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The sun has disappeared beneath the horizon and the sky dotted with countless stars shining brightly against its dark canvas. Arguably the brightest object in the sky this evening is not the stars, but the moon itself as its full moon glow dances through the windows and paints the floor in its heavenly, but eerie, light.
As you enter the dimly lit the room off the Great Hall, you find it is organised just like another classroom: there are desks with burners and empty cauldrons upon them and an empty blackboard up in front. Despite their best efforts, there are still cobwebs clinging to various spots along the stone walls and draped across some windows. The desks, mostly cobweb free, are positioned in a semi circle and there is a big vacant space in the front of the room whose purpose shall remain a mystery for now. The professor's desk is pushed off to the left with three chairs squished behind it. Professor Culloden is sitting on one of them, mulling over some sort of deep thought, while Professor Dakest stands leaning against the desk with one hand on it and his other idly twirling his wand between his fingers with a placid look about his features. Only Professor Flamsteed stands in the middle of the semicircle of desks where the glow of the moon pouring in from the outside seemingly forms a spotlight in which he stands.
The overall atmosphere is somber yet ethereal and leaves you feeling both comfortable and uneasy as you make your way towards your seat.
So come on in and take a seat. The lesson will begin shortly.
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Marigold was very apprehensive about this. She was reasonably good at Astronomy and Potions and dreadful at Defense, but she wasn't quite sure how this would work. Plus, three professors? This was going to be TOUGH. Like, emotionally aND brain wise.
"Hello, professor Culloden." Pause. "Professor Dakest, professor Flamsteed."
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The astronomer could feel his skin crawling already, and not just because of some of the more hair raising portions of the lesson. Although those thoughts did not help much. No, what had the man standing there as though he had ants in his pants until the first few students began trickling in through the door was the fact that he had neglected to bring down the table holding his lint roller. Students were going to walk in her with lint and Orion knows what else!
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... "Hi Professor Flamsteed." Norah gave the Astronomy Professor a quick salute, taking a seat right at the front of the semi-circle thing they had going on.
Ceasing his awkward dance for only a few seconds, he nodded his head towards Miss Kittredge. "Good evening."
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... "Hello professors, and nice to see you again, professor Flamsteed...umm..."he stopped himself from speaking, he didn't want to upset professor Flamsteed further by asking if he had found pebbles yet. Instead he went to find a seat near the front of the classroom.He wondered what were they be learning today...were they making polyjuice potion for some reason...it was his best guess so far.But wasn't it hard to make that? He didn't know if it was illegal too...
Uuuuuuuuuuuuuum?
Oh. Apparently that was all? WAS THERE SOMETHING ON HIS SUIT?!
He began to check himself over instead of returning a greeting to the Hufflepuff. What? WHAT?!
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"Heeeeeey Professors Culloden, Dakest and Flamsteed," he said, giving each of them a 'sup nod as he took a seat.
And Culloden got a big smile. Obviously.
Finding absolutely nothing wrong with his suit, the Astronomy professor would have to continue to wonder what that 'um' had been about as Mr. Whitlock entered the classroom. "Hay is for horses, Mr. Whitlock." Did he know?
Har har.
He almost made himself laugh at that.
Pebbles would have enjoyed that joke.
Cue some manly lip quivering.
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"Hello, Professors!'' Adi grinned at each of the men, though he wasn't sure if Culloden heard him. The man seemed lost, yo.
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Lamenting over the loss of Pebbles, Airey failed to hear the birthday congratulations Mr. Rehman was receiving. Perhaps if he had heard he would have offered to sing to him...or perhaps not. SOME people did not appreciate his tenor stylings. He did, however, manage a small salute to the prefect before he sat down.
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He gave him the sup notion and saw Professor Flamsteed was there. He gave him a polite nod and turned towards him. "Hello Professors.." he said noticing Professor Dakest was here too. "I am interested in what we are going to be learning today." he told them both honestly. After giving them their greetings, he turned around and began to walk to find his seat.
"You'll find out soon enough," he assured Mr. Lecium. Literally. No beating around the bush this time. They had a lot of ground to cover this evening.
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Gripping the strap of his satchel tightly, the young lad slowly entered the room he'd seen all the other students enter, still pondering whether to stick this out or take a get out of jail free card and call in sick. Still pondering as he smiled and gave a little wave to all the professors in the room. Even more pondering as he plopped down in the first empty seat his feet guided him too.
Stiiiill pondering.
Still wanting to go home too.
Mr. McWitty received a polite nod of the head as he entered, which also reminded the Head of House he needed to speak to the boy about some unfortunate odors he had received complaints about coming from his side of the room.
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As she approached the toom off the Great Hall, Janelle was surprised at the absence of the lint roller. Hmmm. Interesting. Entering the room, she extended her greetings. "Hello Professors. I can't wait to see what you have planned for us."
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"Good evening, Miss Guidry," he greeted the Ravenclaw while taking nervous glances towards his sundial watch to check the time. "Hopefully you will find the subject matter to be...really something to sink your teeth into."
Medea would have appreciated that one.
And now it was time for some more manly lip quivering.
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So when he wandered back down to the Great Hall he was clearly distracted. Ben didn't care how the room was situated or what rules he had looked over to be ready for the lesson. He vaguely registered the three men there waiting on them the students to arrive. "Hello Professors..." he greeted, including them all together before turning to look for a seat. Against his wishes, his gaze found his best friend, as always seated besides Henric.
