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The Astronomy classroom is exceptionally ordinary this crisp autumn day, which may set you on edge as nothing is ever as it seems when it comes to Professor Flamsteed. And you are probably correct. The desks are arranged in their usual semi circle to help created a more personal and inviting environment and upon each desk is a familiar looking orange item. The early afternoon sunlight shines through the windows to give the room and the pleasant breeze through the open windows may, on occasion, blow an autumn leaf into the classroom.

In the front of the classroom is the professor's desk sitting before a massive chalk board that reads, "Please do not eat, cut, or otherwise manhandle the pumpkins." Professor Flamsteed is currently leaning against his desk reading over something important looking in a manila folder with furrowed brows and pursed lips.

Did you remember to use the lint roller on the small table outside of the classroom? It was there next to the sign that reads, "Not to be used as a brush for your hair" and has the signature of a former student in the bottom right corner.

So come on in and have a seat. Class will begin shortly.

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question 1 :: what connections are there between Halloween and astronomy?
question 2 :: what can we expect to see in the night sky on Halloween?
mini activity :: preparing your pumpkin using Punktumus
activity :: constellation carving time!
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Carving the pumpkin?

Did she attend the wrong class? It's not muggle art class, right? It's Astronomy. Bianca wondered why Flamsteed did ask them to do that. "Professor," The brunette then raised her hand. "What is the correlation of this activity to our astronomy lesson? I'm just curious." She asked wondering. Flamsteed had reputation of being fascinating about any muggle stuffs just.. She's completely clueless why she had to do the carving. Maybe he wanted them to make some astronomy model from pumpkins? Dunno.

But then, maybe she'd better to prepare her pumpkin. She grabbed a medium-size orange pumpkin for this activity. No need to pick the bigger one, right? She rolled up her sleeves and started the carving. "Punktumus." she said as she moved her wand to make a circular cut.
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It was time for the pumpkin carving and Janelle couldn't wait. She had fond memories of carving pumpkins with her family. The whole idea of pumpkin carving and Halloween in general, made her feel happy. She listened carefully as the instructions were given. As usual, she took a moment to jot down the key information in her notebook.

Now Janelle just had to get the spell right. "Punktumus, Punktumus, Punktumus", she repeated to herself. Why did all of the incantations have to be so.......awkward? Why couldn't they just say something like "Cut" or "Slice"? That would make like so much easier.

Having carved a pumpkin or two in her day, Janelle wondered what carving with a wand would be like. Only one way to find out. She placed the tip of her wand on the top of the pumpkin, making sure it was far enough away from the stem. Then she said, Punktumus" and pressed down slightly. Now she had to see if the spell was going to work or not.
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The faint sound signaled the arrival of Tinka the house elf into the Astronomy lesson. Her hands were bright red, evidence of a recent and very thorough washing. Her arms were laden with as many buckets as she could carry.

She had appeared directly in front of the professor's desk. "Elfsy help be here as requested, sir!" Her eyes shone with eager anticipation at the work to be done.
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Scratching his head as he watched the Hufflepuff prefect, he wondered - without REALLY wanting to know, mind you - what had thrown the boy off his game so much.

"Look alive, Mr. Rehman," he chirped, drumming on his desk with the palms of his hands as though he were doing a drum roll to the most epic of revealings EVER. "You'll get the hang of it. Not to worry."


Look alive? Adi's head snapped up from his pumpkin as the ever so full of energy Professor Flamsteed decided his desk had become a drum set. But still, the rhythm and the fact that Adi liked anything relating to music, made him smile a bit.

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Now that Adi had completed this first activity, the heap of pumpkin gunk sitting in a pile on one corner of his desk, he had nothing to do but look on as his classmates worked. But his eyes kept wandering over to AJ. Of course they did.

The Hufflepuff could see that she was struggling with the spell and he was instantly reminded of the classes where he and she would have a little competition to see who would master the spell first. He watched her give the spell a few more futile tries. Ugh! He knew she hated not seeing progress and normally, he would have helped her without second thinking about it.

But this time was different and after some inner debates with himself, Adi finally decided to see if she wanted his help. What was the worst she could do? Tackle and hex him, maybe? He deserved it anyway. "Hey, AJ. Need some help?"


Would Airey notice if she just took her wand and walked right out of the classroom? There was enough going on that she was sure she could slip out, but there was that chance that he would notice. AJ was not somebody that usually could blend into the crowd so she decided to dump that little plan of hers.

