Originally Posted by Tegz

5 points off Ravenclaw for improper use of a lint roller in astronomy class? West shot a little look at Mo that translated to something like this-dude-is-dafter-in-the-head-than-the-divination-professor which was really the sort of message that could only be communicated to someone who you'd spent a huge chunk of your life around, but hey! That Peyton girl got points! For telling him-- oh a free lint roller?

And had anyone noticed he looked at a sundial inside?

So to recap, the professor was a Gryffindor, Mo had lost points while Anya and Peyton gained some, and he, West Odessa, had a lint roller of his very own.

Blink.

And now he was supposed to sing a song? About astronomy.

Err okay. He put his hand up which meant waving the lint roller in the air, and then spoke up. "I'm West Odessa." Paaaaaaaaause.

And it was time to sing, so the third year did and used the Lint Roller as a makeshift microphone.

Ahem.

"It's a great big universe
And we're all really puny!
We're just tiny little specks
About the size of Mickey Rooney!
It's big and black and inky!
And we are small and dinky!
It's a big universe and we're not!"

Was he done? Nooooooo:

"And we're part of a vast interplanetary system
Stretching seven hundred billion miles long
With nine planets and a sun; we think the Earth's the only one
That has life on it, although we could be wrong
Across the interstellar voids are a billion asteroids
Including meteors and Halley's Comet too
And there's over fifty moons floating out there like balloons
In a panoramic trillion-mile view!

And still it's all a speck amid a hundred billion stars
In a galaxy we call the Milky *craaaack* Waaaaay!
It's sixty thousand trillion miles from one end to the other
And still that's just a fraction of the way.
'Cause there's a hundred billion galaxies that stretch across the sky
Filled with constellations, planets, moons and stars.
And still the universe extends to a place that never ends
Which is maybe just inside a little jar!"

Err. Ignore that one little voice issue. He rubbed his throat. Obviously no need to explain the connection right? Oh and FYI professor, apparently lint rollers were good for makeshift microphones too. He beamed and because he was curious to try this thing out now that he knew what it did, West busied himself delinting his already lint-free sweater.

Originally Posted by xXxPandora

Okay. It was legit. This Professor was indeed weird, just as how most of her peers had described him. Seriously, he WAS wearing a suit (she had to admit that it was a fine piece of fabric, yes), he asked them to bring a baseball glove during that lesson (Astronomy? Baseball glove? When did that become the norm?), he also suggested that them girls wear pants instead of skirts which she so willingly promptly compelled to doing so, he had a 'usage of lint roller' rule before entering the classroom which made things a hundredfold weirder because apparently, she didn't see one when she stopped by the door before walking in.

And now he was taking points from Ravenclaw. HOLYSNITCH! Not again. BLOODYQUAFFLE! Again, under her watch. Why were they losing points sooooooo early? Marcus, WHYYYYY? She was such a failure in keeping an eye over her 'claws. Inner!wibble. Inner!wibble. Sometimes, they're really too curious for their own good.

She didn't have too much time to dwell on her own thoughts though because the man in the suit began to address the class. Professor Flamsteed. Oh, she'd go with Professor Airey. And Professor Airey enjoyed suits, science fiction....and singing?

O.o

He....was.....singing.... Twinkle twinkle little star?

Err. Beezus' palms went together and yes, she clapped. It wasn't a usual thing for a Professor to sing in a lesson, and his first lesson at that. Plus! She loved singing. Not love love love, but she loved to sing...especially when she was frustrated, depressed and bored and yeah.

So, here she was, raising her hand. First song that popped into her brain with the word 'star'. She was very much fascinated with stars. VERY. "Uhm, the song Airplanes, Professor. Although I can connect only a small part of it to Astronomy." But no connection is too small as he'd said, right? Wait, wait...she had to introduce herself! "I'm Beatrice Castell, by the way, Professor." So, back to giving a song. The brunette cleared her throat, blushing slightly before going on. "The exact verse that somehow coincides with Astronomy goes like this:

"Can we pretend that airplanes in the night sky
Are like shooting stars?
I could really use a wish right now,
wish right now, wish right now."

