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Originally Posted by carpediem  ...
"Isn't astronomy the study of what's OUT THERE? And don't we study it to see what's out there? See what's on other planets and stuff?" Because science. Okay, so that was kind of a guess. But shhh. Creativity. Airey found himself nodding at the Ravenclaw. "At it's most basic level, yes. This is precisely what astronomy is about."
Although he had a THING with the term....stuff. Stuff was rather vague and astronomy was a precise science.
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Originally Posted by Saraie Cinna raised her hand "Time to study the planets and the stars." Yep. " To get a better idea of how we got here. You know the big bang.... Yes. She totally remembered stuff she learned last term. Go Cinna. Go Me. Was that an announcement...or an answer? Airey chuckled at the Gryffindor and nodded his head. Yup. Planets and stars YUP!
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Originally Posted by Kaos.Doodles ...
Excellent little tid bit of history? Excellent inclusive thinking? Kyroh's lips curled upwards slightly. "I thought that was just common sense Proffessor" Common sense to be fair, y'know? Anyways, name tags?
...
Plopping his head on his desk, he raised his hand. "Astronomy means the study of everything else surrounding earth because sometimes we're too focused and concerned about our own planet y'know? And that's kinda conceited, so with Astronomy we study the stuff around Earth that we don't really have any role in like the stars and other planets, mostly 'cause we wanna seem less conceited, and then after we do that sometimes we also study Earth stuff." Right? Right? Kyroh stuck the name tag on his shirt. "I figure, we study it, so we feel better about always studying things that humans play a big role in." Star Trek knowledge common sense? Airey could only dream of a world where that was true. Unless that wasn't what the second year was referring to...in which case it should be common sense. Right? Right.
He gave Mr. Scabior an approving salute before addressing his response.
Which was...an amusing one.
Study astronomy to seem less conceited with ourselves. Some would argue it the other way around, but interesting sentiments nonetheless. "Very interesting thought process," he chuckled. "Very interesting indeed."
And was giving him ideas for a possible extra credit essay topic for homework. HMMMM...
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Originally Posted by Mordred ....
Yeah, what does Astronomy mean to him? And why in the heavens does he even try to learn it when he’s so bad at it? Well, he knows that he will not be giving any remarkable answer in this class until he graduates, and if his answer sounds dumb and such, he will not, even if points are at stake, raise his hand and give his mediocre answer for everyone to hear. He’d leave the task to…maybe Cutty, or Simon. Those dudes know their Astro stuff more than he does. Or maybe the First Years? They all have strange but interesting answers all the time, and it never fails to amuse him. Airey gave the Slytherin prefect a quick wink as his eyes glazed over him. He could see the gears in the young man's head turning. The attentive listening was always appreciated.
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Originally Posted by Sararara ...
Sigh. Questions, of course. At least they were interesting, because astronomy was also AWESOME. YAY. Norah waved her hand in the air. "Astronomy is the study of the universe and planets and stars and stuff." Right? That made sense... "We study it because it's SUPER COOL. And also because there are a bunch of other planets and things and when you learn about other planets and why they do all the stuff they do, you can learn more about the stuff Earth does." She took a breath and nodded to herself before adding, "Plus it's cool!" Had she already said that? Oh, well. It could qualify as double-cool. Stuff. There was that word again. It should be a forbidden word in his classroom. Stuff. Force students to use proper terminology and stretch their minds.
But the Hufflepuff had an excellent little addition to what Mr. Scabior had said - studying celestial bodies to make humanity seem less egotistical and what not. "Excellent, Miss Kittredge." Especially on the cool and awesome usage.
What was that about being conceited? Heh.
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Originally Posted by Yaya ...
A few seconds, and piano-tapping her desk had to happen for Paloma to raise her hand. "Umm, Astronomy is the study of our vast, inmense universe, its components which could be like, galaxies, stars, planets..." All those little creepy black holes she sometimes heard about on Muggle television programs. "And well, I think..." She thought, "...we study Astronmy to actually learn how amazing this universe works...the perfection of the clashes and..." Stop there. "Well, I think." Yeah, she knew she had started to mumble a bit. Maybe watching Star Wars with her nephew was doing something to her perception. Something good. "Perfection of the clashes," he repeated, his blue eyes widening with delight at that particular string of words. "I like that. Very good, Miss Robles"
SPOILER!!: Clara & Eden Quote:
Originally Posted by kayquilz Clara was chatty today. Eden liked this, though. Because chatty Clara=happy Clara, and that made Eden the MOST happy of all. Weirdly. Hmm. She got her notebook all ready...erasing the date like 28374757585 times because she was trying to write NEATLY and it just wasn't coming out nice at ALL. Eden would just have to accept her horrible handwriting?
She played with Clara's hair a bit, admiring the red-SHINYness of it...kind of absentmindedly, before she glanced up. "Oh..yeah...we'll see about the...whole wand thing...I'm baaaad at magic--" she whispered, as the professor closed his comic. "He's reading Star Trek--I already think he's cool--" she nodded knowingly before leaning back in her chair. She had more to say but he said they had to be quiet. So..yeah. She didn't want to get YELLED at.
OKAY so the man was speaking now. She also tried not to worry too much about Layla...she didn't want the girl to FEEL bad. SIGH. Eden could never remember caring so much about people before coming here--what the heck had happened?!
She PUSHED it to the back of her mind--and glanced at the nametag thingies. Right. So she had to use her wand. This would be HORRIBLE fun. She pulled out her wand and just...liiiightly tapped the nametag. "Eden McGee..." she said, and her name appeared like....wait for it...MAGIIIIIIC. Eden smiled to herself and set her wand down next to her notebook and nudged Clara, cocking her eyebrows like, SEEE I DID IT! before thinking about the question at hand.
