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SPOILER!!: Sherman!
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"Can I participate, too, sir?" It felt kind of weird calling someone younger than him 'sir', to Sherman, but it was easy to fall into the rhythm of the class. AND. He wanted to work with the children! The whole point of running for the Board, for him, at least, was to learn more and improve the children's education. And the only way he could do that was if he was up to date on their class topics, right?

Sherman wheeled over to the gloves and gingerly plucked one out of the box, slipping it onto his hands. HE knew what they were, yes, being a Muggleborn wizard and all. Protective gear, too? He hobbled out of his wheelchair when putting it on, leaning on a desk for support while doing so. And then he crawled back into his wheelchair, maneuvering it around the room and towards the projector.

Yes. What now, professor? The old man stared intently at Airey, not blinking an eye. He was eager, TOO, y'know.

Oooooooh blazing comets. Airey wasn't so sure that this was the best idea to allow someone as, um, fragile as Mr. Clark participate in this activity. It wasn't going to be too dangerous - nothing like what he had experienced in Care of Magical Creatures as a student - but still. "If you want to, Mr. Clark, by all means please do!" Because really, who was he to deny the man the opportunity to experience and feel astronomy with students?

He would just be keeping an extra eye on him to make sure that nothing went wrong.

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Making her way to the box containing protective gears, she took out her dad's baseball glove. She fit herself in one of those gears in red and stood in front of the projectors, waiting for further instructions after putting all her other belongings inside the empty box. If they were going to catch a shooting star with their bare hands or simply with the protection of gloves, it was definitely going to hurt...very badly. "Will it hurt?"she asked him with her arms crossed.
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Raising her hand, she said sort of bluntly, "Sir, this isn't going to hurt us, yeah?" They had, after all, just lost TWO Professors the year before. No casualties this year please.
Airey shook his head. "The meteors," he began, using air quotes around the word meteor as he spoke. "...will not be able to cause any serious injuries to you. They will be moving rather quickly bath and forth across the room in true 'shooting star' fashion, but if one were to hit you the worst that would happen is you would get a rather nasty looking bruise."

No broken bones. No hair on fire. No cracked ribs. Nothing life threatening. Just the sort of feeling one would get from whacking their knee really REALLY hard on the edge of a table.
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"Are you gonna make us float through a anti-gravity mist to catch meteors professor?" Because why else would their stuff need securing? Actually West hoped he was on to something since that could be kind of fun right? Like flying without a broom. He perked up again.
"Precisely, Mr. Odessa," Airey replied with a slight eyebrow wiggle. No mist would be involved though. Heh.

Glancing at the sundial once more, Airey looked around at everyone to make sure all the students were suited up and had gloves. Seeing that everyone was prepared, he clapped his hands together a few times loudly to get their attention. "Alright alright, if everyone would listen up. In a few moments I will be removing gravity from this room and you all will be floating around freely," he said with a grin and a quick look towards Mr. Odessa again. "As you all can see, there are some meteors overhead shooting back and forth across the planetarium. Your task is to catch two of these, one blue and one yellow, using your baseball glove, one of each color. PLEASE do NOT use your bare hands or anything else besides the glove. They will not burn your hand, although they will feel warm to the touch, attempting to do so without a glove will cause your hand to be severely bruised." And as a worst case a dislocated shoulder perhaps, but he didn't mention that. "I will be walking around in case you need me." Literally.

Wand out, Airey summoned the lid for the box containing students' things and gave it a quick kick with his right foot to test and make sure that it was still stuck to the ground. Yep. Charm in place. All systems ready to launch. Turning his attention back to the students again, Airey couldn't help but smirk for a brief moment before giving his wand a rather elaborate wave overhead. "You all may want to hold on to something. Detravitas!"

Slowly, everything that had not been stuck to the floor with a Sticking Charm began to rise into the air - including students and even Professor Flamsteed himself as he had neglected to perform a Gripping Charm on his shoes earlier. Oops. Waving his arms and somehow managing to grab on to the protector to keep himself from floating too high, Airey gave his wand another flick and instantly the chairs and floor of the planetarium were gone and instead replaced with an image of the night sky, making it literally seem like everyone was floating in space - minus the zero oxygen bit. That would have been disastrous.

Blue and yellow streaks soon began to change their course, no longer just shooting back and forth horizontally across the room, but not also go up and down and diagonally and every which direction. Let the games begin!

"You have 40 minutes to complete this task! Good luck and may the force be with you!"

Now...to perform that Gripping Charm...
OOC: it should take you at LEAST 5 quality RP posts to complete this task and to be eligible for full participation marks. Remember, you are not weightless and floating around, so feel free to bump into walls, the projector, and other students as you accomplish this task. Injuries, should you choose for them to occur, should be MILD (IE no broken bones or lost teeth or near deaths).

You have approximately 48 hours from the time of this post to complete this portion of the lesson.

Any questions can be asked IC to Professor Flamsteed (just title your post with PROFESSOR HELP ME! or something to that regard so I can find it easily) or OOC to me via PM

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