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Hufflepuff Fifth Year
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Seeing hands jump up she couldn't help but smile, yes her class was exactly what she needed to perk up a bit.
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Originally Posted by DinosaursOnASpaceship  The seventh year wasn't good at this class. She didn't know that much about Divinations to fully understand it. She was going to play along for now and try to participate to keep her mind off of bug and importantly sad things. Larissa would have to focus if she wanted to pass her exams and graduate from Hogwarts. Larissa looked at the items that Professor Cassie was showing them. "Are we planning on having a dinner?" Was that a stupid thing to ask? She was planning on having a dinner in class. Cassie couldn't help but giggle a bit at Larissa's answer, "I don't think this combination would be a very good dinner, but nice guess. We won't be having dinner here though don't worry." She still wasn't a great cook and to be honest Leo did most of their cooking. She did get snaps for her effort. Quote:
Originally Posted by Expecto-Penguin Colt beamed and thought Professor Cassie was pretty chill. She wasn't too uptight and she seemed to always have positive energy which is what you need for teaching any lesson. As he noticed Professor Cassie starting her lesson he noticed she pulled out a tomato, an onion, a brownie, fish, and lettuce from a bowl and she lifted each of them. He furrowed his brows and thought that was an odd combo. He tilted his head in confusion and thought it was bizarre.
He heard her question, "Do you think we could do divination with all of these items? If not, which could we use?" He literally had NO clue but he was gonna guess. "Professor I think we could use the onion and fish because it could heighten our smell sense which could be used for divination?" He was just totally spit balling here. "Heighten the sense of smell could be an understatement right now." Or was that just her that really wasn't able to handle smells? Stepping away from the fish a bit she turned back to the students, "Smell has nothing to do with this form of divination, but very good guess." He got snaps for his answer. Quote:
Originally Posted by BanaBatGirl Aww, maybe their professor was just feeling sad because of the term ending? Davie beamed at her complimenting his tie and felt better for wearing it. Just for you, professor.
As for all the food... hmm. He munched on a pretzel thoughtfully, as though that might give him inspiration. Then he looked at it more closely as he got an idea. He'd read something in their textbook about food divination... or was it in his History textbook? Something about Egyptians, and onions? Was that true? He quickly flipped to the glossary in the back of the Divination book to check, and then raised his hand.
"Cr-cr-cromniomancy, I think it's called, is divination by onion," Davie suggested. "I don't know about the others, but maybe if you fed them to an animal and then used the animal," or its remains, but he wasn't going to be gruesome and upset the professor, "that might be a thing?" Maybe? She probably knew what he was talking about. Maybe. "Very good Davie, Cromnimancy is a form we will be talking about today. The onion is a very key part of our discussion." She held it up for all to see. She couldn't help but crinkle her nose at the animal part though, no they wouldn't be doing anything to animals this lesson. Well at least living ones. She glanced at the fish. Giving him snaps for his answer just the same, "We wont' be combining anything or feeding them to anything, but very good guess." Quote:
Originally Posted by FearlessLeader19 Adi's face fell slightly. Was Cassie... crying? Well, her eyes certainly looked watery. "I'm great,'' he told her truthfully. "Are you?'' He was uncertain. Had something happened between her and Mr K? Had the Chocolate Frog done something to set her off? He had never seen the woman be sappy.
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Nibbling on his Froggie which he held by the leg (thanks for the habit, Hades!), Adi watched Benny enter the room. Were those chocolate covered pretzels? Nom nom! "Hi, lover boy,'' he whispered so that no one would hear. If they did, Benny would go all red but who was to say that wouldn't happen even if no one heard? Hehe.
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Right! So the lesson was starting. Adi didn't think much on pink. To him, orange was everything. But hey, everyone had their preferences, right? Snap cup moments happened and then... FOOD! What an awesome topic for the lesson!
The Hufflepuff considered the question, swallowed a bit of Froggie before raising his hand. ''Ichthyomancy is a Divination form by using the heads or guts of fishes.'' Had he gotten that correct? He had to say that word.. guts, she knew it was coming though. It had to come up eventually. Though the image might have made her look a little green in the gills herself, "Very good Adi, we will touch on Ichthyomancy today." So much to do and say. So much was going on! Quote:
Originally Posted by Squishy Was something wrong with Professor Morgan?
Confused, Paulina snapped along to each proud moment but there wasn't much enthusiasm behind it.
Oh well, she had carrot sticks to eat. No chocolate for her today. Taking a nibble from one, she listened as the lesson began. Divination with food sounded fun - so long as meat wasn't involved. As a vegetarian she opposed the killing of animals.
BLEH at Adi's answer though.
Paulina made a face then raised her hand. "We aren't going to look at fish heads and guts...are we?" Not exactly answering the question, but if that was what they were doing she'd have to leave the room. There were some lines she didn't cross, and mutilating an animal was one of them; didn't matter if it was dead or alive. "We will be discussing things with fish so the guts might come up. It won't be a long part of our lesson though." Cassie didn't feel the need to show everyone what she had for breakfast this morning so the fish would be a little part of the lesson. Giving snaps she turned to the next one. Quote:
Originally Posted by ArianaBlack He was wearing pink. And he wasn't sure how he felt about it.
