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Originally Posted by Hugo What did the professor wanted? To make them fall asleep? Hugo didn't mind though, but this wasn't the best room/decoration for a class. At least not for him and his constant need of sleep.
He was resting his head on the back of his hand and waiting for the class to begin. He briefly closed his eyes because someone spoke to him. It wasEthan, the prefect. He tried to look awake, "Umm...kind of" said and yawned. "Sorry" he half-smiled. "What did you wrote on your parchment?" asked curiously.
Then, the class begun. So, yeah he had to be quite. Are they going to learn how to read minds? Because that would be really awesome. The professor continued talking and mentioned the snap cup. She was going to read them? Oh well. Professor Cassie mentioned his proud moment and he slightly chuckled. But you had to admit it, it was something really to be proud of.
After the introduction, she started with the lesson. Hugo looked at the crystal ball on his table, he wanted to touch it, but he didn't. What form of divination? He didn't know anything about divination, except....
Shyly he raised his hand and tried to answer the question. "To predict the future? Or something like that?" Quote:
Originally Posted by Chance Chance has been sitting down in his comfy pajamas the whole time! He swore it!! As he sat, wide eyed, not out of breath, and not sweaty, he tried to pay attention to what the Professor was saying. Ok, something about Snap... Oh!! He had to write something he was proud of! On a tiny piece of paper he wrote, "Being a wizard." Because he couldnt think of anything else to write. It was the utmost important, best, most proud thing that he had ever known about himself. Point Blank.
Lost in this thoughts, Chance came around to the Professor talking about crystal balls. As he sat by another Gryffindor, who he had seen in the common room before, (IBEJENN!!!!) he almost laughed at her answer and had to hide it with a cough. "I wish!" He muttered under his breath and winked at her to make sure she knew he was talking to her. He raised his hand before almost yelling out, "Do we get to see the future with these Crystal Balls? Cause I am definitely up for that!!" He could see it now, Chance, married, on his way to the Ministry. Oh yea, plus the gang being up for a little Quidditch on teh weekends. What a life! Quote:
Originally Posted by Zeke Professor Cassie.... Divination -- as opposed to DIVISION... which he HATED... this was, okay.
Zeke sat, staring and waiting for things to happen, and he slowly unpacked his bag too. A roll of parchment, his quill and ink... and yeah, just waiting. He thought things were going to be fairly full on, y'know, it being a lesson and all... but it was so cruisy in fact, he might have fallen asleep. The aroma of the room would have lulled him into a slumber, had it not irritated his nose instead. Zeke scrunched up his nose, squinting so as to fight the sneeze that wanted to escape, again. He managed to hold it in.
The whole SNAP CUP thing, was weird, and he couldn't say he LIKED it, but he didn't particularly dislike it either. Nevertheless he did as instructed and relaxed and listened.
When the lesson question came though, he blinked.
What were they doing with crystal balls? What FORM??? ...................
"Uhhhhh..... fortune telling and SEEING THINGS?" he pondered, hand raised. He had NO idea, clearly, but wasn't all divination fortune telling??? Quote:
Originally Posted by Aubrey Adi was confused by her actions toward him, and he had every right to be. AJ was confused too, and she was the one with the mess. As much as she wanted to look back at him, she didn't. Her though process was... "keep looking straight ahead, keep looking straight ahead." Finally the professor was starting class, and AJ welcomed the distraction.
She snapped right along with everybody else as each proud moment was read. Some people seemed to be a little stuck on themselves, and AJ giggled at those. The second year took a sip of tea and tried to relax. How she was going to do that with everything on her mind was beyond her, but she would try.
Ummm... she had no idea what the proper term would be for crystal ball gazing. She raised her hand and gave her best guess anyways. "Visionary reading?" Because they were using their VISION. Heh. She had no idea. Quote:
Originally Posted by Norah Norah found it hard to stay awake through the professor's reading of the bazillion proud moments, so she busied herself with her tea instead. She pondered the question, listening to the other students' answers before chancing a guess herself. "You look at it and it tells you the future, right? She squinted at one of the foggy orbs. "Like right now it looks like it's going to be foggy tomorrow. Because there's all that white stuff floating in it? Maybe? Or not. Nevermind." She shrunk back into her pile of cushions. So much for starting the year off on the right foot.
Cassie couldn’t help but snap as the answers started coming in. She just loved how they all gave something, “Fortune telling is more of the muggle term, but yes it is seeing things, or vision readings, predicting the future is correct, but it also can see in the past as well.” They would certainly be going over that more in a moment. Looking at a young second year she beamed at her, “Very good, but usually the misty look doesn’t come until the reading.” Did the girl have that strong of a gift? She would certainly be watching this one.