"Punktumus," she said lazily. Surprise, surprise. Nothing happened. "Punktumus." Was she really trying anymore? Eh, not really. Again, this was so unlike her.

AJ was just about to give it another go when she heard a voice that she would recognize anywhere. Several sensations happened at once, but the most noticeable one was the rage that came from deep in her belly. Not to mention the pain in her heart was back again. As much as she hated not being on talking terms with Adi she was still mad/hurt over their little situation and reason, she wasn't seeing it.

She took a couple of deep breaths and for the first time looked him dead in his eyes. "I don't need your help," she snapped a little more harshly than she intended. Notice that she didn't say that she didn't need any help... oh no, she just denied his help. Her face turned back away from his and more feeble attempts were made.


It took a while for AJ to look at him and Adi knew very well she must be getting angry at him for even coming over to speak to her. YOUR help, she said. Your. That was all that stuck out to Adi.

He couldn't tear his eyes away from hers and he stood there watching her for a while, more regret washing over him. Just that once he lost his patience with her and he was paying such a big price for it. They both were. If only AJ weren't that stubborn and just talk to him...

"Alright. But you can still call me if you change your mind,''
the fifth year responded. "And...AJ? I'm sorry." With that, he turned to head back to his seat, thinking that he and AJ were most likely done.

He arrived at his desk just as a House elf with red hands and many buckets arrived. He had been right! A house elf was here to collect the pumpkin gunk! Such hard working creatures they were.
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So Cancer couldn't be seen at Halloween? Well BOO to that. Lux hadn't even looked at the picture anyhow. She just wanted to say her Lion's sign. Hehe, Professor Flamsteed made her laugh however.; he was acting like a crab which was funny.

Ooooh, on to pumpkin carving! This sounded like fuuuuuun and Lux could see the Muggle Studies Professor enjoying this...though maybe if the standard tools were used instead of wands. She had never carved a pumpkin with her wand before, so Lux thought this would be rather interesting. "Punktumus." What a strange sounding spell. Repeating it a few times, she made sure to have the pronunciation perfectly before beginning to inspect her pumpkin. Now If this could be the focus of her Astronomy O.W.L. that would be perfect though she had a feeling Flamsteed was unfortunately not going down that route.

Trying to find the perfect spot to begin carving roughly 5 cm from the stem, Lux was surprised to see a house elf pop in. So many house elves this term and she LOVED IT!!! Was this little elf here to clean up the pumpkin guts into those buckets???
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Margo was hesitating abut sticking her hands in that pumpkin. It was always so cold on her hands, and her hand were always sticky and dirty afterward. But Margo did love to eat the pumpkin seeds. A bake them for a little while and add some salt. YUMMY!!!!

Okay, no stalling, ugh, with out further ado Margo dug in. "Oh man it's so cold!!" Margo said smiling though, thinking once you got started it wasn't so bad, digging her hands in and out Margo was able to get her pumpkin completely clean.

"Professor, can I keep the pumpkin seeds?" Margo asked now working on separating the seed from the rest of the 'guts'.
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Angel was totally scared now she had got the spell down and she could do the wand movement but now she had to try and figure out what she had to do with the pumpkin and getting that cut. She was a bit scared in case anything was wrong.

"Punktumus." Angel put her wand on the pumpkin and said the spell and she started to slice the Pumpkin and she watched to make sure she did everything right, she was really happy about everything as it was going great, she did exactly what the Professor told her too.

Angel smiled when she saw that everything had worked perfectly, so now all she had to do was take the guts out and it was really going to be groooooooooooss but she knew she had to do it.
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Well he did not mean to make Professor Airey so confused about things Dante did not understand. It was simple question to Dante. Unless Professor Airey liked all the famous astronomers equally. That would cause a bit of a problem. Oh, well. It was activity time and Dante took his wand out. Pumpkin carving time. Dante did not need to hear the explanation on why they were doing it. Pumpkin carving was awesome. And they got to scoop up the guts also. Pretty awesome.

Well as long as nobody threw them at him.

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Hmm..nothing happened he was poking his pumpkin with his wand. Oh, right. Only when trying to cut through the surface. Well might as well try on the top of his pumpkin. "Punktumus" Look at that it was actually working. Cutting the pumpkin. Though using a real knife was more fun. Dante cut the top of his pumpkin using the spell and looked in inside at all the fun guts.