Astronomy. What was....Astronomy. It sounded like...a sort of Italian food to Eden, but she wouldn't dare say it aloud. NO. Eden was NOT the student to bring the lulz--she would rather be kind of correct, considering she was supposed to be smart and stuff. "Uuuumm--" What was she going to SAY? UGH. "Well--Star Trek kiiiind of has to do with Astronomy? Since space and stuff--" yes. This was Eden's brilliant attempt at adding something to the discussion. Quote:
Originally Posted by Tattie
Clara watched the Professor -- Professor Airey, yep -- and listened to his words and wrapped up her conversation with Eden. She's grinned at her friends, trying NOT to bounce in her seat. "Class is starting," she whispered excitedly, though unsure of why she was whispering. "And don't worry," she said, watching as Eden played with her hair, "I'll help you with the magic part as much as possible." Not that she really thought she'd need it. She was willing to bet that Eden was just unsure of her own abilities and was actually great.
NOW TO FOCUS ON THE PROFESSOR AND LESSON THINGS.
Judging. He seemed nice enough, despite not picking up on her slight sarcasm about the seating arrangement. She couldn't imagine a worse classroom layout. To be fair to him, though, she hadn't really said it in a sarcastic tone as she'd first intended to. She gave him a warm smile and an indifferent"mhmmm," before waiting for him to get started with the lesson part of the lesson.
That was what she'd come for, after all.
Heh. Name tags.
That seemed fairly straight forward to her. She'd completed much more difficult magic than that while she'd attended Hogwarts, so this was a piece of cake. Grinning over at Eden, she took out her wand and picked up the empty name tag. She did exactly as Professor Airey had instructed, tapping the name tag firmly before saying, "Clara Wilde," loud and clear. It worked and her name appeared on the name tag in golden lettering. Thinking about it for a second, she was actually quite surprised that her surname had been spelt correctly, and curious about why that was. It sounded like 'wild,' so she was pleasantly surprised that it hadn't been spelt that way.
The redhead looked up when Eden nudged her, eyes shining with a pride for her friend that said 'See? I knew you could do it!' It wasn't particularly difficult magic, but every little bit counts where confidence is concerned. With one last little nudge, Clara once again focused her words on the teacher, ignoring the vast amount of other people in the room.
Astronomy. Hm. "Astronomy is a scientific subject. It looks at the physical universe as a whole and often focusses on celestial objects, like planets, stars and things like that," she said after raising her hand. Not exactly the text book answer, but near enough. That was what she understood Astronomy as; the study of things not of Earth. Before she could chime up to give the second part of her answer, she'd frozen ...
.... Suddenly all the people in the room seemed to get infinitely LOUDER ... and much closer to her than before ...
At least, that's what it felt like .....
.. Clara gripped the edge of the desk for support ... shooting a panicked look at Eden, before squeezing her eyes tight shut and trying to focus her breathing. Calm down, calm down, calm down.
....... butshecouldn't ...
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Originally Posted by kayquilz
So everything was going just FINE, at least to Eden, who had actually said stuff and whatnot--whether it be right--or wrong--or nothing at all relevant(probably this one) she nonetheless was proud of herself for at least speaking up, yeah? She glanced over at Clara's nametag...she had such a pretty name, Clara did. Wilde. Like the author, Oscar Wilde. She shot her friend a smile and went back to listening to everyone.
And then she felt that.
The tension-next to her--She shot a glance at Clara and noticed her friend had her eyes closed and she was FREAKING OUT. Okay. Stay calm, Eden. Don't make a SCENE, Eden. She just put a hand on Clara's back and scooted closer--ahem. She didn't want to talk--but--MEHHHHHH. She didn't want to lose pooooints--but Clara being okay was waaaay WAY more important. "It's okay Clara--" she whispered quickly.
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Originally Posted by Tattie
Breathing ... that thing ... wasn't really happening right now.
Clara could FEEL so many faces looking at her that actually weren't ... and could hear too many voices in her head. More than were actually speaking. She could also feel Eden's hand on her back, but when she looked up, she could just see her mouth moving. Her voice was simply lost among everyone else's.
The redhead looked around frantically, trying to avoid eye contact, but trying to look for something ... something to calm her down, but she .... had no idea what. If Eden couldn't do it ... what could? And ... she couldn't just leave ... surely she would get in trouble. That being said, she didn't think she could move ... she felt rooted to her spot and .... her sight was going blurry ........
... Her lungs felt crushed and ... black dots appeared in her vision ......
The professor didn't have time to respond to the two girl's answers, both excellent for the record, before strange things began happening. Sweet solstice why was it always the Ravenclaw females who...did this sort of thing? Furthermore, why had he not figured out a way to deal with said panicked looks?
Bedside manner of a Vulcan.
Taking a few casual strides towards the pair so as not to draw too much attention, he leaned over just enough to his right - balancing on his right foot with his left hovering slightly in the air - to whisper to them. "Miss McGee, Miss Wilde. You both may be temporarily excused if necessary."
To the ladies room perhaps? Girls still did that, yeah? Go to the loo in small groups.
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Originally Posted by Felixir ...
"I guess it's important to me 'cause I just find it interesting. But also, it's like this link between the muggle and magical worlds, right? 'Cause wizards have studied the stars and the planets for years, and in history the night skies have sort of... been associated with magic and witchcraft. And we can use magic to study the skies, but muggles also study Astronomy. I think it's important to me 'cause there's that... link." Yeah. That.
And still no bouncing. Stellar. The promise of pogo!
Oh, another very insightful little answer! Airey stopped right where he stood - about the middle of the semi circle - and gave Mr. Tempus a loud golf clap. "STELLAR, Mr. Tempus. Absolutely STELLAR!" He paused just long enough to scurry forward from where he stood to LEAP onto the Hufflepuff's desk. "This is something that the study of astronomy does in so many different ways from human interest level you speak of to the atoms that make up our being. Take 2 points for that answer."