SPOILER!!: Scrying Quote:
Originally Posted by Angel Angel looked at the Professor and raised her hand, she wasn't sure about this but she would guess. "Professor is it part of scrying divination." Angel actually thought that it sounded like crying and she was still trying to figure out who would come up with something like this, maybe the Person had meant to say crying divination but had a problems with his c and it came up Scrying? Angel didn't know for sure but it sure was a weird name. Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulie So that's what the snap cup meant? Snaps for props? It seemed a little silly, but Paulie could agree that that was a good way to pass introductions in the beginning of a term. Yay for no-name introductions. Two snaps for you, and 4 for you.
The prefessor was starting into the lesson, and first question led to the crystal balls. Paulie raised her elegant little hand in the air,"I might not know the correct name of the form, but I know it's a type of scrying. Like water, or with mirrors." From what her batty Granam's had explained, it was harder than it looked. Lotsa concentration. Quote:
Originally Posted by Marigold Marigold could totally guess which ones were written by whom. Well, she could guess some. A.k.a. one. Well, it was definitely a guess...
She had no idea who she was snapping for half the time.
But she liked this class. She actually was okay with waking up early if they were just going to be in their pajamas and comfy pillows and drink tea anyway. She took another sip of her tea with her pinky out let the warmth spread through her. At the question, she took another sip and raised her hand while swallowing.
"It's a type of scrying, which is basically seeing things in objects." Not the most useful thing from Divination, but one never knows.
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Originally Posted by Paloma Paloma sat there, glancing at the tea cups, feeling like her fingers tapped along to the music, and definitely enjoying the smell of lavender everywhere in the room. She was very close to imagine herself taking a bath, and almost falling asleep...
But no.
She was in class. She was going to pay attention! Once her eyes went back to the open self, she looked around at the answers that her classmates gave to Professor Cassie, which gave her many ideas...concerning the subject. Maybe she wasn't much of a believer of 'looking into the eye of the future' and all that, but knowing how it worked, and the actual enviroment they were getting inside that classroom...
"Well, is like...looking...seeing through the crystal ball, which is...scry..." Scrying...she couldn't pronounce the word, since she had only seen it once in English, yet all the rest in Spanish. It was like her tongue got stuck, but it was something like that, right? She tapped her temple a few times, though couldn't complete the word, which she hoped the professor understood. Quote:
Originally Posted by Lucas Lucas was quite amused by some of the answers his classmates were giving. Though he was a bit surprised so many, even some of the ones about his age did not know or wanted to be funny. Well, he had been great with the art of divination. Thus he raised his hand and responded, "I'm not sure why so many of my classmates want to be funny about a serious art but I won't be, the answer is scrying. You scry as you look into a crystal ball to hopefully see a glimpse of the future."
Snapping just got happier as one of the names she was looking for was being said. “Yes, yes correct, very good.” Her students were always so smart. She just loved that they knew what was going on most of the time. It was a great feeling, but she wasn’t surprised. Hogwart students were always so bright. “Scrying is one name of what we will be doing today. Does anyone else have the other names?” Her head turning to yet another boy, Cassie gave him some snaps, I serious one. She enjoyed his enthusiasm for her class. “Yes you are exactly right. Scrying is one of the names and the one we will be talking the most today about.”
SPOILER!!: Crystallomancy Quote:
Originally Posted by Adi Adi smiled at Professor Cassie. "Thanks a ton, Professor.'' Now to go find a seat.
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The Hufflepuff had not missed the way AJ greeted him. It puzzled him even more. He knew she had been upset at the Feast for some reason but he hadn't gotten a chance to ask her what was up. After class, hopefully. He kept his eyes on her as she turned to face the front of the class and only trained them away when Professor Morgan started the class a few moments later.
Adi couldn't help but grin when the snapping started. He had not forgotten at any time how happy this woman could be. Comfortable? Check! Relaxed? Er...not really. He was still confused as to AJ's attitude towards him. But he could sip the tea and try to let the music help with the relaxing. Music always had that effect on him, anyway.
SIIIIIP!
Adi took a quick sip before raising his hand. "Crystallomancy, Professor.'' Ehem. He had read up some more on Divination forms over the summer. Maybe he was starting to find the subject interesting after all. Quote:
Originally Posted by Caleb Crystal ball? Hmmm. That actually sounded kind of interesting. Everyone knew that Divination was just a bunch of rubbish, but Caleb sat up a bit in his seat, intrigued by the idea of the crystal orb. That was one of the most stereotypical Divination things out there, and Caleb wanted to see if you could actually SEE anything in those things.
