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Originally Posted by nicole black (Post 11660852)

Justine had really believed herself safe from Ian’s notice and she’d spent a bit of time proudly patting herself on the back for doing such a good job at giving the annoying boy the slip. The Canadian-pretending-to-be-French girl flipped back her long brown hair and turned her attention to the annoying and seemingly trivial lesson.

Mostly she was listening to the other student’s answers and trying very hard not to fall asleep on the comfy cushion.

Justine was trying so hard not to fall asleep that she was completely unaware of Ian’s crawling his way toward her like some unpleasant slimy animal, until of course he flopped down obnoxiously right next to her in the most ridiculous pose of all space and time and addressed her with the stupidest sentence ever.

UGGHHHHH.

“Vanish ‘ale, I’m busy.” She said in that prim, affected French accent of hers, taking a sip of the herby tea and not looking at his ridiculous face.

"But I luv u."

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Originally Posted by Gryffindoll (Post 11660854)

"But I luv u."

Twitch. Twitch.
"Get out, 'onestly," Justine growled softly. How her slender fingers itched to wrap around that pale neck, to squeeze until the stupid, obnoxious light in his dark eyes vanished and she would never have to endure that horrendous slang of his again. "I don't know if you noticed, but ve are in class, 'ale.... " The annoyed girl said, her voice low to avoid the notice of Professor Elle Woods.

What had she done to deserve such unpleasantness? Bullying Bolton, lying about your heritage, being sort of awful to Andrew...

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Originally Posted by hermionesclone (Post 11660702)

'Now the way we get our lessons started is we like to become super positive...'

......................... No. No. NO!

Become super positive? Did he LOOK like the kind of guy who can be positive at this time? Sure, he was in his pyjamas, but that wasn't the point. And what was worse was that Professor Cassie went ahead and mentioned that word. The 's' word. SNAPS. Grayson groaned and rolled his eyes because he was just that dramatic and HATED this part of the class.

Yeah yeah, snaps for you and you and extra snaps for Ruby and her moment of pride. Because one of the ones the Divination professor had read out HAD to be--

Oh hellooooooooooo! It was nice to see you again. Uh huh!

Grayson smirked in the general direction of one Sophie Newell and even gave her a wink before he was distracted from her face by a nudge from another pretty face. Hellooooooooo to you too, Ruby. The significant looks? The fifteen year old raised an eyebrow but kept the smirk right in place, almost daring her to ask whatever it was she was trying to imply. Go on, Ruby, do your worst.

And the question? Crystalomancy. Because there were Crystal balls here. It didn't take a genius to figure that out. But Grayson was't going to put up his hand to say it, not when many other people had said it as well and certainly not when some people were coming out with some gems of an answer.

'Watching-TV-Omancy'

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!

Of course it was her snaps. Of course! And no shame about it either even if she had edited it a bit so that she wasn't using certain words that probably would have got her into more trouble.

She leaned over and whispered in Grayson's ear, just a few quick questions and a slyyyy look over at that girl. Wasn't she sweet? Oh and by the way... Ruby whispered something ELSE in Gray's ear then straightened up and looked toward the professor, an expression of innocence falling in place.

Obviously she was paying attention. Crystal balls. Yes.

Lucas was quite amused by some of the answers his classmates were giving. Though he was a bit surprised so many, even some of the ones about his age did not know or wanted to be funny. Well, he had been great with the art of divination. Thus he raised his hand and responded, "I'm not sure why so many of my classmates want to be funny about a serious art but I won't be, the answer is scrying. You scry as you look into a crystal ball to hopefully see a glimpse of the future.".

SPOILER!!: Predicting the future

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Originally Posted by Hugo

What did the professor wanted? To make them fall asleep? Hugo didn't mind though, but this wasn't the best room/decoration for a class. At least not for him and his constant need of sleep.

He was resting his head on the back of his hand and waiting for the class to begin. He briefly closed his eyes because someone spoke to him. It wasEthan, the prefect. He tried to look awake, "Umm...kind of" said and yawned. "Sorry" he half-smiled. "What did you wrote on your parchment?" asked curiously.

Then, the class begun. So, yeah he had to be quite. Are they going to learn how to read minds? Because that would be really awesome. The professor continued talking and mentioned the snap cup. She was going to read them? Oh well. Professor Cassie mentioned his proud moment and he slightly chuckled. But you had to admit it, it was something really to be proud of.

After the introduction, she started with the lesson. Hugo looked at the crystal ball on his table, he wanted to touch it, but he didn't. What form of divination? He didn't know anything about divination, except....

Shyly he raised his hand and tried to answer the question. "To predict the future? Or something like that?"

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Originally Posted by Chance

Chance has been sitting down in his comfy pajamas the whole time! He swore it!! As he sat, wide eyed, not out of breath, and not sweaty, he tried to pay attention to what the Professor was saying. Ok, something about Snap... Oh!! He had to write something he was proud of! On a tiny piece of paper he wrote, "Being a wizard." Because he couldnt think of anything else to write. It was the utmost important, best, most proud thing that he had ever known about himself. Point Blank.

Lost in this thoughts, Chance came around to the Professor talking about crystal balls. As he sat by another Gryffindor, who he had seen in the common room before, (IBEJENN!!!!) he almost laughed at her answer and had to hide it with a cough. "I wish!" He muttered under his breath and winked at her to make sure she knew he was talking to her. He raised his hand before almost yelling out, "Do we get to see the future with these Crystal Balls? Cause I am definitely up for that!!" He could see it now, Chance, married, on his way to the Ministry. Oh yea, plus the gang being up for a little Quidditch on teh weekends. What a life!

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Originally Posted by Zeke

Professor Cassie.... Divination -- as opposed to DIVISION... which he HATED... this was, okay.

Zeke sat, staring and waiting for things to happen, and he slowly unpacked his bag too. A roll of parchment, his quill and ink... and yeah, just waiting. He thought things were going to be fairly full on, y'know, it being a lesson and all... but it was so cruisy in fact, he might have fallen asleep. The aroma of the room would have lulled him into a slumber, had it not irritated his nose instead. Zeke scrunched up his nose, squinting so as to fight the sneeze that wanted to escape, again. He managed to hold it in.

The whole SNAP CUP thing, was weird, and he couldn't say he LIKED it, but he didn't particularly dislike it either. Nevertheless he did as instructed and relaxed and listened.

When the lesson question came though, he blinked.

What were they doing with crystal balls? What FORM??? ...................

"Uhhhhh..... fortune telling and SEEING THINGS?" he pondered, hand raised. He had NO idea, clearly, but wasn't all divination fortune telling???