Dante cleaned it out and place all the fun guts on the desk. His hands were really disgusting now. It was fun. But still.
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As Janelle pressed her wand into the pumpkin, it began to cut through the outer layers. She moved her hand around in a circle, creating the lid that would soon be removed. "Punktumus", she repeated, just to make sure the cutting continued. It took a couple of passes before Janelle was able to cut through the pumpkin completely, but she did it at last.

Janelle wasn't sure whether or not she was supposed to end the spell or not. "Finite", she said when she was finished. Wouldn't want to cut something we didn't mean to cut, now would we? Now it was time for the fun part. The messy part. Janelle carefully lifted the lid off of the pumpkin and placed it on the desk. Then she scooped out the pumpkin innards with her hands. It felt squishy and yucky and she loved very minute of it. Plopping the goo on her desk was even more fun and then Janelle went right back to scooping. Scoop, plop. Scoop, plop. This continued until the inside of the pumpkin was as clean as it could possibly get.

Janelle heard Margo ask if the seeds could be kept. Ooooh, roasting pumpkin seeds. Now that sounded like a good idea. She started to raise her hand because she definitely wanted in on that action.
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Eden liked learning new things, she really did. And she LOVED that she was wrong about the Big Dipper--becaaaaause she didn't KNOW that she was wrong, and now she did, and she was taking diligent notes about it, too.

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Stars...and things. It was all jumbled in her head, but she did follow along fairly well..this time. So much INFORMATION though. Eden just wanted to gobble it all up--and know it. That wouldn't happen. She didn't remember facts of this subject area easily at all. She hoped her notes were adequate. WHEE.

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Time to practice the spell, though. Eden pulled out her wand and gave a little pressure on the pumpkin with it, clearing her throat. "Punktumus!" she said, forcefully, and.....her wand did nothing.

THIS WAS NOT IN THE FORESEEN PLAN!!!! But she wouldn't give up. Sometimes magic took PRACTICE, right? She would start with just saying the spell. "Pumpkintumus--" Wait no. That was not..that wasn't it. AHEM. "Punk-Tum-Us." It reminded her of HUMMUS and PUMPKINS together--which didn't sound all that appetizing. "Punktumus." There...

THERE. SHE HAD IT. OKAY. Moving on.

She pressed her wand against the pumpkin again and took a deeeeep breath. And she really FOCUSED her energy on getting the top cut off--"Pumktumus--" she said, clearly, forcibly, and what d'ya'know?! It began to sear off the top! She moved her wand around a bit to cut it in a more neaaaatly fashion, and eventually pulled the top off and GRINNED.

WOWOWOWOW. THAT WAS AMAZING.
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Eh, the house elf had provided a nice momentay distraction but now it was time for Lux to get back to work. Pumpkin carving was fun, but she really did not like removing the guts because they were all cold and mushy. Bleeergh.

Finding what appeared to be the perfect spot on her pumpkin, She pressed her wand against the surface applying a bit of pressure. "Punktumus!" With a steady hand her lid was soon carved out. Sometimes it paid to give out manicures a lot because if she had to say so herself the work had been flawless. BEAM.

Placing the lid on her desk, Lux rubbed her hands together in order to both warm them up a little and get her willing to fish out the guts. Couldn't she just vanish them instead? Probably not or the Professor would have suggested that instead. After a moment she reached in and started getting to work.

EWWWWWW.

So COLD and SQUISHY.

Making a face, Lux soon had all the guts removed and in a pile off to the side of her pumpkin.
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Angel was totally not looking forwards to this part but she was going to do her best... it was going to be mushy and she had a funny feeling it would be fun to use as a weapon in a food fight though she wasn't going to do that because she didn't want detention or point loss.

Angel put her hand into the pumpkin and scooped out the guts of the pumpkin, she thought that it felt very mushy and she had a few things going on in her mind. "I will not scream." Angel was saying to herself which was really hard because she felt the mushy goo going into the nails, she knew they would need cleaning at the end of the lesson.

Angel was glad when she had finished and now she had to wait for more instruction, the mush was put at the side of her on her desk like the Professor told her too.
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Once she had successfully cut around the stem, Evie set down her wand and pulled on the stem hard until she could yank it out of the pumpkin. Now she had to get her hands dirty and scoop out all the pumpkin guts. Eh, not a huge deal. She could clean her hands and nails afterwards.