Caleb slowly raised his hand. "It's um..." What was it called again? UGH. His brain was still in summer mode. "...crystallomancy, right? Or sometimes scrying," he added. That was the art of looking into shiny things and seeing stuff, right? Quote:
Originally Posted by Marisol Marisol scrunched her face up, because 1. Divination was not her area of expertise, and 2. she was allergic to perfume. Maybe she should wear a gas mask to this class. The teacher was just too much, and all the matchy decoration...ugh. She'd wanted to transfer to Arithmancy, but apparently she couldn't. Well, she didn't know English when she signed up! How was she supposed to-
Oh, a question. She could rant later. So...what were crystal balls used for anyway? Mari had looked at her textbook. Once or twice. Come on! Crystal...like the glass. Ball...like a quaffle. No! Shut up about quidditch, Mari!
Maybe if she were in Arithmancy, she'd focus more. But, wait. Arithmancy. -Mancy as in type of divination. So...Ballmancy? Crystalmancy? Didn't sound right, but it was worth a shot.
"Creestalmancy?" Marisol croaked, half coughing. She wasn't deadly allergic. Her nose and eyes just tended to water at some perfumes and soaps, and she'd cough in a raspy way. No need to worry about that, but why did it have to smell like that in there?
Mari stuck her nose and mouth into her tea cup and tried to mask the smell a bit. Eh, chamomile. Quote:
Originally Posted by Clara ........... Well, that was certainly interesting. OHMYGOSH? Adorbs PJs? Clara hadn't expected her to speak that way at all, even if she did look super chilled. She could ... adjust to it, though. At least she was nice.
She wasted no time pulling out several pieces of parchment, a pencil, a quill and ink. All ready, she thought and listened carefully to what the Professor was saying. The concept of 'snap cups' seemed strange to her, but she ... appreciated the positivity in a sense and even jotted down a few people's positive notes if they caught her attention. 'I'm proud of knowing two ancient languages.' That one stood out to her as Gabe's, without a shadow of a doubt, but she didn't see the point of writing it down. She simply tossed a look his way and went back to focussing solely on what the Professor was saying.
.. Huh ... this was ..... she didn't know what to make of it. For one thing, Clara didn't do relaxing when she was surrounded by people, and she didn't like tea. So this plan wasn't going to work .... She could, however, answer the question about what form of divination uses crystal balls. While she might not be particularly interested in the subject, she had gone and read up on a fair few things. Including this. Ignoring the other students presence and looking straight at Professor Morgan, Clara raised her hand confidently in the air. "It's crystallomancy, Professor.'' ... Obviously.
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Originally Posted by Kace Kace smiled when the professor read out all the papers people were proud of. He snapped snapped snapped along with the others. This was gonna be a fun lesson. He wished they would dedicate the end of class time to nap time but that won't happen. They needed to learn, well he did for his OWLS. Anyways onto the task at hand. He heard her question and thought about it. Which divination used a crystal ball? He had no idea but he remembered getting asked that question. He heard Sophie's answer and it didn't seem too far off.
He thought what did he have to lose and raised his hand and said, "Professor I am going to go with logic on this one would it be called....Crystalomancy? Or something along those lines?" he shrugged innocently.
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Looking around the room she snapped as yet another name was being discussed. “Crystalomancy is certainly another name. Very good everyone.” Such smart bright young minds. This was just soooo exciting.
SPOILER!!: Spheromancy Quote:
Originally Posted by Jasime Jasmine listened as the Professor read everyone's parchment fom the snaps cup. She snapped along when hearing the proud moments. The extra movent helped to keep her awake and alert in the way too cozy classroom.
Then the first question came and Jasmine was not quick enough on the draw. The answer had been given, but she had a back up in mind. Raising her hand, Jasmine said, "It can also be called Spheromancy". That was just another way of saying it and Jasmine had pulled that from somewhere in the back of her brain. Waaaay back. Quote:
Originally Posted by Samantha Samantha was really loving the calm, relaxing atmosphere. She took a small sip of her tea as Professor Morgan discussed the lesson. When the teacher asked a question, Sam raised her hand, shyly, "There are different names for the art of divination via crystal ball. Apart from the term crystal ball gazing there are the terms spheromancy and gastromancy to name a couple,"
She hoped those were correct as Divination wasn't one of her best subjects.