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Originally Posted by Aubrey

Adi was confused by her actions toward him, and he had every right to be. AJ was confused too, and she was the one with the mess. As much as she wanted to look back at him, she didn't. Her though process was... "keep looking straight ahead, keep looking straight ahead." Finally the professor was starting class, and AJ welcomed the distraction.

She snapped right along with everybody else as each proud moment was read. Some people seemed to be a little stuck on themselves, and AJ giggled at those. The second year took a sip of tea and tried to relax. How she was going to do that with everything on her mind was beyond her, but she would try.

Ummm... she had no idea what the proper term would be for crystal ball gazing. She raised her hand and gave her best guess anyways. "Visionary reading?" Because they were using their VISION. Heh. She had no idea.

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Originally Posted by Norah

Norah found it hard to stay awake through the professor's reading of the bazillion proud moments, so she busied herself with her tea instead. She pondered the question, listening to the other students' answers before chancing a guess herself. "You look at it and it tells you the future, right? She squinted at one of the foggy orbs. "Like right now it looks like it's going to be foggy tomorrow. Because there's all that white stuff floating in it? Maybe? Or not. Nevermind." She shrunk back into her pile of cushions. So much for starting the year off on the right foot.

Cassie couldn’t help but snap as the answers started coming in. She just loved how they all gave something, “Fortune telling is more of the muggle term, but yes it is seeing things, or vision readings, predicting the future is correct, but it also can see in the past as well.” They would certainly be going over that more in a moment. Looking at a young second year she beamed at her, “Very good, but usually the misty look doesn’t come until the reading.” Did the girl have that strong of a gift? She would certainly be watching this one.

SPOILER!!: Scrying

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Originally Posted by Angel

Angel looked at the Professor and raised her hand, she wasn't sure about this but she would guess. "Professor is it part of scrying divination." Angel actually thought that it sounded like crying and she was still trying to figure out who would come up with something like this, maybe the Person had meant to say crying divination but had a problems with his c and it came up Scrying? Angel didn't know for sure but it sure was a weird name.

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Originally Posted by Paulie

So that's what the snap cup meant? Snaps for props? It seemed a little silly, but Paulie could agree that that was a good way to pass introductions in the beginning of a term. Yay for no-name introductions. Two snaps for you, and 4 for you.

The prefessor was starting into the lesson, and first question led to the crystal balls. Paulie raised her elegant little hand in the air,"I might not know the correct name of the form, but I know it's a type of scrying. Like water, or with mirrors." From what her batty Granam's had explained, it was harder than it looked. Lotsa concentration.

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Originally Posted by Marigold

Marigold could totally guess which ones were written by whom. Well, she could guess some. A.k.a. one. Well, it was definitely a guess...

She had no idea who she was snapping for half the time.

But she liked this class. She actually was okay with waking up early if they were just going to be in their pajamas and comfy pillows and drink tea anyway. She took another sip of her tea with her pinky out let the warmth spread through her. At the question, she took another sip and raised her hand while swallowing.

"It's a type of scrying, which is basically seeing things in objects." Not the most useful thing from Divination, but one never knows.
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Originally Posted by Paloma

Paloma sat there, glancing at the tea cups, feeling like her fingers tapped along to the music, and definitely enjoying the smell of lavender everywhere in the room. She was very close to imagine herself taking a bath, and almost falling asleep...

But no.

She was in class. She was going to pay attention! Once her eyes went back to the open self, she looked around at the answers that her classmates gave to Professor Cassie, which gave her many ideas...concerning the subject. Maybe she wasn't much of a believer of 'looking into the eye of the future' and all that, but knowing how it worked, and the actual enviroment they were getting inside that classroom...

"Well, is like...looking...seeing through the crystal ball, which is...scry..." Scrying...she couldn't pronounce the word, since she had only seen it once in English, yet all the rest in Spanish. It was like her tongue got stuck, but it was something like that, right? She tapped her temple a few times, though couldn't complete the word, which she hoped the professor understood.

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Originally Posted by Lucas

Snapping just got happier as one of the names she was looking for was being said. “Yes, yes correct, very good.” Her students were always so smart. She just loved that they knew what was going on most of the time. It was a great feeling, but she wasn’t surprised. Hogwart students were always so bright. “Scrying is one name of what we will be doing today. Does anyone else have the other names?” Her head turning to yet another boy, Cassie gave him some snaps, I serious one. She enjoyed his enthusiasm for her class. “Yes you are exactly right. Scrying is one of the names and the one we will be talking the most today about.”

SPOILER!!: Crystallomancy

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Originally Posted by Adi

Adi smiled at Professor Cassie. "Thanks a ton, Professor.'' Now to go find a seat.
.........................

The Hufflepuff had not missed the way AJ greeted him. It puzzled him even more. He knew she had been upset at the Feast for some reason but he hadn't gotten a chance to ask her what was up. After class, hopefully. He kept his eyes on her as she turned to face the front of the class and only trained them away when Professor Morgan started the class a few moments later.

Adi couldn't help but grin when the snapping started. He had not forgotten at any time how happy this woman could be. Comfortable? Check! Relaxed? Er...not really. He was still confused as to AJ's attitude towards him. But he could sip the tea and try to let the music help with the relaxing. Music always had that effect on him, anyway.

SIIIIIP!

Adi took a quick sip before raising his hand. "Crystallomancy, Professor.'' Ehem. He had read up some more on Divination forms over the summer. Maybe he was starting to find the subject interesting after all.

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Originally Posted by Caleb

Crystal ball? Hmmm. That actually sounded kind of interesting. Everyone knew that Divination was just a bunch of rubbish, but Caleb sat up a bit in his seat, intrigued by the idea of the crystal orb. That was one of the most stereotypical Divination things out there, and Caleb wanted to see if you could actually SEE anything in those things.

Caleb slowly raised his hand. "It's um..." What was it called again? UGH. His brain was still in summer mode. "...crystallomancy, right? Or sometimes scrying," he added. That was the art of looking into shiny things and seeing stuff, right?

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Originally Posted by Marisol

Marisol scrunched her face up, because 1. Divination was not her area of expertise, and 2. she was allergic to perfume. Maybe she should wear a gas mask to this class. The teacher was just too much, and all the matchy decoration...ugh. She'd wanted to transfer to Arithmancy, but apparently she couldn't. Well, she didn't know English when she signed up! How was she supposed to-

Oh, a question. She could rant later. So...what were crystal balls used for anyway? Mari had looked at her textbook. Once or twice. Come on! Crystal...like the glass. Ball...like a quaffle. No! Shut up about quidditch, Mari!