Evie removed her sweater and rolled up the sleeves of her blouse before sticking a hand in the pumpkin and grabbing a handful of stringy, slimy guts. She dumped it onto her desk and flapped her hand around to get the last bits of goo off, which accidentally flung some across the isle.

Whoops.

Carrying on... Evie continued to scoop out the guts. Ooh, a house elf. Evie smiled at the cute little elf as she walked by.
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Ugh, no. Activity.... which meant spellwork. Tsk.

The Slytherin pulled her wand out when instructed and listened to the instructions. It didn't seem that hard, actually. Maybe she would be alright.

Agatha did wonder why they couldn't just do it the Muggle way. She could do that and she was sure it was a lot simpler. Stupid spells. Sigh. The girl placed her wand near the stem and started to apply some pressure. "Punktupus." ...... Hm. "Punktums. Punkt-" URGH, NO. She didn't want to do that anymore. That spell was stupid and she didn't like it. Not that she had tried that much or that hard, but she knew she was prone to fail so she was done trying. Not going to make a fool of herself.

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Agatha suddenly felt something in her hair again. She turned her head at once to see a Ravenclaw flapping her hand around after just taking goo from inside her pumpkin. "Watch it, Ravenclaw!!" The ballerina snapped angrily, shooting the girl a glare.
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“Excellent, Mr. Anderson-Belfort,” he saluted, taking two steps backwards to his one forward when a thought crossed his mind. “Would you be against my calling you Mr. AB?” Or...Mr. Anderson? For purely nerdy reasons only.
The question wasn’t unusual, a lot of people tended to abbreviate his last name, almost all the teachers at his last school certainly had - with the exception of Miss Fitch, but then she’d just assigned everyone numbers – and Damien shrugged. “Totally fine with me, Professor Airey… “ Generally he didn’t like just being called Anderson, but if that would make the Professor more keen to side with him, welllll….. Damien could definitely live with it. ”You can call me AB or Anderson or, whatever, I’m not picky.”

This was fun. Damien was awful at pumpkin carving – boy had zero ability with crafting – but that didn’t mean he didn’t enjoy it, just don’t expect it to actually be pretty.

The spell seemed simple enough, and Damien had no trouble with the pronunciation. He tried it a few times, just to be sure and then pressed his wand to the top of the pumpkin. “Punktumus,” He calmly said, making the incision and slowly began to cut off the top.

Easy peasy, lemon squeezy. Except for the part where his top hole was square instead of rounded… Was that an issue? He looked over to Lux. “Hey, it doesn’t need to be round… Right?“ He asked, holding up the top to show the square-ness.

EEP.
There was something cold, and slimy sliding down the side of his neck, cold slimy and smelling of… Pumpkin? Hastily, Damien swiped at the gunk, getting it off his neck as quickly as possible lest it slip beneath his robes and leak onto his hidden suit. Turning his blue-eyed gaze he spotted Evie Shacklebolt throwing her pumpkin guts all willy nilly. “Hey, Yoooo, Evieeeeee… You trying to ruin my skin?” Damien half laughed, pointing to his neck where the residual stain of the gourd guts remained.
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Finished for now, Lux took the opportunity to magically clean her hand because if Professor Flamsteed expected her to continue with pumpkin guts on her skin he was sadly mistaken.

There. Much better.

Since she was finished everything required of her for the moment, she took the time to start looking around to see how her other classmates were faring...some clearly doing better than others. Eh, Damien was talking to her, and Lux turned her attention to her friend. Oh, gosh. A square lid. That was funny and cute. "I like it. Gives your pumpkin some style! It's not conforming to the standard pumpkin shape." Obviously he hadn't done this on purpose, but maybe that would make him smile. "I'm sure that Professor Flamsteed won't mind in the least." Like come on...he wasn't Bellaire.

At that moment it started raining pumpkin guts. "Ewww!! My hair!! Damien, please get it out of my hair!!" Flaaaaail.
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This was sort of cool! They were gonna carve pumpkins using his wand. He would prefer to cut the lid off with a regular knife and do it the old fashioned muggle way but this should suffice. He stood by his pumpkin and he squinted at the board and saw he needed to use the spell, Punktumus.