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“Yes correct, very good. Spheromancy is another name for it. Wonderful job.” She couldn’t help the snaps whether she was to be more relaxed or not. It was just too exciting to hear all the fabulous answers. She turned her green eyes on another, “Very good Spheromancy is correct and so is gastromancy.” Though that one certainly sounded like it should be for a different form of Divination.
SPOILER!!: Gazing-o-mancy Quote:
Originally Posted by Noel He sucked at divination, but Noel had to admit - the divination professor was cool. Probably why he was bothering to take this class. He tried to not doze off but he was failing at it horribly. But then the professor started speaking, and he couldn't be MORE glad.
Upon instruction, Noel did sip the tea and couldn't help but ask: "Is being really sleepy a part of today's lesson, professor?" Because the tea would definitely relax him into sleep.
Oh. A question. Noel stared at the crystal ball for a long while - so long that all the other kids had started to answer. Too slow. Scrying? What a weird name, he thought. Crystallomancy? Spheromancy? Now it just seemed like everyone was making up names, so he did too: "Gazing-o-mancy" You just had to add a mancy to it.
“Gazing-o-mancy is a very interesting way of putting it, but I would say it’s close to what we are doing.” She had never heard it but it was certainly close sounding so why not except it. Snaps for you Mr. Noel.
SPOILER!!: Crystal-gazing Quote:
Originally Posted by Ethan Emry’s pants. He somehow forgot how enthusiastic one Professor Cassie Morgan can be. Ethan returned the beamy smile with his own, and nodded to show his appreciation for her snaps. Teehee. Was Grayson seeing this? He’ll bet the older boy’s grinding his teeth in irritation. But well, it makes Divination more interesting though, doesn’t it? If the subject gets boring, then he can focus on Professor’s bizarre habit of snapping. “Thank you, Professor.” For congratulating him. And as prefect, he will do his best to keep an OPEN eye to make sure that his snakes aren’t napping or anything.
However, the question earlier was for Hugo who sat beside him, but Ethan appreciates the professor’s response nonetheless. Students need to talk to professors too, see? The prefect turned his attention then to Hugo whom he caught yawning. Ethan grinned and ruffled the boy’s hair. It’ll be a challenge to stay UP in this class, that’s for sure. “I said that I was proud of you guys.” BEAM. It was the truth! Ethan saw a bunch of promising first years in his House, and it made his prefect duties easier.
And then there was the question. Merlin, it was hard to think when there’s tea to drink, plus inhaling the constant smell of lavender. Ethan took a sip of tea from his cup when he heard Hugo’s answer. Yes, the crystal ball was used to aid a witch or wizard to see the future, but there was a term for that, right? With his hand up, “Crystal-gazing, professor.” Or Crystallomancy. Fancy-shmancy term.
Ethan took another sip of his tea and saw a girl, spitting her drink on...someone.
Cringe.
Disgustin'.
Giving Ethan some snaps and a smile she nodded, “Very good Ethan, it is crystal-gazing as well. Funny how one form has sooooo many names.” She loved it though, always so interesting. Once of her favorite forms after Astrology of course.
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Originally Posted by Abby Abby listened to what her fellow classmates were saying and took notes she didnt know much about the subject Quote:
Originally Posted by Lux The lesson was getting started and it made Lux even more excited. She had missed classes over the summer, and it was awesome to share the first lesson of the term with Professor Cassie since she was so nice. Snapping along, she listened to everyone's proud moment. Yay for proud moments.
Once all the pieces of parchment were read, she took a sip of her tea and looked at the crystal ball that was on the table near her. Lux knew what crystal balls were, but she did not know the name for this type of Divination. Figuring that Professor Cassie wanted a more specific answer than 'crystal ball reading', she kept her mouth shut and waited for other people to answer. Quote:
Originally Posted by Alexa It could be argued the Gryffindor had forgotten her manners with the way she just sat there staring at the Professor. Important role....yeah, she kinda already got that part and didn't need a reminder thanks. As if the badge didn't feel heavy enough without people drawing attention to it. Merlin. Catching herself in the end, Lex managed a polite nod and a mutter that could have been 'Thanks Professor' but then it could have been anything else too. Who really knew these days?
After watching what looked like Professor Smiles in hyper mode, Lex simply eyed her tea suspiciously as they were told to sip at it. It was already on the table, naturally they'd sip it, why remind them to?....Unless there was another motive.
Yeah.....she'd pass on this tea just in case she ended up like the energizer bunny snapping her fingers off at the front of the room. Hyper was fine, add to to uber super duper OMG ISN'T TODAY GREAT and then you had a problem. A Problem that probably hadn't hit 5 ft yet. Or had she? The question would be passed on too. Lex was clearing her mind like she'd been told to do, or trying to at least and thinking up answers would only put more thoughts in her head--and questions, there would be more of those too.