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Uuuuuuuuuuuuh...this Gryffindor was oozing with teenage angst. The professor may be rather socially inept, but it was written all over the boy's face. Sabel could handle this one should, er, the need arise.
"Hello, Mr. Atreyu."
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She was majorly claw!overthinking this. She waved to all the professors, didn't say anything, and slipped into her seat.
Right. Here we go, McGee.
He managed to return the wave to Miss McGee and even mustered a welcoming smile. It was the least she could do after all that pet rock publicity from earlier in the term.
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And then in the middle was the fabulous Professor Flamsteed. "Hello Professor," she said with a big grin. "What lovely lighting you have," she commented, looking up. Would they be playing with water and tides today? She couldn't see how they would tie in nicely with Potions or Defence against the dark arts, so perhaps they wouldn't be. But still, it was lovely.
That was quite the spectrum of greetings just now. Quite amusing, really. And what was it with so many students, the majority female, getting all quiet and squeaky when addressing Sabel? Why not himself or Cogsrach? Peculiar...very peculiar...
"Thank you, Miss Burton," he replied, all anxious wiggle dancing ceasing entirely at this point. "The moon certainly has a way of transforming the mood of things, don't you agree."
Har har.
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Crossing deeper into the room with her necessary materials for class, Sophie nodded at them and offered a polite, "Gentlemen," in greeting, and she was going to leave it at that, but as she went to take a seat, she turned to address them again and added a pensive, "This is a weird combination." Of classes, she meant. Just so they knew. "But it's interesting, 'n m'glad it's with three of my favorite professors."
Flattered, he was. Smile, he did not.
Although the words were well received, Miss Brown. Your Astronomy professor is still being a bit of a stick in the mud about his missing pet rock. Lessons were a stellar distraction, however.
"I think you will find that it is not weird at all, Miss Brown," he winked. "And hopefully have a howling good time when you do realize this."
HAR HAR.
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"Hello, professors." She looked about to explode out the top of her head, and she hadn't even hugged anyone yet. "Nice night for class." She was so disappointed in herself.
"Hello, Miss Wojack," he greeted the Slytherin. Perhaps he should hire her out to use a lint roller on all these cobwebs sometime. She was, as he had finally come to learn, rather proficient with rolling up spiders and other unwanted debris with it. "It certainly is. No better night this month, in fact."
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Entering the classroom, she smiled at each Professor in turn. "Hello, Professors! I hope you are all doing well."
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"Well is rather subjective," he grumbled. Physically speak, yes. Just peachy.
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Shaking off that feeling, she proceeded, glancing at each man in charge and shot them a polite nod. "Professors."
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"Wayne," he replied simply as he returned the prefect's nod.
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Angel was totally looking forwards to this lesson, she so wanted to know what was going to be involved in this lesson since three professors were going to be involved in this lesson. "Hey Professors." Angel smiled, this was going to be an awesome lesson, she could tell. "How are you all today?"
He really couldn't help himself. "Hay is for horses," he hummed, opting to ignore Miss Valentine's question because that would just not end well for anyone.
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Entering the lesson, Jackson noticed that the Professors were already there. He's not late, was he? "Err... Hello, Professors." He smiled and bowed politely to all of them.
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Bowing, right. The astronomer instinctively returned it, having become somewhat accustomed to doing so on the occasional business trip to Asian countries, but neglected to actually say anything back to the Gryffindor.
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Hehe. With a wide smile on her face, she waved at her Head of House, before turning to look at Professor Dakest who also was greeted with a smile. ”Good evening, Professors.” She hoped that Professor Culloden would look up in time to see the wave that was aimed for him. ”I hope you are all happy and having a good day today.”
"Good evening, Miss Hanover," he nodded. Again, going to ignore the 'good day' sort of rhetorical questions. Things were hard without Pebbles around...on top of everything else.
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Toby eyed each of the professors, considering saying his hellos to each of them. It would be polite, but he'd by now noticed the tone of the room, and felt a little conflicted, so he stayed quiet. Also, he was pretty sure that if he opened his mouth just to say hi, he might get stuck in the 'on' position and never shut up again. Sooooo instead, Toby just nodded at them all and went ahead to go sit by Soph, where he continued twirling his wand (just like Dakest, he'd noticed, which had actually made him falter for just a moment, but not enough to make him stop). As he sat there, he jiggled his legs and hummed as quietly as he could in an attempt to keep moving and appease his brain but hopefully not bother anyone.
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Mr. Toby sure was twitchy....and doing a lot of staring at himself and his colleague. Almost like he was too shy to ask something...OH! The astronomer recognized what was going on here.
"You still have time, Mr. Toby. Loo is just down the hall to your left."
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Then making his way towards his Head of House, the Gryffindor gave him a bright smile. "Hi, Professor Flamsteed, the moon looks amazing tonight, huh?"
Airey did manage to soften his expression a little while greeting Mr. Adair. "Certainly does." It certainly does...
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... "Good evening Professors Culloden, Dakest and...Nice light magic, Professor Flamsteed. Gettin' the moon to spotlight yer." Cutty assumed it was done on purpose.
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Airey ventured a look out the window towards the moon. Light refracting illusions were really all the rage these days, didn't they know? Without saying anything, the professor just winked at the Slytherin before turning to his sundial watch again.