Maybe if she were in Arithmancy, she'd focus more. But, wait. Arithmancy. -Mancy as in type of divination. So...Ballmancy? Crystalmancy? Didn't sound right, but it was worth a shot.

"Creestalmancy?" Marisol croaked, half coughing. She wasn't deadly allergic. Her nose and eyes just tended to water at some perfumes and soaps, and she'd cough in a raspy way. No need to worry about that, but why did it have to smell like that in there?

Mari stuck her nose and mouth into her tea cup and tried to mask the smell a bit. Eh, chamomile.

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Originally Posted by Clara

........... Well, that was certainly interesting. OHMYGOSH? Adorbs PJs? Clara hadn't expected her to speak that way at all, even if she did look super chilled. She could ... adjust to it, though. At least she was nice.

She wasted no time pulling out several pieces of parchment, a pencil, a quill and ink. All ready, she thought and listened carefully to what the Professor was saying. The concept of 'snap cups' seemed strange to her, but she ... appreciated the positivity in a sense and even jotted down a few people's positive notes if they caught her attention. 'I'm proud of knowing two ancient languages.' That one stood out to her as Gabe's, without a shadow of a doubt, but she didn't see the point of writing it down. She simply tossed a look his way and went back to focussing solely on what the Professor was saying.

.. Huh ... this was ..... she didn't know what to make of it. For one thing, Clara didn't do relaxing when she was surrounded by people, and she didn't like tea. So this plan wasn't going to work .... She could, however, answer the question about what form of divination uses crystal balls. While she might not be particularly interested in the subject, she had gone and read up on a fair few things. Including this. Ignoring the other students presence and looking straight at Professor Morgan, Clara raised her hand confidently in the air. "It's crystallomancy, Professor.'' ... Obviously.
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Originally Posted by Kace

Kace smiled when the professor read out all the papers people were proud of. He snapped snapped snapped along with the others. This was gonna be a fun lesson. He wished they would dedicate the end of class time to nap time but that won't happen. They needed to learn, well he did for his OWLS. Anyways onto the task at hand. He heard her question and thought about it. Which divination used a crystal ball? He had no idea but he remembered getting asked that question. He heard Sophie's answer and it didn't seem too far off.

He thought what did he have to lose and raised his hand and said, "Professor I am going to go with logic on this one would it be called....Crystalomancy? Or something along those lines?" he shrugged innocently.
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Looking around the room she snapped as yet another name was being discussed. “Crystalomancy is certainly another name. Very good everyone.” Such smart bright young minds. This was just soooo exciting.

SPOILER!!: Spheromancy

SPOILER!!: Gazing-o-mancy

“Gazing-o-mancy is a very interesting way of putting it, but I would say it’s close to what we are doing.” She had never heard it but it was certainly close sounding so why not except it. Snaps for you Mr. Noel.

SPOILER!!: Crystal-gazing

Giving Ethan some snaps and a smile she nodded, “Very good Ethan, it is crystal-gazing as well. Funny how one form has sooooo many names.” She loved it though, always so interesting. Once of her favorite forms after Astrology of course.

SPOILER!!: Quiet ones

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Originally Posted by Abby

Abby listened to what her fellow classmates were saying and took notes she didnt know much about the subject

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Originally Posted by Lux

The lesson was getting started and it made Lux even more excited. She had missed classes over the summer, and it was awesome to share the first lesson of the term with Professor Cassie since she was so nice. Snapping along, she listened to everyone's proud moment. Yay for proud moments.

Once all the pieces of parchment were read, she took a sip of her tea and looked at the crystal ball that was on the table near her. Lux knew what crystal balls were, but she did not know the name for this type of Divination. Figuring that Professor Cassie wanted a more specific answer than 'crystal ball reading', she kept her mouth shut and waited for other people to answer.

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Originally Posted by Alexa

It could be argued the Gryffindor had forgotten her manners with the way she just sat there staring at the Professor. Important role....yeah, she kinda already got that part and didn't need a reminder thanks. As if the badge didn't feel heavy enough without people drawing attention to it. Merlin. Catching herself in the end, Lex managed a polite nod and a mutter that could have been 'Thanks Professor' but then it could have been anything else too. Who really knew these days?

After watching what looked like Professor Smiles in hyper mode, Lex simply eyed her tea suspiciously as they were told to sip at it. It was already on the table, naturally they'd sip it, why remind them to?....Unless there was another motive.

Yeah.....she'd pass on this tea just in case she ended up like the energizer bunny snapping her fingers off at the front of the room. Hyper was fine, add to to uber super duper OMG ISN'T TODAY GREAT and then you had a problem. A Problem that probably hadn't hit 5 ft yet. Or had she? The question would be passed on too. Lex was clearing her mind like she'd been told to do, or trying to at least and thinking up answers would only put more thoughts in her head--and questions, there would be more of those too.

So for now, just silent staring.

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Originally Posted by Layla

Not long after the fifteen year old had entered the classroom, Sammy had followed in and sat somewhere away from his cousin. She frowned across the room at him hoping that he’d take a message. Her glaring was soon interrupted by the appearance of Eden who had sat on the pillow between Layla and for the first time the fifth year had noticed her, Clara. She made her greeting and started asking a question but the professor had started talking before she could answer.

Layla didn’t get what all this snapping and praising business was all about but she found it pretty pathetic and sickly and girly for her liking. Although she was incredibly sporty, Layla could be pretty girly herself but nothing like this professor. No. This was her worst nightmare. She didn’t join in with any of the snapping because quite frankly she didn’t want to look like a fool. Instead she stared at the blonde bombshell at the front of the room and listened to her words entirely disinterested.

If there was one thing that she could be certain of right now it would be that she wouldn’t be enjoying this subject in the slightest. It was all flouncy and ornate. She had been to enough Carnivals to know that every single fortune teller with their tarot cards and crystal balls were complete and utter frauds. She would not be falling for the oldest trick in the book.

The professor, if you could call her that (Layla was thinking more of a hobbit), started blabbing on about tea and lavender and music and making it sound more like a yoga session than a lesson. What WAS this?! She asked a question to the class and with her notebook on the lowered desk in front of her the blonde merely listened to her classmates innocent answers.

Her answer? A load of false pretences.
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Originally Posted by Ruby

Snap snaps! Ruby went ahead and gave snaps for herself, completely with a serpentine little dance right there where she sat on her cushion. That's right, that one was her. Expressing herself all the way.