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Originally Posted by ArianaBlack ...
Do over!! He wanted a do over!! Letting out a small exhale of frustration, the Gryffindor angrily placed it onto his robes. His name was Zander Adair. Not "My name's". HMPHGRUMBLEHMPH. Trying to maneuver his arm over the name tag, he raised his other in the air. "Astronomy is good to understand because it's kind of relevant to everyday," dumb nametag was still dumb though "Because at night there will always be stars and the other planets, so it's good to be aware since it's apart of our lives all the time." He didn't know any of the fancy sciency terms though. And he was still mad about the tag. So that's all he could give on the subject for now.
Okay, time to jump off Mr. Tempus' desk.
Also time to try not to laugh at Mr. Adair's name tag. Which he only somewhat succeeded in doing. "Not to worry, Mr. My Name's. Simply give it another tap while saying Vaco Reverto and you can give it another go."
The Gryffindor got two thumbs up for his answer.
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Originally Posted by Squishy ...
Raising her hand, Lux answered the question. "Astronomy is the study of the universe and what's in it. I think it's studied because stars and planets are pretty and it's nice to know how the Earth and Sun work." Smile. Honestly, she couldn't tell you why it was important to study the other planets and stars, so she was going with the fact that they were pretty. Yep. Airey gave an appreciative nod towards Miss Carrington. "Some of the most beautiful sights in the universe exist out there in space and it is only through human's curiosity manifested in the study of astronomy that we have discovered them."
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Originally Posted by Optimist ...
"Puck Greyvson" she clearly spoke as she tapped her wand against the name tag. In a moment the tag was adorned with her name. Clearly written...or more stitched in beautiful golden writing. Airey threw the Gryffindor a thumbs up for not messing up her name.
And yes, comic talk could certainly happen.
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Originally Posted by WeasleyGirl ...
After that, Flamesteel made a question. He thought for a second. Hmm..what was astronomy to him? Hugo wasn't going to take this thinking too far, so he raised his hand and said what he had on his mind. "For me it means spaceships and unknown but cool outer space things" that's right "And we study it because...it's important? Umm..I don't know" he admitted. But really, why were they studying it? The Slytherin sounded like a science fiction fan in the making - if he was not one already - which earned the first year an enthusiastic grin from the professor.
"Perfectly alright not to know, Mr. Foster. Hopefully by the end of this discussion you will have more of an idea as to why," he winked. After all, there really wasn't just ONE answer to his question.
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Originally Posted by griffin ...
Name tags. There was no way that anything bad could happen to her during this portion of the lesson. All she had to do was tap the name tag with her wand and say her name, and there was no way that she could get hurt. "Penelope Wright," se said, tapping the name tag with her wand. Airey threw a curious look over his shoulder at the OTHER Ravenclaw girls who were...having their moment...and then back to Miss Wright who...was not.
Merlin help him if all three of them had MOMENTS during this lesson. In which cause he would just pass them off to their prefect. Miss Guidry had been stellar with handling Ravenclaw female angst and drama in the past.
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Originally Posted by Lollipop! ....
The Ravenclaw spoke much too fast but an answer was an answer. “Astronomy is learning about stars and galaxies and stuff. Because astronomy is really really really cool and it’s important to know as much about the universe and our home as we can.” That was...well...that was one way to wear a name tag for certain. Airey couldn't help but stare at her chin for a few moments, utterly confused as to WHY. Merlin, Ravenclaw teenage girls. Just Merlin.
There was that word again, stuff.
Shaking his head to refocus again on her chin the astronomer failed to respond to her answer and instead simply said, "Interesting beard."
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Originally Posted by affy7ann ...
She raised her hand quickly, "Professor, I've always thought of Astronomy as the study of the stars and planets, anything in the universe. I think...well, people - both Muggle and Wizard - have been fascinated by the universe probably since time began. Even believed that our destinies are written on it."
Sapphire paused, a little unsure about her next statement. "Unlike Muggles however, I think we can actually interpret what we see. And use it." And be the first to know if a particularly dangerous meteorite was to enter the Earth's atmosphere. Wizards would save the whole world with some really cool magic! ..................destinies?
Airey both wanted her to elaborate and not at the same time for fear of the Gryffindor proving his suspicion that she had confused his subject for another. One that was NOT a science by any stretch of the imagination.
"Good, Miss ........... Wolfworesworth," he said, completely butchering her last name. Not on purpose, of course. But butchering it nonetheless. "One must be careful with what one means by....interpret, however. Astrology is not, and never will be, Astronomy for example."
Even if that was not what she had been referring to, still something that needed said because...just no. NOPE.
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Originally Posted by GrapehSarah ...
She quickly fastened it to the front of her robes. Gwen chewed on her bottom lip while she thought of Professor Airey's question. She raised her hand high after a few moments. "Well, astronomy is the study of the stars and planets and stuff. We study it so we can learn more about space and what else is out there." She smiled, quite proud of her answer. STUFF!
Alright, that was it. He was fixing his classroom rules to say that stuff was taboo. Oh, maybe he could make it like a little hex of sorts...like how Voldemort had done with his name. Slight modification of the Taboo curse...
The professor tapped his chin thoughtfully and nearly tuned out the rest of her answer. "Ah, yes, good Miss Samson."
SPOILER!!: Zeke Quote:
Originally Posted by Hera
Mr. Rogers? People had to stop calling him that, seriously. "Mr. Rogers was my father, Zeke will do fine...please," seeing as Sir Zeke was apparently not going to happen. He needed to find Sir Nicholas and ask him what the deal with that was. Yep. Totes on his mental to-do list, provided he remembered it later.
