Originally Posted by sweetpinkpixie

Kurumi's hand shot up in the air. "There are eight planets in our solar system," she said with a slight giggle in her tone. How did she remember them all? Well, it had a little something to do with a television show she watched growing up along with her brother constantly rattling off facts. Well, mostly it had to do with the television show. "There four inner planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars, along with four outer planets, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Until 2006, Pluto had been considered a planet, but that title was revoked when a formal definition of a planet was established."

Originally Posted by fanficfanatict

Selina rose her hand in a heartbeat. She could name the planets in a heartbeat. When she was little her Aunt Jennette used to sing the song of all of the planets to her. It was quirky and weird, but spending time at Aunt Nettie's house was the best part of her childhood.
So she began to sing the song in her head. The Sun's a hot star, "Sir, it's the sun," Mercury's hot, too. "Mercury," Venus is the brightest, "Venus," Earth's home to me and you, "Earth," Mars is the red one, "Mars," and Jupiter's really wide, "Jupiter," Saturn's got those icy rings, "Saturn," And Uranus spins on its side, "Uranus," Neptune's really windy, "Neptune," and pluto's really small, " and Pluto, which is now known as a dwarf planet, not a real planet," Well we wanted to name the planets and now we've named them all, "That's all of them, sir."

Originally Posted by jesifur

Jesifur had studied muggle astrology so she was familiar with the planets. She raised her hand, "Sir, The planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto."

Originally Posted by cheeseStrings

Oooh!! She always know this. Janice raised her hand and asnwered.
"There was Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto. But I think that Pluto isn't counted as a planet anymore because its orbit cuts Neptune's in half.
"The planets are named by Roman gods, like Jupiter is the biggest planet in the Solar System, hence is called Jupiter, the highest ranked Roman god; Venus, the god of love; and Neptune, the god of the sea, because ice covers most of Neptune's surface..."
Janice had most probably said too much stuff, but there's no turning back now.

Originally Posted by hpluvr037

Ooo, I know this one! Both hands shot into the air again as Keefer eagerly awaited the Professor's attention. "You mean our solar system? Mercury, Venus, our own Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune, and Uranus. Pluto used to be considered a planet, but it got demoted years ago to be a dwarf planet with Ceres, Eris, and others."
Keefer still thought of Pluto as a planet. The poor thing, getting disregarded like that!

Originally Posted by tomewitch

Uh-oh. Comets. She likee them. Though Beatrice isn't very fond of Astronomy, she was interested in comets and was hoping they would tackle that.

However, her expectations went down when the Professor had asked them all about planets. Oh well, she was a student and needs to follow instructions from the teacher. She shifted on her seat and raised her hand, "Professor, there are currently eight planets in the universe. Mars, Mercury, Earth, Venus, Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, and Uranus." she answered. But that was definitely not on the correct order.

Originally Posted by CassiopeiaAKTF

"YES THAT!" Daichi exclaimed with a clap of his hands when the Professor brought up Constel...constell...wait what was it again..? He stared for a moment before shrugging his shoulders and leaned back in his chair.
He leaned back forward and rested his chin in both his hands and slipped one hand up at the next question. "There are eight planets in our solar system" he said as he tried to remember what he had read over the summer. "Mercury" he held one finger in the air. "Venus" two fingers. "Eh..Mars?" three fingers and now he was hungry for that muggle candy... "jupiter" fourth finger came up. "Saturday..no eh..Satorno...i think." he thought for a moment while biting his lower lip and raised his hand with the four fingers in the air again. "Uranus and Neptune!~"
He looked proud at his answer and smiled broadly. But then he looked at his fingers and saw only seven fingers "Earth?" he suddenly said and looked clueless because he wasn't sure if he was right.

Originally Posted by sevensnared

Originally Posted by WitchLight27

Erin raised her hand and said, "There would be 8 major planets in the solar system, Professor," she paused for a split second, she'd recited this also at her Muggle school. "Starting from the inner ones would be Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. There are also Ceres, Eris, Makemake and Haumea together with Pluto are called dwarf planets. "

Originally Posted by alchemist_18

Raven raised her hand up and answer the question.

"There are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and.. I'm not sure Pluto still called a planet in our solar system."

Originally Posted by lumos_snitcher

"Oh,oh!" Michelle raised her hand, excited to share the names of the planet.