Siip your tea, perve on certain cute boys, let the smell of the lavender and the sound of the music just relax you, eye up hotties...yes, Ruby had this divination thing on lock. And crystal balls were fun! You could make a ton of neat stuff up that you saw inside to get what you wanted.

Ooh did Grayson see that? That girl there was totally making eyes at him. Observant, Ruby was. Who was she, huh, Gray? She gave him a little nudge in the ribs and a bunch of significant looks. Mister popular.
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Originally Posted by Thornton

Thornton's cheeks flushed when she said she would begin by reading their snap cup entries, though his anxiety was tempered just a bit by her saying that she would read them without names.

For the first several readings, Thornton sat with his hands in his lap. Snap? After a few more, he timidly added a snap here or there. But by the end, he was as involved as the others, though he had no idea why. He supposed it was affirming, but it seemed strange for it be the beginning of a lesson.

Thornton took a deep breath and tried to relax, seated on his cushion. He squirmed, though, uncomfortable without the support of a chair back. As the discussion began, he tried to take notes, parchment perched on the edge of the table, but the height wasn't quite right for him.

Scribbling, scribbling, scribbling, he tried to get down all of what his classmates were saying, as they'd all seemed much more knowledgeable about the subject.

[quote=Beverly] It was time to wake up and pay attention. Sitting up on her pillow, Beverly adjusted her dragon-print pajama top and willed her brain to stay awake. This was simply a relaxing atmosphere, not one to nap in. Besides, there was information to gather, even if Divination wasn't one of her faves.

Sipping some tea and rolling her shoulders like Professor Morgan, the Slytherin worked at relaxing, although her body was already relaxed. Crystal balls. They'd be using that, huh?

The answer was at the tip of her tongue, her hand rising into the air...and someone said it before her. Well. She had to sharpen her hand raising skills, didn't she? Or was her body too relaxed? That was a thing. It COULD happen.
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Originally Posted by Gryson

Oh hellooooooooooo! It was nice to see you again. Uh huh!

Grayson smirked in the general direction of one Sophie Newell and even gave her a wink before he was distracted from her face by a nudge from another pretty face. Hellooooooooo to you too, Ruby. The significant looks? The fifteen year old raised an eyebrow but kept the smirk right in place, almost daring her to ask whatever it was she was trying to imply. Go on, Ruby, do your worst.

And the question? Crystalomancy. Because there were Crystal balls here. It didn't take a genius to figure that out. But Grayson was't going to put up his hand to say it, not when many other people had said it as well and certainly not when some people were coming out with some gems of an answer.

'Watching-TV-Omancy'

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!

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Originally Posted by Leonard

e would've been lying if he said that her positivity and excitement didn't surprise him a bit, so far whenever he'd been at school he'd never seen teachers this excited about their class and what they were going to be doing.

Oh well.

Relaxing a bit more, and taking a few more sips of the peppermint tea he grabbed on the way in he twirled his pen around in his fingers, waiting for something more to be said to take some notes on this.

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Originally Posted by Declan

Something-omancy. There's his answer. He didn't exactly open his mouth to say it, nope. There was already a wave of people shouting and mumbling answers out. So something from that has to be right because, hello, there's Ravenclaws here, although one of them didn't get the pj memo. He'd offer his Hufflepuff blanket to her if she asks. If she asks. She was a few tables away and that was EFFORT to get up and be nice. EFFORT.

Anyways yeah, something-omancy because something was right. Dec just simply kept drinking his tea while all this was happening. He set down his cup, raking his fingers through his hair. Speaking of, it was getting really shaggy. Desperate need of a haircut. Maybe the crystal ball will tell him when to get it and what the form of divination it was used in. Tightning the blanket around his shoulders, he peered into the glass sphere for something.

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Originally Posted by Gabe

Gabriel was content to just...stay sat at the table with Jeremiah; knuckles white with the force of his grip...BUT then a shadow loomed overhead and he glanced up to see the older blond woman.

...and she looked REALLY....uh, happy?

The woman was speaking at him...and smiling. Gabe supposed she was attempting to be placating...or something. It might've worked...if she hadn't of WINKED at him just seconds later. He instinctively shrunk back into the cushion, face paling a bit further. Girls. Girls were everywhere. Even...uh, older ones...Not that she was being....particularly insane....or...terrifying....

A cold sweat had broken out...and Gabriel was now trembling. In fact, he was sweating so profusely that the back of his shirt was already sticking to his skin; uncomfortably so. His sweater seemed to be weighing him down, though it couldn't possibly be doing so. Logically.

...and what was this about tea?! He hadn't......gotten tea...Though, realistically, Gabe doubted some Lavender tea would be enough to relax his nerves. NOTHING relaxed his nerves...

Trying to distract himself, he sluggishly pulled colored ink and several different quills from his school bag. The...uh, Professor had asked a....question...but there was no way he'd be speaking out loud. Not.....No. He couldn't. So, he'd focus on this small task for now.
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Originally Posted by Eden

Eden blushed when she saw she had made the professor--who was VERY friendly--jump. Oops. "I'm so sorry Professor--" she said, and she pulled out some tissues from her bag--but she had started class, so she just sank back in her pillow and wanted to hide behind Clara.

UGH.

Embarrassment to the extreme. She had no idea what was going on. There was lots of snapping...and when she read Eden's aloud she just blushed. Right. She hadn't know they;d be read ALOUD or she would have been forth more EFFORT into them, right? Right. She wouldn't talk anymore, nope. She just...listened and...whuuuut.

She had no clue. This was her first DIVI class. So. Yeah. She just stared at the crystal ball and tapped it with her finger a bit...right. Would she see somethin' in there? She shot a look at Clara and then even at LAYLA before looking back up at the professor. She had to snort at Bianca's answer---ooooh she was such a hoot! She would't say anything since she knew nothing.

Yep. Eden was that type of student.

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Originally Posted by Sophie B.

..He would. Literally the biggest nerd of all. Sophie snorted at Toby's did you wake up like that joke and gave him a light shove, grinning all the while. Such a big cheeseball.

As class began, Soph settled onto the pillow, suppressing a yawn already as the snaps stuff went on. The room was so cozy and so warm and her body was fighting the daily early morning run she'd started with again... but when the professor moved onto the actual divination stuff, Soph managed to sit up a little straighter, get her parchment and quill ready, and look attentive.

Huh. At the first question, her first instinctive guess was, like, crystomancy, but then others were saying something like crystallomancy, which made more sense, so Sophie kept to herself. That was probably right, even though it was more of a mouthful and she liked her answer better. She especially appreciated Toby's answer, though, and tried to keep from giggling at him to no avail.

