. Way too much effort right now.....especially with some people shouting and talking SO LOUDLY. GAH. These people really needed to learn how to speak quietly because loud noises really bothered her these days for some reason. And now she definitely wasn't paying attention and hardly heard most of the answers, instead just trying to focus on tuning some of the other students out. |
Woah that was a lot to take in. A lot of new information this year. Kace remembered that was the homework he didn't have time for. Woopsies on his part but at least he went to the lesson right? Now onto the question at hand. What were the 7 wandering stars? Kace immediately thought of the seven dwarfs but that was irrelevant. He smirked at his wittiness and then had to go into action. Kace raised his hand and said, "Professor i know that the sun and moon fit into the 7 wandering stars but i do not know about Pluto. I mean is that still considered a planet?" |
Mo pushed up his glasses as he peered up at the professor, then turned his attention to those around him. There was really no point answering the question now, although Mo did take a moment to write out lesson notes on his parchment. Big, clear letters scrawled across the page, words that Mo could see easily without his glasses (which he seemed to have forgotten somewhere). Anything to add? "The stars our ancestors noticed moved in a predictable way, Professor Flimflam. Those wanderers were the planets, which moved through the other constellations rather than with them." |
Of course, Constantinople was the first to get the answer right. Hmph. A teeny tiny wrinkle of her nose might have occurred, but a genuine smile reappeared on Alice's face as her hand when up... until her elbow cracked painfully, that was. Seriously? What was with these rheumatisms? Owww. "Classical planets. Seven non-fixed objects visible in the sky. Didja know the days of the week are named after 'em, too? My elbow is THROBBING, sir." It was. Truthfully, it was. She rubbed her funny bone, trying to not make pitiful faces at Mo. Toughie here. No elbow pops could hurt an Alice Fischer, no sirree. |
Oh Merlin. Oh Merlin, class was moving far too fast and her foul mood was just becoming that much more foul because she couldn't keep up. It also didn't help that she had Michael, Michael whateverhislastnamewas mouthing off words that she couldn't hear either. If he had something to say, he should just say it. If she could've lifted her arm, she would've used it to punch him. But as it was, she simply sat there and stared at him through her squinting eyes. His face looked all funny. He should probably go to the Healer. Before she could say that to him, though, and before she could even get her lab coat on, because funny contraption thing was funny, her attention drifted back to the Professor and.. she couldn't hear a word he was saying. At least she could hear some of the things the other students in the room were saying. The seven wandering stars, right? Eh. She didn't even care. "The seven wandering stars are the seven stars that didn't want to be seen. 'Tis why they just wander." She was just going to wear her lab coat on backwards, if that was okay. |
A lot of people where talking about planets. Well that involved guessing how many planets they discovered at the time. Did they have all nine -ehh, eight, sorry pluto-back then? Or were there only 'seven'? She wrote planets down in tiny letters, with a question mark next to it. She was probably going to have to research when planets were discovered. Though she figured Earth was discovered first. Wait... that left eight planets. And maybe their telescopes were stupid back then and they couldn't see pluto! Which equaled seven! She just had to confirm that she was correct now. "Sir? If it is the planets, that would be discounting Earth, right? Because they couldn't see us as a wandering star if we're kind of on the planet." Hand gestures helped matters. "And does pluto count? Because they might not have seen it back then and had no idea the little dwarf planet existed." Pooor pluto. Couldn't catch a break, could it? And with her question, she mapped it out to see if she was right. She drew Earth and a person on it with a telescope that looked like it was broken. Eight planets were scattered around the right side of the paper, with little pluto in the corner with a sad face because no one could see it. Visual representation was always important. And then what happened when they realized that their planet actually spun along with the others in the whole fixed orbit mess? Well, if someone got persecuted for believing that the planets spun around the sun, then she could only imagine what came after this. Mass hysteria? |
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Who had let the banshee into the classroom? Oh wait, it was just Mr. Hirase. "There will be no eating in my classroom, Mr. Hirase," he said with a shake of the head. "No your curry or my curry or his curry or her curry. NO CURRY!" And that was, unfortunately, all he got from the boy's answer. The man's ears were still ringing from the initial explosion of the boy's voice to hear the rest. Quote:
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"Excellent, Miss Winters. To the ancient people's these celestial bodies' orbits are what caused them to believe they were wandering stars. While stars' locations in the night sky appear to remain in a fixed pattern relative to each other, whereas planets and the Moon move against this background pattern because of their orbits. The Sun, because it is the closest star to Earth, also appears to move across the sky and the ancients thought that it was in fact orbiting the Earth." Something they all Quote:
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"Stellar, Miss Fischer. Starting as far back as the Babylonians, these seven non-fixed objects visible in the sky are, as several of you have already mentioned, the Sun, the Moon, and the five planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn." He grinned at the Gryffindor, one of his bottom teeth catching on his upper ones and...was his tooth loose? Hmm. "I DID know that." Ob........viously. "We will talk about that a bit more in just a moment..." Quote:
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Which was starting right now, in case that wasn't obvious. "The majority of you his the planet with the asteroid," he beamed out at the class. "These 7 so-called 'wandering stars' are in fact the classical planets - or 7 planets of the ancients if you prefer that term - which are the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Again, I need to remind you all that the worldview of the time we are referring to was was geocentric, or earth centered. So the idea of the 'planets' was those seven heavenly bodies that seemed to have an impact on what was going on here on Earth. In fact, the term planet comes from the Greek word planētēs which translates to 'wanderer' and these 7 celestial bodies were called asteres planetai, 'wandering stars.'" He hobbled his way towards a piece of chalk sitting on the counter so he could write on the board. Would be so much easier if he just had his wand and could enchant the chalk to write on its own as per usual. Sigh. "Keeping the term 'wanderer' in mind, the Sun and the Moon were considered 'planets' by the people of this time because they too appeared to 'wander' across the sky. It is because of these 7 'planets' that we have 7 days in our week. Think about this for a moment, if there had been more planets known at that time, we might have had 8 or 9 days in the week! Which could have either meant longer school weeks or longer weekends." Which was a rather interesting thought and perhaps something he should consider for homework. Hmmm.... Oh, right, back to his lesson. "In almost every culture the names of the days of the week are related to the names of these planets and, in turn, the names of gods and goddesses. In modern English, the names come from old Germanic Norse culture..." And then he just stopped talking while he wrote on the board, dropping the chalk every now and then because his hand had a hard time gripping things. All this would have been much easier had he not still had one hand held behind his back in a tight fist holding something. The time to show what that was would be soon. Sooooon. Quote:
"Miss Constantinople came very close with her question about stellar nucleosynthesis, and in a sense we WILL be doing some of that today. But, for this lab lesson, you are going to begin constructing your own solar systems!!" Because, really, what better way to understand it than attempting to recreate it yourself, right? BEST BIRTHDAY PRESENT EVER RIGHT HERE IN HIS HANDS PEOPLE! BEST. PRESENT. EVER:whaa: OOC: I'm stopping this post here for now because it is already SO long >_< |
Wait, what? o_O This was going over Lux's head so bad right now as she struggled to take notes on what he was teaching them. There was talk about planets and stars and days of the week, but... errr... she felt so dumb. Raising her hand, she said, "Professor Flamsteed, I don't understand any of this at all." She felt so dumb for being confused, and she wanted to understand this, but it was too hard. And how was she supposed to do the activity when she had no idea what was going on? She needed help. |
"Bless you," Ana called as he sneezed. Only right to say it, and he had the cutest handkerchief. Where did he get them? Ana wanted one. Now probably wasn't the time to ask though. But he did say her answer was very good, so YAY! Ana continued to scribble down what other people said and of course what the Professor was saying. This was so interesting, especially the part about how the names of the week came to be. Although she'd actually already known that. Writing it down nonetheless. GASP! They were building their own solar systems!!!!! That was so cool. She was kind of right. He called her Miss Constantinople again, totally a nickname. Totally. He didn't just forget her actual name. She was getting used to it anyway. It was kinda cute. But solar systems! She was bouncing on her stool. She could not wait to do this. "Are we going to be limited in the number of planets and moons etcetera that we can include in our solar systems?" Ana questioned. This was very important in her mind, because she was already planning out her little solar system. |
"I DON'T HAVE ANY FOOD! WHY DO YOU SAY I HAVE FOOD?" Kevin scratched the back of his head in confusion. Why was the Professor talking about food to him? He had obviously said the planets name right? My curry. Yeah, that was what that Hufflepuff boy had said! And theeeen. A lot more talking, which BORED him to no end and eventually, the little Gryffindor rested his chin on his hand and he closed his eyes but didn't get enough time before he heard a gasp and he curiously opened them again to see.... "WOW!" Wait, he was supposed to be uninterested! But the little solar system in the Professor's hand was just ...wow! "CAN I NAME MY OWN PLANETS?!" He asked without raising his hand up, he had a loud enough voice |
Laura looked at the Professor. "SIR CAN YOU SPEAK UP?" Laura hadn't heard half of what the Professor said. "All I got was something to do with Plans?" Laura had no idea what to do next. "So basically you want us to make plans on planets?" Laura really hoped that she was right with what she had got but it didn't seem right to her. |
