Where. Had. That. Pencil. Gotten. To.

There was nothing for it. Using the time he had left before Hadley got started with the lesson, Toby started unloading his schoolbag, bringing out books upon books and soooooooooo many notes and stray quills until FINALLY...

"Aha!" Toby said triumphantly, a mechanical pencil now held up triumphantly before him. But, uh... oh. They were starting. The Hufflepuff hurried to shove everything BACK into his bag, and then lowered that onto the floor under his desk, and started with the note-taking.

Already, Toby realised he was probably not going to have any valuable input for this lesson. He grew up in a very muggle environment but then at the age where you started to learn all the ins and outs of muggle stuff, he'd started here at Hogwarts. So basically... he didn't have a clue how to answer.

"Uhh..." Oh, but look, Toby's hand was up and he seemed to be attempting to answer anyway, so... that was happening. "I don't know about developing, but if you have a printer and a computer and stuff you can plug your camera into it and print the pictures off like that. Does that count?"

Pinocchio was pleased of the puppetmaster's pride in him. He knew that would make Papa Gepetto quite happy.He beamed as he found his way to a seat. He heard the woman begin speaking about photos. It was similar to the things that came out of the toy with the big eye, yes? Pinocchio had no clue about this processing thing and just kept his tongue.

Kace was smiling and was glad the professor was doing well. Plus she was married he was happy for his head of house. He wondered if Fuller were collobarating or something. They were both teaching about photographs. But he heard the question and he raised his hand and replied, "Professor I know for photographs you need to use chemicals to develop it and not expose your film or else it will be ruined." Is that something she was looking for. I mean it was a different way to develop photos.

So they would be talking about photography in this class too?

Charms class and homework had been fun, but maybe it wouldn't be too bad learning how the other half did it in the muggle world. Benny listened as the professor started the lesson, paying attention as much as he could to what was being said. Two types of processing? The fourth year thought back to photos he may have seen to pick out what those two could be.

Magical and Muggle was too obvious.

Then he had a thought and raised a hand. "Are they color and black?"

Suuuure she did. Ruby stuck her hand up.

"Doing it at home, or taking it to the shops and paying someone else to do it in like an hour." Types of photo processing. Bam. "Or like, polaroids that come straight out of your camera." Those too.

Gabriel eyed the Hufflepuff Prefect for several long moments.......much like he had in the greenhouses with that First Year. The one who'd carried on about music and other odd, creepy things....He'd be okay in the middle of a lesson if the guy tried anything, right? Surely, he'd be safe. Not that he put much stock in the professor's help...

"Hey." Gabe offered a tentative nod....before turning back to his notes. At least he was a guy. No girls creeping around to make him an anxious mess....

..........and first question.

"A darkroom and solution."

Beverly mentally cursed when Ruby suggested what she was just about to say. Damn youuu. It was okay, though. It was cool. At least this lesson seemed to be...normal. Professor Hadley seemed in control of herself and wasn't calling herself the Queen of Cameras or something.

She raised her hand, tossing her hair behind her shoulder.

"As Ruby said, Polaroids is a form. Palaroid is a brand name, I believe, but the gist of it is the camera has developing chemicals included, which speeds up the process without the need of a dark room or much else." Did that make sense, because she wasn't repeating it.

Was this dude (Gabriel) shy like Benny? Adi couldn't help but wonder. "I'm Adi, by the way,'' he said. He would as usual, be his usual outspoken self. The Claw guy can get used to his talkativeness. "What's your name?'' As he spoke, he rummaged through his bag looking for a pencil.

But he could find none. Surely he hadn't forgotten them. All he could find was quills. Hmph. And there went the first question. Developing pictures with chemicals sounded more like a sure then to Adi than before. Not that he minded. It was a process he always wondered about.

He raised a hand to answer the question. "Black and white is one way, Professor." Peeeencil! Where art thou? Ugh! Adi looked back at the guy beside him. "You got an extra pencil I could borrow? Please?''

They were talking about photos AGAIN? Ugh. Caleb wasn't in the mood - why were all the professors trying to turn them into photographers lately? This was annoying. Still, he had a great answer for this one and he raised his hand.

"No one takes pictures anymore with cameras...everyone uses their phones. So that's a thing," he said. Yup. It was a thing for sure.