Okay, yeah. "Star is present in the lyrics." It OBVIOUSLY had something to do with Astronomy. "And it implies the common belief that wishing on a shooting star comes true." Beaaaaaam. She did that so often. But she was too busy this term that she didn't have the time to visit the Observatory on a non-class setting. Mental note to come back here and do some star gazing. Hm. Definitely.

Originally Posted by Bazinga

Minerva, who had been very quiet until now, put her hand up. "Professor there is a muggle singer who as been gone a long time, but his name was Elvis, he had a song called Flaming Star." Minerva looked around did anyone even know this singer, probably not, but she had found some of his music at her grandparents over the summer. "Some of the lyrics are

Ev’ry man, has a flaming star
A flaming star, over his shoulder
And when a man, sees his flaming star
He knows his time, his time has come

Flaming star, don’t shine on me, flaming star
Flaming star, keep behind me, flaming star
There’s a lot of livin’ I’ve got to do
Give me time to make a few dreams come true
Flaming star"

Putting her hand down she hoped she had the right idea of what he was asking.

Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19

Singing. Jory liked singing but he had a bad voice. Well, the thought so anyway as no one had ever complimented him about it. Except his mom but that doesn't count, right? Moms' always give compliments to their kids, fake or real.

The Puff raised is hand. "Jory Stonewall, Sir. The song that comes to my mind is called Dance of the Planets.'' He nervously cleared his throat.

"Good, that should be enough,'' Jory thought shutting up now and waiting for the class to burst out laughing.

Originally Posted by GlassXRose

Originally Posted by RachieRu

Hmm. Songs that had connections to Astronomy. Cle hadn't really thought about songs relating to astronomy. Because he generally just listened to songs because he wanted to listen to them. So now he kind of had to think of one. Hmm. He mused a little, chewing on his lip as he thought about a song. Well there was that one. It was a kind of girly song. One his sister listened too. He wasn't really into the band. He couldn't even remember their name. Hmm. That would do. He raised his hand before speaking. "Hmm. There's one called Star girl I think....I can't really remember who wrote it" Because he hadn't really thought about it before. "But anyway. Some of the lyrics are;

So wouldn't you like to come with me
Surfin' the sun as it starts to rise
Woah, your gravity's makin' me dizzy

Fly away
Watch the night turn into day
Dance on the Milky Way"

He said the words though, not really into singing. "The lyrics kind of talk about things in out of space. So kind of connected to Astronomy.

Originally Posted by PotterHeadforLife

BLINK. BLINKBLINK.

They were going to sing? Kat kinda stared a bit. She didn't want to sing. Can she just skip the singing part and share a song. JUST the title of the song would be good. Debating with herself for a loooooong while, Kat finally raised her hand up. GULP. She was gonna sing, despite how bad she thought her voice was. In fact, she like to underestimate all of her skills besides Quidditch. Alright... alright. "The name's Katrina Hudson, Professor," she said. Take note of that.

Hem hem. Throat clearing.

"I said oh my, what a marvelous tune.
It was the best night, never would forget how we moved.
The whole place was dressed to the nines, and we were dancing, dancing
Like we're made of starlight.
Like we're made of starlight..."

Okay, she sang the chorus already. Kat was contented. *tiny blush* "The song is entitled 'Starlight' and is sang by a Muggle singer..." What was the name again? UHM. Blink. "... Taylor Swift." That was it. She thought it was a nice song anyway. Plus it mentioned stars. That was so Astronomy-ish. "Stars are part of Astronomy, and the lyrics seem to describe stars at night... in a way." First day of Astronomy gone fail.

Originally Posted by DJ ExpelliarMOOSE

Sing a song with a connection to Astronomy? Oakey sat at his desk and thought for a moment. He didn't really know very many songs about the subject he was terrible at. Hell, what made him come to this class anyways?