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Originally Posted by Layla Not long after the fifteen year old had entered the classroom, Sammy had followed in and sat somewhere away from his cousin. She frowned across the room at him hoping that he’d take a message. Her glaring was soon interrupted by the appearance of Eden who had sat on the pillow between Layla and for the first time the fifth year had noticed her, Clara. She made her greeting and started asking a question but the professor had started talking before she could answer.
Layla didn’t get what all this snapping and praising business was all about but she found it pretty pathetic and sickly and girly for her liking. Although she was incredibly sporty, Layla could be pretty girly herself but nothing like this professor. No. This was her worst nightmare. She didn’t join in with any of the snapping because quite frankly she didn’t want to look like a fool. Instead she stared at the blonde bombshell at the front of the room and listened to her words entirely disinterested.
If there was one thing that she could be certain of right now it would be that she wouldn’t be enjoying this subject in the slightest. It was all flouncy and ornate. She had been to enough Carnivals to know that every single fortune teller with their tarot cards and crystal balls were complete and utter frauds. She would not be falling for the oldest trick in the book.
The professor, if you could call her that (Layla was thinking more of a hobbit), started blabbing on about tea and lavender and music and making it sound more like a yoga session than a lesson. What WAS this?! She asked a question to the class and with her notebook on the lowered desk in front of her the blonde merely listened to her classmates innocent answers.
Her answer? A load of false pretences.
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Originally Posted by Ruby Snap snaps! Ruby went ahead and gave snaps for herself, completely with a serpentine little dance right there where she sat on her cushion. That's right, that one was her. Expressing herself all the way.
Siip your tea, perve on certain cute boys, let the smell of the lavender and the sound of the music just relax you, eye up hotties...yes, Ruby had this divination thing on lock. And crystal balls were fun! You could make a ton of neat stuff up that you saw inside to get what you wanted.
Ooh did Grayson see that? That girl there was totally making eyes at him. Observant, Ruby was. Who was she, huh, Gray? She gave him a little nudge in the ribs and a bunch of significant looks. Mister popular.
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Originally Posted by Thornton Thornton's cheeks flushed when she said she would begin by reading their snap cup entries, though his anxiety was tempered just a bit by her saying that she would read them without names.
For the first several readings, Thornton sat with his hands in his lap. Snap? After a few more, he timidly added a snap here or there. But by the end, he was as involved as the others, though he had no idea why. He supposed it was affirming, but it seemed strange for it be the beginning of a lesson.
Thornton took a deep breath and tried to relax, seated on his cushion. He squirmed, though, uncomfortable without the support of a chair back. As the discussion began, he tried to take notes, parchment perched on the edge of the table, but the height wasn't quite right for him.
Scribbling, scribbling, scribbling, he tried to get down all of what his classmates were saying, as they'd all seemed much more knowledgeable about the subject. [quote=Beverly] It was time to wake up and pay attention. Sitting up on her pillow, Beverly adjusted her dragon-print pajama top and willed her brain to stay awake. This was simply a relaxing atmosphere, not one to nap in. Besides, there was information to gather, even if Divination wasn't one of her faves.
Sipping some tea and rolling her shoulders like Professor Morgan, the Slytherin worked at relaxing, although her body was already relaxed. Crystal balls. They'd be using that, huh?
The answer was at the tip of her tongue, her hand rising into the air...and someone said it before her. Well. She had to sharpen her hand raising skills, didn't she? Or was her body too relaxed? That was a thing. It COULD happen.
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Originally Posted by Gryson Oh hellooooooooooo! It was nice to see you again. Uh huh!
Grayson smirked in the general direction of one Sophie Newell and even gave her a wink before he was distracted from her face by a nudge from another pretty face. Hellooooooooo to you too, Ruby. The significant looks? The fifteen year old raised an eyebrow but kept the smirk right in place, almost daring her to ask whatever it was she was trying to imply. Go on, Ruby, do your worst.
And the question? Crystalomancy. Because there were Crystal balls here. It didn't take a genius to figure that out. But Grayson was't going to put up his hand to say it, not when many other people had said it as well and certainly not when some people were coming out with some gems of an answer.
'Watching-TV-Omancy'
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Originally Posted by Leonard e would've been lying if he said that her positivity and excitement didn't surprise him a bit, so far whenever he'd been at school he'd never seen teachers this excited about their class and what they were going to be doing.