Hehheheheheheh

He didn't know why but he found that spell kind of funny. Maybe it was just him? Okay it was probably just him. He saw Lux getting pumpkin guts in her hair and he grinned. He found it funny her reaction but luckily he didn't get any on him yet. Yet was the key word. He used his wand and pointed it at the pumpkin and said the incantation, "Punktumus...." and nothing happened.

Hmmmmmmm.........

He thought about it and he knew he said it right? He wasn't crazy. He shrugged and tried it again. "Punktumus!" he said with a little more force and he saw the sharp edge appear out of his wand and he began to carve into the lid of the pumpkin. He began to do a circle around the stem.
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There. Much better.

Since she was finished everything required of her for the moment, she took the time to start looking around to see how her other classmates were faring...some clearly doing better than others. Eh, Damien was talking to her, and Lux turned her attention to her friend. Oh, gosh. A square lid. That was funny and cute. "I like it. Gives your pumpkin some style! It's not conforming to the standard pumpkin shape." Obviously he hadn't done this on purpose, but maybe that would make him smile. "I'm sure that Professor Flamsteed won't mind in the least." Like come on...he wasn't Bellaire.

At that moment it started raining pumpkin guts. "Ewww!! My hair!! Damien, please get it out of my hair!!" Flaaaaail.
He laughed; he had to, it was funny and Lux was so silly, but he liked silly, he'd rather talk nonsense any day. "Yeah, right? Makes him unique, makes him stand out," He grinned, pretending to admire his own - not planned on - handiwork with a critical eye. "Yeah, nothing is worst than sticking to pumpkin conformity." A travesty in itself for all pumpkin kind. Damien nodded, yes, the petite and pretty red head was probably right.

That weird, squeaky laughter of his was erupting from his mouth as Lux flailed, begging him to get the gourd guts out of her red hair, and even though he found it hilarious, he started to do as she asked. With a quick flick of his wand and a "Scrougify," Lux's hair was as clean as ever. "There you go." He grinned.

And now, back to his gutting.
Damien carefully rolled up his robe and suit sleeves and started to carefully pull out the seeds and gunk within. It squished and gushed between his long fingers and Damien laughed, finding the experience weirdly satisfying. He wished Rorie was here, she would have loved it.

Squish, squish, the texture was so weirdddddd. Damien was half tempted to keep playing with it, but no, he had to finish the job, she he scooped, and scooped until the guts were all cleared out and the pumpkin was hollow enough for whatever Professor Airey had in mind. "Hey, Little Dude." Damien said, nodding his head to the house-elf, these girls were adorable, and handy,he didn't knew why his parents didn't employ them over the human staff... "Yeah, super messy, totally gross, right?" But, the smile on the boy's face clearly showed he didn't mind.
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Hehe. Lux was glad that Damien agreed with her on the pumpkin. It was better to see things that way as opposed to him having messed up which was clearly the case. But hey, maybe square tops would be a new trend! "We could make our pumpkins look super cool! Not how they usually look! I want to make mine look like Ariel." As she spoke, her friend got the gross guts out of her hair. "Thanks, Damien! I hate the pumpkin guts. Bleh." Making a face, she saw two more elves pop in.

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The one named Toddles was asking if anyone had trash for him, and Lux definitely did. "I got some guts for you right here, Toddles!"
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Toby had still not quite made the connection between the pumpkins and the topic of Halloween and how it would totally mean they'd be murdering cutting them up soon, even though the topic had probably already been discussed. Until...

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"I..." ... He... they... "I..." What? Peter? His pumpkin? "....... I..."

They... they were really...?

Toby was still PROCESSING the idea of this activity in his head. The activity that SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN HARD TO PROCESS AT ALL, and might not have caused any problems if Toby hadn't been the biggest idiot of all time and NAMED the pumpkin. Everyone knew that as soon as you gave something a name you formed an emotional attachment that would only end in pain.

"Punk...tumus?" It came out as a question, in a tone that basically said 'you want us to what?' And his face was a picture of dismay. As everyone else got to work and the room quickly filled with the smell of pumpkin innards, Toby could only look between Airey and his own pumpkin with a look of... complete confusion, though it shouldn't have been a difficult concept to grasp. Truth was, he was FEELING THINGS right now. Emotions that had NO PLACE BEING HERE. WHAT was going ON in his HEAD?