OH wait! No he did know a song about the sun! The song was super scientific and he didn't understand half of it, but it was overly upbeat and Oakey liked dancing to it when he was little! He sat up from his seat "Oakey Gunter." The one who said he and Daichi should blow him up in DADA yeah that Oakey Gunter. "This song is kind of fast, but it's entirely about the sun."
He coughed to let his throat clear took one huge deep breathe in before he started to sing really fast!

"The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees

Yo ho, it's hot, the sun is not
A place where we could live
But here on earth thered be no life
Without the light it gives

We need it's light
We need it's heat
We need it's energy
Without the sun, without a doubt
Thered be no you and me

The sun is a mass of incandescent gas
A gigantic nuclear furnace
Where hydrogen is built into helium
At a temperature of millions of degrees

The sun is hot"

He took a quick breather, "The next part I don't really get it's all really scientific, something about what's in the sun, how far it is and what can fit inside of it." Breathe Oakey, Breathe! "It's called Why Does the Sunshine?" Breath, he needed to catch his breath why did he sing that so fast.

Originally Posted by ortalismusicoh

Astronomy, the one subject Ness didn't quite understand. What the heck did stars have to do with how people's everyday lives went on? They were million and millions of miles away. Surely nobody needed to study them. Ness understood that people possibly needed stars to survive on earth, like they needed the sun, but she didn't get how else it affected lives.

If it wasn't for the curiosity of seeing this new Professor, Nessie would have not been keen on coming to this class at all. She would have much rather caught up on some sleep, she really need too, tryouts were tiring her out. This new teacher though, he was weird, no VERY weird, but Ness was interested to see how he would teach, not that she liked his subject.

Already seated, she listened quietly as the Professor began with the class. So far it was alright, but before the lesson he went on about something to do with a lint roller?? WEEIIIRDD! Anyways..stars. She was listening, well half-listening...and then listening with a face of shock as the Professor started singing??

O___________O

Tooootttaaally was normal for a Professor to just randomly sing in class like that. Mellow. The red head just stared and stared even more when he mentioned for them to sing too. She raised her hand, but she was NOT singing. "Professor, I'm Nessie." Because she preferred it over Renesmee. "I would say this muggle song called Diamonds, the words go something like 'You and I We’re beautiful like diamonds in the sky', which I think could reffer to stars?....Oh and um I refuse to sing, because I'd break any glass in here if I did so." She added the last bit a little hesitantly.

Originally Posted by Princesspower

Sarah knew loads of songs, so she thought of another song that had to do with astronomy. She raised her hand, "My name is Sarah Edwards and this is a song I know about the the Solar System. It is rather childish, my grandmother taught it to me when I was younger, yet it is very educational as well." she then began to sing to the tune of "This Old Man"

Originally Posted by FireboltAvis88

Alyssa listened intently as the Professor introduced himself and then launched into the lesson proper. Songs about stars? Alyssa thought long and hard before she remembered one that she loved to hear her mother sing to her.

Raising her hand she said. "Professor, my name is Alyssa, and I know this one." Then Alyssa began to sing.

"When you wish upon a star
Makes no difference who you are
Anything your heart desires
Will come to you

If your heart is in your dream
No request is too extreme
When you wish upon a star
As dreamers do

Fate is kind
She brings to those who love
The sweet fulfillment of
Their secret longing

Like a bolt out of the blue
Fate steps in and sees you through
When you wish upon a star
Your dreams come true

Fate is kind
She brings to those who love
The sweet fulfillment of
Their secret longing

Like a bolt out of the blue
Fate steps in and sees you through
When you wish upon a star
Your dreams come true."

Well that was all she remembered. So she stopped singing.

Originally Posted by Emzily

Theo was here, and... optimistic about Astronomy. It was always interesting to see what the new professors were like. Cool or uncool, and such.. "My name's Theodore Kinsley..." He said, before clearing his throat and taking it away. He'd picked a good old muggle song, that he kinda did like... but wouldn't admit that.