Just a few more minutes...
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He hadn't had realised that he had entered the room off the great hall already and it was only when he heard the chatting around him. Now, where were the professors? a quick look around and he spotted them. "Hiya sirs" he waved before taking a seat and grabbed his chapstick to use.
Glancing over at Sabel and Costrach, his eyes sending a silent message to his colleagues that he was ready to get started, Airey turned his head towards the Gryffindor as he approached. "Good evening, Mr. Hyland."
Sir. Ugh.
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She walked past all three Professors, giving them waves. "Hello Professors Flamsteed, Culloden and Dakest."
"Evening, Miss Abbot," he saluted the Hufflepuff. A small salute, mind you.
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This was madness and Agatha did not appreciate it one bit. She didn't even want to come, but she guessed that wasn't an option anymore. So she came. Not looking happy at all, but she came. She stared at professor Flasmteed for a second as a 'greeting' and glanced towards the other two before turning away.
Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh.....hi?
Airey was not sure if Miss Hapgood was trying to start a staring contest or not - something he would gladly take up as a distraction outside of the classroom, for the record - but the stare was...okay. He just was not going to make eye contact and stare at his sundial watch instead.
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Marigold was very apprehensive about this. She was reasonably good at Astronomy and Potions and dreadful at Defense, but she wasn't quite sure how this would work. Plus, three professors? This was going to be TOUGH. Like, emotionally aND brain wise.
"Hello, professor Culloden." Pause. "Professor Dakest, professor Flamsteed."
Half distracted by his watch, Airey offered the Hufflepuff a halfhearted wave.
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Giving one last glance towards his colleagues, he firmly nodded his head and removed his wand from the holster tucked away in his enchanted breast pocket.
"Good evening, everyone. Please take your seats and get situated. Welcome to PAD - a Potions, Astronomy, and Defense Against the Dark Arts joint lesson," he announced as he turned his back briefly towards the class to enchant the chalk on the board to write one word in very large print:
WEREWOLVES
"Allow me to put your minds at ease at just what will be the focus of today's lesson," he said, now turning back towards the class. Although he thought the topic was rather obvious given the three subject, but perhaps it was the approach that the three professors were taking that would surprise students more. "Werewolves. Before we get into them specifically, let us all back up to what is arguably the most important aspect of these beings, the Moon. More specifically, the lunar cycle."
Yes, he knew. Boooooo BRING ON THE WEREWOLF TALK! But logistics first, Hogwartians. They would get to the real meat of things soon.
With a flick of his wand, Airey summoned some supplies from the box on the desk and levitated them towards each of the students - and his fellow professors. "As we have been discussing in Astronomy so far this term, the Moon plays a key role in relation to our planet, Earth. It primarily controls the tides, it helps regulate our climate by slowing the Earth's rotation and creating our 24 hour days, nights would be MUCH darker without it, and it helps maintain our axial tilt. Now, these are all very large scale things. Perhaps so large that, for some of you, it is difficult to grasp just how influential. But, as you are all aware of, it doesn't just influence the natural world...but it plays a key role in many aspects of the magical world."
With all the props not floating in front of the faces of students, Airey conjured a MASSIVE bluebell flame that spun itself into a floating sphere - he had become quite partial to them this term - and left it floating in font of the semi-circle of desks.
"If my colleagues will allow me this brief introduction," which, well, they didn't really have too much of a choice because here he went. "...a werewolf is a human being who, upon the complete rising of the full moon, becomes a fearsome and deadly near-wolf. To quote your textbooks." Because that was the extent of his knowledge. Mostly.
"What I would like you all to do now is to pluck your Styrofoam ball on a stick and stand by your desk with it," he instructed. "We will be going over the moon phases with a brief demonstration to start." Waiting a moment until everyone was out of their seats with their moon-on-a-stick, he waved his wand again to put out any other light in the classroom. Even the shine from the moon outside seemed to have dimmed and he no longer stood in a spotlight. For now, at least, the only real source of light was the giant floating bluebell flame.
"Now, we can only ever see half of the moon from earth. This is because the other side is always turned away from us. As the moon orbits around the earth, we see different fractions of the same face of the moon as it is lit by the sun. Please lift your moon-on-a-stick up and hold it between your face and the floating bluebell flame, please. Your head is acting as the earth. The bluebell flame, the sun. There is no light falling on the part of the moon you are looking at. Who can tell me what phase of the moon this is or share a fact slash bit of fun trivia about this particular phase?"
OOC: class will resume in approximately 17 hours from the time of this post.
Please note your character DOES NOT have to answer the question, but it is imperative for participation points that they follow Professor Flamsteed's instructions with what to do with your moon-on-a-stick <3 Just don't try to poke each other's eyes out with them, okay?
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Marigold's jaw dropped.
WEREWOLVES?!?!?!!?!???!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!
Duuuuuuuuuuuude. This TOTALLY changed her state of mind. They were learning about WEREWOLVES. This was SO COOL. SO. COOL. She snapped to attention as Flamsteed started talking. OHHHH, that was why they had been learning about the moon so much. That makes sense.
She stabbed her Styrofoam ball with the stick and stood up. Ooooh, it got DARK. Okay, the ball was in front of her face. No light on the visible part of the moon, which me meant that it was slightly "invisible." She raised her hand.