During Divination we wear pink... Apparently.
But y'know what? Zander Adair had stopped asking questions a long time ago. There were just somethings that Professor Morgan wanted that you had to blindly do. Or else, you'd just end up protesting the entire class all together. Which is why the snapcup was a nobrainer at this point. And the snapping just felt natural. 'Cause he had stopped asking questions.
Well no, he had one question. "Browny-omancy isn't a thing, is it Professor?" Because Zander Adair was actually hoping that the brownies would be the center of the lesson today. No offense to the fish or anything... But uh, no thanks. Onions too. Those things were nasty. And tomatos were alright some times, but c'mon! BROWNIES!!!
The Seventh Year was literally ready to get down on his knees and pray to Merlin himself that they'd get to work with the brownies and not the smelly fish. "Would that be a wonderful form of Divination!" She snapped happily at the thought. [b] "We will not be doing this form of divination, but all forms have to start somewhere and be proven to work. So if you have the talent Mr. Adair you can certainly be the Diviner to make this work. Quote:
Originally Posted by Hera Lovely day, yes, yep, that's what it was... though perhaps without the pink.
Zeke continued to inspect his Bertie Botts before stuffing them in his mouth. Red speckled one hmmm?... Cherry tart! And a yellow green one hey?... GODAWFUL! What was that? Spinach? Slime? Spinach-slime?!... Zeke pulled a face, scraping his tongue against his teeth in an effort to be rid of the flavour, and swiftly he took a chance with a brown bean. Coffee. That was better.
He snapped a couple of times, and was mildly amused at his being read out, but otherwise he was distracted by the foods.
When the lesson was officially underway, Zeke was already lost, so again he took a chance on a flavoured bean - this time a mysterious one he couldn't quite pick, but it wasn't... unpleasant per se. Having another gastromancy lesson would be stupid in his opinion, so it had to be something different, what that was... he wasn't sure. "Sucromancy?" he took a stab in the dark. Sugar... a lot of people had sugar. "Another fun answer, though it won't be what we are talking about, but like Mr. Adair prove that this can be a form and you could certainly become famous in the divination world." Wouldn't that be a great thing to see one day. Her own students masters of Divination. He got snaps for his answer. Quote:
Originally Posted by RandomRaven There's something wrong with Professor Cassie. And The cotton candy-head who sat beside her agreed with her. She seemed... off. well, the Professor was still cheerful, or tried to be. But she's not as cheerful as usual. And Henric was right, no fancy scents.Maybe she was right that Professor Cassie lost her cat. She could offer a help to find them, Preston was lost too once and she was being helped by Riley and Professor B.
Ava nibbled her muffins and listened to the Professor. She noticed the fish, brownie, lettuce and onion. Huh? "I don't think we can use brownie since the only thing that brownie could do is being such a good bake treat." Hehehehe. "But maybe with the fish?"
She listened as Ava explained her feelings towards Zander's answer, "It was still a good attempt and many foods can be used so it is very reasonable to think that brownies could be as well. She got snaps for her next answer, "Fish is a form very good." Quote:
Originally Posted by Holmesian Feline It didn't matter that the words were whispered for his benefit only. Benny could feel his cheeks redden slightly at them regardless. "Adi..." he whispered back, admonishing his boyfriend. The Gryffindor really didn't want to be the shade of his shirt all during the lesson before them.
Speaking of lesson, Professor Morgan was beginning and he was glad for the distraction. First there was the snaps and as always, the seventh year did his best to snap along like the professor liked them too. He could almost figure out which one was Adi without a doubt, narrowed down between two. And then class began in earnest, the discussion of food as the topic being mentioned.
Benny took a chocolate covered pretzel and began absently nibbling on it as responses to the question were given. He did have to make a face at what Adi brought up beside him. Fish guts were not something he wanted to deal with, no matter how many seemingly gross things he had previously dealt with in potions and herbology. "Could the layers of an onion be looked at in that way?" He'd try for a less horrible option. "Very good Benny, the onion is a form that we will be discussing. The layers aren't exactly what we look at but it's very close." He was getting snaps for sure. Quote:
Originally Posted by Harry174 Angel smiled at the professor and said that she was well when the Professor asked, but then the lesson was starting and she was very confused about what all this meant. "Professor maybe you are going to break the brownie up and see if it can work like the tea-leaves can?" Angel thought it would be cool if it worked, but what about the others items, she didn't think they would work for divinations, just making salads. Giving Angel snaps she liked their creativity today. "That is a great thought, but not quite what we will be doing today. Thank you for your answer though." Quote:
Originally Posted by DaniDiNardo They were gonna be learning about using food for Divination? Was it any wonder he really really liked this class??? Blaise glanced only briefly over at his cousin, wondering if he couldn't be normal for once and bring ACTUAL snacks. Now he would have to share, clearly and so the boy reached over and placed a pack of jelly slugs at his desk.