PHEWW, he was getting a bit stage nervous... but...

"You light the skies up above me
A star so bright, you blind me
Don't close your eyes
Don't fade away
Don't fade away

Yeah, you and me we can ride on a star
If you stay with me girl, we can rule the world
Yeah, you and me we can light up the sky
If you stay by my side, we can rule the world.

All the stars are coming out tonight
They're lighting up the sky tonight
For you. For you.
All the stars are coming out tonight
They're lighting up the sky tonight
For you. For yoooooou"

Yeah, he was singing that for Ella.

Well, that was embarrassing. Theo cleared his throat again and ducked his head down low. What was the point in that stupid exercise?

Originally Posted by tiffyteddy

Tiffany was swinging her legs back and forth while this new handsome professor was delivering his long and prepared speech. She dd not move her glance off him but she believed that he was being a little bit...talkative. But that's fine because the lioness was still going to like him and all his lessons no matter what.

He likes singing and suits. Well she had to admit that he looked really good in this suit but actually he would have looked as well in other more casual clothing. Then all of a sudden, he started to sing a lullaby which she used to hear when she was three. Her mum always sung this for her till she was asleep. Even now when he was singing the song line by line, she could still picture her mum sitting at the bedside, slowly patting her head so she could be secured. She missed all those tender touches and pats which she longed for. However she didn't forget to give him a round applause when he finished singing. She was probably the one who clapped the most loudly of all.

Anyway, back to business. Tiffany started to look for a song that she could remember in her mind but it was really hard. She barely remembered all the lyrics from a song, not even the songs that she likes very much but there's one which stuck to her mind. A song that her parents used to sing. "Tiffany Pevensie,"she exclaimed in her energetic tone. "You can call me whateve you want but please don't add a 'Miss' in front of it. It makes me spond old."she added a small chuckle at the end of the sentence. Clearing her throat, she decided to sing.

"The sun goes down, the stars come out,
And all that counts, is here and now,
My universe, will never be the same, I'm glad you came,"

Did she sing well and correctly? She thought that it would be pretty obvious how that was relate to astronomy, right?

"You cast a spell on me, spell on me,
You hit me like the sky fell on me, fell on me,
And I decided you look well on me, well on me,
So lets go somewhere no one else can see you and me."

Okay that was enough, she guessed. "That's clearly about how a person's world can be changed without specific people in their lives,"she replied. That was possiblywhy itmade it as a love song right? Leaning her back to the comfy chair, she quietly hummed the tune of that song she had just sung. Hopefully no one was going to make fun of her.

Originally Posted by RandomRaven

Originally Posted by lazykitty

Yep, she did know the Beatles. But as that was not the focus of the lesson, she stopped herself from completing the rest of the song. Barely.

As Professor Airey began the class, Sky flipped open her notebook began taking notes. After all, some of this might be useful in future. She had no idea when in the future, but weird things do turn out to be important sometimes. So, as he went on, she jotted down notes, until got to one aspect of himself, that was. "You worked for NASA?!" What was a NASA trained scientist doing working at a place like Hogwarts? Shouldn't he be teaching, at, like, MIT or somewhere? In short, he was too good for Hogwarts.

Anyway.

Wait, singing? Sky loved singing! Though some of these people really should not have bothered. In fact, it was like watching the auditions for a singing competition. Some of her classmates were good, some passable, and others really shouldn't have bothered. Sigh. When it came to her turn, she introduced herself and her song. "I'm Sky Carter-Hope, yes, I'm related to Board of Govenors candidate Roxanne Carter," not that she was expecting anything from that, truely "and I will be singing the chorus to Supermassive Black Hole by a muggle band named Muse." She cleared her throat, took a deep breath and began singing:

"Glaciers melting in the dead of night
And the superstars sucked into the supermassive

Like a supermassive black hole
Supermassive black hole
Supermassive black hole
Supermassive black hole"

Yep, see classmates, there were more than just songs about stars out there, because there were more than just stars up there.