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Interesting. That's the thought that came to mind when Hady realized this was going to be a three lesson joint class today. As she had made her way into the classroom she wasn't sure how she was feeling about it or just what would occur from it. The third year wasn't sure at all how Potions, Astronomy and DADA went together.
However that was quickly changed the moment Professor Airey began to speak. Werewolves. It all made more sense now really with each word he spoke. She didn't really get to think about it though as they were being given instructions already on what needed to be done. Picking up the styrofoam ball she examined it for a brief moment before pushing it firmly down onto the point of her stick without poking herself.
Getting to her feet Hady remained beside her desk and raised her 'moon' up to her face effectively blocking out the bluebell flame thing. Raising her hand she gave an answer, "I think it's called the new moon." She wasn't entirely sure but it sounded right to her.
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This was one lesson he would most certainly not miss. Which was why he'd spent the entire day relaxing and clearing his mind so that he would be able to focus tonight. He might hate relaxing but he did begrudgingly admit that it was useful at times.
Like now, for instance. Now he could summon up ALL his energy and be excited about WEREWOLVES.
... Or the moon. You know. That too, he guessed. Lifting up his moon stick, Benzi put it between his face and the flames. Ah yes - now he couldn't see it. Very clever Professor Flamsteed.
Up went his hand. "It's a dark moon sir, when the moon is completely invisible from earth... it lasts between one to three days I think, and the new moon happens sometime in the middle of that."
Yes, he might have studied on Christmas break. He'd had a LOT of free time.
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What's going on with Flamsteed? He didn't look hyper as usual and he barely greeted nor bowed back to him. And he just replied the others' greeting in short way, not like usual. His head of house sometimes could act veeeery strange and The Korean boy could see that he's not... really in a mood for teaching. Was this because his pet rock still missing? Hmm...
Back to the lesson topic.
Werewolves... Ah! So they're gonna learn about moon that caused the human transformed into werewolves then... Pretty sure that Dakest would teach them how to handle it and Culloden would teach them how to brew wolfsbane, perhaps? Maybe. Picking up the Styrofoam ball, Jackson observed the moon-like ball. "It's a new moon, right Professor?" The Korean boy answered as he raised his hand. "I heard that people in Saudi Arabia use Lunar calendar for religious purpose and new moon means start of the new month."
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Werewolves! of course! it all made sense to have these classes as a joint one now. First of the werewolf is a dark creature so thats the defence against the dark arts bit, next was the moon that changes the human in to a werewolf and its related to astronomy and last the wolfsbane potion. BRILLIANT!
He grabbed the Styrofoam ball after it was levitated towards his desk by Professor Flamsteed , who looked the same as in his office, gloomy, and used the stick to press and hold it. He then got up from his seat after a quick look around to see what the others were doing. He held the styrofoam ball or the moon to his face and faced the bluebell flame. Almost immediately some students began to answer the question and Yoongi did not even bother answering. Not...not that he did not know the answer ..ahem... No, he was simply wondering if there was a reason to hold a werewolf class, was someone a werewolf?! THAT WAS SO COOL! WHO?
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...Werewolves. Cool. Eden thought the subject was interesting..and now that she thought about it, it made sense...with the three subjects squished together in this way. She smiled because maybe they wouldn't be doing TOO much potion making.
That was her hope.
She pushed the stick into the styrofoam and winced at the awful feeling and noise...she did NOT like it. But she did it, and stood up, too, as Professor Flamsteed said. She lifted up her styrofoam against the light of the flame and squinted. So..it was a full moon? There apparently was a more technical name for it, since everyone was using "new moon." Right.
Eden just cleared her throat and remained quiet for now.
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Yay! A salute for him from Flamsteed! Adi of course returned a rather smart one to the man. Errr... no hard feelings from the class when the Hufflepuff had mistakenly offended the man and his voice, yeah? Nah. Professor Starman was too cool for that.
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Settling back happily in his seat as he retrieved his parchment, textbook, quill and ink, Adi called back a greeting to Kace but his attention was diverted by Henric. Ohh, more birthday wishes! And a present! Whaaa! Adi was mighty curious as to what Henric had gotten him so he took an enthusiastic peek into the box. His eyes widened at what he saw. “This is so cool! Thanks, man!’’ Weren’t these the expensive type of quills? He knew all about Henric’s life and knew this might have been a bit out of his budget but that made Adi appreciate the gift all the more. Adi’ll keep it forever… just like how he planned to keep the MU badge.
The sixth year looked at the Room’s entrance at that precise moment when Benny walked in but he looked away. His seventeenth birthday was supposed to be special for another reason because it would have meant practicing his Transfiguration over the summer at Benny’s. For the first time since their misunderstanding, Adi felt a pang of sadness. Luckily, there was another distraction in the form of a hug… from Zhenya! Ohh, she had gotten him something too! Adi grinned and sniffed at the bag. “I smell chocolate,’’ he whispered as he hugged back his friend then stashing her gift in his bag. Nothing edible here, Professors. Nope. “Thanks, Zhenya!’’ And there were even more birthday wishes! “Thanks, Lux!’’ He laughed. “You’ll get there someday.’’ She had a gift too? “Is it a cucumber sandwich?” Also, hiiii, Jackson! “Dongsaeng! Thank you! Don’t worry about that.’’ Nope, nope. A wish was enough for this content Puffer! But if he was so content, why did he feel as though something was missing?