At least his answer hadn't been as dumb as the "watching-TV-omancy" one. Merlin.

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Originally Posted by Zander

.... Way to start out the new term. By not knowing the answer to the very first question of the very first lesson. Next time he was going to sit next to Cinna. Divination was her strong point right? Maybe she'd help him get the first question right. But he was perfectly content in his spot right near CB and Sophie. So it wasn't all a loss. But right. The question. Instead of answering the one, he just listened carefully to everything the others had to say.

Gazing-o-mancy????? Watching-TV-Omancy????? Ballomancy????

Were these things even real O-mancies? Or were people just making this stuff up? The Gryffindor wasn't really sure at this point... But he was sure confused. And if you looked at him it was pretty easy to tell with all the looking back and forth at everyone who answered and the head tilting and the big WHAA expression on his face. Because really? Ballomancy?

This class was just one big HUH-OMANCY??

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Originally Posted by Bay

As the class started Bay couldn't help but smile at all the lions that were answering Professor Morgans question, they seemed a lot smarter than he was at that age. Letting them answer Bay just sat back and sipped his tea, at least he got drinks while he was in class and comfy pillows even though his legs have already started to go numb.

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Originally Posted by Sophie

Sophie halfway listened to the 'proud moments' from the Snap Cup. Some girl had wrote about expressing herself through what she wore. Sophie guessed it was that new girl who got into it with Bellaire at the house table. Meh. Then there were a few random ones, and they were officially starting.

Okay, so crystal balls. Sophie had no idea what that form of Divination was called. She just knew you looked into the crystal ball and saw some prediction of your future. Honesty was the best policy, right?

She raised her hand. "I have no idea," she said, "but I know how it works." -.- Lame, but that was all she had. She didn't explain how it worked, because she thought that might be the next thing out the professor's mouth.

Also, HIIIII, GRAYSON. Grin.

Hmmm she stopped and looked at Sophie getting back out of her chair. She just couldn’t do the sitting thing, it really wasn’t for her. “Could you explain how it works to us then?” She would love to hear what she had to say.

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Originally Posted by Bianca

Bianca listened to the Professor speak and nodded her head slowly. She may have also started fiddling with the tail of her lion onesie out of boredom. Blah blah blah Professor blah divination blah welcome. And then she heard starting and snap cup. Oh so that was what that cup thing was for. So they could all be super awesome and brag about stuff.

... She liked it. Were they suppose to snap along though? Bianca was too busy brushing the plushy end of her tail against her chin to snap though. It felt really soft and it was nice. Plus what was the point of snapping? She would rather applaud.

The Gryffindor watched the professor finish up and sit in a chair. Then she looked at the tea. Bianca didn't drink tea. Only when she had too but even then she didn't enjoy it. So she pushed the cup away, pulling a face and resisting the lion inside of her to hiss at the cup. Or was it just a kitty spirit? Bianca was not sure. Instead she swished her tail in her mind. Now onto the real part of this class.

What forms of divination uses a crystal ball?

"Watching-TV-Omancy," she said after raising her hand. Honestly, her answer could not have possibly been more ridiculous than the others.
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She was stopped for a moment by the next answer and just blinked at the young lady. Giving an encouraging smile, [b] “Not everything with mancy at the end is going to be correct. Watching TV is very different than gazing into a crystal ball, but very good guess and thank you soo much for participating.

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Originally Posted by Toby

Even though he didn't know, Toby raised his hand anyway. "Uh... ball...omancy?" 'Cause of the crystal BALL, see? That sounded Divinationy.

Except a bunch of other kids had given two particular answers with the kind of confidence that meant they were clearly right. But it didn't matter. Failure was a part of learning. He regretted nothing.

Another with an interesting guess. These students were just so creative and smart. “That is a very good guess. I can see why you would say that with the Crystal Ball, but it is not one of the names for it. Wonderful try though thank you for answering.” Snaps of encouragement went to the young Hufflepuff.

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Originally Posted by Heather

*Blink*

Super positive? She was starting to reconsider her decision to give this class another chance. Forced positivity wasn't her bag at all. Neither was snapping. So, instead of taking part in the snapping, Heather just sat and half-listened to what was being read. Of course, she smirked when 'Professor Cassie' (of course her name was Cassie) read her parchment.

Then they were moving on to the lesson, which was something she could get into. Except that there were a lot of answers being thrown out. None of which sounded right to her ears. Those were crystal balls, right? So....... "Crystal ball reading?" Made sense.
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Hearing another answer Cassie turned to the girl speaking. “Crystal ball reading, very good. We will be looking into the Crystal balls at some point, most people call it gazing, but some do call it a reading.” Snaps for such a great answer. She was sooo enjoying all the wonderful answers even the ones that weren’t really answering but listening. She knew that some weren’t as big on certain subjects as others and that was completely fine as long as they….

SPOILER!!: Ian and Justine

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Originally Posted by Ian

Ian G. Hale (don’t ask what the ‘G’ stands for) loved Hogwarts.
Oh yes. Long train rides through beautiful landscapes, large feasts with ridiculous amounts of pastries and sweets and candy and everything his growing tummy could desire… and then, on top of it all, he could go to his classes in PJs. WHERE ELSE WAS SCHOOL THIS CHILL? NOWHERE, THAT’S WHERE. Suck on that, American schools. PPFFT. Ian was so over those.

Eyeing the fuzzy snap cup thing on his table, Ian scribbled onto a loose piece of parchment he happened to be carrying in his pocket: “I am Proud 2 be sexy Beast.” He stuffed the parchment carelessly into the cup and proceeded to lounge comfortably on the many pillows, spreading out and stretching his limbs like a lazy indoor cat.

Just when the boy was beginning to doze off into a pleasant sleep, the hot teacher started reading the LAMEST FREAKIN’ CONFESSIONS HE HAD EVER HEARD. Oh my God, were these kids 10 or what.

“I'm proud that I stood up 4 expresing myself thru fashion even tho sum peepl r stuck in the midle ages”
“BOOOOOO!!!!”
LOL fashion. And what even are the middle ages, why are we talking about 50-yr-olds no one cares about, gtfo.

Now the hottie was asking about forms of divination and crystal balls and all Ian could do was snicker quietly to himself. Heh. Hehheh.. crystal ball… lol… ha…HAHA…AHAHHAHHAHAHAAHAHAA.

And people’s answers. “ballomancy.”
What even.