Thinking cap on.

Originally Posted by CassiopeiaAKTF

Say his name before they began? "You already know my name Professor~" he chuckled.

..........Sing.....they had to sing?!

Daichi looked around at his classmates, wondering what they thought of that. Some seemed to jump in to it right away but he also saw a few who just looked at the Professor like he was crazy. Slytherin's Head Boy for example~

He thought for a moment. Tapping his fingers against his desk when he finally got a song that could be linked to Astronomy. "W by JYJ is a song related to Astronomy. Because in the song, the letter W is from Cassiopeia which is a constellation" he said and began to sang a piece of the song.

"The letters that the stars created in the night sky
I still believe that it is not just by chance
In the same darkness, in the same distance
We are painting the W in the same way
We will shine more and more so that you can find us
keep in mind that I love you."

When he was done he blinked. That did not rhyme at all! "Ehm..it's a Japanese song Actually so..maybe thats why it doesn't rhyme"

(Daichi singing and sweating and crying cause it's a JYJ song XD and his model is part of it)

Originally Posted by hpfan18

Originally Posted by Syd

Originally Posted by TakemetotheBurrow

Miss Ella? BEAM! That name reminded the blonde very much of Sir Treyen and she couldn't help but feel all warm and fuzzy when thinking of her older brother-ish bestie. Mhm! Sir Treyen was the coolest! And then...Professor Flamsteed knew her last name too? This made sense though, yeah? Since they'd be working together on yearbook stuff and all. The fifteen year old took a minute to decide on which name she preferred, stroking her imaginary beard. "Miss Ella is just fine, Professor." Mhm!

Singing? They were going to be singing? That was definitely an interesting way to start off class and the blonde listened intently as Mr. Snappy dresser sang Twinkle Twinkle to the class. Ella hummed along because really, this song reminded her of her Gran who had a much better singing voice. And then it was time for them to pick songs and sing which was...well a bit scary. The badger liked to sing and all but doing it in front of classmates? Well that was kind of scary.

As the other students sang, Ella smiled encouragingly because she knew not everyone was comfortable being up in front of the class. She gave an especially nice smile to Theoman because they were partners in crime fighting and all. BEAM!

When it was her turn, Ella cleared her throat before smiling a bit sheepishly. "Um I'm Ella Bishop and erm...well this is Drops of Jupiter..."



When she was finished the blonde tucked a strand of hair behind her ear and bit her lip nervously. Yeah...that had been a bit frightening.

Originally Posted by Lockhartian

Originally Posted by fanficfanatict

Selina could not help but smile at the fact that well-dressed man knew her name. Of course, she supposed that with the bloody badge on her chest that was sort of a given. Huh. She had always thought that when she accepted this thing it wouldn't change anything and in the most common sense it hadn't- Selina was still nutters, BUT NOW she was a crazy person who teachers actually knew the name of. Even Mr. Well-Dressed man knew her name and he had just gotten to the school. How could she forget? He showed up with cat food. Weirdo. Eh, she liked him. She REALLY hoped that he wasn't a Slytherin.

And then class started.

Merlin, he really liked to talk, didn't he? The poor chap just kept going and going and going. She was worried that he might pass out or worse keep talking. Did he have a severe case of blabber mouth or something? The only people she knew who talked THAT much were... ah... yeah, well... that made sense. HE was a Gryffindor. No wonder he talked so much. Lions were dizzying creatures who, even being one herself, Selina did not fully understand.

Well at least he was a lion. That made her inwardly bounce because she had been worried that he would be a snake because only Slytherin boys were sort of girly men about their appearances. So maybe he was just like a self conscious lion. Yes, they would go with that.

O________________________O

He wanted them to WHAT now? Selina Skylar, as a rule, did not sing. It was not that she did not like singing in grand venues like her shower, but singing in public was a whole other demon on its own. Besides, the redhead had been told on numerous occasions that she could not sing or dance. In fact, the words people used most often were tone deaf and awkward fish. For those reasons and the simple fact that she actually could not sing, the whole prospect of singing in front of the class was TERRIFYING. Um, yeah could she not do that?