Great Hippogriffs! Leah had remembered too! And there were more presents for him as well. “Hey, thanks a ton, Leah!’’ He grinned and took the box. Joke stuff! Adi could see the WWW on it. His Puffer friend knew him well! He grinned happily. He had some awesome friends.
"More like PADADA,'' Adi thought in amusement as the class began and his eyes shifted to the board. WEREWOLVES! HOW EPIC! Did this mean they were going to learn to defend themselves against werewolves and brew the Wolfsbane Potion? Cue even MORE excitement on his part!
But first... there were things floating in front of him. The Puffer grabbed the stick and the ball, whacking Henric in the process of sticking the ball on the thin thing (by accident, of course. But with Adi, who could tell if it were accident or not? ) "Woops. Sorry, buddy.'' He jumped up, enjoying the giant flame in the room but the view quickly vanished when he did as instructed- hold the stick-ball between his face and the flame.
Adi raised his hand. "It's a new moon also called the dark moon. This moon is the most difficult to see and I think this is when the moon is starting it's cycle.'' If he remembered what he had read correctly, then he was on track.
Still have time? What? Toby blinked at Airey, still rather fidgety, very confused as to what he was on about for a moment. But then, ohhhh. "Oh no, I'm fine, Professor Airey," he assured him, not even embarrassed about the misunderstanding. "Just, y'know." JUST KEEPING ON MOVING. Yeah. And then an afterthought occurred to him, so he lowered his voice conspiratorially even though there was no need. "I know where bathrooms are, too. Been here nearly seven years." Y'KNOW. SEVEN? Wasn't it CRAZY? Hard to believe, he knew, as he still ACTED more like a first year and... sort of had the baby-face of a third year, but SEVEN YEARS. Toby thought that was crazy. He nodded impressively. Seven. Years.
He might have gone on to talk about how totally crazy that was, but Airey had moved on, and then the lesson was starting, which meant they had to stop talking and listen and pay attention and learn and probably he should stop spinning between his fingers now but it kinda helped him focus so he didn't.
WEREWOLVES, huh? That was pretty cool. Though Toby had actually figured as much. Because WEREWOLVES were related to the moon AND there was a potion for the transformation AND there was a chapter in their DADA textbooks, and it had been the only overlap Toby could think of. SO THAT WAS COOL. Yeah.
While Airey went on about the moon and stuff, Toby did as instructed, setting his wand down on the desk before getting one of those sticks and impaling a styrofoam ball with it. Huzzah, he held the MOON. It was a lot more difficult to twirl THAT between his fingers, but you better believe he still tried. When it didn't work out so well, Toby brandished it around randomly. "Bibbidi... bobbidi... BOOP!" he said, bopping Soph on the head with it, before quickly getting up and standing by the desk as instructed as though nothing had happened, smiling like BUTTER WOULDN'T MELT.
Ahem, yes, anyway. What was happening? Toby stood there, bouncing on his toes in a manner remniscient of when he had been a first year, bopping himself on the head with his moon now and trying to focus on what Airey was saying. Hmkay, so... they had to hold it out (he did so) between their faces and the flames, so they were looking at the dark side of the moon (WHICH, by the way, IMMEDIATELY got a song in head head, which was very distracting yes right okay).
People were saying words about things, but Toby had another factoid. "It's SUPER COLD there, Professor," he supplied, raising his hand and extending up onto his toes, while turning to face where he thought the professor was but still keeping the styrofoam moon in front of his face. "Super cold and MYSTERIOUS and stuff."
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Oh look at this...Flamsteed was starting the lesson.
Ben briefly wondered if there was a reason for that, other than the fact Astronomy was the first alphabetical. Or that the astronomer was the first one hired and as a head of house had special priviledges. However as the man began spouting information, including the revelation of the topic of the class, the Gryffindor didn't have the time to think further on the matter.
Not that he really cared.
Titling his first sheet of parchment, WEREWOLVES, he began listening and jotting down anything important, especially stuff he hadn't previously known. Watching at the sphere sticks floated to each of them on the professor's wordless instruction Ben managed to avoid getting hit by one in his distractions. Now that would have been bad, not that he would have cared about being hurt physically while he was struggling emotionally.
He slowly, almost reluctantly, got up to his feet as instructed, taking a position beside his desk. Ben would be a quiet, unhappy earth as he raised the rod infront of him, the pseudo-moon moving with it to block his sight of the bluebell sphere while the rest of the lights went out around him. The Gryffindor heard the first question but was beaten out from answering with what came to his own mind.
New moon sounded right, but there was no point in repeating it as a bunch of the other students had already given it. So he simply stayed in his position, quietly awaiting the new directions to be given.
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Wait......what?
That had to mean that the Wolfsbane Potion would be the topic of the Potions portion of class, right? Also, why even bring up werewolves unless......oh Merlin, there was one in their midst wasn't there? Okay, who was it? Better not be a Gryffindor. Needless to say, Heather was watching her classmates very closely for any indication that they were the wolf.
Unless it was a professor......
She was so consumed with these thoughts that she'd nearly missed Professor Flamsteed's instructions. Casting another look around the room, plucked the ball-on-a-stick from the air and hurriedly stood up with it between her face and the ball of light. It obviously represented the new moon, but people had beat her to the punch with the answer, so she stayed silent and continued staring around the room. Looking around the room for the potential werewolf.