"It's My Very Educated Mother Just Sent Us Nine Portkeys! Or Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus Neptune and Pluto!" she recited from memory.

Originally Posted by Magical Soul

Louisa nodded her head as the teacher explained more about Astronomy. At his next question, she raised her hand just as enthusiastically as before, "There nine planets; The Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune." Those were the planets, "There are more than just planets in the solar system though like asteroids and comets. Right?"

Originally Posted by nogoodforyou

Oh.
Not a science. She'll have to keep that in mind.
At least the good part was that professor Roslund didn't get mad or anything, since most of the professors seemed to like to take points around there.
Anyway. Back to his question. "There's Pluto," her favourite, "even though it is not exactly considered a planet," more like a tiny planet, but it was still her favourite. "Neptune," Nora went on, still with her hand in the air, but she eventually let it fall back down, "Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Earth, Venus and Mercury."
And yes, she knew she started with the last one, but she did that on purpose, since it was her favourite. Hehe.

Originally Posted by hjhm

Originally Posted by luna-p

Being pretty sure of this one, Ashley raised his hand. He wasn't sure if he was supposed to just say one, or all of them, so he went with all of them. "The planets are mercury, venus, earth, mars, jupiter, saturn, uranus and neptune. There used to be pluto, but it got demoted. Also, there might be more planets, but they haven't been discovered yet."
Well, he had read that somewhere.

Originally Posted by HogwartsHokage

Yes! Another easy question! Jenny smiled as her hand went straight into the air. This was going to be a fun class...

"There's Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars..." Here, Jenny paused to take a deep breath. "...Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune." She nodded. "And then there are the dwarf planets in the solar system, such as Pluto." Jenny added hastily.

Originally Posted by Half_BloodPrincess

Name the planets, huh? She raised her hand and answered Well, there's Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto isn't really considered a planet anymore, well, more like a dwarf planet.

Originally Posted by iceblossom22

The what? Planets? Okay, it's just the solar system. Relax, Ellie.
Okay. So the SUN overheated a thermometer and it exploded Mercury all over. Venus and Mars were fighting over Earth because it was in between. Jupiter didn't like the noise and waved his three balled weapon as a message to the sun. The balls read. S.U.N. Then, there's little Pluto, the dog, chasing after a ball.
Hand in the air, she answered. "There are 8 planets in the solar system, professor. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. There were 9 in 2006, but Pluto was demoted to a dwarf planet."
Then she lowered her hand, very proud of her answer.

Originally Posted by lesserpanda

Originally Posted by feltonfan1317

Kaiya's hand shot up in the air. It's a good thing Kaiya is into planets, she could name every single one. " Well, proffessor, There are 8 planets. There is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Pluto was a planet until 2006, when it was caterogized as a dwarf planet." Kaiya answered.

Originally Posted by Quick Quotes Quill

Riiight- I know I read about planets and stuff in some book..., Gwendolyn thought, not remembering that she had only picked the Astronomy book in the library, checked out its cover and then placed it back. 'There's... Earth...', the second year started saying. Duh- that was so obvious! Mars. Venus, Saturn... uh... what else?, the girl thought. Now- what was their order?U-huh!, she finally remembered! I know there was a thing someone told me about how to remember the names of the planets... that sentance with the first letters of each word- 'My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets' Something like that... So... 'I mean...Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and maybe also Pluto?', the girl finally said.

Originally Posted by nups21

Planets of Solar System... Phew! That was an easy question for now...
Ira raised her hand and answered, "The planets in order from the sun are, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.. There is also a dwarf planet called Pluto beyond Neptune, but it is not included in the list of main planets"
Satisfied with her answer Ira sat down and waited for the lecture to continue

Originally Posted by fire_faerie

Well, since EVERYONE had managed to spew out replies before her - Ryden MIIIIGHT have been not concentrating for a moment there, just a tad - she felt very silly raising her hand and answering as well. But she wanted to show the professor that she knew them too. She DID.
"There are eight planets in our solar system, professor," Ryden said, her hand raised as she counted them off in her head. "In the order from closest to the sun to the furthest; Mercury, Venus, Mars, our Earth - those are the inner planets - then Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Pluto, the body after Neptune and furthest from the sun, used to be a planet about seventy years ago, until they decided it didn't meet the criteria," the blond stated, EYING those ones who seemed to not know. It had been SUCH a long time ago! Psht.