Oh well.
Relaxing a bit more, and taking a few more sips of the peppermint tea he grabbed on the way in he twirled his pen around in his fingers, waiting for something more to be said to take some notes on this. Quote:
Originally Posted by Declan Something-omancy. There's his answer. He didn't exactly open his mouth to say it, nope. There was already a wave of people shouting and mumbling answers out. So something from that has to be right because, hello, there's Ravenclaws here, although one of them didn't get the pj memo. He'd offer his Hufflepuff blanket to her if she asks. If she asks. She was a few tables away and that was EFFORT to get up and be nice. EFFORT.
Anyways yeah, something-omancy because something was right. Dec just simply kept drinking his tea while all this was happening. He set down his cup, raking his fingers through his hair. Speaking of, it was getting really shaggy. Desperate need of a haircut. Maybe the crystal ball will tell him when to get it and what the form of divination it was used in. Tightning the blanket around his shoulders, he peered into the glass sphere for something. Quote:
Originally Posted by Gabe Gabriel was content to just...stay sat at the table with Jeremiah; knuckles white with the force of his grip...BUT then a shadow loomed overhead and he glanced up to see the older blond woman.
...and she looked REALLY....uh, happy?
The woman was speaking at him...and smiling. Gabe supposed she was attempting to be placating...or something. It might've worked...if she hadn't of WINKED at him just seconds later. He instinctively shrunk back into the cushion, face paling a bit further. Girls. Girls were everywhere. Even...uh, older ones...Not that she was being....particularly insane....or...terrifying....
A cold sweat had broken out...and Gabriel was now trembling. In fact, he was sweating so profusely that the back of his shirt was already sticking to his skin; uncomfortably so. His sweater seemed to be weighing him down, though it couldn't possibly be doing so. Logically.
...and what was this about tea?! He hadn't......gotten tea...Though, realistically, Gabe doubted some Lavender tea would be enough to relax his nerves. NOTHING relaxed his nerves...
Trying to distract himself, he sluggishly pulled colored ink and several different quills from his school bag. The...uh, Professor had asked a....question...but there was no way he'd be speaking out loud. Not.....No. He couldn't. So, he'd focus on this small task for now.
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Originally Posted by Eden Eden blushed when she saw she had made the professor--who was VERY friendly--jump. Oops. "I'm so sorry Professor--" she said, and she pulled out some tissues from her bag--but she had started class, so she just sank back in her pillow and wanted to hide behind Clara.
UGH.
Embarrassment to the extreme. She had no idea what was going on. There was lots of snapping...and when she read Eden's aloud she just blushed. Right. She hadn't know they;d be read ALOUD or she would have been forth more EFFORT into them, right? Right. She wouldn't talk anymore, nope. She just...listened and...whuuuut.
She had no clue. This was her first DIVI class. So. Yeah. She just stared at the crystal ball and tapped it with her finger a bit...right. Would she see somethin' in there? She shot a look at Clara and then even at LAYLA before looking back up at the professor. She had to snort at Bianca's answer---ooooh she was such a hoot! She would't say anything since she knew nothing.
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Originally Posted by Sophie B. ..He would. Literally the biggest nerd of all. Sophie snorted at Toby's did you wake up like that joke and gave him a light shove, grinning all the while. Such a big cheeseball.
As class began, Soph settled onto the pillow, suppressing a yawn already as the snaps stuff went on. The room was so cozy and so warm and her body was fighting the daily early morning run she'd started with again... but when the professor moved onto the actual divination stuff, Soph managed to sit up a little straighter, get her parchment and quill ready, and look attentive.
Huh. At the first question, her first instinctive guess was, like, crystomancy, but then others were saying something like crystallomancy, which made more sense, so Sophie kept to herself. That was probably right, even though it was more of a mouthful and she liked her answer better. She especially appreciated Toby's answer, though, and tried to keep from giggling at him to no avail.
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Originally Posted by Zander .... Way to start out the new term. By not knowing the answer to the very first question of the very first lesson. Next time he was going to sit next to Cinna. Divination was her strong point right? Maybe she'd help him get the first question right. But he was perfectly content in his spot right near CB and Sophie. So it wasn't all a loss. But right. The question. Instead of answering the one, he just listened carefully to everything the others had to say.
Gazing-o-mancy????? Watching-TV-Omancy????? Ballomancy????
Were these things even real O-mancies? Or were people just making this stuff up? The Gryffindor wasn't really sure at this point... But he was sure confused. And if you looked at him it was pretty easy to tell with all the looking back and forth at everyone who answered and the head tilting and the big WHAA expression on his face. Because really? Ballomancy?