But more important things. Like that contraption. It looked cool. He couldn't however, follow what Professor Airey was saying. Amilitarywhatnow? "Uh huhhhhh..." he mused thoughtfully, "so it's basically a fancy model of the solar system?" he asked, wondering out loud. Comprehension wasn't his strong suit, but he did alright most of the time. It was a shame they wouldn't be using it today, but ... Professor Airey didn't explicitly say he COULDN'T touch it. Ahem. "Thank you, sir," he added as an after thought, before deciding he too should sit and prepare for the lesson.
He opted to sit with Gwen, she was a familiar face, and at least they'd both be starting all this stuff from scratch. No point sitting with a fifth year now was there? "Hey Gwen, mind if I sit here?" he asked, but sitting regardless of what her response was. Hehe. Zeke started unpacking his supplies. Ink, quill, parchment, his wand was tucked into his fancy pants holster out of sight, but he pulled that out too and rest it on the table in front of him.. and before he knew it, it really was time for the lesson to start.
The introductions were fairly straight forward, but it made him gulp. GULP! Hadn't he called him SIR just moments before? WHOOOOPSYDAISY! Still, he was alive, so it couldn't be too bad an error. He'd have probably continued stewing over it a little longer, had it not been for the distribution of blank name tags. This. Was. So. Cool. Omg. NASA! "This is my favourite class so far," he whispered to Gwen before directing his attention back to the front and following the instructions provided. He took his wand in his hand, and thinking his name before speaking it, he tapped the tag, "Zeke."
It worked. IT WORKED!..... That was his first real successful bit of magic. Awesome.
Of course, the first question of the lesson had him stumped... like REALLY stumped. What was Astronomy good for? WHY study it? Zeke pinned his tag to his chest and raised his hand. "Eeerr... well, Professor Airey," not sir, see, no sir this time, "it means a little to me, but probably not as much as it should?" He had no idea where he was going with this really. "I use it as a navigation tool, you know, constellations and what not for when I'm exploring, but that aside I don't know why we'd really study it. Except, maybe to get a better understanding of the space we live in ... and not just ON EARTH, obviously, it's more like... a GIANT ecosystem, biome, thing, like how life on earth can't exist without the sun, and the moon effects water and stuff, so perhaps we have that same effect on another planet, and so on?" Ahem. Or something like that. Cue grin. Was he at least half right?
Right then, Mr. Zeke it would be. Which would save the astronomer the image of the first year wearing cardigans and singing about it being a lovely day in the neighborhood. Just some classic muggle American television thoughts.
Ahem.
AND LOOK AT THAT STELLAR ANSWER! Save for that very first sentence because Airey also had no idea what the young man meant by that. BUT AN EXCELLENT ANSWER! AND WHEN THE ASTRONUT WAS EXCITED HE...
"NAVIGATION AND ONE GIANT COSMIC ECOSYSTEM!" Wooooooooooo flailing arms above his head as he stood on Mr. Zeke's desk. WOOOOOOOOOOO! "Outstanding, Mr. Zeke. Take 4 points for that answer!"
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Originally Posted by SlytherinSistah ...
"The tehrm astronomy simply means the study of the stars, though it includes studying the univehrse." Obvs. "We study it here becooz it offehz answers outside of magical means that help oos to betteh oondastand how and why our universe wehrks the way it dooz." Still standing on Mr. Zeke's desk, Airey did some dramatic pointing towards Mr. Mordaunt. DRAMATIC pointing. "Outside of magical means. YES! Stellar! Take a point for that."
He was a little sensitive to astronomy being overshadowed by the magically based subjects. MAGIC magic that is. Science was it own variation of magic, after all.
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Originally Posted by LittleRandom ...
Now... why was astronomy something that they studied?
"In order to learn about the things around us?"
He honestly had no clue, he'd never really done anything to do with astronomy ever before so he just sent a charming smile at his head of house and hoped for the best. "YES. Good, Mr. Stark," he nodded at the Gryffindor. Yes yes yes.
And he was off Mr. Zeke's desk now, by the way.
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Originally Posted by SlytherinSistah Cutty's hand still remained in the air, his mind abuzz with questions over something he'd just said himself. "Professor Flamsteed? Can astronomy offer answers for the origins of magic as well?" He knew that it had to have originated from the universe as all things did when traced back enough through time, but had they actually found anything conclusive was what he wanted to know. "I mean are science and magic always incompatible? Mutually exclusive like?"
It was too early for questions. Damn him. Oh, Mr. Mordaunt wasn't done just yet. Airey took a few steps backwards to stand in front of the Slytherin again. "A very good question, Mr. Mordaunt. One that the wizarding community can be divided over at times. Naturally, there are many connections between astronomy and magic. Werewolves being an example, and the influence of the moon on potion brewing - much like it has an influence over the tides. There is also research being done, and students participated in several terms ago, on the effects of solar and lunar eclipses on different categories of spells. To say that science and magic are incompatible is a bit too generic and frankly naive. I strongly believe that as science allows humanity to look back further and further into the creation of the universe, that we may discover the very point in time that the molecules and atoms that made magic possible will be discovered. However, at this point in time this discovery has yet to be made."
His eyes flickered over to Miss Wisteria. Perhaps a discovering that was just over the horizon?
"Take another point, Mr. Mordaunt."
And another essay topic popped into existence. Merlin students made it so easy to assign homework!
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Originally Posted by SilverTiger
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As she stuck the nametag on her uniform, she raised her hand as well. “Astronomy means studying the stars, but probably everything up there. We do that ‘cause it can tell us things about our world.” She felt like that said everything she wanted to say in her answer. There wasn’t any reason to go on and on just to make it sound better. She wasn’t a stupid Claw like her sister and her aunts were. She knew what she wanted to say, and she’d said it.
"Excellent, Miss Andrews, very well put" he nodded. And no probably about it. It was everything "up there".
And she hadn't used the word stuff. Even better.
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Originally Posted by AmbiguouslyMe ...