Of course, he had no valuable input because duh. He was Ian. Bringing his hot presence along was input enough.
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Originally Posted by Justine

Justine hadn't been able to think of a single thing at all to write on that silly piece of pale, not for lack of trying, but the lavender wafting through the classroom and the relative warmth was making her drowsy and she couldn't focus. Why was she even in this class? She didn't even like divination.You'd thought it would be a laugh. Well, yeah, but so far it's just sort of dull.

And then Professor Cassie began pulling out the little pieces of proud paper, and giving out snaps for the most inane things and Justine was at full attention. Why was their Professor channeling Elle Woods? Was there one Professor in this whole place that wasn't seemingly mad? The Ravenclaw was having a hard time biting back her laughter, especially when someone to her side shouted out a loud and obnoxious; BOOOOOOOOOOO.

She just managed to turn the laugh into a coughing fit, which abruptly ended as she turned to the seemingly hilarious individual only to see-

Ian. G. Freaking. Hale. Oh, damn it all to hell, She hadn't expected to see that little pervy weirdo this early into term (she'd actually hoped to somehow avoid the boy as much as possible). Maybe Merlin would have mercy on her and Ian wouldn't notice her... As casually as she could, Justine began to edge slowly away from the Gryffindor creep.

…. She heard it, she heard the boo and her green eyes snapped towards the boy in question. Trying to just ignore it, because everyone ones allowed their freedom of expression even you Mr. Rude, until he didn’t stop talking. Her beaming smile never left her as she moved closer to the two and took a seat at their table. She looked between them and listened with bright eyes. “This is just always sooo exciting to watch new love start.” She gave them snaps of encouragement. Yes, go on you are interrupting everyone in the room, she watched and waited. “Now that she has very much told you she isn’t interested do you think I can get back to my lesson now?” Getting back up she patted him on the shoulder and looked at the rest of the class. “Now that we have that wonderful moment of young love settled does anyone else have anything to add about Crystal Balls?”

SPOILER!!: Puck

Slack…that was what her jaw was doing. Just hanging open with so much ridiculous slack da-aad…would have asked if I was trying to catch flies she thought and winced slightly. And now they had to do a stupid snap cup?

And feign positivity for lame things that drull people were proud of? Okay maybe if she wasn’t so tired she’d have well…a glimmer of her normal zest to her. But no, not today. Not right now.

Sure she snapped. But there was no enthusiasm to it. She was sure she had seen that call to arms about fashion and it was….well, stupid? They should have put uniforms on the darn supply list if they wanted people to wear them. She’d only lucked out by word from that Kara girl saying she just bought her uniform…otherwise she’d definitely not look the part.

Heck. She had skirts shorter than that girls. Her jaw was suddenly tight, her molars nearly grinding together. Proud to be a boy? Sure the guy was lucky and for so many reasons he had no idea of. All she snapped to was well the pretense of it all.

She didn’t know these people but she wasn’t 100% sure that she’d get along with them. Fashion girl and Snake boy might have been made for each other for all she knew.

Okay. Snaps. Those were real. Heck if you were fluent in snappish you could probably see that they weren’t oozing sarcasm for a change. Being proud of a sibling was a good thing…she was proud of hers but that was a hard thing for her to think about.

And then she heard it the laughter and she couldn’t help but send the guy a quick smile. It wasn’t a knowing smile really, it was more,…appreciative. Heck she appreciated his snark. AND fine, she appreciated more than his well attitude…maybe it was something to do with the general slope of his jaw.

Sure he looked sort of familiar from the start of term feast…….but she’d have to introduce herself later? But please why not make an impression now?

She was sitting up straighter…winking? Oh yes that had happened. And taking a sip of the tea.

HOT! It was hot. She forgot tea was hot.

Nonononononononoooooooo her poor throat! It was all sore and scratchy and she had spewed tea on the back of some unfortunate kid’s head. Sure, she’d made an impression…the wrong one.
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And now Tea was everywhere. She pulled her wand and cleaned the mess before it could even be a thing. Not missing a beat as she moved the lesson on. Her eyes just quickly flicking towards the one that had the problem to make sure she was alright.

Now looking at the entire class she flicked her wrist for information to come up on the board behind her. “Scrying also known as Crystal-gazing, Crystal-seeing, crystllism, crystallomancy, gastromancy, and spheromancy is a form of divination that uses crystals, hence the crystal ball in front of you. Now Scrying can use other things, but we will get into that in further classes. Today we are just going to focus on the Crystal Ball.” She walked over to her own table and picked up the ball gently. “Please do not pick up your own Crystal. I’ve been told they’ve been through a lot in past terms and I’d like to keep these nice for awhile.” Some were from her own collection, so it would be nice if they were not broken. “Now when you look into the crystal typically you are just seeing a reflection, correct? So how could we possibly see other things inside something that just shows our reflection?”

Setting the ball back on the table she turned beaming at the students. “Now we can see the future, but not only the future, with scrying you can find many things to help you figure out why events have happened, or have a spiritual connection. My hope for you today is just to find something in the Crystal ball. Now can anyone tell me how we get started on doing scrying into a crystal ball?”

Abby listened to the professors question and raised her hand and said "We rub our hands on the crystal ball" It was a guess but really like the professor said learning from mistakes happens and there was no point in being quiet during class and she had to earn points back after loosing 10 at the start of term feast

Thornton bit his lip and scratched the more absurd suggestions off this list of things that using a crystal ball could be called. He'd been taking notes so furiously that even watching-TV-omancy had made it on the list.

Following the professor with his eyes, he tried to recall what he had read in the text. He could recall several of the steps, but which was the first?

Tentatively raising his hand, he offered a thought. "You need to focus on what the question or the intention is?" After all, pictures didn't just show up in the ball, right?

Angel looked at the Professor and raised her hand. "Professor, I think you use a cloth and a bit of water and soap on the crystal ball to make it look misty." Angel wasn't sure about if she was right though but it was worth guessing. "You then stare into the crystal ball and clear your mind and just concentrate on seeing what you wanted." Angel smiled, at the Professor, she loved Divination.

Samantha raised her hand at Professor Morgan's question and replied, "I think the crystal ball needs to be cleaned with a cloth with mild soap and water so that the energy is cleansed. Oh, and a term called smudging is also used in order to purify the ball. I think that it involves a lit smudge stick made of sage and then the ball being passed through the smoke a number of times. After this procedure is done, you focus your mind only on the question you wish to ask."

She's got so many snaps to give out today, yeah? Ethan tilted his head and rapped his table gently as Professor Cassie took his answer. Well, he wasn't expecting that his answer would somehow stand out, given that he just put two words together. Crystal, and gazing.