Toby... blinked, mouth half-gaping open, brow furrowed slightly, and looked back towards Airey again. Maybe... if he got... another pumpkin? And didn't name it this time?
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Completely mortified was what this Prefect was. Yup. He had the face of a tomato to prove it too. Oh man, why was it always him? But he sort of did bring this one upon himself. THOUGH IT WAS A COMPLETE ACCIDENT OKAY!? "Sorry, sir." And oooooohmyMerlin. The attention to the fact that he apparently looked like 'an excited nitrogen atom yadda yadda ya' wasn't really helping his case either. Good golly. Oops. And that's right, we see you trying your hardest not to break a laugh, Sophie Brown. We see you. "Yoo-RAIN-us, got it, Professor... I-I won't ever make that mistake ever again," like he'd ever forget after this super embarrassing moment. If only this would be apart of his OWLs. Actually, maybe not.. That'd just make things worse, yeah?

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Ugh, no. Activity.... which meant spellwork. Tsk.

The Slytherin pulled her wand out when instructed and listened to the instructions. It didn't seem that hard, actually. Maybe she would be alright.

Agatha did wonder why they couldn't just do it the Muggle way. She could do that and she was sure it was a lot simpler. Stupid spells. Sigh. The girl placed her wand near the stem and started to apply some pressure. "Punktupus." ...... Hm. "Punktums. Punkt-" URGH, NO. She didn't want to do that anymore. That spell was stupid and she didn't like it. Not that she had tried that much or that hard, but she knew she was prone to fail so she was done trying. Not going to make a fool of herself.

She looked at the person who was sitting right next to her to see how he was doing with his pumpkin. She'd get Zander to do the spell for he--

Agatha suddenly felt something in her hair again. She turned her head at once to see a Ravenclaw flapping her hand around after just taking goo from inside her pumpkin. "Watch it, Ravenclaw!!" The ballerina snapped angrily, shooting the girl a glare.

Taking out his own wand and still trying to recover from that answer of his earlier, he pulled his pumpkin in close. Examining it, you know? 'Cause there was an art to pumpkin carving and really, Zander wasn't much of an artist. So best get in the artistic vision pre-cutting it up. That way he couldn't mess it up quite yet.

Placing his wand unto the top of the pumpkin, he stared for a minute. Exactly how much pressure was he supposed to use? Eh. Not much, hopefully because less was better than more in this case... Even Zander knew that. "Punktumus!" AND YOU KNOW WHAT? He got it on the VERY FIRST GO!!! HEHeee. Maybe studying for OWLs was actually starting to pay off. And maybe Sophie Brown was right in saying that he could pass. See? One step at a time, Zander Adair. He'd get this in no time. It was just Runes and Potions standing in his way now. And Arithmancy. But ahem. Astronomy, that's where he was.

And just as he began cutting a big ol' circle at the top of his pumpkin-- WHAAAACK!! What in the name of Merlin's-- Oh. Oh man, oh man. Agatha wasn't in a good mood today either. Which was saying something because on any normal day, Agatha wasn't in a good mood. But today, today was probably the worst mood he had ever seen her in. Ever. And THAT was saying something big. Doing his best to stifle his laughter-- 'cause really it was kind of karma for flipping her hair at people all the time-- he snuck a glance over to make sure she was alright. And oh, she was fuming, but alright.

He was able to hold back the laughter, but the smile... He couldn't stop that one from happening. Oops? If it made it any better... He did point his wand and whisper a quick, "Scourgify" to clean it up...? And look, she had hardly gotten anywhere with her pumpkin too. As much as Zander-- actually he didn't even hate the girl.... she just confused him... a lot... so yeah...-- as much as Agatha confused his brain, he felt bad. It just didn't look like her day, did it? "Do you need help with your pumpkin, Agatha?"

See. He was a good guy. And didn't deserve those looks that she gave her. Did this prove it?
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Norah watched as the other students cut up their pumpkins, but still refused to cast a spell on her own. She glanced around to make sure nobody was watching before picking Friedrich up and hiding it behind her bag under the desk. NOBODY saw that, riiiiight? There was so not a pumpkin down there, nope nope.