The seventh year felt a tad better when he said that they did not have to sing if they did not want to, but then why was EVERYONE singing? Merlin, this was not an episode of the old Muggle television show Glee. Not everyone knew the choreography... some awkward little gingers actually couldn't keep up.

Clearing her throat a little and feeling all SEVEN types of awkward- uncomfortable, self-conscious, embarrassed, inadequate, fidgety, unprepared and awkward (which was the worst type of awkward)- Selina rose her hand and said, "Um, hello. I'm Selina Skylar." She was almost waiting for the hello Selina echo to come back to her like one of those Muggle self-help groups. "And I guess you could say that the song Stars I Shall Find by David Dickau could work."

VERY out of tune and almost unlistenable, she started to sing softly, "TherUH WILLA beeee reeessT AHND SUUURE Stars ShIIINing over the ROOF tops crowned with SNOOOOOOWWWUUHHH. A reign of resth- sirene forgettinGGGG the MUUUSTICK of stillness... HOLLYYY aaaand lowwwwwuh! I willl make THIS world of MIYYYAAHH devising out of a Dreaam in my LOOOOONElyyuh minduh! I shallluh find the KRYSTAL of peace aboooove me. Stars I shall FINDDUH." Clearing her throat a little, she stopped. Yeah, that was REALLY out of tune.

Originally Posted by SweetPeea

Originally Posted by iBeJenn

Originally Posted by Anna Banana

Hearing her name, Sierra looked up. Hearing the professor's so-called compliment to her, she blinked. So she looked better without her Alice in Wonderland wig, hmm? Well, duh. That was a dumb costume anyway. Did he have to announce that in front of the whole class, though? "Err, thanks?" she responded, her comment coming out as more of a question.

Then there was some whole ordeal with a lint roller, which Sierra thought was just a bunch of over-rated drama. What was the professor so upset over possibly losing his lint roller anyway? It was a lint roller.

...and now they were going to SING?!

After this class, Sierra was going to just need a nap. She could feel it now. A headache, that is. With a very unamused face, she raised her hand. "A man by the name of Walt Disney created Walt Disney World," she said. "It's a theme park, but there's this song that goes along with it and all the Disney movies. It goes something like this..."

"When you wish upon a star
Makes no difference who you are
Anything your heart desires
Will come to you

If your heart is in your dream
No request is too extreme
When you wish upon a star
As dreamers do"


What a Puffer of a song...

Originally Posted by Cassirin

Keep it out of his hair and give her lots of chocolate. Check and check CHECKCHECKCHECK. He could do those things. Mo nodded very solemnly at Anya's instructions. He took his seat by West again, although he snuck a few tentative smiles back at his savior. Maybe she'd even saved him from... baldness. Blindness. Lint-roller-induced-insanity!



Mo was feeling the top of his head, just in case baldness was occurring, as he best considered how to explain to West what he'd been doing with the roller. Not the actual purpose of it, although there was that to explain, but just the overwhelming curiosity he'd had when it had been in his hand. He'd rolled it on the floor to see if it picked up a spider, and he'd rolled it over a broken quill to see if it picked that up. And then he'd just extended his experimentation and rolled it on his head.

Because how could he not roll it on his head?

But he didn't have a chance to explain all this to West, although his expression probably expressed about half of it (some people were such slaves to their curiosity, and West ought to know by now), but then the Professor was there and glowering and very very intimidating. Mo's chin actually wobbled dangerously before the man backed off.

"Sorry, Professor," Mo whispered, the expression on his face communicating the deep trauma he felt at disappointing the professor, disappointing his housemates, and probably embarrassing West.

Only... no. West was making supportive faces, so that was good, at least. Something was totally awful.

And he'd been looking forward to this class too.