Ethan had inhaled too much lavender at that point, that he didn't notice the little 'I-love-you' confession drama. It would have been grand if he heard everything. Take some tips from that boy, just in case.

But moving on! How does one see things in the crystal ball? Honestly, Ethan had no idea, but he can always fall back on his obersvation skillz, and logical thinking. His hand was raised once more. "I think the set-up of the classroom is given, Professor. One must relax his mind so he may concentrate while gazing at the crystal ball..." Ethan trailed off as he lowered his hand, "So, I suppose that's the first step?" That should explain why they are in their pjs, and getting super comfy, right?

Adi was very much amused at some of the answers to the first question. Such creative minds the students of Hogwarts were blessed with. Hehe. Well, he had answered correctly. Yay! Reading one's Divination textbook did pay off though the reader fell asleep loads of times :whistle:

Right. Next question. Hmmm. Had Adi read about this? Because he wasn't sure about the answer. Hand in the air anyway, he answered, "I think the gazer needs to be very much relaxed, Professor.''

Listening to her classmates responses, Jasmine took notes as she heard lots of useful information. Her note taking continued as Professor Cassie commented and gave more detailed information about the topic. Then the next question was presented.

Jasmine raised her hand to respond to the question. "I think it would be helpful to clear your mind and try to eliminate distractions before getting started with scrying." She figured that it would be important to have your mind and your energies focused on the task at hand.

Cutty had been sipping. Sipping and listening. He had a feeling he was going to like this form of Divination. There really couldn't have been a right answer to this as he didn't believe there was even a right way to perform divination via a crystal ball.

His pallid hand flew into the air and he was bouncing in his seat to try and gain attention. "Lighting should take care of both problems in your questions, Professor. If it's too dark to see yer own reflection well yew couldn't be too distracted by it and yew'd have to look deeper into the crystal. And who knows what yew might see." Like mounds of fortunes to be made off of suckers born every minute.

Sipping the peppermint tea Hady shifted slightly in her spot getting more comfortable as she listened to her classmates give out answers. When the next answer came she slowly raised her hand into the air.

"I think your supposed to cleanse the crystal ball first with some mild soap, water and a cloth" She answered softly hoping it was correct. She did some reading already in a few of her textbooks and she could recall having read something about cleaning the ball before each use. It did make some sense she supposed.

So, her answer actually wasn't that off. Well, well, well. We might just have a psychic ball reading person on our hands. Oh, the next question though. She knew this one. AJ threw her hand in the air and waited to be called on. "We have to drink tea, and relax in our jammies." Duh, because that was exactly what they were doing right now. She didn't need to read that in a textbook.

On that note AJ slouched in her chair and took another sip of tea. There was nothing to see here. She was only getting ready to see something other than her reflection in these crystal balls.

SPOILER!!: IAN oh no.

Eden had, you know, trying to pay attention to the PROFESSOR who was VERY sweet and stuff--when she heard that BOOO. And she glared over at the direction it was coming from--RUDE--and squinted her eyes--IAN.

Oh MERLIN.

She scooooooted way closer to Clara. "Hey--" she whispered, trying not to be loud, until she finally pointed at her parchment. She began to write...'If Ian approaches me...YOU'RE MY GIRLFRIEND OKAY.' She then glanced at Clara to make sure she saw that and winked. There was no way she was going to TRY to bump into him--at least not in CLASS.

SPOILER!!: Cassssie

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SPOILER!!: Predicting the future

SPOILER!!: Scrying

SPOILER!!: Crystallomancy

SPOILER!!: Spheromancy

“Yes correct, very good. Spheromancy is another name for it. Wonderful job.” She couldn’t help the snaps whether she was to be more relaxed or not. It was just too exciting to hear all the fabulous answers. She turned her green eyes on another, “Very good Spheromancy is correct and so is gastromancy.” Though that one certainly sounded like it should be for a different form of Divination.

“Gazing-o-mancy is a very interesting way of putting it, but I would say it’s close to what we are doing.” She had never heard it but it was certainly close sounding so why not except it. Snaps for you Mr. Noel.

Giving Ethan some snaps and a smile she nodded, “Very good Ethan, it is crystal-gazing as well. Funny how one form has sooooo many names.” She loved it though, always so interesting. Once of her favorite forms after Astrology of course.

SPOILER!!: Quiet ones

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Originally Posted by Beverly

Her quiet students didn’t go unnoticed. They all got a gaze and an encouraging smile. They could participate and it was okay to be wrong, did they know that? “Please don’t be afraid to answer even if you aren’t sure. You are allowed to be wrong, that is what classes are all about. Learning comes with some mistakes. There is no judging in this class. I just want to see you trying your best.” Yes that’s all she expected to try.

Hmmm she stopped and looked at Sophie getting back out of her chair. She just couldn’t do the sitting thing, it really wasn’t for her. “Could you explain how it works to us then?” She would love to hear what she had to say.

She was stopped for a moment by the next answer and just blinked at the young lady. Giving an encouraging smile, [b] “Not everything with mancy at the end is going to be correct. Watching TV is very different than gazing into a crystal ball, but very good guess and thank you soo much for participating.

Another with an interesting guess. These students were just so creative and smart. “That is a very good guess. I can see why you would say that with the Crystal Ball, but it is not one of the names for it. Wonderful try though thank you for answering.” Snaps of encouragement went to the young Hufflepuff.

Hearing another answer Cassie turned to the girl speaking. “Crystal ball reading, very good. We will be looking into the Crystal balls at some point, most people call it gazing, but some do call it a reading.” Snaps for such a great answer. She was sooo enjoying all the wonderful answers even the ones that weren’t really answering but listening. She knew that some weren’t as big on certain subjects as others and that was completely fine as long as they….

SPOILER!!: Ian and Justine

SPOILER!!: Puck

Now. Back to important things. Class. She listened to Professor Cassie's explanation..right right..Crystal Ball, Crystallomanyfancy...or something..that sounded...easy enough to remember. She supposed she should WRITE this all down, right?

And she wanted them to speak up? Okay. Eden KNEW she would make a fool of herself, but WHATEVER. She was a 'claw now..she had to at least be...cool in class. Coooooool as ice.

Gosh she was lame.

"Um, Professor--" she actually raised a VERY shaky and. "Um--well--couldn't you just knock on the ball and ask it to wake up? And do some future-tellin'?" She knew this was wrong. Oh, it TOTALLY was. but this was her guess. KNOCKKNOCKKNOCK HELLO CRYSTAL BALL WAKE UP. She blushed deeply, and just tapped on hers...