"You're welcome."
Now where were they? Oh yes, the lesson. Attention back to the Professor, he watched her pick up various food items. For lack of knowing the answer, the boy was willing to assume all could be used but he was specifically sold on the brownie.
"I don't know if I agree with Ava." Brownies had mad use, yo. "If I saw a brownie, I'd think I was gonna have a VERY good say. So I reckon brownies must be a sign of fortune and all that." Or misfortune if you found and ate one that belonged to an older student with a rotten temper. Yikes. Yes the creativity was very strong with these students, she was giving snaps to every single one, though she was getting exhausted from it and had to take a seat again. "I would think it was meaning good things to come as well. It's not the topic today, but I think we have a group that might be able to figure out their own form of Divination." It took time to research and prove, but if they were dedicated they could do it. Quote:
Originally Posted by Davvy_Wavvy What? WHat?! Bentley frowned at Blaise and put the jelly slugs back on his cousin's desk. Did he know the kind of trouble he'd get into for over indulging in junk food?
"No thank you Blaise. I've already had enough sweets for the week." He had a system you see, that his mother had all of them on since he was a baby. It had been routine enough, where going off his diet would be quite weird for him.
Bentley wasn't sure what to make of divination or what the professor was talking about so he sat quietly and listened.
"Maybe the tomato?....because tomato juice?" What was he talking about? He had no idea. Glancing at the tomato she thought for a few minutes before giving him snaps, [b] "I love that thought! Very good guess, but not exactly what we are doing today. I've brought a few foods just to throw you off a bit, but all of you are so super smart."[b] Quote:
Originally Posted by Sararara It was hard to miss Yoongi's bright pink flamingo quill, even though she hadn't seen him walk in on account of her search for somebody who'd want to share her muffin. She grinned at him as he sat down. That's what REAL friends did, after all. They sat beside you when they knew you were in desperate need of somebody to share with. "Hey." Norah looked him up and down before giving a thumbs up. "It's good! Needs sparkles, though." She still hadn't figured out how to add sparkles with her wand, but that could come later. Plus, there was nothing wrong with a good ol' fashioned sticking charm with all the glitter she had. It was always important to have an emergency supply; you never knew when somebody would need cheering up. She pulled her pink hat off her head and ignored the fact that her hair was sticking up in all sorts of directions, before nudging her muffin in his direction. "Want some?" Norah hadn't seen him take out a snack yet. What if he STARVED? Muffin sharing was very important business.
When the reading of proud moments began, Norah looked up at the non-cheery Professor Cassie and snapped along with her (or tried to, anyways. The gloves made it impossible to actually have a sound). Hers wasn't chosen, which was tragic because she was actually really proud of that one, but she shrugged off her disappointment and tore off a little piece off the edge of her muffin. Okay. Food. That couldn't be too bad, right? As long as it wasn't fish she'd be A-okay. Eating a muffin and thinking about fish guts and brains at the same time didn't really sound like the most pleasant idea, after all. She'd never actually heard of lettuce divination, but she put a hand up to take a guess anyways. "Lettuce has veins, maybe we can use those? Kinda like we can read the lines on somebody's palms to tell something about them." WHY somebody would want to know the future of a piece of lettuce was beyond her. Maybe it could help with deciding what to eat for lunch? Another with a great answer and more snaps were happening, "That is an excellent observation, but it won't be what we focus on today. I love your thoughts about it though." Quote:
Originally Posted by littledhampir Olly hadn't even known that professor Cassie had not been at school for the past couple of days. It's not like he saw much of her outside of lessons. At least, he didn't really pay attention when he did see her. He didn't pay attention to what most professors did outside of lessons with them.
Food during lessons was always welcome. He liked when they were able to eat snacks in the classroom, unlike certain classes he might be able to name. This one was extra special, because the food was actually going to play a role in the lesson. It wasn't just for eating. What was it going to be used for, though. Olly had no idea, but he raised his hand anyway. It was worth a shot.
"Anything can be used for Divination." It certainly seemed like it. He was pretty sure that professor Cassie was just going to tell them how to use each of those foods she had to tell the future or something. "Not everything, but we have many different ways. " She again gave snaps for effort.
Now that she was sitting again Cassie looked at the table where her food items were. She was going to have to get back up, wasn't she? Slipping her shoes off she stood and moved back to the table, "Now many of you had the best ideas, but only a few of you hit it right on. We will be looking at two items today. The fish and the onion. Now we said that the fish was ichthyomancy. It can also be called two other things, does anyone know what those are?"
Looking around and waiting for them to answer she moved her wand so that the students each had a fish in front of them. "You will see that the fish are all already dead, so you won't be harming them to do this and I did not harm them to do this lesson. They had passed and were sent to me." She wouldn't kill any animals for Divination.
"Now does anyone know what we need to do with the fish for a reading?"
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