Nametag still sitting on the desk, Thornton raised his hand. "Studying astronomy gives us a broader context for our own experiences. It also helps us understand how events beyond Earth can have effects here." Like, solar flares. Or giant asteroids that kill off dinosaurs. Airey was standing just far enough away that he couldn't see that Mr. Baines had made a little oopsie with his name tag, which was probably for the best considering the young man's nerves, he instead BEAMED at his answer and threw him two very excited thumbs up.
"Stellar, Mr. Baines. Well said! Take a point for your thoughts."
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Originally Posted by Saz Hale Abby tapped her wand against the nametag and said "Abby Valentine" and was surprised when her name appeared and placed the tag on her robes and raised her hand and said "Astronomy is a subject where we study the stars and planets in a physical universe" "Very good, Miss Valentine," he nodded towards the Ravenclaw. Short and concise, just the way he liked it.
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Originally Posted by Daydreamer11 ...
"Astronomy is the study of he universe and all things in it.......stars, planets, the sun, galaxies.........everything that's out there and how it came to be, how it evolved. We study it because it's fascinating and we have a desire to know what goes on beyond our atmosphere. You know......space, the final frontier?" Oh ho ho hooooooo look at her referencing Star Trek right there. Airey's lips curled into a smirk as he gave the prefect a Vulcan salute. "Very good."
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Originally Posted by PhoenixStar ...
Anywho, AJ thought about the question, and raised her hand before giving her answer. "Astronomy is pretty much just studying the planets and stars in our universe, and we study it because there might be life on other plants, and IF there is we wanna be the first to know about it." Get them on our side and stuff. Could she have an alien? Unicorns and aliens would get along, she was sure. JUST studying....JUST? Airey wore a forced pained expression on his face before relaxing and chuckling at the latter half of her response. It was such a human thing to say, going back to what Mr. Scabior had said earlier. How incredibly...human...the notion of being the first was.
"Interesting, Miss Valentine. Very interesting."
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Originally Posted by SpiritWolfe Malfoy ...
Slowly after a moments thought she raised her hand into the air. "Astronomy is the study of everything in the universe and we study it to learn about what's out there and how it came to be." Hady responded softly. She wasn't completely sure about her answer but it sounded about right to her. "Good, Miss Lynch. Very good," he nodded towards the Slytherin. Stellar to see a first year contributing.
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Originally Posted by TakemetotheBurrow ...
"Astronomy is a good excuse to be outside at night and if you study it, you'll have a more convincing story when your older brother comes out to inquire why you're not in bed yet." PAUSE. "But also because the sky is really lovely to look at at night and if you know stuff, you'll be more appreciative of just how much stuff happens to make it so pretty."
GRIN!
Pity, he wasn't going to get a peek into the second year's mind and how she constituted a comic book reader. What was he going to do with all his natural curiosity NOW!?
Oh, well, listening to her answer was a good place to start. Yes.
Which was certainly an out of the box one. Chuckling loudly, Airey approached her desk and gave it two firm knocks with his knuckles. "Very amusing, Miss Cooper. I hope your brother takes your interest in stargazing to heart." Or something.
And there was that word again. STUFF.
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Originally Posted by Ginevra ...
Sam thought about the question that Professor Flamsteed had asked. She raised her hand and then answered with, "Astronomy is the study of such bodies as the moon, stars, galaxies and planets and the psychical, chemical and evolutionary aspect of these bodies. It is a subject that has fascinated even ancient cultures like the Babylonians and Mayans. I think we study it because we are curious as to whether or not life exists on other planets or even universes." Excellent, a bit too textbook at times, but excellent. Especially what the Ravenclaw was hinting at towards the end. "You raise a very interesting point, Miss Montgomery. For 50 or so years now, astronomers have been toying with the idea that we may in fact live in a multiverse - meaning that the universe we and everything we currently know may be just one of an infinite number of universes. Not a topic we will be diving into today, but a FASCINATING topic of research."
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Originally Posted by DinosaursOnASpaceship ...
Now to the question. What does Astronomy mean to her? She shrugged, she didn't know this and yet it was such an easy question to answer but she knew that she was going to over think this too just like the name tag but she had every right to over think the name take because it didn't just happen to her either. Emmylou raised her hand before she spoke. "To me Astronomy is a great reason to think about the stars and other universes outside of ours and because it can do things like the Northern Lights, I have never seen them before but I have see pictures and it seems like it's very beautiful." Did she do it right? Well that's what she thought about it. HEH. Well, that was one way to spell the Gryffindor's last name...he supposed. Hopefully she had heard what he had said to Mr. Adair on how to fix the situation.
"Very good, Miss Duchannes. You may even be able to see the Northern Lights from here at Hogwarts if the conditions are right." Which they were...on the rare occasion. Especially if there was a little magic involved.
Ahem.
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As he attached the tag to his robes, he let his brain find answers to the questions. In a few minutes, he found what he was looking for and raised a hand. "To me, Astronomy is studying the universe in order to unlock the mysteries that lie there. And to locate Aliens. We study it because it's really cool and fascinating.'' Yep. Astronomy was super fascinating. Adi always wanted to see an alien, by the way. Students really seemed to be in to aliens this term, hmmmm....he supposed he could tweak things a little....maybe.
"Very good, Mr. Rehman."
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Angel raised her hand at the question. "It means learning about the stars and the solar system and we learn it because well who knows what is out there, as the people of star trek once said. To boldly go were no one has gone before." Angel smiled. "Which basically means that we have no idea how many galaxies or planets are out there and we won't unless we do extensive research on them." Angel hoped she was right because now she was beginning to doubt her answer. "Excellent, Miss Valentine," he nodded. And not just because she had quoted Star Trek. Ahem.
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"Astronomy is basically taking what we know about the stars and the universe to ask questions and try to answer the mysteries of the unknown." The unknown. It was quite an ominous term, wasn't it? Ominous but spot on at the same time. He gave the Hufflepuff prefect an appreciative salute before moving on to the next raised hand.