"So we have our two types of processing, which is not to be confused with style of print or where you process," Fina went on to explain, as she wrote the two types on the board behind her. "Film Processing and Digital Processing. If I may be frank, digital photography is rather boring. It uses an electronic image sensor to transpose the image as electronic data, as opposed to chemical changes on film. Digital photography also allows for more manipulation post-processing, but like I said, the process is boring. You snap a picture with a phone or digital camera and then plug it into a printer or computer and print. Nothing fancy. Just push of a button or two and you're done."

"But film processing, now that's got some interest because of the use of chemicals, which is also why we'll be needing to wear goggles for today's lesson. You don't want to get these chemicals in your eyes." She paused, looking over the cameras on her desk again. "Before we get more into the process we'll be going through, let's talk a little more on cameras and how they work. What type of things do you think you as the photographer can control in regards to taking a picture?"

Soph paused her search to find her Muggle supplies to grin at Tobes as he sat near her, then she pressed on. A notebook wasn't that hard to find, as she had no less than three in her bag at all times - but the pencil she probably should've kept one in a better place that should would remember. Eventually, though, she found it nudged inside one of the notebooks she hadn't pulled out and sighed. OKAY. All ready. Game face on.

Just in time for class to start.

But at the professor's question, Sophie... just stared a bit. What? Photo... processes? Developing? Two types? What did she even mean?

This Ravenclaw didn't understand at all. She had no clue. She wiped the clueless expression off her face, though, and instead looked entirely too busy to answer by opening her notebook and writing headings at the top of her notes. Totally productive and all.

...Oh. Film and digital. Soph wrote those down just as Hadley said it, but she... didn't really GET it. There were all these technological words that didn't make sense, really, and Soph just wrote as many down as she could and hoped to make sense of them later. And as for the NEXT question... Soph chose to stay silent once more because she still was kind of lost. Nope. Mouth shut.

Too bad Mo wasn't there to feed her answers.

Samantha had an interest in photography so she raised her hand. "The photographer can control the distance of the subject by using something call a 'zoom lens'. This means the photo can be a close up of a person's face or a long distance photo like a landscape."

So much talking on Professor Hadley's part. He hoped this Claw dude would lend him a pencil soon. Otherwise he'd have to borrow someone's notes later in order to make his own notes. Anywaaay...

On to the next question. Adi had an answer. Hand in the air for the second time, he volunteered, "The angle of the camera, Professor. Some people alternate it so that it's either horizontal or vertical.''

Uhhh... uhhhhhhh...

So much uhhhhh-ing was going on in Toby's head. It was a lot of note-taking to do and a lot of thinking to do but he was staying on top of it all reasonably well. Lalala, notes, lalala.

Once he'd written everything down that he could remember, Toby dropped his pencil on top of his notebook and flexed his fingeres while he thought. Uhhhhhhhhhhh...

Up went his hand.

"Some photographers control lighting. Like they have these super bright lights that they use to get a good picture, and they're used in movie making and stuff too." Y'know, like the 'lights, camera, and action' thing. "But that's not always something you can control, though you can turn the flash on and off with some cameras."

It was time for class to begin and the Professor got straight to the questions. Unfortunately, Jasmine was not quick enough with her response on the irst question. One of her classmates beat her to the punch and gave her answer before she could raise her hand.

When question two came around, Jasmine was a little faster and raised her hand immediately. "Professor, you can control the lighting when you take a photograph. You can use a flash, position yourself differently related to the sun's position or turn on lights when you're setting up our picture."

Zander didn't really feel the need to write most of this stuff down. See the charms lesson was a lot of new things, but that's because he didn't really know much about moving pictures. But regular ones, well he knew enough about those. Growing up with them and all. But of course, out of respect or whatnot, the Gryffindor scribbled down some of the facts anyways.

As for the second question, he listened to the answers that people around him gave. Nodding vigorously at that Toberson guy's answer in particular. Lighting, that was a good point. Uh, raising his own hand into the air, he thought for a moment, before saying "Well, you can control the angle of the picture you're taking? Like uh, taking it from above or below?"

Class was starting right as Lux took out her notebook. Quickly she wrote down everything Professor Hadley was telling them. Muggle photography, now that was interesting. Seemed like they would be developing pictures today from the sound of it. Cool.

Raising her hand, she said, "you can control how close up or far away the images are by using the zoom."

Puck looked at the Professor and listened as she spoke at first. She was glad that Professor Hadley…Nairne whatever her name was – was open to calling her Puck. She was actually honestly excited to look at the muggle side of photography as it did vary quite a bit from the Wizarding version of it.

When Professor…..Nairne? Asked them to describe what you could control in photography she immediately thought about her mother. Her lip trembled as if she was going to say something, her hand dampened slightly and she clenched it into a fist. Her nails however sharp they were didn’t’ quell it. But she pushed everything back for a moment and blinked.