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Hold up. Werewolves? Norah's eyes widened as she pulled some parchment out of her bag and laid it on her desk, then wrote the word in big letters at the top. Yeah, this was a night for sparkly ink. The dim light and weird eeriness that was going on made sure of that. She tuned out of Professor Flamsteed's introduction to concentrate on her quill, which was adding a pair of eyes, ears, and a big nose to the 'W' on her page. There. Now her little wolf was cute. She didn't have to worry about it as much anymore, no? Cute stuff wasn't as scary...usually. That was the hope, anyways.
She looked up from her parchment to see a white squishy ball thing and a stick floating in front of her, which she reached out to take with eyes still wide 'cause what was this supposed to be? Stupid wolf doodle. Who did it think it was, distracting her from whatever she was supposed to do with this thing? The Hufflepuff looked around at the other students and mimicked them as they stood and held the ball-on-a-stick in front of the big blue thingy which would've been AWESOME if she'd been paying attention to what it's supposed to be. It looked kinda invisible from where she was standing, though, 'cause all the light was on the other side. Was it broken? Norah inspected it closely, coming to the conclusion that it was kind of impossible for the thing to be broken, so maybe she was broken.
Oh. OHHH. A new moon. Mari had said it and Mari was a prefect so obviously it was right. She watched the white sphere with renewed interest. Why'd he choose this foam stuff when he could've used cheese? That'd look a bunch more realistic AND would make for a nice snack. She'd need to recommend it for next time. Ahem. Class. Right. Norah stood still holding her moon up, not sure what to add to the conversation considering she'd only found out it was called a new moon about a minute before. Why was it called 'new' anyways? It didn't look new, it looked like nothing.
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Werewolves. Oh.
That made LOADS of sense. Huh. The topic hadn't really crossed his mind come to think of it, but now that Professor Flamsteed mentioned it... Did make TONS of sense. 'Cause werewolves and full moons, so Astronomy. Werewolves and wolfsbane for Potions. And werewolves and-- well, werewolves were dangerous, so Defense. Heck, they probably could've thrown Care of Magical Creatures into the bunch as well if they wanted to. Though PADCoMC sounded a little ridiculous, so maybe this was for the best.
Anyways, what were they doing now? Moon-on-a-stick. Oh, okay sir! Zander followed instructions and grabbed a stick and plucked it into his Styrofoam ball. Then he got up by his desk to do whatever it was they were doing now. Oh, they were doing a demonstration. The Gryffindor held up the moon-on-a-stick and followed instructions to show that there was no light on the moon that he was facing.
Instead of answering the question though, he chose to stay quiet as there were already plenty of repeat answers. Anyways, was it just him or did the moon look a bit dimmer? Hm. Interesting.
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Looking over at the person next to her, Beverly smiled faintly at Cutty, whispering her usual greeting to him, as well as returning the nudge. They were soon joined by Agatha, who received a greeting nod as well as a smile. Beverly noted her friend take her wand out. Good girl.
One never knew at Hogwarts, that much she's learned.
Werewolves.
Well...that was interesting. Her sharp gaze fell upon Professor Dakest...he didn't have any relations to them, yeah? There was sketchy stuff said about him, and if the Daily Prophet got word he was teaching about werewolves they'd probably come up with a story of how he was now, not only a cult member, but a werewolf. Wouldn't that make a story for her dad.
First off was the cycle of the moon. Of course. Astronomy was part of the lesson too. Although this wasn't her best subject, the Prefect found herself engaged in what Professor Airey was saying.
Standing from her seat and taking the moon-on-a-stick, she raised it up so it was between her face and the bluebell flame. This might not be her subject of expertise, but she grasped what he was doing. This was a new moon, yeah?
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Werewolves! This had potential to be considered a favorite lesson of hers. Adi was lucky that such a cool lesson was taking place on his birthday. Lucky duck. He was get showered in gifts too. Mr. popularity over there. Hopefully all this love didn't go to his head or else AJ would be glad to deflate it. Of course if he got loads of sweets she could take some of those off his hands too. There definitely was benefits to dating a popular dude that loved sweets as much as she did.
Whyyyy did Airey have to go first? AJ didn't have anything against him, but the man could talk and out of the three subjects, he definitely had the most boring one. Blah, blah, blah. Bring on the werewolves. She didn't care about the moon. Although, it was looking pretty marvelous right about now. That was as far as her caring went though. Phases... PPFT. yawn city. The flame her head of house made was mad wicked, and Airey actually redeemed himself a bit with that one. Still wasn't a DADA professor though.
Put a ball on a stick? She could do that! AJ stuck the ball far enough on the stick so that it wouldn't fall over in mid orbit or whatever crazy thing it was supposed to represent. Now that would be silly. She stood beside her desk for good measure too. The brunette had to admit it was pretty cool looking, but as far as his question went.... yeah, she had nothing. She continued to stare at her ball and the flame.
Leah entered the dimly lit room, rubbing her eyes to adjust to the lighting. It was already late evening, couldn't the light be brighter? At least the moon was bright. Eerily bright. So... cauldrons and wands and the moon. What a combination. Naturally, Leah was EXCITED.