SPOILER!!: Alexa Quote:
Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo She could officially relax. The explosions would happen as planned and this class would be epic--not that all other Astronomy classes weren't because HELLO Astronomy and Airey. All you needed right there. "Good to know Professor." She said, flopping down into her seat in time to see Lottie take her usual seat next to her.
"Explosions are gonna be happening, a little heads up for the hearing." See what a considerate best friend she was? Even in her moment of utter excitement, still had to take certain things into consideration.
Speaking of consideration....excellent question!
Lex's hand flew up, even before she thought to fiddle with the name tags (YOU ALREADY KNOW US AIREY). "Astronomy is a logical reprieve from the absurd and it's unbelievably and undeniably important as a study because without it you'd have people who think they can actually prove Astrology to be true and and use the stars and planets aligning for all the great ills in this world without the basic understanding of science and the fact that it's not that serious and it's not likely the star lining up with the moon's fault." After that Divination lesson, it felt good to get that off her chest. Knowledge. She had it. "That's why we study Astronomy, for a firm foot to stand on when we correct those less endowed with knowledge than ourselves." Prove the idiots wrong. Yup.
That being said, Alexa lifted the blank name tag. "Would you be offended if I didn't wear this? Reckon I'd be offended if you didn't remember my name." Juuuust saying.
Airey was.............................flabbergasted. And perhaps a little in awe. And may have looked a bit sparkly eyed with his chest puffed out in admiration if he were the sentimental sort. The reality was, however, that he just stood there in front of the Head Girl for a good solid minute in complete awe at the words that had just been spoken. Not just the words, but the VOLUME of words that had just been spoken. He quite literally was speechless, in a good way, and found that he only could speak when she mentioned the name tag.
"HUH?" he said, mouth still hanging open slightly. "OH. That. No, I suppose it is not mandatory, just be sure not to lose it because I will be needing to send those off to a colleague of mine for security clearance."
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He then raised his hand to answer the question. "Astronomy is the study of all the stuff in space, basically," he explained. Because it wasn't just stars and planets - it was also other galaxies and supernova explosions and solar flares and stuff right? "It's important to study because you never know when space is just going to shoot a meteor your way or swallow up your planet into a black hole, plus it's interesting and kind of scary at the same time because it's so BIG," he added.
Also aliens.
But he wouldn't say that. People wouldn't take him seriously. The vein in Airey's forehead was definitely starting to bulge now. STUFF.
"Good, Mr. Newell. Good good good. Big and ever expanding!"
STUFF
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wait, what? Phoenix was distracted. He was illustrating his name tag (WHICH HAD GOT HIS NAME RIGHT, BY THE WAY... though it was kinda hard to mess up Phoenix) with some cool flames on one side and stars on the other. It was astronomy after all. He doodled to his hearts content, absorbing absolutely no information whatsoever, and finished it with a flourish. Right. There. He pinned the embellished Phoenix tag to the front of his glittered robes and looked around.
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People were answering a question? He hadn't heard a question... what was going on? Oh no... he was behind already. He looked at each person as they answered the question, his peacock feather quill dangling from between his fingers.
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Nope. He had no idea... So for once in his life he stayed quiet.
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Originally Posted by Fira Not interested in the class at all for he was in no mood for that currently, Gary just idly looked around at other people sometimes simply fixing his gaze on them openly not really caring if they would find it rude to stare like that. Most people were busy with answering the question the professor had asked. What did Astronomy mean to him? To be honest...nothing right now. He was bored and he didn't want to be in class...instead he wished he were out right now doing...stuff.
Rather lazily, he scribbled a name tag for himself just to look like he was following the lesson and placed it on his desk where it could be seen easily not wanting a stupid piece of paper on himself. Then he returned to staring at people..
...until he saw him. Was it his eyes or did this boy really had something on his robe? It looked shiny...or not, Gareth couldn't be sure. Oh...he had such a nice quill. Being a collector of quills, Gary knew he had to steal that one. But the guy was sitting away from him. What to do then? It could be simple.
Tearing a large piece of parchment, the Slytherin boy crumbled it into a kind of hard paper ball and aiming carefully, shot it at the head of the boy with shiny robes.
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Originally Posted by JustAlice Phoenix was feeling a little clueless and doodling on the edge of his parchment, considering the classroom, when he felt something hit his mess of hair. "What the..." He looked around and...
"Gary!" Phoenix recognised the guy, obviously, and gave him a thumbs up, totally forgetting he was in a lesson. He pulled the rolled up bit of paper out of his curls, doodled a snake with a smiley face on it, and threw it back at the boy. Then...
WAIT! LESSON!
"Astronomy's super cool, sir. Cause the galaxy is like, totally gorgeous and sparkly and there's all this stuff nobody knows about and you can space travel and all that but like, it has all this extra meaning as well, y'know? Like with magic and stuff and mapping the stars. It's dead awesome and stuff cause it's kinda futuristic and kinda like the past at the same time cause it's always been there so... yeah."
Airey was....distracted when his eyes fell on Mr. Toros' robes. How in Merlin's soggy socks had he not noticed the...adjustments before? It was...well....it wasn't BAD per say, but uniforms were UNIform for a reason. Imagine if astronauts had decided to customize their spacesuits! Sweet solstice the disasters that could occur...
"Mr. Toros...while I always wish to encourage the art of self expression, perhaps you could refrain from doing so with the very threads of your uniform?" Just then, a ball of parchment came out of no where and got stuck right in the boy's mass of hair. 3 POINT SHOT!
"And could you, Mr. Striker, refrain from wasting paper and tossing it at your classmates?" Although he did have to applaud the boy for his good aim. Just in his head because, well, needed to be professional.
And Mr. Toros' answer was as sparkly as his robes. So thumbs up to you, good sir!