Raising her unclenched hand she waited to be called on. “Professor, there are a few very key things you can control that will in turn make a photograph work in the way you want it to or not.” She broadly stated, “my mother always taught me that one of the key parts to a proper digital or manual photograph is the lighting which can be controlled through the aperture of the camera which can be found in the settings and usually there is a button or a dial to change it on the top of the camera near the shutter release.” She explained simply.

Pinocchio was listening to the other boys and girls. He didn't know what all of this digital and print thing was, but it sounded fun. He listened to the boys and girls and nodded as if he knew exactly what was going in.

In the meanwhile, a voice from within cried out as loud as it could. Ian shouted from within this blockhead. Perspective you bloomin' blockhead. Say perspective.

Pinocchio heard the voice from within. Ooh, it must be his conscience and the blue fairy said he should listen to his conscience. Jiminy Cricket says those picture guys can control perspective. Pinocchio had noooooo idea what that meant....but he wanted to please the blue fairy since she'd made him a real boy. He did miss Papa Gepetto though.

Angel raised her hand. "Professor you can control how far back the person is from the camera." Angel loved taking photos and stuff though she didn't want to do it professionally or anything like that.

Muggle Studies............ was BORING. And go figure, he knew HOW to use cameras, and cared not for how they were processed. It just happened. They had these things at shops that did it for you, and digital was totes better anyway, boring or not.

Zeke found himself just SITTING and LISTENING as the discussions continued.

All of what he'd wanted to say had been said, and he wasn't about to waste time repeating words. Kudos everyone, kudos.

But for the sake of participating, even to a limited extent, Zeke raised his hand and provided AN answer, even if it wasn't what he'd originally wanted to say.

"You can take pictures vertically and horizontally and really any way that you like." FREEEEEEDDDOOOM!

Hady picked up her pencil and began to take notes as the Professor asked questions and answers came from everyone around the room. She didn't mind Muggle Studies at all seeing as her mother was a Muggle and she knew how to do things the muggle way.

Raising her hand into the air she replied softly. "You can control the color of the photo. Most muggle cameras allow you to take photos in color or black and white."

Hady knew this because she enjoyed taking photos back home and here now as well. Both muggle and wizarding photos were special to her and she had been taking a lot of them lately to send back home.

So they would be taking pictures, or at least developing them. Cooool. AJ had lots of fun doing this in Charms. Of course they used wands to animate the pictures, and they were going to use chemicals in this class. AJ would most likely have better luck this way since a wand was involved.

The first question came on fast, and Hadley moved on before AJ had a chance to answer she made notes though. Digital and film processing. Got it. Her pencil, that she actually remembered to bring today, was scribbling back and forth taking notes on everything.

What can the photographer control? Lighting, and angles were already said. What else? What else? Her hand shot into the air. "After they take a picture they can edit pimples out and stuff." It was just like magic for a muggle.

Oh boy! A good witch. Phew. Dorothy smiled at the good witch and sat attentively in her seat.

So they were talking about cameras? Dorothy had a camera at home, uh huh. In Kansas. She knew alll about them. She raised her hand in the air and waved it around. "Cameras have an aperture that changes size and a shutter that changes speed so the photographer can decide how much light to let it. Aunty Em says that's because the film in there is light sensitive, so the photo is just recording light. When you let in more light it gets darker, and less light makes it lighter." Dorothy grinned around at the other students. Yep, she knew her stuff. This almost-Kansas place she had found made much more sense than everywhere else she had been.

Why was the Hufflepuff boy looking at him like that?....Like he needed something....Gabe almost got creeped out...but calmed himself with the fact that they were in the middle of class. Nothing....would happen....

....and Gabriel noticed he wasn't writing or taking notes. He almost asked because notes were important and the fact that a Prefect wasn't bothering with them....Well, he didn't know what to think about it. Weren't they supposed to set examples.

......or maybe it was a Hogwarts' thing. Gabe was still learning about this school...

....AND he'd been doing so good with lessons lately...that he would BREATHE through the stress to attempt answers. He'd done so with the first question....Piece of cake. All Gabe had to do was....remember to BREATHE and speak.

".....You can...uh, adjust the....erm, focus of the lens......because some people think the 'blurred' look is artistic." His voice had started strong...but then dropped in tone. She was really tall.

O.O

Nevermind him. Gabe was just going to do his notes.

More side!eyes for you, Adi.