He didn't even perk up at the thought of singing, although Mo took down careful notes the whole time the professor was speaking. There were lots of songs with star references, although sometimes they were more metaphorical stars than anything else. Less so songs with planets and comets and other heavenly bodies, although there were a few.

But songs about the whole universe? Those were extra special, right? Could he think of one of those? Mo tapped his quill on the top of his desk thoughtfully as he tried to think of a song. What was that one about the start of the universe? Oh yeah!

"Umm. My name is Marcus Orion Branxton, and I'm a third year. And I heard this song before about how the universe began and continues to expand, only one day it will all collapse in on itself. Which is pretty dire, actually, but not happening soon, so I guess we should just keep on like we're not worried."

Because he wasn't particularly worried about that. He WAS concerned and embarrassed about house points, though.

"Our whole universe was in a hot dense state,
Then nearly fourteen billion years ago expansion started. Wait...
The Earth began to cool,
The autotrophs began to drool,
Neanderthals developed tools,
We built a wall (we built the pyramids),
Math, science, history, unravelling the mysteries,
That all started with the big bang! BANG!"

BANG. Mo sat down quickly and picked up his quill again, his eyes intent on his paper.

Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo

Lex almost giggled at the Professor's reaction to the missing roller. It wasn't all that tragic but with the way the man reacted one would swear he'd just lost all his chocolate frogs! She watched, thoroughly amused as he went to check for the missing lint roller. The smile lessened a bit when she heard him scream about it but it rose when he stormed back in and gave Gryffindor 5 points....

....

And then the smile left again. Mo had lost points. With him being a Ravenclaw and all he probably wouldn't be very happy about that. Poor guy.

She settled into her seat and tried to pay attention while he spoke. Oooo! They had a choice when it came to his name!! Professor Airey it was! Nod.

JBDKDFDKDFVKDFJ!!!

And he was once a Gryffindor!

She knew there was something special about him! This of course made her more willing to listen to him as he continued. A song...a song? Seriously????? She hardly new any songs about stars or astronomy...this required extra thinking; something she didn't appreciate having to do. Lex racked her brain for a moment before finally coming up with something. Well...here goes...

Starry, starry night.
Flaming flowers that brightly blaze,
Swirling clouds in violet haze,
Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue.
Colors changing hue, morning field of amber grain,
Weathered faces lined in pain,
Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.

Originally Posted by Macavity

Lint roller gone missing...lint roller found...in an unlikely place.

And points coming and going from various houses as the professor punished and thanked various students involved in the situation. Ellura remembered the Ravenclaw boys in question from the day at the ice cream parlor but couldn't say she had actually spent any real time with them since. Not that her thoughts could linger much there as the explaination of all things pertaining to a lint roller made things confusing of all things.

To make things more complicated, when the Professor actually began the lesson, he opted to discuss songs pertaining to stars and the universe rather then the topic of themselves. Ellura was game though, trying to think of her own example to use as various bits of music, including the very obvious "Twinkle Twinkle," was given. By the Professor himself and followed by her classmates.

Finally she came upon a random tune she probably had heard from her mum at one time or another. "I'm Ellura Hardwicke," Ellura introduced before giving her song, chosing to say it in rhythm rather than singing to avoid any awkwardness...like the poor head girl.

"In the sky, shines a star, spaces,
Near and far, calling out, who you are
And smiling in the night.

Star light, star bright beam across the
Sky -- falling, calling can you tell me why --
Star light, star bright mighty light to see.
Shining, smiling down on you and me."

Originally Posted by Bubbles

Peyton looked over at the Ravenclaw boy the same time the West kid did. Did HE know where the roller went? 'Cause she needed it, though her uniform was spotless. She turned to West again.

Why was he asking her?

It was the funny professor's idea. "I dunno," she shrugged. "Maybe he's like this clean freak, muggle enthusiast?" Could be. Her dad was except for the clean freak part. He was too cool for that, her dad was.