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He heard the professor's directions and knew he needed to tap with his wand and say his name. He got out his wand from his robes and tapped and spoke clearly, "KACE LECIUM!" then he noticed it was spelled, "CASE Lecium". He gave it a quizzical look. He raised his hand and said, "Erm Professor, my name is spelled with a C and not a K. How do I fix it?" He wasn't surprised his name was unique after all.
Then he thought about the question the professor asked. What does astronomy mean to him. He raised his hand and said, "I think Astronomy is basically summed up as how the planets and moons work in outside our world. They also teach us the practice people had of figuring out the constellations. I mean I wouldn't know any of the stars names without Astronomy.." he shrugged and continued to doodle waiting for others answers. "Give it another tap and say Vaco Reverto to return it to its original state. As long as you visualize your name clearly in your mind, it should appear correct." If it didn't well, oops? Let it be a lesson to the astronomer to not save galleons on the cheaper magical name tags next time?
He gave a small nod to Mr. Lecium's answer. Mmmhmmm, Astronomy was a stellar teaching tool. Heh.
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SIGH. Her hand went up. "We study it 'cause it's there. That's what we do. We see a thing, we want to know about it, we ask a billion questions, we cross another ocean. It's just 'cause it's there and we need to know about it." Simple as. Airey...was VERY intrigued by this one. And not just the answer, but the student behind the answer. Very inquisitive and with the out of the box sort of thinking he appreciated. Not to mention she had said Picard was the best. Obviously a great head on her shoulders.
"Excellent, Miss Wojack. I too have always thought that astronomy encouraged human curiosity and the desire to know more." Something that he hoped his own teaching method reflected.
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"the study of stars and space?" even saying it he felt so stupid but oh well, at least he was answering it. In all honesty, Airey was expecting a bit more from the seventh year. Or at least an answer that did not have the inflection of uncertainty. He gave the boy a curt nod and wondered if perhaps he was getting enough sleep.
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Tossing her hair behind her shoulder Beverly raised her hand. "To me...Astronomy means the study of anything universe-related. From planets to stars to galaxies to gravity--the list goes on." She was sure Professor Airey knew how long that list was. He WAS the Astronomy professor. Yes. Okay, good. "We study it because it's an important part of life. That and we, as humans, are too curious to just sit and look at things without finding an explanation for it." . "Very good, Miss Wayne," he applauded the prefect with a grin. Another student to touch on the nature of human curiosity. It did his heart good to hear that.
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"Well...it is good to know that the sun is not yellow. It is white, i think. It is just our atmosphere, which makes its rays appear yellow."
Boom. Look at that knowledge. Dante knew some things about stuff That was...not a name he was going to call the Slytherin. For the record.
Airey simply raised an eyebrow and cleared his throat before responding to his answer. And chuckled. "It is indeed. Thank you, Mr. Barrington."
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Tag done and an answer in mind, Grayson raised his hand right up into the air. "Astronomy to me means what Astronomy to most other people would mean: stars and space and anything in between. And as for why we study it: well, why NOT? It's dead interesting," When you take out the lame, boring nonsense about energies. "And we kinda need to know about the outer environment we're surrounded by. Could find out all sorts of useful info." There was also the matter of someone in this class discovering something important and he didn't know about anyone else but Whitty certainly wanted to befriend that person if they were cool enough. "Insightful, Mr. Whitlock," he nodded. Also a very Slytherin sounded answer if one were to read into it a bit.
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Also...did he, uh, have to answer the question out loud? He'd, you know....write it down....in his notes and show it...
Guh.
Hopefully, Professor Flamsteed wouldn't get freaked out since Gabe wasn't looking anywhere but at him. NOPE. He only had eyes for the man... "Space science." Tunnel vision seemed to be helping... Oh, er, staring contest in the middle of a lesson? Airey could play...he supposed. As long as no other students voiced that they felt they were being ignored because he was only locking eyes with the Ravenclaw.
"Yes," he replied, using few words as well and eyes widening as the staring contest began.
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Hmm. There. He pinned to his robes and leaned back in his chair, "Astronomy is the study of space and all its inhabitants, sir." Mhmm. Yep. He liked Astronomy very much. "We study it to understand it better, but space always seems to have something new up it's sleeve." Sneaky, sneaky, spectacular space. Definitely still engaged in his staring contest with Mr. Banner, Airey caught the Hufflepuff out of the corner of his eye and raised his index finger to wiggle in the air. "Excellent, but without the sit next time."
STARE.
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For now, she actually decided to keep her thoughts to herself - instead of verbalizing it, she starting writing things down, glancing up at Flamsteed and the others every now and then so the professor knew she wasn't tuning out. Nope. Just doing her thing.
He caught Miss Brown out of the corner of his eye as well, busy scribbling away on her parchment. Attentive listening and note taking was always appreciated, but he had to admit that he was just the tiniest bit disappointed not to hear her answer. They were always interesting and insightful.
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Raising his hand Jun answered. "It means the study of our galaxies, planets, moons and even nebulae. Y'know, all that cool stuff," Why do we study it? Probably because there was no other class to fill in the spot. "To learn that we make up just a smidge of what's actually out there?" Poor answer, Jun. Poor answer. ............stuff. Sweet solstice.
The smidge comment, however, made him smirk. Because it was actually all of them that had a smidge of the universe within each of them.
"Thank you, Mr. Kim."
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What did Astronomy mean to Justine? She'd never really considered it. She raised her hand dully. "Astronomy means... Not just zee study of zee planets, but 'ow impossibly big, and incredible zee universe really is, 'ow it is always changing. Ve study it to understand our place in zee universe."Justine said, surprised by her own sincerity on the topic, maybe she'd spent too much time with Bolton. Okay....accent....he could do this. Even if he SWORE that her accent had slipped every now and then during the field trip...which confused him greatly. Hanging on her every word, he nodded slowly and smiled. "Very good, Miss Janvier."