Originally Posted by EW_FAN

"Thank you Professor" Harvey smiled


Harvey put up his hand
"Mars, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto." Harvey smiled he knew that much having done Science at Muggle school

Originally Posted by BanaBatGirl

"The planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, and sometimes Pluto, though it's really more of a dwarfy thingie." Even Tori had learned the planets under her tutor's tutelage. "You can remember the planets with the mnemonic device, 'My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas.' Though of course you would take off the P for Pizzas if you aren't counting Pluto."
She beamed up at the professor. He'd liked her 'space junk' answer; maybe he'd like this one too?

Originally Posted by Jason Potter Weasley

William raised his hand. " The planets are Neptune, Saturn, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Uranus. Jupiter And Mars" Wiliam told the professor." Also Pluto was a planet, but the sceintists downgraded it to a dwarf planet" William said to the professor.

Originally Posted by ToujoursPur

Cael smirked when he heard the next question, sure that they were about to be inundated with laments about Pluto from their fellow classmates.
"The planets currently include Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and used to include Pluto. However, astronomers now classify it and others as dwarf planets and thus, not part of the big eight. You can use the mnemonic My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Noodles, to remember the order."

Originally Posted by MadAlice

"Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune," Violet rattled off, in what suddenly sounded to her like a rather swotty voice--was she really that obnoxious? She would have to watch that. "And Pluto, too, only it got demoted and isn't a planet anymore," she continued, remembering how worked up her Muggle uncle had been over that, "but I think it should be." She had always rather liked the lonely planet with its erratic orbit, way out there at the edge of the galaxy. Now it wasn't considered good enough to be a real planet--just like her pure-blood relatives didn't think she was good enough to be a real witch.

Originally Posted by anolan807

Originally Posted by HazelStone101

Originally Posted by lazykitty

Piece of cake. Who didn't know the planets? Except some didn't seem to know they'd demoted Pluto. Sky shook her head slightly. Poor Pluto. Sky recited, "Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune."

Originally Posted by Lockhartian

Mmmhmmm. Planets. He knew those, pretty much everyone knew them, right? The Hufflepuff Prefect still raised his hand and spoke up their names, "There are eight planets in our Solar System...Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Pluto stepped into the 'dwarf planet' category with Ceres, Haumea, Makemake and Eris." Simply true. Yet he believed Pluto ought to be a planet still. Never mind the fact that its characteristics and size made it belong somewhere else.

Originally Posted by EastonionNW

Nate raised his hand again. "Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. They ousted Pluto back in 2006."

Originally Posted by sarah.kate13

Originally Posted by aguamentis

Originally Posted by Dan and Emma<3

Tiffany thought for a while. She had learned it before when she was studying at her muggle school. She put up her hand and answered,"The Solar System is about the Sun and its planetary system and it can be divided as the Inner part and the outer part."she smiled and continued."But actually there are eight planets in the solar system and they are Mercury, Mars, Venus, Earth which is in the inner part of the solar system, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune which is in the outer part of the solar system."She sat down and was quite satisfied with her answer.

Originally Posted by Bubbles

Kennedy's forehead creased in thought. Hmm, all the planets...well, there was that big one, then that one with rings, and the one with many moons, then the one that was close to the sun and this one, the one with life in it; Earth. He raised his hand, feeling confident about his answer, "Well, in this Solar System there is: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune." Yeah, and he didn't mention Pluto since that had been revoked years ago.

Originally Posted by Anna Banana

Hmm. Name the planets?

...That easy, huh? Sierra smirked to herself then raised her hand. "Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune," she recalled. It was something she'd known by memory since her homeschooling days. She mentally rolled her eyes and all the people mentioning Pluto. Had
the professor asked for dwarf plants? Noooo. He'd asked for planets.
She hated Dictionary Eaters, and that's what she called the likes of Kurumi Hollingberry.

Originally Posted by Team ronmione

Planets?Something as easy as listing the planets.The professor had to be kidding them right?That seemed a little but too basic.His hand shot up in the air like a bullet.Adam knew everyone had answered the same common ones but he added,"Well,didn't they take off Pluto from the list of planets?Wasn't it smaller than it's own moon,so the big guys didn't consider it one."Ever since he had heard about it,the declassification of the planet,although it didn't bother him it just confused Adam as to why they needed to do that. "Anyways there's Mars,Venus,Mercury,Uranus,Earth,Jupiter,Saturn an Neptune..In my book."