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Originally Posted by Bay As the class started Bay couldn't help but smile at all the lions that were answering Professor Morgans question, they seemed a lot smarter than he was at that age. Letting them answer Bay just sat back and sipped his tea, at least he got drinks while he was in class and comfy pillows even though his legs have already started to go numb.
Her quiet students didn’t go unnoticed. They all got a gaze and an encouraging smile. They could participate and it was okay to be wrong, did they know that? “Please don’t be afraid to answer even if you aren’t sure. You are allowed to be wrong, that is what classes are all about. Learning comes with some mistakes. There is no judging in this class. I just want to see you trying your best.” Yes that’s all she expected to try.
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Originally Posted by Sophie Sophie halfway listened to the 'proud moments' from the Snap Cup. Some girl had wrote about expressing herself through what she wore. Sophie guessed it was that new girl who got into it with Bellaire at the house table. Meh. Then there were a few random ones, and they were officially starting.
Okay, so crystal balls. Sophie had no idea what that form of Divination was called. She just knew you looked into the crystal ball and saw some prediction of your future. Honesty was the best policy, right?
She raised her hand. "I have no idea," she said, "but I know how it works." -.- Lame, but that was all she had. She didn't explain how it worked, because she thought that might be the next thing out the professor's mouth.
Also, HIIIII, GRAYSON. Grin. Hmmm she stopped and looked at Sophie getting back out of her chair. She just couldn’t do the sitting thing, it really wasn’t for her. “Could you explain how it works to us then?” She would love to hear what she had to say.
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Originally Posted by Bianca Bianca listened to the Professor speak and nodded her head slowly. She may have also started fiddling with the tail of her lion onesie out of boredom. Blah blah blah Professor blah divination blah welcome. And then she heard starting and snap cup. Oh so that was what that cup thing was for. So they could all be super awesome and brag about stuff.
... She liked it. Were they suppose to snap along though? Bianca was too busy brushing the plushy end of her tail against her chin to snap though. It felt really soft and it was nice. Plus what was the point of snapping? She would rather applaud.
The Gryffindor watched the professor finish up and sit in a chair. Then she looked at the tea. Bianca didn't drink tea. Only when she had too but even then she didn't enjoy it. So she pushed the cup away, pulling a face and resisting the lion inside of her to hiss at the cup. Or was it just a kitty spirit? Bianca was not sure. Instead she swished her tail in her mind. Now onto the real part of this class.
What forms of divination uses a crystal ball?
"Watching-TV-Omancy," she said after raising her hand. Honestly, her answer could not have possibly been more ridiculous than the others.
__________________ She was stopped for a moment by the next answer and just blinked at the young lady. Giving an encouraging smile, [b] “Not everything with mancy at the end is going to be correct. Watching TV is very different than gazing into a crystal ball, but very good guess and thank you soo much for participating.
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Originally Posted by Toby
Even though he didn't know, Toby raised his hand anyway. "Uh... ball...omancy?" 'Cause of the crystal BALL, see? That sounded Divinationy.
Except a bunch of other kids had given two particular answers with the kind of confidence that meant they were clearly right. But it didn't matter. Failure was a part of learning. He regretted nothing.
Another with an interesting guess. These students were just so creative and smart. “That is a very good guess. I can see why you would say that with the Crystal Ball, but it is not one of the names for it. Wonderful try though thank you for answering.” Snaps of encouragement went to the young Hufflepuff.
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Originally Posted by Heather *Blink*
Super positive? She was starting to reconsider her decision to give this class another chance. Forced positivity wasn't her bag at all. Neither was snapping. So, instead of taking part in the snapping, Heather just sat and half-listened to what was being read. Of course, she smirked when 'Professor Cassie' (of course her name was Cassie) read her parchment.
Then they were moving on to the lesson, which was something she could get into. Except that there were a lot of answers being thrown out. None of which sounded right to her ears. Those were crystal balls, right? So....... "Crystal ball reading?" Made sense.
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Hearing another answer Cassie turned to the girl speaking. “Crystal ball reading, very good. We will be looking into the Crystal balls at some point, most people call it gazing, but some do call it a reading.” Snaps for such a great answer. She was sooo enjoying all the wonderful answers even the ones that weren’t really answering but listening. She knew that some weren’t as big on certain subjects as others and that was completely fine as long as they….
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Originally Posted by Ian Ian G. Hale (don’t ask what the ‘G’ stands for) loved Hogwarts.