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Airey sort of just stared at the young Hufflepuff. "The pumpkin won't carve itself you know," he chuckled. Well, he supposed it COULD if you charmed it appropriately, but that wasn't the purpose of the activity.
Oh. Professor Flamsteed had been WATCHING? Norah pushed a curl from her eyes and looked up at him, smiling the most innocent smile she possible could. Dimples and everything, yep. "I seem to have lost my pumpkin, professor..." She waved a hand at her desk, which had nothing put her note taking materials and wand laying on it. Toootally innocent, okay. Maybe he just...hadn't seen her put Friedrich down there. "May I have another one to practice the spell?" The third year gave him another angelic smile and rocked back and forth a little on her toes. Norah never ever lied, but this was a LIFE or DEATH situation, okay? Maybe the other pumpkin she would get would be a mean bully type of pumpkin, or one of those pumpkins that borrowed books from the library and never gave them back. She wouldn't have as much trouble cutting one of those ones up, EVEN if she still felt a little bad about it.
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Looking down at all the dirt on her desk she suddenly remembered that she wanted to take something with her for her rat! Raising her hand she called for the teacher! "Professor? Can I take some of the dirt out of my pumpkin with me for my rat Nabber? He will like it to eat it" spoke she with a smile, thinking about her rat and how fun it would be to give it to her little friend.
Her....what?!

Blue eyes snapping towards the Slytherin, mouth completely agate, he stared at her long and hard for a moment. "This rat....is back in your dormitory, right?" he questioned in return. Just checking.

And he was curious how she intended to transport the gunk back to her dorms. Stuff it in her pockets? How disgusting.
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"Oh I could totally paint yours for you after class if you like!" And make it masculine. Totally masculine and manly. She was good at that. Custom nail art. But she TOTALLY still had a big problem over here, so naturally she was watching Flamsteed.

Ruby caught on to what he was doing pretty fast too and brightened. "Can I just vanish the gunk too? Like I don't want to get it under my nails and ruin my nail art, you know?" Said hand went up in the air and waved around. Pleeease? No more pretty galaxy nails, just orange-y pumpkin guts. It would be tragic.
Now he REALLY was looking at his fingernails. Ridiculously starring really. It was as though some complicated mathematical equation were written right there on his cuticles. "I...may need to take you up on that offer, Miss Banner," he mused. He had never had his nails painted...save for the time Kiera had insisted...

Oh.

THWARTED.

Boyish grin tugging at his lips, he eyed his wand and reluctantly returned it to its holster, rolled up his suit's sleeve, and shoved it into the pumpkin. His noise wrinkled at texture and horrible squishing sound. "Just let loose and get into the, er, spirit of the season," he grinned, a VERY forced one.

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Look alive? Adi's head snapped up from his pumpkin as the ever so full of energy Professor Flamsteed decided his desk had become a drum set. But still, the rhythm and the fact that Adi liked anything relating to music, made him smile a bit.

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"Professor, can I keep the pumpkin seeds?" Margo asked now working on separating the seed from the rest of the 'guts'.
"I suppose if you wish to keep a few you may," he nodded, not wanting to reveal his future plans too much. Hard to keep secrets here at Howarts, what with all the big hair and whispering walls and so on. "Just don't go sticking them up your nose or anything."

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The question wasn’t unusual, a lot of people tended to abbreviate his last name, almost all the teachers at his last school certainly had - with the exception of Miss Fitch, but then she’d just assigned everyone numbers – and Damien shrugged. “Totally fine with me, Professor Airey… “ Generally he didn’t like just being called Anderson, but if that would make the Professor more keen to side with him, welllll….. Damien could definitely live with it. ”You can call me AB or Anderson or, whatever, I’m not picky.”
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Once she had successfully cut around the stem, Evie set down her wand and pulled on the stem hard until she could yank it out of the pumpkin. Now she had to get her hands dirty and scoop out all the pumpkin guts. Eh, not a huge deal. She could clean her hands and nails afterwards.

Evie removed her sweater and rolled up the sleeves of her blouse before sticking a hand in the pumpkin and grabbing a handful of stringy, slimy guts. She dumped it onto her desk and flapped her hand around to get the last bits of goo off, which accidentally flung some across the isle.

Whoops.

Carrying on... Evie continued to scoop out the guts. Ooh, a house elf. Evie smiled at the cute little elf as she walked by.
You know in those muggle movies when something dramatic happens and everything slows down and overly dramatic music begins to play? It typically involves the hero jumping to catch something valuable from falling to the floor or the hero catching their partner/love interest before they completely fall to their doom? This was one of those moments...except Airey Flamsteed was no hero, but his suit could arguably have been his love interest. The doom? That came in the form of pumpkin guts being flung about the room.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" he roared as he dove to the floor to avoid the little flecks that had come his way. Just barely missing them, the hit the blackboard with a dull SMACK-ing noise and clung to it.