Smirk. No need to write down the rest of what was written on the board since Andrew already jotted it down before Flamsteed wrote it. He knew about the gods and the names given to each day of the week and it amuses him to no end. Ancient people were either weird or genius. Andrew squirmed though as he watched Airey lick his wrinkled dry lips. He was worse than his grandpa really, but then his initial reaction was replaced with a grin. That, Sir Flamsteed is legendary. And that’ll definitely look cool on his bedside table! Just saying. |
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Sweet Circe, when had Astronomy class become so violent? .__. "....You don't have to make threats. I'm just having a hard time with names at the moment. You can forget it. I'll just...remember later or something. I dunno. Sorry to bother you." Just a name, that's all she wanted. Sheeesh, the girl must have been in a bad mood. Well she should have said something, Lex wasn't a mind reader afterall. The Prefect turned her attention to the Professor again---OOoOOooOooOooo So THAT'S what's in the box. Her eyes widened in fascination. This...this was amazing right here. |
O____________________________O WAIT, WHAT? DJHSHJKHSJLKHSLJSH! WOW. WOW. WOWOWOWOWOW. Ella was just staring, mouth hanging slightly ajar. She'd been taking notes and mentally cursing the pain her hand was experiencing when she saw what Airey had revealed and all thoughts of notes and NEWTs and studying stopped because WOW. They were going to be making their own Solar Systems. That was just...and she was really...WOW. Thumbs WAY up, Professor Airey. This was seriously something to tell the |
Nigel was still thinking of astro puns. When Flamsteed snapped him out of it. Oh id he want to hear these terrible puns also. He did ask after all. " No, unless you like horrible astronomy jokes like, What kind of songs do the planets like to sing? Nep-tunes. I did say they were pretty bad" Now that was interesting. They were going to make their very own solar systems. That was awesome. The only real question now was how are they going to make it. |
Hannah popped her head up suddenly and wiped the drool off her mouth. Did she really just fall asleep in class? Well, she didn't know what was to be expected of her when she had to attend classes in her current state. At least she didn't fart this time. Everybody was whispering again. She still had a hard time understanding why everybody thought it was fun to lower the volume on her. All it did was irritate her further. She had no idea what they were even talking about. She heard something about a solar system and she assumed that's what they were going to do. She eyed everybody and didn't say anything because really what was there to say? Plus, she wasn't even sure if a question had been asked. Deciding that maybe she should let the professor know that she was still alive she looked him in the eye and had to squint to make him out. "What?" Cough. Fart. Well, so much for not farting. |
Delilah yawned. No, she wasn't bored because of the lecture.. The girl was just SUPER tired and exhausted all of a sudden and wanted a nap. Which was obviously not possible right now. So she busied herself taking notes, trying NOT to fall asleep or something. UGH. Why was she like this!? ...... Wait. What!? Constructing their OWN solar systems? Delilah leaned back against her seat and stared at |
Bart wasn't sleeping per say, but his eyes were shutting every few minutes for a light snore to come out of his mouth until the sound would wake him up again and he'd chock on droll before looking around. Had class started? He squinted to the front of the room. Honestly he would have to see the healer about glasses soon. His eye sight was horribly worse. Maybe he should sit somewhere closer. Getting up he shuffled his frog slippers towards the front and found and empty desk. That was better, but what were they talking about. Planets by the sound of it. The sun and moon too? Well okay, he smiled at the solar system that Flamedude had from the box, "Cool" Hearing others say about planets the boy decided he should raise his hand, "Saturn is my favorite. It's the coolest out of all of them." At least in his opinion. |
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SPOILER!!: sweetpinkpixie;11543885 Sarah just stared at the professor, nope, she did agree that that was the origin of the seven day week. But one shouldnt argue with a an old man so she kept quiet. Also, it was one of the areas where discussion would cause a BIG BANG under the table. She looked at the table.. very interesting. BUT COULD THEY STOP WITH THIS MYTHOLOGY! Odin, Thor... there was a reason why no ancient runes.. Building their own solar system.. that will be exciting |
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Alright, back to do thing whole teaching thing before he keeled over from laughing too hard. "For those of you who were here for when I first started teaching, you may recall the star project we had where you created and took care of your own star." Or something that was close to resembling an actual star since, well, conditions were not like how they were out there in space within the confinds of the jar. "We will be following the same process today as we start off with creating your Sun. Stars are mainly comprised of hydrogen and helium, which is what you older students used powdered elements in essentially equal proportions of these two during our star project a few terms back. But today we are not just making a star, we are going to try and replicate the Sun. To do this, we are going to need to use more of what powdered element? Also, can any of you older students tell me the incantation and wand movement to use to make these powdered elements turned into a gas and thus make them fuse together to create a star?” OOC: This will be the last question before we start an RP activity ^_^ |