Delilah was settled comfortably in her seat, taking notes and sipping on her tea occasionally. This class was actually not all that bad. Even though she disliked the subject greatly, it was kind of cool to be able to relax in pjs. And the tea. Yes, the tea was good, too.

.. A question. And it had been answered already so she wasn't going to bother saying anything. She just doodled on her parchment as she waited for the professor to proceed with the lesson.

So Toby was wrong, but that was okay! He beamed at the encouragement from Professor Morgan and and wrote down the correct answers that had been supplied by everyone else. He made sure to write the right answers down in big and underline them a few times before drawing little crystal balls by them; if Toby didn't already know something it was super extra difficult to learn it and remember it, so the more it stood out in his notes, the more memorable it would be when he studied everything later. THAT was a new trick he'd learned, and he supposed it was time to see if it worked.

He was getting alllllllll of this down. Literally all of it. He was super focused and EVERYTHING, which was... very new, but expected.

Okay SO... how to get started. Toby had a pretty good idea, so he stuck his hand up.

"I reckon it's a good idea to sort of... open your mind. Broaden it, I mean." Which was different from clearing your mind. "'Cause if you don't think it's going to work, you're probably not going to see anything. You probably have to be really open and really trust that it will work, otherwise you might end up dismissing something you've seen in it as unimportant."

Did that make sense? Was it RIGHT? Toby hoped so.

Taking notes, Lux listened to everything that the students and professor said. Some answers seemed legit, and others much like guesswork. Professor Cassie had a lot more to say on the matter, but then she WOULD since it was her field.

Raising her hand, she tried her best to answer the next question since it seemed easier than the first one. "I think clearing your mind of distractions and focusing on your intention or question would be the first step." That was the first thing you did in Transfiguration before casting the spell, so maybe it was the same for Divination. Noooot that she had changed her mind about the subject over the summer.

Crystal Gazing, Connor wasn't sure this was something he would be any good at. But he certainly wanted to try, thinking deep and hard on this he had to really wonder why something that would show you yourself would allow you to also see other things? What made this substance different?

Was he over thinking this? Most likely, But he wanted to try and get it right, he looked into it and then back up at Professor Morgan. "Professor, i would think we'd have to clear our mind, look past ourselves." That was his thought process anyway, if you were looking at yourself you might think of your own issues when you're trying to reach something more by looking into the ball, that would be his first step, to let go of himself, to move past it.

What did the scrying business even mean? Scrying sounds a whole lot like crying, if you ask this Gryffindor. And crying was a pretty accurate definition of divination to be fair. Not that Zander was going to cry about the class!! Not at all, just this class was really hard, almost as hard as DADA and Potions and Transfiguration and Arithmancy and-- wait a minute. Every class at this school was hard.

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Ahem. So yes scrying. Scrying and crying. Sounded synonymous really. So they were probably really similar, right? Although, why you'd need to cry into your crystal ball? That didn't make any sense. AND not to mention, crying on demand is a lot harder than it sounds!! "Well you've got to think of something really really sad, like a dead turtle," Dead turtles were really sad. "And then you blink really hard and... And you stare into the ball?" That should get you ~~crying~~ scrying in no time!

As far as class went, Paloma kept doodling in her notes about the subject, for future revision. When Professor Cassie continued her class, explaining what they were about to do, she raised her eyebrows and looked around.

Everything was cozy enough to just...either focus to study, or fall asleep. But studying was the deal there, so...She raised her hand, "Well, this is pretty much the perfect external enviroment, Professor. There is lavender scent, tea...music...." Perfect music. "But internally, I guess....you have to let any external...distraction be away from your mind, and focus on some sort of event, thing...person..." Yeah, that was one question, hopefully to be answered soon, but..."And what your mind focuses on, letting all others be away, that is what the crystal ball will 'show' what we need to know" She hoped she made some sense.

Devlin didn't know much about this subject so he just paid attention to the Professor. He'd stay quiet, and try his best to understand it. But as well, he needed to make his judgement on this Professor. So far, she seemed alright. So, that was the positive thing to this class.

Still watching though.

Although the boy didn't know much about this class thus far he figured he could give an answer. A small one, but, a few students already seemed to have taken upon themselves to repeat his own thought. Thanks for giving him the chance to voice an idea.

Clear the mind, don't think of anything else. Rather hard, wouldn't you say? Freeing your mind of all thoughts. If they had to do that, it made him wonder just how long it'd take him to get the technique right.

What some others said, Professor. Free your mind and all that good stuff."

There were... quite a few names for doing stuff with the crystal ball, huh? But... gastromancy? She actually snorted at that one - didn't the prefix of "gastro" have to do with... the stomach? Hahahaha. Why was THAT a thing? Sophie made note of the names regardless of her amusement, scribbling a bit more carelessly than she normally did - mostly because she was side-eyeing Toby and his notes. He was... super into this, wasn't he? She tried not to be blatantly obvious in her watching of him, but seeing him... sitting still and focusing and being able to tell that he was absorbing the material was... strange. Very abnormal. And very cool.

Though she wasn't staring, her lips were pressed together in a tight smile and she studied him in her peripheral vision, finding this newly-focused Tobes to be awfully intriguing.

And to the professor's question? Soph didn't have an answer. Not one that hadn't already been given, so she adjusted her shirt on her shoulder and leaned gently against the table, taking things in. The whole ambiance of the room was still making her a little drowsy and she was already planning out what she'd have for lunch today.

What he'd expected from this class was to get distracted. What he didn't expect was to be asked questions about Miss Nice Legs (Sophie) over there. Grayson simply smirked and raised an eyebrow at the new student, almost as if he was asking her if she was jealous. No need to say anything juuuuuuuuuust yet, his hot face could do all the talking. Not that he could say much since there was whispering and...........

....................... WELL then. That certainly made this lesson a lot more interesting. Anything logical and flirty in his brain seemed to have melted into mush at the little piece of information while the fifth year glanced at Ruby and her outfit. There was a smirk along with this because let's face it, this was Whitty. And DANG, he really needed to be in his room and not sitting here answering questions about crystal ball care.

Speaking of the question, Grayson cleared his throat "Professor?" he started, half-raising an arm in the air, "It's like potions, isn't it? You wouldn't brew a potion if there were cracks and dirt in the cauldron so you wouldn't go ahead and read your future without checking to see the situation of the ball." Lulz. "Probably includes smudge marks and fingerprints and whatnot." At this, he SQUINTED at his crystal ball, mentally judging whoever had used it last.

"They could mess up your readings." IF you got any. He doubted he would because LOL, distractions everywhere.