"You're welcome," she grinned, just as the professor walked in. Peyton was SO ready to point her finger at West when...



...the professor began distributing and taking points. Yikes!

It didn't matter though, 'cause she earned some of those said points. She beamed up at the professor, forgetting about blaming the West kid. It was his lucky day it seemed. And how awesome was it that she got points? Huh? Huuuh?

Mega awesome.

Peyton blocked out most of what the funny professor said next. Sticky roller. Takes lint off. That's all she needed to know. Instead she took out parchment and a quill. That way she was prepared when he asked them to take notes...about him? Someone was full of himself. *inner giggle*

The third year wrote some stuff down. She then went ahead a drew a miniature bunny next to Professor Airey's name. He reminded her of one. :3

Her hand stopped, though, when he mentioned singing. Was this Astronomy: A Musical or something? Don't get her wrong. Peyton enjoyed singing...when she was in the shower, or flying, or when no one was listening. But in front of an audience? Um, no. They'd have to pay at least five sickles to hear her voice. She did have a song though. A song that she loved. And the professor better be grateful of her sharing it.

"I'm Peyton Baltazar." Okay. Here goes. *Ahem*

"Fighting evil by moonlight,
Winning love by daylight,
Never running from a real fight,
She is the one named Sailor Moon.

She will never turn her back on a friend,
She is always there to defend,
She is the one on whom we can depend,
She is the one named Sailor...

Sailor Venus,
Sailor Mercury,
Sailor Mars,
Sailor Jupiter.

Secret powers all so new to her,
She is the one named Sailor Mooooon."

Heh.

Hehehe.

"It's from Sailor Moon," she said, not realizing her cheeks had gone all red. "She's my favorite superhero," she said, going all bashful all of the sudden. And she felt he needed to know that 'cause she had to sing. So there.

After lint-rolling himself like the sign had indicated, Dylan strolled into the classroom. Everyone was already present...which was good. SOMEONE was going to be able to make an entrance...and, you know, the Captain enjoyed that. Making an entrance, that is.

........

Wait.

They were in a Planetarium.

..............

That..........was awesome. Why hadn't they had a Planetarium before? Or did they have it and it just wasn't used? Dylan had questions...and then class was beginning. His curiosity would have to wait...Also, he'd want to ask about that awesome suit...

Originally Posted by LilFox06

Originally Posted by lemon

Alice found it a little funny that the Professor was that skittish about a stain on his suit. Ducking her head to hide a little smirk, she waited until the professor began to speak again to lift it back up. Airey? Like.. like air? Like an airhead? HAH. A professor. Named Aireyhead. Was she the only one who found that slightly amusing? Yes? Okay, then. She supposed she would just keep that to herself. 'Cause, judging by the looks she was getting, someone didn't find suit stain jokes very funny and already knew she was trouble.

Oh. And they were singing now? "I'm Alice Fischer. And I'm awesome." Pause.

And she.. wasn't going to SING. She didn't sing. Of course, it was for the welfare of her classmates and all, because they probably didn't want to hear something that sounded like a tone deaf, dying cat. So.. she was just going to recite lyrics. "There's this one from this Muggle guy, and he's really funny. My Gramps likes him. His name is like.. Moby Python?" Or was it Monty? Or Mort? Eh. Whatever. It was the song that mattered.

And with that, she began to recite. Not sing, RECITE.

Originally Posted by itsgaallopes

Rachel stared at the professor as if he was crazy. Well, not really impossible. She then raised her hand.

- Rachel Fletcher! - she said, before start singing.

"Hey, I'm looking up for my star girl
I guess I'm stuck in this mad world
The things that I wanna say,
but you're a million miles away...

... Go surfing the sun as it starts to rise
Your gravity's making me dizzy...

There's nothing on earth that could save us
When I fell in love with uranus...

...Fly away, watch the night turn into day
Dance on the milky-way
Melt me with your eyes my Star Girl rules the sky..."

It was enough... RIGHT?

Originally Posted by Steelsheen