She walked past all three Professors, giving them waves. "Hello Professors Flamsteed, Culloden and Dakest." Then she moved on to look for a seat when she saw THE birthday boy. "Happy birthday, Adi!" she grinned, handing him a small box of joke objects from Weasleys' Wizard Wheezes. Holy Hippogriffs, Adi was SEVENTEEN now. He was old. Hehe. Leah took a seat right next to Angel and gave her a friendly wave. Hello, best friend!
Angel smiled as her best friend came and sat down next to her, she could already tell that this was going to be amazing and she hoped that Leah was ready for the questions that would be happening after this lesson because she had a feeling that her best friend, had a male admirer and she wanted to know how Leah felt about it.
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Now, we can only ever see half of the moon from earth. This is because the other side is always turned away from us. As the moon orbits around the earth, we see different fractions of the same face of the moon as it is lit by the sun. Please lift your moon-on-a-stick up and hold it between your face and the floating bluebell flame, please. Your head is acting as the earth. The bluebell flame, the sun. There is no light falling on the part of the moon you are looking at. Who can tell me what phase of the moon this is or share a fact slash bit of fun trivia about this particular phase?[/B]"
Angel blushed as the Professor said about Hay being for horses, she nearly retorted and for Donkeys but she managed to hold her tongue and once more he had totally ignored her, when she had asked how he was, that wasn't very nice was it now.
Angel then got what the Professor told them to and she put the ball on the stick, that was easy, she was glad that her head of house was going first, she loved Astronomy and this was going to be interesting she could tell. She made so the ball was far enough on so it wouldn't fall off though she didn't put it on fully.
Angel stood beside her desk and raised her stick making sure it was between her face and the flame. Angel raised her free hand after struggling for a minute before she spoke. "Professor, I'm not sure but is this called a total eclipse?" Angel had heard the saying before, on an advert when someone had eaten a Jaffa cake.
A howling... good... time? "Howling" was not an adjective she had ever heard Flamsteed use, even though he used plenty of weird ones, so that rose some suspicions there. Howling...?? Must've had something to do with the lesson, then. The man thought he was so funny, didn't he? He was also a giant nerd, just like the Hufflepuff boy who sat next to her. So silly, the pair of them.
And there it was: werewolves. Lunar cycles, yes, she could then see the point of all of that being involved in this class about werewolves... and what about potions and defense against the dark arts? Would they be brewing the wolfsbane potion? Was that the potions component? And was there a REASON they were studying this? Was Dakest not a Dark wizard, but a werewolf? Was THAT what was weird about him? But then... surely Culloden would've known this about him, right? Wouldn't Dakest need some access to his store room? So then Culloden would know he wasn't a Dark wizard, and he wouldn't be so suspicious of him. So... there went that theory.
So maybe this was just an everyday, normal lesson. Mega lame. But it DID make sense, these three classes combined now. Flammy was right.
Soph fidgeted with the stick and ball until Flamsteed gave them the instruction to create their moon-on-a-stick, and she followed his instructions, combining the two items and moved to stand beside her desk with it... when BONK! came Tobes' moon colliding with her noggin, and Soph tilted her head to give Tobes a lopsided, goofy grin of amusement. "You dork," she accused quietly, bopping HIM on the head with HER styrofoam moon, too, and giggling shortly thereafter.
Two could play that game, nerd.
She stood tall when Flamsteed went along to give more instruction, but she was distracted, keeping an eye on Tobes to make sure he didn't try to retaliate again - because she would very shamelessly bop him over and over again. These professors wouldn't yell at her or be truly upset with her, she just figured they'd give her a light reprimand. Totally worth it, if the occasion called for it.
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Gabriel had been so ready for this lesson, ever since seeing the announcement on his notice board. No, he wasn't the biggest fan of Defense right now...but Potions and Astronomy were his jams. And...with a Flamsteed and Culloden present, the Ravenclaw felt like he could be...better? More comfortable. More...receptive to learning and retaining the material. Yes.
Smiling in a covert way at two of his most favorite professors, a more respectful nod was offered to the third. He hadn't felt as bonded with Professor Dakest...but the man knew his stuff. So, that deserved respect. #RavenclawLogic
Anyway, werewolves: the subject matter of the day. Gabe was already seated comfortably; notebook, his favorite quill, and post-its out and at the ready. He didn't know if it was because of the particular teachers involved with the lesson or not, but he found himself anxious; in the good way. Strange.
Hand already flying over parchment, Gabe took in everything being explained. The Lunar Cycle. That was an obvious important factor in wolf transformation from what he'd read beforehand. Pre-lesson study. NBD. And yes, they had had that lesson. In fact, Gabe had to wonder now if it had been in preparation for this class...or was it simply a coincidence?
Near-wolf. Gabe snorted. Punny.
...and a demonstration. They were doing one...
Abandoning his notes, he did as instructed with his Styrofoam ball and stood quietly by his desk. With the bluebell flame casting strange shadows over everything, Gabe thought the mood had definitely been set. Very mysterious. A+ for atmosphere. If he wouldn't have been surrounded by professors, he would've been nervous. Or...well...he was STILL a bit nervous, but that was only because that's what Gabes did.
...and yes, it was a new moon, described as the moment when the Moon and the Sun have the same ecliptical longitude, if he wasn't mistaken. But...in the spirit of adding information and participating..."The beginning of a single lunation is marked by the new moon."
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On command, Dot GASPED LOUDLY and clapped her hands on her cheeks when the StarMan said werewolves like that. WHAT OH NO WEREWOLVES THE HORROR. He was asking for a big reaction with how he revealed the topic, so it was basically just the rest of the class not playing along. Lame.