Sander was excited that they would be making their own solar system. He wished he knew the incantations to the spells....not saying that he would remember it now especially with his failing memory, so he decided to try answering the other question the Professor had posed. From what he remembered reading, the elements required for a sun to be formed was helium and hydrogen. Which was required more? Now that was an interesting question. He decided to hazard a guess. Raising his hand, he gave his answer, "Professor I believe that we would need to use Hydrogen more. I mean we do also need helium but the sun is constantly fusing hydrogen into helium, so we would need more hydrogen in order to keep the balance." |
Bart listened or well tried to listen. Eyes shutting.. can't control it... going to fall.. head bobbing... dozing.. Wait.. what, his eyes snapped back open. Wh.. what was going on. He looked around, oh right Professor Flamedude talking lots.. Man old man was winded wasn't he. What was he even going on about. Project he taught? Spells he invented? Even though the boy thought inventing his own spells was awesome he still wasn't getting most the information. He was horrible at reading lips. The bun, what about buns. No that couldn't be it. It wasn't until Mr. Know it all started rambling about spells he rolled his eyes. Yeah maybe he'd let his eyes fall shut again. Oh wait.. "DID YOU SAY SUN? Not Bun? If we are making a sun we would need to use the fire spell, because the sun is hot!" Yep that was what they needed a ball of fire for the sun! |
Alec didn't know what was going on in the Professor's mind but if he did, there would have been some VERY approving nods given at the idea of prunes. And notes taken. Hair, you know. Hair. Instead, he gave the man a smile and a nod. Hey there. ... And then the smile turned into a grin when he heard, VERY CLEARLY, what it was they were going to be doing today. Their own SOLAR SYSTEM! This was like the star in the jar project all over again! He missed his star in a jar. Maybe he could sing Yellow to this one too, if they needed to care for it? Or... some other Astronomy-based song? ...Unless... he glanced down at the box in front of him. This was glass, right? Maybe he shouldn't sing then. What if he broke the glass? And Nigel got a small chuckle because of his joke. Nep-tunes. ... Right. Question. Erm...? He DID remember doing the spells. Tapping his chin in thought, the boy frowned at the Professor and then looked down at... ... his textbook? His journal? They could take a peek in there, right? Grey-blue eyes glanced up at the man before the Head Boy slowly and carefully turned the pages back. Right back. All the way back to... ... star! Okay, now which of these spells was Flamsteed looking for? Cue more frowning. He couldn't read THAT. Eye rubbing was happening before the boy squinted down at his journal. Fin... gere? Fingere E...lemen...ti! Fingere Elementi, yeah? "Professor?" he called, sitting up again and raising his hand, "Is it... Fingere Elementi? And the wand movement is..." More squints down at his journal. "... a jab? Jab. You jab." Nodnod. |
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Awesome! They were indeed making something just as Benny had said. And apparently this wasn't the first time the Professor had his students do that. Creating stars sounded fun! He was all excited to get started on this, all thoughts of having lost points forgotten. It was just five, anyway. Hufflepuff'll survive. But what was this powdered element the man spoke of? Adi was not sure. And he had no clue about the incantation so this time around, he opted to be quiet. |
Well talk about random. Horrible Astronomy Jokes get points. Awesome. Plus he actually might give Flamsteed that full parchment at the end of the week, sounded like fun. Just have to remind himself to use large text. So the sum it up they were making a sun using a the elements that were on the desk. Nice. He could not quite here what the spell was. But Flamsteed would say it louder later. Back to thinking of puns to write down until the activity starts. |
Caleb had NO idea what kind of incantation they would use to make gases fuse together or whatever he had suggested. He just wanted to take a nap. But maybe he could guess the wand movement at least? Hmmm. "Would it be like...a swirly wand movement?" he suggested, raising his hand slowly. Damn elbows were acting up again. "To kind of swirl them together?" he asked. Whatever. Caleb didn't know gases and chemistry and stuff. |
.... Wait. Delilah thought they were done with all the questions but apparently not. Seriously, Airey! And she had NO idea and couldn't even guess what the answers to those questions were. Must be super complicated, though. The girl shrugged and started to draw a rose on her parchment as she waited for everyone to finish answering the questions. A pretty rose. She wasn't good at drawing but this didn't come out bad. Hmm. If only she could colour it.. Pink, yes. Her favourite. Or red. ... Could they move on to the exciting part now, please? |
The were going to need a powdered elephant? ELEPHANT? Benjy frowned. "Are you sure, sir?" Benjy exclaimed, almost jumping up from his seat. Almost, because frail bones didn't exactly allow for jumping. More like a slow motion raising and lowering of his ribs. "I didn't know elephants had magical properties, Professor," he said seriously. "And I'd think there would be far easier ways to make a gas than to powder them, and then apply a spell." Right now, it smelt like something had quite successfully made gas of it's own accord for them. "Fire seems like a plan though, for a sun." |
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