"WHO?!" he barked for the floor - and partly into the floor for fear of more gunk coming his direction.

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Did she attend the wrong class? It's not muggle art class, right? It's Astronomy. Bianca wondered why Flamsteed did ask them to do that. "Professor," The brunette then raised her hand. "What is the correlation of this activity to our astronomy lesson? I'm just curious." She asked wondering. Flamsteed had reputation of being fascinating about any muggle stuffs just.. She's completely clueless why she had to do the carving. Maybe he wanted them to make some astronomy model from pumpkins? Dunno.

But then, maybe she'd better to prepare her pumpkin. She grabbed a medium-size orange pumpkin for this activity. No need to pick the bigger one, right? She rolled up her sleeves and started the carving. "Punktumus." she said as she moved her wand to make a circular cut.
Still on the floor, and where he would be for a little while just so everyone knew, he peeked up when he heard the seventh year's question.

"An excellent question," he nodded, wiggling his index finger in her direction. "Astronomy is more than just scientific inquiry and discover, it also heavily influences cultures. Thus, today we are looking more the cultural implications that the universe as so graciously bestowed upon humanity, muggle and wizarding a like."

Which brought him to his next point. Looking up and ensuring that there was no more pumpkin coming his direction, he sat up - still on the floor - and sat there crisscross applesauce as he spoke.

"Carving pumpkins has been a sort of Halloween tradition for what seems like forever," he began. "Some historians say that the tradition of carving into vegetables goes back as far as 10,000 years ago, although the custom we know today is said to have originated in Ireland. Now, today we have discussed Samhain and the celebration coming about because of humanity's interpretation of what celestial bodies were doing. Thus, some wizarding historians make claims that the practice of pumpkin carving actually came about because of astronomy." Sort of interesting, no? Just step back and look at the way the stargazing had impacted their lives! JUST LOOK AT IT! LOOK! LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK!

Oh wait, he still needed to talk. Right then.

"Most of the time, these carvings were to reflect the spirits and grotesque creatures said to roam the earth on October 31st, and yes...some of this did come about because of witches and wizards could could not keep their wands in their pockets prior to the creation of the Statute of Wizarding Secrecy. Now, modern wizarding archiologists believe that they have found the remains of some of the carved vegetables that contain the carvings not of foul creatures, but of star patterns," he stepped rolled a little closer to the blackboard to point at the list they had created. "These very constellations listed here. Why did some of the ancient peoples do this? It is theorized that, much like the experiment some of you may recall in previous terms with magic and solar eclipses, carving into these pumpkins certain constellations may be a form of sacrifice and on Halloween night the carver would be bestowed with special powers from that constellation, similarly how one carves runes into objects to invoke certain magical attributes." Which he personally found to be ridiculous, much like the solar eclipse studies, but he was doing a colleague a favor by using his October lesson plans for a test study with the theory. Ridiculous being constellation carvings being the same as runic ones."These discoveries are relatively new, so in a sense you lot may be helping make wizarding history. So, using your textbooks to research one of the constellations on the board, I would like you to theorize what sort of special magical attributes they may, or may not, have bestowed upon witches and wizards. Then, using the same spell you used to cut a lid, you are to carve the constellation into your pumpkin. Any questions?"

Oh! And here were the house elves!

"Impeccable timing, you guys," he saluted to the house elves as they popped into the classroom. "You're off the hook, Miss Brown." Unless she really wanted to help them gather up the orange goop that is.

But now back to the students. "You may begin!" And he would review his notes on this whole..."study" while they did that.

And what was that face that Mr. Tempus was making at him? Stare.
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First, you CAN still do part 1, so not to worry.

In 3 posts or more, you need to accomplish the following:
  • pick one of the constellations on the board
  • have your character carve it into their pumpkin
  • have your character write a small blurb (5 sentences minimum) on the constellation and what special "magic" it may have been believed to have given a caster (ie, did it enhance water magic? Make transfiguration spells stronger? Give the caster the ability to render shield spells worthless?
  • You may include a graphic or your own creation (either hand drawn or done using an graphics editor) for extra credit

You have approximately 48 hours from the time of this post to finish these steps and the ones listed in my previous instruction post, but I may extend this depending on RP activity

Got a question? Feel free to ask me OOC via VM or PM or IC of Professor Flamsteed.

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