Oh yes. Long train rides through beautiful landscapes, large feasts with ridiculous amounts of pastries and sweets and candy and everything his growing tummy could desire… and then, on top of it all, he could go to his classes in PJs. WHERE ELSE WAS SCHOOL THIS CHILL? NOWHERE, THAT’S WHERE. Suck on that, American schools. PPFFT. Ian was so over those.
Eyeing the fuzzy snap cup thing on his table, Ian scribbled onto a loose piece of parchment he happened to be carrying in his pocket: “I am Proud 2 be sexy Beast.” He stuffed the parchment carelessly into the cup and proceeded to lounge comfortably on the many pillows, spreading out and stretching his limbs like a lazy indoor cat.
Just when the boy was beginning to doze off into a pleasant sleep, the hot teacher started reading the LAMEST FREAKIN’ CONFESSIONS HE HAD EVER HEARD. Oh my God, were these kids 10 or what.
“I'm proud that I stood up 4 expresing myself thru fashion even tho sum peepl r stuck in the midle ages”
“BOOOOOO!!!!”
LOL fashion. And what even are the middle ages, why are we talking about 50-yr-olds no one cares about, gtfo.
Now the hottie was asking about forms of divination and crystal balls and all Ian could do was snicker quietly to himself. Heh. Hehheh.. crystal ball… lol… ha…HAHA…AHAHHAHHAHAHAAHAHAA.
And people’s answers. “ballomancy.”
What even.
Of course, he had no valuable input because duh. He was Ian. Bringing his hot presence along was input enough.
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Originally Posted by Justine Justine hadn't been able to think of a single thing at all to write on that silly piece of pale, not for lack of trying, but the lavender wafting through the classroom and the relative warmth was making her drowsy and she couldn't focus. Why was she even in this class? She didn't even like divination.You'd thought it would be a laugh. Well, yeah, but so far it's just sort of dull.
And then Professor Cassie began pulling out the little pieces of proud paper, and giving out snaps for the most inane things and Justine was at full attention. Why was their Professor channeling Elle Woods? Was there one Professor in this whole place that wasn't seemingly mad? The Ravenclaw was having a hard time biting back her laughter, especially when someone to her side shouted out a loud and obnoxious; BOOOOOOOOOOO.
She just managed to turn the laugh into a coughing fit, which abruptly ended as she turned to the seemingly hilarious individual only to see-
Ian. G. Freaking. Hale. Oh, damn it all to hell, She hadn't expected to see that little pervy weirdo this early into term (she'd actually hoped to somehow avoid the boy as much as possible). Maybe Merlin would have mercy on her and Ian wouldn't notice her... As casually as she could, Justine began to edge slowly away from the Gryffindor creep.
…. She heard it, she heard the boo and her green eyes snapped towards the boy in question. Trying to just ignore it, because everyone ones allowed their freedom of expression even you Mr. Rude, until he didn’t stop talking. Her beaming smile never left her as she moved closer to the two and took a seat at their table. She looked between them and listened with bright eyes. “This is just always sooo exciting to watch new love start.” She gave them snaps of encouragement. Yes, go on you are interrupting everyone in the room, she watched and waited. “Now that she has very much told you she isn’t interested do you think I can get back to my lesson now?” Getting back up she patted him on the shoulder and looked at the rest of the class. “Now that we have that wonderful moment of young love settled does anyone else have anything to add about Crystal Balls?”
And now Tea was everywhere. She pulled her wand and cleaned the mess before it could even be a thing. Not missing a beat as she moved the lesson on. Her eyes just quickly flicking towards the one that had the problem to make sure she was alright.
Now looking at the entire class she flicked her wrist for information to come up on the board behind her. “Scrying also known as Crystal-gazing, Crystal-seeing, crystllism, crystallomancy, gastromancy, and spheromancy is a form of divination that uses crystals, hence the crystal ball in front of you. Now Scrying can use other things, but we will get into that in further classes. Today we are just going to focus on the Crystal Ball.” She walked over to her own table and picked up the ball gently. “Please do not pick up your own Crystal. I’ve been told they’ve been through a lot in past terms and I’d like to keep these nice for awhile.” Some were from her own collection, so it would be nice if they were not broken. “Now when you look into the crystal typically you are just seeing a reflection, correct? So how could we possibly see other things inside something that just shows our reflection?”
Setting the ball back on the table she turned beaming at the students. “Now we can see the future, but not only the future, with scrying you can find many things to help you figure out why events have happened, or have a spiritual connection. My hope for you today is just to find something in the Crystal ball. Now can anyone tell me how we get started on doing scrying into a crystal ball?”
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