She popped to her feet and took up the ball on a stick, not bothering to answer since everyone had already answered. New moon. Got it. Wait. Was lunation even really a word? Was Gabe making up words? COULD THEY JUST MAKE UP WORDS? Or was that a strictly Ravenclaw thing?
She bopped him with her moon. "Lunation. Turned you into a moon. Boom. Poof. Magics." Oh, also, StarMan? She was totally the earth and blocking the light from her moon. "Last class, I was the moon... so next class, I'll get to be the sun."
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Zhenya was super excited to get started with this lesson, but for some reason she was having a mental block. She couldn't actually figure out what the lesson was about, combining potions, astronomy and DaDa together. Until it became quite obvious in written letters. Werewolves. OH MERLIN, Zhenya shook her head, how could she not have connected that? Well, anyway, werewolves! Perhaps they would be learning about the astronomy of the moon in connection to werewolves, how to brew a wolfsbane potion, and then how to defend themselves against werewolves? Not that there was much of a way to do that, but perhaps there were some defensive tools or spells to use.
Zhenya listened to Professor Flamsteed speak about the moon and werewolves, saw that a ball on a stick had been put in front of everyone, and they were then instructed to hold it and stand behind their desks. So, Zhenya stood up beside her desk as instructed to do, and Zhenya held up her moon in front of her face, or the earth, with the other half facing the bluebell flames, or the sun. Cool, this was already interesting.
Now what was that about what phase of the moon this is? The clue was when Professor Flamsteed said there was no light on the part of the moon they were looking at, which was the earth. So, basically the earth couldn't see the moon? Well, Zhenya remembered that bit immediately from those astronomy books Mr. Kitridge had lent her. But just as she was about to say what phase of the moon it was, others started saying it. What facts did she remember about it? Zhenya raised the hand that wasn't holding the styrofoam moon, "The new moon is hidden from earth during a new moon, except for during a lunar eclipse when you might be able to see the outline of the moon," she said. Although that was about all she knew about the new moon phase, she was already mentally writing notes based on what Professor Flamsteed had said, as well as the answers from her classmates.
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Oh, well this was going to be interesting. Was one of the professors a werewolf? Nah that was a ridiclous idea. Anyway when you think about it Werewolves were really the only thing that could tie the meaning of this lesson up in a a little bow altogether. Werewolves.
Sticking the Styrofoam ball on her stick she stood up by her desk. Listening to Professor Flamsteed as he told them the instuctions. Phases of the Moon. Fun. Hey, who turned out the light? It was competely dark. Except for a blue flamey light. Ohhhh. Head toward the lightttt. Oh no, not really. Cinna moved the "moon on a stick" in front of her face. Between the flame. Hello earth she would have done some weird waving to her at this point but no. Serious time. Hmmmm
As it was already clear this was the new moon as already mentioned. The sixth year, just sit back and twirled her moon on a stick between her figures.
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Kate turned her attention to Professor Flamsteed as he kicked off the lesson. Werewolves. The moon. Right. She followed all that. She scooped up her styrofoam moon and plucked it on a stick. Pushing herself out her seat, she stood with her moon!stick and listened to the next set of directions. When the lights dimmed, she focused on the bluebell flames, the only source of light she could see.
Kate lifted her moon!stick and fixed it in between her face and the bluebell flames. She tried to keep up with what roles her face and the flames were playing. She knew exactly which phase this was---"This is the New Moon phase, right?" she asked, raising her hand. It was when the moon couldn't be seen, because it was directly in between the Sun and the Earth. Or, at least, this is how Kate pictured things with her face being the Earth, and the flames being the Sun.
Bloody merlin this lesson got a whole lot cooler when Professor Airey mentioned Werewolves. This was gonna be a wicked lesson he could tell. He heard Airey doing the necessary teaching explanations and what not. He got out his notebook and began to scribble down some notes. He was so excited about this topic it was like no joke. As he heard Flamsteed mention they needed to put a stick into their white foam ball, he found them on his desk and he poked them. He saw Cinna twirling hers and he chuckled. He did the same thing she was doing. I mean he heard the other students mention the New Moon phase so why bother repeating it. He kept quiet and admired his new toy for now.
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Linty astronaut professor say whaaaat? Werewolves? Janelle had not seen that coming. Should she be scared? Well, they were just learning about them, not hanging out with them.......right? Janelle decided that she would focus her thoghts on the moon part of it rather than the werewolf part of it, for now. She took notes, then it was time to go to work.
Janelle picked up her ball on a stick and did as she was instructed. She held her contraption and stood in front of her desk. The lights went out and there was only the bluebell flame to guide them. Janelle held the foam ball and stick in front of her face. Then she positioned herself in front of the bluebell flame so that the ball was in the middle.
As for the Professor"s question, Janelle listened as most of classmates her classmattes seemed to vote for the new moon. She could not argue with that answer so she decided that she needed to come up a fact about the new moon. Unfortunately, Janelle could not think of anything at the moment........nothing that hadn't been said already anyway. She tried to come up with something while waiting for the next set of instructions.
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) "Woops. Sorry, buddy.'' He jumped up, enjoying the giant flame in the room but the view quickly vanished when he did as instructed- hold the stick-ball between his face and the flame.