Originally Posted by tomewitch

She listened as a boy next to her had answered the question directed to the class. She couldn't help but giggle when he was speaking about the supposedly ninth planet.
"It's Pluto. Not Bluto or Suto." she told him when he sat down.

Originally Posted by Orla

Luna's hand went straight up in the air ''We have eight planets in our solar syestem... Earth, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Venus,''
''Unless you count Pluto which know was named a star not a planet,'' she finished

Originally Posted by Jezabel Black

Jez raised her hand again. "The planets in our solar system are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Pluto is now classed as a dwarf planet." No, Jez didn't feel sorry for Pluto. It was a planet, a far-off ball of rock that didn't support life. No biggie. "Most of the planets are named after Roman gods, such as Venus, goddess of love, or Mars, god of warfare." Just some background info there.

Originally Posted by Miss Marilyn

Marilyn snickered...
THANK YOU, KURUMI and that muggle Japanese show!
"Well, there's Venus..."
The blonde wanted to start humming the tune to Sailor Moon so bad...Fighting evil by moonlight...

Originally Posted by HaRoHeGiNeLu

BEAM.
Yes, she was TOTALLY going to pass Astronomy this term. The class and the OWL. How had she not realized before now how easy it was?
And another easy question. "Earth's a planet. That's the one we live on." In case the pretty Professor didn't know.

Originally Posted by WeasleyGirl

See? This was the easiest class in Hogwarts. That's why Nikolas loved it.
Name the planets. Again an easy question, he wasn't sleepy anymore and all his attention turned to the class because Astronomy was now...his favorite class. Hehe. But everyone already named the planets and repeating it again was boring. Instead he said "Besides the planets that have been mentioned, there are also dwarf planets like Pluto" but for Nikolas, Pluto was still part of the Solar System not matter what they said.

Originally Posted by dragon_star

Victoria smiled. She know all of the planets already. Name them all is like a piece of cake! "Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune." answered Victoria. "They used to think Pluto is a planet but then discovered that it is actually a dwarf planet." added Victoria after a few seconds of thoughtful thinking.

Originally Posted by Starbreeze

Eino raised his hand. "Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are the eight planets, but aren't other celestial bodies, like Pluto, considered to be Dwarf Planets?" So did that mean it was a planet, but a tiny planet, or half a planet? He wasn't entirely sure if it was solely its size that classified it as a Dwarf planet, but it could also be other criteria. Hopefully the professor didn't mind the question, he hadn't even planned on asking it just kind of came out.

Originally Posted by The1HBIC

Marie wasn't going to even bother with answering this question. Really, what was the point when everyone was blurting out basically the same answer? Not wanting to loose points for not participating though she raised her hand and tried to answer just a tiny bit differently than everyone else had, if that was even possible with this question. "Sir, the solar system consists of the sun, which is circled by eight planets which are: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. That is the order in which they orbit, or circle around the sun. There use to be a ninth planet called Pluto but a long time ago someone decided it was too small to be considered a planet... or something like that."
Putting her hand down she sat there listening to what everyone else had to say. She knew there were other things out there like moons, many dwarf planets (or plutoids), an asteroid belt, comets, meteors, and other... stuff. She just didn't bother with mentioning any of that as it was only the planets that were asked about.

Originally Posted by FireboltAvis88

Alyssa was glad that her answer hadn't been a wrong one. Now on to the next question. She listened to those who had answered before her. Since there were the same planets in the solar system, her answer would be the same. But she was sure that even though he would be hearing the same answers over and over again, he would still appreciate student participation.

So she raised her hand and answered."The planets in the solar system are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Pluto used to be considered a planet when it was discovered back in 1930 but some Muggle Planetary organization back in 2006, recategorized poor Pluto as a dwarf planet because it was discovered that it was actually one of many bodies within the then newly identified Kuiper belt. Why they didn't discover that earlier, who knows. But when they removed Pluto, there was a huge outcry especially from the teaching Academy in the Muggle community because now they had to change all their teaching material!"