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Raising his hand he offered an answer to the question, namely cause everyone else was giving one and it sounded mandatory. "To me, its the study of the night sky. And we study it to know what is going on around us." Simple enough but he wasn't all that scientific. The astronomer nodded at the Gryffindor, although he personally felt that 'night sky' was a bit narrow minded to be applied to astronomy. But still a good answer. "Thank you, Mr. Atreyu."
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Did he have to write any of this down? He was hoping not, but just in case, Paris got out his self writing quill and some parchment. Note taking. Stellar. He saluted the Ravenclaw before moving along to the next raised hand.
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Instead of focusing on the episode, she decided to offer up her own answer to the rather generalised question that the Professor, Flamsteed was his name, asked. "It's kinda like the space units in Physics right? Studyin' what's beyond the Earth's atmosphere.." She had been a muggle for fifteen years, everything would be related straight back to muggledom. "We will certainly be using a lot of Physics in this classroom," he nodded. Perhaps dive into a little of it today, although today's lesson was a little bit more opened minded and not as SCIENCE centric as previous terms had been.
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Originally Posted by lemon He wiggled his fingers at Maddie in greeting, then directed his attention to the name tag. Loud and clear, huh? Dima could do THAT. Tap for you, tag.
"DIIIMAAAA TOOOOUSSAAAINTTTT."
That was how enunciation was DON- why did his name have a million letters in it?
Disregarding that, the second year slapped his name tag on his shirt, just listening to everyone else's answers instead of voicing his own. Oh sweet solstice!
"I believe they heard you all the way down at the lake, Mr. Toussaint. Including Bartholomew."
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Hallie was thankful her many travels for her parents work had taught her so much about languages. "The Greek word for star is Asteri, and the etymology for Astronomy comes from Greek. Astronomy is the study of the stars and the celestial objects. I think its something people have been studying since ancient times, when less was known about the universe around us. We study it to make sense of the universe in relation to ourselves."
Satisfied with her answer, the girl lowered her hand and became distracted thinking about other word's etymologies. He pointed excitedly at the Hufflepuff. "Precisely why we took a field trip to Greece," he said while bouncing in place. Well, that and Airey really just wanted to go to the beaches there, but that was the unofficial reason that he only really disclosed to Medea. "Thank you, Miss Aldrich."
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But didn't much have anything to say except with a little wave of her fingers that would do well enough for raising her hand, "Stars are romantic."
... Figuring her fingers must have fallen asleep, hence the finger wiggling - terrible feeling, but at least it wasn't her leg - he gave a small nod towards the young lady. "Which means I have a doctorate in romance," he laughed....at his own horrible joke.
Yep. Professor Flamsteed. Doctor of Romance and smooth as chunky peanut butter.
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And the question had a simple answer. Some people were just making it way harder than it had to be. "It's the study of stars and outer space." The 'outer' was important. Because if you just said space, well, it could mean many things. Like room. Or something to do with math that she couldn't remember right then. "Very good, Miss...." small pause before he attempted her name. "...Zanthapoulas." That was close...yeah? These long names...Merlin.
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He thought about the question with a sigh. "I think the term Astonomy means to search for wicked aliens trying to destroy our planet and its up to us to find and destroy them first" yeah, total sarcasm right there. . Airey just sighed when he heard the shout. Without even saying another word, the astronomer BANISHED the name tag and summoned another. "Again, Mr. Hirase." In the past the astronomer hadn't been as short with the young man, but he wasn't a first year anymore and should know better. Third year and all...third time's the charm? Although the Gryffindor should know by now to not to shout and draw attention to something he was doing wrong.
A smirk then spread across the man's face at the answer the third year had given. But that was all that was done in reply. A smirk. Heh.
*****
Looking around to see that there were no more hands raised, Airey returned to the standing in front of his desks and tugged on his suit jacket to look a bit more presentable. The desk jumping had given things a slightly disheveled look that he quickly fixed. There. Now he could continue teaching.
" Your textbook defines astronomy as the branch of science which deals with celestial objects, space, and the physical universe as a whole...but as you have heard from your classmates, astronomy is much more than this series of brief words," he said as he began the brief lecture portion of the discussion. " Astronomy is more of an umbrella term wherein there are various subfields of study, and while many may consider it to be more of a modern science...has in fact been around since the dawn of humankind. We all are descended from astronomers and we all have within us, sometimes hidden quite deep, the innate curiosity to look up to the sky and wonder why."
He trailed off at the end for a moment to gaze longingly out the window at the clear blue sky above the grounds. How could anyone NOT want to study that breathtaking sky and what lay beyond it was...baffling to him. Simply baffling.
" But when we study astronomy, we are not only learning about the universe, or universes, we exist in...but we are learning about ourselves as well and seeing how the very atoms that make up our bodies are a part of the grand design that is the universe. Astronomy connects us all."
Alright..that had become a bit more cheesy than he had intended. What was the point of all this? Oh, yes. There was the thought.
" Now, because universe is ever expanding and many reverse outer space with awe, there is much overlap with the scientific community and pop culture - namely with science fiction." He paused for a moment and gave the blackboard a firm tap to make a series of photographs appear with numbers below them. He PROMISES that there is a reason behind this slight apparently Muggle Studies inspired detour. There was always a method to his madness. 
*click for a larger view*
" Can anyone identify any of these characters or the film or muggle telebox series they come from? Please just one per person." If not they were more than welcome to venture a guess or observation about what sort of character they could be. OOC: I am SO sorry for the delay guys, but you all gave me so much to respond to so it took more time than I had anticipated! But I wouldn't have it any other way <3 so thank you for your patience.
Class will resume...hopefully in less than 24 hours from the time of this post (more like 19? No promises though!)
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